Open Education Essentials
A Practical Guide for Educators
First Edition, 2026,Updated
CC BY 4.0
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Here's an example guide to explore and build on: Open Education Essentials – a short, practical guide to understanding and applying open education principles in your teaching practice.
Open Education
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Section 1
What is Open Education?
An introduction to open education principles, the 5Rs framework, and why content ownership matters.
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Section 2
Tools for Open Course Design
Practical tools for creating Git-backed, LMS-embeddable open course content – from Grav to Docsify-This.
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Section 3
Getting Started with Open Authoring
How to invite readers to suggest edits, view source, and contribute to your open course content via GitHub or Codeberg.
Publishing with This Site
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Section 4
Growing Your Guide
Blogging alongside your guide, and knowing when to move to Helios Open Reader.
About This Guide
This guide covers the foundational ideas, practical tools, and real-world examples you need to get started with open educational resources (OER) and open course design.
Note
This guide is an example of a Section List page, for open guides and readers. It shows a card for each section, grouped into parts, and its pages include section labels, Learning Objectives, reading progress, Previous/Next navigation and OER attribution – all set in page settings. The same guide is the example in Grav Helios Open Reader, showing how content can move between the two.
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