--- title: 'Open Education Essentials' url: 'https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/' markdown: 'https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/index.md' date: '2026-10-09' description: "This site is built with Grav Open Publishing Space, made possible by the free Quark 2 Open Publishing theme (Quark Open Publishing on Grav 1.7) and powered by Grav CMS, the open-source platform it's built on. 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. 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 i" taxonomy: archives_month: - oct_2026 archives_year: - '2026' --- # Open Education Essentials ![Open Education Essentials cover](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/user/pages/01.open-education-essentials/viktor-forgacs-click-LNwIJHUtED4-unsplash.jpg)# Open Education Essentials A Practical Guide for Educators Your Name First Edition, 2026,Updated Oct 4, 2026 CC BY 4.0 [Start Reading ](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/what-is-open-education) This site is built with **Grav Open Publishing Space**, made possible by the free [Quark 2 Open Publishing](https://github.com/hibbitts-design/grav-theme-quark2-open-publishing) theme ([Quark Open Publishing](https://github.com/hibbitts-design/grav-theme-quark-open-publishing) on Grav 1.7) and powered by [Grav CMS](https://getgrav.org), the open-source platform it's built on. 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 - ![](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/images/2/5/e/3/4/25e34b724591f91f10cb235c44ba84f71bd92313-kevin-grieve-b8cijlfvabq-unsplash.jpg) Section 1 ### [What is Open Education?](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/what-is-open-education) An introduction to open education principles, the 5Rs framework, and why content ownership matters. - ![](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/images/7/8/2/1/7/782178e645a7f00297c2852f23c145c9be6c426d-vitaly-gariev-tniknzcsqjk-unsplash.jpg) Section 2 ### [Tools for Open Course Design](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/tools-for-open-course-design) Practical tools for creating Git-backed, LMS-embeddable open course content – from Grav to Docsify-This. - ![](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/images/0/4/a/e/9/04ae98fa4ae95aa71bb7a5a344877bf005858cc9-natalia-y-yqes71-42c4-unsplash.jpg) Section 3 ### [Getting Started with Open Authoring](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/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 - ![](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/images/5/0/5/7/5/50575d9a1aaadb355889065fca854708981bf117-unsplash-sidney-perry.jpg) Section 4 ### [Growing Your Guide](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/growing-your-guide) Blogging alongside your guide, and knowing when to move to Helios Open Reader. [Start Reading ](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/what-is-open-education) ## 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](https://github.com/hibbitts-design/grav-skeleton-helios-open-reader), showing how content can move between the two. Want to learn more? Read the full [Read Me](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/readme) for setup instructions, features, and more. This work by [Your Name](#) is licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). --- ## Navigation - Next: [Blog](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/blog.md) - Children: - [What is Open Education?](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/what-is-open-education.md) - [Tools for Open Course Design](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/tools-for-open-course-design.md) - [Getting Started with Open Authoring](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/getting-started-with-open-authoring.md) - [Growing Your Guide](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/growing-your-guide.md)