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Open Education Reference Guide

Open education is transforming how institutions approach teaching and learning. By embracing open practices and openly licensed materials, educators are creating more inclusive, affordable, and adaptable learning experiences.

While forming open education practices and initiatives, many institutions ask: Where do we begin? What resources can guide us? How do we assess progress?

To help answer these questions, we’ve developed the Open Education Reference Guide, a community-informed tool that highlights common goals, milestones, and best practices from across the open education landscape.

The Open Education Maturity Model

In this guide you’ll find:

  • The Pressbooks maturity model framework
  • A list of thoughtfully curated resources for each stage of maturity
  • Collections of openly licensed materials

The Open Education Maturity Model is a framework for understanding how open education initiatives develop. It’s designed to help track progress, understand impact, and guide the growth of open education initiatives. It takes into consideration the goals, mindsets, and essential questions to consider from early awareness-building through measuring and expanding sustained impact.

This planning model was developed by Pressbooks in consultation with institutional partners and informed by our work supporting hundreds of organizations engaged in open education projects. It was also informed by this prior research:

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