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In the book’s 30 essays, prominent leaders and thinkers in the open education movement reflect on current and past open education initiatives, offer critical analyses, share the strategic underpinnings of their own work, and delve into open education’s implications in three areas: technology, content, and knowledge. Together, they address the central question of how open education can improve the quality of education. The authors – comprised of faculty, researchers, administrators, academic technology experts, foundation program officers and scholars, and directors of major open education projects – examine what challenges need to be addressed, what potential synergies can be realized, and what opportunities should be seized for a better future for education. Based on this collective agenda, the editors found that in order to “open up” education in ways that can dramatically advance learning and teaching, educators and administrators need to: 1) Investigate the transformative potential and ecological transitions of open education. 2) Change education’s culture and policy. 3) Make open education solutions sustainable. 4) Make practice and knowledge visible and shareable. 5) Build the teaching and learning commons through the collectivity culture.

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