Richard Baraniuk discusses the benefits of open education, which creates an interactive community for sharing educational content freely and openly. He outlines two key enablers of open education: modern technology allows for free distribution and storage of content, and new intellectual property frameworks allow content to be safely shared with common legal terms like open-source software. Examples of open education platforms are provided, such as Connexions which provides open textbooks and courses to over 1 million unique users per month from around the world. Open education offers opportunities for high-quality, continuously updated, and translated educational resources that are never out of date and available for free online or at low cost in print.