This document summarizes a presentation on open education given by Dr. Andreas Meiszner of UNU-MERIT. The presentation outlines several key benefits of open education, including allowing a greater range of inputs beyond just the educator, enabling more personalized learning, and facilitating greater sharing of knowledge resources. Financially, open education could allow for cost sharing, reduction, and higher value through approaches like collaborative course production and unbundling of services. However, open education is also complex with more stakeholders and uncertainty, and challenges the status quo, so there may be resistance to change from those worried about threats to funding models or individual jobs. The presentation concludes by suggesting easy starting points for opening up education, from just