This is a substantial open book built around eight detailed descriptions of open educational resources (OER) and open education in nine countries: Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, South Africa, Spain and Turkey. It is interesting to compare across the papers, for example, the description of the centralized Chinese system authored by Junhong Xiao and Jingjing Zhang as opposed to the decentralized Canadian approach as described by Dianne Conrad and George Veletsianos (indeed, readers will recognize most of the author names in this volume). The volume concludes with a comparison of the systems at the national, institutional and teaching level, noting how social and cultural differences between the countries has led top differences in policy and implementation.
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