the true power of open comes not from a resource being free of cost but rather from the freedoms to reuse, retain, redistribute, revise, and remix content
The 5 R's beg the question of what we use educational texts for in the first place. This might seem like an obvious and silly question, but if we step back and consider what deep learning looks like, the texts we choose to engage with should support that picture. Many times we assume that a text is necessary, or faculty might feel supported by having a text to structure their course, but this may actually get in the way of the creative avenues they might take with their students to reach their learning goals.