2 Why use open practices and resources? Opening Educational Practices in Scotland The Open University The Open University Course text/html OEPS_1 en-GB This course was developed as part of the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) projecthttps://oepscotland.org funded by the Scottish Funding Council, which supports and builds best practice in open education in the Scottish HE, colleges and third sectors. Except for third party materials and where otherwise stated, when individual resources included in this course have other licences, this course content is made available under a CC BY 4.0 licencehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.