OER for the Recording Arts and Music Industry Educator Workshop by Fallon Stillman 2013
Jan 27, 2015
OER for the Recording Arts and Music Industry Educator
Workshop by Fallon Stillman
2013
What is an Open Educational Resource?
– ”Teaching, learning, and research resources that
reside in the public domain or have been released
under an intellectual property license that permits
their free use and re-purposing by others.
– Can include “full courses, course materials, modules,
textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any
other tools, materials, or techniques used to support
access to knowledge.”
• Taken from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
What makes an educational resource an OER?
• Must comply with one of the four Rs:
– Reuse
– Revise
– Remix
– Redistribute
• Image taken from https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/15410/4RFRAMEWORK/image.jpg
What makes an educational resource an OER?
• Reuse:
– the right to reuse
the content in its
unaltered/verbatim
form (e.g., make a
backup copy of the
content)
Original Image
Reused Image
What makes an educational resource an OER?
• Revise:
– the right to adapt,
adjust, modify, or
alter the content
itself (e.g., translate
the content into
another language)
Original Image
Revised Image
What makes an educational resource an OER?
• Remix:
– the right to combine
the original or revised
content with other
content to create
something new (e.g.,
incorporate the
content into a
mashup)
Original Image
Remixed Image
What makes an educational resource an OER?
• Redistribute:
– the right to share
copies of the original
content, your
revisions, or your
remixes with others
(e.g., give a copy of
the content to a
friend)
Original Image
Redistributed Image
What is Open Courseware?
• Free and open digital publication of post-
secondary educational materials organized as
courses
• Typically contains course planning materials and
evaluation tools, thematic content, free, and
openly licensed
• accessible to anyone, anytime via the internet
– Taken directly from MIT
Let’s take a look at a basic introduction into OER’s
• OER Video BY Laura Rachfalski
– https://vimeo.com/43437812
How do we decide what’s open?
• Open Licensing
– A document that grants permission
exercise the 4R’s
– Creative Commons Licensing– h
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTlXtEOplA&feature=player
_embedded
Types of CC Licensing• Attribution
– CC BY
• Attribution-NoDerivs
– CC BY-ND
• Attribution-ShareAlike
– CC BY-SA
• Attribution-NonCommercial
– CC BY-NC
• Attribution-NonCommercial-
ShareAlike
– CC BY-NC-SA
• Attribution-NonCommercial-
NoDerivs
– CC BY-NC-ND
How can you locate OER’s?
• Google Search
Engine
– Advanced Search
– Select Usage
Rights
– Select Free to Use,
Share, Modifyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJI9RShrxr4&feature=player_embedded
Why use OERs in music industry and recording arts?
• Education is sharing
– We already use it…
• Code Academy
• Online instruction for
recording equipment
• Open Teaching
– Blogging
– Syllabi posting
– Social media
• Open Access
– Buy One, Get One
• Image taken from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azx8EtB8M3A
OER: Open Courseware Example
• Music and Technology:
Recording Techniques
and Audio Production• Description
• Assignments
• Syllabus
• Lecture Notes
http://bit.ly/1a4O5VK
OER For Music Industry• OER Commons: Sound
Lessons
– http://bit.ly/181Fl1P
• OER Commons: Music
Business
– http://bit.ly/15pWmT7
• OER Commons:
Microphone
– http://bit.ly/14WZhQW
• MIT OCW: Sound
– http://bit.ly/14WYWxG
• MIT OCW: Music Business
– http://bit.ly/10I22pG
• MIT OCW: Recording Arts
– http://bit.ly/10I22pG
• CONNEXIONS: Sound
Recording
– http://bit.ly/182PrD8
Let’s review the benefits to using OERs and Open Courseware…
• Benefits
– Cost (textbooks/materials)
– Sharing (ideas spread faster)
– Editable
– Reusable
Sources and Resources• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Retrieved from http
://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational- resources
• Creative Commons. Retrieved from http://creativecommons.org
• https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/15410/4RFRAMEWORK/ image.jpg
• R685 Class Google Doc. (2013) Open Education and OER for Preservice Teachers.
Retrieved fromhttps
://docs.google.com/document/d/19E_rFWJmLKOPw9WmMhhCyNHNydBldu4j32B5_o7bw7
A/
edit
• Shure UK. (2010). Shure Microphone Comparison - Wired. Retrieved from http
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azx8EtB8M3A
• Guide to Open Licensing. Retrieved from http://opendefinition.org/guide/#
sthash.DOPbdGKu.dpuf
• The Open Education Group. Saving Money with Open Textbooks. Retrieved from http
://openedgroup.org/calculator/index.html