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
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• 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