1. OER for the Recording Arts
and Music Industry Educator
Workshop by Fallon Stillman
2013
2. What is OER
• Open Educational Resource
– The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
– "OER are 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. Open educational resources include full
courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming
videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or
techniques used to support access to knowledge."
3. What is OER
• OPEN
– DavisWiley defines open to have 4Rs:
• Reuse: the right to reuse the content in its unaltered/verbatim form (e.g.,
make a backup copy of the content)
• Revise: the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g.,
translate the content into an- other language)
• 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)
• Redistribute: the right to share copies of the original content, the revisions, or
the remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)
4. What is Open Courseware
• MIT, now definesOpenCourseWare as:
– a free and open digital publication of high quality college
and university‐level educational materials which are
organized as courses
– often include course planning materials and evaluation
tools as well as thematic content, and are free and openly
licensed
– accessible to anyone, anytime via the internet.
6. What makes it Open?
• Open Licensing
– Creative Commons Licensing
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTlXtEOplA&feature=player_embedded
7. 3 Layer License
1. Legal Code – LawyerTerms
2. Human Readable – Commons Deed
that non-legal workers can understand
3. Machine Readable – software and
search engine recognizable
8. 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
9. How DoYou Find OER
• Search Engine
– Advanced Search
– Usage Rights
– Free to Use, Share, Modify
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJI9RShrxr4&feature=p
layer_embedded
10. Why use OER in your subject
area?
• Education is sharing
– We use it for ourselves!
• code Academy
• Online instruction for recording equipment
• OpenTeaching
– Blogging
– Syllabi posting
– Social media
• OpenAccesss
– Buy One, Get One
11. 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
12. OER Example
• Music andTechnology: RecordingTechniques
andAudio Production
• Description
• Assignments
• Syllabus
• Lecture Notes
http://bit.ly/1a4O5VK