1. OER for the Recording Arts
and Music Industry Educator
Workshop by Fallon Stillman
2013

2. 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 fromTheWilliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation

3. What makes an educational
resource an OER?
• Must comply with one of the four Rs:
– Reuse
– Revise
– Remix
– Redistribute
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4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Let’s take a look at a basic
introduction into OER’s
• OERVideo BY Laura Rachfalski
– https://vimeo.com/43437812

10. How do we decide what’s open?
• Open Licensing
– A document that grants permission exercise the
4R’s
– Creative Commons Licensing
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTlXtEOplA&feature=player_embedded

11. 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

12. How can you locate OER’s?
• Google Search Engine
– Advanced Search
– Select Usage Rights
– Select Free to Use,
Share, Modify
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJI9RShrxr4&feature=p
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13. Why use OERs in music industry
and recording arts?
• Education is sharing
– We already use it…
• Code Academy
• Online instruction for recording
equipment
• OpenTeaching
– Blogging
– Syllabi posting
– Social media
• OpenAccess
– Buy One, Get One
• Image taken from
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14. OER: Open Courseware Example
• Music andTechnology:
RecordingTechniques
and Audio Production
• Description
• Assignments
• Syllabus
• Lecture Notes
http://bit.ly/1a4O5VK

15. 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

16. Let’s review the benefits to using
OERs and Open Courseware…
• Benefits
– Cost (textbooks/materials)
– Sharing (ideas spread faster)
– Editable
– Reusable

17. Sources and Resources
• TheWilliam 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 ClassGoogle Doc. (2013) Open Education and OER for Preservice Teachers. Retrieved
fromhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/19E_rFWJmLKOPw9WmMhhCyNHNydBldu4j32B5_o7bw7A/e
dit
• 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 EducationGroup. Saving Money with OpenTextbooks. Retrieved from
http://openedgroup.org/calculator/index.html