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

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• 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