What are OER - Open Educational Resources?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment.
What are OER? Why use OER? Where is OER? How is OER created? Who can help?
Visual Arts & Art History
- Boundless Art HistoryComprehensive teaching module for art history from across the world and includes quiz files and lecture slides.
- SmartHistorySmarthistory offers content by hundreds of leading scholars (art historians, archaeologists, and museum curators). All content has undergone an open peer-review process where it is vetted by multiple scholars. Recommended by more than 450 art and education organizations.
Performing Arts
Music Appreciation
- Music on the Move (Fosler-Lussier)
- Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context (Morgan-Ellis)
- Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (Cohen)
- Understanding Music: Past and Present (Clark, Heflin, Kluball, and Kramer)
- Music Appreciation I (Lumen)
- Music Appreciation II (Lumen)
Music Theory
- Music Fundamentals 1: Pitch and Major Scales and Keys (Ewell and Schmidt-Jones)
- Music Fundamentals 2: Rhythms and Meter (Ewell and Schmidt-Jones)
- Understanding Basic Music Theory (Schmidt-Jones)