Academic Staff - Teaching Resources: Open Educational Resources (OERs): WAAPA

The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

A free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.

Approximately 32 learning materials of different kinds on the subject of dance.

Approximately 29 OERs of different types on the subject of theatre.

Approximately 5 eBooks on the topic of theatre.

Approximately 8 open access eBooks about the subject of theatre.

The Teaching Commons showcases high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities and makes them available to educators and students around the world. Curated by librarians and their institutions and hosted by bepress, the Teaching Commons includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, k-12 materials, and more.

Sharing the world’s public domain music.

Approximately 741 learning materials on the subject of music.

Courses in music as taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Content varies but can include lecture notes, videos, assignments with solutions, student project examples etc. CC BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) license but courses may refer to copyright material.

Short introductory text introducing readers to works representative of a variety of music traditions. CC BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) license.

Book with an innovative multimodal approach which invites readers to listen and engage with different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music's travels -- with or without its makers -- including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. CC BY-NC (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial) license

2124 pieces of music – free to download, modify, print, copy, distribute, perform, and record – all in the Public Domain or under Creative Commons licenses, in PDF, MIDI, and editable LilyPond file formats.

Approximately 12 eBooks on the topic of music.

Interactive textbook for college level music theory courses. Instructor community available to join on the Humanities Commons for access to further resources and discussion board. CC BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike) license.

Book offers a fresh curriculum for the college-level music appreciation course. Musical examples are drawn from classical, popular, and folk traditions from around the globe. Organised in thematic chapters which can be taught in any order. Instructor resources including slides, test bank and learning objects are available on request. CC BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike) license.

The Sheet Music Consortium provides tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public.

The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.

Textbook designed to teach instrumental music education students about vocal production as it applies to solo singing. Covers breathing, vocal instrumentation, tone, pronunciation, and how singing is similar, and different, from playing an external instrument. CC BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercia-ShareAlike) license.