Research Guides: Performing Arts Subject Guide: Finding Open Educational Resources

Canadian Open Textbooks

What are Open Educational Resources?

Open Educational or Open Access Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that are created with the intention of being freely available to users anywhere.

This includes:

Textbooks
Readings
Courses
Journals
Case Studies
Software
Databases

... and much more!

Browse the Douglas College Library OER guide for more information on resources.

OASIS (megasearch tool) Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS)

OASIS offers users worldwide the ability to search a range of OER materials including textbooks, courses and corresponding materials, interactive simulations, public domain books, audiobooks, modules, open access books, videos and podcasts on a variety of topics — from anthropology to zoology. OASIS also is the only tool that allows users to limit searches by creative commons licenses or by faculty review.

Open Educational Resources for Performing Arts

Textbooks
Videos

An Introduction to Technical Theatre
An Introduction to Technical Theatre draws on the author’s experience in both the theatre and the classroom over the last 30 years. Intended as a resource for both secondary and post-secondary theatre courses, this text provides a comprehensive overview of technical theatre, including terminology and general practices.
The Theatre of Shelley
A full-length study of Shelley’s plays that covers Shelley’s role as a playwright and dramatist and contains chapters on each of Shelley’s dramatic works
Theatre and War: Notes from the Field
A book by Nandita Dinesh offering a description of her own experiences in conflict zones across the world to offer a theoretical and practical reflection on making theatre in times of war.
Theatrical Words
A textbook providing an introduction to theatre, including theatrical production and special topics in theatre.
Rock the Boat
Rock the Boat is an open-access multimedia resource designed to provoke dialogue about graduate supervision relationships within universities, and their impact on student and faculty wellbeing. Drawing upon the tradition of Research-based Theatre, Rock the Boat draws attention to graduate supervision as a vital form of pedagogy, and as rife with challenges — especially relating to equity, inclusion and diversity.
Transforming Stories, Driving Change
A workbook for bringing new voices into public debate based on the performance creation approach developed by Transforming Stories, Driving Change.
The Path to Funding
This book breaks down the process of developing an artist mission statement, generating new ideas for creative projects, and creating an engaging project description. It also covers methods for artists to identify their audience, generate a comprehensive project budget, collect compelling work samples, and identify potential funders to support their creative work.
Haunting our Biases: Using Participatory Theatre to Interrupt Implicit Bias
This project invites learners to deepen their self-awareness about the implicit biases that they hold. In participatory theatre, this kind of invitation for self-exploration can haunt us, leaving a lasting impression that can evoke self-reflexive actions and behaviours.
Open Music Theory
This book provides not only the material for a complete traditional core undergraduate music theory sequence (fundamentals, diatonic harmony, chromatic harmony, form, 20th-century techniques), but also several other units for instructors who have diversified their curriculum, such as jazz, popular music, counterpoint, and orchestration. This version also introduces a complete workbook of assignments.
Steps to Music Theory
Steps to Music Theory is a music theory textbook that explains concepts step by step with accompanying video lectures.
La France Sauvée ou le Tyran Détrôné: A Dramaturgical Casebook
This is a dramaturgical casebook on La France Sauvée, an unfinished play by Olympe de Gouges, translated by Clarissa Palmer, with contextual information on the French Revolution.

Shakespeare in China
The seminar ‘Shakespeare in China – A conversation with Lin Zhaohua’ is a series of videos covering the event was held by the Confucius Institute for Scotland as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in 2013. The seminar was dual-language with both English and Chinese being translated by participants.

More OER Resources

For more resources on this and other subjects, visit the BC Campus website: https://open.bccampus.ca/

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BC Campus
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Creative Commons
A California based organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share through their release of copyright licenses available free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.
David Wiley
Co-Founder and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, an organization dedicated to increasing student success and improving the affordability of education through the adoption of open educational resources.
eCampus Ontario
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Pressbooks Directory
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SPARC
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.