UNESCO defines open educational resources (OERs) as "... teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an intellectual property license that allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution."
Below are a selection of quality OERs for drama subjects:
- Drama, Music and Theatre Arts courses through MIT Open Courseware include lecture notes, reading lists, open access textbooks and other related course materials.
- A curated collection of textbooks and resources for drama, theatre and performing arts provided by OER Commons.
- Arts textbooks through College Open Textbooks are open licensed and peer reviewed.
- Drama resources through MERLOT include online courses, tutorials, reference materials, open access textbooks and journal articles, and videos.
- The University of Oxford podcasts cover a range of drama and theatre audio and video lectures free for reuse, remixing and redistribution in education worldwide.
- fifteeneightyfour, the blog of Cambridge University Press featuring current news and commentary from Cambridge authors and staff. The blog is dedicated to sharing scholarship from the finest academics in the world and fostering discussion worldwide about important issues in culture, politics, and science.
- Shakespeare's Hamlet: Text, Performance and Culture - a free online course provided by experts from the University of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Institute - an internationally renowned research institution located in the writer’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon.
