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Have you met OMA?
The Open Music Academy is the platform for learning and teaching music. Learn with features specially developed for music, and start from whatever level you're on. Use it for teaching either publicly or in private rooms, where you can collaborate in a protected environment.
Join the Open Music Academy and become part of the Open Education community!
Mathias presents OMA in 2024 | CC BY Open Music Academy 2024
So far, most content on OMA is in German. If you're looking for English content, simply use English keywords in your search.
Also, the OMA portal for Free Media ist bilingual and offers recordings, electronically produced bits of music, images and even some video material.
Also, you could try and engage your browser's translate function to access German content.
If you want to get an impression of the content on OMA, feel free to explore the portals. Portals are the highest levels on OMA and gather content on certain topics. These are the main portals:
Seminars and lectures
Public seminars and lectures are coherent courses that have been evaluated and created by individuals in teaching. Sessions (documents) of these courses can only be edited by users autorized to do so.
So far, OMA only features courses in German. You'll find a list here.
Single documents on a term or topic, such as wiki articles or tutorials.
Compilation of several documents that belong to the same topic.
Entrance pages for broader topics that make the work of expert groups or larger systematically related content visible.
Each document and file is associated with a list of keywords (tags). These keywords are referenced in the search.
The media center
In OMA's media center you can find any file that has been uploaded to the public realm of OMA: audios, videos, images, and more. You can find all media through the search.
The majority of the media is either published under a Creative Commons license or already in the public domain. If you want to use files outside of OMA, you should understand the respective license.
Each document and file is associated with a list of keywords (tags). This structure makes it possible to find specific content, even when dealing with large amounts of data.
With a single search term, you can find all documents that contain the searched keyword in their list of tags.
Multiple search terms are connected by an AND operator. This means that only documents containing all the entered keywords will appear in the search results.
Use the minus operator to exclude keywords from the search:
Join the OMA community!
The Open Music Academy will only be a success if as many musicians as possible get inspired by the idea of free learning and an open learning platform. OMA is currently a project of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, run by a team that has been working full-time on building the platform from 2021 until the end of 2025. But our ultimate goal is for OMA to become a community project that is supported by as many people around the world as possible (similar to Wikipedia). Therefore:
Join the Open Music Academy and become a part of the Open Education community!
Create and publish open educational resources or – just as important – join us as an editor and help with quality management on OMA.
More information can be found on the German pages:
- OMA verstehen (Understanding OMA) is the page that explains all about Open Educational Resources and the philosophy of open education.
- Mitmachen (Participate) is the page where you find detailed information on how to work with OMA for the benefit of yourself and others likewise, in short: Be part of the community.
Also, the OMA team will be happy to speak to you personally.