Hybrid Books

Previous issues

INITIATIVES
Academic Commandos

RESEARCH
Open Research Day
Dealing With Stress, the Natural Way
Setting the Computer's Sights
Democracy is Not the Key to Peace in the Middle East
Islam and Christianity
Punctuating Mozart
Reshaping Distance Education

TECHNOLOGY
E-reader
Hybrid Books

GRADUATES
Prof. Gidi Gross: Cancer Researcher
Israel Adam: From Slum Alcoholic to Honors Student and a Master's Degree
All Doors Opened to Elishai Ezra
The Open University as His Greatest Challenge in Life: Sharli Afanger

STUDENTS
Walking in Their Footsteps in Ashdod
University Student Since 8th Grade

MILESTONES
Prof. Hagit Messer-Yaron
Prof. Ron Weidberg
Dr. Yuval Eylon
Dr. Adia Mendelsohn-Maoz
Prof. Aviva Halamish
Dr. Ophir Munz-Manor
Dr. Baruch Ziv
Dr. Milly Perry
Dr. Yoav Yair
SuperBrand University

EVENTS
Dance with Your Fears
Heavens Above

TECHNOLOGY
Hybrid Books: Electronic Books with Musical Renditions The Open University is pioneering how music is taught with the first in a series of hybrid books, combining the electronic word with digital sound. The Open University introduced The Opera – the first in a series of hybrid books in music, blending the printed or electronic word with digital sound. Dr. Ron Weidberg who heads up the Department of Literature, Language and Arts at the Open University of Israel, is not surprised that the University is once again pioneering how music is taught. "From 1979 through the 1980's," Dr. Weidberg recalls, "OU students would receive cassettes of master's classes at Mishkenot Ha'sha'anim in Jerusalem. Remember at that time there was no color television." In later years, the University expanded with discs and videos as educational supplements. Now the University has created a hybrid publication, once again catapulting the University ahead of other academic institutions in this field. Students receive the books electronically and instead of just explaining a particular passage of music, they can click on and hear a recording to illustrate the point. Operas included in this first edition are: Cavalleria Rusticana, The Coronation of Popea, Marriage of Figaro, Rigoletto and Don Giovanni. The next book series focuses on Beethoven.

TECHNOLOGY

Hybrid Books: Electronic Books with Musical Renditions

The Open University is pioneering how music is taught with the first in a series of hybrid books, combining the electronic word with digital sound.

The Open University introduced The Opera – the first in a series of hybrid books in music, blending the printed or electronic word with digital sound.

Dr. Ron Weidberg who heads up the Department of Literature, Language and Arts at the Open University of Israel, is not surprised that the University is once again pioneering how music is taught. "From 1979 through the 1980's," Dr. Weidberg recalls, "OU students would receive cassettes of master's classes at Mishkenot Ha'sha'anim in Jerusalem. Remember at that time there was no color television." In later years, the University expanded with discs and videos as educational supplements.

Now the University has created a hybrid publication, once again catapulting the University ahead of other academic institutions in this field. Students receive the books electronically and instead of just explaining a particular passage of music, they can click on and hear a recording to illustrate the point.

Operas included in this first edition are: Cavalleria Rusticana, The Coronation of Popea, Marriage of Figaro, Rigoletto and Don Giovanni.

The next book series focuses on Beethoven.