Open education and related terminology have not gained widespread interest within the music education community. Despite this, music educators demonstrate open practices by leveraging digital technologies to share, collaborate, and innovate their teaching practice for student engagement and achievement. This article introduces open education…

Article traced some of the historical thought-paths to open education today, highlighted some of the key events in its development in the United States, rekindled interest in some older writers on education, and provided references to some of the more significant educational documents. (Editor/RK)

Presented literature references concerned with open education and provided guidelines for readings in philosophy, psychology, educational principles, infant schools as well as American programs and the teacher's role in the informal classroom. (RK)

In this article, evaluation by the music teacher is discussed and a list of different kinds of child growth is presented. (Author/RK)

Article stressed the need for a music teacher in an open school to have an openness to people and ideas. It also described the educational objectives at the Olive School in Arlington Heights, Illinois. (Author/RK)

The term open classroom'' refers not only to a structured school environment, but also to a philosophical and epistemological rationale. The rationale is important because without it the open classroom becomes activity without direction. (Author)

This article on open education and the direction it is taking is a kind of "state of the wave (movement)" message-a necessary caution not only for those moving along nicely with the current, but also for those who may already be over their heads and those who have yet to test the water. (Editor/RK)

Article suggested where the teacher's role lies in an open education environment and offered an idealized, stylized description of the teaching process in the informal class situation. (Author/RK)

In this article, the author, an elementary music teacher with the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, offers suggestions for developing music materials for the open classroom. (Editor/RK)

Author compares two experiences in open education; one successful and one unsuccessful. (CB)

Article examined the difficulty of teaching music in an open classroom with children of different ages and where some children did other things. (Author/FK)

Considered the arts as the center of the curriculum and how they relate to open education. (RK)

Article looked at educational practices in Great Britain to see how music functions in an open education environment. (Editor/RK)

Article described the potential the music program has and the challenge it faces for the music specialist in the open classroom. (Editor/RK)

Considered how music can be integrated in the open classroom through Project Quest, a program designed to utilize student interest in music. (Editor/RK)