Dr. Anthony Marasco

About Dr. Anthony Marasco

Dr. Anthony T. Marasco is an Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Composition at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Across the United States as well as in Norway, Italy, Brazil, Denmark, and Canada, his works and research have been featured at festivals such as New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), the Web Audio Conference, the Networked Music Festival, the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS), Electroacoustic Barn Dance, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Mise-En Festival, Montreal Contemporary Music Lab, Electric LaTex, and Omaha Under the Radar.

Course Redesign Project and Experience

Dr. Anthony T. Marasco redesigned his courses in the Music Technology degree path to use no-cost and open education resources. He found the process was challenging at times, but very rewarding. The music technology field has embraced no-cost publications and online multimedia resources for years, and finding materials for most topics and subject matters was easy. Finding materials that included explanations and definitions of more scientific subjects around acoustics and even music theory was a bit more challenging.

Student Feedback

His students responded positively to being able to explore class topics in both free online readings and multimedia materials (videos, audio file examples, etc.) versus needing to purchase a traditional textbook.

Reflections

Dr. Marasco feels like the benefits of providing students with an affordable, up-to-date, customizable set of learning materials for their courses is a great way to help students meet their goals of getting a great education without incurring excessive costs.

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