Visual and Performing Arts

May 23 2024

This paper reports on a dual self-study undertaken by two university music instructors as they reflect on their practice across an 18-month teaching period. It examines the delivery of a second instrument class (woodwind and guitar) across three ...

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and safety precautions resulted in many Australian higher education music courses being taught online. However, it has yet to be established to what extent were music courses offered online pre-pandemic in ...

Online teaching and learning are not new, nor are they new to tertiary music education. While an "anytime, anywhere" attitude and flexible study suits some learners, for others this is a contributing factor to student anxiety and attrition. This ...

Learning management systems (LMSs) are currently lacking when it comes to music education. Music-specific features, especially those based on music notation and audio, do not meet the necessary requirements. This should be remedied by integrating ...

This article is a short, reflective opinion piece focused on the challenges, successes, and opportunities in online music teaching as impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

When the coronavirus pandemic compelled national lockdowns and physical distancing protocols, music teachers turned to synchronous online teaching out of necessity. Formal and informal teacher groups shared information about teaching online through ...

Given the natural integrated nature of music and movement, university music education methods courses frequently emphasize active experiences and teaching approaches that include strategies for effective movement and music integration designed for ...

The teaching of improvisation at tertiary institutions has primarily been through face-toface methods in jazz education contexts and music education more widely. Jazz is a music that is performed with others in shared spaces and is similarly ...

As we look to forecasting for the future of music education, understanding what has happened historically provides bearing for where we can go, and can elucidate essential elements required to support achievement of these goals. Prior to COVID-19, ...

Cultural exchange and internationalization−the process of integrating an international, intercultural, or global dimension into the functions and delivery of higher education−have increased markedly in significance within higher ...

Technology is marvelous, yet there are more phobias about technology than automobiles! Faculty who design courses with new technology should be careful about the amount of new platforms, software, and augmented reality tools they employ since it ...

In 2019, the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music trialed a hybrid instruction method combining face-to-face teaching with simultaneous live-stream broadcast across two campuses in an undergraduate performance psychology subject. This method was ...

One of the pedagogical challenges for online teaching is preparing tertiary music students for collaborative work, particularly in performance, composition, and production. This article surveys the use of online performance collaboration within a ...

A scaffold was created for use in a 16-week, fully online general education music course. A persuasive paper of 10 pages was assigned in four steps starting at midterm and concluding in finals week. After the topic and concept maps were approved by ...

Adults use technology as a tool to learn, and the Internet is an important platform for knowledge acquisition. Music students and teachers use interactive websites, online apps, and/or computer programs for learning, feedback, and creative ...

This paper seeks to describe the educational setting of Virtual School Victoria (VSV) from an insider's perspective teaching music subjects in an online context. While detailing the challenges and opportunities in providing the online delivery of ...

This paper is based on the reflections and experiences from a participant researcher perspective and explores the creation of an inventory of core pedagogical components, called the adaptive teaching framework (ATF), for use in online teaching. ...

Teaching music online requires a focused approach when moving from its face-to-face counterpart to the online environment. However, online teaching frameworks for music have yet to surface. Using key design elements from the fields of education, ...

The increased development and learning benefits of online learning technologies have prompted music educators to rethink the possibilities of learning music online (Crawford, 2013). Found throughout the Internet on sites such as Online Academy of ...