[Smt-talk] Online music courses?

[VINCENT PEREZ BENITEZ JR]

I forgot to mention that I have lead sheets and musical examples illustrating scales, chords, rhythm and meter, etc. throughout my Beatles course. In Lesson 2, which introduces music fundamentals, students have access to a touch-screen piano keyboard.

Vincent Benitez 

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Subject: Re: [Smt-talk] Online music courses?

Forgot to mention - copious audio clips embedded in the reading text.

Kjellrun

Quoting hestekin at mun.ca:

> A few years ago, we launched an on-line version of our rudiments course.
> Rudiments is now taught on campus (by a grad student) in the fall and
> on-line
> (by me) in the winter. The target audience for these offerings is primarily
> non-music majors as an elective. We also offer the course in summer in a
> fast
> track 6-week format for incoming music majors who did not pass the placement
> exam.
> 
> As it has to "serve two masters" the course runs the gamut from identifying
> notes on a staff through note values and basic principles of rhythmic
> notation,
> scales, intervals, triads and seventh chords to very basic principles of
> voice
> leading.
> 
> The format is reading material online, an occasional video clip and an
> optional
> supplemental text. There are several interactive exercise on line for each
> topic.
> 
> Unfortunately, for a number of reasons beyond my control, there is no online
> evaluation. This means that because of logistics, evaluation is limited to a
> few paper and pencil exams, a significant weakness. For the incoming music
> majors this isn't a serious problem but for non-majors who may have little
> or
> no background, I don't know they're in trouble until they're already going
> under for the third time unless they avail of on-line/ on-campus office
> hours.
> 
> Kjellrun Hestekin
> Memorial University (ret)
> St. John's, Newfoundland
> 
> Quoting "Isaacson, Eric J" <isaacso at indiana.edu>:
> 
> > Dear Colleagues,
> > 
> > We would be interested in hearing about the experiences you or your
> > institutional colleagues have had with online teaching in music. Our
> interest
> > is not limited to music theory, but could encompass music history, music
> > education, other academic areas, as well as performance studies. We are
> NOT
> > interested in speculative critiques of the idea of online education (we
> are
> > perfectly capable of conjuring these ourselves!), but rather in real-world
> > stories from the trenches. Responses might address:
> > 
> >   *   What subject was taught?
> >   *   Who was the target population?
> >   *   Was it an online adaptation of an existing course or designed for
> > online delivery?
> >   *   Was the course wholly online or blended?
> >   *   What technolog(ies) were involved?
> >   *   Is there any statistical or anecdotal information about the course's
> > effectiveness, efficiency, etc., from the perspective of the students? The
> > instructor?
> > 
> > Best wishes,
> > 
> > Eric J. Isaacson
> > Director of Graduate Studies, Assoc. Professor of Music Theory
> > Gretchen Horlacher
> > Assistant to the Dean for Research and Administration, Assoc. Professor of
> > Music Theory
> > Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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Vincent Benitez, Ph.D., D.M.A.
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