Music Teaching on the Internet: Description of a project in progress

Abstract

Within the field of media and resources of Music Education, we describe the CYBERSTICAL CLASS OF MUSIC, a teaching experience set up by the University of Cadiz in collaboration with INTERBOOK, Internet access company based in Seville. It is noted the novelty and importance of the University of Cadiz, has incorporated this type of non-regulated education, such as continuing training courses, with the corresponding recognition of credits. Parallel to their teaching activity within the courses, the authors intend to follow up this type of teaching, to discover their real effects and their social involvement, within the parameters of research of the media and resources in music education. Currently The Classroom consists of seven courses: Introduction to Music Computing, Arrangements in Contemporary Music, Virtual Analysis of Musical Forms, Music Production, Music Therapy, Music Education and Teaching in Primary School, and Pedagogy and Music Education in Secondary School . The authors stop especially in the last two, which they teach, explaining their programs and explaining the technical resources that the Internet provides in distance learning: transfer of sound files (wave and midi), images, animations, electronic mail, Forums, links, etc. Emphasis is placed on the transfer of MIDI files, which allow the student to access the score and sound of a musical work, and can subsequently print or modify their parameters. The evaluation of student achievement is done continuously through the Correction of the issues of each Topic and the final practical Work by email. These issues include, in addition to the corresponding control questions, the making of midi files, written in music using a sequencer program, or wave files, recorded live and transited through the Network. Other resources are also used, such as Transfer of image files. All this, joins the possibility of participating in discussion forums, access to search engines and web pages related to Music and Music Education, and suppose a battery of media that facilitates the student's training Regardless of where you are.