1. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What e-learning environments
capacitate in music education?
With examples from Estonia, Finland, Germany, USA
Lecture following the Pedagogical Forum Performing Arts
December, 17, 2012, Belgrade (Serbia)
Gerhard Lock
Musicologist, Composer, Educator
MA, PhD candidate: Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Department of Musicology;
Lecturer: Tallinn University, Institute of Fine Arts, Department of Music
Tallinn University, Head of Arts Subject Field Council
Tallinn/Estonia

2. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What e-learning environments capacitate in music education?
With examples from Estonia, Finland, Germany, USA
Lecturer Gerhard Lock (Tallinn Estonia)
Sound example
accompanying the
metaphorical picture
of the lecture – „A
boater needs to know
and understand...“

3. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
Requirements for establishing e-learning environments
I What do we need?
II What does it
requires to know?
III What skills are
useful?

4. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
Requirements for establishing e-learning environments
Computer Internet
Software
Hardware
1) basic skills in all realms mentioned
2) experience how to use them together
3) motivation and ability to learn individually
4) ability to concentrate and organize your time in accordance to the
requirements established by the e-learning environment

5. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
How to categorize e-learning environments?
I What kind of
environments you
know?
II What does they
enable/what does
they require?
III What is the role
of the internet
there?

6. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
How to categorize e-learning environments?
Open environments
- thematic websites/portals
- (self-)learning websites/portals
- open e-learning courses
- community websites/forums
- upload environments
Partly open/closed environments
Closed environments
- password protected payment or
The Internet as non-centralized special e-learning environments/
environment software
- link-based, wiki structures - intranets of institutions
- constantly developing, growing, changing ... → meta-meta-meta

7. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What characterizes good e-learning environments?
Symbols should
1) evoke rememberance
2) be visually attractive
3) soundingly attractive
Structures need to be
1) clear, simple
A need for crasping, to 2) as much as self-explaining
1) evoke interest, 2) be exciting 3) flexible
3) be dynamic, 4) be interactive 4) pragmatic

8. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What are e-learning environments today/in future?
Music technology
- becomes more and more
familiar for people
1) who have no formal music
education
2) who don't play any
instrument
(Juvonen & Ruismäki 2009)
Internet is changing into
www + social networks:
3) social and user-based
Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, community media product,
YouTube, TeacherTube, Myspace, participating & interaction,
Soundcloud, Freesound etc. sharing and free creation

9. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What are e-learning environments able to today/in future?
Internet is useful
1) for independent music
learning
2) information retrieval in any
moment of time
3) requirements/needs based
learning environments
(Juvonen & Ruismäki 2009)
4) mediator for buying-offer
In public debate Internet users
- dangers and disadvantages of the - become content producers
Internet has been underlined,
especially for children

10. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What are e-learning environments able to today/in future?
Students use the internet
1) to find solutions to musical
problems
2) visualization and sharing of
knowledge
3) creating constantly new
information just appropriate
(Juvonen & Ruismäki 2009)
for them
In Internet communities one uses
1) simples solutions, services and tools ...
2) … to support, create, share, teach, learn, communicate

11. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What are e-learning environments able to today/in future?
Future environments:
1) blogs, wikis, podcasts, clouds
2) research and science based
networks
The door is open, you just have
to step in (Chinese proverb)
Be aware, that to much personal
(Juvonen & Ruismäki 2009)
information sharing online may lead to
become transparent and controllable in
the Internet.
Integration of media technology in the classroom
1) music teachers are on the frontline to integrate media technology
2) variety of recordings enlarge the experience of interpretation
(Beaudoin 2009)

12. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What e-learning environments capacitate in music education?
Todays technology
1) support learners
2) enables to experience
interpretations of famous
performers
3) observe and yourself shape
the development of
composing --> with best and
worst examples
Computernotation-, digital audio workstations (sequencer programs)
1) enables young composers to listen to the exact representation of their
creation, no matter weather it is electronic or orchestra music
(Beaudoin 2009)

13. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What e-learning environments capacitate in music education?
Teachers 1
1) can supplement their courses
with lectures of famous
specialists
2) the complete work of famous
composers is already online
(Bach, Mozart, Schönberg
etc.)
3) scores, MIDI and free sound
Musicians portals one find also elsewhere
1) private teaching isn't local any more, because one can share it via
video
2) may play together via webcam and Skype (Beaudoin 2009)

14. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What e-learning environments capacitate in music education?
Teachers 2
1) can use blogs to teach
2) blogs may become recognized
environments
3) through YouTube become
aware, what their students do
4) find on YouTube historical
recordings
YouTube
1) established first online-orchestra (2009), where you can download
your instrument's part (Tan Dun's new piece), record it via video
upload in You Tube
(Beaudoin 2009)

15. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What e-learning environments capacitate in music education?
Contemporary technology
- offers new versions of old tools and goals (Ojala et al 2006)
- is important, but useless if we are unable to use it
Applications
In Pedagogy and education
- monitoring learning
- to develop pedagogically useful and working solutions for teaching and learning
- sufficiant integration into curriculae and school culture
- new means of communication change the field of music as well as related
processes of enculturalization
(Juvonen & Ruismäki 2009)

16. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What e-learning environments capacitate in music education?
Music technology (Juvonen & Ruismäki 2009)
1) Support for instrument learning
a) video mediated teaching
b) accompaniment programs, interactive software
2) Enables creative activities like
a) children's composition projects
b) barrier-breaking projects (e.g. pic2sound - Coagula, data2sound - Audacity)
3) Network teaching and learning
4) Use of multimedia materials
a) CD-ROM, b) Internet
5) Integrating music technology into curriculum and National standards

17. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What e-learning environments capacitate in music education?
Internet as learning environment (Juvonen & Ruismäki 2009)
Enables you to learn on your own and easily at home.
Categories of websites/portals:
1) offering information and illustrating materials (is included also in the
next categories)
2) offering interactive problems and practices
3) dynamic pages built by web communities
4) introducing teaching and course syllabi and curriculum
They may be (partly) open/closed or include software to download etc.
These categories seldom appear solely on just one category, they do mix.

18. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What e-learning environments capacitate in music education?
Some examples of websites/portals/environments:
Keeping Score, The Violin Site, AnaVis, MILAN, Good Ear, MusicalMind,
Music Theory Net, Audiosauna, Notefligth, Musescore, Audacity, Freesound,
WHOLENOTE, MuKriErikursus, Rada7, MOVE, Koolielu,
Primary Resources (music), Music at school, EDUHI.AT, Vermont MIDI Project,
MIT-OPENCOURSEWARE, IVA, Blackboard, Moodle
Check out these websites and find out
1)what kind of content they offer?
2)into what category they might belong
3)are they open/closed environments
4)in which context (formal/informal) they might be applicable

19. 1) offering information and illustrating materials
Keeping Score: open US multimedia environment with score, recordings and historical
background information on famous composers, its useful to listen to the music while tracking the
score in realtime; The Violin Site: open English language all around the violin and teaching
2) offering interactive problems and practices
AnaVis: closed German learning environment for formal analysis and games, MILAN: closed
German music theoretical education portal, Good Ear, MusicalMind: open English online
solfege training websites, Music Theory Net open music theory website; Audiosauna: open
English full-featured online audio workstation with an easy-to-use and straightforward user
interface. It enables using several advanced polyphonic synthesizers, samplers and live effects
in real-time in the browser. Notefligth: closed online notation portal, Musescore: free music
composition and notation software with online tutorial and online sharing possibilities, Audacity:
free audio and recording software with Wiki pages
3) dynamic pages built by web communities [most of software websites offers forums for
developing their products]: Freesound: partly open collaborative database of Creative Commons
Licensed sounds; WHOLENOTE: partly open English online community devoted to the learning
and sharing of all things guitar, Rada7: partly open Estonian blog/website for pop and alternative
music criticism
4) introducing teaching and course syllabi and curriculum
Finnish, Estonian, English, Austrian, US (open and partly open environments)
MOVE, Koolielu, Primary Resources (music), Music at school, EDUHI.AT,
Vermont MIDI Project, MIT-OPENCOURSEWARE
Estonian, US (closed environments)
IVA, Moodle, Blackboard

20. University of Arts, Faculty of Music Belgrade
What e-learning environments capacitate in music education?
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Beaudoin, Paul (2009). iTunes, YouTube and me: integrating media technology in the music
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Juvonen, Antti & Ruismäki, Heikki (2009). The new possibilities of music technology in music
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Lock, Gerhard [2012]. Muusikakriitika erikursus / Music criticism course (MuKriErikursus).
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