A lot of my musician friends think that elearning for music is a silly idea. They think that having to go through online courses will not provide the same musical learning experience that traditional lessons can offer. However, I totally disagree with them because all it takes to make music elearning development tools work is to choose and combine the right types of tools, applications and software available to us today.
The technology we have now is powerful and advanced enough to accommodate the challenges of musical education. If you go online, you will see that we have a lot of useful innovations and media that can be utilized as development tools for elearning. We have instant messengers, video calling applications, podcasts, instructional videos, music players and so many more. All of these things address music’s need for visual, auditory and tactile teaching and learning methods.
For example, teachers can record a video of themselves demonstrating how to play chords for a guitar. They can integrate text slides into the video if they want to further describe a theory or a tip to reinforce their demonstration. Students can access this pre-recorded instruction, pick up their guitars, and follow the teacher. They can even pause and rewind the video at their own discretion in case they have difficulty following the instruction in one take. With just a simple video, students were able to use their visual, auditory and tactile sense for optimal learning experiences.
The trick to ensure that music elearning development tools will work is to carefully choose what applications or programs you will need and then combine them to provide learners with meaningful learning experiences. You can create a course that features an instructional video like my example above, a listening quiz using a music player, and an instant messaging so the student can interact with the teacher or other learners. As long as the course designer considers the needs and preference of the students, this process will be a piece of cake!
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iTunes U Elearning Online for Developing Countries
Education is such an expensive commodity; coming from an Ivy League school, educational costs could be exponentially higher. So when I heard about iTunes U elearning online or iTunes University where in a number of Ivy League universities enabled their class lectures to be accessed for free, I had to see what its all about.
As a student in a developing country like the Philippines, quality education is hard to come by especially if you’re just an ordinary student with no rich daddy to pay for college tuition. Unlike in the United States where students are given student loans that they can repay later after they graduate, in this country, you would be lucky to qualify for student aid that only covers a fraction of the cost of tuition.
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Another criticism I have of the educational system here is the lack of libraries especially for students like me who study in a public university. Private universities have their libraries stocked with all the latest books but you’d be hard-pressed to find reliable public libraries that aren’t dilapidated and didn’t look like it was about to be condemned. Needless to say, there are no public Internet stations where poor students can browse the net for free like in the US. We all had to rely on the expensive Internet cafes strewn across the city. This is why I think students like me should take advantage of this free but reliable educational program.
Lectures from actual classes at prestigious universities around the world can be accessed through iTunes. I had iTunes in my old computer because I was given a second hand iPod Nano with video for my birthday. The content in these classes were amazing and I can hardly believe that all these are free! There were open courses on almost every subject imaginable. I especially liked the linguistics classes because I’m interested in languages.
I highly recommend this elearning online course especially for university students in developing countries. I hope the government can provide more internet facilities for free because students would truly benefit from free courses. iTunes U truly opened my mind to the possibilities of studying interesting courses that does not even exist in my country.
As a student in a developing country like the Philippines, quality education is hard to come by especially if you’re just an ordinary student with no rich daddy to pay for college tuition. Unlike in the United States where students are given student loans that they can repay later after they graduate, in this country, you would be lucky to qualify for student aid that only covers a fraction of the cost of tuition.
corporate learning solutions
Another criticism I have of the educational system here is the lack of libraries especially for students like me who study in a public university. Private universities have their libraries stocked with all the latest books but you’d be hard-pressed to find reliable public libraries that aren’t dilapidated and didn’t look like it was about to be condemned. Needless to say, there are no public Internet stations where poor students can browse the net for free like in the US. We all had to rely on the expensive Internet cafes strewn across the city. This is why I think students like me should take advantage of this free but reliable educational program.
Lectures from actual classes at prestigious universities around the world can be accessed through iTunes. I had iTunes in my old computer because I was given a second hand iPod Nano with video for my birthday. The content in these classes were amazing and I can hardly believe that all these are free! There were open courses on almost every subject imaginable. I especially liked the linguistics classes because I’m interested in languages.
I highly recommend this elearning online course especially for university students in developing countries. I hope the government can provide more internet facilities for free because students would truly benefit from free courses. iTunes U truly opened my mind to the possibilities of studying interesting courses that does not even exist in my country.
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