Abstract
This article provides a review of the instructional potential of digital music to enhance postsecondary students' experience in online courses by involving them in music-driven instructional activities. The authors describe how music-driven instructional activities, when used appropriately, can (a) humanize, personalize, and energize online courses by enhancing social presence through student-to-student interaction; (b) tap into students' interests, and elicit positive feelings and associations; and (c) involve students in relevant and meaningful student-to-content interaction by engaging them in active knowledge construction. This article includes descriptions of several music-driven instructional activities that rely on digital music resources to engage students in generative, multisensory student-content interactions that leverage their interest in music, as well as a set of guidelines to support the design and use of music-driven instructional activities in online courses.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Journal | TechTrends |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- Digital Music
- Online Learning
- Social Presence
- Teaching Presence
- eLearning
- engagement
- interaction
EGS Disciplines
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Higher Education and Teaching
- Instructional Media Design
- Other Education