The Music Professor Online

Abstract

The book provides a window onto online music instruction in higher education with the aim of helping music professors successfully integrate online teaching into their pedagogical repertoire. It highlights commonalities between online and face-to-face teaching, presents a theoretical framework for online learning, and provides practical models and techniques from professors teaching online in various music disciplines. Part I reviews the status of online learning in general and in music, identifies some similarities and differences between face-to-face and online teaching, presents standards and principles for online instruction, explores the development of an online teaching persona, and examines pedagogical characteristics of effective online teaching, including signature pedagogies of the music disciplines. Part II focuses on the lived online curriculum. It features online teaching experiences in applied music, music theory, music history/musicology, music appreciation, and music education provided by professors teaching online in those disciplines. Part III summarizes lessons from online practitioners, presents an action plan for moving forward with online music instruction, and looks to the future of online instruction in music.