ADOPTING ONLINE LEARNING APPROACHES IN PROFESSIONAL MUSIC TRAINING - THE TUT EXPERIENCE

Having been asked to respond to a question from the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, about whether educational technologies used during the COVID-19 pandemic can serve as a knowledge base and be incorporated as learning tools based on their impacts on music education curricula, what follows are some observations and reflections from the Tainan University of Technology (TUT), Taiwan, about its educators’ experiences of teaching live lessons one-to-one and in groups online. The idea put forward is that technology applications reflect an emergent sensibility in music lessons, and this represents an opportunity for music educators to reconfigure and strengthen their pedagogical approaches. By recognizing the accessibility of new and varied forms of musicianship and acknowledging the ways in which course curricula continue to grow in their range of practices and necessary literacies, pedagogies can be developed in concert with digital technologies to support broader and more cohesive, inclusive, diverse, meaningful, and useful experiences for music students.