Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TECSOME (Technologies for Supporting Online Music Education)
Período documentado: 2017-10-01 hasta 2019-03-31
Online learning has impacted and changed music education significantly all over the world in the last decade. Music schools and teachers have now access to a much wider audience, increasing their business opportunities especially by overcoming the geographical constraints. However, online music performance education cannot scale to MOOC level given that the student assessments rely on individual instructor review, as is the case in the well known online courses from Berklee Online. The need for a personal assessment procedure limits the growth and expansion of these courses.
TECSOME has solved this limitation by facilitating the learner’s assessment, making it more automatic and less human-dependent. We have built an automatic assessment system, named Music Critic, targeted at supporting music performance courses and helping them scale up to MOOC level. Music Critic acts as an external assessment tool able to communicate with existing Learning Management Systems (LMS) via the Learning Tool Interoperability standard (LTI). The basic workflow is: (1) teacher prepares an exercise using the LMS and Music Critic; (2) learner uploads an audio recording of the exercise to the LMS; (3) LMS sends the audio recording to Music Critic, where is analyzed and evaluated; and (4) Music Critic sends the assessment outcome, which includes the evaluation grade and detail feedbacks, to the LMS, where it can be corrected and validated by the teacher before becoming available to the learner.
TECSOME has solved this limitation by facilitating the learner’s assessment, making it more automatic and less human-dependent. We have built an automatic assessment system, named Music Critic, targeted at supporting music performance courses and helping them scale up to MOOC level. Music Critic acts as an external assessment tool able to communicate with existing Learning Management Systems (LMS) via the Learning Tool Interoperability standard (LTI). The basic workflow is: (1) teacher prepares an exercise using the LMS and Music Critic; (2) learner uploads an audio recording of the exercise to the LMS; (3) LMS sends the audio recording to Music Critic, where is analyzed and evaluated; and (4) Music Critic sends the assessment outcome, which includes the evaluation grade and detail feedbacks, to the LMS, where it can be corrected and validated by the teacher before becoming available to the learner.