Making music with tabletop computing

We have seen them in many familiar places – the ubiquitous surface computing interfaces that show us the changing weather and events with the swipe of a hand over the surface of a large vertical display.

Surface computing – now several years in use – has a horizontal kin in the growing number of tabletop interfaces in which one or more people can use its touchscreen interface to manipulate onscreen objects such as photo galleries, videos, maps, etc.

In the world of audio – and more specifically music

Authentic Learning Innovation in an Online Music Course

Here is a Web-based version of my EDULEARN10 conference presentation on the topic:

Authentic Learning Innovation in an Online Music Course

http://www.programhouse.com/webpres/phedulearn10pres1.htm

This Web-based PowerPoint presentation (optimized for the Internet Explorer browser) describes the rationale and strategy for an authentic learning innovation to improve the relevance of course activities that address adult learner needs. An online digital repository of authentic learning artifacts are used in an online music course (exploration of western classical music) as the first stage of an action research project for which user experience data collection will be performed.

Authentic learning in this context is based on


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