Online teaching is booming during the pandemic
As part of a research project, the Swiss Music Schools Association and the Lucerne School of Music have examined the latest developments in the field of net-based instrumental and vocal teaching.
According to a newsletter from the Swiss Music Schools Association (VMS), music teachers were surveyed in a sub-project in August and September 2020 about teaching during the lockdown. 1462 music teachers took part in the survey.
The initial evaluations show that only 14 percent of large group lessons were fully replaced by a form of distance learning during the lockdown, which is not surprising given the technological limitations of the interaction (latency of data transmission).
However, 80 percent of one-to-one lessons for children and young people were replaced in full by distance learning, 17 percent to a reduced extent and only 3 percent of lessons took place to a greatly reduced extent or not at all.
In turn, distance learning was well received by the learners. Around 80 percent of music teachers stated that over three quarters of learners regularly took part in distance learning. According to the music teachers, 44 percent of learners who took individual lessons practiced more than at normal times. However, the practice times of learners in group courses were significantly lower than before the pandemic-related restrictions due to the high number of canceled lessons.
Original article:
https://www.verband-musikschulen.ch/de/newsletter/newsletter_01_2021_Forschung
