Published: 01. March 2010
Are you interested in learning more about music masterclasses online? Perhaps you have experience that you would like to discuss with others? On 29 & 30 April 2010 the Norwegian Academy of Music is holding a seminar about online masterclasses, which will include a live masterclass in collaboration with Eastman School of Music, New York.
For several years now, the Norwegian Academy of Music has been testing the possibilities for masterclasses over the Internet; in the last year in close collaboration with Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. The technology used may vary, from commercial video-conferencing systems to more experimental technologies, but the inter-institutional and pedagogical challenges remain the same: how to use these new possibilities for interaction within the framework of one's own institutional traditions and curriculum.
To try to formulate some answers – and to demonstrate what we have been doing so far – we are delighted to invite participants from other music education institutions to this seminar on online masterclasses. The centrepiece of the seminar will be an online masterclass demonstration between the Academy and Eastman, followed the next day by an open discussion about the experience – by the teachers as well as students and administrators. The seminar opens, however, with an in-depth presentation of Internet in general and of some of the various technical solutions that exist for online teaching.
The seminar will be held at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway, on 29–30 April 2010.'
Preliminary programme:
Thursday 29 April: Mostly technical ...
10.00–12.00: Registration
12.00–12.15: Welcome
12.15–14.30: Session 1
Technology and the Internet: technological and practical solutions in online teaching situations
14.30–15.30: Lunch
15.30–16.30: Session 2
Preparing for this afternoon's online masterclass: practical, technological and pedagogocal issues
16.30–18.00: Online masterclass with Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York
19.00: Dinner
Friday 30 April: Mostly pedagogical and institutional ...
09.30–11.00: Session 3
Discussion about Thursday's masterclass: what can we learn from this and earlier masterclasses?
11.00–12.00: Session 4:
Online cooperation: challenges for institutions
12.00: Lunch and end of seminar
Further details:
There is no conference fee, but the number of participants is limited. We will therefore confirm your participation after the closing date for registration. Lunch and refreshments will be provided free of charge, but participants will be asked to cover the costs of the conference dinner (further details will be sent to those who register).
Participants book their own travel to / from Oslo, and their own accommodation.
How to reach the Academy: NAM is situated at Majorstuen in Slemdalsveien 11. From the airport the fastest alternative is the Airport Express train to the Central station, then change to the metro (T-bane) and take any westbound line to Majorstuen.
The nearest hotels are Hotel Gyldenløve and Rica Holberg Hotel.
For more information about the conference, please send an email with your query to onlineseminar@nmh.no.
REGISTRATION
Closing date for registration is 31 March.
In order to register as a participant, please complete the information below:
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