Enhancing Learning through Technology
Successfully integrating traditional forms of artistic expression with digital technology is an ongoing challenge in the performing and creative arts.
In all performing arts disciplines, there are potentially huge problems of copyright and performing rights, which must be addressed. There are also serious ideological issues to consider: in disciplines which are based on person-to-person interaction, just how appropriate is it to teach at a distance or through a virtual medium?
As part of the JISC/Higher Education Academy Distributed e-Learning programme, which focuses on the cultural issues and subject differences surrounding embedding e-learning technologies, PALATINE has been working on the PRISM project. PRISM is an interdisciplinary project to develop a learning website that allows its users to create re-usable learning objects that identify connections between the subject areas of art, architecture & design, dance, theatre production, music, film and literature in some of the influential Anglo-European art movements of the ‘modern’ period.
PALATINE subsequently obtained further funding to undertake a case study based on PRISM for the Accessible e-learning in Higher Education report published by JISC.
PALATINE is also working with the English Subject Centre on the new Second Life Project
PALATINE events which have discussed enhancing learning through technology include:
Teaching Using Videoconferencing (2003), VLEs and E-Learning in HE Performing ArtsTaming the Beast: Learning and Teaching in Music Technology (2004), Podagogy: iPod Technology for Culture, Creation and Communication (2006)
PALATINE Development Awards involving enhancing learning through technology include:
Online Aural Skills: Development and Assessment for Music Students
City College Manchester, Music - Peter Whitfield (October 2003)
DocSMARTS: Practice-based PhDs (Live and Online) in Media Art
University of East London, SMARTlab, Graduate School - Lizbeth Goodman
(June 2006)
Computer Examples and Simulations in the Psychology of Music
Lancaster University, Music Department - Alan Marsden (September 2004)
Understanding Tonal Music: Development of a Web-based Learning Resource
Liverpool Hope University College, School of Creative & Performing Arts - Tom Pankhurst (January 2002)
Informal Approaches to the Development of Young People's Composition Skills
Manchester Metropolitan University, Institute of Education - Jonathan Savage (July 2002)
Designing Shakespeare: Creating a Teaching Support Network and Case Studies for Teaching Theatre History and Shakespeare in Performance
Royal Holloway, University of London, Department of Drama & Theatre - Christie Carson (December 2002)
Creation of a Pool of Composition Exercises for Level 1
University of Southampton, Department of Music - David Nicholls (May 2003)
Publications
Higher Education Academy
Transforming Higher Education Through Technology Enhanced Learning (2009)