Abstract
Given the current pandemic context generated by COVID 19, important changes in the way specific subjects to music education are taught emerged, affecting not only the particularities of learning and teaching in individual courses, but also the other courses regarding group learning or theoretical subjects. In this time, emergency remote teaching and learning requires cross-collaboration between instructional, content, and technological teams. Our research examines the students' attitudes toward online education, also presenting proposals for optimization and efficiency. The research was undertaken after an experience of a University semester in a lockdown context, and it aimed at undergraduate and master's degree students from music faculties in Romania. An important result was the mediating role of perceived utility of e-learning methods, perceived utility mediated the associations between compatibility of online methods and satisfaction toward the use of e-learning methods. The perceived compatibility of e-Learning methods with online music education led to a higher perceived utility which, in turn, predicted a higher satisfaction toward e-Learning Although this period accentuated the fear of interaction with others, the anxiety related to the unknown, the intolerance of uncertainty did not predict the satisfaction toward the use of e-learning platforms. In conclusion, more educational initiatives are needed to promote remote teaching methods in music education. In the absence of similar research in our country, we considered that future research on this topic is needed.
Highlights
The global COVID-19 pandemic brought about radical changes to all aspects of our lives and required a dramatic paradigm shift in the way we interact with each other
In the absence of similar research in our country and in order to outline an overview of the subject, we considered a research to address the issues of higher music education to be necessary
The purpose of this study is to investigate the music students’ attitudes toward remote education during the COVID 19 pandemic: the satisfaction toward online learning, the amount of time spent learning online, and the perceived utility and compatibility with specific subject matters
Summary
The global COVID-19 pandemic brought about radical changes to all aspects of our lives and required a dramatic paradigm shift in the way we interact with each other. As concerning music education in Romania, higher education music institutions were forced to adapt and evolve. As in many universities around the world, in Romania, too, we witnessed an unprecedented migration from the face-to-face music education to remote teaching methods, to ensure the normal functioning of education and to constrain the spread of a transmissible virus such as COVID-19. The pandemic period brought into question the concept of Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning or Forced Remote Teaching, as students and teachers neither actively choose nor were they prepared for what was coming. Teachers were part of the Emergency Remote Teaching process, and their experience is discussed in recent articles (Alqabbani et al, 2020), as well as compared to the students’ perceptions (Zhao et al, 2021). The purposes was to explore the ways that pandemic conditions have affected music teachers’ sense of safety at work and their current teaching situations, and conclusions indicate that the teachers’ well-being has gotten worse from the start of the pandemic through the start of a new school year in fall 2020 (Parkes et al, 2021)
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