ELIA Online Session: How To Navigate the Digital Frontier in Online Arts Learning

How can you possibly teach music online? How do we preserve hands-on experiential learning while developing online courses? 

ELIA invites you to participate in an online "How to" event that aims to unravel the evolving landscape of digital learning and its impact on higher arts education. Dive into a dynamic discussion on the challenges and opportunities of creative online learning with speakers from ELIA member institutions Berklee College of Music and University of the Arts London (UAL).

Berklee Online has grown from a pioneering initiative at Berklee into the world’s largest and most celebrated online music school, with 18.000 annual enrolments. Join Debbie Cavalier, CEO and co-founder of Berklee Online, as she discusses the strategic approaches that have shaped Berklee Online into a global powerhouse, offering everything from free MOOCs to an extensive market-driven catalogue with hundreds of instructor-led online courses, certificate programs, undergraduate and graduate programs. Experience a live demonstration of Berklee's online courses. Debbie will also touch upon integration of AI tools in online music education and how these technologies are revolutionising the learning experience and empowering students to excel in their creative journeys.

For the past two years, UAL has been diligently developing its unique methods and approaches for delivering creative arts courses online. As they prepare to launch their first online master's course, you are invited to join Georgia Steele as she takes us through her journey of building flexible and immersive online learning modules. This will include key findings from a large action research project and the practical and pedagogical approaches that were developed. The discussion will delve into the challenges associated with implementing cutting-edge online pedagogies tailored to artistic groups, while still allowing room for individualised journeys within a structured learning environment.

This session is ideal for arts administrators and educators looking to begin or advance their distance-learning programmes with a diverse catalogue supporting lifelong learning in music and creative arts.

Join the online session on Wednesday, 22 May 2024 from 15:00 – 16:00 CEST.