eMegill Innovative Technologies
Interactive Content Delivery -- a MySQL database holds
content for delivery to an LMS as well as offer a searchable medium for
student research. |
Megill Music Library Glossary Glossarize Your Text |
| Interactive Listening -- A interactive Director movie that controls the audio CD to guide students in their listening. There is both an online Shockwave player for embedding in the LMS and a stand alone player for use off line. | Listening
Lab -- for online use Interactive Players -- Application for off line use |
| Interactive Music Testing - A client/server technology that delivers applet tests to students and records the results to the ETUDES gradebook. There is no other similar known LMS integrated solution. | Skill Tests |
| Music Notepad -- embedded in an LMS. Completely written in Java the server processes information between students and teachers as exercises and tests are submitted and graded. The sharable musical notepad offers students music editing tools to submit their exercises and teachers grading tools to use before returning the exercise to the student for review. Students and teachers never have to leave the course management software to pass the notepad back and forth. This notepad is fully integrated with the ETUDES learning management system. There is no known similar technology. | Music Theory II-- log in as student/student |
| Music Theory Online -- The only known two year music major theory sequence available. The courses are turnkey fully integrated standalone structures that make use of the interactive tools presented here embedded in the ETUDES LMS. The theory courses are 101,102,201,202 and the musicianship courses are 103,104,203,204. There is no known similar integrated curriclum available. | MiraCosta Offerings -- log in as guest/guest |
| Instant Polls -- We use quick polls sprinkled throughout our classes as classroom assessment tools for students to see how they line up with others. These polls are not limited to single classes but work across all sections of the class or even across different classes. We use these polls to gather information as we develop courses which are offered nation wide. So the pages here show the result of all the courses nationwide. | Counterpoint Music Fundamentals Music Appreciation Jazz History Rock History |
| Technology Assessment -- We combine the polls demonstrated above with the technological requirements for a course to better understand how prepared students are for the technology we use in our courses. This is a technology check page we use in our Music Fundamentals Classes. | Check Media Results |
| News Room -- We have added a news room in some of our online classes with RSS feeds from sites useful for the class. Because they are dynamic the student responses to assignments that require information from the news room is also dynamic. It offers a refreshing grading process. RSS feeds are quite common in commercial portals but relatively new to online classes. | News Room |
| Bleeding Edge Stuff -- An Expert Interactive Testing tecnology. A student interacts with the expert testing applet which pulls weighted questions from a database of questions that cover the primary domains of music theory and ear training. Student progress is persistent from session to session. Student results are used to norm the questions for use in future comparisons between faculty expections and emperical student outcomes. Designed for music skill assessment and the research of educational outcomes across higher education. No known equivalent technology or research project. | Smart Music Testing |
The Context for this Technology
| Pedigogical Problems |
Technological Solutions |
Present and Future Needs |
| Text centric browsers | Notepad which passes musical notation between student and teacher. Applets for musical testing. |
Programming skills not common among music professionals. Niche discipline that does not easily attract appropriate funding. |
| Market and textbook centric publishers | Partnerships among educational centric entities, e.g. Coastline College publishing, Foothill College ETUDES LMS development. |
Online development that is discipline centric and not overly dependent on traditional media. Teacher driven development. |
| Presentation centric materials | Truly interactive tools such as the testing applets and notepad that promote student engagement rather that passive reception. | Programming support to address discipline needs. |
| Single use materials buried in LMS. | Course content in easily accessible databases for use across classes and disciplines. | Database development and programming support. |
| Media Ownership | True authoring and media development | A broad base of authors in an "open source" type of environment. |
| Absent norms for learning outcomes in higher education music curriculum | Expert diagnostic systems that can compare educational expectations across higher education with respecitive empirical learning outcomes. | Systemic participation on both the development and implementation of diagnostic tools. |