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Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Virtual music school becomes a reality - ICT Results
Students of popular musical instruments may soon be learning to play with the help of a new generation of intelligent, interactive computer programmes thanks to European researchers. While it is unlikely, and most people would say undesirable, that computers can ever take the place of teachers, they are becoming an indispensable support tool in many subjects and this may soon also be the case with music. As with most computer-aided teaching, the key to developing a musical tuition system is developing superior software able to hear and react to music being played and make judgements as to whether it is being played correctly.

 



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