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The Music Professor Online is a practical volume that provides a window into online music instruction in higher education. Author Judith Bowman highlights commonalities between online and face-to-face teaching, presents a theoretical framework for online learning, and provides practical models and techniques based on interviews with professors teaching online in various music disciplines. This book offers keys for thinking about music education in a post-COVID world, when the importance and interest of online education is of central concern.Part I reviews the growth and significance of online learning and online learning in music, identifies similarities and differences between face-to-face and online teaching, and presents standards and principles for online instruction. It explores development of an online teaching persona, explains teaching presence, and emphasizes the central role of the instructor as director of learning, always in relation to specific disciplines and their signature pedagogies. Part II focuses on the lived online curriculum, featuring online teaching experiences in key fields by professors teaching them online. Bowman explores specific disciplines and their signature pedagogies together with practitioner profiles that provide insights into the thinking and techniques of excellent online music instructors, together with recommendations for prospective online instructors and lessons drawn from the field. Part III summarizes recommendations and lessons from online practitioners, presents an action plan for moving forward with online music instruction, and looks to the future of online instruction in music. Educators will find great use in this comprehensive, thoughtful compendium of reflections from a leading, longtime online music educator.

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The Music Professor Online is a very timely treasure trove of pedagogical best practices for music teaching online. Readers will find the interviews with expert online music educators on the learner-centered teaching strategies and tools that worked best for them extremely helpful. Now that most of us have had a taste of virtual music teaching in some form or other, this book is an invaluable must read. * Gena R. Greher, Professor of Music & Music Education, UMass, Lowell * The Music Professor Online is a valuable resource for anyone curious about teaching in hybrid or fully online environments. While targeted specifically toward music professors, this book presents resources, research and pedagogical techniques that could be useful in many content areas. The 'Lessons from the Field' section, which is based on case studies of online music professors, makes the theoretical and research-based content come alive for the reader. This is a useful, timely addition to any music professor's library. * Janice Smith, Professor of Music Education, Queens College *

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Judith Bowman is Professor Emerita of Music at Duquesne University. Her degrees are in piano performance (BS, Nazareth College of Rochester) and music education (MM and PhD, Eastman School of Music). Her research interests include online learning, online learning in music, music cognition, and teaching with technology. She teaches online courses in music research. She has served as Secretary of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (JATMI). Dr. Bowman is the author of Online Learning in Music: Foundations, Frameworks, and Practices (Oxford, 2014).

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