Music in Spanish schools, high schools and conservatories: educational response strategies against the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has meant that practically all Spanish educational centers have had to adapt the teaching they provide. The case of the musical field in general and that of instrumental practice in particular has had to organize an effective educational response with which to ensure the well-being and learning of students. That is why we have carried out a systematic review based on research questions and a main objective related to the strategies that conservatories and general education centers have adopted in the musical field. Initially we selected a series of databases of recognized international and Hispanic prestige in which to carry out searches with the defined key terms. The different phases of study of the documents were limited by the inclusion criteria and the search formulas, giving rise to the final selection once those documents that appeared duplicates in the databases had been eliminated. The results show how the main strategies in the primary stages are related to collaborative and cooperative work, even in the phase of suppression of educational attendance. In addition, in music conservatories, group instrumental practice has had certain peculiarities during the different phases of the pandemic, with the main strategy carried out by teachers being teacher coordination. © 2023, Universidad Pablo de Olavide. All rights reserved.

Technology in the educational field before COVID: a commitment to MOOCs as a training strategy in the university context

Although the development of technology in the educational field has been promoting progressive changes in teaching methodology, especially at the university level, in the last quarter century, it is due to the pandemic that plagues humanity (COVID-19) when from the academic context there has been the urgent need to rethink all the operation and non-contact possibilities based on the Internet through synchronous or asynchronous teaching. Thus, with the development of MOOCs, great possibilities have been seen to meet educational demands in a non-face-to-face way, enabling individualized and open attention to the group of students who present cases and varied needs. In the present work, we intend to carry out an approach to MOCCs in terms of conceptualization, characteristics, elements and typologies, deepening their relationship with educational care in the pandemic moment that surrounds us. To finish, we will make a tour of various MOCC aggregators / search engines and we will copy several of them to demonstrate their educational potential.