Digital competence in Italian Higher Music Education

• Main Authors: Tiziana Rossi, Anna Maria Bordin, Dario De Cicco
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Italian e-Learning Association 2016-01-01
• Series: Je-LKS : Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
• Subjects: Digital Competence; Italian Higher Music Education; music and technology; professor competence
• Online Access: https://www.je-lks.org/ojs/index.php/Je-LKS_EN/article/view/993

In the past, the encounter between music and technological innovation was capable of making profound changes in the art itself and in social life. Today the passage from the possession of digital skills that characterizes our time to their use in the disciplinary sector of the teaching of music and instruments in higher musical education in Italy means reviewing the professionalism of the musician and his role as a teacher, with an emphasis on the artistic responsibility inherent in the welcoming of digital technologies and their exponential development, that we cannot help but think will reserve fresh future conquests, alongside the established knowledge and methodologies of music teaching at the highest levels.