Creative Collaboration in Young Digital Communities

Online collaboration between musicians in 2020 is a rapidly developing practice due to a range of environmental, epidemiological and creative motivations. The technical facility to collaborate in a variety of different formats exists via file-sharing services, video conferencing suites and specialist music services such as Splice and Auddly. Yet, given this proliferation of technologies, little attention has been paid into how creative musicians can most meaningfully utilize these new collaborative opportunities within their working practice. In this article, we wish to share some reflections from a case study of online music collaboration gained through our experience of facilitating three online songwriting camps with students from Leeds Conservatoire in the United Kingdom and Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Denmark. This article will particularly focus on the importance of managing roles, the impact of communication tools and the requirement for time management when collaborating online before proposing a set of guidelines derived from this study to help enable productive online creative collaboration.

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Digital Competence, New Perspectives for Teaching in Contexts of Social Isolation [Competencia digital, nuevas perspectivas para la docencia en contextos de aislamiento social]

REVISTA EDUSER ◽

10.18050/eduser.v7i2.2662 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 119-126

Author(s):

María Amelia Cruz Cobeñas ◽

Wilfredo Carcausto-Calla

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Virtual Education ◽

Digital Competence ◽

Digital Communities ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Educación Virtual ◽

Sustainable Health ◽

Competencias Digitales ◽

Competencia Digital

The article reviews the problem of digital competences from the digital constructivist learning approach for digital empowerment from formative education of the dimensions: (a) personal, (b) ethical, (c) professional, as opposed to the structuralist definition or functionalist of the connectivist approach, which prioritizes the professional and functional dimension of the competences in the use of information and communication technologies. Digital competences are established as the skills to achieve integration, accessibility, employability and equity of digital communities, valued in the context of the current pandemic and in virtual education, doors of a future of sustainable health and citizenship. [El artículo revisa la problemática de las competencias digitales desde el enfoque de aprendizaje constructivista digital para el empoderamiento digital desde la educación formativa de las dimensiones: (a) personal, (b) ética, (c) profesional, en contraposición a la definición estructuralista o funcionalista del enfoque conectivista, la cual prioriza la dimensión profesional y funcional de las competencias en el uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Se establece a las competencias digitales como las destrezas para lograr la integración, accesibilidad, empleabilidad y equidad de las comunidades digitales, valorados en el contexto de la pandemia actual y en la educación virtual puertas de un futuro de salud y ciudadanía sostenibles].

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