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Development of Serious Games for Music Education

Type: journal article

Authors: Adriano Baratè, Mattia G Bergomi, Luca Andrea Ludovico

Abstract
Serious games have proved to be an effective educational tool in many fields. The first goal of this paper is to illustrate some possible applications to music and their advantages. Moreover, music can be characterized by heterogeneous multimedia contents. Among the different facets music information is made of it is worth citing music symbols, their graphical representations as scores, their audio renderings as tracks, etc. The international standard known as IEEE 1599 is an XML multilayer format for heterogeneous music contents, and describes such different aspects in an integrated and synchronized context. Making relationships among music contents explicit provides a potentially rich educational environment. Consequently, this paper discusses the concept of multilayer learning object, introduces the IEEE 1599 standard, and finally shows some applications and case studies.

Associated tags
metadata ▸ material ▸ iClef
metadata ▸ contribution ▸ Presentation
metadata ▸ year ▸ 2013
technological dimension ▸ applications ▸ Mobile computing
technological dimension ▸ input technologies ▸ Mobiles
technological dimension ▸ system outputs ▸ Visual
musical dimension ▸ activities ▸ Responding
pedagogical dimension ▸ learning theories ▸ Cognitivism
pedagogical dimension ▸ users ▸ Not defined
pedagogical dimension ▸ venues ▸ Everywhere