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Abstract

The learning platform DetmoldMusicTools aims to support interconnected, sensory music learning. In the ideal case, a learning object will be both comprehended from an intellectual point of view and differentiated in the act of hearing; it will also be rediscovered in the score and re-evaluated in its musical context; ultimately, learners will engage with it creatively, in the form of a compositional idea, an improvisation or interpretation, for example. There is not always time to do this in taught classes. So-called blended learning (which couples traditional taught classes and modern forms of e-learning in a way that is pedagogically useful) offers a solution to this problem. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), first used in the United States, are now increasingly offered here as well and are now revolutionising many fields of university and college teaching. This project is funded by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, is completely free for all users and also makes no use of advertising banners. The University simply provides the platform upon which any user can create and publish courses – an open platform that is aimed equally at teaching staff, school students and students at universities, colleges of music and general education schools. It works with different types of content, using texts, audio files, images, videos, graphics, notation and HTML. The special feature of all of this is that content does not stand alone, but can be freely combined so as to train and practice different links, for example between hearing and noting down music or between reading music and analysis. The platform also has an integrated online notation tool and can be used at various points to illustrate musical facts or in exercises. Furthermore, notation tasks, analyses and interpretations can be sent directly to the course leader for evaluation. Here the creator of the course has the option to share the learning content with different members of the learning community. A course can be made accessible to either only one specific group of learners or to the general public. In the latter case, the course can also be copied and developed further for the respective user’s own purposes. www.detmoldmusictools.de.