A sample of virtual reality applications in music education
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Virtual reality technology provides an opportunity for students to engage in a lasting, active, interactive, and enjoyable learning experience, particularly by embodying abstract concepts and utilizing multiple sensory organs. These applications can be utilized to create individual and unique educational environments for each student's specific interests, needs, and learning styles. In this context, it is believed that technological applications used in educational environments can also be useful within the scope of music education. This study aimed to determine the effect of these activities on the music performance anxiety levels and performance development of undergraduate students of the music department. A 10-week series of lessons has been designed utilizing virtual reality technology, the 'virtual stage' application, to reduce performance anxiety and enhance the performances of students in the field of vocational music education. The study group is determined by homogeneous sampling. A total of 26 students participated in the study. The quantitative data of the study were obtained with the Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory and the performance observation form developed by the researcher; the qualitative data were obtained with the semi-structured interview form.
Keywords: Music Education, Virtual Reality, Instrument Training, Instructional Technologies.
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