In-Person or Virtual? - Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on the Teaching Habits of Voice Pedagogues.

ABSTRACT: The social distancing measures implemented world-wide in the wake of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis have forced voice pedagogues to alter their teaching habits, likely shifting from customary in-person teaching to virtual teaching. An online survey, distributed world-wide in April/May 2020, investigated how singing voice pedagogues were impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. The collected responses from 387 survey participants suggest that, overall, voice teachers were only moderately satisfied with having to teach virtually, indicating that virtual voice teaching is not a sufficient replacement for in-person teaching. The participants indicated that during virtual teaching the singing voice can be assessed relatively well through features which provide both acoustic and visual clues. I

SUBMITTER: Murdaugh K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7553062 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature