THE APPLICATION OF DIGITAL AUDIO TECHNOLOGY IN MUSIC CONSERVATORY COURSES: EXPLORING LECTURER ATTITUDINAL FACTOR

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ABSTRACT

The current study examined the use and integration of digital audio technology (DAT) in conservatory courses for teaching music, focusing on lecturers' attitudes toward technology, with consideration of their acceptance of technology and their propensity to integrate it into teaching; this is then employed as a starting point to examine what factors affect lecturers' attitudes. Nevertheless, many technological tools have been developed concerning the rapid improvement of digital technology and gradually integrated into the classroom teaching process; In other words, music education has undergone considerable changes. However, without the trust and confidence in these DAT tools by lecturers, the successful integration of DAT may not be as straightforward as it seems to be through technological advancement. This study conducted a systematic literature analysis to examine relevant research on educators' opinions toward DAT in music education from 2018 to 2024. The researchers reviewed 37 papers that satisfied the inclusion criteria of this study by searching prominent academic databases, including Google Scholar, Scopus, Mycite, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). The topics of the essays primarily reflected on how digital technologies are used, and what roles they serve in contemporary education while exploring both the promise and pitfalls of digital technology as it relates to educators' attitudes impacted by the infusion of technology into music courses. They analyzed the relationship between lecturers′ beliefs, attitude, and their use of instructional technology. In addition, the series of proposed improvement strategies from these papers are extremely important.

Keywords: technology, attitude, music education, music course, technology integration