Design and Evaluation of ' Music Educational Assistant ': a Web-Based Assistant for Enhanced Music Cognitive and Skill Learning During COVID-۱۹

Learning musical instruments has been rapidly popular during the past decades. However, it is faced with COVID-۱۹ pandemic restrictions and lockdowns, which limit face-to-face music lectures. This research aims to design and develop an online instructional system named Nuance for learning musical instruments. The system performance is tested and analyzed to study the impact of the proposed system on cognitive and practical learning skills for a Persian musical instrument named Setar. This study uses a "quasi-experimental research" method for a population of ۹۰۰ Setar elementary students in Sanandaj city during the ۲۰۲۱-۲۰۲۲ academic year. A convenience sampling method is used to form two homogenous groups, including control and experimental, each with ۱۵ learners. The experimental group uses the Nuance system, while the control group receives online videos. The Shapiro-Wilk test is used to test the data normality, while one-way ANOVA and Tukey post hoc tests are used to analyze data and study the performance of the proposed system. The results show a significant difference between both the groups and support that the proposed system has a better performance for cognitive and practical music learning skills than the standard online system (P <۰.۰۵).

Keywords:

COVID-۱۹ , Music Learning , Online Instructional System , Setar