Education departments of arts and culture institutions have very quickly changed approach to support the community with remote options. The Advisory Board for the Arts has gathered examples of innovative education initiatives and will use this space to offer guidance to organizations about how to build remote learning materials.
See additional recommendations for remote education from our webinar recap and recording. Download an abbreviated deck from the webinar here. You can also familiarize yourself with the concepts of instructional design at these two helpful resource sites: instructionaldesign.org and Don Clark’s site.
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Remote Education Example Library
In this section, you’ll find examples of education initiatives used by arts organizations during the time of self-quarantine and social distancing, plus examples of website aggregating education opportunities. Download a linked PDF version here
SYNCHRONOUS LEARNING
Here we highlight organizations offering remote live classes in innovative ways. Looking for help providing classes over Zoom? Check out this incredibly helpful guide from Harvard: In-depth Guide: using Zoom to teach online class sessions
Class-Based
English National Ballet is set to launch their new digital platform in Autumn called ENB at Home. With subscription, patrons can enjoy over 100 hours of content such as ballet, yoga, and fitness classes along with filmed performances and events. Now you can enjoy ENB wherever you are. To be notified about the launch, click here.
Seattle Rep’s Inside Seattle Rep offers great content on their website for patrons to peruse at their leisure. These include Reading Lists, Watch Party Guides, A Dear Julie Advice Column, Interviews, Behind the Scenes, Workshops, and more. ABA’s personal favorite asks audiences what their show would be like if your life was a musical.
Dramaversity is an online drama academy offering courses, tutoring and master classes to students of all ages - including some offered by prominent theater stars. The price and age range of each class is easily adjustable, allowing patrons to curate their perfect learning experience.
ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING
Remote education offers the chance for learners to engage on their own time; these asynchronous assets also can be scaled to a wider audience or used to support others’ in-person learning.
Videos
The Kennedy Center is partnering with resident artist Mo Willems in the Small Works Project to highlight the small ways that their audiences help others in their day to day life. For 50 Weekdays, a Small Work Story is paired with artwork by Mo Willems and mailed out. If you want to submit a small work story, you can do so here.
Ballet Austin provides short videos on their shared value of health & wellness in their Be Well Network. Audiences can find Be Active, Be Creative, Be Curious, Be Generous, Be Happy, and Be Well Videos for free. Check out this great content and most importantly, be well!
Did you miss the launch of the Scottish Ballet’s Digital Dance Festival In May? Now you can watch the season and learn how it was made. The Scottish Ballet has made a number of interesting resources available to audiences on the intricacies of how the season was artistically perfected in the lead up to the launch here.
Resources and Guides
All Ages
The Van Gogh Museum’s Museum at Home offers Van Gogh-themed classwork, video tours, art exploration and more. Check out ABA’s favorite Museum at Home highlights in our article here.
The RSC has a full Shakespeare Learning Zone. Play around and learn about Shakespearean works through key facts, scenes, photos of past productions. View the dynamic between directors and their cast by watching videos about rehearsals and performances. As RSC suggests, just choose a play and enjoy!
New Victory Arts Break offers fun activities that audiences can take part in from home. Each week focuses on an art form and includes kid friendly activities all moderated by New Victory Teaching Artistics. Don’t miss new posts! Sign up for notifications here.
Families
Philharmonie de Paris’ comprehensive family portal, Philharmonie de Paris On Demand, has audio guides, videos, recorded zoom classes, instrument showcases, and video series to entertain young audiences and families.
Carnegie Hall has guided activities for the family available in Musical Explorers. The curriculum is made up of 5 programmes; each one focuses on one of three genres of music and is led by three artists. All begin with a lesson on the culture of the artist and their songs and end with a concert all together.
Do you like to solve mysteries and find clues? The Rijksmuseum has an online key challenges scavenger hunt for students. See the museum online and scroll, zoom, and find keys that are hidden in the artwork of the museum. Hurry- prizes are on the line- start the challenge now!
Teachers
BSO Homeschool includes lesson plans, virtual lessons and demonstrations, organized by week
La Jolla Playhouse redesigned their entire site to focus on digital offerings, including ‘brain breaks’ and lesson plans for teachers
The National Gallery in London is hosting an online course for primary school teachers that focuses on the painting "The Finding of Moses" by Oratio Gentileschi, and how to incorporate the artwork into art class curriculums for students
Courses and Certificates
These organizations are offering full curriculum with motivational ‘hooks’ like micro-credentials.
MoMA has partnered with Coursera to offer several classes on aspects of contemporary art - including one for educators on museum teaching strategies
The Shed has gathered a collection of remote learning resources, from sheet music to video lessons, and has partnered with LRNG to offer credentials for its practice techniques course
Harvard offers a range of their art and design courses free online, with topics ranging from Handel's Messiah to Shakespeare's Life and Work
Tech-Enabled Learning
These learning interventions - or devices - use technology to help the learning experience.
The School Edition of ArtsPower's Theatre on Demand brings teachers and their students into a virtual classroom built around an original production, complete with supplementary learning materials
The Paris Opera has created the Aria app, perfect for opera and ballet lovers alike, which offers video content and a text feature that lets you chat with the app to learn more about your favorite productions
Steezy is great for both advanced dancers seeking at-home training and those who have decided on learning dance as a quarantine project! The video platform allows for greater control of your lessons so you can really master the steps
Aggregators
These sites are pulling together resources from across the globe, to support students and teachers across dance, theater, music and more.
The National Association for Music Educators has created a comprehensive portal of resources for learners and teachers alike of the best in digital music education
Dancing Alone Together was created out of the pandemic as a central resource for the world of dance when we can't connect in person. The site collects online classes and workshops from around the country to keep us all dancing at home
Beat by Beat collects a wide range of resources for theater educators, from lesson plans to practical guides for teaching through Zoom