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5 Effective Strategies for Teaching Music Theory to Non-Majors
How to Make Teaching Music Theory Meaningful, Accessible, and Engaging for Every Student Teaching Music theory can be a powerful for understanding how music works—but for non-majors, it’s often an intimidating or abstract requirement. These students may be passionate listeners or casual performers, but they don’t always arrive with formal training or a deep desire…
Read MoreCan we actually play music together online, in real time?
Connect For Education Online Music Lessons vs. Zoom: What’s Best for Playing Together Online? https://connect4education.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/rock_your_music_journey_with_c4estudio-1080p.mp4 As music educators and students, one of the biggest challenges we face is this: Can we actually play music together online, in real time? The answer is: Yes—we can play music online, but with the right setup. Our team recently…
Read MoreANNOUNCING: Podcasts in C4E Music Courses coming Summer 2025
OnMusic Appreciation’s Newest Feature: Podcasts! Listen Your browser does not support the audio element. Connect For Education (C4E) is thrilled to introduce an innovative new way for students to engage with their online music courses- podcasts! Starting in Summer 2025, each lesson in the OnMusic Appreciation course, within OnMusic Companion (OMC), will feature a dedicated…
Read More6 AI Checkers
Checking the AI Checkers: Methods to Discourage Student’s Inappropriate Use of AI. The six (6) AI Checkers that I recommend to detect inappropriate use of AI are: experiment, policy, detection tools, focus on the process, review the sources, and communication. Keep reading to learn more about them. In 2020, I wrote an article for this…
Read More5 Ways to Avoid Teaching an Absurd Online Class
How to help prevent asynchronous online students from learning less! Prior to discussing the five methods for preventing the delivery of absurd online classes, let us consider some contextual information. Because of my experiences as a student in as well as being a designer and teacher of asynchronous online courses, an opinion piece in Inside…
Read MoreAspiring Musicians! The Epic Trio Join Forces to Launch an Unmatched Pathway
An American River College, Connect For Education, and Berklee College collaboration! American River College (ARC) Music Department is thrilled to announce to aspiring musicians, the Epic Trio, a dynamic new partnership with Berklee College of Music, one of the world’s leading institutions for contemporary music education. This collaboration will provide ARC students a direct pathway…
Read MoreThree Disrupters of Online Education & How to Mitigate Them
What can we do when there is a major disruption to online education? This article focuses on three disrupters of online education and ways to mitigate them. The unexpected COVID-19 pandemic disrupted in-person education, and online methods became the fallback measure so that teaching and learning could continue. But what can we do when there…
Read MoreChecking the Plagiarism Checkers: A Comprehensive Review
Checking the Plagiarism Checkers What those Similarity Reports might not be telling you… Plagiarism is not a new phenomenon in education, but the widespread use of plagiarism checking tools by students, teachers, and institutions is fairly recent. It used to be up to teachers to discover plagiarism. Now, computer software and internet sites detect it…
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