Courtesy of SAE Institute

New Technology for Audio Education as a Response to COVID-19

Between March 2020 and August 2021 Melbourne experienced over 150 days of lockdown, alongside many more weeks of Stage 3 restrictions due to COVID-19. In 2020, as the first Melbourne lockdown began, SAE pivoted classes to remote delivery, which for the most part continued throughout the following 5 trimesters. This shift involved technical challenges for staff and students, such as: adjustments to teaching methods and content, development of remote teaching spaces, managing remote DAW & studio classes and multiple online collaboration tools, amongst various other hurdles.

During this time, a range of new approaches to teaching and learning emerged at SAE, including the use of virtual consoles, developed within the Max software environment by Dr Mark Bassett, techniques for remotely demonstrating head-tracked spatial mixing and binaural audio, multi-camera studio classes and various other approaches. 

Gareth and Nick will provide audio demonstrations, and consider the impact of lockdowns, teaching and learning and future possibilities.

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