On the Gains and Losses of Multimedia-Assisted Instruction Technology in College Music Teaching Practice

Introduction

With the promotion of quality education and the development of multimedia technology, the traditional music teaching methods have been far from meeting the needs of contemporary music education, and cannot achieve the ideal educational effect. The development of modern science and technology has brought many new technologies into the music classroom, providing a wealth of teaching resources for the music classroom. The use of multimedia technology has improved the artistry and intuition of the music classroom, providing an effective way to achieve curriculum standards, and the improvement of teaching quality has been unanimously recognized by teachers and students. The main goal of music teaching in colleges and universities is to cultivate students' ability to express, appreciate and create music. Multimedia technology integrates graphics, text and sound, and has gradually been widely used in teaching (Zereu, 2023). The traditional music teaching model leads to a relatively weakened teaching process and pays more attention to the production of results. Teachers become knowledge instillers, and students become recipients of knowledge. This approach undoubtedly restrains the development of students’ creativity, imagination, discovery ability, and independent inquiry ability. In addition, this approach ignores students’ autonomous learning ability, and their ability to solve problems becomes relatively weak. Traditional teaching methods can no longer keep up with the rapid development of modern society, so the use of multimedia computer technology and other equipment for teaching has become an inevitable trend in the development of modern teaching technology (da Silva-Santos et al., 2023). The application of multimedia technology in music teaching in colleges and universities can first make the teaching more vivid with pictures and texts, and make the abstract image of music concrete, visualized, and intuitive, so that students can integrate into the music situation to the maximum extent and feel the music. Facing the rapid development of society, music teachers should effectively integrate modern information technology multimedia technology into music. How to improve teaching efficiency in classroom teaching, which caters to the inevitable trend of social development, is also a technology that music teachers must master (Nitin, 2023). With the rapid development of the information age, the use of multimedia computer technology and other advanced teaching equipment for auxiliary teaching has become an inevitable trend in the development of modern teaching technology.

Multimedia teaching is the preferred teaching method for educators, at present. It occupies the majority of teaching classrooms with the advantage of being more concise, intuitive, clear, and figurative. The application of multimedia teaching has become a common teaching method in college music teaching. Students are more interested in what they have learned through various displays of multimedia, so as to improve the classroom efficiency and create an efficient classroom. However, many schools have only installed the equipment in classrooms, due to their lack of understanding of multimedia equipment, and have not demonstrated the advantages of multimedia reasonably and subtly, and even conflicted with the inherent traditional teaching mode. This shows that there is unreasonable use of multimedia in the teaching process. These problems have become increasingly apparent, over time. Multimedia teaching is still in the initial stage of development. Through the continuous research and improvement of music educators, the advantages of multimedia application in music classroom teaching can be fully demonstrated (Berthaut, 2020). College music teachers use multimedia technology to make single and abstract music become multi-dimensional and specific. With the support of technology, music teaching has become dynamic and an important auxiliary means in the process of music teaching. However, in practical application, some teachers rely too much on multimedia technology, resulting in misuse and abuse. Therefore, in the process of music teaching, the use of multimedia must follow its use principles. Teachers need to be trained to ensure that they fully master the application methods of multimedia technology, so as to achieve the effectiveness of classroom teaching.