Using Music on the Web

Using music not only on the web, also in real circumstances helps to create a mood and atmosphere for the learning environment. In this way music as a e-learning tool can be related to elements in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, e.g. Self -Actualisation, this is seen my the way music relaxes and sooths.

Music can also be used to link into what is being taught by the lyrics in songs.

Reference List

Huitt, W. (2004). Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Educational Psychology Interactive. Retrieved August 6, 2009 from

http://www.dirkdavis.org/cbu/edu518/resources/Savage03/MaslowsHierarchy.pdf

Images

Image 1. Retrieved August 18, 2009 from http://www.cootamundra.local-e.nsw.gov.au/files/129758/File/music_notes.jpg