Digital Innovations in Music Pedagogy: Transforming Higher Education Practice

Abstract

Education through high-tech digital integration in music pedagogy education at the higher level now employs interactive learning systems together with adjustable tools for training. Digital platforms and digital audio workstations (DAWs) along with AI-driven feedback systems and gamification techniques have received good acceptance from students and faculty yet scientists have insufficiently studied their effects on student engagement together with performance results and instructor adjustment to these resources. The effectiveness evaluation included musical instruction delivered through digital platforms and instructor-led platforms to student participants. The study employed pre-test and post-test measurement methods and its analysis incorporated descriptive statistics and t-tests and ANOVA as well as chi-square tests together with regression analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). This study findings show that students in the digital learning program achieved better results (M=82.5, SD=7.3) compared to traditional students (M=74.2, SD=6.8) as supported by t-test analysis (t(148)=5.92, p<0.001). The research findings show that AI-based feedback systems offer the most effective learning improvement (F (2,147) =4.87, p=0.008) as evaluated by ANOVA analysis. Gamification raises engagement levels according to chi-square analysis results (χ²=13.50, p=0.0012). The analysis demonstrates how faculty digital literacy directly influences student success at β=0.72 with p<0.001 while SEM results confirm these findings through χ²/df=2.31 and CFI=0.94 and RMSEA=0.05. The research underlines the need for systematic instructor training and automated teaching methods to maximize digital education results in music teaching. Institutions need to adopt strategic planning of digital tools which combines technological advancement with artistic standards and educational quality.