The Transformation of Performing Arts Education in Hong Kong during COVID-19

Lectures, tutorials, and other face-to-face training sessions are the main components, and online learning is used only as a supplementary pedagogy for the traditional performing arts education in the past. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, performing arts educators have to change most of their teaching methodologies from face-to-face to online. Synchronous online learning lectures (facilitated by technologies such as Zoom, Cisco Webex, Google Class, Panopto etc.), regular webinars, innovative performance projects, and e-learning are implemented at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), for student self-regulated learning to engage students in the active learning environment. To help educators to locate the key issues and improve the teaching and learning experience in the performance arts education, a questionnaire survey about how COVID-19 pandemic affected the performing arts education, and what are the core issues for the online teaching & learning was taken in July 2020. The survey results from both the teachers (76) and students (163) are analysed in this study. In the survey, teachers and students share lessons, insights, and recommendations on the online teaching and learning. The result of the teaching and learning survey contribute to the scholarship in this understudied field. It also provides guidance for improving the online teaching and learning in performing arts education.