ABSTRACT
Musicians have always been at the leading edge of technology. Beethoven, for example, was in many ways the Bill Gates of the nineteenth century. As the most sophisticated musical hardware of the day evolved, consumers needed software to complete the package. Teaching involves two parts: course delivery and course design. Most faculties are at least competent at course delivery: there are plenty of opportunities for student interaction on any college campus. Course design is equally critical, but less intuitive, especially for faculty; people become faculty in part because people thrive in the traditional classroom structures. Most students are not as happy in a classroom as faculty are, and as technology changes and students experience success in other realms of learning, faculty using only traditional methods will be increasingly unsuccessful. Technology allows for an inverted classroom where students can first encounter the material at home and even be tested on that encounter before they come to class for deeper learning.
