The ZOEN Provides Music Teachers With A New Platform For Online Lessons. Online music teaching via webcam is a growing phenomenon that has a lot of potential for teachers that want to reach a market far beyond their current location.
The ZOEN, aka Zenph Online Education Network, is a new platform for teaching music online that launched in August 2012. It has a nice look and user friendly interface that should make it an inviting site for students as well as teachers. I've previously written about or mentioned a number of ways that musicians can teach online by repurposing platforms like Skype or by using dedicated platforms such as ZOEN (pronounced like "zone") both here and here. Online Guitar Lessons with Matt Brechbiel Here's how ZOEN works for teachers: The ZOEN's teaching policies can be downloaded from this page of the site under the heading "Manage payment and billing. " Set your own pricing, length of lesson and content. Sell individual lessons or offer a "block" of lessons at a fixed price Offer a free trial lesson if you wish.
The ZOEN Blog. WebRTC is in The ZOEN. As a child, musical lessons were about the schlep.
Either the instructor or the student had to go to one another, and sometimes the lesson was based on where the instrument was located. In today’s world of watching videos on the Web, it’s not surprising that The ZOEN, a provider of live online music lessons, is using Google Helpouts to make The ZOEN instructors available to teach users across the Internet musical instruments. In this case, The ZOEN is primarily using a teleconferencing app. There is a chat capability, but mostly it’s about the video. The Web cameras are placed where the instructor and student can watch the other’s instrument and the teacher can correct the student for any improper placements.
The company’s website recommends taking a speed test to ensure computers are optimized for the lessons: “You need a computer with a webcam and broadband internet connection to take live online music lessons on our site. In a perfect world, they could do a duet. The ZOEN of North Carolina is one of the first to offer music lessons over live video. The UpTake: Sometimes even the most innovative and ground-breaking ideas fail, but the right leaders can find new vision as the dust settles.
The ZOEN is betting that more online video in business, higher education and telehealth will help drive adoption of its live video platform for music instruction. This story is all too familiar. Kirk Owen came from a family of music lovers, so piano lessons were a must. But a lady named Mrs. Gross wanted to teach him to play classical tunes and Broadway hits. After a few years, his interest in piano had waned and he never realized the talent that might have been within him. “I wasn’t getting out of music what I wanted to get out of it,” says Owen, now CEO of the Zenph Online Education Network or The ZOEN, a live video platform for music instruction. Today, he’s learning guitar from a guy named Matt, who has passion for the classic rock that Owen loves. “In music, fit trumps local,” Owen says. Teachers set their prices and the ZOEN gets a commission.