Music Technology meets University 3.0: Music Education in the Era of Co-Creation

This chapter will bring together some key thematic discourses from the last 10 years of higher education policy and creative industry strategy and explore these in the context of the field of music technology. These discourses are often driven by ideological underpinnings to do with our perception of who owns knowledge, who has access to it and how we transmit it in our learning environments. This, in turn, influences the creative potential of the next generation of talent and, with that, the creative sector’s potential to innovate.

The chapter uses two concepts as clarifying lenses, making visible some fundamental shifts happening already all around us. One lens uses the conceptualisation of Luigi Sacco’s Culture 1.0 to 3.0 and attends to the sector, and the other lens uses a conceptual framework of my own, that of University 1.0 – 3.0. Within our academic communities of practices, we sometimes forget how much we are influenced, nudged, and afforded to shape our activities according to larger policy contexts; these lenses may provide some clarifying perspectives to consider where we invest our efforts to shape the future of music technology education in our universities.