Naxos and Connect For Education have joined forces to create the first series of truly interactive, customizable music courses and products. Our goal is to make music teaching and learning a truly stimulating, challenging, collaborative, and enriching experience within everyone's reach.

We offer hundreds of hours of outstanding full-length music examples and a truly interactive online teaching and learning environment built by content specialists and expert instructional designers. Our online and stand-alone courses combine audio, graphics, animation, video, text, and fun learning activities with a complete set of course administration, communication, evaluation, assessment, and tracking tools. Together, these resources provide the ideal online music learning environment.

Hundreds of hours of music, and a fully interactive multilingual online learning environment. Connect For Education/Naxos products seamlessly integrate CD-ROMs that contain hundreds of hours of full-length pieces, with web-based course delivery, administration, and communication. This combination provides all the necessary teaching and learning content and tools for successful online music learning.

A fully tested solution. From our OnMusic Appreciation course, that has served over 6,000 students in 50 higher education institutions throughout the United States and abroad, to the recently released OnMusic History, and the upcoming OnMusic Fundamentals and OnMusic Theory, Connect For Education/Naxos affordable products are the first to seamlessly integrate multimedia, course administration resources, and communication tools in one easy-to-use, truly interactive online educational environment. Students simply purchase a set of CD-ROMs containing the multimedia that illustrates the web-based text component of the course, log on to their individualized school account, and they’re ready to start learning.

Content specialists and expert instructional designers. Connect For Education/Naxos courses are built by content and instructional design experts that are consistently at the forefront of Web-based education.

No more download waiting. Learners can't afford to wait for interminable downloads from the Internet. Our technology allows instantaneous, random access to hundreds of hours of music and relevant graphics and video. Music learning is now truly informative, memorable, relevant, and fun!

Hundreds of hours of music: Never before have online music courses offered such wealth of outstanding music examples at such an affordable price. Please take a moment to peruse the OnMusic Appreciation Music List.

Customizable and Multilingual: Connect For Education/Naxos courses provide a complete curriculum that can be reshaped to suit the needs of individual professors and institutions. Our courses are offered in English and Spanish versions. The Spanish version of OnMusic Appreciation (ApreciaciÛn Musical EnLÌnea) is ready for review and adoption in Spanish-speaking countries.

No New Hardware: Our courses donít require any special software or hardware, or the intervention of campus specialized technical personnel. With the use of free, widely-available browser plug-ins and the free RealAudio player, users have access to high-bandwidth multimedia regardless of Internet connection speed.

Electronic Gradebook: Our courses provide professors with all the necessary administrative and communication tools for successful online teaching. These include tools for testing and assessment, tracking student progress, and a full set of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools. Take a quick look at the OnMusic Instructor Tools.

No Text Book - Just a CD-ROM Set: Once a professor has set up the course, students can log on and start learning. Each student purchases a CD-ROM set that contains the course multimedia materials: Hundreds of full-length music examples, graphics, and video. The web-based component of the course draws on that material to illustrate and enrich the concepts taught in each course.