Plataforma Mignone: Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem e Objetos de Aprendizagem Especializados para a Educação Musical

Nowadays, there is a great demand for multimedia and social resources in an integrated way in learning environments, which is a still bigger need for Music Education. In this scientific article we describe the particularities of Music Education and present the Mignone Platform. This plat- form is composed of a formal architecture for supporting the development of virtual learning environments and a model that makes easier the creation of learning objects (and activities), both the architecture and the model are specialized for the Music knowledge area. Here we de- tail the guidelines that guide the construction of the environment and we also present more de- tails on the case study that was performed with 27 students from a public high school at Rio de Janeiro, which used a prototype to perform the learning activities that were built according to the Mignone Platform. The aim of the case study was to verify the students' acceptance of the Mignone Platform. From quantitative and qualitative analysis, it was possible to notice that the use of social and multimedia resources, stimulated by the use of the Mignone Platform, has an indirect influence on the students' acceptance of virtual learning environments for Music Edu- cation.