Purpose Music mood is an important metadata type on online music repositories and stream music services worldwide. Many existing studies on mood metadata have focused on music websites and services in the Western world to the exclusion of those serving users in other cultures. The purpose of this paper is to bridge this gap by exploring mood labels on influential Chinese music websites. Design/methodology/approach Mood labels and the associated song titles were collected from six Chinese music websites, and analyzed in relation to mood models and findings in the literature. An online music listening test was conducted to solicit users’ feedback on the mood labels on two popular Chinese music websites. Mood label selections on 30 songs from 64 Chinese listeners were collected and compared to those given by the two websites. Findings Mood labels, although extensively employed on Chinese music websites, may be insufficient in meeting listeners’ needs. More mood labels of high arousal semantics are needed. Song languages and user familiarity to the songs show influence on users’ selection of mood labels given by the websites. Practical implications Suggestions are proposed for future development of mood metadata and mood-enabled user interfaces in the context of global online music access. Originality/value This paper provides insights on understanding the mood metadata on Chinese music websites and uniquely contributes to existing knowledge of culturally diversified music access.
sustain teaching and learning, reducing the impact of the pandemic on students' future development. Such a shift tended to be challenging given the limited time for the series of necessary adjustment to the common teaching and learning behaviours and practices.At higher education institutions in Macao, face-to-face teaching and learning is the major and accustomed method for module delivery. A fundamental paradigm shift for both instructors and students was required in order to implement online distance learning. Existing learning activities, which were designed for brick-and-mortar or blended learning purposes, were expectantly incompatible to online distance learning environments. It was necessary to review and modify them as well as to reallocate teaching and learning resources for online module delivery along the way.Class suspension started amidst the Chinese New Year break. The semester had run for three weeks at most higher education institutions before the suspension. Students were off from campus empty-handed for the holidays and festivities thinking that the semester would resume shortly. Students' lack of textbooks and learning materials they had been using was to be considered during redesign of teaching plans. Capstone practical modules, such as internship and teaching practices, rely on supervised work experience gained from external entities. They do not fall within the conventional sphere for online teaching and learning. Alternative measures were to be devised to help students achieve the expected learning outcomes.Student engagement and retention are commonly noted problems in online distance learning [3]. Studies found that the outcomes of online distance learning depended largely on students' self-regulation, module design, instructor engagement, and student support mechanisms [4][5][6]. Under the pandemic circumstances, given the geographical distance between instructors and students, it becomes paramount to devote extra efforts to monitor students' learning motivation and behaviours in order to inform adequate design of learning activities and timely learning intervention, sustaining students' learning experience.This paper presents a case study on the online delivery of teaching and learning during the COVID-19 crisis in the undergraduate Computing Programme offered by the Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI), a public higher education Abstract-This paper presented a case study on an agile shift from brick-and-mortar to online distance learning as a measure to sustain teaching and learning in higher education in response to the interruption and impact brought by the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (COVID-19) to the society. This case study provided a practical example demonstrating possible practices that can be adopted to deliver different types of modules and carry out assessment under force majeure circumstances. We have applied several methods in module delivery and reflected on their strengths and weaknesses. Our approaches have taken into consideration the different needs of taug...
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