Volume 4,Issue 3
Safety and Learning Efficiency in Online Dance Training on New Media Platforms
New media platforms have completely reshaped the scene of dance education in terms of both opportunities and problems for learners’ safety and teachers’ instruction as a result of their sudden emergence. A critical examination of the applications of platforms such as Zoom, TikTok, YouTube, and AI-aided learning environments focuses on their effects on physical safety and protection in dance practice settings, as well as the acquisition of movement competence. Based on a systematic review of thirteen relevant peer-reviewed articles from 2022 to 2025, the following five interlinked theoretical clusters have been identified: physical safety and injury prevention, platform-mediated learning outcomes, digital pedagogical design, embodied cognition online, and psychosocial well-being. The results show that a lack of home training environment and teacher supervision is lacking, and the embodiment effects bring about increased injury risks in an online scenario. Designed a platform with an inherent structure ability and AI-based formative feedback in collaboration with the teacher mediation learner’s learning outcomes. A combined design framework is proposed that combines safety regulations, technical means for guaranteeing quality, and educational approaches to create high-quality online dance training programs. Implications have been put forward by platform developers, dance instructors, etc., who wish to promote evidence-based policies in the field of digital arts education.
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