University Museums

UDMGrid: A Grid Application for University Digital Museums

Because the eighteen online university digital museums of China confront a problem that the multi-discipline resources at digital museums are isolated and dispersed without sufficient interconnection, ChinaGrid (China Education & Research Grid) supports a project named UDMGrid (University Digital Museum Grid), which studies a grid application for University Digital Museums using grid technology...

Learning from university museums and collections in higher education: University College London (UCL)

Object-based learning (OBL), drawing on the rich resources of university museums and collections, offers a way of leaping lightly over knowledge hurdles. At UCL, over 100 course units include OBL, translating into 2,500 instances of students working with the museum collections each year. Learners in higher education (HE) can be confronted with difficult topics which become obstacles to understa...

Understanding Museums - Museums, education and visitor experience

 Introduction: learning, the visiting experience and the art museum as educator, Des Griffin and Leon Paroissien  ‘Protecting the past, safeguarding the future’: museum studies, the profession and museum practice in Australia, Jennifer Barrett  What's driving children's cultural participation?, Barbara Piscitelli  The museum education mix: students, teachers and museum educators, Janette Gr...

Interactive Museums

Hands-on: Museums are no longer somber places housing artifacts that cannot be touched or where monotone, guided tours are organized and pre-determined for you. Instead, they are taking on a role of being entertaining as well as educational. Interactive and multimedia exhibits give visitors the ability to discover and learn at their own pace, plus, they engage individuals, keeping them interest...

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