Episode 2: A talk with Margherita Sani
Explore in this post the content from the second episode of The DH Education Podcast, your program to be updated on the digital heritage education domain.
The topic of the week
In the last few years, along with the digital transformation of cultural heritage, the view of museums has become more open, international, and ubiquitous in the ways of connecting with visitors and showing all its contents
In this new concept of the museum, heritage education has also been adapted. A great number of big and medium-size institutions have curated digital heritage contents in virtual galleries or exhibitions for educational purposes, some of them have launched educational platforms and games and others have been very active in social media and other third-party platforms.
At this point, the big issue is little museums where economic difficulties neither allow them to develop digital initiatives nor to increase education staff numbers sufficiently. This situation is also reflected in formal education where according to the Eurydice Report in 2019, the EU countries offered little or non-guidance and proper training to the educators.
But it is not all bad news, according to the NEMO’s survey on the impact of the COVID-19 situation on museums in Europe, published in May 2020, a great part of museums have increased their online visits and both educational and collections related materials, including video and film content, were most popular with online audiences. Also, there were individual initiatives born at this time from different museum education departments.
Taking this background, let me propose some questions: Do the educational programs in museums work in the correct way facing this situation? Are they innovative enough? How is the future for museum education?
A talk with Margherita Sani
Watch the second episode of the podcast where I talk with Margherita Sani about the state of museum education in Europe today, the most important difficulties and opportunities highlighted due to the COVID-19 pandemic from educators, how European museum educators are facing distance learning and blended learning today and the future of the sector.
To know more…
Books
- Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean (2007): Museums and Education: purpose, pedagogy, performance. Oxon: Routledge
- Gibbs, Kirsten; Sani, Margherita; Thompson, Jane (eds): Lifelong Learning in Museums A European Handbook. Ferrara: EDISAI.2007
Projects
In this Erasmus+ project, researchers are developing tools for engaging with young audiences through augmented reality apps, games, and virtual tours.
This project aims to learn how to make better use of museum collections for creative making in a connective and accessible way and deliver new skills and competencies to help adults to stay creative throughout their lifetimes.
This project aims to produce a range of innovative outcomes, including European profiles of emerging job roles in museums that will serve as a common reference at the European level, staged VET methodology based on learning outcomes, policies, and tools for assessment and validation of non-formal / informal learning, modular VET curricula that dynamically combine training modules for digital and transversal competences, contribution to a European standard for learning outcomes, a European specialization course that combines e-learning, face to face instruction and workplace learning, a MOOC for acquiring the basic competencies and European communities of practice, which engage in open dialogue and sustainable peer learning through an online platform.
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