Introducing the project
Let me introduce the Digital Heritage Education Project. Read this post and explore its aims, actions, philosophy, and tools in this post.
Main objectives
The Digital Heritage Education Project aims to evaluate the educational resources using digital cultural heritage coming from European projects and their impact on engagement with young people.
In this process, it will take the most valuable key points and make research on new perspectives to develop the most effective and simple methodology to use for any institution.
Actions
During the course of the research project, it will be conducted a SWOT analysis from the four stakeholders (educators, young people, creatives, and museums) to deepen the real situation.
From this SWOT, it will be created a list of useful criteria based on strategies, tools, and models from previous experiences used to make a positive impact on the participation and engagement of young people.
Through this previous list, it will be developed a ready-to-use methodology for the development of educational resources using digital cultural heritage for young people.
Philosophy of the project
The philosophy of the project is open access. It takes principles from the openGLAM and open education movements favoring citizen participation and contact with non-specialized audiences.
Also, it follows a transmedia storytelling route to connect with different audiences and engage with all of them creating a network around the topic.
Tools
Some of the tools used by this project will be the blog, the podcast, and social media.
The Digital Heritage Education Blog
The aim of the blog on Medium is to make available under CC BY-SA license all the research materials, including papers, projects, and transcripts from the podcast, and outputs from the research for reusing in their own projects. Also, it will be the place for debate and get feedback from the community through comments on the posts published every week to introduce the next episode of the podcast.
The Digital Heritage Education Podcast
The podcast, available every Sunday, aims to disseminate the current debates and the most innovative projects around digital heritage and heritage education through talks with professionals, researchers and scholars. It will help to illustrate the diversity of perspectives and topics in the field and to get directly the most valuable information from the main characters for the research development.
Youtube will be the main platform where the podcast will be hosted using video for highlighting the key points of the podcast and to offer subtitles when the user needs them. Apart from this platform, it will be available for listening on Spotify, Google Podcast, and Ivoox.
Social Media
Twitter and Linkedin will be used to connect with the museum and cultural heritage staff and technology creative people.
Instagram will engage with non-specialized and young people taking his views from the topics highlighted on the project.
The Facebook page will be the meeting and debate place with the networks of formal and non-formal educators inviting them to participate in surveys around the use of digital cultural heritage in education.
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