Challenges and Opportunities: Creative Approaches to Museum and Gallery Learning during the Pandemic

Noble, Kate

doi:10.1111/jade.12380

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“…Among the heightened use of hybrid teaching triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic (Hu et al 2021), various blended strategies were adopted to enable learning with museums when museums were closed. For example, there are guided virtual tours (Bell & Smith 2020), hybrid programmes comprising virtual gallery tours, online artmaking workshops for students, educational materials for schoolteachers (McNaughton 2020) and remote teacher training programmes to support the use of museum offerings for classroom teaching (Noble 2021). Although museum field trips were not possible, teachers could make meaningful use of open-access virtual museums and educational materials enabling museum learning beyond time and space.…”

Section: School-museum Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teachers Curating Virtual Exhibitions for Learning Visual Arts: A Study of Impact and Effectiveness

Tam¹,

Hui²

2023

Int J Art Design Ed

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Although visual arts teachers have free access to high quality online artwork images offering them immense teaching resources, making meaningful use of them remains a pedagogical challenge. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the transition from face-to-face to online teaching caused an immediate need for teachers to enhance their digital competencies and technological capability for planning and delivering a blended art curriculum. Herein, I propose a 'teacher-curator pedagogy' via a study in six primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong to assess its effectiveness. The study took place in the academic year of 2021-22 with 331 student participants. The proposed pedagogy puts visual arts teachers in the role of 'digital curators' who create virtual exhibitions for teaching art appreciation and artmaking. This paper addresses the theoretical framework, implementation strategies, and the results of the study highlighting its effectiveness, impact and limitations on teaching when using teacher-curated virtual exhibitions in both physical and virtual learning contexts.It was found that the technological capacity and confidence of the teacher participants was enhanced through the use of online resources and virtual exhibition tools. Making use of the 3D presentation of exhibits in themes and context through digital content curation, the teachers engaged students with deep interaction through the blending of online and face-toface teaching. However, the proposed pedagogy was limited by the high demand of training and preparation work, hardware and software support, and difficulties in assessing and monitoring learning beyond class.

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Section: School-museum Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teachers Curating Virtual Exhibitions for Learning Visual Arts: A Study of Impact and Effectiveness

Tam¹,

Hui²

2023

Int J Art Design Ed

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“…Despite all of the differences between researchers and the different ways to use concepts and technologies, one thing is already clear, the fact that new methodologies to engage visitors and new pedagogies are necessary. Museums such as the Fitzwilliam explicitly employed creative pedagogies while the museum remained physically closed during lockdown, realizing that traditional approaches would not be efficient under the new circumstances and the extensive use of technology that these circumstances incurred [29]. For the purposes of our work, the term mixed visits will be used (which is different from mixed reality) in order to function as an umbrella term and include all technology-assisted cultural visits.…”

Section: Three Years Of Rapid Developments (2020-2023)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mixed Cultural Visits or What COVID-19 Taught Us

Antoniou

2023

Computers

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When the majority of museums and other cultural institutions were shut down due to the pandemic, mixed museum visits became a hot issue. After the pandemic, mixed visits, in the opinion of many experts, would become the new norm for experiencing cultural content. Diverse types of mergers between online and onsite visits have already begun to be investigated by researchers, with the purpose of not only avoiding the spread of disease but also of enabling visits of people who were previously excluded, such as persons in remote geographic areas or people with mobility challenges. In fact, over the last three years, there have been rapid developments in mixed visits in cultural heritage sites. The current work takes into account a contextual model of museum learning to define potential use scenarios for visits from people of different cultural backgrounds and offers an evaluation of current practices. The new model that emerges, the contextual model of mixed visits, allows for the further study of the field, as it attempts to describe recent research efforts in four main contexts: mixed visits in the personal context, mixed visits in the socio-cultural context, mixed visits in the physical context, and temporality of mixed visits. Inductive analysis of a literature review allowed the extraction of relevant themes, examples from museums, as well as extraction of guidelines.

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“…Several studies were conducted, including at the University of Spain, which provided online learning through digital library media used during the COVID-19 pandemic, which had an impact on the more flexible lecturers in carrying out learning activities (Vijayalakshmi, Manimegalai, & Sasidhar, 2019). Meanwhile, in the UK, the presence of digital libraries has an impact on widening the gap in the self-development of lecturers (Chowdhury, 2002;Noble, 2021). Lecturers who can use digital libraries as learning resources can quickly advance their careers.…”

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Digital library: Lecturers' perceptions of facilitating learning resources in the industrial era 4.0

Aliyyah,

Rasmitadila,

Fauziah

et al. 2024

JEELR

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This research explores lecturers' perceptions of digital libraries as a learning resource for the industrial era 4.0 that can be used anytime and anywhere to solve the low interest in developing lecturers because of the difficulty of accessing references to conventional libraries, which require lecturers to visit the library building. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 15 lecturers, and data analysis was performed using thematic analysis. The analysis results found four main themes: benefits, challenges, recommendations, and positive and negative impacts of digital libraries. The research concluded that the existence of a digital library can make it easy for lecturers to browse the references needed quickly, easily, and flexibly just by entering the library's website page. This research contributes to solving the problem of lecturers in Indonesia over the limited learning resources in conventional libraries that are difficult to access online and require particular visiting time because they have to come directly during library operating hours. Therefore, support from the government, university leaders, and the wider community is needed to develop a digital library system to facilitate lecturers in Indonesia having adequate learning resources for the industrial era 4.0.

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Challenges and Opportunities: Creative Approaches to Museum and Gallery Learning during the Pandemic

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Teachers Curating Virtual Exhibitions for Learning Visual Arts: A Study of Impact and Effectiveness

Teachers Curating Virtual Exhibitions for Learning Visual Arts: A Study of Impact and Effectiveness

Mixed Cultural Visits or What COVID-19 Taught Us

Digital library: Lecturers' perceptions of facilitating learning resources in the industrial era 4.0

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