The Virtual Museum in Educational Practice

Abstract

The educational role and social contribution of the Museums are achieved by increasing their communication with each social group and their extroversion cultural roles. Τhey can also offer exchanges of experiences by encouraging students' audience. Because of the general world upheavals, the social contribution of the Museums has changed. The goal of this study is to appoint the students' views of a virtual educational Popular Culture Museum. In this context, a research in the third grade of junior High school in Ialyssos, Rhodes, was carried out during the school year 2012-2013. After participating in a school project concerning a construction of an educational virtual Museum, one hundred (100) students took part in the research and answered a questionnaire before and after the teaching intervention. In order to extract the research results, we used statistics software SPSS v.17 and SPAD v. 4.5, offered by the Department Education in the University of the Aegean.

The Impact of an Interactive Virtual Museum on Students’ Attitudes Toward Cultural Heritage Education in the Region of Al Hassa, Saudi Arabia

“…Current educational trends advocate the association between school knowledge and children's experiences with the situations, conditions, and circumstances of everyday life [14]. Situated learning approaches stress the importance of the cultural and social context where learning takes place.…”

“…Virtual museums' educational role and social contribution are achieved by increasing their communication with each social group and their extroversion cultural roles. VMs can also offer experience exchanges that encourage students' attendance [14].…”

“…Teachers must use appropriate tools to provide useful information in an attractive environment [14]. VMs are an ICT application that should be deployed in the teaching and learning process as an innovative learning approach.…”

“…This goes in the direction of supporting an active experiential learning approach, a new method of acquiring knowledge. It offers students an active role, based on educational interaction, initiative, and creativity [14]. VMs are a new model of communication that create a personalized, immersive, and interactive learning environment that fosters students' ability to retrieve information and build up their own knowledge and therefore their approaches to learning [4,9].…”

“…Independent of technical implementation, VMs are applications oriented toward increasing knowledge and learning [1]. Giving students the ability to act on issues based on their experiences, needs, and interests not only provides knowledge that is essential but also reinforces learning availability [14].…”