Special Interest Group:
Learning and Engaging Digitally
Who are we?
We are an international group of museum professionals, educational and digital developers, students and researchers from different parts of the world. We meet on a regular basis at ZOOM to exchange experiences, knowledge and opportunities in order to learn from each other and work together.
Why this community?
“Special Interest Groups” is an initiative by ICOM-CECA, the international committee for Education and Cultural Action. The purpose of this initiative is multiple:
*Encourage joint reflection among our members throughout the year and not only at the annual conference
*Increase the interactivity of our annual meetings by including discussion groups based on the group’s work and exchanges during the year
*Possibly allow members who could not attend the annual conferences to participate remotely in a focus group on a topic of interest to them.
*Identify specific skills around certain topics in order to enrich our training offer during regional workshops
How to join?
You can join us at any time if you are interested in this topic and want to participate in the meetings. You do not necessarily have to be an ICOM member. Use the link to the ICOM-CECA website and send Angela Manders or Areti Damala an e-mail.
On this website…
On this website we like to share our knowledge and lessons learned on developing online programs. Feel free to use this knowledge and inspiration for you own practice. If you want to join our meetings, please contact us.
Digital experiences are profoundly shaping the way we interact with and comprehend ourselves, each other, and the world. Likewise, the last two decades have had a profound impact on how museums reach and engage their audiences using digital strategies: today, a museum without a digital presence is hardly conceivable. What are the sets of new skills required by museum educators to lead in a digital world? What are the roles of museum educators in creating an institutional digital strategy, especially in small museums? How do we define reaching versus engaging versus impacting our audiences through digital experiences? How do we address the deepening socio-economical digital divide? How do we make sure that digital programs are inclusive and accessible?
How to create and implement online engagement for a digital audience?
The COVID-19 pandemic forced museums to strategize how to only reach and engage audiences digitally. During this past year, a group of museum professionals, educational and digital developers, students, and researchers regularly met to share experiences and opportunities.
Examples from different Institutions will be shown on this website. The lessons learned within these examples helps you to create and implement programs to engage digital audiences in order to think about the digital strategy you need.
The start
Proces: design, creation, execution
Lessons Learned
Using memes !
The use of memes as a conversational tool for the co-creation of knowledge in the context of Online Museum Education, how does that work?
Europeana
Europeana empowers the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation. They develop expertise, tools and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation.
Europeana works with thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research. Learn more about their lessons learned during the pandemic.
Acción Arte
Before the pandemic Action Arte did not have a digital offer online. They always talked about it though. The project they developed during the pandemic is a digitalized version of a program called piensa en arte. Which means think with art. It's a program that they developed with the Ministry of Public Education and the Ministry of Culture and Youth. And it utilizes a methodology with conversations about works of art in all fourth, fifth and sixth-grade classrooms in the country. Curious what the learned doing it?
KAMU Espoo City Museum
The Espoo City Museum was forced to go digital during the Pandemic, together with professionals, volunteers and enthusiasm from the community they managed to create wonderful content online.
LessonUp
LessonUp is an online learning platform, but was, most of the times, used in the classroom. Since the pandemic, it has actually been growing a lot for teachers to be used online. Right now, teachers don't even know anymore that it’s actually used separately. So, most of the teachers think that it's a platform that can be used solely online, but it’s actually able to be used offline.
Contact Us
If you want to join our meetings, please contact us! Please send an email to Angela Manders or Areti Damala.
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