Marie-Clarté O’Neill:How can digital support museum education?

As President of ICOM CECA, Ms O’Neill presents «The CECA Best Practice Tool» as a proposal for developing museum education internationally. Some aspects of this tool could help to implement digital mediation tools in both tangible and intangible collections and to adjust these tools to the needs of today’s museum audience. The talk will discuss how and to what extent the four dimensions of relevance -institutional, scientific, social and economic- highlighted in the best practice tool and together with the educational outcomes may be taken into consideration in any project using digital technologies. Museum research, however modest, can give valuable indications about the actual use of devices by the visitors and its potential benefits.

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