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A Design Study of Integrating Mobile Learning in a Museum A Design Study of Integrating Mobile Learning in a Museum

into a Higher Education Course in Art Historyinto a Higher Education Course in Art History

Ms. Orit MogilevskyDr. Yishay MorDr. Tsvika Kuflik

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A A Design StudyDesign Study of Integrating of Integrating Mobile Learning in a MuseumMobile Learning in a Museum

into a into a Higher Education Course in Art HistoryHigher Education Course in Art History

Ms. Orit MogilevskyDr. Yishay MorDr. Tsvika Kuflik

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The ChallengeThe Challenge

• Studies addressed the issue of promoting learning by enabling students to work autonomously, creating activities that encourage active, collaborative, challenging, enriching learning experience and encouraging students to develop their social and cultural capital (Zepke & Leach, 2010).

• However, the structure of existing educational systems impede university teachers from incorporating these approaches in their teaching methods (Dunlap & Grabinger, 1996).

The challenge

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Possible Solution:Possible Solution:

Museums near universities provide opportunities for enhancing learning in higher education.

Why museums?

• Museums offer long-term learning opportunities by enabling educational projects which connect learners’ formal classroom education and informal out-of-school learning, thus making museum displays more enjoyable and motivating for learning (Sung, 2010)

• Museums form a fertile ground for an active learning environment that advances exploration and discovery; the exhibitions display a variety of themes and objects that constitute an ideal setting for inquiry and engagement (Vavoula, 2009).

Learning in museums

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• Museums offer only few resources and services for higher education students, whereas they show more collaboration with school age children (Anderson,1997).

• Universities rarely exploit museum learning opportunities they encounter and combine it into the curriculum (Cook et al, 2010).

Another Challenge:Another Challenge:

There is little cooperation between museums and universities

Museums Universities

Learning in museums

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• Use mobile technology to support the integration of museum visits into an academic learning curriculum. Thus, enabling an autonomous, rich and immersive experience that will enhance the current academic learning structures.

Why mobile technology?

• Mobile technology allows designing learning that is open and experiential, as well as structured and directed (Sharples, 2007).

• In the context of museums (Wessel & Mayer, 2007) : * Mobile technology may provide the visitor attentional focus and

guidance during the visit * It can be used to draw attention to significant exhibits * Presents adapted information to a specific visitor * Helps in navigation * Enrich and expand the social interaction.

The SolutionThe SolutionMobile Learning in museums

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Research Questions :

Main Question: • How does the integration of mobile learning in a

museum into a higher education course influence both the academic learning experience and the museum learning experience?

Research Questions

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• What are the challenges in teaching a course of art history that includes museum visits?

• In what ways can mobile technology enhance the learning of art history during a museum visit?

Research Questions

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Research Method: Design Based Research

• The design-based research methodology illustrate how, when and why a successful educational innovation works in practice. Thus, it bridges the theoretical research and educational practice.

• The design methods in the study include learner-centered methods and participatory design for the development of scenarios and prototypes

• Students' needs will be identified for the purpose of applying the appropriate learning activity.

• This study adopts an ethnographic user modeling approach, which perceives human activity as part of a whole of social and cultural contexts in order to capture an accurate picture of the learning context .

Methods

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• What are the challenges in teaching a course of art history that includes museum visits?

• In what ways can mobile technology enhance the learning of art history during a museum visit?

Research Questions

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Students are learning in the classroom

Next week we are going to Hecht museum to learn

about “Amarna relieves”

Current situation

After one weekHere are the relieves ,

Look at their artistic style

Findings

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• What are the challenges in teaching a course of art history that includes museum visits?

Findings

A dearth of published information about pedagogy and assessment

in the discipline of art history (Donahue-Wallace et al, 2008)

Enabling students to work

Autonomously.

active, collaborative and

Challenging learning experience.

Linking between classroom learning and museum learning

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• What are the challenges in teaching a course of art history that includes museum visits?

• In what ways can mobile technology enhance the learning of art history during a museum visit?

Research Questions

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Scenario:Scenario: Art history students using mobile technology in the museum

Students are learning in the classroom Next week we are going to Hecht museum to learn

about “Amarna relieves”

Hecht- Museum guide

EgyptEgypt

How do the themes and motifs

on the relieves reflect Egyptian cults?

Findings

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At the end of the presentationThe students get a mission :

A problem to solve and answer to questionsThe student is taking a picture of a relief

This is a unique

artistic style…

The student writes answers to the questions

This is a unique

artistic style…

Send the picture with the answer to a website

Send to: url

Findings

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This is a unique

artistic style…

This is a relief from Amarna

The students and the teacher can see together in the class the answers in the website and discuss

about it.

I can see it also in my

laptop

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In what ways can mobile technology enhance the learning of art history during

a museum visit ?

Findings

A dearth of published information about pedagogy and assessment

in the discipline of art history (Donahue-Wallace et al, 2008)

Enabling students to work

Autonomously.

active, collaborative and

Challenging learning experience.

Linking between classroom learning and museum learning

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Future Work Future Work

Future work

How to design a mobile learning environment for a course in art history that connects between learning in class and learning within the museum and provides learning experience based on active and cooperative learning principles?

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•A detailed scenario will be presented to the lecturer and the students

•Their feedback will be calibrated with findings from the literature, as a basis for the next round of design

•The learning environment will be developed and evaluated in real-world settings.

Future work

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Thank you!

orit.mogilevsky@edtech.haifa.ac.il

http://sites.edtech.haifa.ac.il/oritiresearch/