Tag: museum
Informal learning experiences with big data visualisation
Professor Joe E Heimlich and his colleagues from the Center of Science and Industry, a science museum in Columbus, Ohio, USA, are investigating how we learn when we visit informal learning institutions such as museums and aquariums. This project involved a series of studies spanning eleven years that focus on visitors’ experiences of visualisations together with their learning behaviour and […]
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Museums and climate change: From passive bystander to agent of change
Museums have traditionally been institutions that maintain the stories of the past, implicitly supporting the Western ideological status quo. However, this role is rarely congruent with contemporary issues in our communities, such as climate change and social justice. With her critical paper, Dr Julie Decker, the CEO of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska, looks at how museums can become an […]
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