Keeping up with the times? Digital dissemination of collections for educational purposes
The Museum Council's status report, "In step with the times? Digital dissemination of museums for educational purposes," has now been published.
In recent months, an expert group under the auspices of the Museum Council has been working on a special project of the Museum Council on the educational role of museums with an emphasis on the digital dissemination of museums and how digital dissemination is used in education. The role of the group was to examine the role of digital dissemination in museums. The Museum Council considered it necessary to examine the status of these issues in recognized museums, partly because of the developments that have occurred in this field abroad. Discussion and formulation of policies on the use of digital technology in dissemination has progressed further in our neighboring countries, and the Museum Council believes that it is important to both learn from this discussion and participate in it.
The expert group included Þóra Sigurbjörnsdóttir (editor of the expert group), teacher and museum expert at the Icelandic Design Museum, Dr. Anna Lísa Rúnarsdóttir, director of the National Museum of Iceland, Ágústa Kristófersdóttir, museum expert and director of Hafnarborg, Tryggvi Thayer, project manager at the School of Education at the University of Iceland, and Sólrún Harðardóttir, teacher, nominated by the Icelandic Natural History Museum, as well as Þóra Björk Ólafsdóttir, director of the Museums Council.
The report presents the main findings of a survey sent to accredited museums in March 2018. It briefly reviews issues that affect digital museum education and the dissemination of collections. It also discusses copyright laws in relation to online image publishing, the state of technology in primary schools, and the relationship with the National Curriculum for schools. It also mentions examples of how these issues are handled abroad, for example in the Nordic countries.
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