The course is aimed at the acquisition of theoretical and methodological constructs useful to operate with awareness and autonomy in museum and exhibition contexts conceived as institutions dedicated to conservation, exhibition for study, communication and education. The course aims at the mastery of ICT based devices that characterise today's museum contexts.

Specifically, the course aims to promote:

advanced knowledge and understanding of the nature and purpose of the museum as a permanent institution;

understanding of the implications on museums and the contexts of use of ICT based devices;

ability to design effective user contexts;

ability to use primary mediators to ensure accessibility and understanding of knowledge associated with works;

ability to analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of user contexts in relation to learning principles and types of knowledge.

The course programme will cover the following topics:

Museums between tradition and transformation (nature and purpose; digital transformation, on-site and online devices);

Museums and education;

The transposition/reconstruction of knowledge associated with works of art and BBCC in general; 

Theories of learning mediation (use of learning mediators; accessibility of knowledge, readability, etc.); 

Cognitive theories of learning;

Principles of multimedia learning;

Taxonomies of learning/knowledge (Jonassen, Anderson and Krathwohle, etc.).

None.

Knowledge and understanding:

At the end of the course the student will have to demonstrate :

 advanced and critical knowledge of the transformations affecting museums and exhibition contexts at the time of the digital transition;

in-depth knowledge of the on-site and on-line devices that characterise the contexts of fruition and that structure the didactic mediation of knowledge associated with works of art.

Applying knowledge and understanding:

At the end of the course the student should have acquired:

Ability to apply knowledge for the design of effective fruition contexts based on the principles of reconstruction and transposition of knowledge associated with works and taxonomies of knowledge and learning.

Ability to critically analyse and evaluate BBCC fruition contexts from case studies.

Making judgements:

At the end of the course the student should demonstrate the ability to:

critically evaluate the appropriateness of transpositional choices that characterise the contexts of fruition;

identify the most appropriate didactic mediators for the construction of specific settings;  

modulate didactic devices with respect to different types of audience

Communication skills:

At the end of the course the student should have acquired:

the ability to express with clarity the contents of the course explaining their meaning; the ability to communicate through the use of discipline-specific language with scholastic operators; the ability to argue on themes and problems in the educational field.

Learning skills:

At the end of the course the student will have acquired a good autonomy in reading study materials and teaching materials related to the course; the ability to evaluate the effectiveness of certain teaching choices; the ability to formulate self-evaluation questions.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Optional online meetings for support and/or in-depth study of course topics, in addition to class time.

Teaching

Lectures - students will be engaged as often as possible.

Exercises aimed at analysing fruition contexts and/or their design according to the transposition and mediatization criteria studied.

Innovative teaching methods

Case Studies

Problem Based Learning (PBL)

Attendance

Not mandatory.

Course books

Nicoletta Mandarano, Musei e media digitali, Carocci, 2019

Francesco Antinucci, Comunicare nel museo, Laterza, 2010

Elio Damiano, La mediazione didattica. Per una teoria dell'insegnamento, Franco Angeli, 2013, Capitolo 5.

Further materials in digital format concerning specific topics of the course will be made available as "handouts" in the blended learning platform.

The commercial availability of the planned texts will be checked prior to teaching (2nd semester). 

Assessment

The learning objectives are tested by means of a written test consisting of three open-ended questions. The duration of the test is 60 minutes.

The assessment criteria are as follows

relevance and effectiveness of the answers in relation to the programme content;
the level of articulation of the answer;
use of the specialized vocabulary of the discipline.

Each of the criteria is assessed on the basis of a four-level value/judgement scale with equal weight assigned to each criterion. The final assessment is expressed in 30 out of 30.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Non-attending students are invited to access the teaching material uploaded on Moodle (slides discussed in class, examples of teaching situations, etc.) through which it will be possible to study the volumes indicated in the 'Study Texts' section in greater depth.

Attendance

Not mandatory.

Course books

In order to give non-attending students the opportunity to compensate for what they have done during the lectures through self-study, the following materials are provided, which refer to the same content as the syllabus in order to facilitate full understanding.

Nicoletta Mandarano, Musei e media digitali, Carocci, 2019

Francesco Antinucci, Comunicare nel museo, Laterza, 2010

Elio Damiano, La mediazione didattica. Per una teoria dell'insegnamento, Franco Angeli, 2013, Capitolo 5.

Further materials in digital format concerning specific topics of the course will be made available as "handouts" in the blended learning platform.

The commercial availability of the planned texts will be checked prior to teaching (2nd semester). 

Assessment

The learning objectives are tested by means of a written test consisting of three open-ended questions. The duration of the test is 60 minutes.

The assessment criteria are as follows

relevance and effectiveness of the answers in relation to the programme content;
the level of articulation of the answer;
use of the specialized vocabulary of the discipline.

Each of the criteria is assessed on the basis of a four-level value/judgement scale with equal weight assigned to each criterion. The final assessment is expressed in 30 out of 30.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.