What Clicks? Electronic access to museum resources in Scotland

Devine, J., Gibson, E. and Kane, M. (2004) What Clicks? Electronic access to museum resources in Scotland. Hunterian Art Gallery: Edinburgh, UK.

Abstract

The ‘What Clicks?’ project has been reviewing the existing and potential capability, human and technological, within the museum sector in Scotland in the use of ICT to increase public access and resulting learning opportunities to collections. The World Wide Web and other electronic means (e.g. CD ROM) offer Scottish museums the opportunity to increase access for a wide range of new audiences and to promote new learning styles. In particular, opportunities are created for study by those physically remote from museum collections – from primary and secondary schools through to community and special needs groups, to self-directed lifelong learners. The What Clicks? team worked with a number of partners in Scotland and overseas, both within the museum sector and in education. Small independent museums also played an important part including the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther. School and community partners were drawn from local and remote areas including Dumbarton Academy, Cumbernauld Primary School, Castlebay School, Barra, Soroba Young Families Centre, Oban, and T.C. Williams High School, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.

• Item Type: Books
• Keywords: Education, multimedia, e-learning, distance learning, museums, schools
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Kane, Miss Michelle and Devine, Mr James
• Authors: Devine, J., Gibson, E., and Kane, M.
• Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General); L Education > L Education (General); L Education > LB Theory and practice of education; L Education > LC Special aspects of education > LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education; T Technology > T Technology (General)
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: Hunterian Art Gallery
• Copyright Holders: Devine James

Related URLs

• http://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org....