CULTURAL HERITAGE AND EDUCATIONAL WEB SITES
CULTURAL HERITAGE AND EDUCATIONAL WEB SITES

Summary/Abstract: ICT and Internet have allowed the creation of new educational objects in an innovative and original way, in particular in the fields of the retrieval and study of cultural heritage and art. The connectionbetween the digital and cultural domains brought a new approach to learning which reveals in activities where space and time vanish, giving rise to a new relationship between an individual and culture. The digital world, offering many potentialities and chances, enters in the museum, bringing substantial changes permitting new experiences of living and perceiving exhibition places, stimulating interest, curiosity, imagination and emotions of the users. This is possible through the use of innovative ways to communicate with people using a more extensive advertising that can reach a wide audienceand through the creation of attractive and smart websites that allow access to collections through interactive guided tours in all languages, consultation of databases, 3D reconstructions of environments, educational section dedicated to children and students, online meeting with experts and assistants. The paper describes an overview of the current state of the websites of the main Italian museums, archives and libraries that make available to users online information and learning resource. The study of these sites and their functionalities allow us an analysis about methodological and pedagogical implications of the impact that ICT tools and the related educational models have on the Cultural Heritage Education. Finally, the contribution investigates how new technological tools can be used to create open accessmuseums for disabled people and which are the technological device and techniques necessary to develop appropriate frameworks and to outline the future directions to support Cultural Heritage Education.

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