Grokking Museums

For #h817open, activity 19 of week 5, we have been asked to create a hypothetical connectivist course. Here's mine. Only Section 1 is elaborated in any detail...

Museum Studies 501: Grokking Museums

Section 0: Introduction to MS501

• process; seeding the learning; digital literacy; connecting; building shared knowledge

Section 1: What is a museum?

Concept 1.1: Where did museums come from? Have they evolved?

• -suggested resources: URL1, URL2
• -suggested group activities:

1. build a collaborative introduction to the history of museums on the course wiki; this can be in either prose or list format, but if the latter, add comments or explanations at the bottom of the list
2. build a collaborative tree of online references to the history of museums on Pearltrees.com

• your personal contributions: blog about what you think is the single most important historical event contributing to the rise of museums

Concept 1.2: What are the key elements in defining a contemporary museum?

• suggested resources: URL1, URL2, URL3
• suggested group activities: make a collaborative comprehensive list of defining elements of the contemporary museum on the course wiki; add an explanatory for each element of the list
• your personal contributions: blog about what you think is the single most important element in the definition of a museum and why

Concept 1.3: Stretching the definition of museum

• suggested resources: URL1, URL2
• suggested group activities: make a collaborative list of new types of museums that have recently emerged on the course wiki; add comments or explanations at the bottom of the list
• your personal contributions: blog about your choice of the single most important contemporary change in the definition of museums and why

Section 2: What Goes On in Museums?

Concept 2.1: what are the basic museum activities

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Concept 2.2: museum jobs

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Concept 2.3: considering a museum career

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Section 3: museum collections

Concept 3.1: the benefits of museum collections

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Concept 3.2: collections & information management

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Concept 3.3: museum research

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Section 4: engaging the museum's publics

Concept 4.1: museum exhibition

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

 

Concept 4.2: museum education

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Concept 4.3: museum programs

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Section 5: museum management

Concept 5.1: strategic & business planning

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Concept 5.2: marketing

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Concept 5.3: fundraising

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Concept 5.4: human resources

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Section 6: Museums in the 21st Century

Concept 6.1: environmental scan

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Concept 6.2: museum future trends

• -suggested resources
• -suggested group activities
• -your personal contributions

Note to self: Blogger is not a very good place to try hierarchical lists

 

[This posting is for Activity 19 (Week 5) of the OpenU course on Open Education H817open. The text is released under a Creative Commons Attribution license. The photo is by JamesF, CC License.]