Web-based museum trails on PDAs for university-level design students: Design and evaluation

Authors:
R. Reynolds;K. Walker;C. Speight
Affiliations:
Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design (CETLD), Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2RL, United Kingdom;Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design (CETLD), Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2RL, United Kingdom;Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design (CETLD), Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2RL, United Kingdom
Venue:
Computers & Education
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper describes the development and evaluation of web-based museum trails for university-level design students to access on handheld devices in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The trails offered students a range of ways of exploring the museum environment and collections, some encouraging students to interpret objects and museum spaces in lateral and imaginative ways, others more straightforwardly providing context and extra information. In a three-stage qualitative evaluation programme, student feedback showed that overall the trails enhanced students' knowledge of, interest in, and closeness to the objects. However, the trails were only partially successful from a technological standpoint due to device and network problems. Broader findings suggest that technology has a key role to play in helping to maintain the museum as a learning space which complements that of universities as well as schools.