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What Does a Great Distributed Digital Museum Experience Look Like?

Museum 2.0

Museum technology nerds: this post is for you. I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to interact with museum content (art, history, science, etc.) as they make their way through the world outside the museum. At the museum? but none of them are great. At the historic site?

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

Museum 2.0

But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning. The ideas, questions, requests, and needs that you hear regardless of how direct they seem, should provide you with the inspiration and impetus for either new programs, services or offerings or ways to change those that you already have in place.

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