the university teaching with mom-ca and monasterium.net in the enarc-project
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Teaching with MOM-CA and Monasterium.NET
in the ENArC project
Antonella Ambrosio
Vera Schwarz-Ricci
ICARUS Didactics Group / Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Learning the past to build the future: education in the Digital Age
Archival Cooperation and Community Building in the Digital Age
Praha, 29.04.2014
Teaching with Monasterium in Europe
Icarus Didactics Group (since 2011)• aims at stimulating teaching with Monasterium and –
more recently – with digital technologies in general and at exchanging and disseminating these experiences
Courses took place in• Austria• France • Germany• Spain • Italy
Digital Technologies
E-Learning
Monasterium and MOM-CA
Teaching with Monasterium in Naples
Courses in Diplomatics, Palaeography and Digital Resources for Humanities (since 2009/2010)
• Master Degree in History• Master Degree in Administration of the Cultural Heritage• Master (postgraduate) in Library and Archival Sciences• PhD in History / Information and Library Sciences
Monasterium in teaching: different uses for different users (I) …
Platform MOM-CA:• Online repository of historical sources, different types of
documents and documentary scripts• For archivists: a digital archive
Monasterium in teaching: different uses for different users (II) …
Editor EditMOM:• For diplomatists: Analysis of external and internal
features of a charter and markup• For palaeographers: Image tool for script analysis
… but common educational goals
Understand a virtual digital archive
Apply the methods of traditional diplomatic analysis using Monasterium.Net and the XML editor of MOM-CA, Edit-MOM
Apply the methods of traditional palaeographic analysis using the Monasterium.Net Images Tools
Investigate the transformations set off by new tools in particular
Different users – different learning behaviours, favourite features and
opinions
Younger students
curiosity and interest in using New Technologies
search feature of Monasterium
positive: Livens up “dead” disciplines, more accessible
Graduates
a certain resistance to using New Technologies
charter description feature
negative: Loss of the archival context of the sources
On the one hand: advantages of Monasterium …
• simple and intuitive• perfect for putting theory into action (“learning by
doing”)• flexible
1. computer lab: group activity and community-centered learning
2. at distance: individual work on a charter
… and on the other hand: disadvantages
• Students are not able to work on the same charter (limited community experience)
• Students have no possibility to interact on the platform (limited exchange)
• Teacher: Limited evaluation of learning results on MOM-CA
What did we change in consequence? (I)
To improve social learning and to get evaluation tools:• Collaboration with pedagogues• Combination of Monasterium with an e-learning
platform (Moodle) and Social Media (FB Group)
What did we change in consequence? (II)
To abolish decontextualization:• Historical and archival framework of the charters (visits
to original production site and conservation sites) and only then computer lab working on MOM-CA
… and how did Monasterium.Net change?
Due to students’ suggestions, proposals of the Didactics Group and collaboration with MOM-CA Technical Group:• Image tools and their integration with the editor• New mark-ups: tag for formula• Improvement of Italian translation (usability)
Future prospects
To involve students in research projects with Monasterium.net, i.e. a digital edition
Our future in co:op: educational activities with Monasterium to further relations between archives, universities and the public
And your experiences?
Thank you for your attention!
Antonella Ambrosio
Vera Schwarz-Ricci
(Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)