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Exploring the Future of Museums with Learning Revolution

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Last Thursday I previewed the upcoming online New Media Consortium conference on July 23, giving you a peek the keynotes by Jasper Visser, Nik Honeysett and Nancy Procter. As promised, here is a look the other half of this twinset:  a free online conference taking place the following day (Thursday, July 24), organized by the Learning Revolution.
Both conferences are structured around four main themes plucked from the NMC Horizon Report>2013 Museum Edition: BYOD (Bring Your Own Device); Location-based Services; Crowdsourcing; and Makerspaces.
I’ll kick off Thursday’s conference with a keynote looking at how these four trends are influencing the expectations of our audiences, and what museums may look like after decades of being shaped by these evolutionary forces. Once I’m off the digital stage, I look forward to settling in for the day to listen to keynotes from Suse Cairns and Jeffrey Inscho (co-hosts of the marvelous Museopunks podcast), Lath Carolson (VP of exhibits at the Tech Museum of Innovation), Barry Joseph (associate director of digital learning at the American Museum of Natural History) and Alex Freeman (director of special projects at the New Media Consortium).
This conference also features breakout sessions selected from submissions from the field. I’m reading through the accepted proposals now, deciding which ones to attend.
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One of the valuable features of this conference is its mix of international attendees, and (I hope) participants from outside the museum field. The Learning Revolution Project consists of a series of virtual and physical events that have approximately 100,000 attendees/logins each year, and the project also highlights the activities and conversations of more than 200 partner organizations across the learning professions in the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. As the Alliance works to implement the vision outlined in CFM’s most recent report—Building the Future of Education—it is critical that we connect with individuals and organizations from all parts of the learning landscape. Other Learning Revolution events include the School Leadership Summit, Reform Symposium (RSCON), Homeschool Conference, and the Library 2.0 and Global Education Conferences. I’m hoping some of the regulars from those events join us for this conference, as well. Sign up, log on, help make them feel welcome, and hopefully they will log off with a better understanding of how museums would be great partners for their work. 

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