Education & Interpretation

A Clear View: The Wellin Museum of Art creates a new model for the university museum

By Stefanie S. Jandl

This article originally appeared in the September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine. On a recent spring day on the campus of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art was a hive of activity, …
The Emerging Federal Role for Competency Education

By Elizabeth Merritt

CFM has been exploring the future of education in papers, presentations, stories and blog posts. Sometimes we look at mainstream futures (such as Naomi Coquillon’s recent post on museums & the Common Core curriculum standards). …
All In The Family: It’s win-win when museums engage homeschoolers.

By Dina Rose Friedman

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2013 edition of Museum magazine. It’s 9:30 on a Tuesday morning, and already the museum shop of 19th-century author Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, part of a network of house …
MOOCs and the Museum

By Elizabeth Merritt

Are you paying attention to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)? You should be. These courses, offering free education on an enormous scale, are a bright spot in the dark landscape of rising educational debt. While they are still very …
Museums are the Future of Education

By Elizabeth Merritt

Earlier this year, I shared some thoughts regarding the future of education with face-to-face and on-line attendees at Museums Advocacy Day. My thesis, which I’ve advanced on this blog before, is that we are on the cusp of transformative …
Another Round of Technology and the Future of Education

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest post comes from Phil Katz, the Alliance’s assistant director for research and co-conspirator on many CFM research projects. Tomorrow andBeyond There’s nothing new about the prediction that technology is going to remake …
Open Enrollment: Digital Badges for Museum Futurists

By Elizabeth Merritt

When was the last time you looked at your resume? Pull it up on your screen and take a good look—it may be on the verge of becoming an anachronism. Here’s an opportunity for you to explore the resume of the future by earning some 21st …
Advocating for the Future of Education

By Elizabeth Merritt

From Getmot.com I’m going to interview Abraham Lincoln. You can help. February 25-26 is the 5th annual Museums Advocacy Day. This year the Alliance is offering a free virtual conference so you can take part even if you can’t get to D.C. …
Museums and Digital Badging

By Elizabeth Merritt

Personal Learning Networks. Participatory Learning Environments. MOOCs. Gamification. Microcredentials. The world of formal education is in quite a state of foment these days, with new paradigms and alternate models of instruction and …
Museums: Essential Elements in the New World of Education

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’ve been writing a lot about the future of education: how we are on the cusp of transformational change, and how museums may play a vital role in the next educational era. Today Steven Lubar, director of the Haffenreffer Museum of …