Raul Gomez Hernandez
Raul Gomez Hernandez is a PhD candidate in Audiovisual Communication at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and a PhD candidate in Education at the University of Edinburgh as part of the Una Europa Joint Doctorate in Cultural Heritage (Una-Her-Doc). Graduated in Archaeology and Master in Cultural Heritage Management, he researches on new ways of engaging young people with cultural heritage through new technologies through the Digital Heritage Education Project.
Session
In 2022, the Complutense University of Madrid conducted a citizen participation process to investigate the state of digital cultural heritage across its university museums, collections and archives. This process aimed to learn how different stakeholders (lecturers and professors, researchers, students and curators) use heritage materials for teaching and scientific dissemination.
After evaluating the results of this process, the researchers chose the Medialab Madrid Archive as a case study for designing, developing and assessing the use of digital heritage materials through participatory methods that included all stakeholders.
This lightning talk will show the open access demo developed following a participatory design methodology. Thanks to this platform, lecturers and professors, curators, students or researchers can easily create digital educational resources with digital heritage to help them in their classes, studies, research or for scientific dissemination, utilizing effective communication strategies and tools. Evaluations of these materials have shown that they improve student understanding of educational content and help to achieve the learning outcomes.