Education

Going Beyond Google: Data Sources and Visualization

Going Beyond Google: Data Sources and Visualization

Finding data and analyzing it takes time, something in short supply for most arts managers.  But without taking the time to collect and analyze data, arts managers are making decisions without knowledge. Here are two tools and one source to consider as you move forward in your work.

Blurring the Physical And Digital: 6 Takeaways for Arts Mangers from the Insight of Two Microsoft HoloLens Designers

Do you think virtual reality is all the rage? Or not? Here's some insight from Microsoft designers for arts managers.

How Can MOOC Providers Create an Interactive Learning Experience in the Arts?

How Can MOOC Providers Create an Interactive Learning Experience in the Arts?

In this new publication, AMT Lab Contributor Wanqi Peng shares her research on the current state of arts education in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Included in the report is an overview of the field, a summary of trends in digital arts courses, and a course study following a pioneer of online arts education. Download the full report here

#TBT Back to School Edition: Arts, Technology and Education

#TBT Back to School Edition: Arts, Technology and Education

Now that summer is officially over and autumn is upon us, AMT Lab is taking a look forward to this exciting school year, and taking a look back at all of our content centered around the intersection of arts, technology, and education. From MOOC’s, to mobile technologies in schools, we've always been interested in the way technology allows educators and students to connect.

The Future of Micro-Credentialing: An Overview of Digital Badges for the Arts

The Future of Micro-Credentialing: An Overview of Digital Badges for the Arts

Digital badges are an alternative method of credentialing that can identify specific skills a learner has mastered through the course of their own self-directed learning. Badges can be acquired in online, in-class, or apprenticeship learning settings. In spite of the great potential that digital badges offer for distinguishing an individual’s job-specific credentials, work must be done to make them more widely understood.

AMT Lab's latest publication, The Future of Micro-Credentialing: An Overview of Digital Badges for the Arts, is meant to be a guide for hiring managers in the arts that: defines what digital badging is; explains suggested taxonomies of digital badges; reviews the acquisition process; introduces initiatives to standardize and create accreditation; compares viewpoints on strengths and weaknesses compared to the traditional learning accreditation model; demonstrates the need for digital badges as a credential; suggests other considerations for using digital badges in the hiring of employees.