Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to present the educational dimension of the Culture Gate platform and Culture Gate Collector application. Culture Gate is a multidisciplinary multipurpose online participatory platform for the management of cultural heritage digital content. A unique feature of the Culture Gate platform is that it enables any teacher or student to create, upload, share, and comment on a wide variety of cultural content ranging from theatre to music. The platform integrates several characteristics of well-known IT-ready educational theories, such as collaborative learning theory and constructivism theory. Furthermore, the platform possesses an application for smart devices (smartphone, tablet) known as Culture Gate Collector. Using this, students can collect content from formal and informal environments, edit it, and share their own cultural content that comes from the historical-cultural setting of the local community in which they live and operate. Culture Gate Collector can enhance mobile learning, as well as situated learning. This paper makes reference to the developmental philosophy behind Culture Gate and Culture Gate Collector, their educational and technical capabilities, and proposals for their optimal utilization in informal learning environments.
Highlights
The rapid evolution of digital, wireless and mobile technologies (e.g. Web 2.0, Internet of things, cloud computing, augmented reality, mobile/wireless communication) have created new opportunities for learning in both formal and informal educational environments
The purpose of this paper is to present the educational dimension of the Culture Gate platform and Culture Gate Collector application
A unique feature of the Culture Gate platform is that it enables any teacher or student to create, upload, share, and comment on a wide variety of cultural content ranging from theatre to music
Summary
The rapid evolution of digital, wireless and mobile technologies (e.g. Web 2.0, Internet of things, cloud computing, augmented reality, mobile/wireless communication) have created new opportunities for learning in both formal and informal educational environments Learning through these technologies is often described as “online collaborative learning” Despite the availability of applications such as the ones mentioned above, there was an absence of a platform that could provide the educational community with the ability to create its own cultural content and support mobile learning through an application for smartphones and tablets Such an opportunity is currently being provided via the “Culture Gate” platform (https://www.culture-gate.com/), which has been designed for the creation and management of a variety of cultural content ranging from theatre to music. This paper aims to: (a) describe the theoretical groundwork on which the Culture Gate platform is based and b) discuss the capacity for utilizing the Culture Gate platform and Culture Gate Collector application in teaching and learning
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