E-Space Education Spotlight

Extending the use of digital content to the arena of education, in order to boost creativity and creative skills in teaching and learning…

What E-Space is Offering to the Educational Sector

Europeana Space is offering a wide range of services to the educational sector through its activities:

  • 5 examples of creative re-use of digital cultural content for education
  • a MOOC, Massive Open Online Course, to learn what you can do with digital cultural heritage, for your research, your studies, your classrooms
  • 6 thematic Pilots developing prototypes, that can be utilized also for educational purposes
  • thematic events on education and digital cultural heritage
  • a review of existing projects, environments and best practices dealing with digital cultural heritage content in an educational context

The huge amount of digital cultural heritage available in many repositories on line is a wealth of material that you can engage with, and access to re-use for teaching and learning materials that you can assemble or develop on your own…

Demonstrators

Rode Altarpiece

Rode Altarpiece

The work by Hermen Rode, particularly the retable in St. Nicholas’ Church in Tallinn and the Lubek’s altar at Saint Luke’s church, is the focus of this demonstrator which uses very high resolution digital images. The demonstrator combines visual and research information to take a closer look to the oeuvre and the techniques, making it… Continue Reading

Irish Folk Tales

Irish Folk Tales

The Irish Folktales demonstrator aims to promote the richness of Ireland’s storytelling tradition in an online educational context and, within the broader context of the EuropeanaSpace Project, to demonstrate the potential that cultural heritage and creative industry partnerships can have. Access the Demonstrator here! The folktales are presented in a digital application, a relevant and… Continue Reading

Cavafy Poems

Cavafy Poems

This is a digital application comprising multiple thematic layers, developed to showcase the work of seminal Greek poet C. P. Cavafy. The application houses digitised manuscripts of a specific number of Cavafy poems along with audio and video recordings of said poems and audiovisual commentary by leading scholars. The Cavafy digital application will function as… Continue Reading

Photographic Investigation of Art Works

Photographic Investigation of Art Works

The demonstrator “Photographic investigation of art works” is based on the website ‘Closer to Van Eyck – Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece’. The website presents more than 100 billion pixels of image data of the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) in visual light macrophotography, infrared macrophotography, infrared reflectography and X-radiography. The website provides a tremendous resource for education. For example, detailed insights can be taught… Continue Reading

Archaeology in Cyprus

Archaeology in Cyprus

The basic aim of the demonstrator is the development of a completed system of a digital information, education and entertainment (edutainment) for adults, adolescents and teenagers concerning the most representative monuments and landmarks of Cyprus, reusing existing data from Europeana. The proposed UNESCO monuments digital learning system further aims to: Help users to learn the… Continue Reading

E-Space Education MOOC

Learn how to become creative with digital cultural content. Cultural heritage is not just to contemplate, but to live with and engage with.

More information on the MOOC.

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Europeana Space has received funding from the European Union’s ICT Policy Support Programme as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, under GA n° 621037

Project website: www.europeana-space.eu

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