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Developing Digital Transition Strategies for Cultural Heritage Institutions

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Course Features

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Duration

8 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Effort

4 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Instructor Paced

Course Description

Recently, the necessity for Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs) to keep up with the rapid changes in the digitization of society and culture brought them to confront new challenges: 1) adaptation of new digital technologies and 2) the development of impactful digital workflows.

How can digitization empower cultural heritage institutions to fulfill their mission? Is there a strategy to ensure digital use doesn’t replace physical engagement in cultural activities? How to create sustainable organizational changes and assess the challenges and benefits of such a digital development? If you want to get familiar with the many ramifications of digital transformation and its relation to the field of Cultural Heritage, then this MOOC is meant for you.

Thanks to this course, professionals in cultural heritage institutions, policymakers and critical culture consumers can expand their knowledge on the multiple facets of digital transformation and digital strategies and learn how to employ methods and tools to assess and galvanize Cultural Heritage Institution’s potential in the digital era.

This MOOC is composed of six modules consisting of videos, texts, exercises, quizzes, readings and much more. You’ll find yourselves in the excellent company of specialists from the fields of cultural economics, sociology, communication and intellectual property rights who’ll introduce and dive deep into subjects such as participatory strategies, Intellectual Property Rights, capacity building and impact assessment.

As a whole, they offer the right sources for developing and assessing effective digital strategies.

Course Overview

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Live Class

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Human Interaction

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Personlized Teaching

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International Faculty

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Post Course Interactions

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Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

Basic knowledge on digital strategies and familiarity with the concept of digital transformation

What You Will Learn

Assess the impact of your institution

Define and develop a digitisation strategy

Recognize the benefits and opportunities of Open Access policies in the context of digital transformation

Recognize the need for better digitisation performance data in the Cultural Heritage Institutions sector and the value of assessing trends, self-monitoring, and assessment

Understand the many meanings and developments of Digital Transformation

Course Instructors

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Francisco Lima

Legal researcher at Centre for IT&IP Law - KU Leuven

Francisco Lima is a legal researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT&IP Law. He’s currently working as a copyright policy researcher and Work Package leader for the European Commission’s Horizon2020 P...
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Fred Truyen

Professor of Cultural Studies at KU Leuven

Fred Truyen is professor of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Arts of KU Leuven University, where he teaches Information Science, Online Publishing and Digital Cultural Heritage and is currently the...
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Johan Oomen

Head of Research and Heritage Services at Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, Netherlands

Johan Oomen is Head of Research and Heritage Services at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision and a researcher at the User-Centric Data Science group of the VU University Amsterdam. Throughou...
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Maria Drabczyk

Sociologist, researcher, board member and head of policy and advocacy at Centrum Cyfrowe, Poland

Maria Drabczyk is a sociologist, researcher, and manager of cultural projects in the field of heritage and new technologies. Board member and head of policy and advocacy at Centrum Cyfrowe. She also ...
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