Abstract:

Digital technologies take museums beyond the academic framework and expand their capabilities in the educational sphere. Web 2.0 tools allows museums targeting current generation of young people as well as transferring the basic values of humanity to develop an all-sided harmonious personality capable of lifelong learning. However, a broad range of ICTs does not allow making an authentic intercultural environment a practical reality due to circumstances such as lack of technical knowledge, time, finances, and resources; therefore, the choice of the optimal technology for creating cultural and educational content with the involvement of students became a research question of this study. We decided to start museum-based educational podcasts as an attempt to connect intercultural communication and learning with direct student involvement in ICT use since intercultural exchange is possible only through the involvement of students in the creation of authentic cultural content.

Our choice was due to the following factors:
(1) the development of online educational products by modern museums in order to target a youth audience;
(2) the ease of posting podcasts on YouTube, social media, and museum websites;
(3) the ability of podcasts to change the nature of museum audio tours [19]; minimal financial costs for creating an authentic product that increases motivation and positive attitude of learners, fostering students’ listening skills, shaping critical thinking, and assisting in intercultural dialogue.

This presentation demonstrates a meaningful strategy for creating museum podcasts for educational purposes, where each episode deals with the art-historical findings of the researchers from the local archaeological museum. We believe that this digital content, intended to use by university teachers during curatorial hours, will contribute to increasing student youth awareness of the motherland historical and cultural heritage and to popularizing it both domestically and internationally.

Keywords:

Museum podcast, educational purposes, intercultural education, digital content, lifelong learning, authentic, intercultural exchange.