Advantages & Disadvantages of Online Galleries – Technical
Advantages
- Engagement (interaction) is enhanced
- Viewers can create their own path
- Material/content can be added to, reduced, or refreshed easily and quickly
- Immediacy – level of information can be chosen by the viewer, making it more accessible to a wider range of ages and experience levels
- Message can be absorbed without difficulty of obtaining it
- Enhanced learning – materials can be used for education
- Extended learning – links to other websites with related content
Disadvantages
- Museum experience is not real
- Hands on experience is not possible
- Not a full sensory experience – seeing, hearing, smelling and touching enhances the extent to which the experience is embedded in the memory
- Fine detail may not be faithfully reproduced online
- Potentially, poor image quality
- Internet connection is required
- Download speed will affect viewing experience – slow for media-rich websites
- Information is easily harvested – critical thinking skills are reduced
- Primarily a visual experience – reading skills are not encouraged
- Cut & paste – writing skills are reduced
Output from brainstorming session – 25 March 2018
(Contemporaneous notes)
