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)