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eric

Why not look at evaluation a a learning tool not only as a way of improving
the visitor experience for the the exhibition you are working on and the
next exhibition you are going to do? We learn my creating and testing in
many different way s but one way is to write down goals for the
exhibit/exhibition. If it does not then we have to figure out how to fix it
and this is a learning process which hopefully accumulate for the next
project. And if we report this then others may learn as well. With this
conceit I think there are no straight jackets but an exercise that is a
learning experience for all.

Martin

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Eric Siegel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> I have to admit that I feel the whole "learning goals and did you meet
> them" part of exhibition development to be a bit of a straightjacket.  But
> I hope I have enough humility to realize that there is a lot I have to
> learn and that I welcome advice from anyone who can help me do that,
> evaluator, explainer, colleague, member of the public.  I like to think
> that when lightning strikes and I have some awesome creative concept that I
> will just get it right, but my batting average is only so so.  So I am all
> for any kind of input, paid, unpaid, expert, novice when we are working on
> a new experience.  I am not all that enthralled with defining concrete
> learning goals, but that is more based on how I have learned in the past,
> by a kind of serendipitous accretion of experiences, than because of any
> profound intuition about how people learn.  Others have different ways of
> learning, as I myself have from 30 years in museums and several years of
> teaching grad students.  For some, having concrete learning goals and
> objectives is a helpful scaffold.
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> Left to my own devices, I will use my own intuitions.  It isn't obvious to
> me that my intuitions are the best approach for visitors to have a great
> time and learn.  So I try to listen to whomever I can.
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