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What Makes Learning Fun? : Principles for the Design of Intrinsically Motivating Museum Exhibits.

What Makes Learning Fun? presents a set of tested principles and strategies for the design of museum exhibits, with concrete examples of design successes and failures drawn from the author's many years in the field.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perry, Deborah L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : AltaMira Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Museum exhibits > Planning.
Museums > Environmental aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Museum Administration & Museology.
REFERENCE > General.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Ebook Central Academic Complete
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Table of Contents:
  • Understanding visitor experiences
  • Visitors, conversation, and learning
  • Interpretive activism
  • An overview of the Selinda model of visitor learning
  • Designing visitor experiences
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Guidance
  • Curiosity
  • Perceptual curiosity
  • Intellectual curiosity
  • Interest
  • Confidence
  • Success
  • Expediency
  • Challenge
  • Expectations
  • Uncertainty
  • Control
  • Choice
  • Power
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Sensory exploration
  • References
  • Appendix A. Descriptions of the colored shadows and the color connection exhibits
  • Appendix B. Overview of original research
  • Appendix C. Summary of motivations, principles, and strategies
  • Appendix D. Sample knowledge hierarchies.

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