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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Lydens, Lois; Saito, Yasuji; Inoue, Tohru – Journal of Museum Education, 2007
The National Science Museum (NSM) in Japan has recently completed a project using different types of visitor-oriented digital technologies. With sponsorship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the NSM team carried out a four-year study to examine how digital technologies can be used to enhance as well as educationally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Museums, Handheld Devices, Nonschool Educational Programs
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Manabe, Makoto; Lydens, Lois – Journal of Museum Education, 2007
Mobile phones have been steadily gaining appreciation among the museum community as a versatile tool. The new generation of mobile phones allows museums to imagine a whole new range of applications, including audiovisual personal tours and live-feed broadcasting. Personal tours using mobile phones are appealing to museum educators since patrons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Museums, Telecommunications, Nonschool Educational Programs