Introduction

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The purpose of the ACHRON project is

To develop and identify educational practices and design patterns in the field of digitally supported art and cultural heritage dissemination. Emphasis is given to tasks and performatives for learning centres.

The project is thus a practical attempt to deal with the challenges described on the page Digital Curation. This goal is to be realized through three interdependent initiatives:

  1. The development of an accredited, flexible and internationally oriented Master Degree course in digital art and cultural heritage dissemination. The course will give participants good practical skills for broad, multivalent and user friendly practical solutions supported by a sound and up-to-date theoretical foundation.
  2. The establishment of an international network (consortium) of partners that cooperate on the design, establishment and execution of educationally relevant procedures for access to digital cultural heritage and art resources with this course as the main common denominator.
  3. The expansion of project assignments stemming from these practices into full-fledged and preferably international collaborative projects in digital art and cultural heritage dissemination based on openly available resources.

The ACHRON acronym

The project name ACHRON is an acronym for Art and Cultural Heritage Resources ONline. It refers to the Greek terms chron for time slice, chronos for personalized time  and asynchronous for the asynchronous or time-shifted character of blended learning where we combine face-to-face venues with on-line interactions.

Timeline

The first development round for the ACHRON course takes place from spring 2010 through April 2012. See details.