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Since the 1960s, museums and galleries have increasingly embraced the new means of communication that technology holds (Parry, 2007). According to Falk and Dierking, the media represents an “important and powerful way that museums can offer choice and individualised learning options to visitors” (2008, p. 20).
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Raith, S. (2016). The Meaning of Context. In: Erstad, O., Kumpulainen, K., Mäkitalo, Å., Schrøder, K.C., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P., Jóhannsdóttir, T. (eds) Learning across Contexts in the Knowledge Society. The Knowledge Economy and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-414-5_6
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