Presentation of UNESCO Bulgarian Cultural Heritage Sites as Knowledge System in a Learning Environment

Abstract

The article describes cultural heritage sites in Bulgaria, under the protection of UNESCO, as database elements that can be used for e-learning. The learning environment will motivate intellectual inquiry and, through organizing the methods of collecting and managing information, will be created cultural knowledge for existing and new sites, which will be evaluated and promoted. The environment serves the State Educational Standards (SES) of educational content for the cycle Social Sciences and Civic Education. The established database presents structured, scientifically proven and didactically correct knowledge, and is a conceptual framework of how sites can be viewed, perceived and "assembled". For the users (learners) the information about sites is a basis for research and a communication tool. By interpreting the cultural significance of artifacts, they structure information based on the attributes of the database. The features of the sites are a carrier of memorable and enriching information. The meaning is not found only in a specific object, but is created from the interaction between user, message and environment.

Realization of a Collection of Digital Resources for Cultural Heritage Sites as a Basis for Formation of Skills and Competencies

“…(1) database (DB CHH) for presentation of integrated knowledge of the 7 sites of Bulgarian CHH under UNESCO's protection (Boyana Church, Madara Rider, Thracian tomb near Kazanlak, Rock Churches of Ivanovo St. Archangel Michael Monastery, Rila Monastery, Old Town of Nessebar, Thracian Tomb near Sveshtari), and an information resource for presentation of the organization UNESCO (Kovacheva S. , 2016);…”

Web based Application for Presentation of Bulgarian Cultural and Historical Heritage under the Protection of UNESCO

“…The MediaWiki platform has been selected for the realization of the project: Implementation of the "Me and UNESCO" web application to support learners with an additional resource for the History and Civilization and Man and Society academic subjects in the Bulgarian school. The idea is to present new and/or additional content such as a range of hyper-documents, combined with multimedia components provided on the Internet (Kovacheva, 2016). "Me and UNESCO" uses the current stable MediaWiki version (1.32.0) of January 2019.…”

“…After the "experience of the site", an appropriate regard and social behavior towards it is achieved. More information in detail about described web application could be found in (Kovacheva, 2016), (Kovacheva & Dimitrova, 2017), (Kovacheva, Dimitrova, & Pezhgorski, 2016).…”

E-learning environment UNESCO Bulgarian Architectural Heritage Sites

“…Metadata (a set of attributes arranged in multiple levels with given values) are used to describe the rest seven objects from the DB BAO-UNESCO, listed in [11]. The attribute values are texts and images that convey the learning content [6], [8].…”