Personal Meaning Mapping in Context of Digital Humanities Pedagogics

The study aimed at assessing visitors learning and perception using the Personal Meaning Maps methodology. The study was conducted within the course "Museum Information Systems", implemented under the Program "Applied Informatics in Arts and Humanities..." of Saint Petersburg State University according to the University requirements. Thirty-five third-year bachelors (19–22 years-old) took part in the experiment. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the collected data showed interesting results. Indeed, we can state that PMMs allow studying new knowledge of specialists in the field of Digital Humanities. Also, we observed that PMMs, used as a pedagogical and research tool, activates both common theoretical knowledge of learners and the students’ personal experience, allowing them to gain a more complete picture of the scientific phenomenon as well as of a historical fact.