Museum Essentials : Working Ethically

Well done, a truly fantastic resource. Thank you

A very good broad brush approach with lots of real life examples and sound guidance. Well worth the time and effort, will now share with the team. Thanks

Thorough and thought provoking.

Thoroughly enjoyed the course content. Opened my eyes to a formular I can use and share with my colleagues and employers. Made me more confident about accessing and understanding information on the Museum Association website. Would've liked each page to be downloadable (Word doc) and printable as I don't always have internet access and sometimes find continuously reading from screen problematic.

generally very good, especially the case studies which are included to review. It took a lot longer than the 15 hours to complete however, that was the guideline amount I think the website said it should normally take.

Really interesting and relevant for the museum sector, although in our situation - a tiny, very local museum in a small village, it is perhaps not so relevant in all aspects of the course.

Excellent course. Thank you very much!

Case studies were very interesting and useful. Most of the '30 minute' exercises are completable in 5 minutes or less, though.

Really excellent course.

I was disappointed that there was nothing about cultural sensitivity in collections management. For example, objects that have to be worked with and handled/stored/displayed in certain ways because of ethical issues surrounding their backgrounds, and how this can be implemented in the context of usual collection management practices.

Really great introduction and overview of the MA Code of Ethics. Challenges you to constantly reflect on how what you are learning can be applied to your role and to your organisation. Would like more video case studies and perhaps a few impact reports by museums on how a project has gone that has embedded ethical practices and critical thinking involved. Thank you for producing! Would like to learn more about ethical sponsorship.

Really like the videos and the quizzes. I would have liked to have seen more quizzes.

I thought the course was very interesting and helpful. It would be great to see an additional section in the Code of Ethics on ethical interpretation. It has been touched on and alluded to in each of the sections, but the narratives we share and the stories we tell should have a clear ethical guideline.

Very good course. Good use of reading, watching and practical activities.

Really enjoyed the course and reading the case studies. Its only fault were the test questions at the end of each module: they weren't useful in gauging how much of the Code of Ethics has sunk in. For example, most of the test questions simply asked "how many points are in principle 1/2/3". I don't think this is a good test of knowledge. I believe it would work better if the questions were specific about points that the candidate would actually need to consider in their career.

Very helpful and informative

Very useful insight for someone new to Museum Education. A great overview with informative links - which then lead to many other interesting links! Lots to think about going forward

Excellent case studies to relate ethics into practice. Very thought provoking.

Very informative!

Very good format, it would be good to be able to down load and print a work book.

This was a really useful refresher for me - and helpful for bookmarking some practical resources. Thank you!

I loved this course. I learned so much and it made me think critically about so many different issues. Thank you.

It needs more interactives and less reading tasks. Other than that good and great that you can take your time to complete it.

This course was laid out very well, I learned a lot from this course.

Instructive, clear and helpful.

Thorough and detailed presentation. I found the personal clips and case studies very useful. Surprised how much was relevant for myself as an artist working with museums and archives.

Was interesting but could have done with more engagement and direction from the tasks when asked to reflect.

Really helped to raise my awareness of the ethical issues that museums face and our code to help us respond in an ethical manner

Very informative and knowledge gained with course is going to be productive in the near future.

Absolutely great course. really broadened my horizon on what Working Ethically means and really brough the MA's Code of Ethics to my attention and now I feel like I know it inside-out. Will be using this more in my professional work.

Incredibly useful and empowering, thank you for your work!

I feel I have a better understanding of the Code of Ethics for Museums and more confident in my understanding of how it is used.

Excellent and thought provoking

This course was really comprehensive with plenty of additional resources and documents to look at.

This is a brilliant course to help you understand the importance of ethics in museums!

Very insightful course with great use of lots of case studys

Some of the information towards the end of the course was a bit repetitive.

Far too much 'Go off and reflect on what you have learnt' or simply repeating everything that's in the Code of Ethics. The only thing I really gained from this were the useful case studies and these should have been at the core of the training - taking us through the issues point by point and asking for our opinions at each stage so that we get to apply what we have learnt from reading the Code.

great course even though at penamenmawr museum we've always followed an ethical approach i have picked up new ideas to facilitate ethical thinking. Many Thanks

Really fantastic - so enjoyable and useful, especially during lockdown and remote working.

Thanks, Due to other work commitments, the course took longer for me to finish than I anticipated. I enjoyed and learnt new things that I will discussed with my line manager to improve the ethics in my job. Will it be possible to send to my email (v.carrio@nms.ac.uk) two of the documents that I couldn't have access? The names of the two documents are: "Principle 2 Stewardship of Collections" and "Principle 3 Individual and Institutional Integrity" Yours, Vicen

Generally a good introduction to ethics in museums. There were some issues with broken links, and sometimes links went to a general page for ethics rather than to the specific page required. Too many of the summary quizes had 'all of the above' answers. Some more general case study 'what would you do?' ethical dilemma questions might have been useful.

A good refresher as it makes you really think about how the Code could and should be applied. The case studies are helpful and plentiful, especially the Ethical Dilemmas - although if you are a detail person and read all the links, anticipate 20+ hours to complete the course! As the course progresses, some of the exercises become repetitive and the Quiz questions somewhat simplistic. I enjoyed the film clips as a break from the written exercises - perhaps include more of these in a future version?

Really helped me to focus on all the different areas of my job where the code of ethics should have an impact.

Quiz questions to test knowledge could be more challenging!

I thought that this course was a little confusing, it could have been organised a little clearer. There were also some articles and links that did not work, did not exist anymore or led to the wrong place which was a little confusing. But overall a very insightful and helpful course.

Very good introduction to Code of Ethics and ethical thinking with helpful case studies.

I wish it was more interactive. The content was beneficial to my learning I just find it hard to learn purely from reading!

very good - good to do this one after the other two as it all feeds in and makes a lot of sense

Really insightful and learned a lot

Informative, thought-provoking and accessible. Thank you.

Most of the course was interesting and engaging but some of it was rather repetitive. I think I 'got' the message about integrity and transparency fairly early on.....

I really enjoyed this course. It was laid out in a clear way, going through each of the Codes in turn, giving useful case studies and time for reflection. I will be creating a presentation for our staff and Board to demonstrate how the Code should be embedded in everything we do. I think it is already to a large extent, but as we are not a museum as such, we haven't explicitly shared the Code with staff, which we should be doing. The reflection sessions in the course, however, have shown me that we are an ethical organisation and we do discuss ethics at our meetings, but we don't have a lot of it written down into policies. I will endeavour to change that!