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International Conference on Intelligent Multimodal Communication and Learning Technologies, Bengaluru, India, 19 - 21 November 2025, pp.514-520, (Full Text)
This work-in-progress reports a case study with six groups of preservice teachers (three per group) in a Museum Education course. Each group selects one of the six core themes of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and curates ten openly accessible artifacts from diverse regions. For each item, students write an about 100-word interpretive label, provide accessibility-oriented alt text, add a source link, and state the license. Galleries are built in Artsteps as 3D exhibitions, shared on the web, and optionally viewed via mobile VR; they are also embedded on the course site. Evidence comes from (i) a group-level curatorial rubric (theme–artifact alignment; selection/sequence/flow; label quality; accessibility and licensing; embedded activities), (ii) interaction logs (clicks, distinct items visited, dwell time, route completion), and (iii) individual reflections. Early expectations are that clearer sequencing/flow and stronger label quality will co-occur with broader coverage and longer dwell times. The study offers a practical framework for integrating digital and VR-ready thematic galleries into pedagogical practice.