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The present work is originated from the fact of low assistance of general population to the museums, particularly the school-age population as Conaculta reports. Experience shows that more interest is generated when interactive activities are offered. The present paper presents the development stages of an interactive guide using Augmented Reality for the “Museoregional de Huajuapan”. The goal of this project is to contribute towards spreading the rich cultural Mixteca heritage. We explore two different Augmented Reality libraries compatible with Android NyARToolKit and Vuforia. Augmented Reality is implemented by pattern recognition on special marks. Market share for smart phones are reviewed to make sure that Android is the most suited platform. We may conclude that smart phones are well suited to implement Augmented Reality in the museographic tourist guide as they are lightweight devices that can be carried and manipulated easily.

Integrating CSCL activities is something that has been widely discussed in the CSCL community but as yet only implemented in a reduced set of domain specific tools. In this paper we propose the integration of a set of default and authoring CSCL tools into a standard LMS, as a complete sequence of learning activities based on a constructivist approach. An experiment was also carried out in order to verify the usability and extent of the collaborative work in a real context. Based on results of evaluation, we conclude that the integration of chat was a useful addition to the concept map building tool. This highlighted the professor role as a moderator entity maintaining a central role during the learning experience. The tests were carried out in presence of professors who felt that software would be useful to promote the participation of students and facilitate continuous assessment for this courses and other courses.

The emergence of networked computers has originated new technologies for teaching and learning, particularly, the technology of learning management systems. We have applied Erlang to deal with the concurrent part of a distributed system to support teaching and learning tasks. We have also employed declarative programming together with some formal tools to elaborate the specification and the conceptual model of the system and some extreme programming techniques to deal with some issues of software development. We show how Erlang supports the transition from the specification to the implementation, and the whole concurrent and computational process of our distributed system.

Statistics show that attendance to culture and science promotion centers can be increased if interactive activities are offered. This paper presents the development of an application based on Kinect SDK which manipulates 3D models of archaeological pieces from the Museo Regional de Huajuapan (MureH). This manipulation is performed without controls, with only hand movements needed to interact with the application. The process and details of 3D models design highlighting the use of textures to add a more realistic appearance is presented, along with some details and tests about the development of the Kinect-based Application.