Today, museums don't just want to convey knowledge; they want to make it an experience. Digital formats play a crucial role in this – from audio guides and interactive scavenger hunts to escape games. This is exactly where Actionbound comes in: With our platform, you can design museum visits to be interactive, multimedia-based, and flexible. The result? Experiences that actively engage visitors and leave a lasting impression.
##Actively discovering objects and stories – the Museum as a playground
Imagine your visitors don't just walk from exhibit to exhibit, but dive deeper into exciting stories, solve object-related riddles, and discover exhibition content from a whole new perspective.
With Actionbound, you can transform classic museum tours into interactive experiences. Combine various game elements into digital tours – so-called "Bounds" – that allow visitors to explore independently. Instead of just reading or hearing information, they actively and intensively engage with the exhibition.
Getting started couldn't be easier: visitors arrive at the museum, scan a QR code, and start the Bound directly on their smartphones. During the tour, they listen to audio clips, solve quiz questions, watch videos, or crack riddles. This allows them to internalize the experience on a completely different level. What's more, the tour doesn't necessarily have to end at the museum door. For instance, a Bound can also lead visitors outside, connecting historical sites or local landmarks with the indoor exhibition. This creates exciting tours that expand the museum visit and strengthen the local connection.
Tip: Offer a tour that can be played completely independently of your museum's opening hours – whether in the immediate vicinity or from home.
Versatile possibilities for your museum education
Actionbound can be flexibly adapted to different exhibitions, themes, and target groups. Particularly popular choices include:
Whether it's a permanent exhibition, a special exhibition, or a museum festival – with Actionbound, you can flexibly adapt your digital offerings to various formats.
Real-world Inspiration
Museums, memorials, visitor centers, and cultural institutions are already using Actionbound for their educational and outreach work. A wide range of creative ideas and best practices have emerged from these projects. That is why we have bundled all the key information about using Actionbound in museums on a dedicated landing page. There, you will find a sample Bound and customer testimonials.
Support for your next museum project
Are you currently planning a digital educational offering or looking to develop new ideas for your exhibition? Our team is happy to support you upon request: In a free introductory talk, we will look at your project together and discuss how you can successfully implement interactive tours and learning experiences with Actionbound. Whether it's an audio guide, digital scavenger hunt, or escape game – we will help you find the perfect format for your museum.
The university in all its shapes and colors is quite complex and multifaceted. For first-year students in particular, both the building itself and the whole surrounding area can seem very overwhelming and intimidating. This is exactly where Actionbound comes in: Just in time for the start of the semester, there are tips and tricks on everyday university life and how to use Actionbound.
The interactive campus tour
Where is the cafeteria? Where can I borrow books? Where can I find the Unicafé and where is the Audimax? You can tell that the semester is starting again by the small groups of first-year students walking across campus and being guided from one station to the next. But not all students have time on the scheduled day or take longer to find certain places on the sprawling campus. Many universities are already using Actionbound to make the start of the semester more interactive and time independent.
Fun and games can be used to interactively explore the campus. Unlike a guided tour, the locations are discovered by the students themselves. Actionbound tours can of course also be created for groups. This is ideal for student councils, for example, or for rallies on campus.
Here are a few selected examples of campus tours with Actionbound:
Click through the Campus Tour of the South Australian Institute of Business & Technology (SAIBT).
Campus Tour SAIBT
The Technical University of Munich offers a tour of the campus in Garching. There is a lot to discover in this area.
Campus Tour TUM
The Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences in Hesse also developed a tour for English-speaking students.
Click here to check it out.
Scientific papers, seminars and co.
You are preparing a seminar paper or your thesis and you are still missing the whole part with the surveys? No problem. Actionbound can help here, too. You can easily insert your surveys into our software and your testers can start the bound via QR code. You can view the results on your account and easily integrate them into your work.
Bounds can also be used for presentations or group work. You want to introduce to a new theme or convey content in a playful way, then just try to build a Bound. It's super easy and fun on top of that. Bounds can also be designed explicitly for groups and do not necessarily have to be location-dependent. You can also create location-independent bounds. Just give it a try!
Some scientific articles on the Actionbound learning method have already been published. A list of the articles can be found here.
Create your everyday life with Actionbound
Studying does not always mean sitting in seminars and looking for books in the library. For most students, it is the first time in their own flat or shared flat, or alone in a new city.
Have you ever thought about bounds that might add value to your free time? How about a flat-rate Bound? Elements in the Bound-Creator can be assigned with switches. These are then played, for example, on different days of the week. Who has to clean the bathroom and the kitchen when? Who lives in your flat anyway?
The boring flat cleaning plan was yesterday - with Actionbound you can make it more digital and much more fun.
Or how about a pub quiz or city tours especially for students? Or weekend trips with the circle of friends or or or.
Try our campus tours bound
Actionbound fits perfectly into the university context. Want to see what a Bound could look like? Then take a look at our example Bound.
Download the Actionbound app for free and scan the starting code at the bottom of the page.
Have fun trying out and developing your Bound idea. We always appreciate your feedback. Have you ever built or played a Bound specifically in this theme area? Feel free to reach out to us and to link us to our social networks.! :)
Want to give your students the chance to learn from home? Or you want to try using digital and interactive media to enrich the experience of learning from home. Here are some tips for using Actionbound to complement homeschooling.
Introducing New Topics
It can be hard to get students excited about a new topic, especially when homeschooling. An emotional response to a topic can often help get students excited. But how can you create that kind of excitement? Short, entertaining games are often especially good. With gamification– the combination of educational materials and parts of a game– information can be transmitted in a fun and creative manner.
At the beginning of a new topic, you can prepare a Bound for your students. You can awaken their interest using quizzes and creative tasks, then use multimedia tasks and quizzes to deepen their understanding. Students can simply play the Bounds from home. Since smartphones are everywhere, this is an easy way to get students started
Assessment
You can also use Actionbound to get a sense of where how your students are doing with the material. You can find out how much they know already or, if you’re midway through a topic, you can test how much they know and are likely to retain. A Bound is also an ideal way to reinforce materials that have already been taught– and without reinforcement, the best pedagogy often comes to naught. Neural pathways have to be reinforced so that information can be retained over the long run. You can use a short quiz Bound to get a quick and easy sense for how your students are doing. Education assessment at a distance– Actionbound makes it easy.
Let students make their own Bounds
Your students needn’t just be passive consumers of information. They can be makers, too. Using our Instant Account feature (automatically included with teacher and educational accounts), you can make accounts for individual students, while retaining control of the material they produce. Students can create Bounds for one another and become their own teachers! After all, we always learn the most, when we help others to learn. Instead of asking them to give a presentation, try asking students to develop Bounds, in which the students themselves can determine the topics and experiment with different pedagogical methods.
Students can easily use their own photos and video. Bounds can also be created collaboratively, making them perfect for (socially-distanced) group projects. Individual Bound elements can be combined into a unified whole, without students needing to meet in person. A Bound can easily be created with the help of a video chat. Or the tasks can be divided up ahead of time, so that each student can contribute one part of a Bound that the teacher will manage.
Flipped Classroom
Turn your teaching on its head! Instead of introducing new material in class and then applying it in the homework, do it the other way around– with Actionbound! Let your students get comfortable with new material using a Bound, which can then be played and discussed in class.
You and your students can create simple Bounds right away that you can play immediately. Our tip: Let your students choose their own topic (e.g. their favorite band or the neigborhood where they live) for their first Bound. That way, they’ll get comfortable with the software before they move on to other projects. The older your students, the more ambitious the projects they can complete. For more complex projects, a detailed introduction to the software and its capabilities is advantageous.
It can be hard to get students excited about a new topic, especially when homeschooling. An emotional response to a topic can often help get students excited. But how can you create that kind of excitement? Short, entertaining games are often especially good. With gamification– the combination of educational materials and parts of a game– information can be transmitted in a fun and creative manner.