Creating e-learning History of Art courses in Higher Education

In the last years the number of technological tools and devices at the disposal of art historians is constantly increased. New technologies are changing the way art history is taught or, at least, they have the potentiality to do it. However, many of the experiences carried out until now have simply replaced the face-to-face lectures with online materials or combined in-class experiences with online materials or activities (for instance forums to answer questions submitted electronically or to have seminar-style discussions with small groups of students). A most powerful way to use technologies to teach art history it would be to use them to engage students in new activities and to facilitate them in taking control of their learning. In order to achieve these goals it could be useful to take advantage of the potentialities related with mobile devices as delivery tools and with game based teaching approaches as methodology. This paper aims to describe the most used methodologies to teach History for citations