The newly redesigned InformalScience.org is a growing online community that strives to support knowledge-sharing, collaboration and innovation among diverse professionals in the field of informal science education and learning. The site is evolving from its roots as an online repository of information about research and evaluation in informal learning into a knowledge network that is built around people, projects and ideas.

Users can create member profiles that are automatically linked to their publications, projects and evaluation reports in the database; access and contribute informal learning research references; share project impact and evaluation findings with the community; and create or update project pages to showcase the work and people behind the projects.

The site also features quarterly interviews with leaders in the field, project spotlights and RSS feeds for newly published research, evaluations, calendar events and NSF project funding.

Key Features

• A searchable database of research, reports, projects, people, discussions, events and resources contributed by the community
• Project Pages that share team members, information, findings, evaluations and accomplishments
• Member Profiles that reflect the work, expertise and interests of people involved in informal learning research and projects
• Events listings that show attending members
• Hosted discussion forums for peers to discuss projects and subjects of interest (coming soon)