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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Exploratorium, the self-described "museum of science, art and human perception," in San Francisco, California and the 10th anniversary of...

This week in informal STEM education, we highlight the announcement of grants by the IMLS, NanoDays 2015, several citizen science projects, and a STEM stir prompted by a Washington Post article. Institute of Museum and Library Services Grants The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced this week the recipients of more than $9 ... Read more

Growth in the informal STEM education (ISE) and science communication fields over the past decade has transformed the landscape of what is available to the STEM research community in terms of resources, potential collaborators and strategies to work with when developing outreach, engagement, and broader impacts activities. CAISE has written a report, Informal STEM Education: ... Read more

Over the past ten years, investments in infrastructure for informal STEM education and science communication have resulted in significant growth in the number and variety of resources and depth of...

Co-authored by Rhonda Struminger, Jill Zarestky, Rachel A. Short, Lauren Vilen, A. Michelle Lawing. Introduction Biological field stations are living laboratories where researchers study topics from animal migration patterns to biodiversity health and, as part of their work, often engage with informal STEM education. The oldest biological field stations (BFSs) have been around for more ... Read more

Final External Evaluation Report for Informal STEM Learning at Biological Field Stations, an NSF AISL Exploratory Pathways project, which studied the pedagogical and andragogical characteristics of informal educational outreach activities at...

CAISE presents “ISE Luminaries,” a series of interviews with leading practitioners, researchers, and evaluators who shaped the informal STEM learning field as we know it with their influential work. Beginning our series is an exchange with sculptor, exhibit developer, and educator Bernie Zubrowski. What originally got you interested in exploring natural or physical phenomena? I ... Read more

Across the STEM education landscape is an increasing interest in mobile technology and its potential use as a tool for learning. Whether it’s using smartphones in the context of citizen science projects or tablets to augment experiences with museum exhibits, mobile technologies are being leveraged to advance and deepen engagement in a diversity of settings ... Read more

The publication of the National Academies of Science consensus study, Learning Science in Informal Environments (2009), was an important marker in the history of informal STEM learning (ISL). With five...

The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) launched InformalScience.org to be a central point of access for informal science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education resources. The site continues to grow and evolve in response to the needs of the field. CAISE recently streamlined the Search tool on InformalScience.org to make it easier ... Read more

The InformalScience.org web site is a resource for researchers working in the field of informal science and provides access to information linking researchers with one another and to member-contributed resources....

InformalScience.org is an online collection of resources designed to serve a broad community of professionals whose work relates to informal education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Funded by...

This infographic presents a visual summary of a user study of the InformalScience.org website, which was conducted in 2016. The study used online surveys, task-based interviews, and web analytics to...

The University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments (UPCLOSE) proposes to redevelop its web-site, http://www.informalscience.org, which has become the primary online resource for researchers and practitioners dedicated to...

As part of CAISE’s effort to create sector-specific lenses into the InformalScience.org’s repository of resources, we have launched the Citizen Science landing page. This portal gives an overview of current citizen science and public participation in scientific research activity in informal settings and provides key resources, evaluation reports and tools, examples of funded projects and ... Read more

This paper examines the approach of a major new gallery on information and communication technologies in the Science Museum, situating it in the context of current ideas around the history...

This is one of three focus point presentations delivered as part of the session titled "Technology and Cyberinfrastructure," delivered on day two of the Citizen Science Toolkit Conference at the...

This paper discusses the underutilization of security personnel in visitor studies. Observations from guards at the Milwaukee Public Museum offer insight into their unique perspective on various visitor trends including...

This collaborative project aims to establish a national computational resource to move the research community much closer to the realization of the goal of the Tree of Life initiative, namely,...

What information are virtual visitors looking for on museum Web sites? This paper is a first step in a larger investigation into the informational value of museum Web sites. Scholars,...

Everyone--government agencies, private organizations, and individuals--is facing a changing climate: an environment in which it is no longer prudent to follow routines based on past climatic averages. State and local...

STEM learning is a process that unfolds through dynamic interactions over time and across settings. Formal education in schools is not the only—or necessarily the most significant—context for STEM learning....

Millions of Latinx youth, aged 14 to 18, work formal or informal jobs to provide income for themselves or their families. In the context of these workplaces, Latinx youth demonstrate...

Initial registration has been extended for the 2014 AISL PI Meeting to June 16th, 2014. The meeting will take place August 20th–22nd at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. CAISE invites Principal Investigators of all active AISL projects to register for the meeting. If the project PI is unable to attend the meeting, ... Read more

This paper presents an overview of evaluation efforts at the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation, which consists of two major national museums--the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War...