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The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites those interested to attend an informative webinar— Updates to the NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 24-1) on Tuesday, March 12, from 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST. There is no cost to participate.   The webinar will cover changes and clarifications to the PAPPG which will be effective ... Read more

We recently passed a milestone—more than 1,600 members have now joined InformalScience.org since the site launched one year ago. To improve the site and better serve this growing community, we at CAISE would like to know a bit more about you. If you are a site member, please log in and take a moment to ... Read more

The 3rd USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo will take place Saturday, April 26-Sunday, April 27 at the Walter E. Washington Center in Washington, D.C. Join over 250,000 students and parents, 5,000 educators, and 3,000 STEM professionals at this free celebration of STEM. Participants include more than 750 of the world’s leading professional scientific and ... Read more

This article was migrated from a previous version of the Knowledge Base. The date stamp does not reflect the original publication date. Overview With the rising ubiquity of mobile technologies, mobile tools and platforms for learning are also growing. At present, there are myriad mobile apps for teaching and learning (e.g., KidGrid helps teachers track ... Read more

Authors: Alicia Torres, Isabel Griffith, Gabriel Pina, Claire Kelley, Sarah Kelley, and Isai Garcia-Baza   Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented hardships for families across the globe and has heightened emotional, economic, and educational stressors. In response to widening disparities during the pandemic, Child Trends was awarded a one-year RAPID grant from the National ... Read more

The Knowledge Base (formerly the ISE Evidence Wiki) is a collaboratively generated resource designed to streamline access to and share qualitative and quantitative evidence about the impacts of informal STEM learning on a range of audiences in a variety of settings. Articles in the Knowledge Base are intended to be data-supported claims that can be ... Read more

This research brief, Developing critical consciousness in science education: A Science Education research brief discussing Tsurusaki’s article, “ Using Transformative Boundary Objects to Create Critical Engagement in Science: A Case Study” has been made available by Relating Research to Practice (RR2P). RR2P provides short synopses of current peer-reviewed research relevant to informal science education (ISE). ... Read more

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program supports a range of projects within the field of informal science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The current NSF AISL Program Solicitation #17-573 is a three-year solicitation covering 2017, 2018, and 2019. Proposals for the next round of funding are due on Wednesday ... Read more

Next month, CAISE will be Tweeting from the Citizen Science Association (CSA) conference and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. Follow us on Twitter (@informalscience), and Like us on Facebook, for more updates. The Citizen Science Association’s first conference will take place from February 11-12, 2015, in San Jose, California ... Read more

Welcome to Albuquerque! We invite you to visit CAISE at our booth (#424 in the Exhibit Hall). Our staff will have several computers set up with InformalScience.org to field questions about the scope of available resources, searching resources, and participating in our online community. We also will be gathering feedback about the interface and noting ... Read more

The Association of Science-Technology Centers 2017 Annual Conference will be taking place October 21-24, 2017 in San Jose, CA. Join CAISE for concurrent sessions on Broadening Participation in STEM and on current and potential synergies between informal STEM education and science communication. CAISE will also be participating in the poster session, where staff and co-PIs ... Read more

The Visitor Experience Conference combines workshops, panels, networking events and more to provide museum professionals with approaches to understanding the visitor experience. The conference began as the Greater Philadelphia Visitor Services Symposium in 2012, a gathering of local visitor experience professionals over a half-day of talks at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and ... Read more

The story of the field of visitor studies is long and somewhat winding—and it continues to grow and evolve. Visitor studies professionals are focused on all facets of the visitor experience in museums, zoos, nature centers, visitor centers, historic sites, parks and other informal learning settings. They are committed to understanding and enhancing visitor experiences ... Read more

At the 2023 the Visitor Studies Association virtual conference, new and returning attendees will need to confront exclusionary practices and discuss ways to broaden the field by examining evaluative insights from staff and volunteers not traditionally included in evaluation. By acknowledging and welcoming the experience, skill, and knowledge that all staff and individuals provide, attendees can ... Read more

The Visitor Studies Association represents a community of evaluation practitioners and visitor advocates who draw on many of the same norms and best practices, cultivated and refined over decades of experience and learning. As we gather once again in person, it is an opportune moment to critically examine our collective perspectives and knowledge, to capitalize ... Read more

The 2014 Visitor Studies Association (VSA) Annual Conference will take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico from July 15-19, 2014. The conference is an opportunity for the informal learning community to gather and pose questions, explore diverse opinions, debate controversial issues, challenge assumptions, and share successes and struggles. This year’s theme is Building Capacity for Evaluation: ... Read more

The Visitor Studies Association is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 2015 conference in Indianapolis, IN. The conference will take place July 16-18, 2015 with the theme: Taking Action for Improvement, Growth, and Social Change. Please find the full guidelines on the VSA conference website. The 2015 conference offers a venue for ... Read more

The Visitor Studies Association is hosting the 33rd Annual Visitor Studies Association Conference on July 12–14, 2022 in Omaha, Nebraska. The theme is “Creating Space and Coming Together”. Visit the conference website here.

The Visitor Studies Group is hosting their Visitor Studies Group Conference 2022 on May 12-13 2022 in London and online. The theme is “Evaluation challenges: From troubles to triumphs and everything in between”. Proposals are due January 31 2022. More information is here.

  Overview Through personally meaningful and emotional connections and experiences, zoos strive to inspire their visitors to become stewards for the natural world and care for animals (both in the zoo and the wild).  Research has shown that people are more knowledgeable about and interested in conserving animals and the natural world after a zoo ... Read more

The 2018 STEM for All Video Showcase: Transforming the Educational Landscape is live now through Monday, May 21. Funded by the (U.S.) National Science Foundation (NSF), this fourth annual event features more than 200 short videos of federally funded projects doing groundbreaking work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The showcase provides the ... Read more

This conference will foster opportunities to highlight examples of evaluation and research leading to decision-making and change, incorporating the voices of community members, as well as team members at all levels of organizations.

The Visitor Studies Association (VSA) is pleased to announce its 2017 Call for Posters. The deadline for submission is April 7, 2017. The VSA Conference, with the theme New Pathways in Visitor Studies, will take place July 18-22, 2017 in Columbus, Ohio.

The Visitor Studies Association (VSA) seeks proposals for session presentations and workshops for the 2017 conference in Columbus, OH July 18-22.  VSA seeks to foster a sense of community among its members, who gather once a year to pose intriguing questions, explore diverse opinions, debate controversial issues, challenge assumptions and share their successes and their ... Read more

The Visitor Studies Association (VSA) launched a newly redesigned website at its 28th Annual Conference in July 2015. The website can be found at http://www.visitorstudies.org/. Site features, including email groups, job boards, and more, will continue to be migrated over upcoming weeks.