Help shape the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education

October 8th, 2007 by Wendy Pollock

Welcome to the development blog for the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE). CAISE is being created with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Environments. Over the coming months, we will use this blog to post news about the center’s activities and plans. We invite those in the informal science education field to participate in building and shaping a center that helps to connect and strengthen our collective work.

NSF’s support has been crucial to development of what’s been called an “invisible infrastructure” that supports science learning in a wide variety of media and environments–from museums, zoos, and nature centers to radio, television, and film, from community groups to the Internet.

Many organizations and individuals have been working with great effect to inspire interest in math, science, and engineering and to lay the groundwork for continued learning. At the same time, research is bringing new insights to the understanding of learning in these informal media and environments. One of the center’s roles will be to help make research findings more available to practitioners, and to bring the insights of practitioners to those in the research community.

The goal: to strengthen the “invisible infrastructure” of informal science education–and to make it more visible.

Welcome!

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