This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DRL-0638981. Any opinions, findings, and

conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National

Science Foundation.

Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education

Advancing and improving the informal science education field

Association of Science-Technology Centers

Oregon State University, Free-Choice Learning Program

University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments

Visitor Studies Association

CAISE Partners

Primary Audiences

Principal Investigators

NSF ISE Program Officers

ISE Field

Where should we focus our efforts?

What “big issues” and trends need

examination and discussion?

What information and impacts do you need at

your fingertips to

Improve practice?

Write your next proposal?

Talk with community members and funders?

What else?

Professional Community

Community identity?

Missions, goals, and motivations?

Challenges?

Making the case for the value of ISE work; to whom?

Vision of CAISE

How can CAISE support the field of ISE?

Landscape Study

PI Survey

PIPIs are very interested in discussing

Evaluation, particularly the Framework for Evaluating Impacts of ISE Projects

Future directions at NSF, both in general and in ISE in particular

Grant management, including reporting requirements and financial management

Collaboration

Building on ISE and learning research and previous ISE projects

Connections between informal and formal science education

Washington D.C., July 25-26Participation: 250

NSF projects represented: 180 (35 states, plus DC and PR)

Increasing the Impact and Communicating the Value of Informal Science Education

Plenary Sessions

Evaluation Workshops

PI-led Discussion Groups

Project Showcase

ISE PI Summit 2008

Inquiry Groups

Small groups of ISE leaders convened to

Address emerging or leading-edge issues in ISE

Identify impacts of previous and current ISE work

Integrate knowledge from research and practice

Produce a white paper and recommendations for funders

Join the discussion on the CAISE website at insci.org.

Propose an inquiry group topic.

CAISE Fellows—10 fellows each year

Mentoring

Volunteers needed!

Master classes

Online workshops

Proposal writing

Evaluation

Leadership & Diversity Task Force

briefCAISE (circulation 2,500)

Impact Sightings

In the Spotlight—Focuses on the impacts of an NSF ISE award

Research syntheses

Announcements

Please contact us to submit your work

Communication and Dissemination

Websites: Coordination & Integration

Volunteer to mentor a CAISE Fellow

Participate in InformalScience.org and ExhibitFiles.org

Contribute an Impact Sighting article to briefCAISE

Sign up for briefCAISE and keep in touch

Look for information about inquiry groups on the CAISE blog

(insci.org) and join the discussion

Suggest an inquiry group topic

Suggest a topic for an online workshop

Participate in upcoming online workshops

Participate

Acknowledgments

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DRL-0638981. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.