Informal Learning

roundtableLocation: Ballroom C+D+E
This is a roundtable in the Cyberlearning 2016 Roundtable session.

Designing Digital Rails to Foster Scientific Curiosity around Museum Collections

Michael Horn
We are investigating whether interactive digital rails can foster visitor curiosity and engagement around the authentic artifacts and specimens in a natural history museum, like The Field Museum in Chicago.
Project: NSF Award #1550051 – EAGER: Collaborative Research: Designing Digital Rails to Foster Scientific Curiosity around Museum Collections

Tracing Learning

Leilah Lyons
Digital technologies offer new windows into the activities of learners. We will gather interested parties to discuss different emerging techniques for documenting, characterizing, and measuring learning across both formal and informal contexts.
Project: NSF Award #1248052 – INSPIRE: Studying and Promoting Quantitative and Spatial Reasoning with Complex Visual Data Across School, Museum, and Web-Media Contexts