Deliverables

An important goal of the CAISE Inquiry Group Assessing Impacts of ISE Professional Online Communities is to share insights and findings from the meeting with the broader field. In reporting back, we are seeking to use the web in novel and meaningful ways, not only to disseminate information, but also to allow the interested community a way to join conversations, comment, critique, and to the degree possible allowed by technology, feel like they could be participating in an extension of the meeting.

To do this, we are trying out several online knowledge-sharing formats to capture and make public the intellectual foment of the meeting. You can:

1. View presentations from six NSF-funded professional development web sites given by project team leaders, and a presentation from Randi Korn concerning the new NSF evaluation guidelines established in the Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Informal Science Projects
2. Review meeting notes and search and comment on high-resolution Gigapan images from group discussions.
3. Read interviews with our expert participants regarding lessons learned in planning, developing, and evaluating professional online community sites.
4. Browse the 'jargon tracker' of terms and concepts we found used (and overused) in the research literature.
5. Search and download a bibliographic guide to selected research references on online communities.

 

Additionally, please take this SURVEY to let us know what you think about this way of reporting insights from CAISE Inquiry Groups back to the field.