REA’s audience research is helping to shape the new television series The Crowd and the Cloud, which will appear on public television in Spring 2017. Funded by NSF’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, the four, hour-long episodes will feature diverse and engaging stories about citizen science and crowdsourcing, and how audiences can get involved. […]
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REA supports development of Shaboom!
Congratulations to the BimBam team on a successful launch of their new animated series! REA conducted user-testing of the web-based video series to help shape the programming to most effectively achieve learning and engagement outcomes with pre-schoolers and their families. Read more about Shaboom, the new online series by BimBam here.
Disrupting Public Media Blog Series
Congratulations to Scott Burg and colleague Liz Bandy on their blog series for KQED, Disrupting Public Media! Check out Disrupting Public Media here. This monthly series explores KQED’s journey to transform into a 21st century public media organization through disruptive innovation. Working with KQED, researchers Elizabeth Bandy and Scott Burg will cover new strategies and […]
Funding Doesn’t Follow National Praise for Civic Education
An article by Edweek cites Rockman et al’s evaluation of National History Day in discussing the importance of civics education.
REA’s research for QUEST referenced in Columbia Journalism Review
Rockman conducted focus groups for KQED’s national QUEST project. This work is referenced in the Columbia Journalism Review in an article called “QUEST’s quest for sustainability journalism.”