Focus: Informal Learning Assessment

Our March 2016 ThinkIn features Kate Livingston, founder of Expose Your Museum (exposeyourmuseum.com), who will be 
leading an open conversation about informal learning assessment. Some areas of exploration include: how to recognize informal learning, how to capture and assess evidence of it, and how to use that evidence. Kate will be joined by Lora Helou, Director of the MSU Museum and Bill Heinrich, Director of Assessment at MSU Hub. Their discussion will be open to anyone wishing to participate, whether to ask questions, just listen in, or share their own experiences using informal learning assessment.

Kate Livingston heads up ExposeYourMuseum and Question Consulting, two boutique consultancies providing evaluation, facilitation, strategy, and organizational development services to museums, performing and visual arts organizations, libraries, nonprofits, startups, foundations, and cool people working to make the world more wonderful. Kate admits that evaluation can be really boring and that it doesn’t always adds value. She's been leading her own small "evaluation revolution" to change that, ditching cookie-cutter methods and instruments and instead executing customized strategies that produce beautiful data, propel action, and lead to sustainable positive change. Kate enjoys pie chart and Venn diagram humor, is committed to inclusion , anti-racism, and social justice work, and is loving getting to know her new hometown of Austin, Texas. 

About ThinkIns:
The purpose of the ThinkIn is to connect with interesting and innovative people in learning and technology. This series of conversations is intended to improve our market intelligence and expand our thinking, reciprocating the same benefits for our collaborator. We'll use the focus of the ThinkIn as our starting point, but the focus shouldn't be seen as confining us to one topic - our discussion is free to organically branch off in related directions based on the interests of the participants.