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aria-label="visualization (6 items)">visualization</a> </div> </div> <div class="js-ajax-frame"> <section class="post-list"> <h3>Recent posts</h3> <article class="post"> <div class="article-footer"> <time datetime="2014">5 Mar 2014</time> <h4><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2014/03/05/gender-role-literacy-girls-in-science/">Gender role literacy: Girls in science?</a></h4> </div> <p>There are gender wars, and then there are casualties. It wasn’t until 2011 that the behemoth toymaker LEGO acknowledged girls’ desire to build with bricks, even though the company had long before made a seemingly effortless pivot to co-branding, video games, and major motion pictures. So it’s little wonder that girls face all-too-real obstacles when <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2014/03/05/gender-role-literacy-girls-in-science/">[…]</a></p> <a class="more" href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2014/03/05/gender-role-literacy-girls-in-science/">Read more</a> </article> <article class="post"> <div class="article-footer"> <time datetime="2013">9 Dec 2013</time> <h4><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/12/09/challenges-of-crowdsourcing-analysis-of-historypin/">Challenges of crowdsourcing: Analysis of Historypin</a></h4> </div> <p>Crowdsourcing can build virtual community, engage the public, and build large knowledge databases about science and culture. But what does it take, and how fast can you grow? For some insight, we look at a crowdsourced history site: Historypin is an appealing database of historical photos, with dates, locations, captions, and other metadata. It’s called History <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/12/09/challenges-of-crowdsourcing-analysis-of-historypin/">[…]</a></p> <a class="more" href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/12/09/challenges-of-crowdsourcing-analysis-of-historypin/">Read more</a> </article> <article class="post"> <div class="article-footer"> <time datetime="2013">18 Nov 2013</time> <h4><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/11/18/dinovember-creative-literacy-starts-young/">Dinovember: Creative literacy starts young</a></h4> </div> <p>“Uh-oh,” Refe Tuma heard his girls whisper. “Mom and Dad are not going to like this.” It’s Dinovember, and his family’s plastic dinosaurs have been getting into mischief all month. Every year, Tuma and his wife devote the month of November to “convincing our children that, while they sleep, their plastic dinosaur figures come to life. <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/11/18/dinovember-creative-literacy-starts-young/">[…]</a></p> <a class="more" href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/11/18/dinovember-creative-literacy-starts-young/">Read more</a> </article> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <main role="main" id="main"><div id="twocolumns" class="full_width"> <div class="container default_page"> <div class="twocolumns-holder"> <section id="content" class="ajax-container"> <div class="title"> <h1>Category: Research</h1> </div> <div class="post-4342 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-research tag-calculation tag-knowledge tag-statistics tag-text-mining tag-wikipedia" id="post-4342"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/10/29/what-are-the-most-important-articles-in-wikipedia/" rel="bookmark">What are the most important articles in Wikipedia?</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/10/29/what-are-the-most-important-articles-in-wikipedia/" rel="bookmark">October 29th, 2013</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4344" alt="Wikipedia" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Screen-Shot-2013-10-29-at-12.16.43-AM.png" width="149" height="154" srcset="https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Screen-Shot-2013-10-29-at-12.16.43-AM.png 149w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Screen-Shot-2013-10-29-at-12.16.43-AM-145x150.png 145w" sizes="(max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px" />Wikipedia has 4,362,397 articles in English. But how many of those are seriously encyclopedic, and what are the most important articles?</p> <p>We’ve been looking closely at Wikipedia for an upcoming app. We wanted to know the most important articles. We calculated an importance score for every article, based on how richly linked a Wikipedia article is within Wikipedia (the number and quality of links to a page), how many languages an article has been translated into, the brevity of the title, how popular an articles is (web hits), and the number of citations/references of an article (scholarliness).</p> <p>The following are our results. This is an arbitrary, but interesting ranking, so we wanted to share it: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/10/29/what-are-the-most-important-articles-in-wikipedia/#more-4342" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading What are the most important articles in Wikipedia?">(more…)</span></a></p> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/research/" rel="category tag">Research</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/10/29/what-are-the-most-important-articles-in-wikipedia/#respond">No Comments</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/calculation/" rel="tag">calculation</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/knowledge/" rel="tag">knowledge</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/statistics/" rel="tag">statistics</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/text-mining/" rel="tag">text mining</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/wikipedia/" rel="tag">Wikipedia</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-3213 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-research tag-access tag-data tag-data-element tag-libraries tag-library tag-markup-language tag-metadata" id="post-3213"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/11/04/mapping-the-world-of-cultural-metadata-standards/" rel="bookmark">Mapping the world of cultural metadata standards</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/11/04/mapping-the-world-of-cultural-metadata-standards/" rel="bookmark">November 4th, 2011</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3219" title="Card Catalog (University of Michigan Library Card Catalog, by David Fulmer)" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Screen-Shot-2011-11-03-at-5.41.40-PM-150x137.png" alt="" width="150" height="137" srcset="https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Screen-Shot-2011-11-03-at-5.41.40-PM-150x137.png 150w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Screen-Shot-2011-11-03-at-5.41.40-PM-300x274.png 300w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Screen-Shot-2011-11-03-at-5.41.40-PM.png 393w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Metadata is a the glue that makes information useful. It is data about data. It could be a title, location, and camera settings for a photo; the history of a painting; the materials in a museum object; the authors of a journal article; or the time, date, and location of photo of a butterfly for a citizen science project. “Tags” added to blog posts, photos, or tweets are all a form of metadata, allowing others to quickly hone in on related items.</p> <p>To make some sense of the sea of metadata, Jenn Riley mapped 105 metadata standards for cultural heritage. <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/11/04/mapping-the-world-of-cultural-metadata-standards/#more-3213" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Mapping the world of cultural metadata standards">(more…)</span></a></p> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/research/" rel="category tag">Research</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/11/04/mapping-the-world-of-cultural-metadata-standards/#respond">No Comments</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/access/" rel="tag">access</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/data/" rel="tag">Data</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/data-element/" rel="tag">Data element</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/libraries/" rel="tag">Libraries</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/library/" rel="tag">library</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/markup-language/" rel="tag">Markup language</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/metadata/" rel="tag">Metadata</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-2602 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-learning category-research tag-access tag-data tag-google tag-iphone tag-mobile tag-smartphone tag-study" id="post-2602"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/05/13/smartphones-widely-integrated-into-our-lives-graphs/" rel="bookmark">Smartphones widely integrated into our lives (graphs)</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/05/13/smartphones-widely-integrated-into-our-lives-graphs/" rel="bookmark">May 13th, 2011</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p>Smartphones (e.g., the iPhone or Android) are commonplace, and education outreach projects need make use of this reality. People use their smartphones while doing all kinds of things. For example:</p> <p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2607" title="Things people do while using a smartphone" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-13-at-12.49.51-PM.png" alt="" width="379" height="143" srcset="https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-13-at-12.49.51-PM.png 379w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-13-at-12.49.51-PM-150x56.png 150w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-13-at-12.49.51-PM-300x113.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px" /></p> <p><em>(Left to right, top: while waiting in line, socializing, in the bathroom, while watching TV; bottom: while using a computer, playing video games, reading a paper, or a book.)</em></p> <p>The most common place to use a smartphones is at home (93% of smartphone owners), but people use their smartphones all kinds of places: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/05/13/smartphones-widely-integrated-into-our-lives-graphs/#more-2602" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Smartphones widely integrated into our lives (graphs)">(more…)</span></a></p> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/learning/" rel="category tag">Learning & access</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/research/" rel="category tag">Research</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/05/13/smartphones-widely-integrated-into-our-lives-graphs/#respond">No Comments</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/access/" rel="tag">access</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/data/" rel="tag">Data</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/google/" rel="tag">google</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/iphone/" rel="tag">iPhone</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/mobile/" rel="tag">mobile</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/smartphone/" rel="tag">smartphone</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/study/" rel="tag">study</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-1879 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-business-management category-research tag-art tag-attendance tag-museum tag-visitors" id="post-1879"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/31/most-visited-art-exhibitions-in-2010-graph/" rel="bookmark">Most visited art exhibitions in 2010 (graph)</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/31/most-visited-art-exhibitions-in-2010-graph/" rel="bookmark">March 31st, 2011</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p>The following were the twenty most visited art exhibitions of 2010: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/31/most-visited-art-exhibitions-in-2010-graph/#more-1879" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Most visited art exhibitions in 2010 (graph)">(more…)</span></a></p> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/business-management/" rel="category tag">Business</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/research/" rel="category tag">Research</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/31/most-visited-art-exhibitions-in-2010-graph/#respond">No Comments</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/art/" rel="tag">art</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/attendance/" rel="tag">attendance</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/museum/" rel="tag">museum</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/visitors/" rel="tag">visitors</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-1447 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-communications category-research category-strategy tag-art tag-audience tag-military tag-national-security tag-outreach tag-scientist" id="post-1447"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/29/framing-art-and-science-in-terms-of-national-security/" rel="bookmark">Framing art and science in terms of national security</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/29/framing-art-and-science-in-terms-of-national-security/" rel="bookmark">March 29th, 2011</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1754" title="Norman Rockwell - young soldier solemnly paying attention during a church service" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-29-at-3.48.56-AM.png" alt="" width="103" height="96" />National security is a useful angle for presenting science, art and culture issues to disengaged or skeptical audiences.</p> <p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1807" title="Diversity of interests" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-29-at-5.25.46-PM.png" alt="" width="207" height="206" srcset="https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-29-at-5.25.46-PM.png 207w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-29-at-5.25.46-PM-150x150.png 150w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-29-at-5.25.46-PM-92x92.png 92w" sizes="(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px" />Like any hook, such as sports or popular culture, military and national security themes broaden an audience for outreach. There are over 3.6M military personnel in the U.S., 1.9M spouses & kids of active duty members, and over 22M veterans, who also have families. (Stats on <a href="http://www.militaryfamily.org/resources/links/military-statistics-and-research.html">personnel & families</a>, and <a href="http://www.va.gov/vetdata/Veteran_Population.asp">veterans</a>.)</p> <p>There are several initiatives which are bridging the military world with the sciences and culture…</p> <h2><strong> <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/29/framing-art-and-science-in-terms-of-national-security/#more-1447" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Framing art and science in terms of national security">(more…)</span></a></strong></h2> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/communications/" rel="category tag">Communication</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/research/" rel="category tag">Research</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/strategy/" rel="category tag">Strategy</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/29/framing-art-and-science-in-terms-of-national-security/#comments">1 Comment</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/art/" rel="tag">art</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/audience/" rel="tag">Audience</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/military/" rel="tag">military</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/national-security/" rel="tag">national security</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/outreach/" rel="tag">outreach</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/scientist/" rel="tag">scientist</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-1424 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-research tag-data tag-digital-humanities tag-google tag-humanities tag-peer-review" id="post-1424"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/09/institutions-dont-support-digital-humanities-tools-says-dhq-report/" rel="bookmark">Institutions don’t support digital humanities tools, says DHQ report</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/09/institutions-dont-support-digital-humanities-tools-says-dhq-report/" rel="bookmark">March 9th, 2011</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1432" title="DHQ" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-09-at-5.58.24-PM.png" alt="" width="171" height="85" srcset="https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-09-at-5.58.24-PM.png 171w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-09-at-5.58.24-PM-150x74.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px" />The growing field of digital humanities is hampered by a lack of motivation to share tools, and a lack of direct rewards from the academic establishment, says a new study <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/4/2/000083/000083.html">published</a> last month in the <em>Digital Humanities Quarterly</em>.</p> <p>Digital humanities uses computers as part of research in arts and humanities. Computers are useless in isolation; they need software written to do interesting analyses. Some processing can be done using simple text processing tools to sort and count words. More complex research requires new tools (new computer programs) to be created. The study looked at the people who create those new tools. One key finding was that creating new software does little to help researcher’s careers.</p> <p> <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/09/institutions-dont-support-digital-humanities-tools-says-dhq-report/#more-1424" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Institutions don’t support digital humanities tools, says DHQ report">(more…)</span></a></p> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/research/" rel="category tag">Research</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/09/institutions-dont-support-digital-humanities-tools-says-dhq-report/#respond">No Comments</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/data/" rel="tag">Data</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/digital-humanities/" rel="tag">digital humanities</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/google/" rel="tag">google</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/humanities/" rel="tag">humanities</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/peer-review/" rel="tag">peer review</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-1305 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-interactivity category-learning category-research tag-apple tag-art tag-data tag-nea tag-study" id="post-1305"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/03/more-people-digitally-involved-in-arts-culture-says-nea/" rel="bookmark">More people digitally involved in arts & culture, says NEA</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/03/more-people-digitally-involved-in-arts-culture-says-nea/" rel="bookmark">March 3rd, 2011</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p>Computers and the internet are an increasingly important way that Americans engage in the arts, says a new report from the National Endowment for the Arts. The first bar in the chart below is people consuming recorded or broadcast content:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1334" title="A multi-modal distribution of U.S. adults’ arts participation, by artistic discipline: 2008" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-03-at-4.11.17-PM.png" alt="" width="531" height="312" srcset="https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-03-at-4.11.17-PM.png 531w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-03-at-4.11.17-PM-150x88.png 150w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-03-at-4.11.17-PM-300x176.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px" /></p> <p> <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/03/more-people-digitally-involved-in-arts-culture-says-nea/#more-1305" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading More people digitally involved in arts & culture, says NEA">(more…)</span></a></p> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/interactivity/" rel="category tag">Interactive experiences</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/learning/" rel="category tag">Learning & access</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/research/" rel="category tag">Research</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/03/more-people-digitally-involved-in-arts-culture-says-nea/#comments">1 Comment</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/apple/" rel="tag">Apple</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/art/" rel="tag">art</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/data/" rel="tag">Data</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/nea/" rel="tag">NEA</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/study/" rel="tag">study</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-592 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-business-management category-learning category-research tag-microconsignment tag-microcredit tag-microfinance tag-microlending tag-nytimes" id="post-592"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/02/05/microconsignment-vs-microlending-social-business-in-3rd-world/" rel="bookmark">Microconsignment vs. microlending + social business in 3rd world</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/02/05/microconsignment-vs-microlending-social-business-in-3rd-world/" rel="bookmark">February 5th, 2011</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <div> <p><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-599" title="Dominga Akalo, a Guatemalan Soluciones entrepreneur, tracks sales and inventory in a village in Solola" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Screen-shot-2011-02-05-at-12.17.58-PM-150x113.png" alt="" width="150" height="113" srcset="https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Screen-shot-2011-02-05-at-12.17.58-PM-150x113.png 150w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Screen-shot-2011-02-05-at-12.17.58-PM.png 180w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Tina Rosenberg wrote in a blog post for the NYTimes last week, about <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/when-microcredit-wont-do/">microconsignment</a>, which is..</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>A way for village entrepreneurs to sell innovative and important products for which there is no established market — such as solar lamps, water purifiers, stoves and reading glasses — without having to take on debt. </em> <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/02/05/microconsignment-vs-microlending-social-business-in-3rd-world/#more-592" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Microconsignment vs. microlending + social business in 3rd world">(more…)</span></a></p> </div> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/business-management/" rel="category tag">Business</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/learning/" rel="category tag">Learning & access</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/research/" rel="category tag">Research</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/02/05/microconsignment-vs-microlending-social-business-in-3rd-world/#respond">No Comments</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/microconsignment/" rel="tag">microconsignment</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/microcredit/" rel="tag">microcredit</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/microfinance/" rel="tag">microfinance</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/microlending/" rel="tag">microlending</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/nytimes/" rel="tag">NYTimes</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-48 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-communications category-interactivity category-research category-strategy tag-search-engine tag-study tag-visitors tag-web-design" id="post-48"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2008/07/30/study-factors-that-improve-online-experiences/" rel="bookmark">Study: Factors that improve online experiences</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2008/07/30/study-factors-that-improve-online-experiences/" rel="bookmark">July 30th, 2008</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p>In 2008, IDEA conducted a study about online experiences. The report (<a href="/find-information.pdf">download PDF here</a>) outlines key findings from surveys that explored factors that drive online experience as expressed by the three different subject groups – nonprofit organizations and cities, web designers and firms, and the general public. <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2008/07/30/study-factors-that-improve-online-experiences/#more-48" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Study: Factors that improve online experiences">(more…)</span></a></p> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/communications/" rel="category tag">Communication</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/interactivity/" rel="category tag">Interactive experiences</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/research/" rel="category tag">Research</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/strategy/" rel="category tag">Strategy</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2008/07/30/study-factors-that-improve-online-experiences/#respond">No Comments</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/search-engine/" rel="tag">search engine</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/study/" rel="tag">study</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/visitors/" rel="tag">visitors</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/web-design/" rel="tag">web design</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-135 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-learning category-research tag-constructivism tag-education tag-interactivity-2 tag-learning-2" id="post-135"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2006/06/01/hard-to-teach-need-to-engage-your-audience/" rel="bookmark">Hard to teach? Need to engage your audience?</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2006/06/01/hard-to-teach-need-to-engage-your-audience/" rel="bookmark">June 1st, 2006</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p>Enriching the learning experience with interactivity. Students become disengaged and learn less when information is presented passively, such as through lectures or static text. Although your web site may contain a wealth of educational information, the way the information is presented may not be engaging your visitors. 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