University of Wisconsin-Madison

University of Wisconsin - Madison will partner with the Maker Education Initiative to host a national forum on research and assessment in makerspaces, bringing together thought leaders in maker-centered learning to review and build on current research. The overarching goal of the forum is to distill current research relevant to maker-based learning experiences in libraries; identify gaps; and communicate results in a way that will be useful to practitioners on which library maker programs are designed, facilitated, and assessed. This work will culminate in the publication of a white paper, and will serve as a springboard to launch the "Research, Evaluations and Reports" section of Maker Ed's Resource Library, a robust and freely accessible online repository that will contain relevant research, reports, white papers, and other resources.