This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. As we begin 2022, nearly two years since the pandemic began, what I’m most struck by is that the world I operate in is a fundamentally changed one. It’s fascinating and a bit disorienting that these changes happened so quickly, sped up by […]
RK&A is hiring! Project Coordinator
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. For more than 30 years, RK&A has served as a premier planning, evaluation, and research firm, supporting hundreds of museums and informal learning organizations. We are seeking a Project Coordinator to join our dynamic team. The Project Coordinator will provide administrative and operational […]
Comment on Earth Day at 51: Why Museums Must Embrace the Anthropocene by Relevance Revisited: A Postscript for the Museum Field » RK&A
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. […] Earth Day at 51: Why Museums Must Embrace the Anthropocene for drawing our attention to the world’s new geologic context of the Anthropocene and pleading for museums to present a unified [rather than the all-to-common divided] portrait of nature and culture, “with […]
Comment on When Disaster Strikes: Assistance by Museums Nearby by Relevance Revisited: A Postscript for the Museum Field » RK&A
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. […] When Disaster Strikes: Assistance by Museums Nearby because of its gripping personal narrative of 9/11 combined with a real-world example of a museum stepping up in times of crisis, and […]
Relevance Revisited: A Postscript
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. As we exit 2021, I’m reflecting back on where I began the year, when I noted that “in 2020, the museum field as a whole showed itself to be out of step with society. . . [and] irrelevant.” At that time, I had begun […]
Imagine: Museums Engaging with the Issues of an Anxious World
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. By: Emlyn Koster As 2020 approached and with a whole-planet outlook, Emlyn expected a burst of ominous reflections around the 50th commemoration of Earth Day but also with a hope for some ‘20/20’ given its symbolic meanings of clear hindsight and perfect vision. Instead, […]
Lessons Learned: Understanding DEAI as a Daily Practice
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. As we look toward 2022 and beyond, many museums are working to implement their new or existing missions, values, and initiatives that embrace and foreground diversity and inclusion. As an emerging museum professional and a Black woman who has often felt excluded from […]
‘Relevance’ of Museums: From Rhetoric to Reality?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. With enthusiastic support from Robert Mac West, editor and publisher of the Informal Learning Review (ILR), RK&A is pleased to share Emlyn Koster’s recent opinion, ‘Relevance’ of Museums: From Rhetoric to Reality? which was part of ILR’s pandemic-themed September/October 2021 issue. Emlyn’s original […]
Comment on IRB 101: What are they? Why do they exist? by IRB 101: What types of human subjects research are exempt from IRB?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. […] this IRB 101 series, I have provided general context for IRBs, including what IRBs are and why they exist and potential risks to research participants to illustrate IRBs’ purpose. This post will help […]
IRB 101: What types of human subjects research are exempt from IRB?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. In this IRB 101 series, I have provided general context for IRBs, including what IRBs are and why they exist and potential risks to research participants to illustrate IRBs’ purpose. This post will help you determine—if indeed you are conducting human subjects research—whether it […]