Professional Development opportunities offered in the past are listed below. Please click on the opportunity for an event description as well as recordings and supplemental materials if available. Most Workshops are available for purchase.

• VSA Workshop: Drawing Out New Evaluation Methods: Utilizing Drawings as Evaluation Tools
  May 10, 2023
• A New Instrument for Digitized Visitor Observations (T&T)
  April 19, 2023
• Members Only - Demystifying VSA Board Service
  March 27, 2023
• Members Only - VSA Website & Slack Tour and Tips!
  March 23, 2023
• VSA Workshop An Introduction to Community-Centered Evaluation
  March 8, 2023
• ZAGFIG MINI-CONFERENCE
  February 17, 2023
• Visitor Studies Association: End of Year Member Celebration
  January 10, 2023
• Lightning Tool Share: New Tech Tools for the New Year
  January 5, 2022
• Taking Stock and Moving Forward – Reflecting on Our own DEAI Practices
  December 13, 2021
• I See What You Are Saying: Techniques for Qualitative Data Visualization
  December 1, 2021
• Surveys 101
  November 16, 2021
• CARE and VSA Present: Psychological Science and the Visitor Experience
  October 19, 2021
• Museum Funding Opportunities from the Institute of Museum and Library Services: 1-Month to Deadline Webchat!
  October 14, 2021
• DIY Evaluation
  August 31, 2021
• Material Culture, Museums, and Memory: Experiments in visitor Recall and Memory
  August 23, 2021
• IRB 101
  June 22, 2021
• Sharing Power and Authority in Evaluation
  May 25, 2021
• Evaluating Online Experiences
  April 26, 2021
• VSA’s Green Future: Reviewing past efforts, pandemic impacts, and future pursuits
  April 22, 2021
• Evaluation and Social Equity Functioning in Museums
  March 25, 2021
• Lessons Learned About In-person Data Collection During the Pandemic
  February 24, 2021
• The State of DEAI in Museums and What it Means for Visitor Studies
  February 9, 2021
• Google Analytics 201: Behaviors and Data Visualization
  January 11, 2021
• Lightning Tool Share: The Social Distance and Civic Activism Version
  December 8, 2020
• You Can Do This! Submitting a VSA Session Proposal
  December 1, 2020
• Transferring Skills: Connecting Visitor Studies to Other Fields
  November 17, 2020
• Witnessing Visitor Experience: First Person Video Technology for Museum Research
  November 9, 2020
• Share your Voice! Town Hall on VSA’s DEAI Priorities and Action Steps
  October 13, 2020
• Evaluation Goals, Methods, and Ongoing Insights for Widening Access and Relevance in the Smithsonian’s Fossil Hall
  September 29, 2020
• Culture Track: A Two Part Series
  September 8, 2020
• VSA’s Zoo & Aquarium Focus Interest Group (ZAFIG) Virtual Mini Conference!
  August 25, 2020
• Conducting Community-Based Research: What We Learned as Beginners
  August 18, 2020
• How Not to Use Data Like a Racist
  August 4, 2020
• Reflections on “Racism, Unrest, and the Role of the Museum Field”
  July 28, 2020
• Conducting Focus Groups In-Person and Online
  July 7, 2020
• Are We on the Same Page? Family and Museum Staff Perceptions of Engagement and Learning
  June 16, 2020
• Remote Formative Evaluation
  June 9, 2020
• Google Analytics 101: Understanding Your Visitors’ Behavior Online
  May 20, 2020
• Attending to Diversity, Equity, Access and Inclusion in the Time of Coronavirus
  April 28, 2020
• Coronavirus Support Group for Visitor Studies Professionals
  March 19, 2020
• Culturally Responsive Visitor Studies: An Interactive Workshop with Dr. Katrina Bledsoe
  February 11, 2020
• The Great Sustainability Challenge: How Visitor Studies Can Save Cultural Institutions in the 21st Century
  January 8, 2020