The New Media Research Institute is proud to collaborate with ITT Visual Information Solutions to build the tools that educators nationwide can use to develop data literacy in the United States. With key funding by NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and NASA Earth System Science, NMRI uses it's IDL-based authoring tools to develop software for education in a wide variety of settings outside the usual research laboratory setting where IDL is found.

You can read about this effort on the ITT Visual Information Solutions website:
IDL Donations Help Foster Early Interest in Scientific Data Exploration