October 1st, 2003 - September 30th, 2006 | PROJECT
The Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI) requests support to conduct the second conference on museum learning, "In Principle, In Practice," following their successful NSF-funded conference of a decade ago entitled "Public Institutions for Personal Learning: Establishing a Long-term Research Agenda." The goals of the conference and two related publications are to advance shared knowledge within the field about current research concerning learning in and from museums, to promote effective practice, to identify and disseminate research-based best practices for developing evaluation frameworks and to enhance the infrastructure for research and education. The four components of the project include: 1) a special supplement of the journal "Science Education," 2) a two-day national conference, 3) a post-conference white paper on informal science learning, and 4) a post-conference book on research-based understandings of learning from museums.
Project Website(s)
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Team Members
John H Falk, Principal Investigator, Institute for Learning InnovationKirsten Ellenbogen, Co-Principal Investigator, Great Lakes Science Center
Lynn Dierking, Co-Principal Investigator, Oregon State University
Funders
Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: ISE/AISL
Award Number: 0318868
Funding Amount: 176848
Tags
Audience: Evaluators | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM
Resource Type: Project Descriptions
Environment Type: Conferences | Professional Development | Conferences | Networks