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Lynn Dierking
Dr. Lynn D. Dierking is Associate Director of the Institute for Learning
Innovation, a 501 (c) 3 research and development organization, working
in the field of museums, cultural institutions and other informal learning
settings (community-based organizations, libraries, scientific societies
& humanities councils). She is internationally recognized for her research
on the behavior and learning of children, families and adults in informal
learning settings and has published extensively in these areas. She
possesses a Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Florida,
Gainesville. Her research priorities include: Learning in diverse settings
(with particular emphasis on museums), the long-term impact of informal
educational experiences on individuals and families and the evaluation
of community-based programs.
Over the last 20 years Dr. Dierking has worked in a variety of settings,
including being an associate in the Smithsonian Office of Educational
Research, as a faculty member in the University of Maryland's Science
Teaching Center and directing a national curriculum project, Science
in American Life, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American
History. She has co-authored two books, The Museum Experience
and Collaboration: Critical Criteria for Success and is working
on two others: How People Learn When They Don't Have To, a
book about free choice learning written with John Falk and Challenging
Assumptions from the Start: An Introduction to Front-End Studies in
Museums, written with Wendy Pollock of the Association of Science-Technology
Centers. She has also co-edited a volume with John Falk, Public
Institutions for Personal Learning: Establishing a Research Agenda,
the proceedings of a national conference hosted by the Institute for
Learning Innovation (formerly known as Science Learning, inc.) in
1994. She has also published a number of scholarly articles and reports.
Lynn will co-present Understanding
the Museum Experience: A Review of Visitor Research and Its Applicability
to Museum Web Sites.


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