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  • Communities of Learning For Urban Environments and Science (CLUES)
    Date: 09/15/2009
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    In the Communities of Learning for Urban Environments and Science (CLUES) project, the four museums of the Philadelphia-Camden Informal Science Education Collaborative worked to build informal science education (ISE) capacity in historically underserved communities. The program offered comprehensive professional development (PD) to Apprentices ... »
  • New Directions in Audience Research Initiative
    Date: 09/01/2009
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    The New Directions in Audience Research Initiative, initially funded by IMLS in 2009, is a special initiative of the University of Washington Museology Graduate Program. New Directions aims to train graduate students in Audience Research & Evaluation within informal learning settings through laboratory style coursework that integrates the ... »
  • Facilitating Learning in Digital Museum Environments
    Date: 01/01/2009
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    Museums continue to invest in and experiment with internet technologies and increasingly with social software environments (i.e., social networking). These technologies have the potential to lead to a number of important intellectual and social outcomes such as learning, community building, and greater public understanding of, in our case, science ... »
  • New Directions: Research, Service, and Training in Visitor Studies
    Date: 01/01/2009
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    The University of Washington’s Museology Program, in partnership with the Woodland Park Zoo and the Learning in Informal and Formal Environments Research Center is developing a model of university-community collaboration where students work with client museums, zoos and aquaria to evaluate exhibits and programs under the guidance of a research ... »