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John H Falk
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Biography
Executive Director of the Institute for Learning Innovation
Sea Grant Emeritus Professor of Free-Choice Learning at Oregon State University.
Dr. John H. Falk is internationally recognized as a leading expert on free-choice learning. Dr. Falk has authored over 250 articles and chapters in the areas of learning, ecology and education, two-dozen books, and helped to create several nationally important out-of-school educational curricula. His most recent books are The Value of Museums: Enhancing Societal Well-Being, Learning from Museums, 2nd edition and Born to Choose: Evolution, Self & Well-Being. Prominent in all of these books is a new model related to well-being that provides direct insights into why and how people (and other living things) make the endless set of choices they do, every second of every day of their lives. His current research focuses on studying the impacts of free-choice learning settings on the public’s understanding of, interest in and engagement with science and understanding why people utilize free-choice learning settings during their leisure time. Falk earned a joint doctorate in Ecology and Science Education from the University of California, Berkeley.
Area(s) of specific expertise as related to Assessment in Higher Education (HE) or in Informal Science Learning: more than 40 years of experience researching and evaluating informal/free-choice learning experiences and institutions. I have evaluated both exhibitions and programs and recently have focused on institutional assessment, linking both individual learning as well as organizational impact.