Lynn Dierking and John Falk, of the Institute of Learning Innovation in Annapolis, MD, will jointly share the first Sea Grant professorship in free-choice learning, starting fall term 2006.
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Sea Grant Professorship (E/UEd-03)
Robert Malouf
Oregon Sea Grant
Oregon State University
322 Kerr Administration Bldg.
Corvallis, OR 97331-2131
Phone: 541-737-2714
Fax: 541-737-7958
E-mail:
robert.malouf@oregonstate.edu
Oregon Sea Grant is dedicating special funding over a five-year period to establish a Sea Grant professorship at Oregon State University. This tenured, senior faculty member will use the theme of ocean and coastal science to establish a regional or national focal point for research and teaching in free-choice learning. Most of what we know we learn outside the classroom, and we continue to learn throughout our lives by free choice. As a nation, we have made and continue to make an enormous investment in providing learning opportunities for the public in a wide variety of venues such as museums, aquaria, and interpretive centers. At the same time, an enormous quantity of printed material, videos, films, and other media is produced and distributed annually for the purpose of public education. Yet there is relatively little effort underway to advance the art and science of public education through research and teaching in such free-choice learning. This professorship will augment that effort significantly.
Former Sea Grant researchers: What they're doing now
- Bruce Mate (marine mammals)
- Scott and Selina Heppell (resource management education)