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John H. Falk is Sea Grant Professor in Free-Choice Learning in the Department of Science and Mathematics Education at Oregon State University, Portland. Before going to OSU, he founded and directed the Institute for Learning Innovation where for twenty years he oversaw more than 200 consulting projects across a wide range of free-choice learning institutions. Dr. Falk has authored over one hundred scholarly articles and chapters in the areas of learning, biology and education, and helped to create several nationally important out-of-school educational curricula. His most recent book is Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience (2009).
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