In Principle, In Practice: The Second Annapolis Conference on Museum Learning

学习创新研究所（ILI）请求支持举办第二届博物馆学习会议，“在原则上，在实践中”，继十年前成功举办题为“公共机构个人学习：建立长期研究议程”的会议之后。“会议和两份相关出版物的目标是促进该领域内关于在博物馆学习和从博物馆学习的当前研究的共享知识，促进有效的实践，确定和传播基于研究的最佳做法，以制定评估框架，并加强研究和教育的基础设施。 该项目的四个组成部分包括：1）《科学教育》杂志的特别增刊，2）为期两天的全国会议，3）关于非正式科学学习的会后白色文件，4）关于从博物馆学习的研究性理解的会后书籍。

The Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI) requests support to conduct the second conference on museum learning, "In Principle, In Practice," following their successful NSF-funded conference of a decade ago entitled "Public Institutions for Personal Learning: Establishing a Long-term Research Agenda." The goals of the conference and two related publications are to advance shared knowledge within the field about current research concerning learning in and from museums, to promote effective practice, to identify and disseminate research-based best practices for developing evaluation frameworks and to enhance the infrastructure for research and education. The four components of the project include: 1) a special supplement of the journal "Science Education," 2) a two-day national conference, 3) a post-conference white paper on informal science learning, and 4) a post-conference book on research-based understandings of learning from museums.