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ExFiles: An Online Science Exhibit Community

January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2012 | Media and Technology, Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

Following their experience with the 2003 NSF-funded conference, "Best Practices in Science Exhibition Development," the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) is creating for informal science education practitioners a dynamic online system, "ExFiles," for contributing to, using and conducting communications about a database on exhibitions. At least 1,000 practitioners are expected to use the site over the course of the three-year project, which will be sustained by ASTC after the grant period. The website is being populated initially with a set of at least 40 exhibitions representing a variety of scientific domains, sizes and interpretive and design strategies. Promotion of the site is being assisted by several associations: National Association of Museum Exhibitions, Association of Children's Museums, American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta, American Zoo and Aquarium Association and the European Network of Science Centres and Museums.

Funders

NSF
Funding Program: ISE/AISL
Award Number: 0540261
Funding Amount: 843984

TEAM MEMBERS

  • 2014 11 06 wendyPollock sqOct2013
    Former Principal Investigator
    Association of Science-Technology Centers
  • Wendy Hancock
    Principal Investigator
    Association of Science-Technology Centers
  • Kathleen McLean
    Co-Principal Investigator
    Association of Science-Technology Centers
  • Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM
    Audience: Evaluators | Museum/ISE Professionals
    Environment Type: Media and Technology | Websites, Mobile Apps, and Online Media | Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks | Resource Centers and Networks

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