John H. Falk is Executive Director of the Institute for Learning Innovation and Sea Grant Professor Emeritus of Free-Choice Learning at Oregon State University. He is known internationally for his work in the area of free-choice learning; the learning that occurs while visiting museums science centers zoos aquariums parks watching educational television or surfing the Internet for information. His recent research has focused on studying the long-term impacts of free-choice learning institutions; understanding why people utilize free-choice learning settings during their leisure time and helping cultural institutions of all kinds re-think their future positioning and business models in the 21st century. Dr. Falk has authored over two hundred scholarly articles and chapters and has published more than a dozen books in this and related areas; among them Born to Choose (Falk 2017) The Museum Experience Revisited (Falk & Dierking 2014) Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience (Falk 2009) and Thriving in the Knowledge Age (Falk & Sheppard 2006). Lynn D. Dierking is Director of Strategy & Partnerships Institute for Learning Innovation and Professor Free-Choice Learning Oregon State University. Her research on lifelong out-of-school learning (after-school home- and community-based contexts) with youth and families focuses primarily on youth/families living in poverty and/or not historically engaged in free-choice learning from cultural institutions/organizations. Dr. Dierking is PI of a US-NSF project SYNERGIES: Customizing Interventions to Sustain Youth STEM Interest and ParticipationPathwaysstudying youths' STEM interest and participation longitudinally in an under-resourced community. She also is co-PI of a US-NSF/UK-Wellcome Trust Science Learning+ Partnership project Partnering for Equitable STEM Pathways' for Youth Underrepresented in STEM. She is on Editorial Boards for Connected Science Learning Afterschool Matters and Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship. Awards include the 2010 American Alliance of Museums' John Cotton Dana Award for Leadership and a 2016 NARST Distinguished Contributions to Science Education through Research award for helping to establish the field of free-choice learning research. . Language: English