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The Institute for Research on Learning (IRL) was founded in 1987 in Palo Alto, California and continued through 2000. It was founded through a grant from the Xerox Foundation, as a spin-off from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Corporation. It was a nonprofit research organization that looked at learning in a wide variety of settings, including schools, workplaces, and informal settings, using collaborative, multidisciplinary terms. Research questions were based in real-world problems and settings defined in collaboration with the institutions who hired IRL. |
The Institute for Research on Learning (IRL) was founded in 1987 in Palo Alto, California and continued through 2000. It was founded through a grant from the Xerox Foundation, as a spin-off from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Corporation. It was a nonprofit research organization that looked at learning in a wide variety of settings, including schools, workplaces, and informal settings, using collaborative, multidisciplinary terms. Research questions were based in real-world problems and settings defined in collaboration with the institutions who hired IRL. |
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The Institute for Research on Learning (IRL) was founded in 1987 in Palo Alto, California and continued through 2000. It was founded through a grant from the Xerox Foundation, as a spin-off from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Corporation. It was a nonprofit research organization that looked at learning in a wide variety of settings, including schools, workplaces, and informal settings, using collaborative, multidisciplinary terms. Research questions were based in real-world problems and settings defined in collaboration with the institutions who hired IRL.
Charlotte Linde, Working the Past; Narrative and Institutional Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)