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On these pages you will find a library of articles related to lifelong learning, entries for GSCA's award for Best Educational Program by a Theater, and items related to work done by GSCA's Lifelong Learning Committee.

GSCA's Lifelong Learning Committee is charged with the following mandate:

Principal Aims

• Summarize the learning that occurs through giant screen experiences and recommend how this knowledge can be applied.
• Identify how the filmmaking process can optimally plan for desired and unexpected learning outcomes based on published research and collected descriptions of successful practices.
• Inspire, assemble, and analyze independent pre- and post-film evaluations of giant screen films and their supporting exhibitions, programs, and collateral materials in order to better inform the process of making giant screen films and their supporting programs.
• Inspire, assemble and analyze new samples of international data on student, teacher, family, and adult expectations of, and reactions to, giant screen experiences in order to better inform the process of making giant screen films and their supporting programs.
• Promote individual and cross-institutional research that seeks to forward the aims of the Lifelong Learning Committee.
• Encourage innovation in the design and development of supporting exhibitions, programs, and collateral materials.

Communications

• Create opportunities for idea and information exchange among the Association’s membership around the above and related matters.
• Communicate Committee updates and findings on the above and related matters to the Association’s membership and to the industry-at-large using the web site, other publications, conferences, and other meetings.

Achievement Awards

• Establish criteria to inform the selections of GSCA’s annual achievement awards of best film for lifelong learning and best educational support materials.

Liaison

• Liaise with other committees, in particular the Conference Committee in terms of professional development sessions, Member Services Committee in terms of maximizing the value of membership, and Marketing and Promotion Committee in terms of increased awareness about the giant screen experience among the broader filmmaking industry and the general public.

On these pages you will find a library of articles related to lifelong learning, entries for GSCA's award for Best Educational Program by a Theater, and items related to work done by GSCA's Lifelong Learning Committee.

GSCA's Lifelong Learning Committee is charged with the following mandate:

Principal Aims

• Summarize the learning that occurs through giant screen experiences and recommend how this knowledge can be applied.
• Identify how the filmmaking process can optimally plan for desired and unexpected learning outcomes based on published research and collected descriptions of successful practices.
• Inspire, assemble, and analyze independent pre- and post-film evaluations of giant screen films and their supporting exhibitions, programs, and collateral materials in order to better inform the process of making giant screen films and their supporting programs.
• Inspire, assemble and analyze new samples of international data on student, teacher, family, and adult expectations of, and reactions to, giant screen experiences in order to better inform the process of making giant screen films and their supporting programs.
• Promote individual and cross-institutional research that seeks to forward the aims of the Lifelong Learning Committee.
• Encourage innovation in the design and development of supporting exhibitions, programs, and collateral materials.

Communications

• Create opportunities for idea and information exchange among the Association’s membership around the above and related matters.
• Communicate Committee updates and findings on the above and related matters to the Association’s membership and to the industry-at-large using the web site, other publications, conferences, and other meetings.

Achievement Awards

• Establish criteria to inform the selections of GSCA’s annual achievement awards of best film for lifelong learning and best educational support materials.

Liaison

• Liaise with other committees, in particular the Conference Committee in terms of professional development sessions, Member Services Committee in terms of maximizing the value of membership, and Marketing and Promotion Committee in terms of increased awareness about the giant screen experience among the broader filmmaking industry and the general public.