Dr. John D. Bransford is Professor Emeritus of Learning Sciences and Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Bransford is also Founding Director of The Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) Center, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science of Learning Center.
The University of Washington, Stanford University, and SRI International received funding from the NSF for a ten-year research center on the science of learning. The LIFE Center seeks to understand and advance human learning through a simultaneous focus on implicit, informal, and formal learning, thus cultivating generalizable interdisciplinary theories that can guide the design of effective new technologies and learning environments.