{"id":351,"date":"2014-03-10T15:19:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T22:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/?p=351"},"modified":"2014-03-10T15:19:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T22:19:27","slug":"upcoming-courses-free-choice-learning-professional-certificate-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/upcoming-courses-free-choice-learning-professional-certificate-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Courses in the Free-Choice Learning Professional Certificate Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/files\/2014\/03\/FCLCollage2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-353\" style=\"margin: 5px\" alt=\"FCLCollage2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/files\/2014\/03\/FCLCollage2-300x192.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1615\/files\/2014\/03\/FCLCollage2-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1615\/files\/2014\/03\/FCLCollage2-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1615\/files\/2014\/03\/FCLCollage2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>Oregon State University is excited to announce the next courses in our online professional certificate in Free-Choice Learning for science and informal educators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Designing Learning Environments: Physical dimensions of free-choice learning Online | 30 hours, $540<\/strong><br \/>\nLearning is influenced by the interaction of variables within three contexts \u2014 personal, socio-cultural and physical. This course focuses on how macro-scale environmental factors, like space, crowding and novelty, and micro-scale environmental factors, like design elements, real objects and different media, support free-choice learning. Begins April 1.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Developing Effective Evaluations Online | 15 hours, $390<\/strong><br \/>\nThe course provides a hands-on approach to effectively assessing\/evaluating learning and behavior within the free-choice learning contexts such as museums, national parks, zoos, aquariums and broadcast media. The design and implementation of an evaluation is used as a lens for understanding the hows and whys of assessment and evaluation. This course is designed to help professionals design their own evaluation\/assessment research as well as become informed consumers of others\u2019 research. Begins April 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Highlights<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00b7 No prerequisites, instructor-led, research based<br \/>\n\u00b7 Peer interaction with professionals across free-choice learning contexts<br \/>\n\u00b7 Completely online program offers flexible scheduling<br \/>\n\u00b7 Take one class, or enroll in an entire certificate program and receive a discount<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group Discounts available! Go to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pace.oregonstate.edu\/catalog\/free-choice-learning-professional-certificate#program-outline-section\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/pace.oregonstate.edu\/catalog\/free-choice-learning-professional-certificate#program-outline-section<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSU is excited to announce the next courses in our online professional certificate in Free-Choice Learning for science and informal educators. <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/upcoming-courses-free-choice-learning-professional-certificate-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4770,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1157336],"tags":[196578,1143,23,37,196579,107048],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-certificate","tag-free-choice-learning","tag-oregon-state","tag-osu","tag-pace","tag-professional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}