{"id":82,"date":"2011-10-28T18:25:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/?p=82"},"modified":"2011-10-28T18:25:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:25:53","slug":"visitor-engagement-via-museum-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/2011\/10\/28\/visitor-engagement-via-museum-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitor Engagement (via Museum 2.0)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/museumtwo.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/balancing-engagement-adventures-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+museumtwo+%28Museum+2.0%29\">This post <\/a>by Nina Simon raises some great, eternal questions       about visitor engagement.\u00a0 Free-choice learning, by definition,       entails agency on the part of the learner.\u00a0 What&#8217;s the best way to       allow and inspire visitors to provide input and exercise that       agency?\u00a0 Simon states the problem well:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The fundamental question here is how we balance different modes of  audience engagement. You could argue that visitors are more \u201cengaged\u201d by  an activity that invites inquiry-based participation than one that  invites them to read a label, even if they never get answers to their  questions. Or, you could argue that this kind of active engagement  should be secondary to sharing information, which can be more  efficiently communicated by a label.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In other news, the Magic Planet has finished its first round of     upgrades.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be doing more work with it next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post by Nina Simon raises some great, eternal questions about visitor engagement.\u00a0 Free-choice learning, by definition, entails agency on the part of the learner.\u00a0 What&#8217;s the best way to allow and inspire visitors to provide input and exercise that agency?\u00a0 Simon states the problem well: &#8220;The fundamental question here is how we balance different&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/2011\/10\/28\/visitor-engagement-via-museum-2-0\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,95496,95511,95512],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-engagement","tag-magic-planet","tag-museum-2-0","tag-nina-simon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}