{"id":75,"date":"2014-03-31T02:48:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T02:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/?p=75"},"modified":"2015-03-20T23:37:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T23:37:49","slug":"oregon-sea-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/2014\/03\/31\/oregon-sea-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes people want to learn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-78\" style=\"margin: 4px 20px 7px 0px;border: 0px\" alt=\"sea_grant\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/files\/2014\/04\/sea_grant.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1828\/files\/2014\/04\/sea_grant.jpg 350w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1828\/files\/2014\/04\/sea_grant-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Since 2004, <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/education\/free-choice-learning\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon Sea Grant\u2019s Free-choice Learning<\/a> program has been working to understand and support the marine science learning that happens when people choose to visit science museums, zoos and aquariums in their leisure time, making specific and conscious choices about what they learn.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Oregon Sea Grant is working under a five-year,\u00a0$2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation\u00a0to create a new free-choice learning lab at OSU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/hmsc.oregonstate.edu\/visitor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hatfield Marine Science Visitor Center in Newport<\/a> (pictured above). Under the grant, Dr. Shawn Rowe is leading a team conducting innovative research at the Visitor Center, collaborating with the public to gain a deeper understanding of what and how visitors learn.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Lynn Ketchum<\/em><\/p>\n<p>____________<\/p>\n<h3>Related links<\/h3>\n<p>Graduate degree programs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/online-degrees\/graduate\/science-math-education\/free-choice-learning\/\">M.S. in Science or Mathematics Education (Free-Choice Learning)\u00a0\u2013 Online<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/education.oregonstate.edu\/science-or-mathematics-education-doctoral-program\">Science or Mathematics Education Doctoral Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Professional continuing education<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pace.oregonstate.edu\/free-choice\">Free-Choice Learning Professional Certificate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working to understand and support marine science learning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2341,196234,37185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship","category-spring-2014","category-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}