{"id":20828,"date":"2020-05-05T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/?p=20828"},"modified":"2020-05-05T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T12:00:22","slug":"nli-delta-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/2020\/05\/05\/nli-delta-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Learning Initiative Takes Education Outdoors with WolfWare Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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April 29, 2020<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Lily Fandel<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

The\u00a0Natural Learning Initiative<\/a>\u00a0(NLI) is reinventing what it means to play outside.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s children grow up with a number of obstacles to outdoor play, from overly structured lifestyles to state-mandated curricula that neglect the outdoors. Additionally, many outdoor play spaces overlook nature \u2014 a powerful agent in children\u2019s healthy development. NLI, a self-funded organization housed within NC State\u2019s\u00a0College of Design<\/a>, works to solve these problems by helping communities create stimulating, natural places for play, outdoor learning and environmental education that recognize human dependence on the natural world.<\/p>\n

With 20 years of research and implementation under their belts, NLI founders,\u00a0Nilda Cosco, Ph.D.<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Robin Moore, MCP, Hon. ASLA<\/a>, are using WolfWare Outreach to teach educators and designers to promote, create and manage new types of\u00a0nature-based learning environments<\/a>.\u00a0WolfWare Outreach<\/a>\u00a0is DELTA\u2019s enterprise-level learning management system to offer non-credit, fee-based online courses. Cosco and Moore teach\u00a0NLI\u2019s two certificate programs<\/a>\u00a0in WolfWare Outreach to share their knowledge, fund future research and maximize the organization\u2019s impact.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many people that want to know about nature-based play and learning spaces. We started thinking about how to transfer NLI\u2019s knowledge to others \u2026 we knew we needed to multiply our efforts to share information about creating these high-quality outdoor environments for children\u2019s health and well-being,\u201d says NLI Director of Programs Nilda Cosco.<\/p>\n

Read the full story at DELTA: Natural Learning Initiative Takes Education Outdoors with WolfWare Outreach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"

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April 29, 2020<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Lily Fandel<\/a><\/span><\/div>\nThe\u00a0Natural Learning Initiative<\/a>\u00a0(NLI) is reinventing what it means to play outside.\n\nToday\u2019s children grow up with a number of obstacles to outdoor play, from overly structured lifestyles to state-mandated curricula that neglect the outdoors. Additionally, many outdoor play spaces overlook nature \u2014 a powerful agent in children\u2019s healthy development. NLI, a self-funded organization housed within NC State\u2019s\u00a0College of Design<\/a>, works to solve these problems by helping communities create stimulating, natural places for play, outdoor learning and environmental education that recognize human dependence on the natural world.\n\nWith 20 years of research and implementation under their belts, NLI founders,\u00a0Nilda Cosco, Ph.D.<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Robin Moore, MCP, Hon. ASLA<\/a>, are using WolfWare Outreach to teach educators and designers to promote, create and manage new types of\u00a0nature-based learning environments<\/a>.\u00a0WolfWare Outreach<\/a>\u00a0is DELTA\u2019s enterprise-level learning management system to offer non-credit, fee-based online courses. Cosco and Moore teach\u00a0NLI\u2019s two certificate programs<\/a>\u00a0in WolfWare Outreach to share their knowledge, fund future research and maximize the organization\u2019s impact.\n\n\u201cThere are so many people that want to know about nature-based play and learning spaces. We started thinking about how to transfer NLI\u2019s knowledge to others \u2026 we knew we needed to multiply our efforts to share information about creating these high-quality outdoor environments for children\u2019s health and well-being,\u201d says NLI Director of Programs Nilda Cosco.\n\nRead the full story at DELTA: Natural Learning Initiative Takes Education Outdoors with WolfWare Outreach<\/a>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 29, 2020\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Lily Fandel The\u00a0Natural Learning Initiative\u00a0(NLI) is reinventing what it means to play outside. Today\u2019s children grow up with a number of obstacles to outdoor play, from overly structured lifestyles to state-mandated curricula that neglect the outdoors. Additionally, many outdoor play spaces overlook nature \u2014 a powerful agent in children\u2019s healthy development. NLI, a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[19,12],"class_list":["post-20828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giving","category-uncategorized","tag-_featured","tag-landscape-architecture"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}