{"id":1279,"date":"2011-04-18T08:37:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T07:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2012-07-10T11:45:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:45:55","slug":"lisbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intending to make an impact at least as momentous\u00a0 as the earthquake which rocked the Portuguese capital in 1755, though aiming to be considerably less destructive,\u00a0and dreaming of being received as raptuously\u00a0as the Carnation Revolution, which started in Lisbon in 1974, Chris Bissell and Dan Weinbren, both from The Open University, will be making contributions to the <em><a href=\" http:\/\/centenario.ul.pt\/conferencias\/history-of-european-universities\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/centenario.ul.pt');\">History of European Universities.<\/a> Challenges and transformations<\/em> conference currently being held at the oldest university in Portugal, the University of Lisbon (founded 1288-90). Chris Bissell\u2019s topic is \u2018The Open University of the United Kingdom\u2019 while Dan Weinbren is going to be talking on \u2018Openness, universities and national identities\u2019. \u00a0He will be arguing that while the market model is widely used as a metaphor for understanding universities, and that specifically the ideas of Clayton Christensen have been applied to contextualise the development of the OU, there are wider political structures which also need to be considered. \u00a0He will propose new parameters which can be employed to understand the impact of the OU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intending to make an impact at least as momentous\u00a0 as the earthquake which rocked the Portuguese capital in 1755, though aiming to be considerably less destructive,\u00a0and dreaming of being received as raptuously\u00a0as the Carnation Revolution, which started in Lisbon in 1974, Chris Bissell and Dan Weinbren, both from The Open University, will be making contributions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-nations-and-regions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}