{"id":1629,"date":"2011-08-15T09:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T08:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2012-07-10T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:40:49","slug":"capella-moves-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"Capella moves in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new environment in which the OU must operate was indicated by an acquisition in July when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capellaeducation.com\/ \" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.capellaeducation.com');\">Capella Education <\/a>Company, which describes itself as \u2018aggressive\u2019 and \u2018disruptive\u2019, acquired Resource Development International. RDI has called itself\u00a0 the world&#8217;s largest independent provider of UK university qualifications by distance learning. Capella wants to validate degrees and RDI currently offers distance-learning degrees validated by institutions including the universities of Wales, Sunderland and Birmingham, and Anglia Ruskin and Sheffield Hallam universities. As December 31, 2010, it offered over 1,250 online courses and 43 academic programs with 136 specializations to over 39,000 learners.<\/p>\n<p>The development\u00a0was widely reported, with comments by, among others, the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20110715-705702.html\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/online.wsj.com');\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capellaeducation.com\/news\/news_releases_index.aspx\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.capellaeducation.com');\">company<\/a> itself and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=417096&amp;c=1\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk');\">THES<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new environment in which the OU must operate was indicated by an acquisition in July when the Capella Education Company, which describes itself as \u2018aggressive\u2019 and \u2018disruptive\u2019, acquired Resource Development International. RDI has called itself\u00a0 the world&#8217;s largest independent provider of UK university qualifications by distance learning. Capella wants to validate degrees and RDI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","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=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1629"}],"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=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}