{"id":1777,"date":"2011-09-22T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T09:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2011-11-09T11:14:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T10:14:19","slug":"educational-futures-thematic-research-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"Educational Futures Thematic Research Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EF_logo.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1778\" title=\"EF_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EF_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EF_logo.png 707w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EF_logo-300x52.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/a>The OU has a new thematic research network, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/wikis\/CREET\/Educational_Futures_Thematic_Research_Network\" >Educational Futures<\/a>. The Educational Futures network draws upon the university&#8217;s distinctive engagement with understanding new forms of technological engagement, digital literacies, creativity, educational dialogues, professional identity, pedagogy, international teacher education, learning in non-formal spaces and the development of new research methodologies.<\/p>\n<p>An element of this network is the History of the OU Project because to understand where we\u2019d like to go we need to assess where we\u2019ve come from.\u00a0 As Arthur Marwick, 1936-2006, first Professor of History, The Open University noted on 24 November 1994 in the <em>THES<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We study history because of the desperate importance of the human past: what happened in the past\u2026 governs the world we live in today, and created the many problems which beset us \u2026 To change the world, we have first to understand it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This project can help make connections\u00a0and ensure that network bids are strengthened by reference to the long-standing traditions, assumptions and values of the OU. Longitudinal studies are possible here as they are not elsewhere because the OU has over 40 years of pedagogy including TV footage and course materials in the archives while other universities don\u2019t even have collections of lecture notes from the past.\u00a0The status and relevance of the OU has dramatically changed over the last half century\u00a0but popular images, often reliant on stereotypes about kipper ties, remain. Through an understanding of the past the HOTOUP can take education\u00a0forwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OU has a new thematic research network, Educational Futures. The Educational Futures network draws upon the university&#8217;s distinctive engagement with understanding new forms of technological engagement, digital literacies, creativity, educational dialogues, professional identity, pedagogy, international teacher education, learning in non-formal spaces and the development of new research methodologies. An element of this network is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,33,67,79,192,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-internal-organisation","category-methods-history-of-the-ou","category-online-teachng-and-learning","category-pedagogy","category-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","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=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"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=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}