{"id":1907,"date":"2011-10-27T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2011-10-25T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T14:55:28","slug":"more-graphic-than-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1907","title":{"rendered":"More graphic than info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/poodle.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1923\" title=\"poodle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/poodle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>The history of distance education has been compressed into an infographic by OnlineSchools.com, see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineschools.com\/in-focus\/history-of-online-education\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.onlineschools.com');\">here<\/a>. All events prior to 1960 receive as much attention as &#8216;crime&#8217; (illustrated by a poodle in a mortar board, though not this poodle). A teleological\u00a0approach is implied by a number of images of evolutionary development, The Open University is not mentioned in this US-focused account and women are not considered to be of significance in this narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Good to see the subject raised. Could try harder with grammar and content.<\/p>\n<p>The OU is missed from <a href=\" http:\/\/www.distancelearningnet.com\/the-history-of-distance-learning\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.distancelearningnet.com');\">this account <\/a>of the history of distance education which has been produced by Distancelearning.net. There are, however, links to\u00a0the &#8216;top distance learning schools&#8217;. They are all US-based and private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of distance education has been compressed into an infographic by OnlineSchools.com, see\u00a0here. All events prior to 1960 receive as much attention as &#8216;crime&#8217; (illustrated by a poodle in a mortar board, though not this poodle). A teleological\u00a0approach is implied by a number of images of evolutionary development, The Open University is not mentioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,8,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","category-history-of-the-ou","category-online-teachng-and-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","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=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1907"}],"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=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}