{"id":1947,"date":"2011-10-20T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2011-10-20T21:46:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T20:46:59","slug":"facing-the-social-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1947","title":{"rendered":"Facing the social sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/facebook.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1948\" title=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a>As part of a pilot scheme with The Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University has launched a Social Sciences fan page on <a href=\"www.facebook.com\/theopenuniversity.socialscience\">Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0This new platform is an opportunity for all Social Sciences students to network outside of their Tutor Group Forums and current study module\/s with other Faculty students within the Facebook community. There are nearly 6,000 fans, some of whom have commented on their learning experiences. Here, for example is one:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a journey &#8211; enjoy it. I like the &#8216;big picture&#8217; concepts in OU Social Sciences especially, and a thoughtful tutor, which both help us stand back from the day-to-day. (And ignore the ironing, which is waiting in my kitchen here as I write my first TMA of DD301 for tomorrow&#8217;s deadline<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Othrs at the OU have used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1752\" >social media <\/a>to support learning. The History of The Open University Project is still collecting tales from staff, students and alumni, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www8.open.ac.uk\/researchprojects\/historyofou\/\" >here<\/a>\u00a0 and is running a forum on student experiences, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1759\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a pilot scheme with The Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University has launched a Social Sciences fan page on Facebook.\u00a0\u00a0This new platform is an opportunity for all Social Sciences students to network outside of their Tutor Group Forums and current study module\/s with other Faculty students within the Facebook community. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/1947","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=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1947"}],"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=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}