{"id":1957,"date":"2011-10-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2012-07-10T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:33:58","slug":"university-of-the-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"University of the airwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it is a child of the sixties the precedents for The Open University are numerous and international. Harold Wilson was\u00a0influenced by the work on educational broadcasting carried out in Chicago. For a posting about the <em>American School of the Air<\/em> and <em>The University of Chicago Round Table<\/em> and Judith Waller, a radio programming manager and later the Educational\/Public Service Director for NBC\u2019s Central division in the 1920s see <a href=\"http:\/\/soundstudiesblog.com\/2011\/10\/24\/the-sound-itself-early-radio-education-and-archives-of-%e2%80%9cno-sound%e2%80%9d\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/soundstudiesblog.com');\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 It seems that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Waller helped craft a number of educational programs, including a joint venture between the Chicago Public Schools that successfully connected city-wide special exhibits and the <em>Chicago Daily News<\/em> into an audio\/visual\/experiential learning experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it is a child of the sixties the precedents for The Open University are numerous and international. Harold Wilson was\u00a0influenced by the work on educational broadcasting carried out in Chicago. For a posting about the American School of the Air and The University of Chicago Round Table and Judith Waller, a radio programming manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,68,192],"tags":[81,141,3],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-the-ou","category-ideas","category-pedagogy","tag-radio","tag-william-benton","tag-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","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=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/2376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"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=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}