{"id":2138,"date":"2012-02-09T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2012-07-10T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:30:29","slug":"ode-to-joy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Jennie_Lee_3a.jpg\" ><\/a>Is this part of the secret history of the OU? Did Garry B Trudeau&#8217;s character Duke (based on Hunter S Thompson) invent the idea of teaching via the tele?\u00a0Well, the cartoon dates from the wrong millennium so it is unlikely. However, it does foreground that technologies have often been seen as the cheap and efficient way to deliver education as if it was another commodity which could be pumped out down the cathode tubes.\u00a0 For a more\u00a0sophisticated understanding of the history of the OU try the <a href=\"http:\/\/www8.open.ac.uk\/researchprojects\/historyofou\/\" >website<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma;\">And here is a genuine bit of history which ought to be less secret: the website owes much to the work of Rachel Garnham the Senior Project Manager who is leaving the project today in order to have a baby. Project minding a baby should be easy after making sure that things here run to time and budget.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma;\">Another secret (possibly) is that she will select a name for the forthcoming youth based on your votes.\u00a0Top of the polls at the moment? Walter Perry II.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: tahoma;\">Bye bye, au revoir really, <span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma;\">Rachel,<\/span> many thanks for all the work and we look forward to meeting Walter Junior.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this part of the secret history of the OU? Did Garry B Trudeau&#8217;s character Duke (based on Hunter S Thompson) invent the idea of teaching via the tele?\u00a0Well, the cartoon dates from the wrong millennium so it is unlikely. However, it does foreground that technologies have often been seen as the cheap and efficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,44,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pedagogy","category-people","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","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=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"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=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}