{"id":2237,"date":"2012-04-23T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2012-07-10T11:23:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:23:05","slug":"the-value-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2237","title":{"rendered":"The value of history"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; color: black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/collab-learn1.png\" ><\/a>Just published is Alexandra Okada, Teresa Connolly and Peter Scott (eds.), <em>Collaborative Learning 2.0: Open Educational Resources, <\/em>IGI, Hershey, USA, 2012. This\u00a0is a collection of the latest research, trends, future development, and case studies on how to use OER and Web 2.0 for collaborative learning. <\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igi-global.com\/book\/collaborative-learning-open-educational-resources\/59714\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.igi-global.com');\"><span style=\"color: #606420; font-size: small;\">publisher<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> explains that &#8216;the purpose of this handbook is to understand how OERs and Web 2.0 can be deployed successfully to enrich the collaborative learning experience and ensure a positive outcome in terms of user generated knowledge and development of skills&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; color: black;\">The editors work at the OU and there are several chapters by OU staff including one by<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0Andy Lane and Andrew Law. Their &#8216;Collaborating over rich media: the Open University and the BBC partnership&#8217; has nine references, two of which\u00a0are items on this blog. Furthermore, those seeking &#8216;Additional Reading&#8217; are invited to visit the History of the OU <a href=\"http:\/\/www8.open.ac.uk\/researchprojects\/historyofou\/\" ><span style=\"color: #606420;\">website<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just published is Alexandra Okada, Teresa Connolly and Peter Scott (eds.), Collaborative Learning 2.0: Open Educational Resources, IGI, Hershey, USA, 2012. This\u00a0is a collection of the latest research, trends, future development, and case studies on how to use OER and Web 2.0 for collaborative learning. The publisher explains that &#8216;the purpose of this handbook 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":[24,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc","category-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","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=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"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=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}