{"id":2475,"date":"2012-09-18T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T12:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2012-09-18T17:03:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T16:03:17","slug":"plugged-in-but-not-switched-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2475","title":{"rendered":"Plugged in but not switched on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2501\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Stockton-carers.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2501\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2501\" title=\"Stockton carers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Stockton-carers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer: FourNinety Copyright (C) The Open University<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For a report on how \u2018massive open online courses\u2019 provided by Coursera, edX and Udacity appear to be &#8216;another tectonic shift in the evolution of higher education and HE internationalisation&#8217;, see a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obhe.ac.uk\/documents\/view_details?id=929\" >report<\/a> from the Observatory on borderless higher education. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>The OU&#8217;s eLearning Community newsletter recently noted the interest in massive open online course<em>s<\/em> (MOOCs) and also noted that it appears to have come as a surprise to &#8216;Wired Campus&#8217; that many MOOC students form groups to study and socialize. <!--more-->MOOCs are free of charge, designed for large numbers of people to take them at once, encourage peer-to-peer learning, and award certificates rather than academic course credit. The experience of the OU is that knowledge is not\u00a0a thing to be acquired but an activity. It has\u00a0long recognised that it is\u00a0valuable to support self-help groups, online forums\u00a0and the like. It appears that others are now\u00a0finding this out for themselves and\u00a0that in order to understand how best to proceed they could do worse than to\u00a0look to the history of the OU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 For a report on how \u2018massive open online courses\u2019 provided by Coursera, edX and Udacity appear to be &#8216;another tectonic shift in the evolution of higher education and HE internationalisation&#8217;, see a report from the Observatory on borderless higher education. The OU&#8217;s eLearning Community newsletter recently noted the interest in massive open online [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","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=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2475"}],"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=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}