{"id":256,"date":"2010-06-11T16:57:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T15:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=256"},"modified":"2010-06-11T19:42:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T18:42:57","slug":"foregrounding-the-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Foregrounding the curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_268\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20thC-music1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-268\" title=\"20thC music\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20thC-music1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20thC-music1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20thC-music1-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20thC-music1.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educational technology has moved on from the reel-to-reel but has the OU struck a duff note for those left stranded by the digital divide?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alan Tait, as well as\u00a0being\u00a0Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Curriculum and Awards) at the OU\u00a0\u00a0is also president of EDEN &#8211; the European Distance and E-Learning Network.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eden-online.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/a-quiet-cup-of-tea-in-sun-yat-sen-park-beijing\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.eden-online.org');\">Here<\/a>\u00a0he notes that that &#8216;very few universities have a Pro-Vice Chancellor for Curriculum; in fact it is accurate to say that I have never come across another one! In fact the term curriculum in the sense of an overall view of what subjects a university teaches only came into common parlance in the UK perhaps 10 years ago (and was recognized in a book by David Watson and Jean Bocock \u2018Managing the University Curriculum: Making Common Cause\u2019). Up till then what universities taught was taken more as an unexamined issue: it was what academics wanted to teach and what the university agreed they could. The Open University however, as a mission-led university with a strong research identity has had a PVC Curriculum for some 20 years. This indicates the ways in which we have tried to deconstruct the curriculum from being a natural phenomenon to one that is constructed to meet audience needs, aligned of course with the University\u2019s teaching priorities, external regulation from professional and other bodies, and the views of the academic community.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Tait, as well as\u00a0being\u00a0Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Curriculum and Awards) at the OU\u00a0\u00a0is also president of EDEN &#8211; the European Distance and E-Learning Network. Here\u00a0he notes that that &#8216;very few universities have a Pro-Vice Chancellor for Curriculum; in fact it is accurate to say that I have never come across another one! In fact the term curriculum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[80,199],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-methods-history-of-the-ou","tag-alan-tait","tag-curriculum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","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=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"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=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}