{"id":589,"date":"2010-11-04T14:58:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T13:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=589"},"modified":"2010-11-10T11:39:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T10:39:49","slug":"celebrating-lees-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Lee&#8217;s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Jennie-Lee-cake.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-653\" title=\"Jennie Lee cake\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Jennie-Lee-cake-e1289385461454-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Approaching 50 current and former staff and students gathered in the Library yesterday to discuss elements of the Open University&#8217;s history. Opening Up The Open University generated a lively debate on issues such as \u00a0how successful the University has been in being &#8216;open&#8217;, the relationship between technology and pedagogy, and the impact the OU has had on the world of higher education more broadly.<\/p>\n<p>Those attending also took the opportunity to celebrate Jennie Lee&#8217;s 106th birthday, with a cake featuring her\u00a0photograph. In true OU multimedia style, the day\u00a0was\u00a0peppered with audio and visual clips, including from the recently concluded Oral History Project. See other blog posts for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approaching 50 current and former staff and students gathered in the Library yesterday to discuss elements of the Open University&#8217;s history. Opening Up The Open University generated a lively debate on issues such as \u00a0how successful the University has been in being &#8216;open&#8217;, the relationship between technology and pedagogy, and the impact the OU has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"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=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}