{"id":69,"date":"2023-03-22T09:43:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T09:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:26:17","slug":"alumni-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/alumni-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our alumni from the MAOT&#8217;s predecessor (the MAODE &#8211; Masters in Online and Distance Education) remain an active, valuable and much valued part of the MAOT community. Here we share some of their stories about how studying with us and becoming part of our community has impacted their work and their lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/successfully-adapting-to-distance-learning\/\">Andy Brooks&#8217; story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/maode-catalyst-to-my-writing-tips-and-online-writing-courses\/\">Carol Waites&#8217; story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/gp-was-able-to-take-on-a-more-senior-role-after-studying-masters-programme-in-online-and-distance-education\/\">Dirk Pilat&#8217;s story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/2023\/07\/24\/ticket-to-success\/\">Kulvir Bahra&#8217;s story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/2023\/05\/19\/the-future-of-education-will-likely-determine-the-future-of-the-planet\/\">Matyas Baan&#8217;s story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/2023\/04\/04\/a-successful-novelist-and-a-career-in-digital-technology\/\">Michael Flavin&#8217;s story\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/from-the-maode-to-a-phd-moses-mwebaze-in-focus\/\">Moses Mwebaze&#8217;s story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/2023\/05\/29\/from-disability-to-head-of-accessibility-via-maode\/\">Nicki Berry&#8217;s story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/inspiring-new-research-in-social-media-use-in-education\/\">Phillippa Seaward&#8217;s story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/2023\/04\/17\/knowledge-and-skills-that-keep-on-giving\/\">Sam Marks&#8217; story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/?p=95&amp;preview=true\">Wayne Rimmer&#8217;s story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/2023\/04\/19\/headlines-heel-digging-politics-and-an-inspiring-community-of-practice\/\">Wendy Maples&#8217; story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our alumni from the MAOT&#8217;s predecessor (the MAODE &#8211; Masters in Online and Distance Education) remain an active, valuable and much valued part of the MAOT community. Here we share some of their stories about how studying with us and becoming part of our community has impacted their work and their lives. Andy Brooks&#8217; story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/MAOT\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}