This week’s CALRG is a presentation by Dr Doug Clow, Institute of Educational Technology. He is going to give us a very timely but necessarily partial (and at least a little bit personal) history of educational technologies in the OU.

 A Partial History of Educational Technology at the Open University

“In this talk, I’ll give a very partial history of educational technology at the Open University, since its founding in 1969 to the present day. It’ll be partial in multiple senses. A full history would take far longer than a single session. If I gave a comprehensively synoptic account, it’d be too broad-brush to be interesting. So I’ll be selecting elements to focus on, and I’ll be unashamedly partial in picking the ones that appeal particularly to me. We’ve always been pioneers in using technology to help our students learn. What that means has changed profoundly in some ways, and is much the same in others. As Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Come along to hear the digital equivalent of “I remember when all this was fields”!.”

11.00 – Thursday 17 January

Ash, First Floor, Jennie Lee Building