{"id":375,"date":"2017-10-11T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/?page_id=375"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:11:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T16:11:56","slug":"learning-in-an-open-connected-world-and-at-scale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/research\/research-areas\/learning-in-an-open-connected-world-and-at-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning in an open, connected world and at scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We lead the world in research on Open Education\u00a0and the opportunities it offers for learners. Open\u00a0Education, supported by the transition to digital\u00a0content and the impact of a pervasive network,\u00a0has the potential to bring about real changes in\u00a0the ways we share knowledge and interact.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0are working to expand existing approaches to\u00a0knowledge construction, citizenship models and\u00a0theories of identity so we can better exploit the\u00a0opportunities offered by an open, connected world. We are considering the way that open forms of education achieve scale and bring benefits to learners, teachers and organisations and how learning can take place through diverse media in a wide range of social, cultural and disciplinary settings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key people<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/gm2557\">Professor Giles Mohan<\/a>, Chair of International Development<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/abl2\">Professor Andy Lane<\/a>, \u00a0Professor of Environmental Systems<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/iet\/main\/people\/mjw5-0\">Professor Martin Weller<\/a>, Professor of Educational Technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lead the world in research on Open Education\u00a0and the opportunities it offers for learners. Open\u00a0Education, supported by the transition to digital\u00a0content and the impact of a pervasive network,\u00a0has the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-375","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375\/revisions\/1783"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}