{"id":2275,"date":"2019-04-23T21:05:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T02:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:48","slug":"113365-open-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/113365-open-university\/","title":{"rendered":"113:365 | Open University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy 50th anniversary to the Open University! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-47457018\">As noted in this BBC article marking the anniversary, <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>[The Open University] was set up to bring degree-level learning to people who had not had the chance to go to a traditional campus, and pioneered long-distance study. The university teamed up with the BBC to produce course programmes, famously shown late at night for many years &#8230; The Open University has taught more than two million students since it was granted a royal charter on 23 April 1969.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Open University noted on their twitter feed, <a href=\"http:\/\/socsi.in\/ui3t5 \">the celebration will continue throughout the year<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks for all the birthday wishes, it\u2019s been a great day. But the celebrations don\u2019t stop here \u2013 find out more about our 50th activities:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HSLwiBNjmt\">https:\/\/t.co\/HSLwiBNjmt<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OU50?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OU50<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LGGCQg6LoJ\">pic.twitter.com\/LGGCQg6LoJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Open University (@OpenUniversity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpenUniversity\/status\/1120775624371654658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 50th anniversary to the Open University! As noted in this BBC article marking the anniversary, [The Open University] was set up to bring degree-level learning to people who had not had the chance to go to a traditional campus, and pioneered long-distance study. The university teamed up with the BBC to produce course programmes,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}