{"id":1179,"date":"2016-06-14T08:14:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T08:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2016-06-14T08:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T08:18:47","slug":"design-led-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2016\/06\/14\/design-led-society\/","title":{"rendered":"design led society"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1098\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1098\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-11.06.12.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1098\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1098 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-11.06.12-226x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-11.06.12-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-11.06.12.png 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover image of Spare Rib Issue 171. Check http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/spare-rib for copyright details.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2016\/05\/15\/moocs-scandi-style\/\">Sweden<\/a> was enjoyable and informative, despite being very brief. What I learned though, was that the Scandinavians would rather the <a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2016\/06\/06\/fyi-uoe-uk-eu-oer-mooc-cc-by-sa\/\">UK didn&#8217;t leave the EU<\/a>. We also considered the challenges of figuring out how MOOCs fit in a higher education system which is already free and open to all and already offers online courses.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I continued my good work of pointing out to AV tech guys that not all keynote presenters wear pockets or a waistband, or wish to have a headset put into their hair. Universal design does not seem to include women \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My trip to Sweden was enjoyable and informative, despite being very brief. What I learned though, was that the Scandinavians would rather the UK didn&#8217;t leave the EU. We also considered the challenges of figuring out how MOOCs fit in a higher education system which is already free and open to all and already offers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[40,124,172,34],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oer","category-eople-place-work","tag-design","tag-equality","tag-hipsters","tag-moocs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}