{"id":57,"date":"2020-03-30T09:37:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T09:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/?p=57"},"modified":"2020-04-01T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T09:32:23","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2012 the University of Mary Washington started experimenting with the idea of giving faculty, students, and staff their own \u201cplot of land\u201d on the web.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/vANgBzRkwwsJ1rPvIVZpY0y735KZj5dJ7kVH7eyrZ69oammQNai5C5ZBZyEbJDjLnEYZMMWEZsDQInIJccWLFrN2sZM58y0Nqh5PSNIDj9VPEcjaWIgZVfwmrdK0h_BKFmY-8xra\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The impulse being that it was high time that universities start taking a pro-active role in providing opportunities for their community to imagine and create alternative online spaces that move beyond the limits of the \u201cfluorescent-lighted space\u201d of the Virtual Learning Environment, or VLE &#8212;also known as the Learning Management System (LMS) in North America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project was called <a href=\"http:\/\/umw.domains\">Domain of One\u2019s Own<\/a> (inspired by Virginia Woolf) and the organizing metaphor&#8212;for better or worse&#8212;was the house. Educated citizens need to understand how to put their virtual house in order, if you will, and with that comes the necessity for a deeper understanding of the various factors that make it livable: i.e. understanding the basics on web-based plumbing, electric, interior design, etc. As you can imagine, the metaphor can get unwieldy quick. In effect, the new world we inhabit, the new homes we occupy demand a new way of understanding the structures within which we live, namely the world wide web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color wp-block-paragraph\">Image: from <a href=\"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/learn\/a-plot-of-land\/\">A Plot of Land: get to know your new web space<\/a>, licensed <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC 4.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012 the University of Mary Washington started experimenting with the idea of giving faculty, students, and staff their own \u201cplot of land\u201d on the web.&nbsp; The impulse being that it was high time that universities start taking a pro-active role in providing opportunities for their community to imagine and create alternative online spaces that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coventry.domains\/scale-of-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}