{"id":40227,"date":"2013-05-29T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=40227"},"modified":"2013-05-30T08:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T12:16:46","slug":"id-like-to-thank-canadas-george-siemens-stephen-downes-alec-couros-dave-cormier-as-well-as-david-wiley-over-at-byu-for-being-the-true-pioneers-of-moocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/05\/29\/id-like-to-thank-canadas-george-siemens-stephen-downes-alec-couros-dave-cormier-as-well-as-david-wiley-over-at-byu-for-being-the-true-pioneers-of-moocs\/","title":{"rendered":"I’d like to thank Canada’s George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Alec Couros, & Dave Cormier – as well as David Wiley over at BYU — for being the true pioneers of MOOCs."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d like to thank Canada’s George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Alec Couros, and Dave Cormier – as well as David Wiley over at BYU — for being the true pioneers of MOOCs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’d like to thank them for their innovative, entrepreneurial spirits and for their hard work in helping others build their own learning ecosystems.\u00a0 It isn’t easy to\u00a0 be change agents within the realm of higher education.\u00a0 They have pressed the envelop many times.\u00a0 Thanks all — and keep up the great work you guys!\u00a0 (Now can you help integrate IBM’s Watson into what MOOCs morph into?! Please…?)<\/p>\n

Also I’d like to thank to Audrey Watters over at the Hack Education<\/em> blog for her recent keynote address<\/a> at Canada’s <\/em>Ed-Tech Innovation Conference<\/em> where she minces no words to straighten the record out. It was her article — and Professor Wang’s comments<\/a> from earlier today — that made me realize that I needed to post this item.<\/p>\n

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I’d like to thank Canada’s George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Alec Couros, and Dave Cormier – as well as David Wiley over at BYU — for being the true pioneers of MOOCs. I’d like to thank them for their innovative, entrepreneurial spirits and for their hard work in helping others build their own learning ecosystems.\u00a0 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[473,3,180,7,505],"tags":[790,614,661,569,453],"class_list":["post-40227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-higher-education","category-innovation","category-learning-ecosystem","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","tag-canada","tag-change","tag-innovation","tag-learning-ecosystem","tag-moocs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40227"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40271,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40227\/revisions\/40271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}