#armylearningecosystem — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/115819297650130250

Seven months later, a 16-year-old freshman named Jim Ellsworth arrived at Clarkson College of Technology (now Clarkson University) as it became the first university in the world to issue a PC to every incoming student, got himself hired as the university's Student Director of Educational Computing, and--discovering Internet Relay Chat--started thinking about the EDUCATIONAL uses of this BITNET thing, that ultimately merged with ARPANET to become the Internet as we understand it today.

My journey as an #EdTech scholar--augmented a few years later by a Ph.D. in the field, and a company command leading the infusion of the brand new Web into the Army's Intelligence schoolhouse--had begun, and I've been pioneering advances in online learning ever since, including one of the first faculty-led, cohort-based, online masters programs (at the U.S. Naval War college) back at the turn of the century, and ultimately leading to the #ArmyLearningEcosystem of today.

FOUR DECADES. <shakes head> Where does the time go...? #MaShaAllah