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

Just figured out that I *can* create a permanent link to a copy of my vision for the U.S. #ArmyLearningEcosystem (not just a transient "post"), by adding "media" to the Featured section of my LinkedIn profile. So here's a better link, for those who want to use it:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellsworthj/overlay/1763411668154/single-media-viewer/

Now that I know I can do this, I'll probably use it to add a copy of my book, too--which has been used by many of our #EdTech programs as the text on leading change in the learning enterprise, but has only been available as a lousy scanned PDF on ERIC since the Bush (43) administration disestablished all the clearinghouses (what is it about recent Republican presidencies and taking a sledgehammer to our infrastructure for diffusing AMERICAN-CREATED KNOWLEDGE...?) 😖