HigherEd Series: What Should Universities Own in the Age of AI? With George Siemens of Southern New Hampshire University

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Welcome to the EdTech Insiders Higher Education Series, hosted by Matthew Rascoff. Matthew is an education innovation leader, a Stanford lecturer, and a regular guest on our podcast, whose work focuses on expanding access to knowledge and opportunity through digital learning. In this series, he speaks with leaders shaping the future of higher education. We hope you enjoy the conversations.

Welcome everyone to another episode of EdTech Insiders and our special mini-series focused on higher education innovation. Today we have George Siemens with us. George is the Chief AI Transformation Officer at Southern New Hampshire University, but he's also known in our sector as one of the great thinkers and intellectuals who developed, I think, the foremost innovation in my career that I've observed, which is the MOOC movement. And I want to talk to him today about what he has learned from the history of the origins of MOOCs, what it might teach us for those who are innovating in new technologies for today. He was instrumental in creating the learning analytics

movement as well and some of the early convenings around that.

To me, George is one of the great leaders, mentors, and thinkers in this space. I have long admired your career and your ideas, George, and I'm just so excited to engage with you and also to give you an opportunity to share your knowledge with the listeners here. So welcome to the podcast.

Thanks, Matthew. Always a pleasure to get a window to connect and spend some time thinking together. So appreciate the opportunity.

Well, A Window to Connect is a great opening for us because the beginnings of MOOCs have been so obscured by what came after. Maybe you can just bring us back to 2005 and just tell us the founding story of where MOOCs