Lev Gonick

Why would I ever want to go back to the traditional classroom?

And I started consulting to schools all over the world who were interested in this, you know, internet thing.

that had just shown up and I was teaching online in a global seminar, actually, online.

And that changed my life.

And I decided to stay the course with trying to do innovation and impacting students' lives around the world, leveraging technology as my space.

And helped to pioneer some of that work in that earlier era.

And then progressed through the ranks and have really been on this CIO journey, which I know is the core of your listenership and viewership for the better part now of 25 years.

as a sitting CIO that you and I have known, and before that, about 10 years in academic technology, which is kind of a specialty inside the higher education space.

Well, I mean, to be honest, like you don't get that many chances to be a pioneer in one's professional life.

And so having serendipitously found myself with the time and a little bit of the story that I shared, that was a remarkable moment for me

and realizing just what kind of impact one could have leveraging technology.

And I began to sort of talk about, write about, and then try to sort of instantiate in my own classroom delivery, that again, online classroom delivery,

The art of the possible.

And so I've done, you know, I've had a lot of opportunities to innovate.

You know, before there was streaming online, I was trying to do streaming online.

Before there was, you know, serious work with multimedia online, I was doing multimedia online.

So I've always been trying to unlock.

curiosity in students.

And I guess the only other thing I'd share with you, Ed, is I've always been committed, and this goes all the way back to my doctoral research, on how technology impacts community.

And some of the work that you and I did together in Cleveland, we created this project about ways in which our anchor institutions, whether they were hospitals or whether they were universities, could actually have