I’ve just been named #78 on Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business list (David Wiley). In my wildest dreams I never imagined finding myself on a list with Hayao Miyazaki (Totoro), JJ Abrams (Lost), Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), and Brian Eno (where to start?), and 95 other incredible people. I’m certainly not deserving, but I’m grateful for the recognition of my contribution and I hope that it brings greater awareness to the work we’re all doing on open education.
About the Author
To learn more about David Wiley, visit http://davidwiley.org/. David also leads the Access to Knowledge Initiative in Brigham Young University's David O. McKay School of Education.
Recent Publications
- Overcoming the Limitations of Learning Objects
- Using Weblogs in Scholarship and Teaching
- The Four R?s of Openness and ALMS Analysis: Frameworks for Open Educational Resources
- Psychologism and American Instructional Technology
- The Open High School of Utah: Openness, Disaggregation, and the Future of Schools
- Openness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education
- Open Source, Openness, and Higher Education
- Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education
- Open for Learning: The CMS and the Open Learning Network
- Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way
- The Creation and Use of Open Educational Resources in Christian Higher Education
- A Unified Design Framework for Learning Objects and Educational Discourse
Well deserving you are! Congratulations.
Huzzah!
Congrats David! Well deserved.
Well I certainly think that you are creative, but let’s not forget that your primary qualification for being in this is being ‘in business’ and not ‘being creative’ — this time last year, before your business venture, they would not even have acknowledged your existence, much less awarded you with anything.
The business press (of which Fast Company is a part) is highly partisan, but disguises that fact, by eschewing discussion of political parties, while at the same time relentlessly advancing a pro-business agenda, of which the celebration of people ‘in business’ is a part.
Not that I want to remain on your parade, or in any way belittle your accomplishments, which are considerable, but I feel I would be remiss in failing to point out the purpose of this article, and such articles generally.
Congratulations. That is something!
Fast Company is one of the few magazines I still read on paper, because I have felt that they “get it”. This is another prove of it.
Good luck with the Flat World Knowledge.
A good work always produces good results. Congratulations!