{"id":119,"date":"2020-11-21T13:01:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/on-linelearning\/front-matter\/acknowledgements\/"},"modified":"2020-11-21T13:42:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T18:42:03","slug":"acknowledgements","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/imem\/front-matter\/acknowledgements\/","title":{"raw":"Acknowledgements","rendered":"Acknowledgements"},"content":{"raw":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My micro memoir is dedicated to Dennis Leask, and posthumously to Ray Sloan and Bruce Horrey, who dared to go where no Canadian educational system had gone before in 1993 online distance education at a college in Alberta.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_178\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"640\"]<img class=\"wp-image-178 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/on-linelearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/11\/Ray-Sloan-Instructor-MRC.png\" alt=\"Ray Sloan, Instructor, MRC\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" \/> Ray Sloan, Instructor, Mount Royal College, at home and online with first generation SciTech BBS[\/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_177\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"420\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-177\" src=\"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/on-linelearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/11\/Bruce-Horrey-Labstores-Manager-MRC.png\" alt=\"Bruce Horrey, Labstores Manager, MRC\" width=\"420\" height=\"322\" \/> Bruce Horrey, Labstores Manager, Mount Royal College[\/caption]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I would also like to dedicated this micro memoir to the SciTech BBS students and global academic community who had the opportunity to make history and have fun learning on the digital highway.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Parts of this micro memoir have been reconstituted from my blog entries (June 2019) on <a href=\"https:\/\/landing.athabascau.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Landing<\/a> at Athabasca University.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My micro memoir is dedicated to Dennis Leask, and posthumously to Ray Sloan and Bruce Horrey, who dared to go where no Canadian educational system had gone before in 1993 online distance education at a college in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-178 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/on-linelearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/11\/Ray-Sloan-Instructor-MRC.png\" alt=\"Ray Sloan, Instructor, MRC\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray Sloan, Instructor, Mount Royal College, at home and online with first generation SciTech BBS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure 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