Stephen Downes

This is kind of fun. Some background: "EGOT stands for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony... What makes the EGOT so compelling is not that someone won four awards. It is that each award represents mastery in a completely different domain. Television. Music. Film. Theatre." The fun part: "What would be your personal EGOT? ... four achievements, spanning different parts of your life, that when taken together would signal something rare and meaningful?" I won't focus on the 'achievements' so much as the different domains. For me it's: journalism, education, computing, philosophy. What are my achievements in these four areas? That's easy: OLDaily, MOOCs, gRSShopper and Connectivism, respectively. I'm not sure what the EGOT would be for those four, but I am pretty sure it doesn't matter. The main thing, for me, is being able to combine these in interesting ways, and I've been able to do that, and build a career out of it.