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A by mail correspondence course offered to women by the Phonographic Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Founded by Anna Tickner
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Chautauqua Correspondence was established by William Rainey Harper
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In 1923 becaome International Correspondence School. This school was used to teach originally mine safety and later provided certifications for iron and rail workers. By 1923 they had had 2.5 million students.
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Offered by the University of Chicago
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Extensions Department of the University of Chicago distance education targeted at farmers.
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Martha VanRensselaur begins offering home economic courses both for credit and not for credit. In 5 years more than 20,000 women enrolled in her programs.
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The introduction of radio into homes aloud for a different media to distribute distance education.
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University of Salt Lake City, University of Wisconsin, and University of Minnesota were all granted educational radio liscences.
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The National Home Study council was founded to help monitor and insure quality control to distance learning programs.
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By the year 1930 39 different universities were offering classes by mail.
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University of Iowa offers correspondence cource by television
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From 1941-1974 the armed forces offered correspondence courses to military personel.
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The articulated instructional media program, founded by Charles Wedemeyer at the University of Wisconsin, offered adult degree programs from 1964-1968. The project really delved into ways to incorporate modern media in distance learning.
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Around this time, universities started refering to correspondence cources as "Independent Study".
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Offered by Coastline Community College, which had no actual campus.
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The invention of the microprocessor would change 100 years of distance learning in a little over a decade. Set the stage for the rapid growth and diversity of distance learning,
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Still in the forfront of distance education, Germany opens FernUniversitat whose goal is to foster lifelong learning.
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In the early 80s satellite technology that was built in the 1960s becomes affordable and is used for corporate training functions.
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Learn Alaska was developed to reach places that were sometimes only reachable by air.
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They used satellite to transmit program to 40 different institution members.
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National Technical University offers full online degree course
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Still remains one of the most popular online universities today.
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British computer scientist and mathmatician, Tim Berners-Lee introduces the world to the World Wide Web.
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Jones International University becomes the first online college to be accredited by the Higher Learning Commitee.
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The U.S. Department of education launches program to study the most effective ways of administering distance education,
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Blackboard and Webct merge becoming the leading provider in software applications for educational purposes.
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I finally realized that with the surge of online degree programs, I could manage being a single full time working mom and still get my degree!
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This nonprofit global virtual university was founded by two Stanford professors and even has a mobile app. Participants are charged nothing and are given certifications at the completions of programs to show potential employers and in some cases can receive university credit for taking these classes.
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British Open University, which still operates today and is responisible for 21% of the distance learning in Great Britain, opens its doors.
