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A Swedish newspaper advertised the opportunity to study composition through the post
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The Phonographic Correspondence Society was founded, which formalized instruction
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In Germany, Charles Toussaint and Gustav Langensheidt started foreign language correspondence instruction; H.S. Hermod started a successful early correspondence school; Anna Eliot Ticknor founded a society that encouraged studying at home
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Illinois Wesleyan developed a notable early correspondence-based distance education program
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Skerry’s College in Edinburgh, a correspondence institution, was founded
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William Rainey Harper developed the University of Chicago’s University extension Center, which offered various correspondence courses and programs
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The University of Wisconsin developed a notable early correspondence-based distance education program
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H.S. Hermod of Sweden started to teach English by correspondence
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University Correspondence College was founded in London
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The University of Chicago was founded, and it created a university extension division. This was the first of such divisions at an American university
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Thomas J. Foster started offering a correspondence course that covered the topics of mining and preventing mining accidents; The University of Wisconsin announced a correspondence study program, which historian Frederick Jackson Turner led
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Pennsylvania State University developed a notable early correspondence-based distance education program
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H.S. Hermod founded Hermod’s, one of the largest and most influential distance teaching organizations in this world
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Moody Bible Institute formed their own correspondence department, which still exists today
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A correspondence-based primary school, known as The Calvert School, started enrolling students
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Multiple correspondence schools used radio transmission to convert or supplement their academic programs
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Thomas J Foster’s business grew, with more than 2 million enrolled in the International Correspondence Schools
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Benton Harbor students were offered vocational courses
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University of Nebraska experimented implementing correspondence courses into high schools
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University of Iowa, Purdue University, and Kansas State College created some experimental television teaching programs
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Western Reserve University was the first university that offered a continuous series of college courses via broadcast television
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New York University started offering Sunrise Semester, a well-known series of college courses televised on CBS
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Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations was conceived
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A working model of Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations was running
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University of South Africa became a distance teaching university, resulting in fundamental changes to the ways in which much of the world practiced distance education
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IBM created the IBM instructional system
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The National Science Foundation provided funding that helped Donald L. Blitzer set up the Computer-Based Education Research Laboratory. This laboratory helped develop and enhance the Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations system
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The Open University of the United Kingdom, one of the world’s most successful distance education providers, established
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Public Broadcasting (PBS) became a significant part of national education television and involved itself in multiple distance education projects
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Donald L. Blitzer developed the plasma display, and he received multiple awards because of his invention
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First state educational satellite system created
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Sunrise Semester program ends
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TI-IN network delivered numerous courses, via satellite, to high schools in various parts of the United States
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Iowa Communications Network established
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Internet-based online education begins (First Wave)
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Simon & Schuster Publishing bought the CAI company known as Computer Curriculum Corporation, and then Pearson bought the company
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded Learning Outside the Classroom Program
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The Computer-Based Education Research Laboratory closed
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Second Wave of Internet-based online education begins in the early 2000s
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Pearson bought National Computer Systems
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Third Wave of Internet-based learning development begins; Dave Cormier and Bryan Alexander coined the term MOOC, which stands for Massive Open Online Course
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A new adaptive, computerized-learning program debuted at Arizona State University. The program adapted to students’ learning curves and provided students with immediate feedback
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The New York Times labeled the year 2012 as “The Year of the MOOC”
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The Iowa Communications Network upgraded their infrastructure; A well-publicized experiment occurred, in which Udacity developed several basic mathematics and statistics courses, and offered these courses in spring 2013. Regarding their grades and rates of completion, students who took the Massive Open Online Courses did not perform as well as previous students who took courses in-person; In December 2013, Udacity’s founder described his product as “lousy”
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The fourth (current) wave, of online education begins