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Anna Ticknow established a society that presented educational opportunities to women of all classes to study at home. This Boston-based, volunteer endeavor provided correspondence instruction to more than 10,000 students over the course of 24 years. Communication, teaching and learning all took place through printed materials sent through the mail.
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The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle offered a 4 year correspondance course. This was made possible largely by the spread of the railroad and with it a cheap and reliable postal service.
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Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, MI, instituted distance learning courses through the American School in Chicago.
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Television broadcasts tackled such subjects as oral hygeine and astronomy.
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This act set up the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
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In 1972 the FCC required all cable operators to provide an educational channel.
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Used widely in corporate continuing education.
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Penn State offered distance learning in its Adult Education Program--first to locations around the state, and then, in 1989, to students in Mexico, Finland, and Estonia.
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"Students could [for the first time] have access to teachers from any state or country at any time...students could also have universal access to advice and guidance" (Noam, More).
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Blackboard released its first learning management system, Blackboard CourseInfo (now known as Blackboard Learn), in 1998. As of 2011, Blackboard software is used by over 3700 educational institutions in more than 60 countries.
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Learning through communities of online avatars, i.e. Second Life, MyBase. The learning mode of the future?
