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Female leaders
In 1873, Anna Ticknow established a society that presented educational opportunities to women of all classes to study at home (Nasseh). Ticknow's Boston-based, volunteer endeavor provided correspondence instruction to more than 10,000 students over the course of 24 years (Nasseh). Communication, teaching and learning all took place through printed materials sent through the mail. -
First Generation-Mail
Educational instruction delivered by mail. Known as home study or Independant study. Between 1890-1930 over 200 corresponsdence schools emerged. -
Cornell fails to establish school
Cornell University attempted to establish a Correspondence University based out of its campus in 1883. It did not succeed. It wasn't until 1883 that the first official recognition of correspondence education took place (Nasseh). -
Second generation
Second generation of correspondenc education or distance learning consisted of teaching by means of broad cast radio and television. -
Third Generation
Organizing education in the open universities -
Fourth Generation
First real-time group interaction at a distance....Audio-visual teleconference. Utilizing cable and computer networks. -
First conference at UW-Madison
UW-Madison host first scholarly conference on distance education. -
Fifth Generation
Teaching and learning online, virtual classes and unviersities based on internet technologies. -
Establish NUEA..guidlines.
In 1915, following a call by academicians to research the effectiveness of correspondence education vs. tradtional education, the National University Extension Association (NUEA) was formed (Nasseh). The NUEA set out to establish new national level guidelines for credit transferal, for acceptance of credit from correspondence courses, and for quality standards for correspondence educators (Nasseh). -
Moocs begin
Most histories of MOOCs start with the 2008 course "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge," created by George Siemens -
Plato-father of Distance Education
Plato was a classical Greek philosopher born 428-7 B.C.E and died in 348-7 B.C.E at the age of 80-81. The trio of Plato, Socrates (his teacher) and Aristotle (his student) they laid the fundamentals of Western philosophy. Along with being a mathematician he was a also a philosopher and a founder of an Academy in Athens, which was first institute which imparted higher end education to students. Socrates has a large influence of his thinking and teachings.