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Using the United States Postal Service, self-taught secretaries would mail their exercises to the Phonographic Institute in Cincinnati, OH.
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Established in Ithica, NY following the authorization of correspondence courses by the State of New York after William Harper developed a program in Chautauqua, NY a year earlier.
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Established in Wilkes-Barr, PA, the Colliery School of Mines developed a distance learning system to teach mine safey.
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The University of Chicago legitimized distance learning by becoming the first college to offer such a program.
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The University of Salt Lake, University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin are the first schools to be issued radio broadcast license for distance education.
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The University of Iowa became the first college to broadcast courses via television.
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Based on the American blueprint of distance education, the British Open University paved the way for a number of European countries to be actively involved in distance learning programs.
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Coastline Community College was the first college without an actual physical campus. Their entire courses were offered via televised classes.
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Due to satelite television becoming increasingly cost-effective, the National University Teleconferencing Netowork transmitted programs to 40 members.
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With the invention of the microprocessor in the early 1970's distance learning began a new era. By the late 1980's for-profit schools like the University of Phoenix began to make a significant impact in distance learning.
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The World Wide Web created links to thousands of computers throughout the world and increased the potential for distance learning like never before.
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Enterprise software applications such as Blackboard provided enormous opportunities for the education industry.
