Distance Education Timeline

By rpsanche
  • 1850 Discussions at Exeter College

    1850 Discussions at Exeter College

    1850 william Sewell of Exeter College began formulating an extension system with the idea of correspondence from a distance in England. (Morabito, 1999, p. 25)
  • 1852 First Correspondence Courses The Phonographic Institute of Cincinnati OH

    1852 First Correspondence Courses The Phonographic Institute of Cincinnati OH

    1852 The Phonographic Institute of Cincinnati OH began correspondence courses for secretaries through the US Postal Service (Casey, M. 2008)
  • 1873 Home studies by correspondence

    1873 Home studies by correspondence

    1873 Society to Encourage Studies at Home was started by Anna Elliot Ticknor of Boston MA. (Morabito, 1999)
  • UIC is 1st College level distance learning program

    UIC is 1st College level distance learning program

    1892 University of Chicago (UIC) created a college level distance learning program (Casey, M. 2008)
  • Education Radio

    Education Radio

    1925 200 colleges and universities had licensed radio stations in America (Rinks, 2002).
  • Education Television

    Education Television

    1950 Iowa State University becomes the first Education Television broadcaster in the country (Saba, 2013)
  • PBS

    PBS

    1967 The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was formed to make telecommunications accessible to all Americans which was necessary to make education television open to the masses (Cox & Mohrman-Gillis & Ferenbach, 1999).
  • Military begins internet

    Military begins internet

    1969 Military defense puts together an experimental system that would be the beginnings of the internet (Abbate, 2001).
  • First Fully Televised College Course

    First Fully Televised College Course

    1970 Coastline Community College creates the first fully televised college courses(Casey, M. 2008).
  • PBS Adult Learning Service

    PBS Adult Learning Service

    1981 The Adult Learning Service was launched by PBS (Cox & Mohrman-Gillis & Ferenbach, 1999
  • Cyclops Whiteboard System Introduced

    Cyclops Whiteboard System Introduced

    1982 Open University, one of the first schools to have online classes introduced its Cyclops whiteboard system to the mainstream education world at The World Conference of International Council for Correspondence Education was held in Vancuver, British Columbia (McConnell & Sharples, 2006).
  • HLC Accredits first online University

    HLC Accredits first online University

    1993 Jones International University was the first online university to be accredited by the Higher Learning Commission(Casey, M. 2008).
  • Millions of Students in Distance Education

    Millions of Students in Distance Education

    2012 There were 21,147,055 students were enrolled in Title IV institutions for distance education courses (Institution of Education Sciences, 2015).
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    My Reference List

    Abbate, J. (2001). Government, business and the making of the internet. Cambridge Journals 75(1).
    Casey, M. (2008). A journey to legitimacy: The historical development of distance education through technology. Tech Trends 52(2). Retrieved from: http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=0d2cb949-4e6f-4c62-ba3d-d1a010c78bec%40sessionmgr4005&vid=1&hid=4111
    Cox, K. & Mohrman-Gillis, M. & Ferenbach, G. (1999). Comments of the corporation for public broadcasting, a

  • My references

    Abbate, J. (2001). Government, business and the making of the internet. Cambridge Journals 75(1).
    Casey, M. (2008). A journey to legitimacy: The historical development of distance education through technology. Tech Trends 52(2). Retrieved from: http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=0d2cb949-4e6f-4c62-ba3d-d1a010c78bec%40sessionmgr4005&vid=1&hid=4111
    Cox, K. & Mohrman-Gillis, M. & Ferenbach, G. (1999). Comments of the corporation for public broadcasting, a