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Coastline Community College becomes 1st "virtual college". Broadcasting the courses with no physical campus, also as a distance learning college they offered on-campus classes.
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Dr. John Sperling & Terri Hedegoard Bishop launched the University of Phoenix (online campus) based in San Francisco California. It was the first private university to deliver complete academic degree programs (Bachelor & Masters), in addition, services were available to a mass audience through asynchronous online technology.
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CALCampus was 1st to develop & implement concepts of online based school. Students were administered real-time based school where materials were provided & originated with Quantum Link campus.
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Blackboard Inc. was founded, it developed a learning management system that provided a learning system for course delivery & management for institutions. A community was created implementing a portal system for communication. The central management system centralized control over course content. Finally, a system was created to record & analyze student assessment results.
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Interacted Learning Network (ILN 1.5) was released and installed @ multiple academic institutions. ILN was the 1st e-learning system of its kind that leveraged & installed top of the line software on the relational database.
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Khan Academy was launched. Khan Academy was a non-profit educational website with a free online collection of micro lectures and video tutorials.
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edX was founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Harvard University. This platform was massive open online courses that host online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines.
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The digital textbook library was launched in California giving undergraduates in state free access to college textbooks for 50 of the most popular courses in the state.
