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1st Correspondence Course
Caleb Phillips placed an ad in the Boston Gazette offering shorthand lessons, which lessons were sent by mail weekly. -
In Absentia
Wesleyan College became first academic institution to offer degree programs 'in absentia'. -
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Educational Broadcasting
During this time there were over 200 educational institutions that had broadcasting licenses and had radio stations dedicated to educational broadcasting. However this aspect some changed and social aspects were soon incorporated in the broadcasts. -
Televised college class
University of Houston offers the first televised college classes for credit. -
1st Virtual College
Coastline Community College is believed to be the 1st virtual college with no physical campus, which offered a variety of telecourses. -
Lemonade Stand
Apple II releases the 1st massively played educational game, Lemonade Stand. The game was included in their software packages throughout the 80's. -
Launching Online Campus
University of Phoenix, which was founded in1976, launches its online campus, which was the 1st private university to offer entire curriculum to obtain a bachelor's and master's degree online by utilizing CompuServe one of the 1st consumer online services. Then in 1991 offered the 1st online education programs through the Internet. -
World Wide Web
Today the world wide web was unveiled for the world to utilize. -
CALCampus
The Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) evolved into CALCampus, which offered the 1st courses that were recognized as 'online' with real-time instruction and interaction over the internet. -
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WebCT
WebCT was first utilized in 1996 an within 3 years had grown to serve 2-3 million students in over 30 countries. The company continued to grow until it was acquired by its rival Blackboard in 2006 -
Blackboard
Blackboard Inc. is a course management and delivery system that allows many more institutions to offer online options for their students. -
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Growth of online education - nonprofits
In 1998 there was a rapid growth of online education in traditional nonprofit institutions. New York University creates a for-profit education subsidiary NYU Online however it can't compete with for-profit universities an was forced to close in 2001 -
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Online education turning point
Jones International University is offered North Central Accreditation, by the Higher Learning Commission, which was a turning point for online education improving its image as a legitimate alternative to traditional face to face courses. -
Moodle
1st post on Moodle site was completed. -
Increasing enrollment
Over 1.6 million postsecondary students were enrolled in online courses with numbers steadily increasing. -
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Moodle 1.0
In August of 2002 Moodle 1.0 was released to t e public with Moodle 2.0 released in November 2010, which every 6 months enhanced features at released. -
MIT
MIT offers free lectures and courses through its OpenCourseWare project. The goal was to offer these materials for all MIT courses but due to licensing issues they are unable to. As of 2010 MIT is offering over 2,000 online courses for undergrads and graduate students. -
YouTube
Today is the day YouTube was launched with access to YouTube EDU in 2009 -
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MOOC's
Massive Open Online Courses were 1st introduced by HASTAC reaching over 100,000 people. The term MOOC's was later coined by Dave Cormier in 2008. By 2012 MOOC's had emerged as a popular mode of learning. -
iTunes
iTunes U is introduced by Apple and begins offering lectures for downloads. -
UF Online
The first online only public university in the United States, which UF Online was announce to open in 2014
