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The first official corresponse education program, "Society to Ecourage Studies at Home" was established in Boston MA.
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"The University of Chicago began offering correspondence courses, becoming the first traditional educational institution in the U.S. to do so" (Miller, 2014).
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Pennsylvania State College begins to broadcasts courses over the radio.
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University of Houston begins offering televised college classes for credit.
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The University of Illinois creates its own intranet network to allow students access to material and pre recorded lectures
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University of Wisconsin starts the first telephonic correspondence course for Doctors
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The first word is transmitted as data packets using an internet signal. The first word was "LOGIN"
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Friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found the company Micro-Soft, Which later became Microsoft.
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The World Wide Web is released to the public, begining the future of the internet as we know it. Click the link to see the first website. https://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/08/06/20-years-ago-today-the-world-wide-web-opened-to-the-public/
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Western Michican University creates the first online grading system known as, "Computer Assisted Personalized Approach"
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Access to the internet and the availability of personal computers allowed the Computer Assisted Learning Center evovle into the CALCampus, which offered the first online course with real time instruction
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Blackboard Course Management and what later became LMS were created, enhacing the way students learn in an online environment.
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The famous and popular search engine Google is created.
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Wikipedia and CreativeCommons, both popular sites for open source information are launched
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YouTube is launched originally as a dating site and evolves into a widley popular video sharing site. YouTube/EDU according the National Education Association, "provides access to more than 500,000 educational videos" (Nast, n.d.)
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With ongoing innovation and continuous advancements in technology the future of online education is unlimited.
"87 percent of prospective online students use their mobile phones to search for potential programmes online and 67 percent of have even completed online coursework through their smart phones since being enrolled" (studyinternational.com, 2018).
