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Bell Laboratories invents first modem that converted digital signals to analog which are wired between two computers
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From the creation of Bell Laboratories first modem to the First Ivy league university to offer a Bachelors degree online in 2019.
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University of Illinois created and intranet that links student computers together eventually evolved into Plato (program logic for automatic teaching operations).
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Stanford University created a television network university located in Canada and offered Department of medicine online classes.
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Coastline Community College offered first degree program entirely by telecommuting courses or telecourses (using telephone, television, radio, records, and tapes). Out of Fountain Valley, California.
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First played educational learning game presented for Apple II.
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The Osborne 1 was issued as the first successful portable computer.
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Western Behavioral Sciences Institute offered first online college program in School of Management and Strategic Studies.
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Electronic University Network (EUN) offered first online course and used DOS and Commodore 64 computers. Before this time WEB needed software and telephone lines.
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University of Phoenix offered first successful online degree program.
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Linus Torvalds created Linux which is a computer operating system. Eventually used in applications like web hosting, networking, and database serving, proving ready for production use.
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The world wide web opens to the public
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Duke University begins global executive MBA program combining online technology and on campus programs.
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First college in CT and New England to offer accredited accelerated degree program fully online.
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Blackboard Course Management software is a course management system for instructors to put class materials on the Internet.
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Course Notes launches dozens of classes at the University of Texas. The program offered free notes, vocabulary terms, study guides and more to help high school students with their homework.
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YouTube launched. With the creation of YouTube it has directly revolutionized the field of education. This site allows educational videos to be applied to teaching topics.
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Post University offers its first fully online MBA program. The first officially registered student was Kevin D. Markey from CT.
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MOOC or massive open online are courses that are to be offered to people free of charge.
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The department of education issued regulations for all online colleges to follow
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Massive Open Online Course started originally aimed at health care workers to incorporate health care simulation into their teaching.
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In California the first digital textbook library was launched.
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University of Florida launches first online only public University.
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98% of colleges and Universities offer some online programs.
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University of Pennsylvania is the first Ivy league school to offer online Bachelors Degree.
