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In 1728 Caleb Philips begins private mail correspondence courses in the Boston Gazette newspaper(Ferrer,2019).
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The punch card loom would later be used in IBM computers. Weaver and Joseph Marie Jacquard created the punch card method program(Ferrer,2019).
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Charles Babbage produced the first prototype to the modern style
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The University of London was the first in the world to offer a full degree through distance learning.
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This was a collective organization, the first formal correspondence school in the United States. The organization was founded by Ana Eliot Tickner in Boston Massachusetts(Ferrer,2019).
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Pennsylvania State offered the first college or university broadcast course over the radio(Peterson,2017).
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The National Home Study Council Forms. The organization later changes their name to Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC) in 2015(Peterson,2017).
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Bell Laboratories invents the modem, which converts digital signals to the analog signal, this allowed wired communication between two or more computers(Ferrer,2019).
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The University of Illinois created the Intranet systems which allowed students to access course materials and recorded lectures(Ferrer,2019).
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1975- Bill Gates and Paul Allen Created Microsoft.
1976- Coast Line Community College was the first telecommuting program to offer courses using the telephone, radio, and television
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1981- The first Commercial portable computer Osborne 1, was created.
1984- The first email was sent from the US to Germany, which said WILLKOMMEN CSNET. -
1990- Linus Torvalds creates Linux which leads to the leading mode in the open-source software, which was the foundation for online learning platforms.
1991- The World Wide Web (WWW) opens to the public, allowing access for online education.
1992- The first real-time instruction-synchronous learning course was created by CALCAMPUS.
1997- Blackboard Course Management software launches(Ferrer,2019). -
2004-Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard Students.
2006-iTunes U launches.
2009- YouTube /EDU. Launches(Ferrer,2019). -
2011- The department of education issues new regulations for all online colleges.
2013- the University of Florida- launches the first online-only public University.
2018-98% of Colleges and or Universities offer some form of online programs(Peterson,2017). -
2019- The University of Pennsylvania is the first IVY league to offer online bachelor's degree program(Peterson,2017).
