Native American Distance Education in the form of storytelling
Storytellers traveled from village to village to tell traditional stories in which many values and morals were indirectly taught. Origin stories were told as well as the regular teaching stories. This was pre-1492.
Isaac Pitman teaches short hand by correspondence.
The U.S. Department of Education establishes the Distance Learning Education Demonstration Program which will serve as a pilot program of 15 post-secondary schools, systems and consortia permitted to offer federal financial aid for distance learning progr