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1852-Pittman Shorthand Program.
Brought cutting edge stenographic practices to the United States.
Certificate could be received upon successful completion of program (Matthew, 1999). -
1882-William Rainey Harper developed a correspondence program at Chautauqua, N.Y.
This led to the state of New York authorizing correspondence courses. -
1890-Colliery School of Mines was established.
Mine Safety was taught. -
1892- University of Chicago created the first college-level distance learning program.
Students far from the University of Chicago campus utilized the US Postal Service to exchange assignments and lessons (Hanson, 2001). -
1920- Radio broadcasting was created.
Gave the ability to reach an audience far beyond any centralized classroom (Bridgeman, 2001). -
1921 - First educational radio licenses were granted.
Leading toward growth in the distance education field.
By 1923 over 10 percent of all broadcast radio stations were owned by educational institutions delivering educational programming. -
1934- University of Iowa broadcast courses by television.
This led to the FCC creating the ITFS in 1963, a band of 20 television channels available to educational/institutions providing a low-cost, fixed-range, subscriber based system capable of being utilized for the distribution of broadcast courses.
California State University was the first to apply (Public Broadcasting Service, 2003). -
1964-AIM project created.
First attempt to identify, categorize, and systemize distance learning practices. Offered direction on how to create and incorporate multi-media instructional packages for the benefit of the independent learner (Gooch, 1998). -
1969-British Open University established by Royal Charter.
Led to providing 21% of all higher education in England and is considered a model of distance learning in higher education (Open University Worldwide, 2005). -
1969-Establishment of Public Broadcasting Service (Public Broadcasting Service, 2003).
Interconnected 140 stations, creating the first true national public television system. -
1970- First fully televised college courses were created, licensed, and implemented by Coastline Community College.
Led to cost savings and the ability to study on-site or at home leading to the ability to not have to travel for training. -
1971-Creation of microprocessor.
This made the teacher-student interaction less cumbersome. -
1978- First computer bulletin board system (BBS) was established
(Moschovitis, Poole, Schuyler, Senft, 1999). -
1978 -First email messages sent to individuals on the Intel inter-office system.
This made communication much smoother and faster. -
1980- Satellite transmission utilized by large corporations and the military.
Reduced cost and travel time. -
1989 -University of Phoenix was established.
Offered degree programs by utilizing the Internet. -
1991- The World Wide Web was born (Berner-Lee, n.d.).
Increased possibilities for distance learning experiences. -
2005 -WebCT and Blackboard merged under the Blackboard brand.
Led to becoming the leading provider of enterprise software applications and related services to the educational industry (Blackboard Inc., 2006). -
2005 -YouTube was established.
With this creation videos were able to be shared electronically. -
See Canvas site for Reference list.
