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One of the earliest distance education courses offered was a short hand correspondence course advertised in Boston Gazette.
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After the Phonographic Correspondence Society was founded, it was the precursor to Sir Isaac Pitman's Correspondence Colleges.
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London University offered distance degrees via distance learning through its External Programme.
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The first correspondence school in the United States, created by The Society to Encourage Studies at Home founded by Anna Eliot Ticknor, this correspondence school aimed to provide educational opportunities for women.
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Pennsylvania State College broadcasts courses over the radio.
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The University of Houston offered the first televised college credit courses.
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The University of Wisconsin began a telephone-based distance education program for physicians.
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Coastline Community College became the first "virtual college" delivering courses in a fully televised format. It began as a distance learning college with no physical campus.
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The University of Phoenix Online was developed as a hybrid institution consisting of both courses online and in the classroom.
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The first educational satellite school, Learn Alaska, was created to offer daily television instruction to 100 villages in Alaska.
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An online program for the School of Management and Strategic Studies at the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in La Jolla, California was started.
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Blackboard Inc. was founded. This was one of the first learning management systems, revolutionizing course delivery and management, communication, and recording and analyzing students' assessment results.
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Youtube was created. This is a video sharing website.
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Khan Academy was launched as a non-profit website offering a free online collection of mini lectures and video tutorials.
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Massive Open Online Course - is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions among students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs).
