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First Formal Correspondence Education
Improvements in transport infrastructure in the 19th century, and in particular the creation of a cheap and reliable postal system, led to the development of the first formal correspondence education, with the University of London offering an external degree program by correspondance. -
BBC - The First Edult Education Broadcast
The first adult education radio brodcast from the BBC in 1924 was a talk on "Insects in Relation to Man." -
The First Usage of Television in Education
Television was first used in education in the 1960s, for schools and general adult education. -
Originally Development of PLATO
PLATO was a successful system, and incorporated key on-line: forums, message, boards, online testing, e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and multi-player games. -
Electronic Projectors and Presentational Software
At the end of World War 2, the USA army started using overhead projectors for training. Although they were not produced for education at first, they were started to use for education in 1990s. -
The World Wide Web
The World Wide Web was formally launched in 1991. It is basically an application running on the internet that enables "end-users" to create and link videos or other digital media. -
The First Web Browser: Mosaic
It was made available in 1993. Before the web, it tequired lengthy and time-consuming methods to load text, and to find material on the internet. -
YouTube
YouTube started in 2005. It is icreasingly being used for short educational clips that can be downloaded and integrated into online courses. -
iTunesU
Apple Inc. created iTunesU to become a portal or a site where videos and other digital materials on university teaching could be collected and downloaded free of charge by end users -
Lecture Capture Systems
The development of video compression technology and relatively low cost video servers in the early 2000s let to the introduction of lecture capture systems for recording and streaming class lectures in 2008. Webinars are now used largely for delivering lectures over the Internet. -
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