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First known distance learning program
Boston Gazette contains an advertisement from Caleb Phillipps for short hand lessons via post. -
Isaac Pitman begins teaching shorthand, using Great Britain's Penny Post
Isaac Pitman begins teaching shorthand, using Great Britain's Penny Post -
First institution long distance
Institutionally sponsored distance education began in the United States in 1874 at the Illinois Wesleyan University. -
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Distance Education becomes widespread
The phrase"Distance Education" coined by University of Wisconsin–Madison catalog..
The University of Wisconsin was founded, the first true distance learning institution.
More schools national and International begin offering courses via distance education. -
Fisrt Televised Distance Education classes
The University of Houston offers the first televised college credit classes via KUHT, the first public television station in the United States. The live telecasts ran from 13 to 15 hours each week, making up about 38% of the program schedule. Most courses aired at night so that students who worked during the day could watch them. By the mid-1960s, with about one-third of the station's programming devoted to education, more than 100,000 semester hours had been taught on KUHT. -
Fisrt Known Online Classes
Donald Bitzer helps to develop PLATO - Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations. Students completed courses online, communicated with instructors, instructors create and publish new lessons, and monitored student progress. -
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart publishes "Augmenting Human Intellect: a conceptual framework". suggesting the use of computers to supplement training. In collaboration with his colleagues at the Stanford Research Institute, Engelbart developed a system called the oNLine System (NLS) which was unveiled in 1968. -
J.C.R. Licklider
J.C.R. Licklider wrote "On-Line Man Computer Communication” and presents the concept of interactive online learning. -
ARPANET- internet forerunner
Lawrence G. Roberts (born 1937 in Connecticut[4]) received the Draper Prize in 2001[4] and the Principe de Asturias Award in 2002 "for the development of the Internet"[5] As a program manager and office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques.The ARPANET was the predecessor to the modern Internet. -
1963 - 1981
Massive strudes take place in technology which incresed access and quality to online distance education.
* Ivan Sutherland develops Sketchpad
*An IBM 1500 system was installed at the University of Alberta, where on-line courses included cardiology training for the University's medical school.
*Bernard Luskin founds Coastline Community College, the first Virtual College in the United States. -
NOVA pioneers online learning
Nova Southeastern University offers accredited graduate degrees.
First Doctoate awarded via online learning. -
Norway
NKI Distance Education in Norway starts its first online distance education courses -
1000 students in distance learning progran in UK
First large-scale use of computer conferencing in distance teaching when the Open University UK launched DT200 Introduction to Information Technology with 1000 students per year -
1991 - present
Explosion of universities and colleges offering online/ distance education. Some universities are entirely web-based while others have physical campuses with individuals courses offered online.
