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A Stenography course by Isaac Pitman was conducted with assignments sent via mail to/from teacher/students. This helped them learn shorthand, useful for note-taking professionals. -
Sidney Pressey created the Automatic Teacher, a testing machine that allowed four choices and would not proceed to the next question until the correct answer was chosen.
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BF Skinner created GLIDER for programmed instruction - teaching as opposed to testing. -
PLATO advanced the state-of-art by including graphics, free text, and feedback and is arguably the beginning for the diverse delivery methods that we now use in modern online courses. -
Electronic learning had many "founders" and activities converging at the same time.
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Patrick Suppes and Richard Atkinson teach elementary math and reading using computers in Palo Alto.
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The IBM 1500 Network was used to allow up to 32 concurrent student work sessions, effectively becoming an online course.
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The U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the beginning of the internet.