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https://youtu.be/24p-RVpc3Nw This is a brief video history of distance learning starting at the beginning in 1728 with correspondence courses.
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This is the earliest known reference to correspondence education. Caleb Phillips placed and ad in the Boston Gazette for shorthand lessons for any "Person in the Country desirous to Learn this Art, may be having several Lessons sent Weekly to them, be as perfectly as those that live in Boston"
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Isaac Pitman was recognized as the pioneer of distance learning and began teaching shorthand by way of correspondence in 1840 in Bath, England.
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This was a precursor to Sir Isaac Pitman's Correspondence College
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The Society to Encourage Studies at Home in 1873 by Anna Eliot Ticknor in Boston, Massachusetts. This was based on the correspondence school model.
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In 1874 Lewis Miller and John Heyl Vincent heralded the correspondence movement in New York State as a summer training program for Sunday school teachers. Gradually, the program expanded to include general education and the arts, with supplemental readings and studies to be completed at home through the process of correspondence.
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In 1878, John Heyl Vincent established the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle in Chautauqua, New York. This was the first adult education program and correspondence school in the country to that point.
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In 1894 Guglielmo Marconi invented the spark transmitter and obtained the first patent for a radio device. Not long after, distance learners sought to use the radio device as a form of communication to reach new and more learners.
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In 1915 the National University Extension Association was formed n an effort to "develop and advance ideals, methods, and standards in continuing education and university extension". (National University Extension Association, n. d.). This was done in an effort to educate soldiers, let people update their professional knowledge and skills, but the goal of the correspondence education was to ensure that they provided a quality education and enable all to expand their intellect and knowledge.
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In 1919 the University of Wisconsin professors began an amateur wireless station later known as WHA, the first federally licensed radio station dedicated to educational broadcasting.
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The early 1920's are seen as the beginning of educational broadcasting.
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In 1922, seventy-three additional educational institutions received regular broadcast licenses, but only half of them had stations on the air.
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On April 9, 1927 saw Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Bell Laboratories hold the first Long-distance live video and voice transmission.
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IN 1930 the Institute for Education by Radio (IER) in Columbus, Ohio, where radio was used extensively in the classroom. The IER concentrated on techniques used in educational broadcasting.
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In efforts to promote radio broadcasting as a teaching medium, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation organized and funded the National Advisory Council for Radio in Education (NACRE).
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In 1952 the FCC reserved 242 channels for educational purposes
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Between 1952 and 1966, the number of reserved educational television channels went from 242 to 632.
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The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The mission of the CPB to encourage in television broadcasting in the use of using media for instructional and educational purposes.
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The University of Phoenix began using CompuServe, one of the first consumer online services.
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The Web was unveiled and the University of Phoenix became one of the first to offer online educational programs through the Internet.
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The Asynchronous Learning Networks were formed in 1992 by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a respectable philanthropic, not-for-profit grant-making institutions. The Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) were developed to explore alternatives for those unable to attend a traditional classroom.
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New York University (NYU), who was already operating one of the largest continuing education schools in the country, was the first large nonprofit university to create a for-profit online education subsidiary, NYU Online.
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https://youtu.be/HxT5MU2b9Qc New Learning, New Hope: The Somali Interactive Radio Instruction Program
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https://youtu.be/zix5RoH38cQ This is a lighthearted and brief tutorial on how easy it is to enroll in military correspondence courses.
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