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Where online learning started and we it is today.
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"The earliest know references to correspondence education was on this day when Caleb Phillips placed an advertisement in the Boston Gazette offering shorthand lessons,"(Kentnor, 2015,p23).
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Isaac Pitman, recognized as the pioneer of distance education, began teaching shorthand by correspondence in Bath, England. The correspondence was done through postcards. Student would transcribe passages from the bible into shorthand and then send the postcard back for correction. (Ketnor, 2015, p23).
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The Phonographic Correspondence Society was founded, a precursor to Sir Isaac Pitman's Correspondence College. (Ketnor, 2015, p23)
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Anna Eliot Ticknor founded the Society to Encourage Studies at Home in Boston, Massachusetts and it was based on the correspondence school model. Less than a year later, Illinois Wesleyan College became the first academic instruction to offer degree programs in absentia. (Ketnor, 2015, p23)
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Lewis Miller and John Heyl Vincent heralded the movement in New York State as a training program for Sunday school teachers during the summer. (Ketnor, 2015, p23)
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John Heyl Vincent established this circle in Chautauqua, New York and it was the first adult education program and correspondence school in the country. (Ketnor, 2015, p23)
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the University was formed and it introduced extensions and correspondence courses as well as summer terms. (Ketnor, 2015, p24)
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William Harper Rainey used the model from Chautauqua University's model and offered correspondence courses at the University of Chicago. They enrolled 3,000 students in 350 courses and had 125 instructors. (Ketnor, 2015, p24)
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The University of Wisconsin-Extension was founded as a distance teaching unit.
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The University of Wisconsin professors began an amateur wireless station later known as WHA, the first federally licensed radio station that was aimed towards educational broadcasting. (Ketnor, 2015, p24)
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There were 73 other educational institutions that had received regular broadcast licenses but only half of those had stations that were on the air and by the end of the 1920's, 176 educational institutions had broadcast licenses. (Ketnor, 2015, p24)
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The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) started the Radio Cooperation of America (RCA) Educational Hour. (Ketnor, 2015, p25)
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The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) followed NBC with the American School of the Air.
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The Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation organized and funded the National Advisory Council for Radio in Education in an effort to promote more radio broadcasting as a teaching medium. (Ketnor, 2015, p25)
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The National Committee on Education by Radio was formed.
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Despite the availability of technology at a much earlier date, the first use of television broadcasting for education did not start until 1932 at the University of Iowa. (Ketnor, 2015, p27)
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finally answered the request to reserve television channels for the exclusive use of education. (Ketnor, 2015, p27)
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By this time 1/3 were licensed to state and local educational systems and another 1/3 to colleges and 1/3 to community organizations. (Ketnor, 2015, p27)
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The Public Broadcasting Act of d1967 established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Their missions was, to encourage the growth and development of public radio and television broadcasting, including the sue of such media for instructional, educational, and cultural purposes. (Ketnor, 2015, p27)
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In the early 70's the University of Illinois created an Intranet for its students. Linked computers were set up so that students could access there course materials through pre-recorded lectures. (Goralski & Falik, 2017, p273)
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The Electronic University Network (EUN) was established to help colleges and universities expand into online courses. (Goralski & Falik, 2017, p274)
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In 1992 EUN began collaborating with America online and in fall of 92 the Computer Assisted Personalized Approach (CAPA) precursor to Learning Online Network and the Computer Assisted Personalized Approach (LAN-CAPA) was developed. (Goralski & Falik, 2017, p274)
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Online education has a very strong presence in todays world and in 2014 there were aprox. 5.8 million students in distance courses in the fall of 2014 and 2.85 million students took all of their courses online . (Goralski & Falik, 2017, p274)
