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Although, not exactly "Online Learning", Caleb Phillips places ad in the Boston Gazette, offering shorthand classes to prospective students, via weekly deliveries
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In 1840, the first correspondece courses via Mail are offered by Sir Issac Pitman, the English inventor of Shorthand offers to teach via shorthand through mail correspondence.
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University of London became the first institution of higher learning to offer degrees via distance learning
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Designed for women, Anna Ticknor of Boston, Ma. reaches over 10,000 pupils over 24 years with this earliest distance education program.
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In 1922, Pennsylvania State College broadcasts first courses over radio, which were later deemed as a failure.
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The National Home Study Council (NHSC) was formed by the more reputable correspondence schools as a result of some of the questionable business methods that were taking place in some of the less respectable schools.
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University of Iowa was the first to offer television courses as an instructional alternative
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After a variety of televised courses by a variety of entities, in 1976, the University of Phoenix was established as the first “Virtual College
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The first comprehensive “online-only” curriculum is established by CALcampus
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Stanford University begins its “Asynchronous Distance Education" Project
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At Penn State University, Jerrold Maddox taught the first course delivered over the World Wide Web
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Blackboard Course Systems is introduced in Washington, D.C
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The Virtual Learning Environment, Moodle is released this year
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By 2009, 53% of the public high school students are now enrolled in distance educational courses. Also in this year, YouTube introduces YouTube EDU with thousands of free lectures available.
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Less than two years ago, 60% of four-year U.S. institutions of higher learning offer online classes
