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The History of Online Learning (Distance Learning at it's best!)

By jkowalik
  • Society to Encourage Studies at Home

    Society to Encourage Studies at Home

    Anna Eliot Ticknor founded the Society
    to Encourage Studies at Home. America's first correspondence school. Work was mailed between students and teachers (Caruth & Caruth, 2013).
  • University of Phoenix

    University of Phoenix

    University of Phoenix offers the first fully online college for both undergrad and graduate studies ('Visiual Academy").
  • WeBWork

    WeBWork

    Arnold Pizer & Michael Gage developed WeBWork. WeBwork is a system used to deliver homework through the web ("Visual Academy").
  • Web Based University

    Web Based University

    Jones International University, the first accredited, entirely web-based university, was launched by Jones and Luskin("Visual Academy".
  • Florida Virtual School

    Florida Virtual School

    Florida Virtual School, the "nation's first and largest
    online public school," was created ("Visual Academy").
  • OER Movement

    OER Movement

    The OER (open education resources) movement emerges in 2002. This is the encouragment of open access to resources.
  • Stanford University

    Stanford University

    Stanford University offered free online computer science courses. Several students were in attendence. MOOCs were started in 2008, but begin to take of in 2012 ("Visual Academy).
  • edX

    edX

    Harvard and MIT joing together and create their own MOOC called edX.
  • Udacity

    Udacity

    San Jose State University (SJSU) partners with Udacity. Udacity is created to create affordable online education for the 'masses" (Pearcy).