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Anna Eliot Ticknor founded the Society
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University of Phoenix offers the first fully online college for both undergrad and graduate studies ('Visiual Academy").
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Arnold Pizer & Michael Gage developed WeBWork. WeBwork is a system used to deliver homework through the web ("Visual Academy").
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Jones International University, the first accredited, entirely web-based university, was launched by Jones and Luskin("Visual Academy".
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Florida Virtual School, the "nation's first and largest
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The OER (open education resources) movement emerges in 2002. This is the encouragment of open access to resources.
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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).
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Harvard and MIT joing together and create their own MOOC called edX.
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San Jose State University (SJSU) partners with Udacity. Udacity is created to create affordable online education for the 'masses" (Pearcy).