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The University of Illinois created an intranet system allowing students to link their computer terminals to access course material and listen to recorded lectures.
The history of online education - Peterson's www.petersons.com/blog/The-history-of-online-education/ -
The 1960 Intranet system evolved into PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations)
PLATO took the first intranet system and expanded it world-wide. This expansion allowed thousands of computer terminals to link in the sharing of, accessing and imputing information. Over the next decade (1960's to 1976) PLATO became the springboard for what we experienced in social networking, i.e., message boards, chat room, screen sharing and more, White, M. (2017). A history of intranet. Intranet Focus. http://intranetfocus.com -
1973-1979 Lemonade Stand was developed as computer software by Bob Jamison of the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium.
Lemonade Stand software was a basic management sim economics game which was played as one operating a lemonade stand as big corporate business style. The educational purpose was “viewed as a way for children to experience business at a young age. The ideas of profit, economic freedom, and teamwork are often attributed to traits lemonade stands can instill” https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-highlights -
1979 - 1980's Charles Kellner ports the Lemonade Stand software to the Apple II
The Lemonade Stand software became a giveaway game with the purchase of their computers throughout the 1980's. The game installed on computers was a learning source for understanding the challenges of running a business. achive.org Lemonade Stand (1979) -
1984-1986 Electronic University Network (EUN) collaborated with universities to expand online course work.
In 1986 offered the first online courses via DOS and Commodore computers. This system worked with the use of proprietary software for college students to communicate over landline telephone services.
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1992 the Electronic University Network (EUN) collaborated with America Online
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1993-2001 Early Internet Age
The Internet with the use of a web browser in Windows publication became a mainstream educational hub with undergraduates in the early 1990s. America Online, Delphi, CompuServe and other local internet providers transformed peoples’ stand-alone desktop computers into Windows to the world. Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) becomes the first recognized source to provide “online” real-time instruction and interaction via internet services. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Age -
1997-2002 California Virtual University (CVU) an the Journal of Asynchronous Learning (JALN) Clearinghouse
The CVU created a clearinghouse of information for adult seekers of higher education to find accredited Californian colleges and universities. (Tom, 2017). -
2002 Open Course Ware Project
The Open Course Ware’s initiative was to “provide free, searchable, coherent access to MIT’s course materials for educators in the non-profit sector, students, and individual learners around the world. It also created an efficient, standards-based model that other universities could emulate to publish their own course materials. (David, 2003). -
2009 -2014 The Turning Tides of Online Education
The Internet made online learning a reality, cap sizing the exclusivity of K12 classrooms. From its onset, online learning has increases in demand and has changed the face of education from traditional k12 classrooms, to bended (hybrid) learning models to what we know now as online education via the internet. “The 1st decade of virtual learning shows a jump from 187% of online students to an increase of 5.5 million students globally” (Tom, 2017). -
2014 Online Education & Its Flexibility
For two decades the new face of educational has come with a flexibility of change. Online education has been improved with variables that enables instructors and student to set their own pace in the teaching/learning environment. Schedules that fits everyone’s agenda can be set. Online educational has proven to allow balance of ones work and studies, and personal time. -
2019- The 1980’s access to the internet and online learning brought a new era —revolutionizing online education. Once again online learning is pushed to its highest performance with the onset of COVID -19 in March of 2019.
"Globally, due to the coronavirus pandemic, 1.2 billion children in 186 countries were affected by school closures. Online learning was already showing high growth in education technology, before the virus outbreak. Thus tech investments were reaching US$18.66 billion in 2019 and the overall market for online education is projected to reach $350 Billion by 2025 (.https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/coronavirus...).
The industry of online learning will continue to grow.