Time line #5 - The New Millennium - 1970 - Present

Lisa Shinholster - Timeline #5 (HIED 6340)

1972

1972 the Higher Education Act (HED) was reformed under the oversight of Senator Claiborne Pell - Pell Grant

Lisa Shinholster - Timeline #5 (HIED 6340)

2005

Around 2005 Massive Open Online Courses was a way to provide college-level courses via internet technology without charging tuition. By 2018 the vast majority of academic institutions, both non-profit and for-profit sectors offered distance-learning courses utilizing the internet (A History of American Higher Education p426).