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Anna Ticknow's female empowerment society
Anna Ticknow established a society that presented educational opportunities to women of all classes to study at home. This Boston-based, volunteer endeavor provided correspondence instruction to more than 10,000 students over the course of 24 years. Communication, teaching and learning all took place through printed materials sent through the mail. -
Chautauqua correspondance course
The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle offered a 4 year correspondance course. This was made possible largely by the spread of the railroad and with it a cheap and reliable postal service. -
High School Distance Learning
Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, MI, instituted distance learning courses through the American School in Chicago. -
State University of Iowa offers radio courses
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State University of Iowa offers television courses
Television broadcasts tackled such subjects as oral hygeine and astronomy. -
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
This act set up the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). -
Birth of the Digital World
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Birth of telecourses
In 1972 the FCC required all cable operators to provide an educational channel. -
Teleconferencing
Used widely in corporate continuing education. -
Penn State offers computer-based distance learning
Penn State offered distance learning in its Adult Education Program--first to locations around the state, and then, in 1989, to students in Mexico, Finland, and Estonia. -
Establishment of the virtual university
"Students could [for the first time] have access to teachers from any state or country at any time...students could also have universal access to advice and guidance" (Noam, More). -
Blackboard Launched
Blackboard released its first learning management system, Blackboard CourseInfo (now known as Blackboard Learn), in 1998. As of 2011, Blackboard software is used by over 3700 educational institutions in more than 60 countries. -
Immersive Learning Environment
Learning through communities of online avatars, i.e. Second Life, MyBase. The learning mode of the future?
