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Correspondence Courses for the unprovided
In 1878 Bishop John H. Vincent, cofounder of the Chautauqua Movement, created the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. This organization offered a 4-year correspondence course of readings to supplement the summer schools held at Lake Chautauqua in upstate New York (Scott, 1999). Teaching through the mail was first used for higher education courses by the Chautauqua Correspon-dence College. Founded in 1881, it was renamed the Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts in 1883 and authorized to gra -
Broadcasting Radio
The first educational radio license was issued by the federal government to the Latter Day Saints’ University of Salt Lake City, in 1921 (Saettler, 1990). -
Television
Educational television was in development as early as 1934. In that year, the State University of Iowa presented television broadcasts in such subjects as oral hygiene and astronomy. By 1939 they had broadcast 400 educational programs (Unwin & McAleese, 1988). -
Open University
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The late 1960s and early 1970s was a time of critical change in distance education, resulting from several experiments with new ways of organizing technology and human resources, leading to new instructional techniques and new educational theorizing. The two most important experiments were the University of Wisconsin’s AIM Project and Great Britain’s Open University. -
Audio and Video Conferencing
One of the first such consortia, the National University Teleconferencing Network (NUTN), was conceived at a NUCEA meeting in Washington, DC, in February 1982. J. O. Grantham, Director of University Extension at Oklahoma State University, took the lead in convening a planning conference
the following month in Kansas City, Kansas. Of the 70 member institutions of NUCEA, 40 participated, agreeing to work together to plan and deliver educational programs by satellite. -
The Internet
The use of computer networking for distance education got a big boost with the arrival of the World Wide Web, a seemingly magical system that allowed a document to be accessed by different computers separated by any distance, running different software, operational systems, and different screen resolutions. The first Web browser, called Mosaic, appeared in 1993, and it was this software that gave educators a powerful new way of opening access to learning at a distance.
