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1st Virtual College
Coastline Community College becomes 1st "virtual college". Broadcasting the courses with no physical campus, also as a distance learning college they offered on-campus classes. -
University of Phoenix
Dr. John Sperling & Terri Hedegoard Bishop launched the University of Phoenix (online campus) based in San Francisco California. It was the first private university to deliver complete academic degree programs (Bachelor & Masters), in addition, services were available to a mass audience through asynchronous online technology. -
CALCampus
CALCampus was 1st to develop & implement concepts of online based school. Students were administered real-time based school where materials were provided & originated with Quantum Link campus. -
Blackboard Inc.
Blackboard Inc. was founded, it developed a learning management system that provided a learning system for course delivery & management for institutions. A community was created implementing a portal system for communication. The central management system centralized control over course content. Finally, a system was created to record & analyze student assessment results. -
Interacted Learning Network (ILN 1.5)
Interacted Learning Network (ILN 1.5) was released and installed @ multiple academic institutions. ILN was the 1st e-learning system of its kind that leveraged & installed top of the line software on the relational database. -
Khan Academy
Khan Academy was launched. Khan Academy was a non-profit educational website with a free online collection of micro lectures and video tutorials. -
edX
edX was founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Harvard University. This platform was massive open online courses that host online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines. -
Digital Textbook Library (California)
The digital textbook library was launched in California giving undergraduates in state free access to college textbooks for 50 of the most popular courses in the state.
