Evolution of Online Learning

  • Exchange of Letters Teaching

    The first well-documented example of a correspondence course ran as an ad in the Boston Gazette, where a man named Caleb Phillipps offered to teach shorthand to students anywhere in the country by exchanging letters.
  • Period: to

    Letter teaching

  • Shorthand by mail

    Shorthand by mail
    Sir Isaac Pitman, taught shorthandd by mail
  • Correspondence education Program Study

    Correspondence education Program Study
    https://www.onlineschools.org/visual-academy/the-history-of-online-schooling/ The “Society to Encourage Home Studies”, was established in Boston, Massachusetts by Ana Eliot Ticknor.
  • Correspondence Courses

    Correspondence Courses
    William Rainey Harper, the founding president of the University of Chicago, as the first person who established the practice of collegiate correspondence education in the United States The University of Chicago began offering correspondence courses, becoming the first traditional educational institution in the U.S.
  • State University of Iowa began offering course credit for broadcast courses

  • The University of Wisconsin began a statewide educational program phone-based.

  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Independent Study High School.

    Accredit High School via distant learning
  • Coastline Community College, offered a wide variety of telecourses.

    The first Virtual College, there were no physical colleges in operation at this time.
  • Period: to

    Revolutionized of Distant Learning

  • Western Behavioral Sciences Institute’s School of Management and Strategic Studies started an online program

  • Computer Assisted Learning Center in New Hampshire functioned as an offline adult education facility

  • Nova Southeastern University was offering accredited graduate degrees through online courses

  • Period: to

    Many different pilot programs were developed.

  • Michigan State University developed the Computer Assisted Personalized Approach (CAPA

  • CALCampus offered real-time education in its completely online school

  • Open University offered an experimental Virtual Summer School (VSS) to some of its Cognitive Psychology students.

  • The Jones International University became the first accredited fully web-based university

  • Institutions adopted the Interactive Learning Network, an e-learning system that used a relational database as its foundation.

  • Blackboard Inc., developed a standardized platform for course management and delivery

    Blackboard Inc., developed a standardized platform for course management and delivery
  • Blackboard Inc., developed a standardized platform for course management and delivery

  • Period: to

    Blackboard Inc., founded in 1997, developed a standardized platform for course management and delivery

  • SARS- WebCT (Web Course Tools), another content management system

  • CTET launched the Online Course Quality Pilot Project

    CTET serves as the final checkpoint during course production and therefore guarantees quality in course presentation.
  • YouTube launched

    YouTube launched
    This is how Youtubee looked like in 2005
  • YouTube EDU offered thousands of free lectures online.

    YouTube EDU offered thousands of free lectures online.
  • YouTube EDU offered thousands of free lectures online.

  • the for-profit institution Udacity began offering massive open online courses (MOOCs)

  • The first online-only public university in the United States,

  • Covid Outbreak- Shaping of Online Learning Platforms to Meet Student's Educational Needs

    Covid Outbreak- Shaping of Online Learning Platforms to Meet Student's Educational Needs
  • Rapid Growth of Online Learning

    Rapid Growth of Online Learning