Evolution

Evolution of Online Learning

By ptremblay2009

  • First Correspondence Course

    First Correspondence Course
    The first official corresponse education program, "Society to Ecourage Studies at Home" was established in Boston MA.

  • First Traditional Education Institution Offers Correspondence Courses

    First Traditional Education Institution Offers Correspondence Courses
    "The University of Chicago began offering correspondence courses, becoming the first traditional educational institution in the U.S. to do so" (Miller, 2014).

  • Radio Correspondence

    Radio Correspondence
    Pennsylvania State College begins to broadcasts courses over the radio.

  • Watching Classes on TV?

    Watching Classes on TV?
    University of Houston begins offering televised college classes for credit.

  • Virtual Material Available Here

    Virtual Material Available Here
    The University of Illinois creates its own intranet network to allow students access to material and pre recorded lectures

  • Call It In Doctor!

    Call It In Doctor!
    University of Wisconsin starts the first telephonic correspondence course for Doctors

  • The Internet is Born

    The Internet is Born
    The first word is transmitted as data packets using an internet signal. The first word was "LOGIN"

  • Micro-Soft

    Micro-Soft
    Friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found the company Micro-Soft, Which later became Microsoft.

  • WWW

    WWW
    The World Wide Web is released to the public, begining the future of the internet as we know it. Click the link to see the first website. https://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/08/06/20-years-ago-today-the-world-wide-web-opened-to-the-public/

  • Online Grading

    Online Grading
    Western Michican University creates the first online grading system known as, "Computer Assisted Personalized Approach"

  • Real Time Instruction in the Virtual Environment

    Real Time Instruction in the Virtual Environment
    Access to the internet and the availability of personal computers allowed the Computer Assisted Learning Center evovle into the CALCampus, which offered the first online course with real time instruction

  • Blackboard and The Interactive Learning Network

    Blackboard and The Interactive Learning Network
    Blackboard Course Management and what later became LMS were created, enhacing the way students learn in an online environment.

  • Google Search

    Google Search
    The famous and popular search engine Google is created.

  • Open Education Resources

    Open Education Resources
    Wikipedia and CreativeCommons, both popular sites for open source information are launched
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    YouTube to YouTube/EDU

    YouTube is launched originally as a dating site and evolves into a widley popular video sharing site. YouTube/EDU according the National Education Association, "provides access to more than 500,000 educational videos" (Nast, n.d.)
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    Ongoing improvements in innovation

    With ongoing innovation and continuous advancements in technology the future of online education is unlimited.

    "87 percent of prospective online students use their mobile phones to search for potential programmes online and 67 percent of have even completed online coursework through their smart phones since being enrolled" (studyinternational.com, 2018).