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Boston Gazette
Private Correspondance courses are added to the Boston Gazette -
Degree offered World Wide
University of London is the first to offer degrees worldwide becuase of Queen Victoria -
University of Chicago
1st education in US to offer correspondance courses -
Distance Education Univ Queensland
This universitry helps distance education in Australia -
University of South Africa
The University of South Africa establishes a nationwide distance education program -
Radio College
John Wilkinson Taylor and NBC offer college by Radio -
College Credit by TV
University of Houston has the first set of classes offered through TV. -
Open University
Colleges in UK use both radio and TV to offer classes -
Coastline Community College
the first college to not have a physical campus -
BlackBoard, eCollege and Smarthinking
Online Educational tools making online classes possible to track -
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Number of Online Student increases
2002-2008 online classes rises 187%
2009 over 4.9 million students are taking some type of online class
By 2009 42% of studnet taking Online Classes come from For Profit Colleges -
Massive Open Online Courses
MOOC's are introduced