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Anna Ticknor
Anna Ticknor creates society to promote learning at home in Boston, Ma. This school was to increase educational opportunities for women. This was largely a correspondence school. Books and assignments were mailed to students and students completed the assignments and mailed them back to the school.
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16 Jan 1873
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Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts in New York state
Chautrauqua is authorized by the State of New York to grant college degrees to students who attended summer institutes and completed other assignments by correspondence
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Use of film as Distance Education
Thomas Alva Edison claimed that film would revolutionize education as we know it in 1910 (Saettler, 1968, p. 68). -
National Extension University Association created
The NEUA was created to broaden the focus of correspondence study to include improved pedagogy, guidelines, and policies regarding acceptance of credit earned by correspondence. In addition credit transfer and standardized quality were considered (Adolfson & Brouille, 1953). -
Radio Boraodcasting distance education attempted.
The federal government granted licenses to 202 colleges and universities to conduct distance education by radio and correspondence. But by 1940 only one college course was being offered by radio (Nasseh, 1997). -
television used as distance education tool
Shortly after World War II television licenses were awarded to Colleges and Universities in order to conduct classes on televison along with correspondence to turn in assignments. Research on this method by Childs proved TV and correspondence used together to be as good as face to face classes (Almenda, 1988). -
MPATI or Midwest Program on Airborne Television
MPATI broadcast educational classes from 2 DC6AB airplanes to schools throughout the midwest. Purdue University ran the program from 1960 to 1968. Classes were compiled at the Stewart Center and then planes were launched from the Purdue Airport. The Ford Foundation provided funding (Carnegie Commision, 1979). Although short lived, the program was a great success because it generated interest in six states to develop a coordinated ETV or Educational Televison Program. -
British Open University
The British Open University was developed based upon the urging of Harold Wilson of the Labour party to create a "Univerity of the Air." Later Wilson as leader of the British parliment named Jennie Lee the minister of arts with direct instructions to develop the University of the Air. Lee was tireless in her efforts to create such a school. When OU opened it had 25,000 students in 1971 as of 2013 the School enrollment exceeds 250,000 (O.U. 2013). -
Satellite and Cable TV as delivery medium
The term "distance education" came into vogue in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Feasley (1983) pointed out that distance education students are motivated by their work load, family obligation or remote and isolated living place made distance education a necessity. The "Mind Extension University" started by Glenn Jones gained support from several well known state universitis in 1991 (Wright, 1991). Mind Extension University later became Jones International University. -
"No Significant Diffierence"
Thomas L. Russell (1996) conducted a study for the Office of Instructional Telecommunications and found "No Significant Difference" between distance education and face to face education. Russell researched 218 studies from 1945 until 1996 and found that students learn equally well in face to face or distance education programs.
