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Broadcasting educational radio programs!
The British Broadcasting Cooperations (BBC) began broadcasting educational radio programs for schools in 1920. -
Television was first used in education!
Television was first used in education in 1960s, for schools and general adult education (one of the six purposes in the current BBC's Royal Charter is still 'promoting education and learning') -
OPEN UNIVERSITY (OU)
British government established the Open University (OU), which worked in partnership with the BBC to develop university programs open to all, using a combination originally of printed materials specially designed by OU staff, and television and radio programs made by the BBC but integrated with the courses. -
Satellite Broadcasting
Satellite broadcasting started become available in the 1980s. -
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High speed INTERNET & Software?
In the 1990s the cost of creating and distributing video dropped dramatically due to digital compression and high-speed Internet access. . The technology allows students to view or review lectures at any time and place with an Internet connection. Also at the end of World War Two the U.S. Army started using overhead projectors for training, and their use became common for lecturing, until being largely replaced by electronic projectors and presentational software such as Powerpoint in 1990. -
The World Wide Web
The World Wide Web launched in 1991. It is basically on app running on the Internet that enables 'end-users' to create and link documents videos or other digital media without the end-user to transcribe everything into some form of computer code. -
LMS?
The Web enabled the development of the first learning management systems (LMS) such as WebCT (which later became Blackboard)
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT started making its recorded lectures available to public, free of charge via its OpenCourseWare project. -
YOUTUBE!
Youtube started in 2005. In 2006 Youtube was bought by Google. Youtube is increasingly used for short educational clips that can be downloaded and integrated into online courses. -
MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE (MOOC)
MOOC is a community of practice that linked webinar presentations and/or blog posts by experts to participants' blogs and tweets with just over 2000 enrollments.
