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Transforming Education - Where We Went Right!

  • The long way to learn shorthand

    Caleb Phillips offered distance learning by advertising his expertise in the Boston Gazette.
  • Correspondence Programs

    Ana Elinor Ticknor started a correspondence program knows as the “Society to Encourage Home Studies” in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Distance learning via snail mail

    Farmers used the postal service to participate in a class at the University of Wisconsin. (Silverman, 2001)
  • Jack Tramiel

    Birth of Idek Trzmiel, Polish man and Auschwitz survivor, founded Commodore International.
  • The birth of a great one

    David Farber, the grandfather of the Internet was born.
  • “The Channel That Changes You”

    The University of Houston creates the first televised distance learning program. Courses mainly ran in the evenings so the working class could be home to watch.
  • Commodore International

    The company that created the first personal computer was founded
  • CSNET

    David Farber helps establish the Computer Science Network (CSNET) to raise awareness for computer networking technology.
  • The first PC

    Commodore International created the first personal computer for public use
  • Rising from the ashes

    The University of Phoenix launches, becoming the first college of higher education to promote online only education.
  • The Gore Bill

    Al Gore, claiming he invented the internet, allocates $600 million towards the advancement of the internet.
  • www.DidAlGoreReallyInventMe?.com

    Internet is open to the public for use with the World Wide Web.
  • Blackboard

    Blackboard Course Management software launches making it easier to navigate for students and instructors alike.
  • Learning Management Software

    Interactive learning is created, being used as an early LMS.
  • Asynchronous Learning

    The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks is established, promoting academic research of online education.
  • Online enrollment

    More than a third of college and university students are taking some if not all of their classes online.
  • Hindsight is 20/20

    The Corona virus has pushed instruction to the computer at home.