-
Correspondence Learning
Charles Toussaint and Gustav Langenscheidt establish language school that communicates with students via mail. -
Distance College Degrees
State of New York authorizes college level degrees via distance learning -
High School Correspondence Learning
Correspondence learning becomes available to high school students in Benton Harbor, Michigan. -
Period: to
Radio and Television Instruction
Radio instruction met little success, but television became a well known tool in the classroom. -
Online Database
Georgia Institute of Technology creates and releases an online database for on campus use. -
Birth of the World Wide Web
-
Gopher created
The information retrieval system "Gopher" is created at the University of Minnesota. It is named after the university mascot. -
Web 2.0
The interactive web format known as web 2.0, or the read-write web, becomes available opening up the technology for many of the tools used in online learning as it is currently defined.
