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First Well-Documented Example of a Correspondence Course
"The first well-documented example of a correspondence course ran as an ad in the Boston Gazette, where a man named Caleb Phillipps offered to teach shorthand to students anywhere in the country by exchanging letters" (The History of Distance Learning: An Online Education Timeline 2021) -
Commercial Correspondence Colleges
"A resource offered that helped students to virtually complete their coursework" (The History of Online Schooling) -
Society to Encourage Studies at Home - First Correspondence School
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University of Chicago - First School to Offer Correspondence Course in the U.S
"The University of Chicago to begin offering correspondence courses, becoming the first traditional educational institution in the U.S. to do so" (The History of Distance Learning: An Online Education Timeline 2021) -
Radio Station Dedicated to Educational Broadcasting
"University of Wisconsin began using radio station as educational broadcasting resource"(Kentnor, 2015) -
University of Houston - Televised Broadcast Offered for College Credit
"University of Houston offered televised classes for college credit" (The History of Distance Learning: An Online Education Timeline 2021) -
First Instances of Online Learning
The first instance of Online Teaching can be tracked back to 1960 where the "University of Illinois through student terminals interlinked to form a network offered online learning as the internet was not invented as yet" (Sarkar, 2020) -
First Computer Based Program Introduced - PLATO
"First Computer-Based Training Program Introduced to the world - the program was known as PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations"(E-Learning Concepts, Trends, Applications 2014) -
Coastline Community College - First Virtual College
"Coastline Community College - first Virtual College to offer a wide variety of telecourses"(The History of Distance Learning: An Online Education Timeline 2021) -
University of Phoenix - First to offer Online Education Program through Internet
"University of Phoenix became first institution to offer virtual educational program using software CompuServe"(Kentnor, 2015) -
World-Wide Web Unveiled
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Asynchronous - Anytime, Anyplace Learning Program
"The purpose of which was to explore educational alternatives for people who wanted to pursue higher education but who could not easily attend regularly scheduled college classes"(Picciano, 2013) -
BlackBoard Inc
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YouTube Launched
(The History of Distance Learning: An Online Education Timeline 2021) -
YouTube EDU Offered Thousands of Free Lectures Online
(The History of Distance Learning: An Online Education Timeline 2021) -
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Launched
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AI - CHAT GPT
(Karjian, 2023)