Timeline of the History of Online Learning

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  • The Written Era - The First Distance Learning Course

    The World's First Distance Learning Course is established in Boston with lessons sent by mail.

  • The Written Era - Shorthand is taught

    Shorthand is Taught by correspondence in Great Britain

  • The Radio Era - Penn State offers courses through radio

    Penn State begins offering courses through the radio

  • The Radio Era - Colleges & Universities granted radio licenses

    By 1925, 200+ colleges and universities have been granted radio broadcasting licenses

  • The Radio Era - First State-Wide telephone based program

    The first state-wide telephone based education program is offered by the University of Wisconsin.

  • The TV Era - Stanford Univ founds instructional TV Network

    Stanford University founded the Stanford Instructional TV Network, offering instructions for PT engineering students.

  • The TV Era - US Dept of Defense creates the internet

    US Department of Defense creates the Internet (ARPANET)

  • The TV Era - Social Critic, Ivan Illich, writes "Deschooling Society"

    Social Critic, Ivan Illich, writes "Deschooling Society," which describes computer based education

  • The Online Era - University of Phoenix is founded

    University of Phoenix is founded to give working adults flexible higher educational options

  • The Online Era - The Electronic University Network

    The Electronic University Network offers a PhD Program via America On Line (AOL)

  • The Online Era - The first completely online curriculum is introduced

    The first online curriculum is introduced by CalCampus

  • The Modern Era - Western Governors Unv is founded

    The Western Governors University is founded by 19 US Governors to help western states minimize educational resources through distant learning.

  • The Modern Era - CVU - California Virtual University Consortium

    CVU (California Virtual University), consortium of California colleges offering more than 1,000 online courses is launched

  • The Modern Era - The World is Introduced to New Educational Tools

    The World is introduced to a host of new educational tools including Blackboard and eCollege.

  • The Modern Era - Advances in Online Education Tools continue

    Advances in Online Educational Tools, continues. Moodle.com begins running Moodle.

  • The Modern Era - The OpenCourseWare Project

    The Open Course Ware Project, a resource of free online courses, materials from MIT becomes available.

  • The Modern Era - 81% of colleges have at least 1 online class.

    81% of colleges have at least 1 online class

  • The Modern Era - First Ever MOOC

    The first MOOC Advanced Learning Interactive System Online (ALISON), is created.

  • The Modern Era - Khan Academy is founded.

    Khan Academy is founded. StraighterLine is founded and begins connecting online students with high quality, affordable, and transferable online college courses.

  • The Modern Era - The number of students taking at least 1 course reaches 5.5 mil.

    The number of students taking at least 1 online course reached 5.5 million.

  • The Modern Era - 83% of CEOs and small business owners go online to expand their horizons

    80+% of CEOs, executives, politicians and celebrities flock to their computers to learn new skills and expand their horizons

  • The Modern Era - 77% of academic leaders rate the learning outcomes in online education

    77% of academic leaders rate the learning outcomes in online education as the same, or superior, to those as in f2f instructions, up from 57% in 2003.

  • The Modern Era - 98% of public colleges and universities offer online programs

    98% of public colleges and universities offer students online courses and programs.