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By onlyonemeg
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Boston Gazette - Shorthand Lessons
“Caleb Phillips, teacher of the new method of short hand” was seeking students for lessons to be sent weekly.' Persons in the Country desirous to Learn this Art, may by having the several Lessons sent weekly to them, be as perfectly instructed as those that live in Boston' (Battenberg 1971) -
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History of Education
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First computer programmer
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron and now commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. Because of this, she is often described as the world's first computer programmer. -
Training in stenography
The Phonographic Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. Secretarial training in stenographics was conducted through the USPS. Those who completd the coursework would receive a certificate. -
Anna Ticknor
Boston, MA Most early distance education was designed with women in mind. This program lasted 24 years and serviced some 10,000 women regarles of economic class. -
Colliery Engineer School Of Mines
Introduced a program to teach mine safety after many mining accidents had occurred. In 1895 the school became known as the International Correspondence Schools (ICS) also training iron and railroad workers. -
University of Chicago - William Rainey Harper
Established the first university-based distance education program. He believed in educating farmers and farmers’ children in order to support the state’s economic structure. This model was followed by other universities, including but not limited to the following: The State University of Iowa, Ohio State University Pennsylvania State College. -
Radio and Television Instruction
1934 University of Iowa was the first to begin using television as an instructional medium. Radio was used in 1938 in at least 200 city school systems, 25 state boards of education, and many colleges and universities broadcast educational programs for the public schools the teacher arranged the lessons for the broadcast and oversaw the classroom. (Tyson 1936) 1950 The Ford Foundation begins offering grants to develop televised educational programs. -
Instrustional Television - Licensing and funding
The FCC dedicated 20 television channels for universities’ use as instructional sites. California State University was the first to apply for ITFS licensing. The Ford Foundation was instrumental in funding educational projects and commercial television stations also aired educational programs regularly. -
Computers and Email
The use of email and computer bulleting board systems brought a better interpersonal experience to the way that distance education was managed. 1986 Adult Education via Computer 1 Jan 1986 Pennsylvania State University was an innovator and began offering computer-based courses, with audio conferencing, through its Adult Education Program. These classes were first offered only in-state but later grew. In 1989, this program offered classes to students in Mexico, Finland and Estonia. -
Online Degrees, Funding, Asynchronous Learning
International University College virtual university offers exclusive online courses and degrees. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation offers grants to develop asynchronous learning networks. New School for Social Research receives a grant to develop Distance Instruction for Adult Learners. Union Institute opens its undergraduate center for distance learning. University of Nebraska-Lincoln begins an online doctoral program in Educational Leadership and Higher Education. -
Virtual Learning - Moodle, LMS, Youtube EDU
Virtual Learning Environment, Moodle, is released.
2003 41% of homeschooled children in the US take part in distance learning.
2004 SAKAI project begins which leads to the development of free open source Learning Management System.
2005 almost 3.2 million US students were taking at least one online course during the autumn term of 2005.
2006 11,200 college level programs in the USA are designed to be completed totally through distance education.
2009 Youtube EDU introduced. -
GoToMeeting
TCS Education System first higher education institution in the nation to provide GoToMeeting which was developed in July 2004 for every student.
