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Correspondence Courses
Correspondence Courses, the beginning of distance learning, make a debut in the 1850's. This leads to radio courses in the 1920's, and then educational television in the 1950's. This then leads to video cassettes and then CD-Rom's until the internet (Williams, Covington & Paprock, 1999). -
USDLA
The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) is founded. (The United States Distance Learning Association, n.d.). -
World Wide Web
Invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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Florida Virtual School
The nation's first and largest online public school is founded.
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Wireless Internet
WiFi was invented and first released for consumers. No more connecting through phone lines! (The History of WiFi, 2014). -
Sloan-C
Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is founded. -
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Two million higher education students are taking online classes
At least two million higher-education students in the U.S. were engaged in distance education (Barbour, Clark, Siko, DeBruler & Bruno, 2019). -
iNACOL
"The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) released the first edition of their National Standards for Quality Online Courses" (Barbour, Clark, Siko, DeBruler & Bruno, 2019). -
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is founded. "In 2009, Salman Khan created the Khan Academy, an online educational platform that provides over three thousand digital lectures" (Pearcy, 2014). -
MOOC
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) begin at Stanford University (Pearcy, 2014). -
edX
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded their own MOOC, edX (Pearcy, 2014). -
Online Learning Consortium (OLC)
Sloan-C changes name to Online Learning Consortium (OLC).
