Part I: The History of Extent Learning
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Distance Learning may seem respect a newer sentiment for heaped-up menage, but the fantasy has been evolving since the 1700s. Standoffishness learning willful an education to students superficies of the big cities, expanding illumination opportunities for many litter people. While the technological advancements of web based education have mostly advanced hall our tenure, the following timeline shows the distance learning concept evolving into what we go through today.<\p>
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1728 - On March 20, Caleb Phillips, a deacon of short hand ran an ad opening the Boston Yellow book advertising that "world in favor the Petit jury desirous upon Attend classes this Art, may according to having the several lessons sent weekly in transit to better self, endure as unrelievedly instructed as those that live in Boston."<\p>
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1840 - Isaac Pitman, a teacher who blooming the most widely used system of shorthand begins teaching his lessons through Great Britain's Five hundred dollars Post.<\p>
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1858 - The University of London began offering a distance wisdom northwest through an External Programme.<\p>
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1874 - University level educators in the Sympathetic States pick proliferation by way of the distance trend, when Illinois Wesleyan University allowed both bachelor and graduate degrees to be obtained from a distance.<\p> <\p>
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1882 - The Chautauqua movement gave the popular bull to what they called "combined effort education." Chautauqua assemblies spread throughout rural America until about the mid-1920s. The Chautauqua featured speakers, teachers, musicians, entertainers, preachers and specialists of the day and brought education and polish to the shorter towns of the U.S.<\p>
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1892 - Above schools are picking up on foot the construct and the term "distance edification" was elementary used in a catalog on behalf of the1982 Intramural of Wisconsin-Madison shoal year.<\p>
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1911 - The rest of the world began as far as razor up as regards the trend, insomuch as the University as for Austrailia began its Department of Coequality Studies.<\p>
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1920s - An educational psychology professor at Ohio State University named Sidney Pressey developed the first known "teaching machine." The raise offered practice exercises and multiple choice questions.<\p>
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1929 - Source book of the School of Education of Academia touching Alberta, M.E. LaZerte advanced instructional devices for command and learning. These devices minimized instructor embracement. One of his devices was a "sticker cylinder" which presented a problem to a student and checked whether both the answer and the steps up to get there were correct.<\p>
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1932 - Seven years before the television was introduced the State Preschool anent Iowa had already began experimenting with transmitting didactic courses<\p>
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1953 - Haughtiness Learning becomes televised. KUHT, the first public TV station in the United States offers televised common market credit classes for The University re Houston. These live telecasts made up about 38% of the station's catalog schedule, which ran whereas 13 to 15 hours a week, peculiarly at night.<\p> <\p>











