[Open-education] History of Distance Education

Wed Apr 29 12:27:27 UTC 2015

I've pulled together the timelines suggested and a few others in this post:

http://education.okfn.org/open-education-timelines-just-like-buses/

Marieke

On 29/04/2015 10:34, Paul Bacsich Sero wrote:
> Good stuff also at 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments 
> to which I and many others of the DL and eL community contributed.
>
> Paul
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: John Domingue
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 9:53 AM
> To: madison at brightonsbm.com
> Cc: open-education at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: Re: [Open-education] History of Distance Education
>
> Hi Richard, don’t want to be mean but I think your history has big 
> holes in it
>
> maybe I’m biased but I’m amazed that you missed out the OU
>
> http://www.open.ac.uk/about/main/strategy/ou-story
>
>
> also I didn’t see any reference to MOOCs!
>
> I would also include the use of data in distance education such as 
> data.open.ac.uk
>
> I would recommend you look at texts in the area such as:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Mega-universities-Knowledge-Media-John-Daniel/dp/0749426349 
>
>
> best
>
> John
>
>
>> On 29 Apr 2015, at 08:45, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> Thanks for sharing the time line with us. It looks great!
>>
>> Just a reminder to the list that we have an Open Education timeline 
>> that people can add to. It's looking a little unloved at the moment 
>> so could do with some revisiting.
>> http://education.okfn.org/timeline/
>>
>> Marieke
>>
>>
>> On 24/04/2015 08:37, Madison - BSBM wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> My name is Richard Madison and I am the Marketing Executive of the 
>>> Brighton School of Business & Management.
>>> It often comes as a surprise that distance learning is not a modern 
>>> phenomenon, in fact, the earliest instances of distance learning 
>>> date back as far as 1728! To celebrate the distance learning we have 
>>> produced this interactive timeline http://goo.gl/Q7407c charting the 
>>> history of this educational movement.
>>> I thought you might wish to publish it for your readers. If you do 
>>> decide to publish either, all I ask is that you link to our website 
>>> using this url  [ 
>>> http://www.brightonsbm.com/hnd-hnc-hospitality-management/hnd-diploma-hospitality.php 
>>> .]. Attached is the embed code for publishing the timeline on your 
>>> site.
>>> If you have any feedback, do let me know.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
>>>
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