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Online education is a modern version of distance learning, which started as mail assignments in Great Britain over 170 years ago.
Back then, instructors sent lessons and received the assignments of students by email.
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- CALCampus offered the first truly online courses with real-time instruction and live interaction. This was a time when the world-wide-web was only available through a dialup modem and extremely low speeds compared to what we have today.
- The California Virtu...
- In 1960, the University Of Illinois created an intranet, a closed system of linked computer terminals for students to access shared material. This evolved into PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), which expanded the same technology across the globe.
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The heady 80s had the Electronic University Network (EUN) started providing online courses to colleges and universities.
It used the DOS software and Commodore 64 computers and later collaborated with American Online (AOL) a popular online service in the 90s.
The perception of online education has drastically changed as compared to the initial correspondence courses.
It is now an accepted education choice and is set to quadruple due to the ongoing crisis which leaves it as the only option for most of the world. Advances in har...
In 2002, MIT began providing course materials and lectures for free, anywhere in the world.
The number of students for online courses jumped to about 5.5 million by 2007, and many corporates began to realize the quality of education provided remotely, even though initiall...
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Online dating didn’t really begin with the advent of the internet.
The need to communicate to other human beings for love, companionship and sex goes back centuries, with each new technology opening up further avenues and fresh ways to reach out.
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There are three ways of interpreting when each "fashion week" started.
- When fashion shows started to become assembled seasonally.
- When the phrase "fashion week" began to be used.
- When an organisation began o...
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