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==1997 (about) - Pioneer developed by MEDC (University of Paisley) == | ==1997 (about) - Pioneer developed by MEDC (University of Paisley) == | ||
Pioneer was an online learning environment developed initially for colleges in Scotland. Pioneer was web-based and featured: | |||
online course materials (published by the lecturers themselves) | |||
integral email to allow communications between students and tutors | |||
forum tools | |||
chat tools | |||
timeatable | |||
The main driver for Pioneer was Jackie Galbraith. | |||
The Pioneer development team moved to SCET in 1998 taking Pioneer with them when it became SCETPioneer. | |||
SCETPioneer was used by Glasgow Colleges and a number of other colleges in Scotland | |||
SCET merged with the SCCC and became Learning and Teaching Scotland ([www.ltscotland.org]) | |||
== 1998 - WOLF / Learnwise == | == 1998 - WOLF / Learnwise == | ||
Revision as of 13:46, 31 July 2006
Let's build up a complete history of key milestones in internet-based learning. Each event should be a heading that includes the date.
1960 - PLATO
PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) system developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The system remains in operation until the mid-1990s. Wikipedia background on PLATO.
1969 - Founding of the Internet
US DoD commissions ARPANET. Hobbes Timeline
1971 - Ivan Illich's Learning Webs
Ivan Illich describes a computer-based education network in his book Deschooling Society
1979 - USENET begins
US DoD commissions ARPANET. Hobbes Timeline
1994 (about) - Development of Nathan Bodington VLE begins
Development of Nathan Bodington VLE at Leeds University begins from the Bionet TLTP project [1]
1994 - Lotus Development Corporation acquires the Human Interest Group
The system evolves into the Lotus Learning Management System and Lotus Virtual Classroom, now owned by IBM.
1995 - Mallard web-based course management system developed at the University of Illinois
1997 (about) - Pioneer developed by MEDC (University of Paisley)
Pioneer was an online learning environment developed initially for colleges in Scotland. Pioneer was web-based and featured:
online course materials (published by the lecturers themselves) integral email to allow communications between students and tutors forum tools chat tools timeatable
The main driver for Pioneer was Jackie Galbraith.
The Pioneer development team moved to SCET in 1998 taking Pioneer with them when it became SCETPioneer.
SCETPioneer was used by Glasgow Colleges and a number of other colleges in Scotland
SCET merged with the SCCC and became Learning and Teaching Scotland ([www.ltscotland.org])
1998 - WOLF / Learnwise
WOLF (Wolverhampton Online Learning Framework)[2] developed at Wolverhampton University's DELTA institute under the guidance of Steve Molyneux. This went on to be released commercially by Granada Learning as Learnwise [3]
1998 - Martin Dougiamas begins preliminary work on Moodle
This paper contains some early thoughts
August, 2002 - Moodle 1.0 is released
See Also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_language_learning CALI History in this
