Online Learning History
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
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
