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PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) system developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_System]. The system remains in operation until the mid-1990s.
PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) system developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_System]. The system remains in operation until the mid-1990s.


==1969 - "Founding of the Internet ==
==1969 - Founding of the Internet ==


US DoD commissions ARPANET.  [http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Hobbes Timeline]
US DoD commissions ARPANET.  [http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Hobbes Timeline]

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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 [1]. The system remains in operation until the mid-1990s.

1969 - Founding of the Internet

US DoD commissions ARPANET. Hobbes Timeline

1979 - USENET begins

US DoD commissions ARPANET. Hobbes Timeline

1995 - Mallard web-based course management system developed at the University of Illinois

Mallard overview

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_learning#See_also