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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] | ||
==1971 - Ivan Illich's Learning Webs == | |||
Ivan Illich describes a computer-based education network in his book [http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Deschooling/chap6.html Deschooling Society] | |||
==1979 - USENET begins == | ==1979 - USENET begins == | ||
Revision as of 10:39, 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]
1995 - Mallard web-based course management system developed at the University of Illinois
Mallard overview
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
