Online Learning History
From MoodleDocs
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
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
