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Online Learning History

2006-08-03T21:58:31Z

Dilettante: added Desire2Learn

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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_System Wikipedia background on PLATO].

==1962 - R. Buckminster Fuller publishes ''Education Automation'' ==

Relevant quote: "Get the most comprehensive generalized computer setup with network connections to process the documentaries that your faculty and graduate-student teams will manufacture objectively from the subjective gleanings of your vast new world- and universe-ranging student probers." (p.85)

==1969 - Founding of the Internet ==

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 ==

USENET established using UUCP between Duke and UNC by Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis, and Steve Bellovin. All original groups were under net.* hierarchy. [http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Hobbes Timeline]

==1982 - Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) ==

The Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) was founded in 1982 in Rindge, New Hampshire, as a small, offline computer-based, adult learning center. The center was based on the same premise as today: to provide affordable, quality instruction to individual learners through the use of computers. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1984 - CSILE ==
CSILE, an educational knowledge media system, developed by Scardamalia & Bereiter at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. ... CSILE based on Zimmerman's (1989) self-regulated learning (CSILE term is intentional learning) and constructivists' view of learning. It emphasizes on building a classroom culture supportive of active knowledge construction that can extend individual intentional learning to the group level. The purpose is to make students think and reflect their thought process which provoke question asking and answering in a public forum. The ultimate goal is to get students involved in knowledge itself rather than improve one's mind, a World 3 view , which shifts from individual mastery learning to improve the quality of public collective knowledge (Scardamalia, et al., 1994). - from [http://www.edb.utexas.edu/csclstudent/Dhsiao/theories.html#csile]

==1987 - M/EU (Mind Extension University) ==
In 1987, Jones launched M/EU, a cable channel carrying varied educational programming... The advent of the Internet helped facilitate communication in these telecourses.[http://www.media-visions.com/ed-distlrn2.html]

==1992 - CAPA (Computer Assisted Personalized Approach) ==
The system was developed at Michigan State University and was first used in a small (92 student) physics class in the Fall of 1992.[http://web.archive.org/web/20000915112215/capa2.nscl.msu.edu/homepage/]

==1994 - Lotus Development Corporation acquires the Human Interest Group ==

The system evolves into the [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-elearning_evolution/ Lotus Learning Management System and Lotus Virtual Classroom], now owned by IBM.

==1994 - Open University Virtual Summer School==
[http://kmi.open.ac.uk/kmi-misc/virtualsummer.html]

In August and September 1994, a Virtual Summer School (VSS) for Open University undergraduate course D309 Cognitive Psychology enabled students to attend an experimental version of summer school 'electronically', i.e. from their own homes using a computer and a modem. VSS students were able to participate in group discussions, run experiments, obtain one-to-one tuition, listen to lectures, ask questions, participate as subjects in experiments, conduct literature searches, browse original journal publications, work in project teams, undertake statistical analyses, prepare and submit nicely formatted individual or joint written work, prepare plenary session presentations, and even socialize and chit-chat, all without ever leaving their homes.

==1994/95 - CALCampus.com ==

CALCampus was the first to develop and implement the concept of a totally online-based school through which administration, real-time classroom instruction, and materials were provided, originating with the QuantumLink campus. This was a significant departure from earlier methods of distance education because no longer was the individual distance learner isolated from the teacher and from classmates. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1995 - Mallard web-based course management system developed at the University of Illinois ==
[http://www.uic.edu/depts/adn/itl/uionline/mallard.html Mallard overview]. See also CyberProf[http://web.archive.org/web/19971016101057/cyber.ccsr.uiuc.edu/cyberprof/general/homepage/Newpage/toplevel/welcome.html] (also copyrighted in 1995 from University of Illinois)

==1995 - BSCW 1.0==
[http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/Papers/index.html Papers and timeline are here]

==1995 - Nicenet ICA launched to the public ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicenet

== 1995/6 - WOLF / Learnwise ==
WOLF (Wolverhampton Online Learning Framework)[http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level4.asp?UserType=11&Level4=841] developed at Wolverhampton University's DELTA institute under the guidance of Stephen Molyneux. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Molyneux] This went on to be released commercially by Granada Learning as Learnwise [http://www.learnwise.net]

==1997 - Manhattan Virtual Classroom in use ==

Manhattan was in use at this time at Western New England College, and included [http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/?What_is_it%3F handouts, assignments, forums etc]

==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.

When MEDC was closed, 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 [http://www.ltscotland.org.uk Learning and Teaching Scotland]

==1997 - Deployment of Nathan Bodington VLE ==

Development of Nathan Bodington VLE at Leeds University begins from the Bionet TLTP project

[http://bodington.org/history.php History of Bodington]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments Dates of Bodington development appear here]

==1997 - WebCT 1.0 was released==
[http://www.webct.com/service/viewcontentframe?contentID=5653208 Powerpoint presentation]

==1997 - Blackboard was founded ==
[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Martin Dougiamas begins preliminary work on Moodle ==
[http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf1999/dougiamas.html This paper contains some early thoughts]

==1998 - Blackboard released its first software product ==
An online learning application developed at Cornell University[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Nicenet ICA2 is launched ==
Nicenet provides Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA2) with web-based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. http://www.nicenet.org/ica/ica_info.cfm

==1998 - CNAMS 1.0 is released ==
The Cisco Networking Academy Management System (CNAMS) is released to faciliate communication and course management of the largest blended learning initiative of its time, the Cisco Networking Academy. It includes tools to maintain rosters, gradebooks, forums, as well as a scalable, robust assessment engine.

== 1999 ==

*Martin trials early prototypes of Moodle. Martin's paper, [http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2000/dougiamas.html Improving the effectiveness of tools for Internet based education,] details one case study and includes screenshots
*Desire2Learn founded in Canada

==2000 - Claroline project was initiated ==

The Claroline project was initiated in 2000 at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) by Thomas De Praetere and was financially supported by the Louvain Foundation.

[http://www.claroline.net/ claroline.net]

[http://www.claroline.net/credits.htm dates and credits]

==2000 - Manhattan 1.0 is released ==

In October of 2000, Manhattan Virtual Campus was released in its entirety on the Internet for free under the GNU General Public License. http://manhattan.sourceforge.net

==2001, November - Moodle.com runs Moodle==
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1 See this announcement]

==2002 Multiple Events ==
*August - Moodle 1.0 is released
*Summer - Seque Project releases first version of its elearning software
*September - Site@School released

==2004, January - Sakai Project is formed from several college and university projects ==

==2006, June - Moodle 1.6 is released ==

==2006, July 26 - Blackboard announces Patent 6,988,138 ==

[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,988,138.PN.&OS=PN/6,988,138&RS=PN/6,988,138 This patent], filed on June 30, 2000 (with pending and related applications dating as early as June 1999) and issued on January 17, 2006, contains very extensive claims pertaining to every aspect of online course delivery. The breadth of this patent would seemingly give Blackboard the ability to enforce this intellectual property against other producers of online course delivery systems.

==See Also ==

http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Online_Training/Delivery_and_Management_Systems/

http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Instructional_Technology/Course_Website_Software/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_language_learning CALI History in this

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

[http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED412357&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900000b8012429a&accno=ED412357 Foundations of Distance Education]

[http://kolea.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/tcc_conf97/tcon/0001.html 1997 Conference: Trends & Issues in Online Instruction]

http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/SEP01_Issue/article01.html
mentions: Unix courses @ Nova University early 70s and National Technological University (NTU)

Online Learning History

2006-08-02T21:45:21Z

Dilettante:

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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_System Wikipedia background on PLATO].

==1962 - R. Buckminster Fuller publishes ''Education Automation'' ==

Relevant quote: "Get the most comprehensive generalized computer setup with network connections to process the documentaries that your faculty and graduate-student teams will manufacture objectively from the subjective gleanings of your vast new world- and universe-ranging student probers." (p.85)

==1969 - Founding of the Internet ==

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 ==

USENET established using UUCP between Duke and UNC by Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis, and Steve Bellovin. All original groups were under net.* hierarchy. [http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Hobbes Timeline]

==1982 - Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) ==

The Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) was founded in 1982 in Rindge, New Hampshire, as a small, offline computer-based, adult learning center. The center was based on the same premise as today: to provide affordable, quality instruction to individual learners through the use of computers. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1984 - CSILE ==
CSILE, an educational knowledge media system, developed by Scardamalia & Bereiter at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. ... CSILE based on Zimmerman's (1989) self-regulated learning (CSILE term is intentional learning) and constructivists' view of learning. It emphasizes on building a classroom culture supportive of active knowledge construction that can extend individual intentional learning to the group level. The purpose is to make students think and reflect their thought process which provoke question asking and answering in a public forum. The ultimate goal is to get students involved in knowledge itself rather than improve one's mind, a World 3 view , which shifts from individual mastery learning to improve the quality of public collective knowledge (Scardamalia, et al., 1994). - from [http://www.edb.utexas.edu/csclstudent/Dhsiao/theories.html#csile]

==1987 - M/EU (Mind Extension University) ==
In 1987, Jones launched M/EU, a cable channel carrying varied educational programming... The advent of the Internet helped facilitate communication in these telecourses.[http://www.media-visions.com/ed-distlrn2.html]

==1992 - CAPA (Computer Assisted Personalized Approach) ==
The system was developed at Michigan State University and was first used in a small (92 student) physics class in the Fall of 1992.[http://web.archive.org/web/20000915112215/capa2.nscl.msu.edu/homepage/]

==1994 - Lotus Development Corporation acquires the Human Interest Group ==

The system evolves into the [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-elearning_evolution/ Lotus Learning Management System and Lotus Virtual Classroom], now owned by IBM.

==1994 - Open University Virtual Summer School==
[http://kmi.open.ac.uk/kmi-misc/virtualsummer.html]

In August and September 1994, a Virtual Summer School (VSS) for Open University undergraduate course D309 Cognitive Psychology enabled students to attend an experimental version of summer school 'electronically', i.e. from their own homes using a computer and a modem. VSS students were able to participate in group discussions, run experiments, obtain one-to-one tuition, listen to lectures, ask questions, participate as subjects in experiments, conduct literature searches, browse original journal publications, work in project teams, undertake statistical analyses, prepare and submit nicely formatted individual or joint written work, prepare plenary session presentations, and even socialize and chit-chat, all without ever leaving their homes.

==1994/95 - CALCampus.com ==

CALCampus was the first to develop and implement the concept of a totally online-based school through which administration, real-time classroom instruction, and materials were provided, originating with the QuantumLink campus. This was a significant departure from earlier methods of distance education because no longer was the individual distance learner isolated from the teacher and from classmates. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1995 - Mallard web-based course management system developed at the University of Illinois ==
[http://www.uic.edu/depts/adn/itl/uionline/mallard.html Mallard overview]. See also CyberProf[http://web.archive.org/web/19971016101057/cyber.ccsr.uiuc.edu/cyberprof/general/homepage/Newpage/toplevel/welcome.html] (also copyrighted in 1995 from University of Illinois)

==1995 - BSCW 1.0==
[http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/Papers/index.html Papers and timeline are here]

==1995 - Nicenet ICA launched to the public ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicenet

== 1995/6 - WOLF / Learnwise ==
WOLF (Wolverhampton Online Learning Framework)[http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level4.asp?UserType=11&Level4=841] developed at Wolverhampton University's DELTA institute under the guidance of Stephen Molyneux. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Molyneux] This went on to be released commercially by Granada Learning as Learnwise [http://www.learnwise.net]

==1997 - Manhattan Virtual Classroom in use ==

Manhattan was in use at this time at Western New England College, and included [http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/?What_is_it%3F handouts, assignments, forums etc]

==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.

When MEDC was closed, 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 [http://www.ltscotland.org.uk Learning and Teaching Scotland]

==1997 - Deployment of Nathan Bodington VLE ==

Development of Nathan Bodington VLE at Leeds University begins from the Bionet TLTP project

[http://bodington.org/history.php History of Bodington]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments Dates of Bodington development appear here]

==1997 - WebCT 1.0 was released==
[http://www.webct.com/service/viewcontentframe?contentID=5653208 Powerpoint presentation]

==1997 - Blackboard was founded ==
[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Martin Dougiamas begins preliminary work on Moodle ==
[http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf1999/dougiamas.html This paper contains some early thoughts]

==1998 - Blackboard released its first software product ==
An online learning application developed at Cornell University[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Nicenet ICA2 is launched ==
Nicenet provides Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA2) with web-based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. http://www.nicenet.org/ica/ica_info.cfm

==1998 - CNAMS 1.0 is released ==
The Cisco Networking Academy Management System (CNAMS) is released to faciliate communication and course management of the largest blended learning initiative of its time, the Cisco Networking Academy. It includes tools to maintain rosters, gradebooks, forums, as well as a scalable, robust assessment engine.

==1999 - Martin trials early prototypes of Moodle==
This paper details one case study and includes screenshots [http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2000/dougiamas.html Improving the effectiveness of tools for Internet based education]

==2000 - Manhattan 1.0 is released ==

In October of 2000, Manhattan Virtual Campus was released in its entirety on the Internet for free under the GNU General Public License. http://manhattan.sourceforge.net

==2001, November - Moodle.com runs Moodle==
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1 See this announcement]

==2002 Multiple Events ==
*August - Moodle 1.0 is released
*Summer - Seque Project releases first version of its elearning software
*September - Site@School released

==2004, January - Sakai Project is formed from several college and university projects ==

==2006, June - Moodle 1.6 is released ==

==2006, July 26 - Blackboard announces Patent 6,988,138 ==

[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,988,138.PN.&OS=PN/6,988,138&RS=PN/6,988,138 This patent], filed on June 30, 2000 (with pending and related applications dating as early as June 1999) and issued on January 17, 2006, contains very extensive claims pertaining to every aspect of online course delivery. The breadth of this patent would seemingly give Blackboard the ability to enforce this intellectual property against other producers of online course delivery systems.

==See Also ==

http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Online_Training/Delivery_and_Management_Systems/

http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Instructional_Technology/Course_Website_Software/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_language_learning CALI History in this

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

[http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED412357&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900000b8012429a&accno=ED412357 Foundations of Distance Education]

[http://kolea.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/tcc_conf97/tcon/0001.html 1997 Conference: Trends & Issues in Online Instruction]

http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/SEP01_Issue/article01.html
mentions: Unix courses @ Nova University early 70s and National Technological University (NTU)

Online Learning History

2006-08-02T21:38:19Z

Dilettante: added Site@School reference

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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_System Wikipedia background on PLATO].

==1962 - R. Buckminster Fuller publishes ''Education Automation'' ==

Relevant quote: "Get the most comprehensive generalized computer setup with network connections to process the documentaries that your faculty and graduate-student teams will manufacture objectively from the subjective gleanings of your vast new world- and universe-ranging student probers." (p.85)

==1969 - Founding of the Internet ==

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 ==

USENET established using UUCP between Duke and UNC by Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis, and Steve Bellovin. All original groups were under net.* hierarchy. [http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Hobbes Timeline]

==1982 - Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) ==

The Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) was founded in 1982 in Rindge, New Hampshire, as a small, offline computer-based, adult learning center. The center was based on the same premise as today: to provide affordable, quality instruction to individual learners through the use of computers. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1984 - CSILE ==
CSILE, an educational knowledge media system, developed by Scardamalia & Bereiter at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. ... CSILE based on Zimmerman's (1989) self-regulated learning (CSILE term is intentional learning) and constructivists' view of learning. It emphasizes on building a classroom culture supportive of active knowledge construction that can extend individual intentional learning to the group level. The purpose is to make students think and reflect their thought process which provoke question asking and answering in a public forum. The ultimate goal is to get students involved in knowledge itself rather than improve one's mind, a World 3 view , which shifts from individual mastery learning to improve the quality of public collective knowledge (Scardamalia, et al., 1994). - from [http://www.edb.utexas.edu/csclstudent/Dhsiao/theories.html#csile]

==1987 - M/EU (Mind Extension University) ==
In 1987, Jones launched M/EU, a cable channel carrying varied educational programming... The advent of the Internet helped facilitate communication in these telecourses.[http://www.media-visions.com/ed-distlrn2.html]

==1992 - CAPA (Computer Assisted Personalized Approach) ==
The system was developed at Michigan State University and was first used in a small (92 student) physics class in the Fall of 1992.[http://web.archive.org/web/20000915112215/capa2.nscl.msu.edu/homepage/]

==1994 - Lotus Development Corporation acquires the Human Interest Group ==

The system evolves into the [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-elearning_evolution/ Lotus Learning Management System and Lotus Virtual Classroom], now owned by IBM.

==1994 - Open University Virtual Summer School==
[http://kmi.open.ac.uk/kmi-misc/virtualsummer.html]

In August and September 1994, a Virtual Summer School (VSS) for Open University undergraduate course D309 Cognitive Psychology enabled students to attend an experimental version of summer school 'electronically', i.e. from their own homes using a computer and a modem. VSS students were able to participate in group discussions, run experiments, obtain one-to-one tuition, listen to lectures, ask questions, participate as subjects in experiments, conduct literature searches, browse original journal publications, work in project teams, undertake statistical analyses, prepare and submit nicely formatted individual or joint written work, prepare plenary session presentations, and even socialize and chit-chat, all without ever leaving their homes.

==1994/95 - CALCampus.com ==

CALCampus was the first to develop and implement the concept of a totally online-based school through which administration, real-time classroom instruction, and materials were provided, originating with the QuantumLink campus. This was a significant departure from earlier methods of distance education because no longer was the individual distance learner isolated from the teacher and from classmates. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1995 - Mallard web-based course management system developed at the University of Illinois ==
[http://www.uic.edu/depts/adn/itl/uionline/mallard.html Mallard overview]. See also CyberProf[http://web.archive.org/web/19971016101057/cyber.ccsr.uiuc.edu/cyberprof/general/homepage/Newpage/toplevel/welcome.html] (also copyrighted in 1995 from University of Illinois)

==1995 - BSCW 1.0==
[http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/Papers/index.html Papers and timeline are here]

==1995 - Nicenet ICA launched to the public ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicenet

== 1995/6 - WOLF / Learnwise ==
WOLF (Wolverhampton Online Learning Framework)[http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level4.asp?UserType=11&Level4=841] developed at Wolverhampton University's DELTA institute under the guidance of Stephen Molyneux. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Molyneux] This went on to be released commercially by Granada Learning as Learnwise [http://www.learnwise.net]

==1997 - Manhattan Virtual Classroom in use ==

Manhattan was in use at this time at Western New England College, and included [http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/?What_is_it%3F handouts, assignments, forums etc]

==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.

When MEDC was closed, 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 [http://www.ltscotland.org.uk Learning and Teaching Scotland]

==1997 - Deployment of Nathan Bodington VLE ==

Development of Nathan Bodington VLE at Leeds University begins from the Bionet TLTP project

[http://bodington.org/history.php History of Bodington]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments Dates of Bodington development appear here]

==1997 - WebCT 1.0 was released==
[http://www.webct.com/service/viewcontentframe?contentID=5653208 Powerpoint presentation]

==1997 - Blackboard was founded ==
[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Martin Dougiamas begins preliminary work on Moodle ==
[http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf1999/dougiamas.html This paper contains some early thoughts]

==1998 - Blackboard released its first software product ==
An online learning application developed at Cornell University[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Nicenet ICA2 is launched ==
Nicenet provides Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA2) with web-based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. http://www.nicenet.org/ica/ica_info.cfm

==1998 - CNAMS 1.0 is released ==
The Cisco Networking Academy Management System (CNAMS) is released to faciliate communication and course management of the largest blended learning initiative of its time, the Cisco Networking Academy. It includes tools to maintain rosters, gradebooks, forums, as well as a scalable, robust assessment engine.

==1999 - Martin trials early prototypes of Moodle==
This paper details one case study and includes screenshots [http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2000/dougiamas.html Improving the effectiveness of tools for Internet based education]

==2000 - Manhattan 1.0 is released ==

In October of 2000, Manhattan Virtual Campus was released in its entirety on the Internet for free under the GNU General Public License. http://manhattan.sourceforge.net

==2001, November - Moodle.com runs Moodle==
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1 See this announcement]

==2002==
*August - Moodle 1.0 is released
*Summer - Seque Project releases first version of its elearning software
*September - Site@School released

==2004, January - Sakai Project is formed from several college and university projects ==

==2006, June - Moodle 1.6 is released ==

==2006, July 26 - Blackboard announces Patent 6,988,138 ==

[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,988,138.PN.&OS=PN/6,988,138&RS=PN/6,988,138 This patent], filed on June 30, 2000 (with pending and related applications dating as early as June 1999) and issued on January 17, 2006, contains very extensive claims pertaining to every aspect of online course delivery. The breadth of this patent would seemingly give Blackboard the ability to enforce this intellectual property against other producers of online course delivery systems.

==See Also ==

http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Online_Training/Delivery_and_Management_Systems/

http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Instructional_Technology/Course_Website_Software/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_language_learning CALI History in this

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

[http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED412357&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900000b8012429a&accno=ED412357 Foundations of Distance Education]

[http://kolea.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/tcc_conf97/tcon/0001.html 1997 Conference: Trends & Issues in Online Instruction]

http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/SEP01_Issue/article01.html
mentions: Unix courses @ Nova University early 70s and National Technological University (NTU)

Online Learning History

2006-08-02T20:09:24Z

Dilettante: fixed seque formatting

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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_System Wikipedia background on PLATO].

==1962 - R. Buckminster Fuller publishes ''Education Automation'' ==

Relevant quote: "Get the most comprehensive generalized computer setup with network connections to process the documentaries that your faculty and graduate-student teams will manufacture objectively from the subjective gleanings of your vast new world- and universe-ranging student probers." (p.85)

==1969 - Founding of the Internet ==

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 ==

USENET established using UUCP between Duke and UNC by Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis, and Steve Bellovin. All original groups were under net.* hierarchy. [http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Hobbes Timeline]

==1982 - Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) ==

The Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) was founded in 1982 in Rindge, New Hampshire, as a small, offline computer-based, adult learning center. The center was based on the same premise as today: to provide affordable, quality instruction to individual learners through the use of computers. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1984 - CSILE ==
CSILE, an educational knowledge media system, developed by Scardamalia & Bereiter at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. ... CSILE based on Zimmerman's (1989) self-regulated learning (CSILE term is intentional learning) and constructivists' view of learning. It emphasizes on building a classroom culture supportive of active knowledge construction that can extend individual intentional learning to the group level. The purpose is to make students think and reflect their thought process which provoke question asking and answering in a public forum. The ultimate goal is to get students involved in knowledge itself rather than improve one's mind, a World 3 view , which shifts from individual mastery learning to improve the quality of public collective knowledge (Scardamalia, et al., 1994). - from [http://www.edb.utexas.edu/csclstudent/Dhsiao/theories.html#csile]

==1987 - M/EU (Mind Extension University) ==
In 1987, Jones launched M/EU, a cable channel carrying varied educational programming... The advent of the Internet helped facilitate communication in these telecourses.[http://www.media-visions.com/ed-distlrn2.html]

==1992 - CAPA (Computer Assisted Personalized Approach) ==
The system was developed at Michigan State University and was first used in a small (92 student) physics class in the Fall of 1992.[http://web.archive.org/web/20000915112215/capa2.nscl.msu.edu/homepage/]

==1994 - Lotus Development Corporation acquires the Human Interest Group ==

The system evolves into the [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-elearning_evolution/ Lotus Learning Management System and Lotus Virtual Classroom], now owned by IBM.

==1994 - Open University Virtual Summer School==
[http://kmi.open.ac.uk/kmi-misc/virtualsummer.html]

In August and September 1994, a Virtual Summer School (VSS) for Open University undergraduate course D309 Cognitive Psychology enabled students to attend an experimental version of summer school 'electronically', i.e. from their own homes using a computer and a modem. VSS students were able to participate in group discussions, run experiments, obtain one-to-one tuition, listen to lectures, ask questions, participate as subjects in experiments, conduct literature searches, browse original journal publications, work in project teams, undertake statistical analyses, prepare and submit nicely formatted individual or joint written work, prepare plenary session presentations, and even socialize and chit-chat, all without ever leaving their homes.

==1994/95 - CALCampus.com ==

CALCampus was the first to develop and implement the concept of a totally online-based school through which administration, real-time classroom instruction, and materials were provided, originating with the QuantumLink campus. This was a significant departure from earlier methods of distance education because no longer was the individual distance learner isolated from the teacher and from classmates. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1995 - Mallard web-based course management system developed at the University of Illinois ==
[http://www.uic.edu/depts/adn/itl/uionline/mallard.html Mallard overview]. See also CyberProf[http://web.archive.org/web/19971016101057/cyber.ccsr.uiuc.edu/cyberprof/general/homepage/Newpage/toplevel/welcome.html] (also copyrighted in 1995 from University of Illinois)

==1995 - BSCW 1.0==
[http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/Papers/index.html Papers and timeline are here]

==1995 - Nicenet ICA launched to the public ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicenet

== 1995/6 - WOLF / Learnwise ==
WOLF (Wolverhampton Online Learning Framework)[http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level4.asp?UserType=11&Level4=841] developed at Wolverhampton University's DELTA institute under the guidance of Stephen Molyneux. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Molyneux] This went on to be released commercially by Granada Learning as Learnwise [http://www.learnwise.net]

==1997 - Manhattan Virtual Classroom in use ==

Manhattan was in use at this time at Western New England College, and included [http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/?What_is_it%3F handouts, assignments, forums etc]

==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.

When MEDC was closed, 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 [http://www.ltscotland.org.uk Learning and Teaching Scotland]

==1997 - Deployment of Nathan Bodington VLE ==

Development of Nathan Bodington VLE at Leeds University begins from the Bionet TLTP project

[http://bodington.org/history.php History of Bodington]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments Dates of Bodington development appear here]

==1997 - WebCT 1.0 was released==
[http://www.webct.com/service/viewcontentframe?contentID=5653208 Powerpoint presentation]

==1997 - Blackboard was founded ==
[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Martin Dougiamas begins preliminary work on Moodle ==
[http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf1999/dougiamas.html This paper contains some early thoughts]

==1998 - Blackboard released its first software product ==
An online learning application developed at Cornell University[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Nicenet ICA2 is launched ==
Nicenet provides Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA2) with web-based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. http://www.nicenet.org/ica/ica_info.cfm

==1998 - CNAMS 1.0 is released ==
The Cisco Networking Academy Management System (CNAMS) is released to faciliate communication and course management of the largest blended learning initiative of its time, the Cisco Networking Academy. It includes tools to maintain rosters, gradebooks, forums, as well as a scalable, robust assessment engine.

==1999 - Martin trials early prototypes of Moodle==
This paper details one case study and includes screenshots [http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2000/dougiamas.html Improving the effectiveness of tools for Internet based education]

==2000 - Manhattan 1.0 is released ==

In October of 2000, Manhattan Virtual Campus was released in its entirety on the Internet for free under the GNU General Public License. http://manhattan.sourceforge.net

==2001, November - Moodle.com runs Moodle==
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1 See this announcement]

==2002, Summer ==
*August - Moodle 1.0 is released
*Seque Project releases first version of its elearning software

==2004, January - Sakai Project is formed from several college and university projects ==

==2006, June - Moodle 1.6 is released ==

==2006, July 26 - Blackboard announces Patent 6,988,138 ==

[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,988,138.PN.&OS=PN/6,988,138&RS=PN/6,988,138 This patent], filed on June 30, 2000 (with pending and related applications dating as early as June 1999) and issued on January 17, 2006, contains very extensive claims pertaining to every aspect of online course delivery. The breadth of this patent would seemingly give Blackboard the ability to enforce this intellectual property against other producers of online course delivery systems.

==See Also ==

http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Online_Training/Delivery_and_Management_Systems/

http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Instructional_Technology/Course_Website_Software/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_language_learning CALI History in this

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

[http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED412357&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900000b8012429a&accno=ED412357 Foundations of Distance Education]

[http://kolea.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/tcc_conf97/tcon/0001.html 1997 Conference: Trends & Issues in Online Instruction]

http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/SEP01_Issue/article01.html
mentions: Unix courses @ Nova University early 70s and National Technological University (NTU)

Online Learning History

2006-08-02T20:07:50Z

Dilettante: added Seque reference

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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_System Wikipedia background on PLATO].

==1962 - R. Buckminster Fuller publishes ''Education Automation'' ==

Relevant quote: "Get the most comprehensive generalized computer setup with network connections to process the documentaries that your faculty and graduate-student teams will manufacture objectively from the subjective gleanings of your vast new world- and universe-ranging student probers." (p.85)

==1969 - Founding of the Internet ==

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 ==

USENET established using UUCP between Duke and UNC by Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis, and Steve Bellovin. All original groups were under net.* hierarchy. [http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Hobbes Timeline]

==1982 - Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) ==

The Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) was founded in 1982 in Rindge, New Hampshire, as a small, offline computer-based, adult learning center. The center was based on the same premise as today: to provide affordable, quality instruction to individual learners through the use of computers. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1984 - CSILE ==
CSILE, an educational knowledge media system, developed by Scardamalia & Bereiter at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. ... CSILE based on Zimmerman's (1989) self-regulated learning (CSILE term is intentional learning) and constructivists' view of learning. It emphasizes on building a classroom culture supportive of active knowledge construction that can extend individual intentional learning to the group level. The purpose is to make students think and reflect their thought process which provoke question asking and answering in a public forum. The ultimate goal is to get students involved in knowledge itself rather than improve one's mind, a World 3 view , which shifts from individual mastery learning to improve the quality of public collective knowledge (Scardamalia, et al., 1994). - from [http://www.edb.utexas.edu/csclstudent/Dhsiao/theories.html#csile]

==1987 - M/EU (Mind Extension University) ==
In 1987, Jones launched M/EU, a cable channel carrying varied educational programming... The advent of the Internet helped facilitate communication in these telecourses.[http://www.media-visions.com/ed-distlrn2.html]

==1992 - CAPA (Computer Assisted Personalized Approach) ==
The system was developed at Michigan State University and was first used in a small (92 student) physics class in the Fall of 1992.[http://web.archive.org/web/20000915112215/capa2.nscl.msu.edu/homepage/]

==1994 - Lotus Development Corporation acquires the Human Interest Group ==

The system evolves into the [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-elearning_evolution/ Lotus Learning Management System and Lotus Virtual Classroom], now owned by IBM.

==1994 - Open University Virtual Summer School==
[http://kmi.open.ac.uk/kmi-misc/virtualsummer.html]

In August and September 1994, a Virtual Summer School (VSS) for Open University undergraduate course D309 Cognitive Psychology enabled students to attend an experimental version of summer school 'electronically', i.e. from their own homes using a computer and a modem. VSS students were able to participate in group discussions, run experiments, obtain one-to-one tuition, listen to lectures, ask questions, participate as subjects in experiments, conduct literature searches, browse original journal publications, work in project teams, undertake statistical analyses, prepare and submit nicely formatted individual or joint written work, prepare plenary session presentations, and even socialize and chit-chat, all without ever leaving their homes.

==1994/95 - CALCampus.com ==

CALCampus was the first to develop and implement the concept of a totally online-based school through which administration, real-time classroom instruction, and materials were provided, originating with the QuantumLink campus. This was a significant departure from earlier methods of distance education because no longer was the individual distance learner isolated from the teacher and from classmates. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1995 - Mallard web-based course management system developed at the University of Illinois ==
[http://www.uic.edu/depts/adn/itl/uionline/mallard.html Mallard overview]. See also CyberProf[http://web.archive.org/web/19971016101057/cyber.ccsr.uiuc.edu/cyberprof/general/homepage/Newpage/toplevel/welcome.html] (also copyrighted in 1995 from University of Illinois)

==1995 - BSCW 1.0==
[http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/Papers/index.html Papers and timeline are here]

==1995 - Nicenet ICA launched to the public ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicenet

== 1995/6 - WOLF / Learnwise ==
WOLF (Wolverhampton Online Learning Framework)[http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level4.asp?UserType=11&Level4=841] developed at Wolverhampton University's DELTA institute under the guidance of Stephen Molyneux. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Molyneux] This went on to be released commercially by Granada Learning as Learnwise [http://www.learnwise.net]

==1997 - Manhattan Virtual Classroom in use ==

Manhattan was in use at this time at Western New England College, and included [http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/?What_is_it%3F handouts, assignments, forums etc]

==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.

When MEDC was closed, 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 [http://www.ltscotland.org.uk Learning and Teaching Scotland]

==1997 - Deployment of Nathan Bodington VLE ==

Development of Nathan Bodington VLE at Leeds University begins from the Bionet TLTP project

[http://bodington.org/history.php History of Bodington]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments Dates of Bodington development appear here]

==1997 - WebCT 1.0 was released==
[http://www.webct.com/service/viewcontentframe?contentID=5653208 Powerpoint presentation]

==1997 - Blackboard was founded ==
[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Martin Dougiamas begins preliminary work on Moodle ==
[http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf1999/dougiamas.html This paper contains some early thoughts]

==1998 - Blackboard released its first software product ==
An online learning application developed at Cornell University[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Nicenet ICA2 is launched ==
Nicenet provides Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA2) with web-based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. http://www.nicenet.org/ica/ica_info.cfm

==1998 - CNAMS 1.0 is released ==
The Cisco Networking Academy Management System (CNAMS) is released to faciliate communication and course management of the largest blended learning initiative of its time, the Cisco Networking Academy. It includes tools to maintain rosters, gradebooks, forums, as well as a scalable, robust assessment engine.

==1999 - Martin trials early prototypes of Moodle==
This paper details one case study and includes screenshots [http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2000/dougiamas.html Improving the effectiveness of tools for Internet based education]

==2000 - Manhattan 1.0 is released ==

In October of 2000, Manhattan Virtual Campus was released in its entirety on the Internet for free under the GNU General Public License. http://manhattan.sourceforge.net

==2001, November - Moodle.com runs Moodle==
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1 See this announcement]

==2002, Summer ==
August - Moodle 1.0 is released
Seque Project releases first version of its elearning software

==2004, January - Sakai Project is formed from several college and university projects ==

==2006, June - Moodle 1.6 is released ==

==2006, July 26 - Blackboard announces Patent 6,988,138 ==

[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,988,138.PN.&OS=PN/6,988,138&RS=PN/6,988,138 This patent], filed on June 30, 2000 (with pending and related applications dating as early as June 1999) and issued on January 17, 2006, contains very extensive claims pertaining to every aspect of online course delivery. The breadth of this patent would seemingly give Blackboard the ability to enforce this intellectual property against other producers of online course delivery systems.

==See Also ==

http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Online_Training/Delivery_and_Management_Systems/

http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Instructional_Technology/Course_Website_Software/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_language_learning CALI History in this

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

[http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED412357&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900000b8012429a&accno=ED412357 Foundations of Distance Education]

[http://kolea.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/tcc_conf97/tcon/0001.html 1997 Conference: Trends & Issues in Online Instruction]

http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/SEP01_Issue/article01.html
mentions: Unix courses @ Nova University early 70s and National Technological University (NTU)

Online Learning History

2006-08-02T20:00:16Z

Dilettante: added sakai reference

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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_System Wikipedia background on PLATO].

==1962 - R. Buckminster Fuller publishes ''Education Automation'' ==

Relevant quote: "Get the most comprehensive generalized computer setup with network connections to process the documentaries that your faculty and graduate-student teams will manufacture objectively from the subjective gleanings of your vast new world- and universe-ranging student probers." (p.85)

==1969 - Founding of the Internet ==

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 ==

USENET established using UUCP between Duke and UNC by Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis, and Steve Bellovin. All original groups were under net.* hierarchy. [http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Hobbes Timeline]

==1982 - Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) ==

The Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) was founded in 1982 in Rindge, New Hampshire, as a small, offline computer-based, adult learning center. The center was based on the same premise as today: to provide affordable, quality instruction to individual learners through the use of computers. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1984 - CSILE ==
CSILE, an educational knowledge media system, developed by Scardamalia & Bereiter at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. ... CSILE based on Zimmerman's (1989) self-regulated learning (CSILE term is intentional learning) and constructivists' view of learning. It emphasizes on building a classroom culture supportive of active knowledge construction that can extend individual intentional learning to the group level. The purpose is to make students think and reflect their thought process which provoke question asking and answering in a public forum. The ultimate goal is to get students involved in knowledge itself rather than improve one's mind, a World 3 view , which shifts from individual mastery learning to improve the quality of public collective knowledge (Scardamalia, et al., 1994). - from [http://www.edb.utexas.edu/csclstudent/Dhsiao/theories.html#csile]

==1987 - M/EU (Mind Extension University) ==
In 1987, Jones launched M/EU, a cable channel carrying varied educational programming... The advent of the Internet helped facilitate communication in these telecourses.[http://www.media-visions.com/ed-distlrn2.html]

==1992 - CAPA (Computer Assisted Personalized Approach) ==
The system was developed at Michigan State University and was first used in a small (92 student) physics class in the Fall of 1992.[http://web.archive.org/web/20000915112215/capa2.nscl.msu.edu/homepage/]

==1994 - Lotus Development Corporation acquires the Human Interest Group ==

The system evolves into the [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-elearning_evolution/ Lotus Learning Management System and Lotus Virtual Classroom], now owned by IBM.

==1994 - Open University Virtual Summer School==
[http://kmi.open.ac.uk/kmi-misc/virtualsummer.html]

In August and September 1994, a Virtual Summer School (VSS) for Open University undergraduate course D309 Cognitive Psychology enabled students to attend an experimental version of summer school 'electronically', i.e. from their own homes using a computer and a modem. VSS students were able to participate in group discussions, run experiments, obtain one-to-one tuition, listen to lectures, ask questions, participate as subjects in experiments, conduct literature searches, browse original journal publications, work in project teams, undertake statistical analyses, prepare and submit nicely formatted individual or joint written work, prepare plenary session presentations, and even socialize and chit-chat, all without ever leaving their homes.

==1994/95 - CALCampus.com ==

CALCampus was the first to develop and implement the concept of a totally online-based school through which administration, real-time classroom instruction, and materials were provided, originating with the QuantumLink campus. This was a significant departure from earlier methods of distance education because no longer was the individual distance learner isolated from the teacher and from classmates. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1995 - Mallard web-based course management system developed at the University of Illinois ==
[http://www.uic.edu/depts/adn/itl/uionline/mallard.html Mallard overview]. See also CyberProf[http://web.archive.org/web/19971016101057/cyber.ccsr.uiuc.edu/cyberprof/general/homepage/Newpage/toplevel/welcome.html] (also copyrighted in 1995 from University of Illinois)

==1995 - BSCW 1.0==
[http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/Papers/index.html Papers and timeline are here]

==1995 - Nicenet ICA launched to the public ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicenet

== 1995/6 - WOLF / Learnwise ==
WOLF (Wolverhampton Online Learning Framework)[http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level4.asp?UserType=11&Level4=841] developed at Wolverhampton University's DELTA institute under the guidance of Stephen Molyneux. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Molyneux] This went on to be released commercially by Granada Learning as Learnwise [http://www.learnwise.net]

==1997 - Manhattan Virtual Classroom in use ==

Manhattan was in use at this time at Western New England College, and included [http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/?What_is_it%3F handouts, assignments, forums etc]

==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.

When MEDC was closed, 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 [http://www.ltscotland.org.uk Learning and Teaching Scotland]

==1997 - Deployment of Nathan Bodington VLE ==

Development of Nathan Bodington VLE at Leeds University begins from the Bionet TLTP project

[http://bodington.org/history.php History of Bodington]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments Dates of Bodington development appear here]

==1997 - WebCT 1.0 was released==
[http://www.webct.com/service/viewcontentframe?contentID=5653208 Powerpoint presentation]

==1997 - Blackboard was founded ==
[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Martin Dougiamas begins preliminary work on Moodle ==
[http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf1999/dougiamas.html This paper contains some early thoughts]

==1998 - Blackboard released its first software product ==
An online learning application developed at Cornell University[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Nicenet ICA2 is launched ==
Nicenet provides Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA2) with web-based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. http://www.nicenet.org/ica/ica_info.cfm

==1998 - CNAMS 1.0 is released ==
The Cisco Networking Academy Management System (CNAMS) is released to faciliate communication and course management of the largest blended learning initiative of its time, the Cisco Networking Academy. It includes tools to maintain rosters, gradebooks, forums, as well as a scalable, robust assessment engine.

==1999 - Martin trials early prototypes of Moodle==
This paper details one case study and includes screenshots [http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2000/dougiamas.html Improving the effectiveness of tools for Internet based education]

==2000 - Manhattan 1.0 is released ==

In October of 2000, Manhattan Virtual Campus was released in its entirety on the Internet for free under the GNU General Public License. http://manhattan.sourceforge.net

==2001, November - Moodle.com runs Moodle==
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1 See this announcement]

==2002, August - Moodle 1.0 is released ==

==2004, January - Sakai Project is formed from several college and university projects ==

==2006, June - Moodle 1.6 is released ==

==2006, July 26 - Blackboard announces Patent 6,988,138 ==

[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,988,138.PN.&OS=PN/6,988,138&RS=PN/6,988,138 This patent], filed on June 30, 2000 (with pending and related applications dating as early as June 1999) and issued on January 17, 2006, contains very extensive claims pertaining to every aspect of online course delivery. The breadth of this patent would seemingly give Blackboard the ability to enforce this intellectual property against other producers of online course delivery systems.

==See Also ==

http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Online_Training/Delivery_and_Management_Systems/

http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Instructional_Technology/Course_Website_Software/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_language_learning CALI History in this

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

[http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED412357&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900000b8012429a&accno=ED412357 Foundations of Distance Education]

[http://kolea.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/tcc_conf97/tcon/0001.html 1997 Conference: Trends & Issues in Online Instruction]

http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/SEP01_Issue/article01.html
mentions: Unix courses @ Nova University early 70s and National Technological University (NTU)

Online Learning History

2006-08-02T18:25:17Z

Dilettante: /* 2006, July - Blackboard announces Patent 6,988,138 */

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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_System Wikipedia background on PLATO].

==1962 - R. Buckminster Fuller publishes ''Education Automation'' ==

Relevant quote: "Get the most comprehensive generalized computer setup with network connections to process the documentaries that your faculty and graduate-student teams will manufacture objectively from the subjective gleanings of your vast new world- and universe-ranging student probers." (p.85)

==1969 - Founding of the Internet ==

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 ==

USENET established using UUCP between Duke and UNC by Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis, and Steve Bellovin. All original groups were under net.* hierarchy. [http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Hobbes Timeline]

==1982 - Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) ==

The Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALC) was founded in 1982 in Rindge, New Hampshire, as a small, offline computer-based, adult learning center. The center was based on the same premise as today: to provide affordable, quality instruction to individual learners through the use of computers. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1984 - CSILE ==
CSILE, an educational knowledge media system, developed by Scardamalia & Bereiter at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. ... CSILE based on Zimmerman's (1989) self-regulated learning (CSILE term is intentional learning) and constructivists' view of learning. It emphasizes on building a classroom culture supportive of active knowledge construction that can extend individual intentional learning to the group level. The purpose is to make students think and reflect their thought process which provoke question asking and answering in a public forum. The ultimate goal is to get students involved in knowledge itself rather than improve one's mind, a World 3 view , which shifts from individual mastery learning to improve the quality of public collective knowledge (Scardamalia, et al., 1994). - from [http://www.edb.utexas.edu/csclstudent/Dhsiao/theories.html#csile]

==1987 - M/EU (Mind Extension University) ==
In 1987, Jones launched M/EU, a cable channel carrying varied educational programming... The advent of the Internet helped facilitate communication in these telecourses.[http://www.media-visions.com/ed-distlrn2.html]

==1992 - CAPA (Computer Assisted Personalized Approach) ==
The system was developed at Michigan State University and was first used in a small (92 student) physics class in the Fall of 1992.[http://web.archive.org/web/20000915112215/capa2.nscl.msu.edu/homepage/]

==1994 - Lotus Development Corporation acquires the Human Interest Group ==

The system evolves into the [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-elearning_evolution/ Lotus Learning Management System and Lotus Virtual Classroom], now owned by IBM.

==1994 - Open University Virtual Summer School==
[http://kmi.open.ac.uk/kmi-misc/virtualsummer.html]

In August and September 1994, a Virtual Summer School (VSS) for Open University undergraduate course D309 Cognitive Psychology enabled students to attend an experimental version of summer school 'electronically', i.e. from their own homes using a computer and a modem. VSS students were able to participate in group discussions, run experiments, obtain one-to-one tuition, listen to lectures, ask questions, participate as subjects in experiments, conduct literature searches, browse original journal publications, work in project teams, undertake statistical analyses, prepare and submit nicely formatted individual or joint written work, prepare plenary session presentations, and even socialize and chit-chat, all without ever leaving their homes.

==1994/95 - CALCampus.com ==

CALCampus was the first to develop and implement the concept of a totally online-based school through which administration, real-time classroom instruction, and materials were provided, originating with the QuantumLink campus. This was a significant departure from earlier methods of distance education because no longer was the individual distance learner isolated from the teacher and from classmates. [http://www.calcampus.com/calc.htm Origins of CALCampus]

==1995 - Mallard web-based course management system developed at the University of Illinois ==
[http://www.uic.edu/depts/adn/itl/uionline/mallard.html Mallard overview]. See also CyberProf[http://web.archive.org/web/19971016101057/cyber.ccsr.uiuc.edu/cyberprof/general/homepage/Newpage/toplevel/welcome.html] (also copyrighted in 1995 from University of Illinois)

==1995 - BSCW 1.0==
[http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/Papers/index.html Papers and timeline are here]

==1995 - Nicenet ICA launched to the public ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicenet

== 1995/6 - WOLF / Learnwise ==
WOLF (Wolverhampton Online Learning Framework)[http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level4.asp?UserType=11&Level4=841] developed at Wolverhampton University's DELTA institute under the guidance of Stephen Molyneux. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Molyneux] This went on to be released commercially by Granada Learning as Learnwise [http://www.learnwise.net]

==1997 - Manhattan Virtual Classroom in use ==

Manhattan was in use at this time at Western New England College, and included [http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/?What_is_it%3F handouts, assignments, forums etc]

==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.

When MEDC was closed, 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 [http://www.ltscotland.org.uk Learning and Teaching Scotland]

==1997 - Deployment of Nathan Bodington VLE ==

Development of Nathan Bodington VLE at Leeds University begins from the Bionet TLTP project

[http://bodington.org/history.php History of Bodington]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments Dates of Bodington development appear here]

==1997 - WebCT 1.0 was released==
[http://www.webct.com/service/viewcontentframe?contentID=5653208 Powerpoint presentation]

==1997 - Blackboard was founded ==
[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Martin Dougiamas begins preliminary work on Moodle ==
[http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf1999/dougiamas.html This paper contains some early thoughts]

==1998 - Blackboard released its first software product ==
An online learning application developed at Cornell University[http://www.blackboard.com/company/history.aspx]

==1998 - Nicenet ICA2 is launched ==
Nicenet provides Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA2) with web-based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. http://www.nicenet.org/ica/ica_info.cfm

==1998 - CNAMS 1.0 is released ==
The Cisco Networking Academy Management System (CNAMS) is released to faciliate communication and course management of the largest blended learning initiative of its time, the Cisco Networking Academy. It includes tools to maintain rosters, gradebooks, forums, as well as a scalable, robust assessment engine.

==1999 - Martin trials early prototypes of Moodle==
This paper details one case study and includes screenshots [http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2000/dougiamas.html Improving the effectiveness of tools for Internet based education]

==2000 - Manhattan 1.0 is released ==

In October of 2000, Manhattan Virtual Campus was released in its entirety on the Internet for free under the GNU General Public License. http://manhattan.sourceforge.net

==2001, November - Moodle.com runs Moodle==
[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1 See this announcement]

==2002, August - Moodle 1.0 is released ==

==2006, June - Moodle 1.6 is released ==

==2006, July 26 - Blackboard announces Patent 6,988,138 ==

[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,988,138.PN.&OS=PN/6,988,138&RS=PN/6,988,138 This patent], filed on June 30, 2000 (with pending and related applications dating as early as June 1999) and issued on January 17, 2006, contains very extensive claims pertaining to every aspect of online course delivery. The breadth of this patent would seemingly give Blackboard the ability to enforce this intellectual property against other producers of online course delivery systems.

==See Also ==

http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Online_Training/Delivery_and_Management_Systems/

http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Instructional_Technology/Course_Website_Software/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_language_learning CALI History in this

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

[http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED412357&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900000b8012429a&accno=ED412357 Foundations of Distance Education]

[http://kolea.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/tcc_conf97/tcon/0001.html 1997 Conference: Trends & Issues in Online Instruction]

http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/SEP01_Issue/article01.html
mentions: Unix courses @ Nova University early 70s and National Technological University (NTU)

Usuari:Mike Strong

2006-07-30T00:18:31Z

Dilettante:

Hi!

Moodle version history

2006-07-30T00:16:33Z

Dilettante: added 1.6.1 reference

==Release History==

See [[Release_Notes|Release Notes]] for more details.

==Moodle 1.0==
*Moodle 1.0 - 20 August 2002
*Moodle 1.0.1 - 26 August 2002
*Moodle 1.0.2 - 2 September 2002
*Moodle 1.0.3 - 5 September 2002
*Moodle 1.0.4 - 10 September 2002
*Moodle 1.0.5 - 27 September 2002
*Moodle 1.0.6 - 26 October 2002
:: 1.0.6.1 - 6 Nov
:: 1.0.6.2 - 11 Nov
:: 1.0.6.3 - 14 Nov
:: 1.0.6.4 - 25 Nov
*Moodle 1.0.7 - 9 December 2002
*Moodle 1.0.8 - 7 January 2003
*Moodle 1.0.9 - 30 May 2003

==Moodle 1.1==
*Moodle 1.1 - 29 August 2003
*Moodle 1.1.1 - 11 September 2003

==Moodle 1.2==
*Moodle 1.2 - 20 March 2004
*Moodle 1.2.1 - 25 March 2004

==Moodle 1.3==
*Moodle 1.3 - 25 May 2004
*Moodle 1.3.1 - 4 June 2004
*Moodle 1.3.2 - 9 July 2004
*Moodle 1.3.3 - 16 July 2004
*Moodle 1.3.4 - 11 August 2004

==Moodle 1.4==
*Moodle 1.4 - 31 August 2004
*Moodle 1.4.1 - 12 September 2004
*Moodle 1.4.2 - 5 November 2004
*Moodle 1.4.3 - 21 December 2004
*Moodle 1.4.4 - 7 March 2005
*Moodle 1.4.5 - 7 May 2005

==Moodle 1.5==
*Moodle 1.5 - 5 June 2005
*Moodle 1.5.1 - 8 July 2005
*Moodle 1.5.2 - 16 July 2005
*Moodle 1.5.3 - 11 November 2005
*Moodle 1.5.4 - 21 May 2006

==Moodle 1.6==
*Moodle 1.6 - 20 June 2006
*Moodle 1.6.1 - 20 July 2006

==Moodle 1.7==
*Moodle 1.7 (September 2006?)

==Moodle 2.0==
*Moodle 2.0 (Early 2007?)

[[Category:Administrator]]
[[Category:Developer]]

Blogs

2006-06-19T14:02:18Z

Dilettante: changed "other" to "of"

{{Template:Blogs}}
{{Moodle 1.6}}

Blogs allow students, teachers and administrators to have a public web log. This online journal has various settings to control who can read them.

Many companies and organisations on the web provide blog sites and they are generally free. The largest company to do this is blogger which is owned by Google. There are also many Open Source web applications that can be downloaded and installed freely. The most common of these is Wordpress.

Blogs in Moodle are user based - each user has their own Blog. Admins, Teachers, and users can create Tags - Admins can create site level tags, Teachers can create Course level tags, and users can create their own list of tags.

When a blog entry is created, a user can select which tags they wish to associate with their new entry. - multiple tags can be selected. Users can also select who they want the blog entry to be available to - (depending on the global settings of the site.)

==See also==

*[[Elgg]]
*[http://www.blogger.com Blogger.com]
*[http://www.wordpress.org Wordpress]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog Wikipedia on Blogs]
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=44830 Blogs and comments] forum discussion
*[[Blogs development]]
[[Category:Teacher]]
[[Category:Blog]]

Backup and restore FAQ

2006-02-06T18:35:06Z

Dilettante:

;Site backups
:Site backups, as explained in [[Upgrading_Moodle#Backup_important_data|upgrading Moodle]], are recommended in order to have all data saved with the best confidence and the shortest recovery time.

;Course backups
:Course backups, configured on the [[admin/backup|backup]] page, are more expensive in terms of time and CPU usage. The recovery time to have your site running again is longer. Course backups are useful for obtaining "fresh" copies of courses to be re-used or distributed individually, however they should never be used as a primary backup system (unless your hosting doesn't allow the preferred site backups). In order to make scheduled backups, you have to setup CRON to run periodically. Have a look at [[Installing Moodle#Set_up_cron|Set up cron]] for details.

===How do I backup my whole Moodle site?===

There are two main things you need to make a copy of - the database and the uploaded files. The Moodle scripts themselves are less important, since you can always download a fresh copy if you have to.

There are many ways to do such backups. Here is an outline of a little script you can run on Unix to backup the database (it works well to have such a script run daily via a cron task):

cd /my/backup/directory
mv moodle-database.sql.gz moodle-database-old.sql.gz
mysqldump -h example.com -u myusername --password=mypassword -C -Q -e -a mydatabasename > moodle-database.sql
gzip moodle-database.sql

For the files, you can use rsync regularly to copy only the changed files to another host:

rsync -auvtz --delete -e ssh mysshusername@example.com:/my/server/directory /my/backup/directory/

===Error: An error occurred deleting old backup data===

This part of the backup (or restore) procedure tries to delete old info, used in previous executions, performing the following tasks:

* Delete old records from "backup_ids" table: Check the table exists, repair it and try again.

* Delete old records from "backup_files" table: Check the table exists, repair it and try again.

* Delete old files from "moodledata/temp/backup": Delete the dir completely and try again.

There are various ways of repairing tables, including using MySQL Admin.

===XML error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line YYYY===

This problem can appear at any point in the restore process. It's caused when the XML parser detects something incorrect in the backup file that prevent correct operation. Usually, it's caused by some "illegal" characters added in the original course due to some copy/paste of text containing them (control characters, or invalid sequences...).

The best method to handle this issue is:

* Unzip the problematic backup file under one empty folder.

* Open the moodle.xml with Firefox. It will show you where (exact char) the problem is happening.

* Edit the moodle.xml file with some UTF8-compatible editor and delete such characters. Save changes.

* Test the moodle.xml file again with Firefox until no error was displayed.

* Zip everything again (all the folder contents but the folder itself!).

* Restore the course. It should work now.

Also, if possible, it's highly recommended to solve those problems in the original course too from Moodle itself. Once "repaired" there, problems will be out if you create new backup files in the future.

=== Some of your courses weren't saved!! ===

There are two possible causes of this problem:

1. Error - this happens when the backup procedure has found an error and so hasn't finished the backup of a particular course. These are "controlled" errors and the scheduled backup continues with the next course.

2. Unfinished - this happens when the backup procedure dies without knowing why. When the cron is next executed it detects that the last execution went wrong, and continues skipping the problematic course. A possible solution would be to raise the PHP/Apache limit in your installation (memory, time of execution...). By taking a look to your log tables you should be able to see if the "crash" is happening at exact time intervals (usually a problem with the max_execution_time php's variable), or if there is some exact point were all the courses are breaking (generally internal zip libraries, try to switch to external executables instead).

== See also ==

*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=128 Using Moodle: Backup and Restore]
*[http://download.moodle.org/modules/integrations.php Moodle Download: Integrations] - MySQL Admin for download

== External links ==

*[http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/10897_3300511_2 Repairing Database Corruption in MySQL]

[[Category:Administrator]]
[[Category:FAQ]]