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The History of Distance Learning [INFOGRAPHIC]

LearnDash

Most people probably do not know this, but distance learning has actually been around for quite some time. In the United States, the earliest recorded distance learning program was in 1728 when Caleb Phillips advertised a private correspondence courses in the Boston Gazette newspaper! distance learning MOOCs'

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Economic Times - Impact on Distance Learning

eLearning Cyclops

This question has been posed a lot on the e-learning blogs, for example. The Boston Globe just published an article titled Where the Jobs are in Anxious Times. Government stimulus funding has been creating new opportunities in education and energy, says Clark Waterfall, a partner at Boston Search Group.

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5 Reasons Why Distance Learning Has Been Around for Centuries

Trivantis

Think distance learning is a recent invention? Distance learning has been around for centuries. One early instructor was Caleb Phillips in 1728; he advertised private correspondence courses in shorthand in the Boston Gazette. So what’s the attraction to distance learning? Actually—it’s not.

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Conferences are Cancelled: Making L&D Community Connections in Lockdown

Litmos

The pandemic has made those events dangerous, even as the demand for our work — particularly services like distance learning and mobile learning – has increased worldwide. So how can we connect that now that many of us are working from home? What do conferences look like during a pandemic?

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Online Learning Works – So Why are Schools Failing at it?

eLearning 24-7

Distance Learning – An interview I saw last week, with the CEO of the 3rd largest school district (Maryland) referred to online learning as distance learning. . She isn’t the only person to do so, it is a term I hear often, but it has nothing to do with online learning as it actually exists.

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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

www.asmiweb.com/HigherEd/ January 28-29, 2009 Distance Learning as an e-Infrastructures Application : Innovation and Future Trends, New Delhi, India. html March 16-18, 2009 International Conference on e-Learning and Distance Learning , 1 st , Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. link] conferences/home-644.html

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Learner Engagement – Are Games the Answer?

Association eLearning

A long-time distance learning professor for Seminole State College and nationally-recognized speaker on eLearning, Jack stays busy both in and out of the office. Diet-breaker: Boston Kreme donuts. On the academic side, Jack earned a B.A. and Master of Liberal Arts from Rollins College (are you noticing a theme here?)

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