Brief History of Online Education

Online education is also known as distance education. Recently, the trend of distance education is increased due to latest technologies and availability of internet. With the help of  internet one is able to  take classes by using video calling, webcams and through emails. 

One of the best advantages of online learning is that you can easily get admission in your favourite course and take classes by sitting at home. 

There are  thousands of universities in the whole world who offer online courses and degree programs for the interested students.History of online or distance education is not limited to the Dawn of internet. It was started many years before.In 1728, Caleb Philips started to advertise the courses in a newspaper. 

After more than a century in 1858, the first university which offered the distance learning programs to students was the London University. Later in 1873, college in USA started to run a program, purpose of this program was to encourage and engage the society to study at home.

In 1892, University of Chicago in America offers  several distance learning programs for the students. 

University of Wisconsin- Madison was first university in which “distance education” terms was used. In 1906, the first school offer distance education courses was Calvert School of Baltimore.

In 1911, special department of distance education was open in University of Queensland in Australia. From 1922 to 1958 several universities in USA, South Africa and England launched there distance education program and courses. In 1976, coastline community college offers is its several courses through telephones televisions and radios. This campus was known as the first virtual campus in the world.Modern internet was born  1983 and later in 1989 University of Phoenix, launch its first online degree program for students of the whole world.