good luck trying to penetrate the online classroom space. blackboard and others have it all covered, and aren't worried about the small potatoes one bit.
fyi, i'm not sure about 1987, but i know for a fact that most of those things were available in 1997 via online classroom. others know a little bit about the subject as well :-)
Then, even according to "you"(with no link), this tech is still 11 Years Old???
Do you realize how Old that is in Technology Years???
LOL!
Get With the Program!
And here's a link to "My Proof"...
11-25-2005 02:07 PM #11 Mary A Registered User Join Date:May 2001 Location:Denver
Posts:248Interesting thread. Since you asked about courses I would say that NJIT was probably first given the work of Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz in the 80s. University of Wisconsin also offered online courses early on but I don't have much information on that. My old school started offering a degree program completely online in 1987 - authorized by the state of California in 1988 and accredited by DETC's predecessor NHSC in 1993 - we were the first online school to achieve any type of accreditation.
It's always interesting to see how the adjectives are used. Jones and UoP actually had to revise their message to include things like first regionally accredited and first 100% online school to gain regional accreditation when challenged by the DETC given ISIM's 1993 accreditation.