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300 Years of Distance Learning Evolution [INFOGRAPHIC]

LearnDash

If you thought that distance learning was a product of today, then you would be mistaken. In fact, the first distance learning program on record took place in 1728, when a local teacher by the name of Caleb Phillips advertised shorthand correspondence lessons offered by mail! elearning distance learning'

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5 Major Players in Distance Learning

LearnDash

Due to the growing elearning industry, the number of distance learning providers is also growing. Be it a traditional LMS offering, new software-as-a-service tools or the newer MOOC platforms , the list seems to grow larger every day. Distance learning is growing so much, even Google is getting into the game.

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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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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Universities will finally accept they are service providers. As the latest edition of Educause Review indicates, universities are fee-for-service businesses. While MOOCs typically comprise video clips and perhaps a quiz, they will inevitably include more instructional devices to assist distance learning (and remain competitive).

OER 279
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eLearning Conferences 2010

Tony Karrer

link] December 2, 2009 Security and Defence Learning : International Forum on Technology Assisted Learning and Training for Defence, Security and Emergency Services, 5 th , Hotel InterContinental Berlin, Berlin, Germany. www.online-educa.com December 2-4, 2009 eAsia , Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Universities will finally accept they are service providers. As the latest edition of Educause Review indicates, universities are fee-for-service businesses. While MOOCs typically comprise video clips and perhaps a quiz, they will inevitably include more instructional devices to assist distance learning (and remain competitive).

OER 226
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Community and Collaborative Learning

Dashe & Thomson

I was talking last week with a young woman from Kenya who does accounting for a local financial services company. She described how she and her Kenyan friends get together frequently for an entire day to cook, talk, braid each other’s hair, and learn things from each other.