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| Sir Isaac Pitman. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac_Pitman.jp> |
ELearning includes wide-ranging topics throughout the computer
based learning environment. ELearning as we know it today began just about the
same time as personal computers, but the concept and practice of distance
learning existed way before the computer area. Sr. Isaac Pitman in Great
Britain gave the first self-study distance course via mail in the 1840s. He
taught his course by mailing assignments to his students. The postal service
played a big role facilitating the early stages of distance learning.[1]
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| Sidney Pressey's testing machine Source: http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=43342 |
In the 1920s, Sidney Pressey, a psycholo
gy professor at Ohio State University, developed a machine that looks like a typewriter with a window that showed a question with four answers to choose from. The user selects the answer he/she thinks is correct, and then the machine records the answer and moves to the next question. This machine has a significant impact on distance learning because it demonstrated that testing and assessment could be perfectly done in an automated way in or outside of the classroom.[2]
gy professor at Ohio State University, developed a machine that looks like a typewriter with a window that showed a question with four answers to choose from. The user selects the answer he/she thinks is correct, and then the machine records the answer and moves to the next question. This machine has a significant impact on distance learning because it demonstrated that testing and assessment could be perfectly done in an automated way in or outside of the classroom.[2]
The introduction of personal computers such as the Kenbar-1,
designed by John
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| IBM 5110 Source: http://ibmclassics.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/ibm-5110/ |
Blankenbaker in 1971, the Apple II in 1977, and the IBM 5110
personal computer in 1978 were helpful to some teachers as wonderful additions
to their teaching tools. [3] But the World
Wide Web, started by the Department of Defense in 1969, revolutionized distance
education. According to Janice L. Flake, Professor, Florida State University,
the World Wide Web provided several very important educational prospects. In
her 1996 Computers in the Schools article, she writes that the World Wide Web
helped students to have access to a wide range of knowledge by giving them
access to information from others on the web, helping them to do their own
research, and share their findings with others.[4]
Question #1 of Week 2:
Sr. Issac Pitman was the
first to develop the idea of distance learning. Knowing that distance learning
in the past was done mostly through mail. What are some problem you might see
happen through this process? And does these same problems occur with modernized
eLearning?
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