DISTANCE EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES: From Correspondence Courses to the Internet
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2013/14, Sayı 2
Online learning is a descendent of distance education. Online education has a shared history with correspondence learning. In 1873, Anna Eliot Ticknor founded the Society to Encourage Studies at Home. Ticknor's Society established one of America’s first correspondence schools, a …