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Download full textCaruth, Gail D.; Caruth, Donald L. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
Online learning is a descendant 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 distance learning option conducted through the mail. This Society was…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Educational History, Intellectual History
Durbridge, Nicola – 1983
This discussion of the educational potential of audiotape and videotape cassettes in distance teaching considers each medium individually, with examples of how the Open University has tried to exploit them in its teaching, and comments on some major differences between the two media and their implication for education. Characteristics of…
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Correspondence Study, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
ICCE Newsletter, 1979
The three main articles describing "sub-projects" of the European Home Study Council (EHSC) research project, "Two-Way Communication in Correspondence Education," are short versions of papers presented by researchers at the University of Lund, Sweden, at the EHSC spring 1979 workshop. "Postal Two-Way Communication in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Autoinstructional Aids, Communication (Thought Transfer)
