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A Brief Timeline of Distance Learning Innovations 1862-2013
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The Big 3 "Assessment Colleges" were NOT DL colleges were started in 1971 (USNY/Excelsior College), 1972 TESU, and 1973 COSC.  


1862 Pitman Shorthand training program brought cutting-edge stenography via US Mail

In 1970, Coastline College the first without a physical campus. Big Grin  

1985, National Technological University (NTU) started offering degree courses to employees at corporations and labs.

1993, Jones University offered online instruction in 5 bachelors and 24 masters, and was accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

2002, MIT launches OpenCourseWare in response to Fathom.com and other initiatives 

https://www.uniconexed.org/wp-content/up...-Stine.pdf
Non-Traditional Undergraduate College Credits (634 SH): *FTCC Noncourse Credits (156 SH) *DSST (78 SH) *CPL (64 SH) *JST Military/ACE (48 SH) *CBA (44 SH) *CLEP (42 SH) *FEMA IS (40 SH) *FEMA EM (38 SH) *ECE/UExcel (30 SH) *PLA Portfolio (28 SH) *EMI/ACE (19 SH) *TEEX/ACE (16 SH) *CWE (11 SH) *NFA/ACE (10 SH) *Kaplan/ACE (3 SH) *CPC (2 SH) *AICP/ACE (2 SH) *Sophia/ACE (2 SH) and *FRTI-UM/ACE (1 SH).
Non-Traditional Graduate College Credits (14 SH): AMU (6 SH); NFHS (5 SH); and JSU (3 SH).
 





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This could be a great topic for someone's LS capstone paper.
NanoDegree: Intro to Self-Driving Cars (2019)
Coursera: Stanford Machine Learning (2019)
TESU: BA in Comp Sci (2016)
TECEP:Env Ethics (2015); TESU PLA:Software Eng, Computer Arch, C++, Advanced C++, Data Struct (2015); TESU Courses:Capstone, Database Mngmnt Sys, Op Sys, Artificial Intel, Discrete Math, Intro to Portfolio Dev, Intro PLA (2014-16); DSST:Anthro, Pers Fin, Astronomy (2014); CLEP:Intro to Soc (2014); Saylor.org:Intro to Computers (2014); CC: 69 units (1980-88)

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