Not Your Mothers Father of Distance Education
Alan Levine,
CogDogBlog,
Sept 21, 2016
Alan Levine makes the point that "in this age of 2016, that it is shocking that someone would put three white men on screen with a label of 'founding fathers.'" and expands on a deeper history of distance education that explores the correspondance schools of the 1800s. In my post I put the cut-off at the use of wireless radio, which would rule out the post-based correspondance schools. Levine presents "as an addition to so called 'fathers' Anna Elliot Ticknor," writing "I only know of her through a fabulously written Hybrid Pedagogy article by Keith Brennan titled 'The Victorian MOOC'." I wouldn't call this a MOOC - not only was it not online, you had to apply to get in. Also, I don't think you can achieve massiveness when your organizzer and instructors are writing to each participant personally by letter. No matter; I think he's made his main point that there was much diversity in the founding of distance education that we are led to believe.
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