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Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: CALCampus, Synchronous Learning, & Early Use of “OER”

by Heather Walker, Program Coordinator, DigiTex Around the same time that Project Athena and the Andrew Project were first getting off the ground, a woman named Margaret Morabito was dreaming of an affordable, consumer-oriented approach to education that incorporated the use of computers to reach non-traditional students (Morabito, 1986). Having worked previously as an English … Continue reading Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: CALCampus, Synchronous Learning, & Early Use of “OER”

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Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: Course Sharing through Mind Extension University

by Heather Walker, Program Coordinator, DigiTex In 1998, the Virtual College of Texas (VCT) was established to facilitate digital course sharing in the state of Texas, with the goal of allowing students across the state to access the courses that they needed to complete their educations. Today as the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas, … Continue reading Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: Course Sharing through Mind Extension University

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Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: MIT’s Project Athena & Integrated Computing

by Heather Walker, Program Coordinator, DigiTex Imagine a college classroom stripped of technology: no instructor or student computers, no projector, no PowerPoint slides for lectures, no Blackboard or Canvas for the dissemination of assignments and tracking of grades. Pretty difficult, isn’t it? In the 25+ years since technology started to become a fixture in the … Continue reading Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: MIT’s Project Athena & Integrated Computing

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Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: The Andrew Project at Carnegie Mellon University

Groundbreaking though it was, the communication potential that was exhibited by ARPANET was constrained by the prohibitive expense of computers as well as their relatively limited functionality at the time. It wasn’t until October 1981, when President Richard Cyert of Carnegie Mellon University created a project task force to study the future of computing at the university, that networked computing began to enter a new phase. 

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Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: The WBSI Adventure in Online Education

by Heather Walker, Senior Administrative Assistant, DigiTex What elements comprise the digital learning experience? For most of us, the answer would include a learning management system such as Blackboard, Canvas, or Moodle; videos, podcasts, and other media; discussion rooms; and electronically submitted assignments, among other components. Now imagine attempting to conduct an online class without … Continue reading Important Events in the History of Digital Higher Education: The WBSI Adventure in Online Education