{"id":215,"date":"2017-09-15T18:57:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T01:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/?p=215"},"modified":"2017-09-16T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T16:17:09","slug":"timeline-of-distance-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/timeline-of-distance-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline of Distance Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following timeline of distance education is my attempt to piece together what I believe to be the most significant milestones in distance education. Some timelines focus on technology, but I&#8217;ve decided to focus on more tangible milestones. For example, it doesn&#8217;t really matter that the internet was developed in the 1970s if the first online course wasn&#8217;t offered until 1981. The mere existence of a technology doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that the technology will contribute meaningfully to distance education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.knightlab.com\/libs\/timeline3\/latest\/embed\/index.html?source=1RonUbpJQnmA91_n0XZ1VreN855nA4XdXc6zlgtlmqNY&amp;font=Default&amp;lang=en&amp;initial_zoom=2&amp;height=650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-218 size-full aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2017\/09\/history-of-distance-education-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"777\" height=\"425\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2017\/09\/history-of-distance-education-1.png 777w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2017\/09\/history-of-distance-education-1-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2017\/09\/history-of-distance-education-1-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2017\/09\/history-of-distance-education-1-750x410.png 750w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 777px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 777\/425;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following timeline of distance education is my attempt to piece together what I believe to be the most significant milestones in distance education. Some timelines focus on technology, but I&#8217;ve decided to focus on more tangible milestones. For example, it doesn&#8217;t really matter that the internet was developed in the 1970s if the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt523"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}