Paul Collins My name is Paul Collins and I am the owner of this blog. I have used e-learning services for a very long time and understand the potential of this sector. Having used these services for many years, I am well versed in the pros and cons of different e-learning platforms. I believe that people from all parts of the world can get excellent education online without necessarily having to spend a lot of money.
The Reasons Behind My e-Learning Blog
I was born and raised in New York, where I was exposed to lots of innovative technologies. As a child, I would use Google and YouTube to learn about different topics and would even do further research after school on the platform. At the time, there were very few high-quality e-learning platforms, so I didn’t have a lot to work with. However, with the growth of the internet, more services have emerged.
As more e-learning platforms grew, I realized that there were very few blogs and websites that cater to the e-learning community. The available ones didn’t post consistently and seemed to have certain inaccurate information. For this reason, I realized that I had to create a blog that covers all news and information relating to e-learning.
I also had to create this blog to cover all problems regarding online learning, as well as the solutions to these issues. By carrying out thorough research on different platforms, I am able to come up with tips that can help you make the best out of online learning. In some cases, you will not even need to spend a lot of money in order to get the best out of e-learning platforms. To make sure I always provide high-quality and consistent articles, I employ people who are well informed on e-learning. Since they have all used these services, they are able to give you first-hand information regarding e-learning. They also understand the pros and cons of the process. Everyone in my team has more than five years’ experience in online writing in the e-learning sector, so they will always provide accurate and high-quality content. Before the posts are uploaded, I always proofread them to ensure that they are accurate and free of grammatical errors.
History of e-Learning
I’ve always been fascinated by the development of e-learning, but to understand how amazing this sector is, you have to take a trip through history. The term ‘e-learning’ was used for the first time in a professional context in 1999, and this was in the Tech Learn conference at Disneyworld. However, the history of e-learning goes back much further. It is generally accepted that the first attempt at e-learning was made in 1924, when Sidney Presser created the Automatic Teacher. You should also note that some people consider radio lessons part of e-learning, and these were started in the 19th century. Television would be invented long after the radio, and the University of Iowa started to try out television lessons in the 1930s. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) played a major role in expanding the role of television in public education.
Computers were the biggest inventions in e-learning as they had unlimited potential. In the 1960s, Donald Bitzer created a computer-assisted instruction system known as PLATO. While this program wouldn’t be of much use today, it was groundbreaking for its time. It was used by the University of Illinois for about four decades and was used to offer coursework. The program could host thousands of users at a time, and many modern concepts in multi-user computing projects were even developed on PLATO.
The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Tim Bernes-Lee, a British scientist, and this marked a great development in e-learning. This would make it easier for information to be transmitted across the world. In 1994, the first online high school was launched, and the first fully-accredited online university was established in 1999. Today, most high schools and universities use various forms of e-learning, and the market size has grown to more than $160 billion.
