Lotus LMS and Lotus Virtual Classroom evolve − 1 January, 1994
Submitted by: Jill Mohler
Because there was so much growth during the early Nineties, I have highlighted some important milestones in each individual year.
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Lotus Development Corporation acquires the Human Interest Group. The system evolves into the Lotus Learning Management System and Lotus Virtual Classroom now owned by IBM. Links to articles that describes how IBM has previously implemented the "inventions" described in the Blackboard patent
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Other Steps In Technology
- April 4, 1994 -- The Netscape Communications Corporation is founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
- September 12, 1994 -- Netscape releases the beta version of its Navigator Web browser.
- October 1994 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is created to develop common protocols for the Internet.
- According to the Times Mirror Center, nearly one in three U.S. households contains a personal computer, and approximately 23 million adults use a home computer every day. A majority of employed people use a computer at the workplace. (The Times Mirror Center will later change its name to the Pew Research Center.)
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Other Steps In Virtual Learning Environments
- In 1994, NKI Distance Education in Norway starts its second generation, online, distance education courses. The courses were provided on the Internet through EKKO, NKI's self-developed Learning Management System (LMS). The experiences are described in the article NKI Fjernundervisning: Two Decades of Online Sustainability in Morten Flate Paulsen's book Online Education and Learning Management Systems which is available online at http://www.studymentor.com
- CALCampus launches online-based school through which administration, real-time classroom instruction, and materials are provided. Origins of CALCampus
- Bob Jensen and Petrea Sandlin publish "Electronic Teaching and Learning: Trends in Adapting to Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Networks in Higher Education" - republished 1997. Text available via hyperlink, including identification of ten leading LMS systems in 1994 (discussed in detail in chapter 3 of their book):
1. Quest from Allen Communication
2. Tourguide from American Training International (Tourguide is no longer listed as a product at Infotec.)
3. Multimedia ToolBook from Asymetrix Corporation, bought by Click2Learn, bought by SumTotal Systems
4. Lesson Builder from the Center for Education Technology in Accounting (this product never was completed)
5. Tencore from Computer Teaching Corporation
6. Course Builder from Discovery Systems International, Inc.
7. Training Icon Environment (TIE) from Global Information Systems Technology, Inc.
8. tbtAuthor from HyperGraphics Corporation (HyperGraphics no longer lists tbtAuthor in its product line)
9. Authorware from Macromedia Corporation
10. Personal Education Authoring Kit (PEAK) from Major Educational Resources Corp. PEAK is for Mac users only and has been discontinued. However, while they last you can get free copies at 800-989-5353
- Taking advantage of Convene International online virtual classroom and hoping for similar success to that of UOP online, several schools start working with Convene International in wiring their Distance Education programs and offering it online via the Internet.
- Mark Lavenant and John Kruper present "The Phoenix Project at the University of Chicago: Developing a Secure, Distributed Hypermedia Authoring Environment Built on the World Wide Web" at the First International World-Wide Web Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. "The Phoenix Project" would later become the Web-based learning environment within the Division of the Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago.
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Sources:
Shedden, David (2004, Dec.). New Media Timeline (1994). Poynteronline Web Site, Retrieved Jan 26, 2007, from http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=75953&sid=26
History of virtual learning environments. Retrieved January 26, 2007, from Wikipedia Web site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments
Because there was so much growth during the early Nineties, I have highlighted some important milestones in each individual year.
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Lotus Development Corporation acquires the Human Interest Group. The system evolves into the Lotus Learning Management System and Lotus Virtual Classroom now owned by IBM. Links to articles that describes how IBM has previously implemented the "inventions" described in the Blackboard patent
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Other Steps In Technology
- April 4, 1994 -- The Netscape Communications Corporation is founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
- September 12, 1994 -- Netscape releases the beta version of its Navigator Web browser.
- October 1994 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is created to develop common protocols for the Internet.
- According to the Times Mirror Center, nearly one in three U.S. households contains a personal computer, and approximately 23 million adults use a home computer every day. A majority of employed people use a computer at the workplace. (The Times Mirror Center will later change its name to the Pew Research Center.)
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Other Steps In Virtual Learning Environments
- In 1994, NKI Distance Education in Norway starts its second generation, online, distance education courses. The courses were provided on the Internet through EKKO, NKI's self-developed Learning Management System (LMS). The experiences are described in the article NKI Fjernundervisning: Two Decades of Online Sustainability in Morten Flate Paulsen's book Online Education and Learning Management Systems which is available online at http://www.studymentor.com
- CALCampus launches online-based school through which administration, real-time classroom instruction, and materials are provided. Origins of CALCampus
- Bob Jensen and Petrea Sandlin publish "Electronic Teaching and Learning: Trends in Adapting to Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Networks in Higher Education" - republished 1997. Text available via hyperlink, including identification of ten leading LMS systems in 1994 (discussed in detail in chapter 3 of their book):
1. Quest from Allen Communication
2. Tourguide from American Training International (Tourguide is no longer listed as a product at Infotec.)
3. Multimedia ToolBook from Asymetrix Corporation, bought by Click2Learn, bought by SumTotal Systems
4. Lesson Builder from the Center for Education Technology in Accounting (this product never was completed)
5. Tencore from Computer Teaching Corporation
6. Course Builder from Discovery Systems International, Inc.
7. Training Icon Environment (TIE) from Global Information Systems Technology, Inc.
8. tbtAuthor from HyperGraphics Corporation (HyperGraphics no longer lists tbtAuthor in its product line)
9. Authorware from Macromedia Corporation
10. Personal Education Authoring Kit (PEAK) from Major Educational Resources Corp. PEAK is for Mac users only and has been discontinued. However, while they last you can get free copies at 800-989-5353
- Taking advantage of Convene International online virtual classroom and hoping for similar success to that of UOP online, several schools start working with Convene International in wiring their Distance Education programs and offering it online via the Internet.
- Mark Lavenant and John Kruper present "The Phoenix Project at the University of Chicago: Developing a Secure, Distributed Hypermedia Authoring Environment Built on the World Wide Web" at the First International World-Wide Web Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. "The Phoenix Project" would later become the Web-based learning environment within the Division of the Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago.
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Sources:
Shedden, David (2004, Dec.). New Media Timeline (1994). Poynteronline Web Site, Retrieved Jan 26, 2007, from http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=75953&sid=26
History of virtual learning environments. Retrieved January 26, 2007, from Wikipedia Web site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments
Comments:
DistEd (January 27, 2007. 03:14am)
Submitted by: Jill Mohler
To compare and contrast distance education and technology during this era, I would describe the early Nineties as the time that the groundwork was laid for future online distance learning courses. With the Internet now open to the public and the creation of the WWW, educators seriously focused on how to use the Internet as an effective communication tool for distance education. This was the time when learning management systems and other structured tools were created and deployed. Internet standards were also being fine-tuned. The progress of technology was out pacing distance education at the time but this progress would eventually propel distance education to a new level later in the decade.