1. A brief history of distance education

2. University of Chicago 1890

5. VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol

6. Skype

8. Technology  Shifting Paradigms

9. Online Courses Fee-based courses Free courses Synchronous courses Asynchronous courses One CMS (content management system) Incorporate many spaces

15. Nearly Now Heppell, Stephen (2008, March 18). The 'inbetween' time zone used constantly by children offers great learning opportunities. So why no public investment?. Guardian.co.uk, Retrieved August 10, 2009, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/mar/18/link.link27 Heppell, Stephen (2008, May 15). Learning to Change-Changing to Learn . Retrieved August 10, 2009, from Consortium for School Networking(COSN) Video Web site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=tahTKdEUAPk

16. Cronon, W. (2004). 10 Qualities of a Liberally Educated Person. The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Available at http://www.honors.ls.wisc.edu/SiteContent.aspx?prev=1&id=159 Accessed July 9, 2009. "A liberal education is about... the wisdom to connect.“ William Cronon

17. “ Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.” http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf

18. Blended Learning In other words… combining both asynchronous and synchronous elements

20. Quoting administrator of Melissa Techman gleened from Twitter August 12, 2009 “What keeps us alive in our profession is being open to learning”