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By: whitlowe

whitlowe — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:54:06 +0000

Allen:

Fascinating to hear this bit of history. I’d love to see what that really looked like. And yes, I would assume there was quite a bit of resistance to doing something very foreign and different then as well!

Whitney

By: Allen Jensen

Allen Jensen — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:24:19 +0000

My father, Pete Jensen, was one of the pioneers of distance education at Georgia Tech in the late 1960′s. One of the first forms of distance education he worked on was an overhead projector with a role of plastic instead of a single sheet. There was a pen attached that would “write” on the plastic and the plastic film would advance to the next page. This was all synchronized with a voice recording – all on a single tape. Because of the equipment cost, typically this was in a classroom setting, and the professor was remote. Once the recording was made, the same lecture could be given multiple times to different classes. Further interaction was then done via phone calls since this was before electronic mail was readily available. This was the precursor of todays web-based powerpoint seminars.

It is interesting that after 40 years, the same issues about using distance education still remain.