Past Events Presentations

April 25, 2019 – The Year of Commemorations – Dr. Ravi Mahajan (University School of Open Learning, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)

April 25, 2019 – Noon (1200) EST (2130 IST): The Year of Commemorations – Dr. Ravi Mahajan (University School of Open Learning, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India). Click here for his CV. 

The open and distance education system, which sprouted of the efforts of Caleb Phillips, Isaac Pitman, and Charles Toussaint and Gustav Langencheidt, has reasons to mark 2019 as the Year of Commemorations. In this talk, a few such events shall be shared. For instance, fifty years back, in 1969 among an array of events, two independent events took place. One, the establishment of British Open University in Milton Keynes by a Royal Charter, and another, the first-ever linking of computer-to-computer on ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), the precursor to the Internet. Of course, not many could visualize that the subsequent developments on these events will sway educational edifice world-wide with terms like OCW (OpenCourseWare), OER (Open Educational Resources) and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)

 

 

 

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