Modern Technology as well as the Bodyguard
Commercial Printing and How Methods Have Changed
Did you ever wonder where we’d be without technology? Imagine how your life could be whenever we was without networked computers, mobile phones, electricity, and books (eBooks and paper-based). It is nearly impossible to think about our everyday life without one. What exactly is technology anyhow? How has it changed the world? Did it change our world for that better or worse?
– That’s not the start of distance education, however
– It was actually begun prior to this
– In 1840, Sir Issac Pitman, who also invented shorthand, started the idea
– He recommended that courses be provided with the mail
– This was a sufficiently intriguing idea that in early 1900s the University of Chicago started the very first department for correspondence courses
– The idea caught on, as well as some other universities established correspondence departments of their own