Eventearly 2000s

Closure of AllLearn

A joint online venture of Oxford, Stanford, and Yale closed after limited commercial success.

Year
early 2000s

A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is a system specifically designed to facilitate the management of educational courses by teachers for their students.

But it wasn't until the 2000s and the advent of high-speed internet that distance learning programs truly began to take off.

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