DE in Alaska - Timeline (DRAFT 1/6/14) - 6 views
started by Roxanne Mourant on 07 Jan 14
started by Roxanne Mourant on 07 Jan 14
started by Roxanne Mourant on 07 Jan 14
started by Roxanne Mourant on 07 Jan 14
History of Alaska's Distance Education
Come see where we have been and why as we surge towards the future of distance education in Alaska. This multi-media presentation will include interviews from many experts in the field including past and present Commissioners of Education, the University of Alaska, superintendents, teachers and many other Alaskans. Find out the pedagogy behind what has been done in order to think about success for our future.
DE in Alaska - Timeline (DRAFT 1/30/14)
1840 - First distance ed course offered. Sir Isaac Pitman - shorthand by mail.
1862 - Morrill Land Grant Act - gives states and territories land for the purpose of supporting post-secondary institutions. (1922 Ak Agricultural School and School of Mines opened six miles NW of Fairbanks with 13 students.)
1867 - Alaska was purchased from Russia
1870 - Sitka opened non-native private schools
1878 - Wrangell opened a girls' home and school (until 1889).
1878 - Presbyterian mission school opened and became the Sitka Industrial Training School around 1884.
1880 - Sitka had 2 public schools: 1 for natives and 1 for non-natives
1884 - Organic Act requires all children to receive education
1884 - 1908 - Sheldon Jackson (Presbyterian Minister) was appointed as head of Alaska's education system.
1890 - As promised a public school was opened in the Pribilof Island (in an 1870, 20-year lease to
1892 - 17 government-supported schools operated. Non-native schools were at Sitka, Juneau and Douglas. Churches operated the other 14.
1900 - Organic Act of 1884 was revised to give local control of school finance and operations
1905 - Nelson Act provided for education outside of incorporated towns for whites and white-blood mix who were 'civilized' (run by the Federal Bureau of Education) 1906 - Sitka vocational school was now opened to Natives.
1906 - Orah Dee Clark began a 50-year teaching career at Kodiak, and later organized the first school in Anchorage in 1915
1913 - Alaska legislature passed a law requiring all children to attend school 1915 - Territorial Board of Education was established (composed of the governor and four senators - 1 from each judicial division) and oversaw education of non- Natives
1917 - First Territorial Commissioner of Education, Lester D. Henderson, was appointed by the Board of Education
1917-1925 - Henderson organized a 2-wk annual teachers institute (1918 they formed the Alaska Education Association)
1926 - White Mountain Vocational Boarding School opened for Natives, ages 14-21.
1930 - Ak Ed Asoc is affiliated with NEA
1931 - 1984 - Bureau of Indian Affairs took over operation of rural Alaska schools from the Bureau of Education
1933 - Board of Ed was reorganized to include 5 members (judicial divisions and one at-large) for 6-year terms appointed by the governor, with consent of the legislature exclusive hunting rights for fur seals on the Pribilof Islands included the provision that the company maintain schools on St. Paul and St. George islands for at least eight months of the year.)
1906 when instruction in the English language, writing, and mathematics was offered at the industrial school at Sitka.
1935 - Univ. of Ak was formed from the previous Ak Ag College & School of mines. Residents were not charged and non-residents paid $20 per semester.
1939 - EED opens Alyeska Centralized Correspondence School
1947 - Mt. Edgecumbe Boarding School opens with nearly 500 students.
1953 - Ak Territorial Legislature created a community college system. Uof A added campuses at Anchorage and Juneau.
1960 - APU opened in Anchorage
1969 - Comsat provided first live broadcast: Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon
1969 - Open University initiative started in the UK
1972-1976 - Molly Hootch case finally settles and the State of Alaska begins a $143 million program to comply
1974 - 1975 - NASAs ATS-6 satellite was used to transmit education and health programs to more than 20 rural villages in Alaska.
1975 - Alaska Native Magazine (NW Regional Lab's 1-year programs relevant to Alaskan villages)
1975 - KYUK-TV and Kuskokwim Community College broadcast some regional programs
1975 - KAKM-TV and Anchorage School District received 2 hours a day of instructional TV
1975 - RATNET began (The Rural Alaska Television Network advisory group (RATNET)
1977 - ETA began (4-yr funded "Educational Telecommunications for Alaska")
1977 - DOE established an Office of Technology and Telecommunications for "TV for Learning"
1977 - UACN internet statewide system established through UofA with cable connections between Fairbanks, Juneau and Anchorage and dial-up elsewhere
1980 - Learn/Alaska began daily broadcasts, with collaboration of agencies.
1990 -Star School Program: ESD 101 of Spokane, Wa awarded $9.8 million that included Alaska.
1996 - First accredited online university: Jones International University (based out of Colorado) was launched by Glenn Jones, CEO and Bernard Luskin, Chancellor
1999 - ARCS (Alaska Rural Communications Service) Feb 8, 1999 - Alascom with an appropriation made by the Alaska Legislature. RATNET dissolved in 1995 and ARCS took its place.
2004 - Alyeska Centralized Correspondence School is transferred to Yukon-Koyukuk SD (July 1)
2008 - MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) started (Connectivism and Connective Knowledge) from Canada - CCK08
2010 - EED begins statewide forums for hearing concerns and needs for K-12 distance education collaborative effort
2011 - Alaska's Learning Network begins statewide through a grant to K-12 school districts