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MIT Open Courseware for Brain and Cognitive Sciences course , Cognitive Processes like attention, working memory, judgement, problem solving etc.

Like many other arenas, to be a pioneer institution for OpenCourseWare Project, as METU members, we need to increase the number of high quality courses published and reach more learners as possible. In this process, METU Instructional Technology Support Office supports faculty members for developing course materials and publishing those materials on the Web.

To me, the most interesting thing in this infographic is that distance learning is not recent at all, and it actually dates as back as 1700s through correspondence. As you walk through the history of online learning on the left column, the right column will inform you about some other fun facts that happened at the very same year.

Dear friends, I liked this infographic because it is followable to see the development of online learning, year by year

I think a striking point in this infographic seems to be that the developments in the last decade seems to be quicker and more extensive than ever. There are only 12-year distance (2002-2014) between when OpenCourseWare started and 98 % of the universities started online programs. It is also seen that online courses are regarded as highly as face-to-face courses for most people of business and academy which might put the existence of today's pyhsical schools into risk. When we consider that online courses and learning tools are not that common in Turkey, it seems we are left behind that new distant learning paradigm in the world.