More on the new idea of distance (now online) learning
In the light of the gubernatorial and regental excitement about online education, this blog earlier noted distance learning by TV as early as the 1950s. But it appears that in the 1920s, there were college credit courses on radio: …In 1915, what would become AMRAD (The American Radio and Research Corporation) opened for business from Medford Hillside, about four miles from Boston… In 1917, AMRAD received a license for station 1XE and experimental broadcasts began on a fairly regular basis that same year… It was in 1918 that Eunice Randall was hired by AMRAD, as their first woman draftsman; later,…