Correspondence training generally differs from distance learning in that students receive lessons and have a certain amount of time to complete and return them for a grade. The Department of Veterans ...

It seems that every time there is a revolution in how we communicate—from cheap postage in the 18th century to today’s social web—there are those who would apply the new technology to changing how we ...

In 1840, Sir Issac Pitman, the English inventor of shorthand, came up with an ingenious idea for delivering instruction to a potentially limitless audience: correspondence courses by mail. Pitman's ...

The Training and Doctrine Command announces that starting March 3 curriculum for the Army Correspondence Course Program (ACCP) will begin migrating from the Interim Learning Management System (ILMS) ...

FORT MONROE, Va. (TRADOC News Service, Mar. 17, 2008) - On Dec. 16, the commander of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Gen. William S. Wallace, directed the command, which oversees ...

Online teaching and learning is a form of distance education. While distance education has been offered since the early 1700s, the first online courses were offered in the late 1960s. Original ...

Tracing the correspondence composition courses taught at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill from 1912 to 1924, this essay argues that examining distance education in the nineteenth and ...