id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_6ngziv2tnbhmnfbu742rn65d7a Dr. Alan D. Hansen, PhD, MBA, BA The Genesis of Distance Education 2017 4 .pdf application/pdf 1512 130 57 often perceived as traditional higher education in the United States evolved from the European educational institutions organized as Mechanics Institutes (Knowles, 1994). In 1873, Anna Ticknor initiated a program to educate women through correspondence 1881 that became the standard for teaching through correspondence in higher education Distance education in the form of correspondence-based programs entered the United Ultimately faculty opposition led to correspondence education being relegated to a of Wisconsin remains a leader in distance education to this day. correspondence programs were relegated to a status of second class education for the next six correspondence instruction conducted by American universities. A history of the adult education movement in the United States. American higher education: A History. education, University of Wisconsin extension, 1885-1975. Turner and Extension education at the University of Wisconsin in the 1890s. American distance education: A century of collegiate correspondence study (pp. University extension: The early years in the United States 1885 – ./cache/work_6ngziv2tnbhmnfbu742rn65d7a.pdf ./txt/work_6ngziv2tnbhmnfbu742rn65d7a.txt