According to NationalToday.com, National Online Learning Day was first celebrated in 2016 to celebrate all of the learning resources that are available for students online. I bet in 2016, they never imagined how important online learning would become.
There is an official website called onlinelearningday.com but it doesn't look like they've updated it recently since I would think they would have put something about how everyone is online now because of the pandemic.
It does have a cool infographic page that talks about the history of online learning. It starts off with something called learning by correspondence in 1782 through 1892. It was teaching courses through the mail.
It also mentions Tuffs College advertising the first "wireless college" in 1922 which was lectures broadcast over the radio. Then in 1948, John Hopkins University had the first televised college.
Computers first started being used in schools in the 1960s. Then after the development in the 1970s of ARPANET which would become the Internet, online classes started being offered in the 1980s.
If you did a search on #onlinelearningday today, you would have found a lot of messages from school giving encouragement to their students, a lot of ads for businesses doing online learning, and some funny pictures of what online learning looks like. Here are a few screenshots of what I saw:
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