What do Franklin D. Roosevelt, Walter P. Chrysler and Charles Schulz all have in common?
According to the National Home Study Council, these distinguished men are three of the millions of Americans who studied through correspondence education, or distance learning – a nontraditional form of education that goes as far back as before the American Revolution.
Distance learning – being educated through mediated information and instruction by using technology and other forms of learning at a distance – began in a time when educational opportunity was a rare commodity. However, this form of correspondence study didn’t receive formal government recognition until the late 1800s, when New York authorized the Chautauqua Institute to award degrees via home study instruction.
In the century that followed, significant steps were taken in advancing home study. These developments included creating curriculums for distance-learning programs to follow and incorporating the most up-to-date technology.
In turn, research indicates that correspondence students perform just as well as their classroom counterparts. Over the past 100 years, home...
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