‘CENTRALIZED,
DECENTRALIZED, DISTRIBUTED’
Rosanna Flouty, NYU/CUNY
Paul Baran, RAND (1964)
Schoolchildren practicing ‘duck and cover’ drill under their desks
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
PROTO-
TYPICAL
MOOC
MOOC =
“massive
open online
course”
PROTO-
MOOC
circa
1957
BRIEFEST HISTORY OF DISTANCE LEARNING (ever)
Distance Learning (circa 1890s)
Distance Learning Milestone: UK Open University, Founded in 1971
New York University Campus, circa 1957
NYU’s Washington Square Campus Archives,
October 2013
SOME QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
IN 2013…• How will museums answer the call
for informal online learning
opportunities?
• Will we fall pressure to monetize
prematurely?
• What language will we use to
describe and track long-term impact?