Similarly, chapter three (by Connie Broughton) explains the evolution of Washington State's Online Learning consortium (
WAOL), comprised of 34 community and technical colleges over an 11-year period.
There might be better ways to spend summers than learning about distance learning, but for Summers 1999-2000, I worked for The Boeing Company on a Community/Technical College Faculty Fellowship to research "Teaching Online" and how to help students/learners "Learn to Learn Online." The projects involved creating two web resources to be posted on the WashingtonOnline (
WAOL) website.
1996 AOL is publicly traded for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange; Wall Street sign is changed to
WAOL Street for the day.