People

This section will highlight people who have worked in the field of distance education. As with the rest of the site, the list below is not complete by any means - and please pardon the appearances and modest content ... we're getting things organized over the summer and into the autumn.

• William Rainey Harper

• Thomas Chamberlain - President of U of WI, 1987 - extension movement advocate

• Frederick Jackson Turner - Professor of History, University of Wisconsin 1889-1910; extensive lecturer & advocate for extension movement

• Jerome H. Raymond - Sec. of University Extension, U of WI; established correspondence courses, 1894

• Charles R. Van Hise - President of U of WI, 1903-1918; supported correspondence program

• William H. Lighty - Secretary of Correspondence Study, U of WI, 1906 & Director of Extension teaching 1907-1937

• Louis E. Reber - Director & later Dean of University Extension, U of WI, 1907-1926

• John Noffsinger

• William R. Young - Supervisor of Correspondence Instruction at Penn State University - while drafted, proposed Army Institute at Madison, WI, 1942 (became USAFI)

• Gayle Childs - U of Nebraska -
• Sandy Hansen - U of Minnesota
• Betsy Powell - U of Georgia
• Norinne Tempset - U of Utah
• Mary Lou McPartlin - Loyala U, Chicago
• Len Stein - U of Chicago

• Knute Broady - U of Nebraska

• Alice Rowbotham - U of CA

• John Davies - U of Iowa

• Neil Garvey - Pennsylvania State College

• Mary Lou McPartlin - Loyola U

• Ripley Sims - USAFI and active in NUEA

• Vasaar Bishop - U of Mississippi

• Leonard Stein - U of Chicago

• Lloyd Hansen - Minnesota

• Norinne Tempest - U of Utah
• Harold Wilson - Prime Minister UK during Open U early years of development

• Elizabeth Powell - U of Georgia (NUEA, 1952-1955)

• Charles A. Wedemeyer

• Michael G. Moore

• Otto Peters

• Börje Holmberg
• Randy Garrison - blog | slideshare | website |
• Fred Saba -website |
• Terry Anderson - blog | slideshare | Reaction paper to A Century of Distance Education in the United States - click here|
• Morten F. Paulsen (President of EDEN 2010 - present) - blog | 
• Alan Tait - twitter | Alan's EDEN past-president blog |
• Erling Ljosa (EDEN president 1992-1995)
• Tamás Lajos (EDEN president 1995-1997)
• Valerio Grementieri (EDEN president 1997-2000)
• Erwin Wagner (EDEN president 2000-2003)
• Ingeborg Boe (EDEN president 2003-2007)
• Gary Miller - blog | USDLA Hall of Fame | Collaboration versus Competition: Trends in Online Learning for Workforce Development ( paper presented April 27, 2010, at the Third International Conference on Adult Education at Alexandru Ioan Cusa University of Iasi, Romania)|

Historians and their work

• Von Pittman
• Ellen Bunker
• Linda Black