Chapter 1: 1994 Bulletin Board Systems

Our historical review of education technology begins in 1994 with Bulletin Board Systems or BBS and looks at how BBS laid the groundwork for much of the networked communications we now use on a daily basis. The chapter looks at how the BBS changed the nature of distance in distance education, student resistance to this new form of communication in distance learning, and how the BBS surfaced early issues around copyright of digitized materials. The chapter is read by Bonni Stachowiak host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.