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   History of virtual learning environments

   Text, ConText, and HyperText (1988-MIT Press), that describes Project Athena as an Educational On-Line System (EOS).
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   History of virtual learning environments 1990s

   The Athena Project at MIT, which started in 1983, has evolved into a system of "shared services" that look remarkably like many current VLEs or learning management systems. ... Bob Jensen and Petrea Sandlin publish "Electronic Teaching and Learning: Trends in Adapting to Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Networks in Higher Education" - republished 1997.
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   History of the graphical user interface

   Doug Engelbart's Augmentation of Human Intellect project at SRI in the 1960s developed the On-Line System (NLS), which incorporated a mouse-driven cursor and multiple windows used to work on hypertext. ... The W Window System (1983) was the precursor to X; X was developed at MIT as Project Athena.
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   List of computer term etymologies

   The reference to Greek mythology is most likely because Kerberos was developed as part of Project Athena. ... Wiki or WikiWiki — a hypertext document collection or the collaborative software used to create it.

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