Abstract
In reviewing the history and current state of online distance education in Germany, two separate developments are noticeable. Firstly, private initiatives can be traced back to the 1850s, ranging from correspondence to traditional distance and modern online distance education endeavors. In contrast, developments in the public educational sector are more recent, dating back to the 1950s after the Second World War, when Germany was divided in East and West Germany, and later from 1990, when the country was reunified. Distance education in East Germany was fundamentally different from developments in West Germany. East German structures were controlled centrally by the State, whereas in the Federal Republic of West Germany, eleven Bundesländer (states) decided autonomously on educational policies, thus resulting in multiple developments.
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Bernath, U., & Stöter, J. (2018). Germany. In SpringerBriefs in Open and Distance Education (pp. 65–79). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0298-5_8
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