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Modern distance education had been around at least since Isaac Pitman taught shorthand in Great Britain via correspondence in the 1840s. Since the development of the postal service in the 19th century, commercial correspondence colleges provided distance education to students across the country. Computers and the internet made not only distance learning easier, but also many other day-to-day tasks.
One of the oldest distance education universities is the University of South Africa, which has been offering correspondence education courses since 1946. The largest distance education university in the United Kingdom is the Open University founded in 1969.
There are now many similar institutions around the world, often with the name "Open University" in English or in the local language.
Distance education programs are sometimes called correspondence courses, an older term that originated in nineteenth-century vocational education programs that were conducting through the post. This term was replaced by distance education, and has expanded to encompass more sophisticated technologies and delivery methods. The first subject taught by correspondence was the Pitman Shorthand, a tool of stenography. Primary and secondary education programmes were also widely available by correspondence, usually meant for children living in remote areas.