Antioch University/Seattle
The first online course I taught was for Antioch University in Seattle, a graduate course through their "Heritage Online" program for teachers in Teaching Writing. in 1995. My strongest memory of that experience is the inordinate difficulty I had in actually designing a course that would pass muster with the directors: I kept building in interactivity, and they kept demanding measurable objectives. I wanted to set up a community of learners; they wanted a fixed, proceed at your own pace curriculum. I finally gave them a fixed curriculum, complete with dozens of measurable micro-objectives, and the course was accepted and subsequently offered.
Part and parcel of this model of education is self-paced learning and, an inevitable corollary, rolling registration. Students can start the course anytime, work through it as fast or as slowly as they wish, and presumably never encounter another human being online in the course save for me, the Sage on Email.The Heritage Online Website appears to be offline; I assume the program has been abandoned. Another tool I later decided to use, but has more recently lost funding, is Harcourt Higher Education.