Who are the founding fathers of distance education?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Who are the founding fathers of distance education?
Tony Bates, online learning and distance education resources, 2016/09/19
Let's just use the phrase "founders of distance education". Tony Bates offers several alternatives to the three suggested by Steve Wheeler (Bates, John Daniel, and Michael Moore) including Isaac Pitman, the University of London External Programme, Chuck Wedemeyer, Harold Wilson, Jennie Lee, and Walter Perry. More...