1984
TED LLC
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conferences is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization founded in 1984 that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".
1997
Blackboard LLC
Blackboard LLC. was founded in 1997 and began as a consulting firm to the non-profit Global Learning Consortium to develop a prototype for online learning and thinking through online learning standardization.
2001
MIT OCW
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open Course Ware is an initiative to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere.
2002
Moodle
Moodle was originally developed with the goal of helping educators create online courses and a focus on interaction and collaborative construction of content.
2006
Kahn's Academy
Youtube was first exploited as a platform for creating open source educational content by Sal Kahn back in 2006.
2010
Udemy
The vastly popular Udemy, inc. online learning platform was created for paid educational content.
2011
Skillshare
The popular online learning community platform Skillshare was first created.
2012
Preply & Coursera
The popular world-wide language learning platform Preply was first created.
The popular open online university course platform Coursera was first created.
2015
3Blue1Brown
Pedagogical video & animations python library for mathematics & science content was first created by Grant Sanderson, once an employee of Kahn's Academy.
2016
Lambda
Lambda is at its infancy, a spec of dust in the vastness of the unobservable universe. The idea that no universal/standardized education system exists.
2018
Transformation
The globally accepted standard of education requires radical transforation.
2019
Covid 19
During the time of the global Covid 19 pandemic, the idea of digital education gained a lot of popularity.
2020
University
Online education has become normalized as a means of learning remotely. Many universities invested their efforts in accommodating students from all over the world. Institutions team up to improve curricula & move towards a common goal.
2023
Digital Education
The digital education space is still growing rapidly but there is still a lot of potential for getting involved.
It seems as though there is a monopoly in the rush for creating online education platforms. Some companies are exploiting the current underdeveloped state of global online education while others are voluntarily contributing in the most meaningful way towards the improvement of an open & free international online education consortium. Lambda is dedicated to empowering everyone in becoming a contributor towards a better open & free international education standard. Join us to become an active participant in revolutionizing the digital learning space of the future.