Our History. Online learning was invented in 1960 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations) was an answer to a pressing need for greater access to high-quality education.

Is Edmentum a Plato?

Today, the PLATO system is known as Edmentum Courseware. What hasn’t changed over more than 50 years is that educators’ needs and student outcomes are first and foremost in Edmentum’s strategic intents. Edmentum’s use of world-class instructional methodology and architecture goes back to that great innovation in 1960.

Is Edmentum any good?

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