As It Was in the Beginning: Distance Education and Technology Past, Present, and Future
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.3/binder2.html?coverweb/fishman/index.html
  peer-reviewed

Fishman, T.
Kairos
2002

Abstract:

As DE courses are being developed and carried out by an unprecedented number of university-level educators, it is time to reexamine the long history of DE in hopes of better understanding the ways in which seemingly revolutionary developments such as virtual classroom and e-mail collaborations have more in common conceptually with early iterations of DE than might be supposed.