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"The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission grandly predicted that "college-by-radio" would put "American education 25 years ahead." Local residents could pay U of L tuition, receive study materials in the mail, and listen to classroom discussions on the radio. The university offered "radio-assisted correspondence courses" entitled "Problems of Modern Society" and "Contemporary American Literature" in the fall semester of 1948, with WHAS and WRXW each handling student discussions two days a week."
-- University of Louisville, Cox & Morrison. google-books 
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Interestingly the president of U of L later went on to UNESCO, which later became an advocate of OER.