In the late 1980s, learning programs designed to teach students via computers didn’t appear on the educational landscape. Learning online, the Internet and interactive student participation were not yet common. So when Bob Ross ’48, a professor at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and three of his associates took six months off and wrote a computer program for Western Civilization they didn’t receive a warm response. Their project, called Culture 1.0, was considered an experiment in distance learning that was “way ahead of its time.” The project was shelved, and Bob thought it was dismissed as a failure. 1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...