LindaLinda Harasim, a professor at Simon Fraser University's School of Communication, is a pioneer and one of the inventors of online education. She has been building knowledge and design in online collaborative learning (OCL) since 1983. Linda invented the pedagogy of online collaborative learning at the University of Toronto (1983 – 1989). In 1990 she moved to Vancouver, BC to continue teaching, research and design of online collaborative learning at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Canada. Currently she teaches, publishes and researches in the areas of 'Social Media and the Knowledge Society' and 'New Social Media Research Methods', as well as continuing her work in OCL.In 1985, she taught the first online university course in the world (University of Toronto) and in 1987-1989, Linda developed the online pedagogy and design that launched the University of Phoenix Online. In 1993, she developed Virtual-U, an online educational environment designed to support collaborative learning, which she continues to use in her courses and to prototype new educational social media environments and tools more... See more text