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This can be traced back as early as the start of the twentieth century when School Museums began making their debut. The first museum opened 1905 in St. Louis.
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When The Keystone View Company published "Visual Education" which was a teachers guide, it started a movement of using media in the School Museums
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The first catalog of instructional films in The United States was published in 1910.
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In 1913 John B Watson posted an article stating that human behavior would explain all of human psychology
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This change that Thomas Edison predicted was that books would become obsolete and humans would be taught through motion picture. Five professional organizations for visual instruction were established along with five journals which focused on visual instruction
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By the 1920's John B Watson's classical conditioning method was beginning to be challenged by studies and research by new behaviorist
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In the 1930s it was predicted that radio would revolutionize the way the education system was instructing.
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Jean Piaget's Cognitive Learning Theory was introduced in 1936.
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Operant Conditioning was introduced by B.F. Skinner who believed behavior can be shaped by reinforcements to get a desired behavior.
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The Government established the Division of Visual Aids for War Training which led to the production of 457 training films. These film reduced training time and were also more appealing to viewers.
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During the war the U.S. Army Air Force produced more than 400 training films and 600 film strips. These training films were a very useful resource in preparing our troops
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After success in the war, many psychologists who were involved began viewing training as a system, and developed a number of innovative analysis, design and evaluation procedures. This theory was backed up in an article by B.F. Skinner who is known for jumpstarting this revolution by analyzing increasing human learning and effective instructional materials
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In 1952 the Federal Communications Commission made the decision to set aside 242 channels for educational purposes.
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Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning was introduced in 1956, he wanted to advocate high level thinking in education
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Criterion-referenced testing was another step in developing the instructional design process. The test was intended to measure how well an individual can perform a particular behavior, independent of how well others may have performed.
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A new form of receiving instructions became common in the 1960s with the start of educational broadcasting through television
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In Robert Gagne's book he describes verbal information, intellectual skills, psychomotor skills, attitudes and cognitive strategies as the five domains of learning outcomes. In another effort to promote effective learning, he also described the nine events of instruction. His writings left a major impact on the instruction design filed
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Robert Gagne writes a book "The Conditions of Learning'' that define the nine levels of effective learning
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The U.S. Military designed an updated instructional design model to teach training materials. Many graduate programs in instructional design were also introduced at Universities. Also, in business and industry instructional design was being used to improve training.
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Many workers in the instructional design field began making the decision to change to computer based instructions. This led to an emphasis on developing new models of instructional design to take advantage of the computers capabilities.
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After computers became available to the public, they were soon being used for instructional purposes by more than 40% of elementary school and 75% of secondary schools
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The network was established to help colleges and universities move to the use of online courses. The network offered its own online class through a software, 2 years later.
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Papert predicts that computers will spark a change in our education system
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In 1994 Seels and Richey defined IDT as "the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources of learning"
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Instruction by use of computer and digital technology has grown rapidly over the last few decades. Especially with the debut of the Internet
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The instructional design field has had a huge impact on improvement of learning and performance in the workplace. 75% of employees in business and industry reported that they used knowledge bases to help them learn and perform their jobs, while 74% reported using support tools and 67% used online communities.