Ed Tech History

By SmithsonArts
  • Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE

    Sophists

  • Period: 470 BCE to 399 BCE

    Socrates

  • Period: 750 to 1258

    Abbasid Dynasty

    The period of the Abbasid Dynasty is often referred to as the Golden Age of Islam, due in large part to the thriving centers of learning. Scholars during this time translated, preserved, and elaborated Greek philosophy (later used in European universities). They also made advances in algebra, medicine, trigonometry, mechanics, optics, visual arts, geography, and literature.
  • 1102

    Abelard begins teaching

  • 1127

    Aberlard writes Sic et Non

  • 1136

    Peter Lombard begins teaching at School of Notre Dame, Paris

  • Period: 1225 to 1274

    St. Thomas Aquinas

  • Johann Amos Comenius begins writing "The Great Didactic"

  • Johann Amos Comenius begins writes "Orbus Pictus" (The World in Pictures)

  • Johann Pestalozzi starts his first school at Neuhof

  • Joseph Lancaster begins teaching

    Lancaster's teaching career begins when he asked his father's permission to bring some poor children home in order to teach them to read.

  • Johann Friedrich Herbart writes "Science of Education"

  • Period: to

    Lancastrian Plan used in New York City

  • William Russell writes "Manual of Mutual Instruction"

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel writes "The Education of Man"

  • Edward Sheldon psychologizes education in America

  • Alexander Graham Bell patents the first microphone

  • The world’s first education museum opened, with Amelia Meissner as its lead curator.

    https://www.stlmag.com/history/the-living-classroom/

  • First catalog of instructional films is published in America

  • Creation of Department of Visual Instruction

    This would eventually become the AECT
  • Sidney Pressey invents the Teaching Machine

    Sidney Pressey invents the Teaching Machine

    The first LMS was developed in 1924 when Sidney Pressey invented the first ‘teaching machine’. This resembled a typewriter with a window that could administer questions. One window was used to show the question and the other one was to fill in the answer.

  • Hoban, Hoban and Zissman write "Visualizing the Curriculum"

  • Period: to

    World War II

    WWII produces an explosion in training materials for both soldiers and civilians

  • FCC sets aside 242 television channels for educational purposes

  • B.F. Skinner writes "The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching"

  • Benjamin Bloom and colleagues publish the "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives"

  • Robert Gagne publishes "The Conditions of Learning"

  • "Sesame Street" makes its public television debut

  • Robert Elliot Kahn and Vint Cerf create TCP/IP

    Transmission Control Protocol/Internet protocol. When you have direct access to the Internet, your computer is provided with a copy of the TCP/IP program. It’s the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet. TCP/IP had made online learning possible.

  • FirstClass was introduced by Soft Arc and is the first LMS

  • Period: to

    Constructivism gains in popularity

  • Scorm 1.0 Released

    Scorm 1.0 Released

    https://scorm.com/scorm-explained/business-of-scorm/scorm-versions/

  • Eucalyptus becomes the first cloud-based LMS,

    It allows users to log in from their home computers. Cloud-based LMSs had enhanced data security and were cheaper to deploy than in-house LMSs.