Educational Technology in Higher Education

By emc3288
  • 7 BCE

    Written Communication

    Written text to communicate

  • Radio

    Radio
    Radio was first introduced in education in the 1920's in the USA (Bates, 2015)

  • Satellite Broadcasting

    Satellite Broadcasting
    Satellite broadcasting became available at the higher education level to offer lectures to the masses (Bates, 2015).

  • Television

    Television
    Television became a medium of choice for distance education in higher education.

  • PLATO

    PLATO was an instructional system developed at the University of Illinois that allowed for "key on-line concepts: forums, message boards, online testing, e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and multi-player games."

  • Lecture Capture Systems

    According to Bate (2015) "in the 1990s the cost of creating and distributing video dropped dramatically due to digital compression and high-speed Internet access." Due to this drop in cost it led to the development of lecture capture systems (Bates, 2015)

  • WWW

    WWW
    The Word Wide Web was formally launched in 1991 (Bates, 1991)

  • Learning Management Systems

    Learning Management Systems
    After the launch of the world wide web 4 years late the Web enabled the development of the first learning management systems (LMSs). One of the first was WebCT, which later became Blackboard (Bates, 2015).

  • I Tunes

    I Tunes
    Apple Inc. created iTunesU to serve as a site where videos and other digital information and materials on university instruction could be collected and downloaded free of charge by users (Bates, 2015)

  • MOOC's

    Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) were available at the higher education level for free with no formal assessment needed.

  • Present

    Social Media is being used by students at the higher education level to form communities and is sometimes integrated into teaching (Bates, 2015)