Historical Evolution of IDT

By vatink95

  • First School Museum

    Opened in St. Louis

  • First Catalog of Instructional Films Published

  • Origins of Instructional Design Procedures

    Many historians link the beginning of ID procedures to WWII.

  • FCC set aside 242 TV channels for education

    Federal Communications Commission

  • B.F. Skinner's "The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching" published

  • Ford Foundation shifted support to public TV

  • First Definition of Instructional Technology

    First definition to be approved by a major professional organization (AECT)

  • "The Conditions of Learning" by Gagne first published

  • Atkinson and Shriffin proposed a theory of memory

    3 types of memory - sensory, short term, and long term

  • Cognitive Information Processing Theory

    This theory became popular in the 1970s and emphasized the environment’s role on learning.

  • Commission of Instructional Technology Produced “To Improve Learning”

    This report provided two new definitions of instructional technology

  • U.S. Military adopted instructional design model

  • AECT adopted new definition of Instructional Technology

    “Educational technology is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization, for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solutions to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning.”

  • Instructional Design Professionals began creating computer-based programs

    During the 1980s, there was an increase in computer-based programs being produced.

  • Computers were used for instructional purposes

  • Problem-Based Learning model developed

    Howard Barrows develops PBL instruction method

  • One computer per child in schools

  • Human Performance Improvement Movement

    During the 1990s, we began to see this movement emphasized.

  • Constructivism theory becomes popular

    1990s - constructivism grows in popularity

  • AECT published Instructional Technology: The Definitions and Domains of the Field

    “Instructional Technology is the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning.”

  • 10% of students in higher learning schools were taking 1 online course

  • Flipped Learning/Classroom model

    Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams first incorporated this model in their classrooms

  • Latest Definition of Instructional Technology

    AECT committee published new book with this definition - “Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.”

  • 32% of students in higher learning schools taking one online class

  • Mobile devices were frequently used in higher education