First school museum opened, housing the first media center used for instructional purposes
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Visual education/instruction movement began, including the use of the motion picture projector. in 1913, Thomas Edison said "Books will soon be obsolete in schools..."
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Five professional organizations for visual instruction were established
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Technological advances were made in such areas as radio broadcasting, sound recordings, and sound motion pictures.
Merging of three existing national professional organizations for visual instruction.
Skinner creates the Behavior Learning Theory
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Psychologists working for various research organizations started viewing training as a system, developing analysis, design and evaluation procedures
Allies able to be victorious in World War II largely due to its use of visual technology and complete mastery of film education.
Advanced communication models were began to be put forth.
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Increased interest in television as a medium for delivering instruction.
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Programmed instruction movement, major factor in the systems development approach.
Soviet Union launched Sputnik, beginning a series of events that had a major impact on instructional design.
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Birth of instructional theory and active research on instructional strategies.
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Various concepts such as task analysis and objective specification were being developed, forming a process for systematically designing instructional materials.
Gagne, primarily concerned with instruction and the study of how people learn, created his own theory of instruction.
By this time many schools discontinued instructional television due to lack of funding, though continued increase in interest was shown.
Emergence of criterion reference testing, an important factor in the instructional design movement.
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Number of instructional design models increased.
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Number of instructional design models greatly increased.
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The interest in instructional design continues to grow. The presence becomes greater in business and industry.
McCluskey noted that even though the instructional field was rapidly growing, the educational community at large was not greatly affected by the growth.
Moore describes three agents involved in instructional activity: interactions between learners and instructional content, learners and the instructor, and among other learners.
Situated learning theory coined.
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One of the trends with the most impact on the field was the human performance movement. This movement has its emphasis on the on-the-job performance has broadened the instructional design field.
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Use of Internet has increased, online learning has taken place, and online courses helped to open up instructional design processes.