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According to the Bible, Moses used chiseled stone to convey the ten commandments in a form of writing.
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Written documents existed in considerable numbers in ancient Greece.
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Slate boards were used in India
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Invention of printing press
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Blackboards/chalkboards became used in schools.
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QWERTY
Christopher Sholes develops a machine to print the alphabet -
Marconi sent a radio signal across the Atlantic
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BBC began broadcasting educational radio programs
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Publication of audio-visual media texts
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Educational films were used as instructional media.
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The first vacuum tube-based computer developed.
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Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations (PLATO) was generalized computer assisted instruction system developed
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Television was first used in education
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The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is established as a national information system
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The establishment of Open University (OU).
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Satellite broadcasting became available
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IBM home computer is introduced
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Multimedia PCs are developed.
Schools were using videodiscs -
The World Wide Web (WWW) was launched
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Development of the first Learning Management Systems (LMSs)
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Smartboards are introduced
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The Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) started making its recorded lectures available to the public via its OpenCourseWare project.
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Discovery Education Streaming brings video to the classroom
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Youtube started.
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Youtube was bought by Google
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Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) introduced
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Two professors launched a lecture-capture based MOOC on artifical intelligence
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