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4087 BCE
Elder Sophists
Freelance instructional technologists who were majorly doing either careful prepared lecture or lecture on the requested topic by the audience or debating with another sophist. The main contribution of this group was about trageting public audiences rather than looking into more private societies. -
1700 BCE
Comenius
Introduced the universal system of knowledge "an open system which led from kindergarten to throught the university". It was the true fore runner of modern uniform educational technology. -
1658 BCE
Orbus pictus published
It is an example of the comenius's method which was written for children studying Latin and sciences. One of the most famous illustrated textbook. -
1180 BCE
Scholastic Instructional method
Abelard shape this method by his famous book "Sic et Non". This method provided the logical thinking which is needed for inquiry and exprementation learning. -
Lancastrian Monitorial Instruction emerged
Provide the low-cost systematic framework for instruction, monitor training, control, grouping, testing, and administration for group instruction. -
Pestalozzi psychologizing of instructional method
He believed that instrcutions should follow the natural human development path for being successful. -
Emergence of first school museum
During this time, media was used in the US for the first time as an instructional technology. It is one of the most important events about visual instruction. The visual instructional materials were available to be used for increasing the engagement of students in the classroom. -
Publishing of first instructional film
The first catalog of the instructional film came into existence and The Rochester university became first for adapting it to the university regular instructional use. -
Establishing of the department of visual instruction
Later this department was evolved to "Association for Educational Communications and Technology" or AECT. It took the control of the instructional design field. -
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Using of training films for United States military
During the world war ||, many of the educators were called to develop the trainings for both military pesonles and civilizan. -
Development of Experience cone by Dale
This concept was introduced in the book of "Audiovisual methods in teaching". It showed that there is a relation between the way audiovisual materials are delivered and their values. It is also known ac "Learning Cone" whish shows how much encounter information affect the way people remeber concepts. -
"The science of learning and the art of teaching" published
This paper described some ideas about how to make the instructional design more effective. -
Development of first Computer Assisted Instruction(CAI)
IBM researchers developed the first CAI for the public schools. PLATO and TICCIT were the two projects developed by researchers. -
Bloom's Learning Taxonomy
This model is categorizing learning objects by the type of learner behavior( cognitive, affective, sensory domains). -
Plato as first Learning management system
it was including forums, message boards , online testing and even multiplayer games. It was delivering course from elementry to university -
Emergence of criterion-refrenced testing
The goal behind this method is to measure how well an individual can perform specific behavior without considering how others are performing it. One of the main point about this type of test is to applying the same standards to all students(even underprivileged or underrepresented ones). -
Condition of Learning
Gagne introduced nine instructional events and five different types of learning associated with them. -
Introducing of Formative evaluation
Instructors should share the draft of instructional material with learners and get their feedback instead of providing the final version. This lead to imporvement on the learning process. -
Change in the field Terminology
Shifting from audiovisual instruction to Educational technology. -
More interest about constructivism
During this decade , we see a major shift from traditional learning theory , which was focused on the instructor, to the constructivist which is focused more on the learner's role in constructing the knowledge. -
Growing interest for Distance Learning
The number of distance learning degrees offered by institutions increased. -
Emergence of Gamification as Instructional technology
using game components in order to increase the engagement level or any other type of behavior. -
Educational Robotics
In the current century, it refers to use of robots to encourage the students to become more engaged about learning complex concepts.
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