Timeline: History of Educational Technology

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Manuscript Transcription

Manuscript transcription was developed for learning Latin alphabet more easily by the literature class from other regions.

1450

The invention of press

After the invention of Gutenberg Press Information began to spread faster and freely. After that point it retained its reputation as unheard-of change since the computer came up (Glass,2019).

1800

The first modern black boards

Sometimes keeping attention of students in the lesson could be a challenge. According to this problem, In Old High School in Edinburgh, Scotland, invited a blackboard which was a big version of slate. It has been spread among the school rapidly.

1858

The First Formal Distance Degree Program

“The University of London was the first university to offer distance learning degrees” (Wikipedia) which is still lasted as University of London International Program.

1870

Magic Lantern

First slide projecter which were glaas slides into cloth screens.

1924

The First Adult Education Radio Broadcast

The perspective of long-distance learning and educational technology began to be evolved into a way that irrevocably.These radio boardcasts were made by BBC.

1930

Overhead Projecters

It began to use during military training. After the WW2 it became more common in public school. Today we use projector which are connected to instructurer’s PC.

1950

The Language Lab

The headset was invited and it used more common. Headphones have enabled each student to listen at their own pace and language laboratories have begun to be created for this. (Glass,2019)

1954

Teaching Machines

Skinner began an experiment with teaching machine. This machine based on Skinner’s learning theory of the response/reward mechanism or in other words If the answer to the question is correct, continue to answer, if it is wrong, continue to learn. It was the first form of Computer-based learning.

1969

The British Government Established the Open University (OU)

Open University continuous its education life. This university one of the remarkable examples of all open universities. The university work in partnership by BBC. In that conditions, Their education mostly involved with television and radio also, with the development of technology, they used different cassettes, live broadcasts.(Weinbern,2015)

1988

The Open University in UK offered a course

It is one of the earliest “mass” open online courses.

1991

The Invention of Interactive White Boards

Interactive white boards (The SMARTboard) was developed in 1991 by David Martin and Nancy Knowlton by their company SMART Technology. It was the first digital whiteboard to have touch functions in the same manner as a computer. The framework contains an interactive whiteboard, projector and whiteboard program that accepts touch feedback from a smart pen, finger or some solid point.
(https://www.sutori.com/item/the-invention-of-the-smart-board-1991-the-smartboard-was-invented-by-david-ma)

1991

The Invention of Interactive White Borad

Interactive White borad (SMARTboard) was developed in 1991 by David Martin and Nancy Knowlton by their company SMART Technology. It was the first digital whiteboard to have touch functions in the same manner as a computer. The framework contains an interactive whiteboard, projector and whiteboard program that allows touch feedback from a smart pen, finger or some solid point.(https://www.sutori.com/item/the-invention-of-the-smart-board-1991-the-smartboard-was-invented-by-david-ma)

1995

Learning Management Systems(LMSs)

The Web which was launched in 1991, began to develop the first learning management systems such as WebCT(Blackboard) Share Point LMSs etc.The first fully online courses began in 1995.Some used LMSs and others just loaded PDF of slides. (Bates,2014)

2002

MIT Began to Record Lectures

MIT created a project which called as Open Course Ware Project. By the project MIT recorded its lectures and shared them freely. Later o

2020

Distance education

Thanks to all the developments of technology, education added a new wrinkle. Students and teachers became to come together in Online platforms such as Zoom, Teams.It has become a system used by almost the whole world by the 2020 pandemic .

Jan 12, 2020