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More cities are being built and more people are moving into them. United States was also becoming a major industrial power as it grew through the industrial revolution.
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Individualized instructional plans were developed. Student learning contracts and mastery learning emerged. Pressey invented the teaching machine to lighten the burden on teachers.
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Period of slow progression towards the changing of instructional design.
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Education focused on military training.
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Baby boom period. The launch of Sputnik encouraged more money to be invested in education. Behaviorism took shape.
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Civil Rights Act outlaws discrimination. Many instructional systems developed and defined.
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Apple I computer released. IBM 1500 computer system developed for assisted instruction. Cognitive models continued to dominate.
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Using computers to evaluate the performance of individuals and analyzing possible reasons for discrepencies.
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Learning environments based on constructivism. Unification of data though the creation of the world wide web.
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