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School Museums
The 1st school museum was opened in St. Louis in 1905 -
Instructional Radio
During the 1920s-1930s there were technological advances in radio broadcasting, sound recording, and sound motion pictures which led to increased interest in instructional media. -
Behavioral Objectives
Ralph Tyler developed the idea of behavioral objectives -
World War II
New training technologies were created due to the need for training troops from 1939 till the end of WWII in 1945 -
Instructional Films
Motion pictures were one of the first media devices that was used in schools -
Media Research
Post WWII, media research was very popular -
Early Computers
1950-1995 was the time period of early computers. It wasn't until 1983 that computers were used for instructional purposes in schools -
Programed Instruction
From the 1950s-1960s. Robert Mager recognized the need to reach educators how to write objectives which includes desired learner behaviors, conditions under the behaviors are to be preformed, and the standards which the behaviors should be judged. -
Instructional Television/Television
The television was an important advancement in audiovisual media -
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
In the 1950s behavioral objectives were revised when Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues published the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. This book indicated that within cognitive domain there were various types of learning outcomes. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launches the 1st orbiting space satellite -
Criterion-Referenced Test
This test in intended to measure how well an individual can perform a particular behavior or a set of behaviors regardless of how well others perform on the test. -
Instructional Design Models
Instructional design models were developed for designing instructional materials. In the 1970s, the amount of instructional design models increased. -
The Conditions of Learning
Robert Ganré published his book, "The Conditions of Learning," which described five types of learning outcomes -
Events of Instruction
Gagné's book describes nine different events of instruction that are essential to occur during instruction -
Formative Evaluation
Michael Scriven's formative evaluation would enable educators to evaluate the effectiveness of materials while they were still in their formative stages. If needed, they were able to revise their material before it was produced into its final form -
Summative Evaluation
The testing of instructional materials after they have been put into their final forms -
Cognitive Psychology
During the 1980s the study of cognitive psychology grew, there was an interest in how the principles of cognitive psychology could be applied in the instructional design process. -
Constructivism
In the 1990's there was a growing interest in constructivism, which is a collection of similar views of learning and instruction -
Internet
Since 1995, the internet has contained to expand and there has been an increase in using the internet to deliver instruction. -
Birthday
Logan Haynie was born
