History of Instructional Design

  • First School Museum

    First School Museum
    In 1905 the first school museum opened in St. Louis, Missouri. This new instructional tool allowed for teachers to put the students in a different learning environment.
  • Instructional Films

    Instructional Films
    The rise of the instructional films in schools started with slides, films, and photographs that school museums included. Films were eventually introduced into the schools in 1910 with the thought that they would eventually replace a standard textbook. Although this did not happen, it still had an impact on the way students were learning in the classroom.
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    Instructional Radio

    Radios was the first technology that allowed for distance education. This handy tool for teaching got its start during the Great Depression but that did not hinder it. Instructional Radio continued to grow from 1920 to 1930.
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  • Television

    Television
    Philo Taylor Farnsworth was the first to create a television. With this advancement, it also pushed for more updated cameras to be able to capture things for TV.
  • Behavioral Objectives

    Behavioral Objectives
    These objectives were created to help instructors see what the outcomes were suppose to be when teaching. It was developed by Ralph Tyler.
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    World War II

    As the army needed more advanced equipment to keep up with training needs, it allowed for instructional designs to grow. They needed training for soldiers to be effective, efficient for the amount of people they were training in such a short time. This then later transferred into the classrooms after the war with the overhead projectors, slide projectors, and new audio equipment. <img src="https://edfn307.weebly.com/uploads/8/9/4/6/8946399/429460.jpg" alt="Related image"/>
  • Media Research

    Media Research
    Research on media did not take place until after WWII. They were looking for ways to use media in the classroom to conduct a productive instruction.
  • Instructional TV

    Instructional TV
    Instructional TV is known as one of the most important steps in the audiovisual movement. This made the thought start circulating for what other mediums could educational information be delivered in the classroom.
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    Early Computers

    Computers were wide spread at the start. Although, they were still used for instruction purposes in the early 1950s. During the 1980s in when they became more popular and became more common for people to have. <img src="https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2015/08/1980s_lab_08-100608916-large.jpg" alt="Image result for early computers in classrooms"/>
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    Programmed Instruction

    Programmed instruction is researched based instruction to helping people learn to work. It uses a method of presenting new subject matters to students in a graded sequence of controlled steps. <img src="https://image.slidesharecdn.com/programmedinstruction-180403091748/95/programmed-instruction-15-638.jpg?cb=1522747377" alt="Image result for programmed instruction"/>
  • Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

    Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
    Benjamin Bloom was the first to publish Taxonomy of Education Objectives. It stated that there are different types of learning outcomes within the cognitive abilities of people.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    Sputnik was the very first satellite that was launched into space by the Russians. This launch kicked America into over drive in research for new technology. The research didn't just help scientists, it also enhanced science and math programs for students in the class room.
  • Criterion - Reference Test

    Criterion - Reference Test
    The test was made to measure how well someone can do a certain behavior irrespective of how well other perform. Robert Glaser was the first to use this.
  • Conditions of Learning

    Conditions of Learning
    Robert Gagne was the first to come up with and describe the five domains of learning outcomes. They are verbal information, intellectual skills, psychomotor skills, attitudes, and cognitive strategies. Included was also a description of each and the conditions needed for them.
  • Events of Instruction

    Events of Instruction
    Events of instruction is also well known as teaching activities. The events, or steps, are considered crucial to reaching any type of learning outcome.
  • Formative Evaluation

    Formative Evaluation
    Evaluations that are completed before any implementation is completed.
  • Summative Evaluation

    Summative Evaluation
    This type evaluation focuses on the outcome of a program. It is the contrast to formative evaluation.
  • Cognitive Psychology

    Cognitive Psychology
    People started to look at how others were thinking and their mental processes. This advancement allowed instructors to know how their students comprehended things.
  • Instructional Design Models

    Instructional Design Models
    Over four decades instructional design models have been changing and developing. Each one includes the analysis of the instructional problems, the design, development, implementation and evaluation of instructional procedures and materials intended to solve those problems.
  • Constructivism

    Constructivism
    During this time period the constructivist started to publicize their thoughts. This then started to have some some sway on instructional design.
  • Internet

    Internet
    Because of the growing interest in the internet over the years, it has also allowed for more media to evolve for instruction. Higher education and military branches are those who have gotten the most out of this instructional tool.
  • My Birthday

    My Birthday
    Morgan Guthrie was born.