History of Instructional Design and Technology IDT 7052

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  • Jan 1, 600

    Ancient Greeks discover static electricity

    Found that by rubbing fur on amber, an attraction happened.
  • Jan 1, 1450

    Printing Press Invented

    Johannes Gutenburg invented printing press that allowed material to be printed and viewed in many forms.

  • Earliest Distance Education Course

    Class created to learn how to write. Post cards were sent to students with directions for them to correct the paragraph on the back and return.

  • First School Museum

    The first school museum opened up in St. Luis as a supplemental curriculum material.

  • Visual Education Term Created

  • Visual Education Movement

    Visual education was at a rise with help from Thomas Edison who stated that books were becoming obsolete and visuals would be the future.

  • AECT Created

    The Association for Educational Communications and Technology was created and maintained a leadership role in the field.

  • Great Depression

    The Great Depression only slowed down the visual education movement briefly.

  • Audio Visual and Radio

    Visual Ed. went from print and slides to visuals with sound and the radio.

  • Film as Training

    During WWII, US troops had an easier time preparing and training for battle because of the use of videos. Many military training videos were created after this. This also began Instructional Design.

  • Edgar Dale

    Created the Cone of Experience. Basically shows the learning outcomes of people and how they remember information.

  • Television

    Educational television was growing tremendously and the FCC set aside 242 channels for educational purposes. Eventually, the hype died down and many channels dissapeared.

  • Blooms Taxonomy

    Bloom created his pyramid that shows the hierarchy or learning.

  • Systems Approach Created

  • Computers

    Shortly after computers became widely available to the general public, schools began to bring them into the classroom. The world was changing.

  • Internet

    With internet now widely used, people bagan using it for the purposes of training.

  • E-Learning

    In this new day and age, people want access to information any time and any where. Thus the creation of mobile devices, social media, and e-learning.

  • References

    Reiser, R.A., Dempsey, J.V. (2012). Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (3rd Edition). Boston , M.A.: Prentice-Hall, Inc. History of education in the United States. (2014, August 17). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php Printing Press. (2014, September 6). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org Who Discovered Electricity?. (n.d.). Universe Today RSS. Retrieved September 8, 2014, fr