History of Instructional Design

  • School Museum Opening

    School Museum Opening

    The first school museum opened in St. Louis. Museums became a new riveting way for students to learn.
  • Instructional Films

    Instructional Films

    1910 was the year where Intructional Films were introduced into schools. This milestone represented the first use of media devices in classrooms
  • Radio Broadcasting

    Radio Broadcasting

    The new trend in the '20s and '30s was instructional broadcasting through the use of radios
  • Early Computers

    Early Computers

    Computers were first being used as a part of the education system
  • World War II

    World War II

    World War 2 was the first time the US military used educational training for the soldiers
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    The Soviet Union started what became known as the Space War with the launch of the first out of Earth satellite
  • Instructional Television

    Instructional Television

    Audiovisual education became the newest type of educational learning
  • Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

    Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

    Bloom created a system on how students should progress in learning
  • Criterion Referenced Testing

    Criterion Referenced Testing

    School teachers created a way to understand someones expected behavior based on test scores
  • Conditions of Learning

    Conditions of Learning

    Robert Gagne released a book to explain the different types and levels of learning.
  • Instructional Design Models

    Instructional Design Models

    Some design models were created in the 1960s and 1970s, such as the ADDIE Model which helped the US military at the time
  • Cognitive Psychology

    Cognitive Psychology

    This term is known as the study of mental process and was introduced in the 1980s
  • Internet

    Internet

    The early stages of the internet began in 1983 and has expanded rapidly and has played a big role in education
  • Formative Evaluation

    Formative Evaluation

    This teaching method is used as an in progress evaluation of students.
  • Summative Evaluation

    Summative Evaluation

    Summative evaluation is judging the outcome of a program instead of during it
  • Constructivism

    Constructivism

    Constructivism is a theory about how people are able to learn
  • My Birth

    My Birth

    I was born in New York City in 1998