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The first school museum gets opened in St. Louis and began a trend of other museums being opened in different spots of the US.
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Keystone View Company publishes "Visual Education", a teacher's guide to present slides and stereographs.
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Thomas Edison declared, "Books will
soon be obsolete in the schools .... It is possible
to teach every branch of human knowledge with
the motion picture. Our school system will be
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The focus of the field shifted from visual instruction to audiovisual instruction.
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A decade-long economic depression that affected the whole world. Began from the US stock market crash
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According to McCluskey, visual instruction movement had invested and lost more than $50 million at this point in time. Great Depression had a hand in this.
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From 1941-1945 this organization produced 457 training films.
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B.F. Skinner’s article entitled The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching began what might be called a minor revolution in the field of education.
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The first definition to be approved by the major professional organization within the field of educational technology was published, and it too indicated that the field was not simply about media. A departure from the “traditional” view of the field in several important respects.
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In 1970, the name of the major professional
organization within the field was changed from
the Department of Audiovisual Instruction to
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Produced in 1970 by theCommission on Instructional Technology. The Commission was established and funded by the U.S. government to examine the potential benefits and problems associated with increased use of instructional technology in schools.
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Definition: Educational technology is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization, for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solutions to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning.
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Computers were being used for instructional purposes in more than 40% of all elementary schools and more than 75% of all secondary
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There was an increasing interest in rapid prototyping among practitioners and theorists in the instructional design field.
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Describes the field in terms of theory and practice, emphasizing the notion that the field of instructional technology is not only an area of practice, but also an area of research and study.
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the impact of computers on instructional practices was minimal, with a substantial number of teachers reporting little or no use of computers for instructional purposes.
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Since 1995, there has been a great increase in the use of the Internet to deliver instruction at a distance.
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the United States Army announced that $600 million would be spent over the next six years to enable soldiers to take distance education courses via the Internet.
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The new definition focuses on the notion that the instructional interventions created by professionals in field are intended to facilitate learning.