IDT Timeline By RIbrahim9 1905 First School Museum opened in St. Louis Period: 1905 to 2015 Timeline of Instructional Design & Instructional Media 1910 First catalog of instructional films published 1914 Growth in visual instruction movement 5 national professional organizations established 5 journals on visual instruction published 20 + teacher-training institutions offer visual instruction courses 1923 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) created 1930 Radio used as a means of education 1932 FC Bartlett writes about Schema Theory 1940 Educators develop training materials for the military during WWII 1941 Division of Visual Aids for War Training established 1943 Training films used as a training material in the military 1950 Ford Foundation spends $170M + on educational television 1950 Bloom published "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" 1952 Federal Communications Commission sets aside 242 television channels for educational puposes 1954 Skinner publishes "The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching" 1960 Development of Computer-assisted instruction systems 1960 Jerome Bruner proposes that students are active learners who construct their own knowledge (Constructivist Theory) 1963 Emergence of criterion-referenced measures 1963 IDT definition focuses on learning, rather than instruction 1970 "Journal of Instructional Development" published 1970 IDT defined as a "systematic process" 1970 Cognitive Information Processing Theory rose to prominence 1975 U.S. military adopts instructional design models to guide development of training materials 1983 Computers widely used for instructional purposes in elementary & secondary schools 1990 Focus on human performance movement (on-the-job performance) & constructivist views of teaching/learning 1990 Cognitive & Constructivst learning theories have major influence on IDT design practices 1994 AECT publishes IDT definition using 5 domains: design, development, utilization, management, & evaluation 1995 U.S. schools possess one computer for every 9 students 2003 13% of training in businesses is done online 2008 AECT produces new IDT definition to include ethics & improving performance 2011 32% of higher education students take online courses 2015 64% of college students use smartphones for schoolwork