IDT Timeline

By kjarosz

  • First trace of media used for instructional purposes

    Around this time that school museums came into existence. The museums "served" as the central administrative unit(s) for visual instruction by their distribution of portable museum exhibits, stereo-graphs, slides, films, study prints, charts, and other instructional materials.

  • First official school museum opens

    St. Louis 1905. Soon after museums opened in Reading, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland

  • First traces of "Visual Instruction/Visual Education

  • First Catalog of Instructional Film

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    Technological Advances are made in audio technology

    This includes the use of broadcasting, sound recordings, and sound motion pictures.

  • Creation of the Department of Visual Instruction

    Was a part of the National Education Association. Now called the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)

  • Origins of Instructional Designs procedures are traced back to WWII

    Instruction happened throughout the military to increase success in certain areas. Once WWII ended, many of these who psychologist who were focused on Instructional Design moved in to the Education sector

  • Federal Government establishes the Division of Visual Aids for War Training

  • Leaders in Audiovisual Instruction Movement become interested in Models of Communication

    Planning for communication it was necessary to focus on all the elements of the communication process and not just the medium

  • Rapid Increase in the use of Instructional Television

    Federal Communications Commision set aside 242 television channels for educational purposes. 1955 there were 17 such stations. In 1960 there were 60 such stations

  • Skinner intoduces us to Trail and Revision a.k.a Formative Evaluation

    Process should present information in small steps, require active responses to frequent questions, provide immediate feedback, and allow for learner self-pacing
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    Programmed Instruction Movement

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    Cognitive and Behavioral Theory Dominate This Time Period in Research

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    Birth of Instructional Theory and Active Research on Instructional Strategies

  • Criterion-Refernce Testing Emerges

    A behavioral test that can be used to assess student entry-level behavior and to determine the extent to which students had acquired the behavior an instructional design to teach.

  • Gange comes out with Domains of Learning, Events of Instruction, and Hierarchical Analysis

  • Carnegie Commission on Educational Television concluded

  • Scrivens comes up with summative evaluations

  • Atkinson and Shriffin Propose Basis for Information Process Theory

    Three Memory systems in the learner are assumed to receive information from the environment and transform it for storage and use in memory and performance. Sensory
    Short-term memory
    Long-term memory

  • Researchers and Practitioners Began to Adopt Perspective of Information Processing Theory

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    Shift to Cognitive Learning Theory and Related Instructional Theories

  • Howard Barrows develops model for Problem Based Learning

  • Alan Collins and John Seely Brown develops model for Cognitive Apprenticeship

  • Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt Propose Anchored Instructions for Problem Solving

  • Gagne and Merrill Proposed Notion of an Enterprise Schema

  • Constructivism Becomes Prominent as an Educational Philosophy

  • Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamelia develops model for Intentional Learning Environments

  • John Dunlap and Scott Grabinger Develop Model for REALS

  • More Attention to Practice, Engagement, and Experience

  • High reports of online classroom

    45 of 50 states have online school initiative for K-12. Secondary education has reports of 57% of schools providing access to online classes

  • Survey reveals 50% of college faculty uses Social Media for Instructional pirposes

    Watch online videos, listen to podcasts, read and/or create blogs and wikis

  • Computers are being used for Instructional purposes at a high rate

    40% of elementary schools and 75% of secondary schools in the United States. In 1995 reports say that elementary level was using them for drill and practice. Secondary level was using them for word processing.