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"Books will soon be obsolete in the shools...It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picutres. Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years" (cited in Saettler, 1968,p. 98).
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Benjamin Bloom gave us Bloom's Learning Taxonomy
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This was during the discovery learning movement. It was determined students were able to learn through investigating.
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Robert Glaser introduced Criterion Referenced Testing. This moved testing to Criterion Referenced instead of the Norm Referenced testing. Norm Referenced tests were designed to spread out the performance of learners, where Criterion Referenced measured how well the student did regardless of how other students performed.
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This model was originally published in their book in 1978.
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By the mid-1980s, the ADDIE Model we are familiar with today appeared.
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First World Wide Web servers were turned on!
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Blackboard was founded in 1997, and then made a public company in 2004. Blackboard made a huge impact on distance learning.
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Courseinfo develops the Interactive Learning Network. This was the first eLearning system of its kind to leverage a relational MySQL database.
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SCORM 2004 is released. This remains the current version that many LMS systems are based on today.
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Most modern LMS systems are based in the cloud, freeing companies from the burden of installing and maintaining in-house systems.
