Instructional Design and Technology Timeline (Source: Reiser, Robert A. A history of instructional design and technology: Part I: A history of instructional media, Educational Technology, Research and Development 49.1 (2001): 53.)
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Developments in Instructional Design and Technology
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School Museums
St. Louis, MO: first school museum opens, featuring charts, exhibits, slides and films. -
Visual Instruction Movement
School museums plus use of magic lanterns, stereopticons and instructional films mark the beginning of the visual education movement. -
Thomas Edison, "Books will soon be obsolete in the schools."
(Actual impact of instructional films on educational practice was minimal.) -
1920s and 1930s: AUDIOvisual Instructional Movement
Availability of radio broadcasting and movies with sound launches audiovisual instruction movement. Radio hailed as great revolutionary educational development. In reality: impact was very little. -
Department of Visual Instruction created
Three professional organizations merged to create this organization which was part of the National Education Association, now called AECT. -
1940s: World War II - Military training films and filmstrips
1943-1945: Estimated more than four million showings of training films to US Military personnel. Also: overhead projectors, slide projectors, flight simulators. -
Post WWII: research into design of AV materials and learning principles
Educational practices were not greatly affected by the research findings - focus was on application of Communications model. -
TELEVISION
FCC sets aside 242 channels for educational purposes. Ford Foundation funds major educational projects for TV. Actual impact on educational practice is minimal. -
Educational TECHNOLOGY Movement
National profession organization renamed: previously Department of Audiovisual Instruction, now: Association for Educational Communications and Technology. -
Computers in Schools
By 1983, more than 75% of secondary schools and 45% of elementary schools used computers. Impact still minimal and computers used for activities like practice drills and word-processing. -
INTERNET
Increase in Distance Learning and internet access. 50% of schools had internet access in 1995, increasing to 90% in 1998. 78% of public four-year colleges offering distance learning. -
Increasing impact of computer-based instructional media
Increased interactivity and accessibility (mobile devices, chat, social media, email) resulting in greater impact of technology and media on eductional practice.