Instructional Design & Technology

  • John Dewey

    John Dewey
    John Dewey established Laboratory School for testing his theories and their sociological implications
  • Behaviorism

    Behaviorism
    Watson, Skinner, Sekhenov Stereograph, Slides, Film, Prints, Charts, Magic Lantern Stereoptican
  • Ivan Pavlov

    Ivan Pavlov
    Ivan Pavlov publishes his findings on Classical conditioning
  • John Watson

    John B. Watson launches the Behavorist Revolution
  • Conditioned Emotional Reactions

    John Watson & Roasalie Rayner publish conditioned emotional reactions
  • Teaching Machine

    Teaching Machine
    Sidney Pressey invents a testing and teaching machine.
  • 8-Year Study on behavioral objectives

    Ralph W. Tyler - Eight Year Study use of general and behavioral objectives and formative evaluation
  • Emergent Man

    William Bagley writes Education and Emergent Man.
  • Television Broadcasting

    Television Broadcasting
    Regularly scheduled television begins broadcasting in U.S.
  • WWII = $ funds for education research

    WWII = $ funds for education research
    World War II led to an increase in funding for education and research development
  • Edgar Dale's Cone of Experience

    Edgar Dale's Cone of Experience
  • Ralph Tyler's Basic Principles of Curriculum & Instruction

    Tyler publishes book
  • Alan Turing publishes Computing Machinery & Intelligence

  • Military term "Task Analysis"

    The term task analysis references procedures for anticipating job requirements of new equipment under development. http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=12152&project_step=31609
  • B. F. Skinner

    Publishes the Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching. Later creates & displays a machine created to teach arithmetic using an instructional program.
  • Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs

    Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs
  • Benjamin Bloom--Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

    Benjamin Bloom--Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    Soviet launch of Sputnik also launched funding for education in math and science
  • Roby Kidd publishes How Adults Learn

    Roby Kidd publishes How Adults Learn
  • Jerome Bruner publishes The Process of Education

  • Robert Miller develops task analysis procedures

  • Robert Mager publishes Preparing Instructional Objectives

    The book helps to push ideas on performance objectives used in education.
  • Robert Gagne publishes The Conditions of Learning

    Robert Gagne publishes The Conditions of Learning
  • Instructional System

    Robert Glasser coins the term instructional system and created observable and measurable data points.
  • Lev Vygotsky

    Lev Vygotsky
  • The Keller Plan

  • Elementary & Secondary Education Act

    Elementary & Secondary Education Act
  • Jerome Bruner's model of Discovery Learning

  • McMaster University introduces Problem-Based Learning

  • Criterion Reference Instruction

    CRI framework created by Robert Mager is a set of methods for training.
  • Apple I Computer

    Apple I Computer
    Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs create the first Apple Computer
  • Seymour Papert publishes Mindstorms

  • The Component Display Theory

    MD Merrill develops the Component Display Theory.
  • Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences

    Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
    Howard Gardner develops the concept of a person having multiple intelligences in his book, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
  • Apple Macintosh Computer is introduced

    Apple Macintosh Computer is introduced
  • Hypercard

    Hypercard
    HypercardHypercard developed by Bill Atkinson
  • Elaboration Theory

  • Bernie Dodge & Tom March create the Webquest

  • Four-Component Instructional Design System 4C/ID-Model

    Jeroen J. G. Van Merrienboer updates the Four-Component Instructional Design System he had developed in 1992.