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  School Museums housed visual media such as educational films, slides, and pictures
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  The 1st catalog of instructional films was published
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  Technological advances: radios, sound motion and recordings led to this movement
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  Several textbooks on the topic of visual instruction were created between this time period
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  Association of Educational Communication and Technology was created
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  The merging of three national professional organizations for visual instruction
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  The federal government created the Division of Visual Aids for war training.
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  US Army Air Force produced hundreds of training films to train their personnel
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  Ford Foundation funding stimulated the growth of instructional television
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  IBM researchers created Computer Assisted Instruction programs that would be used in schools
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  The FCC set aside 242 television channels for educational purposes
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  Formative Education developed as a result of Sputnik
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  Criterion Referenced Testing emerged
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  During the 1960's, instructional designs models were created
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  Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) programs: PLATO and TICCIT were developed
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  Robert Gagne published "The Conditions of Learning"
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  During the 1970's, new models were created by building on the research that have been discovered in previous models
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  Several brances of the army adopted the instructional design model
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  Increased interest in the use of personal computers for instruction purposes
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  The human performance improvement movement development as a result of growing concerns in constructivist views of teaching and learning
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  The development of the internet and increased reliance on information training development