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"The invention of the printing press in Europe in the 15th century was a truly disruptive technology, making written knowledge much more freely available, very much in the same way as the Internet has done today." (Bates, 2016)
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"Slate boards were in use in India in the 12th century AD, and blackboards/chalkboards became used in schools around the turn of the 18th century." (Bates, 2016)
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1920: Radio
1930: Film Strip Projector
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"B.F. Skinner started experimenting with teaching machines that made use of programmed learning in 1954, based on the theory of behaviourism." (Bates, 2016)
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Television was first used in education in the 1960s, for schools and for general adult education. (Bates, 2016)
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1970: NJIT internal computer network
1982: First network Arpanet
1991: The World Wide Web was launched
1993: First web browser Mosaic
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Bates, T. (2016). Teaching in a digital age: Guidelines for designing teaching and learning. British Columbia: SFU Document Solutions. Retrieved from https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/chapter/section-8-1-a-short-history-of-educational-technology/.
