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Cave drawings was the first technique used in education. -
History of educational technology started with the use of educational film in the early 1900s -
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting educational radio programs for schools in the 1920s. -
Educational radio is the first electronic medium educators used to teach at a distance. With the advent of broadcasting the federal government issued the first educational radio license to the Latter Day Saints’ University of Salt Lake City, in 1921. (Saba, 2011) -
Skinner’s teaching machines were one of the first forms of computer-based learning. -
Television was used in 1960s for education for the first time -
PLATO, computer-based education system created in 1960 by Donald L. Bitzer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). -
On August 30th, 1969 the ARPANET, which was originally developed for the military quickly became adopted by major institutes of higher learning for file sharing. The ARPANET would later evolve into todays world wide web. -
Satellite broadcasting started to become available in the 1980s. -
The Word Wide Web was formally launched in 1991. The World Wide Web is basically an application
running on the Internet that enables ‘end-users’ to create and link documents, videos or other digital
media, without the need for the end-user to transcribe everything into some form of computer code. (Bates, 2015) -
In 1995, the Web enabled the development of the first learning management systems (LMSs). (Bates, 2015). -
In 1998, SmartBoards are introduced. -
Google was created in 1999 and it was used in education since then. -
The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) started making its recorded lectures available to the public, free of charge, via
its OpenCourseWare project, in 2002. (Bates, 2015) -
YouTube was created in 2005 and it was used in many ways in education. -
Images by Mudassar Iqbal, Hans Genthe, Kev, Gerhard G., andreas160578, Jazella, Mark Mags, Peggy_Marco, Gerd Altmann, Sandra Schön, Stefan Meller, Simon from Pixabay Saba, F. (2011). Distance Education in the United States: Past, Present, Future. Educational Technology, 51(6), 11–18. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44429966 https://www.britannica.com/topic/PLATO-education-system http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Educational_technology#A_short_history https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/