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Evolution of Educational Technology
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Aiudiovisual Communication
Educational Technology
Audiovisual communications is that branch of educational theory and practice primarily concerned with the design and use of messages which control the learning process. (Ely, 1963, pp. 18-19).
In this modern world we use digital tools to improve the teaching-learning process. The most common tool we use in classroom these days is PowerPoint slides, which makes the class more interesting, dynamic and effective. -
Human Learning and Communication
history of Educational Technology
A systematic way of designing, carrying out, and evaluating the total process of learning and teaching in terms of specific objectives, based on research in human learning and communication and employing a combination of human and nonhuman resources to bring about more effective instruction (Commission on Instructional Technology, 1970, p. 21). -
Project Guttenberg/Email
History of Educational Technology
Project Gutenberg is started to put books and public domain documents online.
Ray Tomlinson invents email program to send messages across a distributed network. Click on the link to read how Tomlinson decided to use
the '@' symbol in emails.
Project Gutenberg is an online resource, housing more than 45,000 eBooks, including a sizable library of children’s classical literature. -
Educational Technology
Educational technology is a field involved in the facilitation of human learning through the systematic identification, development, organization and utilization of a full range of learning resources and through the management of these processes (AECT, 1972, p. 36).
Educational Technology can empower teachers and learners, promote change and foster the development of twenty-first century skills. Improving education quality is a priority for most developing countries. -
The Term Internet is Adopted
History of Educational Technology
The term "internet" was adopted in the first RFC published on the TCP protocol (RFC 675:[29] Internet Transmission Control Program, December 1974) as an abbreviation of the term internetworking and the two terms were used interchangeably. -
Educational Technology
History of Educational Technology
Educational technology is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating and managing solutions to those problems involved in all aspects of human learning (AECT, 1977, p. 1). -
Blogging, Aim and Blackboard
History of Educational Technology
The Web had one million sites. Blogging began. SixDegrees.com let users create profiles and list friends. AOL Instant Messenger let users chat. Blackboard is founded as an online course management system for educators and learners. -
Apple Macintosh
History of Educational Technology
In January of 1984, Apple announced the Macintosh. Its user-friendly interface swelled the ranks of new computer users. -
Internet Worm
History of Educational Technology
On the second of November 1988, an internet worm was released across the networks affecting some 6,000 of the 60,000 computers online. Eventually stopped and disassembled by researchers at Berkley and MIT, the worm exposed some serious security holes in the growing network. In response to the needs exhibited during this incident, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) was formed by DARPA. -
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First Full-Text Web Search
History of Educational Technology
The first full-text Web search engine was WebCrawler in 1994. Before WebCrawler, only Web page titles were searched. Instructional technology is the theory and practice of the design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning (Seels & Richey, 1994, p. 1). -
Google
History of Educational Technology
Google began in March 1998 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library." and was funded through the National Science Foundation among other federal agencies. -
Wikipedia
History of Educational Technology
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia and world's largest wiki, was started. -
Virtual World
History of Educational Technology
Linden Lab opened the virtual world Second Life on the Internet revolutionizing what synchronous meetings can look like. -
Web 2.0
History of Educational Technology
Web 2.0 is considered the second generation of the World Wide web and is based on collaborative work, information sharing and interactivity. -
Youtube
History of Educational Technology
The first YouTube video was entitled Me at the zoo, and shows founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and can still be viewed on the site. -
Educational Technology
History of Educational Technology
Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources (Januszewski & Molenda, 2008, p. 1). -
Worldwide Web and Space
History of Educational Technology
The first live Internet link into low earth orbit was established on January 22, 2010 when astronaut T. J. Creamer posted the first unassisted update to his Twitter account from the International Space Station, marking the extension of the Internet into space. (Astronauts at the ISS had used email and Twitter before, but these messages had been relayed to the ground through a NASA data link before being -
Internet Uses
History of Educational Technology
At the end of the 2000, there were an estimated 360+ million users on the internet. Today that number is over 2 billion and growing -
Ed Tech Masters Degree
History of Educational Technology
Frederik enrolled at Boise State University in pursuit of a masters degree in Educational Technology. This event also includes a list of resources... -
Windows 10
Apple releases the Apple Watch. Microsoft releases Windows 10. -
Smart Generation
Education tech will continue the push towards individualized instruction for students. Thus, students can reach out beyond the walls of their classrooms to interact with other students, other teachers, and renowned authors, scientists, and experts to enhance their learning.
