A Blast From the Past in ID&T

By: Crystal Brooks

1905 The very first

school museum opens in St. Louis, MI

This is the first time media is used for instructional purposes.

1908

Keystone View Company publishes Visual Education, a teachers guide to lantern slides and stereographs

The fist catalog of Instructional films is published in the U.S.

Rochester, NY public schools system is the first to adopt and use for regular educational use

1910

1923•National Education Association (NEA) establishes the Division of Visual Instruction (DVI)

1923Colleges credits

courses are offered via radio at the University of Nebraska

The evolution from “visual instruction” to “audio-visual instruction” occurs with technological advances in radio broadcasting, sound recordings, and motion pictures

1924-30’s

1939-1945•The U.S. military

employs audio visual instruction

•400 training films, 600 filmstrips produced by U.S. Air Force alone

•1941 U.S. forms the Division of Visual Aides for War Training

1954 The article, “The

Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching” is published by B.F. , Skinner which revolutionizes the field of education by focusing on programmed instruction.

1956

Bloom publishes Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Which helped to classify learning objectives according to the learners’ behavior

1957 Sputnik is

launched Causes U.S. to

invest millions of dollars into improving math and science education

Greatly impacts the instructional design process

1960’sCriterion referenced

tests are labeled as an important part of the instructional process

1965-The Conditions of Learning is published by Robert Gagne; lists nine events of instruction

1970DAVI changes name

from to the Association for Educational Communications and Technology

The term audiovisual instruction is replaced with educational technology and instructional technology

1980-1983Computers increasingly became a huge

part of the instructional process in the United States in :40% elementary schools 75% secondary schools

1983-1989Increasing interest in microcomputers for

the instructional process

1990-1999Cognitive learning theories continue to

evolve and new movements emerge such as human performance technology

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