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3400 BCE
Hieroglyphics
Egyptian hieroglyphics combined logographic and alphabetic symbols on papyrus and wood. Discovered as early as 3400 BC, hieroglyphics indicated that there had been an education system as ancient times. -
500 BCE
Written Documents
By the fifth century BC, written documents existed in considerable number in ancient Greece. Before the 5th century, formal teaching was oral (though human speech). -
700
Quill Pen
Introduced around 700 AD, the quill is a pen made from a bird feather. The strongest quills were those taken from living birds in the spring from the five outer left wings feathers. Goose feathers were quite often used. -
1200
Slate Boards
Slate boards were in use in India in the 12th century AD. -
1450
Printing Press
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. As a result of the explosion of written documents resulting from the mechanization of printing, many more people in government and business were required to become literate and analytical, which led to a rapid expansion of formal education in Europe -
Chalkboards in Schools
Chalkboards/ blackboards became used in schools around the turn of the 18th century. -
The British Broadcasting Corporation
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting educational radio programs for schools in the 1920s. -
Television in Education
Television was first used in education in the 1960s, for schools and for general adult education. And then it quickly spread around the world in the 1970s. -
Establishing the Open University
In 1969, the British government established the Open University (OU), which worked in partnership with the BBC to develop university programs open to all, using a combination originally of printed materials specially designed by OU staff, and TV and radio programs made by the BBC but integrated with the courses. -
Satellite Broadcasting
Satellite broadcasting started to become available in the 1980 with hopes of delivering 'university lectures from the world's leading universities to the world's starving masses', but unfortunately these hopes too quickly faded. -
Internet Accessing
In the 1990s, the cost of creating and distributing video dropped dramatically due to digital compression and high-speed internet access. -
Google's "birth"
Google began in January 1996 as a research project, spearheaded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were both still students, -
OpenCourseWare Project
In 2002, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) started making its recorded lectures available to the public, free of charge, via its OpenCourseWare project. -
YouTube in Education.
YouTube started in 2005 and was bought by Google in 2006. YouTube is being used now for short educational clips that can be downloaded and integrated into online courses. -
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