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Brief History of Edtech

By aegean15
  • 3000 BCE

    Papyrus

    Papyrus
    As it is an expensive material, it was only available for the nobles of Ancient Egypt.
  • 756 BCE

    Oral instruction era

    Oral instruction era
    There were major use of oral instruction in Ancient Greek.
  • 700 BCE

    Chiseled stone

    Chiseled stone
    According to the Bible chiseled stone is used around the 7th century BC.
  • 490 BCE

    Written documents

    Written documents
    Even if it was not available for public, writen documents come to existance in fifth century BC.
  • 1001

    Slate boards

    Slate boards
    Slate boards used in india by the means of education around 12th century AD.
  • 1430

    Printing press

    Printing press
    Invention of printing press made written materials available for public.

  • Blackboards/Chalkboards

    Blackboards/Chalkboards
    Blackboards or Chalkboards are intruduced.

  • Formal correspondence education

    Formal correspondence education
    In other name distance education had became popular due to the developments in delivery systems.

  • Radio

    Radio
    First usage of radio for educational purposes dates back to 20's.

  • Overhead projectors

    Overhead projectors
    Overhead projectors are adapted to education from military.

  • Television

    Television
    Televisions spread and dissapeared rapidly in the field of education as it forces teachers to adapt a passive role in classrooms.

  • Audio-conferencing

    Audio-conferencing
    Audio-conferencing is used in order to support other medias since 70's.

  • Computer-based learning

    Computer-based learning
    Experimented in 1954 but used in 70's with an behaviorist approach.

  • Video-conferencing

    Video-conferencing
    Video-conferencing is used with its own dedicated cable systems and conference rooms.

  • Electronic projectors

    Electronic projectors
    Electronic projectors and some softwares such as powerpoint are used instead of Overhead projectors in 90's.

  • Lecture capture systems

    Lecture capture systems
    A decrese in the cost of video servers led to the first debut of Lecture capture systems.

  • Social media

    Social media
    Social media is a tool of communication which let people to interact with each other and it is also widely used in education.

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