EME 5054 - History of educational Technology

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  • 500 BCE

    Elder Sophists Method

    Technique of Rhetoric utilized for written and oral dissemination of knowledge.
  • Period: 470 BCE to 399 BCE

    Socratic Method

    Knowledge is inborn and brought out by skillful questioning
  • Period: 1180 to 1274

    Scholastic Method

    Formed by Pierre Abelard and refined by Peter Lombard and St. Thomas Aquinas.
  • The Great Didactic

    Johann Amos Comenius - Formed an educational theory that is the foundation for modern educational technology. Included in this time, the Orbus Pictus (The Worlds in Pictures) which is a published work for teaching children as a visual aid to learning.
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    Lancasterian System

    A cost effective system of learning employed by the government where an instructor would teach 50 pupils (monitors) who would instruct 100 students each with a focus on multiplication
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    Herbartian Method of Instruction

    Johann Friedrich Herbart four-step method of instruction based around apperception focuses on Clearness, Association, Systems, and Method.
  • Froebel's Educational Theory - Kindergarden

    Froebel's theory was applied to create the common day kindergarten, allowing for socialization, creativity, motor expression, and self-activity.
  • Montessori Teaching Method

    Dr. Montessori creates first pre-school for students using a method of instruction that focuses on collaboration, and self-exploration.
  • 1900 - Visual Instruction Museums

    Visual Instruction (Portable Museum exhibits used as supplementary Curriculum)
  • Visual Instruction Movement and Films

    1908 - 1923
    Use of film and visual media as supplementary instruction grows in popularity. Edison determines books will be obsolete in schools. Multiple professional organizations and journal publications formed around visual instruction.
  • AudioVisual (AV) Instruction Movement

    1920-1930 Use of audio broadcast radio for educational instructional media.
  • WW2 Audio Visual Growth

    Creation of 400 training films and 600 filmstrips. Projector use, Audio for foreign language, simulators for flight instruction.
  • Advent of Instructional Design: WWII

    The fields of education and psychology are joined to develop training solutions for military services. Instructional Principles are formed around the basis of human performance, instruction, and learning.
  • 1950's Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI)

    Implementation of first computer instructional support software by IBM.
  • Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

  • TV in the use of Instruction

    17 TV stations established for instruction. Inexpensive model for remote instruction.
  • Systematic Thinking in Instruction: Post War

    Post War educational methodologies are formed by psychologists.
  • Programmed Instruction Movement

    Development of empirical approaches to learning problems. Example: Skinner's Programmed Instructional Materials: Content should be presented in Small Steps, immediate feedback, and self-pacing.
  • Behavioral Objectives Era - Preparing Objectives for Programmed Instruction

    The importance of clear identification, assessment, and implementation of objectives in learning was established.
  • Introduction to Design Models

    Educational Learning Concepts and theories were being joined together to form models of instruction.
  • AECT (Name Change)

    Changed name from Department of AudioVisual Instruction to Association for Educational Communication and Technology
  • Educational Models

    1970(s) saw a tremendous growth in the use and development of new learning models across the military, industry, and higher education.
  • Micro Computers and Education

    Growth and use of computer aid in instruction due to the adoption of the micro computer.
  • Adoption of Constructivism

    Focus on authentic learning through problem solving, team work in solving problems, viewing problems from multiple perspectives, being part of the learning process along with the teacher. This approach impacted the way ID(s) viewed the learning process and taught.
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    Performance Technology Movement

    As new technology was developed, the impact of technology shifted towards automation of instructional design tasks to measure and support performance.
  • Bonwell & Eison's Active Learning

  • Growth of Internet Technologies

    Use of digital technologies for educational purposes through the dissemination of information over the internet. Interactivity and lowering cost barriers aid in adoption.
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    Wireless Internet and Smart Devices in Education

    Introduction of Wireless Internet and Mobile Devices
  • Age of Learning Environments

    An era that shifts from the design of instruction to the design of environments with learners at the center of their learning.