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Evolution of the Training Profession
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Training Within Industry (TWI)
This was a program started by the U.S. government to boost efficiency in industry and to address the shortage of vocational instructors. The model was to train supervisors who would then train the employees working under them. This method is still in use in the U.S. military.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
In what many considered an unprovoked attack, the Imperial Japanese attacked and destroyed much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet while it sat at its moorings in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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United States enters WWII
After a speech to Congress by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the U.S. officially enters WWII on the side of the allied forces.
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Group Dynamics
Developed by Dr. Kurt Lewin for the U.S. government, the theory came to be used to predict how group learning could be beneficial to the learning process.
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Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Benjamin Bloom's book is still considered to be one of the bedrocks of understanding the learning process.
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Beginning of Online Training
University of Illinois begins offering classes using interconnected computer terminals on campus.
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Cognitive Theory
Jean Piaget theories about human development and their ability to learn from "abstract symbolic reasoning". Have been considered landbreaking in developing teaching methods.
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Adult Theory of Learning
Dr. Malcolm Knowles publishes his book that introdeuces the theory of adult learning, or andragogy.
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Gagne's Nine Steps of Instruction
Considerd a definitive framework for designing an effective learning process.
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World Wide Web introduced
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, after concieving the concept of the World Wide Web in March 1989, publishes the first web page on the internet and makes it available to the world. History of the Web -
CALCampus
The Computer Assisted Learning Center (CALCampus) begins offereing classes to people using the World Wide Web becoming the first to offer classes in a format commonly referred to as online learning.
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First Accredited Online University
Jones International University becomes first accredited degree conferring online university.
https://www.petersons.com/college-search/online-education-history.aspx
