Highlights of Technology

By berlyben

  • Instructional television

    Instructional television

  • Main fram computers

    university time-sharing systems housed on a mainframe computer - used by students and instructors to share computer programs

  • Microcomputers

    first microcomputers entered schools (Roblyer & Edwards, 2000)

  • The World Wide Web

    widespread use of the Internet begins

  • The Cloud

    cloud based applications replace costly on-site servers (Tomassini, 2012)

  • Mobile technology

    mobile technology enters classrooms in the form of mobile phones used to record data (Schrum & Levin, 2015)