Historical Evolution of the Field of IDT timeline

Jan 1, 1905

First school museum opened, housing the first media center used for instructional purposes
Period: Jan 1, 1908 to Dec 31, 1913

Visual education/instruction movement began, including the use of the motion picture projector. in 1913, Thomas Edison said "Books will soon be obsolete in schools..."
Period: Jan 1, 1914 to Dec 31, 1923

Five professional organizations for visual instruction were established
Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1939

Technological advances were made in such areas as radio broadcasting, sound recordings, and sound motion pictures.
Jan 1, 1932

Merging of three existing national professional organizations for visual instruction.
Jan 1, 1938

Skinner creates the Behavior Learning Theory
Period: Jan 1, 1940 to Dec 31, 1959

Psychologists working for various research organizations started viewing training as a system, developing analysis, design and evaluation procedures
Apr 7, 1945

Allies able to be victorious in World War II largely due to its use of visual technology and complete mastery of film education.
Jan 1, 1949

Advanced communication models were began to be put forth.
Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1959

Increased interest in television as a medium for delivering instruction.
Period: Jan 1, 1955 to Dec 31, 1965

Programmed instruction movement, major factor in the systems development approach.
Jan 1, 1957

Soviet Union launched Sputnik, beginning a series of events that had a major impact on instructional design.
Period: Jan 1, 1960 to Dec 25, 1979

Birth of instructional theory and active research on instructional strategies.
Period: Dec 24, 1960 to Dec 25, 1965

Various concepts such as task analysis and objective specification were being developed, forming a process for systematically designing instructional materials.
Jan 1, 1962

Gagne, primarily concerned with instruction and the study of how people learn, created his own theory of instruction.
Jan 1, 1963

By this time many schools discontinued instructional television due to lack of funding, though continued increase in interest was shown.
Dec 1, 1963

Emergence of criterion reference testing, an important factor in the instructional design movement.
Period: Jan 1, 1970 to Dec 31, 1979

Number of instructional design models increased.
Period: Jan 1, 1970 to Dec 25, 1979

Number of instructional design models greatly increased.
Period: Jan 1, 1980 to Dec 31, 1989

The interest in instructional design continues to grow. The presence becomes greater in business and industry.
Dec 24, 1981

McCluskey noted that even though the instructional field was rapidly growing, the educational community at large was not greatly affected by the growth.
Dec 24, 1989

Moore describes three agents involved in instructional activity: interactions between learners and instructional content, learners and the instructor, and among other learners.
Dec 24, 1990

Situated learning theory coined.
Period: Dec 24, 1990 to Dec 25, 2000

One of the trends with the most impact on the field was the human performance movement. This movement has its emphasis on the on-the-job performance has broadened the instructional design field.
Period: Jan 1, 2000 to Dec 25, 2009

Use of Internet has increased, online learning has taken place, and online courses helped to open up instructional design processes.

First school museum opened, housing the first media center used for instructional purposes

Visual education/instruction movement began, including the use of the motion picture projector. in 1913, Thomas Edison said "Books will soon be obsolete in schools..."

Five professional organizations for visual instruction were established

Technological advances were made in such areas as radio broadcasting, sound recordings, and sound motion pictures.

Merging of three existing national professional organizations for visual instruction.

Skinner creates the Behavior Learning Theory

Psychologists working for various research organizations started viewing training as a system, developing analysis, design and evaluation procedures

Allies able to be victorious in World War II largely due to its use of visual technology and complete mastery of film education.

Advanced communication models were began to be put forth.

Increased interest in television as a medium for delivering instruction.

Programmed instruction movement, major factor in the systems development approach.

Soviet Union launched Sputnik, beginning a series of events that had a major impact on instructional design.

Birth of instructional theory and active research on instructional strategies.

Various concepts such as task analysis and objective specification were being developed, forming a process for systematically designing instructional materials.

Gagne, primarily concerned with instruction and the study of how people learn, created his own theory of instruction.

By this time many schools discontinued instructional television due to lack of funding, though continued increase in interest was shown.

Emergence of criterion reference testing, an important factor in the instructional design movement.

Number of instructional design models increased.

Number of instructional design models greatly increased.

The interest in instructional design continues to grow. The presence becomes greater in business and industry.

McCluskey noted that even though the instructional field was rapidly growing, the educational community at large was not greatly affected by the growth.

Moore describes three agents involved in instructional activity: interactions between learners and instructional content, learners and the instructor, and among other learners.

Situated learning theory coined.

One of the trends with the most impact on the field was the human performance movement. This movement has its emphasis on the on-the-job performance has broadened the instructional design field.

Use of Internet has increased, online learning has taken place, and online courses helped to open up instructional design processes.