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History of Educational Technology

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  • 600 BCE

    7th Century

    7th Century
    According to the Bible, Moses used chiseled stone to convey the ten commandments in a form of writing.
  • 400 BCE

    5th Century

    Written documents existed in considerable numbers in ancient Greece.
  • 1100

    In 12th Century

    In 12th Century
    Slate boards were used in India
  • 1440

    In 1440

    In 1440
    Invention of printing press

  • In the 18th century

    In the 18th century
    Blackboards/chalkboards became used in schools.

  • In 1862

    In 1862
    QWERTY
    Christopher Sholes develops a machine to print the alphabet

  • In 1901

    Marconi sent a radio signal across the Atlantic

  • In 1920s

    In 1920s
    BBC began broadcasting educational radio programs

  • By 1920

    Publication of audio-visual media texts

  • In 1926

    Educational films were used as instructional media.

  • In 1946

    In 1946
    The first vacuum tube-based computer developed.

  • In 1960s

    In 1960s
    Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations (PLATO) was generalized computer assisted instruction system developed

  • In 1960s

    In 1960s
    Television was first used in education

  • In 1966

    In 1966
    The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is established as a national information system

  • In 1969

    In 1969
    The establishment of Open University (OU).

  • In 1980

    Satellite broadcasting became available

  • In 1981

    In 1981
    IBM home computer is introduced

  • In 1990s

    Multimedia PCs are developed.
    Schools were using videodiscs

  • In 1991

    In 1991
    The World Wide Web (WWW) was launched

  • In 1995

    In 1995
    Development of the first Learning Management Systems (LMSs)

  • In 1998

    In 1998
    Smartboards are introduced

  • In 2002

    In 2002
    The Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) started making its recorded lectures available to the public via its OpenCourseWare project.

  • In 2005

    Discovery Education Streaming brings video to the classroom

  • In 2005

    In 2005
    Youtube started.

  • In 2006

    Youtube was bought by Google

  • By 2006

    By 2006
    Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) introduced

  • In 2012

    In 2012
    Two professors launched a lecture-capture based MOOC on artifical intelligence

  • REFERENCES

    https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/chapter/section-8-1-a-short-history-of-educational-technology/ https://www.slideshare.net/fvsandoval/history-of-educational-technology https://www.slideshare.net/TicsUmg/history-ofeducationaltechnologytimeline https://www.slideshare.net/PabloRuggiero/history-of-educational-technology-ppt