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30,000 BCE
Paintings on Cave Walls
Cave paintings are a type of parietal art, found on the wall or ceilings of caves. -
510 BCE
Pythagoras Academy
It is the first academy that gives formal education. -
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Paper was made in China
Cai Lun (Ts'ai Lun) has been regarded in China as the inventor of paper. -
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manuscript transcription
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1450
Gutenberg's Printing Press
The first printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany. This started the Printing Revolution. The invention of the printing press in Europe in the 15th century was a truly disruptive technology, making written knowledge much more freely available, very much in the same way as the Internet has done today. -
Public Education
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Public Education
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Public Education
Improvements in transport infrastructure in the 19th century, and in particular the creation of a cheap and reliable postal system in the 1840s, led to the development of the first formal correspondence education, with the University of London offering an external degree program by correspondence from 1858. -
Audiovisual Age
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Audiovisual Age
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting educational radio programs for schools in the 1920s. -
Information Age
Television was first used in education in the 1960s, for schools and for general adult education. B.F. Skinner started experimenting with teaching machines that made use of programmed learning in 1954. -
Information Age
In the 1970s, the Open University transformed the use of print for teaching through specially designed, highly illustrated printed course units that integrated learning activities with the print medium, based on advanced instructional design. -
Information Age
Satellite broadcasting started to become available in the 1980s, and similar hopes were expressed of delivering ‘university lectures from the world’s leading universities to the world’s starving masses’, but these hopes too quickly faded for similar reasons. The 1980's and 1990's produced a variety of schools that can be put under the umbrella of the label Computer-based learning (CBL) -
Computer Age
The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century, characterized by a rapid epochal shift from the traditional industry established by the Industrial Revolution to an economy primarily based upon information technology. -
Overhead Projectors
Until being replaced by electronic projectors, the U.S. army was using overhead projectors and presentational software such as Powerpoint . -
The Word Wide Web
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First Web Browser: Mosaic
The first web browser, Mosaic, was made available in 1993. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics. -
The Digital Age
"Time frame in history that the use of digital technology became prevalent and of common use throughout the world. The digital age began in earnest with the widespread use of the Internet." (Beck, D., & Hughes, C. (2014). With the development of web-based learning management systems in the mid-1990s, textual communication, although digitized, became, at least for a brief time, the main communication medium for Internet-based learning, although lecture capture is now changing that. -
Google
Larry Page and Sergey Brin launch Google on Stanford University's network. Several Internet search engines have been developed since 1993, with Google, created in 1999, emerging as one of the primary search engines -
The Interactive Age
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Youtube
YouTube started in 2005 and was bought by Google in 2006. YouTube is increasingly being used for short educational clips that can be downloaded and integrated into online courses. The Khan Academy started using YouTube in 2006 for recorded voice-over lectures using a digital blackboard for equations and illustrations -
iTunesU
Apple Inc. in 2007 created iTunesU to became a portal or a site where videos and other digital materials on university teaching could be collected and downloaded free of charge by end users. -
MOOC
By 2008, George Siemens, Stephen Downes and Dave Cormier in Canada were using web technology to create the first ‘connectivist’ Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), a community of practice that linked webinar presentations and/or blog posts by experts to participants’ blogs and tweets, with just over 2,000 enrollments. -
edTeach
As of 2019, e-learning has been replaced by the word "digital learning" or sometimes edTech. -
Resources
https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Public_Education
https://www.poetrychangeslives.com/the-computer-age-begins/
https://www.dotmagazine.online/issues/investing-in-the-future/unlocking-a-new-digital-age
Beck, D., & Hughes, C. (2014). Engaging adult learners with innovative technologies. In Adult and Continuing Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 296-311). -
Resources
https://theazb.com/who-invented-paper-ancient-china-and-the-history-of-paper/
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=187
http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/2012/07/
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/Elcano-Juan-Sebasti%C3%A1n-(c-1476-1526)-Manuscript-Transcription?saleno=2543&lotNo=313&refNo=771012
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