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THE HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

By Melek ALP

  • Invention of Printing Press

    Invention of Printing Press
    Printing press was invented in Europe and it was a truly disruptive technology, making written knowledge much more freely available, very much in the same way as the Internet has done today.

  • Blackboards

    Blackboards
    Blackboards/chalkboards became used in schools around the turn of the 18th century.

  • Educational Radio Programs

    Educational Radio Programs
    The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting educational radio programs for schools in the 1920s.

  • Teaching Machines

    Teaching Machines
    B.F. Skinner started experimenting with teaching machines that made use of programmed learning in 1954, based on the theory of behaviourism. They were one of the first forms of computer-based learning.

  • Television

    Television
    Television was first used in education, for schools and for general adult education.

  • Satellite Broadcasting

    Satellite Broadcasting
    Satellite broadcasting started to become available.

  • CoSy

    CoSy
    An off-the-shelf software system called CoSy was developed that allowed for online threaded group discussion forums, a predecessor to today’s forums contained in learning management systems at the University of Guelph in Canada.

  • The World Wide Web

    The World Wide Web
    The Word Wide Web was formally launched.

  • LMSs

    LMSs
    The Web enabled the development of the first learning management systems (LMSs), such as WebCT (which later became Blackboard).LMSs provide an online teaching environment, where content can be loaded and organized, as well as providing ‘spaces’ for learning objectives, student activities, assignment questions, and discussion forums.

  • Google

    Google
    Google was created.

  • Recorded Lectures

    Recorded Lectures
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) started making its recorded lectures available to the public, free of charge, via its OpenCourseWare project.

  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Google bought Youtube.

  • References

    https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/chapter/section-8-1-a-short-history-of-educational-technology/

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