History of Instructional Design and Technology

By courtdilch

  • First school museum was opened in St. Louis

  • Keystone View Company publised Visual Education

  • Thomas Edison proclaimed "Books will soon be obsolete in schools..."

  • Marked increase in use of visual materials (films, pictures, lantern slides)

  • Technological advances in radio, broadcasting, sound recording, and motion pictures

  • Focus of field shifted from visual instruction to audiovisual instruction

  • Merge of three national professional organizations for visual instruction

  • Federal Governement established the Division of Visual Aids for War Training

  • Edgar Dale wrote "Cone of Experience"

  • Bejamin Bloom published Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

  • Growth of televsion

  • Decision made to set aside 242 televsion channels for educational purposes

  • BF Skinner began a minor revolution in the field of education with "the Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching"

  • Emergence of criterion-referenced testing

  • IDT discussed as more of a process

  • Ford Foundation focuses support on public televison rather than in school applications

  • First definition approved by major professional organization was published

  • Robert Gagne published The Conditions of Learning

  • New instructional models were designed and several became "standards"

  • Comission on Instructional Technology developed two definitions

  • AECT Adopts new defintion of the field

  • Computers being used for instructional purposes 40% of schools and 75% of secondary schools

  • Computers used to aid on the job performance

  • AECT published Instructional Technology: The Definitions of and Domains of the Field

  • Cognitive and constructivist theories began to have major influence on design practices

  • AECT produced book that presented new definition of field

  • 50% of college faculty use social media for instructional purposes