History of Instructional Design

  • School Museums

    School Museums

    The first school museum opened in St. Louis in 1905, and they served as the central unit for visual instruction.
  • Instructional Film

    Instructional Film

    The first catalog of instructional films was published in 1910. Films were used in school systems for instructional use.
  • Instructional Radio

    Instructional Radio

    Technological advances led to increased interest in instructional media and the audiovisual instruction movement was invented.
  • Early Computers

    Early Computers

    First used for educational and training purposes until 1955.
  • Behavioral Objectives

    Behavioral Objectives

    The idea of behavioral objectives was first discovered by Ralph Tyler in which it specifies outcomes to the instructional design.
  • World War II

    World War II

    The use of audiovisual devices were used extensively for military purposes especially for training films to United States military personnel.
  • Media Research

    Media Research

    The post-World War II audiovisual research programs identified ways of learning that could be used int he design of audiovisual material.
  • Television

    Television

    Used to display media.
  • Instructional Television

    Instructional Television

    There was an increased interest in television for instructional purposes, leading to the development of channels for educational purposes.
  • Programmed Instruction

    Programmed Instruction

    Research based instruction helping people learn work and was important in the development of the systems approach.
  • Internet

    Internet

    Since 1955, interest in the internet has grown for instructional purposes and had been growing in higher education and military.
  • Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

    Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

    Distinguished fundamental questions in the education system.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    First artificial earth satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
  • Criterion-Referenced Testing

    Criterion-Referenced Testing

    Measured how well an individual can perform a given behavior.
  • Instructional Design Model

    Instructional Design Model

    Provides guidelines or frameworks to organize the process for creating an instructional activity.
  • Conditions of Learning

    Conditions of Learning

    Book written by Robert Gagne which described different theories of learning and instruction.
  • Events of Instruction

    Events of Instruction

    In Gagne's book, he describes nine events that he believes occurs during instruction.
  • Formative Evaluation

    Formative Evaluation

    Detailed procedures for evaluating student learning both during and after the design.
  • Summative Evaluation

    Summative Evaluation

    Evaluates the finished product.
  • Cognitive Psychology

    Cognitive Psychology

    Study of mental processes that grew quickly in the 1980's.
  • Constructivism

    Constructivism

    Theory based on observation and scientific study on how people learn, this began to influence instructional design during the 1990's.
  • My Birth

    Alyssa Lubischer was born.