IDT Timeline

By RIbrahim9

  • First School Museum opened in St. Louis

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    Timeline of Instructional Design & Instructional Media

  • First catalog of instructional films published

  • Growth in visual instruction movement

    • 5 national professional organizations established
    • 5 journals on visual instruction published
    • 20 + teacher-training institutions offer visual instruction courses

  • Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) created

  • Radio used as a means of education

  • FC Bartlett writes about Schema Theory

  • Educators develop training materials for the military during WWII

  • Division of Visual Aids for War Training established

  • Training films used as a training material in the military

  • Ford Foundation spends $170M + on educational television

  • Bloom published "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives"

  • Federal Communications Commission sets aside 242 television channels for educational puposes

  • Skinner publishes "The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching"

  • Development of Computer-assisted instruction systems

  • Jerome Bruner proposes that students are active learners who construct their own knowledge (Constructivist Theory)

  • Emergence of criterion-referenced measures

  • IDT definition focuses on learning, rather than instruction

  • "Journal of Instructional Development" published

  • IDT defined as a "systematic process"

  • Cognitive Information Processing Theory rose to prominence

  • U.S. military adopts instructional design models to guide development of training materials

  • Computers widely used for instructional purposes in elementary & secondary schools

  • Focus on human performance movement (on-the-job performance) & constructivist views of teaching/learning

  • Cognitive & Constructivst learning theories have major influence on IDT design practices

  • AECT publishes IDT definition using 5 domains: design, development, utilization, management, & evaluation

  • U.S. schools possess one computer for every 9 students

  • 13% of training in businesses is done online

  • AECT produces new IDT definition to include ethics & improving performance

  • 32% of higher education students take online courses

  • 64% of college students use smartphones for schoolwork