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First School Museum-St. Louis
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Audiovisual Age Began
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Quote by Thomas Edison
"Books will soon be obsolete in the shools...It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picutres. Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years" (cited in Saettler, 1968,p. 98). -
Radio
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Film Strip Projector
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Overhead Projector
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Television
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Bloom's Learning Taxonomy
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Inquiry-Based Learning Model
This was during the discovery learning movement. It was determined students were able to learn through investigating. -
Instructional Technology was viewed as a process from 1960-1970
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Criterion Referenced Testing Movement
Robert Glaser introduced Criterion Referenced Testing. This moved testing to Criterion Referenced instead of the Norm Referenced testing. Norm Referenced tests were designed to spread out the performance of learners, where Criterion Referenced measured how well the student did regardless of how other students performed. -
Dick, Carey, and Carey Model
This model was originally published in their book in 1978. -
ADDIE Model
By the mid-1980s, the ADDIE Model we are familiar with today appeared. -
Computer Age
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World Wide Web
First World Wide Web servers were turned on! -
Digital Age
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Blackboard
Blackboard was founded in 1997, and then made a public company in 2004. Blackboard made a huge impact on distance learning. -
Interactive Learning Network
Courseinfo develops the Interactive Learning Network. This was the first eLearning system of its kind to leverage a relational MySQL database. -
SCORM 2004
SCORM 2004 is released. This remains the current version that many LMS systems are based on today. -
LMS based in the cloud
Most modern LMS systems are based in the cloud, freeing companies from the burden of installing and maintaining in-house systems.
