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The History of Educational Technology

By UmutAlper
  • 30,000 BCE

    Cave Drawings

    Cave Drawings
    Cave drawings was the first technique used in education.

  • Educational Film

    Educational Film
    History of educational technology started with the use of educational film in the early 1900s

  • BBC

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

  • Radio

    Radio
    Educational radio is the first electronic medium educators used to teach at a distance. With the advent of broadcasting the federal government issued the first educational radio license to the Latter Day Saints’ University of Salt Lake City, in 1921. (Saba, 2011)

  • B.F. Skinner's Teaching Machines

    B.F. Skinner's Teaching Machines
    Skinner’s teaching machines were one of the first forms of computer-based learning.

  • Television

    Television
    Television was used in 1960s for education for the first time

  • PLATO

    PLATO
    PLATO, computer-based education system created in 1960 by Donald L. Bitzer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    On August 30th, 1969 the ARPANET, which was originally developed for the military quickly became adopted by major institutes of higher learning for file sharing. The ARPANET would later evolve into todays world wide web.

  • Satellite Broadcasting

    Satellite Broadcasting
    Satellite broadcasting started to become available in the 1980s.

  • The World Wide Web

    The World Wide Web
    The Word Wide Web was formally launched in 1991. The World Wide Web is basically an application
    running on the Internet that enables ‘end-users’ to create and link documents, videos or other digital
    media, without the need for the end-user to transcribe everything into some form of computer code. (Bates, 2015)

  • The First Learning Management Systems

    The First Learning Management Systems
    In 1995, the Web enabled the development of the first learning management systems (LMSs). (Bates, 2015).

  • SmartBoards

    SmartBoards
    In 1998, SmartBoards are introduced.

  • Google

    Google
    Google was created in 1999 and it was used in education since then.

  • MIT's OpenCourseWare project

    MIT's OpenCourseWare project
    The Massachusetts Institute of
    Technology (MIT) started making its recorded lectures available to the public, free of charge, via
    its OpenCourseWare project, in 2002. (Bates, 2015)

  • YouTube

    YouTube
    YouTube was created in 2005 and it was used in many ways in education.

  • The references

    Images by Mudassar Iqbal, Hans Genthe, Kev, Gerhard G., andreas160578, Jazella, Mark Mags, Peggy_Marco, Gerd Altmann, Sandra Schön, Stefan Meller, Simon from Pixabay Saba, F. (2011). Distance Education in the United States: Past, Present, Future. Educational Technology, 51(6), 11–18. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44429966 https://www.britannica.com/topic/PLATO-education-system http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Educational_technology#A_short_history https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/