The History of Instructional Media
In the Early 1900’s, museums provided visual instruction through film, print, photographs, charts and other educational content. In 1905, St Louis opened the first school museum, and in 1910 first directory of instructional videos was published. This beginning the visual instruction movement.
1920's-1930's
During the 1920’s and 1930’s, the Audiovisual and Instructional Radio Movement boomed due to the technological evolutions in radio broad casting, sound recording, motion pictures. Because of these developments, interest in instructional media grew
1950's
The introduction of television in the 1950’s caused the Instructional Television the audiovisual movement. The country had a vision to educate at all levels, for free, through television broadcasting. Two hundred and forty-two television channels were set aside for educational purposes sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission and the Ford Foundation.
1940's
audiovisual instruction, audiovisual communications movement began. It used visual instruction through film, print, photographs, charts and other educational content.
1980's - Present
Computer-assisted instructions (CAI) were developed in 1950’s for Public schools, but the fever didn’t catch on till the 1980’s when the personal computers were introduced. CAI have caught on because of the popularity of the world wide web and contemporary developments in social media sites and the 1995 introduction of e-learning. The world wide web and the intranet impacted academia and industries, it was cost effective and efficient. In academia, the impact was slower, until the acceptance of smartphones, tablets and social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. This also created more job opportunities for Instructional Technologist.