History of Instructional Design
1940
Humanity has been designing instructional experiences for millennia.
But it wasn’t until World War II that we began to adopt a more systematic approach. The war brought with it a slew of training needs that required a methodological approach.
Psychologist and educator were recruited by the military
Robert Miller
Robert Gagne
Jeslie Briggs
John Flanagan
Develop training and methods of evaluation
Development of detailed task analysismethodology
1950
1954
B.F. Skinner
Introduced "Programmed Instruction"
1956
Benjamin Bloom
Published Taxonomies of Education
Effective Instruction
Bite sized and immediate feedback
1960
Plato (1960)
Program logic for automatic teaching operation
Robert Mager (1962)
Development of objective based learning
Robert Glaser (1963)
Development of criterion-referenced measures
Michael Scriven (1967)
Formative and summative evaluation
1970
A Rise of Interest in the Systems Approach
Numerous models were developed across military, academia and business.
These models were based on information-processing-approach and used media and ID procedures to improve the quality of instruction.
1980
instructional Design Models
Continued growth in business and industry
increased growth internationally
decrease in academia
rising interest in how the principles of cognitive psychology could be applied in the instructional design process, and the cognitive load theory began to prove its relevance.
1990
In 1991, World Wide Web officially launches
The constructivist theory underlines the importance of “authentic” learning tasks that replicate the actual complexity of the real world environment of traineesas opposed to the theoretical learning approach which preceded it.
2000
The Rise of Online Learning
Deeper internet penetration, better bandwidths and rise of the social media makes online learning a viable, economical & effective medium.
Now is the age of learning technology in all its form
social, mobile and personalized.