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1900s: The production of educational films led to a field of Instructional Technology that focused on Instructional Media. 1920s: There was an increase use of film, pictures, and lantern slides in the public schools. 1928: Visual Instruction defined as the enrichment of education through the seeing experience involving the use of all types of visual aids. (Dorris)

Lance CurryEDIT 6100EDr. Orey 1920s – 1940s: Advancements in sound shifted the focus of the field from visual instruction to audiovisual instruction through the use of sound recordings, radio broadcasting, and motion pictures with sound. 1950s: The growth of television continued the interest in instructional media.

Lance CurryEDIT 6100EDr. Orey 1960: Instructional Technology should be viewed as a way of looking at instructional problems and examining feasible solutions to those problems. (Finn) 1963: The Department of Audiovisual Instruction (later – AECT) introduced a definition that focused on the design and use of messages which control the learning process. 1964: Educational Technology could be though of as the application of science to instructional practices. (Lumsdaine)

Lance CurryEDIT 6100EDr. Orey 1970: The Commission on Instructional Technology provides a definition that focused on the systematic process that includes specifying objectives and the design, implementation, and evaluation to increase effectiveness. 1977: The AECTs new definition: Educational technology is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization, for analyzing problems and devising, implementing evaluating, and managing solutions to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning..

Lance CurryEDIT 6100EDr. Orey 1994: Due to the updated learning theories and technological advances such as the microcomputer and the Internet, the AECT updated their definition: Instructional Technology is the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning. 2006: The AECTs recent definition: Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.

Lance CurryEDIT 6100EDr. Orey Instruction Instruction The delivery of knowledge or skills from one party to another and/or the use of resources in creating an educational environment which facilitates learning by an individual or group. Technology The equipment, tools, devices, instruments, etc. that are used in completing a task more efficiently (in terms of cost and/or workload) than by previous means.

Lance CurryEDIT 6100EDr. Orey Instructional Technology Instructional Technology The use of efficient equipment, tools, devices, instruments, or processes to deliver knowledge or skills. Also, the use of resources to create an educational environment that facilitates learning by an individual or group. Instructional Technology KnowledgeToolsResources Tools Resources Knowledge

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o Reiser, R.A. (2002) What Field Did You Say You Were In? Defining and naming our field. In Reiser, R.A. & Dempsey, J.V. (Eds.). Trends and issues in instructional design and technology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill/Prentice Hall. o AECT What is the Knowledge Base? o (AECT) Definition of Terminology Committee, June 1, 2004