Instructional Development Timeline
The Instructional Development Timeline site offers information and links of key events, people, and developments that relate to Instructional Technology, Development, Theory, Systems, and Design.

Use the tabs above for each decade to find information and links to websites about leading theorists, specific events or research, and historical implications for education.

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Key events and people in Instructional Technology, Development, Theory, Systems, and Design.
Themes:
4C/ID-model
B. F. Skinner
Benjamin Bloom
Bernie Dodge
Bill Atkinson
Carleton Washburn
Charles Reigeluth
Cognitive Domain
Cognitive Theory
Component Display Theory
computer-based instruction
Cone of Experience
contract learning
Criterion Referenced Instruction
David Kolb
David Wiley
Domain Theory
E. L. Thorndike
Edgar Dale
educational objectives
Edward C. Tolman
Edward L. Thorndike
Elaboration Theory
Elaboration Theory
ESEA
Four-Component Instructional Design
Franklin Bobbit
Frederick Burk
Heirarchy of Needs
Helen Parkhust
Horace Mann
Hypercard
Individualized Instruction
individualized learning
Information Age
Information Processing
Instructional Design
Instructional Development
Instructional Systems
instructional technologist
Instructional Theorists
Instructional Theory
internet
Ivan Pavlov
Jeroen J G van Merrienboer
Jerome Bruner
John B. Watson
John Dewey
John Flanagan
Keller Plan
Larry Cuban
Learning Object Design
LODAS
Mary Ward
mastery learning
MD Merrill
Mindstorms
multimedia in instruction
Multiple Intelligences
Objectives-Driven Learning
Operant Conditioning
Performance Technology
Piaget
Programmed Instruction
Ralph W. Tyler
Ralph W. Tyler
Rapid Prototyping
Robert Gagne
Robert Glasser
Robert Mager
Roby Kidd
Sequencing Theory
Seymour Papert
Sidney Pressey
social reconstructionists
task analysis
Tom March
Webquest
Wilhelm Wundt
William Bagely
William James
Work Model Synthesis