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¶ … technology and instructional design in education began during World War II. In this short essay, the author will evaluate its effectiveness in the post-war period.
As during the Second World War, many of the advances came about due to the need to educate soldiers and the public in the fight against the monolithic enemy of communism during the Cold War. Unlike during World War II, the Cold War was of indeterminate length. With no end in sight, the "race" between the U.S. dominated west and the Russian dominated east involved every bit of technology. Instructional technology (IT) as a field was no different.
During the war, films, film strips and other visual aids as well as audio equipment were necessary for the rapid and mass education of military personnel being trained to fight in World War II. Based upon these experiences and the perceived (as well as actual) successes in training...
military personnel during the war, interest persisted in instructional technology and design after the war as well (Reiser, 2001, p. 57).
During the decade after the war, several intensive studies of on audiovisual research were carried out in order to identify various attributes/features of how audiovisual materials affected learning. The goal behind this research was to identify attributes that could be used in certain situations. Such research tended to emphasize the technology. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of these studies was compromised by the relative lack of distribution of data to the majority of educators at the time (Ibid).
During the 1950's, IT advocates became interested in theories or models of communication, a process that involved both the sender and the receiver of a message, the medium through which that message is to be sent. The model's authors indicated that during planning process for communication that it was necessary to think about all of the elements of process and not just the technology (Ibid, 58). Television made this technological milieu and joined with video technology and computers during the 1970's, 80's and…
Works Cited
Reiser, R. (2001). A history of instructional design and technology: part I: a history of instructional design. ETR&D, 49(1), 53-63.
Reiser, R. (2001). A history of instructional design and technology: part ii: a history of instructional design. ETR&D, 49(2), 57-67.
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