Highlights of Technology

  • Instructional television

    Instructional television
  • Main fram computers

    university time-sharing systems housed on a mainframe computer - used by students and instructors to share computer programs
  • Microcomputers

    first microcomputers entered schools (Roblyer & Edwards, 2000)
  • The World Wide Web

    widespread use of the Internet begins
  • The Cloud

    cloud based applications replace costly on-site servers (Tomassini, 2012)
  • Mobile technology

    mobile technology enters classrooms in the form of mobile phones used to record data (Schrum & Levin, 2015)