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30,000 BCE
Cave Drawings
At this time in history this was a technique that older people would use to teach children through the drawings of the cave, whose purpose was to educate minors in the course of the story of their lives. Pointed sticks were used to inscript signs and symbols on leaves and bark of trees. -
3400 BCE
Hieroglyphics of Ancient Egypt
Egyptians developed a system of picture writing called hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics indicated that there had been an education system as ancient times.Phrases, laws and rules could now be taught, written down and kept permanently. -
1450
The Invention of the Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg introduced the concept of movable type and the printing press to Europe in 15th century. As a result of the explosion of written documents resulting from the mechanization of printing, many more people in government and business were required to become literate and analytical, which led to a rapid expansion of formal education in Europe. The printing press is often considered as the most important invention in modern times. -
The Birth of the Modern Pencil
The modern pencil was invented by Nicholas-Jacques Conte, he discovered a method of mixing powdered graphite with clay and forming the mixture into rods that were fired in a kiln. This invention spurred by necessity became a handy way to create specialized pencils for writers and artists who wanted different shades of lead.We still use Conté's graphite-clay mixture idea today. -
The First Use of Blackboard
James Pillans, headmaster and geography teacher at the Old High School in Edinburgh, Scotland, is credited with inventing the first modern blackboard when he hung a large piece of slate on the classroom wall. The first attested use of chalk on blackboard in the United States dates to September 21, 1801, in a lecture course in mathematics given by George Baron, at West Point Military Academy. -
Distance Education
Distance education is the education of students who may not be physically present at a school. Traditionally, this usually involved correspondence courses wherein the student corresponded with the school via post. Improvements in transport infrastructure, and in particular the creation of a cheap and reliable postal system in the 1840s, led to the development of the first formal correspondence education.The University of London was the first university to offer distance learning degrees. -
First Educational Radio Broadcast
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting educational radio programs for schools in the 1920s. -
Skinner's Teaching Machine
B.F. Skinner believed the classroom had disadvantages because the rate of learning for different students was variable and reinforcement was also delayed due to the lack of individual attention. Since personal tutors for every student was usually unavailable, Skinner developed a theory of programmed learning that was to be implemented by teaching machines. -
First Computerized Teaching System
PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) was a generalized computer assisted instruction system originally developed at the University of Illinois, and, by the late 1970s, comprised several thousand terminals worldwide on nearly a dozen different networked mainframe computers. -
Open University
The British government established the Open University (OU), which worked in partnership with the BBC to develop university programs open to all, using a combination originally of printed materials specially designed by OU staff, and television and radio programs made by the BBC but integrated with the courses. -
The World Wide Web Is Born
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. -
Web 2.0 Democratizes Education
Web 2.0, named by Tim O‘Reilly, to refer to a second generation in Web history based on user communities and a wide range of services, such as social networks, blogs, wikis, that encourage collaboration and efficient exchange of information among users. -
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