LTMS 515 - History of Instructional Technology

(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course explores the history of instructional technology, and the instruction design practices reflected in that history. Topics include the origins of programmed instruction as practiced by BF Skinner and Norman Crowder, the PLATO system as the first large scale educational technology platform, the Apple II and other early microcomputers, Seymour Papert and the move to cognitivist instruction, Window systems and finally, the Raspberry Pi as an example of the latest STEM based instructional platform.