The History of the Evolution of Media Technology in Education

10.29962/TOJA.200804.0007

Shih-Hao Lin

Instructional technology ； educational media technology ； media technology

真理大學人文學報

6期（2008 / 04 / 30）

155 - 171

英文

The app1ication of educational media technology can be dated back to the 1920s. In the 1928, Alexanderson began TV tests on experimental station. In 1928, GE presented the first dramatic production on television. In 1939, DuMont made improvements in the cathode-ray picture tube and made the first television sets. In the 1940s, the first official network television broadcast in the United State took place, such as NBC and CBS. In the 1950s, recording tapes had replaced phonograph records. Cartridges for automobile tape music players were introduced in the early 60s. In the 70s, the ratio of public television stations to commercial stations was grater than 1 to 4. In the 1980s, the field of instructional technology was the advent of microcomputers. In the 1990s. The instructional applications of new technology have come to dominate much of the literature of instructional design. Then, the development of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) has highlighted the history of educational technology in the 1990s. The prospects for twenty-first century educational media technology resources-email, Weglogs, game-based learning tools, the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW), and multimedia-are increasingly common components of the instructional experience for most college students world wide, especially in technologically advanced countries. What the future development in the educational technology will be? No one is able to predict. But when more convenient, effective and economic technology is developed, the learners will be the most beneficial people.