Historical Instructional Design Cases

Historical Instructional Design Cases presents a collection of design cases which are historical precedents for the field with utility for practicing designers and implications for contemporary design and delivery.

Elizabeth Boling is Professor of Instructional Systems Technology in the School of Education at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Colin M. Gray is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University, USA. Craig Howard is Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology & Counseling in the College of Education, Health & Human Sciences at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA. John Baaki is Assistant Professor of STEM Education and Professional Studies in the Instructional Design and Technology Program at Old Dominion University, USA.

1. Setting the Cases in Historical Context 2. Curators' Notes: Historical Design Cases 3. The Rochester Method: An Innovation in its Time (1878-1970) 4. Designed for Destruction: The Carlisle Design Model and the Effort to Assimilate American Indian Children (1887-1928) 5. A Lived Experience of the Tennessee School for the Deaf (1920-2000) 6. "Supervising Women Workers": The Rise of Instructional Training Films (1944) 7. The Skinnerian Teaching Machine (1953-1968) 8. The Original SRA Reading System: Individualized Learning in a Box (1957-1964) 9. MPATI: The Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (1959-1971) 10. Automated and Amplified: Active Learning with Computers and Radio (1965-1979) 11. TICCIT: Building Theory for Practical Purposes (1971-1978) 12. Bridge: A Cross Culture African American Reading Program (1975-1977) 13. Creating Minimalist Instruction (1979-present) 14. Experts in a Box: Expert Systems and Knowledge-Based Engineering (1984-1991) 15. "Making Alcatraz Amazing": The Alcatraz Cellhouse Tour (1987-1995) 16. SimCalc: Democratizing Access to Advanced Mathematics (1992-present) 17. Using Analytics for Activity Awareness in Learning Systems (2003-2013)