History of Learning & Training

On-The-Job Training (OJT)

Chinese Philosophy - 5th-century BC

Greek Philosophy- Socratic or Dialectic Method - 300 BC

Apprenticeship - Middle Ages

Early Schools and Pedagogy - 10th Century

Scholasticism - Pierre Abelard (1079-1142)

John Comenius - (Jan Komensky) (1592-1670)

John Locke (1632-1704)

Jean Jacques Rousseau - 1762

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi - late 1700s

Gaming - 1800s

Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841)

Distance Learning (distributed Learning) - 1881

Lyceum - 1826

Vestibule Training - late 1800s

Case Method (Case Study) - 1880s

Correspondence Schools - 1883

Show, Tell, Do, and Check - 1917

John Dewey - (1867-1949)

Yerkes-Dodson law - Arousal - 1908

Role Playing - 1910

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1950)

Ivan Pavlov - Stimulus-Response - 1927

J. B. Watson and Behaviorism - 1900s

Gestalt - 1912

Pressey's Teaching Machine - 1924

Eduard C. Lindeman - 1926

Edward L. Thorndike (1874-1949)

Andragogy - 1920s

Social constructivism - Lev Vygotsky - 1930

Hawthorne Effect - 1932

Jean Piaget (1896-1980)

Likert Scales - 1932

Constructivism - 1930s

Discovery Learning - 1940s

Job Instruction Training (JIT) - 1940s

Job-Performance-Aid (or Job Aid) - 1940s

The American Society for Training and Development - 1942

Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

Practice - 1946

Kurt Lewin (1890-1947)

T-Groups - 1947

Organization Development - 1949

Cognitive Science - 1950s

Instructional System Design (ISD) - 1950s

Benjamin Bloom - 1956

Don Kirkpatrick and Evaluating Training - 1959

Herzberg's Motivational Factors - 1959

B. F. Skinner (1904 -1990)

Theory X and Theory Y - 1960

Carl Rogers (1902-1987)

Albert Bandura - 1960s

Instructional Design - 1962

Performance Objectives - 1962

Robert Gagnè - 1962

The Blake and Mouton Managerial Grid - 1964

Training Magazine - (1964)

Alan Tough - 1968

Fred Keller (PSI) - 1968

Malcom Knowles - 1970

Informal & Formal Learning - 1970

Performance Improvement - 1978

Lifelong Learning - 1981

The Grandfather of Business Books - 1982

Howard Gardner and Multiple Intelligences - 1983

Kolb's Learning Styles - 1984

Adult Education - 1986

Computer Based Training (CBT) - 1980s

Dilbert - 1989

Electronic Performance Support System - 1989

The Learning Organization - 1990

ADDIE (ISD) - 1995

Knowledge Management - 1997

eLearning - 1997

Blended Learning - 1999

mLearning - 2000

Social Learning Media - 2010

The Future - 2000 and beyond

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