The
1980s: PCs and Performance Technology
IMPORTANT
IDEAS:
- Advent of desktop PC
- Rapid development of instructional
systems by American businesses
REALIZED INNOVATIONS:
- Broadening of theoretical
and analytical bases
- More insistence on use
of cognitive psychology because of computers
- More research on the use
of computerized instruction
- Development of performance
technology for corporate uses
t i m e l i n
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Pre-20s
| 20s | 30s | 40s
| 50s | 60s | 70s
| 80s | 90s and beyond