← Education & Training Development Division

Educational Technology & Innovation Center

Integrates digital technologies and innovative pedagogies - from LMS platforms and VR-based subsurface visualization to interactive simulation and gamification - to build adaptive, personalized e-learning platforms and multimedia content.

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B.F. Skinner

Center Head

💡 Operant conditioning, programmed learning

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1847–1922

Alexander Graham Bell

Researcher

💡 Developed Visible Speech-based instructional methods and assistive communication technology for deaf education, work that directly led to his invention of the telephone

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1928–1996

Gordon Pask

Researcher

💡 Developed Conversation Theory and built adaptive teaching machines that continuously adjust to a learner's evolving understanding through cybernetic feedback

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1900–1985

Edgar Dale

Researcher

💡 Developed the Cone of Experience, classifying instructional media by degree of abstraction versus direct experience, the foundational media-selection theory of educational technology

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1922–2014

Patrick Suppes

Researcher

💡 Pioneered Computer-Assisted Instruction at Stanford, delivering drill-and-practice lessons directly through computer terminals to K-12 students

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1911–1999

Charles A. Wedemeyer

Researcher

💡 Pioneered independent and distance learning, challenging universities to expand access to autonomous learners physically separated from instructors

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1916–2006

Frederick Mosteller

Researcher

💡 Founded Harvard's statistics department and applied rigorous, large-scale statistical methodology to educational and social data, including landmark studies of educational opportunity

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1907–1987

Wilbur Schramm

Researcher

💡 Founded Communication Studies as an academic field and conducted foundational research on the effectiveness of instructional television and mass-media-based instruction

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1927–2013

Wally Feurzeig

Researcher

💡 Co-invented the Logo programming language, making learners active builders of computational knowledge, and conducted early artificial-intelligence-in-education research at BBN

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1926–1992

John G. Kemeny

Researcher

💡 Co-developed the BASIC programming language and the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, pioneering campus-wide computer access to instruction

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1925–2016

Allan Paivio

Researcher

💡 Developed Dual Coding Theory, explaining how verbal and visual information are processed through separate, interconnected mental channels, the theoretical foundation of multimedia learning design

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1934–2024

Donald Bitzer

Researcher

💡 Invented the plasma display panel and led PLATO, the first large-scale networked computer-based education system serving thousands of simultaneous terminals

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1930–2022

Richard D. Duke

Researcher

💡 Founded the discipline of policy/simulation gaming, proposing structured games as a 'multilogue' language bringing disciplines and stakeholders together to teach complex systems

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1888–1979

Sidney L. Pressey

Researcher

💡 Invented the first teaching machine in 1924, a self-scoring device giving immediate feedback, decades before programmed instruction became popular

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1926–1997

Morton Heilig

Researcher

💡 Built the Sensorama (patented 1962), the first multi-sensory immersive simulation device, earning him recognition as a father of virtual reality

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