{"id":5120,"date":"2014-11-17T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T10:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oeb.global\/OEB_Newsportal\/?p=5120"},"modified":"2016-11-10T15:35:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T13:35:48","slug":"back-to-the-future-archive-footage-elearning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oeb.global\/oeb-insights\/back-to-the-future-archive-footage-elearning\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Children learn to use the telephone. Image: ITN Source archive footage<\/p><\/div>\n

If you have watched the OEB 2014 Trailer<\/a> you may have been intrigued by some of the archive clips we used. We had a fascinating time looking through old newsreels and science fiction films as we got the video ready. The vintage edtech really stood out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We were only able to use very short clips in the finished video so we thought you might like to watch the full versions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In this 1966 film<\/a>, complete with stirring music and commentary, we are introduced to \u2018Teaching Machines\u2019. The \u2018programmed learning\u2019 technology, as they called it, may look rather clunky but you can see that these pioneers were already thinking about many of the same issues that we still address in e-learning today.<\/p>\n

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