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Chapter Two The History of Instructional Technology Section A Pre-1920 One of the fundamental ideas supporting instructional technology is the ideas that empirically based principles be applied to generate predictably effective instruction (Anglin, 1995, p.12). While many contributions could be listed here as important in shifting the prevailing concept of instruction, the work of E.L. Thorndike, a behavioral psychologist at Columbia University, was perhaps most influential and particularly salient for the field of instructional technology. Thorndike is important as an early figure in the ef