In 1982 OSU's Communication Media Center was formed with the merger of the IRAM (Instructional Media and Resources) and CTC (Classroom Television Center units.

1982
In 1982 OSU's Communication Media Center was formed with the merger of the IRAM (Instructional Media and Resources) and CTC (Classroom Television Center units.

The Instructional Resources and Materials Center (IRAM) was established in 1965 to provide educational media services such as film ordering; audio-visual equipment rental; and art and photographic services.

The post-WWII era brought with it the ideas, and technologies leading to a huge increase in audio-visual aids available to teachers and learners in the decades to follow. In addition to the major technologies like radio, film and television, educators were quick to use employ these in their classrooms. Some of the more common technologies [image] included filmstrips, in class movies, kodachrome slides, projection screens and in later years, videotape, laserdisc , and complete A/V carts and other technologies too numerous to list.

Organizations like IRAM at OSU and others at schools and universities across the country, were created providing services delivering, setting up, taking down, and supporting the variety of A/V technologies as they evolved.

1. Media Services Moving Images, 1957-2002. FV 119

1965
The Instructional Resources and Materials Center (IRAM) was established in 1965 to provide educational media services such as film ordering; audio-visual equipment rental; and art and photographic services.

 

 

1. Media Services Moving Images, 1957-2002. FV 119

1966
While experimentation with TV began in earnest at OSU in the 1950's, 1966 saw the creation of the Classroom Television Center. It's mission was to support instruction via television.

Following WW! studies [] of the effectiveness of military training films led to the development of research methods and analytical techniques, led to as variety of techniques we now associate with term Formative Evaluation. []

1. Cambre, M.A. ECTJ (1981) 29: 3. doi:10.1007/BF02765189

 

1920

Television came to OSU in a big way beginning in 1957...

 

insert complete article here on the History of TV at OSU.

 

 

Refrences

Source: Oregon Stater, May 1957, pp. 6,22. Oregon Digital

Smith, Ralph Lee. "Teaching by Cable: The Experience of One University." Planning for Higher Education 4.4 (1975): n. pag. Web. 21 Aug. 2016.

1957
For the first time a college chemistry course is being televised.Next year [1958] the experiment will be expanded to include 3 campuses.

Jacob Jordan, a Physics professor, developed the first KOAC radio transmitter in 1922 in Apperson Hall at Oregon Agriculture College, currently known as Oregon State University. The first test program was an O.A.C Football game.

A year later on January 23, 1923 the KOAC transmitter hits the airway with the call sign KDFJ-AM.

As radio took hold across America and the listening audience increasesd dramatically, the possibility of reaching out by radio to the public became a reality. In 1930 the percentage of rural households with radio sets, was approximately 23 percent, and about double that percentage in urban areas, about 40 percent of American homes owned a radio. By 1940 that ownership had doubled to an amazing eighty three percent. [1]

OSU's KOAC radio was among the leaders in offering educatoional programming when it began offering its "School of the Air" programming beginning in 1930. [2] But even earlier KOAC programming was focused on teaching, and learning, using this new technology, radio.

In the Radio Programs of 1925-26 of station K-OAC brochure ontaining the radio programming schedule for that year, Monday night programing was devoted entirely to agricultural topics. The 78 talks that year were given by 28 faculty members and with a focus on the "interests and problems of the homemaker."  The Freiday night programming that year featured 105 lectures by 45 faculty members from colleges across the university covering a wide variety of topics with application to daily life.

Dr. Paul Maris, then Director of the Extension Service in the Program's Introduction, invites all radio listerners to become learners,

"By means of the radio you may become affiliated with this
institution and the recipient of its benefits. You are cordially
invited to enroll as a member of the radio student body. We solicit
your help, your constructive criticism and your cooperation,
to the end that Radio Station KOAC of the Oregon State Agricultural
College may attain to the fullest measure of usefulness
and value to the people of the state."

References:

1. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, June 2004

2. http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/extension/koac/...

1922
" The four R's! OSU was on the airwaves early in the 1920's as radio technology made its way into American life. The station's first broadcast was on January 23, 1923 from the third floor of Apperson Hall. In 1925, the station's call letters were changed to KOAC and the Extension Service utilized the station for broadcasting several programs,
Written by the student body at Oregon State University, The Barometer is printed and handed out as the first school news paper in 1905. Articles included: campus events, buildings, sports, research and bibliography.
1905
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Oregon State University news paper the, Barometer, hits the stands in 1905.