Had a lot of fun preparing a class on the history of Human-Computer Interaction. Slides below, with numerous references to video material - the Web is a wonderful source of material on behalf of this kind of topic… (And yes, I got some of the material from our repository network!)

I must have done something right, because of the fact that I am now a “Presentation SuperStar on SlideShare”, featuring on the slideshare homepage   ! BTW, we should definitely do something similar in learning object repositories: all of us appreciate a compliment from time to time…
One ultimate thought: an overarching theme in human-computer interaction is that we’ve evolved from focusing on how to manufacture effective utilize of the at-the-time expensive computing power to focusing on how people can manufacture utilize of the nowadays-very-cheap-and-abundant computing power. It strikes me that we still require to evolve organizations like schools & universities, or hospitals, in a similar way: these organizations are focusing on how to manufacture effective utilize of the expensive teachers or medical staff, rather than on how to manufacture the student learn effectively or cure the patient… As technology evolves, as well as teaching power or healing power becomes more cheap as well as abundant, I hope that we can re-focus on the needs of the learner or patient… If you have any suggestions on how to manufacture this happen, I’d love to hear from you…