The development of ICT can be described in four phases:
1) The audio-visual phase emerged before 1920 through the use of paintings, charts, educational films and other tools.
2) The cybernetic phase from 1920-1950 saw the emergence of feedback concepts to direct and control classrooms.
3) The psychological and sociological phase of the 1940s-1960s focused on learning theories from those disciplines.
4) After 1980, the computer and telecommunication phase established ICT as the blending of hardware and software technologies to make teaching and learning more effective.