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Robert M. Gagné Educational Psychologist and father of Instructional System Design

Robert M. Gagné Educational Psychologist and father of Instructional System Design. Presented by: Billy Edgerton June 21, 2010. Personal Biography and Accomplishments. Vital Statistics. Born: August 21, 1916 Died: April 28, 2002 Undergraduate Work Graduate Work.

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Robert M. Gagné Educational Psychologist and father of Instructional System Design

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  1. Robert M. GagnéEducational Psychologist and father of Instructional System Design Presented by: Billy Edgerton June 21, 2010

  2. Personal Biography andAccomplishments

  3. Vital Statistics • Born: August 21, 1916 • Died: April 28, 2002 • Undergraduate Work • Graduate Work Image found at : http://faculty.weber.edu/pstewart/images/GAGNE2.jpg

  4. Accomplishments • President of APA Divisions • Military Psychology • Educational Psychology • President of American Educational Research Association • Consulting Editor of seveeral Journals • AERA – Phi Delta Kappa Award for distinguished Educational Research • E. L. Thorndike award in educational psychology • Elected to National Academy of Education

  5. Main Phases of Work

  6. Working for the Military • Psychological Research Unit #1, Maxwell Field Alabama • Officer Candidate School in Miami Beach • School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Field Texas • Perceptual Film Research Unit Santa Ana Army Air Base • Director of the Perceptual Motor Skills Laboratory • Technical Director if the Maintenance Lab at Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado

  7. Working for American Institutes of Research • Position: Director of Research • Published the first edition of his book The Conditions of Learning

  8. Working for University of California at Berkely • Worked with Graduate Students in Educational Research • Director of the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development during its infancy • In collaboration with W. F. Rohwer, Jr. the first chapter used the term “Instructional Psychology” in the Annual Review of Psychology

  9. Working at Florida State University • Longest lasting academic home (1969 – death) • Collaborated with L.J. Briggs and produced Principles of Instructional Design • Produced 2nd and 3rd editions of The Conditions of Learning

  10. Important contributions to Educational Psychology

  11. Automaticity of Basic Skills • One of his overlying ideas throughout work • Does not mean to know facts automatically • Basic Processes more important than learning facts

  12. Computer Assisted Instruction • Sees computers as an important educational tool • Role • Major flaw in education

  13. Instructional System Design • Most well known theories • Make instruction an ongoing development process that is centered around student learning. • ISD is a process that is still taught in universities today and many models are based on Gagne’s basic ideas.

  14. Credits

  15. Distinguished scientific award for the application of psychology: 1982. (1983). American Psychologist, January, 24-29. Gagne, R. M. (1962). The Acquisition of knowledge. Psychological Review, 69(4), 355 - 365. Gagne, R. M. (1972). Domains of learning. Interchange, 3, 1-8. Gagne, R. M. (1988). Mastery learning and instructional design. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 10(1), doi: 10.1111/j.1937-8327.1997.tb00027.x Gagne, R.M. (1968). Contributions of learning to human development. Psychological Review, 75, 177-191. Gagne, R.M. (1968). Learning hierarchies. Educational Psychologist, 6, 1-9. Richey, R.C. (1996). Robert m. gagne's impact on instructional design theory and practice of the future.. Retrieved from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet /ERICServlet?accno=ED397828 doi: ED397828

  16. Richey, R.C. (2000). The Legacy of robert m. gagne (Constructivism (Learning); Educational Technology; Educational Theories; Elementary Secondary Education; Futures (of Society); Instructional Design; Postsecondary Education), Retrieved from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED445674 doi: ED445674 Tuckman, B. (1966). My Mentor: robert m. gagne. Peabody Journal of Education, 71(1), 3-11. Twitchell, D. (1990). Robert m. gagne and m. davidmerrill in coversation: reviewing the main points of robert m. gagne's learning theory. Educational Technology, 30, 34-39. Twitchell, D. (1990). Robert m. gane and m. davidmerrill in conversation: the cognitive psychological basis for instructional design. Educational Technology, 30, 35-46. Twitchell, D. (1991). Robert m. gagne and m. davidmerrill in conversation: icai, computers in the schools, an instructional design expert system. Educational Technology, January, 34-40.

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