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This document summarizes Robert Gagne's theory of learning and his proposed nine events of instruction. It discusses how Gagne identified five major types of learning outcomes and nine instructional events that influence learning, including gaining attention, informing students of objectives, stimulating recall of prior learning, presenting content, providing guidance, eliciting performance, providing feedback, assessing performance, and enhancing retention and transfer. The document also notes that each instructional event has unique features and their application depends on the type of learning outcome, such as verbal information, intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, motor skills, or attitudes.

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5210 Written Assignment, Week 2

This document summarizes Robert Gagne's theory of learning and his proposed nine events of instruction. It discusses how Gagne identified five major types of learning outcomes and nine instructional events that influence learning, including gaining attention, informing students of objectives, stimulating recall of prior learning, presenting content, providing guidance, eliciting performance, providing feedback, assessing performance, and enhancing retention and transfer. The document also notes that each instructional event has unique features and their application depends on the type of learning outcome, such as verbal information, intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, motor skills, or attitudes.

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Written Assignment, Week 2

University of the People

Student

Prof.: Dr. Greg Denlea

EDUC 5210

30 June 2021
In our course we consider deep processes happening in brains while learning. This involves such

things as memory, attention, retrieval and some others. From the Schunk book (Schunk) we know

that there is a long learning process including: 1) outcomes of learning, 2) phases of learning and 3)

instructional events that inextricably connected with phases of learning. These important elements

were considered in Behaviorism that was created by Jean Piaget and then continued by his

followers, including Robert Gagne.

Robert Gagne significantly contributed to the theory of learning. One of the most important

discoveries of Gagner were conditions of learning.

Schunk describes the Gagne’s conditions of learning as follows:

‘Conditions of Learning

One of the best known instructional theories based on cognitive principles was formulated by

Robert Gagnй (1985). This theory involves the conditions of learning, or the circumstances that

prevail when learning occurs (Ertmer, Driscoll, & Wager, 2003). Two steps are critical. The first is

to specify the type of learning outcome; Gagnй identified five major types (discussed later). The

second is to determine the events of learning, or factors that make a difference in instruction.’

These instructional events are: ‘attending, expectancy, retrieval, selective perception, semantic

encoding, retrieval and responding, reinforcement, cueing retrieval, generalizability’.

Let’s consider these events more diligently (“Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction - NIU - Center for

Innovative Teaching and Learning”):

1) Gain attention of the students

2) Inform students of the objectives

3) Stimulate recall of prior learning

4) Present the content

5) Provide learning guidance

6) Elicit performance

7) Provide feedback
8) Asses performance

9) Enhance retention and transfer

Every event has its features. Also, application of every event depends on learning categories which

are verbal information (declarative knowledge), intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, motor skills

and attitude.
References:

1. catio 23. Robert Gagne. YouTube, 4 Mar. 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=FgDcUnObLqI

2. “Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction - NIU - Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning”

Nothern Illionois University, https://www.niu.edu/citl/resources/guides/instructional-

guide/gagnes-nine-events-of-instruction.shtml, Accessed 30 June 2021.

3. Schunk, D. H. (2012). Learning theories: An educational perspective (6th ed.). Boston, MA:

Pearson. Retrieved from: https://www.researchgate.net/file.PostFileLoader.html?

id=53ad2847cf57d75c068b45c5&assetKey=AS%3A273549456019456%401442230680395

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