Robert Gagne’s Instruction Design Model; “The Nine Events of Instruction”

Objectives

• What are the Nine Events of Instruction?

• How are these events related to the learning process?

Robert Gagne

• American educational psychologist

• Conditions of Learning
• Instructional Theory
• Instructional Design Model

According to Robert Gagne, there are nine events that activate processes needed for
effective learning.

Instructional Design Model

• Gagne created a nine-step process called The Events of Instruction

• The events of instruction are related to the learning process
• The events of instruction lead to various learning outcomes
• The events of instruction support the internal processes of learning

1. Gain Attention

• Capture the attention of those learning (animated tutorial)

• Stimuli that ensure reception of coming instruction

2. Inform Learner of Objectives

• Internal process of expectancy

• List of learning objectives
• Level of expectation for learning
• What will the learner be able to perform after the instruction?
• Motivate the learner to complete the lesson.

3. Stimulate Recall of Prior Learning

• Recall of existing, relevant knowledge

• Retrieval to working, short-term memory
 • Previous experience, previous concepts
• Correlate new information with prior knowledge

4. Present Stimulus Material

• Display the content

• Pattern recognition; selective perception
• New content (chunked, explained, then demonstrated)
• Multimedia (audio, video, graphics)

5. Provide Learner Guidance

• Guidance on the new content

• Chunking, rehearsal, encoding
• Assist learners in order to encode information for long-term storage
• Guidance strategies (case studies, examples, mnemonics)

6. Elicit Performance

• Practice (new skills or behavior)

• Confirm correct understanding
• Demonstrating learning
• Retrieval, responding

7. Provide Feedback

• Specific, immediate feedback on learner's performance

• Reinforcement, error correction

8. Assess Performance

• Post-test, final assessment

• No additional coaching; feedback
• Mastery of material

9. Enhance Retention and Transfer

• Determine whether or not the skills were learned

• Apply the skills that were learned
• Retention, retrieval, generalization
References
• Gagne's Learning Outcomes
http://online.sfsu.edu/~foreman/itec800/finalprojects/annie/gagne'slearningoutco
me.html
• Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction --
http://online.sfsu.edu/~foreman/itec800/finalprojects/annie/gagne'snineevents.htm
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• Conditions of Learning
http://tip.psychology.org/gagne.html
• Conditions of Learning: Exponent/Originator
http://www.educationau.edu.au/archives/cp/04d.htm
• Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction
http://ide.ed.psu.edu/idde/9events.htm
• Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction: An Introduction
http://www.e-learningguru.com/articles/art3_3.htm
• The Nine Events of Instruction
http://hungary.usembassy.gov/uploads/images/94KMTTRtqw2d0Ii-
AmOyeA/gagnes

Thank you,

Christopher Pappas
www.christopher-pappas.com