GAGNE - Applying Learning Theories to Online Instructional Design

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B) Practical Application (Principles)

Gagne’s nine instructional events and corresponding cognitive processes can serve as the basis for designing instruction and selecting appropriate media (Gagne, Briggs & Wager, 1992, as cited in Kearsley 1994a). In applying these instructional events, Kearsley (1994a) suggests keeping the following principles in mind:

  1. Learning hierarchies define a sequence of instruction.
  2. Learning hierarchies define what intellectual skills are to be learned.
  3. Different instruction is required for different learning outcomes. 

© 1999 by Peter J. Patsula

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