Facilitating Learning

Module 16: Gagne's Conditions of Learning

- Specified several different types or levels of learning.

- Different internal and external conditions are needed for each type of learning.

Gagne's principles

1. Different instruction is required for different learning outcomes.

- Gagne's named five categories of learning:

1. Verbal information

2. Intellectual skills

3. Cognitive strategies

4. Motor skills

5. Attitudes

Category of learning Example of learning outcome Conditions of learning

1. Verbal information Stating previously learned materials such as facts, concepts, principles, and procedures.

Example: listening the 14 learner-centered psychological principles. 1. draw attention to distinctive features by variations in print or speech.

2. present information so that it can be made into chunks.

3. provide a meaningful context for effective encoding og information.

4. provide cues for effective recall and generalization of information.

2. Intellectual skills Discriminations: distinguishing objects, features, or symbols,

Example: distinguishing an even and an odd number

Concrete concept: identifying classes of concrete objects, features, or events

Examples: picking out all the red beads from a bowl of beads

Defined concepts: classifying new examples of events or ideas by their definition

Example: noting "she sells sea shells " as alliteration

Rules: applying a single relationship to solve a class of problems

Example: computing average monthly of a company

Order rules: applying a new combination of rules to solve a complex problem

Example: generating a balanced budget for a school organization

1.call attention to distinctive features.

2.stay within the limits of working memory.

3.stimulate the recall of previously learned component skills.

4.present