Robert Gagne was an influential educational psychologist known for his work on instructional design and the conditions of learning. He received his PhD from Brown University and worked as a professor at various universities. Gagne identified five categories of learning - verbal information, intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, attitudes, and motor skills. He also proposed nine instructional events that should be followed when designing lessons: gain attention, inform learner, recall, present content, guide learning, elicit performance, provide feedback, assess performance, and enhance retention. Gagne's work was influential in the development of instructional systems design and based on B.F. Skinner's principles of sequenced learning.

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2. Robert Gagne(1916-2002)EducationYale, A.B. 1937

3. Brown, Ph.D. 1940Career HighlightsProfessor, Connecticut College (1940-49)

4. Professor, Penn State University (1945-46)

5. Director of Perceptual and Motor Skills Laboratory, U.S. Air Force (1949-58)

6. Professor, Florida State University Major Contributions to Instructional Developmentco-developer of "Instructional Systems Design"

7. wrote The Conditions of Learning, 1965 co-wrote Principles of Instructional Design

8. Five Categories of Learning:1. Verbal Information2. Intellectual Skills3. Cognitive Skills4. Attitudes5. Motor Skills

9. Verbal Information - Stating previously learned materials such as facts, concepts, principles, and procedures, e.g., listing the seven major symptoms of cancer