Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Is Gagne's cognetive or constructivist?

Most of the instructional designing models seem to be addressing more than just one type of learning. I found this particularly interesting discussion about Gagne's 9 instructional events. Many of us know that the 9 events addresses cognetive learning style. What I mean here is that each event in the Gagne's model targets learner at the three predefined levels of learning:
  1. Memorisation
  2. Understanding
  3. Application

But did anyone observe that in event 3 (Recall Prior Learning) and event 9 (Reinforce and Transfer) the shift is towards constructivist theory? I feel that though Gagne's model may have been based on the rudiments of cognetive learning, there is definitely an impact of constructivist spiral learning theory.

Interesting, isn't it?

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