Title: Using Instructional Design to Improve Student Learning
Abstract: In this presentation, we demonstrate how one way of categorizing knowledge and skills can help in determining the best strategies for teaching. Categorizations of knowledge and skills have different purposes. Robert Gagne's classification, which we use here, organizes types of learning according to the mental processes involved in performing them. For law teachers, the practical advantage of this classification is that it allows us to identify successful learning techniques from other subjects and adapt them to law teaching. A second advantage of classifying types of learning is that it encourages us to break the complex skills that we are trying to teach into their constituent parts and identify the prerequisite knowledge and skills for these parts, so that we teach systematically the prerequisites for high level skills.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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