Robert Gagne's Biography

Robert Gagne was born in North Andover, Maine in 1916 an died in 2002.

He attended Yale University on scholarship and received A.B. in 1937. He received his Ph. D in psychology from Brown University in 1940.

Gagne was a professor at some of the most studious college institutes in the country. He was a professor for Connecticut College, Penn State University, and Florida State University where he helped to create the "Principles of Learning."

Another neat fact was that Gagne served as Director of the U.S. Air Force Perceptual and Motor Skill Laboratory.

Gagne joined the American Institutes for Research, where he wrote his first book, "The Conditions of Learning." He spent additional time in academia at the University of California, Berkley, where he worked with graduate students. With W. K. Roher, he presented a paper, "Instructional Psychology", to the Annual Review of Psychology.