Anative New Yorker, he received his B.S. from Elizabeth City State University in 1979and Masters from Ball State University in 1980; both in Technology Education. He taught high school and college in Botswana and earned his doctorate at Virginia Tech in 1989.

Prior to coming to The University of Georgia, Dr. Branch was a faculty member at Syracuse University. His teaching emphasizes student-center learning while his research focuses on diagramming complex conceptual relations.

One of his focus is to design instructional models to provide procedural frameworks for the systematic production of instruction. Those models incorporate fundamental elements of the instructional design process including analysis of the intended audience or determining goals and objectives and can be applied in different contexts.

Robert Branch's CV

This is one of his books:

Design Approaches and Tools in Education and Training

Jan van den Akker,Robert Maribe Branch,Kent Gustafson,Nienke Nieveen,Tjeerd Plomp

1999

ISBN: 0-7923-6139-3

Kluwer Academic Publishers

In collaboration with ICO

http://it.coe.uga.edu/faculty/robert_branch.htm