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1 PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING Raja C Bandaranayake

2 LEARNING A change in the potential to behave A change in the probability of response (Skinner)

3 TEACHING To instruct To impart knowledge or skill To make to know To show, guide, direct To facilitate learning

4 Intrinsic motivation is more powerful than extrinsic motivation.

5 Reward tends to increase the likelihood of a desirable behaviour being repeated.

6 The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. (Ausubel)

7 New learning is always built on previous learning.

8 For meaningful learning, the learner must integrate new knowledge into the appropriate ‘box’ in his data base.

9 One learns best by doing.

10 Discovered knowledge is learned more efficiently is more easily recalled has a longer retention curve is more likely to be applied than knowledge acquired any other way.


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