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.