TEACHITNG TECHNIQUES IN ADUIT EDUCATION
Higher Scientific Education Journal and in an article by the wr these aspects (969), I now fashionable to refer to both of the learning and teaching process as educational tech- nology". In this book, these two chapters on programmed learning and a ir indication of the scope the preceding one on teaching aids give this subject.
Programmed learning is mentioned specifically in Chapter 14 in rela tion ition by and teachers in adult education may well feel that this is the sort of situation in which it is most relevant. Helping students with their private studies is certainly one way in which programmed learning can help, and later in this chapter reference will be made to programmed texts and teaching machines, which students can use on their own either at home or in class, At this point, however, I would like that the whole purpose of these two chapters on programmed learning is to suggest that the general principles outlined in them are applicable to all aspects of education. The principles of pro tional earning should be thought of as central to the whole educa process and not just as adjuncts that may be useful occasion their application requires flexibility and imagination, and those trained in traditional methods may well feel reluctant to rev their approach to teaching to accommodate them. Many teachers, includ- ing myself, taught that extra-mu classes should be divided into two sessions, the first half being devoted to a lecture and the second to discussion. As young students used to attending lectures in the day: time can rarely concentrate for more than half an hour it hardly seems realistic to expect adults who have already had a full and busy day to attend a lecture lasting from forty-five minutes to an hour. In practice I have always found that a mixture of lecture and discussion has been much better than a rigid division into two periods, doubt many other teachers will have arrived at the same conclusion. Perhaps, leading on from this, it would be helpful to describe in more detail the to in the previous course, "The Psychology of Learning", referred chapter. It may be remembered that in that course I