Programmed learning is an educational method that breaks information into simple sections, requiring active student responses and immediate feedback to reinforce learning. It arranges material from basic to advanced in small sequential steps according to principles like self-pacing and self-evaluation. The goal is to help students learn on their own through self-instructional materials like textbooks, teaching machines, or computers.

1. Programmed learning

2. Programmed learning
 It is an application of the principle of behavioral sciences and
technology in the field of education.
 Programmed learning is the educational innovation and auto-
instructional device.
 A teaching method in which information is broken into simple
sections on which peoples are able to test themselves.
 The learning material is in a kind of textbook or teaching
machine or computer.

3. Definition
 Programmed learning is the process of arranging the material
to be learned into a series of sequential steps that is from
known to unknown.
- Smith and Moore

4. History
 The term Programmed learning has been coined from principles of
operant learning or conditioning developed at the psychological
laboratories on the basis of experimental studies conducted on
animals by B.F.Skinner of Harvard University.
 This concept was used to development of self learning material or
programmed learning and teaching machines.
 B.F.Skinner had first started ‘programmed learning’ in 1943

6. Principles
 Principle of Small Steps
 Principle of Active Response
 Principle of Immediate Reinforcement
 Principle of self –Pacing
 Principle of Self Evaluation

7. Objectives of Programmed Learning
 To help the students for learning by doing.
 To provide the situation to learn at his/her own speed.
 To help the student to learn without the presence of
teacher.
 To present the mater in a logical manner.
 To study himself.
 To evaluate himself.
 To compare his/her answer with the key .