"An exploratory study on knowledge acquisition through self learning and learning opportunities"

Acquisition of knowledge can be through two important sources. In one hand, it is learning opportunities and in other it is self-learning. Learning opportunities are external and uncontrollable factors, on the other hand, self-learning are internal and controllable. Both play an important role in knowledge acquisition. According to Benjamin Franklin an American polymath, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” The main objective of the study was to focus on learning opportunities available in engineering colleges and to explore the area of self-learning among faculty. As the study was a diagnostic survey so fact findings enquiries were executed through normal Q-Q plot and cross tabulation. Some significant facts have been observed from this study.