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Management of Learning
Rationale
The primary thrust of this non-credit bearing support programme is general management issues and the strengthening of the academic foundations for individual students. It's main emphasis lies on the postgraduate level learner support aimed at those students whose prior academic or experiential background may be very different from those currently expected in the West generally and the UK and USA in particularly.
That
is not to say that one culture or set of customs may be better
than the other but simply that they are different. It will also
be useful to those who have not been engaged in any academic
type of learning for some time, who are entering the academic
world first time or wish to gain an overview or review/relearn
certain management topics. The programme itself will also be
different from most of other courses you have had in the functional
areas (e.g. accounting, management, marketing) because you will
now be required to use your wide ranging business knowledge and
exhibit diverse learning and business ability and skills. Therefore,
it will be demanding and challenging because you will have to
perform in topic areas where you may have both - strengths and
weaknesses.
This module consists of readings, online lectures, workshops, tutorials, case
analysis and discussions.
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Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values, through study, experience, or teaching, that causes a change of behaviour that is persistent, measurable, and specified or allows an individual to formulate a new mental construct or revise a prior mental construct (conceptual knowledge such as attitudes or values). It is a process that depends on experience and leads to long-term changes in behaviour potential. Behaviour potential describes the possible behaviour of an individual (not actual behaviour) in a given situation in order to achieve a goal. But potential is not enough; if individual learning is not periodically reinforced, it becomes shallower and shallower, and eventually will be lost in that individual.
Short term changes in behaviour potential, such as fatigue, do not constitute learning. Some long-term changes in behaviour potential result from aging and development, rather than learning.
Learning is sense making that enables manifestation of purpose.
Education is the conscious attempt to promote learning in others. The primary function of "teaching" is to create a safe, viable, productive learning environment. Management of the total learning environment to promote enhance and motivate learning is a paradigm shift from a focus on teaching to a focus on learning.
- Learning - Neuroscience
- Basic learning processes
- Learning by example
- Learning by teaching
- Formal learning methods
- Theories on Learning
- Other dimensions of learning
- Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database
- Natural Learning, Articles by leading writers
- General study tips, Tips on how to better learn and prepare for exams
- Nurturing Children's Natural Love of Learning - Article by Jan Hunt
- Learning Inquiry: an academic journal centered on learning
Learning Outcomes
1. Developing
a general management orientation, including the ability to
analyse broad, organisation-wide problems.
2. Integrating
the business skills you have already developed and knowledge
you have obtained. Much of this course is structured to simulate
the job that some of you have or may have in the near future
- a staff manager responsible for helping to develop recommendations
on the strategic issues facing your organisation
3. Developing
skill in using your knowledge to solve the actual problems
that are being experienced by today's organisation.
4. Improving
skills in written communications and virtual teamwork.
5. Developing an awareness of the literature of business policy/strategy formulation and how it applies to contemporary organisation.
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