UNIT 13 http://www.colbournecollege.com/files/MAN_100_LESSON_1-7.pdf MAN 100 Personal and Professional Development
WEEK 1- 7 LECTURE NOTES
Learning Outcome:
Understand how self-managed learning can enhance lifelong development
Learning Objectives:
WEEK ONE
Self-managed learning: self-initiation of learning processes; clear goal setting, eg aims and requirements, personal orientation achievement goals, dates for achievement, self-reflection
WEEK TWO
Learning styles: personal preferences; activist; pragmatist; theorist; reflector, eg reflexive modernisation theory; Kolb‘s learning cycle
WEEK THREE
Approaches: learning through research; learning from others, eg mentoring/coaching, seminars, conferences, secondments, interviews, use of the internet, social networks, use of bulletin boards, news groups
WEEK FOUR
Effective learning: skills of personal assessment; planning, organisation and evaluation
WEEK FIVE & WEEK SIX
Lifelong learning: self-directed learning; continuing professional development; linking higher education with industry, further education, Recognition of Prior Learning, Apprenticeships, Credit Accumulation and Transfer Schemes
WEEK SEVEN
Assessment of learning: improved ability range with personal learning; evidence of improved levels of skill; feedback from others; learning achievements and disappointments
Self-managed learning: Self-initiation of learning processes
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What is Self Managed Learning?
Self Managed Learning (SML) is about individuals managing their own learning. This includes people taking responsibility for decisions about: -
• what you learn
• how you learn
• when you learn
• where you learn
• why you learn.
The most fundamental questions that stimulate the above mentioned question is "Why Learn", this is where a link between personal development and organizational development could be established. So what does