E-Portfolio: Orientation for Success in Higher Education CPD Plan

This document presents a student's e-portfolio focusing on their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) plan and SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis within the context of higher education. The reflection on learning covers topics such as reflective learning, the use of formative feedback, and the skills necessary for university success. The student analyzes their strengths and weaknesses, identifies opportunities for growth, and acknowledges potential threats to their academic progress. Actionable SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) targets are set for implementing the learning gained from the module. The portfolio also discusses the benefits of formative assessments and includes references to relevant academic literature. Find more solved assignments and past papers on Desklib.

Module code and title:
Orientation for Success
in Higher Education
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E-Portfolio-CPD PLAN/SWOT Analysis.
Area of Learning Reflection of Learning Future Implications Action
(Identify and explain topics of learning
from this module)
(Detail what you have learnt about the topic) (Identify how learning will assist in future
studies and career)
(SMART target identifying how
learning will be implemented)
Reflective Learning.
Reflection learning is the way of learning
where individual reflect about their strengths
and weakness and what they have learned
about the topic (Guilbault, 2018). Here, I am
supposed to analyse my personal experience
and the skills and talents which I have
learned in a particular situation. Gibbs model
is one of the best example of reflective
learning where I have to describe my
situation and my personal learnings which
help me to enhance my skills in the situation
is discussed. Here, individual use I, me and
myself type of words and share their personal
experience openly.
Reflective learning will help me in my
future studies by developing a habit of
analysing about self-skills and talents to
perform any task and activities. This will
help in future by setting my goals and
analyse what all skills are required to
gained by me while performing the task
and what all skills are required to develop
further to accomplish the tasks
appropriately (Kiyama and Rios-Aguilar,
2018). This will further help me in
professional career where the individual is
given various kinds of task to perform and
they are not given any guidance after a
particular period of time. At that time, they
are required to analyse their own skills and
talents to accomplish tasks within a limited
period of time.
Reflective learning can be
implemented on daily basis. Here,
can set a target of writing
reflection on my daily basis
experience in my academic career
so that I will maintain a good habit
of reflection writing. I can set this
target I will reflect on my own
skills on daily basis for upcoming
six months. I will make sure that
my target of creating a habit of
reflective writing will be
accomplished within six months so
that I can take the advantage of
analysing my own skills and
weakness before starting my
professional career.
Use of Formative feedback Formative feedback is the type of feedback
which is given by teachers to their students
Formative feedback will help me in my
future studies and career development by
I can use formative feedback for
attending the class physically and
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on the spot when they made any mistake in
their learning habit (Mhamed, Vossensteyn
and Kasa, 2021). For example, when a
teacher is teaching in the class and the
student is not paying attention then teacher
reflect their mistake on the spot due to their
lack of attention in class which further result
in low academic performance. It will help me
to analyse my mistake on the spot and
further help me to take corrective actions to
mitigate the mistake when it occurs. It will
further help the me to focus on my
weaknesses well to work harder to convert
these weaknesses into strengths with
appropriate guidance.
analysing the corrective measures taken by
a me on time to achieve the main target of
my learnings (Anane, 2020). Here, a guide
will provide me ongoing feedback in
between the task so that the mistake will
be corrected on the spot when an activity is
going on. This will further help me to
achieve correct direction of assisting any
task. Formative feedback helps me to learn
to review the assignment and projects in
between to analyse whether the projects
and assignment which is supposed to
completed correctly is ongoing in the same
direction which is directed by teacher or
not.
ask my teachers few questions
related to subject to clear my
doubts on the spot. The target of
using formative feedback can be
set for 8100 words months where
I have to learn the way of
analysing mistakes and correct
direction to achieve different
types of tasks. This learning can be
implemented when I will attend
practical classes on regular basis
and ask teacher to correct me on
the spot if I represent wrong
presentation in the class so that I
will get to know that what changes
will help me to enhance my
presentation skills.
Explain Skills to successfully learn in the
University.
There are various kinds of skills which can be
learned by me at my university such as
communication skills, time management
skills, problem solving skills, leadership skills
and many others. Communication skills are
those skills which is used to convey message
from one person to another in an appropriate
way which is easily understand by message
receiver (Wheeler, 2019). On the other hand,
time management skill is used to manage
The skills which I have learned at
university will help me to start my
professional career. For example, I have
learned communication skill at my
university where I have get to know that
using complete message with actual facts
and figures to convey information is
effective way of communication. This will
help me in my professional career where I
have to report about all the task and
Here, I can set a target to learn
time management skill by
preparing a time table for my daily
activities which mention the100
words required time to
accomplished every task.
Secondly, I will also prepare
priority list of every task so that I
will analyse which task is
important to completed first and
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time for each task in the university especially
those task which are having highest priority
to conduct. Problem solving skill is used to
identify the issues well and mitigate them by
innovative way.
performance to my superior in appropriate
way. Secondly, time management skill will
help me in my professional career to
analyse which task is supposed to
completed first and which one is later to
manage appropriate time for every task.
which one is required to
completed later. Time
management skill can be learned
within one year of time frame. I
can also accomplish my target of
achieving communication skill by
observing others that who they
are communicating their messages
and adopt the way of effective
communication by observing
others and gathering actual facts
and figures about the topic.
Benefits of Formative assessment to
students
There are various kinds of benefits of
formative assessments for a student which
are mentioned Below-Define learning goals-
It help me to analyse the main goal of my
learning style by monitoring my progress in
academic learnings (Kaur, Noman and
Awang-Hashim, 2018).
Improve academic achievement- Regular
feedback for students’ progress will help me
to improve my academic achievements by
focusing on those factors which are
highlighted by teachers for improvement.
Showing right direction to student to
achieve their goal- Formative feedback will
also help me to identify the right direction to
The benefits of formative feedback will
help me to accomplish my goal of getting
job in high reputed company and gain
success. Formative learning will help me to
define my learning goals which help me to
create a habit to set goals and accomplish
them (Nuwagaba, 2018). This will also help
me to show right direction to achieve my
goals. I can measure my performance and
the mistakes as well which I have done to
complete any task so that I will get to know
that I should avoid those activities in future
which will impact negative to achieve my
goals.
I can measure my own
performance on daily basis and
analyse my mistakes and
weaknesses by communicating
with my teachers. Then I will set a
time of 3 months to improve my
major mistakes of learning
academic subjects. I will mention
my goals and strategies to achieve
goals and mention whether I am
going in the right direction or not
to accomplish my goals. Secondly,
I can also measure the results after
completing the task that how
much time I have consumed, what
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achieve their goals and objectives because
here teachers provide feedback on the spot
when an activity is going on so that whenever
I perform any task wrong in the academic
years will be corrected by their teachers.
activities are done, and who
guided me to accomplish my
academic task.
S
Student Personal Strength Analysis to
learning
W
Student Personal weaknesses analysis to
learning.
O
Student Personal Opportunity on gaining a
university degree qualification.
T
Student Personal SWOT Analysis
of envisaged threats.
SWOT Analysis
Strength. (75 words) Weaknesses. (75 words) Opportunity (75 words) Threats (75 words).
I am gaining strength in decision making
skill where I have to make appropriate
decisions on solving any issue in my
academic career. I am also having
appropriate IT skills which help me to
achieve the goal of my life which is
starting a career in IT field.
I am lacking behind to gain effective
communication skill due to my introvert
behaviour. I am unable to convey my
message to others in full confidence.
Secondly, my current knowledge about
general world is not good. I am unable to
speak English fluently to express my message.
This will impact bad upon my personalty.
Secondly, I also having lack of time
management skill due to which I am unable
to submit my projects and assignments on
time.
Taking participation in different academic
activities will help me to enhance my
communication skill. For example, taking
participation in debates, speeches and
many other activities will help me to
become extrovert and enhance my
knowledge by communicating with others
and learn how they convey their message
to attract their surrounding toward their
personality. Secondly, applying for
internships at organisation will further help
me to analyse how actual corporate work
and what all skills they search in their
employees.
Competition is one of the biggest
threat which pull me behind to
achieve my target to perform well
in academic years. The students
who are having good
communication skill and other
essential skills will gain more
chances of getting selected for the
academic activities. On the other
hand, Covid pandemic is also a
threat. Due to lock down, classes
are held online which is a obstacle
to gain the advantage of effective
learning.
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