Educational Artefact: Academic Learning, SWOT Analysis, and Reflection

This essay introduces an educational artefact designed to present an individual's learning needs. It emphasizes the importance of academic learning for personal and professional development, utilizing skills to develop the artefact. A personal SWOT analysis identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, leading to the establishment of SMART goals, such as enhancing writing skills within six months. The essay explores visual, reading, and writing learning styles to regulate lifelong learning. The Gibbs Reflective Cycle is used to reflect on experiences, acknowledging initial feelings of low self-confidence due to a lack of academic skills and the subsequent determination to improve. The reflection highlights the importance of realizing personal abilities and areas for improvement, aiming to increase productivity and facilitate effective learning. References to academic literature support the discussion on value co-creation and the effect of learning styles on academic achievement.

EDUCATIONAL ARTEFACT
INTRODUCTION
This educational artefact will help in terms of presenting the learning needs of the individual. The Academic learning refers
to the meaningful process which is undertaken in order to ensure that the development is established on the personal and
professional level. The necessary abilities and skills are used to develop an educational artefact.
PERSONAL SWOT ANALYSIS
STRENGTHS
• Critical thinking skills
• Communication skills
WEAKNESSES
• Leadership skills
• Skimming skills
OPPORTUNITIES
• Online courses
• Career development
THREATS
• COVID-19
• Financial issues
LEARNING STYLE
The visual as well as writing and reading learning styles will
help in terms of taking consideration to regulate the life long
learning process throughout the phase of academics. This will
help in terms of facilitating the effective learning procedure
and the ability of facilitating and express the acquired
knowledge with the effective manner.
SMART GOALS
• To enhance the writing skills along with the
required practices within the time span of 6
months.
• The goal is to acquire knowledge in the
areas where the writing skills will be
improved within a given time of 4-5 months.
GIBBS REFLECTIVE CYCLE
• The life long academic learning is based on considering the personal preferences and
to acquire essential learning with the knowledge and learning. The ideal phase of the
learning is dependent on learning that is derived from the university. Maximum
knowledge and skills were attained by ensuring a desired career. The personal and
academic skills directly helped in terms of enhancing the morale and confidence.
• The initial stage faced by me somehow resulted in fear and felt low self-confidence
due to lack of academic skills. From that very moment, I decided to came up with an
approach to pay best of efforts in order to improvise and enhance my academic skills.
With consideration of this learning approach, I was aimed at acquiring maximum
possible knowledge throughout my academic phase in University.
• The good thing about that experience lies in realisation of personal abilities as well as
areas with scope of improvisation. On the other hand, the only negative aspect
associated with that experience could be considered as degradation of self-morale
and confidence due to lack of academic skills. Though, I felt lack of self-confidence
in that particular moment but it was necessary to face that particular situation in order
to realise my personal potential.
• The learning skills would help in terms of increasing the productiveness in the
university. For instance, I would not have gone through the phase of low morale and
confidence in my learning stage at University.
• My experience in the same areas helped in terms of bringing the facility as an
effective learning. In addition to that, life-long learning approach taken into
consideration will allow me to be determined at initiating efforts towards my
personal growth and development.
REFRENCES
Ranjbarfard, M. and Sureshjani, M.H., 2018. Offering a framework
for value co-creation in virtual academic learning environments.
Interactive Technology and Smart Education.
Cimermanová, I., 2018. The Effect of Learning Styles on Academic
Achievement in Different Forms of Teaching. International Journal
of Instruction, 11(3), pp.219-232.