FY026: Portfolio of Learning and Development Summary

This portfolio summary, created for the FY026 module 'Preparing for Success at University,' outlines a student's learning journey. It encompasses reflective learning, steps in presentation preparation, mind mapping, sentence construction, reading skills, Harvard referencing, Porter's five forces, CEO skills, and job advert scanning. The summary provides a rationale for the selected materials, demonstrating the student's understanding and application of various academic and professional skills. The student reflects on key concepts, including the importance of reflective learning, presentation skills, and the effective use of Harvard referencing. Furthermore, the portfolio showcases the student's ability to analyze business environments using Porter's five forces and develop CEO skills. The student also discusses the importance of scanning job advertisements and evaluating information. The document is supported by references to academic literature, highlighting the student's research and analytical abilities.

Portfolio CW
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SUMMARY..........................................................................................................................................3
REFLECTIVE LEARNING...............................................................................................................3
Reflective Learning...........................................................................................................................3
Steps in preparing a presentation.......................................................................................................3
Mind Mapping...................................................................................................................................3
Sentence Construction.......................................................................................................................3
500 words assignment.......................................................................................................................3
Reading skills....................................................................................................................................3
Harvard referencing...........................................................................................................................3
Porter’s five forces............................................................................................................................3
CEO skills.........................................................................................................................................3
Scanning a job advert........................................................................................................................3
Evaluate.............................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................4

SUMMARY
Electronic portfolio is digital collection of work over time which showcase skills,
abilities, competencies, value, experience and many more by broad range of evidence based
learning. In addition to this, ePortfolio may involves variety of artifacts, relevant document as
well as media files which provide holistic presentation related to who you are, professionally,
personally as well as academically (Sidebotham and et. al., 2018). Moreover, it may function
as a venue for gathering as well as sharing academic work faculties members, tools for
inviting collaboration and feedbacks, private log of academic progress as well as professional
portfolio for sharing with prospective employers. There are several factors related to students
for which ePortfolios can be powerful such as holistic development, integrative learning, tool
for self branding as well as professional development. ePortfolios can explanation are as
follows :-
 It also encourage engagement within active reflection as well as meaning making.
 Moreover, eportfolios provide resources for demonstration of abilities, skills,
experiences and so on within job search procedures.
 Foster reflection on the principles central to an academic discipline as well as the
university as entire.
 It have wide contribution to holistic development within multiples manner which
involve: academic development, career development, personal development and many
more.
 ePortfolios facilitates integration of themes as well as topics across disciples and over
time.
 In addition to this, personal portfolio area is private for student as well as cannot be
viewed through others until students will actively allows access or sharing to
individual portfolio within part or whole.
 The student's personal portfolio area functions like a webpage template, where
students can add menu links, text, media and images, as well as apply any of the
available style templates (Mihret and et. al., 2017).
 Students can create multiple types of portfolios, for example: academic learning,
creative presentation, personal development, reflective and practical learning,
collaborative projects, teamwork activities.

 These can be used to showcase work and experience for employment applications,
professional registration, career advancement, research awards/grants.
 Students can save evidence and exemplar work into their own personal portfolio area.
 Students can submit a personal portfolio in part or in whole as an assessment item
within a course or program (Tyler and Dibble, 2019).
 Students can share a personal portfolio in part or in whole to an external party using a
secure link or LinkedIn, or share any personal portfolio in part or in whole with
colleagues for feedback and review.
In this, ePortfolio several aspects will going to cover such as reflective learning, 500 word
assignment, steps in preparing presentation, mind mapping, sentence construction,
reading skills, Harvard references, CEO skills and evaluation.
REFLECTIVE LEARNING
Reflective Learning
Reflective learning includes thinking area of students related to what they have read,
done, learned, relating the lesson at their hand own lives as well as making meaning out if the
material read. In simple term it can be said that, reflective learning is memorizing several
facts, dates as well as formulas. Through reflective learning several advantages will gain by
individual such as accepting responsibilities for learning, results as well as personal growth.
It also help in becoming metacognitive and also assist in creating awareness related to
internal thinking procedure. Moreover, seeing link within work individual are putting within
learning as well as what they are getting out of it. By learning reflective learning skills it
become easy for individual to reflect what they read related to particular topic including data,
facts, figures and so on. Although, with the assistance of reflective learning it become easy
for individual person to reflect on the things in easy manner without facing any difficulties.
Steps in preparing a presentation
It is important to learn presentation skills because it help in delivering effective as
well as engaging presentation to variety of audience. In addition to this, presentation skills
cover several area like designing slides, structure of presentation, body language as well as
tone of voice. With the assistance if presentation skills it become easy for individual to
present information and data in-front of others within effective manner without facing any
issues. In future also while working within an organisation there is requirement of

presentation skills for discussion on any important topic. Thus, it is essential individual to
learn presentation skills for present as well as future both.
Mind Mapping
It is an easy way to brainstorm thoughts organically without focusing on worrying
related to order as well as structure. Moreover, it allows individual to visually structure ideas
to assist with analysis as well as recall. In personal and professional life several things take
place which require to recall thoughts as well as ideas for conducting daily basis activities in
effective manner. Along with this, at professional level also mind mapping have its important
because it will provide assistance in thinking over the things in effective manner as well as
also in gaining better outcomes.
Sentence Construction
It is very basic thing which individual want so that they will be able to construct
sentence and make communication with other people in effective manner. By learning
sentence construction, it become easy for me to write mail, make notes of topic and many
more. If I will communicate with other people in proper frame sentences then it will help me
in gaining better outcomes of that particular communication. Most important is sentence
construction is that individual should know how to use noun and grammar in each sentence.
So that, it will make proper sense in conduct communication in proper manner.
500 words assignment
By writing easy writing skills get improve which is succeed at higher level of study as
this assignment of 500 words is on my home town i.e., Mogadishu. In this assignment I have
to write about my home town which helped me in learning several things related to my home
town as well as I also learned how to write essay.
Reading skills
One of the fundamental reasons that I have picked this present is on the grounds that it
has assist me with building up my understanding abilities. To have propelled perusing
aptitudes is fundamental at this degree of studies. Perusing aptitudes is significant for
advanced education. This bit of work is a gift titled 'improving your perusing'. There are
numerous approaches to peruse; specifically skimming and checking. From this work I
learned I don't have to peruse the whole content to discover the data that I am searching for. I
discovered that before I begin perusing, it is ideal to initially comprehend what data that I
need to remove from the content that I am perusing. When I comprehend what data that I

need, it is simpler to discover data. I have utilized the aptitudes that I gained from this work
on various events I have figured out how to peruse at an a lot quicker pace.
Harvard referencing
Referencing is the topic on which I focused seriously since started my university
studies. While writing some sentences within assignment it is important to give them name of
author. In addition to this, it has been also leaned by me that there are several instances where
referencing is not needed such as using own experience, writing something common and so
on. I learned that by putting references it will give authorisation that sentences are correct and
given by particular authors.
Porter’s five forces
Porter’s five force is an tool which help business firm in analysing competitive
advantages which are available within business environment. I learned how to implement
porter’s five force model in my higher education with the assistance of this I will able to
analyse competitive advantages of an business firm which they can gain. Along with this,
threats are also analysed Porter’s five force analysis also help in identifying the threats which
are available within business environment for an specific organisation.
CEO skills
In my higher education I learned several CEO skills which is important for individual
while working as an CEO of company. There is requirement of several skills within CEO
such as building relationship, listening skills, understanding, strong communication skills and
many more. All these skills have important place in not only for CEO but also for other
peoples who are working within an organisation.
Scanning a job advert
There are several companies which place job advert for filling vacant position within
their organisation in effective manner. Along with this, it is important for me to learn how to
scan job advertisement so that better outcomes will gain related job opportunities. In my high
education faculties discuss this topic also so that each and every individual will learn how to
scan job and will able to take better opportunities in future.
Evaluate
Evaluation done for making judgement related to somethings as it is important for
individual to learn evaluation skills so that better outcomes will be gain in effective manner.
This evaluation skills learned by me during my high education classes as these help me in

judging things in more effective manner as well as also in gaining their positive and negative
aspects.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Sidebotham, M. and et. al., 2018. Preparing student midwives for professional practice:
Evaluation of a student e-portfolio assessment item. Nurse education in practice, 32, pp.84-
89.
Mihret, D. G. and et. al., 2017. Teaching auditing using cases in an online learning
environment: The role of ePortfolio assessment. Accounting Education, 26(4), pp.335-357.
Tyler, D. and Dibble, E., 2019. Toward Authentic Assessment: Using ePortfolio at Salt Lake
Community College. New Directions for Community Colleges, 186, pp.37-42.
Marshall, M. J. and et. al., 2017. ePortfolio Assessment as Faculty Development: Gathering
Reliable Data and Increasing Faculty Confidence. International Journal of ePortfolio, 7(2),
pp.187-215.
Pitts, W. and Lehner-Quam, A., 2019. Engaging the Framework for Information Literacy for
Higher Education as a Lens for Assessment in an ePortfolio Social Pedagogy Ecosystem for
Science Teacher Education. International Journal of ePortfolio, 9(1), pp.29-44.
Baird, K., Gamble, J. and Sidebotham, M., 2016. Assessment of the quality and applicability
of an e-portfolio capstone assessment item within a bachelor of midwifery program. Nurse
Education in Practice, 20, pp.11-16.