E-Portfolio: Success in Higher Education - Reflective Learning

This e-portfolio assignment demonstrates a student's reflective learning journey in higher education, focusing on the impact of formative feedback, SWOT analysis, and the creation of SMART objectives. It covers skills learned in university, including time management, stress management, and money management, and their future implications. The portfolio includes reflections on personal learning experiences, the benefits of formative assessments, and action plans to improve skills and address weaknesses. It emphasizes the importance of self-regulated learning, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities for academic and career success. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and past papers for students.

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Reflective learning...........................................................................................................................3
Formative Feedback.........................................................................................................................3
Skills to learn in university:.............................................................................................................4
Benefits of formative to students:................................................................................................5
SWOT Analysis to learning:........................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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Reflective learning.
The learning experience gave me the chance to find out skills required for future career.
Now I see pattern and themes in work I am performing and how things have fit together. The
work I started doing after learning is actually makes sense. The possibility of success have new
direction all along. Once, I have to give the presentation in front of big audience which made me
quite nervous, I know what is there in my project, I have studied well, but learning did now make
me a confident person. I went to stage, start the presentation and complete it. But it was full of
nervousness. My way of communicating information has some basis facts which I realized is not
the audience want to listen. They want something new. It makes me in search of more
information about topic and what the audience has perspective when they hear about a topic.
This learning has made me think in broader perspective. It made me think in creative manner for
achieving the objective. This has also developed my interactions skills with random people and
develop a multitasker quality by managing many aspects in particular time period. It all teach me
that I should think of all other aspects that can affect my project. Next time I was more sure of
knowledge and perspective of audience when they listen to old memories of their period in
classroom. I was given the duty present the journey and moments of seniors in a film manner.
Learning sometime makes me angry and violent when I get failed in performing any task. From
the experience and learning I have started to think in broader manner and started practising on
how to become a good leader and be a team player.
Formative Feedback
Feedback is an essential part of learning process irrespective of what subject we are
working. The focus of formative feedback is to monitor student's learning that can be used by
instructors to improve their teaching and students will improve their learning. People have in
mind to always improve their about their performance during their work in exams at school or
university, or even have the fear what will be their result of their assessment. Feedbacks in
higher education gives two types of learning. One for students in terms of identifying their
strength and weakness and target those areas they have to work. Secondly to professors by telling
struggling of students that they cannot tell personally but feedback can show it easily. One learn
from outside the classroom more from inside and gives the opportunity to improve. This will
help other students in learning true picture of higher eduction in reality. After taking feedback, if
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a professor finds out difficulty in a topic of multiple student are same, they might teach that
particular topic again or consider the problem and accordingly give final grading. The feedback
given to students can make them to take control of their own learnings. Students can use the
feedback to fill their gaps between the actual and desired level of output by performing the
appropriate actions required. It does not tell whether the answer is right or wrong but the result
will affect the future. When the feedback is given the aim is to assess individual work toward
personnel development. It also accelerates the creative and critical thinking and helps to prepare
for life beyond books to meet real life situation. So, feedback should be in proper manner stating
loose ends and how to tackle problems effectively (Goldin and et.al., 2017).
Skills to learn in university:
The biggest adjustment for new college student is to manage their newfound freedom. As
it increase personal responsibilities to achieve target in their life. When one is out of home for
education to different place the there are no set time for study, meal or sleep. It makes one more
responsible and multitasker towards achieving the objectives. Following are skills that should be
developed to be successful in college:
Time Management:
One has to prepare a schedule consist of sleep, meal, study and other activities to keep
balance to achieve the individual goal successfully (Wolters and Brady, 2020).
Stress Management:
There are many situations that comes in life where are stress increases and situation can
go out of the hand. One has to improve the self care to decrease the stressors in life ( Morgan,
2017).
Money Management:
One has to learn to make budgets to sustain in college. This will give the experience of
independently handing of money, and becoming responsible about decisions-making regarding
the spending and saving (Montalto and et.al., 2019).
Future implications:
 Time management skills: This skill will be helpful in future to manage the time
within the workplace as well as it will create a balance between the work life and
personal life (Aeon and Aguinis, 2017).

 Stress management: With stress management skills, one can manage their stress
work efficiently under pressure conditions.
 Money management: Money is basic requirement. Money management skill will
help one in starting the new business.
Actions:
Time management skill
SMART objective: To start my business by the end of my graduation in 2021
For that I will be dividing my time to continue doing all my targets. The time management skill
will help me to achieve it.
Stress management skill
SMART objective: To work on start-up from October 2021 in continuation with college studies
at the same time.
When I will start, this can be very stressful at times. For that I need to develop the skill of
managing stress. So that I can cope-up with stress easily.
Money management skills
SMART objective: To start a new business by 2021.
I will start a new business and for that I would need money. For that I must know where should I
spend and where can I save the money, that will be helpful in the future.
Benefits of formative to students:
Reflection
 Increased focus: When we know that our performance is well, and we are getting
good results. This motivates us and with this motivation we would want to
maintain our performance with the increased focus.
 Self-learning: The formative assessments motivates students for self learning and
self analysing (Panadero, Andrade, and Brookhart, 2018). When I started to learn
on my own I have developed a habit of learning and reading new things. This also
helped me in developing new skills and curiosity to learn more.
 Increases critical thinking and problem solving ability: Continuous assessments
has developed the critical thinking approach and also improved the problem
solving ability in me. When we are served with new problems, this motivates me
to think critically and enable the ability to solve the problems.
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Future Implications
 Self-learning: The habit of improving the knowledge will lead to become a person
who is eager to gain knowledge in future. The workplace of any field always
demands an individual who is self motivated. Self-learners are need of this new
age world, the people who wants to learn can become inventors.
 Increased focus: The Focussed person always gets good results not just in
academics but in other fields as well.
 Increased critical thinking and problem solving ability: The individuals who think
out of the box are required by the companies. This approach helps individual to
perform well in the future (Magrabi, Pasha and Pasha, 2018).
Actions
 Self-learning: For improving my skill that is not a college subject, I will be
learning it on my own. Before September 2021 ends. The skill of self learning
will help me to gain knowledge.
 Increased focus: As my aim is to start a new business by the end of year 2021. As
Focus is required for concentrating on graduation studies. When I will
successfully develop my focus, it will help me achieving both my targets.
 Increased critical thinking and problem solving ability: Critical thinking and
problem solving ability is needed for starting my new start-up in October 2021
also it will me in getting good results for my bachelor degree.
SWOT Analysis to learning:
SWOT analysis means strength, weakness, opportunities and threats (Leiber, Stensaker, and
Harvey, 2018).
Strengths:
I have better grasping power. When the teacher is teaching, I understand the concepts
better and fast. I am more focussed about the topic that the teacher is teaching. I don't loose focus
while learning. This helps me to acknowledge the subject and remember the topics. I have good

memory and I memorise the topic easily. I am confident, and I ask questions when I don't
understand the subject. I am curious this motivates me learn new trends about certain topics.
Weaknesses:
I have bad habit of not noting down the notes properly, this causes the loss of data and
also after a while when I need them I need to re read whole topic. I am not multi-tasking and I
can only focus on one task at one time which some times leads to undone or partially completed
work. I also lag in managing the time this causes me to take my health for granted tends to bad
health.
Opportunities:
For developing the habit of preparing notes, I will join some workshops so I will be
writing down the notes. For developing the multi tasking skills, I will join the program
organizing committee that will help me do more tasks at one time. Organizing programs in
university level will also help me to learn time management and for adding time management
skills, I will attained some training session also.
Threats:
I feel it threat as if the job opportunities in my field will decrease. The market is ever
changing I have knowledge about my field and if I have to change my field. The uncertainties
always scares me. The lack of growth in my chosen field also one of a threat for me. The ever
increasing competition always scares me if I will be able to get good job.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Aeon, B. and Aguinis, H., 2017. It’s about time: New perspectives and insights on time
management.
Academy of management perspectives. 31(4). pp.309-330.
Goldin, I. and et.al., 2017. New directions in formative feedback in interactive learning
environments.
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 27(3).
pp.385-392.
Leiber, T., Stensaker, B. and Harvey, L.C., 2018. Bridging theory and practice of impact
evaluation of quality management in higher education institutions: a SWOT analysis.
European Journal of Higher Education. 8(3). pp.351-365.
Magrabi, S.A.R., Pasha, M.I. and Pasha, M.Y., 2018. Classroom teaching to enhance critical
thinking and problem-solving skills for developing IOTApplications.
Journal of
Engineering Education Transformations. 31(3). pp.152-157.
Montalto, C.P. And et.al., 2019. College student financial wellness: Student loans and
beyond.
Journal of Family and Economic Issues. 40(1). pp.3-21.
Morgan, B.M., 2017. Stress management for college students: An experiential multi-modal
approach.
Journal of Creativity in Mental Health. 12(3). pp.276-288.
Panadero, E., Andrade, H. and Brookhart, S., 2018. Fusing self-regulated learning and formative
assessment: a roadmap of where we are, how we got here, and where we are going.
The
Australian Educational Researcher. 45(1). pp.13-31.
Wolters, C.A. and Brady, A.C., 2020. College students’ time management: A self-regulated
learning perspective.
Educational Psychology Review. pp.1-33.
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