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Imparting Sustainable, Life-long Learning Skills

Imparting Sustainable, Life-long Learning Skills. Douglas L. Micklich MQM Department. BUS 100 - Enterprise. Course description

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Imparting Sustainable, Life-long Learning Skills

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  1. Imparting Sustainable, Life-long Learning Skills Douglas L. Micklich MQM Department Micklich, Douglas L. - CTLT Symposium, Jan. 2010

  2. BUS 100 - Enterprise • Course description • Gives the opportunity to expose oneself to various areas in field of business and by facilitating active discussion in these areas, you should have a good indication if this not only a career field for you, but also which field in business you want to pursue. Micklich, Douglas L. - CTLT Symposium, Jan. 2010

  3. BUS 100 – EnterpriseCourse Objectives • Acquire an understanding of how various business functions interrelate within an organizational context as well as interrelate with other firms and business’s role in society. • Develop an understanding of how to work in a team environment. • Be able to take a position on an issue, defend it, and use your communication skills to persuade others to your point of view. • Be able to see the multiple and many times simultaneous roles/dimensions that businesses play in society. Micklich, Douglas L. - CTLT Symposium, Jan. 2010

  4. BUS 100 - Enterprise • In teaching sustainable, life –long learning skills the methods employed must be: • Engaging • Students acquire knowledge through constructive dialogues (Mills, et.al., 1998) • Where students prepare their own educational material • Have a creative environment where: • Learner takes a fully active role • Learning becomes “fun” (Imelmen, 2002) • Able to show relevance • Importance to both future and professional life. Micklich, Douglas L. - CTLT Symposium, Jan. 2010

  5. BUS 100 - Enterprise • Partial model adopted (Knight, 2002) • Action Research • Awareness of the problem • Exploration of the problem • Study of the problem • Suggestions for action • Monitoring of action Micklich, Douglas L. - CTLT Symposium, Jan. 2010

  6. BUS 100 – EnterpriseInterdisciplinary • Before discipline: • A way of teaching, learning, and doing research on the between and among. • After discipline: • Broad task of building and maintaining an intellectual culture that promotes free and inventive thinking on various issues worthy of inquiry. Micklich, Douglas L. - CTLT Symposium, Jan. 2010

  7. BUS 100 – EnterpriseInterdisciplinary • Collaborative Knowledge Production • Learner can be informed from numerous angles • Importance here is in: • the defining and illustrating of the relationships which exist and • the synthesis and analysis in understanding the existence for/of these relationships • the ability to articulate them, individually and as well as in a team environment. Micklich, Douglas L. - CTLT Symposium, Jan. 2010

  8. Developing Sustainable, life-long skills • Requires one to dig deep within oneself to discover: • Who you are: characteristics • Form the basis for those skills and how they will develop • Example: Decision making process • Identify and critically evaluate a given situation and determine its underlying causes • Generate alternative solutions or to support a given position • Choose and justify one course of action or your position on an issue • Provide the convincing argument. Micklich, Douglas L. - CTLT Symposium, Jan. 2010

  9. Developing Sustainable, life-long skills • Skills required: • Self-assessment • Critical thinking • Synthesis and analysis • Communication: debate Micklich, Douglas L. - CTLT Symposium, Jan. 2010

  10. Bus 100 – Enterprise • Digging Deep • Importance of self-reflection • Role of Master Student • Improving your learning skills • Improving literacy and reading skills • Problem-solving skills • Assessment and evaluation • Personal development Micklich, Douglas L. - CTLT Symposium, Jan. 2010

  11. Bus 100 – Enterprise • Business Skills • Relating and working with others • Business Function areas • Series of articles dealing with various business topics in various areas • Team Position-paper • Team chooses either a “Yes” or “No” position • Present article and convincing argument why you believe that way • Individual Position-paper (2 parts) • Paper stating your position on the given issue – must be persuasive to your point of view: due date of presentation • Assessment of presentation/persuasion • assess group presentation and • state whether you changed your position based on the presentation. Micklich, Douglas L. - CTLT Symposium, Jan. 2010

  12. Bus 100 – Enterprise • Sustainable, life-long learning skills reinforced: • Thinking • Problem-solving • Analysis and Synthesis • Communication • Oral: presentation and debate. • Written • Team environment: ability to work with others • Organization • Society Micklich, Douglas L. - CTLT Symposium, Jan. 2010

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