The last semester – autumn 2010 – was again a new kind experience as I decided to concentrate even more than before on building my personal study plan. Structuring the process was strongly supported by several courses which gave tasks to describe the process, to visualise the process, to evaluate the process.. of planning my studies. Now at the beginning of the next semester, I will look back and summarise the semester..
First, I chose all I found interesting, suitable and doable under my conditions from IMKE curriculum, then I chose courses according to the same criteria from Educational Technology curriculum and finally I searched the TLU course catalog to find any other interesting courses to fill in some gaps in the schedule. All together I chose 9 courses + 1 to visit just for listening during September and October.
The results:
* Satisfied with the collection of the courses – various and new fields.
* Suitable time table – all courses that needed personal presence were at the beginning of the semester enabling me live abroad from November.
* Good planning and setting goals + personal deadlines enabled concentration on every course.
* Excellent grades with no exceptions :)
To summarise – I can highly recommend concentrating well on the process of selection, time management and planning as well as getting to know the proposed literature for the course and the background of the lecturer. Another important activity is to prioritise between the courses – on which to pay most attention and which mey be taken more loosly. And this semester I got acquinted to writing a learning contract with myself to plan a course (or the whole semester) which I migth use in the future.
Next step: Planning the beginning semester as well as the graduation and Master Thesis.. :)
Update to beginning semester shows that all courses I was planning to take assume quite a big percent of participating in person.. So, no courses this semester. I shall concentrate my thoughts on the thesis and also two web sites I have started building – my personal site and the site for a small company Koduköök producing bakery and culinary products.