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Identify and analyse your own preferred learning style according Honey & Mumford’s Learning Styles questionnaire. Identify the type of attender you are according to Dolnicar (2004) cited in the article Understanding Student Attendance by Mearman et al. (2014).

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Development for Success in Business

Essay question: Write an report analysing your Honey & Mumford (1986) learning style and motivations to attend lectures. Your analysis should incorporate the learning theories you have been learning in class.

1. Introduction (around 150 words)
This should include a hook, background and an outline.
The background of your introduction should be a brief autobiography of your past learning experiences in which you should discuss:

• Your highest/most recent educational experience (Primary, secondary/high school, GCSEs, A Levels, GNVQ/BTEC, ESOL, Functional Skills, Access to Higher Education, certificate & diploma)

• Your goals/motivations – what did you want to gain from this experience?

• Your attendance – was it poor, okay or 100%? Explain why.

2. Learning Theory Analysis (around 300 words)
In this section, you should:
• Analyse and synthesise any THREE learning theories you have been introduced to in class. Choose from the list below:

– Learning Styles Theory
– Experiential Learning
– Information Processing Theory
– Reflective Practice
– Left Brain/Right Brain

• Analyse and synthesise the different 6 types of attenders according to Dolnicar (2004) cited in the Understanding Student Attendance by Mearman et al. (2014).

3. Self-Analysis (around 200 words)

In this section, you should:
  • Identify and analyse your own preferred learning style according Honey & Mumford’s Learning Styles questionnaire (Click here to take the questionnaire)
  • Identify the type of attender you are according to Dolnicar (2004) cited in the article Understanding Student Attendance by Mearman et al. (2014).
  • Conclusion (around 150 words) Identify two weaknesses of your Honey & Mumford learning style and suggest ways to improve these two weaknesses for the future.
  • Reference List (not included in the word count) List at least THREE references (sources) you used to write your essay. Use your formative assessment to help you.

 

Here is a list of good texts to read:
https://books.qahighereducation.com/HeritageScripts/Hapi.dll/search2?
searchTerm0=learning.theories

What have been the most important insights you had so far? Looking at your learning logs and the PDP  identify 1) what are you good at and 2) what are areas of your work that need improvement?

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Word document

In this first assignment you are asked to produce an account of your learning in the first six weeks of the semester. In doing so you should consider your experience on this module, the feedback you have received on your portfolio entries and your own reflection on the material covered so far. The completed learning logs and your upto-date Personal Development Plan (PDP) should be the basis of this reflection. Also include other sources to support your argument.

Your academic paper should discuss the following points:

1. What have been the most important insights you had so far?

2. Looking at your learning logs and the PDP  identify 1) what are you good at and 2) what are areas of your work that need improvement?

3. What do you want to do next? – Identify one of the areas of your work that needs improvement and outline 2 or 3 ideas for development.

Attach your weekly learning logs (for weeks 1 to 6) and the fortnightly updated Personal Development Plan (PDP) as an appendix.

Note, it is mandatory that you use academic literature to support your reflection. Ue minimum 5 academic references.

Assessment criteria:

1. Uses knowledge gathered and captured in learning logs and PDP by linking different topics.

2. Identifies strengths clearly by adding examples and links to the learning log and PDP.

3. Demonstrates an understanding of work that needs developing and illustrates what can be done to improve it further.

4. Presents work clearly and accurately using the appropriate personal expression and organisational form (i.e. follows recommended structure, uses third person to refer to information from literature and references sources correctly.

Identify a key issue and supporting research question in Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Create one research hypothesis that may answer the research question.

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Capstone Research Project

This summative assignment represents the Capstone Project of the entire Homeland Security and Emergency Management degree program. For this assignment, conduct research on a Homeland Security and Emergency Management topic utilizing the steps of the scientific method. This assignment will have incremental assignments to submit during Week 1 and Week 2 of this course in order to ensure that you are progressing in proper research methodology and scope. The research question and hypothesis approval is due in Week 1 and a literature review will be due in Week 2. These assignments support the project, but they are graded separately and retain their own values separate from the Capstone Research Project.

Conduct an original research project in one of the following topic areas. For reference purposes and review, these key homeland security areas and sub-disciplines can be reviewed at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Links to an external site.) website.

Topics

Once a topic area has been selected, formulate a research question and supporting hypotheses for approval by the instructor at the conclusion of Week 1.

Use your approved research questions and hypotheses to develop research variables and a literature review for submission during Week 2.

During Week 3, 4, and 5, conduct research and write a research paper that is between 10 to 12 pages in length and includes the following basic structure.

  • Identify a key issue and supporting research question in Homeland Security and Emergency Management (one page).
  • Create one research hypothesis that may answer the research question. You may use one that you formulated for Week 1 assignment, “Research Project Preparation” (one page). The hypothesis must be clearly stated in a stand-alone statement then supported with a paragraph discussion.
  • Establish research variables for analysis and subsequent confirmation or refute of the research hypothesis (roughly two to three pages). The research variables must be clearly stated in a stand-alone statement then supported with a paragraph discussion to describe the type of variable, whether is it dependent or independent.
  • Conduct a Literature Review for the topic selected. This research must be supported by at least eight scholarly, professional, or official government resources, five of which can be found in the UAGC Library. Use the Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources(Links to an external site.) document for guidance. The course textbook will not be considered a valid reference for the resources requirement (two to four pages).
  • Analyze the research question and supporting hypothesis (one to two pages).
  • Construct a conclusion of research (results and answer of the research) ( one to two pages).
  • Include a reference page, which does not count towards the summative assignments page total. The reference page should be as long as needed to accurately account for all utilized research materials. Each item of the reference page should be in APA Style(Links to an external site.), as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center, and include where the reference was located (i.e., UAGC Library, Internet, etc.). All references listed on the reference page must be used and cited within the paper.

Synthesis in Advanced Nursing Practice of Patients in Family Care Settings Practicum/Clinical Skills and Procedures Self-Assessment.

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PRAC 6568:

Synthesis in Advanced Nursing Practice of Patients in Family Care Settings Practicum/Clinical Skills and Procedures Self-Assessment.

Demonstrate how you retrieve relevant information from e.g. social media, news, review report, open dataset. You may need to demonstrate your ability to use API, postman for online data retrieval.

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Financial Information

Context and purpose: To take a trend of big data or Financial Technology and enjoy the new revolution, you as data scientist working for company (banks or other organizations) would like to embrace this new technology and discover new business models, new paradigm or improve product and service quality.

You may consider following contexts in your assignment:

  1. Demonstrate how you retrieve relevant information from e.g. social media, news, review report, open dataset. You may need to demonstrate your ability to use API, postman for online data retrieval.
  2. Illustrate how you deploy Natural Language Processing (NLP) for cleaning dataset, structuring and vectorizing data. You may consider producing a wordcloud for abstracting the corpus at hand.
  3. Perform textual analysis and encode the procedure. You may collect the corresponding lexicon that aligns with your domain context for semantic polarity classification.
  4. Organize and outline the above tasks (including the used python codes). elaborate the procedure in detail and the employed techniques.

Has there been any specific piece of technology in your life that helped transform the way you think about something in the world? How do you use technology in your everyday life? Your creative life? Your work life?

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Interview & Field Report

In this stage, you will select a person from a different generation than you to interview about how they have used technology throughout their lives. Be sure to consider both digital and non-digital technologies. You can choose someone older or younger than you, and you can talk with a relative or friend or find someone outside of your immediate circles to interview. If you are choosing someone younger, be sure to choose someone old enough or mature enough to reflect thoughtfully on the impact of technology on themselves. After your interview, you will write a report highlighting three things you learned.

Your interview can be formal or informal. A formal interview has an established set of questions you have prepared ahead of time and do not deviate much from during the interview. An informal interview involves talking with someone about the topic in a more general way and asking specific questions as topics arise.

Some suggested question you can consider working into a formal or informal interview include:

Do you associate any form of technology with a significant event or time in your life? Tell me more about that event or time.

What kinds of non-digital technology do you frequently use, or have you frequently used throughout your life?

Has there been any specific piece of technology in your life that helped transform the way you think about something in the world?

How do you use technology in your everyday life? Your creative life? Your work life?

Is there any specific digital or non-digital technology you would have a hard time living without? Why?

How has technology changed throughout your life?

Is there any technology you wish had not changed? Why?

Has there been a specific form of technology that contributed to who you are today? Tell me more.

How are you a different, better, worse, enhanced, safer, etc., person when you use a specific form of technology than when you don’t?

How has your self- worth or self-conception been affected by technology?

You can modify these questions or ask other questions that are appropriate for your interview situation. The above list contains suggested starting points. The idea here is to find connections between your interviewee’s life experiences, self-identity and technology.

After you conduct your interview, write a 750–1000-word field report in which you do the following:

Write an introduction in which you briefly describe the person you interviewed. Include some general relevant about their demographic background (year of birth, gender, where they live, etc.)

Indicate the date when the interview took place. This should be during the current semester.

Identify and describe three things you learned from your interview about the impact of specific artifacts or kinds of technology on this person. Do not relay a transcript from your interview. Choose the three things you think are most relevant to the theme of technology and human experience and that you think had the greatest personal significance to your interviewee.

Write a 5-7 sentence conclusion that reflects on your interviewee’s relationship with technology in general. You can consider some of the same kinds of things you did in part one for yourself. Would they be the same person they are today without a specific piece of technology? Did any of the technological artifacts they talk about change them during a specific time of their life? How is technology in general a part of who they are?

How do children react to when alienated species arrive on earth and what is the difference between humans and adults perspective on alien species?

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Childhoods end, the humans perspective

How do children react to when alienated species arrive on earth and what is the difference between humans and adults perspective on alien species?

Take “Childhoods end” by Arthur C. Clarke and “the fate of poseidonia” compare and contrast the book and article into specifics and write about things in the real world

.State the top three (3) investments which had the BEST result based on the annualized return. Write two (2) to three (3) lines explaining why your best selection outperformed the rest.

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Term Paper

Invest $100,000 of “funny” money in twenty different companies. In ten different industries:
1.Technology and communications
2.Biomedical
3.Transportation
4.Entertainment
5.Consumer goods
6.Apparel
7.Soft drinks
8.Communications
9.Phamaceuticals
10.Oil & gas

The minimum requirements for the Portfolio analysis:

1.Show your investments in twenty (20) well DIVERSIFIED investments.

2.Indicate the industry or the specific section (i.e. gold, oil & gas, technology, entertainment, transportation, consumer goods, bio-technology, pharmaceuticals, etc.) that each investment represents.

3.The TOTAL Dollar amount of return (Profit/Loss.)

4.The percentage return.

5.Specify the holding period or duration of the investments in the portfolio

6.Show the percentage return calculated in the above item number 4 on an annualized basis.

7.State the top three (3) investments which had the BEST result based on the annualized return.

8.Write two (2) to three (3) lines explaining why your best selection outperformed the rest.

9.Specify which ones had the WORST results based on the annualized return.

10.Write two (2) to three (3) lines explaining why your WORST selection did so badly compared o the rest.

11.What did you learn from creating and tracking a portfolio?

12.Other comments and conclusions.

Describe how communication techniques to include staffing assignment challenges, delegation, supervision, and prioritization impact the improvement of quality as a nurse leader within the context of a multi and interdisciplinary team.

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Professional Identity

Competency
-Evaluate leadership and management attributes that support critical decisions for nursing practice.
-Explain the complexity of organizational systems and their impact on healthcare delivery.
-Apply quality improvement processes utilizing data from outcome measures in the clinical microsystem.
-Analyze leadership and management principles that guide supervision of nursing care.
-Apply principles of professional identity and professionalism.
-Integrate creative leadership and management strategies to facilitate change.

Student Success Criteria
View the grading rubric for this deliverable by selecting the “This item is graded with a rubric” link, which is located in the Details & Information pane.

Scenario
You were recently promoted to a new leadership position and the organization wants to interview for an article to introduce you to the team. They have provided you with some focus areas to prepare for inclusion in the article.

Instructions
In a Word document, prepare the following responses for the article:

1. Insights into how your core values influence your professional identity.

2. Discuss your leadership attributes that you would like to develop addressing both leadership and management responsibilities.

3. Organizational structure diagram that reflects the roles and responsibilities of professional nurse leaders in the micro, meso and macro levels of operation that begins with a mission, vision, and philosophy statement directed at improving client health outcomes.

4. Techniques and strategies needed to identify and quantify quality issues that impact outcomes in the clinical microsystem.

5. Apply standards to favorably impact a quality improvement initiative.

6. Describe how communication techniques to include staffing assignment challenges, delegation, supervision, and prioritization impact the improvement of quality as a nurse leader within the context of a multi and interdisciplinary team.

7. Incorporate how change theory is influenced by environmental and cultural dynamics

Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar.

Compare and contrast Plato and Aristotle on the nature of form and matter. How does Aristotle reconcile Platonic dualism in his view of the unification of essences within material reality?

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Nature of Reality

Using the text and online resources in this module, evaluate any video, and respond to one of the following focused questions in at least 500 words. (Be sure to cite online sources by author or title and date as well as Web address/URL.) In your original responses, be sure to cite primary source quotations in the words of the philosophers in addition to secondary source information about their ideas. you only respond to either 1 or 2 not both

Examples:

Primary source: Descartes reached the conclusion, “cogito ergo sum” (Descartes).
Secondary source: Descartes methodological doubt led to the certainty of the mind or thinking subject. (Morgan)

Focused Questions:
Only choice one

1.Compare and contrast Plato and Aristotle on the nature of form and matter. How does Aristotle reconcile Platonic dualism in his view of the unification of essences within material reality? (Use primary source quotations from both philosophers.)

2.Explain Descartes method in his Meditations on First Philosophy. How does does his doubt lead to the certainty of “cogito ergo sum.” How did this realization lead to the mind-body problem in modern philosophy? (Use primary source quotations in your response in addition to secondary sources.)

In your original responses, be sure to cite primary source quotations in the words of the philosophers in addition to secondary source information about their ideas.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-metaphysics/#1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes
https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csIW4W_DYX4www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgZlScrWhuE