Learning Outcomes Portfolio

Running head: WEEK 4 JOURNAL 1

GU299 General Education Capstone

Week 4 Journal

Nicole Jensen

Grantham University

1. How does Life Long Learning connect with the course material this week? How does Life Long Learning help you with your research this week?

Lifelong learning relates to this week’s material by the enhancement of social inclusion and personal development. Learning expands beyond the classroom and workplace.

2. Write down at least one specific aspect regarding Life Long Learning that you need to still develop and describe how you could work on developing that aspect.

I find it difficult to pinpoint just one aspect I could improve on. In life, I find myself learning new things daily. With every new day, comes a new challenge and discovering how to solve or master these, lets me experience unique and new aspects of life.

3. How does Life Long Learning connect to achieving your career goals?

In my current career I have reached my short-term goal. It is my long-term goal to advance into a higher leadership position and eventually open an independent affiliation. It is only through learning that I will achieve this goal.

4. Based on your work in the course as well as general education courses at Grantham University, explain what Life Long Learning means to you.

Personally, I find the meaning of Life Long Learning to be learning and discovering new things daily and being an active member of the community while becoming a well-rounded person.

5. Describe a specific assignment, presentation, or project you worked on in one of your past courses at Grantham University that allowed you to develop Life Long Learning?

Public speaking. This course helped me develop and master my skills in being more comfortable with presenting a topic to large group of people.

6. Write down at least one question you have about your organization, your research project, or this course in general?

As this relates to Life Long Learning, I find myself wondering why it is a graded course? The term itself indicates that these are life lessons which everyone discovers in a unique way while experiencing life. I’m still unclear as to why Life Long Learning is a graded course.