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  Project Description: The project was to develop a mobile application for a bookshop company. The project's initial scope was to create a basic app allowing customers to browse products, make purchases, and receive notifications about promotions. However, as the project progressed, several instances of scope creep occurred. Scope Creep Issues: Feature Requests: During the development phase, stakeholders from the marketing department requested additional features such as social media integration, a loyalty program, and personalized recommendations. UI/UX Changes: Design preferences evolved, leading to multiple revisions of the user interface and user experience, causing delays and additional work for the development team. Platform Expansion: Originally planned for iOS and Android, there were requests to include compatibility for other platforms like Windows Mobile and tablets. Integration with Existing Systems: Midw...

  Resource 1 Link: Project Schedules 101: Why it Matters, How to Make it [2023] • Asana https://asana.com/resources/project-timeline-schedules This 6-minute web article by the software company asana presents essential tools and guides for developing a realistic project schedule (Talbert, 2022). The resource provides seven critical steps in developing a project schedule. It highlights a project schedule and how its components connect based on the work breakdown structure. A simple and straightforward approach to creating project schedules using the critical path method is also presented. In addition, guides in using a project schedule in project management are also mentioned. Ever wondered what next is essential after developing the project schedule? This resource captures the next steps after completing a project schedule and how to live this specific tool in the project's lifecycle. You are presented with a ‘ let's try building it’ opportunity by having access to project s...

                                   A reflection exercise based on a case study. How did your interpretation of the message change from one modality to the next? The tone in the email sounded rude while reading in my mind, and I found myself making unpleasant comments to myself, such as “I am tired and exhausted” and “Can't this wait till tomorrow?”. And there was no feedback on my comments. Also, the text formatting and paragraphing were just so boring to read, and the purpose of the email was embedded somewhere in the text lines.  I felt the tone was calmer in the audio, and the request sounded like I could put in some effort to get over the data needed. This also allowed me to get to this at a time when I was not busy. While in the face-to-face communication, my request got my full attention as I looked at the person speaking. I believe I could...

Recently, I was involved in planning an event for a friend. The event was agreed to be implemented almost six months before the event. There were many stakeholders involved in getting a date for the event. The date was eventually chosen based on her elder brother’s availability. With the date set, many event components had to be taken care of. Getting a space, the food menu, who would be in charge of buying, cooking, and serving the food, logistics for the chairs and tables, decoration team, graphics team, and tech teams to handle microphones, speakers, and switch on generators should electricity be an issue. My area has many local dishes, and the goal was to capture as much of the variety of local dishes as possible. Decisions around setting up the hall, where guests would sit, where the food tables would be mounted, and even the entire day’s program was still to be decided upon, as well as wrap-up and cleaning. Initially, a budget was set for the event, and family members were tasked...

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  Learning Management System (LMS). A learning management system (LMS) refers to a technology used to automate the administration, development, and delivery of training programs. LMSs can provide employees, managers, and trainers with the systems support to manage, deliver, and track learning activities. Some features of LMS include tracking and reporting learners’ progress, authoring skills for consistent content creation, discussion boards for interaction and trainer feedback, being able to assess learners, providing a great deal of personalization, and supporting professional development. LMS is a great tool for integrating employee training with all aspects of the human resource function (e.g., performance evaluation, human resource planning) to determine training cost and impact on business goals. It provides a central system for managing all employee's learning activities, tracking compliance, and measuring individual and team performance.   The long-term impl...

Conducting a training needs assessment with a focus on the following:  1) What stakeholders would you want to make sure to get buy-in from? Americares is a global health nonprofit organization that aims to save lives and improve people's health in vulnerable communities. Its principal activities are to respond to emergency situations caused by natural disasters, war, and health epidemics. The emergency response may lead to a long-term recovery program that may lead to the creation of an organizational country presence. To conduct an organizational country-level training program improving specific health capacities within a community, stakeholders involved would be the top-level leadership team, the country directors, key employees occupying the roles in which the training would be implemented for or by, employees managers, finance headquarters team, technical unit experts or SMEs, and other headquarter roles that directly work with the country offices. It will be beneficial to have...

  Hello, Ever wondered about the place of training within your team?      Growth in market share and an increased bottom line are at the core of organizational goals, and certainly, ABC Digital is not an exception.     Equipping your employees through training to develop their cultural competencies and grasp various political and socio-economic situations in potential global markets positions your organization on the path to incredible and tremendous success when aiming for an effective global presence.     Again, in an age where technology and the use of artificial intelligence are major work tools for efficiency, you bet these have become one of the salient drivers of gaining competitive advantage. Therefore, investing and motivating your employees while retaining them through mandated training in using such technologies will not only get your team to thrive in the moment but will certainly be sustainable in the future.     It is n...

End of Course Reflection   Distance learning has shown that learning is possible in an online environment where learners and teachers are physically separated from each other and connected by technological tools. According to Simonson et al. (2019), distance learning is “institution-based, formal education where the learning group is separated, and where interactive telecommunications systems are used to connect learners, resources, and instructors.” Different names have been attributed to distance learning, from online learning, virtual learning, and e-learning, all incorporating the key notion of learning from a distance ( Sangrà et al., 2012). Distance learning can be carried out synchronously –occurring at different places at the same time, asynchronously –occurring at different places at different times, or in a blended format—online activities occur at certain times during a conventional face-to-face course (Simonson et al., 2019). Constant technological advancement has r...

Before this course, I was opportune to take a course from the United Kingdom from Cameroon about 10 years ago, where course materials were shared via postal systems, and students were expected to self-study with the help and guidance of a local subject matter expert (SME) and take a one-time paper-based test. According to Johnston (2020), this form of distance education is known as correspondence courses, and its use dates to 1728. This paper-based test was facilitated by an external body in Cameroon, with roles being exam administration and supervision in designated centers. The support of the SME was a personal step left at the learners' discretion. For learners who could not have a local SME guide, feedback was only shared with learners after the one-time assessment was taken in the form of scores and grades. This learning and teaching approach was understood by me as distance learning simply due to the geographically spatial separation between instructor and learner. ...

  Learning is still much of a complex process. For me to say I have gained new knowledge, know how, and when to use this knowledge and use it effectively relies mainly on the use of a mix of learning theories, learning styles, and in some instances, assistance from technology. Again, understanding, retaining, and retrieving information is a process that involves complex scientific elements involving the human brain ( Walden University, LLC. , n.d). In my understanding, this cognitive dimension of learning seems to sit at the central point of learning. When applied or used in learning, all learning theories and styles require the brain to process, retain, and retrieve the needed information using varied methods, speed, and comprehension. Confidently, I can say I learn by using various learning theories and styles. As an adult learner, I tend to learn best when making decisions about what I learn and determining a reason to answer the ‘why’ the choice of a particular course or subj...

  According to George Siemens(Walden University, LLC, n.d), adults have an abundance of information that needs to be distributed. This idea is further backed by Davis et al.(2008), who note that we cannot learn everything personally. Adult learning is about connecting ideas and seeing relevant patterns from unrelated and diverse contents (Davis et al. 2005). Getting information from various sources has improved my ability to make these connections, make choices of what information is relevant at a particular time, and discard information when it becomes outdated. It has also served best at providing and maintaining information flow which is an essential factor in learning (Siemens, 2005). It is no news that technology has significantly influenced the half-life of information(Davis et al. 2008) as information relevant today may quickly become irrelevant tomorrow as new information is rendered available enabled by technology. Some digital tools that have facilitated learning are Wh...

  By Foretia epse Atem Ajong.   Date: 20 th  March 2022. The brain has been likened to a computer and its processes that are involved in information processing, learning, and solving problems(Walden, University, LLC, n.d). In this regard, writers such as Pappas (2016) mention three stages of information processing and problem-solving: inputs, storage, and outputs. The inputs here are stimuli gathered through the human senses such as hearing, seeing, touching and taste. These stimuli are screened through the sensory memory (Pappas, 2014) and filtered if the information is worth remembering. The storage stage is comprised of both short and long-term memory. Data in the short-term memory can manage more significant portions of information which can last for about 10 seconds to one minute, according to Pappas (2016). Long-term memory is where data is stored and retrieved as output used to solve complex problems. Individual memories stored in the long-term memory as p...