Learning diary

With internet based learning lacking active exchange between students and supervisors, it is important for you to reflect upon your own learning process. One tool for this is the learning diary, which can assist you in various ways:

• you systematically reflect upon the learning process through targeted questions and recordkeeping
• dealing more intensively with a topic leads to a deepening of your learning experience
• your supervisor has the possibility to trace your leaning process and progress. Moreover, the supervisor gains an insight into special interests and difficulties of each student.

The structure of a learning diary is arranged according to phases 2, 3 and 4 of the didactic model of a GITTA case study (problem analysis, planning and realization). Questions were prepared for each of these phases to assist you in reflecting about your learning process.

Procedure

Read through all the questions in the learning diary before beginning to work on the case study. You should update your learning diary during or right after each work session. You are expected to keep it regularly updated so that your supervisor, who is going to check the learning diary, can clarify possible technical misunderstandings in time.

Click here for a learning diary template.