Task Description

In this course you are required to complete a weekly portfolio. A portfolio provides evidence of previous experience and presents a dynamic record of your growth and professional learning over the duration of this course. Your task is to write a portfolio each week reflecting upon your learnings from the prior week of the course.

In your portfolio you will identify:
1. The learning outcomes and module/topic of the course;
2. A description of your experience, including reading samples or records;
3. Your learnings based from your experiences;
4. Any supporting documentation of prior or current learning.

The primary purpose of this assessment is to help you to develop skills for discussing the value of project management for mining, plant and large asset operators and owners. The secondary purpose of this assignment is to give you the opportunity to enhance your analysis, critical thinking and written communication skills; particularly in the areas of thinking about and reflecting on your personal and workplace practice.

Developing a portfolio, as a result, makes your learning more explicit as you translate your workplace and personal experiences into documented evidence. You can then learn to critically examine the nature of your learning on this course in relation to specific experiences in your project management practice. As a result you will demonstrate that you have learned from those experiences and how you have achieved or maintained your professional competence as a result.

You will be provided on the Moodle web site with a portfolio template. You should use this template to write your portfolio and then upload a weekly portfolio to the Moodle web site. At the end of this course you will consolidate your portfolio into a single document and upload an overall consolidated portfolio submission.

Your portfolio should contain a coherent, but necessarily restricted, review of the academic literature related to the project management topics for each week. You should also include a weekly reference list formatted in the prescribed Harvard style. You are also encouraged to include a bibliography.

This assessment item involves researching the topics to enhance your understanding of each concept through an utilisation of academic literature and secondary sources.

Weekly Portfolio
Your weekly portfolio can be as long or as short as you want it to be. It is your portfolio and shows your development of understanding during the course. Naturally, this will make the portfolio different for everyone. Each student's background, education, current and past work experiences is what makes it different. Each student's personal researches will be different. The weekly portfolios are not marked BUT are needed for the Consolidated Portfolios. Also be aware that there is a due date for each Weekly Portfolio and late portfolios are not accepted.

What you need to do is to give yourself enough time to reflect and show how you have thought and come to grips with the ideas that address the learning outcomes of the course. The amount of time you should be allocating to the course is 12 to 16 hours per week (which includes writing the portfolio). So there should be a fair bit of time for you to make the reflections and reach a depth of insight that will make the portfolio meaningful.

With each weeks portfolio you submit do not include the writing that you made for a prior week. Instead you use the same portfolio template using only the section for the week you are writing about. In other words each week's portfolio is a reflection upon that week. You should however, revisit the whole course learning outcomes each week. The portfolio for any previous week is a reflection of your insights and thoughts for that week. Once you upload the portfolio then leave it for that week. Over the duration of the course you will find that there is a development and change of your ideas as you study the material. You then have opportunity at the end of the course to consolidate everything and show how you have gained the insights that the course is seeking to provide. At the end of the course you should then review your weekly portfolios and consolidate them into a single submission. This is the assessment that gets marked.

It is to your benefit to have the personal discipline to make sure that you do not get behind. If you are allocating 12 or 16 hours per week for the course then there is plenty of time for the portfolio. If you find that one week you slip then ok, but the course is fundamentally planned so that you need to allocate 12 to 16 hours each week. Two hours lost in one week means that you need to do 14 to 18 hours the next! The course is straight forward, but there are lots of web sites to visit and material to download. The text book is only part of the story and you won't be able to do the course with just the they are included in the final portfolio. In most of the weeks of the course you look back at the previous week when you complete the portfolio. However, for week 11 you do not need to submit week 11 as a separate portfolio since in effect you'll be rolling week 11 and 12 into the final consolidated portfolio in week 12.

Consolidated Portfolio
You should submit an essay for your consolidated portfolio due at the end of the course. Since you'll have made your own journey studying during the course via the weekly portfolios, the material that you want to include in the portfolio will be unique for you. Your final portfolio will explain how you have developed your understanding of the learning outcomes and the topics with each week's study. There are a number of ways you can provide a consolidated portfolio. It is up to you to decide which way work the best for you. For example:-
1. You could write a 1-3 page essay (there is no limit) to share your reflection of the term.
2. You could merge all your reflections into one and provide a single file.
3. You could alternatively zip all of the previous portfolios into one and use a single ‘master' portfolio to refer back to each week BUT make sure you have a reflective summary of the term and the learnings at the end of this submission.
4. You could use an index and numbering system to identify material from prior weeks. Remember to include your reflection of the learnings from the subject and how this subject has affected you. Whatever way that you do it; the final portfolio is the important one!
In summary, an analogy for the final portfolio is that you can imagine that you are going before an examination board at the end of the course and presenting to them a complete portfolio of your journey through the course. You will hand the board a package of your journey that they should then be able to read and from it appreciate everything that you have done and learned.

Referencing

Ensuring you have accurate references is important and will allow the marker to easily identify where your tender maps to the course material. Also you need to show how you have made critical reflection on the material and added your own unique insights.
Referencing should be made according to CQU's Harvard referencing guide.

Attachment:- Template.rar