Reflection on the past 13 weeks workshop learning By Yeung Ho Kuen (52608166)

Reflection learning blog

To begin this course, Lecturer told students about the course design and intended learning outcomes, including all the learning activities, so as to help student understand the course in depth. Initially, it is quite strange for me to have so many activities in one course. I was worried about the workloads in this course. However, my perception has changed after I participated in those activities. I enjoyed the course and reflected a lot mainly due to three reasons.

First of all, the design of the course strengthens our interpersonal skills and integrates our knowledge with real business. The course provided several learning activities including case studies and discussion and company visit. During the lectures, we had to finish three case studies by discussion with group mates. The cases enrich our knowledge on how the real business practice runs and hence consolidate our supply chain knowledge. More importantly, our presentation skills also make improvement since we have to present our ideas in front of the class. It is quite different to others core courses in management science to perform a number of presentations. Personally, I enjoyed the presentation very much because of opportunities provided to enhance my presentation skills. The course provided us necessary practice before graduation.

Second, company visits provided, which was the most appreciate part to me, broadens my horizons. It was the first time to me to visit logistic companies. The company we visited, including TAL, HIT, YAKULT etc., gave us different insight on logistic industries. Fortunately, the lecturer, Sandy, is very helpful and had provided us a lot of information about company before we went. Thus, we were not strangle about those companies and more easy to disclose the company operations. More importantly, staff impressed us a lot from their talents to discussion with them. After I finished all the visits, I made reflection on how to equip myself for the graduated job and what characteristic should I contain. With the sharing from staffs and lecturer, I got some valuable opinions and it inspires me a lot. I believed all of the knowledge I gained from the visit is invaluable to my career. I appreciate this activity the most.

Last but not least, the even-distributed workload in this course allows me to learn in relaxing way. The design of workload is great so that we didn’t have to carry too much work at the same time. The even-distributed workloads keep us in contact with the assessment, but we didn’t feel stressful. Therefore, we found it relaxing and enjoy learning in knowledge of the course.

 Both deep understanding and deep knowledge were present in this course. The company we visited demonstrated how real business run by using supply chain knowledge. Their demonstration strengthens our understanding and makes our knowledge applicable in our future.