PhD Update #14 – Moving to a new day

This is the first of the updates to be sent out on a Sunday. Part of a plan to move from doing this on Friday to Sunday. Mostly because there have been a couple of Friday’s I’ve missed. Also, this might set the reflection up as the start to a week, rather then the end and consequently encourage greater emphasis on moving forward than looking back…who knows.

Since last week progress has been slowed by another two days lost due to public holiday and other work commitments. So, I’m not happy with progress.

I’m increasingly motivated to get on with this, but translating into action…

What I’ve done

I said last week that I would

• Complete the process component.
• Make significant progress on the People component.

I’ve achieved neither of those.

I have completed two small sections of the process component and posted them to the blog

• Management and planning processes within universities
• Institutional learning and teaching strategies

To complete the Process section my current plan calls for me to complete three more sections:

1. Institutional e-learning – I’ve made some progress on this. Will try to finish this within the next day or so.
2. Learning and teaching – this will be small.
3. Lessons from process – I have most of the points I want to make and references.

What I’ll do next week

Keep it simple and repetitive. I’ll try and

• Complete the process component.
• Make significant progress on the People component.