The webinar conducted by the College of Business Administration and Accountancy discussed recognizing and breaking poor learning patterns. The resource speaker, Ms. Erika Magdaong, explained the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous and asynchronous learning, ways to overcome procrastination including managing stress, and the importance of assessing one's study habits. Students participated in a quiz and activity. The webinar aimed to help students improve their learning and set them up for future career success.
The webinar conducted by the College of Business Administration and Accountancy discussed recognizing and breaking poor learning patterns. The resource speaker, Ms. Erika Magdaong, explained the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous and asynchronous learning, ways to overcome procrastination including managing stress, and the importance of assessing one's study habits. Students participated in a quiz and activity. The webinar aimed to help students improve their learning and set them up for future career success.
The webinar conducted by the College of Business Administration and Accountancy discussed recognizing and breaking poor learning patterns. The resource speaker, Ms. Erika Magdaong, explained the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous and asynchronous learning, ways to overcome procrastination including managing stress, and the importance of assessing one's study habits. Students participated in a quiz and activity. The webinar aimed to help students improve their learning and set them up for future career success.
The webinar conducted by the College of Business Administration and Accountancy discussed recognizing and breaking poor learning patterns. The resource speaker, Ms. Erika Magdaong, explained the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous and asynchronous learning, ways to overcome procrastination including managing stress, and the importance of assessing one's study habits. Students participated in a quiz and activity. The webinar aimed to help students improve their learning and set them up for future career success.
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Danica Jane B.
Ramos BSAC 2-2
Summary: Studying Made Easy
On April 14th, the College of Business Administration and Accountancy (CBAA) conducted a webinar entitled “Due Tomorrow, Do Tomorrow: Recognizing and Breaking Poor Learning Pattern.” The webinar started at exactly ten o’clock in the morning with a prayer followed by singing of the national anthem. Right after, Mr. Frank David Pascual, Department Section Coordinator, gave his opening remarks regarding the webinar with the aim of adding value to current learning patterns that will greatly impact the students’ respective careers in the future. Ms. Erika L. Magdaong, Resource Speaker, take on the discussion explaining the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous and asynchronous setup, procrastination and ways to overcome it, stress and how to manage it, and the importance of recognizing students’ study habit. According to the resource speaker, the advantages of distance learning is its flexibility, practicality, and affordability. However, its disadvantages include isolation, requires self-discipline, and has lack of instant feedback. It is essential for students to know the pros and cons of this set-up and be aware since this is the first time to have this approach and students normally find it difficult to do. Apart from that, the speaker talked about procrastination which has a negative impact not only to the students but also those who are working already. Based on a study, twenty percent of college students do not procrastinate, however the remaining eighty percent practice procrastination during their academic year. Usually, procrastination happens because anxiety, perfectionism, and most of the time the degree of procrastination is affected due to personal characteristics. With this, people may overcome procrastination by visualizing and verbalizing our intention. Other techniques may include maximizing prime time, getting started, and using deadlines. Next, Ms. Magdaong discussed the aftermath of procrastination which is stress and ways of managing it. According to her, it is important to seek and destroy key sources of stress, find meaning and support, meditate and manage energy, get organized and manage time, and find balance in order to overcome the feeling of being stressed. In addition, she encouraged the students to recognize and reassess their study habits. For her, it is important to identify what area students usually lack and needs improvement and employ techniques to improve the rate and quality of your learning. During the discussion, Ms. Magdaong shared some notable words from Martin Luther King Jr., Reed Markham, and Benjamin Franklin pointing out what success is. As an ice breaker, the speaker decided to have an activity regarding the discussion. Some attendees did not get the correct answer but based on the resource speaker it is fine if some did not answer correctly as the activity itself implies that one-way communication often leads to misunderstanding. In accordance with the activity, the speaker discussed what is a human resource personnel—its expectations, ethics of the HR career, and HR reminders, and HR as a career. After the discussion, some of the attendees were called to share their opinions, thoughts and questions for the said discussion. Then, the attendees were encouraged to join the quiz bee “Type it to Win It”. Basically, the quiz bee was divided into three parts: easy, average, and hard. After that, the certificate of appreciation was awarded to Ms. Erika Magdaong for sharing her valuable time and expertise as the resource speaker in the activity. Finally, the closing remarks was given by Mr. Ramezesh Dionisio, HRDM Council Adviser, thanking everyone for attending and joining the activity entitled “Due Tomorrow, Do Tomorrow: Recognizing and Breaking Poor Learning Pattern.”