Weekly video lectures are available each week in the Weekly Materials in the centre section of Moodle.

Hi

Wow! Just one more week of PeerWise. It ends at 5.00pm Friday 26 May (Week 11).

So many answers and comments to so many questions: About 67,000 answers and over 6,500 comments to about 4,700 questions we have written. And one person (I know who you are!) has cracked the 10,000 point mark. This is an amazing achievement, not often reached even by the most PeerWise-addicted.

All of our activity on PeerWise so far has involved us in a lot of thought, revision and reflection about many of the key concepts in the reading.

Hi, and thanks for visiting my blog.

I will tell you a few things about myself. I will also give you some of my perspectives as the unit co-ordinator (and ‘tour guide’) for Accounting, Learning & Online Communication.

One of the initial challenges for us in our unit will probably be to adjust how we learn. You will not be able to simply rote-learn ‘clear-cut facts’ about accounting and reproduce them in our assessments. What you will also need to do is to take the time and effort to understand for yourself what some of the key concepts we are studying about accounting mean to you. The assessed learning tasks in our unit are designed to help you experience this change in how you learn.

You may find this a little frustrating at first … you may find yourself asking ‘just give me the answers’ … do not worry, once you get used to it, learning for understanding and developing personal meaning is so much more fun than just rote-learning … and in years to come you will find you actually will have learnt something about accounting and will still remember and understand some of the key concepts about accounting we will be looking at.

There are also pages on our assessed learning tasks: PeerWise and Assignments . I will give you my tips and thoughts as we go along through the term.

And there are pages setting out the emails I will send everyone in our course during the term and also my tweets (@MartinTurner12), videos and a few extra pages from me.

Should be a fun journey!

I hope you come ‘on-board’ as we explore the (possibly) exciting world of accounting.

Martin

PeerWise: we finish Step 5 this Friday 27 May at 5.00pm.

Lots of people have given me feedback about different aspects of the course. Thank you for your comments, by email and written in your assignments and SPAs. And the best feedback are ideas people might have about how specific aspects of our course could be done better next time.

One comment I received was: “I felt Peerwise was a waste of time. So many of the questions were really quite inane and some not even relevant. The ones about things that we hadn’t covered leave you questioning how well you have covered the course content.”

Here is a Glossary of Key Terms in Chapter 4 of the Study Guide.

There are so many acronyms such as RNOA, NFO and OI. Here is a guide to help you through this.

Regards,

Martin

 

 

Hi

A few people are having trouble posting their Excel spreadsheet on their blog.

I have just included an empty Excel spreadsheet (it only includes a smile):

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I did this by clicking on the Add Media icon (top left hand corner icon) and then Documents and then click on Add New. You can then attach a file from your computer, such as an Excel spreadsheet.

I hope this helps.

Regards, Martin

 

 

Manisha Kapadia on our Brisbane campus has a great blog.

Her company is Ruralco is a widely diversified agribusiness. A bit like CQUniversity … haha … it is spread right across Australia.

And Manisha has a great corporate video from her firm that gives a really great description of what you firm does, as well as some of its history.

Enjoying your blog, Manisha 🙂

Regards, Martin