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LESSON 7: Lifelong Learning the selfmotivation to follow through, commit to

them and resist making excuses.
Lifelong learning
-
- Type of self-directed education 6 Ways to Build Lifelong Learning Skills in Your
- Focuses on personal growth Learners 1. Encourage Learning Ownership
- Commonly understood to relate to learning that - Ultimately, we are responsible for our own
occurs outside of a traditional educational learning. Outside of school, kids will be
institution required to learn independently.
- Informal learning is not the only option for
lifelong learning 2. Turn Mistakes into Opportunities
- Best described as voluntary, with the goal of - Learning from mistakes is one of the most
gaining personal fulfilment. valuable lifelong learning skills someone can
have. We must always see mistakes as
- Retains a person's willingness to learn new
possibilities, never as crimes.
things outside of the conventional educational
system
3. Stash a Few Go-To Learning Tools - Everyone has
We are all perpetual learners tricks that help them learn. Some people use
Key checklist for lifelong learning: mental repetition, while others make up a song
about what they want to learn in the moment.
1. Voluntary
2. Self-motivated or self-initiated
4. Let Them Take the Teaching Reins
3. Doesn’t always require a cost
- Edgar Dale's Cone of Experience was created in
4. Often informal
the 1960s. Since then, it has appeared in a
5. Self-taught or instruction that is sought variety of graphical modifications.
6. Motivation is out of personal interest or
personal development 5. Find Time to Play
7. Organizational lifelong learning - Any theatre performer will explain why a play is
called a play. It's because you do nothing but
How to adopt lifelong learning in your life? play on stage. This allows you to understand
1. Recognize your own personal interests and goals more about yourself and others.
- Lifelong learning is about you, not what other - Play is a crucial aspect of learning.
people want Learning must be joyful.

2. Make a list of what you would like to learn or be 6. Set Learning Goals
able to do
- Learning should have a purpose, which implies
- look into what it is about that specific interest having a defined goal in mind. There must be a
or objective that you want to achieve valid and worthy motivation to learn.

3. Identify how you would like to get involved and the

resources available 10 Simple Ways to Engage In Lifelong
- Achieving our own goals begins with
determining how to get started. Researching 1. Read widely and often
and reading about the interest and objective - Buy newspapers, search for things online you
can help you plan how to learn it. want to know more about, ask your friends for
books they found helpful; above all else, be
4. Structure the learning goal into your life curious.
- Fitting a new learning goal into your hectic
schedule requires thought and work. It will not 2. Keep smart company
happen until you make the necessary time and - Reach out to contacts that you admire.
space. Get talking to some influencers on Twitter and
organize to meet up to explore some ideas and
5. Make a commitment learning topics.
- The final and most critical step is to make a
commitment to participating in a new learning
project. If you've set reasonable goals and have
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3. Teach others Schooling
- You don’t need to join the teaching profession - One type of learning
to help people learn. Teaching others what you Knowledge
know will also help ensure that you really - Acquired and skill-sets developed anywhere –
understand something; it’s a real test of your learning is unavoidable and happens all the
knowledge. time.
Lifelong learning
4. Keep a list of things you want to explore - Creating and maintaining a positive attitude to
- This is a good way to help you get started. learning both for personal and professional
Before you jump right into an area, spend some development.
time researching topics and keeping notes. Lifelong learners
- Motivated to learn and develop because they
5. Start your own project want to: it is a deliberate and voluntary act.
- If you’re a teacher, encourage students to plan - Can enhance our understanding of the world
out their own projects starting with goals and around us, provide us with more and better
objectives opportunities and improve our quality of life.

6. Use a personal learning environment There are two main reasons for learning throughout
- Understanding how to learn is an invaluable life:
skill. Using personal learning environments such 1. For personal development 2. For
as GoConqr.com can help you adopt proven professional development.
learning techniques which students can use
throughout their journey to discovering new Learning for Personal Development
knowledge
There are, of course, many reasons why people learn
7. Experiment with new ways to learn for personal development.
- Trying a variety of ways to learn will help you to
find the way that sticks. You may want to increase your knowledge or
skills around a particular hobby or pastime that
8. Join a study group you enjoy.
- Find virtual study groups online where you can Perhaps you want to develop some
collaborate and learn from people with varying entirely new skill that will in some way enhance
experiences. Take insight on board from a your life – take a pottery or car mechanic
variety of sources and apply it to your own course for example.
knowledge search. Perhaps you want to research a medical
condition or your ancestry.
9. Find a job that encourages learning and Perhaps you’re planning a trip and want to
collaboration learn more about the history and culture of
- Most professional roles include some degree of your destination.
learning whether it’s on the job training, Maybe you will decide to take a degree course
workshops or other educational later in life simply because you enjoy your
encouragement. chosen subject and the challenges of academic
study
10. Make it a priority!
- Don’t just keep saying ‘one day’. Make today Learning for Professional Development
that day. Whether you’re a teacher, student,
professional or other – make learning a priority Being well-educated is not necessarily the key to
in your life. I employment. Although qualifications may get you an
interview, actually getting the job can take a lot more.
Professional Development Employers are looking for well-balanced people with
transferable skills.
Education This includes the ability to be able to demonstrate that
- May maximize our potential to find better, more you are keen to learn and develop.
satisfying jobs, earn more and, perhaps,
become more successful in our chosen career.
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MASTER YOUR LEARNING Trigger

According to Colin Rose, the mnemonic MASTER - Human beings are notoriously bad at retaining
describes the six stages to becoming an effective information. You cannot and will not
learner. remember all that you read, hear and
experience.
Motivation
- Lifelong learning requires self-motivation. Examine
- You need to feel positive about learning and - You should regularly examine your
about your ability to learn. knowledge to help reinforce in your mind
what you have learned.
Acquire - You should always try to keep an openmind,
- Effective learning requires that you acquire question your understanding and be open
information through reading, listening, to new information.
observing, practicing, experimenting and
experience. Reflect
- Finally, you should reflect on your learning.
Search - Think about how and why you learned,
- Learning is successful when we can search for a including how you felt about a particular topic
personal meaning in the information we’re or situation, before and after you developed
acquiring. your knowledge.
- We find it hard to remember facts without - Learn from your mistakes as well as from your
understanding them or being able to put them successes and always try to remain positive.
into context.
LESSON 8: Business and Management Issues developing the necessary skills and
competencies is critical to a sustainable future.
Uncertainty about the Future
- Predicting customer and market trends, among Technology
other things, is critical in a shifting economic - As technologies evolve at the speed of light,
context, but not every CEO possesses Warren businesses must innovate or risk falling
Buffett-like predictive abilities. behind—but many CEOs began their careers and
enterprises before many of these technologies
Financial Management existed!
- Many CEOs I know are ideas people, which
means they excel at big picture and disruptive Exploding Data
thinking but struggle with cash flow, profit - Grandpa's generation did not have to cope with
margins, cost-cutting, financing, and so on. terabytes of data or worry about what to do
with them.
Monitoring Performance
- Using a relevant collection of holistic Customer Service
performance indicators that offer the firm with - Customers expect rapid gratification in today's
insights into how well it is operating is critical. society, and they may go to the internet to
express their unhappiness
Regulation and Compliance with less-than-satisfactory service just as soon.
- As markets and technologies change, so do rules
and regulations. Depending on your industry, it Maintaining Reputation
can make much more sense to bring in a - In the same vein, because customers may
consultant to help with these areas rather than express their disapproval more publicly and
attempting to master the complexities yourself loudly than ever before, businesses must
and risk fines or worse for noncompliance. monitor and protect their internet reputation.
Knowing when to embrace change - Early
Competencies and Recruiting or late to the game?
- The appropriate Talent A small or medium-sized - For the foreseeable future, we will be living in a
firm may not require fulltime human resources perpetual state of flux:
or recruiting staff, but during peak growth change is the new normal.
periods, finding the appropriate people and
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Common management issues - Recruiting and retaining qualified engineers
- You've probably had a nasty boss or been a new presents a substantial problem, especially in
manager. So you're aware that massive mistakes competitive industries.
can be committed. 6. Adapting to Rapid Technological Change:
- Computer engineering is one of the most rapidly
Current Challenges in Management evolving industries.
- Organizations are confronted with a wide range 7. Intellectual Property Rights:
of external circumstances that present both - Patents, copyrights, and trade secrets are
opportunities and challenges to short- and long- increasingly important in computer engineering.
term performance in any given setting. 8. Compliance with Regulations:
- This covers municipal, regional, national, and
PESTEL Analysis Diagram
international rules and regulations, including
- PESTEL refers to the political, economic, social, those governing data privacy and cybersecurity.
technological, environmental, and legal 9. Data Management:
pressures that a firm faces as it pursues its goals.
- Many firms today view data as one of their most
valuable resources.
Political
10. Communication with Non-technical Stakeholders:
- Politics play a role in business because there is a
- Engineers frequently need to communicate
balance between free markets and regulatory
complex concepts and designs to non-technical
regimes.
stakeholders
11. Balancing Short-term and Long-term Goals:
Economic
- Engineers must strike a balance between the
- Economic variables are measurements for
demand to achieve quick results and the
measuring and assessing the health of a certain
requirement to invest in long-term strategic
economic microcosm inside the larger global
goals including research and development,
economy.
infrastructure, and talent development.
This can be a difficult balancing act.
Social
- Social Factors could be informally defined as a
Addressing these difficulties effectively
demographic analysis in which specific groups
necessitates a combination of technical expertise,
exhibit preferences or inclinations that can be
strategic thought, and strong management
exploited or endanger a given incumbent.
abilities. Engineers who master these skills are
more likely to succeed in managing the complexity
Computer Engineering, like any other profession, is not
of the commercial world.
immune to business and management issues. Below
are some of the typical challenges encountered:

1. Project Management:
- Managing a project from start to finish may be a
complicated process.
2. Budget Constraints:
- Engineers frequently have to create systems or
solutions within budget restrictions
3. Resource Allocation:
- Choosing how to deploy resources, such as
personnel, equipment, and time, can be a
challenging management decision.
4. Technical Debt Management:
- As software projects progress, they can collect
technical debt - design or implementation
structures that are convenient in the short term
but will cost more in the long run.
5. Talent Acquisition and Retention:
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LESSON 9: Trade-offs in Professional Practice ISO/IEC and IEEE
- Established internationally recognized software
Software Engineering Professional Practice knowledge engineering standards.
area (KA) IEEE CS
- Concerned with the information, abilities, and - Produced two international certification
attitudes required by software engineers to programs (CSDA and CSDP)
practice software engineering professionally, - as well as a Guide to the Software
responsibly, and ethically. Engineering Body of Knowledge
(SWEBOK Guide)
Software developers
- Must solve unique engineering difficulties while Breakdown of Topics for Software Engineering
providing software with predictable Professional Practice
characteristics and dependability
Professionalism
Professional Practice - A software engineer demonstrates
- Refers to a method of providing services that professionalism, most notably by adhering to
meets particular standards or criteria in both rules of ethics and professional conduct, as well
the process of performing the service and the as the standards and procedures set by the
end product. engineering community.

The concept of professional practice Accreditation

- More applicable in professions with a generally - Accreditation is the process of certifying an
accepted body of knowledge, codes of ethics organization's competency, authority, or
and professional conduct with penalties for legitimacy.
violations, accepted accreditation, certification, - Accredited institutions or programs are
and licensing processes, and professional guaranteed to meet specific standards and
societies to provide and administer all of these. preserve certain characteristics.

Software Engineer Trade-off

- Maintains a professional practice by completing - Analysis In the practice of software
all work in accordance with generally accepted engineering, a software engineer frequently
practices, standards, and guidelines, particularly must pick between potential problem solutions.
those established by the relevant professional - Trade-off analysis o Allows for the
society identification of competing and complementary
software requirements in order to prioritize the
(ACM) final set of requirements defining the software
- Association for Computing Machinery to be built
- Design o Aims may include minimizing
(IEEE CS) monetary costs while maximizing reliability,
- IEEE Computer Society performance, or other requirements across a
wide variety of parameters.
(BCS)
- British Computer Society Group Dynamics and Psychology
- Engineering work is frequently carried out in a
(IFIP) collaborative environment.
- International Federation for Information - A software engineer must be able to work
Processing cooperatively and productively with people to
first identify and then meet needs and
ACM & IEEE expectations.
- Developed a Software Engineering Code of Software Engineering Code of Ethics and
Ethics and Professional Practice. Professional Practice (Short Version) PREAMBLE The
short version of the code summarizes aspirations at a
BCS & IFIP high level of abstraction; the extended version's clauses
- Set similar professional practice guidelines. provide examples and explanations on how these
aspirations affect how we behave as software
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engineering professionals. Without the aspirations, the 3. Identify the alternatives
details can become legalistic and repetitive; without the - With relevant information now at your
specifics, the aspirations can become lofty but empty; fingertips, identify possible solutions to your
together, the aspirations and the details build a unified problem.
code. 4. Weigh the evidence
- Once you have identified multiple
Software engineers must commit to make the analysis, alternatives, weigh the evidence for or against
specification, design, development, testing, and said alternatives.
maintenance of software a profitable and respectable
5. Choose among alternatives
profession. In accordance with their responsibility to the
- Here is the part of the decision-making process
health, safety, and welfare of the public, software
where you, you know, make the decision.
engineers must observe the following eight principles:
6. Take action
- Once you’ve made your decision, act on it!
1. PUBLIC
Develop a plan to make your decision tangible
- Software engineers must act in accordance
and achievable
with the public interest.
7. Review your decision
2. CLIENT AND EMPLOYER
- After a predetermined amount of time which
- Software engineers must behave in the best
you defined in step one of the decision
interests of their clients and employers while
making process take an honest look back at
also considering the public interest.
your decision. o Did you solve the problem?
3. PRODUCT
o Did you answer the question?
- Software developers must verify that their
Did you meet your goals? o If
products and related updates adhere to the
so, take note of what
highest professional standards imaginable.
worked for future reference.
4. JUDGMENT
o If not, learn from your mistakes
- Software developers must preserve integrity
as you begin the decisionmaking
and independence in their professional
process again Group Decision
judgment.
Making ADVANTAGES:
5. MANAGEMENT
1. More information
- Managers and leaders in software engineering
- A group is better equipped as far as
must support and encourage an ethical
information is concerned. An individual
approach to software development and
cannot have all the information that is
maintenance.
available to a group as it consists of several
6. PROFESSION
individuals.
- Software engineers must promote the
2. Diversity of views
integrity and reputation of their profession in
- A group always has the advantage of varied
accordance with public interest.
views.
7. COLLEAGUES
3. Greater acceptability
- Software engineers must be fair to and
- The views expressed by a group have more
supportive of their colleagues.
acceptance than those from an individual.
8. SELF
This is because the decisions are not imposed,
- Software engineers must advocate an ethical
but are part of a larger consensus (general
approach to their job and engage in lifelong
agreement)
learning about it.
4. Expert opinions
- There may be some group decisions that
Seven Steps of the Decision Making Process
require expert opinion. The group can either
include experts or can call them from outside
1. Identify the decision
to form a separate group to take a decision on
- To make a decision, you must first identify the
a
problem or topic you need to address. Clearly
particular issue.
define your decision.
5. Degree of involvement
2. Gather relevant information
- The members of a group feel involved with a
- Once you have identified your decision, it’s
given problem. This minimizes their
time to gather the information relevant to
that choice.
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resistance. It strengthens an organization and larger a group gets, the less is the individual
facilitates decisionmaking. contribution from each member.
6. Encourages people’s participation 6. Groupism
- A group usually provides a platform for people - The very word has negative connotations.
to present their ideas. Group dynamics is Some members of a group may start
more likely to draw out participation from harboring a feeling that they are different
people who may otherwise be hesitant to talk from the others.
or interact. It encourages people to take an
initiative as they feel part of the decision-
making process.

DISADVANTAGES:
1. Time-consuming
- A group involves several individuals. Getting
them organized, planning and coordinating
their meetings, defining and explaining to
them the purpose of a meeting and the goals,
and finally reaching a solution or arriving at a
decision can be quite cumbersome.
- Making decisions in a group can, thus, be
time-consuming.
- The time loss involved in group dynamics
cannot be ignored
2. Lack of onus (onus, noun, used to refer to
something that is one’s duty or responsibility)
- It is difficult to fix responsibility in a group.
3. Individual domination
- Quite often, discussions in a group are
dominated by a few members.
4. Compromise decisions
- The need to arrive at a group decision
sometimes results in a compromise.
- The solution offered is not essentially the best.
5. Expensive
- Group decision-making is quite expensive in
terms of time, money, energy and man- hours.
There is also a theory which says that the