At the heart of your MBA studies are the notions of ‘reflective practice’ and ‘reflective enquiry’.
An essential feature of this approach to learning is the need to record your reflections on what you have learned and note resources you have encountered for retrieval at a later date (e.g. for assessment).
It is important to have some strategies in place and decide what platforms you want to use in advance of going too far in your studies.
Your module website can be used as a ‘document’ that you ‘annotate’. You have three years access to the website from when the module ends. You can bookmark pages of relevance. You’ll notice that nearly all the activities on the module website feature boxes below each task where you can enter your thoughts. These might be helpful for jotting down your ideas and saving them to the page that inspired them. You can save the MDAs out into ‘alternative formats’ such as ebooks and Word files. Once in these formats you can bookmark, comment on and annotate the content as you wish. You can export discussions or selected posts from your forums into Word documents If storing and accessing your work ‘in the cloud’ appeals to you, why not investigate some of the free online storage options available on the internet. Two of the better-known options are Google Docs and Dropbox [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. You could get into the habit of blogging your reflections and progress. The Open University provides each student with a personal blog.