Term One: Lecturer's Meeting

All Students Passed Term 1 Courses

Our Otago MBA team met on Friday for the end-of-term lecturer meeting to review students' performance and formally accept final grades: all of our full- and part-time students successfully completed their term one courses!

We use these meetings to discuss insights gained from the experience to improve our programme, year over year, and identify ways we can further support our students as they enter term two.  Our Term One lecturers and MBA management team shared the following insights:

• We have a very capable group of full- and part-time students: they performed well.

• Our MBA38 full-time students were anxious starting the year and may not have anticipated the rigor of our programme: the need to study every day.

• Time management represented a continual challenge through the term.

• A few international students struggled with the challenge of thinking in their language and writing in English, an issue we are addressing.

• Our students focused excessively on grades (over the quality of their reasoning) early on. 

• Our support with writing workshops (focused on conceptual reasoning) appears to have helped with our students' study (reading) habits and performance on assessments.

• Our full-time students are very good group: cohesive and supportive within and across syndicates.

• The full-timers have proactively (doggedly) solved challenges affecting their performance. They have taken full advantage of the out-of-class access to our lecturers.

• All of our students are gaining confidence and should perform well going forward.  They are experiencing the normal transformative (growth) process of becoming polished professionals. 

Congratulations on a great start to the year!

David