Questions

1. Please review your DocuLearn 1 to remind yourself of the two “things” that you wanted to learn in the course. Did you learn them (to the level that you were expecting)? If not in this course, did you learn them in a different course or context this term?

• • • Through this course, I became more familiar with reading review articles and research papers to gain more knowledge in gene regulation processes. I learned that searching for more articles and skimming the abstract and introduction helps to gain understanding that may not have been provided by one article. My expectations were met.
    • I also learned to ask questions that will help me gain more understanding of the system of study. For example: what do the data show, what can I conclude, what can I infer, can I think of a way to explain the results? My expectations were met for this one as well.

2. Recall the idea saying that self-regulated learning involves:

• • • attending to key features of the environment
    • resisting distractions
    • persisting when tasks are difficult
    • responding strategically, flexibly adaptively.

Were there situations in the course when you feel that you really demonstrated each of these behaviours (and what were the situations)?

• • • Resisting distractions: One of the biggest challenge while working on the final project was spending too much time reading articles that may not be important. It would be great if I could figure that out early on, but for this occasion, it was a good opportunity to get exposed to any related topics.
    • Persisting when tasks are difficult: I think I would say I accomplished this if I successfully hand in my project. Also sought for help when we felt like we were stuck.
    • Responding strategically, flexibly and adaptively: I’m not sure what to say about this point. We have spent so much time on the draft and it’s still not finished. If I have time, I would like to ask my peers of what they thought about this point. What other instances might there be that I am overlooking?

3. Overall, what was the most challenging thing in the course for you? How did you handle this challenge?

• • • Learning from other people’s perspectives and speculations. Initially, I had a hard time following through people’s ideas. I think later on I started to understand better of what classmates are discussing. Sometimes writing down the discussion word for word then looking back at it helped. I think another factor that helped was having a better understanding of what is going on in the system that we are talking about.
    • Another challenge: time management! I can’t say that I overcame this challenge. I think I could have been more active in discussions if I did the reading beforehand. I thought I was pretty fine with time management, but I’m not sure what to say in the context of this course. I think I’ll have a better thought after completing the final project…  I think the problem is that I spend too much time on unnecessary things? Or not? I will get back to this part if I have time.

From <https://canvas.ubc.ca/courses/9305/assignments/261593>