The Purpose of the Learner's Log Book

 Learner's Log Book
LLB
 Learner's Log Book
I. INSTRUCTIONS
The purpose of the Learner's Log Book (LLB) is to document the achievements of the learner in a central repository that will be considered as evidence on the effectiveness of the learning process. It is a monitoring tool that e-tutors use to report on individual learners' progress and it is a way of ensuring that learners:
Are engaged in their learning process.
They are experimenting by doing the tasks subscribed to them by the e-tutor.
Avoid plagiarism because learners have to be engaged on a continuous basis and the informal assessment can therefore be used to ensure consistency with the main formal assessment.
Provide e-Tutors with the opportunity to get to know the learners evaluate them and mentor them properly.
There are templates which will reflect whether learners read, whether they understand, whether they assimilate the knowledge, whether they develop enquiry ability, whether they have the potential to conduct critical thinking and whether they can reflect on the knowledge accumulated by relating to real situations.
The onus is mainly on learners to furnish the required information in the templates after each unit based on the Read and Analyze Activity. After filling the information in the template they need to e-mail it back to the e-Tutor.
e-Tutor will then comments on the work done and the involvement that takes place and give overall impressions on the learners at the end of the module.
II. GENERAL INFORMATION
Learner Name: ---------------------------------------------------------------
ID Number: -------------------------------------------------------------------
Course Title: ------------------------------------------------------------------
Article Title: ------------------------------------------------------------------
Date of Submission: ---------------------------------------------------------
Date of Received Feedback: ------------------------------------------------
III. SUMMARY
The quality of products and services has become an issue of concern for many organizations that need to improve their competitive edge in the market. Initially, business people focused more on productivity at the expense of quality and this resulted to lose of the customers owing to increased competition in the market. To save businesses from losing customers, quality experts emerged to advice on the best ways to approach the issue of quality for products and services. Some of the most celebrated quality experts include Edwards Deming, Philip B. Crosby, and Joseph M. Juran.
According to Deming, quality should meet the current and future consumer needs based on statistical thinking and methods. His approach to quality emphasizes on an understanding on profound knowledge that includes psychology theory, and system theory among others. Deming further emphasizes on "prevention by process improvement and the application of PDCS to foster quality. He believes that by reducing variations in work processes and using quantitative methods to analysis contribute further to quality enhancement.
Crosby maintains that quality can be fostered through conforming to quality requirements and prevention of defects on products and services. His approach to quality stresses on organizations to strengthen their culture to establish quality improvement process plan. He urges managers to embrace continuous learning and training and to cherish doing things right in order to reduce the cost of doing things wrong, which is normally detrimental to an organization.
Juran's approach to quality is based on the philosophy of project-by-project. It requires managers to employ the concepts of the spiral of progress and further adopt the breakthrough sequence approach to enable them identify specific targets that can facilitate improvement in specific areas of their operations. According to him, quality encompasses fitness for consumption based on customer requirement. To ensur...