Hi all!
I am currently a marketing student in UniSIM. I would like to welcome those of you who have made it into UniSIM and I hope to see all of you when the school start. For those of you who are still awaiting replies from the school, I hope that all of you will get the good news soon, so stay positive till then!
Okay now for a brief summary of what to expect from the e-learning appraoch in UniSIM.
Understand what e-learning entails. E-learning is a platform where learning are conducted via e-media such as canvas network (which the school uses) and more importantly, the internet. Put simply, e-learning is a learning tool and it is a tool that requires a lot of proactive learning on the users' end.
For example, in a usual classroom setting, if you come across a certain term, equation or theory that you have difficulty understanding, you would normally proceed to question the lecturer. In e-learning, however, the internet and other forms of e-media would serve as a secondary mentor that would aid in your understanding of the subject matter at hand.
Personally , I would often use YouTube as it is a great source of information on various topics pertaining to the various modules that you would undertake.
As such, the kind of questions that you should pose to your lecturers in seminars (yes, you only get 6 of them for every module so treasure them), should not be those that could be easily answered by "googling" it.
Anyway for those of you who are weak in English (its okay, my grammar sucks as well), I would advise you to read up more over the holidays and brush up on your essay writing skills. It would come in very handy for your common core modules which comes with quite a number of writing-intensive assignments.
To end off, keep an open mind and remember to have an awesome holiday before your life as a tertiary student begins. Do PM me if you require more info, but I am a bit slow on the reply so do bear with me.