This assignment seeks to develop the intellectual craftmanship (C Wright Mills) that allows
each student to build a reflective practice from their learning in this course, the Human Side of
Innovation. It also aims to enhance and reinforce your personal learning. By so doing, it seeks
to shift the level of responsibility for learning on you and enables you to take greater autonomy
for it than relying on your lecturer or peers. Therefore, each student will be expected to be
engaged reflectively and to provide rich feedback in a personal log (shorter vignette) to be
developed where they can identify any critical incident(s) that surround(s) or influence(s) their
learning, thinking, behaviours and or actions during each session and throughout the semester
in their asynchronous and synchronous activities.
How to Record a Critical Incident Log (i.e. for Self-Driven/Learning):
Considering this, a critical incident log (i.e. shorter vignette you will record during the semester
on your own) allows you to reflect descriptively on any theme, context, situation, scene, or
critical incident at a given time that you want to highlight. The themes in your log entries may
surround your learning (professional/student) or about you as a person (e.g. as an individual,
graduate student, professional, team member, team leader, manager, or supervisor). Use the
entries to be as descriptive as you need to be. Use your senses as you highlight these scenes or
critical incidents. Allow yourself to use symbols in your writing (e.g. metaphors, phrases, or
quotes), if this helps you to capture your current emotions, state, thinking, or atmosphere
around your critical incident. You want to leave your reader with a precise snapshot or
understanding of your impressions in each log.
These logs need not be long but get into the habit of entering your logs perhaps weekly as part
of this self-learning process. Let it flow like a narrative. It will help you when you must finally
craft the 3-page vignette to capture at least three themes that may have emerged during the
semester.
How to Craft Your Reflective Vignette:
Closer to the time of the semester when this assessment is due, students can use their logs
(shorter vignettes) to craft a reflective vignette (3 pages in scope) in an essay format that would
synthesise at least three themes that emerged from critical incident logs (shorter vignettes).
This reflective vignette will be 3 pages, essay format and should not exceed this scope or go
under this scope. You would have had most of the semester to draw from your logs to compose
a critical essay that reflects broad based learning reflected from different facets such as
individual learning, teams’ learning, on the job learning, life-long learning or learning that
impacts your practice.
Ask yourself as you work on wrapping up your final reflective vignette (essay)-these questions.
How can I share this learning and knowledge with others in my reflections? What may be
feasible or applicable or relevant to implement? What is the impact on my practice?
This assessment will help bolster one’s individual learning, understanding of
theories/perspectives, and contributions from the course material to flipped class discussions,
guests from our innovation salons, engagement with lecturer(s) and other learning activities.
