How does a learning log help with learning?
Keeping a learning log and re-reading it, comparing your performance over time, helps you to self-reflect and understand the things you do well and thereby make changes to how you operate when you come up against problems. Sometimes just writing down your thoughts helps you to make more sense of them. Learning logs can help you to integrate your learning, for example you may suddenly realise that understanding in one module leads you to understanding in another, or that one way of learning in one topic is useful to adopt in another. In the workplace, many employers encourage the use of quality management techniques to continually improve the quality of their work. In exactly the same way as learning logs, these methods require that records are kept, and that employees use these records (logs) to reflect on what went right or wrong, in order to work out how to improve quality in the future.
