Personal Perspective Paper
Shameika Love-King
University of Phoenix
June 12, 2006
Personal Perspective Paper
The University of Phoenix's masters of business administration program provides the students with knowledge and practice on solving business problems. The school has designed a system for their students to develop the necessary skills to become today's successful business managers. They provide valuable tools and methods that will assist in the learning process. These tools and methods includes: rEsouce, Learning Teams, and the Problem-Solving Method.
The Value of rEsource
rEsource is an online system that provides online course materials for every student attending University of Phoenix. Instead of purchasing books, every student has to pay for access to rEsource, which is one set fee of $80 per class for graduate students, no matter how many books or reading materials are provided. The student will have access to ebooks, the library, news articles, journals, web links, and simulations.
The eBooks, news articles, journals, web links, and simulations are categorized into specific topics. The student is able to see the learning objectives and reading materials for that week, which gives the student knowledge of what to expect for that week. The students can download most of the materials onto their desktop computers, laptop, PDA, or another portable device. This provides convince when traveling because the students can carry all their reading materials on their laptops instead of lugging around books.
Another benefit of rEsource is the access to web links such as the University Library, Center for Writing Excellence, and the Learning Team Toolkit. These too ...