Week Thirteen Blog

How are you feeling about systems thinking at this point? How are you feeling about your Task Three/Final project for the course? What’s left for you to do? What’s challenging? What’s not? How might you use what you have learned here in the future?

I have mixed feeling about this systems thinking at this point. I thought I am able to think critically by nature and thinking and problem is my passion. I am always shown good results in terms of making good decision in right time in right place. But I learn lots of new strategies to thinking and analyzing more critical level than I used to which is an eye opening for me. I did not intend to take this course but I think it was a good decision by the department to make it mandatory for us. Although sometimes it was bit frustrating for me not be able to connect and engage some of the thinking reading but class discussions were most valuable and effective for me to fill that gap and to learning this system design and thinking.

My task three is in draft state. I am not much happy with the progress that I am making. It is taking lots of time for me to comprehend and put them in a coherent thought. I know and I understand the whole complexity but when I try to write them it floes like I am outlining my thoughts and it does not look good to read like a paper. I could do it in table but I personally prefer listing than presenting in table. There are so many inputs to consider and analyze each one of them to find the relevancy and value to the system is very complex. But I am focusing more of content than of structure and aesthetic of a paper. After spending so much time I felt I might missed several important relevant input for the system to be transformed as good outputs. I feel like it is a never ending type of task. It is hard to decide where to stop and what to keep and what not. I tried to be visualizing the broader impact but with thinking critically about each thing it is hard to eliminate some out of it. I want to make sure I am covering all the aspects of analysis of a meta-system in terms of online education and its status in the meta-system.

My future goal is to become an administrator in academic technology field. I have been in this field for more than twelve years. I am familiar with this administration, its characteristics and this system thinking and analysis is an eye opening for me which will help me grow and analyse any system and make good decision. One thing I have learned from reading so many articles and analysis exercise as confirmation of my own long term belief is relationship among components in a system, effective communication among systems, listen to different micro-systems is very effective to analyze for making good decision. Autocratic thinking and process has no good output. Even though some of this course activities did not make sense to me at the beginning but later I have enjoyed. I feel confident that the knowledge and experience of analyzing different types of systems from this course will prepare me to become a visionary and effective leader in academic technology field in future.