MDP 1 Timetable
MDP 1 - Class Outline - Teaching Team
The timetable for the 1st Year 2009-10 Management Development Programme class is shown below.
Semester 2
| Week | Group Session | Lab Session |
| 1 | Intro to S2. Reflection on S1. Completion of learning diaries | Drop in sessions for help with learning diaries |
| 2 | Introduction to the Holiday Project; brainstorm ideas and agree forward plan | Excel VLE – construction and interpretation of two-way frequency tables/pivot charts |
| 3 | Agree on holiday idea; think about how to estimate demand; discuss how best to research the market; start to work on questionnaire | Excel VLE – survey data – population means and confidence intervals |
| 4 | Pilot questionnaire and agree any necessary changes; think about how to analyse data. General work on project; agree project plan. | Excel VLE – Revision |
| 5 | Survey work; identify costs; discuss information needed to progress the business plan. | Excel VLE – proficiency test |
| 6 | Code survey data; data analysis. General work on project. | Profitability analysis; the profit and loss account |
| 7 | Work on presentation and report. | Student led – work on presentation and report. Help available. |
| 8 | Work on presentation and report. | Student led – work on presentation and report. Help available. |
| 9 | Holiday project presentations. | Excel VLE – proficiency test resit |
| 10 | Holiday project presentations. | Student led – work on presentation and report. Help available. |
Semester 1
| Week | Plenary Session | Group Session | Lab Session |
| 1 | Introduction (Jill MacBryde) | N/A | N/A |
| 2 | MDP and future careers (Jill, Deloitte & careers Service) | Getting to know your Group: The Waterbomb teambuilding exercise | Basic IT introduction; Powerpoint presentations |
| 3 | Introducing the VLE (Chris) and reflection (Bill) | Teamworking skills 1: team development & communication; "Zin Obelisk exercise" | Internet searching; using online resources; Athens login; use of blogs and social networking. |
| 4 | N/A | Information search activity and short ad-hoc presentations. | Excel VLE Charts |
| 5 | N/A | Short presentation introducing students to the S1 project. Give out group project. | VLE Percentages |
| 6 | N/A | Learning and reflection. Students to agree personal development plan and start a learning diary. Group project. | VLE Revision |
| 7 | N/A | Group Project | VLE Test |
| 8 | N/A | Group project – interim presentations | VLE - correlation and regression analysis |
| 9 | N/A | Group Project | VLE - forecasting |
| 10 | N/A | Presentations for Group project | VLE Revision |
| 11 | N/A | VLE Test | |
| 12 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
