COURSERA: Based on your experience as a learner, what do you think you will be able to get out of this course? And what ideas do you already have about the future of education?

As a learner and a lecturer, I certainly feel the urge to learn can be influenced by the interest. By having an strong interest in learning, it helps to improve my learning need to find out more about this course, 'Future Education'. It will definitely allow me to analyse my teaching skills with more informed theory and through learning from other fellow educators in the world with their teaching experiences. The purpose of me wanting to be a better educator/teacher for my students is also influenced by the strong urge to help my students learn more and benefit from my teaching.

Having said that, I hope to translate this urge and the 'hunger' to learn to my students in return. With the knowledge to teach better, I also hope to cultivate a deeper knowledge in engaging my students in the future lessons that I would conduct. 

With the week 1 lessons and lectures shared by Dr Eleanore Hargreaves and Dr Fiona Roger, I managed to grasp certain concepts about meta-learning, constructivitism in learning by Jean Piaget and many more insightful knowledge about learning.

I am especially interested in the example shared by Dr Eleanore about how Delors from UNESCO has phrased in in 1989 - the Four Main Purposes to Learning: Learning to Know, Learning to Do, Learning to Live Together and, Learning to Be.

This concept in the four purposes of learning has prompted me to think about how robotic some of our learners have become accustomed to a blinked and dependent way of learning without thinking deeper about the knowledge they'd gain and how it can influence their community, and the world around them. Through the consideration of Delors, I reckon this is a sensible thing to ponder over. Some of the questions which raised my concern could be - are we teaching our students with the ability to link them to the relevance of life and the professional world out there? Are we robotic (and too didactic) in the way we teach our students too? Have the digital age change the way learners acquire knowledge and many other questions to consider...

I reckon it is something which I feel we could share with fellow lecturers and teachers around us to help make our teaching to our students more meaningful. This could cultivate a deeper meaning in what we do as teachers, to inspire our students to be more sensible for their future in life and in the society. Looking back at what I have learnt in week 1, I believe the rest of the other weeks ahead would fuel me up for more informative knowledge to learn as a passionate educator.