Hi everyone,
My name is Xue Wang. I’m from Lanzhou, which is a beautiful and peaceful northwestern city in China. My hometown is famous for many different kinds of traditional Chinese foods and one of the most well-known dishes is called Lanzhou ramen.
This is my second year studying in Uvic with the major of Economics. I feel very interested in my major and I think it will be useful for my future career as well. I am very good at playing the piano and badminton. I have learned the skills of playing the piano and badminton for many years as well. Also, during my rest time, I love playing computer games with my friends and listening to classical music in order to relax myself. Chopin, Mozart, and Liszt are the three famous musicians I love the most.
Learning Experience
Personally, it was not my first time taking online courses. One of my favorite learning experience is to use Coursera, a free, useful, and accessible online learning platform, to learn personal skills by myself. In my opinion, it is very convenient, effective, and flexible for me to take online courses because I can directly decide where to learn, how to learn, and when to learn by myself. For example, I have learned how to improve my presentation skills on Coursera clearly and directly. The online course is designed for beginners and learners can participate in the course freely and accessibly. There are four main parts in this online course on Coursera. which are about speech-writing and story-telling, PowerPoint slides designing, presentation delivery, and public speaking project. In my opinion, I can learn the ways of improving my presentation step by step specifically and clearly. Also, many useful and helpful learning activities and assessments are created and provided to learners, such as challenging quizzes, discussion questions, and assignments, in order to help me to assess myself and have a much more interesting learning experience. Based on my personal learning experience on Coursera, I think online learning is very interesting, flexible, and effective.
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