Cecilia Chan, Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre, The University of Hong Kong, China.
Q: How do you suggest technologies to be integrated to transform the learning experiences and enhance outcomes? And what are the critical challenges?
A: I came from an engineering background and at least my undergraduate and PhD are in engineering, in machine learning. That was many years ago. So I'm now researching things on assessment on machine learning and 21st-century skills, or what I call holistic competence and whole-person development. And that is the reason why I started researching it. I was teaching a lot of engineers. And I realized that they can do mathematics, they have great knowledge. But it's the soft skills that they are missing. They could have the problem solved but it would be nicer to have leadership and teamwork skills because engineers don't work by themselves. When you asked me the question, engineering and education are two disciplines working together. So I think the number one thing is that beyond AI, engineering education to embrace is that they need to embrace generative skills to be more whole-person, developing critical thinking. No one was happening out there, rather than just the engineer, rather than just machines. That was the number one thing I would say that we need to tackle.
