While some people are binge-watching another Netflix series for the nth time, I am binge-learning free online courses in Coursera. Who doesn’t like free stuff, right?
Upon writing, I am already enrolled in two courses and three specializations (where two of them covers four courses and the other five). That’s a total of 15 courses. Why register for all of them? Because there’s a cutoff for enrolling in courses, so I am trying to maximize that. And then, all enrolled courses should be done by the end of the year.
I hope my future self can finish all the courses I just enrolled myself in! If I can manage to finish five courses per month, then I can finish them all.
Coursera is my kind of Netflix.
But here’s something I have observed. One that needs to be given attention.
The school taught me to collect dots. And I think I am getting good at it, learning a lot of stuff here and there. I’ve got certificates to prove them too. And this is not just about online courses. It’s also about all the free webinars out there. We can binge learning all the courses we want, but what for?
For the certificates?
Then what?
I like collecting rewards, that’s why.
I failed to realize that what’s really important is to connect the dots.
We already know that millions of data on our hands are useless if we don’t know how to make sense of them.
I guess it’s the same with all the learning we seem to ‘collect.’
How about you? Are you merely ‘collecting dots’ or ‘connecting the dots?’
We can still do something about it.
It’s time to put our learning into practice. Shall we?
jessa 