Lecturers influences' on students' motivation to learn at Kota Samarahan higher learning institution / Christina Jau and Agnes Lasah

Being a lecturer is one of most challenging and important career nowadays. This is due to the change of many aspects which affect the way of how to deliver and make lecture more understandable. It is not an easy task to make people lesson and even to attract people to be listen on what we want to tell. In order to provide efficient end effective education, it is essential for lecturer to understand their student as a learner. Current climate in higher educational is rightly promoting greater participation and student diversity, leading to larger and less homogenous classes. Therefore, more formalized means to understand student as a learner may be required. Through this, the lecturer may able to understand students’ expectation of learning, teaching and assessment. Not only that, they also can understand conceptions of learning, epistemological beliefs, and their reflective thinking abilities. As to gain on the investigation of student requirement, it is essential for the lecturer to understand the needs of their students in order to construct more effective learning environment for their many diverse students. At the same time, greater student diversity makes it more imperative that lecturer understand not just the knowledge and skills base on their student at point of entry, but also the student as learner.