diff --git "a/text_data.txt" "b/text_data.txt" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/text_data.txt" @@ -0,0 +1,70000 @@ +good and interesting +This class is very helpful to me. Currently, I'm still learning this class which makes up a lot of basic music knowledge. +like!Prof and TAs are helpful and the discussion among students are quite active. Very rewarding learning experience! +Easy to follow and includes a lot basic and important techniques to use sketchup. +Really nice teacher!I could got the point eazliy but the v +Great course - I recommend it for all, especially IT and Business Managers! +One of the most useful course on IT Management! +I was disappointed because the name is misleading. The course provides a good introduction & overview of the responsibilities of the CTO, but has very little specifically digital content. It deals with two-speed IT in a single short lecture, so of course the treatment is superficial. It is easy to find more in-depth material freely available, on the McKinsey website for example. +Super content. I'll definitely re-do the course +One of the excellent courses at Coursera for information technology bosses and managers. +Is there any reason why you should not apply the course by BCG?)It's content is pretty unique and includes a high level analysis and a wide range of knowledge needed to cover all detailed aspects.Best regards,Oleg Serov +Excellent course and teachers. Congratulations!! +This is a good course for an CIO in a non technical company. +Good content, but the course setting does (at least for me) not allow learn the content long term due to missing reading material. +Very structured approach. Thank you for sharing with me. +Program demystifies the evolving world of CIOs in a typical global corporation.Coverage being introductory familiarizes participants nicely through some of the nuances & emerging trends.When I took the course participant numbers was fewer, so feedback was quite delayed. So one should plan to be patient to get their peer reviews.Based on peer reviews i sensed much variations in their expectations.Few sections are in French with Subtitles.Subtitle quality requires audit/review. +Very relevant and useful course designed for CIOs +This course does not say anything about digitization which is the core subject of the digital wave. +Videos that are presented in French could've been translated to English. +The course content is quite good, though it could have been deeper in some areas.But its peer review system is not working well, if at all.Regards, An Le. +Great piece of work, I especially liked a few 'lifehacks' for the CIO +Excellent course, for me it was very rewarding and the terms used and the tools given were excellent, and today and I put in use in my job, Thank you for inculcating knowledge and move on +Excellent... It is a representation of our day by day, thanks for sharing your vision, experience and advices...RegardsDaniel Damas +Very interesting and well-designed MOOC ! +Excellent course! Totally recommended! +Great course information and content ! Very interesting ! Unfortunately there is a peer graded assignment which 3 classmates must grade. Although two of my classmates gave me all passing grades one classmate gave me all 0's and didn't really justify why; which made me have to re submit my assignment. Thankfully 3 other amazing classmates saw the quality of my work :) +Very interesting course. I learned a lot about the history of Aboriginal education. +Great content! Learned a lot. +This has been an phenomenal course on the education and worldviews of First Nations people. As an educator in a First Nation's community in Ontario's north, the knowledge in the lectures has been phenomenal. +I found this course was very interesting and a great learning tool and I am glad I would recommend this course to people Ni:Awen +Well-presented contents with comprehensive illustrations and easy to follow, cover in proper order every aspect of drawing and AutoCAD. Would appreciate if the English subtitle is available in the whole course, so more students could access to these handy lectures and exercises. +Very Basic course for learners without Autocad experiences. +Good quality. +Thanks. +Course is comprehensive and detailed. But is a bit fast paced for people new to IT Finance +A very great course for all IT person +I think it should be a more engaged course with practical examples +Excellent overview of the ways in which 3D printing is in use and how it may be used in the future. +Very well documented course.Assignments are designed such a way that it stimulates you to think out of box. +Very Good Informative Course.!! +Excellent course. I completely enjoyed it. Thank you Vishal and team. +It opened up my understanding of what could be accomplished with 3D printing +Important information on copy rights, patents, etc. +Progress is in a state of flux, so one must reach out to the best in academia on any particular subject to get a realistic update of technology. This course will help you catch up to design thinking and doing. Get it and do it. +A really challenging and enriching course about the amazing world of 3D Printing. In this course you will discover the unimaginable amount of applications that 3D Printing offers and will open your mind in ways you didn't think possible! +This is a really good survey class in the potential of 3d printing, with examples of how individuals can empower themselves and others without the obstacles of traditional tooling, with a relatively short learning curve and low investment. It also demonstrates the ways in which, now and increasingly in the future, we'll all be capable of designing the solutions to our own problems with increasing agility!The only thing that could make it better would be to have more design challenges!Thanks! +Excellent course , enjoyed learning :) +Great course and very informative. +I'll start by saying that this course gives a good insight into a wide variety of applications of 3D printing. There are lots of interviews with people who have or are leveraging additive manufacturing in original and effective ways. The last week of the course also introduces an interesting and seemingly effective framework for design thinking.The reason that I've only rated 3 stars however is that the only useful thing you learn in this course is the design thinking framework. I think that it would be better if these videos were scattered throughout the rest of the specialisation. I do see value in including this material in the specialisation but not as an outright course. +This course doesn't contain any new information. It does not teach you but just excitedly shows commonly known facts.There are better ways to invest your time. +Great course. I enjoyed learning the material. +Excellent course. Good classes, easy to follow, updated content, high quality videos. +It should be merged with course 1 +Very nutritional course with real world examples that let you understand the potential of 3d printing as an emerging technology. +very interesting +Topics related to the economy or business are not something I am good at or enjoy reading about, this course helped me learn a bunch of useful things I would otherwise not have put effort into studying. +I was able to understand materials and devices used in 3d printing, software aspects of 3d printers and get an introductory view of cutting edge applications such as 3d printing in biomedical applications +This course is very interesting, enlightening and a wonderful introduction especially for learners with no prior experience with 3D printing. +Great information and videos. Ready for the next step.Gus +If you are interested in having a deeper insight of the 3D printing technology, I recommend this course. There are no prerequisites, all you need is the desire to learn. This course will introduce to to you the different 3D manufacturing methods, and present to you to 3D printing companies that are presently actively. If you want to transitions into the 3D printing field, I believe this course is a good start. +Full Individuals speaking +It should be less repetitive and full of useful informations about applications. +Very good inspirational examples. +Great course. It provided a great degree of knowledge about applications and the design process. +it could be easily compressed in a two-weeks course.Sometimes interviews are too long for what they need to explain. +good introduction into the applications of 3D printing. +good overview what you can do with this amazing technology. +This session was too long and a little boring. Could be shorter with the related contents. +exemplary examples to how 3d Printing can be applied to real world problems. +Great content, I still need to go over it to glean the wealth of information that has been put together here. +While there is some interesting content, particuarly in the last week on design thinking, some of the course topics don't seem to hold together well, and the videos include a lot of monotonous talking heads. While this conveys the benefit of being able to listen to some of the videos without consistently watching, the interview questions asked of speakers are sometimes printed on the screen and not asked verbally. If you're not watching, you miss the questions. I would like to see this course refocused on design thinking for 3D printing, with other applications interspersed as examples rather than constituting the lion's share of the course. I believe that format would both be more engaging and do a better job of delivering skills with more opportunity for practice. +I do not find very interesting this course. too many interviews. It could works for the first course, but not for the second. I was expecting to have more technical material and lessons. +Very good in-depth look at the potential applications for 3D printing. I especially liked the sections on development and education. This class gets you thinking about the potential ramifications of 3D printing and how it can change the economy, both locally and globally. +A good course to see the various market and non-profit aspects of 3D printing. Lot of examples and initiatives, a +Excellent course, could do with a little more visual references. Some of the talks are a bit tough to get through since you are watching 2 people. Content still very valuable. +A very complete course, very interesting! +Great review of what can be accomplished through 3D printing. +Great class! +Super! I did not expect the level of engagement needed to complete the course and it was a very pleasant surprise!Being a layman in the 3D printing revolution, this course really expanded my views on 3D printing. +A lot of speaking without any sense. Skip it at all cost +This is a very basic course on 3D Printing Technology but every aspect of the technology is artistically explained. All the various points of view are considered and a 360 degree idea is passed on to the students.By taking this course, students who are contemplating about their involvement in this revolutionary technology will be able to finally decide their future course of action, which I believe will be positive.In short, this course will provide you a base whereas the further courses, I think (as I haven't taken up the rest of the courses till now but I intend to) will add sufficient value to your knowledge.Regards. +Great course! Thank you! +Very helpful videos that really takes you into the real world of 3D printing. The interviews with the representatives from various industries in this course helped me understand the importance of 3D printing / additive manufacturing as a convenient tool, and also where to look for related resources. +Great intro! The videos were fantastic and instructors very engaging. +Excellently framed course +I like the fact that so many leaders of 3D printing came from diverse backgrounds. And they share an infectious spirit of learning and pushing the boundaries of software, hardware and materials science. +Great overview and introduction to 3D printing +So great! If you want to overview the current situation of 3D printing technology and develop so business on 3D printing, you have to watch this +I thought this was a great high-level intro to the world of 3D printing. +Got new prospects and vision of 3D printing tech +This was a great course, great implementation and motivation was provided which has definitely increased my enthusiasm and i am really looking forward to other courses to increase my skills. +Excellent course. Very well presented. I enjoyed not only the instruction sessions but also the interviews with other specialists in this fascinating field. A great course to inspire one to continue pursuing this as a career. +Very informative an approachable course. I really like the way Aric presents the information. I am excited to complete the rest of the Specialization. +good introduction!!! +The best course for beginners. +Thanks for the course! It has opened me to the world of 3D printing - on when did it start and where it is now. :) +This was a great course! Aric Rindfleisch encourages enthusiasm on this new techology revolution. It gave me the fundamental basics on the matter. Furthermore now I am more interested on 3D printing than I was before starting the course. I surely follow the following Illinois University courses on 3D Printing! +Great intro to 3D printing and the many, many ways it can be used. +Good experience to start with +Gives a nice over view about what is 3d printing. +This course change me the views on 3D printing and their revolution. +Have got a great insight towards 3D Printing. +Excelent! Lots of information and really interesting interviews. Plus Aric Rindfleisch is extremely clear in the lectures. Congratulations. +Wow ! Learning is so easy here, bring your innovation to reality , please join this course , Highly recommended !!!! +This is a great introduction to 3D printing. It covers the basics of different 3D printing technologies, from desktop to industrial hardware. It shows the resources and services available to utilise 3D printing effectively. It provides interviews with entrepreneurs and others in industry which are using this technology. +This course doesn't contain any new information. It does not teach you but just excitedly shows commonly known facts.There are better ways to invest your time. +Fred J FeilerNov 20, 05:49 PSTChat started: 2016-11-20 01:37 PM UTC(01:37:50 PM) Fred J Feiler: We need a start date for 3D Printing Software course. The learners are concerned that this course will never happen even for those who have been enrolled since June 2016.(01:38:52 PM) Coursera Support: Thanks for reaching out to us! Someone will be right with you.(01:39:38 PM) *** Jessy joined the chat ***(01:39:54 PM) Jessy: Thanks for reaching out to us. I’d be more than happy to help you today.(01:40:29 PM) Jessy: I am very sorry for the inconveniences.(01:40:40 PM) Jessy: Please allow me a moment while I take a look into this for you Fred.(01:40:59 PM) Fred J Feiler: Thanks(01:44:54 PM) Fred J Feiler: I enrolled in the five course specialization. My momentum is at a standstill so if this course is delayed I’ll look for something better.(01:46:05 PM) Jessy: I am very sorry for the inconveniences Fred, I checked and that course does not have sessions available yet.(01:46:16 PM) Jessy: It looks like we will need some time to look into this issue further. I am going to escalate this to our support specialists so they can further investigate. This means that I will be ending this chat and it will become a support ticket email. You will receive an email transcript of our chat for your records, and someone from our support team will review our chat and email you with updates as soon as possible.(01:47:18 PM) Fred J Feiler: OK, thank you! +Excellent introduction of 3D printing. The course is well designed and engaging. Looking forward to the other courses in the series. +This course was fantastic, I learned so much from it, and I am so excited to continue this track! +Great course. Can't wait for the next one to start +Not according what I expected +2 thumbs up learned something that I have never learnt before. +Great course to start with 3D printing technology. +Great Introduction to the 3d printing world +a very good introductory course. as a novice in 3d printing it helped me a lot understanding the basics of 3d printing. +Good place to start if you don't know anything about 3D printing. +Very complete and extensive.The weeks actually take weeks to complete! +Thank you so much! +Excellent information covered, very understandable with practical examples and great professors. +Very interesting course! +A very comprehensive and total introduction to basic concepts of 3d printing +Excellent course, really lloking forward for the rest of the specialization! +Suberb introducition into 3d printing idea and usage +I really liked The 3D Printing Revolution course. It's easy to understand, you don't need any background knowledge, but you will find out so much about this topic - including materials that are used, technologies, 3D printing companies... Also, the materials cover history and the future of 3D printing. It's a great introductory course and the instructor (and the guests) are amazing. I recommend it! +Nice introduction to 3D for absolute beginners. Very interesting interviews entrepreneurs. +Great course! The fundamentals were covered and I am excited to take the next course. +It's mostly very basic stuff, but even then it introduced me to concepts I wasn't aware of. +Great thanks for Dr.aric ,who has a smiley face ,If any one enrolled this course ,he would get a great knowledge and usefull information about 3d printing or addtive manufacturing ,throw a simple & exciting videos ,not only that ,you would get another benefits not only information about 3d priting ,like ,getting knowledge of many companies from the inside ,see stories of successfull people which achieves you to keep up with your work ,meet with your colleagues and make new friends ,and finally grow up your english skills ,like listening and grow up your vocabulary .....Great thaks for coursera team ,it's our pleasure to learn with you ........ +Very nice introduction about 3D printing! I love it! +Good introductory course, just a little bit to short for my like.Gus +I can't just not to rate this as I really enjoyed it to the max +Great course. A must for every individual who has some idea about it and even if you don't, Aric and his team will guide you throughout this wonderful technique. +great course for learning about 3d printing and seeing where the technology has gottten to. I will be pursueing the rest of this capstone. +Do not hesitate to enroll, it's a brain storming course & I like the way of the teaching here! +Great course delivery by the instructor! Great opportunity to meet great people! To me it was like a real journey! The course gave me a clear understanding of 3D printing in high level. Looking forward to get in -depth knowledge from further courses! I would highly recommend this course to those who wish to know about 3D printing! +It provides not only a good overview about 3D Printing but stimulates people who attend it to look for more. Great course to start the journe +Geeat it give the confidence to unleash my creativity. And now I see the world with different eyes, with great opportunities to create or customize objects in 3D. +A very good introductory course in 3D Printing for everybody at every level. +Mind-blowing course! +Great introduction +I like the course. Pretty concise and straight forward. Highly recommended. +Eye and mind opening course. +good introduction to 3D printing +Very good introduction to the subject, instructor never looses the attention with new topics and examples. +Great introduction, even for people who will not pursue completion of the full specialisation. +perfect introduction to the 3D printing world! +Amazing! Very interactive, engaging and comprehensive. +Excellent introduction to 3D printing. +Great content, the videos and talks are very motivating and they give an exciting overview of the subject. Thanks for the great work. +Great class! +very interactive and reflective course highly recommended. +a very good overview that makes you long for +If you know little or nothing about additive, and it sounds interesting, this is a good place to start! +An excellent course to start with, if you are completely new to 3D printing. Easy-to-understand language, very little special tech-talk, so the course is suitable for virtually anybody. t is true that you do not need to be a tech genius to get acquanted with the world of 3D printing! +A good course, please provide more practice quiz in depth. +Simply very interesting. +Its a nice brief introduction about 3-D Printing technology. +Very good and helpful introduction to 3D Printing +Great Class! +it's a very good an easy to understand first inmersion in the world of 3d printing +It was exactly like the lecturer said it would be like.The only hard part is the last part, where we had to actually remix an existing 3D model .I think this part of the lecturer video should have had an in depth look at how to use the 3D app.Nevertheless the course was good I learnt a lot of new stuff and not to give out any spoilers.....Its worth it. +A good Introduction to 3D printing. +Great information about 3d printing. It helps you to understand what is the current scope of this technology and how you can start. +I didn't really care about the stories from the students or seeing the space for one whole lecture video. It's clear that Ultimaker is the sponsor, but it felt like a commercial. I want to learn more. +It's fantastic +Great class +This first course has been an excellent overview of the field. Easy to follow and brought everything into "perspective" . Eagerly looking forward to the next course. +Excellent course! Very thorough introduction and has only peaked my curiosity to go further in understanding this powerful technology! +The course was great! I think its a great point to start in 3d printing, it has lot of information, links, interviews and it easy to understand. Keep up the good work!!! +Very useful for understanding the basics of 3D printing technology. +This is a fantastic course, even if you've never before heard of 3D printing or you've been using a 3D printer for a while, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in technology or futuristic concepts.The videos in this course are very engaging. There are a plethora of interviews with people who are involved with the 3D printing industry, who discuss specific topics in 3D printing, and each offer their views on the future of 3D printing. All the different opinions and perspectives really helped me understand the importance of 3D printing at both an industry and consumer level. Considering this is an introductory course, it's very thorough, and it consolidates and summarizes information that might take you ages to glean off the internet. Even though I had a 3D printer before I took this course, I learned a lot! +Very good intro to 3d printed. +I enjoyed this class very much. All the content was very easy to understand and follow. I love the fact that I can pick up the materials on my phone or table through the app! Is very convenient. Before this class I had no idea 3D printing had been around for so long, I thought it was someone newer, it's amazing to see all the different applications it can be use for. +It's not a course... this is a very short general introduction to 3D Printing +Hello!My name is Ahmed from Egypt, I am 3D Hubs Mayor. I think it's The first course in the internet which will give you the opportunity to know a lot of things about 3D Printing so stay tuned and register now if you interested in 3D printing.Cheers, +This is a great introduction to 3d printing and the maker movement. Things I thought I knew were corrected and resources I never knew about were introduced. Very worthwhile +Good information but way too short for what Coursera charges. +Practically oriented and brilliantly organized! +It was a perfect introductory course for those who really want to learn something about 3D-Printing. I loved it.. +Best place to get yourself up-to-date with the "state-of-the-art" in 3D printing. I really liked 'The Revolutionaries' section where you get exposure to all the inter-disciplinary ideas floating around in the 3D Printing landscape. +Thank you for this course, very good course. +I am very glad to see courses like this one on Coursera. The course itself is well structured and contains a lot of useful information and that is exactly what I needed in one place.My only complaint is the price of the course - I think it is a bit expensive especially for this first part of the specialisation - it is an introductory two week course with a lot of advertising...£40..common..are you serious?? A lot of people will buy personal 3D printers or kits after the course, some of them will make a decision to buy a 3D printer for a company they work for (as myself), Fusion 360 subscriptions etc. These companies should sponsor such courses to make them more affordable - it is their interest.I made several courses on Coursera already (Mechanical and Electrical Engineering), they were 5 to 8 weeks and comprised a lot of quite hard work from mentors and students and were only £32 for certificate.I like the idea of this specialisation but I decided not to pay for the certificate because of its price. Although I am very happy to have access to the courses and I thank you for you effort! +This is a really great introductory course on 3D printing. I was completely new to the subject and in just two short modules both the basic techniques and some modern day applications were explained in a really clear and engaging manner.I was also really interested to learn about the business examples that made use of these new technologies.Recommended for anyone who is interested in new and exciting techniques! +Great endeavor! You can now learn about the 3D printing technology at your own place. +An excellent course. I only wish the portion on non-financial metrics included some examples or insight in how best to quantify non-financial metrics in do +week 1 and 2 were kind of boring, but maybe necessary; weeks 3 and 4 were more interesting from a business point of view (i'm not so much interested in accounting as in business decisions).the virtual class of professor Bushee was quite funny :) +Excellent course, first 3 weeks were very technical but highly informative. Quite a bit of accounting knowledge is required to understand the work. Last week of lessons were more simple and intuitive to understand, but overall, a very insightful module +First of all, I really enjoyed Professor Ittner's presentations. Sadly, his presentation was only 25% of the course. Professor Ittner was very direct but also was very engaging in how he delivered his content. I had a good feeling that I could really understand the material he was teaching. If I could give a rating for just Professor Ittner, I would give a 5 star rating. Now, this is why I am giving this course a 1 star rating. But I do have to say, going into the depths of Accounting Analytics is not easy. You really need to have a good grasp of Accounting otherwise you will get lost. Professor Bushee did not make the first 3 weeks really easy to get through. While I enjoyed his examples & case studies, he simply did not do a great job of really explaining and illustrating the concepts he was teaching. And worst of all, he setup a digitally generated classroom where he had his computer generated students ask pointless questions, make pointless statements, or answer with pointless statements/answers. I really wish I had the time to analyze how much of the course time he spent doing this, I would estimate that it's around 10% but it could very well be higher. There are so many different examples to pick form, but I'll just pick a few here. "I didn't read the Iliad or Odyssey some I'm not going to ask you to" in reference why in regression there are Greek letter used for coefficients (it's a fair assumption that someone taking this class understands coefficients), a 30 second exchange where a PC generate student says that they're "stocked" to run some regression followed by Proffessor Bushee informing us that "we're going to run some narly regressions", Professor Bushee saying he doesn't know how to perform Earning Management Analysis on Mars but he certainly knows how to do it on Earth, and a joke why people don't like accountants. These segments add absolutely zero value. They lengthen the time of the course. To make maters worse, I'm sure Proffessor Bushee had to spend even more time creating this additional interaction together. +This is the first English course I have taken.Though at first it was kind of difficulty because of language(especially the terms) and profession knowledge(it is a comprehensive course and I am still learning courses concerned at school)the course is really worth taking. I have learned a lot .and it stimulates my interest in accounting. +Thanks for your help. +It was fast, but provided a good overview. I would like some cases to work and to apply the methods to. +Providing what are the insight we need to look before investing in a company and how interpret the balance sheet and found the +No practical knowledge learnd and no clear examples of the topics. Too complex all the course +The course itself is good. Nevertheless, it says that it doesn't require any previous experience... But there is actually experience required on financial statements and concepts. +Very good course but videos sometimes too long +A fantastic course +Really fantastic and interesting intermediate accounting course +weeks 1,2 and 3 were not satisfactory according to me. the video lectures were difficult to comprehend. week 4 was very good. +this is the best course that i ever studied it +I love the professors, but unfortunately, I do not feel much connection to me (not really seeing so much importance for me to identifying if a company is making fake financial statements; I am not an investor, and my everyday work does not really have so much to do with financial statements).The Managerial Accounting (week 4) transforms my mindset!! I really appreciate that. That one single week of course can literally help so many companies/NGOs. That week 4 should be promoted more!! +This is fantastic course. The only catch is that it doesn't have Chinese translation, which makes it a little bit more difficult for non-natives to learn. The quality is great. +I have only taken one year of accounting in high school before, but the course was really easy to comprehend and engaging! +It's a very good course. +The three first weeks were almost completely dedicated to traditional finance accounting ratio analysis. +Course was not easy to grasp, lost interest after the first week and I barely got through the quiz at the end. +This course is difficult for me since it requires extensive background of accounting studies while my background is in HR and Strategy. However, I grasped the opportunity to make up my finance and accounting related knowledge, and passed the course finally after several times of trial and error. The professors taught the course in a very interesting and fun way, which could have been a boring class with lots of difficult and hard numbers but turns out to be a class full of fun and laughters. I like the way the two professors are presenting the knowledge, as well as doing the analysis. Thanks for providing such a course! More courses like this should be organized to benefit more professionals or students in need! +Very useful material to financial review of cash flow statements. +Very informative course. Prof. Bushee is hilarious,, really like his teaching technique +not a big fan of accounting honestly, but i quite enjoy the course. doesn't involve a lot of in-depth math, and its easy to follow. +The first three weeks focussed heavily on ratios and detecting fraud and earnings management in an organization, the fourth week seemed to actually relate to data analytics and how non-financial aspects of a company play a role in the financial outcomes. I really do not see where a data analyst who is not in accounting field would be using the fraud detection scenarios in real life. A data analyst would be focused on improving the business and doing the analyses that pertain to improving certain aspects of a business, not finding his manager's earnings management using an M-score etc. +It was very well done and very informational. Thanks again professors for your dedication and time to educate society! +My major is accounting but I still felt that it was so difficult. But I learned some knowlege which our teachers didn't tell me. Thanks! +Departments rigidity to information sharing as an ailment at middle and lower organizational levels was a notable issue +This course made me look at Accounting in a very different way; instead of common business schedules, it actually became exciting to read and find out what was really going on! +Most fruitful course for the most updated Accounting Analytics +Very informative and interactive. I like the style of Professor Bushee's classroom teaching +I believe that it is a fantastic course for those have some basic accounting knowledge and the willingness to enter compliance area. More importantly, the concept linking financial and non-financial decisions are also fantastic to bring accounting to life! I do love both professors in the module! +great accounting ratio analysis +Good overview on Financial Analytics! +This was very challenging course for me... I felt you needed a strong knowledge base of financial statements to really understand what triggers potential fraud, deception. I think I will need to re-review the course material to reinforce the concepts. Thanks! +Focus of first 3 week is more of an audit analytics material. Quiz material could have been more interactive. Overall OK course. +An excellent course with Professor Bushee, as always (I completed a previous ten weeks course with him, also a superb quality programme of study), very practical, focused and complete, and absolutely enjoyable. +Interesting course. Motivating instructors. Tests were sometimes a bit too much about semantics and too little about applying knowledge in a practical way (which the course intro hinted on). But it was good value, manageable next to job and private life and fun to do. You won't regret it. +This has been a challenging course for a person that doesn't have any accounting experience +Professors need to undergo a presentation and Instruction Design skills. They were talking a lot and everything was going over my head, the reason was there were not visual prompt for the examples, specifically in the last week. +Excellent overview of identification of problems in financial statements +This is an excellent course, especially for someone with near zero knowledge of financial statements and their analysis. The concepts are clearly presented, with interesting details and supporting examples of their use. The inane comments by cartoon characters using poorly simulated accents is only mildly irritating. +Interesting course with good and clear explanation. Easy to understand and with fun!Thank you! +Very clear. Excellent instructor and it's free if you don't pay for the cert! Can you have a better class experience? Thank you Prof. Bushee! +Wonderful! Very convenient discourse and utterly concise. +A very interesting course. Strengthening the advanced accounting concepts. +It was very breathtakingly and I think that it is the best course within the Business Analytics specialization. +difficult for people without accounting background to take. +Good structure... funny prof! ... alot to digest but worth it. +The contrast of provided material is quite huge. In first for weeks all the analytics are explained and decisions are shown, in the last week only principles and overall concepts are introduced. +I have many hours of undergraduate accounting and finance course work under my belt and this class gives you a tremendous overview of financial statement analysis. The only disadvantage is that the professor creates the workbooks for you and you only have to answer conceptual questions. While this would be great for some, I was hoping for some more hands on work to practice. +Excellent Material and instructions. Hard, but valuable +Although I am not a native speaker,but I try me best to understand it!Good teacher!Good Coursera! +Very insightful topic! A good overview of the use of analytics in accounting! +was worth the time, thanks professor +I have thoroughly enjoyed this course. The whole idea of earning management was cool. I will highly recommend this course to all. +Awesome Course! Very funny and really sophisticated! The last part is eye opening. Best course in this specialisation!It is not for beginners though, you should have a solid understanding of accounting for the first 3 lectures. +Besides serving as a refresher of a few accounting topics, this course really delivers on the topics of analyzing financial statements for possible fraud and linking non-financial metrics to financial performance. +I really appreicated the tools and techniques presented in the course. Very very valuable for Merger and Acqusition projects that I will be involved in (if ever) +Excellent thoughts and concepts presented. +i love professor Brian J Bushee!! +Great concise lectures and examples. Useful supplemental files. Entertaining Q&A in Brian's sessions. +Rather robust material with strong focus on "deceptive" practice detection. A lot of ratio analyses, each with its own moniker which I found tedious. Informative and confirmed that I don't have the "accountant gene". +Sorry to say but among the four courses of this specialization, this one really disappointed me. Not the fault of teachers or institute, i think the only mistake they made is try to fit too many topics in one course. Anyway this is only my opinion! +Amazing Course! +Very practical and complementary for other accounting courses. +The best auditing course out there! +The first 3 weeks demonstrate how to analyze financial performance based on accounting data taken from a company's reported income and investment decisions (10-K for example). The material is presented in an interesting manner with extensive use of Excel spreadsheets to demonstrate the calculation and application of common performance metrics and ratios. The test are challenging and interesting. I retook test I had passed because the information cover was interesting and the test provided an excellent learning opportunity. The fourth week deals with liking non-financial measures to financial performance. Within a typical organization, these parameters are often the ones employees most affect and are often measured against. The concepts and methods of evaluating presented with examples to demonstrate some of the problems with linking non-financial measures to financial performance.I will be able to use what I have learned from both of these classes in my current job. I evaluate current business strategies of my company against competitive business strategies. Since the competitive business strategies must be deduced from a combination of published information and reported financial performance, the first three weeks will be of greatest benefit in this aspect of my job. The last week will be of more benefit as I help business organization within my company develop their business strategies. +Great content but animations are annoying! +With my Accounts/Business/Finance/Statistics Graduation/Post Graduation Education and Teaching & Work Experience, I believe the Professor/Educator who Designed and Presented this Course requires atleast a Basic Training before putting together an important Course like Accounting Analytics. +Too far from subject +The course and the instructor are great, but a missed some referenced material. +Thanks to the Professor Brian Bushee for the good explanations. I learned a lot. I find the module 4 so difficult for me. The Prof Christopher Ittner is speaking like CNN journalist and not easy for a non native US or English speaker like me to follow. +I love to be taught accounting by Sir Brian. A very marvellous course. +Great Course +Really good teachers that made a "boring" theme (that I had in college) very interesting to watch and study. +Very good course well presented especially as the topic can be fairly complex. +Week 4 was the best and the more appropiate for the specialization. +Thank you for offering this course. It has taught me a lot of things that I hadn't known. I'm interested in Accounting and there were some times I didn't know where I could gain the materials for study. Now thanks to your courses, I don't need to worry so much. Hope you will continue to produce more +The Capstone project has been getting delayed since JanDont expect yourself to complete the specialization +There was a gap between the prerequisites mentioned on the course details and those stated by Prof. Bushee during the lectures. As such, I found this course a bit harder due to tons of new terminologies in accounting. +Best course of the specialisation so far. +Prof Brian Bushee is really excellent but I felt that Prof Chris Ittner's lecture was quite fluffy for an analytics course. Would have appreciated practice problems and case study practices like the operation analytics class +This course was very informative and can easily be used in any business setting. I can go an apply the methods learned in this course to any organization's financial statement to get a better idea of their financial performance. I really enjoyed in week 4 how the information learned in prior weeks can be tied to nonfinancial measures in developing a causal model to improve the performance of a company. +Thank you so much for this good-quality course! I benefit a lot. Many thanks to dear professors! +Really useful course, concise and resourceful +Very interesting course, well designed, using animated fun-makers to shoot out questions that you will probably do it yourself.Course content easy to understand. Very suited for non-accounting major analyst who wants to get some background in accounting analysis.. +Very boring +Easiest accounting common sense. If you ever took acct , this will be a wasting of time. +While each of the Business Analytics courses have been terrific in their own way, Accounting Analytics was the most challenging and most enjoyable. Accounting + clear information + dogs + sense of fun = a great course. Thank you! +Extremely useful! I recommend it :) +Very interesting course! +Content very clear and explained by the professors. +Brain Bushee's videos are really impressive. Some areas are too technical for a beginner to understand. The rest of the material provide good understanding... +Excellent course, professor Bushee always delivers such great explanations. +I really appreciate this instructor!! He is so considerate! +Great course! +Very interesting and provocative course. It will help you to receive additional knowledge which is very valuable. +Bushee was fantastic! Ittner was fine, but not as entertaining as Bushee. +Extremely useful, powerful and course +I loved the Accounting part of the course. It was quite hard for me (non-accounting person), however I really enjoyed the form of the lectures and the content itself (the earnings management + its revealing). Great materials Professor Bushee! +the Best cour and the Best sitetanks +I bit too complicated, as a lot of material placed within 4 weeks of ~15min videos. +I recommend this course to all my colleagues. Its enriched content certainly helped me to understand things in better way and provided content in structured way, which is I liked most. +While I enjoyed this course and the topics covered, I don't feel like the course content matched what the course description stated it was supposed to. I enrolled in the Business Analytics Specialization course with a focus on analyzing a business from the inside, not outside. Of the 4 weeks of the course, I'd say that only week 4 was valid from an internal perspective but it was kept very high level. I'd say this course could be good for a specialization in business market analysis, but not as advertised.I also found the cartoon classroom questions to be very annoying, almost as bad as fingernails on a blackboard. +Great course. Fantastic ideas around modelling equity returns based business and operational performance +good overview of analytics options within accounting. +Great course and great insights! +Great working examples to learn Analytics in Financial Statement Analysis. Pace of videos was great. Working excel worksheet gives perfect hands on experience to vary and run the scenarios. Having done "Introduction to Financial Accounting" by same professor gave little bit more visibility into reading statements and understanding ratio analysis.Virtual Classroom is getting more new students in each course. I am looking forward to Advance Financial Accounting course. +Great! As always great lectures by professor Bushee! +Very well done! Contents, delivery, clarity, everything was top notch. Thank you! +This course was one of the toughest courses i pursued so far... I was expecting a lot from this course. from basic to advanced and more of fundamentals. this course should be floated as full specialization rather than as a part of other specialization. +This was a good course, no doubt about it. But i felt, that the subject needed more depth that the course framework allowed. I would have liked if it had a part 2 for this course for people who wanted to go little more hands-on in this subject. +Finally i am able to complete this course. This course was little tougher than the other 3 courses due to some complicated accounting spreadsheet calculations. But i finally i am able to make it. Good Luck to rest of the folks. +The Best Course in Accounting Analytics. +Very well thought out. Many useful and applicable techniques provided that can be put to work immediately. +The course was very helpful. Thanks a lot to everyone who have made this happen! +I would add more examples on how to populate the data, even spend time on optional videos where the professor or his assistant goes through testing ratios (something similar to Operations Analytics). I feel like the professor was rushing through his explanations and the models. Maybe people found the course very useful however I felt like there was too much text and immediate switch to Excel file that was elaborated shortly. Overall, I am not sure how to apply these ratios in my final project... +First of all, I would like to express my gratefulness to Coursera who presenting this excellent platform for those who is interested in ongoing lifetime education and hardworking and contributions to bring all the greatest courses from top universities around the world.Second, I thank you Prof Brian and Christopher for all your time, work especially your knowledge that you brought and shared within these videos. I truly appreciate and like the way you teaching and delivering the professional knowledge.To me, as a student who's just started stepping in accounting field, I found that accounting classes is so much interesting done by you, and it is a pure enjoyment as I learnt all the key knowledge. On there other hand, the courses gave me a general clear picture of how important and critical the accounting is in daily business management.I will continue study accounting as I pursue my professional goals and career path. +Lot of considerably complex and dry (accounting and statistics!) subject matter covered at a high level without much discussion! Quiz questions are unnecessarily complex - which (IMHO) will discourage / turn off those who are new to this subject matter in completing this course. The last week is pretty interesting though!I am taking the full business analytic course - and find that the quality and complexity of content is all over the place!! Some are way too simple and some are highly complex. +really informative, original and useful! +This course provides a deeper insight into financial and nonfinancial performance on a pragmatic basis. However the course itself is really brief and the exercises cannot thoroughly provide reliable measure of the understanding of the lectures. +The course makes accounting interesting and especially the examples are very illustrative. Virtual students bring some fun. The 4th week is however really integrated in the course structure. +Definitely good course for those working in either accounting or analytics. It gave me new ideas on how to apply analytical methods. Interesting examples on how to identify number management and how analytics can help to set up non-financial metrics that drive financial outcomes. +Insightful +Incredibile package. +I liked it, although I felt like they were 2 courses: One for the first three weeks, another one during the last week.The "First Course" was OK, but it was regular accounting stuff. I was rusty on that so I enjoyed it.The "Second Course" was the one related with Analytics.I give it 3 Stars because you can see some lack of preparation in the team. And because didn't made a proper link between Accounting and Analytics. +Thanks a lot for putting up such an amazing course +Challenging course, a mixture of forensic and investigation method in accounting +A technical but fun exploration of accounting analytics which completed the full gamut of analytics in a business context covered in the specialization. +Prof Brain is just superb. His hold and teaching ability of complicated subject of accounting is unmatched. +Thank you! +Vote for Pro. Bushee! +Good course if you are a beginner. Analytics is only 1 module (#3) and it is a good one. +Excellent course for aspiring financial analysts +i love this course very much!very practical and systematical content.and very useful for accounting professionbut its a little bit challenging to follow. I have watched whole the videos for more than 2 times in order to pass the assignment. +It's ok. Bushee is very knowledgeable and a very enthusiastic teacher, but his lessons are too dense compared to the content in the rest of the Wharton BA programs. I actually like all the detail, but I think it's covered too quickly and the course should probably be made longer to deal with it all. There are ratios and balance sheet jargon just flying at you at a breathless pace. It would be better to focus on a few key ones and then walk through the examples a little more slowly. The quizzes were extremely tricky with too many choose more than one answers. It was difficult to find the parts of the video to review missed questions because 1) the transcripts are machine generated and make it difficult to search specific words and 2) it's difficult to remember where the concept was covered because there was so much in each video.The last week felt very disconnected from the first week and like it belonged in a different course almost. It was pretty good, though. I liked how it contained specific examples and charts. +Great introduction to Accounting Analytics. Unexpected lecturing dialogues. Could have more analytics or additional or optional problem sets to explore more deeply. +I believe this is a very good course. Even I'm am a software engineer, I can understand how to manipulating the finacial report and how to detect them. +The Professor is really amazing. He makes every lecuture interesting and easy to understand. +Outstanding teacher and metodology. Best course of this kind i've come accross out of Business Schools and MBAs. +Excellent Designed course. Thanks +Excellent online course that caters to a wide spectrum of audiences with different learning backgrounds.Also love the cut scenes to the classroom where students make funny comments or ask questions haha +Five stars is not enough to express my satisfaction and love to this course.The instructor is very proactive in community. Every questions I posted got direcly feedback from Teaching staff (and most of them are from Prof Bushee!!!)This is the besttttt course among all Wharton analytics sessions! Honestly, you have to try!! +A little tough sometimes, but very instructive +This is my feedback as a Beta-Tester for the course:Week 1I thought that the videos were clear, well organized and flowed well from topic to topic. There was a clear logic as the professor developed the various ratios.What was missing for me was some in-line quizzes. Not the “tell me what I just told you type” but rather ones that make you think. So, for example, in the final video for Week 1, the optional video, instead of just suggesting that the students “play” with the spreadsheet, I think it would be better to give them an actual task or two… “change the assumption about X to . What is the impact on the Y ratio? Why?” I liked that he showed what numbers needed to be changed to make the share valuation closer to $55. But rather than just telling us the answer, this would be another opportunity to have the students stop the video and go try it themselves. With a specific task, it is likely that more students will go and work with the spreadsheet. This is where the real learning takes place.One of the things that I really liked about the design of prior courses by Professor Bushee was the fact that he had examples throughout the videos that had you apply the information right away. But, perhaps this is just me. I know that I learn a lot better by doing rather than just watching the videos and going “yeah… that makes sense. I understand…” I also recognize that some students, in past courses, have probably said they don’t find the in-line quizzes valuable. But, is that a reflection of the value of in-line quizzes as a whole or just in-line quizzes that simply require “parroting” something said in the video.I’m sure that the professor can come up with lots of examples. In Week 1 Video 1 the in-line quiz might provide some numbers for De-levered Net Income, Sales, Average Total Assets and Average Shareholder’s Equity and asking for the results of each of the ratios in the Dupont Analysis. And maybe a “think about what this means” type question that is not necessarily “marked” but for which an answer is provided in the video. Alternatively, he could have the students change some specific things in the Woof Junction spreadsheet and indicate what impact that has on the ratios and why.Week 1 Video 2 offers lots of similar opportunities with the Profitability and Turnover Ratios. Perhaps requiring the students to work backwards from a specific ratio to determine gross profit would be effective. Or, perhaps a question that relates strategy specifically to the ratios. For example, what would happen to the Gross Margin if Woof introduced a credit card and days receivable increased to 31.6 in 2015? Just something to engage people with the materials.All of the videos offer similar opportunities and I think having specific problems or questions will enhance the learning experience rather than just suggesting that they “go look at the spreadsheet”. The audience for these courses tends to be quite a bit different from your average upper tier university student and probably needs a bit more “hand holding” and “direction” in order to be successful.Also, if Professor Bushee expects students will watch the optional videos anyway, why make them optional? In the case of the Valuation Video, despite some of the mathematics being a little “scary” for some students, I think that the information there is really useful and helps to solidify an understanding of the spreadsheet.I’m wondering if an in-quiz question would be helpful. Perhaps it might provide a new set of financials for Woof Junction and ask for ratio calculation and what that means in terms of their position in the marketplace or something similar. Just some practice questions to get people working with the information.Same comments basically apply for the remainder of the weeks. I think that it would help the students to have some in-line quizzes – this not only breaks up the longer videos and helps to keep students focused but also provides a reinforcement of key concepts.I really liked the quiz for Week 1 even though I struggled with the questions where there are multiple correct responses. The quiz effectively reinforces the information covered very well and requires one to think about what was covered in the lectures.You may want to remind students that the questions may change from quiz to quiz. In many of these on-demand courses, the quiz questions do not change and students may be in the habit of not rereading the questions they have gotten correct on previous attempts.Week 2 – Revenue After Cash Collection at 7:39 – talking about Days Unearned Revenue and mentions that an “increase means slower future recognition”. A bit more explanation around what that means would be useful.Week 3 – no particular additional comments on the lectures other than some in-line questions might be good.. I found Benford’s Law really interesting.Week 4. It would be really nice to have something to break up the lectures – some in-line quiz questions might help. This would also help to reinforce the material.Week 4 quiz Question 9 -, the double negative wording of the question and the correct response may cause confusion for students – particularly for those for whom English is not their native language.Overall CommentsI enjoyed the course and learned a lot. I was wondering whether it would be possible to provide a summary document with all the key information from each week related to the ratio calculations and the key things to look for related to those ratios. I know that the ratios are provided in the spreadsheet but it might be good to have a written summary with some supplemental information about how to use the ratios.I think in-line quizzes or practice questions would be helpful for students – perhaps ones that asked students to do specific things in the spreadsheet and come back with an answer. They don’t need to be long or complicated – just something that gets people into the spreadsheets and working with them early. You may want to do something stronger to encourage them to “play” with the spreadsheet. Many will feel reluctant to change the numbers in the spreadsheet for fear of “messing” it up. Perhaps a reminder that they can change whatever they want because if they mess something up they can always download it again. Or they can save a copy and play in that leaving the original untouched.It also might be a good idea to have a “playground” sheet where there is a simple set of Financial Statements and the students can try changing things in the financial statements and see the impact on the key ratios without having to move from one spreadsheet to another – so, a combination of the Original tab and the first two columns of the Ratios tab. You might even want to have two columns for the ratios – one for the ratios with the original numbers that does not change (fixed values) and one for the changed numbers, so students can see the effect of the changes easily.In terms of the spreadsheets, I thought that the Original, the Ratios and the CommonSize tabs were fairly straight forward and relatively easy to understand. That may not be the case for people less familiar with MS-EXCEL but I don’t know what the target audience is for this course so the students may all be proficient with the tool. On the Valuation tab, I was wondering if the numbers in Row 41 should be highlighted in some way to emphasize that they are Years. That is not clear on first glance.There are a lot of mistakes in the subtitles. I pointed out many of these by flagging the specific videos where they occurred.Thank you for the opportunity to participate in the beta-test of this course. I hope that my comments are helpful and that I have not missed too much that causes students issues as the course goes live. +Thank you very much for this awesome course, I really enjoyed and learned alot from it.I really liked the selected topics, they act like an intro to some really interesting fields in the programming.I've learned about NP multiple times but never found a use to it until now, the problems were really good and informative.I think the linear programming was pretty rushed, it should've been expanded over two weeks with more in details.Maybe add a problem or explain the use of duality . +I didn't like that course because of:-weak explanations of algorithms-almost all assignments I googled, I spent all my time googling these algorithms-when code is submitted and something goes wrong It is not possible to understand what is really happened +Nice one. +poor course. never give any algorithm. No clue where the problem come from. The forum is only help a few people. No general ideas how to solve the problem. waist a lot of time debugging but still couldn't pass the assignment.total waste my time and garbage course. +While I like the content of the course but I felt too much of topics were crammed into one single course. I had to struggle a lot to grasp the concepts on advanced algorithms by just relying on video lectures so I had to look around in the internet for additional resources. Nonetheless it was a satisfying experience though it took me a lot of time and effort to complete the assignments. +Loved what I learnt, I also implemented a project using Google MAP API for the organization I'm working at +Inadequate student and teacher participation on forums, leaving students to figure things out without assistance or collaboration. Insufficient explanation of math concepts required to fully understand lectures. +The problems are really challenging, thank you! However, the instructor is not very active in the discussion forum, which is a pity when you really need help and get stucked in the problem set. +Excellent but tough course ,you need to work and it is not simply called advanced Algorithms and Complexity.You will be forced to test your code properly ,even if you didn't do it properly in the previous specialisation course. +Thank you very much. I learned a lot in this course. I recommend it! +I enjoyed the course a lot. I cannot thank the instructors enough.It would have been more interesting if we could go deeper on linear programming, such as extension to integer programming. The discussion about the duality was a bit too fast to me. +easy to undestand, but it needs more examples +Good one! +Great intro to Ableton, with good hands-on experience. Nice starting point for those who seek to expand their music creation toolset. +great fun and easy to learn. +I personally think that I've learnt more from Google and YouTube then in this course. You can join the course for certification. Other then the certificate, I find this course not much of value. +The course gives a good basic overview of the softwareAs a newbie to DAW software it helpsActually needed it to determine if I was going to purchase the full versionI will be +Offers a nice introduction to Ableton and its Usage. However it would have been lovely if this was a longer course.. Loved the way of instructions and the topics covered. +really great course +Really useful for beginners!! +must have if you want to start using ableton +Excellent course.Great content, tasks and learning environment.It helped me to rediscover my love for creating music and how well suited Ableton is to my way of working. +Good as a introduction, but there was only a few people on blend so it was hard to earn their votes, hope there will apear some intermediate or advanced courses. +Great introduction to Ableton 9 for a newcomers. You'll learn basics, but those that are enough to start create music. +Awesome course for an intro or to just refresh your skills. +it's awesome for beginners! +Cool, The best i did on line.I learned a lotThanks you very much. +to easy. enjoy everyone! also children to old papa anyone.thanks for Erin Barra +Great introduction to Ableton. If you love music, this can change the way you create sounds, melodies, rhythms,... +If only it was a week longer. +This is a great course for people who do not know Ableton. The exercises were easy to understand. +A very good course for getting a quick and effective introduction to one of the coolest DAWs around! Barra has explained everything nicely, and in an easy to grasp manner. Go ahead if you're looking for digital music production even remotely! +Perfect Starting point to Ableton Live!!! +Mo comment went way too fast no contact not deep +As thorough as possible given the time constraints. Erin Barra did a terrific job of condensing the material . I ended up appreciating the appeal of Ableton Live -- which is to say, a non-linear, clip-based DAW. The program (and Push) is endless, and I'm still learning all sorts of things. Good to have this basic foundation to work from. Thanks....! +Great for beginners and if you want to get into Ableton DAW +Very good course, I really wish for a next more advanced level course. +Excellent experience. Material, instructor and pace of the course were really good. +A well-presented and thorough introduction to the fundamental tools available in Ableton Live. +A great course to teach the basics of this software! +Thank you Ms professor Erin Bara you are the pest +Gives a soft view and precise information about what to do and how to do in Live.If you are looking for some input to start recording yourself or to start creating any kind of music, i strongly recommend this! +Great class for learning the fundamentals and basics within Ableton live 9. Projects are realistic and designed to educate a student no matter their level of knowledge. +Great for getting me started. I feel much more confident in navigating my way around the Ableton workspace. Using blend has opened me up to some wonderful ideas and opportunities :) +Please create another course +Fantastic and helps you create music that represents you. +Fully recommend if you want to dive into Ableton Live +Great course with an even greater lecturer who helps ease users into Ableton Live. +I learned so much in this class and the instructor did a great job explaining the contents +Great course! +Very light and practical course. Good for beginners but also nice to refresh some tips for intermediate users. +it's a great course for people who want to learn easily the base of this program! +Very helpful in acquiring necessary knowledge about Live. I would recommend this course to several others like me interested to get their hands on Ableton. +An excellent introduction to an extremely powerful Digital Audio Workstation - one which I had used for a few months but still learned a great deal from the course.Highly recommended. :) +Great course +Don't recommend.You're better off skimming through the ableton manual and using the search function to get the answers you want. +Good course . A must take for beginners ! +Great introductory course for ableton! +I loved! Easy to learn, easy to understand. Now i can to use my Ableton and work on my productions. Very nice teacher! +Simply an introduction but definitely helps learn the program, at least on a surface level. You will gain basic functionality and be well on your way to crafting more complex arrangements if you desire. +Erin Barra is an excellent teacher; one of the best I've ever encountered. The course plan is well thought out and structured so that absolute beginners as well as those with Ableton experience can benefit. Highly recommend!!! +Really great course! The videos were very clear and I learned a ton about a program I've been using for years to record audio only. +One of the best introduction to Ableton Live. This course is sharp, to the point and makes you sketch out a small track every week - a great way to get involved with the DAW. +Loving this course +Great course to start working your way around all the incredible tools Ableton offers. +I did not understand the submitting process till the fourth week. I feel that you could have offered a more detailed description . Doing the review in the fourth week did not do justice for my peers. +Excellent overview and practice for new ableton live users. +I have learned so much about using Ableton Live in this course. It really gives you the basic of the program and then some which is really great, especially when you want to use this program for producing and or recording. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Ableton and Berklee Online. +Excellent to start learning. +It's a great course. The teacher is the best, very direct and understandable. +As an introduction course its very helpful. It has just what you need to get started. +A very nice experience. I expected an entry level course, but Erin organised a well rounded path. I got a new effective approach to the Ableton Live 9 software.I recommend to develop carefully your assignments: you will improve your own skills by comparing your solutions with those of the classmates. In addiction you'll find some "veteran" student willing to help.Good luck! +While I did not have time to complete the final assignment I did find this course useful for creating a firmer understanding of Ableton Live. The peer review process is a great idea and something which I found to be both engaging and useful for networking with fellow artists.The content of the course I feel is probably useful to someone with no prior knowledge of DAWs, but this is not my first DAW. As such the course felt a little slow and the assignments a little unchallenging. Personally my peer review experience ranged from listening to fully fleshed out ideas to listening to uninspired loops of nonsense. I still feel as though I benefited from the process, however, and I gained an invaluable resource in Blend.I would love a next level - fleshing out some of the ideas touched on throughout the course, as well as exploring other ideas such as sidechaining. +I've started producing with live in a week. Amazing and clear course. +Brilliantly designed course for fundamental understanding of the DAW. +This course covers a lot of ground in a short period of time, and does it in a way that makes it easy to quickly leverage the power of Ableton in production and live performance. I appreciated the simplicity and thoroughness of the videos, and the assignments kept me motivated. It's a great class for complete beginners, as well as intermediate users in need of a brush up. Erin has a good approach to teaching: she's efficient and clear, and her basic examples don't overwhelm the student. +it's a great introduction to ableton but nothing more +Keeps me connected to music and music technology even in my work life +Learned a lot. Got me started and using the program, and making music. +This is a great intro class, designed to be completed within the Ableton trial period. Ableton should pay Erin a commission on sales that come out of this course, because I imagine it's bringing them 100s of new sales!The materials (mostly videos) are excellent and easy to follow. I learned a lot in this short class and would love to see an "intermediate" Ableton class in the future.My only complaints are related to the collaboration software that you need to use for this course, blend.io. Site navigation in blend.io can be painfully slow, and the site is buggy. I would have preferred to simply share information via dropbox or some other file sharing method.The peer review process is a great idea, although I think it's really tricky to do this in a music/art, because there is so much subjectivity and not much of a rubric. (There are some quantitative questions just to verify that the student follows instructions, but the open feedback is totally open). But, overall, the peer review works pretty well and gives students an additional incentive to turn in a quality product. +Great course. Won't say anything else... if you want to know how it is you must try it! +Great introduction to Ableton Live. Covers all stuff you need to know, and helps you through some stumbling blocks. +Excellent introduction to live 9. Very comprehensive, easy to understand. +Awesome course for those who want to learn Ableton´s Live DAW! +Excellent for learning the basics! +Great course! For very short time you'll learn so many amazing things. You will know in depth one professional software for music composition. You'll create 3 compositions which will be placed in musical website and hundreds or thousand of other musicians will hear it and vote for it. You will be part of wonderful group of other musicians like you taking part in the same course. You will be able to discuss with them important subject's... Great course. Thank you, Erin, David! +Really good resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of a super flexible software. +Great instructor, I like how you can go back and keep going over the instructional videos throughout the course. +This course is a challenging into to Ableton Live. It is well worth the time for even experienced producers who are new to Ableton Live. I first got Ableton Live in November 2015. It is now January 2016 and I feel like I have come a long way thanks to this course. +Fun course! Excellent for beginners. By week two you are able to make an arrangement already. +Great to start with Ableton, even i start with some youtube tutorial, this course really works for me cause i can see some errors i did. +interesting and easy learning! +The MOOC teaches what it is supposed to, although more classes would be nice since Ableton is such a big program. +Erin is a great and easy to follow instructor! Thank you. +Great Course, lots of feedback from your assignments! +anyway, I can start to make music after this course. +Thank you so much for this course. Really... very neccesary and important for people who loves music. +I never ever would have gotten started with Ableton if it weren't for Erin's course. She made it SO easy to understand. For years, people have tried to explain it to me but only Erin succeeded in making it sink in! This course ROCKS. +Very good course for learning how to work in Ableton. Professor Barra teaches really great. +GREAT!! thanks a lot :) :) +The course is an awesome intro. It could be longer! These Coursera Berklee courses are so short, sometimes they feel like advertisements for the Berklee online courses. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course. The time commitment required for each week's assignment was perfect. I learned several techniques to aid me in going forward in my musical endeavors and look forward to many years of continuing to explore Ableton Live. +Great course waiting for level 2 :) +Great course! Helped me to get started with Ableton Live.Video lectures were straight to the point. +Excellent! the best way to learn! +At this moment, I'm in the week 2 and I'm loving it...I'd really recommend it. +Very good instructions of the teacher! +Very good introduction to this software, teatcher is great and very easy to understand. I have learned a lot of good stuffs such as how to warp audio, convert audio to midi and so on... I was used to work on cubase and I have discovered the specifities and the advantages of Live.Moreover thanks to the assignment objectives I had to force myself to be creative and It was a great feelig.Thanks for this course :) +Great starting point for learning how to use Ableton Live. +Really nice.. Basic, but just right.. +This course got me fluent enough with using Ableton that I can sit down and play around with it comfortably and create music. Very pleased +This was such a cool way to get started again with music production!!...I'm so glad I found this course, and Erin was perfect, she made everthing so clear and easy...I wish it was a longer course tho! +It's amazing that we live in an age where you can take online classes like this for free.I went from not knowing my way around Ableton to being able to make simple tracks in a few weeks.The course load is pretty light, but it makes it easy to stay motivated and keep up from week to week.The instructor has her quirks, but don't we all. I feel like this course is great for introducing someone who has prior experience with writing music and using DAWs to Ableton Live. However, for someone who already knows the basics of Live, this probably won't be of too much use. +I enjoyed very much the lessons and I had a very good time on preparing the assignment on Ableton.A great course. +It helped me to improve myself, understanding Ableton Live and getting better in working with the program. +Awesome, Useful, very practical! Erin is a wonderful instructor. +A great course. It does teach you the essentials on how to begin making music with Ableton live. It even helps you search on your own if you troubleshoot. Its definitely worth it!!! +Very good course for does how just starting with Ableton. +Great, specifically for its collaborative approach. +This is an amazing course ! it is my second time taking it. Instructor Erin Barra does a great job with the tutorials, she really knows her stuff. +I have being waiting for this a long time :) +Good information! +Fantastic Teacher - very clear. Fun assignments and a very participatory community of students! +work motivational, very clear, well structured on a steady groove ... excellent! +Very good basic course. Enjoyed it very much +I am very grateful i came across this Course. +Very interesting. +Very useful ! +Its just the best! +Great Introduction into the program....a quick look. I felt the tutorial in the program covered a lot and most of the info here can be found on youtube. Although you don't get a certificate for watching youtube +It is very nice for people are starting with abletobn program +For anyone getting started this is a great course to do it with. I'm retaking this course as a refresher since I took the same class in the beginning of the year. I've been very busy so I forgot some functions. The videos & explanations make it very easy to get reacquainted. Plus what's more fun than getting some more production in, hearing your own creations & everyone else's for that matter. =) +This is already very, very helpful with mastering the use of Ableton, understanding how the I/O functions work, and polishing a track to the mastering level. Great program and very intuitive! +Great overall introduction to start creating straight away. Liked it much! +Great course, I just wanted it to be more thorough :) But for beginners like me, it really helped a lot! Thank you! +Excellent introduction to Ableton +Definitely recommend this short course which gives a good overview of Ableton Live's capabilities and how to use them. +I love it! +good, straight to the point Course, you can learn other things in this course like Blend.io +I'm now taking this course a second time because it is so absolutely helpful and has really given me a free and friendly place to learn how to use Ableton and get started on music production! +Very helpful +Erin Barra is awesome..!!! Really good course to get up to speed with ableton. +Excellent Course... Erin Barra is really excellent in teaching. Now I can proudly say even i can work in ableton live nicely. Thank you Coursera +Great intro. Really gave me confidence with the DAW. +You don´t need anything else to get started with Ableton... +This is a great course to introduce anyone interested in music production. I would recommend this course to any and everyone. Thank you Berklee and Erin! Can you tell I enjoyed this.And the Beats continue.Johanna -JKM +Really, really nice for learning the basics of Ableton Live. The instruction videos are short and concise, and there's a clear path forward after the course. +Great class to get your feet wet with ableton. +Everything on this course was amazing!Congrats and thanks so much for all! +Great course. Got me started off with Ableton live. :) +It was fun. Have peer review is helpful. However, it was mainly one time comment. It would be great to start conversation and interaction among course takers. +Great tools and solid instructions. Thanks! +This was an excellent course that was well explained and easy to follow. +Fun and interesting course. I learned a lot, despite already being a Live user. Reviewing the assignments of other course-takers widened my horizons and helped me gain valuable insights. +Real a great course if you are looking to learn the basics of Ableton Live 9 or just need a refresher after the break. Erin does a wonderful job of explaining the basics with out overloading you with to much information. Each assignment is to make a song. It starts with basic stuff and works toward more advanced stuff near the end. It's helped motivate me to put more time into making music and use the tools and software that I have at my disposal.A personal thanks to Erin, this class is just what I needed! +Fantastic Course, i have saved the videos so i can review them again.I thoroughly enjoyed it, all over again. This was the second time i joined Introduction to Ableton Live but this time i decided to get my verified Certificate yay! Thank you Erin! +Thank you so much Jeff, iy was usefull course, i think it needs to extend the material and learning's period.Thank you so much!!! +Very excellent class. Lots of great information. +i had a great knowledge !thanks for offering this course i don't have such course in india . +Very nice course +Awesome Course. It was quite challenging though +This particular module (week 3) is written for those students who are already have at least a nodding acquaintance with the software.The videos move so fast that I am not able to detect what is going on. Please believe me when I say that I run a copy of Fusion 360 at the same time as a particular instructional video is playing. I toggle from one to another, taking notes from the instructional video when possible. Still, it takes me weeks, not days, to understand what the professor is doing.It is true that there are several online tutorials with regard to using the sketch tools contained within Fusion 360. I have been reviewing the tutorials that I am able to find -- and I have learned quite a bit of "how-to" information that this particular module does not provide.Why is it that some of us who are new to the Fusion 360 environment have come to understand that we need to spend hours of our time to "fill in the blanks" of week 3?Are we to keep searching other sources so that we can learn what has not been taught in Week 3? If so, why?Bill Clark +This course introduced me to the different software tools that can be used for 3D Printing. I recommend this course, as well as this specialization, to anyone interested in 3D Printing. +more details on ther software would definitely be useful +The instructor does an excellent job, but realistically there is no way to be proficient enough in a 3D software program after a week or two to earn a certificate. The certificate is worthless in my opinion. I liked the class but it seemed more like intro vs. a class of any proficiency required. +The course was enjoyable for the most partand I increased my skill level. The videos, for the most part, were good. However, consider revising some of the one for Fusion to include demonstrations for the sweep, loft, and revolve tools in the Sculpt mode if they are to be included in assignments. These were not as intuitive as the others and required reliance on videos found on Autodesk as well as Youtube. Additionally, it would be helpful to slow the pace in illustrating "how-to" in the videos. There seemed to be steps omitted and I found it difficult at times to reconstruct all the steps. Finally, I noticed that staff/mentor help was not readily available for weeks, when participants posted queries in the forum. +This class was inspiring! I't was worth the wait. Thank you!! +Very interesting course. Maybe Fusion 360 may have lasted one more week to get more indepth knowledge +I wanted to give only 4 stars because of the all the “problems” we encountered, but then we are learners investigating problem solving by design thinking. We can handle whatever comes, so the fifth star is for us. We are shaping this course by contributing to forums. Presumably we are ten thousand strong, let’s improve our worldwide voice by saying something on forms so we can get what we need and want we want also to stay on the cutting edge of reality. +Interesting and very useful course. +It gave me a good understanding of the software capabilities. +the introduction to Fusion is more a customer presentation to advanced CAD user than a tutorial for newbies. +Wow! It was such an inspiring journey! +The bi-weekly assignments mixed with the bi-weekly lessons is a really great course structure. The audio on some of the videos interviews can be poor, and I wish some lectures, especially the last one were more in depth, but over all great course with a good pace. +Excellent course you should make more courses like this +it was really an amazing experience , wonderful course with a lot of knowledge to learn , a lot of facilitations that make studying process very interesting , thanks a lot for your efforts , I'm very enthusiastic to have a visit to the Leiden medical school and center one day ^_^ and continue to learn from such a great medical staff =D +I loved this course. I've been teaching Anatomy to physical therapist students for two years and this course helped me a lot to improve my teaching. Thank you for your hard work! +Very interesting course! Great videos and instructors. T +I'm so glad Leiden University is working with Coursera. Such a great course! +This is a great course, i am happy that you gave me the opprtunnity to get a certificate. Its a subject i really feel i gain more knowledge now. +Well-organised , Very good for beginners and intermediate learners . +Great course! +i never saw like this very very amazing worki would like to repeat this course 10 times +I love it ! Thanks for doing this for us +iam soooo happy to joined to this course which help me to evaluate my skills and increase it +A good refresher in abdominal anatomy. Though with some negatives. The accent was difficult to understand at first. Most of the course content is for beginners in undergraduate level. Yet it is still good. +Do you have an idea how lucky you are to have access to a course like this?! Normally you would have to be enrolled in med school. +Fantastic videos walking through anatomy on a real human body! +difficult course that is full of information but if anatomy is your 'thing' then this is a very good course to take. +incredible content and resources! +I really want to thank you all! In fact ,i never have experienced that awsome lecture! The embryology is the most diffucule lesson to me,and through this lecture,I don't think it is boring and hard to understand.At the same time, I really acknowledge using what you have leraned is the coolist thing in the world.You can figure out how responsible the teachers are(include every individuals who participate in this lecture's making) !thank you all again!! +Perfect +Tough course, but fascinating and very well presented. I was never going to pass the final test because I just do not need to know the detail. However, I'm very grateful to have got to the finish line. Thank you. +amazing course help me alot +is a very very boring curse, don't recommend anyone, please for your good at everyboduy else kill this course, don't embarrass yourself and the universities that represents +Outstanding, clear, well-explained, not overwhelming. Dissections really aid to have a more realistic understanding. Good supplemental materials cover the material with great focus, and if more details are needed it is easy to get those elsewhere. Great effort by U. Leiden! +it is a very good course escpecially for medical student +Just awesome! +Excellent!!! I am impressed; they explain very well and it is very interesting to learn from them despite their accent. +great course with great dissection videos. course materials are very interesting. I understood the anatomy of the abdomen which medical school couldn't teach me. +very hard course but extremely detailed one. +I am dropping this course. don't e-mail any more for this course. How do I unroll in this course. +V difficult, but rewarding!I did not get the grade I thought I would in this class...but I learned a lot more than I thought I could! Very in depth and thorough, I think I value the knowledge I received more than the sub-par grade I received. ;) +The course itself is 10 out of 10: overwhelmingly informative, presented in a totally engaging manner, lots and lots of visual aids. Fly in the ointment: teaching assistants (called mentors here) apparently have come from very different (including hierarchical) societies and learners are required to take the mentors' diversified background and attitude into consideration. Not vice versa. +very hard but excellent course +I thoroughly enjoyed the course. +Nice course, a difficult one but very challengeable. Nice structure and easy to understand.I wanted to refresh my knowledge in anatomy and in such gained a whole lot more in return.Thanks to the Professors for their time and effort in making this MOOC.Very pleased. +Not meant for learners new to the medical field. Despite the challenges, the material is very fascinating and anyone interested in anatomy will learn something. The course utilizes outside research. I might enjoy the whole course experience more if the design were not so technical. I do, however, appreciate the challenge and seriousness of the topic. +Great course, like the way of teaching. Really starts from noting and goes to a senior level of knowledge. +Very good material, explainations and teachers. Recommended for everyone who wants to learn. +Im loving it so far. +Very good course, still in the beginning, but liking so much. +Excellent course and well designed. Even though some of the concepts where harder for me to understand I now have a basic understanding of the structure of the abdomen. +Nice and necessary course. +Me gusto mucho +me gusto mucho +chevere +I loved it, was very funny and relaxing. +EXCELENTE CURSO.GRANDES TUTORASEXCELENTE METODOLOGIA DE ENSEÑANZA Y APRENDIZAJE.SE ABORDARON LOS TEMAS DE MANERA ENTENDIBLE, COMPRENSIBLE Y CON RETOS QUE INVITAN A RAZONAR Y APLICAR LOS CONOCIMIENTOS ADQUIRIDOS.ESPERO PIENSEN ELABORAR UNA SEGUNDA ETAPA DE INTERMEDIA Y AVANZADA +So far the course is just a tutorial for using Scratch and they're not teaching how to program that is the name of the course. +Muy buen curso para aprender Scratch. +Very wonderful course to learn the basics of programming using the amusing and interactive language Scratch +A course offering very accessible, clear introduction to the concept of programming seen as a network of algorithms, supplanted with a myriad of real-life examples. It then introduced a comely intuitive software, developed by MIT - Scratch, which enables you to practically start creating animations and thus programming. Even though i'm not a fluent hispano-hablante, just the knowledge of English and some classical culture should make it possible for you to follow. At the same time, should that be too complicated, there should be subtitles/English language version to all the videos and of all other materials. Have NOT tried that though. +Very easy and good explanations +cool +The male Professors seem to speak Chinese half the time, therefore not being able to understand the material for students who aren't fluent in Chinese. I prefer the female Professor from Advanced Neurobiology I who presented the material in English, and in an engaging and coherent way. +The topics are really interesting and advanced! However, there's a lot of talk in chinese, due to questions/answers from teacher and students, and the quizzes are a bit too easy. I learned a lot though. +If you don't speak Chinese it's a terrible course...The lectures are recorded from lectures at university and the rhythm is very slow and not very well explained (at least the first week). The transcriptions into English are incomplete, so understand this course is very very complicated.I do not recommend it at all. +Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!Really Advanced course with many many resources! +This course teaches us tips of effective and constructive way of discussing ! +I like the way it's presented. +Great course and very great exercises +Great Course... Although I feel we must discuss more case studies +Very useful insights and definitely a knowledge enhancing course +Very interesting, well- explained, and practical course. Unfortunately you need the Excel 2013 professional to complete it and make the most of it. +In depth step by step explanations in how to use Excel for Analysis and Visualization +I have already had the basic skills in excel, but I learned many new things. The explanation was very clear and I enjoyed the lessons very much. At this moment, I cannot spend money for my own learning since I spend much money for the education of my child, but courser and pwc gave great opportunities for me to learn as an auditor. +Great Course. Lots of Analytics features from Excel... I love itttt +Good basic skills for creating clear and compelling graphs for visualizing data +Great! +Great course. Well structured and each concept was explained very well! Made me feel enthusiastic about learning more. +A superb learning experience +Good course for understanding how to create advanced level of charts. +This course gave me the opportunity to learn a lot. Thanks to PwC +Excellent course and it has opened my eyes to the wide array of Excel Power tools and their ability to provide simple, yet powerful visual dashboards for executive decision-making. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in the course. +Useful information about Visualization in Excel and data presenting. +Very helpful! I have acquired a lot new skills from this course! +Very good overview and practical exercises to keep learners focus. Exercises can be very technical, get ready to spend more time on it. +Very informative and more relevant than other courses for a business environment involving simulations of economic phenomena +I had not any ideas about powers of Excel! Thank you a lot! +There are some excellent tools covered in this course. It is advanced level learning of Excel. There were a few glitches in the program. There was missing content at times. Overall, I was impressed with what the course covered. +A great course for people working with data +Excellent course materials, very applicable for professionals who work with data +Practical, step-by-step guide and easy to understand, thank you very much for PwC instructor's efforts to design and develop such a fantastic course, look forward to completing the whole specialization! +Very nice course and very helpful. It really helps to gain the in-depth visualization and analysis skills +Great business practice advices, but not very rich with real life practice, like print preview, professional colour theme chosen, etc.Achieved: 2017-02-26 +Hi,I am very excited about the course, thank you and your team for excellent overview of data analysis and visualisation tools in Excel. All videos are very consistent and contain very clear and informative message. +Good practical introduction! Good course. +Very useful and comprehensive +I really learned a lot during this course especially how to build data models and dashboards. Well worth the time spent. +Excellent materials and approach. It was a very useful course. +Great course to data analysis and excel! +Good one..! +having studied competitive strategy and now moving on with advanced strategy course. It illustrate more details to me which will help the work. Also the knowledge obtained involve lots of new ideas. +I've know many skills in competition with many true cases. Thanks! +Good content but the Chinese translation is bad, which makes quiz quite obscure in meaning +Not difficult to understand,interesting,helpful when making choices. +very useful course. And thank for professor's clear instruction. +An interesting course and thank you for translating it. +The course is more about business competitive strategy and there are lots of live examples. Thumb up! +This course is very helpful to make me understand the economy and the finance th +I am very excited that I have been able to successfully complete my first Specialization.Great course! +I like all these courses +The research needs like six months +It was an excellent challenge that tested all my previous skill acquire along the specialization. I really enjoyed myself with this course. Give it a chance and do your best. Certainly, you will succeed.Cheers! +The course content is great, but peer evaluation is simply useless and almost random. This specialisation needs to introduce an actual final assessment by an actual expert, not peers. +Writing research paper is one of the most useful courses for all professionals. +I have learned so very much. All of the courses in the specialization have been taught in a way that has been easy to understand. I will miss Tamy Chapmans smiling face. +I would love to thank you for your hard working. It was a good course. I have learnt a lot from you. In addition, I'm looking forward to participating with you on another course. Thank you once more again. +It is a great moment in my academic experience. Thank you Prof Tamy. +Excellent course! I'm grateful to all who made it possible. +Jefferson is a fascinating, controversial, brilliant, and hugely important figure - unquestionably a "Founding Father", if you will - in our nation's history. Professor Onuf brings to light the key aspects of Jefferson's thinking, work and accomplishments, prompting this course participant to want to further explore all that he did, the challenges, and especially the people, who he was up against, his relationship with Sally Hemings and how that influenced his views regarding slavery, and much more. +Really insightful course giving a really amazing insight to the past political climate of the US, but also really shedding light on the current climate as well. +I very much enjoyed learning more about Thomas Jefferson through the required readings and Professor Onuf's lectures, and would recommend this course to anyone wanting to know more about the third president of the United States and the University of Virginia. My time was well-spent. +Excellent class! This is an overview of who Jefferson was, what he really thought and believed in, what his contradictions were and why they existed, and how the perception of him has changed through different historical periods. I thought I knew a reasonable amount of information about Jefferson and the revolutionary period, but I learned so much about the historical and cultural context of the time and how it shaped Jefferson's thoughts!Given our current judicial system's split over whether the constitution should be regarded according to the 'originalist' intention or whether it is a living document, I was surprised to find that Jefferson himself saw it as a living document, to be reshaped by each generation. Understanding why he thought that is really essential to understanding how to think about the problem today. So this isn't just history, it's current events!I was concerned that the course seemed to be all lecture, but by the second week I was hooked. Dr Onuf is a compelling speaker, and tries to convey who Jefferson was, the world he existed in, and get you to think about Jefferson in all his complexity. The reading material is all pertinent, and (thank you!) not overwhelming. This course is "right-sized" for an online forum. I think you could spend about an our or maybe two per week on the lectures and reading material, and do fine. You would do yourself a favor to view each lecture twice though, as there is a lot of material in each one.I would consider retaking the course for review, and would definitely take another course from Dr. Onuf. This was terrific, and I don't say that lightly. +Exciting presentation. Excellent portrial of the periodic changes in thinking of TJ with his rise, fall and revival. While a conroversial thinker he truly was a renaissance men that will inspire future generations. America would not be exceptional, nor even a free country, empowed by the people. +My only recommendation would be to add more photos, maps, illustrations, etc to the lectures, instead of twenty minutes of the camera pointed at the professor. It would help keep the attention of the viewer, in my opinion. +The course is really nicely done. Also for non-americans it is interesting even though a lot of background knowledge might be missing. But you have to be aware it is really more focused on the ideas of Jefferson and less on all the discussions and fights he had with his fellow statesmen at that time. I would have wished to learn also more about those. +Great Course! A profound analysis of Jefferson ideal and wish for the nation to be. This course demonstrate how great, clever and wise Jefferson was. Now I can better understand what JFK said during a Nobel prize winner reunion at the White House: This is the highest concentration of intelligent in this house since Jefferson had dinner alone. Thank you for sharing this course on the net. +Excellent course! I learned so much about Jefferson, and I appreciate Dr. Onuf's expertise on the subject. +Great lecture series on Jefferson's civic thoughts and writings. +The lectures are so thought-provoking and enlightening... Thank you very much! +Fantastic course by Dr. Onuf! I learned much and he helped correct misconceptions I harbored regarding Thomas Jefferson. Great videos and selected readings. The quizzes were relatively challenging. +Very Thankful for this course... +I loved the tour of the campus. It fit the material and made it seem more like a college setting than watching lectures on a screen in a class room all the time. +This is everything a Coursera course should be! Amazing videos and lectures that are well organized. +I already love this and not just because Jefferson is my life long love affair, nice. +Really interesting to get such a deep perspective on Jefferson. I had very little interest in him, even growing up in his home state of Virginia, but now I can't wait to learn more. This is a great course worth a fantastic instructor. Highly recommended! +I take my hat off for the passionate professor Onuf. It was a big pleasure to attend his lectures. They deepened my understanding of the American Revolution. +I was terribly disappointed in this course. Mr. Onuf spends the majority of these lectures implying what Jefferson thinks without discussing much in the way of actual history. Further, the course seems more of a commercial for the University of Virginia than anything else. Overall, a waste of time. +Great course +Fantastic stuff for anyone interesting in the subject matter. +I found the course interesting and very stimulating. It allowed insight into a very interesting period in world history. +outstanding prof +Exceptional course! I would have enjoyed several more weeks. Dr. Onuf's style and methods in presenting the material made it possible to understand Jefferson in a way I have not understood him before. Wonderful teacher. Thank you. +Really interesting and enjoyable course. +Outstanding overview of one of the most important figures in American History. +A very enjoyable course, albeit with a few instances of leftward political leaning. +very informative +As a former student of UVA, it was wonderful to see the place again, listen to some of the stories we heard around "grounds" -- no campus here -- back when I was a teenager. I have followed Jefferson's life story, but Professor Onuf still manages to tell me some things I didn't know. Well researched lectures. +Being Australian, I knew nothing about Jefferson so I came to this course with no expectations. I found it fascinating as it explained not only about Jefferson but about the American model of Government and Americans unique view of their nation. It is sometimes puzzling to an outsider to see this super nationalism and allegiance to the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. As an aside, I wonder what Jefferson would think of the apparent obsession with the literal words of the Founding Fathers with respect to things like gun control. Very interesting indeed.Mr Onuf is an excellent lecturer. You brought the topic aliveThanks +Great Course +I knew nothing about Jefferson before this course and nothing about his 'age' - not sure I am much the wiser about the latter after it! I enjoyed the tours round the historic sites and I thought the lecturer came over as warm and enthusiastic but it seemed he was preaching about a saint rather than giving a detached academic assessment of a historical figure and I found that it was hard to see the wood for the trees at times. Hagiographic might be an unkind description but it was certainly very respectful to the great man. I also liked the use of a student in cooperation with the lecturer.- he set the scene well and was a good interviewer. +The lectures are just videos of the professor bloviating about Jefferson. There is nothing academic about this course. +Useful orientation for a good American who more or less slept through all of his American hx courses in his callow youth. I have a much better sense of the important (if controversal) role Jefferson played in forming the values and structure of the US. +I highly recommend this course. I learned a great deal about Jefferson. +Great, thanks! +Great course that take you nicely through the intricacies of agile planning for software products. The instructors are knowledgeable and the material is good. The videos cover a lot, but the complementary cours notes and the supplemental resources makes it easy to review and use the material in practice during actual work situations. +Lots of well structured content, easy to follow and informative. You know it's the tip of a large iceberg, so it's a very good way to start and let you wanting for more. +This course gets better as you move into the course! +Great Course, Learnt alot of extremely useful tools for managing software products. +Good for learning to plan software product development using Agile +Very interestening for starting in Agility. I learned and understood a lot of things.Easy to understand for not English mother tongue.Thank you very much. +great class +Good Planning methodologies and examples +Really learning alot, well explained and illustrated. +Really like this course! I think it is the best one in this specialization. Thank you all! +Tons of great info! However, it would great to go over more of the real-life applications of the concepts. +Great course +That course is great! All material is described in easy form. I like very my tasks that had to be done and then put marks by other students. +It is very full package of knowledge and tests. I have a lot of new opportunities due to this course. Thank you. +It is excellent course in terms of the knowledge that I gain. However the multiple choice questions are a little bit default to understand. It is look like that you are examining our English skill :) +Really helpful course! Thanks, Coursera! +It is great learning experience.. +79 USD? just to be able to submit peer-graded assignments... talk about greed +This course has helped me increase my knowledge and skills in project planning using Agile. +Pretty good.. A bit tough compared to the rest though. +As usual for this specs - a very high quality course. +Great examples used in course videos. The Course Notes might be a worked on a bit more in terms of models and examples, but they are quite extensive and an invaluable resource. Teaching staff is quick to respond to forum questions, which is great! +Quite interesting, may be not deep enough but great course nevertheless! +Full of new information on agile planning! +great course +The most robust course in this sequence. It is well designed, very clear, teaches useful material effectively, and is fun to take. +Very easy to understand. +I think some estimation methods are not really realistic +It's a great course +Another great course in the specialization! great instructors who are very passionate. Truly make it fun and interesting to learn. +Great course +My least favorite part of the course, but it was still put together well. Content just isn't as interesting as the rest of the specialization. Felt a bit too "Project Manager' instead of the Product Manager. +It's very usefull course +Was great course. +Great course! Very useful information for beginners and for those who already has an experience with agile planning. +Some part of learning material not concern to agile planning, for exampe absolutly not mentioned kanban planing. +This is a good series course to coach Agile process with generic pro +Really enjoyed t +Makes lots of things understandable and clear +Good Course. +One of the best coursers I have seen on Coursera so far. The video production quality, course structure and content is extra ordinary compared to other courses that I've seen so far. +Very nice content and presented so nicely. Must read and highly recommended course for all managers and business analysts. +I am Krishna Kant Kumar, working as a software quality analyst.Through this course, I learnt, how to estimate an iteration or doing an estimation of project. +Ambiguous assignments led to cumbersome completion. The peer grading got a little annoying as sometimes it took forever to get feedback and a lot of times feedback was minimal or the criteria for grading was vague and people took it WAY too seriously. +Not the best, but if you are a newbie in management field you can find valuable information inside. +I highly recommend this entire specialisation. It's clearly taught and requires your practical application throughout. I've learned a great deal and thoroughly enjoyed the process. Many many thanks Uni of Alberta. +Room for improvement:-Case studies-More Assignment +Thanks! +As a software-engineer and freelancer in the technical software domain, for me this course actually had all the meat (so far) while the first courses in the specialization felt like they didn't take that much effort to pass. +Very useful to know different tecniques for software project/productplanning. Although some of those tecniques are (in my opinion) notvery relevant in an Agile environment (like work breakdown structures,pert or gant charts) the course is good to learn how to use those toolsand also to ask ourselves whether or not they are actually relevant or useful if we follow the Agile approach. +I really liked to do it +The course materials and lectures are excellent +Really nice course. I was expecting a little more depth, but I really enjoyed the approach they took and their assignments. +Awesome lectures! Thanks a lot! +Great course! Thank you! +Super-duper, very useful! +This course has the minimal information than its brother courses, you may need to add more details focus on the planning more and give more assignment if applicable. +Another excellent module of a truly excellent Specialization +Good Course +Nice course. Decent content and always well-structured lectures. The peer assignments could have been better though. +This is more enlightening than the previous courses in the specialization. It felt like learning new material and techniques rather than simply reviewing concepts I already knew. I also liked that the assignments required creating actual artifacts and reviewing others' work. The industry interviews were a nice addition as well. +Really excited about the course..!!! +Very tough, though very instructive. +I think ti is a very interesting and well structured course. +I am participating in this course, it has an excellent material, I am learning new skills in writing an article research. +Very interesting course +The course has enhanced my reading experience. Writing in the margins… up till now I have never challenged or asked the writer any questions. This idea has never struck me before, but interacting with texts provides "room" on the page for my conversation with the writer, which is a visual reminder that all texts are part of an ongoing discussion and are not the last word on a given subject.Thank you, Prof. Bazanova! +It's a very interesting and useful course. It significantly improves my reading and writting skills. Thank you very much! +interesting, informative and useful. I quite like the self-questioning part which makes publication reading more effortless. Thanks. +It's a both very interesting and useful course for everyone who's planning to broaden the skills of a scentific writings in a quite involving and systematic manner. +Very interesting and useful course! +Thank you for your course. I improved my academic literacy skills. I still have to continue to improve but now I'm on the right track! +The course is excellent! Straight to the point, both professors can explain the subject in a very easy way. The course was a pleasant surprise!! I strongly recommend! +Looking forward to course 3! +Excellent course with very supportive staff and professors on the forum. On top of that aligning the assignments to "The Romance of Three Kingdoms" story makes it fun to follow along. +Very good course and excelent teachers! +Fantastic course material from great professionals! +Really useful, focused and motivating. Hihgly recommended! +Was a really good course which provided me useful knowledge for my postgraduate course. +Excellent, educational and witty lectures! One of the best classes on Coursera. +I like Prof. Tobias Kretschmer way to communicate the course and explain the contents in practical and well organized way. The course is very useful for my work. +Great Course and the professor is great! +I love this dude; very entertaining professor who is easy to understand. The class itself was also very interesting and i learned a lot that i can apply to my current position as a senior analyst at an industry research firm. +Easy to follow, good content and comprehensive explanations +Course and examples are generally good. In rare instances the quiz has answers it labells 'correct' which I think could be debated. +Interesting course. Valuable insights into network effects. +Excellent course, an excellent professor!!!!, Many thanks!!! +A nice course for the opics concluded from the base course. +THANK YOU! +Excellent course, professor tobias teachs so good! +The course was really great! The teacher explained excellent and the topics were very appropiate. However, when i finished the course i couldn't see the certificate of accomplishment at least; it never showed up :( And now when i click on the option "Buy the course" the page redirects me to an address which doesn't exist.Despite of this, I enjoyed this course a lot, as the first one! Thanks a lot! +Terrific course! Terrific instructor! I wish he had provided a learning path for ppl who completed this though... +Very interesting and full of real case study. +Great add-on to the first eddition of the course on Business Strategy. Congratulations to the Professor Tobias and his crew. +This is one of the best courses. The manner of teaching is very lucid and easy to understand. I am impressed with the examples. I would love to have more courses from him on Competitive Strategy!! Cheers! +It's the best course, on which I have ever been enrolled. Its language is understandable not only for students of economic departments and for everyone, who is interested in this topic. The professor is a professional in his sphere and just a talented person with an actor's skills. He turned the course into an interesting tour of Munich, because every module is connected with some sight of the city, this activates attention and makes teaching material more remembered. If this course is continued, I will definitely join it! Thank you) +Exceptional training course for those working in the field of market strategy etc. Explanation and examples are close to the actual world. +The best free strategy course! +Awesome lecture. I wish the lectures at my University would have been as good as this. Then I think I would have a much better and more interesting time and I`d learned a lot more.Thanks for all your work!!Best wishes form Switzerland! +nice one to get into the strategy of any kind of the competionsyou could pass it even if you didn't go through the Part1anyhow it will be more then useful to understand the basis +excellent and some hint of humour in an otherwise rather arid topic!thanks +This a great course. I recommend it to anyone. Also make sure to take the previous course. The exams are great way to fixate knowledge. +One of the best online course i have ever taken, i seriously reccomend this course to all those people who are into business and management. +Very informative with plenty of real-life (or credible fictional) examples to better understand the concepts that were introduced. The pace was agreeable and the subjects diverse. Special mention should go to the instructor (Prof. Tobias Kretschmer), who did a terrific job! I liked the question format as well, though it could have been more challenging by not giving away the answers after an end-of-module quiz even if you didn't pass. That being said, the course is well worth 5 stars! +Actually, the course should be titled as "Introduction Into Macroeconomics", I think. The course is fine, but I won't call it really "advanced" one. The structure and topic list is okay, but the depth is not enough to threat the course as "advanced". +Absolutely useful! They make it so easy to understand and probably the best MOOC I´d ever apply for +Just love it +Love your style of teaching. The Multiple choice answers in your exams are difficult but necessary to fully understand the topics.Content of the course - 100/100.I would take another course of Prof. Kretschmer instantly. +Well structured course! The explanation was clear and I have the frame works in my mind when I finish the course! Helpful course! +Honestly, for something that says "Advanced" in the title, I thought it was a little too basic. There isn't enough depth and a lot of it involves common sense. Perhaps a more case-study driven course would have been interesting with more qualitative, essay responses required rather than cut-and-dry multiple-choice. +content was not as interesting as in the first course, but still good overall. Questions were also less analytical challenging as the first course. But I still enjoyed the course as the professor was explaining the subject clearly and the videos were compact and enjoyable. +Overall, this is a good subject.However, some slides are not well organized.Many questions in assignment are too tricky. +Fascinating material. Thanks again! +Great professor, interesting course. +while the task of summing up a lot of information in a minimum sized presentation is always a very difficult task, the structure of the material presented was not optimal. This in turn made it difficult for me personally to actually connect the weekly information presented with the overall meaning and the objective of each module. The "why" and "how" of most modules fit to the meaning we are forming (up to week 5 -the point I am leaving this class) is not evident. Last, some of the questions contained ambiguities that could not be reasonably clarified even going back and reviewing the material of the specific segment. Thank you for the offered class in any case. +Varied and well-explained that held my interest throughout. My only criticism is the English in some of the written quizzes, especially in the final exam, needs reviewing by native speaker as some of the answers are ambiguous when they do not properly explain the context of the situation. +One of the best courses on Coursera. +Awesome course! I learned a lot through this journey. Thanks very much for providing this course. +Amazing course. +Good course, Hope we had a certification for this. +One suggestion would be lest multiple option answers, but the course was challenging enough to learn valuable information. +Very useful course and extremely well presented. Would recommend it. +World-class +Very good course, but it is not "advanced strategy". +Very informative and I learned a lot +Valuable sequel to course Competitive Strategy by the same author. Interesting and informative. +it is well put and easy to understand. besides, you can learn it anytime. the content is enlightening and has many new and intestesting topics. i really like it . +This course is not only well structured, but truly enjoyable with the various outdoor background +It was a great course, however some of the quiz answers are debatable +After completing this course, I have gained valuable insights in real life situations and be more aware in my own industry. This course would not only allow you to see the playing field but also to make carefully calculated decisions towards the best possible outcome.The tests are difficult and some are rather tricky. But hey, the situations we encounter in real life are far worse than these. +Material was tough, some of the questions weren't easy to understand / process. But overall a great class. +Very Good! +While the course was overall well developed, there are certain language challenges to overcome especially with understanding the wording of quizzes. I got a number of questions wrong simply because I could not understand the phrasing, and lack of explanations on quizzes makes for a lot of difficulty to evaluate progress. And I get the reason for not including answer explanations, at the same time I'm literally comparing answers to the module transcripts and could not possibly infer multiple choice answers based off how the topic was explained. I would suggest more definitive questions and reduce multiple choice questions or at least define the question in a more narrow, specified manner to minimize confusion. I'm taking this course for fun, I have an MBA and love strategy, so the topics are not new by any means, but if I can't understand what you're trying to say I would imagine non-business backgrounds would find the questions very difficult. +it was great learning such interesting issues +Nice addition to the "Competitive Strategy" course, although not as interesting and practical as the first part... Cases and current examples would have made this section much better.Prof. Tobias Kretschmer ... 5 starsCompetitive Strategy . . . 5 starsAdvanced Competitive Strategy ... 3 stars +An easy to understand and very resourceful course with ample examples. Would love to enroll into similar courses. +Awesome concept to learn +very Insightful +It's a very good course, with fabolous material, examples and style +5 stars! Great University !! Enjoyed and learned! +Perfect professor! +I'm so happy to make it! I learnt so much about academic writing, thanks! +I have learnt alot from this course +Very good course for writing in a systematic way. +Excellent course for whom really wants to boost his/her writing skills. +Enjoyed this course very much. Thank you. +This is not an easy course, but once you finish it, your academic writing skills are going to improve considerably, Best! +perfect course to get perfection in writing +It says 'advanced writing' but it is advanced for college students, not advanced overall. I found it extremely basic. +Great Course I like it a lot. I learn new things for my research +You need to check out his course. +I learned how to write different types of essays. +Pretty good! +Thank you so much Prof. Chapman! +Very helpful, at least, for me. +Such amazing course work on developing the writing skills in a decent way. +The perfect brainstorming exercise for academic essay writing ! +It helps you build your essay-writing muscles gradually. Too much emphasis on plagiarism. Some flaws in the grading forms. The level of the participants is quite mixed, most feedback they give is useless ("good"). +Great course and teachers +I really love this cause. My writing skills is really impoving. I like my peers their reviews.it really train me on writing well. +Will try it out soon. Looks very promising and informative. +it is okay, not what I expected, but okay. +I hope that this course could be free because I can't afford 69 dollars for th +I enjoyed a lot taking this course. It also represented a challenge to me. +It's really useful! +I found it very useful +Exellent course. You will learn the advanced skills for a better understanding of the English languaje. +This course is awesome. +The course is fine as far as content. My complaint is that there is no one to contact regarding papers or questions. You are left to the other students for your grading and assignment completion, meaning that some of your assignments can hang there for weeks before ever getting reviewed. +very useful course. +An absolutely wonderful course! I learned a lot about advanced essay writing. I think it is a must-take course for those who are interested in writing academic and research essays! +Not the course id think it would be.I learn less information than i d expect but these were still usefull information. +Loved it! +well explained informative course +This course helped me improve my writing skills. +Great course :) +This course has set me free from my fear of expressing my ideas and opinions in writing. +Great course +I have learned a lot in this course. Ordinary English courses don't cover the topics we have studied here. +Great !!!! +This was a great class for review of what I learned years ago. I only wish I could have participated in the assignments w/o purchasing the class, as I have been able to in all of my other classes. But, I loved the class and would recommend it. +Fantastic! Good work that the teacher can compact the course section to less than 10-minute videos each week, and it is clear. Easy to grasp . . . help a lot for my initial study! MLA format and work cited page are great too . . . thanks! +It was really useful. From now on I will start applying everything I've learn in my collage tasks. +Great learning experience . +Thank you for everything! +Great Course, in particular to students whose tongue are not English. +Very useful and professional! +Very easy steps to learn. lot of assignments to practice. Good work.Thank you. +It's wonderful and useful. +One of the best courses by Coursera, it significantly helps me increase my writing skill. +great, thank you :) +Perfect +It has good content, but there were missing classes to give more advices or clear any question students have, when grading peer review homeworks there were plenty of mistakes that would have been avoided if there were more video lectures or forums with teachers. +From this 1.5 month course, I learned far more than I did from the 4-year on-campus studying. Of course, the level of the universities in my country is not nearly as that of the US; nevertheless, in the single combat "Adv.Writing course against a "Bachelor's degree", the latter sustains a crushing defeat! +Advanced Writing is a course that challenges the best English learner. You apply what you've learned so far and things get more formal. +This course has a lot of tools to learn the writing art. +through this course i was able to right effectively on some complex topics which was what i was hoping for. Thanks a lot to the instructor Tamy Chapman whose video lectures were excellent in content and quality. +I wasn't sure what to expect with the Advanced Writing course. Again, peer review was unnecessarily harsh because people don't understand the flexibility and nuance of writing, but it's definitely informative and has made me a more mature academic writer. This specialization is well worth it, for the videos alone. The instructor is clear and the videos are very concise. +It would be extremely useful to me as it is teaching me techniques to write advanced-level essays. +It is detailed, rigorous, and exciting! The teacher's presentations in video materials are interesting as well! +great course thnx +Wonderful course! +I have learnt so much for doing this course. I have recommended the course to friends and families. +so good. must be engaged +It is so beneficial for international students who have been prepared on TOEFL iBT or IELTS. +taking Essay writing first, cannot unenroll from this course at this +Firstly, I would love to introduce myself to you. I'm Suliman from Libya. I'm Teaching Assistant at the University of Benghazi. Secondly, I would love to thank you so much for your hard working and for this wonderful course. Thank you once more. +The course is highly effective! +I learn a lot from this class so far, but I'm having difficult for the Quiz, i know i should take some notes, hahaha +Another well structured course that provided challenges to help impove essay writing techniques. Thanks you. +It is not very "advanced" +At this point, I think that the course is good, however there should be more reviews. Three reviews of people who is also learning is not enough, in my opinion. I have received some comments like 'some sentences are not good'. Which tells me absolutely nothing. I think people should be encouraged to exemplify what they mean ,to take the sentences that they believe that are wrong, and extend why.For the rest, the course is very good. +helped in my phd writing thesis +I am in love for this course, a lot of good information, practice activities, etc...It is helping me a lot! +nice things to do and good examples. +Fantastic and fun! +This advanced writing course illustrates how to writing a longer college essay and guides students all over the world to start their very first writing piece. +Extremely poor quality of instruction. The lectures themselves are little more than the material being read directly off the slides by an individual with a poor grasp on the English language. The majority of the slides are walls of unclear and non-descriptive text. Even with reading directly from the slides, the lecturer is overly circumstantial in her explanations if not just outright tangential. I commend the authors for putting together a course outside of their native language but, in this case at least, it does more harm than good.In short, this course has the air of a group of first year students giving a presentation verbatim from the slides, as another commenter also mentioned below. +This course is a discreditation to coursera, and it's low standards are appalling. From a purely certificate based perspective, the only requirement to complete the course are completely the quizzes. They are short, and can easily be googled, or the slides can be downloaded and the answers simply CRTL+F for keyboards. There is zero need to watch the lectures ( at least for the first 2 weeks).The lectures are terrible themselves. The English is beyond horrible, and I don't understand the modern culture of having teachers teach in languages they can't speak. It is purely reading off the slides in any case, word for word. I learned more about the basics in neuroscience in a 20 minutes lecture from a separate course, "Computational Neuroscience" than the entire first week here.If you actually want to learn neuroscience, check out HardvardX's intro course. +easily understood +This is the worst, most pathetic course I have taken online. If Peking University believes this is their best - I'll not be taking another course with them. The instructor's command of the English language is awful and the sub-titles are some help, but not a lot. Instructors are just talking faces up front - they cannot teach. They may be great in the lab, but keep them out of the classroom. I toughed out the course, but it only got worse. I had originally signed up for parts 1 and 2 of this course. Canceled part 2. The use of slides that are not clear / too small and not on the screen long enough to digest the information did not help. Do yourself a favor - avoid this course. As a side note - I have taken in excess of 25 online courses, this was the most painful. +Very good Course!! Thank You. +Very boring... The professor is just reading (with a bad English). The illustrations are also very boring... +The professor is reading long texts. It is not really attractive. +I greatly enjoyed the material presented in this course and while I do not doubt the proficiency of it's creators the poor standard of spoken English of its two main presenters prevents me from recommending it to colleagues. As another reviewer has remarked, their English may be quite sufficient for day to day use with other experts but for inadequate for teaching students who are hearing many technical terms for the first time. The transcripts are no better and also contain many mistakes. I believe that this course should be stopped until these problems are corrected. +Very excellent course, I learned a lot. It lets me know the development process of the neuro-science and also the heros in it. My major is alternative splicing, I wish other life science branches can have this kinds of course too. +The professors sound like a group of first-year students presenting a group project, literally reading notes off of a powerpoint slide. The professors also can't speak English, so instead of explaining things in depth, they have to very, very slowly read basic phrases (to explain complex subject matter) off of what's basically a teleprompter. +The course presented a lot of interesting, fascinating information. I especially liked the first female lecturer. However, there were some problems with downloading the course slide presentations and questions were never answered in the forum discussion groups. In addition, the second lecturer, although very interesting, often did not talk about the material that was presented on exams. I also think integrating a lot more animation to describe different processes would be effective so that students can visualise the content. +Dr. Li is a wonderful teacher! I love his style very much! +Accurate and clear. +thank you for opening ideas in the world of neurobiology I have learned a lot so far and I'm sure I will learn much more with you ..greetings from Guayaquil-Ecuador +So far the topics are very interesting but the accent of the teacher is sooo difficult to follow and distracts me! Also, she is looking down to read all the time and this doesn't reflect her knowledge. +Really poor powerpoint presentations and videos, half in chinese. The accent of the teacher is horrible (i'm not an english-native speaking person so it's hard for me to follow english when badly spoken, so i cut off the sound and only read the subtitles.)The content is interesting though. +Is a good course, with a comprenhensible material and resourses. I think they should improve the quility of video-classes and some teachers doesn´t have good english pronunciation. +Fascinating course but a little too much math for my taste. +I don't want to be mean, but the first week was terrible! I was expecting what it said: ADVANCED neurobiology.I feel bad giving this review. I'm just dropping the course. +After finishing week 1, I have decided to stick with Duke university's Medical neuroscience which is starting up again. I also highly recommend "Understanding the Brain The Neurobiology of Everyday Life" which I believe was taught by the University of Chicago. I found them to be far more engaging the viewer and the format to be much easier to follow. I found it visually disturbing and also have to keep pausing to read the slide before it switches.It's too bad because I was really looking forward to this course. It also seemed she had trouble pronouncing many of the words and I do not want to learn how to pronounce many of them incorrectly also many of the slides did not have an English translation on them. +Great course! I loved the teachers! +I find this to be a very nice and stimulating course. The teachers are enthusiastic and entertaining. The course material (slides, quizzes, captions) needs to be polished, but the general organization of the course is logical, clear, and systematic. The course presents an experimentalist's view of the subject, which I find very good considering that much related Coursera material is quite theoretical. There are plenty of historical notes and introductions of general neurobiology research viewpoints (don't miss the excellent bonus material interviews!). In particular, I enjoyed the "cherry picking" metaphor. Some students have had problems with the instructors' accent, but perhaps because English is not my first language, this has not been a problem for me at all. I'm looking forward to part two of the course! +This course is useless and perhaps even harmful.The professors would have done much better if they had taught the class in their native Chinese language and then got a really good translator to make subtitles in English.I tried turning off the sound and just watching the presentation while reading the subtitles, but even this was so badly done in terms of language and presentation, that although I desperately wanted to take a course in advanced neurobiology, I felt that this course could actually destroy my love for the subject or teach me things that are incorrect because of language mistakes.If you are not a native speaker of English then by all means steer even further clear as you will learn some very bad English habits and pronunciation.I'm sure the profs' English ability is fine for collaborating with other professionals who already know the material, but teaching in English was a big mistake.Again, I highly suggest they re-do the entire thing in Chinese and get really good translations and subtitles made and then I think it could be an awesome course. Now, as is, it would be truly foolish to take this course. +Boring and can't make sense of the presentation / language and idiom use. +before discussing genetic mutations occurred in Alzheimer disease that mentioned when discussing AIS, i think some refreshment about protein synthesis and the normal pattern that if disturbed by certain ways as mutations causes particular diseases.some arrangements of material needed to prevent information overlappinginteresting courses, go onthanks for your efforts dear professors +Lots of good information, but the presentation is very bad. Not only are the professors clearly struggling with the English (and the material, calling anatomical planes "plates" and confounding sulci with fissures, etc), but some of the recording/video editing decisions make it less engaging and more difficult to follow. For example, the size of the images is often compromised because they chose to show the professor on the left side of the screen, even though it is absolutely unnecessary to do so.Overall, I do not recommend this course. +Great course, much to learn in a short time but with an excellent guide. +Me gusto +Application assignment is a must-do for students taking this course. The second computer network application is very a rewarding one for me to finish with gains on concepts of graph as well as programming stretch with my hands dirty. +great course +coursea does not allow me to quit the class. Also, I cannot do the homework or watch video at my own pace. +Great class, very well constructed. Professors are very knowledgeable and the course materials are well designed. I started from the very beginning of the class knowing very little about python and algorithm, by this class I'm pretty comfortable coding in python. And I got to apply what I've learned in my interview for jobs. Definitely a great class! Learned a lot, and still applying it in my job. +Compared to the previous courses in this specialization I found this a tough course. Calculating the big-O for yourself wasn't easy. The descriptions of the applications #1 and #2 were not very clear to me at the start (probably because English is not my first language). Some sentences I had to read several times before I understand what was asked. But the things I learned are useful and I am definitely sure that what I have learned here I can use in my work as software engineer. Thank you Luay, Scott and Joe for another excellent course. +Too much bla, bla, bla. Very slowly, very boring. +A course I enjoy very much! +The applications were too time consuming. Please consider adding a tool that makes graphing easier. The course itself was very good and engaging and without us knowing it, would teach core fundamentals of computing through the coding exercises. +It takes some serious dedication to understand and apply the material if math and computation are foreign to you, like they were for me. But if you apply that dedication, the material is accessible and the feeling of accomplishment is tremendous. Great class/teaching. +optimization and fragmentation..algos arithmos olokliroma..fractal resilience.. +One of the best course offered by coursera, helps you to develop very strong basics if new,. +Project is interesting, bu the video lecture is kind of repetitive and does not cover much +The transition from the original Coursera platform to the new one has significantly reduced my overall satisfaction with the course experience (I have previously taken the 4 earlier Rice courses in this series and enjoyed them immensely).Major contributing factors to my dissatisfaction:-- The user interface changes are unwelcome and have detracted from my ability to engage with the material.-- There have been arbitrary (and unannounced) changes to polices, e.g. dropping distinction grading.-- The price increase per course and locking down of assignments to only those who have paid has unfortunate side effects, including.-- In contrast to previous courses in this series which had an active community engagement the discussion forums are now relatively empty, running the courses more often is not going to help this situation.Having previously been an unpaid evangelist for the Coursera approach and materials I now find myself extremely reluctant to recommend this revised experience to colleagues. +I found the material of this course to be very enlightening, it's not too difficult if you have the appropriate background. However, it will take a decent amount of time to fully complete. As part of the specialization, all of the skills I've learned were consolidated and put to an interesting use with this class. +The lectures will not get you near the understanding you'll need to complete the assignments. though the resources will.The application is great, and hard so you'll actually have to understand the material.You have been warned, this course is very different to the other courses in the specialization! +A very Imperative course! +Excellent course. His content is very interesting and realistic. I suggest this course if you want to improve your knolowgede about American culture and others countries. +It is very intriguing! +Wonderful course!Thank you so much for your efforts. +Very interesting course. Each module had several "surprises" that fascinated me. All the speakers are easy to understand and interesting. Would like to see Part 2 with Russia, England, Turkey, etc. Makes you aware as to how differently countries can look at the same issue. +This course gave me an eye opening view of the world. I can see how this course can grow into a more dynamic and interactive education experience in the future. +While some of the information presented was interesting, it seemed oddly biased towards the perspective of highly educated foreigners. I had hoped to get more information about how America is seen by the (foreign) masses. +seemed kind of dumb at first but got better +A revealing look on how the rest of the world views the USA. Perhaps this should be offered to high school students, somt hey can better understand how other nationalities react to "Americans" +Helpful on a knowing america through other country's eye. However, I think the course would be more interesting if if could include more discussion about how all those country and US view each other now instead of focusing much of its content on history. +No translations available despite what subtitles and transcripts say. +Thank you very much for this beautiful course. So many concepts, clearly explained and with great passion. Best wishes from Montevideo, Uruguay. +IT'S AN EDUCATIVE AND PRODUCTIVE COURSE. +The greatest course in Agroeconomics ! Highly recommended! +it is a great course!!!! +I'm 29 years old, Staff/teacher of Add to dictionary University, Lao PDR, Professional Affiliation is Livestock and Animal help care Unit Service, Technical ISU, teaching And Researcher Unit of Animal science, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Savannaket University, Lao PDRDetail about me : https://livestockevolutionweb.wordpress.com/The basic on my particular subject is focusing The Livestock Management to Produced to merchandise and Marketing management planning in regional. But, the knowledge - my skills is a difference with academics general. Whether the knowledge - skills on the improve and development livestock with diversify, veterinary , can work with people or farmers in locally is very well, knowledge - skills about design model on research Both on the scientific social and experiment, writing research proposal, Research issue ...So, the based on fact of my origin, is come from families with relatively poor of status since Congenital up to currently. Limit of money is as the key factor to my work and deprived to study on higher degree. So, I have to learn for experience by own throughout. And also, I’m built many activities focus Agriculture production sure: rice growing along with livestock for food security and Extra Income for my family. Over the past, on my life Is as normally will have to the faces with the actual fight with challenge on production agriculture in every day. 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It builds on what I've learned elsewhere, so will be useful for real-world application. +Such an informative course +NIce course got a brief idea about agriculture by one of the renowned teacher David Pannell sir +Interesting course on Agriculture and Economics, very useful to revise important economic concepts and also to learn more about agriculture. Highly recommended. +A good and relevant course +Very rewarding and insightfull learned a ton ! +i like this course very much +Provides a nice basis in understanding how economic principles are used to investigate agriculture production. Could provide a bit more of an economic foundation but the course is broad rather than deep. +It was an amazing experience. I learned so much. Thank you :) +It's really about economics in its broader meaning: how different natural, social, and financial aspects play together to set present and future of farmers and the communities they live in.I highly recommend this course to anyone, even if not specifically interested in agriculture economics. +I am much excited to partake in this course and it has really improved my worth. i strongly recommend it everyone. A very big THANK YOU to the coursera team for such an initiative and also to the Agriculture faculty of university of western of western Australia for such a partnership. i am very grateful, looking forward to work with you. BRAVO!!! +An excellent course and online experience. Coming from an industrial environmental management background, this has given me insight and interest +Enriching content coupled with +Wonderful course!!I recommend it to everyone in the Agricultural space. +Pretty Good Course +It's a beautiful course! Not only did I learn more (than I estimated) about economics and agriculture, there was also a nice balance between theory and practical applications. The recommended readings are relatable and reinforce the content of the videos. As a teacher, Dave is careful to present both sides of any issue (for example, he presents both gylphosate as the largest used herbicide, while maintaining that it is also very controversial). Pannell Discussions are a delight to read, since they deliver the intended content without sounding like research papers, which sometimes they may actually be based upon. It's wonderful to see such researchers having the patience to blog about such issues online! At a more subtle level, things like the location choices (farms for the agricultural weeks and buildings for institutional/policy weeks), altering background music - all made enriched my experience!Ofcourse, I think I will still have to brush up my concepts from time to time (since an online course can not replace internalization of a subject through rigorous comprehension and examination), and ofcourse I have quite a lot more to "learn" in this area (who doesn't? :P).But the course was a very informative, balanced and highly interesting introduction for me! +A great short course delivered by one of the best agricultural economist in the world with a great publication history +The course was amazing i learned a lot of new things . if someone responding to these review i want to add something . In final quiz i did not find proper result . Which question i marked wrong and which one right . So please solve this problem. +Great Course have already learned so much. And still hoping to learn more. +Great mental workout. Well-explained, but the coding challenges and bonus questions are challenging enough to allow for a lot of growth even for more advanced students. +As someone with only (UK) high school level maths I just about managed to follow this. I am still confused by logarithms. I guess I should go and read the maths for computer science resource. +I had a great time taking this course. It was a very good course in algorithms that explained the core concepts really well rather than just providing a high level overview. The assignments take some time but it aligns with what the instructor is teaching. The instructor is absolutely excellent because he takes the time to go through the math and iterations which helps to develop a deeper intuition for these algorithms. Looking forward to completing his other courses when I got time. +Course is brilliant, but at least for me the completion took in average 3 times more effort than expected by authors (4-8 hrs/week). Of course this is mostly due to my low experience with programming, but still, might be relevant for other learners, who don!t have much experience. +Sometimes too much mathematics. +It was an awesome and challenging course.And ,the lecturer Mr.Tim Roughgarden did introduced the gist that I need.So ,of course, I owe him a big thank.Thank you all. +Professor Roughgarden explains everything clearly and is engaged in the topic. His excitement about algorithms comes though in his teaching. +Professor Roughgarden managed to explain all the algorithom ideas in a clear and simple way, and give us a very intuitive understanding of these methods. He did give me confidence in this field, even I am not majoring in CS. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course. I learned a great deal, and particularly enjoyed the programming assignments. Looking forward to starting course 2. +Well designed and good to refresh the basics on many top algorithms +Very useful course..Loved it. +This course has relatively few instructions about homework. I believe more test cases would be better.(Though able to be found in forum.) Besides, lecture is really awesome. Thanks a lot. +Very good course in algorithms. I bought the book to help me understand but the lectures make it way easier and thus much more fun to understand the analysis. Looking forward to complete the spec +I like this course a lot. Going to learn everything in the specialization. +Excellent course. The statistical analysis was a little too fast and overwhelming towards the end but overall I learned a lot. +I would really love to take this course as I m currently a computer science and thanks for granting me this course Yuhuuuuu! +it is very important to learn algorithms as it is truly said it is heart of computer programming .. I am very happy and thanks for offering such a course to coursera and have just started hope will learn something so that it will help !!!! +The professor is very good. However, pictures and graphics mean a thousand words. These lectures rely too much on words. It makes it how to visualize the concepts. Hope to see more pictures. Animation will be the best. +Great course but audio and video are terribly out of sync. +The course was pretty good. Definitely worth the money, and better than I expected from an online course. I thought it was a little heavy with probability proofs, but that's probably because I struggle with stats. +A very nice course! +I was glad to get exposure to famous algorithms through this class, but I don't feel like I really developed an intuition for reasoning about their runtime. The class was challenging, but mostly for the wrong reasons. I spent more time and energy pouring over the answers to tricky quizzes and having to implement algorithms exactly as described in the lecture notes rather than really truly learning. It also took me much longer than the 4-8 hours per week advertised to complete each week. +Thank you so much! I grown so much in the field of Algorithms because of this course. Onto the next one. +Liked the style and intensity of the course! +This is a best algorithm course I have ever done! +The instructor for this course is absolutely excellent. He is a master of the subject and explains the material to get at the concepts behind it rather than just a superficial understanding. He also does not get lost in mathematical notation, explaining clearly what each piece of the math he is showing us means. +Very good course ! +It's an amazing introduction to algorithms. I enjoyed listening to the lectures. All the algorithms were explained in detail. +The course was quite useful and enlightening！I was a good start to learn algorithms! +Tim Roughgarden teaches with wit and depth. Speaking with idiomatic verve, he injects life into Algorithms! +A must for wannable computer geek. +The ideas from this course are fun. +Very good review of divide and conquer algorithms, however, I only recommend for those who are willing to put in the hard work as I found it challenging. +I'm so glad that I've taken this course. This is really fantastic. +Very Useful +This is a great course. The teacher is very clear, and the material is very interesting. The programming assignments are interesting: the problems asked are very simple, but the input is generally too large to use brute force: you really have to implement the algorithms presented in the videos. This makes you realize how much smart algorithms can make a difference.The level of the class is relatively high, compared to other Coursera courses I've taken. If you want some serious training on algorithms, look no further. +I would recommend this course to anyone who has some experience with coding, but has not taken an algorithm course. I particularly like this course because it is more "math-heavy" than some of the other courses. After taking this course, you might not be able to solve all Leetcode problems (so probably will not help with your interviews directly), but from an intellectual point of view, I think the instructor does a good job explaining why people care about algorithms and how to analyze a class of algorithms rigorously. +Challenging but Insightful. Definitely worth it. +This course offers one of the best introductions to reasoning about algorithms in a mathematical way. However, it is not just theory, it also gives you practical advise and forces you to polish up your programming skills as well by implementing some of the most useful and popular algorithms for sorting and similar applications in whatever language you wish. +Excellent course. What I valued most about this course was the clarity with which proofs and algorithms are explained. In learning algorithms one really profits from a great professor. Keep in mind that this course involves mathematics for proofs and I believe one has to be really curious about algorithms and dive into proofs to take full advantage of this course. Regarding assignments they are challenging but definitely approachable if you have some experience in programming. My advice: do not get discouraged, this is all about resilience! +Excellent course! I would recommend it to everyone who wants to learn algorithms. +Awesome,right now I know why algorithms are most important..!! +Tim gives great insights and draws attention to the right things at right time! Exercise and quizzes are very helpful and makes you think in right direction. Also the in-video-quizzes are well thought of to make you think about the topic being described in the video and thus makes it easy to understand the contents. This is just the right course anyone should take to improve/learn algorithm and data structures course. I've got got aaha! moments multiple times. Can't thank Tim enough!! +Sir Tim Roughgarden teaches very straight forward and easy .I like the course. +Cool class +Exceptional materials and teacher. +Great +Challenging and fun! +Amazing course! +The unique value of taking the course: read and think through the material with guidance and completing its assignments is the efficiency by saving all the search cost would I collect on my own the good and succinct presentation of the knowledge and exercises with solutions (at least correctness checks.) The entire detail of an algorithm is hard to keep afresh in memory and one needs to refresh it from time to time. It is very cost-effective to take a course like this to accelerate the refresh. +Very good course on algorithms, a lot of terms explained in details with exercises +Well structured, well explained. Great course! +Very nice course !! +This is a great course for who doesn't have a computer science background! +This course has some great quiz questions. I'd recommend it to people just for them. +The math in this course is quite difficult, but the professor does a great job of explaining it in a very easily understood way. +very challenging fast-paced course +I was very amazed with his really good lectures. Especially proving each algorithm's correctness and performance was very interesting and stimulated my curiosity. I also need to note that optional videos for probability helped me a lot to understand this course. I would like to recommend my friends definitely. +Great course to improve your skills on Algorithms, Space and Time complexities +Professor Roughgarden makes algorithms cool. With his passion for the topic you can't help but get excited about it too. I feel like I got a deep understanding of the topics covered versus just learning a recipe to sort an array. Looking forward to more. +Needs hands-on experience with high-school probability to help crack the exams +Best online course and one of the best courses in programming +It would be nice to see more examples especially were we have too many formulas. I still confused with probability.Also hadwritting isnt really helping. I am most of the time decoding scripts. In addition he is reading the formula at one moment and in around 3-4 seconds it appears on the screen. So I kind of listening him while trying to read what is happening on the screen. horrible experience. +Personally, I would recommend this course to anyone who really wants to learn how things work in that sort of algorithms. I found the assignments a little difficult, but also extremely helpful. +It´s been a long time since I had so much fun. Like going back to school. The course was great, the material is excelent, the assignements interesting and challenging. I really liked this course and am getting ready for the next one on the series. +it was awsome!! one of the best courses and materials regarding algorithms i have taken!thanks a lot!totally worth my time and money =) +Great course with interesting assignments. +the tutorials is not for average students, it takes a very high skill to understand them . also the quiz nd the assignments r too tough.hope you can make them a bit easy, the last one ,ie with graphs and trees was a bouncer. If the maths required is so high, please take a week to first explain the math fresher required in course and then start the main course +This is great course +It's an amazing courses aiming to high-level and fast-pace algorithmic thinker. +I enjoyed this course, it was more challenging than the first one in the sequence, especially in the graph-search portion. The last 2 weeks are much more simple, but it is still essential for any serious student of CS to learn about data structures, especially common and practical DS such as heaps and hash tables. +The professor is amazing. He has the ability to present the material very clearly, concise, and with a good dose of humour! I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in algorithms and data structures as an undergraduate or a professional. +good in depth knowedge. +This was another good one, providing a slightly deeper dive than I had seen in other courses. The big revelation here, for me, was the addition of Bellman-Ford algorithm for evaluating shortest path in networks (graphs) that have some negative distance values between nodes.I also like the approach to data structures (high-level, then drilling down into increasing detail for level of interest) I find it hard to say I understand a data structure based on "Interface and Theory" and I would have felt the certification meant more with at least a rudimentary implementation. I guess that makes me a coder at at heart.I am about to jump into the next course of the specialization: Greedy Algorithms, Minimum Spanning Trees, and Dynamic Programming As with the two courses before, I am expecting new revelations about the kind of programming issues I've been solving for more than fifteen years. +A really good course +Useful refresher! +I learned a lot lot lot, no more to say. Fantastic. +very good course! but I think this specialization focus on mathematical analysis, we need to practice more +Great course, at least for people like me who lack of computer science background. +This course let me feel algorithms is not hard as I thought. It is worth to learn +I really enjoyed it. Perfect balance of practice and theory together with clear explanations. I also appreciate the mentors efforts that always answer any questions and try to help. Thank you Tim, Vassilis, and Arjit. +This is a great course. The teacher is very clear, and the material is very interesting. The programming assignments are interesting: the problems asked are very simple, but the input is generally too large to use brute force: you really have to implement the algorithms presented in the videos. This makes you realize how much smart algorithms can make a difference.The level of the class is relatively high, compared to other Coursera courses I've taken. If you want some serious training on algorithms, look no further. +Good learning +Nice course and exams problems. I recommend this course if you want to understand the basics of graphs, trees and heaps. +The material was a little light and far fewer video quiz questions to test our understanding of the material. I also tried to test myself on BFS and DFS by doing online quizzes like geeksforgeeks - bombed really hard. +Excellent mix of math (not too much), programming details (probably needs a little bit more) and practical applications! +This is great course and amazing refresher!!! +The early part of the course does not make a compelling argument for why we need to analyse complexity. The lectures are interesting but not helpful for use in business. +Super interesting course, I have never seen in my lifetime.Watch me ;)) +I am really satisfied by the course .....just love the lecture and slides too :) ..... +Tim does an excellent job explaining things at depth and at the same time keeping things interesting. The quizes and programming assignments are well thought and carefully balanced vs the material taught. They force you to stretch just a bit beyond the lectures, which is a good thing IMHO.And there is a wealth of advanced/optional material for the curious. +I love how clear the videos (and notes) are and re-watching them really helped a lot! I wish there was more discussion on the forms though! +It's challenging but interesting. +The best Coursera class I took so far! The instructor has a good pedagogic approach -- for every problem he discusses, he starts with an intuitive explanation illustrated on a simple example, and afterwards provides a rather rigorous justification for the algorithms (omitting only secondary details).I found the problems challenging, and the quizzes required quite some thought, not only repeating/slightly modifying statements made already in the lectures. This made it feel closer to a real class than the other Coursera courses I took so far. +Very much to the point, no nonsense, good course! +Many of the weeks' videos were out of order. +Week 4 was significantly more time-consuming than the others, but it is still an excellent course overall. Recommended! +Well done!!!! That is the first English course I have finished!!!! +Well done, made a very difficult topic accessible. +if u do those math it will definitely help u to be advance +It's a very nice course if you're doing some refreshing of college chemistry. +The material was good, but I did notice a couple of lectures and in-course questions presented out of order. What really turned me off, however were quizzes. In weekly quizzes the first answer was always the right answer. In the final quiz most of the questions had the first answer as the right answer. Since randomizing the answers is so obvious and easy, I am really at a loss why the quizzes would be presented in this way. +A lot of calculation errors and incorrect answers +Great! +Excellent course, very challenging, instructors take the time to explain the work very well.My only suggestion would be that week four be split into two more manageable sections, as it was quite large and there were many different topics covered. As aqueous equilibria are not my strong suit, it was a lot to take in +Thank a lot +Great Course +The course is well-structured, clear and coherent. The assessments are quite good too. Recommend it! +Excellent course. If you are struggling with high school chem, or need a good foundation for college chem - this course moves you through the concepts and gives you lots of practice problems. +It is a good course for beginners, but it is too slow for advanced learners who want to refresh their knowledge. +I did the course before. It was amazing! +I am new to teaching AP Chem and this class was a great refresher for me....I suggested that my students enroll. +Although I had taken this course and higher levels in the past, there are still many subjects that I do not feel I have mastered them. This course helps me to achieve that goal. Also, it does not mean that this is not a flawless program, but by far is much much much better than the program I had attended in the past.I like to appreciate both instructors for their time and the effort they have put into making these wonderful videos for many students around the world! +This whole program is so knowledge-giving...thanks to Coursera and University of Kentucky.😊 +There were some mistakes and weird glitches, but overall solid overview of second-half chem +Great.. I'm chemistry.. And this course is very useful to remember all things have you learnt in the university... Thank u +This is realy helpfull and interesting. +Itt's great! Nicely explained with step by step resolution of problems. I loked it :D +Great explanation. I am very satisfied. +thank you for the course. great +i like it but there is ALOT to do i am 13 taking this for science class and i am starting to get lost in what the are saying +Needs some means of feedback. Several times I felt sure that a question was wrong, but there's nothing to be done about it. Additionally, it would be nice if, after completing (and passing) a test, you could see what you did wrong and how the answer should have been determined. +very easy to follow +The course is very well organised and presented. +Very Good course ! Hope to see Organic Chemistry and some Biology courses by University of Kentucky like this. +It's great! Thank you for everything :)) +amazing course. all topics about chemistry are here, very good quizes. a good course +I used this course as a significant portion of my preparation for the CLEP Chemistry exam, and passed today with an A! Thank you! +This was a fantastic course! The teachers taught the material well and were entertaining in their teaching methods. I enjoyed that the lectures were easy to watch, and I appreciated all of the practice problems. +kind of boring and I am not learning how half this info is obtained or why it is relevant to real world chemistry +Thank you for reviving my interest in chemistry! +The subjects are very well covered. Great explanation. Very recommendable +Excellent lecture videos with practice problems that are very helpful in recalling the chemical concepts. Really wish this course could offer at least an SOA so learners can be more motivated. +Thoroughly enjoyed this course! Problems and assignments are quite challenging but doable +Very challenging, well presented. +This challenging course improves understanding of algorithms and is intellectually stimulating. I learnt the theory behind algorithms and how they are applied to solve real world problems. +Awesome! The professor is obviously very knowledgeable about the ancient Greece history and it's a pity that I'm done with the course; I wish I could attend the full, comprehensive version of it! On top of the basic history, I appreciated the comments on the research method, the nuances in the interpretation of different events, the presentation of additional elements (e.g., pictures, maps, artifacts) to support the lectures, etc. I was sometimes rushing a bit to go through all the reading assignments but I'm glad to know now what to read and where to search to get more information on the topic. I think it's one of the good side-effect of this course: it motivates you to learn even more about the ancient Greeks. Thanks! +Very good. The readings indicated helped to expand my knowledge of Ancient Greece. Every undergraduate student in History, Philosophy, Archeology etc, must take this course. +Great course! Very touching and devoted instructor. +Excellent overview and introduction to Greek history. I am travelling to Greece later this year and wanted to get a better understanding of Greek history to appreciate the art, literature, architecture and sites which I will be visiting. This course was both educational and entertaining. I highly recommend and look forward to building upon the knowledge acquired in the course. Thank you! +The course was fascinating. At first, I must admit Professor Andy seemed quite dry at first, but as I began to understand his wit, I waited continually for him to deliver something extremely hilarious. I still laugh when I think about the reference to "Bats whispering". His understanding of the topic was excellent and his ability to communicate such a tremendous span of critical Western history efficiently and in an organized manner made the course valuable to me. I learned enough to of course understand I knew little, though I have written down several areas I want to research on my own to expand my knowledge. Great course, great lectures, thank you for presenting it to us and helping us learn! +Ancient History: it is not boring anymore (for me)! Charming Prof. Andrew Szegedy-Maszak gives materials in a way, that you feel an every character (even mithological) was a real person involved in a real story. I also like nice sence of humor and a voice of lecturer! A lot of reading was easy and interesting to learn during the course. +A fantastic course: Very well-presented and hugely informative. +Great course ! +Comprehensive course. I gained a great deal of information that helped to fill gaps in my own knowledge base. +Great Job. Andy definitely is the best. +Excellent course. Really inspired me to learn more. +What a great course! I have enjoyed it a lot! +Very Interesting course that covers a huge range of topics over a long period of time. A very well informed lecturer who can speak about the subject matter in a clear and concise manner. +Fantastic Course! Really well structured, lectures are really interesting and I have really enjoyed it!! +Well prepared course. +Some great material and I learned a lot. I did in fact complete the course but chose not to submit written material. Sometimes the lecturer was perhaps a little dry. +Great course! Loved everything I learned. +Excellent course. It has a perfect rhythm and the teacher has a good pronunciation which it is a important detail for no native english like me. I recommend strongly. +Fantastic course. Information packed, but not overwhelming. The links to online readings provide nice context for a lot of the lectures, but weren't in any way daunting. Highly recommend! +Even though the professor talks in a monotone voice, I was so fascinated by the course content that I was able to overlook it. +I found this a really interesting course to complete. The lectures are easily digestible and help to provide context for various readings that you complete along the way. I would have liked an introductory lecture that gave an overview of some of the major themes of the course more clearly (I felt a bit at sea throughout the first topic having never studied this before. I didn't know what to pay attention to). But once we were underway, I had no trouble working out the flow of events. I really enjoyed this- thank you! +I love listening to these lectures. The professor is highly informed on the subject matter and his personality brings these myths and historical insights to life through engaging, clear story telling. I honestly did not know what to expect from the course, but I am deeply interested and hope to retain at least the main points of the lectures to take with me in my understanding of the world and the development of our richly influenced society by the Ancient Greeks. +I like this course, it covers a wide range of topics. +A good starting point to learn more about the "Ancient Greeks" +Great course, but the quizzes are not quite there yet. They focus too much on minor details and the questions are sometimes awkwardly phrased. +I found Wesleyan University's course "The Ancient Greeks" rich in varied information. Professor Andrew Szegedy-Maszak's lectures are particularly thoughtful and the quizzes are clear. An altogether enjoyable, well-worth experience. +Very informative and filled with interesting tidbits. I loved it. +Totally excellent and enthralling! The subject matter is well treated and easy to follow. The quality of the videos are top as well. I fell the the mix of lecture, reading and quiz at the end of the week was just right. +excellent course, I enjoyed it a lot!It helped me to gain an overview over ancient greek history.Great lecturer! +Fantastic course. Very enjoyable, quite clear and shed light on quite a lot of complex concepts. It's not hard to follow, but certainly arouses your curiosity and makes you explore more. Thank you for all these great lectures. +An excellent course, one of the best I’ve done at Coursera. I hope Prof. Andrew Szegedy-Maszak will give more courses on this subject, starting with the end of this course, the 4th century BCE, progressing to the 3rd, 2nd etcetera BCE! +Cool +Perfect! +The professor was extremely knowledgeable and clear. +Wonderful course ! +I love the way this professor talk about events. I learned so much. +I love this class. So much important history that can be related to current events and people. I highly recommend everyone to take this course and think about it. We still make the mistakes these people did, and the successes are a part of our existence today. Instructor is very pleasant too. +Quality Qu +Inspiring instructor. A lot of clarity in the lectures and some really interesting facts and stories. This course is almost like watching a great movie. +Thank you so much for conducting such a well paced course to the prelude of Greek's history!The course was simply fascinating! Professor Andrew's teaching style was very detailed, often humorous and also engaging. It felt as if I was really present in one of his lectures in the university classroom!The provided reading assignments also immensely helped in gaining an in-depth understanding of the course content!The active discussion forum gave me the opportunity to fine tune my learning through Q/As and additional articles for further reading, provided by the very generous, friendly and encouraging mentors!Looking forward to such a course in future,With best regards,Saoumitaa G +I have learned many issues and insights, and I am most satisfied. +The professor certainly knows a lot about this subject, but his delivery is stiff and dry. If he shared his passion for the subject with us it would be more enjoyable. On the plus side, I admire how he shares the Greek language with us so capably and combines art with his lectures. +Really interesting course +I will keep thinking with the Greeks. +Best instructor and lectures covering the entire area..But Assignments should include more questions so that to cover entire content of course. +So thanks Prof ,i think that it was a great course and really my hope now is to visit Greece to recall Homer,Socrates,Hesiod,Solon.........................As a course ,Ancient Greeks resource me much and i advice all students to take this wonderful course. +It's really well organized. I like the pace of the course and the voice of "Professor Andy"! +This is my first coursera course and I love it. +A global and balance view of the ancient greek history +Great! I 'd love to learn about this. +Awesome course, excelent material, great classes. +Excellent course!It is a must take course for the lover of Ancient Greece. +The course is very well structured for a diverse range of learners. You could get a very deep knowledge and understanding through the readings (Greek tragedies, Herodotus, Thucydides etc) and the lectures, or a broad survey of the Ancient Greeks by just watching the videos. The professor also combines the narrative, the methods used to study those narratives and the limits to our knowledge in an erudite yet engaging manner.Definitely recommended as a top quality resource for anyone who wants to learn about Ancient Greece. +An excellent course for those interested in an introduction to classical studies. I studied roman history and latin at high school, and I was eager to learn more about the ancient greeks. This course provided me a great introduction. And it raised my interest in reading ancient greek authors. That was the strongest point for me: no need of animation, I liked the invitation to read ancient texts. +This is an excellent course and I have enjoyed listening and reading everything it has to offer. +Great Course! +WWonderful course.great professor +Interesting and informative! Professor is the best! +This was an excellent course on The Ancient Greeks. I studied Ancient History and Archaeology at University a few years ago and I found this a brilliant refresher to knowledge I had forgotten. It was well structured and interestingly taught. +Very interesting! I wish there is some animation film to explain the narative. +Wonderful and interesting course. Thanks! +it´s very interesting course ,it gives you all the details you need in the classic studies . +An amazing course! I have found many interesting details and also received completely new way of seeing the history of democracy! Special acknowledgment to professor Andrew Szegedy-Maszak for his work and generous way to give knowledge to the students! +It's just plain excellent. Great content and professor. +A very interesting course and I'm at the beginning of this course and already have learned a lot about +Outstanding course, delivered measuredly, concisely, and clearly. A wonderful panoramic introduction to the Ancient Greeks. Inspires one to dig deeper. Thank you so much for offering this course on Coursera. +This course was simply fantastic ! I was captivated. Pr. Szegedy-Maszak is such a great teacher. He makes you really live and love the subject. I'm looking forward for new courses. Thank you very much. +the tests are difficult. +An engaging look at Ancient Greece from the Minoan civilisation on Crete through to the death of Socrates (with some bonus material on Alexander the Great by popular demand!). The course is extremely well-designed and presented by first-rate lecturer, Professor Andrew Szegedy-Maszak of Wesleyan University. Totally recommended. +Very informative and interesting! +Excellent course! I'd like to thank the professor for such good lectures +well presented and thought provoking +Fantastic course. Nicely paced with good lectures and background reading. Highly recommended if you want to learn about history of ancient Greece, with a side order of drama, literature, lives of women, slaves and metics (do the course and you will know who they are). Highly recommended. +I enjoyed this course. It was very interesting, the teacher explained each topic well. A very informative journey through the Ancient Greece. +Great course that let you have a quick look over the greek rise and fall over 2000 years ago. +Poor visual aids, course content and format. +It is a good course and the instructor is very knowledgeable on the subject. It´s just that, after a while studying about wars it seems that there´s no ending or purpose. It is a very good analisys though. +Loving this course! Very engaging subject matter and instructor has discussed topics in such a way as to make you want to know more and to continue with the lessons even though it's way past bedtime!I have learned quite a bit so far and am developing further interest in that time period, especially how the Ancient Greeks have shaped societal constructs and belief systems and how they have affected us throughout the ages to modern life as we know it. +The professor is very comfortable lecturing in front of a camera, which makes it quite easy to follow the lectures and what he is explaining. +Professor is very knowledgable and honest about the topic. As a student of classical civilizations I loved his simple communication style to explain concepts that tend to become overly complicated by bad professors. Definitely enjoyed +The course was very interesting. My recommendation would be to also include videos as resources, where possible. For example, I found videos of 'Medea' and 'Antigone' on Youtube and watched them and loved them! Since it's theater, it's completely different seeing the play than just reading it. +It's a nice way to learn how were the greeks! In a fews words: Awseome! +I've found this course extremely helpful as I teach Greek history to my high school classes. Professor Andy explains crucial events in enough detail yet the videos are concise enough to watch multiple in one evening with good comprehension. Thank you so much for the lectures and great resources! They are invaluable to my planning my unit on Ancient Greece! +This is wonderful swathe through Greek history. I'm glad I was invited along.Thank you. +Great course! Excelente professor +This is an absolutely 5-star course. Educational, interesting, right-paced... It is very clear that the professor has a passion for the subject and is deeply knowledgeable. There are two questions after every video lecture, which focus on the most important parts of the lecture and also helps the student see if they understood the content. Reading assignments are relevant and interesting. End-of-the week quizzes are challenging, but can be completed very successfully if the student paid close attention to the subject. I would recommend this course to everyone who likes history or ancient cultures. I hope for a sequel, too! +Excellent survey course. Only wish there was more information given on details of daily life, also wish the course was a bit longer. Had issues with verifying the quizes. +Professor Andy lectures really made me enjoy my time spent learned and studying about the Ancient Greeks, now having skimmed the top of some history of the Ancient Greeks I look to discover more by myself and as suggested in this course. "Think like the Greeks." Good day. +I found The Ancient Greeks course to be excellent, highly informative and well presented. I found the lectures, use of maps and pictures of ancient artifacts to be most useful in supporting the topic. Highly recommended. +Absolutely superb course by lecturer who knows the material inside out. +The lecturer was quite knowledgeable, but I think he needs to work on his presentation a bit. Particularly at the start of the course he didn't quite know what he was trying to say +I had forgotten how much reading there is! I didn't have a lot of time, but I enjoyed the lectures a lot and it revisited my interest in history and ancient civilizations. I think I learned more from this than the Ancient Civ class I took many years ago in college! Most enjoyable! +Very good course. I'm enjoying this immensely. Maybe a little less recommended reading, some of the readings are repetitions. +Informative and enjoyable +Well presented and very enjoyable. +Well presented, wonderful insight into the world of the ancient Greeks. I learnt a lot, and it has whetted my appetite for more. I really loved this course, and enjoyed it very much indeed +Elaborate and absorbing lectures, it was a great pleasure to follow. Thank you, PhDAndrew Szegedy-Maszak! All the best, MK +Gave me a great overview of the ancient greeks. I now would like to visit these ancient places. +A lesson with discussion about the question of quizz. +I love history and so this class is perfect for historians alike. +An extremely intresting and informative course! +It is a great educational experience that opened the door to the ancient Greek history. +I knew nothing about ancient Greece before. Excellent course. Thanks. David Pearsall, Greenville NC +This is exactly the model that other humanities and "soft science" courses should follow on Coursera. Your grades and progress are solely based on your own performance and not on the whims of student reviewers. One is also spared the experience of grading the work of others which is often nearly as painful of a punishment as undergoing a root canal sans anesthesia. Other instructors and the leadership of Coursera need to pay attention to how this course is set up in order to make their own future endeavors better for their students. +Very interesting and well explained. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course. The lectures were easy to follow and the additional reading material fit to the lectures. I would subscribe to a follow-up course any time! +wonderful really interesting course, well presented and full of fascinating information; well worth doing +Limited in scope but very good for the time/topics it covers. +A Great course. very Informative I recommend it to all who want to learn a lot about the ancient Greeks their culture,history and contributions to today's society. +The reading assignments were really good and the pace of the course was very effective. +Very very good course! +I loved this course and I was a bit sad when I finished it. I found it very interesting and the teacher was very good explaining and making it simple enough. The material used (presentations, maps, photos) really helped to round up the lessons. Overall, a ver +Perfect course +A really great course!! +Even though it covers some topics a little "superficially", this course is of great value for those who want to get more knowledge about the history and development of ancient Greece. It is really interesting that it does not only cover political and military issues, but also daily life and civic aspects of this civilization.Really recommendable! +Excellent overview of Ancient Greek history. Very much enjoyed the lectures with clear explanations of different aspects of Greek political, military and social structure and the differences between the different polis. Reading material was enjoyable as well -- appreciated the opportunity to read, or reread in many cases, Herodotus, Thucydides and Plutarch. The mixtures of readings also gave the opportunity to view different persons and events from different perspectives which was refreshing. I highly recommend this course to anyone with an interest in Ancient Greece or the beginnings of facets of Western culture. +Professor Andy can tell a story and is the best damn Professor at wesleyan! +The profesor is excepcional, and have a very good english, Thank you +Very interesting class. The readings were helpful in understanding a deep appreciation for the subjects covered. Still dislike the multiple guess questions at the end of each section, think essays would show mastery of the bigger picture, but understand the constrains of time on the professor. Still, I would recommend this class as a basic introduction to Ancie +What an excellent course! The lecturer sets a good pace and is very engaging. The subject matter is interesting, and the course hours per week are very reasonable. I also really like the MCQs to consolidate your learning at the end of each lecture. +A very interesting and useful introduction to the Ancient Greeks era. +Good introduction to the period - balances political history with wider social and cultural topics. Well supported by original source material. Maybe the expectations of weekly reading are set a little high for many students. I personally found the sections on early Greece particularly interesting as I was least familiar with that era. +Excellent course! Very knowledgeable professor, yet easy and pleasant to follow. The programme is well structured and the content approached with some depth (considering the introductory nature of the course). I would have loved to see, though, a focus more on philosophy (pre- and post- socratic), visual arts and the Hellenistic period, as it is most of the times neglected, even in today's historical accounts. Hope to see more courses on Classical Studies soon at Coursera. +The course is ok. But we need really less lectures and more application based courses. +Brilliant course. Superbly assembled and presented material. And I love the prof's wry sense of humour!I've been wanting to learn about this subject for many years. Highly recommended. +Ancient Greeks is brief overview of Greek civilization from about 1800 to 320 BC, starting with the Minoans of Crete and ending with the death of Alexander the Great. Prof. Andrew Szegedy-Maszak demonstrates great knowledge about the subjects, covering literature, government, and philosophy.Yet the course has two setbacks: 1) The professor stutters through the lectures, displaying his obvious discomfort being on camera; and 2) the overview is very expansive, so there isn't great study in any single theater of Greek civilization.There is, however, solid coverage. I also felt the chapter on the 4th cent. BC, done to address complaints about no coverage of Alexander and Macedon, feels tacked on. It's a long, but somehow hurried lecture.That said, I liked this course. I gained greater knowledge of important political and literary figures, such as Solon and Alcibiades, than I did when I studied the subject back in college. +Excellent course. Professor's Andy's calm and careful delivery is precise, scholarly and entertaining. I particularly enjoyed the readings, which I urge other students not to skip. +A wonderful guided tour of ancient greece from the bronze age through Alexander. Thank you! +Material is excellent, but new format for coursera pages is horrible. Hard to find anything, taking pdf dumps to create saved artifacts from class is completely broken, quizzes do not allow you to see your answers after you submit them even after you have finished the class so you have to remember to save the quiz answers before submission. Worst part for me is that you can only get a certificate if you agree to verified certificates which means giving coursera access to your webcam and also allowing them to save your typing patterns with to me I don't mind paying something for the courses, but will not use verified certificates as I have no need for their verification, and will only take on demand classes that use this format if they have content i really want. +very useful for newcomer +This is such a wonderful class, though it's kind of hard... But I like it very much! +It was a great course, I really enjoyed it.Thank you very much. +COMPLETAMENTE RECOMENDADO PARA CONOCER LA INGENIERÍA QUE SE APLICA EN LOS SISTEMAS DE TRANSPORTE +very good i leran to much +great course in transportion +Great course, loved it! Maybe a bit easier than the previous ones in this specialization, or maybe it's just because I started using python(compared to java and c in previous courses). Anyways the course was fun. :) +Far too easy +Great content! And explained very well. I was asked a question on graphs in my amazon interview. Wish I had taken the course earlier. Thanks! +Nice and clear! +It was one of the best course. The problems in the programming weekly assignments were very carefully designed. All the mentors were really amazing and having in-depth knowledge in algorithms. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and I feel I am much more comfortable tacking graph problems and solving them efficiently. Thank you! +Overall good course, programming tasks are fun!However, some of the video lectures are only of average quality. Accent of the TA is sometimes confusing (fyi I'm not a native speaker). +Very good course. Learn a lot. +Great course, thank you! +Fairly good course. I wish the edge cases for some of the programming assignments had some more discussions. Needed some sifting through the forums while stuck. +This was a really excellent little unit. I really appreciate going over all the algorithms in this course and I have a better understanding of how we explore graphs to find valuable information. I really enjoyed the challenge optional week as well. I felt less stress to complete it since it was optional, but it was still very challenging and I couldn't complete it (even though I really tried). I feel the challenge optional week may need to be made slightly easier though to give people who are normally busy to get a chance to try and solve the problems in it (it did eat up a lot of my spare time). Excellent work, great course (wish I knew contraction hierarchies better, been reading some papers but still unsure of how to best implement it). +Great course, great lectures! +Lectures were very clear and assignments were really helpful for me to understand gist of each algorithms. This course, however, only covers 1. Basic concepts of Graph, 2. Shortest Path, and 3. Minimum Spanning Tree which doesn’t seem to be rich.With more diverse and interesting problems associated with Graph included, I strongly believe that students will get much from this course.Thank you +Was very informative course. Learned a lot stuff. +Good sessions and assignments. +Very interesting and well presented course. I particularly wanted to learn more on graphs and this helped me get not only a basic but a more advanced understanding. +Incredible collection of graph algorithms. Thoroughly enjoyed it. +very nice course. The content covered is very useful. +I loved it, great work from the instructors!while ( true ){thank you very much ;} +Outstanding. I highly recommend paying for this course instead of auditing it, so you have access to the graded homework assignments. The problems are ingenious, and so much fun I wish I could do them again. Without doing the assignments, I wouldn't have learned as much as I did. It's well worth the money. +Amazing content. Loved it! +great course +Great +Another great course. Thanks a lot!! +Very good explanations +The course was awesome but the "Algorithms on Graphs" course the month after has some ridiculous extras. Since the course hereafter will have additions related to how Graphs are used in the real world today - I have to give this current course 4 stars. I can't comment on the next course but I think talking about how graphs are used in RL is immeasurable. Good Luck. I do hope you give this course a chance if you're interested in Graphs or looking for a refresher like I was. +Good course , nice assignments , a little bit more of explanation might be helpful for beginners +Fantastic course! I am new on graph algorithms and this course totally mesmerized me. The course material is just right for me , neither too difficult nor too easy. And the programming task is challenging and I like the way the test cases not shown to us because it pushed me to think of strange or rare case on which my program may fail. I really learned a lot from this course! Thanks to the instructors! +Instructors in Algorithms on Graphs manage to provide a placid -yet complete- course. +Great course! it would be better if the course provide more problems that is not directly the implementation of what is taught +Great course, would have been better, if authors added more assignments and material to study as graphs have so many applications. Anyways, I do believe that motivated learners will go ahead and find more challenges for themselves. As always, thanks to all the instructors, keep up the good work! +Great Course +Interesting course to start learning about graphs +Awesome explanation, very concise. +It helped me to understand graphs from a programming point of view. I got fun when solving the problems. +I really enjoyed the course. +Great Course. Compact and clear. Learnt a great deal from it. Thanks! +Fun course, well done. Overall I felt the class materials were very handled in this course. Further, it was tightly focused on a related set of algorithms where knowledge of each built on preceding knowledge well. Everything I need from a distance/on-line course and presented well. +For me this was a refresher. And it was an excellent way to explain and work on graphing algorithms. The step-by-step explanations of the algorithms here are great for truly understanding what's going on under the hood, so to speak. +Very informative and useful content just like the other courses in this series. +Good Questions and very good Test Cases. +All basic graph algorithms are covered. +This is an interesting course, which is closely related to the graph theory in mathematics. As the previous courses, programming assignments are given every week but it is slightly harder than before. Some pseudo codes are not that easy to convert into the programming language. Yet, it is one of the excellent courses in Coursera. +The course contents and assignments are clear and well-structured. Compared to the algorithms & data structures courses, this one was a lot easier (for me anyway). I would have liked additional content on, for instance, (Markovian) grids/fields, but perhaps this will be covered in the 'advanced algorithms' course. +useful and fundamental, interesting assignment +The teaching quality is very average and mediocre at best.The assignments are merely implementation of lectures .The Stanford and Princeton courses on Algorithms are better courses to take for one to pursue a serious study of Algorithms. +Excellent! I learn some new algorithms on graphs. +worth looking at the course +Another great course! I started this one right after completing data structures and found it particularly interesting as graph problems seem to pop up everywhere in our modern, networked world.Compared to the data structures course this definitely felt easier, however this may be down to me being more comfortable with my chosen language as well as with the overall process and structure of the assignments. Nevertheless there are some fun problems here that have connections to problems in the "real" world.As a side note, I recommend doing the data structures course before this one, as some of the algorithms discussed rely on data structures, so understanding them and better yet having them implemented already will help a lot with focusing on the new material and passing the assignments.Thanks again all the teachers for the great course! +The way the prof. teaches is really amazing . I got all whatever he said and i really enjoyed the course.Thanks to Coursera team for putting up this course for begginers like me and special thanks to the Professor . +very bad course +This course is easier than the previous three, but will help in gaining basic to intermediate knowledge on graphs. +Really Good Course , Problems are of good quality , the content is time saving and easy to understand. +This review is based on the last three courses that I have undertaken in the Data Structure and Algorithms Specialization.While running our tests the output does provide the time and memory used for running our algorithms. I think it would also be instructive to see the running time of the best implementation in the particular language and the best time achieved ever by a student in such a course. It would provide us with an additional motivation to think about better and efficient implementations.Note: I do understand that running times might not always be an exact reflection of the actual time the algorithm takes. +Very good explanations. The course assignments were well thought-out and were the right difficulty. +Great Course to understand the graph algorithms and hone the skills to solve the Graph Problems. +I must say I feel disappointed especially when the whole Data Structures and Algorithms series take this course as the selling point ( "you'll learn how to compute the fastest route between New York and Mountain View thousands of times faster than classic algorithms and close to those used in Google Maps", blablabla), but it turns out to be the least challenging course with only elementary introduction to the big topic. Perhaps the preparing time for this course is too short? I still miss the teaching style and assignment design of the first course of the series though. It would seem to be unwise to pay for the following courses if this continues on.(FYI I was the among the first ones who take this series, and I have got 100% grade for each course ever since then.) +Why don't you put it in the Data Structures course? +The course is too shallow - amount of topics discusses is quite small. Practice tasks are boring - implement pseudocode given in lectures. No quizzes. In particular you can see that it is a bad course, if you compare it to the previous 2 courses in the specialization. I'm agree with other people posting in forums about that.Wasted time, could spend that month more productively. Not going to continue passing other future courses. +Thank you for a great course! But the assignments could have been more challenging. +Good course! +Good work ! Every concept is well explained ! +Neat and suitable examples for each topics. +Simply fantastic, to-the-point lectures with great insight to look at problems. +I can only give this two stars at most.The lecturers are just like reading the PPT without any heuristic teaching approaches.The assignments make me desperate, always show very poor feedback message -- "Wrong answer", even the cases failed because of performance issue.The starter files given from the assignment are inconsistent with the pdf description. It's so confusing.Couldn't get any help from forums. +Excellent inputs on graph theoretic algorithms +Good Course material and Assignment. +Awesome! One of the rare courses that teach everything about Graphs! From the very basic to the very advanced. Together with programming assignments that accommodate almost all available programming languages! +Course was to easy and nothing new in it not as the description that it has algorithms 100000 times faster than google. +great course .... everything taught in order ... not so fast and not so slow +Prof. explains every algorithm design method such as D&C, DP, greedy very clear. Very nice class. +Brilliant course, very well taught. +really great,but it's a little bit difficult to me... +Good course, every CS student should take. +Although I have taken algorithm courses before, I still learnt a lot from this course. +This course is awesome, the test bed for code is mind-blowing and engaging. Helped me get a job at Google and Amazon. +Excellent introductory course on Algorithms. +As a developer without adequate CS educational background, it's very exciting and of great use to take this course. I've got the "Algorithm in C (Parts 1-4)" by Sedgewick and did some learning, but it's necessary for me to follow details and explanations from slides and video talks. Also the testing of coding assignment has covered several aspects which I have not paid attention in my daily work. +Wow, good lecturer, free of charge and great teaching experience! +Very useful class and you'd better read the book with this course to get more from it. +Awesome course. +I started coding with Javascript and Python...and I struggled with this course, having not mastered Java. But the resources were perfect and now I have a large cache of projects and information to draw upon as I progress with Java and more academic/algorithmic problems in my software engineer career. +Very good. The TFs are nice too. Nevertheless for a non-CS student like me keeping up with the course is really tough, especially provided that I have never learnt java language before, and that I conducted all debugging without any debugger(I don't know how to use DrJava). In all the course is worth taking. +Great Course, great assignments, great teacher! +It's a very good course, especially the design of homework. +very Nice course. The best algorithm course in the world +Best Course that one can take to sharpen his skills. Very thanks to Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne for coming up with this course. Before taking this course I used to think I have reached an end to my goal of learning Computer Science but now I feel the boat I was sailing was taking me in the wrong direction. +Awesome, Thanks a lot for providing free of cost +Best course on algorithm. Robert Sedgewick is awesome teacher. +Exceptionally good Lecturer and the course. Booksite, video materials and assignments are amazing. Would recommend this course to everyone! The only improvement i would suggest is the explanation of nearest neighbor search in KD tree. Critical information when to prune the search is not really explained so additional resources should be consulted. +thanks ~ +The best course I have taken so far for introducing algorithms. I must say the exercises and programming interview questions made the course more interesting and thoroughly tested my understanding. Cheers to the instructors and the team !!! +thanks，verygood...... +I took this course to refresh my Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge in order to prepare for technical interviews, and I'm glad I did. The lectures are great and the programming assignments are very well designed and have sufficient guidance. You really have to work on them. I would have liked more graded MCQs after lectures. This is also the first MOOC I've completed, and it gives me a great sense of accomplishment! +Learn a lot from this course, including algorithm, data structure, Java programming. Get some great ideas. Expect for the Part 2 ! +Even though there is a lot of useful information in this course, I personally don’t like it. I wouldn’t take this course again if I had a chance to go back in time.All hometasks are much more about programing in Java than algorithms. Open any week's discussion forum, you will find out that 90% questions and problems are about Java, not algorithms. If you are not a professional programer, you will spend at least 30-40 hours a weak instead of 6-10 hours.5 week’s task is just a pure joke: 30 minutes explanation about most difficult structure in the course and not a single line of code.. After that you must write it by yourself. Just look at week 5 discussion forum. Do you know why there are 42 topics in week 3 and only 7 in week 5? Because people decide not to do it.The goal of a teacher must be to make students love the course\matherial\science, not to hate it. I’m not sure about hating, but it was annoying as hell. +Exceptional slides and better teachers! +This course is very informative and presents highly useful information in a manner that is easy to learn and remember. Everyone should take this course. +great course！ +Fantastic hands-on course that helps you explore algorithms. You should be pretty comfortable with programming in Java (comfortable with creating linked data structures) to get the most of out of it.Assignments are incredibly well designed and allow you to make progress without much instructor. The discussion board is pretty responsive from other students in the course.A great supplement if you have taken/are taking an algorithm course without any programming assignments (or poorly structured programming assignments) +Absolutely awesome course on data structure and algorithms. Very easy to understand. Nice figures and demos. +very useful +A refreshing course for me, helped me to revise the stuff done long ago +This was a great re-introduction to algorithms for a CS graduate. Great content, fast-paced and the forums were very helpful. +Topics are interesting, explanation is boring +a great course of algorithm! +it's the best. +This course has an excellent structure. You get a real motivation, why you need algorithm, you understand how it works (with mathematical proof if it's not really complicated), its time/memory efficiency, and finally you practice it. Also, you can learn some Java through this course. I really like how Robert Sedgewick explains course material. Thanks for this experience. +An excellent course taught by a living legend. +Excellent course. Definitely one of the best out there. Professor Sedgewick does an excellent job getting ideas across. +Increadibly good. This is the level that all online courses should strive towards. +Very completely! +Really good course, very much helpful. +Great overview course. I have taken algorithms in college, and I am currently a software developer, but I have found this tremendously useful to review the material (especially good for interview prep!). I even gain a better understanding of concepts I thought I knew well already. The professor explains everything in a concise and thorough manner, the homeworks are well thought out, and the hints are helpful. The only improvement I could think of for the course would be to make the lecture sound a bit quieter during the few times the professor would cough -- the mic distortions can be a little annoying. Overall, highly recommend this course to anyone looking to learn basics of algorithms or review the material for interviews or general understanding. +Great course and assignments! +The course is very difficult, but the quality is excellent. Due to the stringent grading of the program submissions, I believe more help should offered for each assignment. +it's very nice to explain about what you should learn,and much。。。 +As a ten year old Engineer, I recommend every engineer need carefully review at this. +Great way of explaining the topics +A superb course, the video and lectures are top class. The exercises are challenging and well set. +The auto-graders provide lots of detailed feedback and make working on the assignments a very positive part of the course. +Really good course to start learning algorithm at advanced level. +I like this course, the slide and reference book are excellent, and the program exercise let me use the algorithms to solve the interesting problems, let me understand the algorithms more deeply, let me make more efficient code and take care of my code style and the memory usage. Wow, so wonderful, thank you! +Excellently clear and thorough introduction to algorithms. Prof. Sedgewick has superb learning skills. +really good. I just cannot come up with a course that is better than this. great slides and great project +A very good course! +What an outstanding treatment of the basic algorithms! 5*. +Excellent course. As an engineering grad who has only done scientific programming in the past, this course really got me thinking about programming in a different way. I had no experience with Java before taking this course, and it was very doable having had mostly only Python and Matlab experience previously. However, if you do not have Java experience, I highly recommend learning basic Java structure and syntax before starting. The course recommends the Duke Object Oriented Programming course, but when I tried it, I found it confusing, slow, and unhelpful from the get go. This web page ended up working great for me because of my background in Python: http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/java4python/index.htm. Also, I highly, highly recommend downloading a Java IDE (I used Netbeans). +Great class +Awesome course.. focusing mainly on developing algorithmic thinking instead of simply knowing it +excellent course, a must for all CS students or any one else who is interested in programming +Wow, great course, one of the best in Coursera! I enjoyed the lectures a lot, they are engaging and fast paced, the examples of practical applications are interesting; the assignments and interview questions are well thought and challenging.Thanks so much to the Princeton professors who decided to make this amazing material available online. The course is so good I had to buy Sedgewick and Wayne's Algorithms book, not because it was needed for the course (it is not, you have all you need in the lectures), but because they totally rock! Thanks! +Very good course, and tough too, you need good amount of efforts everyday. +Awesome course +Should be followed by every people who say is a programmer +Very amazing course. +I really like this course. It is a good recap of algorithms which I learned in my masters. Reasons for going to further approach and examples are given good. I feel if more real time examples are provided it will be good for students to understand where they can apply these algorithms or they can implement their own algorithms. +The course was really good in giving real time examples of the algorithms and its usability in the real world ,the course should also have offered few more assignment covering each topic in the assignments using every component of the course! +Learned a lot from this course, great contents and projects. +very interesting course! +Enjoyable course and challenging assignments ! +Because I don't know Java (yet) and the homework can only be submitted in Java, I audited this course. Time well spent! Even without working the exercises, the lectures were easy to follow and highly interesting. I picked up several things that will likely help me write better code. +One of the best courses I've ever had. Breathtaking, exciting, absorbing! +Great course! Very informative! +One of the best courses I've taken so far, related to Computer Science fundamentals. if you need to master data structures and algorithms, this is the course for you. +Really exceptional course. Thank you so much for making this available for free, for the time spent by the professor creating this and the mentors helping out the students. +Great course. It is the best Algorithm course I have ever seen. Lectures with amazing animations are very enjoyable. Cannot wait for the Algorithms Part II. +Thank you very much. +Very interesting, efficient and exciting course! The best themes for me were search algorithms and BST. +Really clear explanation for every algorithm. The exercises are quite challenging and helpful! +great course to learn basic algorithm as well as understand the logic and reason behind them +It's a great course! +Absolutely wonderful course! Especially the lectures given by Robert! Thanks a lot to Robert, Kevin, and Coursera and all the staff! For this! This is my first Online course ever! And my experience was great all together! Thanks a lot. :D +It's a really great course with clear lectures and pretty practical homework. Highly recommended! +So good that I would certainly recommend it, the lessons are clear and cut. The assignments are very meaningful and demanding. +The contents are extremely useful, and the lecture is clear. The programming assignments are challenging. +The assignments are extremely challenging and enjoyable. The videos can get a bit confusing, but overall a great course. +I used this course for recollection of what I learned at the uni long time ago. It helped me to fill the gaps I'd naturally developed since then, as I don't need that low level understanding algorithms in my everyday work. The course definitely serves these purposes. +good course with new things that exite my tech soul +This course is amazing! The course lectures are well explained and the assignments pose a good challenge. +Great course. The programming assignments helped to reinforce the concepts. +a good and informative course. +Very applicable algorithms course! +Great content, very well explained, great exercises too. +This is perfect course. I highly recommend it to everyone who wants to get basic experience in data structures and algorithms. Thanks to professors Robert Sedgewick, professor Kevin Wayne and all who made it available. +Excellent course. well rounded. +very helpful +Overall, very good course. The only thing keeping this from being a 5-star course is the lack of resources around comparing completed programming assignments. +This is a great course and the practical assignments are really cool. But I would like to have more assignments where we have to implement the data structures ourselves, because I thing the best way to learn an algorithms is by going throw the process of implementing and debugging it +Great and challenging course to learn data structures and algorithms. +This was a fantastic course. I was hoping for a simple review but I learned some new material too. I really excited for part 2. +Very helpful! Pretty challenging assignments and well organized lectures. Looking forward to the second part! +Pretty good course for the first time java programmer. It covers most of the basic algorithms required to understand by a computer scientist. Really like the idea of place introduction of iterator and comparator within this class. It really boost my understanding of JAVA programming language. Would like to recommend this course to all my classmate. It helps! +Very challenge though, also help me learn a lot through the five projects. High recommend. +while(1==1)S.o.p("Awesome");this course is a must do.Thanks Sirs, Thanks Coursera. +one of the greatest things I have go through.......... +Great course. Reminded me why I enjoy programming. Lots of updated material, and better instruction than in person, at university, a long time ago :-) +My skills in Java were not at the level they needed to be to do the course, but I learned a lot. Thanks! +Great course +Great course thanks! +An excellent course. I have learnt a huge amount about algorithms. Really, really good!! +Very detailed and good explanations. Priceless when the teacher can explain why red-black trees are called red-black, because they invented it. :) +Very good content +Very informative and helpful!! +I have had a great experience during the course. Thank you very much, I have learned a lot of useful things. +Very effective +Excellent course for beginners and experienced programmers +Strongly recommended!This course clearly introduces the basic algorithms and data structures to the students. The professor not only explains the concept of the algorithms but also shows us the applications of them. The homework of this course is substantial and deep. It is really worthwhile to spend time on the homework. +Great! +Thanks a lot for this course. Very interesting. Practical tasks very useful, somewhat challenging. +Very interesting and clear. Great value. +One of the best courses on Coursera. Elegantly explained concepts and detailed material makes this course a must-do for every Computer Science enthusiast. +This is the best algorithms course i have ever seen before. The homework assignments are fantastic. +Very good course! +I can learn why we should code like that and the method to solve the problem +Great course, assignments and job interview questions are the best part of it +Great course, benefit a lot ! And I will absolutely continue learning algorithms, Part II. +Its pretty good! +I really enjoyed this course. The material and videos were carefully made and very informative. The assignments were made that you can properly use the content learned from the lessons. The mentor/instructors are very knowledgeable. It goes without saying the instructors are reference in the Algorithms field.It is worth saying the assignments may require you to research extra resources, e.g. Algorithms 4th book. +I have never studied such a good algorithms class starting from very basics. The best thing which I like most was Java implementations of every piece of algorithms of basic data structures. All videos lectures have detailed explanation of topics. Just a suggestion that - time and space complexity explanations could have been in more detailed so as to understand easily by a novice. Although, the programming quiz questions were difficult, they require every chunk of knowledge you have just studied. Also, adding interview questions related to chapter with hints after your trial and MCQs after every small lectures were charm to the course. I am sincerely looking forward to enroll in other courdses as well. Thank you so much Coursera team, Robert and Kevin. +Excellent lectures and hard enough programming assignments. Highly recommended. +Probably one of the best courses on this whole website. The prof and accompanying textbook and website are clear and fairly concise. The assignments are challenging but fair and the autograder works really well so you get instant feedback.Probably the only con is having to setup up Java on your computer which can be a pain, +Typical question of novice of programming: What language should I learn first?Typical answer is incorrect, sadly.Correct answer is: It doesn't matter. Algorithms and patterns matters. I'm not sure about patterns, but Donald Knuth and Robert Sedgewick are best at algorithms. And here you have unique possibility to learn from the best. Rush for it! And be prepared, it won't be easy.And many thanks to Kevin Wayne for his fundamental job. Probably he is the one who we should thank for this great opportunity to learn it here, on coursera. +Good start course for digging into cs world +Wonderful course !!!! describing efficient basic Algorithms. +Great course. Learned a lot. +The course is good refresher as well as advanced to meet enterprise needs. +great course, easy to understand! +great introduction course in algorithms +It is very important course but i hope the videos included Arabic subtitle +Excellent course, concepts are very well explained, with ample amounts of examples. I also really enjoyed how the professor showed real world examples of how the data structures/algorithms are used, so that we aren't learning all this stuff in a vacuum. +Changed my way of thinking. Thank you! +Great course!Cons: too java oriented. +Very Good Content Flow..Thank you. +My programming skills reached new heights. Thank you! +Great course from great professors. Definitly must-have for any software developer. +Great course. Sedgewick has good educational skills. The course also contains good examples and interesting assignments. I struggled a bit with the first assignments, but then I liked the last 2 better. Looking forward to part 2. +Exceptional Course!But a good knowledge and programming experience in Java is highly recommended. +The course was very good. The content was explained well. The assignments were the best part. Looking forward to completing the second part of the course. +Very good course. Enjoyed it greatly. Wish I had more time to immerse myself in the optional content and practice questions more. +complex concepts explained simply ! +Highly useful course and assignments. Professor teaches great techniques to writing a clean and concise code. +This course is incredible. +It would be very helpful to let us see the forums of previous sessions. +great.hope i will continue to learn untill the end. +A gorgeous cource! I've enjoyed while studying.I learned a lot of new.Thanks! +Wonderful couse for computer scientists. +Absolutely 5 stars! +very good course, and the assignments are very challenge +I had long expected to have some free time to attend this course,and now I finally did it. It's simply great with practical demo and assignments at the end of each week to test the skills acquired.For sure I am going to attend the second part of the course. +This course gives a very good overview of algorithms, justifying each new data structure or technique by examining the performance and technical problems that it is trying to solve, and explaining the meaning of the approach. It is a good idea to do a good bit of coding on your own, however, as the Assignments typically expect you to USE the data structures explained in the lectures from a static library rather than hand-coded. +Great course to understand algorithms! +The course gave me excellent insights and it helped me to improve my java skills.The overall presentation (learning material, videos, assignment) is very professionial and good to understand.It would be nice to allow a look at how other students solved the assignments. Maybe with an anonymized grading. Or some kind of a master solution to see, how the best solution to an assignnment would look like. +This a very interesting and well-organized course! +Very interesting and not so hard. Interview questions are sometimes trickier than practical exercises. +Very helpful and detailed +Great course. Made me complete many missing points in my programming knowledge. I look forward to see the part 2. Thank you. +Amazing experience. Well structured course with a lot of interesting information. +Fantastic Free Course. A must seen for programmers. +It makes the algorithms more simple and interesting. +This course is very helpful with me. It helps me review a lot of materials about algorithms I've learn from my university. Thanks professors and other members for a great course. If you want to solid your knowledge, don't hesitate to take this course, it's total worth it. +Excellent introduction to thinking formally about how to program effectively +That is a great course +Very interesting course ! It gives a good knowledge about basic data structures and algorithms used in every day programming. Thanks to course authors ! +Thank you Very helpfull +there should be more problem statements for preparation +Amazing course from an inspiring instructor. The course material is excellent. The assignments are demanding, but totally worth the time spent. Thank you for this course! +Great course to learn or refresh the algorithmic core! +The best algorithms course. The video lectures are very good. Prof.Sedgewick builds the concepts very well. The code examples/library written by Prof. Wayne and Prof. Sedgewick's code are very compact and the best I have seen. The online website is great supplement to the book. The auto grader is air tight, that forces the student to think and write their code to the specs. My greatest appreciations for Prof. Wayne and Prof. Sedgewick. I wish students have the option to submit their solutions in C++ because in most of the languages the core algorithms/data structures are often written in c/c++ , I understand it is not easy because the course libraries and grader has to written for c++. +I think it is a good course. I have known more about time complexity of algorithms and some applications of different kinds of the algorithms. I have spent more time then I though for this course. +Brilliant! I started the Algorithms course with not insubstantial software experience. However, I last took data structures over 10 years ago and decided to give myself a 'refresher' since my area of specialization rarely utilizes structures such as BST's or hash tables.The assignments are 'just right' in applying algorithmic concepts and real-world technical rigor. The problems are focused and contained to fit busy schedules, but, at the same time, challenging enough to provide a sense of accomplishment and to see practical applicability. +What a great opportunity to take a course from one of the pioneers of computer science. The lectures are perfectly paced and inspiring. +I really enjoyed this course. It was not easy. But it was fun. Now moving on to Part II. :) +Great course! You really learn to program efficiently. Material very well presented to understand the stuff. +Very solid course. Well explained and informative content and straightforward algorithm illustrations. It not only explains and analyzes mechanism of algorithms, but also offers a set of very practical Java implementations. The weekly programming assignment is awesome. They are well-designed and closely related to real-world application. This is a extraordinary course and I enthusiastically recommend it. +Fantastic course, very appreciate for the Professor and all the contributors of this course. I have learnt so much! +As for non-native English speaker and programmer amateur this course is literally a godsend! Thank you! +Fun, engaging, and clearly explained +I learned a lot about algorithms, the best approaches to solving them, and coding them to use the Big-O notation. +This course is an excellent introduction to thinking about algorithms and data structures.It is challenging, in that the assignments can feel overwhelming, but the discussion forums are an excellent place to ask for any clarification.The videos are very helpful, consistent, and well-paced, and the instructor is incredibly knowledgeable and articulate. +Excellent course. I would like a similar one but using C++ to learn even more. Congratulations on this great effort you make. +Great open course. Easy to understand, and I really learned a lot from this course. +A great introduction to fundamental algorithms. This course is very well thought-out, the instructor always makes his points very clearly an convincingly: more than just algorithms, this course transmits a way of thinking about them. The material is very well polished, you can feel the instructor has been teaching this topic for so many years. In addition to all of this, the programming assignments' topic are generally quite exciting. +This course is pretty good.Algorithms' processing is clear in slide and teacher also explain well.I learned how to design API for data structure.I think it is important. +Very interesting course. The basic algorithms learned here are very useful. For game development and big data analysis. +Excellent Course. Very interesting. +awesome introductory course on algorithm! +Brilliant course, hope that some materials such as some smart design (back flush in lesson 1,etc.) could be documented. Thank you dear professor +Very good course. It really helped me to understand what is the algorithm complexity and how to estimate it. +It was a terrific course, and I learnt a lot. The lectures were very interesting, and the assignments were engrossing. +Challenging and interesting assignments. Recommend for those with basic programming background. +Great instructor. Amazing auto-grader. Interesting content. I want to take more courses like this. +Very good Course. +Extremely well designed course. The assignments touch all the concepts taught in the class. Lot of concepts get clarified when you try to reach 100% on each assignment. Highly recommend this course. +I learned so much from this course. Thank you. I will recommend it to all my friends. +it's really a fantastic course! +This is a great course of algorithms I have ever seen . great! +The course lost a lot without tests. Theory is great. Assignments are pain in the azz - too much is assumed here and there. You must resubmit like a dozen of times to figure out what is wrong. +Super course! I love all the assignments. and the upload-and-feedback system. The lectures are also very good. I did not use the interview questions.Getting the course done in time and working full time simultaneously is very hard, though, but I don't really have any programming experience with me, so that might make it harder. +The best. +I really like this course. I think the pace of video is appropriate, clearly explaining the main knowledge of each part but not digging into details too much. for me,I never learned algorithm or java before, but I can mostly grab the lecture content. Another reason I like about the course is the amazing programming assignment part. Each assignment is a little bit challenging but not overwhelming and you can exactly know how well you did through the precisely computing grader system. Thanks for such a wonderful CS course! +This is an exceptional course - best I have seen, in fact. I'm excited to take Part 2 (and buy the book). Thanks very much to Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne for putting together such an amazing learning resource and making it freely available. +Good course and assignements(make you think). I liked it. +Awesome course! The best I ever seen. +very useful +The best course on real life algorithms and theirs application. +Great for course. +Excellent course, clearly explained lectures and interesting programming assignments. +Great course. I'm really glad I took it. +This course is pretty good, for part 1, the lecturer covered some basic and essential things in algorithms and data structure. Everything is presented in a clear order. +Great lectures, great programming assignments and grading, overall I really enjoyed this course. I tried to get through it 2 other times and finally had the time & patience to do it and I'm so glad I did. Thank you! +The grading system is very helpful for debuggingA little suggestion, personally i would not go to the forum unless i meet problems, but actually i find i may missed some great thinking for ignoring it. It would be better if there is a subscription feature like what's trending on the Forum to reminder learners to participate in the discussion.And i like the every week's interview question, thank you for all your effort! +Great course, really enjoyed it - opened my eyes to the performance implications of the code I write! +Excellent lectures with very structured yet interesting contents. The homeworks are very useful! +Great, Thanks all +Great explanations and very good assignments. +Great course! +Good course for a free one. Thank you for all of your great work. Somehow, the pace is too fast. Covering about 2 sections per week is by far too hard to read the book along with the class. There's no practice exercise to strengthen what you learn. The assignment is very hard and sometime don't directly implement the knowledge you learn in that week. Sometime the video sound is too quiet (but you can read the transcript when it happened.) The book is better in my opinion. +Would be great to have a certificate +There is very informative course. It has understandable explanation of algorithms and data structures. +Great lectures! +This is the best course for learning Algorithms +It is the best algorithms course I have ever taken. +Did this course second time but still felt i learned a lot new. Amazing work in creating the course so educative and structured. +very nice!It will be better if we can be offered some quiz and feedback,not only coding assignment. +Very useful. This is the best course I've had done in my school +Great course! +Exceptionally good. I am a working professional with 13+ years of development experience and still found this course to be full of high value and knowledge. I really never looked at these algorithms the way it is represented in this course. I am very thankful to Coursera and Princeton University for making this course available to everyone. +I really liked the videos and the lecture slides. I think the assignments were really good as well, but had the feeling sometimes small but important informations were missing or not placed well enough. I read the description for the 8puzzle half a dozen times, but that this is not actually solving the task in the optimal amount of moves but rather in some arbitrary amount of moves (we just output the optimal moves) somehow escaped my attention. +This course is very systematic about basic algorithms and theoretical knowledge about analysis. +This course is helpful +Outstanding! Would recommend this class to anyone interested in software construction. +This course is simply fantastic. The instructor's code is most elegant code I have ever seen and it was very illuminating to see how these fundamental algorithms are being implemented in such an elegant and efficient way. +Excellent course. One of the best courses I have taken from coursera. Very well explained, with a lot of implementations in Java. +I enrolled this course last year and quit at week 3. But I finished it this time and it's the first CS MOOC I finished. It's a really hard but really worthful six-week. It led me into the world of algorithm and helped me improved my English a lot.Thanks to Sedgewick's gorgeous lectures, Wayne's patient answers at Discuss forum and every fellows participate this course. +The best fundamental data structure and algorithms course I have ever experienced. +Loved it, basic knowledge for any serious programmer +It was an amazing experience. Many thanks for such a good theoretical information and challenging practice. Every single time I had one question - can I do better. Knowledge obtained from this course is outstanding. Thank you again +amazing class! the best class that I have ever seen! +I find Prof. Sedgewicks' moderately paced lectures very concise and easy to follow. His animated demo of each algorithm clearly demonstrates how the algorithm works. I find the problem sets challenging and fun, and finally finding an optimized solution as very rewarding, especially when I get the bonus scores. While this course uses Java as the programming language, I find the concepts quite easy to apply in other programming languages such as C. Thank you very much course staff for offering this excellent course for free here at Coursera! +the professor is very kind. strongly recommend this course. +Good course! +Challenging, but a greater refresher on some core Computer Science topics. +It makes me learn so much,thank you so much. +Great course. As for me it is ideal. I dont have a CS degree, but works as java developer. The course shows me the beauty of algorithms! +I've been through several courses over the past year, some really good, some pretty poor, both here and on Edx, but this one has really no match to find. I would recommend this to anyone, and especially to those planning on creating a MOOC, as this one is really a state of the art :) +Strongly Recommend For Algorithm Study！ +Great! +Homeworks are super fun and challenging!The lectures are super clear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +Simply Awesome. +The material and the teaching method are absolutely amazing. Not just a course for algorithms, but a course on "how to teach a course right" .. very thankful to the instructors and facilitators. +Great course from Professor Robert Sedgewick. Strongly recommend. +One of the best courses I have taken Coursera, edX or any MOOC provider. I will definately follow the algorithm path (Alg I, Alg II, Analysis of Algorithms) +The course is a quality course for anyone wanting to learn algorithms(especially in Java). +very useful course +Great. +I'm taking this for the second time to strengthen my knowledge. The course is one of the best I've taking online in the past few years. This is one of the courses I would pay money for because it is very valuable to me. +Good course course with good instruction from professors +it‘s a nice course +In one word, It's awesome course +Excellent beginning for some one who wants to understands algorithms. +Thank you for creating this course. It simply, step by step explains concepts in algorithms. +Interesting material, but its presentation is haphazard and incomprehensible. In typical Latin American style, the presenter wanders erratically through the material in the videos in a confusing and non-linear way, so that making coherent notes is impossible. The relationship between the video, quiz and supplemental reading is sometimes hard to determine. The workload is also vastly different from week to week, including one reading of over 200 pages, indeed a whole book - whilst other lectures demanded only a few pages' worth. Sadly this course was one I abandoned - I lost patience with its random and frustrating structure and the limiting and perplexing nature of the quizzes. I should point out I am bilingual so this was by no means a language issue. If you have the patience for this, or are used to this style of learning, go ahead. I've had to stop, sadly. +Ha sido un curso muy interesante y útil. Lo recomiendo para saber como América Larina funciona en estos momentos. Los documentos adjuntos son extremadamente necesarios para disfrutar del curso!It was so interesting and useful. I recomend it to know about how Latin America is working at this moment. The attached files are extremly needed to enjoy the course! +This course should retrieved from Coursera. It is plenty of mistakes. One of the quiz is repeated. Questions do not have relation with lectures. +videos can be more interactive with more information on the slides. feel that slides downloaded is not worth the time. I seem to see the professor on screen more then important information we need to take note of. Some modules need to go indepth explanation but does not, especially on +Great course with very practical real-life examples. Highly recomended +A good introduction, though I would have appreciated more readings or suggestions on where to look into the topics in more depth (particularly the Financial Services Metrics). It was disorienting to not use actual data sets in the final peer assessment. +Provides a good overview of metrics and how to think about them. A good starting point +Excellent course, structure and tuition - can't wait to get started on the next one! +Good content on different data roles and skills required in the marketplace. Also good overview of different kinds of metrics. Final assignment makes sense and is helpful to apply the skills. +good stuff! informative and not exceedingly challenging +Very good concepts to introduce you to the world of business analysis +Excellent, foundational course that introduces all the important concepts to be further studied in the following courses. Go Duke! +it's better to explain more about financial glossaries in the video. +Very Educative and the knowledge is key to running a business. +Industry relevant information was presented well, with examples and the pace of the sessions was good as well. +Very helpful to know what meaning of metric for different analysis +It was good learning experience and thus I will go for the next course. +Very good overview of business metrics! +Very good class! And very useful for me! Thank you very much！ +I thought this was a great prerequisite! Very valuable to know as an effective data analyst. +very useful! +Very good class for those who already have a bit of business analytics knowledge, good buildup to class: starts of slowly with terminology and builds to more technical analyses. Great overall! +Excellent Course. I learned a lot about Business Metrics - Revenue, Profitability and Risk and enhanced my skills and thinking in this space working through examples. I really enjoyed different perspectives of many participants from all over the world. It was a true learning experience. I heartily enjoyed and highly recommend anyone interested in learning about business metrics. +Amazing course! It help us to understand career path related to data in different industries +Thanks professor for explicit, far-reaching and inspiring explanations on big data culture, now I am more clear about my career goal and have decided which data analysis tools to learn! +Course is good for getting started with Data Analytics! +Like this course! Help me understand many different metrics. +It was really an honor to have this course under your guidance. Thanks a lot for guidance and assistance. +Peer Reviewers seem too keen to take marks off or dont bother reading the assignment +It was new and good expirience for me. However, I expect to see more alculations and practical tasks. To calculate smthn, to make some conclusion from it. To analize results. +Good overview of business metrics supported by great examples. If you are looking to get a better understanding and want to be able to classify your own daily activities in the business frame, this course is an excellent introduction. +Very well structured course. +Amazing Course , Covered everything that an Entry level financial analyst is looking for +Good course however the test have difficult questions since are open to different points of views or judgements so it is hard to get the right answer. +very good course. best explanation on financial models i have ever seen!!!! learn about sharpe ratio etc in the most visual and simplest explanation you will ever seen in the whole internet and youtube. +i really enjoyed the course and learn a lot of things about business analysis and how to distinguish between different metrics and which of them can we use for immediate changing in business processes +Awesome Class! Having fun with DATA! +Why were we talking about money managers and hedge funds? What does that have to do with data analytics for business? I never saw the connection and they never explained it. +This was a good introductory course, with some very informative video and instruction. I only give it 3 stars because I felt it really lacked interactivity. Although quizzes were required throughout, I felt too much of the class was simply sitting back and watching lectures. +good to understand a broad concept of business metrics +Great intro course! +It's the first course from the specification, which makes us better understand the necessary business metrics for data-driven companies, and it is a good entry for following modules. Help me a lot. +Good basic intro to business metrics +I love Dr. Egger's way of teaching, however the videos could use some updates. There are errors that were pointed out 5 years ago on the message board, but they have still not been corrected. +The scope of the course is very broad, but very insightful. +I had a wonderful experience of learning what I am interested in on this interactive, user-friendly online platform Coursera and received my first certificate. Great course hold by Duke University, which allowed me to systematically understand the business analytics, data analysis and some innovative ways of marketing. The course goes deep into details in this field, while truly require no additional knowledge before enrolling based, I could proudly tell you based on my first-hand experience. I spent several hours every week during this month to study the course, and really this was a good memory. ^_^ +Great course that helped me understand business metrics in a more systematic way. The peer reviews were great as well. +Amazing course! I learned a lot!! Thank you!! +Course was great. Not sure I agree with all the peer grading I received, but the instruction was excellent. +Interesting course but I would have appreciated some exercises with more data to analyse (maybe more practical case). I don't understand the correlation with Aribnb ... +Content was a bit shallower than expected. +I think this is a great course. The lectures are enjoyable and you are guaranteed to take something away. I very much liked Professor's Egger's way of delivering the video lectures. Not even one can be called boring. I hope the specialization builds on to the fabulous start. +easy to understand. One suggestion is that it is too simple for students who have business background, add more knowledge and more supporting materials for self-studying will be better! Thanks a lot for this course! +good course +Excellent course to introduce the concepts of business analytics. +Very thoroughly taught, with many business processes introduced and explained. I have a much better idea of how businesses can use data analytics to improve their sales, profitability, and operations. The quizzes are doable, but not a breeze, and requires review of the course material for a complete understanding and a good grade. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn how data analytics actually function in real world scenarios. +I enjoyed this class very much! +The course has been very beneficial to me in that it has given me a deeper insight into data analysis and how it is harnessed by companies. +A very good introduction that moves at the right pace +Good to get an understanding of a Business Analyst / Business Data Analyst / Data Scientist job.Financial concepts brought seem a bit out of place in the context of this specific course though. +informative videos. useful final project +I enjoyed this course so much that I am trying to save the transcript so I can read it when I can.I love Dr. Egger's explanation as always and enthusiasm as well in teaching this course. I would like to complete the coursework if I can.Please keep up the good work! I am not a student of Duke University but I felt being one because of this opportunity to study under Dr. Egger's wing. Thank you again. +Great first course +Very intresting course and very usefull!!! +Great Course to understand the key principles in business analysis, especially traditional and dynamic business metrics +Overall I feel the course provided sufficient material to understand the concepts and terminology. For some of the data analysis terms, I feel that practice problems and step by step guides should be provided. +Great course for beginners in Business Metrics +This course is not about Excel or MYSQL. This is only about Probability distribution, binary classification etc. So, if you're interested in learning some Math, this is a great course for you. But certainly not for learning some basic Excel and MYSQL. I am very disappointed and have lost all my money for nothing. I did not learn what I had initially thought I will. I feel cheated, I have lost both time and money at the same time. +An easy entry point into logical decision-making. +Very good introduction. Well paced and thoughtfully constructed course. +Very informative and a good start to continue on to the next courses +Great overview of how to use data analytics to make your company competitive, profitable, and the skills required by various business roles. +Easy and pointless. +Great start to the certificate. Sometimes the industry-based case studies seemed jarring--could use a slightly better T-up. Otherwise, I really enjoyed it! +Excellent course, full with analytical examples, and a thorough approach on the subject with explanation of a lot of economical terms. +The course is good way to start the Data Analytics. Everyone before venturing into Data Analytics with lot off doubts should attend this course and it will clear the doubts.The teaching team should provide some downloadable slides of the text shown during the presentations. Coursera can recommend for slides similar to slides in Entrepreneurship Course provided by Wharton Online. +It helps to identify clearly the metrics you need for each situation +The course is insightful as it offers real world analysis and inform web companies' techniques. +Awesome course! +Good intro +learned a lot! thanx +Eye opener, great presentation by Professor Egger. The particular point of using dynamic metrics to influence performance is very useful for business +The course really gives you a great introduction to business metrics. It builds on a foundation of examples an then shows us how to apply. The greatest takeaway is being able to differentiate the various types of metrics used today such as revenue metrics, profitability metrics and risk metrics. +I've recommended this course to all my friends.Very well structured,succinct,and effective teaching style. +Great course! Everyone should try. +It is very useful to find and analyze the right business metric for special businesses in order to improve business processes which can lead to increase in revenue and profitability and avoiding risks. This course was very helpful for that purpose. +I find this course very useful and helpful. Its is a core to data analysis using Excel and I learned a lot. +Very interesting. Especially the content on Business Metrics +very useful course as first step of specialization - interesting videos and study case +Great introduction to Business Metrics! +Interesting enough, good start to the specialization but not the most content for a standalone course. +Good course for a stranger in finance and business. Very well organized +A very helpful introduction to business analytics. +this course is very useful +Very informative and must do the quizes and muster them to memorize most of the material. This will organize all the information that you use to have about the subject, and will also make you speak intelligently about all facets of the business analytics.Great class and looking forward to the excel analysis one! +It Really useful and has a lot of knowledge for beginner who want to pursuit a job related to data +Great course for beginners in Data Science. +very good and informative +Very easy to follow, but the pacing is a bit uneven. Overall a good introduction ! +Good professors but you will not learn a lot, since it is more or less an introduction for the other courses of the specialization. Good if is not used as standalone. +Quizzes don't match what's been taught in the video lectures. Very poorly-designed questions, where there is more than one correct answer. +This was a fantastic course, and I am continuing to complete the certificate program. +General Introduction but it is a very interesting topic! +It is just awesome! +Good overall. Some of the material was very basic, but it does give a good foundation to build on. I recommend it. +Simple basics but needed for later work.Good introduction to Big Data world. +Very Helpful in terms of understanding Data Driven Businesses. +I think you should have the basic English skill to join this course.From this course,you can learn how to distinguish different business metrics. +Great entry level course into business metrics. +Very good course - I learned a lot and found the material to be well-structured and clearly presented. +The course is really nice and informative. +learn a lot! +Worked for me ... If you're into this sort of thing... +Teachers are excellent! +Extremely informative course. I found the lectures easy to follow and well organized. I did not pay for the course so I have no feedback from quizzes and thus have no way of being sure I really understand the material as well as I think I do. Other than that, two thumbs up +Survey course. Excited to apply the knowledge and learn concrete skills in the upcoming courses within this specialization. +It's very general information. The explanation movies are great. +The course is good, gives you all the basic knowledge you need for applying business metrics. The best part about it which I liked was that it doesn't give you a list of business metrics to mug up instead concepts of creating a metrics and their application are explained which helps us in coming up with our own metrics in real life applications +Great summaries, good lectures +excellent, great material to work with, never found videos as delightful to watch & as informative. +I really like how you don't need any prior experience. I learned a lot. +a very interesting course on business metrics, talks about business metrics itself, jobs and companies in this field, also some examples of the application of business metrics like Amazon, Costco. +really informative for technical engineers who want to know more about business! you can count on that! +a detailed and vivid picture for the job of business analysts. +Course flows smoothly and quickly. Reviewing was very easy. +Coursework enhanced my knowledge and armed me with information to speak with confident about the job I am pursuing next in my career. +Very interesting and explained common language. Looking forward for the next modules. +Great Introductory Course, which sets the right basis to deep dive into the world of analytics and problem solving. +Excellent course to get an insight of Data related tasks and profession +This was a very basic foundation course on data careers and business metrics. Gives a lot of examples of companies and their varying levels of need for data employees. There is a short segment in here on Financial services which i found to be a bit misplaced, and I would have liked more detail on the business metrics side as well as on the financial services side (if it is indeed well placed and I just didn't catch the correlation). +Course is useful for analysts. +I learned relevant business metrics and its classification. +Was great! I learn a lot of valuable topics that I am using on a daily basis! +Great course as an introduction to the business analytics specialization +It would have been better if the final assignment was assessed by the instructor too. +good but the tests can be better planned. +Very Nice. Refresh the technics and concepts. +Very good course, only 1 BIG disadvantage: you cannot take the quizzes unless you buy the certificate... +A complete exposition about data analysis and emerging jobs. +Audited the course - This course laid out the perfect groundwork if you want to be a business analyst. Prof Egger talks about the different companies, what sort of skillets you need. Its a great course! +I learned very interesting things. Thank you +Informative course, the final case study could be beefed up a bit to make the quantitative material stick better. +Excellent and informative +Great Course. I enjoyed being introduced to Business Metrics while taking this class. +Lovely. It is a good introduction to the subject explored in this set of courses and a subtle reminder of some stuff I learned on my MBA. +Highly informative adoptable knowledge to learn for any Business Manager. +This course was very helpful. I am engineering with no background in business but it introduced it in an easy way. I have gained a lot of information. and understood clearly. I googled things but that enhances the learning process. Thanks for this course +I liked the course. I give 4 stars because as I noticed some of the course content wasn't updated even if almost one year ago people issued that some calculations given by professor are wrong. +Excellent course! Highly recommended +Pretty good overview for simple business metrics definitions and basic level analysis. It is a good refresher for those with an analytics background, but also puts things in a perspective from a business setting which is good for when you are working in the field. +Basic introduction to data analytics +The metrics introduce is broad, but it helps you with the idea of how businesses function in this modern world. We were also introduced to theoretical business for which an attention to business metrics is important. It is good for those who have a technical quantitative background, but no business background. +Good course to know some ideas associated with business analytics +I was really interesting and helpful at my work, Thank you! +Easy to follow, and quizzes help reinforce information learned +Awesome class:). I have learned a wealth of information.!! +Excellent introduction to business metrics! +Very well structured course and lots of useful information! Many thanks! +Very useful course, loved it +Effective! +Despite it's simplicity the course lays the groundwork for the understanding of the new economy (Amazon) as juxtaposed to the old economy (Barnes and Noble). +I thought that they could have gone more in depth in terms of metrics, how to calculate them, and use them in real life situations. The course seemed to focus too much on the type of companies that use data, as well as what type of jobs there are in this field. I didn't find it too relevant or helpful in terms of making me more productive at work. +Prof. Egger is the best. I am so immersed when I am listening to his lecture! +great course +Why aren't I able to see this is enrolled courses- and unable to load on appletv? +Valuable and useful info for aspiring business analysts. +Good Course! Nice coverage of the basics! +Enjoyed the course, and loved the excel sheet for the Coffee business +Needs more comprehensive assignments and challenging quizzes. Other than that the material is excellent! +The instructor is VERY bad at presenting. SO dry and monotonic. Omg, I really want to learn all this but can't stand him talking. +A great start to the subject matter. Clear, concise and easily relates to actual business principles. +The course is very superficial in nature and there is no difficulty... +The quality of videos is not good. There is some absurd voice in between. Also the course for week 3 has information related to finance which is beyond understanding levels of a person with no financial background. +It's a great course! I love this course. It helps me to know more about data scientist and data analytist. +Excellent teacher! +A very good introduction to what the specialization will be covering. I am excited for the next course in the specialization! +Super overview of business metrics. +Introductory course, perhaps a little too light on the details. +Can be packed into a two-week course. +as a science student, I think the course is easy to learn. It provides a lot of concepts which I can only remember a little though I understand their meanings. +I learned new concepts to use not only in business, but in my life. I would suggest the availability of the material that is presented. +Instructor and content was brilliant. +Authors are too greedy for the course material. +Lectures were a bit slow-paced, but the information was great. +Great and Excellent thoughts and course material. +Great content, precise and current. Thank you! +This is a nice course to understand what you will do as a Data Analyst or related job positions. Video lectures were cool, however it would have been great if the lectures used can be made available in PDF or PPT form for future use. +very good course introducing fundamental metrics for introductory learners like me +It is very useful +Good for knowing the basis of business analysts! +This course was really fun. I have never thought about some of these aspects of business and really enjoyed having my mind opened in a manner that was easy to understand. +As a person without a business background, this course gave me a broad, easy-to-understand introduction into the intersection of business and data analytics. +What's the point of online education if one can only access the assignments if him has purchased the course? With no access to assignments, how could one evaluating his efficient of study? +This course was useful as a general overview. I plan to take other courses for more specific techniques. +Good Course +Truly excellent lecture. informative without being overwhelming. +One of the best I have taken here in Coursera. +Great overview of how data analytics are utilized in the real world. Great lectures! +Practical and useful course +This is a great course. +The lectures are good and clear, with many concrete examples and exercices to train. The topic itself is a little limited, mostly to finance, whereas there would be so much more equally interesting diversity in data to analyse. I just don't dream of money all the time.The course limitations for free attendance get in the way of efficient learning though, using cheap tricks to manipulate you into buying, though I haven't seen these features used this way in other curses, I bet they're using what they teach to increase conversion using any way available. +Maybe a little more of application activities but overall very well! +Loved the content and delivery! Just wish the Quiz and Peer Assignment (I have completed both) were allowed to be submitted without purchasing course. As it will involve no additional effort to faculty. Answers are in the MCQ format so there is only one right answer and peer-grading by its nature ensures that little or no faculty time and effort is used.Like in other Coursera courses, Official Duke University certificate could be paid.Thanks you again! +The course content is good. However, by the review assigment i can see that the concepts were not clear, ther +Great experience and fun to learn. +I feel like more examples, case studies, or panel interviews would help. +Clear explanation, easy to understand and relevant for my interest. +Very much enjoyed the course, its focus on method and real-world problems / issues. The quality of the instruction, including the technical, graphic support was high and always in evidence. The instructor's humor also came through, as well as his upward potential as a dancer. Thanks for the kind introduction to the subject matter; I intend to follow through with the next courses to achieve the Specialization via Coursera. Best from Munich +Perfect lectors with first class information! +great course. excelent teacher and content. +Well organized. Lots of useful specific tips, that I have already referenced several times professionally. +The content is quite relevant to me. The instructor is very good - explains clearly, has command over the subject.Thanks a ton. :) +The course could be completed in a matter of a few hours. Super basic stuff. Waste of money. +I audited this course as it was recommended by my hubby who is a data scientist and see if i can apply the learnings in healthcare. This has immensely benefited me. Prof. you are so crisp and clear and is easy to understand.ThanksRamya.N +I like the course. It was interesting the way that introduces the basic for doing analysis in a real company. +its kind of plain in narrative but full of good content. +This course provides an good introduction to common business metric. It provides real world and fiction example that help solidify the concepts being introduced. The lectures are easy to follow and quizzes help reinforce what student learn. The concept that I've learn will definitely help advance my career in business analysis. +It was a great introductory course, and a comprehensive overview of different business metrics. +Useful and practical! +It's a great introductory course, although a bit superficial. +Great introduction into Data Analysis. I am excited to see where the specialization goes from here. This course really helped lay a great framework from which to build. +Very brief but concise introduction of the data relationship with business area. +The course gave new insights into how name branddata-driven companies as they are called here operate and optimize their revenue.I kind of expected this of companies like Amazon, but the revelation was how even brick and mortar companies need to be data-driven in order to survive. +Very basic terms. Not very helpful for later concepts and would not recommend for business professionals that have experience +Very good intro class to Business analytics. Wish there are more content to learn. +Great course for getting your feet wet. +a very good course.i would like more questions in each video though - and more problems to solve too.but great overall +Great intro to the different types of data and very valuable information on what companies use what types of data, the real world jobs that they hire in the data world, etc. Loved how practical the information was! +Good information on data analyst. +I do not think that students should need to pay for a course in order to watch interviews with previous graduates. Half of this course should have been condensed or excluded. There is not much to learn in these modules. It was decent, but it was not a five star course. I think the ratings on this are misleading. +Good thought provoking class. A good foundation class to take before taking the MySQL or Tableau or Excel stats classes. +Great introduction to the Business metrics! +A lot of time devoted to the job stuff may not be super relevant for most students, and was certainly not super relvant too. +obviously this course helped building basic concepts in understanding further business metrics. and the examples used are very close to real life , not at all text book style. I had a great time viewing videos and improve my knowledge with my classmates. +This course links 3 important ideas:1. Measure THAN act2. How do I analyze what's been measured?3. Use computers to facilitate automation and visualization of the 2 above ideas. +Fantastic Course. Lot of things to learn.. +Found it boring and pretty irrelevant. I was hoping to lean more on metrics especially in the digital marketing section. Pretty let down and $79 waste +this is a really interesting course is helping me a lot, looking forward to complete this class +Very informative +Very good course. A must for everyone. +I really recommend this course. Perfectly explained. +I had a hard time finding material to study.I wish the class had more reading material. +A very useful course for budding professionals. Wouldn't recommend this to middle managers / data experts. +excellent course for begineers +This is a great course. Very helpful in understanding Business Metrics better and at helping create a foundation in big business and data. Some of the videos around the specific numbers were a little vague on what was an example and what was an actual metric. All things considered, still well worth the time, money and effort! :) +A good lesson can bring you some great understanding of data-driven company.Worth taking it~! +This is a good introductory course for those who want to be a part of a bussiness analysts team. +Very informative course and gave a broad background about how data is being applied to companies today. I thought it was a good idea to interview people actually using the material and how they apply data to their work. +"Come as you are and leave feeling like you can conquer data"The learning is quantity combine with quality.The tutors are knowledgeable and detailed.Love it! +Extremely interesting and really helpful! +Good introduction to the Theme. Some subjects was not entirely connected between weeks. +Eggar was brilliant.but week 4 i could not understand +A very and impressive good insight has been provided. +I highly recommend this course as an example of excellence in teaching. EVERYONE should take this class. It's just that good. +Great course! Clarifies a lot of concepts. +One of the best courses I've taken through Coursera, but also one of the most enjoyed courses. I'd recommend this course for those interested in learning business metrics and business analysis. +I am confused with the job titles before. But, now with this course I understood the skills required to get into the job market.Thanks for your efforts. +Lots of information, and it helps you start doing something in this field right away. +Looking very useful. +The course conveys clear guidance on the fundamentals of business metrics to allow for a strong foundation to hear and process facts into business metric questions. +If you are going to try and complete the specialization for this course series I suggest you look elsewhere. I was able to complete the first course with ease, but the second course to this specialization felt incomplete and does not tie in very well with the how excel is used. Don't be fooled by how easy the first weeks assignment is for the second course of this specialization.**My initial rating for this course alone was 4 stars, but due to the lack of effort and information in the 2nd course of this specialization I have to give this 1 star as these courses are all tied together. +I found this course interesting, but a bit too simple.From the answers of other students that I marked many are non-native speakers of English who hadn't really understood the questions. +I would have liked the course to have been more hands on. I would have also liked to have seen other platforms utilized.Ex:Hypothetical situations to apply course content to.Group assignments with real time chat.Better formatted supplemental readings to compliment the lecture videos.Also, I feel like the instructors failed to explain some of the business jargon used, which wasn't remedied by referencing the dictionary. +Good course. Clarity in the tutorials and provides a good foundation for understanding essential business metrics for companies. +very informative and great lecture :) +Wonderful course for a starter. However, there were (although very few) points where a more structured approach could have helped making things easier to understand.But a very helpful course to understand the landscape of the Business Metrics and their application to real-life business problems. +As a recent college graduate in management information systems, I wasn't taught most of these important business metrics in the context of business, and even then, I was only taught traditional metrics, not the dynamic metrics this course covers. I would highly recommend this course to those who are looking to understand the different measures to check the "pulse" of a business. +Great introduction to the Subject +The coursework was very straightforward and prof. Egger made it easy to understand using applicable real-world scenarios. +Awesome tool to understand the basics of why we're doing this specialization. This is the cornerstone of the right usage of the tools we can see in the upcoming courses. Highly recommended. +Clear to have basic knowledge to know more about data analyst. +Good introduction to business metrics. I was less enthusiastic about all the investment metrics and formulas, but that might just be me. +Great introduction! +Quality course to learn the base of business metrics. The key terms are explained in a very interesting way. The quizzes are clever and challenging. +This was a basic, yet interesting introduction into the field of business intelligence. +Everything was either super basic or else more advanced but so niche that it doesn't really apply to everyone and we don't need to learn it in that depth. Would have liked to learn a lot more about how to determine what KPIs you should be measuring in different businesses, what kinds of metrics are important, etc. The very large majority of this course will never be applicable to me. +Great class and great intro to get excited about data analysis! Very good class for people with any background. +Very Useful and in touch with real life uncertanities +A practical course to learn about business metrics for any company +good, but no material and lack of structure +This was a great course! The content was relevant and was delivered in a clear and concise manner. I will recommend this course to friends. +I an very disappointed that DUKE hits your up for $79 just to grade the fist quiz (which should cost them $0). This is the fist time I have seen an Institution do this. I can understand charging for a certificate, or for a Final project, but not right out of the gate. I hope that the spirit of Coursera is not changing to a "pay to play" site. There are other higher rated Universities that take a more noble approach. I wonder if all the reviewers paid $79 day 1 for this class, or did DUKE recently changed their pricing policy after the reviews... +I think the pace is a little +Great insights on business metrics with practical approach! +Very interesting course +Very very entry level information. +Basic, Simplified and great +Well done and useful, Thank you. +Amazing introduction to the specialization, very apt! +This Course opened up a new mind for me and just from an intelligence perspective i see the world in a different way. I hope to build upon this. Thank You Coursera. +Solid introduction - slightly disjointed and fairly boring presentation. +Very good insights provided from a fresher's point of perspective ! +Thank you Mr Egger, thank you for the engaging first course which introduced me to the world of business data analyst and data scientist. +Loved the overview of the profession and hearing from real data scientists (among others) +good explanation from sound instructors. +Really useful introduction, helps to orientate oneself on the path to data analysis work +I really enjoy this course. It has a lot of information! +This course gave us more basic concept of business metrics and many of them are brand new for me. Professor introduce this course very clearly. +Well designed, well taught. +This course has been an awesome revision for me about my Management Information Systems concepts. +Contributions of the professor in the discussions is wonderful +I learnt a lot of new things..thank you!! +It is a great introductory course to business metrics and data analysis, very clear and relevant explanations, in a series of attractive and not too long videos. +For me who thought I knew something about business analysis, this course proved me wrong, and I am very glad I took it. I'm looking forward to complete the specialization. +I have enjoyed the course +Enjoyed this course and the presenter was lively making for good participation. +This course has given me a very good perspective on metrics used by various organizations to help sustain revenue and grow sales. +love the concepts and the possible impact to business analysis to overall business success +Great course! +I thought the course was good - but I think the final case study could have been more specific. I reviewed a lot of colleagues and the quality greatly varied though most got the answers correct since it was a quite general question. +Very Useful +Good introductory material. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 only because most of the material was not directly relevant to my business world (pharmaceutical development).Anyone working in a financial environment or in web-based marketing will learn from the business metric examples given.The investment portfolio metrics are useful for anyone who has personal investments, even if you are not involved in finance professionally. +Excelent!!!, the best course on coursera....!!!!, congratulations. +Very difficult to apply the knowledge without some support material with the content, e.g. PPT slides. +Very nice lecture videos and explanations! Totally worth it +One of the best courses on coursera. +I would not recommend this course for a few reasons:1. There are no course notes accompanying the video lectures. Transcripts of the lectures in unformatted text files and a glossary are available for download. I really can’t figure why the instructor doesn’t provide an outline of what key concepts he wants us to learn from each lecture. Also, I’m surprised that Coursera doesn't require a basic set of learning tools for a paid class, such as lecture notes or an outline. This might be a good class for you if learn well from videos.2. The quizzes contain ambiguously written questions for no good reason.3. Two weeks in and there is little substance. For example, week 2 includes a few Skype videos of the professor interviewing former students from a Duke Master’s program. They seemed like very intelligent and nice people but the content of the videos offered little value (i.e., nothing new) to someone already working in corporate IT. +Good introductory course, but some kinks need to be worked out particularly in regards to the lectures and assignments. +This is a great course, and a wonderful introduction to the world of Business Metrics. I did wish it was more data driven (in that I really thought there would be more Excel work), but I'm glad that I took this course because despite the lack of data in numbers it has set me up to do well in the rest of this specialization. +Great class +The idea is whole new to me. Appreciate. Thanks! +This was a good course - I have a finance background but it presented some new perspectives +Great class. +for a successfull career, turn to this course. +A good intro course for those who are starting out. +Good introduction to business metrics, but not enough practical stuff. +Very good teachers/instructors. +Concise and interesting course that will help one to understand the basics about business metrics. It is meant for beginners and it is time-saving or better, it's largely up to you, if you want to spend here 1 or 5 hours per week. +This course is awesome. It is a must attend course specially for the people who wants to understand business in better ways. +Good. Looking forward to next. +Great course +Overall good introduction to business concepts. +Easy to follow, yet comprehensive introduction to the field. +Good course for those with limited exposure to business metrics. Would be more valuable to include 5 or 6 standard Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) by function (marketing, sales, operations, finance), etc. that will be typically encountered in an advanced undergraduate or MBA program. +Short but an excellent review on typical metrics used to analyse business performance.the sort of introductory course any adult should do at least once and ideally review every few years. +This is a very quick and effective class to teach you the language and concepts within business metrics. You will also hear descriptions of data-related jobs - what are the roles and differences in skills applied - and these jobs are fairly universal across all industries. The portion of this course that could be better is when the professor throws a bunch of math into the content. It is basically irrelevant to this course, and in and of itself it is so rushed and introduced so out of context that it is very confusing. +A great primer for further data analysis courses. +Great course ! +I enjoyed the content and applications. Can't wait to continue on. +Very clear explanations and concise examples. Thanks Prof. +Totally loved it. Thank you guys. +Coursera does not want to give me a Certificate. I've got 95% for this course +Great course! +The course title is a bit misleading. There were too much math in the course. +It's great to have the chance to learn this course. +This course being an introductory to Specialization, doesn't stand so good alone. What I really liked were the real-world examples of companies. As introductory course it was fine, but id didn't contain practical assignments (as following in Specialization courses do). The structure of the course was ok. +Straight to the point. Technical. Applicable knowledge usable Right Now, current information and illustrations. Understandable and comprehensible definitions, theories and case studies. Personable instructor, down to earth and practical teaching style. Hands-on teaching style with a sense of discourse. These two make a great team! I must travel to Duke to sit in on a class or two live.*My Stamp of Approval.* +Thanks to Professor Egger, it is an excellent course with a lot of information about business, clearly expressed. +Very useful knowledge and relevant examples are provided. +The course for me was very simple and basic. I recommend it to students who makes their firs steps in this area. +Excellent coverage of relevant metrics. Learned a lot! +Absolutely phenomenal course - a must for anyone interested in the core functioning of a bus +Meh. It was just okay. +Great and elaborate explication of data analysis concepts. Thanks! +Good overview into Business Metrics. Had some focus on stock/financial terms which weren't applicable to what I was interested in. Overall a valuable course however. +It looks nice this training, but there are plenty of questions on every quiz. I think 15 is too much. I've taken other courses and there are no more than 10 questions on each one.I enjoy the last assignment. +It's very helpful for people who wish to understand the basic ideas of the data analysis. +I loved the files and links that you guys provided along with the flow of the course. It made a big difference! Thanks! +Great course +Very Clear and helpful +Great course to understand the basic metrics used in business. Content is clear and assignments are representative of the material learned. +It is too easy +Great course providing insight of business metric and application of data analytics in various business processes. +This course taught me some important metrics in business and provided me a base for solving any kind of business problem as a data analyst. +Very useful and helpful course provided with fine designed structure and clear illustration. +This course does an excellent job of setting the tone for the rest of the courses through breaking down real-life applications of business metrics and explaining their mechanics. In doing so, it's shed a lot of light into metrics/KPI design for my own work. +The course has all the components that I look for in an online / classroom class:-Instructors that know and understand the topic being discussed.-Instructors are very clear, easy to follow, and well prepared on the material-Clear goals and expectations on what you will be able to do by completing the course-Class material extremely well prepared and easy to follow-Plenty of references and uses of real life scenarios that I can see myself applying in my work (vs. hypothetical a+b basic scenarios)-Classwork and examples are easy to follow making it straight forward to complete homework / labs +If you are in data analysis this is a must take!! +Great to learn about cash flow, both positive and negative. Makes sense, a course for the real world. +Good course that introduces the idea of metrics. If you already work with metrics, you will not learn much new. +It was great +I really did not like the portion that went into detail about business analytics and related career paths. Not a technical skill or ne +Great +A good introduction course on business metrics. Especially great for those without business background. +Great class. I'm very happy with my choice for a Specialization to take at Coursera. The instructor is not only very knowledgeable, but also explain some very complicated processes in a way that helps in the understanding of the topic. +Awesome course +The course covers the basics with an in depth analysis to introduce you to the world of business metrics. Learned a lot. +Good course to build an overall understanding of metrics used by businesses but could have been better if assignments were more case-based but then again thats just my opinion and if the slides were provided at the end of each lecture--just saves time. +I loved how the instructor not only taught the content of the course, but also took time to articulate the specific career application of the material being learned, giving an overview of the various positions within the field. It gave me motivation and a target at which I can aim. +A very good introductory course taught by a master in the field. +This course starts off slow and gradually goes very deep into business metrics which provides a valuable view-point on the topic. +Very easy-to-study course about actual Business Metrics +This course was fairly basic, but still quite useful. +Generally, a very great introduction for business analytic. However, for non-business major or new to business world, this course can be overwhelming because of its frequent usage of business terms. I will recommend you to take basic accounting and basic operation class before taking this one. +Good course for beginners. the final assignment should have been with a detailed data set. +Realistic view to resolve business problems. Great learning. +Great Course, highly informative and excellently put-together. +A great introductory course to gain insights into what actually happens in different job roles. +Very good introductory class on business metrics. +This is no real need for this course. Everything sounds like bits and pieces from magazine articles.... I suspect the sole purpose of its inclusion in the specialization is to fund Coursera. $79 at a time.... +very useful course for me as a data analyst in a website company +Very good course +I enjoyed this course because it opened up a nice array of new concepts in a clear and understandable way. It's always refreshing to find a well-planned course on Coursera.This is not to say that the course couldn't use a little bit of tweaking though. There are still a few areas where things could be made clearer. +Surprising Course! Very good business view. +It is a great course for introductory level. It doesn't get too deep into some topics but helps to get a good understanding of metrics in companies. +Awesome course +Very good, thanks :-) +Excelent!Very interesting... I could learn a lot with this Course.Thanks for the opportunity!Brgds,Caio +It's a fine course that doesn't go into too much depth. A goof overview of business metrics. +This is the most informative class I have taken. Even in financial and accounting field for so long, I would say I have learned more from this one class than a whole semester of course work in school. Here, it really shows you the business application of the skills and that is truly powerful. I love it. Thank you. +Very good information. The course had a very effective way of taking some pretty complex concepts of business metrics and explain them in a way that a non business minded person could understand....... That is the epitome of a good course!! +It's a great course that gives a brief business perspective to the metrics involved in companies. However, content in this module can be heavier to give it a more in depth view by the introduction of more terminologies and examples. +Helpful course with strong instruction but limited practical application versus other similar courses focused on more topical application of specific tools and functions. +Professor Daniel Egger's lectures are entertaining, informative and relevant. This course has definitely been one of the better courses I have taken on Coursera.Would recommend it to anyone looking for an introduction to the field of analytics. +Great presentation, interesting material. Both fun and enlightening, but there were a few rough edges that could be polished up. Strongly recommend! +Excellent course.You can learn about different metrics that the companies use to improve its performance. +very useful +The class is a pretty nice overview of metrics in general. it is more broad than it is deep, and sometimes the videos and explanations were not the most easily digested. While the content was helpful, this class could have been greatly improved if slides were provided instead of just a transcript. Finally, some of the explanations and definitions, though interesting, weren't often well tied together. The final assignment case study was definitely useful in thinking about several of the metrics covered over the four weeks. +not much is taught here but I guess should be a good beginning for the specialization. +Great course for getting an introduction into how businesses work! +Interesting course to get to know different business metrics and real life applications! +Essential in knowing how your company makes decisions based on numerical data. +Excellent! I'm learning a lot from this course. What I like most about it is that this course is newly open so it contains a lot of information about the current economy, especially the examples. I will definitely spend time to finish all the way to the Specialization. +Good class. +This is a basic course to learn in Excel to MySQL specialization. Lectures by Daniel Egger are easy to comprehend. Especially it is useful to understand skills required for different job roles in a field of data analysis. +I learned a bunch and was regularly challenged to do better. I enjoyed it and would recommend the course. +Great course with lots of practical information regarding finding work actually using the material.More actual case studies and less portfolio theory would have made the course a 5/5. Too much portfolio theory for a class on business analytics: Most people taking this class will never desire to work or have the opportunity to work for an investment bank, so I found it a bit irrelevant. +Very good instructor +Excelente! All of it! +Excellent content and the presenter's enthusiasm is contagious. +Very nice course, even if i'm sometimes overdue with the quizes, i try to make my best to get them in time. Reccomend this course. +Good introduction to a data science driven approach and understanding a data science driven career. +Great course. +Good course!! +I love it! Professor threads all the beads together for the aspiring data analysts! +Good coverage of basics needed for other courses of this specialization. +It's OK, I think there's a few areas that could use some more depth of explanation. As with a few coursera courses there seems to be an assumption that students know the material being discussed and so it isn't explained. Most of the time in this unit that isn't the case but it does occur a bit. +It's fairly dense with sensible things to know and do. +Not so technical in these business metrics, a bit unclear in defining all of these metrics. However, give me a very good mindset about how data analyst looks like and what skills do the position require. I am really looking forward to the rest of courses from this combo. +Lots of great technical information that was accessible for me, a chemist, to understand and integrate. My main complaint is with the presentation. The speaker was so slow that I had to run all videos at 150% speed to keep from falling asleep. Though, since that was possible, it turns out his slow speaking wasn't really an inconvenience. +An excellent course! Great teachers and content. +For a beginner like me, this course was a good introduction. I really liked the interviews of the earlier students who are now working in different role in different companies. That gave me a good insight about the working world in this field. +The concepts that I learnt are very useful and interesting. +This course is amazing! Very useful for students who are looking for data-driven position. Thanks for sharing. +A very helpful course in understanding how business is run from an analytical point of view. +Sometimes it seems very "mechanic". The instructor is clearly reading a script. +I have zero business background and I found this course to be challenging enough that I learned something new, but it didn't take me that long to master the basics so I could starting talking about what I learned with my business-trained friends almost immediately.I did have to think carefully about the final assignment which was great for my learning. I also enjoyed marking other people's assignments and gaining new insights of the case from my fellow MOOC students. +Great course. The instructor is very knowledgeable and gives lots of examples of real companies using metrics. There are some good assignments to practice using the things taught in the course. Seems like a good specialization too. +Well planned, relevant and fantastic course instructor! +This entry-level course provides a general understanding of data related job positions, companies, and industries. The difficulty of the course is suitable for those new to the data world. +Knowledge enriching course, transparent practical applications and wonderfully taught by Prof Egger !! +I thought it was brilliantly put together. It was easy to follow, but it was packed full of great information! I definitely feel like it was worth my time. Great class! +Very interesting introduction to the business intelligence, totally recommended. +This Course is simply awesome!Cutting edge insights into the data industry ,along with real time problems faced by the experts.You cannot go wrong with this one, HIT ENROLL NOW!! +great course, had great examples lots of good material +I enjoyed this course very much. I also feel that I learned something. And I am looking forward to the next course in sequence. This is a highly unusual thing for me (and I do have a lot of graduate and post-graduate experience both at universities and online). Course organizers care about what we are learning and how we are getting there. I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning business analytics and enjoying the process at the same time. +This is a good course to understand the basics of business metrics in several different kind of companies. +Perfect +Good intro course with just enough info to get you ready to dive into the new Big Data world. Really enjoyed the side-videos with people in the field. +good preparation from the instructors, challenging quiz questions, most importantly, a lot of real world examples make it fun and apprehensible. +Great course. Good insight on business analytics. +Great presentation, great explanation by Dr. Egger. +Very good course. I just missed some materials to work with outside the course. +I found the lectures marginally useful. The instructor may know what he is talking about but takes a rather unstructured approach to articulating it. Having come from a business background and going into BI full-time, I was seeking novel ways to evaluate business performance. The glossary cheatsheets delivered on this best - but the videos I found to have simple, tired repeated perspective. It could be more useful if you have no business background whatsoever. +In my opinion this course is superficial. I didn't get real knowledge from it. At the same time this course might be just an intro to the series of courses about Business Analytics. So I'm looking forward to try them all!Anyway, thanks for the course! +Loved the course :) +I love it! +Great course for anyone new to Data mining +Excellent foundation course; from understanding data in businesses to the fundamentals of the role functions that support these metrics. A+++++ +Very practical and useful +Great baseline understanding of how to talk intelligently about business metrics. +I love this course +Excellent video presentations. Clearly explained and easy to understand. +Great lecturing style, light hearted yet cerebral. Superb. +Spectacular contents and fantastic teaching method! Love this! +Good mix between theory and practice. +Love the course so far. Can't wait to get really good at this stuff and use it in my place of work! +Good beginning course. +This is a very high level overview. I felt it was thourough, and the instructor was good. I wish there was a little more practice of concepts... But overall, wonderful! +This is probably the best coursera courrse I've ever taken for a few reasons. (1) I want to be a data scientist and he explains the best path to become one. (2) This is the most pragmatic online class I've taken since it focuses on what businesses do and what they really want. (3) Videos are short but very substantial.In short, it's the course giving me the most applicable knowledge and skills to use in business. +Great course! But they don't provide weekly summary of content despite number of people have already requested this :)Would definitely suggest! +First course I've taken on Coursera, and I am impressed. I believe that the most important part of these MOOC's is to make sure that they seem useful and provide relevant information, and this course definitely delivered. In contrast to many of my university courses which are broad and quite honestly non-applicable to many work fields, this class was direct and to the point. I never felt as if a single minute was wasted on this course, and it was not difficult to finish this course because of that. +Pretty good course. Good professional speaker. But to common ,aterials. +Very informative and easy to get into especially for someone who's not well-versed in business concepts. +Excellent! It is a new innovated era! This course gives an opportunity to leads in a multidimensional "open and unlimited" " data space"! Unreservedly, Ι suggest it! +A great course all over! Last week is too difficult, but it worths the effort! +Best Online Course Available for SQL Beginner on Internet.Detailed, Equipped with Real Life Data and Analysis.Exceptional Training on MySQL & Teradata Tools.Power to change the Life of learner. +very helpful! +There are some typos in Week 5 Teradata exercise needed to be corrected +MySQL lessons, quizzes and assignments are very well organised and taught. But was not very happy with the Teradata part. Overall it was a very good course! Jana is a fantastic teacher. +What this course can improve is it should adopt the habit of thinking more instead of writing. Because in the week 5, the quiz is much more difficult than all the exercises we have done in previous weeks. And we don't have the guide step by step like previous weeks. I do know we have a week 5 quiz guide. However, when you write queries, sometimes, you do think your logic is right and query is right, why can't I get the same answer with the choices?And when I finish the quiz and look back to the answer, I even can't find the logic difference between answers and mine but the reality is I can't get the correct result. There is only one diff I have found in one specific question, that is, I didn't use the same format to define one constraint. But I do think my way is also fine and I also get an answer I think is totally correct from the logic.So I do suggest the answers should not be single sometimes, you should consider some specific formats or situation when students write their own queries. Don't give simple answer, give the reason why you are correct. +The relational schema for the dognition database should have been provided. +Really bad course. Badly taught, strange choice of assignments and quiz questions. Unfortunately, I did the free trial and Coursera didn't process my cancellation so that I had to pay for a whole month for this.Complete waste of time AND(!!!) money! +Very useful and relevant. Able to get lots of practice with SQL in this course.However, this is an extremely difficult course. +very helpful course +thank you! +This is a really nice course to start learning SQL. It introduces the basic framework of correlation database and provides multiple case practices every week. The loading of this class is somehow larger than it is mentioned in the syllabus. So for those who want to learn SQL and willing to spend more than ten hours practicing every week, i strongly recommend this course :) +You get a lot of information and really need to invest some time but I highly recommend it, it includes many practical exercises. +Best course to start learning SQL & Jupyter Notebook (Python). I have already tried to learn SQL from CodeAcademy, but this one is much more intuitive & detail-oriented. Lots of easy-to-follow examples, great instructor and quality of videos/lectures. I recommend it 100%. +Excellent MOOC. Ideal to get hands on experience with MySQL and Teradata working on real data bases. Great exercices and great professor. The last week is tough but rewar +great but a little bit complex, you could better learn the book first +Very difficult, but you will learn how to use SQL! +It is hard but it is worthy +It was fun and hard learning. +Very Nice Course! +This is a great course that moves at a nice pace and allows students to experience SQL two different platforms (Jupyter, Teradata) with two different but interesting data sets. The videos are great but as with all programming the key is to practice, practice, practice! Which there is plenty of opportunity for also. Highly recommend. +very good lessons with bund of materials to practice +Great course! Very useful skill for business world. Professor explain the concept very carefully. The exercise are very helpful and challenged. +The Teradata part is quite challenging and I think it would be better if there are more hints. I like the SQL part more. +I strongly recommend this course!Firstly, This course gives listeners great opportunities to get access to the real world data and the skills to retrieve the data that can be used for analyzing.Secondly, the design of this course is perfect, it includes almost all the necessary skills(queries, analyzing skills), resources(where you can find solutions when u come across problems) and tips for data analysis with sql.Thirdly, the teacher(Jana) is good. She shows us the comprehensive aspects of data analysis with clear structure and step by step.Therefore, it is good for beginners! One thing to mention is that if you are a beginner, you may need almost 18 hours every week under high efficiency especially for the last two weeks. Hence, it's good to make a balance ! +Super great learning experience! +Excellent introduction to SQL if students take the extra time to do the optional exercises and really get comfortable with the SQL syntax and nuances. Engaging and also challenging. +handy tool to pull out data and analysis, but the learner themselves need to practice m +Good introduction +It doesn't go into great depth but exposes you enough to SQL to give you a good start and an appreciation of how complex company databases are likely to be.Works with real data. +EXCELLENT COURSE@ EVERYTHING YOU NEED ABOUT SQL BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE USER. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS COURSE FOR ANYONE INTERESTED. +Poor performance of Jupyter and the wildly underestimated time commitments really sunk this one for me. The latter, especially is inexcusable. The syllabus is lopsided and, while organized, not enough thought has been given to the exercise workload. +This course is great, finally that line in my resume is not a lie) I wish we went through this course on coursera back then in my university instead of SQL lessons that we had.I really apreciated the realistic setup for practice and rather big number of given exercises - very usefull for digestion of information. And by the way Jana is the best lecturer among all the ones I've seen on Coursera, very live, open, enthusiastic and giving information with structure and to the point. Thank you, it was a pleasure. +awesome material and good lectures. Would recommend this course!!! +This course makes sure you learn MySQL in the most efficient way. I definitely recommend this course. Professor Jana is super awesome, I mean it. Thanks! +Awesome course, so clearly explained +Challenging course with huge payoff in new skills gained!!! +A lot of work, but totally worth it. I definitely feel like this course does a great job of teaching applied SQL, rather than just teaching you syntax. Highly recommended. +My experience with Teradata has been awful. Connection issues, latency, time outs. What should have taken 45 minutes took nearly two hours because of the load times for datasets. No clock or indication of progression for the queries. +amazing and interesting course. I am a beginner in this field, by my experience, it is beginner friendly. I feel very lucky to take this course. +To the point and with excellent real world data to train on your assignments +The notes are perfect! But I do think that the content might be a little bit easy.. Good course for beginners, but if you are looking for more challenges, this might not be the best choice for you. +Excellent Course. Worth the efforts. +It prov systematic training and practical tips to my current job. +Perfect courses for people who have no experience in sql. +quite useful. there are a bunch of exercises which are extremely helpful to help us get touch with real-world business cases. +I have done a number of courses on coursera. After this one, I am now also doing the Tableau course. I think it is fair to say that Jana provides great value. I have seen courses with very shallow content. Jana's are the opposite. It's actually a lot or work to get to the detailed assignments, but that's a good thing. I really get the feeling that I have learned something! +It is a very good course to understand the basic fundamentals and applying them on actual database. +Perfect for an introduction to SQL. Still a lot to learn but I certainly feel like a can learn it. +reviewed. good course. +If you choose to follow this course, you will have to invest a lot of time. There are few videos, but you will go through a lot of exercises that will make you learn (or recall, like in my case) SQL in a very effective way. +I learned SQL by doing projects at work but this SQL helps me to learn from very basic to the advanced. Some questions why this happened at work before was explained well in the class. That's true that data in the real world is messy and missing. +Highly recommend this course for people pursuing careers in data analysis/business intelligence - i.e. those who do not need to know the details of how to set up or optimize databases, but will interact with databases regularly to get data for their work. +Easy enough for a SQL newbie, meaty enough to be satisfying +I think this course if poorly organized. The instructor is really trying to show us that the real life data sets and databases are messy, but providing only written instructions for me it proved useless. I, for one, need to see what other people are doing and not read long pages of horrible written explanations.I paid for the course just to be able to do the exercises, which I also think it's a minus.All in all it didn't "ENHANCE" my career prospects, mostly because nothing useful was taught here. Wouldn't recommend anyone to pay for it. +This course provided a good introduction to SQL for me as a beginner and through challenging lessons forced me to learn SQL basics. After Week 3 however, I found that the level of difficulty increased steeply and not enough assistance was provided in the lessons to get through the course at a reasonable pace. In addition to providing answers to each week's exercises, further review of how the answer was obtained and the breakdown of the logic behind it would be helpful. +Practical knowledge. +Very Challenging course work!! +As an introduction to SQL this course is great! Really enjoyed it! +Really good Course if you have the time to follow all the workshops and assignments, because they take quite a lot of time to complete, so allocate some extra time so you can learn properly, the good thing is that at the end you will have a solid understanding of SQL, Query’s and how to mine data for answers. Highly recommended for SQL starters. +I really enjoyed the course and found it very useful. I can write a basic query now !! and I got a bit more understanding of how to work with databases. My only recommendation for the mentors is to work on more samples of queries using Teradata and add the answers to the week assignments. I'm still wondering a few answers and not sure if the output of my queries was the expected. +Very good ! :) Learn a lot of SQL +The course structure was well formatted. The order of the lessons and content presented made for learning intuitive. The follow along practice queries and end of lesson practice problems were also helpful interactives for the student.However there were mistakes in the answer keys or practice problem prompts that became more frequent in the lessons towards the end of the course. This made it difficult to practice the more complicated material and queries. It was also a big time waster when as a student you were unsure whether you were answering the correct question and if so whether your answer was correct. It would also been helpful to have more open ended practice problems at the end of the course in addition to the set provided.Finally I think this course would be better split into two parts. The first part should be geared towards querying data and focusing more on just pulling data and intermediate queries. The main audience would be analyst/data professionals that have privileges to pull data but not modify data. The second part of the course would be more useful to DBAs or professionals that have database admin privileges to insert/delete/modify data. I would also focus more heavily on database schemas in this second course relative to the first. +I would like thanks Jana and all of her colleagues who helped in providing this course. Since this course has much importance from job perspective. I would also like to thanks Coursera for providing me an opportunity. +Very helpful! +Great way to learn SQL querying and analysis strategies +very detailed introduction of SQL. The only thing is that there could be more videos introduce different functions instead of writing documents as materials. Other than that, it's a great class +Really awesome course!!! I like it very much! +Very useful and well-designed course. Jana is an effective instructor with a great sense of humor. Her course material is easy at first and gradually gets harder, which is suited for students with no SQL background but eager to learn. But this course does require a lot of your time and dedication ---- Plan 5 hours every week and sometimes even more (week 4 and 5). It took me 2 rounds of enrollment to earn the certificate. All in all, I would recommend this course to people interested in data analytics, who want to update their knowledge beyond excel and have the time and the drive. +This is an extremely well organized course with problems sufficiently challenging that the exercises really help one master the material. +Best course I've ever taken on coursera because it's all about practice instead of theory - and the quizzes/practice questions are extremely difficult but once you get through it you will definitely say SQL is a skill you own. +very practical and challengin which is goood +It's very practical but hard at the same time. I like the teaching style. What's makes me little uncomfortable is that the teradata system guidance is kind of obscure. However, the Jupiter guidance is really yummy. Hope to learn more sql applications in the future. +Great course - very clear and it provides good insights and interesting challenges/ tests +there are so little video tutorials, and too many exercises without video instructions. +It's an amazing course. The final assignment is quite challenging but fun. All in all a very rewarding and satisfying course. +Cool. Tough but cool. +Brilliant course for the beginner to learn SQL. Well structured, very thorough and making use of some great technological resources for the user to practice their SQL with. By Week 4 my SQL had improved significantly and I was applying what I'd learned in my job . The final week is very challenging though, so be prepared to give it plenty of time. +I you are absolutely new to SQL, I couldn't recommend a better course. Its a wonderful course to take, good explanations and excellent practice opportunities with real databases. The program goes beyond just writing SQL queries but help you to understand the way databases are organized, and it teaches you how to right queries from an analytical perspective. +Difficult, but well worth it. I feel so much more confident in tackling SQL now! +wonderful course for beginner +Great Course! Covers everything you need in great detail. +It was an Awesome course. Really enjoyed doing all the exercises. Now I feel quite confident to write any queries.Special Thanks to Professor Jana Schaich Borg for teaching so wonderfully!!!!! +Amazing course! +Very usefull +nice course for me to better understand how to master the sql +The exercises and quizzes (particularly the teradata sets) were difficult enough that you have to think and structure your approach to arrive at the right solution. Very good learning curve. +This course takes longer time than I expected but the practices are concrete, well-designed, and therefore helpful. +Overall, great course!I have approached other courses from other platforms and the upsides of this one here are many. The involvement of the teachers in this course is incredible in my opinion and they help a lot. The number of exercises also seems appropriate so overall the experience was great.I definitely advise the instructors to suggest at least part of the answers to the practice exercises of week 5 (in Teradata). The gap between week 3 and 4 is a lot bigger than between week 2 and 3, of course, which is normal. Nevertheless, week 5 seems a bit like a detached exercise. I realize this must have been done for educational purposes but my instinct tells me that if I were provided with more indication I would have gone later to the discussion forums which I reckon would have been beneficial to my learning experience.That was, in my opinion, a significant drawback but in general the course is so great I would not like to pull its rating back, so I leave 5*.Thank you! +If you can finish this course you will be more then efficient in SQL. +Very complete and up to the point! Lots of useful resources! +Unprecedented high speaking speed. +This was one of the best courses I've ever taken. Each lesson built on its predecessor logically. I worked hard to learn each of the concepts, but was very impressed by how much I had learned by the end of the course. +Week 3 is unrealistically difficult +Title's a bit confusing. The course isn't exactly about managing BigData. +It is really useful class. +The actual amount of time required per week to complete the course was well over the 3-5 hours/week advertised on the course homepage. It was a very time intensive activity each week- especially the last 2 weeks. +This is an excellent course indeed. Access to real world data is a huge +. Some of the questions in the quizzes were difficult though. And also the witty jokes by the Prof... :):) +Difficult but very useful course +Excellent course !! Teradata experience is a bonus on this excellent MySQL program. Highly recommended to anyone who needs to learn big data SQL. +I personally found this course useful. Adding dognition database to make students feel of real database is a great plus. +One of the best courses taken! I have learned so much from practices provided by the instructor! +phenomenal ipython notebook exercises! really well thought out and coherent with the tableau course. goes much deeper than other online SQL courses, problem sets can be hard +This is by far the most comprehensive SQL course I have ever taken. A lot of times there are SQL classes that are online that give you a glimpse into what it takes to be great at SQL queries. This is a must for anyone seriously considering to becoming a data analyst. +it is as great as i think +The course should be longer, prepare yourself you are going to need a lot of time, unless you have previous experience from SQL. It'll take maybe even more than one session. But it is worth it, because it covers all skills you need for working with SQL. If you really need to learn SQL, there is no better option. +This course is too much doggy! Please do not use Coursera for advertising your friends´companies, or at least learn how to do it a little more professionally to look really relevant! This psychiatric lady also seems to be sexits. Looking at differences between pictures with a girl and pictures with a boy is really abominable and shows an intentional discrimination and racism. It is really shameful. +Course was well conducted and explained, however, the final test was quite long and challenging. +Great course for beginners :) +Perfect course +I enjoy it . It's very useful for the beginner +One of the most amazing MOOC courses I have ever taken. From the start, Jana did an excellent job with building the intuition of databases in general and of SQL. The modules (weeks) are organized coherently. The datasets were realistic and challenging (in a great way).The best aspect of this course is the MySQL exercises, built upon IPython notebook. Personally I have experience with R and Python, yet I still feel like I learned a lot from the exercises. The instructions and lessons as part of the programming exercise were clear and useful, effectively complementing the video lectures and providing hands-on experiences.The only pity I have is that Coursera stopped providing full access to course materials and Statement of Accomplishment. But that has nothing to do with this course. The instructors seem to provided maximal opportunity for all students, including ones (like me ) who are just 'auditing'.Overall, a five star rating is a must for this course. +Really helpful course with great instructor! I ejoyed it alot! +Great! I love it! +The course is very well calibrated. You move step by step from easy SQL queries to pretty complex ones. The connection to the business value of the queries you write is also explained in a convincing way. +Great content, good practice using real-world business data. +Really useful and practical course. The exercises and quizes are the best in all the courses I've taken. +In-depth, I really enjoyed it. +Great course until the end. The professor really understand the concept of teaching +Good introduction course to MySQL. Hope they includes how to import data, create table and update information too! +Great, hands-on course! +work with real industry data is so much fun! +Very helpful +This course is the greatest ever made ! +Great Course, Fun, and Practical. Love it! +Amazing course and the quizzes are challenging. Learned a lot. Gives hands on experience on mysql and Teradata. +The exercises are very well designed. +It is a well-organized course. I really learnt a lot from the course. And the assignment and exercise work as a good practice for me to put what I learnt in the course into use. +I wish there was a financial support for full enrollment at this course. but still GREAT course to experience. +It's pretty good for entry-level SQL learners. However, to further improve, much time is required. Also, exercises provided are sometimes really weird. +I enhanced my programming knowledge for data retrival +Great class to start learning SQL. Jupyter and Teradata are brilliant choices (web-based interface) that avoid the plain of installation. Real datasets from Dognition and Dillard make exercises much more meaningful. Thank you for the careful design and teaching! +Very informative course！ Jena is very inspiring! +Great Course, especially since it's using real (and messy) data. Week 5 quiz gets quite challenging. Some more video lectures would be great. +I found the first 4 weeks of the course amazing: just really well structured, thought-out, and delivered in a way that positions the student for success. Jana breaks the material down into digestible bits, gives you sufficient practice, and even if you don't get it, you can look at the answers to the practice questions and figure out where your thinking was incorrect.The 5th week wasn't as well broken down, especially the last set of Teradata exercises. New concepts or ways of structuring queries were being introduced in those exercises, but there was no way to check for a correct solution if I couldn't come with one on my own (which was unfortunately half of the time). I still got a good grade on my last quiz, but I can't say that I really truly learned how to write the more complicated queries.I would suggest that the last Teradata exercise set has more explanation or perhaps just answers that the student can refer to in order to understand why his/her line of thinking isn't working.Otherwise, a truly fantastic course. I 100% recommend it. +The exercises , quizzes and videos are well planned and help understand the course material. +Amazing Course. Learned a lot. A bit tough with exercises but was very helpful. Thank you for everything. +Exercises are super challenging. But challenging oneself with difficult tasks is the best way to learn. Its a course worth going for. +Excellent introduction to SQL. Good, short overview of theoretical background. Lots of practice exercises. +Excellent course for learning the query side of SQL! +not easy but valiable course +Challenging course going from very basic to quite complex SQL queries. Definitely recommended. The only downside are the repetitive technical issues. +Errors in the material made it difficult to get through. All past discussions on the forum are gone, making it difficult to review posts by classmates. +Enjoyed every aspect. +Learned a lot ! +A lot of work, but valuable training. +The lectures are great, and the exercises are challenging to stimulate stronger learning. +solid course with vivid learning structure for sql learner of various levels +Switching between platforms was confusing but overall the course was good value for money +Learn MySQL and Teradata in one course. Lots of hands on work and help for assignments. The only way I actually learn something. Just do it. I have a SQL server background and had to experience life without CTEs. +Professor is great; exercises very effective and useful. Great class! +Great starter course for MySQL and how to use SQL techniques in multiple databases. This is a great course for understanding and applying data pulls for business purposes. +Awesome Course +The most important and well designed Course I have ever done! +Much needed Sql help +Great course, a little hard +This is a great course, one of the better ones in the series. +The technical support of this course is just terrible: just like many many other students (see the Discussion forums), I have experienced serious difficulties to access the databases platforms we need to learn and to complete our assignments. I can only echo the innumerable complains from my co-students about the lack of efficient support and technical reliability of this course; many of us are very unhappy about this, especially as they have paid for this course ... and what is Coursera doing about it, by the way?My advice: beware before enrolling in this course and even in this entire specialization, and search for alternative options (there are many, not only on Coursera but also on EdX and others ...)!!! +Very good, detailed course, I can recommend! Before that I knew nothing about SQL, now I have moved to higher level of analyst. Sometimes the instructions are not 100% clear, but it is minor problem. +I love this course design, very thoughtful and instructive!! Especially having the real database to practise from, it is great for beginners like myself! +Derived attribute was never conveyed in the videos. So kindly add up the concept of derived attribute. +learned a lot about basic queries +One of the best MOOC courses out there! Challenging but you will learn a lot if you stick with it. Extensive and in-depth lectures/practice exercises on SQL. Appreciate that you learn using two systems, MySQL (through Jupyter) and Teradata. However the Teradata interface is a bit clunky and takes time getting used to.BTW, Jana is a great instructor and Duke courses, in this track, especially the Tableau and MySQL courses are the best out there at the moment. +Great course.. well explained +Its a very good class to learn to use SQL in a systematic manner, even if you had used SQL or are completely new. The two Databases ( Terradata and Dognition) gave a lot of valuable practice. +Very helpful! +great course.. only thing is answers to teradata exercises were not provided. So student cannot know whether he is writing correct sql statements +Great class to learn SQL! Great learning how to use two different platforms and applying real world applications with queries. +Enjoyed the course.The exercised are well-designed. Good way to start MySQL ! +The video instruction are not as helpful as I wished. They were too brief, and all the learning end up with doing the exercises. The regular exercises and the quizzes use different database system, and it sometimes hard to transfer what you learn to the quizzes.The pre-quiz exercises are more helpful imo, but no answer key is provided. Sometimes I am still confused even after passing the quiz. +That was a very useful and interesting class! Presenter did a great job, and her materials were very use helpful and relevant! +Big challenge with even bigger reward!! +Great, great, great course. Interactive and engaging. Relevant and focused. This is the future of learning! +Very useful:) Very good explained for the begginers:) +Challenging, but very informative! +Good material but heavy work-load, especially since we are learning two new skills -SQL syntax and Data analysis. Request instructors/TA's to guide students more in the forums. Analysis like computing avg daily revenue should be explained better as I spent too much time figuring it out and the forum answers were way off. However, this being an online class I was very impressed with the detailed worksheets in MYSQL. +equipped with modern tools and practical experience +It's a good class and I learned a lot. The learning curve shoots up exponentially around the fourth week. I could see this course being perfect if broken down into two classes. +The course is very thorough but i woul have loved it if you had a way for instructors to better reach out to classmates rather than leave things to chance and everyone is confused for month. But either way the experience is priceless. Would recommend it to anyone +I love the practice exercises! +too many issues with the DB's that needed to be accessed to complete the exams. +If you work with data this is an excellent course, but even if you are not a frequent data user you can learn a lot from the logic it explains. I absolutely recommend it. +I have a theoretical background in relational algebra and SQL. This course did a great job of actually applying that theory in practice in the form of business situations. By using real life data, it also accurately presented raw data as not perfectly organized or "clean". Filtering with subqueries, IN, WHERE, and OUTER JOIN statements are absolutely crucial in cleaning data in real life situations; this course did an excellent job of demonstrating that importance.I have 2 interrelated critiques however: The usage of 2 different platforms (MySQL for the exercises and Teradata for the quizzes) was very confusing given their distinct syntaxes. I think it would have been more powerful to have the exercises and quizzes on the same platform. Furthermore, the Teradata platform was oftentimes overwhelmed by the number of users and frequently crashed. Going forward I would recommend either ensuring that the servers can handle the amount of user-load, or switching over to the MySQL platform entirely. +I can confidently say that I KNOW SQL! Thank you professor. +Awesome Experience. +Perfect to know the basics to manage SQL data. +The course instruction is very good. If the Teradata database is improved, the course will deserve 5 star. +Nice web pages to test the knowledge. +It is a great course! There are plenty of online assignments to practice. +It was one of the most efficient courses I have ever taken. Thank you very much. I learnt a lot from all excercises. +very high quality materials and experiment design.Thank for teacher's great effort! +This course should be divided in 2 o be longer for two main reasons:1) Weeks are way too long to cover all the material, plus the research you need to do outside the platform. The time required end up being too much.2) The course is not deep enough - There's just too much topic to cover, and because of time constrains there are a lot of holes in your education at the end.For this two reason is better con get 2 courses about this topic. That way you can go deeper in to the SQL explanation, and can get at thee same time a better understanding of each topic, instead of getting a lot of thing to cope in just one week. +Thank you. It was good course. +Fantastic course on SQL for those with no prior exposure. Also addresses basic database structures, relational schemas, and ER diagrams, providing an excellent foundation for further work with data in relational databases. +This course really gives you a taste of what it is to work with real-company data. I strongly recommend it if you want to master at MySQL. Previously I had done a lot of small courses on web pages such as Codeacademy, but this was so far the most complete one. At the end of the course you will be amazed by the thinh you will be capable to do! +It is very interesting, but we have to face problems with Teradata, I have not been able even to log in, and a lot of students are in the same situation, and the problem persists, even in the duedate of the test. +Getting to learn Teradata was a bonus. Great class. +The instructor is careful to include real world working experience in our learning which makes this course especially interesting and valuable. +great videos, great tutorials. Felt like I learnt this way better than any module I took in college because lectures were kept to the point, no long winding stories that goes on and on, assignments were manageable and easy to follow. Felt like I learnt at least 90% of everything that was taught, instead of a ~~50-60% usually. +easy to understand, wonderful! +I really learned a lot! But it's hard and requires huge amount of time to master. +It is a quite difficult course but very intresting! +Great Course +Really like this course!! With abundant exercises, detailed explanation, real-world data and sweeeeet professor, it is a good start for SQL beginner! +Very well structured and easy to follow. Very effective. +It's hard but very useful! +quit a tough course, but worth your handwork +Useful skill to keep. Jana is well prepared for each course. My company uses other softwares so there are some difference in syntax. +This course is really awesome!There are a lot of well designed exercises, which not only trained my skill to write SQL query but also deepen my understanding of relational database. The real business data provides learners an opportunity to get in touch with the real business world.So I am excited to recommend you to take this course. If you are a new beginner at MySQL, it can help you get started soon. If you already know some basic knowledge about SQL, this course will also be a good resource for practice. +great course. great example databases. i would suggest renaming the course Managing Big Data with MySQL and TeraData. The Teradata component of the course was very heavy, and all graded pieces of the course used Teradata.I would also make the assignments graded --- they can be peer reviewed. I think doing the assignments really help, not just completing the quizzes. those are my thoughts. +Great course! It takes you from zero knowledge of SQL to being able to write quite complicated queries, and being ready for most of standard SQL questions in job interviews. Strongly recommended! +Great course great tools. Interesting and useful! +It is one of the best course I have taken. I am really enjoying my progress and it's simple and easy to learn. So, I recommend, if anyone interested in Big Data it is worth taking this Course and You get some confidence to go deeper.Big Thanks to Jana. You are such a Wonderful instructor.Cheers....Vishnu +Nice course and I am impressed +Very good course for learning SQL - the tutorials, materials and exercises provided are very well thought and structured. The staff put lot of effort and thinking into this one. I like the whole specialization and I can recommend taking it. +I'm still in Week 1, but I'm already in love with this course. They give accurate information in a light manner, the exercises are very clear and didactic, and they also give the answers to these exercises which answers all of your potentially uprising questions, alongside with the Video Lectures. It is already giving me the confidence that it will be a great asset to me as a Data Analyst. +It is very useful by covering all related aspect in information seeking. +An excellent course: it provides learners with the concepts and skills necessary for searching and researching information in libraries and online. Lectures are clear and well organized. There are activities for students to go deeper into the topics (optional) and quizzes that helped them to check the main concepts. +Excellent, and important to investigation and intellectual working +it is Avery good course and provide lots of information about searching process and tool of management +Objective. Very good material and good practices to help you better build a bibliography for research purpose. Sometimes the multiple answers quiz can be tricky. +Not too comprehensive, but an overall good course. +I have important knowledge and skill finding information through this couse. +Perfect guided course. The only handicap to me is the accent of the speaking English. I hardly understand what they are saying without subtitles.Thx for your all precious effort. +I love this course. It helps me with my teaching and personal development. Besides, I know several reference management tools from this course. Storing the documents is really complicated and makes me in a mess. Thank you for your tutoring and sharing. +This course is very thorough and detailed. As an IT specialist, I have had no exposure to formal research and needed to understand the process. Now I can clearly and confidently say that I can perform good research and obtain formal information and data on any topic, as opposed to just surfing the internet for genuine knowledge. Great course, well done to the instructors. +Very informative and interesting. I find that the exercises did not contribute enough to understanding the material. +I learned a lot! +Very useful for university students or people who new to research world +This is a course that everyone need to pass it +Very useful and handy tips. +concise and stright to the point +it is so cool course +very informative and well organized. +Wonderful course on information seeking. +very useful!! +As an experienced researcher I learned a lot from doing this course +Very interesting course, better done when in an academic context and with an ongoing project to carry out the exercices for. If you don't have access to a university library, you will be very limited, but the course presents some alternatives for us professionals who are still interested in researching and documenting our work with a more scientific approach. +The reading material is not good (it' s even bad) , but the course videos are excellent. +Like they say in the course for bachelor students, this is very helpful. I study history, so I always and up with millions of sources. Not only have I learned how to search intelligently, I have also learned to manage my results and papers carefully. +Apart for some slightly confusing breaks in the sentences for some speakers, it was very good and relevant information. +I thought this was a great course on learning how drugs affect the brain. Everyone who has dealt with someone addicted to drugs should watch this. It gives you a better idea of what people are going through. +Very satisfied with the quality of the information. Thank you teacher, thank you Emory, and thank you Coursera. Lic. Rodrigo M. Álvarez. +Really good, detailed deep learning! Thank you +Very good course. Opened a window to the world of addiction. +I learnt so much about addiction and what it does to the brain...I wish I known this since I was a teen. I have been sharing my learning with my family and friends and looking forward to helping my community in this aspect. Thank you ever so much for such valuable AND LIFE SAVING INFORMATION! +Detailed information in an easy to understand format. +This course is truly wonderful, many intellectual mind-opening surprises... for example I almost fell out of my chair when I learned of vaccinations development effort to counter addiction. +The Addicted Brain provided me the foundation to have the conviction to be at the frontier of a community owned initiative to help the Philippines War on Drugs. The Harm Reduction Principle is the applied principle with Magnesium Mineral as agent for detoxification to address SAWS. As a Naturopath Doctor, I have been using Minerals in treating variety of ailments of my patients. Among these minerals is an End Stage Renal Failure case for dialysis which was cleared "NO DIALYSIS NEEDED" by his Physician after his Minerals Therapy. Others are symptoms of Substance Abuse Withdrawal Syndrome due to other health conditions such as Insomnia, Depression, Involuntary Muscle Movement, Muscles Pain, Anxiety, Brain Fog, Pins and Needles, and others.The Addicted Brain Course is a must course for those who are working in the field of Drug Addiction. +This course is an amplified knowledge basket that can settle in any person who is directly or indirectly affected of substance addiction or abuse. It is great to have available this kind of courses, highly recommended. +Learned so much and so interesting. +Very informative . However somebody needs to give this instructor a glass of water :} +Quite boring, a lot of propaganda against drugs. Sometimes data is presented in misleading ways to make the harm from drugs look greater. Though if you are new to the topic, you may consider to take the course as it contains some useful information. +Very informative, though I would recommend getting a little background on how the brain works in general, it will help you get more out of this course. +Did not like that I have to upgrade just to take a quiz +Excellent content!! The professor was eloquent and very clear. +Information strays between ridiculously shallow and unnecessarily deep (e.g. the stuff about GPCRs is so far removed from importance when discussing addiction). Most of the time the questions are poorly worded and thoughtless, and the whole thing reminds me of a bad high school class. Some parts border on misinformation, does seem almost as if it's been underwritten by the DEA. Paints a very distinct picture, a picture with an agenda and really incomplete portrayal of addiction. Points for trying though. +I enjoyed this course all the way. It was challenging for me and extremely educative. The knowledge accrued is already in use. +Very well-presented course with excellent illustrations. Gives a good overview on addiction with pharmacology, with good links to further reading. I found the title slightly misleading though, as the course presented very little information on brain physiology except for the dopamine receptors. +Great course, wish if it was focused more on the glutamate and dopamine roles in addiction and relapse. thank you +The course is useful but I hoped that it would cover the area of treatment better than that. +Concise and very informative for all those who want to understand this epidemic health issue called addiction. +excellent course I found it very informative :- +This course was particularly helpful and explanatory to someone like me, who has little knowledge of the processes of substances in the human brain and the effects of drugs in general. I enjoyed almost every lecture's content and the way the whole course was structured. However, I do think that the way the lectures were delivered was a bit dry and that more perspectives on the drug addiction issue could have been presented. +Interesting overview. The teacher is clear and competent. Lacks opinion of differents sources +A wonderful and enlightening course with clear and precise explanations on how does a drug influenced brain function. The course also looks into human and animal behaviour and the nature of addiction and motivation. I recommend it to anyone interested in the matter. +Its all you would want from the course. Informative and efficient. +A great overview of relevant material and a well negotiated outline of how harm reduction can positively impact longterm drug abuse. +very interesting +This course is very clarifying and informative. The lecturer is charismatic and didactic. +Very informative +The information was great. My only complaint would be how dry the lectures were, and I do not meant the content, I meant the delivery. +The instructor was great. The material was very informative and interesting. Highly recommend. +very informative +A real pleasure to learn! +This is a very well structured, very well explained course. It gives an original insight into the workings of the human mind, and how substances can impact it in various ways. +Great! Thank you very much for these classes! +I found this course well structured and concise. It covered a lot of the subject with up to date information. It had helpful diagrams and gave good real life examples. Highly recommend for everyone to help understand substance misuse and possible treatments. Also it's role in the wider society. +The instructor for this class is pretty boring, but do really like the course itself +this is very informative coures +To the point, very appealing and the professor I amazing! I have been getting so much useful information and details about the brain of addicts. +great course. so easy to follow the very clear teaching. interesting material. +Unable to even start it... Click on videos of week 1 and nothing happens +The course taught me a lot about how brain gets addicted, What happens in our body after taking drugs, why the test and screen for drugs designed in particular way, etc. +Worth skimming fast through for free to learn a little something about the brain. Don't expect to learn much about the brain though. The title is a little misleading. +Helped me understand why my left my family for a life of meth addiction. I am thankful that it has reduced my stress and anger ove3 what she has done. even a small amount of understanding +loved it I learned a lot +Well, I expected more and more debt, It seems the course is oriented to the general public. +The course satisfied me in various aspects. It is brief and clear. Thank you for our instructor for nice presentations.Nevertheless, I would expect more about pharma and treatment apporaches. More about drugs available in the markets and new trends.Psychotherapy applications / demonstrations would be very useful. +Thank you for this course, professor Kuhar. I really appreciate the organization and the contents. I appreciate your deeply interest for this subject. +Very comprehensive but easy to follow. I only regret the "pro animal testing" proselytism here and there. +It was so helpful to understanding addiction +I am a graduate student of counseling. This course added a dimension to my coursework and future career that was both needed and very much appreciated. Ideas are broken-down into understandable portions. It is helpful to have some knowledge of how neurons work and terms associated therein. +very boring and didn't learn anything i didn't already know. this was more like watching an anti drug propaganda film that I couldn't finish it. +good lectures +This was a fabulous training. Very eye-opening. +Knowledgeable professor. Distracting background. I prefer direct eye contact rather than having the professor sometimes filmed not looking directly at the camera. But the course gave excellent information and I enjoyed it. +Great course with a good overview of subject.Mr. Kuhar is a great speaker, easy to understand and very calm. +Very good course, but some external links are no longer working +This was very informative and right on the mark with how society feels and what is available in the lines of treatment/help.Thank you. +Very useful and interesting +Course give very good information, but the "The addicted brain" its not the correct name.Second part of the course give more detail information about different drugs and body biology, but its not directly related to the Brain.However, the training its very good, just change the label. +very interesting, and mind opening. Very clear and easy to follow lecturesI enjoyed this course very much +Great course and was put out very well, never felt like I was in over my head. +Very informative if you're new to the study of Addiction or already familiar tons of great useful information! +Excellent course in an easy to use format. Very enjoyable and informative. Resources and video lectures are of a very high standard. +One of the finest courses of the Coursera. The topic is interesting as to how certain release of chemical neurotransmitter is involved in day to day life factors . The experiments and scanning of the brain imaging techniques show how the brain responds in various factors like how a drug addicted brain differs from the normal brain in metabolism. Interesting +yeah i would give zero if possible. very shallow and general, cannot learn much from it. if u want a course about neuroscience there's way better course than this. what the hell emory? what hte hell coursera? i feel less and less sincerity in coursera's mooc these days. edx is doing a much better job in my perspective. +While providing some knowledge about drugs and drug-addiction, I would have preferred a more in-depth guide into the inner workings of the brain related to drugs. Nevertheless it served as a good introduction to addiction. +So simple, not enough informative. +I recently graduated with an MSW. I concentrated my course load on children and found addiction knowledge to be lacking upon graduation. Too many families are affected by addiction and in good conscience I couldn't work with children and their families without learning more. This was extremely helpful and the course gave me more passion and knowledge concerning children and addiction in terms of vulnerability, prevention, risk and protective factors. The instructor was wonderful, non-judgmental and very informative. I loved the neurobiology explanations as well. Thank you!!! +i love this course, becuase i have learned more then i really though i would in frist place.thankz ever soo much +This course is very helpful. I have kept learning this course and completed the quiz. It helps me understand the mechanism of the addiction, what is dopamine and how it works, the class of the illicit drugs, the animal self-administration model and what can I learn from the animal experiment, the vulnerability for addiction, and risk and protective factors of addiction, neuroimaging studies of addiction. Most of all, I have a better understanding of addiction. The pronunciation of the Professor is so clear and helps me to improve my English. Thanks very much. I enjoy it. +great course +Very interesting material presented in a clear manner. Great instruction and interesting substance. +If possible, I would give this course zero stars. It provides an incredibly closed minded view towards all topics and provides very minimal factual information. The makers of this course, and especially the instructor, obviously have had very little to no experience of any kind with most of the topics they discuss. +I found the course to be very informative. I volunteer in the Drug Courts and work with Homeless and Ex-felons, many of whom have substance abuse and co-occurring issues. The information in this class, will greatly help me in my work. +Excellent introductory course. It is very useful that it can be completed at the student's own pace. +I am very interested in this topic however I found the instructor's presentation to be so monotonic and slow paced that I dropped out. I am sure he knows his material cold and I am sure that he is much better "live" in class. The readings were appropriate and the course out line solid. However this is not his media. And I have done the "talking to the camera" thing and it can be deadly for presenters. It is not BTW an "age thing"; I am older than he, I am sure, and do not ask that presentations be entertaining - just that they be engaging. (Perhaps if Coursera had lecturers present in front of small groups, as "Great Courses" does? It is unfortunate that (as I understand it) Coursera doesn't offer a "free look" with the option to transfer one's fee to another course if unhappy. Hope this is constructive for both the lecturer and Coursera. +A fun, informative course with a lot of information about various addictions, the science thereof, and their impact on society. Highly recommended to all. +I learned a lot in this course. I thought the rat experiments were very interesting and revealing. +I was very enjoyed participating this course. +This course is very useful, practical and very easy to understand. It has really given me new insights into the disease of addiction. +Very informati +Excellently presented course. Very informative. Some really good recommended links to read along side the course context. Well thought out. +Maybe too easy... And too focused on the society more than on the brain itself. Enjoyed it though. +Excellent insight into how we become addicts. Encourages further research. +This course was extremely informative and easy to understand. I feel that +Very interesting +I found this course to be very enriching in understanding the physiological reasons why the person addicted acts and thinks in a peculiar way and also very enlightening as to why the relapse is so frequent in recovering addicts +This course is fundamental for understand or remember about drugs +Great course, very interesting and clear. I was drinking the talk (it is a french expression :-) ) +So easy to understand; taught with compassion and real understanding of addiction. +The instructor presented the material in a very clear and compassionate way. The spee +The content was great, the presentation was a bit dry, but I feel I got a lot out of this course. +An excellent course which covers the scientific and qualitative aspects of drugs addiction and physical dependency. +Fascinating course +Excellent course, very interesting and with a very good teching method. +Very informative. +Addiction is not only about smoking and alcohol and drugs, its way way beyond that and thanks to Dr. Michael Kuhar and the Emory university for revealing it to me. +It's an excellent course!!! I love the instructor's style. +Very informative course, well structure and easy to follow. +Well-structured and very factual. Also many resources made available for further learning. +well, since i got stocked with my university homework, i couldn't get the chance to finish this course as i was expecting to. but, definitely i would like to let you know that this has been an amazing journey for me, an ADHD who is obligated to be on ritalin so that the society gets comfortable around me. although it never made me feel better about myself, but it made people around me to stop complaining about my energy. after all, i am still an addict to this pill, but at the end, thanks to Emory University guys, i succeeded to know my body and what it goes through when i tend to not be ADHD. i have never got to reach the treatment parts, but at least i'm going to give a lecture on the side effects of ritalin in university.at the end, thanks, for letting us know. that was the best gift ever :) +As a career dieter who is constantly reading about causes of obesity, I can't say I learned anything too earth-shattering. However, the research discussed does support what I have learned from listening to the podcasts from the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. +Feels underwritten by the DEA, and aimed at perhaps high school students? Very slow pace; info could've been distilled into less than half the lectures (I completed the '7 weeks' in 3 days). Doesn't really distinguish between users without serious problems & addicts (which I believe amplifies gateway effects & experimentation once people meet users who aren't brain damaged or addicts). Creates an exaggerated and arbitrary distinction between prescribed drugs as all good and recreational as all bad, and dismisses any possible benefits of substances that are not legal, noting only that medical marijuana has been helpful for HIV patients, which is certainly an understatement. Components are also helpful for cancer patients, anxiety, and more. Perhaps break this into studies of common drugs, how they work, & effects and separately, the mechanisms of addiction and treatment. However, I appreciated the 'reduce harm' policy economics. +Interesting but really introductive +Fairly interesting course. I learned quite a bit I can say from taking this class. Some of the content seemed irrelevant. But overall a great course! +This course was beyond informative. I too have been exposed to those afflicted by addiction and am to deal with it on a daily basis with those whom are in life even now. The information taught in an "Easy To Learn" manner by Dr. Kuhar was incredible. I now understand the functioning of an "Addicts" brain much more thoroughly. I'm grateful this course was a presentation in which I was honored to be able to be a participant. +This is an excellent way of to understand, +The course gives you a new vision in several ways, some of them: the addictions are related to alterations in brain function given by neurotrasmamisores as is more chronic drug use in the brain damage is reflected in general. Another very important point policy to reduce the harm allows an opportunity for these people, not only reduces the social and personal costs, but overall health, so too for drug courts. And the work to avoid .estigma for people addicted.I was invited to read and study about it, and learn more. Thank you very much to all the team at Coursera, congratulations to Dr. Michel H. +excellent course.wanted more!!!!! +This is a very good introductory course on the various aspects of addiction. I wish they would introduce a second part with more comprehensive information. +Thank you for your great lectures! I really learned a lot from this course. :) +It is a short, but multidisciplinary course, that covers all the problematics about drug addiction. +Maybe because I am a med graduate already I expected much more from this course. It was ok, but my impression was always like there was too much of talking what important stuff is going to be discussed, but not really the facts themselves. I would rather learn more practical knowledge. Anyway I learnt some new things as well. +really good and practical course +This is a very interesting course. Some of the material is pretty difficult, but it is presented in a clear manner. I learned a lot from the professor. +A great and informative course. Very clear and interesting! I would have appreciated a bit more if it discussed more tips to help prevent/deal-with drug abuse or addiction. Thank you for the course! +Good course. But a little too easy for psychology majors. +An extreamly interesting and enlightening course. The instructor, professor Kuhar, is an incredible lecturer with very pleasurable voice and amicable attitude. The topics of drugs and addiction is discussed on many levels, from phisiology to societal changes. I would certainly recommend this course to anyone who wish to better understand the problem of addiction because of either personal reasons or academic interest. +Great course. I liked the deadline notification option. I also liked the opportunity to complete work at my own pace with the final deadline the end of the course. With my busy schedule, this option was wonderful and allowed me to complete all of the assignments for credit. +Very insightful, although some of the assignments were a bit easy. Perhaps we could have a discussion of the 'rat park' experiments and maybe even the possibility that some drugs can be used for recreational use? +Very interesting as lay person interested in topic. +Very good trip ! +Very interesting and comprehensive. Very helpful and exhaustive data, corroborated from various fields of knowledge. Thank you very much! +Excellent. I enjoyed the lectures, and the material was, for the most part, very enlightening and interesting. +Very interesting course +Really disappointing course. Content is shallow, despite the impressive credentials of the Professor. Quizzes are ridiculously easy. +A great insight into the addicted brain and what can be done about it all. A great broad introduction into drug addiction and the brain. +Thank you very much Professor for your excellent course... +So far, very educational , would appreciate if the videos would be little more discriptive +The individual course topics were evenly distributed and presented in a meticulous, thorough, as well as elaborate manner. The lecturer was inviting and encouraging, whereas the technical specifications of the video lectures and quizzes were exceptionally good. In overall, the ''Addicted Brain'' course positively predisposes me towards opting for more courses provided and sponsored by the Emory University. +Really enjoyed this course very informative +Highly rated course.A very good choice for youngs and seniors with addiction or not. Very important to prevent addictive trends and to help addicted people, because Dr Michael KUHAR explains very clearly and very simply with a choice of experiment and other examples, complex brain behaviors. Thank you to Emory University and to Coursera too. +Very easy and fun. Videos are fantastic. +I did this course last year, since I had psychological knowledge so it was not too hard to understand all the concepts. What really attracts me is the forum, I just tried to post my question about assignment at forum, then quickly got a reply from my peer, from then on, I started to participate on forum discussion and did learn a lot. So, come to join us! +Excellent course! Professor is enthusiastic about the subject and conveys this to the students. Great course for grappling with the issues created by addiction. +Short and very understandable lectures. Very interesting topic and the professor is very good and a master on this topic. No need for background on neuroscience since the professor explains everything very well. +Real interesting and useful course, but since it's not my major, though sometimes hard for me to understand some concept. Still quite good! Nice teacher! +A great course approaching many aspects of addiction, both behavioral studies as well neurosciences aspects. +Very good and intresting subject, well organized. +I found both the course content and the Professor very engaging and thorough. I appreciated the methodical manner the scientific content was provided and the visuals were absolutely key to helping me to completely grasp. +very useful & I enjoy it ! +Somewhat too simple, but still a good basic introduction. +Very informative. Thoroughly enjoyed both the class and the teacher. +Fantastic review of the brain and the effects of harmful substances. Thank you. +Briefly introduce some concepts of the drug use and some in neuroscience, a good introduction course. +As a trainee lawyer I found this course quite good and helpful.In Portugal we have a lot of drug issues. Knowing how drug addiction works in the human brain might be helpful, especially on court, where some individuals are convicted for drug issues when, sometimes, it's not only their choice.Thank you for the course. I hope there are more courses available for this kind of issues. +Not very informative, and too simple. Also, there is way too much repeating +Very interesting +Great course. It could have been a little more dense with technical information, but it was excellent for a broad overview of the topic. +Very informative and down-to-earth. Accessible by academic types and ordinary folks. +Very good introduction to why people become addicts. Key points are learnt are our brains are wired to be addicted, addiction is a brain disease and needs to be seen and treated as such and that coffee which i drink everyday is a drug! +I like very much this class, I've learned a lot, and is very usefull for my career! Thanks +I am absolutely loving this course. The lecturer is extremely thorough in his explanations. Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity. 😊 +Learnt a lot ! +Interesting and mind-opening course. Enjoying it! +Well designed course. I have a couple of close family members who are addicts...pills and gambling. I highly recommend this class. The professor is excellent and I've benefited from his lectures. +I enjoyed the material and flow of topics presented. I did have some trouble getting a few of the videos to load in the module on Neurotransmission (week 5), which was unfortunate. Very interesting, thanks! +I learned some important concepts, but all of the material was repeated many times. If the redundancy of information were eliminated, imagine how much more students of this course could learn! +Very well presented and incredibly interesting +It was informative but felt that the instructor was somehow too confident of his position, though he did give lip service to other positions. I am not sure why this bothered me, since I agree with the importance of being compassionate and the misguidedness of a punitive stance towards addiction. And in fact, it has nothing to do with the course. I would also have enjoyed seeing more and/or more detailed case studies. +The course gives a very comprehensive overview of what drugs are and how it affects the brain, as well as practical advice for person and government. It addresses the issue in a scientific but simple way, that makes people really understand what we are dealing with, especially with the concept of comorbidity. +Excellent. Great -- and timely information. Nicely done. +Very clear and organized materials. +Enjoyed every minute. Very educative. Thank you. +Exciting. It is clear and informative. +amazing and easy to learn and really really great teacher +I will rated number 3 because I want to learn more new stuff about protections of my body. +Interesting to say the leastWhy cant i access my certificate. I paid and successfully passed +Very good teacher! +This is a useful basic refresher course for anyone who works or volunteers in the substance abuse field. I wanted to know the latest brain research and get an update on the various drug categories. +Very comprehensive on all aspects on drug addiction, though a bit too difficult for those without any medical or biological background knowledge. More animations / diagrams for illustration would make the course better. +Great course into the physiological aspects of addiction and brain psychology. Please have expand the course. +Excellent and interesting course on a very important topic. Very professional production and high quality lectures. It was quite easy, apart from the brain chemistry sections. +Great contribution to healthy humanity. +Excellent!!! Very clear! +i love the addicted brain course it teachs you so many cool things about drugs,neurotransmitters,how then drugs affect the body. +Very informative but very dry presentations. +this is an amazing course and there is a lot to learn. the course director took his time to explain things for even a layman to understant. Perfect course with perfect lectures. I loved every aspect of it. +The lecturer explains the facts really good and determined! as someone who English is her second language it is really easy to understand the material. +Awsome course +The course content has rigor and the learning is great!! Thanks +Not bad, some tests are too difficult, specially to understand the right questions. Materials are good but some details make the expereince not so good. However, overall is a good course! +Excellent course - If you want to internalise and understand course content and tools, it requires more time than estimate written in course outline. +I am a working professional in the field of data analytics where in Tableau is one of the application we use it on a daily basis. My motive for taking this course is to learn some more innovative techniques that are used by professionals in tableau but the fact was there is nothing new for me to learn here in terms of techniques. I would say this course suits best for a beginner but not for someone who already has some lineage with tableau.Pros:1. Hourglass model is one of the things I liked the most.2. Final project submission is really challenging and which help me to learn lot of new things.Cons:1. Weekly tests are very lengthy2. Every once can get 100% not a big deal by trial and error3. Most of the questions in the weekly course are very subjective and cannot have a single correct answer. We had to retake the test again and again to get 100% due to subjective questionsHowever this course has definitely changed my way of looking into data and the way we decipher it. I am looking forward to continue and take more coursers to be a the part of this esteemed analytics community. +Excellent Explanation. Flow of teaching is very clear. +Excellent introductory course of Tableau !! +Very Resourceful. +The more complex functions in Tableau could be explained better. +Good Course for Introductory Tableau Visualization. +Really interesting even if a little complex at times +Good course for basic learning Tableau +Great class that gives you not just an intro to Tableau but takes you through to becoming an intermediate level user! I highly recommend it if this is the field you're looking to enter or the skill you want to add to your resume +It is a good start for us to learn Tableau. But I think the video instruction is not so clear. +excellent content and final assessment giving a nice funny challenge, well done to the team! +I just think that there could be more assistance with respect to the practice exercises :) otherwise the lectures by Jana were absolutely terrific :) +The instructor has masterfully convey the materials and carefully craft the course materials, hence the course is both easy to follow and enjoyable. The content are also very relevant to practical industry use. +Great Learning Experience +BEST COURSE FOR ANALYTICS PERSON. +Not enough Tableau use for it to be in the title of the course +The Best Course!, Thanks Coursera & Duke University +The best course! +An intense course but you will be confident in Tableau than ever before once you complete..The professor has made the course as interesting and knowledge rich as she can!! +Great course with lots of practical advices and tips for how to carry a visualization analytic project from beginning to end! +Very good and level of difficulty is just right. +It was really good course designed for professionals as well as associative with academy. Jana has really presented everything well. Also, thanks to coursera for providing me this course. +It is a nice course, practical, recommendable. A little bit demanding. Because the dedicated time is upper than theorical time. Good cases. Congratulations! +Great course!! +great class, i learned a lot +good course for tableau and effective communication. +Very interesting course! Its very helpful if you need to grab, analyse and visualize your data. Thanks! +Great experience. Really fun and exciting to work with real data and trying to solve a real business problem. The teacher was really clear in her presentantions and you can cleary see the effort she and the whole team made in the creation of this course. This was my favorite, and probably the harder course I had take on Coursera. +Tableau course is very worth learning because the Tableau's visualisation method is quite different from Excel. The final project is time and effort demanding but it is a wonderful chance to utilise what you have learned during the course. One thing I didn't not enjoying about this course is the forum is not quite organised and there is a few support/ response from the instructor/ mentors like the other online classes. +Very steep learning curve switching from the videos and lectures to the final assignment. But enjoyed the challenge. Relevant links to learn specific topics on the tool would have been helpful. Interesting data sets to work with (Salary & Dognition) and challenging problem statement. If the intention is to learn Tableau as a tool then I would not recommend this course. Part of my expectation was this also, hence only 4 stars. +This is one of the best courses i have taken ever. +Both Challenging & rewarding, taught me basics of Tableau, viz and comms. +So far it has been brilliant. So lucid! +Unprecedented high speaking speed. +This is a pretty basic introduction to Tableau, but the skills introduced here are exactly what you need to get started. I +This is one of the best courses I have ever taken. It is fun and yet, it is very detailed and, yes, it takes a bit more than 2-3 hours per week.You will learn much more than using Tableau. You will learn to ask the right questions and you will also learn how to present your data analytics results to the C-suite or whoever asked for it.I highly recommend this to anyone, beginners and experienced business / data analysts. +There needs to be more help available, at least for paying students, to answer questions and clear misunderstanding. The quizzes are taking too much time. +I learned a lot from this course. I may even be able to get a tableau certification as a result! +The instructor is very informative, and the course material is just excellent! +Great course! This course is not just teaching you how to operate with Tableau. It's more important that you can learn how to link your data with your business problem and help people to make better decision. +perfect course for a beginner to get acquainted with tableau tool. +well designed and impressive courses! I learn a lot about Tableau technique and the whole process of data analysis, including preparing the data analysis process with scientific guidance, making persuasive illustration and giving a high quality presentation!! I have learned a lot! +Very comprehensive and clear content delivery. Usable and helpful learning tools +Excellent Course!!! Enjoy the learning experience!!! Highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn Tableau. Good Luck. +Great introduction and lessons regarding Tableau. +awesome tool, teaches you how to think like a data scientist +Good course +Excellent course, well presentedGood JobLuca +I really enjoy this Course the Explanations and Utilization of Tableau are the best, I really recomend this to anyone interest in Data Analysis or that need to work with a lot of data in their daily activities. +Very good course! Open you mind for fast a appealing visualisation of data and turning it into insights. +I will start with you do learn a lot from the videos (and the stuff you learn is very valuable), it's the absence of staff or professor involvement that is a problem and why I am not giving 5 stars. Outside of quizzes which are graded by computers, your "practice" assignments (which aren't practice because you can't check your answers before a test, super awesome when you can't really ask for help), final project and forum questions are graded or answered by other students.If you have any confusion, either it will go unresolved or be worsened by potentially wrong answers from other students which I saw happen many, many times. Maybe I am expecting too much from an online learning platform? In all, I feel like while I did learn, I perhaps learned some wrong practices too. So while the videos are great, the actual teacher involvement is poor.Coursera - I am not sure how you and the university work together, but is it totally strange to desire some input from your professor? +A great course from Business Analytics point of view. +Best course of the specialization so far, you can tell the instructor specializes in engaging presentations. I felt like I was never lost, but always challenged. +Great course and extremely helpful professor! Love it! +The videos are great! Much less math-heavy than the Excel Course in this series, so it was a nice break. +Excellent course! The videos are easy to follow along, and Dr. Borg is great at explaining the material. Also, it was fun to learn how to use Tableau, and develop a thorough understanding of the program. Highly recommend this course if you are interested in data analytics, data visualization, and/or business presentations. +Great course! +Great Course highly recommended! +The course was well built-up, the presentations were extremely clear and there was a great combination between listening and actual examples that you had to do yourself. +Awesome course. Easy to understand and useful tools. Thank you so much for providing me this course! :) +Thanks very much for great content and especially, Ms. Jana Schaich Borg for brilliant presentation skills, lovely voice and good looking as well. Please participate. This is highly recommend course. +very useful, especially the final project. I do learn a lot from this course. +I enjoyed learning this course. It's not only fun but also gives very detailed tutorial by using Tableau. This course gives me a practical learning experience and business orientated way of thinking by utilizing the Data Visualization. +The flow and presentation was very engaging. This will give you a relatively basic overview of tableau with mention of higher functionality. "Poking the box" is going to be a lot easier having taken this course. +Interesting and useful so far +Very good course +Loved the Tableau section and the instructor is a good communicator. It'd be great to have a whole course about this BI Software +This is an excellent course. You are given a six month license to use Tableau as well as practice data for the assignments and exercises. It is very practical and informative. It covers more than just Tableau. The first week is about framing data questions and working with stakeholders. The second and third week cover Tableau. The last week gives some very helpful tips for giving effective presentations. The final assessment will go over all of these things, so be prepared to put them to use if you want the final certificate. +You will be impress about how this course . Yo will enjoy high level of Educational Material . +Absolutely outstanding course. It stretched me - late nights grappling with the data, learning Tableau, recording a blooper-free presentation. So many takes!But this course was not just about Tableau; it was about clarifying goals, planning before diving into the data, putting yourself in the shoes of the client and good presentation principles. Great practical exercise at the end - make sure you put aside plenty of time for this. +Could've learnt this on youtube - really not very good. Dr. Egger's courses are rigorous and full of math. This is just a bunch of pretty pictures. Shouldn't be included in this specialization. +very useful in terms of providing an intro to Tableau and how to use the application +it was an awesome course. One of the best I attended from Coursera. +Best course from Duke's data analysis specialisation. Hands-on experience and real data to work with. +Prof. Jana S. Borg is the simply the best! Every lecture material (videos/exercises/final project) is carefully crafted to optimize student's learning experience. She's made the learning fun and that's not easy to do!Now, let's talk about the reason why I didn't give this course a full 5-star rating.... It's the students! As you might already know, this class requires us to put together a 5-minute screencast video that will demonstrate our understanding in 1) Tableau, 2) Business Analytics and 3) Presentation skills. Unfortunately, most of the students only care about the first one while blatantly ignoring the other two. And that makes the grading process a pain in the..errr.... you know what!Another important reminder. Be sure to submit the final project days before the deadline. Otherwise, you might be at risk of not getting graded by 3 other students! On the forum, a student claimed that she was forced to join this session because she couldn't get 3 peers to grade her project TWO SESSIONS ago! The horror! +It is a great course to understand how to use Tableau. Learning through this, I could utilize Tableau for real business case my company is facing to. +Great course with strong material on how to create an excellent presentation and use Tableau. +I loved this course. The lecture videos taught me a lot and I was happy I got to use whatever I learned in the final project. The only reason why I'm giving three stars was because of the submission process for the final project. It gave me a headache because I didn't really understand how to submit to Tableau public. I tried following the instructions but I couldn't find some things so it confused me a bit. It caused me to submit my assignment late, and it was just not a pleasant process. Maybe upload new instructions with screenshots, or make another lecture video on how to submit. +I have given an extra star for the free license software received.Didn't find the course as challenging as the Machine Learning course.The assignments need to be more challenging. Connecting to SQlite / GA Analytics dummy data can be added. Tableau with R session can be incorporated. +A very good broad introduction to Tableau. +I think it is excellent that you start the course with understanding the business value and stakeholders for analyzing the data. +Very nice and eye-opening class. Jena presented very well. I have learnt a lot from this class. Thank you Jena! +Nice alternative to Tableau's webinars. While not necessary for certification, handy for real world application. +The instructor provided a data set from an actual business to use in the Tableau analysis. I felt that the videos and supplemental information provided valuable instruction on data analysis in the Tableau software and the communication of the results. This was a great class. +Love Tableau. Very challenging class, but if you make it you will know how to use Tableau. +There's a lot of great information in this course and it's presented in a very good way. However, like the excel course in this specialization, most of the material isn't about using Tableau. 1 week is about running a project, 2 weeks are about using Tableau, and the final 2 weeks are about presentation. If you're interest isn't mainly in Tableau, I would recommend the course. However, if you're taking this course to learn Tableau, I would suggest not paying for it. +The course was marvelous. It helped me a lot in the Tableau learning process and improved my graphic communication abillities. +I have loved this course and the videos have been amazing. This course has been fantastic for getting a foundation in understanding data analysis and the use of Tableau! +This is a great course! Just what I need! Thank you Jana! +Well-written exercises that really force you to get it. Plus you get a 6-month license so you can keep playing around with Tableau once you've finished the course. +Amazing course with good start up +Great course that is applicable to ALL professions and is especially important to young professionals that are looking for a leg up in the work-place. +Excellent course, well presented.Very useful tips which I will probably return to later in my career. +Excellent course! The instructor is very clear and to the point. The exercises are challenging, fun and require a little bit of digging in that just takes the learning to a whole new level. A very rewarding experience. +Very interesting and interactive course. +I found the class very easy to follow, yet informative and truly helpful. +Great course!Very well organized, and worked in a format where you would build as you learned and had several milestones for review.The one complaint I have is that the final asks for you to work in Tableau, and provides you a license for 15 days, although the course runs longer than that. +Great class. Clear layout. Learned a lot. +Great course! Very useful and given by an excellent professor! I love Tableau! Made my work easier and better looking. +Very helpful content with easy-to-understand explanations that I can follow along. Jana is also engaging instructor. Tableau Desktop key provided is huge help as well. +Great class +Well design but no help from mentor site +Very good. The teacher is awesome! +Best course I have taken in Coursera until now, entertaining, all-rounded and containing interesting and highly relevant lessons-- I feel like a Tableau power user already :) +Excellent class to learn to visualize data using Tableau, I feel a lot more confident about using Tableau and its features. The final exam project was excellent. On a constructive note-- I wish they had a couple more videos or Pdf guides to format a presentation.Well done Instructors +One of the best courses on Coursera: the content covers not just the usage of Tableau but also the objectives heading into using Tableau as well as the presentation of the results one gets from Tableau. Most of all, it is evident that the trainers know their stuff and had a lot of fun putting this together! +very useful! +This course may be misleading aspiring data analysts and scientists: it may give the false impression that, with the tools learned here, you will be able to analyze your data by yourself. In fact, you would be completely missing on large chapters of statistics and, as a result, you would often end up drawing wrong conclusions and believe you did a great job. For example, what is the point of giving you a single 10-minutes video on how to do regression in Tableau if you don't even know regression (which is AT LEAST a one-term course in graduate school, and only after several other prior basic stats courses)? BEWARE: get a much larger background in statistics before applying anything you learn here in real life. Some minimal stats knowledge should be recommended as a pre-requisite for this course, or else you end up doing like those monkeys using a statistical software without really understanding what they are doing and drawing conclusions with blissful ignorance. The problem is: some of your audience will know and will notice, more often than you might think and you will end up looking like an idiot.Sorry to be negative here, but I think I owe you, my co-student, at least a warning: do learn more stats elsewhere!! ... good luck. +really good one.... best course on visualization. +That was a very useful and interesting class! Presenter did a great job, and her materials were very use helpful and relevant! +Its a good course, but I feel too much details in week 3 course content. +Excellent. Very interesting and useful for my job. +Awesome course and best instructor. +Its Been a great course. +Awesome course! +It is a great course. The examples show the Tableau possibilities in an easy way. +Love the instructor giving tips on how to make compelling presentations in addition to teaching technical aspect of Tableau. +Good course and very nice demonstrations on Tableau. +Interesting +Excellent course. Love the content and the delivery. Also, the project is super cute! +This is an excellent class that covers basic data analysis and visualization with Tableau, but more importantly covers how to approach data analysis and how to present the results of a data analysis to a business audience (i.e., management executives). I would recommend this class for anybody starting in this space, or anybody who feels that their analysis is not coming through to decision-makers in their organization. +great introduction to using Tableau (if you're like me and never used it). Jana gives an excellent lecture (never boring or mono-toned). +Thanks a lot, Jana Borg! One of the most interesting and useful courses. +The course explains basics of using Tableau as on approach for data visualization very well. I particularly liked this course for teaching me the basic presentation skills and expressing them through tableau. The final project allows you to showcase the learnt skills. Thanks everyone !!! +Excellent courseThank you Jana and Duke team +Well organized, taught and presented. Thank you! +Great for those starting out getting their hands wet with a FREE copy of Tableau! +Fantastic course. Clear, insightful instruction. No prior experience with Tableau needed. Not only is the software taught, but topics like how to address a business analysis problem in a logical manner are addressed as well. +Well made course!Thank you +Relevant introduction to get productive with Tableau quickly. Clear examples with the ability to apply immediately with a temporary student license to Tableau. +I loved this course! Amazing! +Jana Schaich Borg takes extra care to provide and share knowledge and methodology that is useful to any person who is keen on data analyst role to be competent in data exploration, analysis and presentation using Tableau data visualisation tool.I have learned and benefited greatly from such course. +Very useful and entertaining +Very engaging course. Great introduction to Tableau and general presentation tips. Real application of data analysis and Tableau with a real data set and problem needing recommendations +Really polished videos, really thorough explanations of how to do everything, really great overview of different functionalities that gave us a good balance of breadth and depth. Fantastic course. +Awesome class - very well organized, great examples, challenging assignments, and includes interviews with real data analysts and data scientists! Got me hooked on Tableau and am now working on implementing it at work. +One of the best courses I've gone through. Excellent presentation skills by the trainer and great practical tips to present effectively. Learnt a lot about Tableau through this course. Thanks! +Tableau is garbage and their assignment practice questions don't work +Very well structured and easy to follow. Very nice teacher +The material is very interesting with well-made videos. Great course to get an introduction to Tableau.The downside for me was that some videos were rushed with as they had too much content, and quizzes could be much better, I found the questions not really up-to-par with the course content. +Amazing course, teaches a well rounded experience with Tableau and considerations for data visualization. Great professors! +Excellent Course!The Quiz is quite challenging but really useful. All the exercises are well designed to guid you step by step to not only learn tableau software but also form an intuition of analyze real business data.I indeed recommend you fellows taking this course! It will be beneficial. +Great +It's is easy and precise anybody can learn quickly with some basic knowledge about computers. Thanks Jana for your efforts. +Quite helpful +I really enjoyed the lectures. The introduction to Tableau was broad enough to get a feel for possibilities and gave plenty of resources to further look for guidance as needed. In addition, the focus was not just on the technical tool but relaying the differences in visualization for analysis and visualization for persuasion. I enjoyed her lecturing and felt like the visual science and very specific actionable takeaways were good. +I have being using Tableau for the last 5 months. Though I could consider myself strong in visualization, it is clear after taking the first two weeks of this course that I was utterly poor in analysis. Thank you for this powerful course. Whether you are familiar with Tableau or not, this is a course worthy all your time. +Awesome course! +Good explanation ! +Awesome! I love how Ms. Jana keeps you pepped up and makes the learning interesting. Thank you! +Really great course! Very well organized, material is engaging and really well presented.Covers everything you need to know to get started with Tableau (hands on!). If you already work with Tableau, will be quite easy for you to complete the course, but you may still learn a few cool tricks from Jana.I also really liked the first week of the course where Jana went over the general concepts of being a good data analyst. They aren't shocking or extremely eye opening, but nonetheless it is very important to truly understand. I found it interesting the way she presented them.Great job with the course! Most engaging course I personally tried on Coursera so far :) +excellent choice of visualization software. would have loved if more of the functions were explored +simply amazing , accessible and complete +Very complete +Very well thought and structured. +Such a cool Program. I've immediately used it in my place of work. +Great training using a terrific dataset. Learned some best practices and frameworks too. +One of, if not the best MOOC I have taken +The video presentation at the end isn't what I would expect/want from an online course. I stopped short of the final project, but the course was otherwise useful. +Great class! +The course content is itself interesting but the lack of active mentors to provide guidance makes the course really difficult to learn. So many unanswered questions on the discussion board and many confused students. I am so glad I am not paying for this course. +Useful Tableau tips and visualization recommendations.Instructor videos are accelerated most of the time so the speech sounds unnatural and sometimes difficult to understand. +Immediately applicable to the workplace. The learn at your own pace style is great for those with more rigid work schedules, and the lectures are a fantastic resource. I wholeheartedly recommend this course! +very nice course especially week 1 is amazing +intense but great learning +Very good teachers/instructors. +There is a gap between the instruction level and the difficulty of quizzes and final projects. +Interesting, loved the teacher. +interesting lectures, real project using the tools presented in the course, and you get all the basic functions of Tableau for granted! good job! +Incredibly content packed course. The best one of this series. +Good brush on Tableau. Great that the course included a 6 mo license to Tableau Desktop!However while more complex topics where touched, they were rushed also. An extra week or two at the more advanced stuff would've been beneficial. Some of the quizzes also were a bit silly and focusing on minor things. +Exciting course. +Nice course if anyone wants to learn Tableau. Practise exercises & Quizes are relevant. It would be nice if solutions are provided for both the practise excersies and the quizes. +Really useful class +good introduction course for this tool. +Very well taught course about using Tableau, providing tableau license for the Specialization (6 months). The lectures are well executed, concepts well explained and referenced materials provided. The most fun part are the assignments using real world datasets by Dognition. The course introduced me to very interesting visualization tool used in Data analytics. I enjoyed this course and took a great deal out of it. +Great course, very comprehensive but in the other hand challenging to keep you engaged in learning and self discover about your "real" data samples.I'll continue with the specialization, thanks Duke University. +Good class but could do with a bit more explanation of the Tableau features +Not perfect, but overall pretty good. No support from instructor or teaching assistants in the course forums. +Really liked the course. Very well designed and carried away. The only thing I wasn't too happy was the final project as the data was not easy to understand. As a beginner when we have to focus more on Tableau related features, I ended up spending more time understanding the data which didn't really help me. Otherwise, it was a good course. Surely, it put me on a fast track for Tableau. +Good syllabus and challenging assignments with real data. Great lecturer too. +Teaches the basics of Tableau along with the business concepts. A perfect way to pick up new skills. +Outstanding Course! +Good course +On extraordinary course that introduce you to effective communication with a powerful tool such as Tableau. +Excellent! The instructor did a great job! +The videos are very clear and easy to grasp knowledge. Way much better than data analysis with excel course. +Great course. The course material is very useful in helping you understand the use of tableau and best practices used for visualizations. +Great introduction to Data Visualization! +A great course that brings real life scenarios and applications to determine the use in Tableau in the industry. +Awesome course for those who wish to learn Tableau. Real-life project / dataset , in-depth exercises and a free 6-month license for Tableau desktop makes it extremely easy to practice, play and get expertise with both data analysis and Tableau software. The tips and resources for giving great presentations are like icing on the cake!i've taken 10+ classes on Coursera and this is definitely one of the best!Thank you Duke univ and coursera! :) +Good videos well presented. Good intro into data viz and Tableau +I would simply recommend this course for anyone who wants to become a Great Business Analyst. Simply sequential and All-Interesting... +brilliant! Thank you! +Just starting week 3 and I've already learned a ton about approaching data visualizations while leveraging Tableau. This course does an excellent job of demystifying the beautiful and powerful tool that is Tableau. Even after only a week or so of playing around on Tableau I feel fairly comfortable in using it in my own work. +Great course. Very informative. I am a marine biologist, but we also struggle with the same type of problems in properly presenting our data in effective and engaging ways. This course is very helpful in giving ideas on how to do this better. I also introduced me to new software in Tableau which is pretty impressive. But it is yet another program to try and learn which may be a deterrent to some. +Professor is engaging and I am happy there are so many video lectures, it is really nice and you feel you are genuinely progressing. Quizzes are very tough though and this course requires a lot of dedication and some frequent repeats of the videos to understand the material. +Excellent Course. Great learning +Nice class! Even though I got a ms degree in stat, I still enjoy it. The first week is important when you apply data analysis in the real world. And you can learn to build those fabulous tables in tableau in the following weeks. Great class! +Nice course..good example and hand on assignments. +Great course, helped me to move from a basic user to intermediate in Tableau +This course is engaging and full of great resources. Everything taught in the course can be applied to positively impact your ability to tell compelling stories with data. +Good content! Thoughtful insight on approaching problem solving in data analysis world. +wonderful design of content, good business examples. +Very interesting and very useful course ;-) +Wonderful class +This course is very helpful for me. Thanks Professor so much ! +I have moved from zero to building my first App for operations in my office just after week one. I advice that you go through the labs. It will cement your understanding and bring all to practical and implementation terms. Good luck. +thank you +Online grader for labs is terribly buggy. Attempted submitting labs several occasions - all fail. Local builds work fine with apps working as expected and tests pass. The online builder gives very little feedback other than "BuidError". £40 wasted. Will not recommend and will never fall for it again. AVOID! +It's a good course by the standards of when it was made which, going by the overview, looks like 2014. the lectures are based on eclipse while the video teaches how to install android studio. Some of the examples are not compatible with Android studio and work only on eclipse. Being updated with the more recent material would've helped more. Having said that, the teaching style is really conducive to learning for newbies. It's a good introduction to the world of Android development. +i liked the materiel that was discussed in this course. really good !! +I learnt a lot in this class. It was always something I wanted to accomplish. I learnt that you must have a lot of memory and hard drive space on your PC to run the emulator I also think that the new studio, Android Studio is better than Eclipse. I loved the forums because they solved most of the problems I had. I would like the instructors and mentors to answer questions in a timely manner. +Good Course +Well done for newcomers +the course is a bit outdated and I am finding it hard to stay motivated knowing there are other more recent courses. The topics I think are still relevant but the tools are not. I am looking for courses where there is hands on development that you follow with the instructor and I did not find this here. +Good introduction to Android programming. +Excellent course, excellent teacher. Enjoyed the course. +It's a great course, really is, but there are some weeks (4th week for instance) with a overwhelming amount of content, leaving few hours to study and even fewer to conclude the exercises. +Outdated and unsupported !The code for the exercises was made for Eclipse ADT and Google dropped support for Eclipse a while ago. The official IDE for Android development is Android Studio now.I could import the project for Lab1 but I'm unable to compile the tests and the program with Android Studio, I get a ton of errors. My post in the forums about this is unanswered for 3 days now. +Very nice and well organised. Enjoyed a lot. Thanks a lot. Very Helpful. +I thought the Week 4 was a bit rushed and some content could be divided into two or more videos. The Labs were really stressful (yet valuable) and the pacing changed dramatically comparing to the three first weeks. Other than that, everything was great and I learned a lot. Cheers Mr. Porter! +Cool +Easy to follow, good beginners' Android course without wasting time explaining how to add 2+2. +Very high quality content and very challenging exercises. +Great course, but it requires personal work to keep the pace, especially for person who are not familiar with Java development. But while challenging it is d +Excellent content as an introduction to Android programming. The videos are paced nicely. Assignments are designed well. +Thank you very much , good course , i have learnt alot of things about Android programming . +Very informative, concise course. Without prior experience in adroid I have learned a lot about android itself and android programming. +Good course that goes over the material +Very good course of basics of Android Development! Thanks a lot! +good introcreating interest to learn +Very good and interesting course for beginning programming Mobile Applications. +Great course! Good refresher on Java. +Thank you for the course, simply and effectively! +This course was great for me. I was looking for a refresher course since I had some Android experience, but due to different career path I have not used in about 4 years. It was good for me. +Very good course! Easy to understand and practice for new bie who beginer with Android development +it is very well. +Very good and easy to understand course for Android beginners. +Makes you find a solution by thinking, not just copying course materials. +must for everyone who ever wants to learn android in great depth +Very good course. Very helpful. +Moves too fast though +Very useful introduction of android fundamentals!!! +That´s great! +Learnt a lot! Very challenging and hands-on course for students with passion :)Taught with lots of examples, and equips you with a lot of resources for future use. +I really enjoyed this course and found it very enjoyable. The content itself is a bit old but still perfectly relevant. Looking forward to Part 2. +Great course, extremely useful material and on point. +A basic course but not for the ones who don't know anything about java or android. Not made for the beginners. Also the submitting projects work is complicated and should be made more easier.Not recommended for the starter. +In depth, but very well explained, leaving very little uncertainty. Great course, explaining the basics needed to build a solid app with (some) previous java experience! +I like this programme its very helpful and encouraging for me to do programming +Easy to understand and the course is very well made. +Very nice content and very well explained. Examples are good too. +A great course to take because the useful and simple explanations made by prof. Porter. The course gives us the first steps to be android developers in a fun an simple way. Excellent Course. +Nice chose to start an Android developing life.The class is very logical and interesting. All the home works are easy to finish .I am in the part 2 of this class now. +Very good Course +Very good course. +Outstanding course! +I give 4 stars instead 5 just because the last assignments, building an app from scratch, should me more interesting and useful +Well structuring matherial. +I found this course to be very helpful. As someone who has used graphical frameworks in the past, I found the course's pace to be just right. Ideas were explained thoroughly, from the ground up, without getting bogged down. +You can really learn a lot from this course. Do give some effort on the labs, and try to understand the way the instructors want you to complete the tasks. It may be a better way to do it.Then, go on to part 2! +I found this course lacking in providing sufficient coverage of the basics in the course videos and lacking a useful and directed reading list. I spent far too much time researching command syntax and using try and error to find what worked with the provided code.Disappointing as topics covered are good. +Very Nice Course +very good content. +Very fast pace with no support. Be prepared to make countless online searches or to discuss solely with peers. Many drop out by the end of the course. Final Project is far too difficult for this course, because it did not prepare me at all. If you want to learn Android programming, I suggest you look elsewhere. +A concise and informative introduction to Android. Had fun learning this course. :) +Great Course..! but include 10000 of practice test like 3 hour of practice tests because test will prepare you and define what is your level , include job focus to get job , include hackathons .Include direct apply to companies from this course. +I was very excited during Week 1 and Week 2 lectures. Then, the videos kept getting unclear and outdated. The assignment is not engaging. My interest dropped. The videos really need updates! +Very Good Course. +Probably the best and most useful Coursera MOOC on Android +Overall I think the course was good. This course requires you to do a lot of self study and research on every single topic. It only covers the very basic and core topics. I would have liked it to have more hands on or practical examples. +Excellent but a little bit intense and high-required course! Like it! +Awesome course..should take! +Very good material, very good professor! +I was disappointed in the lack of explanation for the tools. Since everything depends on the IDE, and there was no instruction about the IDE, I found it difficult to do the labs. In the course of trying to, the IDE somehow managed to corrupt my hard drive. After that I pretty much lost interest in the course. +A nice course for everyone who wants to start programming Android. +I joined this course and after two weeks I fell behind because of my final college exam and again I re join this course. This course is superb course. After join this you will no need to go any institution for android course. Thanks University of Maryland and Professor. +One of the most valuable an interesting courses I have ever joined.The contents are precise and accurate.It forces students to practice what they learned in an effective way.It's very clear from the beginning to whom this course if for. In other words, it does not claim that it target all users just to gain popularity.Objectives are very clear and honest.In conclusion, for those who meet the course requirements and search for what this course is teaching, this course is AWESOME. +very nicely explian +What a wonderful course. It gives each of us a way to help in the best possible manner. One would think that only serious philanthropists can help when in fact every single person can. +The course is very good. +Thought provoking and persuasive, this course is both an excellent introduction to the study of ethics and to the growing movement striving for a better world - effective altruism. +Fairly well presented in that different points of view on the questions were put forward. I found it interesting and informative to learn how better to choose compare and charities.Unfortunately there seems to be a dominate premise. That is this course insists one must give up the maximum part of ones income to 'charities' who will do the job to help others for you. In this I disagree and have not changed fundamentally in my perception.Having said that, one does come away with more motivation to think about and to act more altruistically as the occasions present themselves. +Well balanced approach that invites multiple perspectives on ultruism. I would have liked to see the objections against ultruism of Ayn Rand being addressed in the course but I suppose it is difficult to give a course that addresses all aspects of a given topic. But Ayn Rand had a definite contradictory viewpoint and it would have enhanced the class tremendously if it had been considered. +Solid course, makes the case both for acting ethically, and for rationally choosing how to carry out those ethical activities. I had heard most of these arguments before and was already convinced by them; but if you are looking to figure out how to do more good with your life, it is a good course. +very complex, super challenging and helpful +While this course is interesting and informative, I was hoping that there would be a larger portion dedicated to jobs, industries, and ideas that help make the world a better place. I was hoping that by the end of this course, I would have learned about many more options on how to act now, today, as opposed to such a strong emphasis on the origin and meaning of ethics. +Audited the course. Found the information quite useful. In the quest to live an evermore ethical life, Peter Singer helps to bring light to the issues at hand in an accessible way. +Professor Singer does a wonderful job of bringing in lauded philanthropists to help make this course a reality. My only qualm was with my expectation of a greater philosophical aspect to the course: he does spend some time on Kant and Hume's ethical dichotomy which was wonderful though. +A nice introduction, but having already been acquainted with the material somewhat, it came of as a bit stale. Some of the bits on moral theories at the beginning were new and informative, and the interviews were interesting regardless. +A super detailed and informative course on EA! +Very interesting course, very interesting discussions. There's a lot to think about what is the best way to help others. Singer is very clear and I share most of his ideas. +Having an essay as a final assignment was great! +I love the theory in this course. +I love it! +Thought provoking, were well orchestrated, I am learning, and I am moved, and I think we are all moved towards making the world a better place. +Life changing +This course is amazing, more than I expected, you can relate it with everything, no matter your career, it´s effective +Very strong concept, to take and employ in your day to day life. I found it very vital for not for profit work.However, substantial philosophy knowledge is needed in order to really absorb and follow the argument. +Yet another good course that is ruined by a peer review requirement. Dr. Singer is a fascinating person to learn from and I am glad I took the time to pursue the course. +For me it was a fantastic course. This is exactly that time in my life when I'm alwasy thinking about what I should work and how can I help as much as I can. This course helped me a lot and I recived a lot of good ideas for my essay and for my life also. +Great material, even better teacher! +great array of speakers augmenting the course materiel +Thank you for this inspiring course that gives a great introduction into ethics and altruism !!! +A very interesting course to understand the relationship between ethics and the current problems. +Very well done. I would have liked it if there were more assignments. +No passion is on his lecture. There is only dryness and ethical superior pride through his theory.. Altruism without love is an empty vanity and well-designed commercial intention for selling his theory. +I could listen to Professor Singer all day. He draws you in, gets you involved and leaves you wanting more. One can actually see the high regard that his guest speakers have for him and his guests are always interesting and sometimes even fascinating. +The course was well done and included interesting guest speakers. However, I was not keen on the format and am not likely to sign up again for a course where the Coursera student is like a voyeur into the professor's actual classroom. In this case, we were privy to his lectures at Princeton and the camera frequently panned the classroom full of students. I have taken many Coursera classes and all were directed at the Coursera student specifically. I appreciated that. And I also appreciated Peter Singer allowing us into his Princeton classroom. I realize what an incredible opportunity he gave us through Coursera. So, thanks. +It's been a great experience to now deep this amazing Peter Singer's proposal. I appreciate a lot the way that ethical ideas, feelings and projects are exposed and shared with all of us. The result is not only to get more knowledge about effective altruism but to have the chance of changing our lives. +Excellent course, very useful. However, the examples of people to be admired for giving their kidneys to strangers, etc.were quite beyond the realm of the everyday life of most individuals with family responsibilities, etc. The course did reinforce my own attitudes toward most "charities," which are not effective nor altruistic. The lectures were just that, lectures, rather bland because we are used to animations and charts to illustrate lessons. +Excellent course, highly recommended if you are interested in supporting or giving to charities, getting to know how you can effectively donate and where your money is being invested properly and it's effectiveness. Gives great insight on what types of advocative work is being done, evaluation methods, criteria and what people should support. Very clear information on how to lead a better life and a more meaningful, helpful, altruistic life. +This is a fabulous course. I think anyone interested in giving and philanthropy should take this course, to better understand the concept of effectiveness. I took this course to identify my own role for giving, and the content and interviews helped me to shape my vision within my modest income. Hurrah for Peter Singer and Princeton offering this course to the world! +Best speech of balanced summary, which is very important to me, for one. +Too many lectures, specialized audience with huge competition, not accessible by novices of philosophy and only assessed through a single peer-reviewed assignment-essay. +as the name suggests this is really an effective altruism +Excellent lectures. In Colombia should be issued this style of lectures to sensitize the professionals of tomorrow. +Really influential course. +It would have been nice to use more complex data analysis, as used in the second course of this specialization, in order to build the final model. +Great capstone course that successfully integrates all the concepts learning in the previous courses. +Wonderful course! The final project is so interesting! I could also communicate with my peers and learn from their work. +poor design on presentation assignment +Absolutely fantastic course and specialization. It was hard work with some very late nights but the best things don't come easily. I wish to thank Dr Egger and Dr Schaich Borg for their energy, enthusiasm and time to make this course so good - and to making it accessible at such a reasonable cost to us in Africa. The dancing videos were a scream and I finally "get" the unicorn thing. One of the most profound learning experiences I've ever had. +Simply awesome, it did not only helped me to develop the required skills, but gave me the security to try greater. Astounding method, totally recommended specialization +It's very worth taking. +The capstone project and corresponding course work is amazing. The project is framed as a business analysis problem with you acting as the analyst. You are tasked with exploring the company's database to extract the relevant information, construct a predictive model in Excel, visualize the results in Tableau, and deliver a persuasive presentation for your expert recommendation. This project actually utilizes skills learned throughout the specialization with an actual application of knowledge. Duke doesn't leave you stranded though. The course offers quizzes along the way to ensure that you have the correct values to arrive at the correct assumptions at each step so you know you can accomplish this task. I highly recommend this project and thank the University for this learning opportunity. +Fantastic course, very well prepared. Thank you !!! +Previous courses in this series was better. This iteration is very "paint-by-numbers", much of the material, conclusions, format, is already prepared in advance. +This is an excellent course - really stimulating and very practical as well. Jeremy Ghez teaching is highly engaging and thought provoking. Well worth the time and effort! +All in all this was a very good course. Jeremy Ghez is a bright and inspiring teacher. The content of the course was extremely interesting and well put together. I would have certainly enjoyed to have some sections of the course expanded, which was my only disappointment. I thought the assignments were very well handled and def +Great course about anticipation, resilience and how we can re-invent ourself to be more optimistic about life +COMPREHENSIVE AND EXCELLENT +Good course with basic concepts. +Very insightful +Exceptional and practically resourceful. The lecture delivery was clear and broken down in an understandable format. +Superb course delivered by an excellent instructor. +Great content. I would bundle the shorter videos in the first two weeks so that I am not listening to an intro and outro for every small point that the professor makes. +I enjoyed this class. I recommend for everyone. +Thanks for this course! It attempts to provide not only knowledge, but also use in practice. It was a really great chance to learn accounting for me. +Mini-project grades system is awful. btw, you have to wait till three students review you project. One more point is that, the contents of videos are not that enough. You can just read the required textbook to get all knowledge and examples. +Clear and concise, with very good explanation ! +It is a great course, well designed and gives important skills and knowledge in a practical way to apply in business desicions. +Great course +Professor Hecht provides a very thorough and understandable class in Managerial Accounting. He mixes application with concepts. I've never liked accounting until I took his courses. He's a phenomenal teacher. +A very informative and detailed course. The professor explained clearly all the topics and have answered all the questions in my mind through the entire course. The instructions, modules, and handouts were given completely and are very helpful. +Very helpful and interesting course. +This course is fitted for me who want to self study. +A good introduction +boring assaignments +Not a simple class +This course is great, very explicit and easy to follow. +Very detailed course，fantastic +Good course. Covers the fundamentals very well. +well structured, logical sequence, great foundation course! +I have gained a lot from this class especially since i deal with special children the strategies and goes about me has give me a lot to boost my teaching skills. How to understand the child and control them has solved a lot of my queries and thus helped me.Thanks a lot for this great opportunity to learn more +It is very informative. It suggests some very good strategies for parents, teachers, para-educators and psychologist. +It's been great! +Very informative especially with tips on how to implement things in the house with children. +Gosh, I learned a wealth of solid information. Very thought-provoking course but one that eased my anxieties all at that same time. Great experience taking this class. One that undoubtedly enables you as a learner to implement what you've learned in the real world. +I enjoyed the simplicity but at the same time depthness of the course, it gave me usefull and easy to apply tools in my practice. +This course was really enjoyable and useful. I have put in place a number of techniques and have been able to share with other member of staff many of the strategies recommended in the course. +Amazing course! +Thank you! I now feel more confident to approach ADHD in the classroom. The resources shared will be invaluable as I continue to learn and to respond to the needs of the individual students in front of me. Thank you for your efforts in putting this course together! I really enjoyed it. +I loved how insightful this course is and it does not once mention medications!!! +A must for every teacher ! +Wonderful resource for parents and teachers and families! +Very easy course and the set up was very predictable, although I do wish that the course switched up some things so that it wasn't the same every week. Nice overview of ADHD. I liked how the power points were included so that I could go back and look at them and all of the extra reading materials are very helpful. +It was very beneficial, thanks for the opportunity. +The course provides a concise overview of the disorder and suggests some strategies to cope with it at home and in school. I found it a bit too short and too simple. +Very Helpful! +Quite informative. +Nicely organized to learn the practical implications and the intervention techniques +I have certainly learned more about myself.... +An useful course that will help caregivers understand how to deal with children having ADHD, to strategize for betterment, and to monitor progress and outcomes. +The course is very helpful. It has cleared many misconceptions I had. I am sure the Daily Report Card and Behaviour contract will prove to be very helpful. I just wish some more classroom behaviour management strategies could be shared.Thanks! +Thank you +An easy to understand, straight-forward insight into dealing with children with ADHD. Would recommend. +Great strategies for parents and teachers! +Great tips for parents and teachers. Useful tools for classrooms and resources to work in home with a child with ADHD. I strongly recommend this course if you're a teacher or a parent with a child with ADHD. +Very helpful and useful strategies for working with elementary age students. +It's not professional as that one created by Penn Uni. Named "Pay attention " which is unavailable now and I don't understand why has it been removed from Coursera?!! +Very informative course. +A very useful course full of everyday strategies for parents and teachers. +Interesting course and quite useful additional sources are provided in this course. +The course content was very relevant and to the point. Especially the focus on interventions and strategies are easy to implement. +Excellent structure and presentations! Highly recommend! +Very poor in all aspects. +This is very informative and helpful to me. +Especially the fourth week was very informative and positive. +Dr. Fabiano's expert knowledge delivered in simple easy language makes this course easy for anyone to understand. +Informative and useful with practical examples to apply right away. +Very informative with good tools. Appropriate for parents as well as professionals working with children and families. +Great +I learned so much about ADHD and I love the practical component of the course e.g. strategies that can be used. Thank you +Shame on you University of Houston SystemI did the first three lessons, which are less than average, then went on to quiz 1, after completion, a window appeared to ask me for money to get my results! This information should have been provided when I enrolled! I find that very mis leading. +Some content on quizzes wasn't covered in the videos +Great review for the AP Physics 1 exam! +Too much question and it takes me too much time on it +The lectures are rather simple and easy to follow, but it's impossible to pass the quizzes with only a basic knowledge of mathematics/physics, only for experts. With the information provided in the video lectures you won't recieve a grade, there's a lot of extra work necessary with no other help given then some wiki that only a math genius would understand without any further help. +A very good course to start with while analyzing the astrophysical data with opensource software..... a must learn by all astrophysics student. +very good start for iOS developers +Such a great course. I absolutely am amazed by how good it is. +Great!!! +It`s great. +Very visual lessons explaining step by step how to code in SWIFT. If those that do not speak portuguese can easily follow this course. I would recommend that captions in English are added to this course or the instructor presents it in English. +It`s great, simple and very efficiently. I`m not a professional programmer and I`m learning everything. +ME PARECIO UN MUY BUEN CURSO EL CUAL CUENTA CON EJEMPLOS PRACTICOS MUY REALES LOS CUALES AYUDAN A UN MEJOR ENTENDIMIENTO DE LA TEORIA. EN EL CASO DE LOS ENTREGABLES ME PARECEN LOS ADECUADOS YA QUE TIENEN UN BUEN GRADO DE COMPLEJIDAD EL CUAL AYUDA A ESFORZARSE Y APRENDER DE FORMA NATURAL LO APRENDIDO EN CADA UNO DE LOS MODULOS VISTOS, ASI COMO AL EVALUAR A COMPAÑEROS EN EFECTO ME AYUDO A PODER CONOCER MIS AREAS DE OPORTUNIDAD PARA LOS SIGUIENTES ENTREGABLES EN BASE A LOS TRABAJOS DE OTROS COMPAÑEROS. +I do recommend the course, for both the methodoly and content, the tips it gives, the mindset it developsgo on Ronald ! +Really superb! Great PLAs, fantastic stories, very tangible but also steeped in theory and research. +This course provides a road map that creates new possibilities that is relevant on the individual level and on the organization level. This road map guides the discovery of our dreams, hopes and strengths. It guides us towards creating a shared purpose and vision. It guides us towards creating an aspiration statement and take action to fulfill the statement. +Wonderful practical course! +Great methodology, provides all you require to be able to apply it in real life. +The professor is outstanding and the subject really interestingAll the chapters were veruy well explanied +I am working as an organisational consultant and thought this would add some knowledge - however it is really difficult to follow because it seems repetitive to me... I have paid for the certificate and still it is difficult for me to focus. It seems there is too much information and too much talk for things that are easily understood and do not need all this going over and over again. I got bored by the time I got to week 3 and it is seems impossible to stay focused and complete all assignments. I hope this changes in my third and last chance to get the certificate... +I rated this as a 3 though I got a lot more out of the concepts and the class in the way it was taught than I had when reading books and literature on the subject. I would have wanted more discussions with cohorts taking the class to help cement the practices by virtue of seeing it from other perspectives in different work environments. I can imagine the same class with a moderator and someone facilitating the discussions would get me to the 5 rating. In a nutshell the content is great the experience of the class could be at a higher level then what I experienced. +This course is straightforward, and at the same time deep going. the reading and available books on the topic, enable considerable in depth study. I find the work load very reasonable, still I have the impression I have learnt a lot. +Great material. The inclusion of case studies definitely helps. +Great Course!! +Despite the material being interesting the instructor's way of teaching it made it boring and hard to pay attention +Very interesting course because I learnt several specific pieces of knowledge about adjectives that I didn't know. Besides, I discovered appositives +it is fun and usefull +one of the best English courses +Very good course, thank you ! +Adjectives and Adjective clauses was a topic interesting in which I learn enough grammar +I miss more homework. +this is really useful +Very useful. It makes me easily to understand. +I think tests should be little more difficult +Great course for those just learning and those who want a refresher. +I congratulate the group of instructors who did a good job. I learned many new things a didn't know about adjectives. It was an excellent course.Best regards.Anibal Hernandez +Great course! +it is good thing to learn +Adjectives and Adjective Clauses are such a pain! It blows my mind off! :-) Thank for that course. It is very helpful! +Great course. You learn a lot!! +improve and simplify the grammar structure explanation +excellent grammar course!!! i have ever done.it's so easy to understand. +Thanks everyone for such an interesting experience. +Well structured courseCourse material download as a summary would be great (PPT/PDF) +I enjoyed this course well as the usage of adjectives is very confusing for me. Its worth learning. Thanks for teachers they made things easy. +very helpful +well managed course... +Amazing course +Thank you so much . this course is very useful +Thank you! One of the most clever course I have learned. Teachers are awesome! +I learned a lot. I recommend it to everyone +It's great to have access to the course even when you're not paying the certificate. Tip: make the presentations more attractive. +This is a very interesting course. It helps me a lot. Thanks, anyway. +Extremely useful course! One of the simpliest and engaging explanations of such a difficult topic I have ever seen! +Very good. Calculus is something everyone should try. This course really explains what it is really about and how to use it. +Great course! The course overcome my expectations! Thanks Jim Fowler for share your knoledge. +Good, but Not as accessible as Calculus One as for some abstract concepts, for math amateurs like me. I am still confused where I can put what I learned in this course into practice. But I want to learn more about sequences and series using other resources. +Loved this class! +Sir, your style of explaining is awesome. If someone needs to learn how to teach, he/she should watch your way of explaining things. Your enthusiasm for teaching is just way out of any other teacher's limit! Respect for you sir. +Wonderful course! Professor Fowler is very engaging. +Many of the problem sets ask you to apply theorems in ways that have not been demonstrated. If a student makes a mistake, no feedback is given other than, "That is not the right answer". +Horrible, endless rambling, no solutions to the quiz questions (unlike cal 1 course). sucks all the fun out of math, avoid this course, find an alternative where you can learn more with less time spent watching him write out 20 numbers. +Great course +Really really thanks Mr. Fowler. +Thank you so much Prof. Jim and OSU team for this awesome enrichment course that just proved to be a blessing. I loved the very way Prof. Jim taught me. He is so good. I look forward to meeting him again. When I was giving the final exam I felt the glimpses of what Prof. Jim used to write and say in the video.I also thank Coursera for the opportunity. +Superb course by Jim Fowler. You can easily tell he's very passionate and knowledgeable about Mathematics. He keeps it fun but challenging, brilliant! +The lessons and explanations were very interesting and easy to understand. +Best for clarity. Interesting content too. +This course helped to clarify so many sequences and series concepts. It even added new analytical tools to my repertoire. While I would not claim to be a Calc II master, I feel that I now have a much better understanding and can move forward confidently. +Excellent course. Thoroughly enjoyed it +Excelent teacher and course! +Not an easy topic but presented well with more than one perspective. Slightly more difficult than One. +Quite interactive +For me this course managed to finally get me over the hurdles in really understanding what is going on in sequences and series. The course is fairly difficult, but then so is the subject matter; and the difficulties were not insurmountable. I would give it 5 stars except for a few spots where a little more explanation would have been helpful e.g., the relationship between the indices in the two forms of the Taylor series for the cosine function. +Great course! The material is presented in a logical order and in an easy-to-understand way. In the videos, proofs for most of the concepts and methods are discussed, so "why?" is no longer a mystery. The textbook also is a good supplement to the videos. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn more about sequences and series. +The best part about this course is the way Prof. explains the intuition behind most of the proofs. For example, it seems(to me) more intuitive that harmonic series shall converge but the way Prof. developed intuition that harmonic series diverges, was awesome. This central theme in both the calculus courses from Prof Jim Fowler helped a lot. +Great course :-). Very helpful with the challenging chapter, for most students, of sequences and series in a typical 2nd semester calculus course. It goes even beyond the typical curriculum by emphasizing why sequences and series are relevant. +A marvelous teacher, I am so fond of his style! He makes calculus a real fun. +A wonderful course. Prof Fowler is outstanding and the material covered was excellent. +I've learnt a lot of calculus skill in this course. Thanks mr Jim, you're great teacher! +The overall course was excellently managed. The lectures were really superb. Prof. Jim was explaining every concept with fantastic details. His way of teaching is exemplary. The most important thing was quizzes. Quizzes contained questions which were not so easy and at the same time not so difficult. I enjoyed the course . More and more such courses will be welcome by students and teachers of Mathematics. +His enthusiasm is really contagious and the explanations are very clear and easy to understand. It would be nice to have a sequence on differential equations. +Great course! +I liked it a lot +The professor is extremely passionate and well-informed about the subject. However it would have been a lot better if he used a more visual approach to explaining things (including graphs and diagrams).The positives about the course are:- There’s plenty of proofs for those who are so inclined. So you really get to understand what’s leading up to a particular formula.- The professor shows some very interesting applications such as showing why 22/7 and pi are not the same and constructing a bridge with only one side (harmonic tower) which is a real eye opener.- He shows you that the concepts in calculus are all deeply connected. There is not a single piece of the puzzle that does not fit with the other pieces. Getting this realization is probably one of the key value propositions of this course.- The mentors in the forums are extremely helpful and respond quickly to your queries.- You learn a lot about using formal mathematical symbols.- The questions are incredibly hard and very little in way of practice examples are provided. This forces you to up your game and really try to understand how things work. Things that are learned with a lot of hard effort are retained much better than things learned without much effort. Hence, I highly recommend this course and am grateful that I took it!If you are the kind of person who likes everything to be served cut and cleaned on a silver platter, you are not likely to enjoy this course. However, if you enjoy solving puzzles with often missing, incomplete, or poorly presented information then this course is exhilarating!The course can be improved by:1. Adding more concrete example with real numbers to show how some of the theorems work.2. Adding more graphs to show how the functions look.3. Adding more practice problems with clear explanations in case you get it wrong.4. Ensuring that exercises are in sync with the sections being presented (for example, in the middle of the course we’re asked a question which involves the Taylor series which is not presented till the last week.)5. Adding more worked out examples with detailed explanations6. Avoiding using confusing variable names (like “little m” and “big m”)I learned a lot in this course.The best lesson was when professor Jim Fowler says that the point of mathematics is not truth but proof. Not whether something is true but why. +I enjoyed this course and recommend it. Prof. Fowler is very didatic and funny, and makes the classes nice to watch.I found some of the exercises a little harder than the content given, and the support is not that perfection yet, but one can find some good help in the foruns if ask in advance (in my case, I must thank a lot my peers Brian and Richard...they were true mentors).Anyway, if you have some interest in series, I am sure you will enjoy this course. +Most enjoyable calculus MOOC that I have seen. Dr. Fowler is great. +good course +An excellent course.Professor Fowler is very enthusiastic and he is a great teacher. +the best thing is that you explain why it is like this not just giving facts +This course is amazing! +Great course, super and awesome instructor, kuddos!!! +This course is awesome. Jim Fowler is very good teacher. His explanations are concise, but very easy to assimilate because of all the visual resources. I loved the fact that the videos were short overall, since I do not have much free time to keep watching slow long videos.A perfect score. +Fantastic course +very learner friendlyI like his numerical approach to demonstrate concept or a formula. +The course is really helpful but I think it would have been much better if there were answers to all the practice quizzes since some of them are really challenging. +I had already studied series in undergraduate course, came here to just revise and didn't expect the course to be this much AWESOME.Hands down to this one. Just take it if you hate series, this guy would make you fall in love with it! +The best course about mathematics that I've ever taken. The course is very interesant, the videos are very well done, the activities and quizzes are very challenging. I had seen sequences and series a time ago and I didn't like them at all, but now it is a complete different story. I really enjoyed this course and I recommend it. +It's very useful and dinamic, great experience. +This is an excellent course and the course tutor's lectures are clear, thorough and amusing. This is the future of learning Math and Sciences. Some brief summary notes of the key points would have been useful, to save one having to trace back through the videos to find something. +showing relation to physics +This course will supplement your class, but do not use it as a single source. +I appreciate the free course, but it seems that this course is not comprehensively prepared like the first course. 1) There are no solution, and sometimes nothing at all, provided under the wrong answer of each task in practice quizs. And 2), the tasks are not 100% related with previous radios, which could be frastrating for people like me who want to solve all tasks before entering into the next session. 3) Some important points are missing in the video whereas less significant points are overdressed in excessive details. +Great approuch on series e sequences... +It is a fantastic course. Learnt a few concepts which were not covered in my calculus classes at school and took the opportunity to learn! +the best teacher +excellent, very good teacher +I use this and Calculus One as reference when I need to remind myself some more basic concepts. It's so easy to find the relevant video lecture and have it explained in different ways, great refresher.I love Jim Fowler's style, he makes me laugh :) +Consistent video format, good explanations, video length not too long but also not too short. +I give four stars rather than five because I felt that the course seemed less well executed than Calculus One by the same author. He set a high bar for himself. Still, I learned a lot and do appreciate it. I felt the practice quizzes could have been more helpful in the explanation of wrong answers as was the case in Calculus One. +Very slow beginning and quite few gaps between videos and quiz but very nice to go back to basics and practice calculus again +There are a few mistakes that you need to look out for (check the discussion forum), but overall, this is a very good course! +A very well designed course with great explanations. +Outstanding course, Prof. Fowler has immense energy, a great teacher.... +wonderful and helpful!!! +Thank you so much. +Its tough to get your head around the various concepts but as Dr. Fowler and the reading material say - Don't be afraid and use lots of paper. I'm 41and a non-engineering graduate. I completed this course so that I may take additional science and engineering related courses on-line. +very good course +It had been a while, and I really enjoyed rediscovering the series through this course, whether by watching the videos -providing intuitions, main points, key notions, and concrete examples (every-day-life ones and mathematical ones, as a particularly appreciated example, see the bridge video) given by an enthusiastic mathematician- or by following his related mooculus book -providing formal course materials (but you can still picture the professor explaining things to you, which is really enjoyable) including all the definitions, theorems, and justifications, and a lot of exercises with their answers, completing gracefully the videos.I truly hope that, in future coming courses, I will have the opportunity to have this professor dealing with other subjects -like integrals (on non-bounded domains) or function series- that can be related and used, afterwards, with series through dedicated theorems. +In my case I listened to all courses as a refresher of things that I learned in college about 25 years ago. It felt great to solve problems that I have not had a chance to do for a long time. I relived my college days in the process I gained a new insight that I can use in my current job as a EE. +very helpful, thank you for this material +same review as for Calculus I, awesome course, i haven't followed all the lectures, as i am only refreshing stuff, but is awesome!!! +Great course for learning the basics of calc! Thanks Prof Jim Fowler! :D +The course is fun to learn +Thank you, Jim! Very well prepared course. Well chosen examples and problems, but that's just my opinion. Nevertheless, problems and quizzes really helped me understand the materials better in this course and in Calculus 1 (MOOCulus).Oh, and it follows a free (open) textbook! What!? +This was the best course on sequences and series I have ever seen. +Excellent teacher, great course! +Great course! +Overall ,a very good course!! +The teacher is greatly great...energetic,hardworking,and the best thing about him is he knows students needs while learning things. +This course tackles two difficult topics- sequences and series. The instructor does well to build insight and conceptual understanding instead of just teaching how to solve problems using the formulas just as in his previous course. However, I believe that this course is more difficult than the previous one and learners may be stuck at some points in the course if not armed with the right tools and techniques. Also it takes some amount of rereviewing before you can understand some of the concepts. +Jim Fowler is fantastic. It's hard to make sequences and series exciting and engaging, but he manages to do it. As with conventional classroom courses, certain techniques work better than others for online learning. His pedagogical techniques for breaking down derivations and equations work incredibly well for online learning videos. I would eagerly take another class taught by Professor Fowler again. May I suggest classes in Differential Equations and Partial Differential Equations? I didn't take those in college, and over 20 years later, I still regret it and feel the lack of knowledge in my working life. +Thank you. The lessons were very interesting! +Awesome professor and a very informative and helpful course. The professor explains in such a good manner. 10/5 and not 5/5. +Very good, Focussed in learn the philosophy and know some mathematical tricks in the proofs. It was funny!! +The videos are fun and engaging, and the professor explains even the most abstract concepts in ways that are easy to understand. +Although a bit in-your-face, the presentation is excellent. It combines the clarity of highly visible and easily audible, well-prepared material with a friendly informality. I especially like the paper-and-sharpie technique. +Great course Great Instructor +The lessons are amazingly interesting +Worth completing as much for the demonstrated pedagogy as the covered material! +Great explanation, challenging quizzes. May be very difficult for those who aren't used to grasping concept in maths. +Excellent course. Very well taylored and fun. Worth the time spent. +I am just in the middle of this course. Mr. Fowler explains basic concepts perfectly. He is so joyful. I can watch the videos while eating ,just like watching the tv series :P . I look forward to study Taylor Series +very clear, very nice. and this is more suitable to me than my own lecture's course. +Excellent..teachers are very enthusiastic about teaching which is helpful when learning. +This really is a good extention to the Calculus One course. A bit harder to understand, but I assume this was the main idea of Jim Fowler - to explain, as he mentions in one of the videos, that mathematics is not about calculations - it's about insight. So be prepared for less technical calculations in the tests and more creative thinking on how to solve this or that problem. +Jim Fowler is a great math professor! +I really enjoy this course. I strongly recommend it. +Loved it and I learnt many things from this course.Kudos Prof. Fowler. +Many thanks to Dr Fowler for making lessons highly interesting +Great course! +great material and presentation, as always. thanks, jim. +A great course . I especially liked the teaching style of Professor Fowler. +This is a really helpful course for learning information about Calculus two. However, some areas in explanations were confusing so I had to search more information from the internet and from other professors. +This guy does great lectures, not your average calculus course, keeps it interesting! +The journey has been Awesome. A tribute to Dr Fowler. +Great course! +I wanted to like this course, but (and perhaps it's a mathematician thing) the teacher just kept doing stuff without explaining WHY he is doing the stuff. He is very animated and a good presenter but, even when I understood what he was saying, I couldn't get past the "why is he doing this?" It is never "self-evident" for me. +I enjoy this course tremendously! It feels like a having a personal teacher explaining the concepts one on one. +I've completed numerous MOOCs but this teacher is simply the best. Very passionate and explains things extremely well. All the lectures look extremely thought out, topics are presented in somewhat funny, but really professional way, quizes are sometimes challenging, but that's great!.If you struggle with Calculus, you should definitely take this course. But it's also great for people that like Math in general - I've passed my Calculus stuff long ago, but wanted to recover that knowledge to enter different programming areas and that was one of the best thing I did last year.Jim, please add more courses!! +Another fantastic course put together by Jim Fowler! The instructional videos provide good arguments and present the theorems, proofs, concepts, etc. very well. +Great teacher. The method of explaining things with pieces of paper was helpful and more interactive than lines simply appearing in the screen. Unfortunately the course is based on calculations and many proofs were left behind. +One of the greatest and most inspiring Professor of math! +This was an awesome course. 10/10 would watch again. +I am taking this same class in college here in Brazil. However, I was having some serious issues about how to interpret all the data. So, I started to take this course, which is helping me a lot to comprehend all the core ideas. Thanks a lot! +This teacher is an amazing teacher and made Calculus 1 and 2 both a lot more understandable than professors I've had in person. +Jim Fowler is a great professor! Would love to see more content from him! :D +Organized like the ideal textbook, but I would have preferred that there be more practice problems on quizzes. +A great job done by a great teacher. Thank you for this successful effort +The course is very helpful in understanding the idea of sequences and series. Starting from zero, you will get a really good understanding of the topic and will see applications of it.I have to admit it. I like the way the prof explains things. He tries to deliver a message that math is not just about numbers and calculations, but insight and understanding.Very helpful and highly recommended if you are interested in math. +Very fun with an amazing teacher ! In that conditions, Mathematics are pure pleasure. Take it and enjoy. +Excellent!Read the book with the lectures.Inspirational. Thought provoking. Informative. Challenging.Enjoy :)Jeremy KMS MEd Community College Math Instructor +Really enjoy the enthusiasm of the lectures. A couple of lectures run over the material a little quickly. +Perfect! +Have never seen any Professor who teaches with such passion as Professor Fowler. This was a tasking course, and I'm glad I have been able to complete it. Lim (n-> inf.) (n * Thanks!). +It was an amazing experience. I like the way it is taught, because it allows to understand useful techniques for approximation without getting rid of the beauty of mathematics. This course has opened my mind to new borders on knowledge. Thank you! +I really appreciate the way Prof. Fowler presents the course. Simple, amusing and interesting the way it is +Solid presentation of the material. Left me wanting more. Professor Fowler's enthusiasm is wonderful, and his presentation makes the material come alive. +It is just perfect! Both, lectures and tasks are really great! +Again Jim does a really great job. Care and attention to the presentation of the explanation. Really takes into account he's performing for a camera not a lecture hall. My score is 4/4. I'm not qualified to give the 5th as I can't speak to what has been included and omitted from the content.Bring on multivariate calculus as an on-demand Mooc! +decent course overall, but problem solutions are much missed. even after completing the course perfectly i'm still not sure how I got some answers.for example: "approximate f^(72)(0) of cos(x^3). I figured the way to solve it, but I hove no idea why it is solved that way. +Incredible! Probably the best maths class ever! +The effort put for explanation by Dr. Fowler is extraordinary. However the course needs to show more of the 'connection between steps' when stating a theorem for convergence tests.This current version of calculus is a bit disappointing, earlier the practice problems were solved in steps. +Instructor is a champion of pedagogy. +it is nice how to learn maths by this way < cause i hate the way of egyptian Drs in my university teach us by reading from books which already i have in my hands and solve the same boring examples >thank you coursea :D +An exceptional course as all courses taught by Mr. Fowler +I wish I had a math professor with such passion as Jim Fowler ! Congrats this course is amazing ! +awesome course +This course is grate. Just like Calculus 1 it provides intuition and a way of thinking about mathematical concepts. +Great course! +Great! +Best calculus teacher ever. +I like too much that it course is all about sequencies and series. A lot of units about its topics is unusual for me. One or two units in other courses. ¡Very nice Calculus two! ¡ Excelent the teacher! +So far very good, very clear explanations. +I am working through this course as a quick revision before graduate school, so the material is quite simple for me. However, I absolutely love the way it is presented. Suddenly, sequences and series don't appear to be as daunting or abstract as it was! +best math course ever, teached with so much passion and love +Simply the best, again. +Truly excellent and interesting presentation of the topic by a professor who loves the subject matter. Wonderful. +exceptionally explained. I like it +....might be considered as a good one +Excellent course material. I was thrilled to learn about taylor series and its importance on approximation +Really enjoy the energy of the professor. More practice questions would take this to the next level. +Fast and very effective course, though it could be a bit deeper. +Even more interesting than the first. +The perfect companion for learning calculus! +Love it! +Amazing course. Really good with you're looking for a solid calculus background! +Very helpful information. It always kept me interested! +I love the instructor, she knows her material and she facilitates the information in a manner that is engaging. I am excited to complete this course. +Interesting +EXCELENTE ES AGIL Y MUY ADAPTABLE A LA SITUACION DE TIEMPOS COMPLICADOS +ESTOY FELIZ DE TOMAR MI PRIMER CURSO EN ESTA PLATAFORMA Y QUE SEA UN CURSO DE LA UNAM.GRACIAS +It looks like amaizing way to learn +I took this course to practice my Spanish, hoping it would be like the course Learning How to Learn that is in English. If you can watch that course in English instead or along with this one or even just reading the Spanish subtitles, I would suggest that course instead as it is truly amazing. This one is good... as far as it goes. It's hard to follow in the footsteps of Learning How to Learn though because it's one of the best courses in anything I've ever taken. This was a good course to practice my Spanish listening though! There are a few good ideas in here, so worth it. +ES UNA EXCELENTE OPCIÓN PARA APRENDER Y MEMORIZAR MAS Y MEJOR, AMEN DE LEER MAS RÁPIDO Y COMPRENDER TODO LO LEÍDO, YA QUE ESTE CURSO, TE LO DAN POR HASTA $22,000.00, Y PUES ESTA FUERA DE MI ALCANCE ECONÓMICO, LA VERDAD, Y ESPERO AQUÍ PODER HACERME DEL CERTIFICADO, EL CUAL ME PARECE ESTA EN DOLARES, EN FIN, GRACIAS QUERIDA UNAM. +very good I totally recomend it, if you are begginer it is very usefull +This was very difficult course for me (as for newbie). But at the same time it broadened my horizons. AngularJS - very interesting course. I'm glad to become graduate. Special thanks to professor Jogesh K. Muppala for his intelligence, kindness and excellent sense of humour. Also thanks to all people, who made a major contribution to this course: record videos, write subtitles, correct code, consulting as mentors. So I wish prosperity to this course and lots of success! +This course is well designed with very good coverage of technical details of various aspects of web development. The exercises and assignments are quite inspiring. I would strongly recommend this course to those want to learn wen development and don't have much experience yet. +little bit slow but very good. some extra tools added that make it slow and boring but it makes it very interesting if we understand its benefit +Nicely designed course to learn AngularJS +Very good course, materials and hands-on works. +Covers all the essential topics. At the end of the course, one should have enough confidence to try and deploy pages on their own. The topics are well explained and the teacher keeps the listener engaged with his teaching style. +Course is very compact and informative +Lots of random details that the professor seems to have missed make the course difficult because you end up spending hours debugging random, irrelevant things. +Very well explained from basics +The practical approach of taking a problem and solving it throughout the course and in the process teach stuff is super awesome. You get introduced to a concept and immediately followed by implementing it in the product at hand and thereby improving the product. When you actually do the exercises you get a satisfaction of developing a product along the way, which is very nice.If I ever plan to teach, this is the approach I'll be taking.PS: The sprinkle of humor is refreshing breaks from serious listening otherwise! Thanks for that too. +It is a awesome course +Great course to be introduced in AngularJS and learn the basic functionality of this framework. +Should be a more in depth course.Although for an introduction into AngularJS, it is a very good course. +Thank you for these lessons, answered my pressing questions about web development +I've been trying to learn Angular for so long! This course finally demystified the basics for me. +good and useful course, but includes some content (unit testing) that is extraneous and could be in a separate course +Awesome course +Its great! +Overall course arrangement is awsome +During this course I had many issues with bower and version conflicts. I do everything step by step like in the video, and nothing works. I look at error log and realize there is some issue with versions. =\It would be really nice if you explained how to deal with it, instead of making me waste hours of my time on googling this stuff. It almost made me quit using bower forever. +Wonderful course to learn AngularJS. Thank you to Jogesh K Muppala for explaining in a each and every topic and excercises more practically. +Apart from angular i learn task runners, testings, scaffolds and more. Love this one! +This is excellent training for the person who likes to keep up with the latest and greatest front-end developments. If you don't like to switch up and turn on a dime then this course is not for you. I had trouble aplenty and yet the point seemed to be: stay flexible, be prepared to use obscure tools (that are supposed to make the site work better but who knows exactly what is happening under the hood), expect change and adversity, become an expert at debugging that crappy code and refactoring everything at the drop of a hat. This is probably good approximation of real world experience where you would need to come in on a project and bail them out of angularjs damnation. Be prepared to be frustrated. +It was a challenging and a fun course. Good in-depth and hands on experience on Angular and other web-tools. +Very nice course! You should include an explanation of the versions of the angular components that are compatible, it could be very releasing. +some difficult, but it's so useful and powerful languages +Perfect course to get started with AngularJS +Great course to learn about AngularJS. Syllabus is good to provide step by step and deep learning. Examples are good to provide practice practices with steps. Assignment is also a good test for the knowledge learned in each week. +Great course. +I did not know what was going on and I have to stop. +Must for a new age programmer +Great! +amazing course gave me in-depth knowledge of Angular.js framework! +This is a Great Course. However I think that is a wonderful option to have an intermediate leve with angularJs. +Should be updated with angular 2 components. Rest it was awesome +good and useful course +Bad video quality and errors in course material. Worst course on Coursera. +Great Course. Thankyou!! +This was my first online course. I have everyday given 2 to 3.30hrs in this course. As angular.js is really in demand, I was eager to learn it and this course is good in terms of the lectures by prof. Muppala , materials and the exercises. Exercises are doable but let me say this to the would be en-rollers that if you miss a tiny winy thing between the scrips, you will have to devote a hell lotta time to fix it . The assignments are challenging and those gave me the feel that angular is not that easy peasy at all. Submitting the assignments on time is suggestible as late submission can create a mess to get required number of reviews on time. I have submitted two assignments after deadline and had to request a lot of classmates to review my submission. Prof Muppala is one great teacher. He is good at explaining stuffs so easily which are actually not that easy. Overall it was a good experience. I am looking forward to what this skill will offer me in my career ahead and also looking forward to learn more from coursera. +The lessons were well structured and easy to follow, while covering all of the essential topics needed to use Angular, including some server-side development tools. As an introductory course, it met my expectations. +I can't even begin to describe how much pain this course gave me.The code snippets and instructions in the exercise videos are incomplete/have errors and it's impossible to complete the exercises just using those (it's hours of extra work to get things working). Also, at some point you are given a new version of part of the files in the project, which won't match the rest of the files so there's remedial work to be done for that too. Some of these issues were flagged on the forum 5 months ago and still the course material wasn't updated. It all gets even worse as all assignments build upon the code written in these exercises.The assignment instructions are unclear. You are shown a demo of how the solution should look in the assignment videos, and then you are told you actually have to build something different than what you were shown. I also couldn't understand some of the grading criteria. You will get/lose marks on uploading a screenshot or naming variables/functions a certain way.I was really interested in this specialization so I kept going hoping it will get better but it only got worse. After 11 weeks of work I am ready to start something different. Wasn't expecting such low quality content on Coursera. +Very in depth and practical course that gets you jump-started on AngularJS. The quizzes were a bit too simple but I imagine the assignments would have more content (since they are locked behind purchase). Would love to see a Angular 2 course as well. +We need Angular 2 +Nice Description with good exercises.Please provide a course for Angular 2 also +Awesome course for a good startup!!! +Very Good Course to learn. Assignments are very good, +this course overall is great. the content needs to be more in depth and give more compact information in each session. also need to give more detail why we should do certain step instead of just tell how to do.the course offer resources, and this aids with further self-pace learning, which is helpful. the ppt resource could cover more content in detail.overall it is a good course. +The most complete course for angular beginners. Grat job teacjer Mupala =D +Teacher is awesome and very useful course +good. its a worth your time +Excellent break down of Angular JS. A very good introduction; you will still need to read the Angular JS docs to get depth. +This course was too messy. I spent 75% of my time to get the examples to work. It would have been better if after each module all the .js and .html files would be given in total, not just the snippets. +Great Course. Have a wide knowledge about Angular js. +Amazing instructor! +Very nice course! Huge amount of things to learn and very useful to work on the web app field! Thanks +Explicit design of course, easy to understand flow and good practice assignments +Very Good course. Recommended +It was a great course +this course is good . thank you for this information .we look forward more +The course was really demanding for me but in the end you feel like you achieved something. Don't give up if your localhosts don't work, there are solutions, look it up. +Good introductory type course but when there are issues a student is having that no other peer can resolve, the instructors are almost NEVER available to assist. +Really useful and informative! +Overall pretty good, but I think maybe the course ought to be extended a week or so to really take time and look at descriptions of the tasks run in the task runners. The angular content is pretty good and helpful, though. +Great +Should update to Angular 2, or at least revise some exercises to include code for Angular 1.6.. and keep track properly of when gulpfile should be updated! +Starting from fundamental concepts to basic practice, Professor Muppala has the way to make you learn better. +Great course. AngularJS is presented gradually with good manners. Super work by Jogesh K. Muppala. +A well presented course with broad coverage of AngularJS. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The Coursera platform is excellent and easy to use. +Good content and awesome instructor :) +sir you are best .. i learnt so much from you and i really appreciatie your work for students +Good Course Learned much from it +Exercise sources are not up to date, I have come across many problems. +Excellent! First time in Angular ; it was a very good course. +The course is well structured. +Amazing course. Thank you Yakov. +One of the best course in coursera. Thanks! +Great! I have really learned a lot by attending this course. Hope to see the AngularJS 2 or React course anytime soon :) +Amazing Course, made me understand Angular in an easy way. It gave me a good quick start. Hats of to the teacher for all the hard work. +it was fun ... +Very easy to understand.E +Great Course +Thanks to Mr. Jogesh for carrying out complex concepts with ease. +Awesome course +very helpful for newbies +This course -- actually, both the 2nd and 3rd courses in this specialization -- are like "take your interested, but mostly uninformed friend to work day". Give them some stacks of paper to sort, then shown them what a correctly sorted stack looks like. You've only got one day at work with your friend, so be kind enough to humor them with a very cursory explanation of what sorting is about, but you can't really teach them much in such a short time. So, set them to task, sorting pile after pile. Hey look! Your friend is now a practiced sorter!These courses are really for folks who can spend much more time than advertised. Sure, you will see lots of really cool things -- like AngularJS, Grunt, Bower, etc. -- but don't come into this believing that you'll really learn them, because that is just not possible with the time allowed. This whole thing is about exposure, not deep understanding.Want to learn the guitar? This is like going to watch a (very slow) concert, and then having the guitarist hand you their instrument, put your fingers on the correct frets, and then strum the strings for you. See -- now you can play!Thinking of learning algebra? How about if I simply told you to "write the numeral 5, then the addition symbol, then the letter X, then the equals symbol, and finally the numeral 12", and then proceeded to tell you, step-by-step, what you should write on the page in order to solve for X. Would you have learned about solving equations? At most, you would have written a workable example for solving a certain kind of equation, but I doubt you'd be anywhere near proficient after being hand-held through one example.On the positive side, I was exposed to many different things in the web-development world -- that I cannot argue against. However, this course could be so much more. The model of having students watch a video of a person talking about coding, whether in front of a Power Point slide or a text editor full of code, is borrowing from the worst of the "lecture-first" classroom experience of (most of) higher ed. It's a bummer that we aren't moving in a different direction with this stuff after so long, but I guess it's still what people expect (or at least have learned to cope with). +Rushed though the core material. +Definitely Not for young new front end learners .Lots of things difficult to understand. +Nice course getting into AngularJS programming foundations and some very useful tools. +Good course, cover most important topics in didatc way. But the code quality is poor and I advice to study the John Papa's Angula code style to learn a better way of using AngularJS. +Easy to understand. +This great course will teach you not only how to create a single page application, but it will also show you the basics about developing to the web, as it shows you the tools that will allow you to work better as a web developer. +This was a hard course and many of the exercises did not have enough details to complete the assignments on time. I had to rely on course forums and a lot of googling to finish the course successfully. +Many errors appeared doing exercises, material needs to be updated - many node modules already deprecated. Also it'll be better if teacher more clarify all the actions he doing. Sometimes he did something not clear and there was no answer what is happening and why in this way. +i got bunch of info in this course i believe i won't get it in organized and net way anywhere else. and i recomned even learn angular from anywhere else take the course. +The course was very clear and interesting! +Nice course. However I am hearing scratching noises when the tutor is speaking which is little disturbing. +This course is not for javascript beginners. You should come in with solid understanding of the language - probably more than you would get from the first two courses of this program. +A bit outdated now, however it is still a good resource to get started. +recommended course covers all angular 1 +Thank you for providing new Angulagr js course +This course is very clear. The assignments were very well for improving my understanding.Thank you. +Very useful course with excellent course material. However there were some problems with the audio quality. Fixing them would make this course really enjoyable. +Not well designed and the professor hard to follow... +Very fine explanation +This class gives me a very useful knowledge that help me a lot in my work. The teacher's lecture is very suited with novice +Nice!! I can write a web application now! +Thank you ! +nice course and nice explanation +Excellent source of information. +Angular is very extensive, difficult to understand, but the teacher finds the way putting together everything, Excellent course, the best until now. +Excellent course. I was very helpful!! +This is the best course in getting the basic understanding of AngularJS. I really did get a lot out this course and I would highly recommend anyone for trying to learn angularJs. The organization and the layout of the course and also the professor explanation of the concept are really great!! +Nice Course. Professor makes it more easy and interesting to learn. Thank You Sir. +Too hard to listen his English +very well structured for learning at our own space! +I like the professor...but the activities and projects always had errors and issues that weren't easily fixable. And the mentors are absolutely terrible at providing guidance. So I most likely won't be able to finish this course. +AngularJS is "The brain" in the front-end development, and it was the most difficult part of this specialization so far, regarding all the concepts behind, like TDD, REST, MVC, etc. Once that you understand all of these concepts, the course is great. Professor Joggesh explains the angular features in a comprehensive way and his references to external links are a must. +very interesting course +Super good start for people without any javascript experience. But you will need more in real life :) +The teacher is amazing +I loved this coursed, it allowed me to get more opportunities in my work field, I highly recommend it. +Learning materials are poorly delivered. Codes given are bug-ridden this in turn makes it incredibly difficult to follow on. Disappointing +This course is the best part of the Full Stack series. I would like to see a more advance course just on Angular. +I liked this course so much. I never had used Angular JS nor JSON before and now I leanerd something new. Now, I'm going to put in practice all I've learned with my new projects. Thanks a lot to Jogesh K. Muppala and Coursera for the shared knowledges. +Very good course, go ahead +it is good , but some items needs to be illustrated in more details , a great thing of this course is that it gives a lot of practice exercises +The tutor is exceptionally good. It included all the sources for documentation but I felt I learned more from by reading the Angularjs official documentation than from this course. Assignments covered a variety of concepts. +Great introduction to angular.js +For a newbie in Frameworks I could learn a lot! Thanks to the professor and this excelent complete course. +Quite a good experience. +Very nice explanations! +Very complete course, good teacher on my first experience with coursera, really great ! +The course was very helpful. I can now work comfortably with Angular. Thank you! +A nice overview on Angular JS, just enough to get you started! +There are steps that are missing at times which require you to scour for help. There are also quirks that aren't mentioned that other students have to point out. Unaddressed questions in the discussion board required escalation. Feels rushed and it's hard to learn for a beginner. Feels like you're just going through the motions and copy and pasting code. +I am a bit disappointed by this course. I was expecting a more fast paced course with more information regarding Angular. Unfortunately in the videos there is a lot of time spent on unnecessary details and reading out loud the source code. The exercises are quite basic and they did not pose real challenges - except for errors coming from mismatched packages or mistakes in configuration files. Also I think that the level of support provided by the mentors of this course is lacking. Mentors are quite absent and very late in providing any help in the forums so the students have to kind of counsel one another - that is sometimes good but a proper class also requires a good level of supervision.All in all I think this is an OK course that is mostly geared to the uninitiated. It needs some serious work to make it a great course. +Professor just does not explain the concepts well, just reads the code snippets. You need to figure things out the hard way. You don't get too much help from the moderators as well. +Amazing course! +a great course and good instructor. +Great Course for angular 1.x for angular newbies.It includes almost all the angular basic concept,including module,controller,service,filter,directive,view,data model,expressions,two way binding,dependency injection.And also this course provides a good full example illustrating how to use angular CRUD app.However,finishing this course is far from being proficient in angular developing,you should keep practicing more and find more resources from angular official websites. +very informative and challenging course, i enjoyed finishing it. +Challenging but fun! +It's a lot better than trying to learn the methods and information on my own without an instructor. I feel very empowered. In any case, the course was a very good brain workout. +Teacher is really bad. Terrible. +I definitely enjoyed doing this course. The exercises really helped me understand it and it makes you more involved. +Excellent course. Thanks. +very useful course +There are no advanced stuff these what is taught are basics any graduate or undergraduate student can easily pickup on his/ her own interest. What a waste of time . +Everything is clearly explained! Practice was great! +Well i am surprised that Angularjs is not easy to learn but how easily and smartly you teach this course.. Really appreciated Sir!! +Loved it +A wonderful course! Good theory with coll practices! +It help me a lot. thanks +very nice and helpful +This course is awesome!! it is very informative and you learn a lot as a beginner. I love the blooper alert. +good course, very informative +This course will help you to fall in love with AngularJS. Great explanation and exercise, assignments. Thank you very much. +Wonderful course! Love it and learn a lot! +clear and the examples are very useful! +nice course and sequenced well. +The Course is an extensive coverage of various in-depth resources of technologies and concepts related to AngularJS. I really like the course and the mentor, who is taking great pain in making us understand the jargons behind the course. Thank You Sir for your invaluable insight. +easy to learn. +For all the many courses I took on Coursera, this course is one of the best. +The course was just fine. Some of the lectures were really good while some lectures were really confusing. The good thing is that course provides excellent resources for further exploring the topics in the course. So i had to consult these additional resources when i find lectures confusing.Course Assignments were really simple. Hardly any assignment took me more than an hour to complete. +It was informative course. Assignments could be more involved, and exercises could be more open-ended. +Examples are clear, very good introductory course. Can using w3schoool as reference +This course teach me one important thing : That is my job in the future. +Perfect and comprehensive course..thank you very much. +I recommend this course for naive to medium level expertise. +I like this course for some reasons:- a lot of understandable theory;- good practical tasks;- understandable and detailed speech of teacher. +Good quality content and great instructor. I recommend it!It does not cover though a very important feature from angular: directives. +Quite helpful +Very complex and interesting module. +This course is a real workout! +Great course! +Great! +Overall the course is very good but it gets trickier the further you go, specially if you have no experience in this area whatsoever... Take it from someone who's first contact with Web Development was the first course in this Specialization: "HTML, CSS & JavaScript". My advice to students in a similar situation is to look for other sources of information as well and try to experiment with your code as the lessons go by so you can really grasp the meaning of the pieces of code you're writing. Eventually, they'll start to make sense :-) +Extremely poor help and feedback.Almost no replies on discussion forums from mentors/peers so many issues end up unresolved. Considering how difficult this course is compared to other courses, the lack of real assistance is appalling.Seemingly outdated lessons.A lot of errors I get come from version discrepancies. Lessons should be checked over. If I have to Google problems to complete step-by-step lessons, the lesson is extremely ill-prepared.This is enough to make me abort this specialization. +Its very challenging for me... +This course is awesome!!!!! Thanks +This is wonderful!Thank you, Mr. Muppala. +very good course to help me start with angular and javascript frame work learning! +Best full stack courses, even after this single course you can separately make a powerful front end +A great course on Angular JS, explained in an excellent practical manner. Exercise videos clearly show and allow us to practice along which makes the understanding very effective. +Good Course +Excelent Course!! Very recomended! +Good one.Like the "Bloomers" at the end of some videos. +A good course for Angular JS. +Awesome course! +Fantastic. Very glad to have taken this course. +Very bad explanation too boring lectures +Complete +good course +sometimes it's hard to get things.. .. but it's very useful and strong course +This course is excellent, highly recommended +Had good content but description was a like scattered manner. It could have better if explanation should be in fluent manner. +Very good course, with much to learn. By applying step by step every aspect of the course was for me very helpful. I hope more and more courses to follow this example. +Great Course for those who wants to go deeper in Front-End Frameworks +This course needs an easier way to peer review. Downloading individual files to computer and plugging into your project without overwriting your own work is a nuisance. Especially during assignment 4 where everything needed to be hosted in the server in order to work; this made is extremely difficult to review. +Great Content, and by the end of the course you have a full fledged Front-end website working. +Great course! +Wonderful experience (y)Must try!! +Fantastic course, fantastic teacher. +Easy to understand, but hard to listen. I think we need a American teacher +Cannot believe charge me homework +Great +so far excellent. After first week. +Everything is explained in a big rush. Very hard to get starting from the second week +thank you professor +not good as usual one, the code you provided can not work, I had to debug againand the instructions for the assignments are not concrete as the last two courses +A massive amount of content to cover, some of it quite advanced.The exercises become fraught if your code is out of sync with the tutor's code. Things won't work, you won't know why, and there's no real recovery from that. +I didnt know anything about Angular. Now I feel confident with the skills learned. Great instructor. Funny +no basics being taught! straight away code snippets are pasted. +This course was really helpful in understanding the basic functionalities in angular js.Looking forward to learning more in the next few days +great course +Enjoyed the course. It really increased my skills +Very nice course, but it would be even better if it was about Angular 2, since it is to become the standard AngularJS is/was. +Good course +Excellent course on Front-End JavaScript Frameworks. Covers a wide range of web development topics and tools that can easily overwhelm first-time takers. Professor Jogesh is a great instructor who knows his stuff and explains everything thoroughly. Students may have to take this class twice to really soak in the material, and this is just the front-end side of web development! +also, good course but not free to access the assignment +That course is very useful to became a Fullstack Web developer. Of course, a lot of work to be done but in the end - a full respect of yourself and "..a sigh of relief" (by Professor J.Muppala) :-D +A whole lot of information to absorb, that I will definitely agree with! If there was anything I wish went into more detail, there would be two things.1) Yo / Yeoman: This part of the course was more of an "Obligatory" lecture, just to say it's mentioned. I watched that one video many times over, but still ended up going to YouTube for actual "training" on the ins and outs. I know time is constrained in MOOC's and you don't get the full load of knowledge you would in a traditional school. However, my thoughts are that either give us an exercise so we can at least have that as experience in using it, or just remove it completely. The lecture was put together as a sort of "Follow Along", but it really felt rushed and more of an "Obligatory" thing than an actual lesson.2) Give us more detail on the difference between Services and Factories. Keep in mind that I still have Multi-Platform Mobile App Development, and Server Side Development with Node.js still to go, so I don't know if these are explained more in those courses. As it stands right now, I -still- don't know the difference between a factory and a service, or even what a provider is. When should I use a factory? When should I use a service? Which is better suited for what task? All those questions I do not have an answer for after this course, which feels a bit short for me. +Angular JS is a crucial component of all of the internet. Hardly a website exists without it and it's clear that Angular will go places. However, this course fails on a few crucial levels. As such, my review might look scathing and I'll detail why in a minute, but I want you to know that this course is quite possibly invaluable when it comes to web development. Besides, the fixes that would need to be made on the instructor's side are minor, but when working without those fixes, things get infuriatingly frustrating rather quickly.There are errors in the code supplied by the instructor that need to be pointed out by students, scripts sometimes don't work, explanations are sub-par when explaining things such as $scope. There are parts that are seemingly there to pad out the lessons such as Task Runners. Sometimes, doing things exactly the way shown in the video with additional fixes by both the professor and students, it still doesn't work. Some exercises are an hour long for something that won't be quizzed in the end.Understanding that this review was made about a new course that covers something rapidly changing and not persistent, I still did learn a lot of valuable things and I would recommend this course to everyone involved in web development. However, be prepared to question your own sanity, your skills, the software you use, software in general and just despair at times. All in all, it is a price worth paying for the amazing knowledge you gain. +Amazing Course , i recommend it ! +very good course +Very Nice Course. Takes us through everything and enables us with basic promised objective. Good Luck to Course creators, keep adding more to it. +I would recommend the full specialization for anyone interested in web field +great hands on course materialgreat delivery by prof. Muppala +Very good. i liked this course. Thank you. +Great course +Excellent! Especially after taking previous course on Bootstrap and JQuery and realize how same website can be converted to AngularJS easily and why this is better. +Not happy with this course. +Great course. I had a lot of fun. Structure of the course is very good. +Good course +The teacher is very good! He explains very well and the material is very carefully prepared. Great Course! +Awesome course! Expecting Angular2 or React taught by this amazing teacher +A good introduction to AngularJS, but falls short on connecting the dots in places. +It was really a extremely good course. +The teacher is very comprehensive and very serious and provides a lot of supplementary reading materials, I like it very much. +Angular 1 not Angular 2 which is disappointing but worse still, it teaches use of scope which is no longer recommended by the angular team themselves.Could be vastly improved by using modern angular best practice such as "Controller As" syntax and teaching you to write code that is more "compatible" with Angular 2 +Pros: a lot of good content, worth 8 weeks of study, so good bang for the buck. Takes modular approach, where things are gradually taken apart and shown how to improve using another Angular module or approach.Cons: can be a little academical, very time-intensive.I have a much better understanding now of MVC concept using JS framework. +Excellent course, thank you very much teacher for its depth on the issues and passion for what he does !! +good course +Very good course. Absolutely recommendable. +Great course! +So good i love it so much . Thank you +very practical +This course is deceivingly full of content. If you want to get through this course you need to have a lot of time on your hands because of the shear amount of debugs your code will produce even if you follow the steps to the letter. So many things are taught over a 4 week period that if you do not do the extra reading to understand what is happening you will get an overview of angularjs, bower, gulp, grunt, yo, yeoman and so on without really knowing how to use any of these tools again. Also because of the number of interdependent parts to the application you create, when the professor decides to give you one of the html or js files again to do an assignment, chances are everything will break and you will spend a long time figuring out which variables' names have been changed and blabla...The professor does not give you a good basis for debugging your code, you need to modify the set up of gulp to show understandable stack traces to figure out what is going wrong.If you want a challenging course where you have to go the extra mile learning things from documentation and blogs to substitute the lack of detail in order to complete the course, than this is the course for you!I think this course needs to be restructured and the length increased to 6 weeks instead of 4, with more detailed content and understand of each tool and especially more on angularjs +Very good course and teacher! +Excellent course, the professor is fantastic with his explanations and the course gives a great foundation to build upon. +My First course with Coursera . loved it. +Great +The great one! +Very good. Thank you +Not a bad course, but videos must be shorter. Divide 30-40 min videos into small ones +Very good course.. Assignments should be independent of lectures to test understanding. +great class +Update:Coursera or the course content provider has changed this course in a bad way: You have to PAY for the course IN FULL AMOUNT JUST to get your assignments submitted and reviewed by peer learner.What a pity.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Great course! Material is very useful and interesting!The course introduces concepts in a progressive and comprehensive way so that knowledge is easy to be understood. Practise quiz and assignments perfectly reflects course materials.Also, professor Muppala is quite funny. Enjoy the course! +best angular course I have seen +Amazing, nothing less :) +Amazing course. Helped learn a new framework very quickly :D +It is a good course to know AngulerJS +The course is very good, the teacher very clear, easy to follow. In yet it is a basic course +excellent course, assignments and marvelous teacher. Though an example of writing personal directive would be a nice addition. +What better way to understand angular JS than doing hands on project. The transformation of entering into learning angular JS with bootstrap is something I loved about this course. Thank you Professor Jogesh Muppala. It is a great learning experience. +Very interesting course +Great course. A lot of information in lectures and detailed tasks for assignments. The course gives the review and the basis of Angular and helps to create your own Angular application. Thanks +Really the best!!! But It will be good if lecture includes some errors we can make and silly mistakes which affects results adversely. Jogesh sir is very good teacher and he is clear and brief in less time +Great teacher, AngularJS it's awesome... +Top +Very very good course!! +Very good course +Takes a bit of time to get adjusted to the workflow. It's a bit trial and error, especially if your using Windows. Best bet is to use a unix-terminal so if you have windows use a terminal like Git Bash. Overall it's a very good course and gets you into the meat and bones of Web Development. Just remember to come with patience and do things on time :). +Nice course for beginners +Very helpful course +Superb guidance, hands-on project, rich extensions and ample opportunities for learning new things.One of the best specializations! +Best Angular and task runners course! +Well Organized, and very informative and practical course. Touches as well on the important concepts like dependency injection design pattern and its use in Angular JS. +I really enjoyed this course; it has given me a really good platform of AngularJS to build upon. +This instructor is awesome. +it 's amzing AngularJS's course and a good teacher ... Thank you +Good to begin with Angular +Great course... +Pity that people had to spend more time on making the plugins work than actually doing the exercises/assignments but good content nonetheless. +I will rate this course 5 star.. it contains good explanation of all MVC components in angularEveryone related to the feild of web designing should do this courseThank you ,prof. Jogesh K. Muppala +Very good course overall. It could dig into a little more detail but given the duration and workload it's still pretty good. I think it's targeted towards people who are either working or studying full-time and taking this on the side. +Thank you for this great course. Great teacher, really useful assignment which push my skills to understand more of angular's way. Very recommended +Great class. Very in depth. +Overall, this is a very effective introduction to AngularJS. AngularJS can be intimidating or confusing, and this course is largely an introduction, but the videos and exercises do a great job of letting you get over the initial learning curve. This course will give you a thorough foundation in AngularJS, way better than any other free course online, and will give you an idea of where you can go off and explore on your own if you're interested in going on to develop intermediate skills.My only critique of this course is that I really had to explore the "additional materials" at the end of each section to get a grasp of some of the concepts. I found that some of the videos oversimplified pretty complicated subjects and weren't thorough enough to allow you to complete some of the exercises. I also think the course briefly introduces some pretty complicated tools too early to new developers and doesn't do a good job of explaining their value (like Grunt and Gulp).However, this course is still amazing for a free course. If you've done any of the quick tutorials in AngularJS (like codeacademy's), you've really only scratched the surface of AngularJS. A hands-on course like this give you a much better foundation. To conclude, despite it's minor flaws, this is still the best free introduction to AngularJS online today. Good luck! +Great combination of theory and practical, gives good understanding of angular and framework. +Professor's lecture is pretty good, and assignment is well designed. +Hard work, I had to watch most of the videos at least twice so took much more time than I anticipated. I'm glad I stuck with it because it made the start of the next course much easier. Very satisfying to have completed it. +The course is very good. My only point of concern is the installation procedures of packages, where the instructor either is installing an old package or not using any new installation procedures causing students to have a whole lot of issues with setting up their development environment +The perfect course to start learning about Angular, the professor is incredible, full recommended this course, It help me a lot. +Excellent course well explained everything . I liked the additional resources also. +Great course, just a few hiccups along the way with setting up environments. Had I not read a bit in the Discussion Forums before I started this course, I would've done the course on Windows and encounter all the problems my classmates did with setting up a development environment on Windows. Students should be advised to do this course on Linux or on a Mac. +Provides a thorough knowledge but could be extended to one more week to cover testing part. +Very well explained, great teacher! +Really good course to get your feet wet! A good mix of theory and exercises. Loved it! +This course is good only for newbies and very high-level. No advanced info about Angrular. No tricks. No info about custom directives, $watch, digest cycle, etc. I had expected more detailed course +Great course with excellent lections and homeworks. +Great course. Jogesh has done wonderful job in designing the hands on exercises. +a very good introduction to angularJS +You get to learn a lot about AngularJS and other tools. I enjoyed learning this course. It was demanding at times but in the process you get to learn a lot of things, so it was rewarding. +This one was much tougher than the previous two courses. Out of four weeks, I ended up delivering my assignments overdue on three occasions, which really has not impact on your grade, but it shows that this time around it is a bit more difficult to complete them. AngularJS is the bread and butter in the industry. All in all, I would say you could already code a basic website from head to toe, including very basic server setup, after completing this class. +Good Angular exercises. But I think that testing should get its own segment. Becomes a bit lengthy with 30 min videos and only scraping the surface on the subject. +The course is nice, however the assignments are the same every time and the pace is too slow. The final week suddenly too compact, and testing/yo is not assigned at all. +Excellent course. I will follow also some others or all the next courses of this specialization. +Very good course and very pleasant Professor ! +Excellent Course. Good teaching and coverage of wide range of topics. +Very good overview and step by step dive into this javascript framework.The instructor knows how to deliver one piece of information at a time and with simple exercices to put it into practice.The assignments are not very hard, but they give you confidence in what you have learned. +The progression in this course is amazing! You will see how your web page is transformed beautifully into different modules. MVC concept is clearly illustrated and implemented in this course. +Great course.Gived me a good knowledge and understanding of an AngularJs.I would like to take all the courses of this specialisation. +good course +FAntastic course. With a great illustration, you progressively build a full dynamic website using json server. +Nice Course helped me to learn Angular JS +just love the fact that there is a course on angularJS +Very amazing course! +Very good lesson! With good material and good explanation of everything! +Love it +Tougher than the Bootstrap course, but it was worth it. +A very good course.I did not have such an experience even in the classroom.The course was fantastic.Thank you from the heart to all teachers and the coursera community. +Great course. +Really good course! +Good explanation with examples.Few examples need changes in gulp file to run and view the output. For beginners, it may be tough to understand and make changes. Please handle it. +Jogesh K. Muppala is a great professor, funny, entertaining and knowledgeable. The examples he provides work well and offer a great introduction to Angular. +Fun course, learn how to create a basic Angular website without getting too overwhelmed. +simply a great course! it's long but the time dedicated to it os worth it. +Highly recommended for beginners! The professor explain concepts in a neat, well-paced and clear manner. There's ample support for all the assignments too! +Was very difficult to follow. This is a complex subject and the prof is trying his best, but there are times the explanation is not sufficient. Instructions for installing gulp was not good. I was unable to complete the following exercises after gulp installation failed. Instruction needs to be short and crisp. Building on top of each other project has its negative. There must be solution at the end or at least a check point where you can start clean for the next project. +The course is escellent! The teacher is excellent! +Thanks for this introduction to AngularJS.Unfortunately we have to pay in order to obtain a certificate of accomplishment. +Great course, didactial and very well explained +More on Angular, less on Gulp and Grunt. Lectures about them are so tedious, and when you need them you get the finished code and modify it via tutorial :) +Too long videos, you should make more short videos, instead of one boring long video. You speak too slow and that makes a 8 minutes video turns into 30 minutes video. +steps for exercises are not clear. +Good Course. Cleared lots of doubts I had about Angular. Respect the professor. Thank you very much. +Much more than I expected from the course organizers. Great work! +This course is amazing. I am learning a lot with Mr. Muppala. Thank you! +great teacher with an solid approach . the course is full of exercises and built in a way to increment as bigger project .Excellent !!! +Good course for the introduction to Angular JS +Great course for beginners. Very well explained. Thanks! +The course is amazing! The only thing I'd like to be corrected is the subtitles. There are lots of mistakes that disturb our learning. +Good and useful course! Try it! +Very interesting course and very well structured. The subjects are handled with the correct depth corresponding to its importance. The indicated time spent by week corresponds accurately to the time needed, if you have some previous experience in web development.The exercises are focused in the important details and very well organized.If you have interest in client side web development and particularly in Angular, this is a very good opportunity to learn.Probably in a near future this course must be updated to cover Angular 2.0.It really worth the time spent! +Awesome course +An excellent course! Thank you so much for providing wonderful explanations to all the lectures! +As the rest of the courser, this one is another example of a good job +The most relevant course I have done in Coursera +The paste of the lectures is too slow. Much too slow +Great course. Very methodical and a great example of incremental learning. Every assignment built on the previous assignment and I always felt I was being very well guided through my first learning experience with Angularjs. +Awesome course content, nice explanation by the tutor. Must for beginners who want to have a start with AngularJS, grunt, gulp and other tools. +A very well explained course +Good course, especially good is coverent grunt and gulp which is very useful, also angular is covered very well for start. I learned a lot, even if i have some of angular knowledge. +Great course. Lots of hands on tasks +Great course and very good explanations of the concepts. +Great introduction to Angular! Learnt a lot. +very good teacher and good hard working course +Great course. Well explained, well prepared.Thank you! +super detailed and professional materials! +This course is very well done and gives a very good understanding of angular framework. +great course!week 4 a little bit overloaded of topics, but still great +Excellent course, this course is very well planned and covered a lot of ground. In additional to angular itself, it covers the tooling, automation test utilities that support angular, this make the course very practical and in-depth. Professor Muppala designs this specification very well and make it easy to follow, but yet learning the important detail. +Jogesh Muppala did a great job in this course!Angular simple and direct +I think it's a very good introduction to AngularJS. You learn and understand what you're doing in almost lessons. I'd hardly recommend it to any beginner !!!I found that the 4rth week was very very compressed. You could spend 1 more week explaining all the Front-End tools such as Gulp, Grunt, Yo (Yeoman) etc. And go deeper with the AngularJS as well.In some points I felt myself alone with no teacher support regardless there's a students forum. I'd improve the transparency and the communication teacher-student.Anyway I very happy to spent that time on this course he explains really paciently :D +Very good course as for me! +Very good course, just a few notes short of excelence. +I liked this course, especially in the way is built. The subject was not so easy but anyway, thanks to the organization of lectures and exercises, i was able to achieve the target.The teacher is good and clear in the explanation. +Although a good introduction course, sometime is focus on javascript tools rather than on AngularJS itself which, in hand, looses time and doesn't explain/give examples on how to create directives and filters, which are two core functionalities of this framework. +Very useful course. +Excellent course. Going through all the exercises and doing the assignments was a great way to get introduced to Front-end development for me. +Great Course +Dr Muppala and HKUST have produced a real winner here. The lecture material is explained very well, and the exercises are carefully crafted to focus your attention on the current lesson without being distracted by stuff that is not necessarily relevant. The course builds on previous courses, but those are not necessarily required for understanding this one -- it stands on its own. By the end of the course, the student should have a clear understanding of how Angular.js works, what are its strengths and weaknesses, and how to build applications using this tool set. Supporting tools (build tools, test tools) are also covered. +Lecturer make the course more interesting !! +Great course! Excellent teacher! +A lot of material for one course. Would appreciate more discussion of package managers, how to find packages that may be useful. +The homework is the best practice for hands on. Excellent material +Very useful course! +Just Excelent! Thank you all the people who did this possible! I learned a lot! :D +Great course for overview of Angular JS and other useful techologies connecte +Pretty good coverage of Angular as whole, how to setup a Angular project, and how it fits into bigger picture web development.Criticisms:- Overall, the code presentation (in exercises, provided files, and the slides) was ugly. Good looking and properly styled code is important to ingrain, and this course fell pretty short there. Code was (very) poorly indented, had inconsistent single vs. double quotes, and didn't follow any style guide out there. Use some beautifier and make sure jshint doesn't have any suggestions for improvement! Slides need at least some monospaced font; better would be colored code snippets or screenshots.- The Gulp and Grunt week felt pretty strangely structured. The two task runners just had such long lectures videos that it was a really big hump to get over, especially since we didn't use Grunt later.- (harder to fix) My files got pretty inconsistent with what I needed to copy/download over week-by-week from the course. Some sort of git repository and easier way to pull changes would be good. I ended up version controlling every week and every week's assignment.So yeah, I'd say this was worth taking, but some parts of the setup are pretty frustrating and version controlling makes life much easier. +The course is excellent; however, it requires more time than promised... +Amount of AngularJS topics covered by the course is too small. All assignments are very typical, just copy-paste from lecture exercises. +Easy to follow course with raising complexity. Same example from the beginning helping to better understand the need for different tools and objects. Very well structured and even fun to follow +This course had some rough spots here and there, but taking it as a whole, I still give it 5 stars. Why?a) The professor. Professor Jogesh has a great sense of humour and was entertaining enough to keep the classes lively and entertaining to the end. (Even if I did play the video at 2x speed most of the time :)b) The forums. There were a lot of experienced dudes on the forums who were willing to help out with bugs and any configuration issues. The professor also appeared on the forums from time to time. That's gold dust when learning a topic for the first time.c) Depth and pace of coverage. A lot of different topics were introduced and covered well enough for me to be able to use them in my projects and to further explore them without feeling overwhelmed.d) The assignments. They were not too daunting, but were excellent to drive home key points covered in the lectures.e) Peer review of assignments. I learnt some good techniques by reviewing the code of more experienced fellow classmates taking the course.f) Most important of all, the structure and pace of the course were balanced well enough for me to stay with it and to feel that I'd learnt a lot by its end. You will not be an AngularJS expert after 4 weeks, but will have covered relevant subtopics in enough depth to be able to progress further with confidence. +Very good course ! +Great Course!! A Must!! +Interesting content, but sooo slow. 20 minutes long videos could have been done in 5 minutes. Moreover, the teacher's voice and tone did nothing to make the content live. +very interesting and well structured! i'm interested in one more specialized now! +Thank you Professor Muppala. I learned lot of thinks and enjoyed this course.I was able to complete all the assignment with the help of this tutorials.It is organized in a very good manner. +Very detailed and interesting +Very good Course , professor makes course very easy. +It is good course to learn Angular JS for beginner. It explained well how to use web tools with angular and how to start with it. +I love the style of the courses in this specialization. The exercises are useful and set you up for the assignments. I also really appreciate how the instructor guides you in the use of tools like bower, grunt, gulp and yo, and that he takes the time to cover unit and end-to-end testing. Looking forward to the next course! +Very practical approach to teach AngularJS +Great course. Very useful +Excellent teacher! Excellent discipline and way of teaching, being practical, critic and a lot fun.I'm really enjoy all the courses. This teacher is essencial to the course success. +Very useful material, the professor teaches it at a good pace and at an easy to understand level, the exercises are easy to follow and replicating the professor's steps is very simple (except for the Gulp steps, but that's not graded anyway), so you can follow how he did what he did +Excellent course! All the material was relevant and the exerises were challenging without being impossible. Professor Muppala is a very entertaining instructor. All three courses in the specialization so far have exceeded expectations. The only remark so far is the subpar quality of the subtitles in this course. There were many mistakes in nearly every video. Other than that, great work! +I missed a lot of it because many NPM modules wouldn't install on my Windows environment. :( +A well-organized course that makes you do the puzzles one by one. +Excellent Course and Excellent Teacher +It's a good course to start with this technology +Fantastic course, all explained very clearly +its a great course with so much to learn in a short period. course is well structured and intructor knows his stuff. the assignments are well designed to reinforce the presentations +Good Course +What an awesome course. The teacher is top-class, really knows the subject, and how to continually explain each module. The video exercises are just made for the student to grasp the content. One of the best courses I hev experienced on Coursera. +Great course, I had a lot of fun +Very good course +After completion I got a pretty good understanding about AngularJS and its features. +very very very very good course. I learned quite a lot from it. Thanks Professor. +I liked this Course. Now i am familiar with AngularJS. Thank you +Great Course and really great professor +Good introduction to AngularJS. Moreover their provide a wide variety of additional information related to the course, which is very useful to enlarge the basic contents studied. +awesome course!!! +great course +Very good course. It allows to learn the basics of angular js very fast and easily. I only missed a little more of content in directives scopes, but here you can learn a lot. +Amazing material and teaching style excellent! +Great teacher. Great Angular overview. I wish the instruction went deeper into Angular than it did. +Covers End 2 End web application development with AngularJS,Learned a lot and got me going with web app development. +This is an awesome course! Many interesting and useful topics were taught. I'm looking forward for your next courses. +Great Course +I love this instructor. +Great course ! +NIce and very usefull course to get started with angular and web tools such as grunt, gulp and yeoman +Clear, Pleasant and Useful! +Very good course and very well organized. Is a must if you want you want to learn angular from the begining. +Excellent course for beginners . +Great course! +One of the best tutorial!!!! You will never regret :) +Awesome course! I have learned so much! +The professor is really great, very clear and understandable course. +Excellent Course.Just Superb.Great Professor. +it was excellent +I have completed 2 MOOCs till but am very happy with the new curriculum,dividing the course into small modules.I am showing interest when am watching videos,clear explanation and fully satisfied with this course.Thank you +Excellent course!!Easy to follow..course organisation is really good. :-) +We have a very cool Profesor on this course!If you think AngularJS is hard to learn you will change your mind after this course!Thank you Jogesh K. Muppala for sharing your knowledge! +Great course and professor. +Very nice course teaches you a real life examples.Lots of thanks to the trainer because i do understand in a very easy way. +Very good tutorials... +The course is very boring and monotonous. It should be made more engaging. One needs to capture the concentration of students for a subject like Angular. +i like a javascript. and i really thanks to hong kong university for this course and coursera.org also. +Very comprehensive course +I was able to grasp the overview of the course. The instructions are delivered well and the flow seems in order. However my lack of background with the topic discussed cause me to stop watching everything. Plus, I can't do the said assignment because I am a beginning on this topic. it seems this is not a course for me to rate based on content. However I will rate it in terms of the aesthetic, organization or structure of the slides .The organization of the content of the slides needs to be properly organized. Long paragraphs are a pain to read. Further when comparing, two concepts, it is easier to comprehend when they are in table form. For instance in FrontEnd JavaScript Framework Overview video, it is better in terms of organization and aesthetic to show library vs. framework in table form.Also, the volume of Introduction to AngularJS video is too loud. Though I can adjust it and lower the volume, but sudden high volume sound is discouraging when the next video has normal volume causing me to adjust it again.I was only able to watch few of the videos but they are good. Just a little improvement needed. +Great course! +This class is very clear and easy to understand! Thank you for providing such feast for students! +I love how this course delves into a very promising advanced research topic in Computational Complexity. It helps me a lot to understand trending publications in the area. Specially that the material is presented in an incremental approach. This way a researcher can live through the evolution of ideas. It is inspiring also in the way one comes up with a partial solution for the special case, and then generalizes with approximation factor that is satisfyingly good. I'm looking forward to more advanced courses in parameterized, streaming or quantum algorithms. +good course, with many examples and explanations +Content of the course is great. However , at time assignments are very difficult to understand. There are probably very few students who take this course at any time , so you dont get much help from forums. TA's and Professor as well have not responded to any of our questions. I dont expect any course to be cakewalk but at least some help need to be provided. +The assignments could be a bit improved (some are less good, I would personally complain about knapsack), but in general it is a great course, as it gives an accessible introduction to approximation algorithms (for NP-hard problems), which is a very relevant topic, as NP-hard problems are everywhere.At the time of writing (end summer 2016), it is also a unique course for this very relevant topic. +Very interesting, explanations are clear and easy to understand +Lectures and content were great. The theme of the course is to provide insight into the approaches used to investigate approximation algorithms for NP hard problems and the theoretical techniques used to assess the effectiveness of the approximation algorithm against the best answer. The production quality of the lecture videos and slides was high.The content of the quizzes and assignments was mostly appropriate and well organized. However, the authors appeared to struggle with the platform. At times there were comments such as, you need to enter something in the box but it was not actually being used. Answers to the assignments required using substantial mathematical notation, but LaTex was not enabled in the discussion or text entry boxes (no longer available in the Coursera platform??) so the work around was to upload answers to a bunch of questions as a single PDF document. Flow of the individual modules (lectures, slides, quizzes) was inconsistent, varying from week to week. +This was a relatively easy but well paced introduction to approximation algorithms. I totally enjoyed it. +Excellent advanced course! Not for beginner in computer science, nor for people more interested in applying computer science than in theoretical foundations. +This course covers the basic ground about approximation algorithms and would be very valuable for a practitioner, but seems designed for people who already know the materials and is more theoretical than applied.Lectures are very abstract --with a description of the problem and a formal description of the solution--, there are few examples with step-by-step tracing of algorithms --that is how the algorithm actually works to solve the problem--, and a significant amount of expertise is assumed --so much so, that you wouldn't need this course. For example, there are questions about "approximation ratio", but it is not explained. This seems like something that is inherent to approximation algorithms, but is only asked in the exams/project, and is not even mentioned in the lectures. Similar issues abound around the course. +Excellent Course! I have learnt a lot about Approximation Algorithms in a short span of time. +Great class, and Professor Claire Mathieu is doing an excellent job! +A really good course for programmers who want to take a bit deeper into CS. +Lectures are well-organized. Some assignments (e.g., Assignment 3, which involves merely understanding an algorithm, rather than proving correctness and approx. ratio) are extraordinarily stupid and somewhat tangential. +Really good course, the material is quite advanced but very well structured and introduced in a very simple way. The assignments were a lot of fun: really enjoyed the peer-graded assignments where I needed to write short proofs, much more useful than regular multiple-choice answers. Looking forward to the next course! +A useful course which introduces key ideas in Approximation Algorithms. Looking forward to part II. +The course provides a high-level introduction to approximation algorithm. There is no programming assignments but it provides nice introduction to approximation algorithm. +The course deals not with programming, but rather with designing and analyzing approximation algorithms. The course is on a high level and focuses on the subject without too much side remarks on applications, connections to other subjects or motivational introductions. If you are a theory person, however, you will probably enjoyed it. +Very high-level course. After week1 and I'm already excited to start it +This course is quite advanced and the assignments require prerequisite skills to prove time complexity etc. If you are upto it, then for sure take this course. The instructor is quite thorough. +awesome course!I'd like to see part 2 and other graduate-level algorithms courses on coursera. +very nice course. i look forward to the second part! +This class is the one I am seeking for a long time. Theories of Combinatorial optimization and associated approximation algorithms involve lots of hot research topics in machine learning, image processing, and Bioinformatics. The faculty for this course is a leading expert in the related fields. +Excellente course, thank you for the excellent techniques and approach that often lacks in courses on the subject.I would have loved a validation at least.I'd be very happy to attend another of your class should you make a part 3 or another lecture. +Even better than the first! Very good classes (except for the two first of week 3 ...) +Learning Approximation algorithm by self is really hard. Fortunately this class is very easy to understand useful techniques such as primal-dual linear programming and SDP. Thank you very much! +Demanding course with lots of great algorithm concepts based on Linear Programming. +This course covers challenging technical topics and I appreciate that the effort that went into making it. That said I have serious concerns about the quality of execution for Part II of the course, which was much inferior to part I of the course.In general, the lectures themselves were up to the quality of part I and are well done. In many cases, the practice quizzes were less helpful. Including one sequence where each quiz extended the previous one but if you there was no way to learn from your errors, especially an error in the first quiz.For the peer graded assignments, there was one answer field for multiple questions, rather than one per question. Worse, the answers often required equations and LaTex math was not available. The only solution was to put the answers in a document on a cloud drive like Google Drive and paste a link in. Finally, for the peer review you could just mark questions correct or wrong with no way to provide private feedback on what was lacking in a response. Furthermore, doing the peer review was purely optional and the results were not actually scored. (Part 1 was similar, but it was possible to upload the document to Coursera directly and peer review was a required part of the course, resulting in a grade.) Either there are serious limitations with this iteration of the Coursera platform or the course authors did not understand how to properly implement this.Finally, in the session I took their was no active Teaching Assistance presence. There were no responses to student questions nor concerns that were raised about typos and possible errors in the quizzes and problem assignments. Either the course should not have been offered if no TA support was available or there should have been some notification in syllabus that this session would only have peer assistance with no support from the course staff. +It is remarkable to note that Professor Claire Mathieu explains such a complex subject in such a elegant and understandable manner. +Good info, lots to think about +Very interesting course about the aging process and how living in different areas can really affect your longevity and your health in your senior years. It was enjoyable to read papers from other students on how their lives are now and what they are planning in the future. +This is an interesting topic which I have never really given a thought before. Eye-opening and really make you think +It is a wonderful COURSE +I thought this was an excellent course that looked at trends in aging populations from many perspectives. The reflections were thought provoking and the assignments helped reinforce a serious approach to the course. +TOO MUCH Peer rating too little hard information +Very well structured course. +Excellent job! Learning various search algorithms with diverse applications in real life. +A great and 'must-do' course for all beginners. +Great +Good introduction to Data Structures with Java examples +I thought the course was an outstanding treatment of data structures and algorithms. The instructors advance to more complex structures and algorithms as the student progresses. I never felt overwhelmed at any stage, and by the end of the course, I was impressed with how much new material we had covered. +Very good course. I wish we could have done more algorithms with the map. Such a great way to teach algorithms. +Great learning! +It was really great course ,well designed and challenging . +Course teams really spend a lot of time for providing a great studying experience and procedure. +UCSD always bring there A game, with fun projects and extensions to real world problems. I have completed all three courses.This course was especially informative as it dipped into the graph theory and the optimization problems we face.The course itself is fun and informative and may seem tough at times but is really rewarding once complete. Thanks guys and girls. +Great faculty, great course, great practical project! +Great Instructors...Thank you Instructors,google engineers, coursera and UCSD. +Really helpful the course was. +nice course. very well organised and presented. good refresher of ADS in Java +The projects are fun, but the course is too short and abbreviated. +Greate course! It was really fun and really difficult for me. +So So.Not good to learn an algorithm +Really fun +Another course handled excellently in the series. All the lectures and topics were really effective in introducing weighty concepts, but making it much easier to work with them through clear explanations. Super knowledgeable instructers, assignments and quizzes helped contribute to some solid learning through the course. The course was put together really well, thanks! +Overall, I enjoyed this course. Especially from week 1 to 3 where the course contents were simply amazing.It would be great if week 4 and 5 can engage the students like week 1 to 3, and the forum can be more alive.Thank you. +Excellent material and instructors +This is a really useful course. The project is quite relevant, and the work with breadth first search, Dijkstra, and A* Search are really interesting! +Challenging class and well-designed course for intermediate Java programmers. +Very well structured +This course was excellent! I learned so much and I am now able to understand the significance of knowing how Algorithms and Data Structures are related in a practical way. I +Very well designed class by 3 great professors! +The last 2 lessons did not have much content. Particularly there was no practical assessment on traveling salesman +Fantastic Course +It would be very, very beneficial if maybe one or two more videos were added to dive in-depth into ADTs and their method callback run-time analysis. Aside from that this class was educational and interesting as expected. +Super awesome course, love the professors, would've been even better if covered hashing in more detail. +I think it would be better if the lectures can go a little bit deeper on the topics in this course. +Very nice course for clearing the concept of the advanced search algorithm and applying them in the real world scenario. Well designed course and programming materials. +Wonderful Course. This has very good explanation of Data Structures +its hard, but intresting +Nicely explained and challenging projects. +Very interesting and adaptative for the student as you can catch another later session.I found there's a huge gap between week1 and week2.Thanks +Good course! +Good course. The example application is fun (looking at graph data structures as part of route planning in a Google Maps based app) - and there is room to experiment. I continue to enjoy the instructors, who present well and have obviously done a good job preparing the material. Much fun! +The first 3 weeks are really good, 5 stars. Weeks 4 and 5 are way too light. Week 4 has no programming assignment and a short class and 5 has a weak programming assignment and no class. +Now i understand how gps planing routes work! I really like Data Structures and the importance of Graphs +Loved it. Once again the skeleton code provided and course material was great. It was once again introducing new concepts which were never part of BASIC, FORTRAN or DELPHI. So I enjoyed the pain of having to get my head around the objects and code.Thanks !!!! +I understood about graphs from here at last after trying various resources online but peace was attained here in this course +Really nice finish to the specialization. +I give really high marks for this course as the graphs are presented in a proper and practical manner. I have a suggestion to present the High Level of Graphs more in the area of Information theory. Otherwise it is nice approach and very good implementation of the material and exams. +awesome course , gave me lot of confidence thanks a lot +The course content and presentation was excellent. I love the large-project format of the classes in this specialization. I only wish this course had more resources for working offline, at a level that matches the previous courses in the specialization. +good job however I think it was quite short and quite shallow +This is an awesome course with great stuff for learning and practical graphs concept in programming with some useful algorithms like A*. +Great course! +By far the best course I have ever found about Data Structures in Java. +I am really enjoying this course, thanks for all your efforts! +Introduction to data structures. It wastes a week talking about theoretical complexity when it could have been used for something more productive. +This course is very helpful in understanding Graph, which was a pain in other courses +A lot of work has been put into this course. You will get to learn a lot and use a lot of Java collections framework. You will also get to use concepts of Polymorphism and Inheritance if you are not already familiar with it. +Exciting algorithm application in path-finding and routing. +Best classes I ever took till now. This really enhanced my Java programming skills. Thank you. +Thanks for sharing the knowledge.this course was awesome +Excellent course. All the concepts are very well explained and the assignments are enjoyable and worthwhile. Highly recommended. +I have really enjoyed this! +Dijkstra and A star algorithms courses are a bit short +Very interesting and challenging +The contents were pretty basic for me, but they were presented clearly. All in all I liked the review this course gave me. +Very good series for learning Java and OO Principles. The big application approach is very interesting as we can see the whole picture even when we know little yet. The interviews with software engineers are very enlightening.This particular installment has the animation of the shortest path algorithm on the map and that's very helpful to fully understand the amount of work and the effects of optimizations in different shortest path approaches. +For me, it is easier to grasp algorithms that are written out than audio/video description. I would have given 5 stars if the course material accommodated different learning styles for each chapter. I had to do a fair amount of searching for information on the A Star search algorithm to the understand the subtle details. +It's good to start an algorithm of graph implementation. Except the first Assignment, the next following assignments are a little bit tough for me. +Amazing course with amazing teachers .Worth every penny . +Very nice course which gives good introduction to data structures. I love it. :) +Loved it .Best MOOC specialization I have attended.Thanks a lot!!! +great course thanks! +The course is well-laid and very interesting. Even though the material is pretty difficult and advanced. As always the great talent of Christine, Mia and Leo is beyond praise.I definitely recommend this course for developers who want to improve their mastery.Many thanks for the brilliant course. +well structured! I learnt a lot. +What I really enjoyed in this course was to discover how to represent streets and intersections and finally trace a path from a starting point to a destination, like a GPS! Really nice! +As all their courses this one is great! +Awesome course! +Graphs now are more interesting and useful! +Teach you the basic of graph +Thanks a lot! Very interesting course! +An exceptional course in intermediary programming! +Nice one!! +I really like the way that the professors explain everything. I also like the project which helps me understand and memorize the algorithms by fitting them into real world problem, that I learned Dijkstra algorithm multiple times but this is the first time I feel like understanding it thoroughly and will keep it in my mind. +At first the course is hands on, later on it becomes more of theory. This would have been a challenging course if we had more harder graph problems to solve though. +The content is just amazing, and the teachers are so awesome prompted me to do more courses from UCSD +Amazing beginner course to learn about the Graph data structure. +The content of the course is great. By having the concept challenges and real world tie-ins the professors ensure you've absorbed the concepts. +Great courser, challenging assignment, but learnt a lot +In Depth Course.. +Nice concrete course to take. Good info about graphs as a whole. Enjoyed it. :) +Good use of data structures. +Great course. +The course is really way to easy. It could be done all in one day, definitely not worth 80$. +Challenging and fun. So glad I took this course. Made some cool changes for the extension, but I'll keep working on it just for fun! +good course on Graph +Very useful :) +Course was well paced. Assignments were relevant. Only shortcoming I believe was that the last two weeks of the course did not require any submission of a coding assignment. Only required a quiz.I feel that the course would benefit from a requirement to submit some code each week. +I recommend it. It 'a complete course and allows you to explore the use of data structures with Java. +Its awesome one +Very informative and learning experience. This is first time I have attended any online course. This course and coaches in the course explained things so nicely that I felt it like sitting in a class room. Entire team deserves a "BIG" applaud for conducting such a nice session.Course content was nicely designed and brilliantly explained. Its really worth appearing in this course.Thank you UC, San Diego !!! +Easy to Understand. Beautiful Course. Interesting Assignments and Quiz. Will help in my Career. Good Job by Google Engineers ,Coursera Team and the University. +Amazing course. I have learned a lot +This was a very useful course which covered the main fundamental aspects of graphs in Java. The assignments were very interesting and challenging as well. The lecture videos provided all the information in a very detailed manner. There was nothing more I could ask for. Overall it was a great experience!! +I'm graduated in System Analysis, not Computer Sciences, and learned to program only by experience. After 20 years it's a good deal but still I missed the theoretical background and this always annoyed me. I knew and used to make good use of all the structures presented in this course but never could quite explain how or why, or talk in asymptotic notations. Now I can. I didn't stop here, I do take some topics to deep dive during the lectures. It's being a great experience and I only wish I could have more time to keep myself always enrolled in some course. +As 2 previous courses of this specialization - the authors did a great job! I really enjoy it and learn a lot of things. The workload is perfect: not too much, so you can get things done on time, but still pretty informative and intense. The way the material is presented is beyond all expectations. I really recommend this specialization to anybody looking for a good course of algorithms in Java. +Really coool +Excellent! Very ambitious and well calibrated course. That can really be used for real applications. +Interesting things about graph algos, but I think the content should be more challengingEspecially the last two weeks, a quick quizz and a free assignment the automatically give full grade whatever the content +Thank you. Very interesting course. +interesting project. +Great course. Detailed content on the graph data structure. +Good course to build confidence in building a class from scratch.But, I expected more from this course. A few lectures could have been devoted to popular design patterns used in Graph problems maybe.One more assignment to actually make the students work on heuristics for solving NP-Hard problems would have been helpful. +learning graph with Java while reviewing varieties of java advanced data structure. in a word, help me a lot. +Wonderful course, I will never forget the Santa example used to describe the Traveling Sales Man problem. Absolutely love all the instructors. +Extremely well planned and interesting. +A few more graph algorithms and their implementations, if added to the course, would be nice. +I would definitely recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn about graphs and other advanced data structures.The course is really well planed and has an incredible starter code to work on.I would like to address one thing mentioned in some reviews: since the authors were focused on creating the best possible resources for the main topic of the course (and they did it remarkably well), some other data structures used in graphs (such as HashSet and PriorityQueues) seemed poorly covered, and hence it seemed there is a lack of resources for the course. But in my opinion, this was not a big issue, anyone interested could have found a bunch of free online resources. It is unrealistic to expect that the course should cover all the accompanying topics, they are just too broad. The course covers exactly what is described in its description.The only remark I have is the lack of programming assignments in the fourth week. But I am sure this can and will be easily fixed in some of the future course offerings.To conclude, based only on the knowledge I had before the course, and the knowledge I have now, this course deserves nothing less than a 5-star rating. +This course was very well put together. The videos were clear and well organized. They typically contained a powerpoint presentation and little box with the presenter's head. The assignments built off of each other by reusing code from previous weeks.The test cases for the grader weren't very complete. If I have any recommendations for the organizers it would be to tighten up their grading process. (For one assignment, I completely forgot to write one function and there was no test coverage for it! I ended up writing it the next week.) Still the codebase that they have provided for the class is large so I don't fault them for bugs. I think it will probably improve over time as more people take the course.Overall, they did a great job! +Learn graph data structures through the creation of a very cool project. Awesome class! +Splendidly covers path finding basics. Enjoyed the course.It would be great to go into advanced algorithms useful for programming challenges (like SPOJ) with the same instructors. +Really excited for this class! +There is not enough background information, no reading assignments. This makes the course less understandable. Also, the examples given not related to the stated assignment +Excellent teaching ! +Excellent course, if a little short. the instructors did a really good job of explaining the concepts. +Very good. Would have been even better if the course was a little more broad and more algorithms were covered. +I learn a lot of new algorithm in graph theory and i given opportunity to apply it in a project. One of the best course in algorithm. +This is a great course with advanced content and real world projects. +A great course as the previous courses for the specialization. I know that the week 4's materials are out of this specialization's scope but I think it's alright to delve in more about P and NP problems. That material is somehow still incomprehensible for me. +Compared to the previous 2 courses, this one seemed to have been made in rush. Not enough materials covered, nor enough Java practice opportunity. The course title is misleading because it does not cover any other data structures but graph. +Just the course I was hoping for! +Great Courses just loving it +Great course, very informative and fun. +Felt like it was a bit rushed and some of these concepts like Dijkstra definitely deserve a lot more attention. +Very good introduction to advanced data structures in Java. This course is well designed and organized according to the cognitive psychology. Thanks! +Very interesting programming assignment for the BFS, Dijkstra and A* methods. Great job with that.The coverage of the TSP was weak -- room for improvement there. Perhaps include a programming assignment.Overall, the course was a worthwhile investment of time. +The course is really amazing. Professors are great. +Best and complete course series in course era. The best course staff of any course I have taken. The best quality of instruction and knowledge gained.Thanks to all team worked in this specialization +Great instructors, videos and activities. The projects are really enjoyable to enroll. +This is one of the best series of courses I came along in online MOOC platform, such a brilliant course, this whole specialization is brilliant, such a interesting projects, I'm disappointed that I live in country that isn't that much wealthy to help this Specialization and to be able to do Capstone Project , but I wish all the best hope to finish all in time, this is in my top 3 online MOOC Courses and I saw a lot of them.I wish all the best to this team and people that made this possible. +The course is excellent!! +Very easy to follow. It really gives you great tips to improve your time at work. +Not really related to the specialization. +It was a good course but maybe you should include more activities for reforcing the knowledge +I liked pretty this course. I learnt some useful skills and tactics in order to develop a negotiation. As a negative point, I found lack of examples so that understand better the theoretical issues as well as to remember better. +good course;please make it separate from specialisation also; +This course helped me much to understand the basics of C Programming. +The instructor teach subjects clearly and fluently. He conveyed his experience very well. Also he prepared documentation very well. I would recommend everybody who will create projects with Arduino or Raspberry PI. +All this peer grading nonsense is garbage. If we are gonna pay 63$ a month of something we can at least get the proper grading system included. +great learning experience +Very good material and structure overall, overall meets my expectations! +Need a discussion forum. +The course is well-structured, simple to understand and gives a good introduction into Arduino world. +Very good fundamentals of C programing and simple method so eveyone can undestand. +Good introduction of the subject +Amazing course, gives your a good introduction to arduino platform and C programming +having to wait for course work to grade is tedious... it took almost a week to review three submissions +Very good for beginners ! +I learn lot from this course about arduino and the course structure awesome. +Good for understanding the basic of an Arduino +It gives you all the necessary details regarding Arduino. +Great Course! Needed to understand the basics for coding on the Arduino as well as what goes on within the Arduino. Terrific source of information. A bit slow and boring near the end but informative all the same. +Very good introduction to arduino programming and the platform in general. However i expected it to be a more in depth course, however i would recommended it to anyone who just bought an arduino for the first time. +Prof. Harris does an excellent job of explaining the concepts of programming. +Great +it is very useful for the starters, the concepts are very clear and understandable. +It is a very a nice course from my point of view. Teaching standard is good and the way classes have been distinguished become helpful to learn the core concept behind the Arduino. +Good Class, had fun! +This course will open a lot of doors, new skills and a new oportunity. +Good introduction to the topic for beginners +Good course and instructor. +Great course +amazing course with clear explanation +wonderful course. +Loved it +It is a fantastic beginner's level course. +a really good cource for those who don't have any knowledge in programming good support to c language and basic aurdino stuff, hope everyone feel the same +Very good course who want to learn the arduino... +Generally a good course about the very basics of hardware. It also has a nice introduction to the very basics of C Programming. +Great course,great instructor. It could benefit from a discussion board. +It briefly gives us informations in detail as well as basic of course modules. It's helpful to understand about Arduino and C programming. +I'm auditing this series and decided to use the autodesk simulator, highly recommended tool. Overall this class is a practical hands on approach to the subject matter. Enjoyed the presentation and topics. +Very informative and interactive. +Best Course with good assignments and quizzes. +It is suitable for beginer who want to use Arduino and C +Great Course! +i need Chinese caption +this is really good for beginners, but you need to learn a few things before getting into this. +Interesting and usefull Course +It is Amazing (Y) +The was a great course! The professor does an excellent job presenting the information! +Basic, ideal for begginers +good concept to understand what is happen +It was a good course, I wished more courses about Arduino and examples of what we can do with the platform in real life applications. Arduino seems more accessible that raspberry pi, in terms of price (I believe I cannot complete the course about this particular platform), the software (myself I have trouble with Linux, perhaps due to my low level of knowledge), in Arduino I used mostly the 123d simulator, which helped me a lot. I am grateful to Prof. Harris, the Coursera team and the California University. +it was great , and its teacher was greater :) +Very enthousiastic teacher and very clear instructions +Very good series of courses that guides step by step in learning to use ARDUINO. +awsome sir +This is a good introduction course. But!But, I don't think it's worth to pay 61 dollar for a couple of hours of lectures, that you can finish during 1 day.I'm really disappointed with the fact, that it's not possible to go through quizes and assignments without payment. What if I can't pay right now, but will be able to pay at the end to receive my certificate? I should go through the course again and I will be late for all assignments, so will have to wait for another course session... Very-very inconvenient.And, yep, coursera reduce the effect of learning with not providing quizes for those who are auditing only. +Startinng it now +Great Course! I learned a lot! +very nice tutorial on Arduino programming for beginners like me. +The course is good but little bit theoretical for science that should be 80% practical . +Arduino is surprisingly powerful :-) +explanation is nice ,.it will be help full if practical implementation is shown using videos +Found it helpful. +Explained Serial Communication very well. +Good introductory courseThis course explains the basics of Arduino and explains C programming which is essential for Arduino sketches.This course motivated me in further learning about the Arduino. +Very Good lessons, great for understanding all the concepts and inpire you tu go deep to resolve the assignements. Great course!!! +Excellent professor! Explains complicated concepts in simple and understandable terms. I look forward to completing more courses with him. +A quick short course to get familiar with the hardware and very basic concepts of embedded systems like debugging, UART and serial communication. +Nice introduction about arduino and its components +Nice basic course +good course +Basic progamimg understanding / interacting with Arduino +GOOD place to start THe arduino intro is good but little short on c but its only 4 weeks not enough for me to grasp right off the bat anyway so i back off to next session then catch up more C then finish its only a couple short c videos then your asked to write programs with little or no knowledge basicly 3- 7 min lectures on the language EASY TO BE KINDA LOST AT FIRST IM 60 yrs old not twenty !!! From what im reading online LIBRARIES ARE TOTALLY LIMITED ON ARDUINOS IDE nd ITS NOT REALLY C its ARDUINO C because a lot of the workings of the arduino ide are easier for new people alot of the inner workings are hidden tough to learn the inner workings unlike a full featured IDE GOOD Platform to start on AFTER BASICS HERE with tidbits Id rather go later to C++ and spend the time there then get on better platform ARM PIC boards with real ides and REAL C + something you can use in the real world for bigger programs and I can see staying here at arduino too long and not going on to other platforms could cause bad programing habits to start with writing limited code just seems more productive after you get your electronics down coding and some hardwhare experience to go right to the real deal Pic arm or any of the other boards with a MUCH steeper learning curve GREAT to Figure out and learn electronics get some hardwhare experience here of course on ARDUINO and from what im seeing from some pros Even if there on more advanced platforms that run bigger faster programs dont have the bootloader many pros use arduino for a first layout to test circuits here first GOOD COURSE gets you DIGGING AND THINKING This is where to start you certainly cant start on advanced platforms right off its really almost impossible without a lot more skill to obtain first +Very good course, it goes from basic concepts to arduino programming itself, without taking too long on what is not 100% necessary. As an Electrical Engineer and an Electronics Technician my self, I saw almost 10 years of concepts I learned in those courses to be just briefly touched and got the necessary information to go ahead. It made Arduino trully accessible to anyone! +Basic introduction. Useful, but could use some more complexity. +Very interesting course! +The professor seems pretty nice and the class is great but even quizzes/answers and assignments are only available for payment +Very nice code. Teaches you the basics of Arduino. You may need to know C programming language, if you don't know you can learn it. +good course for beginners and the instructor teaching simply way talent +I like this Course so much,In this course nothing is prerequisite,Instructor is very good he expains every things very nicely.I thinks all the student can do this course. +The lecturer and structure were very good. Five Stars.Sadly, I felt the course could have used a bit more substance. Less than hour of lectures per week and only one programming assignment left me wanting more. By contrast after taking https://www.coursera.org/learn/matlab/home/welcome I realy felt like I had a grasp on the material. +Great way of learning Arduino, and a great way of providing info. by video lectures. The best part being the questions that are asked in between the lectures and that makes it more interactive virtually. The course content is no doubt enjoyable and its worth taking this course as it builds up our basic concepts of embedded systems. +Very good introduction to Arduino Platform +Very good and interesting to learn. +Prefer more challenging course on this topic. +Great course ! +This course ignited my passion for embedded systems. The Prof. made it look so easy. It helped me incorporate Arduinos to one of the Hardware modules that I teach. Thank you very much i hope my 'arduino fire' keeps burning. +The course is well structured and the lectures are very good. However, It could use about 2 more modules that go into more detail about c programming in arduino. +A very good course to teach you the basics of Arduino platform and IDE. It'll help you get started on how to code your programs and lets you build up on it. I'd definitely recommend for a beginner. +It can be nice to walk through this process with a lecturer. Ian Harris does it well and knows the content well enough.Most of this content however is given sufficiently in the pamphlet with the Arduino Uno Starter Kit. Some problems and applications above and beyond the starter kit's intro guide would be nice and appropriate for the course. Additionally, given that this is also supposed to be an intro to C, a bit more detail and some programmatic problem solving in C would have also added good value to the course. +Good programme for beginners, very resourceful. +Linking programming language to hardware sucks. Do not waste time on this course. +Great course for those who start with C Programming with Arduino. Liked it a lot. +A very good course. It does not teach you everything about C programming but does a very good job of teaching the bare minimum required to understand and implement simple C programs.The Arduino Platform is very well explained. +Needs more than 4 weeks worth of material. Assignments and quizzes should be free. +Very educational and very good teacher! +A must for Arduino hobbist. +Good introductory course. +Even though very basic ... but great content & great instructor +really good introduction course to the Arduino platform +short lectures and perfect instructor....very nice course....you will love the instructor right away!! +Very basic overview of the Arduino system. Was expecting to be a bit more comprehensive. However, the final module is worthwhile, even if you know a little arduino programming.This course is baby steps to Arduino programming. +Great course, so much fun!! +Great class and great professor! +Good intro but too simple. +I just can repeat myself, one who is coming from non-IT area, can easily understand these lessons. Cannot wait for the following one! +This is a good course, especially for beginners as one can learn the basics without spending too much time or getting confused by too many technical terms. +Nice course, with relevant content. +im getting an overall idea about the arduino in this course, it covers a detailed course about its hardware too !! +Great beginner course for Arduino. People that are experienced with programming will probably end up zipping through some of the videos pretty fast or skipping some of them because the programming is very basic, that aside I found the lessons very interesting and would recommend them for anyone new to Arduino or wanting a refresher +this course has a very good contentvery good instructorand increased my experience a lot +Nice course for beginners! +Great Course for the beginner. I you want to get started with Arduino take this course, very helpful to understand the basics +overall a good course. Teaches you the basics of arduino and how to integrate c language with the arduino +More detailed insight of topics is required is what I felt. On the whole a great resource to the student community who want to start their microcontroller exploration through Arduino. +these course is excellent for beginers! +easy to understand. +I'm doing this course and I'm very excited until now! +Wonderful I'm getting further in the mastery of the IOT knowledge for my future ideas. +Great Course +It covers all the programming basics that are required for the setup of ARDUINO setup.Very helpful. +Good , but not very detailed for programming the Arduino +Really useful +Very good for people new to programing. +Clear and well explained. +Very good prof +If I am auditing this class why can't the quizzes be free also?What happened to free Coursera? +Excellent. Very interesting. I am playing a lot with my Arduino and learning new things. +Great course, great delivery style from the Lecturer. Moves along at a good, but not excessive pace. +Always best +Great course and very explanatory. Just need a little more programmatic explanation. +Very clever explanations. I am really getting a nice time whit this mooc! +Great course! I knew almost nothing about Arduino and microcontrollers and this course was great! Very thorough and well made course! +Awesome.Harris Sir is great. +Great course , learned a lot from it. +nice course, good for begineers +Excellent and we'll taught +The interface of the classes is too straight, not very flexible. It almost looks like a real classroom, which isn't good in case we're at home learning by ourselves. Still, it has a very good content. +Well organised.Good Clarity of Concepts. Thank you Professor. +very useful for mechanical engineers +I like this course a lot. +awesome course... but some more program and there implementation should be provided +Good introductiong for inexperient users. +this course is great for those who want to learn the basics of the micro controller ( arduino )The assignments and quizes are very well designed. +Good start up course +good course +Enjoyed the projects and the push to use arduino +very good fully of information course +The professor way of teaching is lucid, takes thing from bottom to top in a very effective manner. +The course is useful ,teaches about different types of debugging but lacks examples of these systems.Good intro the the arduino.Thanks a lot. +A nice introduction to C programming, which could seem intimidating to non programmers at first, but this course keeps a fresh and clear perspective and you'll learn the most useful coding structures and functions to start experimenting with arduino in no time. +Very good introduction to Arduino and C. Easy to follow, short videos and good practical exercises. +Great course. +Good but a lot of technical parts all though they are discounted as not needed to know! +Not a bad introduction, but if you already know a bit about programming you can get the same basics and learn more quickly with a book. +Great +Another great series. +This was one of my favorite courses I've even taken with Coursera. The instructor was very good at explaining the subject to a beginner like me who has some programming experience yet none with Arduino. +Great course, awesome professor, I wish it would include more wiring and actual projects in the making, just to get the bigger picture. +Prof. Harris continues to make everything crystal clear. The forums don't behave as I think they ought, but I assume that's a Coursera wide issue, and not particularly to do with this class. This course is really wonderful and I appreciate so much the opportunity to be a part of it. I have posted about it on my geek pages, and also on facebook. Thank you Prof. Harris and UCI! +This great course and greate insturactor +Thanks , Prof Ian & thanks ,Ian. +Awesome class! Recommend everyone take it. +Should contain more workload +not a great amount of content +great course!, thanks :) +It was good but according to me it had a paucity of arduino programming for which i enrolled . However it was still helpful and i enjoyed it . +Some of the discussion of C programming was a little incoherent and occasionally wrong (but not in ways that would affect what you learn about Arduino programming) but otherwise the course was a blast, and it got me very interested in taking more IoT classes. Professor Harris's enthusiasm for the material comes through very clearly. I definitely recommend it. +Very basic and good course for +This is fantastic course. +The course is almost about nothing. It seems to me that the teacher didn't make enough preparations and make a lot of mistakes during the couse. After 8 weeks of Arduino-related courses I've got almost nothing new besides first 2 chapters of Arduino Starter Kit book. +very informative with simple and easy to understand explanations. +Fun class! Great introduction to programming with the Arduino. +Very interesting lesson, recommended for those people who like to learn something different and new +Very basic info and really easy. You can complete the course in just a weekend!Really nice for a beginner! +Great introduction to arduino! +This course is so good, clears all the concepts and also addresses the nitty-gritties of Arduino. +Good first intro to Arduino. +Had joined for free(non-specialization), it was good. Got a basic overview on ardunio. I had never worked on ardunio, but on AVR microcontroller. If you are looking for basic overview, its really good. Thanks to coursera :) +Very good and understandable! +Amazing course +A good pstart to know about Arduino and C Programming. +really good +Very good introduction to the Arduino platform. +Great course for an easy introduction to Arduino programming. +Good course. Prof. Ian is very good. Only I miss a deeper discussion, more complete examples and assignments. Thanks a lot. +The course is a little bit basic for me but it is interesting and didactic.Thank you to Professor Ian Harris. +Awesome course to learn basics of Arduino, so that you can jump into IoT. +good course for learning arduino +it is well designed and clear lesson. I understand very easily thank you. +Nice understandable lessons with just the right amount of work +reviewing the classmates assignments should only be possible after submitting the own work.some more sophisticated programming challenges should be required. +i expected it to be more advanced. +easy to learn and very useful. +Too simple and lack of practice exercises! +Very good introductory course! Thank You!!! +Amazingly insightful and comprehensive! +Good introduction! +Nice course to learn Ardunio basics and serial communication over it. +Instructive and fun! +Great course for getting started with a solid foundation. +Nice course, great teacher, english is very simple to understand, great for novice programmers and those who want to bring to Arduino. I suggest it! Only one negative note, take the certificate is very espensive +I felt like the C Programming parts were a bit too fast, specially the enviroment setup. But I loved this course! Congratulations and thank you! +Prof Harris does an excellent job in this Arduino introductory class. I had a rough understanding of how Arduino worked coming into the class and was hoping for something that could fill in the gaps in my understanding. This class was excellent for my purposes but will also serve students seeking to get started with Arduino as well. +Very interesting and well build up .Some of the C & C++ IDE software didn't properly work well on my laptop and are hard to get them going....THX Prof Ian Harris +best course best teacher +All the concepts were very clear and helped me a lot . +The teacher is really didactic and the material is good, but the course is too basic. It could be completed in a weekend. Maybe all this course could be only a Module. +Very useful for amateur learners. Thank a lot University of California!! +Really good and useful... +good as a start +Excellent Professor. Great pace and content +Nice course for beginners, I actually enjoyed it. Just same remark as for previous one - please review text of subtitles, it's really awful and I guess it's even funny for native english speakers +Excellent information and presentation, easy to understand, and relevant to both Arduino and other C/C++ microcontrollers. Great course! +method of teaching is fantasticmore programming example may be added +love this course +Some essential concepts are covered in this course which help understand the basis of IOT. +Very interesting and intuitive. Thanks. +Definitely Worth It ! +Awesome course. +Introduces the basics of Arduino and C programming. Not a lot of content but gets you ready for the next course in the 4-course Specialisation. +Great course! Great explanations! Great examples! Great assignments! +Good overall syllabus, but needs more concentration on Objective C. +Great +Very good professor, good course for a start. +No forum, what are you thinking! +top +that good! +On one hand - basics. On the other, you may be lost in the last part of the course. You don't need to understand to complete assigements, but netherless - it's hard to understand if you do not have experience in embedded systems topic +Excellent teaching, very useful. I was looking for something new in my field, though arduino is bit old, still it is fascinating. +Great course! Im trying to keep aways learning about technology +Awesome course for someone looking beginners information about Arduino. +A good start in the world of Arduino. +The very basics. Overall good. +Great introduction to the programming side of Arduino! +Good course +from start with the arduino it´s very good +Easy going introduction to the topic. +As I was taking this class, I often wondered who the target audience was. Although the class has no listed prerequisites, I noticed a lot of engineering jargon being used without ever defining what it meant. I'm not sure that non-technical people would get much out of the lectures. On the other hand, the lectures were mostly at a superficial level, so I'm not sure that technical people would get much out of them either. The only topic that got a (somewhat) deep dive was serial communication, and it wasn't clear why; users of the Arduino don't need to understand it any more or less than any other aspect of how an Arduino works.There were other issues. The programs we wrote had to be pasted into a submission form that removed all the carriage returns when you hit Save; I had to manually fix my program each time. Perhaps most frustratingly, you could follow the assignment instructions to the letter, but after you submitted you might find out that the grading criteria included other requirements. In one case people asked about it, and it turned out that the grading criteria were wrong, but they were never updated. My sense was that not much effort went into the creation of this course. +love the course +Great for beginners wanting to learn how to use Arduino! +Interesting but should be more challenging +I really enjoyed the class. I new a little about Arduino already, but this taught me a few new functions, and gave me an introduction ("hello world!" style introduction) to C programming. Good stuff, I can't wait to take the next course(s). +To professor Ian Harris and Coursera thanks alot +Thoroughly enjoyed it. Prof Harris delivers great lectures. Looking forward to the next part. +Very useful course for beginners who want to start learning embedded systems. This intro course to arduino is 'THE' place to start your embedded learning. Professor Harris is great, he explained everything in detail, maintained the clarity while explaining the concepts and kept it simple, just introduced to what we need to know to get started. Thanks to Dr. Harris and UC Irvine for offering such a great course for free, it was really useful for me. I highly recommend this course for beginners. +Excellent course for beginners. Explanations are very clear and concise. +Very engaging! Great course for someone with no prior programming experience (like myself). After taking this course I feel inspired to continue learning! +Great course to get started with Arduino! Short lectures explaining the basic concepts and how to start programming the Arduino. It's quite short so I'd recommend to freely browse additional material and videos while you're taking the course.Have fun with Arduino projects! +Bit advanced lessons would have helped the expertise in this field. +Great...job...Really heplful.. +It is an easy to follow but very basic course. It might be good for a newbie but I expected a little more. +I found this to be very useful in getting started with both C and the Arduino - neither of which I've studied/used before. I felt the lectures were well delivered and the videos of the Arduino board and circuit helped me to connect components correctly. I suspect some of the problems I experienced in submitting my projects might be resolved through some more detailed advice within the course notes. I'm looking forward very much to the companion course involving interfacing with the Arduino. +A very good course for the beginer of Arduino. After finish this course, you will feel that you are standing at the starting line of the Arduino journey. +A great class.Thank you very much! +Really good class! +This is a brilliant course if you are looking at beginning with Arduino. The videos are short and crisp, the assignments are interesting too. Prof. Ian Harris has done a brilliant job with the course. Big thank you to University of California, Irvine. +Had really fun and learned a lot. Thanks University of California, Irvine for such an amazing course. And thanks Sir Ian Harris. +Great start to arduino programming. +Great Course !!!! +This course is too short and have little real time example . +This course barely touches C programming. While explanatory about the Arduino functions and structure, It should have been spread into more weeks so that it could cover more. +Really helpful in understanding the basics of Arduino and UART communication protocols! +Professor Ian G Harris is the kind of professor I wish i had at my university. +It's being a clear and objective course. Well explained and nicely taught! +A good introduction to the Arduino platform. Looking forward to attending the next course. +Great course, very inspiring, the pace is a bit slow but you can continue by yourself +One week of this course was only marginally relevant to the subject. The instructor even said as much. +Very helpful. Thank you +Good beginners and introductory course to Arduino and C. Prof. Harris is a brilliant lecturer. +No practical at least till the end of this course in this specialization +Thank you very much. This is an excellent introduction to Arduino programming. +good one really in depth tutorials, must watch. +Easy to understand and guided student to learn Arduino Hardware as well as programming it. +Clean and precise course for starters to IOT domain +great clearly explained ... +Really great course...Having a grounding in coding helps though...And Professor Harris is a very motivational representative of the topic... +Great starter course for Arduino! Can't wait till next one to improve my skills. +expected more programs to be taught and more experiments to be shown, disappointing +Awesome, very complete program +best introductory +Very useful, informative and practical course! I highly recommend the course to all my friends! +A MOOC with great elements to improve and reinforce our teaching work and to support our students in the development of their skills of the 21st century.Masterfully guided by Patrick Griffin, Esther Care and research team from the University of Melbourne, Australia. +A course I recommend to anyone truly interested in ed +Let me heartily thank authors for the course. It was interesting and useful, and definitely I will use knowledge and experience from this course in my own practice. +Very interesting course! It has helped me revise my teaching practice and reflect on new objectives and activities for my students. I'd suggest teachers who can spare a couple of hours a week to definitely do it. +An apt course for the 21st century schools & educators.The instructors should be more interactive on twitter, after all that's what new learning is all about.Kudos, the Aussie way!! +Great course! +This course is excellent. The professor explain all concepts in a great way. +Great course of economic fundamentals, including a bit of different models critics. Great professor, I love her style: simple and plain. +Excellent analyst of economic polices globally, useful update annually. +this course is excellent ..!! +The professor is very great, she stated clealy and intersting about Ancient Philosophy. I love very much. useful! +This is a great introduction to Ancient philosophy for all of those who want to obtain more knowledge about the invaluable legacy of the Greek miracle !I deeply recommend this course, which brought be excellent additional material in Ancient philosophy useful to every philosophy student but also to anyone who wants to acquire in depth general knowledge of the roots of our civilisation, the whole brilliantly taught in a rigorous and entertaining fashion !Thank you Professor Meyer ! +A very detailed and comprehensive course. +Excellent course with a fitting mix of challenges and material! +Wonderful course! +Loved the course! +learned a lot about the subject under the guidance of Professor Meyer that's otherwise hard to study independently +I very much liked the course, it has a good pace and the Professor, Susan Sauvé Meyer, does a great job in presenting the material. As the course goes on material discussed before is revisited, there are running examples (so to speak) and the set up generally seems to have been well planned and constructed in advance. This is a course anyone can follow casually on the side, its fun and offers a lot. Thank you +Excellent introduction to Aristotle. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course! I started with practically no knowledge on the subject, and finished with a great understanding. The course was not difficult to follow; had interesting and easy to understand lectures, and provided brilliant resources for background study. I highly recommend this course for anybody interested in Philosophy! +Great class! +This course gives an excellent tour of the thought of Aristotle and his successors. The course focuses on the main points of Aristotle's thought and gives the student an excellent frame work for understanding Aristotle's thought without getting lost in the details. A better course that leaves the student capable of going off and reading Aristotle on their own would be hard to produce. Great job. +Though not too inclusive, it's a great course for introduction. +Absolutely wonderful! Susan Meyer is a fabulous teacher! +I loved this course, the Professor is thoughtful and insightful. It was a treat to take this course! +This was a very enjoyable experience, thank you all for the opportunity. +Definitely interesting. +Well done and thought provoking. Only good things to say about the professor. +This was an enjoyable course. The professor through her explanations made what could be difficult concepts understandable and fun. +Very good basic introduction to the philosophers and their ideas. Very succinct while staying true to the content! +like it most the epicurean philosophy +Excellent course with precious insights in the works of Aristotle, Epicurus and the stoics. +A good follow- up to the previous course. The material is well organised and gives a profound overview while still inciting further investigation, leaving enough room for expansion of the mind and new thoughts on... almost everything. +Excellent course for beginners. Thanks to Prof. Susan Sauvé Meyer and the Coursera staff. +I would like to thank the University faculty, especially professor Susan Meyer, for the excellent lessons offered to participants. I have learned a lot about Aristotle and the following schools. The video lessons contained a wealth of information on the subject. The participants also proved very interested in sharing their views and discussing some of the intriguing topics raised by the professor and by other participants. The course was truly outstanding. +I got more out of it than I had expected. +Beside the annoying loud music in the intro of each video it is Insightful. +Another fine MOOC by the prof. I really like her dry delivery style. +Professor Meyer gave exemplary lectures while explaining a variety of different philosophical schools. I found the course interesting and enriching primarily due to the high quality of the lectures given by Professor Meyer. The questions during the lectures were helpful and the quizzes were short and effective in testing learning. May Professor Meyer live long and continue to teach! +great course ( part e of 2) +A good starting point to ancient philosophy . +Very much enjoyed this course. Some areas were a review but in others I was able to gain a great deal of new insight into the philosophies that were covered. Many Thanks! +Though I feel it a bit hard, but it's still interesting. +I like the quiz between subjects in every video courses. It is really interesting. +I don't need the teacher to read Aristotle for me. Reading is not Teaching. +The gold of Aristotle's classic has been expertly mined out and presented in a connoisseur way for the appreciation, which give this lecture its form, or in Aristotle's term, its soul to be alive.Professor Meyer rarely smiled, but when she did, she smiled very charmingly. ; ) +This is an interesting and enjoyable course of well connected study units. +An enlightening course +Interesting overview. Would have appreciated more time on Hellenistic Philosophy +Meyer is a great teacher and I look forward to more courses by her if she continues to release them +This is a great course because the great instructor shares her knowledge about Aristotle and his successors in a comprehensible and exciting manner. +A fantastic course, simple, high-level and didactic, rare thing to see. congratulations! +Short and sweat course! +Outstanding course for those who don't fear the important questions, such as: "What makes a good life?". Don't miss it! +Introductory course, but nontheless it offers deep insights and explanations of some special problems in Aristotle, Epicureanism and Stoicism. Thank you! +more than great!!! +The combination of this and the related Plato course are excellent. +Good course well presented and interesting. +This is one of my top three favorite courses I've taken on Coursera so far! +Both of the Ancient Philosophy courses, Plato and His Predecessors, and Aristotle and His Successors were excellent. Susan is a very good lecturer, clear, and precise.I have completed 'Introduction to Philosophy' and the 'Philosophy of Science', both at the University of Edinburgh, and can highly recommend Susan's courses at University of Pennsylvania as the next step. +Clearly presented.course which focuses only on the principal question and themes of each of the 4 philosophies. I found it extremely valuable as it structured in a logical way these issues and also related themt modern life. My only criticism relates to the grading method of the final assignment 0 or 1 is far too simplistic. +An excellent start to get knowledge about the philosophy principle of the ancient thinkers. Their vision have influenced the way of thinking in European and Western culture. +I am a mathematician, who is interested in learning and developing philosophical ideas concerning the origin of modern science. I am periodically taking philosophical courses here and there to be clear about basic notions of classical philosophical thought. I have never met such a strong qualified lecturer as Professor Susan Sauvé Meyer before. She managed to present the whole body of Aristotelian philosophy in a catchy scheme without any loss of his points. Her explanations are precise and clear. I am admired of her lectures and going to take as many of her courses as I can find. +Great course. Thanks so much. +This course give us a particular synthetical view of ancient thought with a particular conciseness and precision. +Formatted like the the preceding course. This one goes in depth with the later philosophers. The lectures are very detailed and in-video quizzes are engaging. +Very good professor. She explains everything clearly and is really enthusiastic about the topic. +Really like the mix of theory and practical application +This class gets very math and theory heavy, so I would not recommend it for those looking for programming practice with the algorithms/programming approaches presented in this class. If you want thorough theoretical background information, this class would be a better fit.The use of RNA secondary structure alignment as an example of dynamic programming implementation is overkill. There are much simpler ways to introduce dynamic programming. +This is a challenging course that teaches an invaluable problem solving approach, applicable in many domains. +Great course, problem solving oriented +The last awesome course on computing science. +You cannot get easy answers for homework and it pushes you to think hard. +great, but really difficult for people with poor reading and writing skill to finish. +I took all 5 previous courses in this series and they were all great.But suddenly Coursera has changed its policy, and one can not take courses for free anymore.If you just want to learn and gain knowledge without chasing the certificate, than the course is useless, because you can't receive feedback for your work. +Super good, challenging course that forces you to think. +Love it. +Thank you for giving me excellent information on digital manufacturing. It is very helpful course for me. Thank you The State University of New York and Coursera. +Good coverage of multiple topics.Very basic level overview +Very useful information and datas about the customer satisfaction. Challenging self projects on city branding. And the insights of real managers of main Italian cultural institutions is just a brilliant addition to the theoretical part. Definitely recommend! +Very consistent course, full of great references (both academic and professional), with a good learning logic and good (nice and simpatic) professor/facilitator. It brings to me a lot of new ideas and information. Thank you! +Excellent. Fun and very informative. Very happy with the experience. +Great course! +a good introductory course to heritage management +A challenging course with tons of theoretical information. +its an amazing course work. All study material (videos and readings) is entirely connected with course and requirements of students and very easy to understand. Anyone, who want to learn their subject i easy way, try to do this courses and even the facilitators and specialists also should see this atleast once. a big thanks to entire COURSERA team. +The course presents the core basis of Cultural Heritage Management in a very attractive way. Highly recommended. +Absolutely exceptional course - I have learned so much in preparation for commencing my Graduate Certificate in Arts and Cultural Management via correspondence. This course not only provided great management insights and how institutions implement their product to the consumer, it provided up to date methods of data processing and insight into marketing approach. I will definately watch out for more courses with Bocconi. I could not be more grateful for the material and the opportunity to learn this much at no cost. Thanks for your time and amazing effort in putting together this course and thank you to our amazing host, Andrea Rurale for being the enthusiastic, professional guide through these learning modules. +Very concise and interesting course. Thanks for offering Art & Heritage Management perspective. +Very impressive course.The content is perfect for understanding the main topic of experiencial marketing about the management of arts.I think many lessons are usefull no only for cultural institutions, but also for entertainment industries such as movies, theatres and sports, because the main concept of customer satisfaction and experiential marketing can be applied to the entertainment industry as well.I've taken the other courses offered by Bocconi and are always excellent , in terms of content quality and professors.Compliments to all involved into the idea creation and realization of this course.Andrea +good for mechanical engineers +The Mechanics of Materials course series is a must for any engineer. The material is presented in a logical and straight forward manner with applications to the real world. Dr. Whiteman is truly a a great teaching Professor! +It's an excellent course where you can remember and learn concepts about the behaviour of materials under certain forces. +Today I have another interesting course on mechanics of materials, thank you very much for providing such a great course. +very usefull my life +Explains the fundamentals of Beam bending and the topics covered are in great way and looking to finish MOM part 4 +This is the best of the 4 great MoM courses. Great presentation of the fundamentals. +Helping me a lot! +Thank you, Sir. Another great course material and wonderful explanation. +it's reaily one of the most interesting course +This is a good course. I like all the part Mechanics of Materials. I suggest you to please go through the Specialization of this course. +Fantastic Course. +Absolutely excellent! Would love to delve deeper into this subject matter with another iteration of this course. +Great class! +Nice videos, competent explanation, critical approach. +This course has amazing information in the lectures, but it is difficult in the video lectures to pick out what bits of information are going to be relevant in the quizzes, you will have to re-take quizzes a number of times, no matter how well you are taking notes. Also the very last section is entirely made of a rushed-maths lesson, and a quiz based on that rushed maths lesson that is VERY difficult. I would highly recommend this for anyone who already knows basic Astronomy Math, and caution anyone who doesn't. +Excelent and nice course. Congratulations. I learned a lot +Loved the course videos and lectures were entertaining. I was a bit dissappointed with the outright dismissal of non-traditional understnadings of these ancient monuments and thought the explanations on why and how they were built, were lightly treated.A great course ... +I loved this course! This content was fascinating and the presentation was excellent, very visual which is wonderfully engaging. I'd love to see more courses perhaps +An interesting course both from astronomical and architectural point of view. For me as an architect and amateur astronomer it was a pleasure watching the lectures in this course and learning some new interesting facts about ancient architects-astronomers. +A very good introductory course. +The contents of the course are interesting however it is a shame that you can only access the quiz portion and assesments if you pay for the certificate. Same with the materials, it would be great if the readings and the suggested bibliography details could be downloaded. +interesting course but you cant do the tests if you didnt pay money (any tasts) +very interesting course and fascinating topic +FUN COURSE WITH GREAT INFO +I guess this is the course that I have enjoyed the most in Coursera until now.This is an awesome tool with such an excellent program, final project and teacher. I invite everyone to enroll in the program.Thanks for offering quality through this course! +Interesting and excellent. +It's a great course to explore the ancient Philosophy +I have not been satisfied with the theoretical content +Complete and very useful course, great teacher.Un curso muy útil y necesario, excelente profesor. +Excellent course with an excellent instructor. +This course is extremely well-organized and very well-presented. The textbook is very clear and is available as a PDF on the Internet or can be ordered from EPFL. The exercises from each week contain at one problem that requires Matlab or Octave. +I loved it! I learned so much! +It really helped me a lot in teaching art and engaging my students in a more fun and child-friendly way. +Excellent combination for education purpouse +Great content. Congratulations on the initiative. 100% recommendable +Iis been a great experience for me +Very inspiring course! Very useful not only for teachers! +Great course with interesting suggestions and views on activities, related to art. +great course +I like it so much, it was a very interesting course. Very creative, interactive and useful. Now I have another perspective of art and education. Thanks a lot! +I thoroughly recommend this course +I really enjoyed the class. It was well put together, interesting, and gave me a lot of great ideas. Great for a new teacher or a refresher for an experienced teacher looking for new lessons. +This course provide me an opportunity to know what happened in an international museum.Also the good quality of the impartation encourage me to learn more knowledge about museum education.Thank you very much. +Very interesting +Great course.Is possible to use this learning adapting for adult education. Specially the part of design thinking. +This training course is very interesting and informative. Thank you for new knowledge! +It's a good course. Funny and intelligent, but it can be a little more challenging. +WELL IT IS AN AMAZING COURSE, I AM PSYCHOLOGIST SO I WILL TRY TO TRANSLATE THE COURSE CONTENT TO MY AREA, ALSO I WILL USE IT WITH MY 12 OLD TEARS DAUGHTER TO TEACH HER ART. +Very interesting course that suggests a lot of innovative ways to get kids to engage with art. +Very interesting, usefull, entretaining and fresh. Totally recomended! +smart, interesting and short lectures, inspiring, helpful, challenging, open-minded and tottally worth doing it! +The examples were great and I would have like more of them. +Interesting approach to impart Art knowledge. +Fun and applicable to any classroom! +Very interesting and well done course packed with very useful resources. +It is a very interesting course.The tasks are achievable and easy to follow.I do not understand how your final qualification depends on an activity qualified by fellow students, many of them, as the instructions read, are not fluent in English. How can they evaluate an activity written in such? +Briliant and up to date +Excellent course that taught many methods to develop engagning activities with different ages in a museum setting. Excellent reading list and theory. +Amazing and very interesting. Good resources for education through Art. +Thank you for the ideas. I teach foreign languages and I find many of your activities will help me plan more demanding activities us +An engaging and educational tour of art education! This course was informational and entertaining, I am disappointed for it to end. +Another excellent course with useful ideas adaptable to museum teaching. +Interesting beginning level class for those who are interested in teaching arts. You can have great activities, instructors and classmates and the whole learning process is just so fun! +Great and fun activities with solid academic foundations +This course has proven very useful and relevant in helping me to develop new and exciting activities for my English as a Second Language Class. +Great course! +Very good and informative +A very nice course. Could be longer. +This course is really engaging and offers really interesting ideas and additional resources. +The course is very well organized and the contents are well explained. +I learnt a lot from this course and I can apply it my classes forward going. It's a good introduction to being an art educator especially for me as I am not trained in the art area. +Very good, complete and interesting course ;) Thanks a lot for sharing your information and strategies so we can all become better teachers. Kids need and deserve that!!! <3 +Thank you. +This is very interesting course. I learn a lot of new information about activities.I am planing to invent some of new information into my working process.Thank you, Art & Activity team. +This course is a very well-made, solid introduction to Art & Activity for museum educators. +Very interesting and useful courses. Indeed, helping to learn a lot of new, interesting, promote personal growth and development. Thank you! +An excellent introduction for inquiry-based learning and how to incorporate arts education into the classroom. +Great course! Very interesting activities! +Thw course gave me a lot of inspiration. Thanks a lot! +It is just perfect for my needs :) +It was great. I loved the fact I could watch the videos and follow the steps at my own pace. The content was really good: objective, clear and the texts were both supportive of the subject presented and open to other approaches. I recommend it to everyone interested in deepen her/his relations with the theme. +I found this very interesting and easily adaptable to the Visible Thinking exercises I currently use with the 9th and 10th grade English classes. Thank you for your insights. +Really excellent activities and explanations and examples. I loved so much about it. The content was excellent, the time with students was excellent... Really great!This makes me want to visit New York! +Very interesting and enriching +Straightforward course, and at the end the principal assignment allows for both the creation of classroom/learning plans for each person taking the course, as well as the ability to view others' ideas and potential learning lessons. Great for teachers looking for new projects and ideas, as well as professional teaching artists and art museum educational staff. +Very interesting and helpful. Lot's of ideas that could be applied in the classroom. +very useful! +Very well done and very easy to follow. I have learned original ideas that can not wait to use it. +Loved it! +A very engaging course... Many, many practical ideas which will be useful in my art room. +I thought this course would teach art appreciation,but seems geared towards Teachers. +very interesting +Very informative video sessions, enjoyed the process and study of the course +The teachers there do not do what they teach: they rattle down their text as fast as they can speak and do not emphasize the content with movement or even change of expression. I was disappointed. +I found the presentations to be very clear and focused. In addition, the readings were a good introduction to the foundation and current thinking in the field.I was disappointed in the difficulty in connecting with other students. That would have enhanced the learning experience for me. I am new to Coursera, and understand thismay be a difficult aspect of the programs to control, but it's worth a try. +Videos were informative and I enjoyed doing the strategies with the videos. +Interesting approach for teachers and those involved in any type of learning processes. Useful reading material +I really enjoy this course! +Very instructive and fun.The team know their work and they are a great help for teachers. +nice teacher，I feel i am more interested in museum activity +I really enjoyed this online course)I gained a lot of knowledge, which I can apply in teaching sphere and other fields.Thank you very much to Coursera and MoMA Team! :-) +The course is brief, but informative. Lots of wonderful, creative ideas for educators in general--not just for art educators. +Very instructive and many tips to enhance the student's interest for Art +The course was excellent, just perfect in every way, thank you very much!!! I've learnt a lot, every information, tip and technique you shared with us was just what I wanted to learn about. Thank you thank you! +Loved it! +Great +Lacking in content. The OOP portion of the final project was poorly constructed. The instructions were unclear and the exercise seemed futile. We took a data set and further complicated it by abstracting into various object classes. I think a better example could be used. Since there are already plenty of ways to do the things our objects were tasked with it seemed like a futile exercise. I think a different type of real world object should be used, perhaps one that is not easily stored in a data frame. +This courses touches many interesing aspects about R programming but I did not like the structure , it does not seem to me that it adequates its difficulty coming from "The R programming enviornment".Also I miss some swirl lessons for many of the readings from the book. There are not too many help from the mentors and the peer assigment in week 4 took me too much time and had to consult a lot of external resources. Readings in general are OK but too simple.I have learnt many things but +More information material will be helpful +Great course. Learned a lot about R programming in practical terms. +Very good, recommended. +WIsh there were more assignments. The final project was the only assignment in the course. Object-oriented programming in R requires more than a single assignment to grasp- even at a superficial level. +To complete this course you have to go back and forth for the basic. Also the final assignment is bit ambiguous, more clarity is required. +Fantastic One..! +Amazing course. Smooth learning experience yet with increasing difficulty. Challenging and addictive. +The first three weeks assigments were way too easy and the answers could be found in the material.The last assignment was very poorly described and the material was very limited in explaining OOP. That meant it took a lot of time figuring out what exactly was needed to complete the assignment and how to do it.Disappointing after a great first course. Hoping the next will be better. +Great course material with engaging assignments. Strongly recommended. +For me the course provided a quick and easy introduction to the 'purr' package as well as clarity on the current state of R's object oriented programming system. +the last peer review problem is much too hard for what I learned from the course material, if there is a more specific instruction for the assignment will be better. +The course has given me good insight into the functional and object oriented programming parts of R. +Good Course! But focus should be more on OOPs Concepts through video lectures to better understand it. +This course has a very clear goal. However, the implementation of this goal needs significant improvement. The first three modules were very easy to master. However, the last module was disproportionately difficult, making it unreasonable for learners. +Great acceleration of the specialization compared to the first course. It covers modern approaches (as map-reduce-filter implementation in purrr), nicely explains debugging, benchmarking, OOP etc. I would recommend this as a kick starter for more advanced R programming. +I learnt about myself skils, how to identify and how to improve as well. +I find this course much rewarding +'Being a Teacher' enabled me to extend my thinking to accelerate my teaching and learning abilities and creating conditions which encourage learners to want to learn. +Well structured and easy for one with no teaching experience to flow with. Kudos for the job well delivered. +Really liked this course it gave me so much to learn, improve and development. One of the best course for teachers. And I would like to thanks the professors of this course. THANK YOU! +An opportunity to continue to reflect on one's teaching within an engaging and compelling framework. +Very important course to those who want to improve their teaching skills. +This course have good teachers and material. The articles of peers which you should read and assess are very Interesting, deep and curious. +An awesome course +The ideas are good, but I dislike the presentation. It's hard to read the screen and quotes when they're only on the screen for a few moments. Lengthy lists are presented, however, I need to pause the video if I want to know anything that's on the list beyond the first two points. These are often the only points explained. If one is only concerned with the spoken word, then you'll gather an okay amount of information. +Interesting material with local perspective. Could relate as an ex South African. I always looked forward to hearing the next lecture. +This course helped me explore what being a teacher really is and how to discover my philosophy of teaching. +This is enlightening! +It was great to know what exactly is being a teacher. +I have great respect for the lessons I am learning because many times we face challenges within the classroom and we always think that we must have the answers but I was humbled to realize that my very students who create these problems have the solutions.Dr. Francis was born to be a teacher, he shares these lectures with such joy that one can only be humbles to sit at his feet and drink in the wealth of knowledge he shares with us, only for you to want to rush to your classroom and be an agent of change.These lessons are for every parent and every teacher so that we can help our very own children and students under our care as well.Happy learning everyone. +The Commonwealth Education Trust provides you of a diverse approach to the teaching and learning issues with a global perspective over the studies and development concerning the matter. The course in particular touches a lot of interesting and important aspects to pay attention during the learning processes that may take place in institutions and relationships within these. +So far, very interesting course. Love the format, discussion forums and materials related to being a Teacher. +Challenge but very worthwhile to refocus on what creates a good learning environment. +I have really enjoyed this course.Many twwhanks to Prof John and Dr. Dennis for their inputs +The course is to feel the difference after getting through the course. +THE AUDIO QUALITY IS NOT CLEAR BUT CONTENTS ARE VERY USEFUL. +Really great course! Really delves into the methodology behind effective teaching in a global classroom. +The things I have learnt from this course so far have been amazing, and I am keen on finishing the entire set! Thank you so much for making this course readily available to anyone with an internet connection. I am so grateful to be able to improve myself and am looking forwards to continuing my education. +Great as an introduction for many things but, unfortunately, it is not possible to keep on developing the themes presented on the lectures because there is no access to the sources used. Without a functional bibliography for the course, the full potential for learning of those enroled is tragically cut. +I needed these introductory guides to help me assess my own intentions, strengths, weaknesses in a more structured way. I have enjoyed the whole series. Only one technical issue: sound quality could always be better. +Great! +Waste of time and I did not learn anything from this course.It is basically 6 weeks of the "facilitator" asking questions without offering much in the form of answers. +Great Course! +i'm enjoying the courses in this spcialzation and i'm working toward a goal to complete each course to earn the final certicate in the teaching for learning specialization . +Such lame quizes, I cannot pass them although I know this material in my sleep,because the english is so bad and has so many ambiguities; There are no single answers to a question, instead you need the check the correct answers, which are phrased in s misleading way, and one little mistake fails the whole question. So I try and try and try and never get all the correct checks for the specific questions. So I just fail and retry and fail and retry. This is so frustrating I consider I will unroll this course. Same because I know all this material !!!! +It hard to work with Arduino, and it's harder to work with the Iskra. But the course are very useful. I like the way the teacher guide us to do the experiment. Step by step, try and fail, you will finish this course with pround.Thanks you so much! +Very interresting course. Step by step from scratch, very complete with good explanations and lectures and many experiences. A must have done !Thanks for the course !Best reghards,GEP +Really great course +I have much fun in this course! +More respect after the course than before, as I thought this would be a pretty easy Excel course, but finishing it called lot of real work and statistical and modelling understanding. +Really amazing course. I enjoy it. The only thing is that videos should be more explicit and deeper in the difficult topics. +Good for learning statistical analysis using real examples (bank credit card application) and hands on the data in the final project! +Fun to watch, great exercises and examples, interesting subjects made simple. Congrats! +Very useful course. +I wish this course was more focused on building and analyzing data in excel. It feels like it's more focused on financial measurements and probability, it hasn't related to my line of work yet. +Very useful knowledge in this course. Although, some of the quizzes require some small fixes, and there are minor mistakes in some lectures. +Good Course, but final project asks a lot for what this course is +Hello, I am Gabriel Wang from TAIWAN. I am currently working as HSEQ Manager in a LNG shipping management company. Thank you for been so patient & Nice for having course online. I DO learnt a lot from it. Appreciated. +Leve of difficulty was above my expectations. Moved too fast. Could have been more thorough in applying the content to examples similar to the quiz. Seemed to stick to the bare minimum of what would be required before moving to the quiz. Be transparent with future prospective students that this course absolutely requires knowledge of calculus, probability, and statistics. +Resources provided are very good in quality, completeness, easy to understand, and clear for neophyte. +Good course, bit disjointed at times and some of the maths is rushed through, or not really relevant. Not sure I need proofs on why standardising figures results in easier to use data, maybe just show us how to do the analysis and apply it to more examples in real life. +Not quite the excel actually relevant to industrial requirements. had to leave the course mid way.There are better Excel DA courses out there. Concept presentation was good though. +I enjoyed the class even though I felt it was a little over my head. I learned a lot about the processes involved in doing this work. +The course was a bit disappointing. We didn't cover enough advanced Excel functionalities, opting instead to focus on 2 statistical models (Binary Classification and Linear Regression). Having a BSc in Economics, the Linear Regression tutorials and quizzes seemed infantile, while the Binary Classification tutorials proved to be too vague, when we actually had to apply this knowledge on the final project. In retrospect, I regret not starting to work on the final week's material right from the start, which resulted in having to switch session multiple times in order to finish the course. Even if I had done so, though, it wouldn't have made up for the vague instructions in the quizzes and assignment of the final week that made feel at a loss, until I asked for help in the forums. All in all, this course need some serious re-working, in terms of how the material is presented and how the assignments are phrased. +I´m quite disappointed in this course. First you should know that the first week doesn´t reflect at all the rest of the course in difficulty and in matter. As I was delighted by the first week presentation and way of explaining as soon I started the second week I was wondering what happen to the clear, concise examples and ideas presented in the first one. First The presentation of the following weeks is done by handwriting on software that give a very very poor graphic view. It´s BARELY READABLE ! It allows really smalls amounts of infos to be displayed. That could be redeemed by good explanations you may say but sadly it´s not the case most of the time. The examples are rarely connected to something real, numbers come up from ... nowhere. The level of difficulty could be challenging if you don´t have a bachelor of sciences like Math or Physics or Bio. It´s NOT A BEGINNER COURSE.To give more context I have done and succeed more 16 courses , 2 specializations, followed/audited about 3 others courses and that is the first time I´m giving a bad review. I´m sure the teachers put a lot of effort in doing the course , there is a lot subjects presented but I definitely suggest a change in the presentation to start then connect and fully explain examples. With some changes that course will fly high :) +Final project almost impossible to do with material taught. Also, each lecture comes with an additional spreadsheet that needs to be studied. Material taught doesn't match material tested. +Solid class focused on the mechanics of building and evaluating binary classification models using Excel +The course is both tough and interesting. The interesting bit comes from developing a model for a credit card company, which is a rather creative and captivating process. The tough part is in hectic learning of a vast array of statistical terms, often poorly explained – and alost never applied to practice (it is true that some of statistical metrics are "applied" in quizzed but it is unclear what's their purpose besides computing yet another number). +great course if you want to go deeper in business +Not very helpful for those with a solid statistical background. I prefer to use R to do the modeling things, while this course should talk more about pivot tables and existing useful financial functions which advantage over other statistical tools. +Great class! The teachers explained everything in detail, looking forward to takmore classes in the future! +A bit too academic, I would like to see explanations on Excels and business cases. +Teaching method of Daniel is awseome +Not enough detail and information provided in the lectures to undertake the final assessment. +The course is very challenging, but very interesting. I will probably suggest a bit more of staff support in the last week, specially the final project which is very challenging and demanding. A bit more of orientation will be really good. +Irrationally difficult and inexplicably sloppy. Having taken first "Business Metrics for Data Driven Companies" I had high hopes that it would be on the same level.Well, I was wrong. It was extremely messy, jumping around from definition to definition with little to no explanation and there was a general lack of motivation from professor Egger's part.Apart from week 1 that had some necessary basic knowledge of Excel, all of the next weeks' lessons were fast paced beyond a beginner's comprehension. By week 5 I had lost the motivation to go on and was only able to finish it through a great deal of trial and error on the quizzesI would not recommend it, unless you have some basic knowledge of the economic theories used in this lesson. +It's not Excel... it's applied probability theory using Excel workbooks. +I very much enjoyed this course. I've been able to apply some of the strategies I learned in the specialization and I look forward to using it as a resource moving forward. +I love this course and the way the material is explained. I plan on taking this course again to improve my understanding of the information because I think it relays very important ideas. +An absolutely dreadful course. The only things you'll end up studying are how to use the spreadsheets given and what the instructor was thinking when creating them... I can't figure out what, and there doesn't seem to be any way of finding out. The lectures were mostly stuff I learned at school and really quite easy, but I just have no idea what the final project has got to do with the lectures. +All theory. Quizzes you were left with the task of answering questions based on models never seen or explained spent most time trying to make sense of them. Final project is almost a joke to try and decipher how to create from scratch based on the ones they provided in the quizzes. Its not a joke but it is very difficult when the actual excel and model making isnt part of the lectures. +Good material but short explanation and no detail exercises and solution practices before the final test makes the test a bite hard to resolve. +very very interesting and well explained +Overall, the course material is good with many example. Need a general knowledge with mathematical and statistical from the beginning to pass the exam, because course slide is a little bit fast. +Tougher than the first in the specialization. You have to spend time on the material to succeed. In the end a lot of the concepts were not that difficult to figure out - don't overthink things as well! +Such a good course to learn about data analysis and statistics by using Excel! +Very good course +if you do not have a background in statistics do not expect to pass this course +I being a beginner found this course to be very helpful.It gave me a good start in data analysis. +Great course for applying real word scenarios with analytical tools such as Excel. +really awesome course... +Good Course so far. But lacks indepth explanation. Courses such as probability need to be taken prior to this +Course is very good! All examples are very clear and detailed. And a spreadsheet is provided to follow along during class. Only bad thing is that it was not so clear this course is heavily related to Math. Data Analysis = Math & Statistics. ;-) +Course did not meet any of the expectations. Neither Excel nor the analysis part. Should have focused on one of the aspects to make it more stronger. In my opinion "deviated" & stressed too much on statistics and model building (regression, logistic regression etc.) but did not do justice to that also! +pragmatic enough and a lot of stat to be learned +Really great! Things taught in this course are useful. +Though at the start of the program indicates no prerequisite I would suggest that you be familiar with Algebra and Stats. Most videos are of Dr. Egger writing out algebraic equations and discussing them, the excel component of Mastering data in excel come via pre-made calculators as attachments that you for the most part need to figure out on your own.If you do not have a good comfort level with stats then you will require more time to spend on understanding the spreadsheet and it’s use.It would be fantastic if Dr Egger could go through the spreadsheets as a part of the video and show a couple examples, hopefully revisions down the road !It was challenging but not impossible, and if you do not challenge yourself how much are you really learning?Best of luck! +I feel this is way too hard for people who are not good at math, or haven't studies math for a long time. Took me longer time to figure all questions out. +Difficult as hell.When You complete it You really start understanding this area but I think due to level of difficulty teaching staff should be a little more active.Big difference in difficulty in lessons(which are easy)and test(which are sometimes incredibly difficult).If You want to work in Big Data field You HAVE TO complete this course but...expect hell. +really use full,but before this cousre we need to acquire some mathematical and statstical knowledge. +The course was very clear and they included topics on information theory and statistics. +I read some of the other reviews and feel I should comment on some of their criticisms.The material, objectives and tuition are top-notch. Yes there are things that are unclear and difficult and I you will need to read around the subjects introduced from other sources and persevere.But that is how you will learn and remember.So far I have yet to complete the course, I am about to start my 4th attempt, but I get a little further each time and the next presentation acts as revision initially. Daniel Eggar introduces key concepts that you need to master, this course is not spoon fed, but is better for it.If I have a criticism, perhaps the course is badly named, maybe it should be called "Core statistical concepts for data science using Excel" +Too difficult for a beginner +Course only drilled down on specific aspects of excel that were inclined to regression analysis which is just one aspect used in business analysis +Excellent Course!! Great insight on binary classification model !! I recommend this course to anyone who is looking to master data analysis skills using Excel. +I'm here learning Excel skills, but this course, especially week 2, does not teach Excel skills. +Very practical course! Learned a lot. +Excellent Faculty and robust coverage!! +Egger is very well instructor. The course is useful. +I work with excel and thousands of lines of data everyday. I found this class to be challenging +It is best to have a strong statistical background before taking this course. Lots of statistical calculations and procedures. If you don't have a strong background in statistics , there is a good chance you will get lost at some point in the course. There is no questions that the instructor of this course is an accomplished mathematician, I just found it hard to follow his lectures as he got deeper into various statistical aspects of the course. +nice syllabus overall with great exercises.wish it would teach more commonly used excel skills in business e.g. pivot tables, index-match, vlookup etc.lectures were a bit hard to follow (esp the mathy ones) - i'd suggest reworking the blackboard craft +Very hard to comprehend for 6 weeks. But could have been great. +This is more of an introduction to statistics lesson than one in excel... not what I had signed up for +Not done with the course yet, but I have to say it started out very well and organized. I was actually learning how to use excel in the first week WHILE the instructor was teaching. The later weeks, however, seem to be completely different. They're disorganized and I'm struggling to see how the material correlates. It's as if I'm being bombarded with random topics, in addition to the fact that the instructor literally stops using excel to teach. After week 1, lessons are just random notes on a blackboard with a link at the end to the excel sheet in which the instructor has already prepared before with A LOT of info that you need familiarize yourself with solo. I had high hopes when I was done with the first week, but now I have to say I'm bored and demotivated!! (so far) +The explainations are a bit hard to follow if you are in a hurry, some times the course concepts just jump onto you. The techniques and content are really really great and very relavent, but the instructional value can be further ehnanced. +This course has nothing to do with Excel. It should be called "Statistic and binary modelling with little use in excel". If you except to learn about functions, pivot tabels, macros and the many other exciting features of excel, this is NOT the course for you. +I dislike this course because I have to complete so many assignment in one week. Instructions could have improved and slides could have improved rather than using chalkboard. Sorry there are a number of times I have to rewatch the videos and still dont understand. Hence I even have to place myself in another slot because I could not finish the assignment. Please improve on this module so that it is more enjoyable for learners who really want to learn. Thank you. +This course isn't for the faint hearted, you need a decent background in statistics, intermediate mathematics and good grounding in excel. All of these are covered well in the course but there's a lot to take in and I can imagine it being quite tough for those not so familiar. That said, the topics, examples and tools provided are exactly those required to build a good foundation in Business Analytics and I imagine, Data Science. Prof. Egger as always, delivers the course with great aplomb and shares his considerable knowledge in a wise but unassuming manner. Highly recommended. +Very little to do with Excel, mostly focused on statistics with brief overviews of how things could be done within Excel, but very little focus on actual Excel use and knowledge. +This course is only supported by a course of data analytics. It should clearly state that advanced statistics is a prerequisite knowledge. I expected to learn advanced excel techniques, not to be required to know statistic models to apply. +A great course to learn excel for analytics. +First step toward becoming data scientist. +Not so good. The course explains mathematical models and Excel applications but both are not detailed. There are many mistakes in PPTs and assignments. +This is not an easy course and some concepts/tasks weren't clearly addressed.But the instructor is great! +Getting more theoretical and less practical application on Excel application. Advanced Data interpretation and solving methods information can be included. +The course is built around people doing/studying business and economics. I am a scientist but I still learned a lot from it. The course is very practical. +Good Presentation +Though the Course name is Mastering Data Analysis in Excel. This course will take you beyond Excel mastering skills. Quite a Short Course compare to amount of Statistical and Probability concepts you learn. This course covers most of the concepts and models necessary for any Data Analyst & Data Science students and Professionals. This course is quite challenging and at times frustrating and time consuming but in the end you will feel you learnt something what you don't know. It will be worth your effort.If you don't know something what you don't know. Here is the course, it is an accelerated course. You many not master all of them, you will master some, I can assure any future students Professor will give all the information and concepts that you need to master. Even after completing the exam I keep repeating and going back to videos and notes which is really valuable. +The second test should be compulsory for also the non-paying students! +Indeed a Mastering course for Data Analysis! +The instructor should spend more time putting equations and concepts into concept, and tying them together. It often felt like values and questions were arbitrary. This is less about master data analysis in Excel, and more about gaining ground in a few key concepts, so the title is misleading as well. +This is not a basic excel training. The title is appropriately set as "Mastering" Data Analysis in Excel... +I did learn a few helpful tips for analyzing data with excel - particularly how to do a regression analysis in excel which is something I didn't know and is not intuitive. But for a course that is supposed to teach you how to analyze data in excel, there are actually very few lectures that actually show you how to do anything in excel. So much time is spent on how to calculate stuff by hand, without even mentioning how it translates to excel. Also the lectures have a lot of errors that were not corrected in a professional way. Just a random slide put in as an afterthought. The lectures got a bit disorganized towards the end, like the professor was in a rush and then forgot to relate everything to actual business analysis. The final project was especially difficult as not much was explained - I had to read the forums to figure out what I was actually supposed to do. +I would like to recommend for every beginner who wants to learn data analytics! +Awesome course to take if you want to be proficient with basic usage of Excel +This course is very challenging. I may not have had the proper background in mathematics to full absorb the material. Similarly I may have to busy of a lifestyle to have properly focused on this class. +We learn a lot in this course +It's more statistics than Excel itself, wich is good but I think the name doesn't fit to it +inclination was more towards concept than excel +swollen with pride that I could be a great biz analystofcourse, with Great professors ^~^ +This course was tough, but I dont mind a challenge. But what I found frustrating about this course was that first the quizzes were often inconsistent with the lecture material, the TA's were less helpful than my fellow classmates (without whom I would not have made it through the course) and the final was an IMMENSE challenge that took over my life for about 1 week - despite the calculation by the instructors that it would take 6-8 hours. I did give it a few stars because I honestly did learn things I did not know, and I understand the value of the application of what was taught for modern businesses. I have been informed that the course is being reviewed by the instructors for strengthening and I 100% agree with that direction. +Beware this course, especially if you are new to this area (despite what the course/specialization says). There are very few examples to clarify and illustrate the different topics of the course, but what's worse is that the assignments are almost completely divorced from the instructional videos; the assignments and especially the final project are much more complicated than anything presented in the instructional videos, so there is no knowledge basis from which the student can operate to complete the assignments/projects satisfactorily or smoothly.I am extremely dissatisfied and wish I hadn't paid for this specialization. Beware. +very nice stuff. +Title misleading. Never ever a beginners course. +The concepts here are useful and Mr. Egger is a knowledgeable instructor but 1) this class is really about gathering information with Excel as the tool - you aren't learning anything about Excel functionality, so the title of this course is really misleading if you just want to become a stronger user in Excel 2) there is a huge disconnect between the video lessons and the excel worksheets used to complete the assignments and since many previous reviewers mentioned this, it seems like that's not going to change. 3) the disconnect between the lessons and the assignments wouldn't be an issue if the instructor could be bothered to respond to forum questions. Mine sat unanswered for 5 days as the deadline passed. You are NOT going to get support if you dont understand something. +Really unhappy with how difficult and over complicated it is. I came here to learn about Excel. Pivot tables? functions? The course really loses focus and its unfortunate that I am now stuck here and cannot continue the entire specialization. +The title is misleading .This course has a little to do with excel , you could get some mathematical information but I do not think you will master anything +PROS:- Classification lecture is good;-Weekly assignments are challenging enoughCONS- No slides provided. Professor draws on an eletronic chalkboard (with a very bad handwriting) and you need to keep going back to videos when you are doing the homework. For me, this shows lack of professionalism and laziness- Some excel sheets are provided. But they are very messy and badly formatted, matching the messy handwriting in the videos. AND, the instructions are for MAC! No instructions for PC are provided whatsoever. I never used MAC, so I had a very hard time!- Very few examples real examples are provided;- You learn math concepts, not Excel skills! Except for the LINEST function, which is very handy, BUT it's NOT TAUGHT in the videos. I had to google the function to learn it.- They say to complete each piece of the final assingment after you finish the respective week related to that piece. But they only say that as you start week 6!- The course doesn't provide sufficient material for the final assignment. You get stuck without knowing how to get to answers;- Some answers to the final assignment are not correct, you check the answer sheet, and the results aren't present in the test!OVERALL:I'd never recommend this course to anyone. I only took it because I'm plannening to finish the specialization.I've taken several Online Courses (5+ on Excel), and this is the worst and most frustating one by far! +The order and content of the lessons wasn't planned with sufficient care. +The course is quite tough for me, but I enjoyed the topics discussed, primary between a binary model and a linear regression model. The addition of Excel into this course adds an application layer, which helps me to bring the concepts to the working world as well, and not just plain academic knowledge. +Quiz does not require hands-on experience of creating templates but rather simply plugging in numbers. Students may forget most of the content after finishing the quiz. +Very poor lecture, I barely learn anything about excel from this course. The course title is quite mis-leading +not easy but rather clear speech +Well, it'll be good if you set the expectation that you're learning information theory and binary classification in this course, with Excel being the tool by which you use to learn those concepts.However, do not expect this course to be entirely about Excel, it is not.With the right expectation, this is a great course! +Great - the maths section was actually educational +When the instructor for the course expresses amazement at the level of difficulty people are expressing in the forums that tells you a lot about how out of touch he is with what he is teaching and what is really required prerequisite knowledge.There is minimal actual instruction in excel-most often concepts are taught much like Khan Academy, on a digital blackboard. Nothing inherently wrong with that but when your course title has the word 'EXCEL' in it one would reasonably expect the instructor to actually demonstrate using excel. Nope, not here.If you've never heard of linear regression or Bayes Theorem don't bother with this course. Honestly. While those things may be easy to explain without the math they are very difficult concepts to implement and a simple 10 minute video won't clear the fog.You absolutely will not 'master' data analysis with this course. I've used Excel for over 15 years, daily, and to have the gall to say your course will 'master' something with a few videos is misleading and deceptive.If it wasn't for the TA/Mentors who do the lions share of work in the forums answering questions and deciphering the questions so students can understand them this course would be an abysmal failure.If you're wanting to jump on the data analysis/ scientist bandwagon look elsewhere. i.e. EdX has a great course on a true introduction to data analysis that is more in line with people's impression of actually using excel in that context.Now, having bashed the course I do believe the instructor to be a very competent and knowledgeable individual, but I feel he's been in academia too long and has grown accustomed to teaching those who've been in school continuously and still have algebra/ stats fresh in their minds vs. those who need to brush away the cobwebs. The course in more on the level of a 201 and in certain parts 401 level but not 101. +Very important course if you want to know more about data analysis. Fascinating materials (Markowitz optimisation, linear regression, information gain, binary classification...) with both theoretical and practical aspects! In spite the fact you won't learn much about VBA skills, this course will definitely give you a very good basis for addressing any data analysis problem with Excel. +Be prepared to study a lot as the material is comprehensive and vast. +Misleading course name/title. Was expecting a course on using Excel. Forums were cluttered and not monitored often. +Easily and fun learning for novice learners as well as non-mathematics background. +given very useful material +It's just not only Excel...is mostly data analysis. +Very good course +Although more about Prob and Stat than learning to use Excel, concepts of binary classification and entropy are very interesting and are taught very deliberately and thoroughly. More practise quizes and worked out examples would be even better. +It is very easy and unusefull course. +could have lecture more.... the videos talks little about the spreadsheet provided +It's too advanced for people with no experience in statistics and sometimes too abstract to relate with +Constants errors in explanations, made you work very hard to complete it. We typically work hard, the organization of this course my you to suffer. You will go to learn a lot like I do. (Final Grade 91.4%). Learn in this course can be frustrating, they will push to the water, you will need to dedicate a lot of time discuss course material with fellow learners, mentors, and instructors to learn how to swim to save your life. +Really wanted to take this class. Unfortunately, I believe it is more about advanced statistics then excel. It was advertised as a beginners class and that is not the case. I recommend having a significant knowledge of statistics before taking this course. I'm a 15 year senior level accounting executive and I was easily spending 10 to 15 hours a week plus watching the videos 3 or 4 times each in order to understand the content. It was very difficult to understand. Disappointing. +Too difficult. The lessons go too fast. +Not so comfortable with using Excel. +very good - step by step and clear. +I found Week 2: Binary Classification really confusing. It was just not clear. Specifics were not given. Definitions were not given. Poorly instructed. +It was an interesting course. +The Course is fine, explanations and videos are a bit hard to follow at times.The final assessment is in my opinion very bad, as it i appears to me quite unrelated to the course it self. The lectures are quite abstract and the exam is a practical application of the concept.The instructions of the course also aren't very good as you need to do each part of the final project at the end of each week.I would strongly suggest to not take this course unless you have many spare hours. +Poorly coordinated lectures. References to resources that are not provided. No response (at least, for days on end) when questions are posted on the forums +quite a lot techniques to learn. Just wish they could explain more about applications of those techniques, in more details, which however might be hard to get done in 5 weeks though. +This is an advanced Statistics class. Learning was chaotic, confusing, and fast paced. Strong Mathematics skills required. As icing on the cake, there is an 8 hour project at the end of the course .. and they only tell you at the end that you should have been working on this all along! Not at all what I wanted to learn or find productive in the real world. +So far i have found it useful. Most of the introduction elements are elementary but it gives you a chance to build up your knowledge and apply it as you go. +No relevance to specialisation. Do not expect to get through this if you have not taken multiple statistics courses at university level or higher maths. Barely any practical application, does not prepare you for final project. +This course has a lot to do with math and statistics and I find it really hard to follow especially when it comes to the final project. +I hope the video could show me more about how to do these entropy calculations in Excel +highly recommend +Concepts are fantastic but the material developed to deliver the course is short of expectations, especially from a university. Excel sheets do not match what is demonstrated in video lectures, lots of confusion around how to complete tasks, quiz answer options not being correct, and missing Excel spreadsheets (e.g. video lecture says to refer to accompanying excel spreadsheet, but no spreadsheet available). Also, judging from past discussions by students, some inconsistencies around formulas being presented in video lectures versus assignment questions. could have been a great course, but the inconsistencies have made is very disappointing. +Interesting statistical concepts, and great theory. However, the lectures and the quizzes do not prepare the student well for the final project. +Great contents and teachers! +Really confusing and struggled a lot. The course doesn't prepare you for the final project. +Very heavy on the stats front, not so much on utilizing Excel but I learned some useful things in this class. +The course doesn't prepare you for the final project. +Easy understanding and practical. +The title is very misleading. Excel is an afterthought for this course; instead there is a heavy focus on statistics. The class claims to be for beginners, but that is clearly not the case, as it requires previous knowledge in inferential statistics and calculus.Excel is hardly used and is certainly not the focus; there are weeks where Excel is not used at all. There are no practice assignments, only quizzes.It's clear that this course is outdated and poorly maintained, as the videos refer to examples that are not included or content that was not presented.Needless to say, I will not be taking any other courses in this specialization. +very nice course，discussions are very helpful. +Good course. Wish it was more hands on working with excel. +I found much of this material wasn't as applicable to excel analysis as hoped and didn't cover many of the analysis tools +Excellent content, learned many new things. Mainly new tools in Excel with the Solver. +It was hard to follow along with the lessons, because it was mainly present in formulas. More examples might help students relate the information better. +This course really tortured me , but really worth the time and effort, I did learn something by heart :) +very helpful and useful in real case +The course structure is not thoughtfully prepared. There is a lot of confusion around what the instructor wants to say. The practice quizzes and course content have no match whatsoever +Really helpful +This quickly became a statistics course, which although important was really difficult for me as I went in not expecting it.However, Dr. Egger is incredible! I think he's a fantastic and well-versed instructor in the Data & Analytics realm and am eager to find ways I can use what I've learned into practice at work. +Good content but badly structured +This class required far too much independent study. The instructor did not provide enough instruction or reading material to complete the quiz each week. There was too much focus on the conceptual data with very little emphasis on practical application of the material. +Difficulty (at least for me) was non-linear. Weeks 1-2 were very basic with weeks 3-4 moving into parts of stats that I don't recall from my college course so it took some extra work to apply the models. +Dr Eggers is a tremendous professor. The course has wit and application along with assignments that are well scaffolded to the learning content. Highly recommend this class. +Very interactive and simple to learn course.the video lectures are very clear to understand and worksheets are helpful to gain a better understanding of the topic. +The class has great concept but it needs a bit more structure and change to hit its full potential.The Good:-The spreadsheets and exercises along with Quiz material. The project was also very informative.The Bad:- The video need to better explain how Area Under Curve and how the Credit model make sense. It was not very intuitive and I struggled for over 2 weeks to put the Project together due to this gap.But a worthwhile class with great potential. I am glad I took it. +learn lots of practical things +Not enough practices for the unexperienced students. +The attendants might already have a good foundation of econometric and probability statistics before taking this course. Some definitions might be difficult to understand especially how it would be applied in real life. +Fantastic course, a lot of work. You definitely need decent maths and a bit of basic statistics to fully understand the course. The course covers many topics and provide great practice on core application in statistics field. +I am sorry to say this, but the tutorial could have been organzied in a much more serious way.I do not know how much time the Professors have put on preparation. But it gives me a "sloppy" impression!!! The class carries the name of University of Duke and 70 euros are charged, so I think the learners would reasonably expect to see that the teacher puts lots of time to organize the course structure, in order to efficiently give as much as information to the learners within limited time!For example, I believe nobody would not say that the Week 2 content on confusion matrix is very consistently explained. And this is just one example. +Tough class but filled with useful and applicable ata analysis using the most popular and available program to do this work... Be prepared to get a little frustrated and watch the instructions more than once..... It's not Cousera fun fluff !!! +Content is not well organized, videos are disconnected from one another, explanations are not clear, spreadsheets contain vast information that is not explained anywhere. It is been quite difficult to follow through the course and I bet many students are giving up. +I really recommend this course. Very useful!!Perfectly explained. +Week 1 a little disapointing +Great Course, it's a useful tool to improve your excel, and your Knowledge in statistics. +This course is doable if you have prior knowledge of probability and statistics. This is not for beginners and should therefore by reclassified as intermediate and above. I am sorry I enrolled in this course. I have truly hit a brick wall and can go no further... +Goto course ...... very nice ....... :) +This course contains too few solid content. +This is definitely not a course for beginners . +Great course, just a little too technical +Does not teach Excel very well while tryng to apply the basic usage instruction to not too difficult problems. The ability to interface with Excel after some knowledge of Python/R or other programming languages would be helpful in the Data Science programming that is increasingly being promoted. +While the first week touched on Excel and the equations can be used in Excel and have efficacy in regards to analyzing data, it feels as if the course emphasizes more on utilizing math than utilizing Excel. And according to my understanding, that was what I thought I was signing up for. So, it felt like a bait-and-switch to me. +Way too theoretical. This is Excel, not Information Theory.... +Highly useful and practical course. it can be a bit challenging for Uni graduate from irrelevant field.the First course and the visualisation course from this series of specialisation is okay . +To course got tougher every week while the lecture video is not cover everything. +this course is definitely NOT for beginners. you MUST have intermediate to advanced knowledge of statistics and math. I had to resort to google and khan academy extensively just to grasp the concepts in this course. This course also does not teach you everything about excel, let alone master it. you just refer to pre made excel sheets for quizzes. thats it. Good luck figuring those out. +In light of R or Python, doing statistical computing in excel is really time consuming and backward. The instruction might be OK, but I lost interest beginning of week 2 seeing how he build binary decision model in excel. +This is my first Coursera course and I wasn't sure what to expect. I was hoping for a good experience but preparing myself for mediocrity.I finished the course at 2am on Monday morning and I've been really impressed, both with the Coursera "infrastructure" and with the quality of the teaching from Daniel Egger and his team. I live in South Africa where tertiary educational standards vary widely, and appear to be on the decline. More and more, we are going to need MOOCs like this from the best universities in the world.More specifically, relating to this course, I found the video lectures well presented and the quizzes thoughtfully prepared. The Excel models really helped with grasping the concepts and practice.A couple of suggestions:a) The course FAQ makes light of the background knowledge necessary to cope with the course. It needs to be more honest about the need for mathematics and statistics. Linear regression is not for sissies, in my opinion.b) Please tell us at the START of the course that we should attack the project week by week. This advice isn't (unless I missed something) given until you open the week 6 project. Ahem... it's too late by then! I spent a very frantic 4 nights last week crunching the project work, 4 quizzes and the assignment. I got to bed at 2.30am, and i'm not a night owl.Overwhelmingly though, a really interesting course. I'm already starting the next one. +Not exactly for business use +Great course for learning some data analysis with excel that is also accessible even if you have had little experience in excel before. +Frankly speaking, this course is a little bit hard for me although I have studied them during my master programs. There are many formulas in the course and hardly to remember in short time. I had to review the videos several times. I'd like to recommend the professor may summarize such fomulas in one page so it's more easy to students to catch up the course. +Great course. Relevant ad practical examples and case studies. +The importance of this course is huge. However, I did miss better explanation from some topics... +I find it very practical. Not only do the lectures give you general overview of the concepts with examples, but also they teach you how to do the maths which is very important in my opinions. Thank you very much Prof. Egger and the team. +Don't be fooled by how detailed and clear the first weeks videos are. The second thru the final weeks are lacking details and explanations and found myself lost during most of the videos. There were even a few typos and errors. Be ready to do a lot independent research and learning from other sources in order to complete the weekly quiz. I was unable to complete the final project of this course due to the lack of knowledge provided by the lecture videos and some of own research. I was hoping to complete the specialization for this, but it doesn't seem like this course provided me with enough to proceed.** The use of excel on the weekly basis was poorly integrated with the flow of the course. +I found this course too advanced for my level of familiarity with statistics. Its true that most basic stuff is covered to be fair, but the progression is very rapid.As I work long hours and other commitments I didn't have enough time to dedicate to study beyond the time needed just for this course. If I had been able to study an extra 10 hours a week practicing using the formulas then I'm sure I would have got more out of it. +I found this course to be very challenging, but I am grateful for the knowledge and the new perspective. Thanks! +towards end of the course, specifically linear regression week, a lot of buzzwords are strung together. I wish, the instructor would be a little bit more sparing in their usage together (together is the keyword). Eg "This is the connection between linear regression and mutual information in a parametric model where we have gaussian distributions" I feel that each term in isolation I know what they mean, but when strung together, I am unclear how to process the meaning. +Instructor is highly knowledgeable and provides an interesting and thought provoking lecture. +Simply if define it in one word. EXCELLENT!! +I would have appreciated a bit more of a hands-on process in building the workbooks (with proper instruction of course) and more formal presentation of the formulas being used, but overall, I got a lot out of this course and enjoyed it along the way. +The content of the course was good.However, I did not like the presentation of the material, moreover such a topic would need to be covered by a longer duration course. +I really enjoyed the course. Professor was very good at explaining everything. And the team was very helpful. And this course is definitely for people who already has a good backround in exel and working with data. +I expected far more handy real life Excel examples, not to see a teacher speaking and writing stat formulas for hours.The idea of this course is very good, it has some room for improvement. +I missed some more content in certain areas of the course (i.e. histograms). Apart from that, great course and great explanations by Daniel Egger! +Like the course content. Though I know lot many function in Excel, but solve was new and kind a unique one. +The training course excellent however I would like to find the quiz for the week number 1 +This course did not live up to its potential.The course should be retitled as an "Intro to Statistics" not learning functions and visualizations on excel.I still have three stars because I at least picked up some useful concepts from it. +Final project really hard +Excellent class. Much tougher than expected. I went in thiinking I was an Excel guru, and learned a ton. +Complex concepts (e.g., regression), which cannot be taught in such a short course format (I know from extensive prior training), are taught here in an arcane way. I don't know how students without prior knowledge on these topics (e.g., regression, ROC curve analysis) could possibly understand this when taught this way.Course is also in an 'early draft' mode, with plenty of mistakes in the videos/slides. The course (and specialization) really tarnishes - instead of enhancing - this institution's outside image and reputation.Really a deception; sorry I took this class and specialization, a complete waste of my time and money. The initial presentation was misleading (and I have found online many people sharing the same feeling). +Very interesting! +Clear, concise and clean communication! Thank you! +Given this is the third (or fourth) iteration of this course, it's telling that the errors from the original release remain in the videos and quizzes. There are other, higher-quality Data Science MOOCs available. +Great! +This course was over my head academically and I was able to glean very little from it. +Too advanced, not enough Excel +Not so relevant with real work. +Very nice course. +Very good Courses! +Probably the worst class I have ever taken on Coursera. The teacher asked us to do tons of things without explaining how and used tons of complicated math formulas without explaining what they were, what they did, or when and how to use them. There were also actual incorrect answers in the videos on occasion, so that even if you did do things correctly, you would think you were wrong and be confused, and there were a lot of inconsistencies between the spreadsheets used in the videos and the methods used to solve things compared to the actual spreadsheets given to us, which makes things pretty impossible to learn. If you're more advanced, it may be easier to find and understand the differences between the video and the spreadsheets, but the whole point of this class is that it is for beginners. +Really good course, I think the most value is at the end when you are able to apply the concept learned in the final assignment +Great class, however I felt it was very heavy on statistics and math concepts versus how to use Excel for data analysis. I would've liked to see some strategies on how to analyze large datasets, look for trends, and clean up bad data. +Very helpful course. Intense concepts covered and good examples to master them. Thanks! +Awesome！However, you need knowledge of statistics. +Good course +A great course!! +very good is increible this course for practice +its very helpful +I feel that the course does cover adequate topic to improve our mastery of data analysis in Excel. The course is more focus on the statistic and probability theory without giving adequate explanation on how to work on Excel. +good, but no material and lack of structure +Very useful +Not for beginners as promised. You need strong statistical skills to understand it. +Really useful project :) +I thank Prof. Daniel for the clear exposition of the course. +It's quite interesting, but definitely not a beginners one. I'm put off quite a bit by the exclusively financial examples +Lots of good information. However, this course could be structured a lit bit better. More examples and small practice exercises within the lectures would significantly improve the retention of material.You should posses at least basic knowledge of statistics. +Excellent instruction/instructor and great templates. +I would like to have more example, it feels there is mostly theory. The quizzes were super easy, I dropped out at final project, I couldn't get through the first questions. The course (and especially the final project) requires a good basis in statistics beforehand.The assistants are super helpful and patient. +I believe pivot tables also plays a big part in Excel, wish they could incorporate that too. +This course was somewhat challenging and having no experience in this at all it really paid off to learn about models. It would do me good to take a statistics course and i plan on doing so this upcoming semester, to maximize my benefits from a course like this. +still needs a better way of explaining the diversity of the course +It's not only basic Excel course but you can learn a lot of useful Excel functions like log or ln. +It´s an excellent courser, very dynamic and fun. You´ll learn a lot of usefull techniques to use in daily life or work +Learning some great things! +Very thorough and useful. Thank you so much. +The course requires good knowledge of statistics as a pre-requisite. +very uesful for me ,i'am a student in china +very practical course with understanding of business context +This is a great course. +Unfortunately, the material and lectures of this course fell short of my expectations. Lectures don't follow a logical path and are all over the place, and some concepts are not expanded as required. Overall, I believe they need to improve how the content is presented, and how it's applied in a real world context. +The lecture videos are not super helpful and the instruction and support for final project is somewhat lacking. You need a relatively solid background coming into doing the project beforehand. Just study the course material is not enough for you to complete your final project, in fact you need peer help or to read more materials to fully understand and finish the project. The quizzes compared to what is asked in the project is too simple and thus not constructive enough in the overall learning. Overall I would recommend you to have a solid background before proceed with this course if you want to improve your learning experiences. +great statistic refresher and hands-on experience with excel +Being honest, the lessons in the course are disconnected with the weekly tests, specially for the final exam. Professor Daniel Egger and his assistan MUST improve the lessons, including examples step by step specially for the multiple linear regression su +I never knew excel had so much possibilities +Very informative, and very challenging! The final project really challenges you to pull all of the concepts together in a real-world situation. That process helped solidify my understanding of the concepts.Would have liked to have had more explanation on linear regression, but overall everything was great. I have a much more concrete understanding of the basics of data modeling. +Very confusing stuff, need better clarification in course description and the way the material is transmitted to the student need to be reconsideredBut very well made and interesting. +In the course info this is described as the first course in the series and that it requires no prior knowledge but the first week quiz contains questions referring to an equation 'discussed in the previous course'. +after the second week I droped this course...I thought it will include excel and economics knowledge but was very wrong.. +This course is mostly theory based and certainly not what i am expected! +Was very frustrated with this course. Does not have a strong emphasis on Excel skills and the statistics models provided seem to be randomly chosen and poorly explained. Quizzes were interesting, but time-consuming because of the necessary extra research outside of provided lectures. +Good content and practical examples. +Great class +This course is good, but I feel it's too difficult. It would be good to suggest 'optional' prerequisite course if there is any. Thanks Dr. Egger. +I would have liked the class to be less theoretical, with more frequent explanations linking concepts to practical applications in daily / business life, in order to keep interest and motivation high and facilitate understanding and memorisation. It sure would help to enter this course with a certain background of probability. Those memories were too ancient in my case :-( +Quite an useful course for Excel application in business decision-making. But I think the final project is a little more difficult than weekly assignments. And only Quiz 1 has some hints about the potential problems we might come across during the quiz. The linear regression part, especially multivariate linear regression, need more explanations how to derive the matrix in Excel. Even though I followed every steps and referred other classmates' discussions, I cannot work out the matrix with Excel. So sad :( +Clear and useful. But you need a text book to this course. +Good but the final project could have been setup up with better instructions. +Excellent and reasonably challenging course. One of the courses that would be extremely hard without a solid foundation in maths.The final project is massive and time-consuming - I didn't see it coming and was surprised, not in a good way ;) You better start working on the final assignment since the beginning of the course. +Very useful!!! +good course for all +Good content, some materials were difficult but the video lecture were rushed. +Amazing volume of topics covered and in a manner that is not overly complicated in terms of testing methodology, but still requires you to do the work. There are still several bugs with the course, test answers and instruction documents on the site, but clearly the course is new so hopefully that will be resolved in coming iterations of the class. +Thank you very much for great course.I have some difficult with this course and I did not finish it. Whatever the course was very interesting. +Content not discussed in proper detail. Instructor skims over the concepts. Its difficult to follow. +The content is really interesting and useful. However, the way in which the lessons are organised I'd say is confusing. The professor explain you complex concepts like entropy or binary classification to continue with an excel worksheet. It's here where the issue relays, the excel files are filled and instead of learning by doing you have to figure out how the prof made the file. In consequence, the solution is always available.In my opinion, it'd be better if a raw data set is given and you build the model step by step from the scratch. +The course is more on analysis techniques as opposed to Excel shortcuts, tips and tricks. It certainly helps if you have a good background in algebra-level math; if you're looking for a course on how to be an Excel Power User, this might not be the best fit. Otherwise, what I learned here is useful for me. Thanks! +The method of the class is very useful, and teacher has a clear explanation and illustrated it very clearly. Thank you very much! +Very good teachers/instructors. +Videos fine. Quizes impossible to understand unless you take previous courses and have time to go through forums and more extra staff. It takes a lot of time. Not suggested unless you have it. +The later part of the sessions lacks practical applicability and it is more abstract, that I find difficult to relate +Great course... Self Explanatory.. Loved the details.. Must take this one +I would not recommend this course. It was very poorly planned and seemed thrown together. +I wish the duration between each week was a bit more and there was an option to chat with the faculty directly +This is more than just an Excel course. It also covers a lot of statistics and the application of statistics in Excel (with pre-built template). I think more focus on how to build things in Excel will be useful. +Course contents are rather deep which is good and makes it challenging. Explanations could be better and there should be more content on some topics for better understanding. Someone with background in statistics would find this course more useful than on who only has basic knowledge of statistics. Nevertheless, it inspired me to learn from other sources to fill the gaps in my understanding. +Love it +Extremely useful and easy to follow! +very useful, but hopefully, there will be some slides for learning. +The course gives you interesting analysis tools, but the title suggests you are going to learn new Excel tools, and you actually use it at a very low level. +its very helpful course +I learnt a lot from this course. The first week seemed very straight forward and I was worried the course was a bit too rudimentary. From there it stepped up four or five gears and I had to work hard to reinforce the concepts and apply the concepts.A really great course for any analyst or anyone seeking the true insight in data. The discussion board is a wealth of knowledge and a good read with tutors posting very plain english easier to understand answers to questions. +The whole course has very little about excel, rather about aweful a lot of data models. The course title is very misleading. +If we would have use a real example to explain the concepts prof Eagger +Much work needs to be done on this course to make it friendly to learners. The quizzes and assignments do not align with what is taught in the lessons. Further, the content in the lessons does not even show or explain what is expected from the learning.I spent the majority of my time exploring the discussions to discover what I was supposed to be doing and the rest of it on Google teaching myself the concepts that were not taught in the course. +the course neither explains statistics properly, nor teaches how to use excel effectively, disappointed +Great information included. I feel like I know much more about modelling data than when I started. The quizzes can be in that without the hints on the discussion forum I don't know how I would have completed them just based on the information in the videos. +Excellent course. Focusses mainly on data analysis in Excel rather that teaching you all excel function. A good way to learn both. I recommend anyone interested in data analysis to take this course. The exercises are challenging to answer. It's fun solving them +For me a great course that tackle basics of data analysis that is usually done in much more advanced software.Thanks to Excel "transparency" it is very easy to understand those concepts. +If I could give it less than 1 star, I would. It wasn't an Excel class, rather it was a targeted business statistics class with only disjointed lectures and no benefit of textbook to actually help you learn. Lots of errors in the lectures and tests, and little to no support from course staff. Stay away! You won't regret it. +Very good! Useful for both new learners and expertise. +Meticulously designed for crisp understanding! +patctical and useful course,is better for your creer life. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. +This course was a great recap in math/statistics that I had totally forgotten about. Things were explained clearly, and the application of concepts was practical +Awesome course; it's not only about the tool, but mostly about the rationale behind what to do and how to do it. +Very challenging course that is very insightful in the use of Excel for Data Analysis +im in week 4 , cant master data analysis in Excel +Not much explanatory +Great course! I've learned a lot useful equations in business, and the appliance in excel. +Great one +Very challenging and wish there were more exercises throughout to strengthen understanding. +I teach quantitative methods in a Business course at University of São Paulo (Brazil). This is an excelent course with fundamentals and very usefull applications. +Loved the course! I still need to review some topics to make them clear in my mind but I really enjoyed! :D +really helpful +very good training. +Amazing to get a grasp on the concepts! Might need further inmersion on the Excel area +Turning what I learned in university about data analysis to a more practical approach. +Entering this course with a pretty in-depth knowledge of Excel, it was good to be able to brush up on some things I don't use on a day-to-day basis such as VLOOKUP and STANDARDIZE functions. The subject material is quite good, AOC and Binary Classifications were very interesting to learn about and have tons of applications, particularly in operation optimization problems/cases. One point of suggestion would be to double-check and clean up the accompanying Excel files. Some of the material was confusing to follow along with. If you could define cells, arrays, and tables for instance it would make the material much more intuitive to follow-along with. +Thank you very much, the lesson is very useful to me. in order to understand what the necessity of a function. and the professor clearly explains everything in the right pace. +Great! +They have a lot of good material. It will probably be better the second time around. +Very confusing lectures, he says you don´t have to have a basic level of excel to do the course but I didn´t find that true. Struggled through all of the lecture videos and the quizzes seemed to come out of left field. +Very poor material and instruction videos, with no logical flow or process. +The material is sort of interesting but there is not much hand-holding. I actually am an Excel beginner, and have merely an average grasp of mathematics. Before signing up, I read the prerequisites - there were none! It is advertised as a class for beginners, but I have found it beyond frustrating, and whats more I pre-paid for the specialization so this Excel class and the final project seem to be an utter waste of money without me going off to study Excel at length before trying the course again. Why not label it as an intermediate or higher class? I feel there should be a more obvious indication of the difficulty. +good course +Very Useful, Eye-opener +Very good those who want make their career in business analytic field +absolutely one of the worst courses... I am deleting it from my list.no slides make it harder to follow. +it's my first course on coursera . +Too much material, that moved too fast. Wasn't opportunity for enough feedback and explanation. I say this as someone who went to Duke and has taken similar classes at Duke! +Great knowledge to build your own equity in decision making. +Most concepts are rather theoretical and it feels more like a probability and stats course. There is not much focus on excel implementation and life is made seemingly easy with all the templates provided. +Warning: The lecture videos along will NOT be enough to prepare you for the final assignment! Be prepared to do your own research for the extra study materials. On the forum, many students said they had to drop out during the last week (probably without getting a refund!) because they were completely caught off guard by the huge knowledge gap between lectures and the final assignment. If you are determined to get the specialization certificate, you should definitely start the final assignment as early as possible. Don't wait until the last week or two!! +It has a lot of problems, including: Not so many lectures about excel itself - most of the time you will be watching videos about statistic methods. The lectures are very superficial, even though the quizzes and projects demand a lot of knowledge and time. The course seems to have a staff of one man: the professor of the course rarely replies (even though he did at the beginning of the session) and all the work seems to be done by his assistant, who tries his best, but ends up not coping with all the questions asked at the discussion forums. +Great course, great professor and great TA in community discussion. Can't give 5 stars as course introduction and content are not really matching. As per introduction anybody can take and learn this course, but indeed it is far from reality. If you don't have good math and statistic background then you better learn them first...I personally learnt a lot from this course even though could not get the certificate. Thanks everyone. +Extremely helpful +This is very essential course for the analysis of data using MS Excel +good course for combining stats and excel, but it is difficult for new learners with no knowledges on stats at all +Great idea. Unfortunately, the course is young and there were too many bugs to get past Week 2. Hopefully these will be finished my next session +This course really helps in doing Analytics with the help of EXCEL +Good intro and fundamentals, but focuses far too much on finance. +Very good course. Loved Daniel's teaching. I have a request to make coming from healthcare/ lifesciences background and a starter to analytics it would be very very helpful if Daniel can include basic/ elementary videos on probability and statistics/ Bio-Statistics in this course to enable us to go deeper.Else a separate course on BioStatistics and probability would be WOW. Looking forward for more courses from Daniel.Thanks,Swetha +This course is very good! The inconvenient is the lack of exercices, however, the explanation are clear and relevant; we go to the basics. +It will be better adding examples related with engineering cases (this is for technical people in any branch of engineering). +Really Help me :) +Really interesting course and material and a very good instructor. This would be a 5 stars course if it wasn't for the final project. During lessons some concepts of statistics were taken as known (which is okay). However the final project required to utilize a combination of all new learned material on a whole different level of difficulty compared to the preceding quizzes. I did not expect that jump in difficulty and enjoyed the course a lot but the final project just was a struggle. +Good topic and resources to learn. However the business terminologies sometimes are confusing. +Thanks to Duke university for offering these professional courses free +it is too complicated for me this courese, not very useful for daily work. but anyway i +Way too many abstract concepts that are not relevant to the challenges that I encounter in my day-to-day role. I wish this course would actually show me how to solve PRACTICAL business problems.The 2nd part of the course is not enjoyable at all. Sorry. +No need to learn Excel so I'm to focus on the content. The professor examples are clear and like that he provides different perspectives to looking at a problem and makes it visual as well in order to conceptualized the idea first so I can commit it to my mind. +The course has some valuable information, however course materials and videos are not so helpful. If you already have some knowledge about statistics and excel, it will be a lot easier to follow the instructor's lectures, otherwise I don't feel how a beginner could really follow up on this course. Some topics are run through so quickly that they are confusing to students. +The course is amazing and has introduced me to new frontiers of excel which will be helpful in my professional life. +Great course! Excellent videos and good exercises. +Don't know how to apply the statistics and excel formula in real world situation. Besides, it becomes focus on approving statistics equation than teaching data analysis in excel +Great Course! Thanks) +Overall, the course is great except for some minor inconvenience of the lecture. Some concepts are not carefully explain like incidence etc +Perfect course! +So many equations presented without explaining why these things work or how they are derived. I'm having a hard time seeing the relevance. Also, I learned a lot of these statistics in college and the explanations provided in these lessons actually confused me about things I already know. Very disappointed in this course. Especially since part 1 of the specialization was so good. +Where is the course study material and are you providing a book on this subject and Excel? You have me lost. +The course include structured elements and very usefull information to turn you quickly from beginner to master. +More worksheets and examples would help :) the course is quite dense in terms of the number of topics covered +GREAT ClASS!!!....The instructor is very good at explaining difficult topics the spreadsheets are very clear and comprehensive really enjoying this class +A very good COURSE....i was looking it sinc a long timethank you COURSERA +A bit very difficult course...full of formula +The course name is very misleading. While overall it is not a bad course, I believe a lot of people come here expecting very different material. Let's just put it this way: Mastering Data Analysis (mostly things to do with probability) with occasional use of Excel. Do not expect to learn anything new in excel. +The course deserves a 5-star rating because: (1) content is relevant, (2) the professor is concise and possesses great teaching skills, and (3) the learning modules are applicable to daily problems. +The transition is from easy to advanced. It gets really confusing, not sure if it's just me. I am not following the lessons anymore so I left the course. +This course is amazing! Very useful for students who are looking for data-driven position. Thanks for sharing. +Exactly what I was looking for! +Excellent course in excel tools, probability problems and theoretical thinking skills to apply to business problems! +Excellent Idea and concept, thank you! +It's very useful to learn how excel able to handle different mathematical models +The instructions are excellent. It really helps to learn the analytical functions in Excel +great experience with great faculties and learning basics with smart ways thank you +This is just awesome. +please give some mechanism to refer my friends to this course from the website itself +Excellent training in helping me to master excel. +Exceptionally good.great experience. +Excellent course! I'm an electrical engineer, not an astronomer nor biologist. However, I've always been interested in both topics. This course delved into both just enough where I stayed focused and understood everything. Each course was extremely interesting and I learned many new things in each. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the science behind the search for extraterrestrial life! +I specifically ' delayed' ending this course because I didn't want it to end . :) +Very good, it was the perfect amendment for my studies in environmental informatics. +Highly interesting and informative course, it gives you a well balanced overview of the subject and act as a springboard to delve further into the study of the Universe and its marvels. Personally I really enjoyed professor Cockell's lessons, I found him amiable and his teaching clear.If anything, I would say it is advisable to have a second source of information concerning space missions and science discoveries as some of these go back to 2013-2014, when the course was likely prepared. +This is a good introduction about Astrobiology. I'll continue my research about this specific topic with lot of interest. +This was a very informative and comprehensive introduction to the topic of Astrobiology. It was an enjoyable and challenging course to participate in. +The syllabus needs a bit of update, as many new developments happened since this course was put together. Nonetheless, still very much relevant as an introduction to astrobiology. +AMAZING! Very very clear, easy for individuals with little to no science background to follow. Extremely interesting and spilling with knowledge. Hopeful for a further course to become available!Biomedical Science student +It is a very comprehensive course and it covers a broad range of topics. +Very interesting stuff. Nice use of static imagery, but might have made more use of video. +Amazingly interesting! Never throught i could be so interested in Astrobiology before! +It was short :( +Very interesting course. A good introduction into Astrobiology, for an aspiring Space student like me. Well worth the time, short lectures. Summary after each course is the best part. I will come back and watch the videos. Thank you, Professor Charles! +General introductory course to astrobiology. Concepts are explained simply enough for anyone to understand, but the course omits detailed physics so advanced students might find the course lacking. Course is very approachable for first time students. +Great introductory course on Astrobiology/Exobiology. It provides relevant background to understand what this is all about. I wish there would be more external pointers, recommended readings, and a next stage. +Thought provoking course and very interesting. +Mr. Cockell is the best. His teachings is so good and it can be seen that he is so passionate about the Astrobiology and he is very engaging. It is like story telling. The concepts are so clearly given and the assessments do question your knowledge. +I've really enjoyed every lecture and learned a lot , Thank you Prof. Charles :)) +Although the course doesn't seem to be practically used because we haven't found any ET Life yet.I have learnt so much about Astrobiology. It also reminds me, an Aerospace Engineering student to prepare for the coming of aliens.\(^o^)/YES!\(^o^)/YES! +Good course. A few sections could be updated and some materials seen more in-depth. +I really enjoyed the course. Wish there was more. It is a facinating subject. The videos are very clear and very easy to listen to. +Excellent course, basic information for the people who are interested in astrobiology, and the origins of life in universe +Sir Charles cockell,thank you for such an amazing and beautifully designed course on astrobiology.Theres so much that I learnt from it.Wish to meet u and take up more courses related to this amazing science...you are my inspiration sir.Thank you.Tejas +Nice basic course on astrobiology +it's very helpful course +Excellent course, well organized and good summaries after each lecture. +This was a simple and interesting course I would love it to be a little bit broader and present the information in more context. But still excellent course. +Very interesting +Great course!!! I could learn much more about the Universe. My best regards. +Excellent teacher and very nice videos +Very good introductory course that embraces a broad range of topics. The depth of coverage, however, is somewhat shallow in comparison to other scientific courses aimed at beginners, such as the outstanding 'Origins' course from the University of Copenhagen. +Amazing.I want to work on a project/research on this topic. This course is very nice +I thought this was an excellent clear introduction with its succinct simple clear lecture format that was was easily complete in just under 2 hours each week +The teaching methods and pace were quite fine but it lacked a bit of media presentation pizzazz. It was definitely sufficient but could've been a little better production quality-wise. The professor had an amiable vibe and definitely seem to be a master of his field. I enjoyed it and plan to resume. +Very intensive course, definitely very well detailed and thorough. The tests often rely on paying attention to the smallest details of the lecture, which while frustrating, forces you to learn. Its one of the hardest courses on here, but also the most rewarding when you finish it. +Absolutely brilliant course. I understand the subject so much better now. Charles Cockell is an excellent lecturer. +Really enjoyable and with enough detailed information. I totally recommend this course to anyone interested in a good introduction to the field of astrobiology. Professor Cockell comunicates the contents clearly and makes you feel engaged. It was a wonderful learning experience. +This course is just right for someone curious about the subject. +Astrobiology is one of the most interesting field in science having profound implications in our view of our daily life. The course has been framed to provide a basic understanding of concepts involved in the field of Astrobiology. Professor Charles Cockell was just amazing to dramatizes events spanning more than 4 billion years of our Planet. The lectures had the materials and stuff to stimulate a persons curiosity, to wonder about his origin and the place in this cosmos. The lecture makes one ponder and was very connective in a deeper sense. TOTALLY EXTRA-TERRESTIAL! +Thank you so much for this course! It was really interesting. +Took me years to finish this course... I am slow at my education and i loved how i could work at my own pace. So glad i stuck to it.Thank you professor! +It's really awesome +I am really enjoying this course. The content is displayed clearly providing a good overview of what astrobiology is. +I found this course very interesting and learned a lot. +pretty hard but really interesting +beautiful and interesting course +While a decent overview, the course is a bit dated (2012), One thing that would be nice, is having the key topics that are being talked about, show up on the backdrop. Sometimes, there too much information being presented too quickly. +It is an interesting and easy to understand overfiew of the topic. I recommend it for newbies to the topic and those who just want to refresh basic knowledge they might have gathered in other courses. +Good course, gently showing an introduction. Had the playspeed at 1.25x the entire time though, otherwise they talked too slow. +This is a well-made course with interesting lectures and a great professor. I'm very passionate about anything "astro" related and this was for me an introduction into the field of astrobiology. Beginner friendly. +Great Class +I really enjoyed it, the first modules where the ones i consider more important and tho it was pretty informative i would like to recommend the update of a few lectures and data of the same. In the case of the arrival of the spacecraft new horizons, i mean. But in general i really liked it, it compliments my college formation. +Great class! The topic is fascinating and the lectures are clear and well articulated. I strongly recommend this course. +course kept wanting me to verify and give them a picture of me +Great Course! Highly recommend. I especially liked the sections on origins of life and habitability. The lectures were packed with info but short enough to absorb. Loved the professor's presentation, as well. He was engaging and positive, but not over the top with enthusiasm. +I really enjoyed everything I have learned and honestly was so clearly laid out. Thank you so much for this! +This course has been extremely helpful, captivating, and thoroughly enjoyable! I learned so much from this course, and it has only intensified my interest and curiosity for this field.PROS:-Oganization and structure of the content-Balanced in terms of duration, difficulty, etc.-Delivery of the instructor, who was very engaging and maintained interest throughout the course, and his personal interest and knowledge in this field was clearly evident.-The assignments were well weighted, relevant, and a good indicator of my understanding of the course content.CONS:-None!So thank you to the instructor, the institute, and everyone else involved in providing this wonderful course. I look forward to more in the future! +I missed math. +Excellent course, I learned a lot but I think it should have some peer reviewed assignments, like a little research on some topic, so that you have to look for information and learn a lot more in the process. +Second time to take this class. Awesome! +Class is WELL WORTH TAKING! Very intense, comprehensive and quite informative. Professors are well worth listening to! +I'm already a Biology student, I took this course despite the language barrier because is not teached in many universities, I know Edinburgh has a long university teaching tradition, and I enjoyed the teachings. +Very well done course. Lots of insight and community support. +Very interesting and compact intro to astrobiology. Only meat, excellent way to start with Astrobiology. I want to thank prof. Charles Cockell for his work. +Brilliant, really interesting course, with an enthusiastic and clear lecturr. +Truly fascinating and phenomenal course. I wish there were more like it! +Great course, Charles does a great job teaching the course! opens up the possibilities of the origins of life and other possible life in our solar system and universe. thanks to Coursera. +Excellent introductory course on the topic. Thank you Dr. Cockell. +Very Good course. The teacher is very clear and enthusiastic. +Loved the brief lectures and well structured layout. Definitely a must for those stepping into this wonderful area of multidisciplinary research! +A great beginning course. Well taught. Thank you. +I really enjoyed this course. It threw me, at first, that the whole course was only lectures -- no videos or readings -- but so much of this course will be applicable to teaching biology that it's useful no matter what. I also had a small problem with verifying quizzes on my phone. +Great course with excellent learning material and clear explanations. I learnt a lot and would definitely recommend the course to anyone interested in astrobiology and the search for life outside of our planet. +5 stars, it's more. Great course would advise this to anyone. Thank you for the experence +Great content and learning experience. Informative and enjoyable course, great lecture presentations and support materials. +Great course, ta! +Well organized and very informative. +Great introduction to this really interesting topic - thank you :-) +Very informative, easy to follow, and well explained. +Amazing, interesting and mind boggling course with a great teacher. +It is very important to me to understand other things about the Universe. It's a complementary knowledge over the geology , that is the course that I made before in the University. +A very good course, very well presented and didactic.It would be interesting if it were upgraded to the latest results (2013-2015)regardless, I recommend it to everyone interested. +Interesting, But Monotonous. Great Resources And Loving It! :) +I enjoyed a lot :) +I developed a keen interest in Astrobiology after reading one of Dan Brown's books and this course has nurtured my interest. It has made me sure of what I want to pursue in the future. +Gives a basic idea about possible extraterrestrial life and how origin of life on Earth. +Very interesting material and well explained, but videos are quite plain - borderline boring. +Great course So far has taught me alot of things i didnt know and some things i needed to brush up on. well recommended +Best Course I have ever seen and Mr. Cockell is a really nice person. He made me really fascinated in the field of science. +Extremely interesting ! +Very interesting presentation of the material. I really liked how it was paced. +Great course on a fascinating area of science. The presentation could have been a bit more engaging with some animations though. +I loved this course as it helped me understand things that didn't make sense before +A good idea about how begin and the evolution of life in our world and possible habitable extraterrestrial worlds in our solar system or planets orbiting stars, based in our own world. +Very interesting and informative, laconic and focused. The lecturer is great. +Thoroughly Enjoyed! +About the contents, I was expecting maybe less biological charge and a bit more about astronomy, but maybe that was my mistake. The teacher makes a great job, and I have been learning both astrobiology and English. About practicing English while studying another subject, I would like to appreciate the synchronizing of the subtitles, that were perfect.I totally recommend this course to anyone interesting in solar system, astronomy, biology and the search for extraterrestrial inteligence. +Really enjoyable course - this was my second time of taking it as I wanted to revise the topic. This time around I didn't have the time to engage in the forums as much, and found that I missed the lively discussions there. +Concise and fascinating overview of this subject, which left me yearning to learn more! +A lot of g +I really enjoyed this course. I felt like some of the videos from the first week were a little too long, I preferred the shorter ones, and there was a mix up where the second week ended up being due before the first week which threw me off a little but the content itself was very interesting and I'm glad I took part in it. +I REALLY love this course. I love learning new things all the time, and this course really helps with that. It puts new perspectives in your mind and allows you to think further into things you may or may not have already known. Very interesting course, always mind grabbing. +It was a great course and not easy! +Best course ever! Charles is the best of teachers. You´ll enjoy every single one of the lectures and will never want it to be over. +Excellent! Professor Cockell obviously has a passion for his field and I thoroughly enjoyed his lectures. I learned much more than I expected as the course is fully detailed, well organized and the quizzes were challenging. I found the whole experience a pleasure. Thank you Professor! +Very interesting and engaging course. There are longer and more in-depth courses if you want them but if you want a concise overview of astrobiology on your own time, then this course is perfect! +Very good course. The instructer is clear in what he wants us to learn, and uses a great selection of visuel repressentations.This course earns 5 stars indeed +Thank you very much for this course.I think I now have a good understanding of what Astrobiology is and how it is possible to look out for life on other planets.Hopefully some of the big questions of astrobiology will be answered :) +A very thorough introduction on a unique subject! +Extremelly interesting material and good wrapping, I enjoyed watching lectures. Guess I'll continue studying biology as the course made me think about things and I need more info. Thanks a lot, great course +Excellent presentation and very interesting course +Fantastic class. Shows the need for interdisciplinary studies and why space exploration is essential to understanding how life began on earth. The lecures are interesting and the concepts well explained. +Very interesting topic, I had previous knowledge about exoplanets and formation of the Earth and solar system which was helpful but not necessary to understand the concepts in the course. The weekly assignments kept me engaged in the course even though I was taking it without credit. +Someone did their homework in putting this course together; well done. +Wonderful course.I took it just to satisfy my curiosity. I really enjoyed listening to the lectures and doing the quizzes. Many thanks to the professor for taking the time to make it.I would be happy to see a more advanced version. +Thank you very much, Charles Cockell, and everyone who contributed to the creation of this course and made this overview of Astrobiology accessible to the general public. +Good inte onto the area. +An introdutrory course but very well taught. +Exactly what I was looking for on the matter!!! +Really enjoyed this course. The videos were really interesting and full of facts and information. I would recommend anyone with an interest in the extra terrestrial or sci-fi to do this course. Some of the content will be a real eye opener to those looking to the sky for little green men!! +This course was amazing! I hope the course will be updated in the near future with more depth to current exploration. I personally would suggest the New Horizon Mission, The Rosetta Mission, the "discovery" of Enceladus' subsurface global ocean, and/or Stephen Hawking's $100 million prize. +I love this course, it gave me the basic idea of how life could and couldn't start with one situation or another. The impact of some element in our life and how alternative elements have smaller chance to be the backbone of life is not a common thing to think in my everyday life (a fresh air for me)I have difficulty to remember all the project that we all do to search the extraterrestrial life though XD...this course make me think that I now have a basic scientific facts to start build a new story about the early life in earth <3 oh my god, thanks a lot sir!! (^u^)v +Instructor was boring +Thank you so much for this course! It was very interesting and opened my eyes to so many new aspects of extraterrestrial life! +I already knew a little on this subject prior to completing the course but found the content and the delivery very interesting and engaging. Thank you for making this available. +Brilliant explanation but Professor need to have a little more smile and expression +Excellent information and presented very well. +Very interesting course +I really enjoyed learning about astrobiology. We certainly live in interesting times, and this course does an excellent job introducing the students to the current topics and technologies. +Excellent course. The prof was the real driver in the rating. +Very Good! +An enlightening course; well presented and taught in a language that is easy to grasp. Left me wanting more! +Thank you all so much!This course was amazing and very useful for me.My best wishes,Anastasia B. +Excellent Teacher. Never doubted. Gave scientific answers to very tv-sh +I thoroughly enjoyed this course. I thought the pace was just right, and the quizzes were just challenging enough to make me review the content more thoughtfully. Thank you for making this course accessible! +A very interesting course +Very nice course. Specially the instructor is very helpful & knowledgeable person. I am very much grateful to The University of Edinburgh for providing this course. +Very interesting and easy. +This is a terrific course! I really enjoyed Dr. Cockrell's lecture style. He is very articulate and presents and explains the material very well. The photos and graphics were very useful for following the lectures and understanding the material.I found the "What Have We Learned" summaries after each lecture very helpful. I would like to take more courses offered by Dr. Cockrell in the future. +This was a very interesting and entertaining course, I enjoyed it a lot and can only recommend it. Thanks! +Very interesting and informative. +Very interesting, easily accessible to non-professional audience, thought-provoking. Well covered topics +Nicely done! Wonderful mix of challenging information, entertaining presentation, thought-provoking ideas. +Very interesting and very well explained. +I would like to send my thanks to the professor for sharing the course and all the assistants for the efforts you have done. The classes are very interesting and I enjoyed my time while following the classes as well as doing the quiz. +This was fun. As a novice to both astronomy and astrobiology, I thought it was a nice introduction. +Almost perfect (for the intro level it was designed for). I would suggest that next time, if possible, instructor image could be a little smaller and the actual images illustrating the points he is talking about a little bigger and more diverse. But that is a minor, please, don't get me wrong. The course was very very good, thank you a lot. Also, the off-line written forum-style discussions were very very good. +Wonderfully engaging course that was fun to take and inspires one to learn more about the exciting field of Astrobiology. +This good course; but I have none of those cards, as I can do to pay the course +Very interesting material, and very well explained. The course is slightly out of date, and a couple of the test questions were poorly worded (mostly, these were corrected), but overall it is educational and fun to participate in. I enjoyed it and I learned even more about something that interested me. +I learned a lot from this course. It did feel like some of the videos were out of order in the first two weeks of the class. Overall, it was very interesting and I now know more about a subject I was unfamiliar with previously. +Very interesting and informative to get a general overview. Could go a bit more in detail in some techniques and informations. +The material could be exciting but the presentation is dull. The pass mark on the quizzes is around 80%. As these courses are supposed to be for interest why do you need 80% to pass? +Great course that is interesting and engaging. Well taught and fun! +Amazing! Thank you professor. Easily one of the best professors I've come across. The course was not too complicated, at the same time it was extremely understandable. May there be many more courses like this on the subject (as it develops and spreads worldwide). Cheers! Highly recommended. Thanks again! Thank you Coursera! +Thanks for sharingSincerelyProf Héctor Manuel Castillo GómezPd. Ido not know how send you $29 dollars for certify.I dont have credit cardsorry +Good course,it gives me more understanding about astrobiology and extraterrestrial life.Thanks. +Very interesting, the professor is a great teller. Unfortunately the tests in week 4 are pretty bad, and the order of the lectures in week 1 and 2 seems off. Well worth 5 stars without these two imperfections. +Super good course +Great introduction to the field of astrobiology. Captivating and very interesting - only problem is that it is too short. I would love to learn more ! +The pronunciation of the lector was more than awful! His English is quite unsuitable for video lectures! It was just a torture listening to him! +Great introduction to a fascinating subject. It covered a variety of topics at an accessible level. +This must be the most relevant information one could acquire in this age! So very grateful! +A simple yet extensive overview of Astrobiology. The learned Professor has managed to communicate the grandeur and excitement of Astrobiology without intimidating us with technical details, yet not leaving out anything.A great effort and accomplishment. +Very goof introduction. Maybe a little bit short on some subjects. +Great introductory course!!Definitely urging me to pursue more Astrobiology courses! +Really cool stuff for profanes :-) +Great course! I learned so much about this immensely interesting field. I would recommend it anyone. I am currently taking classes mostly about computer programming on Coursera but I saw this class and had to sign up. I am so glad I did! +Very informative and I learned a lot with this course. It was made very interesting and there was not a dull moment in the whole course. +The professor explained all the issues clearly. The lectures cover many interesting aspects of astrobiology.I would wish for more updated news though. For example, the New Horizons spacecraft has already reached Pluto. +The summary of each lesson is excellent. +Excellent and very interesting presentation of a wonderful subject. +A comprehensive and fascinating introduction to astrobiology. The course is delivered by an excellent team and offers valuable insight into the cutting-edge field.I would just like to mention to anyone thinking of taking this course that while it is indeed catered to beginners, there are some sections in which it would be helpful to have a basic understanding of cell biology (ultrastructure in particular) as technical terminology is used and could potentially be overwhelming without some prior knowledge.However this only applies to a small part of the course and the rest is very much accessible. Highly recommended. +Very informative, well organized and well presented. My only complaint is that the class was a little on the short side, and it could have went into more detail at a couple of points. I would still recommend the course, regardless of length (and have). +This is a very interesting course looking at the rise of life on Earth and what that can teach us about how life may have emerged on other planets. +i've learned tons of new things. i would like to have more materials on the subject. could the staff attach some recommended readings? other courses? than you for making this course :) +Prof Cockell opens the door of astrobiology for me. Before passing this course my knowledge about Extraterrestrial life and life on the other planets was about the Hollywood movies. Now I can understand when the scientists talking about "life" what is the term "life" is suppose to be. +This is a very good course and very useful for everyone who is interested in the Astrobiology field. Thank you very much COURSERA for adding this course. +This course was really great, and I don't say that lightly. The instructor was knowledgeable and thorough, the problems were clearly defined and discussed, added insight to key areas of focus were provided by instructors from past courses allowing for recap, and the problem was thoroughly interesting. +Dr. Richard Meisler did a great job at engaging the student about this very current and pressing matter. I want to thank him and those who he interviewed over the whole course for taking the time to make this available online. I am inspired to help others who are effected by HIV/AIDS. I hope to one day be able to utilize my time into helping others. +when i did this couse i spected to learn more about the bology of the virus, anyway i really enjoyed this course and i have learnt a lot! +It is just everything in one course: wisdom, social issues, history, story, biology (simply explained), health, drugs, stigma, families, people, lives! It goes around the world, it kills ghosts for people who's been followed by years of uncertainty. +very enlightening and educative +I thank Dr. Meisler, and everyone else involved in this course for their excellent work and for enabling me to obtain the knowledge that I have acquired studying this course. Well done. +It is very interesting, comprehensive and useful course! I am sad because certificate is not for free... +Great course! Thoroughly enjoyed lectures and learning more about HIV/AIDS from various perspectives. +It was a wonderful experience. It was great to know about the AIDS epidemic, role of different presidents regarding AIDS, its transmission, testing, counseling, vaccine, anti-retroviral therapy, prevention, problems as a result of anti-retroviral therapy, and a lot more. To grasp more information about AIDS epidemic and various HIV+ cases, the suggested books and referred movies were simply remarkable. Dr. Meisler has explained many aspects that might help one in future research for better treatment of HIV+ patients. +This class is filled with useful information and the outside resources it references are also great. The material in the class is presented in a clear and compassionate manner. It's a class worth taking to better understand AIDS/HIV and the role the disease plays throughout the world. +The course is very heavy emotionally, but completely necessary. +it was very fun +This is an amazingly thoughtful and thought provoking course. The care and time taken to build this course is nothing short of incredible especially as it is offered free of charge to students. This was a wonderful educational experience that has solidified my educational goals of going into the field of epidemiology with focus on persons living with HIV/AIDS. Words cannot express my gratitude for Dr. Meisler and the amazing participants in this course; it is nothing short of a blessing. +Enjoyed this course. It is a course I would recommended to anybody who wants to learn about politics, Government, Medical research and Activism that is formed from the characteristics of a disease. I wish for a cure to come up faster. +I did not watch every single video (I watched it initially for a school project so I had to cherrypick videos) but have definitely learnt so much from all the interviews that the professor has compiled for us and see from different aspects, e.g. political, legal, socio-economic factors, even literature, that have shaped our society's view on HIV patients.The professor has left very positive note and resonance for us to be aware of HIV and how to change our community by being aware of it. It is truly a meaningful course and I just want to give a huge thank you to University of Michigan for this MOOC. +This course provides a concise and balanced look at the aids epidemic,and social responsibility and response to it. I think it is comprehensive in the resources that we can access, additional videos, books, professionals, advocates and patients. Definitely a good starting off point for someone who wants a detailed introduction to the topic. I will review the materials again and again. Thank you. Good job. +Wonderful course, a lot the information and resource! +It explored How HIV was diagnosed, what are all the actions taken Globally to combat pandemic. +Course content has been presented in an excellent manner. +The course gives a whole perspective of the phenom of AIDS and its impact +Very professional and informative. +Very usefull course. Good explanation about the disease and actual course. +Very complete, interesting and exciting. A great experience! Dr. Meisler is a wonderful person. +This interesting course focuses on the social and political aspects of this well-known virus. Interesting is as well the historical information provided and that different countries around the world are highlighted and how various presidents dealt with the epidemic. The focus on stigma is amazing, as this has a big influence on the disease. I would have preferred to have some more information about the bio-medical aspects of HIV to gain a complete understanding. However, I would definitely recommend this course to somebody that wants to create a more complete understanding of HIV/AIDS. +Amazing course! It opens our mind to the world in which all people are equal nonetheless what disease they have. Everyone should consider taking this course. +This was a wonderful course. I've learned so much, and I really appreciate it. +Incredibly engaging! This course provides an excellent multi-discipline approach to understanding HIV/AIDS that not only focuses on the medical background, but delves into the cultural, social, and political factors that have impacted the disease. The professor is amazingly knowledgeable and has structured this course in such an engaging and organized way. Now, I feel empowered to bring this education to the community I will be serving during my Peace Corps service. Taking this course was one of the best decisions I have ever made! +Very much enjoyed the knowledge obtained and the additional reading material. +Really good course! Amazing interviews +Wonderfull course. I highly recomend it. All the professors and people invited to share experiences are very well prepared, they speak in a way that it easy to understand. I learned a lot and realized that as a general doctor from another country still need so much to learn about just the basics of this epidemy. I loved it. +Excellent and engaging course +This course has been an useful approach for me to AIDS history.The point is focused on United States but also I Could learn something more of AIDS over the world.I was hoping to learn more over AIDS, and I did it. But also I learned over people. People who are HIV +, people who care and recent part of our history. +Very informative and thorough. +The content might be great but the teachers don't seem to enjoy presenting the course at all. They are basically reading from a script. Very monotonous atmosphere. +wonderful and comprehensive introduction to infections ! +I love it! +Great. Tanks you. +Interesting and well structured, easy to follow. Some videos were a bit too long, but the concepts were well explained. Everything was clean and clear. I enjoyed it. +I really enjoyed this course. I have learnt a lot new things and upgraded on what I already knew. I recommend this to every one interested in understanding microbial resistance +Really enjoyed this excellent course. Stretched me and gave me a great basic understanding of biofilms. +Excellent course; the presenters' English is a little difficult to understand at times but nothing too incomprehensible. +Thank you team who put together a great effort. I appreciate this opportunity to refresh my education as microbiologist, in the infectious diseases caused by bacteria. The extra readings were really refreshing, and would like to learn more about combination of treatment/usage of two or more antibiotics and other actions to eradicate chronic infections. Two thumbs up for motivating broader (international research) on biofilms. I found good correlation with PCR findings and follow-up of evolution thanks to conscientious collection of identified pathogens to compare throughout the years within and between patients to understand evolution and estimate best ways of treatment. Thank you again. +interesting content but not well presented. faculty read the script and struggled with pronunciation, fluency and generally engaging presentation. Combination of basic content on the one hand and highly specialised information / terminology without explanation on the other was not helpful to learning. +very informative and interesting +Excellent presentations with engaging graphics. Worthy of time and thought +Fantastic! Really fascinating and informative quality training from experts in their field. Great resources and really interesting presentations on complex subjects. +Loved it !!!! +exellent material and great evaluation tools to asses that the course was well learned by the ones that took it. +I enjoyed this course very much and I certainly recommend it to that ones who are working in clinical fields like pharmacies and hospitals. Excellent teachers and topics as well as reading material. +Great course, very complete and funtional. Help me to understand some things that i dont have clear about biofilms and infetions. I will do more course with this university. +It proved invaluable to me as it clarified my concepts relating to infections, especially those which occur with change of season in India and their treatment protocols advised in ancient Ayurvedic text. +My name is Adithya C.G. I am studying in my sophomore and final year of my M.Tech Industrial Biotechnology course (Master's) at SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India (2015-2017 batch). The course is very informative. The videos are excellent. +So far so good..I enjoy each and every lecture +This course was very insightful and interesting. The lectures was very good and I liked the recommended scientific articles that we could download and read for extra information. I would definitely recommend this course. +Difficult course for the beginner but if you put the work in you learn a tremendous amount of material. +I enjoyed this course very much. Was an excellent refresher for myself and all the material, additional reading resources and instruction from the professors was clear and concise. Thank you! +The course was very useful, and interesting as well. :) I always like when people talk about what's there to discover and work out yet, not only what we already know. +Very enjoyable and well presented. +Perfect!!! So, I had high expectations when I started the course and all were overcome. I recommend the course to all who wish to start some work, however slight, with biofilms. I congratulate the entire team of teachers. +This is a truly brilliant course that shines a light on the dark world of the biofilm. The lecturers are excellent in bringing a quite difficult subject alive. The course introduces the secrets of bacteria to us and how they change from a simple infection to a long term (some times) debilitating chronic infections such a sinusitis and artificial knee joint infections. I found it fascinating that these simple organisms were clever enough dodge the bodies considerable defences and then join with others to form biofilms - which are like little communities working together with the aim of a bodily take over. Quite fascinating!! Furthermore - the lecturers introduce the idea of antibiotics and how they work to push these little invaders back!! Enjoy and learn +very helpful course +This course is not just for microbiologists. There are tons of clinical gems for all types of clinicians working with surgical patients or chronic wounds.I think it is a must for all primary healthcare, GPs, chiropractors and physiotherapists.An excellent course! Extremely well put together and presented. I highly recommend. +I greatly enjoyed the course. +Easy and very educationally +Tough course for me but important and worthwhile. Thank you for offering this valuable material. +very helpful and easy way to learn the topic. +Very useful and coprehensive course. +Very interesting!!!!! thanks very much for sharing all this knowledge!! +The course was very interesting and well-taught! +very good course +This is one of the best materials about bacteria and infections, very consistent and interesting. Im a medicine student and this course has helped me a lot. +Personal difficulty in understanding accents, my own lack of ability. +A very enjoyable course. Both timely and informative. Many thanks to Professor Bjarnsholt and his colleagues for putting it together. Keep up the excellent work. +Great course providing a thorough introduction to bacteria, biofilm, and chronic infections. Interesting lectures - relevant to our daily lives! +I found this course to be very interesting and informing. +This is a great course. I hope I am gonna learn a lot. +very specific and a lot of information +It is a very beneficial course,though it is quite difficult.I do learn a lot from this course. +This course is really nice! Normal courses are superficial with basic knowledge. I really like the way of researchers introducing their area and talking about the recent related publications. It is a proper course for college or post-graduate student in this area! Thank you for making so much effort! +I found it very hard to understand the lecturers and what they were saying. +This course gives a deep knowledge on how biofilms form, behave, distribute and affect the human body. I found it very interesting and useful. The professors explain the material clearly and the animations give a clear idea on how the processes occur. Thank you! +I really enjoyed the course and learned a great deal. The instructors were very good. +This will help me to understand more about Biofilm. +Very good definitions about each topic, concise presentations, clear. Teachers with broad expertise on the subject. +I liked this course a lot. I joined this course to understand the cause of bacterial infections during surgery. My mom is suffering from somewhat similar condition after having a surgery, so I wanted to know the cause of it. I got much more knowledge than expected. I am Microbiology student and I am doing PhD. Medical microbiology was always my topic of interest and to get better knowledge about biofilms this course is best. I would recommend this course to all the microbiology studying students. +very great course the variety in doctors every lesson is a very great thing but the assignment and asking about the names of bacteria is really hard and there is no enough data about why they are called that so it is really hard i hope you can add a lesson clarifing the names of bacteria +Efficient, relevant and well-formatted introduction to the topic! Great job! +Excellent teaching, the diagrams and knowledge of the lecturers is great. I turned the subtitles on as lots of the words were complex, so would recommend doing this for others. Tests were rather easy but the course was full of interesting information. +Great introduction to the study of biofilms. +This is a great job!Thanks for this course. +Great interaction, congrats- +Loved this exceptional course a good foundation for the subject of Bacteria, Chronic Infections & BiofilmsI have an avid interest in the subject and have followed the work closely of Alan Macdonald Pathologist, Dr Eva Sapi and many other pioneers in the field of chronic disease and biofilms.Thank you :) +Difficult course to focus on, but could understand concepts. +Great course with extremely knowledgeable professors. Thank you. +Really good! Totally recomended... +Classes are very informative and interesting. I personally liked the curriculum. +Excellent introductory course on Chronic infections and biofilms. New information well dispayed and well explained. I hope University of Copenhagen may lunch more courses like this.Thank you very much +Really Good +very interesting course. +It was an excellent course about biofilms and I learned much of theme +Has a good organization, good topics and also a great number of teachers. +I enjoyed this course. I found the quizzes hard, but persevered, and managed to pass with 84.5% +This course is well fitted for clinicians, for scientists, i mean biologists, we can have a relevant matter too. +Very informative. A lot of different experts. Nice and sometimes funny animations +Good introduction to the medical side of bio-film studies. +Brilliant course, with some veery interesting knowledgge on biofilm and their roles in chronic/recurrent infections. +This is the greatest course I ever had, and it also gave me a lot of inspiration with my dissertation . +Very nice course and digital support, could be a little more dynamic but very inf +The teachers doesn't seem to enjoy beeing there.......... The all seem like ''The faster we do this, the sooner it will be finished....'' +The course was good, but there was a flaw in a fact that there were several lecturers. Some fact were repetitive, especially the interviews didn't bring anything new, and the tests sometimes were too specific. Anyway, I find the information given in this course extremely useful. The last module was the most exiting one, with clear structure and some really interesting themes to discover. +five star course. really enjoying the presentations +A very good introductory course !! +very informative +Bacteria are among the most import forms of life that ever existed, and to comprehend its biology is pivotal to human welfare and health. This course deliveries with flare high education from one of the most pretigious universities in Europe. I strongly recommend this increadibly interesting course to anyone who wants to learn about the fascinating world of biofilms and chronic infections. +Very detailed description of bacteria behavior. It gets very technical, but anyone curious about health with respect to bacteria's role can learn something from this course. +Very good context, yet the modules could be better distinguished. +Excellent! I would recommend to all those working on bilingual education and consulting for parents about it. +I loved the course because I surely learned a lot!!! Thank you! +Thanks for providing lots of interesting materials! As for me, i would prefer having more advanced tests and tasks as the given ones did not really help me remember the materials. I would also appreciate having some additional materials on the brain areas in this course, since this area was completely new to me. +Very useful and scientific oriented +Great lecturer giving an up-to-date and accessible state of the research on the bilingual brain, based on a wide range of studies including his own. Great way to get a sense of what neuropsychology is for beginners. I was expecting more on how bilingualism influence the way we think / process information / create, but the response has been that things are much more complex than that... I recommand this course to anyone curious about bilingualism. +The content of this course is really interesting and intriguing, but it would better if there are additional sources and information. Also, instead of mainly picture the teacher in the video, it would be nice if there could be more graphics and diagrams to illustrate the idea that the professor is trying to convey. Besides those minor deficiencies, I would say that this is a really good course and will worth your time. +A great course for those who are interested in the fascinating bilingual research going on in area. Clearly stated, up-to-date literature shared. +Very well designed course for effective outcomes. This course has helped me a lot to take constructive steps to improve my classroom experiences. Now my students as well as I are enjoying the classes. I used to use certain techniques only for a limited area of my lessons but this course helped me to understand and discover more ways to incorporate art with other subjects. It has also improved my own learning experiences. I am highly grateful to get the opportunity to take the course. Thanks a lot to Coursera. Special thanks to Lisa Mazzola and Stephanie Pau. +A great balance between theory and practice +Fantastic course to learn how to teach art in schools! +Very interesting and useful for teaching in the classroom and outdoor +This course is so helpful for art teacher. thank you Coursera +Really useful with great ideas. +Amazing course! +Great course! Loved it! Will be back to do more! Thanks! +Outstanding course! I am a museum docent and found strategies presented extremely successful for museum teaching.. +Great course, with an amazing approach and fantastic material. For every one who loves arts, not only teachers, art students, if you do love art, join it and enjoy it. +The articles that were limited were actually somewhat helpful. The google hangouts seemed lackluster and draining. I would recommend more substance in the videos, or MoMA might switch to an article/book MOOC that doesn't rely as much as people talking about their opinion without a ton of evidence or support. Wouldn't recommend participating in this MOOC +wonderful course . I am waiting to see how I have faired . +I like the concept but I was expecting for more video lecture. +I like MoMA courses and wish MoMA good luck! +I found this course very helpful in making me rethink the way I teach - moving from a lecture mode where I present information to students whilst they force themselves to try and focus or fall asleep to teaching using questions whilst inserting information at helpful points to guide the conversation. I am a homeschooling Mum and a church pastor, and in both those settings I have found this course to be very insightful and transformational in the way I teach and can promote creative thinking and engagement with students. +I just loved the course. Everything fit my schedule and activities. +It's seemingly a great course for K-12 teachers but lacks relevance for higher education. +I´m new in online courses but I´m learning everyday. MoMA +As with the other MoMA class, I found it very helpful for use with my 9th and 10th grade English classes. Thank you for the insights! +I really love all courses from MOMA... they are very professional +Wonderfull course +Very helpful, inspiring and informative. +Just as excellent as the other one was! Thank you so much! Can't wait to start Modern Art and Ideas!!! +Excellent course. I have recommended Coursera and MoMA to several educators in my county. +Humble; humanizing; full of culture; EXCELLENT. +Fantastic course!!! It open me a new way to see and teach! Thank you very much!! +Really good ideas and good assignments. +I'm quite happy with this course. Thank you MoMA and Coursera! +It was a very interesting course! Well-structure and nice to attend! I learned a lot of new things and I also had some ideas for using Art and Inquiry in my classroom! Thank you MoMa +Great! this course gives amazing activities and ideas for the classroom, but it also gives you smart strategies for us to connect and evaluate a work of art differently. +Amazing course! +Great !! +Good content +Some of the content are repetitive. The first interview sounds "staged". Some Korean reference ("noon sei" or something like that ) are non-value adding. +Great teacher! +I am quite new to this learning portal and thus visited just few courses. Nevertheless I didn´t finish all of them because some were unfortunately quite boring. In contrast this course is so far the best I have seen. Professor Chang caught my attention from the first second. Course is very well structured, lessons and language are easy to understand. Lecture is very interactive, interrupted by short questions to maintain your concentration. Background is changing in order to keep your attention and desire to know more. Learning with prof. Chang is simply great fun!!! +It would be better if the course can include more examples +Thank you! For very interesting Course!!!! +Great Course to Start a business Career +The lessons contain brief explanation even if this is an introduction study only. There are a lot of key things and terms to remember (that are mostly hard to comprehend if you do not have marketing knowledge) which I also believe are necessary in further B2B market study.PS. I like the funny introductions and side comments of Prof. Chang. +love the lectures +The best course I have ever taken online! Great studying, quality nad quantity of materials...really enjoyed it. Since we do not have lessons on this topic ar the university and we get only basic palentology information so we can understand todays animals, this was a great way to deepen and upgrade the knowledge . Thanks! +Excellent course of current knowledge of Marine reptiles from Mesozoic age. Thanks for accept me as free student, best wishes. +I loved that there were discrete chunks of learning in this course. All to often one is bombarded with data and can't make any sense from it. But here each weekly segment was complete and at the end, everything fitted together.Thank you. In fact, I have enjoyed all the University of Alberta courses offered on reptiles, birds, dinosaurs, etc. +Wow, what a fantastic course. Well structured and very well presented by a very knowledgeable palaeontologist. I cannot recommend this course enough. +Superbly presented course.Thank you *.* +I love this course! I have learned so much, and the quizzes are so nice and short. They don't give me time to stress!!! +One of the best (maybe the best) courses. Thank you! +Wonderful ! I have not been know about ancient Marine Reptiles until today. So, I am really thank you to teach and give knowledge for me. +Absolutely phenomenal course! Would recommend a million times over to anyone interested in this subject. I'm even looking into applying to the UofA after going through their wonderful MOOC's, well run, and interesting, wonderful course notes to supplement the clean, information packed, video lessons. Loved the interactive material too! The interactive phylogenetic tree was a lifesaver, I spent hours on that thing just reading up and looking around. +Absolutely brilliant course. +I've just finish this course and it is the last one for me in the series of the paleontology courses provided by University of Alberta. And I must say, I'm simply blown away by all these courses! The topics covered are absolutely fascinating, the material presentation exceeded all my expectations and Scott Persons, the presenter, is probably the most engaging teacher I've ever seen, absolutely perfect at holding attention and delivering the material.I liked the way the course is structured - individually following the evolutionary tree of all three major groups. It's really interesting to see how evolution worked out for them.The material itself isn't short of terminology so it's treats listeners seriously, providing nitty-gritty details of how the evolution process took place, I really appreciate that. And it's never overdone, so a person without a special knowledge background can go through course just fine. Although it won't hurt to start these courses with Dino 101 first :)Interactive materials are a very nice touch and a welcome addition to excellent videos and great lecture notes. Loved the use of fossils as well, it's a joy to get a look at some treasures a university like this has in their possession.Hopefully, the staff behind these courses will be able to find an opportunity and new topics to continue to share knowledge about that mesmerizing time of prehistoric life. Until then, many thanks to all of them! +5 star course thank you +The subtitles once not match with the avance of the video. +This is my second course through the University of Alberta. I did Dino 101 (which I highly recommend on its own or before the Paleontology series) and was so impressed. Ancient Marine Reptiles is extremely in-depth - there is A LOT to learn here, from various animals to evolution, classification and trees. The instructor is absolutely phenomenal! I love his teaching style: he kept me engaged, interested and learning with nearly every sentence. It is obvious that he loves the world of Paleontology and that makes him easy to learn from. I highly, highly recommend this course and any others from the University of Alberta - they are some of the best courses I've ever taken. +This was a most informative course. and for me. not an easy one by any means. For an under-graduate, I would say is essential. Well done! And thank you! +Can be extremely complicated with all of the unfamiliar names, and I'd lose focus. As a result, I had a hard time keeping up. I'd recommend pausing and returning another day if you lose focus. +No frills honest conjecture. Presentation material ocassionally looses to the tech but great with a chance of hiccups. +Splending. Awesome. Ivy league. +This is a fascinating journey into the evolution of ancient marine reptiles. if you're a fan of paleontology and ancient animal life like I am, this course is for you. It's really well done and you won't regret it. +Yet another great course by the University of Alberta. +I love Paleontology! This is a fantastic course, which makes me love life. +Wonderful and informative course! Thank you so much! +great course! Fun and interesting +Another great course from the University that brought you Dino101 +Fantastic! I would love some more of this teaching approach on other animals groups! i.e. Pterosaurs, whales, etc. +I thought this would be a fun simple class, but I DID NOT know anything about marine reptiles, and it showed. I learned a lot and this instruction was very helpful and very educational. +Interesting course +Wonderful... just love how much there's to learn. Love the exposition the data, how it was developed. The perfect timing of the sound and english subtitles.Excellent professor.I will enrol to more Paleontology courses +excellent course would love to see more on early crocodilians and turtles, I know turtles have a debated history but would be awesome to look at possible origins. +superb presentations following the three major divisions of marine reptiles from their origins to their eventual extinctions +Another excellent course from the University of Alberta. A real privilege to have the opportunity to learn in this way. +Excellent presentation of the information. I definitely have a much greater appreciation of these marine reptiles +This is a very basic course that introduces you to the topic, but doesn't go into much depth. While it's clear that a lot of time was spent filming and creating the course material, I still would not recommend this course. Both the presentation itself and the in-video quizzes are unbelievably obnoxious. The presenter emphasizes every other word and talks in a very unnatural manner that makes it very tiring to listen to, and the in-video quizzes are far too basic and take up too much time. Sometimes you also have to go to an external site in order to do the activities, which are badly designed and just frustrating. Overall, I recommend waiting for a better course. +another brilliant piece of entertaining and informative education from Alberta. +just amazing i was looking for material in this are and had neverf ound , thanks alot =D +Again, wonderfully clear and informative. +Another wonderful course from University of Alberta. Scott Persons is a great lecturer. Material is interesting and well structured. +Great course! Just PLEASE don't use Dave Peters images on it. +Course is great. Coursera is a minus 5 stars for their money grubbing propensities. Love the instructor for these dinosaur courses, he is personable, knowledgeable and just a naturally great teacher. The information is fascinating and scientifically up to date. It leaves me with a favorable impression of the University of Alberta's research. The graphics used in all these courses are simply beautiful. +Excellent course. Lots of information presented very well. +The course was very detailed and complete. I learned a lot. It was a very good course. +An excellent introduction to the sometimes overlooked marine predators that lived alongside the dinosaurs! A lot of detail is presented here, so be prepared to act like a sponge and soak it all up. +very well organised and stimulatingly presented .a whole new world is unfolded for the student. +I appreciate all staff of UNA and Coursera. I have been passed good study 4 weeks. So I did average 10 hours study in a day , 3 days in a week. It was hard for me but enjoyed.I passed 3 week quiz full point but final one was 1 quiz lost.Please let me know how to know which quiz was incorrect. And can I try second attempt it? +A very interesting course, but it's a pity one can only do the quizzes after payment. +It would be great if even the auditing students cool take the quizzes. +Excelent course. I did not know nothing about the incredible fossil record that this ancient reptiles have, now I am learning a lot about its origin and evolution. +An excellent course on a fascinating subject, provided by an engaged team of professional and knowledgeable palaeontologists from the University of Alberta. I greatly enjoyed the video lectures, interactive tools and puzzles, discussions, detailed course notes, and just generally being able to take part in this wonderful course! Thanks for making this possible! +Very interesting and meaningful. I personally recomend it. +Very nice course. Well prepared and a lot of information to keep the interest alive in Paleontology. +Nice course. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks so much. +As usual for UofA Palaeo courses, 5 out of 5. +Fascinating course! learned a lot. +This is a great course +Great course. Would definitely recommend it. +Very well instructed and the videos are nice and short. Perfect as a side project or on the go learning. +Very good course. Explanations of new technology andbasic concepts were informative and easy to understand. +I love this course. Easy explaining so it's easy to understand. +A very interesting course for beginners and a very good first step in pursuing deeper knowledge. Thank you Edinburgh University and Coursera +Really interesting material and well presented in digestible chunks by a pair of engaging professionals in the field. +Many thanx for a fantastic course! Waiting for your next one! +Amazing course! Brings me a lot of updated information regarding technic that how mesure an observe the universe currently +I enjoyed a lot this course and even if I am doing astrophysics I have learned some technical details!! +Fantastic course for a beginner like me with no prior knowledge about Astronomy. Gives you loads of information about different elements of the universe with good details around how technology integrates with all the different elements to help us understand the overall picture better and be able to predict and past and future of our ever expanding universe. I am very glad I took this course. +The course was well planned, thorough and organized. +Great course for learning not only the way the universe work but also the way we have learned it! +Enjoyed this a lot. Wish I'd kept to my childhood plans to become an astronomer. +Provides new insights for Dark Energy and Dark Matter and also helps one understand the basic Physics as applied to Astronomy.Really nice course ! +great starter for astronomy and cosmology :) +Excellent initial overview course for people without a knowledge of the Arctic or Environmental Science. +The content was good and very instructive but the videos and graphic material could be more dynamic and interactive. +Very interesting +Nice overview, gives a good appreciation for changes happening in the Arctic. Sometimes the lecture material is a bit dry and repetitive/slow. +The class isn't over but I'm suffering through it, not enjoying it, like I did the dino Uof A classes. Problems: the presenter is HORRIBLE. He's sing-songy, trying to be interesting. Can't you get the dino guy? Or me -I'll do it for free. PAINFUL. Also - you need more graphics. Charging along with Mr. Boring and a map of Alaska behind him as concept after concept - difficult ones for folks who aren't like me with lots of background - is a perfect recipe for lack of comprehension. Even inept and cheesy graphics would be better than nothing. Yes, I noticed that the earth is spinning the wrong way in the "sun at an angle around the sun" graphic but who cares? It's something. And yes, I know it's free, and I know you have budgets, but 3 universities can't rustle up a graphics undergrad to help out and call it an internship?? The content is probably better than my perception - and I'm perceiving high! - because I need an aspirin after 20 minutes of Mr. Please Get A Professional Presenter [or at least competent.] I create online education that is nothing better than Powerpoint and a talking head, lack of budget, but at least the head doesn't make people want to drown themselves in a melting glacier. +The course content was very interesting, however, the way it was presented was very dull and monotonous. The script was great - very insightful and informative, but having the presenter talk for the whole lecture without more frequent use of diagrams, figures, etc. to help understand the concepts is not helpful and incomprehensible to me. Specially when it comes to a course with so much geographical content, it would be good to have a more consistent depiction of maps. Furthermore, with all the new concepts, visual aid would help students understand what things are and what they look like since the backgrounds chosen for the lectures have little or nothing to do with the course whatsoever.On the other hand, I do think that the questions throughout the videos are extremely useful as they (usually) tackle problems that were not mentioned previously and gets the student to think independently. Finally, the end of lesson tests always have one or two challenging questions which is great. This course has a 5 star potential, so I hope the reviews are being read so they can work towards that goal! +I was really excited about this course. I thought the information was of high quality and well presented. However, I did have trouble staying focused. I would have liked more graphics depicting concepts. The presenter had a very monotone voice with a very active face. It was hard to sit through someone just talking at me even if the subject matter is interesting. I look forward to the other Arctic courses and hope they are just are well thought out but a bit more lively. You guys did a great job, keep it up! +Great! I love the fact that it is a very simple course and information is easy to understand! I also adore the professionalism that is present in every lecture. Absolutely fantastic! +A very good review of the main topics related to the Arctic and climate change. Final lesson tests are sometimes confusing. +Great course, very didactic and a easy way to learn about the Artic. +very thought provoking +Very good, very Canadian. +Very interesting course on the Arctic. As an introduction, I appreciated the broad overview of the things affecting the Arctic and thus the global climate. As a neophyte, some of the more technical, scientific aspects were hard to follow but were just as interesting to understand; having the course notes to go back to was helpful! +I found the course informative, but the quizzes to be a problem as there were too many multiple answers, so was near impossible to complete the quizzes correctly +Very interesting course that covers the the Arctic and how it has been impacted by climate change. Overall a qualitative discussion of the Arctic climate that references more detailed quantitative data. The summary sheets for each week are a really helpful reference for the class and beyond. +Content was very good. I didn't liked the assignments, they were too short and the answering options were too narrow; sometimes they could be misinterpreted and led to a confusing missing point. I would recommend to add several more questions for each assignment, chosen random for each attempt, put a limit on total attempts and give feedback on answers. Thanks for the course, I enjoyed it a lot; short but precise. +Interesting subject, the presenter is hard to listen to though. +really interesting, it's a really good base for all to understand the Arctic and a rebound to understand the climat change. I would like to learn more in the pdf lesson, if you'll be able to add some optional lessons to read I would appreciate, but for sur I'll take the next course. It well structure and explain. The other thing is about the test it will be interesting to have all the good answer after we've pass it. Just to understand our mistake +An interesting, very well instructed MOOC! Very good lectures and excellent scripts. I also liked the many questions/quizzes that were embedded in the video lectures. If another MOOC was offered by the instructor, I would take it. +Good info. Instructor had rather odd body language, but friendly. Had trouble passing a couple of section tests due to "check all that apply" questions. Sections on ocean and atmosphere circulation and global warming rather boring and a little harder to follow. Interesting class overall. +nice course, well taught, with interesting information +Very nicely put together and presented into a down to earth course about the Arctic and how climate change is affecting all species of life in the surrounding area. +The course is good but it could be improved. For example, I don't think the images on the background (even if they are stunning) are particularly important and I think they could be substituted by plots and schemes referring to the topics (all the presented schemes where helpful, but there would have been more things that would have been good to see visually). +There is a very technical portion to this class making it difficult for the neophyte to truly understand and explain course content. +Cool +It is an exremely useful course for both the Swedish language and a better academic writing! I would like to ask Lund University to share more courses with us=) +Best course ever i have completed in my life :) +Very easy to comprehend course. Both presenters put extra effort in relaying the material and introducing comical relief along the way. I can say now that I understand more above z-scores and t-scores that I ever did at university! I would highly recommend the course for anyone feeling a bit scared than facing statistical information +These guys use the best examples to make statistics fun! +Very good course and very interesting. +Is the most beautiful course ever I learned stats by taking this course. +I had a really great time with the material! Thank you! +I am new to statistics and found most of the lessons difficult to understand, although I did pass the course and had taken the first two courses of the specialization before. More exercises would help. Also I do not plan on using R in the future so this part of the course was not very relevant to me, but it was not the hardest. +Thank you! It is so amazing! +Engaging video lectures that are just the right length, and a great R lab that is super helpful, I highly recommend this course! +Very good course to get started in statistics +I had a really great time with this course. A lot of work went into it, from the presentation to the content. Really well done. It was quite challenging. I felt that the last module (7) introduced some very difficult concepts which, even after checking other sources, I couldn't understand fully. Some questions from the exam in that module were substantially different from the ones in the lectures. I would give 4.5 stars if I could. +Great course for beginners:S +The course has fun illustrations and a high quality of production, but the lessons themselves don't dive very deep. Ideas are introduced but not considered in depth. One such example is variance. We get the equations but not much insight into what it is a measure of and it's value. Additionally, and this might just be me, but the experiments used to illustrate examples at times are difficult to understand. +Thank you very much for this great course! +Was a useful course for people wanting to learn statistical concepts! +Thanks for making things simpler. +Course material is not enough, you need to also refer at least one reference book as well. +I have to say this course has the best picture/graphical illustration than any course that I have ever taken. nice job UvA!!! +very useful for BA psychology students! +Good course on basic statistics. +its very interesting course , its gave me insight about statistics which i did not have knowledge about it before . +thank you +Great course, useful and fun +Nice and well done. Teachers are very clear in explaining concepts and examples are useful and helpful. +Fantastic course. Best in the world +The course helped me to check my knowledge from basic statistics. Teachers are great and explain difficult topics on some easy to understand examples. Thank you! +Very helpful for beginners, the examples are very well chosen to help you understand the meaning of all the mathematical formulas. +it was truly helpful! thank you guys! +Thank you very much for this course! I got many useful information and had lots of fun to study it. +This course is a very interesting course. It introduces the world of statistics. It is a good start. +The lecturers are very engaging and clearly experts in the field. The concepts are explained and illustrated beautifully, with lots of examples. +It's awesome! I've never had such a more cool lecture. Thanks, Profs. I'll take other classes! +great introduction to statistics with no prior knowledge required. Although in parts has been challenging, for me is the right degree of difficulty to push an individual to learning. +Beautiful Teaching.. Well done +Great introduction to statistics presented in a very interesting and engaging way. +It's everything I needed to keep running with Data Scientist Specialization preparing.Thank you so much for your support! +I've first time attended an online course. Basic statistic is great for specialization both students and employers. Syllabus of lessons become simple to complex, so it get easier learning. 1st week of the course about to finish. Thanks for all. +very good course +Very good prepared, congratulations. The course helped me understand the basic notions very easily and with fun. +It was a very useful courser. I really enjoyed it and learnt a lot. Thank you. +Great course! very intuitive. Great learning experience. +Outstanding courses, may be the best one that I ever seen on Coursera.org!Thank you! +Whenever I read and try to understanding about statistic, I feel it's very difficult and confusing. But with the simple method of this video to teach me about statistic, now I feel that my love parameter about statistic is increased. Thank you very much. +Way too much videos and too little hands-on learning. Felt like the course mostly taught you to remember stuff, and not actually learning a skill, though I broke the course early. +very clear and well-organized, one of my best experiences on coursera +Very nice and easy presentations describing things I forgot from university. +This course is very well prepared, thanks to the video and the commitments of the 2 teachers,There is also a good balance between Theory and Practice (usage of R).I do already use the learning of this course in my daily job (data & analytics)Good job and thank you to the entire team who has prepared this course. +FUN, surprisingly! +The course was great! It was quite dense and took a lot of time especially the R Lab sessions. Mr Loon may like to use more interesting ways for communication. Also the transcripts provided do not contain equations/ formulas which becomes a problem. Integrating slides into transcripts would be helpful. +Very good to refresh your statistics skills. +Easy and inspiring +I liked the course, nonetheless I liked we had previous exercises to prepare to each evaluation. +I've only gotten started, but there seems some assumptions made about how much we know and how quickly we can pick up these new terms and ideas. +Very clear, very good visuals, easy to follow. Highly recommended. I only wished the DataCamp examples were in Python, not R, but I understand R is a more natural choice for non-programmers. The lab and the presented theory are well synced. +For people who want to enter the world of statistics...this is the course.PERIOD! +Great course!Well explained concepts, easy to grasp, thorough evaluation :) +I liked the content of the course very much; the videos were all very clear, with nice examples & visualisations of those examples. However, the R labs included in this course were not very challenging; by following a list of steps you can complete them easily without learning much from them. Additionally, the R labs sometimes would not accept an answer as correct when it was a slightly different solution to the same problem. +Overall, very good course. I thought the weakest sections were the ones taught by Prof. Emiel van Loon (the dark-haired one). I found him much less clear and engaging than Prof. Matthijs Roduijn (the blonde one). The R labs were fine for me because I have a background in programming, but people without that may need a lot of time to do them. +This course covers the basic knowledge of statistics and probability but skips the mathematical details behind the theory. Great for beginners but not perfect for advanced users. +Excellent course.The final exam was awesome.Very demanding and exciting course +I love this course, it is perfect for statistics beginner. The lecturer are talking in a interesting way, I won't feel boring. +The course is quite informative and educative for a non-statistical person like me. The instructors were explaining complex concepts in a very simpler manner. Except that the use of data camp for R could have been replaced with the exercises done on R (offline) and submitted through the quiz. The quizzes were really good. +Highly recomended!!!! +Great course but a lack of formulas in pdf files is very uncomfortable +2 Stars less because they should have included R video tutorials +Very engaging videos, good pace, easy to understand. Great job guys! +Love the lectures and the way everything is organized in the course, however the information or instructions provided by the labs seem incomplete. +Not very helpful. In the homework I spent more time wrestling with commands in R than actually gaining an understanding of the subject matter.Also, I really didn't need so many subject matter examples about the professor's baby's pooping habits. (And my family is Dutch with all the offensive humor that comes with it, so it's not just a matter of the sense of humor not translating)I'm re-taking Statistics with Calculus online at my local state university and frankly, I can't notice any benefit from taking this course first. My current online Statistics with Calculus course is rewarding and I feel like I'm truly gaining mastery of the topics, whereas in the Basic Statistics course I was floundering.The graphics in the way the lessons are presented are well done! But I would have been just fine with fewer graphics if it meant more worked-through examples. +Fantastic !! Very condensed and well explained +Good design and really easy to learn, good teachers even for beginners +It was a great course and method of teaching was exceptional. +The illustrations and the teaching methodologies employed are way beyond what words can explain. A big Thanks to all of you! +Simple, Concise and Awesome +Thank you very much for your insightful explanation on statistics. I am much more of a picture person and the approach of this course has a very huge impact on my job and study. I hope you will have this kind of new courses in the future. I am willing to follow your courses in the future. +Contents are very well explained +Though it was mentioned that this course is for beginners without too much of statistics background, I still feel, some decent background is required to take up this course, particularly the Inference part.Otherwise, the course is pretty good and commendable. +Absolutely amazing course with good humour and great pictures. You will get knowledge of Basics of Statistics which will stay with you for a long time after passing an exam. +There should be some case study to feel real time scenario. As far as the content is concern its perfect.Thanks +Excellent course, virtually all the lectures were taught based on practical examples, exactly the way statistics should be taught. 10 out of 10, no shadow of a doubt +This course is awesome :) +Great content, very useful and practical (applicable to nearly everything you ork with) and presented in a very interesting way. The Graphics are genious +As a student of the UvA I have followed multiple courses on statistics as the university, and this coursera course comes very close to the level of those courses. (For free!) +I have already given my feed back. Excellent. No words other than thanks, thanks, thanks to all who made me learn the basic statistics from your well learned team. +The lecturer does not clearly explain the topics very well especially on the topics in Probability and Distribution. His presentation in English is honestly quite hard to understand. +It's a great introductory course to statistics. +A really great course. Simple to follow and understand, but provides insights into the basics of statistics. Almost no math which is good news for non-experts and makes the course more accessible for a broader audience. The lecturers explain the intuition behind the fundamental things in statistics, which I find very important before studying the statistical tests (inferential statistics). Feels like it opened my eyes.Thank you very much Matthijs Rooduijn and Emiel van Loon! +What an amazing course!!! This is a very important step for me to enter data science +The animation is pretty great! +I have started this course again and again. Although the lectures themselves are clear enough, the quizzes are sometime so confusing and don't reflect the way that topic was taught. The worst part is R lab. I understand nothing of it. It makes no sense. I should not be part of a basic statistics course. I have wasted my money on a specialization that I can't get because I will not, and simply cannot learn R. They should have made that clear this would involve programming. I am only now thinking of learning from the videos but have given up the hope of getting a specialization certificate.The instructor in the first two session was still engaging, but starting in the third lesson the instructor is so boring and his voice makes me drowsy. Plus his sentences are so long and confusing. He has a horrible way to explain something. They need to keep in mind this is BASIC statistics, so cut down on the jargon. He does introduce the terms in 3.01 but just after one video the words don't magically sit in my memory.I've given 3 stars because although I have to work double hard just to make sense of what the instructor says by reading a book on basic statistics, at least the videos provide a structure, good examples and after watching them a few times things become clear. +Interesting course to refresh my basics in statistics. Professors are engaged and uses simple example to present the concepts. +I loved the course. The clear explanations, tough quizzes and cheerful attitude helped me invest and find joy in statistics. Now I want to learn more and more. +Really a good course. Worth learning. +The explanations in the videos were very helpful. A very useful course. +I recommend this course. +This is a brilliant course to learn statistics from scratch. The instructors are too good and their teaching methods and examples are very lucid. A must visit course for everyone who wants to get their statistics correct +great way to teach +Thank you very much! I learned so much! +I use this course to better understand a statistic course I am following for my Psychology studies. Many thanks for the crystal clear explanations! +This course is one of the best I wish every students at university for BA or MS or PHD learn Statistics I think we need it in all kind of business life +Its Awesome experience +Best course for the beginners in Statistics. +Very good class for beginners, everything is well explained and illustrated with examples. I highly recommend this course for those who want to understand statistics easily +A very engaging approach to online teaching, that is very effective at keeping you from zoning out while staring at boring slides of text with someone speaking over top of it. I wish more online learning courses would follow this example. +R labs are too tedious for people with medical or science background! we need explanations rather than trying to figure it out on our own! +The "basic statistics" is an excellent course. The course is detail-oriented, very useful and easily understood. I strongly recommend it. +I am almost done with this course and I want to recommend it very highly. I came to this with a lapsed and sporadic understanding of probability and statistics. I followed all the lectures, did all the tests and homeworks and feel like I have learned a lot. +I sucked at math in high school, but this course is making me love math again. Excellent job, Amsterdam Uni. +Good course, although sometimes instructions/questions are unclear +this course was a waste of my time; luckily I found out after wasting only 6 hours on the preview. this course apparently requires a level of probability knowledge I don't +One of the best courses of statistics for the beginners. The concepts are well explained, the learning path well researched and above everything the R labs were ideal for the beginners. +Very useful Statistics Course. +It is absolutely a great course! +The supervisor and the content is extremely good. +Excellent instructors; lessons are well structured. +Excellent course, clear informative lectures using real life examples that make statistics easier to understand. +it is very useful for learning basic satistics. really awsome,you won't regret to choose it. +Intuitive, clear, neither too fast nor too slow.. easy to follow +great intro class to statistics. Love the animation, teaching style and R lab exercises. The first class in coursera that video content and quiz are relevant. Highly recommended!!! +The case studies and explanations are very clear, and the visuals really work to help understand the material. I strongly recommend the course. +I hadn't touched math in any real way in years and this was a great re-introduction. The videos were fun and engaging, and while the material was challenging, I felt I got a lot out of it. I highly recommend it for people who need statistics for their work or for a degree program but who are feeling a little intimidated by it.As far as feedback goes, I would have liked to get explanations for quiz questions I couldn't answer. I wish there was a way to say, "This is the quiz score I'd like to accept; now please explain to me the ones I missed." The lack of feedback on the quizzes was frustrating at times. +The best course I've ever enrolled in. +Brilliant formulated course with ample examples which makes the course really interesting! Recommended for first timers as well as refreshers! +Great course :) +Uses R with no explanation. Why does it use a challenging programming language that is not the point. The point is to learn statistics.Use Statcrunch - so students can focus on statistics not programming +Teachers have very clear logic to teach and make things very easy to understand. +Excellent MOOC. A great introduction to the basic elements of statistics. I had studied statistics years ago in my bachelor but almost forgot everything. This course greatly helped me revive all the elementary concepts. The teachers explain complex things in simple terms easy to follow, and the funny examples have brought a smile to my face more than once and twice during the MOOC. Finally, the collaboration with professional illustrators adds great value to the course. A big deal of effort has gone into its making, and it truly pays off. I just wished there'd be an intermediate and advanced statistics course to keep digging into it!Thanks a lot!Alejandro +I was always scared of Statistics but after going through this training, Statistics has been made simple and I am enjoying it. I have decided to pursue more Statistics training from the University of Amsterdam on Coursera. I enjoyed the training of those great faculty members. +It is really helpful to get an idea for statisctics. Examples, quizzes, assignments as well as R lab designed on according to content of class. There is no suprise. +Nice. For noobs.I enjoyed it! +It's an excellent course. All the content is simple and easy to follow.Congratulations for such a great didactic. +Really a great introductory course. I am a real beginner in statistics, since I need it to make it easier for my self at data mining and machine learning in the future, this course gives me a solid basic understanding of terminology, calculations and relationships between calculations. Week 3 and 4 are pretty hard in my opinion, but after doing the course learning how to learn I know how to handle it, so I will recommend everybody to do that one also if you think this looks too difficult for you. +Excellent presentation of concepts!! +Great Presentation ! +Thank you! +Fantastic Instructors. Imparting complex concepts using simple examples is commendable. Thumbs up! +It's a great course to learn basic statistics.The course structure is clear and well ordered, and the video lectures are friendly and well explained.I'm pleased with the course.Thanks people +Excellent jobs in explaining sophisticated theories with vivid examples ^^ +Great course! Finally I could learn statistics and R +Easy to follow and information was presented beautifully. Was very enjoyable learning experience. +I am a physician... love this course. Highly recommend it. Even if you don't complete the tests, it is extremely useful to all physicians, residents and medical professionals and to anyone who wants to know statistics. +I am really enjoying all the courses on Statistics. Thank you to the whole team. +Very nice and useful course, some small mistakes in R assignments +very nice course +The course is very well done and explained in a very simple way! +The course is really good.i was little bit familiar with statistics but after this course everything became clear in my mind and don,t have any confusion also . +I really liked the course, it was relatively easy to understand and enjoyable, and specially the lessons taught by Matthijs, he was just amazing at making it all very understandable and enjoyable. And overall, I just really feel some exercises along the way for each topic would have been of great help. +Amazing teaching for wonderful subject. +IT is simply the best course i have seen here !Well done !! It would be great to see some other courses like this! A big + to Universty of Amsterdam! +Very clearly presented and easy to understand. The course explains what the calculations mean. +Excellent course and well taught by both instructors. 4 stars because of the lack of feedback on quizzes and exam. +The concepts are explained very clearly. Thanks to the team. +Lovely accent, great lecture for the younger teacher. The older teacher really confuses me sometimes cos the language he used was very academic and hard to understand, besides he has a tendency to read other than lecture +Very useful and ineresting course, Demonestration diagrams in the videos are very clear and delivering the information easily, like it, ma +Nice and challenging (despite the fact that most of the material was taught at school many years ago...) +Very well done: a lot of effort put into this course, and it pays off. +Excellent, clear to-the-point explanations supported by matching graphics and pace. About the best course I've taken so far. +Great class, but I wish there were more practice problems. Statistics is a very important concept to learn for any field, and I highly recommend this class. +The best introduction to Statistics. +It was a great and nice course. I remembered a lot o things and I knew some key concepts and approaches to learn. Thank you. +This course was awesome. +Great and clear videos, they make it very easy to understand all the concepts even if you don't know anything about the topic. The R-lab assignments are a great tool for getting usedt to working with what you have learned. +This is a nice course...thanks for providing such a great content from University of Amserdam.Please allow us to complete the course as I have to wait till the session starts for week 2 lessions. +It's a very good course to start learning statistics! I love instructors, they are so funny! +Well structured course with engaging examples. I found the tests really helped me practice and learn the material. I will certainly take other courses in this specialization. +The course is as much about computer programming as it is about statistics. The statistics I can do with pen and paper; the programming, I found very, very unhelpful and confusing. Eventually, I gave up on the course. +I would give five stars BUTI wish that it isn't a must to finish R program. +This is a great course. It was challenging but not discouraging. I think that there is a high probability that I learned something very useful. Now that I have said the most important words now I would like to give a thumbs down on the Data Camp R section. I found it to be frustrating and discouraging. You can find better information and tutorials on YouTube. Check out"MarinStatsLectures. A text book is also a great help. I bought Elementary Statistics at a used book store for $4.00 US. And it correlated very nicely with the course. If you are interested in statistics this course is a good first step. +easy, useful +Very well paced, adn clearly explained. Transcripts are good though note you'll need to annotate them with the equations discussed. +Excellent course. Very well structured. Videos are excellent and explanations are very clear. +The instructors are awesome to convey the concepts using examples. They actually made learning statistics to be fun which is unexpected and unseen elsewhere (e.g. Universities, other stats courses). I have been enjoying myself in learning. Thank you! +Very illustrative relatable examples taken to explain in this course which indeed covering most of the concepts in the field of Statistics. Totally found the course very likeable and matching the expectations I had in mind. +Great! +I enjoyed the class. +Most Precise Course with lots of excersices +some of the videos were outstanding and easy to understand. Need more handholding for understanding of concepts and review/explanation of the quiz results will reinforce learning further. +I can say, the best course I took online. +These concpets are explained in a clear and simple methods. Thats helpful to me.Thanks +Excellent, it is going to clear all my basics. Regards +Easy and Clear, I wish I could find this course a year earlier. +This course has given me a much better understanding of many concepts I never understood while studying at university - Like the sampling distribution etc. and I can recommend it...The only "but" is... I can see from the discussions that some (many?) students have problems with the "R" assignments. I have been programming previously, so I have not have had these problems. I would though like that these "R" assignments where easier to print or collect in a PDF document, so that I could easily use it as a "howto" later. +Good course, but it seems there are some errors in the quiz and labs +Simple explanations that make the topic rather easy to learn and having a visual aid (the drawings) I find it to be so much more friendly that I've really come to enjoy what I'm learning (I'm mostly a visual learner so to me this is very good). So far it has been a great course with R labs that can help reinforce the ideas and give a bit more practice in the subject, I do recommend the course. +I really enjoyed attending this course and recommended it to my colleagues and friends who want to learn basic statistics. They have tried their best to make it more intuitive with some interesting examples and make the learning somewhat fun. kudos to the entire team! +I always dreaded Statistics. This course made me really understand the basics of statistics. Well explained and good examples.Thanks +Great explanation with real world examples! My basics of probability and inferential statistics are rock solid now! +Makes you thinking. +Useful and help +Basic intro to Stats & R. Very good if you are starting either / both. +Hey its really fun to learn statistics this way. Great Job! +Very helpful in understanding foundation of stats or Theory of Probability.All tutors were very effective in delivery of content even if you do not know stats. +Very basic material for statistics, exposed with humor! Thank you for this great course! +Some of the concepts are very clearly explained. Loved it +Awesome Course for Beginners in Statistics as they clear examples for whatever they are teaching us. I love Coursera. +I have tried other statistic courses before but this is by far my favorite! Excellent lecturer who offers clear examples. +Warm congratulations to the Team for putting together a statistics course that will not scare 90% of the course participants from day one. Well paced, well explained, nice humorous cases and step-by-step explanations. WELL DONE +Despite some error in the quizzes I learned quite a lot by taking this online course. Apparently the course organisers are overwhelmed by its success, since they react (too) slowly to comments made by students in the discussion fora. At least, errors should be tackled immediately. +easy to understand. +Most of the parts were interesting and clear... some cumbersome and slow pace with the other professor. Not sure if the diapers and shit-painting were the best examples. +Well recorded video, clear and kind explanation, and interesting. +Very good course, the explanations are made very accessible through understandable and sometimes funny examples.Learned many of new things, despite having finished a course on statistics in my university. Especially the R component helped me greatly; despite already having some experience, the datacamp modules were very helpful.Oh, and great Dutch accents :) +I am at the third week, that is very well explained. Sometimes I may need to watch the video again, but in general I am very satisfied. I think it could be good both for people who want to learn and people who want to review. +Good course to polish up your statistics knowledge. +great course +High quality course for absolute beginners in stats. I highly recommend. +This course is really awesome. Designed well. Looks like a lot of efforts have been taken by the team to build this course. Kudos to everyone. Keep up the good work and thank you very much. +Very nicely created. Gets a bit too fast paced in the middle but still well worth taking this course. +Very good introductory course to statistics and probability. This course is both entertaining and rigorous. I recommend this course without any hesitation to beginners and people who want to refresh their knowledge and skills in basic statistics. +I never thought I would learn so much so quickly in a math course. The course moves fast, but being able to rewind the videos and repeat anything I don't understand is really helpful! I love the applicability of what I'm learning, and my ability to take notes and practice everything on the quizzes makes the information stick. +The cartoons and animations used in this course really make statistics a lot easier and interesting. However few modules especially the later part of probability do not explain the concepts thoroughly. However, this is a great place to start!Also, the addition of R exercises are a great idea +Best course I ever took so far! (out of 6 others) +This is a very informative and good course for beginners who wants to explore basic statistics along with R lab. Ofcourse, I felt little tought when i tried to do R lab but finally got it!! Overall course was very informative and would definitely recoment for those who wants to learn statisticsthanks for professors and the team of University of Amsterdam for conducting this course. +I like these two lecturers! +Five stars without any doubts.Useful and exciting learning experience, as for me.Thanks to the Instructional Team! +Overall, a great course that provides the basics of statistics in a thorough and intuitive way, plus a taste and feel of the software R. Of special note are the amazing visualizations in the presentations! There are some typoes and errors in the course material though, which is a shame, as everything else is excellent. +Great course! very easy & funny examples +In my opinion this course is a good way to learn basic statistics. I do think the R part and the statistics part could be more integrated in order to learn R better and to use it more efficiently. For me the studytime was double the time that was stated even though I was already familiar with some of the concepts and calculations. I feel like some weeks the subjects should have gotten a little more explanation with video's or other supportive material, maybe some assigments to make in order to check wether you know and understand the material. Maybe you could compare content and way of teaching to the Duke University statistics course, this is not a better course per se but does do some things differently whilst both teaching stats and R. +Awesome course, very friendly to people who want to start learning R and practicing it straight away! +I've always had a rough time with mathematics, but the way this course is structured makes it easy for me to go at my own pace, re-watch videos that were confusing the first time through and work through problems until I really felt like I understand how the formulas work. The consistent use of exercises in R were extremely useful as well. I'd highly recommend this course and learning system for people like me, who never thought they'd be able to grasp mathematics. +Very well-taught and complete statistics course ! +Great watching all this numbers telling you information about people, though my numbers were slightly different sometimes. Thank you +Very dynamic and enjoyable class, great instructors and combination of theory and hands-on exercises. +Great course, highly recommended +Course is really well made foe beginners in statistics. This is relevant. +So far a very nice course, well explained and clear enough to be followed even by non mathematicians. Well done! +I loved it very much. Easy to understand, visual and enjoyable explanations. +Clear, simple but engaging.The three lessons about R have been a fun.I'm looking forward to start the next session. +This is best course on statistics.. at least for me who is comparatively new to it. I recommend it 100%. +I like the course very much so far. The pacing is excellent and the material is very well adjusted to learners without much previous knowledge of the field. +Good to get the intuition behind the theory, but it is a high level course. +It's wonderful how teacher have broken down each and every concept. Examples helps in clearing the concept well. +Both of the lecturers as well as the staff are excellent in making the learning simple, exciting and interesting. I have learned so much about statistics in so short a time with effectiveness and efficiency. Thanks for the excellent work. And all of you have made University of Amsterdam proud and stand tall. +Good course, nice illustrations that really support the course! +Good course for someone with background of statistics. The instructors are lucid but cover a lot in 7 weeks, they delve into intuitive insights of statistics. It is advisable to keep a textbook handy while undergoing this course. In the end good job University of Amsterdam! +Puerile, made up examples with made up data, no deeper treatment of the mathematics involved than the here-is-a-magic-formula-use-it approach and mistakes (including serious conceptual and factual errors) evident in the quizzes and the R labs. Far better to look out for the "Data Analysis and Statistical Inference" course by Duke on Coursera that is presented by a passionate statistics teacher, covers the same material (and more) and provides a far better introduction to R than this course.One of the stated purposes of this specialization is to clean up the way social scientists conduct science and are perceived as scientists; in this respect, it appears that the worst enemies of social scientists are social scientists. +its carried out in excellent way. +Very good explainations with plenty of examples +great teaching on the subject! Thank you! +Absolutely great start for statistics with R. Not too heavy in time, not too light. Amazingly curated course. +This course is very beneficial to me.It explains the theory very clearly and lively that we can easily learn the concepts.Beside, R-lab helps me about the R language. This is very important. +Inspiring course. +I love the main lecture of the statistics. The Subject is fun. After couple lecture, my mind was very clear.But most of the time I'm working on the statistics software name R. I think it would be better if require R knowledge. If not, student like me will need more than weeks to get use to R. I don't mean learn another software is bad idea. I will always like to learn something new. That's why I go MOOC. What I mean is R and Basic Statistics should be separated. First R, than Basic Statistic. Or first Basic Statistic than R.I really enjoy the class. but the extra is a bit heavy for me. +Great presentation, easy to understand with good examples. Way to go +This course is an excellent, comprehensive, introduction to Stats. It is challenging, but in a very good way. Expectations are set sufficiently high that you need to grasp the concepts to succeed. Excellent MOOC!! +It is very helpfull . +Magnific course, excellent professors, wonderful support material and presentations. Great leink woth DataCamp, love it +Now working on week 5 of this course. First four weeks were VERY well taught. Clear examples AND above all the datacamp R tutorials make it more than worth your while.This course rises FAR above the many Coursera MOOC's that i took. It is very complete and do-able. +That is a great comprehensive course! +Great explanations. Clear examples. I love the stories and the drawings. Good thought pedagogical concept. +Great materials and teachers. This is one of the best courses I've found. +nicely done guys! +Very good course, nice examples! Carry on with the good work! +Very clear and awesome! +Very well put together. +Loved presentation style. Very simple way to teach complex concept. +A difficult subject made easy and interesting.I wish there more exercise to practise home in order to master the concepts. +Best course on statistics. Concepts explained in very simple language and through beautiful visualizations +Perfect material, Perfect instructors, and perfect course! +Great class! Thank you for all clear explanation. +Great course, innovative design, great content and Organization. Great teachers and didactic.. +Good lectures, but the R-lab is horrible. Do not take this class. +Only the firs week of this course, but I can already tell that it's going to be incredibly useful to me. I've learned a lot and especially love the introduction to R through datacamp! +The best statistics course ever! +I think the notes given after the lectures should contain the formula the students need. Also the quizes should show the correct answers once you completed them, if not you cant figure out why the questions are wrong. +---------- way too much time is devoted to introducing definitions and way too little time is given for student practicing and review . the presenter's accent is constantly impeding instant recognition of what he's saying. the subtitles sometimes don't accurately represent what he's saying. sometimes there are misspellings - which makes it even harder to know what he's saying. this student was inundated with formulas that needed to be practiced - and i didn't even have time to write them down ! +Have recently passed the first week and I should say that was awesome! +good course +I found this course very helpful and understandable ...The slides are very beautiful designed ..I had never learnt Statistics in this way! The examples are related to our daily life! It makes everything easier to learn... Thank you very much all who works on this course from University of Amsterdam +Clear video's & examples, easy to follow +Interesting subject and excellent presentation! +Very clear expectations, and the lectures were spaced out nicely to cover material while not being overwhelming. Additionally, the analogies used to convey the principles were clever and helpful! +It was uniquely designed, well written and extremely informative. +a good course, excellent professor, and content in acordance with my expectation.... +It helped me to open my eyes! Really great! Thank you all! +This course was simply amazing! +Chris Impey eases into the subject of astronomy, with increasingly difficult subject matter as the course proceeds. However, he is very methodical and plain (in a good way) in his language, and his videos are a joy to watch. I started this course already interested in amateur astronomy and learned a lot of new things about the technology and methodology in astronomy. I'd recommend this to anyone who is really interested in astronomy. Be prepared to make a not insignificant commitment, because the course is nearly four months long! Time well spent in my opinion. Thank you to all who made this course possible. +An excellent course full of fantastic information and videos. I would highly recommend this to anyone! +5 star class. Period. +Great course +I enjoyed every minute of it because it satisfied my curiosity about learning more about what's out there! +Really enjoyed this course. Accessible, fun, and I've learned so much. +Very easy to understand and the ideal course to open your accounts to astronomy. +After acquiring 2 masters degree and beginning work on a doctorate I have found a course that has taught me more than many of the courses that I have taken in person. Astronomy: Exploring Space and Time has been very well designed and taught. +The course is very well structured and touches a large range of topics. Professor Impey makes some of the lecture material very interesting and has simplified complex theories and concepts. However the Astropedia textbook needs to be updated with recent events. +I Love Astrophysics And sir Please Add More Courses . +excellent program for starting in the world of astronomy... It was a great pleasure to experience Chris' work... it a must do +Dr. Impey is skilled at covering a very broad range of topics and sciences that are all a part of "astronomy". The slides were clear. The transcripts helped to reinforce the information, although probably done with vocalization software as there are many sentence fragments, homonyms for the actual word, etc. I did not see a date done but I would guess this course was constructed in 2013-2014, so the information is certainly current. +I most certainly loved it! The professor leads you through every step and aspect of the Astronomy with charisma and exactitude. +Excellent course and content. Learned a lot about a field which I way always curious about, but knew very little about. Highly recommended. +Very good course, loads of information brough on a way even I can understand +Great class +One of the best courses around. It's not a graduate course, and it does not teach you the secret of physics, but the compact, vivid presentation gives you a great overview of the field and of the exciting things to come. +Great course by a great professor! +Very interesting course. You can learn plenty of new things, more that you might imagine, with very funny videos from time to time. I recommend it to everybody. +Enjoyed learning lots of astronomy stuff! +This has been a vastly enriching experience for me. Thanks to Prof. Impey, his team and Coursera for allowing knowledge and ideas to be expeirenced accross the world. +Great course to know more about the universe. +An amazing course! Fascinating and engaging, well-documented and illustrated, with original activities, and a challenging subject matter. Don't hesitate to enroll! +You can grasp the beauty of life and the world around only by getting deep knowledge in Astronomy. The course is great. English pronunciation of the teacher is nice. Tests are good, looking for peer assessments in the future sessions. +I enjoyed it a lot learning many subjects and topics about astronomy. It helps you get a wide view of astronomy science and learn the fundamentals. +Well-balanced in terms of content and very informative course; did an excellent job in formulating complex concepts into digestible form. Thank you. +Really interesting and exactly at the right level for me!!!Thanks to the teacher who is very clear and manages to communicate enthusiasm +Clear explanations even for foreigners and lots of interesting interactive materials. The course will fit also for absolute beginners like I am. Very interesting lectures and I continue to watch online Q&A conferences with the Prof. with great pleasure! Thanks a lot! I had a lot of fun. +Course was excellent. Prof. was excellent. I am a retired nurse so I took the course because of my lifelong interest in astronomy, science and the unknown. My only complaint is that I could not complete the last quiz because I could not get the micro-observatory to work on my Mac OS. My husband is a computer engineer and he could not get it to work on his computer either. This was disappointing! +Very nice. Something to improve: mix quizes with videos and not all videos first and then the quizes +I found this course to be very informative and enjoyable -- and demanding in terms of time. I am still catching-up on the text and am learning more and more even after completing the course. I recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about astronomy in the present. Chris is a very effective teacher, and his lectures/presentations are very interesting and informative. +This is a really good course for learning all the amazing things in our universe. My favorite part is the opportunity to pose questions directly to Professor Impey on the YouTube Q&A sessions. +Well exceeded my expectations! Lots of science, yet never dry and boring. +I am very happy to have completed the course. I was able to learn a lot about various aspects of astronomy, especially galaxies and globular clusters that are objects that call my attention. I was able to read much of the material provided in teachastronomy, thank you for the kindness of making the material available. I watched all the videos of Professor Chris and I was able to follow well due to the availability of the subtitles in English, this was important. The interviews I could not follow completely by the lack of subtitles. This was a great opportunity for me that likes astronomy, but because of the distance that I live from the great centers of study, it is very difficult to access good and reliable information. I am very grateful and congratulate the institution for making this course available. +Excellent course for learning about the basics of astronomy. Amongst others it covers subjects as the history of astronomy, our sun and the solar system, comets, galaxies, quasars, pulsars and black holes. The course uses video's which clearly explain various topics with sheets and additional reading material provided. +The BEST Astronomy course! +fantastic.thanks +Good and clear explanations. At the end it became more difficult since filosophie was involved which for me opened my ey. Some 'slides' are old fashioned. +Very in-depth and interesting. Impey is a good lecturer and the videos provided are packed with information. I highly recommend this course. +In my opinion, This course is really useful for the people that have an extreme interest with astronomy and also the curious people want to exlore the masive universe. And i'm one of these people. In addition, I'm really happy when i found out this website while i was surfing my newfeed, Thank to this program, it's really lightful for a lot of questions always be held in my mind but know i have lighted up a lot. +Really good course, I would recommend it for all !! +I loved this course, and I will make it in the future again.Thanks Coursera, and University of Arizona, especially proffesor Chris Impey, you are awesome!!! +Amazing course with top notch teaching! +Brilliant course this was. Recommend to anyone who would like to know bit more about the Universe we live in. +Thank you very much! Excellent course, definitely one of the best astronomy courses I have done so far. +I am a First year master in software engineering, but also a really curious "kid". In my search for interesting course related to astronomy I found this one.Although I am only half way through the course I state that this is the most compelling course I have taken on Coursera. Since I have more then some knowledge of scientific method, physics and other topics talked about in the course, but not as much in astronomy I find the course tailored for me. Especially taking into account that this course is in the right spot between popular knowledge and a little bit of science and engineering.Prof. Impley is excellent in explaining, even amazing at some points :) +Fantastic course for anyone interested in astronomy. +Good one. Detailed.Too much of video clips from television etc. Can avoid those. +Great course, easy to follow and an excellent teacher... +Wonderful course, after some time I will repeat.Thank you very much Prof. Chris Impey, you have given me much insight.We keep in touch, best regards, Bob +Professor Impey covers an extensive subject using a clear and instigating language. The assignments and tasks proposed helps a lot the comprehension and make you search for more information.One of the best online courses I have already had.Congratulations to Professor Impey and all team that produced the available material. +A good introductory course in astronomy that extends even to intermediate astronomy. I highly recommend it! +Most enjoyable and informative course. Thoroughly recommended. +The astronomy course exceeded my expectations. I learned a great deal from the video lectures and the astrpoedia textbook. I was surprised that preparing for the essay questions was also a good source for added knowledge in researching for the assignments. I am indebted to Chris Impey for the excellent lectures and course. Everything was well presented and explained well but I could not get up to understand much of the last lesson – Life in the Universe.In summary, great course and recommend it without reservations. Kudos and thanks to Chris Impey. +I took the survey and hopefully I can continue with this course because I enjoy learning about Astronomy .I've taken other courses and hope that I can continue doing this . I have problems with my computer andtrying to understand the format but I will do my best because I do like to learn more about this subject. +Wonderful experience, most recommended +Very Good Course I Love Astronomy Difficult butt Helpful course. I'm gain 89.8%. Good Percentage. +This is a great course that covers a lot of fascinating topics. Professor Impey does a great job presenting the material. Thanks a lot for the interesting course. +It is a very informative and systematically planned course. +Great beginners astronomy class, instructor is very detailed and have plenty of videos, charts, animations, ect for extra help. +Great course! Presented in a way that is exciting and easy to follow. Perfect for those just begining in astronomy and a great refresher for those with more experience. +The perfect course if you want a fresh start into the field of astronomy or need a thorough revision of the important basic concepts of the field. Definitely helped me with my revision. +its really good +Really Nice.... +Wonderful insight and delivery by instructor. Visual material very helpful for comprehension. Well Done! +Simply fantastic course! +it's give the knowledge, make me better +Great course. Really interesting. Live sessions. Excellent. +The teacher is one of the best i have ever seen, truly an expert in this field of science. +Very nice course, well planned out, with just a few mistakes. Overall, would recommend this course to anyone interested in astronomy. +This course is bad!I had come upto week 4. While Chris Impey is knowledgeable and good, the course structure is very poor and leaves a lot to be desired. I would venture to make some suggestions:a. Restrict each video to a max of 7 minutes. More than that makes one sleepy.b. Reduce the number of videos in each module to a max of say 6.c. Instead of having Chris expound it like an audio reading, please include some slides, pictures,tables so that the matter to be learnt becomes self evident and Chris doesn't have to speak so much. A good example is the Coursera "The Global Financial Crisis", which I am also doing currently.d. If you feel all the material in this course has to be studied, then to achieve the objectives in (a) and (b) above, divide this course into two parts, Astronomy: Exploring Time and Space - part I & II.e. The written assignments are very simple and do not require any mental resources other than memory. Can you make the questions more challenging? For example, in Telescopes (Assignment 2), can you not ask a question like "In addition to Atacama, Chile, using Google earth, which other parts of the globe may be suitable for installation of ground based telescopes?" or "To obviate the blurring effect of the atmosphere, discuss the possibility of high altitude balloon based telescopes?" or "What do you feel about the fact that since today's mobile phones have high computing ability, their components can be used to make a low-cost space based interferometric telescopes?"Kudos to Chris and his team! On the whole, knowledge wise, this is a good course. +Thank you so much! I really enjoyed this course! +Many of the lectures were recorded years ago. But, the information is still great, and a little follow up research on the web will get you caught up. +Excellent beyond words. I learned so much and became very motivated to continue further explorations on such a fascinating subject. We have the best tutor one can hope for: Pof. Chris Impey. +Well prepared, laid out and informative. +Great conceptual level overview of many topics in and related to space and astronomy. Highly recommended. +Very good and full of interesting information. +Great course, it opens your mind to broader perspective! +I'm learning more about astronomy than ever before! This is truly fun! +Great course. +Looking forward to receive more information. +Excellent course, highly recommended +Very broad cover of the field, very well explained. I only wish there was more. Thank you. +Excellent insight into the current state of astronomy. +it is an amazing subject, and it is well taught by professor Impey. It was so much fun the way he presented it, with a lot of nice multimedial material but also a lot of hard work to complete the course. +Great course, Professor Impey does a wonderful job of explaining this topic and keeping it interesting. Highly recommend his parallel book on the same topic, "How It Began". +Brilliant Course. Excellent balance of hard and easier topics. Well delivered by the staff and very interesting. More courses like this please. +This is an excellent course. I have learnt a great deal and found the course easy to follow when broken into bite size chunks. The quizzes and coursework have reinforced my learning. I would recommend this course for anyone who wants to learn about our universe. +Actually, i love astronomy more than anything, this course contains some of my favourite topics in astronomy and i love this course... +I can't have my certirficate and already I pay for it! +This course is the second couresera course which completed. It is always nice to learn from people who do frontier work in the field they teach. I thank coursera for giving me this wonderful opportunity. Sakthivel +Wonderful!! I love it. +Boring +exceptional course ¡For undergraduate students , teaches of sciences, and amateurs astronomers +Fantastic course as well as the course materials.....thoroughly enjoyable +This course is a perfect course. Every title, video and exam is so great, in my opinion. I am learning many new things. +By far one of the best courses I have taken on Coursera. The amount of material is astounding and of great quality through and through. I highly recommend this course. Be prepared to work for your diploma, however. +I haven't quite finished the course yet, but so far it has been fascinating. Well done to the Coursera team and to Prof. Chris Impey, the course leader. +Although I was graduated from a faculty of science but the first lessons about evidence, uncertainty, imagination and hypothesis were COMPLETELY new for me,So thanks a lot for all of you especialy Dr.Chris Impey +Great +Liked it a lot. +Good course inviting the scientific thought process to evolve instead of believing the old stories. +A very interesting course about the basic concepts of astronomy with lots of additional funny videos and slides. Thanks a lot to professor Impey and everybody who created it! +Perfect intro to astronomy and beyond! +The contents of the course are great and prof. Impey is a great communicator. The course is easy to follow, the final chapters on galaxies and cosmology are a bit more difficult but that is due to the nature of the subject and I applaud that the prof does not "dumb it down" or brushes over such difficult ans speculative subjects. I minor nuisance for me were the frequent songs and funny videos interspersed in the course content. It would have been better if they were separate from the main videos or otherwise could be easily skipped by people who don't have a lot of time. overall a great course! +Amazing course! Chris Impey is a wonderful teacher. The lectures are captivating, but at a level that is appropriate for astronomy beginners. The quizzes are only easy if you were paying attention, and the writing assignments consolidate the material. This course has made me even more interested in the subject and since starting it I have even gone beyond the scope of this course and done my own investigations. Definitely recommended. +Learned loads and still learning, and Prof. Chris Impey is awesome and a great teacher. +Awesome course! Thank you, Dr. Impey! +I am i week 5, for now I found this course very attractive +I really like the way the videos were made, it's literally like a 1-1 session wiv the professor himself. I have learnt a lot in the process of completing each assignment, also it has done nothing but build my love for astronomy and space itself even further than it was. +I love the well-prepared, accessible style of the course. I also enjoyed how it progressed in building block style. I will be downloading and rewatching many episodes trying to absorb more information. I will definitely take it again next time it's around!Thanks for all your hard work! +This is a very thorough and informative introduction to the field of astronomy, and contains a lot of practical information that everyone interested in the night sky can use. +I am in LOVE with this course. No, seriously. I can't stop talking about it. With EVERYONE I MEET. I have a degree in Chemistry, and teach Earth Science and Chemistry to high school students, so my knowledge about science for this course is up to par, but I like that it adds a LITTLE more info, and it's going to give me a chance to bring stuff back to my students. The text book is amazing, and the videos are on point. Thanks for a great class! +Very informative. +Though I dont have the resources for the certficate, this is a great course to continue or start your interest in astronomy. +This is the best course I have done in Coursera. The use of animations, videos, resources, The occasional humor and the way the lecturer addressed each topic. Simply amazing!! +A really overwhelming quantity of information and an amazing presentation covering a wide spectrum of Astronomy +The delivery of the material was excellent. Very informative and interlaced with +I get here a lot of useful and interesting knowledge, and the professor explains everything very well, so that everybody can understand it. +Bravo! Enjoying these lectures immensely! +This course covers a lot of interesting materials of astronomy, ranging from planets to galaxies, very suitable for beginners. Those who have trouble with maths don't have to worry, it's not part of this course. The length of video lectures are short, thus getting distracted during the lecture will not be easy. +it provides me a lot new point of view knowledge , and it broads my eyes of view, and i appreciate the astonishing new ideas and concepts. +An excellent presentation by Chris Impey with didactical explanations, among the best if not the best course in astronomy for amateurs. +An excellent course with a broad coverage of topics presented at a relatively sophisticated conceptual level but still easy to understand and requiring little math. A great starting point for getting a comprehensive overview of astronomy at its current stage of development with insights into future directions. +This is awesome +I am only a few weeks into it, but those first few weeks have been absolutely fascinating. I'll come bac at the end with a final score. +Good explanations about the topics. +an excellent course in order to start a career as a professional Journalist. Thank you all +Excellent opportunity to show off the skill sets learned . As a returning journalist, I knocked off the rust and picked up a few new skills. Deadlines, which you live on in the industry help you get acquainted with performing work on a tight schedule. This class along with the other offered MSU Journalism Specialization courses will give you what you'll need to get a foot in the door. +Overall this course was great but I wish that the timeline was a little clearer from the get-go. I had to rush at the end because I didn't realize week 2 was for finding sources, week 3 was for contacting them, week 4 was for interviews, etc...If the MSU staff could have given their feedback on our final projects, that would have been another plus, but I know it's difficult with so many students. +A great course to learn Journalism +Thank you for sharing us the guidance for creating the Capstone Project, the final Course under Specialization - Journalism, Report the News!Enjoyed it very much, also the time spent to review my peers objectively as much as I enjoyed reading their reviews.Is there going to be other related writing studies from MSU through Coursera?Best Regards,Monika Pandiangan (Monik) +Excellent course, excellent teacher. All key concepts are covered well. +I learned a lot but I felt that the final project was significantly more difficult than the work leading up to it, and there was no support I could find or access via the class itself. +That´s great! +Great course with deeper dive into the mobile developement. You need to know that much unaided work is considered. +Good Course, but it needs more focus on ContentProviders and Services. +Moves too fast +Overall this course has some valuable information. Although, I found the pace was a bit fast, only covered enough to get by, not gradually building up to a point. Each assignment or lab you first have to struggle figuring out the skeleton code where they could have provided a bit more comments, tips and guidance. I would recommend this course for someone that at least have a basic Java or programming background. Not for complete new developers. +Like part 1 this course is very informative for anyone new to android development. Pacing is good. The assignments are well developed and clear, although I found one to be on the really tricky side. Good course. +There are no lectures on Services, and Content Providers which are two key components of the Android system. It really disappointed me. +I think the exercises could be more deep. +Honestly, I find it very hard to recommend this course to anyone. First of all, let's note that the course covers quite more advanced topics than the previous 3 courses in the specialization, so some extra difficulty is to be expected. However, the main problem I encountered was with the video lectures themselves, particularly during the 3rd and 4th week of the course. The instructor does a very rushed job at explaining everything, constantly giving us tons of information and jargon that is not previously mentioned, and even the examples fail to give us insight at what we need to do and why.Other than the lectures, no external material is given to help us decipher what the professors are saying, other than a few Wikipedia links. I'm not saying that each course should be accompanied by an e-book, but honestly, if I wanted to learn about Bayesian Statistics from Wikipedia I could have well skipped this class.The main reason I'm giving 2 stars to the course instead of 1 is the Labs and the Quizzes. Even though they could use some polishing too, especially the final Lab, they are indeed very helpful and do a much better job at clarifying the concepts presented.All in all, I feel that if you want to learn about Bayesian Statistics you should look for another course, and/or save your money and get yourselves a good textbook. +very difficult but it is interesting +This course makes a valiant effort to provide as much coverage of Bayesian statistical methods as the prior three courses in the "Statistics in R" specialization do for Frequentist statistical methods, but the lack of supporting material (e.g. reading/text exercises directly paired with each lesson) really hampers this. The videos are quite informative, but if you don't catch on to the material based strictly on the videos, the weekly quizzes can be a bit frustrating. +The first three courses in this Duke series were superbly well done. I have taken numerous courses from Harvard and Johns Hopkins, and none of them compare in quality of execution of the first three Duke courses in this series.And then there was Bayesian Statistics: much of the "instruction" in this course was truly awful. The quality of the slides and video and so on was still excellent, but the "teaching" was horrible. Vast amounts of totally unexplained jargon and very extensive equations were thrown at the students with the apparent assumption that the course was a review for postdoctoral statistics students. When material is beyond the scope of what perspective students can reasonably be expected to understand, faculty members should be honest enough to just say so rather than pretending to teach the subject matter.I appreciate very much what the Duke faculty achieved in the first three courses, but the treatment of Bayesian statistics that I have just suffered through was shameful. +Good content but sometimes it gets confusing. +This is easily the worst course in the Statistics with R specialization. Contrary to the earlier courses, which were very competently taught by Dr Cetinkaya-Rundel, teaching quality is very poor in this course. Both of the main instructors are unable to explain what's going on. There is vagueness and ambiguity, which is almost impossible for the uninitiated to resolve. All in all, a very frustrating experience. The course would urgently need re-recording. As it stands, it shows a huge disrespect for the student's time and effort. +After 3 great courses in this specialization, this one was disappointing. The content just isn't explained well in the videos. The Labs were fine. I'm sorry but the course seemed rushed, and it isn't great marketing for the Bayesian approach. As a consequence, I am now not sure if I want to do the capstone...... +Excellent content. Gives a very different outlook of Bayesian Stats. +For sure the most challenging course so far.I'm amazed by how our statistical intuition fits with Bayesian approach and how we can get better results.I'm eager to use this concepts in new models at my job! +This class assumes a lot of statistical knowledge and background that is not covered in the first three classes of the series. So much statistical terminology and jargon was used by the instructor, it felt like taking a class in another language where I had to constantly stop the video and google for the terminology she used. It took a lot of grit to finish the class, which was overall a very demoralizing and negative experience. +I would've saved a lot of time by knowing the R commands used in this course. It took so long to figure out things and I I didn't like the course because of that. +Good introduction to Bayesian concepts, but the course would benefit of some rethought of design of exercises. +Very good course. +This course is very good for bayesian statistic theory. What is more, it also teaches a lot of coding skills with R which is really useful. +Theis course is substantially more difficult than the three first ones, and the material is scarce. However, I must admit that this is one of the courses I have ever learnt the most +Bayesian stats is a broad topic. Learners would benefit from more material. +very helpful, however there is no recourse or recommend information for reference textbook. +This is my first course on bayesian statistics, I really like it, it was step by step, and helps to clarify lots of concepts of frequentist statistic. +The material is good. However, there is no support from the instructors to answer our questions in the discussion forum. +Good course, but need more details. +Too Fast. Video is too short and spend a lot of time in the summary. +Very theoretical and unstructured +The first three classes in this certification were excellent; this course was anything but that. There seems to be a significant disconnect between the first three courses (probability, inference, linear regression) and the fourth course (bayesian). I do not have a strong statistics background but I felt the first three classes in the certification challenged me, while providing an adequate level of support and thorough / articulate examples; the pace was perfect. Yet, with the fourth course I believe that either: 1) there needs to be a bridge course that prepares you for the bayesian course, or 2) the material needs to be taught at a slower pace with more specific and well presented examples / frameworks to work from. Although I was able to complete the course, I will now have to find an alternative source to learn from in order to really understand bayesian stats. +Very nice introduction to bayesian statistics, the materials have some level of depth, and the tests and assignments are highly available for beginners. +Very interesting and formative. It starts from the basics (Bayes' theorem) but then it goes beyond the usual conjugate models such as Beta-binomial and Gamma-Poisson. Bayesian Linear Regression, Bayes Factors, Bayesian Model Averaging and a brief introduction to MCMC are provided. This really put me in the position of applying Bayesian Statistics to some real world application: the final test case is a good illustration. The only minus is that the part on Bayesian Hypothesis Testing (in particular Bartlett's and Lindley's paradoxes) is a bit rushed up, and not as clear as the rest of the course. All in all, a really good course, I'm glad I followed it. +The professors know what they are doing but not good at making the concepts plain to the students who don't have the strong background. Most of the times I would just ask myself why they did this and that but later they don't provide enough explanations. +Very good introduction to Bayesian Statistics. Very interactive with Labs in Rmarkdown. Definitely requires thinking and a good math/analytic background is helpful. +Great course with clear instruction and a final peer-review project with clear expectations and explanations. +I get really frustrated when the tutor doesn't explain lots of concept/symbols in the materials..... +I found some of the instructional videos a bit confusing. It was difficult to understand the underlying methodology of some of the concepts explained. I believe the instructors assumed the students had a more rigorous understanding of the underlying calculus than was suggested for this course. +Outstanding material. It may be the hardest level compared to the rest specialization course, since Bayes indeed have high technical level detail. But it was worth it. Great course and detailed from the instructors. +This course needs much more work from instructors before it gets offered to the public. It is poorly assembled, offers hardly comprehensible material with no or very few resources to turn to. Reading material is listed, but they are useful for people already skilled in Bayesian Statistics. Exercises are worded such, that even the questions are a challenge to understand. Quizzes contain material never mentioned during lessons. Discussion forums are left unanswered by the teaching staff - or if they reply, they do it in a very negligent manner. No support on the merits. A major disappointment. +Excellent introductory course! +About two years ago I completed Dr. Mine's course "Data Analysis and Statistical Inference" and was quite impressed by it. I always hoped that there'd be a follow up on bayesian statistics, so I was really excited when I heard that a course on this topic had finally been created. However while attending the course I became more and more disappointed. Dr. Mine does a nice job explaining things, other teachers in this course aren't as talented. Most slides / videos are quite useless for teaching because they skip over important steps without giving appropriate explanations. Also I was quite disappointed that this course pretty much only focuses on conjugate priors. MCMC is only skimmed over and the introduction to MCMC is more than questionable - instead of showing a simple example, MCMC is squeezed into the topic of bayesian model selection. Another point is R - this course doesn't really teach bayesian stats with R. It teaches how to call one-liners like bayes_inference (from package statsr) or bas.lm (from package BAS) instead of lm. This is totally disappointing. I wish this course would skim over conjugate prior methods and then focus on MCMC sampling methods by teaching how to build interesting and practically useful models using JAGS/STAN/PyMC/whatever. For anyone interested in bayesian stats I'd recommend reading "Doing Bayesian Data Analysis - Using R, JAGS, and STAN" and "Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers". These books are actually cheaper than this course. +I had a lot of fun during this course, but I think it is simply too short to present all the topics in sufficient detail. Furthermore, I took this course without doing the prior courses in the specialization, and there were a couple of moments when I really thought previous knowledge from a different course was required.I think for the most part the lecturers did a great job in explaining the materials in the course. The lectures themselves were also well structured, and the topics followed each other in a logical order. I would have loved to spend more time on modeling techniques and Markov Chain Monte Carlo. +Mismatch between assessment and course content. After not being able to pass the assessment, I've fallen behind on the course and I'm too busy to catch up. +This course was the most challenging one among all courses in specialization. I wish there were more explonation of how we get smth from smth and not like " and it appears to be equal .." and so on.I also had to watch Ben Lambert's bayesian course on YouTube to understand the material of the second week,because Prof. David Banks was not good enough in explanation.Assistant Prof. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel has an amazing teaching skills.Prof. Merise Clyde is good in explonations and I understand that she tried to present a very complicated material in a simple way, but as I have already mentioned above, I wish there were more explonations of casuality of the formulas with examples and Intuition that stands behind these formulas like in Ben Lambert's videos.Many thanks for such an amazing experience. +I hope we can have access to the slides, and this can save attendees a lot of time, because I think after we finished watching the video we can skip relevant slides when we come across problems in doing exercise. +This course clearly has come ambition to cover important topics on bayesian statistics, however, probably due to time limit, the lecturers have to skim through the contents without further, sometimes necessary explanations. As a result, the lectures are difficult to follow. +This course is not well-presented. Lectures are unimaginative, and there isn't enough supporting material or readings. +This course covers a good amount of bayesian statistics. However, the presentation/videos starting from week 2 really sucks. They change instructors for difference topics and obviously some instructors are not very good at explaining other than reading the material.The videos skipped many medium steps that are actually very crucial for understanding the concepts. And no suggested reading materials at all either. Also the quiz are not very well designed either. For example, some quiz are much more simpler than the course material, which makes it not helpful at all to understand the course material itself. While some times it is the opposite.The first three courses in this specialization are very good, but somehow this course are way below the quality of the previous ones. +The course lacks of explanation and it's very difficult to follow. It seems that the instructor just reads the slides without reasoning and explanation. Suggested reading materials are needed. +The section about Beta-Binomial Conjugate is taught very fast and unless the student is quite familiar with Beta and Gamma distributions, it makes it very difficult to follow the course. +I don't understand how come this course can get such high reviews. My experience with this course is horrible. First of all, most quiz are poorly designed, lots of mistakes. For instance, there are 10 Qs in week 1, 3 of them have mistakes. Wasted me tons of times.Lectures are also difficult to follow. Instructors usually just give formulas without further explanation. I forced myself to go through them until week 4, I finally give it up. I feel like it is a waste of my time. I need to find a better course on this topic.Most coursera courses are very well designed. This one is the worst I have ever experienced. +very useful +I beta-tested this course and it was an amazing experience. The instructors are super engaging and upbeat, despite having to delivery a very complex subject like Bayesian statistics. The quizzes are very rich, with a nice balance of practice quizzes and graded quizzes. The practice quizzes offer very helpful explanations that can help to reinforce understanding before doing the graded quiz. Last but not least, the final project description is super exciting and thorough. I highly look forward to completing this course and get a deep introduction to Bayesian statistics. +Pl send me the Certificate. Its overdueSanjay Banka +Very powerfull, thanks a lot! +I really enjoyed this course; it's applicable to most aspects of your life. It gave me some perspective into past negotiations, and how I could make the next negotiation (whatever it is) in my life better. +The Art of NegotiationCongratulations on the platformCongratulations on the administrative order of the courseCongratulations on the Success of the Course +Great course !!! Lot's of interesting information. +Not much useful. Limited in interactivity. Dropped out after a week and half +Great Couse +there was no home works +loved it! Learned a lot. +Thanks +Negotiation is one of the best skills for any person interaction including relationships to certain degrees, would re-take more than once. +Excellent course on negotiation skill, explained in a way which is easy to follow an practice. +Well done with good content +Very effective way of teaching +Good course for quick understaniding of the basics for negotiation. also helpfull to go over before upcoming negotiation. +THANK YOU! +good all to gather but looking for more interesting skills +Very informative for expanding my skills and terminology. +Very clear c +Way too general.. +too many theory and too boring +The instructor kept referring to different authors and books as if she wasn't sure what she was saying was true. She was just reading off a screen and not actually teaching. Might have been easier, and a bit more beneficial, to just read a well prepared set of slides on my own. The first set of quiz questions also weren't really relevant to what was in the actual lesson. Quite disappointed in this part of the specialization as the other sections had in depth presentations, clear information, lots of examples and great slides. +Very interesting and inspiring course. The material is of very good quality and the teacher is, to my mind, excellent. +I couldn'tfinish this course because it was too much the. I wish it had a more practical aspect. +Great course. It has some important points to consider in a negotiation. +Great, great teacher! I am so inspired by her. +Great short course. Like the main points brought up. Would have been great to have some real case studies of negotiations that went well and badly to learn from. Even a reading of cases hre would have set the whole thing in context. +The course is mostly theoretical +Good resources and material for self study. The Guest separe was very interesting. +thanks +Nice explanation about negotiation. +Really helpful in work. +A bit boring, but still informative. +that is one of the most complicated courses for myself, but i happy to learn it cause it's pretty useful and helpful! +I found this course is very much theoritical. I should have included mathatical models and ways to relate them with our day to day life.Thanks +great tips , new world has opened for me. +Very good. Could use more on soft skills. +Very good course, I recommend! +I think this is a great course. It gives me more fundamental knowledge in negotiation. Although it provides details all information but give us a overview when start a negotiation with everyone or any organization. +It was a very helpful class to learn strategies to improve performance in a negotiation table. +I like that the course covered negotiation in general in relatively short time. However I found the lectures were too dry and theoretical as they lacked real life examples. +She is fluent just like reading the scripts. +Good Course. Topics are well explained. +Excellent!!! This course provides right framework to handle any negotiation... +Succinct and to the point;Great content;The professor is clear and confident. +enjoyed this, as well as finding out I dont know as much as what I thought i did +This course has a lots of knownledge and well-structured contents. +Structured, easy to understand and clear. Advocates positive and value based approach to negotiations. +I learned a lot of very good concepts in this well prepared lesson. Great teacher +Good course!!! +I had a hard time paying attention to the woman speaking and dropped the course after completing week one. +Great course! +There is no discussion forum. There are some concepts made me confused and I want to discuss with some other classmates. Another thing is there almost has no example, teacher just say the principles. I think one or two example for a principle may make some concepts more clear and can be understood easier. +Very good points. Logical and concisely presented. Will definitely influence the way that I approach a negotiation. Particularly like the idea that both parties need to come away satisfied with the outcome. +Very insightfull course thank you very much i,m very appriecieted +the course structure and content are very good and interesting! +Useful Course, very informative. +This is the best Negotiation course I have attended. It is focused on principles negotiation and takes us through the steps needed to become a successful and honest negotiator. Great delivery. Thank you. +Totally worth taking this course if you intend to improve your negotiation skills from simply haggling and bargaining to true win-win agreements. +Very bad course. The content can barely be applied outside US, you don't know from which perspective it's explained (for sales or purchasing people), the videos are bad quality, the teacher is babbling, no extra resources, no interaction with the audience outside the assessments. +This course offered nothing significant or new to anyone who has spent any time around business or government negotiations. It really seems as though the instructor either assumes all of her students are completely inept or that because it is a free course that producing a reasonably viable product is not necessary. +Thank you. At least I know something about negotiations that I can use in everyday transactions. +Great course! Summarized the experiences I had on actual negotiation. Also provided good tips, hint and resources for further study to improve my negotiation skills. +Very Good, +Very informative and easy to understand instructor. +Too short, too easy, too costly. Beautiful picture, beautiful title, but low content. +Best short and brief video as well as presentations.It helped me lot to learn new styles and approches towards "negotiations" which is part of daily life these days.Thanks to the team and Coursera. +great course, thanks for posting this +The answers to the test questions can be improved significantly. Most of them can be both justified or refuted. +The Instructor doesn't give enough info about principles and her presentation skills are very week,the studying material also are very poor +succinct, down-to-earth and focused on the essentials - just what I wanted and got! However, certainly no substitute for a negotiation course e.g. as part of an MBA. Overall a bit colourless. +negotiation is a key part in my work so the insights and skills are urgently needed for this. This course is very logical and useful. +Great course!!! +Don't let your emotions into negotiation. +Boring, didn't have strength to finish +great cours +very nice, the presentation about is so clear and practical +Great course, it gave me a good start in my career and I have used what I have learned! +teacher talks much too slowly, and uses many complex terms when they are not needed +Missing examples +Very interesting and easy to follow. +The Art of Negotiation is unique course in business life, after passing three modules i feel that i made huge mistake during negotiations in the past. this course help me to overcome past mistakes of Negotiation. +Clear explanations, useful word problems and well designed quices. +Excelent teacher and course! +Excellent course and excellent teachers! Highly recomended. +Great course. All lectures provide a biological context for the tools you learn in the labs. The labs themselves provide a great introduction to the many tools available for bioinformatic analysis. +I learned many concepts in molecular biology and also how to use some tools to run genetic data. I'm so thankful for the opportunity to have been engaged in this amazing course. +The teacher is boring but he conveys all information clearly. +Very nice, I would have liked to go deeper in NGS and RNA seq but is good as starter, I recommend it! +Course depends too much on multiple third-party sites to be as enlightening as I had hoped. I learned about some great resources, but that's about it. +Simplified and very useful course +It is a very nice course for beginners. I learnt a lot from it. Thank you! +Great course easy to follow highly recommend it. Thank you. +Nice course, useful to know the most common tools used to do Bioinformatics +The videos were very clear on how to use various bioinformatic tools. I found no difficulty in understanding them. Really enjoyed the course. Looking forward to the next part of this course! +The course is excellent, the lecturer is brilliant. Maybe it is a bit tough for students, also background in biology, chemistry and biochemistry is very helpful. Nevertheless I will recomend it to my advanced students because it absorbs and makes significant progress in understanding or the modern tools and techniques in bioinformatics. And the second part of the course is promised to be even more interesting. +very useful +It was a relevant course teaching basic bioinformatics. the course was well-structured and not hard-to follow +An excellent course that expands on previously known topics in life sciences. +Excellent and informative course! +A very well structured course with graded difficulty and accurate instructions. Throughly enjoyed being a part of it. +A short and sweet, to-the-point course. This course helped me in getting a hang of some of the most widely used softwares and techniques required for bioinformatics. Only issue-some of the questions in certain quizzes have been assigned wrong choices as the answer, which led to a lot of confusion. They just wouldnt accept the right answer, so you are forced to mark the wrong ones and proceed. +One of the basic and efficient enough to get familiar with the world of bioinformatics. Must for the ones who wants to excel deeper in the field of bioinformatics. +Very good starting point or restarting point for working with sequence data as a compuational biologist. Very clear course with good lab sessions. +Awesome course. The lectures are good and the lab portion is great. The lab really helps understanding how to use online tools and resources. +thank you +Thanks to this course, i am now understanding the principle and methodology of phylogenetics +repeat the class +This course is great! The materials provided are topnotch. In addition, the instructor was very active in the discussion forums during the period i enrolled; He was very helpful. As well as students who had enrolled at that period of time. (July to September 2016)I think anyone with some background in molecular biology can handle this course. Plus, do most of the labs in Firefox or any other browser namely Opera, Safari as an example. Google chrome doesn't support the Java apps you'll use in this course. +A very interesting course and a great starting point towards bioinformatics +Very usefull!! Who want to learn the basic methods of bioinfo i recomend this course! +This course is nice but very lengthy videos and at one points i didn't understand some topics , quiz are pretty tough to solve . +I am interested in RNA-seq data analysis and lecture 7 was superb. Thank you +Very organized. The labs are extremely helpful! +Great Introduction to the topics and broad concepts of bioinformatics. If you are looking for a course that goes gives you a sense of the breadth of the field, this is the place to start. The learn-at-your-own-pace was also great for me, since time commitments and travel schedules make it difficult for me to block out a set time each week to complete each lesson-- so the flexibility was great! +Very useful for a wide variety of biologist profiles +quiz questions are well explained so much that I could follow easily! Good examples for learning! +good but lengthy videos.. +Great and indepth introduction for those interested in learning bioinformatics. Next stop: Bioinformatic Methods II +I personally found the course very useful. It provides a good overview of some of the most widely used bioinformatic tools nowadays, without being too demanding. That labs are particularly good, and you are able to explore at your own pace but with the necessary guidance. I have a background in molecular and cell biology, so I found it very easy to follow. +Excellent course, I've learnt a lot. Maybe the labs are a little "do what I'm saying", but that is only if you are looking for the Certificate. If you dedicate enough time to read and "play" a little bit, it's a very complete course. +It's a very useful course, very well explained +Very good course for beginners! +It was very well taught, I very much enjoyed taking this course and I appreciate producers efforts. +Good campaign for abolishing illiteracy.It would be good to update answers for the final quiz (BLAST search and phylogenetic assay). +It was an excellent course! Very well explained and paced. Thank you, very much, Dr. Provart. +it is a very good courses. I learnt a lot about how to build a phylogenetic tree here. +The best course ever ! Easy, well teached and breathtaking.This course helped me a lot in my university in my undergraduation. You can get a good knowledge about bioinformatics enough to work with it, and these teachings is necessary to improve skills to get better in this area. +It's great that the course is self-paced, I could start the course immediately to learn things that I immediately need in my work and classes. The bioinformatics tools discussed in this course are very helpful and explained in a clear manner. The instructor provides a lot of useful tips. In all, this course touches upon each of the major fields of bioinformatics that any student entering the field should know. It is suitable for those who are knew to this field, and also fascinating for those who have some prior knowledge. +Really great course. +On the theoretical side, this is a very good introduction, and clearly a lot of effort has been poured into the practical part - only for that, the Toronto team deserves a lot of credit. Sadly, it suffers from the same problem as nearly every intro course in bioinformatics: the labs are merely a set of instructions to follow... even the very last. Still, if you never heard of BLAST or how to draw a phylogenetic tree, this is the course to do. +Very good and complete course. Even having some basic background with bioinformatics, this course was still valuable in order to further cement previously learned concepts, as well as learn some new concepts and tools. +This is an absolutely fantastic course! +enjoying it and its helping alot in my unit +It is really useful and informative course to learn the basis of bioinformatic methods. +Painful to watch and boring as hell! +I like the classes!It was hard but it worth all your effort.See you on the next class! +Amazing, Excellent and Awesome +the instructor is really harsh, don't piss him off! +Excellent material and explained well by the professor! +I really enjoyed this course. The hands-on laboratories were very helpful and fun. +There was a lot of stuff I could immediately use for my work. some of the other stuff was good to know to better understand what can be done behind the scene. +Set such a solid foundation for beginners to start their research career using bioinformatic tools! +A thorough course for beginners with very interesting labs! I was pleasantly surprised with how much and how easily I learned bioinformatics skills with this course. Well done! +One of the better courses I've taken, the combination of the hands-on labs and the review videos helps to understand some of the more complicated concepts. +Excellent course! The course is enjoyable and thorough, and at the same time, it does not require any deeper molecular biology knowledge or extra computational skills. +It is very useful and helpful. Thank you very much Coursera and special thanks to dear Dr. Nicholas Provart. +A good, interesting and attractive introduction to Bioinformatic methods. Professor Provart is able to make thing easy, whilst showing you how to exploit data and tools freely - well ... usually, they are for free - available on the Internet.I suggest this course to everyone approaching the topic. Personally, I will also take Bioinformatic Method II to be initiated to elements of structural Bioinformatic methods.The 5th star is missing because I would like to have some more insights about some underlying "reasons why". But, I reckon this as my own peculiarity.Good job, Professor Provart! And thank you very much for this! +It was really useful for me. +As a biochemist, it is a nice refresher for me ! +Great course. The lectures were very clear and informative. The labs were a very nice, easy way to get a hands on understanding of the tools being learned. Thank you! +Very practical introduction to bioinformatics tools from a biological perspective. Labs were excellent, and the quizzes were mostly well-designed. Only downside is that some required software/web tools are difficult to run on Linux, but that's unavoidable given the field. +The step where traditional biology end, bioinformatics starts...There is no doubt in that. +The submission system for submitting assignments in most of the cases does not work. +I learned a lot and had fun at the same time +good course . If there will any Speech recognition course it will useful > Hope Coursera will start speech recognition course in future . +Very well presented and thorough investigation into spectrogram, STFT and reconstruction techniques. Enjoying thanks. +I learned a lot during this course. It took quite a lot of time and energy to complete it, but I'm glad I did. It is now much easier to follow the text of Richard Lyons' book. Highly recommended. +this course is really great. lectures, code samples and references are clear and completeabsolutely recommended +This is a really good course if you wish to start learning about Audio signal processing concepts. +A real gem of a course in Coursera. It covers all the aspects of the topics discussed on Audio Signal Processing ranging from In-depth Theory to excellent examples & demonstration to programming aspects. +This course gives quite some fundumental concepts about the audio signal processing. I like it!! +Brilliant course! Good balance between theory and implementations with Python. Also, very good additional materials - video lectures from Julius Smith, if you want to go even deeper into math theory. +The course is very well explained, the assignment are really interesting and the topic is very interesting as well.If you never worked with coding, the beginning may be a bit tricky, but everything is well explained. Take your time to view the videos, they always help if you have some problems. +Thank you! +exceptional course -- expect good amount of work, but then you get lots out of it (as with any good course) +Very good course. You learn basics of Audio digital Processing while you learn how to use software that is open source. I really enjoy programing and learning Python and more because it was totally applied. +Excellent course with engaging activities. Highly recommended. +Very well explained and organized course material. The classes are also very detailed and special emphasis is put on illustrating every concept with example plots. +Top class! Very well explained, good examples, excellent learning material, practical exercises, and lots and lots of room for further personal study! Well done guys, and especially Xavier! Cheers! +Great support from teacher, super clear explanation and excelent level of information! +nice class! +i will thanks to management, i really need to learn this course because my FYP is based on this course +This course is what i have been longing for :))) +Awesome! Just the preview of the course already made me excited! :D :D :D +Too many errors in the graded assignments. +Great course! +Extremely interesting but could be more detailed showing more specific data and examples with downloadable spreadsheets. +I've learnt a lot with this course. Sometimes we don't stop to think about how to think on making decision. +Quite disappointing. Lecturers / tutors no responding in time, and the solution provided are questionable, which already happened in earlier courses of this specialisation. +Great course on application of behavioural finance in business decision making +I didn't learn anything more than what I already knew- which was basic concepts- and was able to pass anyway. I'm very disappointed. I want to be a good programmer, and this did not teach me any programming.The videos are not conducive to learning. You need a more engaging teaching plan. Don't just read slides to me, I can do that myself. Use videos to explain concepts, but stuff your videos with practice problems. Put more code in the videos and walk me through it. Put in mini-quizzes in the middle of videos, to keep the student aware of how they are doing in short increments. Don't move on to the next thing unless they have learned the first thing.I was unable to complete the projects because the practical coding was not taught - don't throw a third of the course into the first practice I get to without first walking me through short, contained examples of how to actually use the code, and testing me on each piece before putting it all together. +Gives an in-depth explanation about how intents and broadcast receivers work in android. +The entirety of this course is "watch and listen". There are no hands-on activities/assignments that get you implementing what you are (supposedly) learning. The assignments that are offered are optional and consist of filling in the blank code without actually providing you a way to see how your code works in the big picture.For example - they go on and on about how intents are complicated and tricky, but they don't actually give you a required assignment. It's optional. Then the actual assignment is "Do this here, and this here, and then this here" and only when you have completed every step can you actually run the code. But this doesn't actually show you how to build the intent. All you did was write down what they told you to and where. You never actually build anything yourself. You don't actually get an idea of how these things work or how to implement them yourself from scratch.The quizzes are also pointless. Every quiz is multiple choice, select all that apply. There's no thought required, just regurgitation of info from the lectures.Also, the entire week 1 lectures are HORRIBLE. The lectures on git are sssoooo dull that I could not stay awake no matter how much I wanted to. They are given in a monotone, bored tone that will drive you insane.Overall, this course seems more like it was hastily slapped together, without much thought, and then never looked at again. I would not recommend anyone take this course, let alone pay for it. +A lot of information to be absorbed.I like how up-to-date the material is, though in some cases a a little too 'fresh'---assignments need some clean-up.For the app case studies and assignments, should add simple UML sequence and/or collaboration diagrams to the existing class diagrams.This would help to better illustrate the interactions of the various Android classes---especially if it could be animated. +The programming exercises should not be optional. I still intend to do them, but now I passed the course with a 100% mark but only 10% of knowledge. +Very nice course.. +More practical application would be helpful in solidifying knowledge. Concepts seem abstract outside of any programming practice. Additionally, flow of lectures seems scattered at times: concepts are introduced then not expounded upon. This creates a distracted learning path that makes it difficult to follow the lessons. (From a beginner programmer's view). +It was a good Mooc, but I think it should imply many more examples to be made by the own students along the course. I really liked the previous one (Java for Android) and of course I´m going to finish the rest of courses. It´s worth it. On the other hand, examples are good and explanations properly presented. Good... but not as good as the previous. +Not enough coding opportunities. +I really liked the course. I would have preferred to have been forced to do the optional assignment as it takes that little bit of extra motivation coming up to Christmas to do these optional assignments. I still plan to do them but being forced to do them to get a pass would help.Otherwise I really like what I learning and how its presented. Just need to use it somehow to get a job! +There is a lot of good information in the course about how different components communicate with each other in android; however, there is way too much information way too fast. I really enjoyed the rhythm in the first course but, this course left me lost more times than not. Its a great course if you plan on spending large amounts of time searching the web for other resources to complete the optional assignments +Very helpful! requires strong coding skills. +This course was fantastic. I feel bad for complaining about the delay it had before launching because now I can see it was worth it. The material is up to date and the code adheres to the recommended Android code style from Google's documentation. The material is so much more thorough than other Android learning resources I've tried. Not only do you get good explanations of the example apps, but the lecture videos themselves do a good job of explaining the concepts at a high level before you get into the code. I found that the lecture videos gave me so many "eureka" moments where the whole picture was easier to understand.My only complaint is that the grading is 100% quizzes. I don't find these particularly engaging, and I prefer completing assignments that must pass unit testing/an autograder etc. I'm still giving 5 stars because this didn't detract from my experience. I'm pretty self-motivated so I just made my own challenges and didn't move on until I was able to code examples of what we learned each week.This specialization is without a doubt the first thing I'd point someone who expressed interest in learning Android to. +Very good and high level course. The reason I give 4 out of 5 stars is coz this course uses two topics both of which were not covered in Java for Android Course : Java Concurrency/Threads and Java 8 lambda expressions. So I had to take a side route to learn these topics. Also if the programming assignments could be made non-optional and auto graded, that would be great. +This Course has been GREAT +This course will give you an understanding of how different Android App components interact. You will learn how and when to use the HaMeR and Asynctask frameworks, also, you'll see which patterns they implement. The Official Android Development Guide is a perfect complement for this course if you want to understand some programming details and get in deep. +Course work was entirely optional and only started at the end of week 2. The required level of involvement was too low to be helpful. I don't learn well just watching lectures - I can get that much from YouTube!!! However, I expect a bit more when paying $500 for a specialisation.The first module in the series was too basic but at least there was a lot of coding involved. This (second) module didn't even have that. +I was really disappointed with this course, especially considering how great the first course was. IMO...there was too large of a jump between the two courses, and the plethora of "I'm totally lost..." threads in the forums would seem to back up my opinion. I'm currently reading Head First Android Development and it is exactly what I needed to grasp basic concepts as well get my bearings in the Android world. If this class remains the same I wouldn't be surprised to see attendance drop in further courses and/or Coursera starts receiving complaints about the difficulty. +Overall it is OK, but the example framework is more like created for teach purpose which is not practical in industry. Moreover, it seems there are many incorrect part in the assignment especially optional code assignments. +Great course! +Lots of details and references +I found it a bit peculiar that there were no tasks (problem sets) that were actually required to be taken (and passed obviously) to receive this course's certificate - which kind of devalues the obtainment of such in my opinion as passing the course by taking quizzes only seems a bit easy to me. Also the whole presentation of the material seemed not as thoroughly thought through - compared to other moocs I have taken or even the first course of this specialization. Although I must admit once you totally got around the fact that this mooc relies heavily on supplementary learning material (I for one bought the ebook mentioned in the course - the busy coder's guide to android development - which is an excellent book and I probably would not have found out about without this mooc) and one gets used to it's approach it is not as bad. Altogether I have to say the course was no waste of my time since I certainly did learn a lot but it could use some honing on a few sides. On an absolute positive side I feel the urge to mention the case studies conclusively which were really eye opening if analysed alongside the mentioned ebook and doing some googling :) Looking forward to course number 3 of this specialization. +It was I nice course but it would have been better start building an app from scratch in the practice sections +The course is a very good introductory course. The instructor explains the concepts in detail and with nice and clear examples. +Good Stuff +very inspirational, useful in many industry and with lots of references. project management support and managerial role inspiration +Thank you so much for such a great opportunity! I loved the course and it was very interesting to listen to your lectures. +Fantastic!!! a must do course for any aspiring innovators. +Awesome course with a very useful framework and very practical examples. Strongly recommended. +Content is great and would highly recommendThe structure for grading however is poor. The peer assignments don't work well compared to other Coursera courses. I submitted my assignments in time, but even after a month I still don't have one peer that has completed my review which then delays the 'completion' of my course. When I go to do other peer reviews for other people on the same assignment I am presented with 6 month old assignments overdue from previous courses?! In addition, you can't participate in the forum discussions until you submit something yourself. I would prefer to add to a thread than go in blind to each forum +This course gives good perspective on innovation process and how to bring idea to life. However it was disappointing to me that content of the course has nothing to do with Art and Culture. +very good content +good pre course for learning any language +I really enjoyed the problems. I would strongly advise to solve them all. +Awesome course. Great exercises (although can be frustratingly challenging at times!) Divide and conquer and dynamic programming new to me, have learned a lot. Highly recommended! +Great course! The programming assignments are very helpful in understanding the topics in the course. It would be better if the threshold to pass the assignment is increased to 50% or more. +Problems are very helpful. Testing system of the grader is superior. +Great course! Interesting and useful. +The lectures and exercises are awesome. I can not believe it I can solve hard problems by myself. Now I'm very confident to talk about algorithms. Thanks creators. +Very helpful course +It is a great class! +Very detailed and thorough discussions about each concept and problem. Great class to challenge yourself with. Enjoyed it immensely. :) +Not well explained. Do read the resources and spend time on YouTube and stack overflow to understand the concepts. Otherwise definetly a challenge and an interesting course +The only, issue: we does not have the data set to validate our code. +The programming assignments are great, with the right amount of challenge to help fixate the learning. +I would like to give this course worse than a 1 star. The course explanations are very poor. The explanations drag on and make no sense. I had to go to outside sources to make sense of what the videos were discussing, which I felt like defeats the purpose. Why am I paying for something when I have to use other sources to better explain. I would never recommend this course to anyone. Listening to these teachers explain each subject poorly was killing me. I like to learn through examples but what they provide just makes it more confusing and hard to follow. Each instructor got worse and worse! The videos were so hard to watch and the accents made it even more worse! I feel robbed from taking this course. I should have asked for my refund within the first week, but I felt since I was paying, I would stick it out a little longer. You will get a better explanation if you take each subject and youtube the videos on each subject. Very useless course. Hated every week of this course and I wouldn't dare to continue with the full specialization program. It's very sad to hear that this course gets recommended a lot, but it missed it's mark completely. +Very good course!! Totally recommended! It takes you from the basics to more advanced topics. They will demonstrate why it's very important know and apply different approaches for algorithmic problems. +Solid! Key for anyone wanting that strong computing foundation independent of programming language +Very good course for a newbie developers and for refreshing your knowledge. +This is a great introduction to a more formal approach to algorithms and I look forward to the rest of the courses in the specialization. The dynamic programming week was somewhat more difficult than the other weeks, but I think that could be remedied with more visualizations during the lectures.If you're lacking in any basic maths skills, I would recommend running through Khan academy first. Functional notation and series would be especially useful. +Excellent lectures and challenging problem sets! +very good organized course +I really appreciate the way course contents are selected in each course of the specialization , It really gives a great conceptual clarity of all the topics .I find a bit difficulty in understanding Big O notation so please try to give some more reference to understand it and also provide some general techniques to calculate it from just looking at code. +Great class! I learned a lot! +Great exercises. My only complaint is the last 2 weeks, the instructors weren't visual enough. They kept using hand gestures and not enough concrete visualizations of some of the steps. There were a lot of concrete visualizations for the big ideas... but not enough for all the different material and intermediary steps they were trying to teach. +This is a very useful very rich algorithms course, it is one of the best i have ever attended online, i would really recommend this course to any one who wants a challenging algorithms program. +A very nice introduction to solving algorithmic problems in general. Liked the fact that testing techniques are emphasized so much. +I don't recommend this course. The lectures barely touch on the topics being taught, you are expected to go learn on your own. I learned more from the free Khan academy than from this course. It would have been worth more buying good literature on algorithms. +The content of the course is so good. However, I think the lecturers can do better job if the have more visualisation for what they are saying. A lot of time, I felt that I couldn't follow what they was saying and then, I have to pause the video and look at the pseudo code, it much easier to understand. Btw, thanks a lot for providing such an awesome course. +The best course I have done on Coursera. The authors have put together a great set of lectures and especially programming assignments, which really force you to think about what you are doing rather than go by trial and error. What's more, you can submit these in about a dozen commonly used programming languages so you can practise the language of your choice while learning about algorithms. Highly recommended! +Awesome course with very interesting practical exercises. +This is an exceptionally good course. I thank my instructors for their effort. Thank You. +The best course for learning coding. +It was an awesome experience and this course is all one needs to get good at algortihms. +Very useful +good course, thank you very much. +Very interesting topic. Hard push +the course is very good , the best part is implementing the algorithm ,this will give you deep understanding of the algorithm also it will force you to improve your programming skills if you are a beginner , it was very useful for me . +Great course to follow along, I love how the homework assignments have the input template already in place so you can focus on the algorithm +wonderful!!!cool coding problems +This was my first taste of algorithm design--I loved it! The course was challenging but just easy enough for me to get through in an unfamiliar language. +Very good design of course. It seems simple at the beginning but later very useful. +The course is a great first course on algorithmic toolbox. I love the way the toolbox serves as a precursor to the more involved courses. In particular, the topic of stress testing is something that MOOCs don't cover in general and lead me to give up in my earlier MOOCs.All in all, great job professors Sascha, Daniel, Neil, Michael and Pavel.You guys are awesome. +I liked the course - it has very good balance, with some challenging tasks, but not too hard for smart learner. Good job! Getting 100% grade was fun.On other side minimal passing grade is a joke. You can literally get the certificate simply by implementing given pseudo-code in language of your choice. It hugely devalues the certificate, especially so without Honor track and no "with distinction" certificate offered. +Course covers most of the classic algorithms problems. There should have been final exam. +The course was awesome ..The content ,the problems were all thought provoking - couple of times i had issues understanding the language of the instructor , sans that it is a very very good course and a must take i would say +Awesome course - one of my favorites I've done on Coursera. It's thorough yet clear. I also like that you can pass the course just by implementing the algorithms as shown in the lectures, but then each assignment has multiple additional problems which challenge you to think for yourself. Really great course design! +1 professor just did not make sense to me. do not just read out the pseudo code but instead try to visually show whats happening step by step with arrows and calculations from scratch +It is amazing course. It presents the toolbox in a sequence of incremental levels to help you completely understand each level. +Great and challenging course. +Pretty good course and refresher. Enjoyed working through the problems. +superb programming assignments, created sophisticated logic for solving high edge problems using O(log n) or O(n logn) complexity, this was very challenging and nice course +The videos and explanations are very poor. Most of the time the instructors are reading off a script, and everything feels fake. By reading off a script they are forced to "hand-wave" and do not explain concepts covered completely.The only thing I liked about this course were the problem sets, which were interesting to do. Will not buy rest of specialization, feels like this is just a cash cow for UCSD. +Very Good courseAll the concepts were explained very well, barring Dynamic Programming. That could have been a bit more detailed. The programming assignments were fun to solve. A must have course for people beginning their study in computer science. +Great course - the problem sets were challenging and appropriate for the learning goals. For participants who have not been exposed to significant mathematical coursework, the mathematical notation may be intimidating at first, but is not an insurmountable obstacle. +Lots to learn and a great course. +Very informative. I am a self-taught programmer, and this definitely helps with the programmer's mindset. Definitely challenging. +Really nice experience for me . I enjoyed it +I liked the fact that the algorithms are not just the introductory searching and sorting algorithms. The assignments are fairly difficult (I have decent scripting experience), but not impossibly so. +Nice materials and challenging problems! +Informative, with minimal theory - it is plus for me, because allow save time. Some tasks is not easy :) +everything is great exept last week +Lectures are very confusing. Instructors should use white boarding to explain codes. Difficult to follow them. +The materials covered are not enough to fully explore the topics. Should include much more detailed explanations especially when explaining some of the complex algorithms. +Tasks are amazing. But sometimes had to google some extra help. +The core concepts are very well explained +Pretty informative and helps you refresh the basics. +Very good course! But expensive. +Thanks for this awesome course. It helped me a lot to improve my theoretical knowledge in building complex solutions based on different approaches. +Lectures and quizzes are okay, assignments are great to make you think deeper about the topics. I have to agree with a lot of the other course takers that you get very little help from the teaching staffs. However, I do feel that the discussion forums are enough to help you through all of the programming tasks.Programming assignments aren't really friendly to Haskell's list, and vectors are not available. If you use Haskell, you'll be forced to work with arrays or sequences, which are not as nice. +This is a fantastic course. Great material well supplemented by assignments. +Learnt so much! Great content. +The course content is very good and is must have if you missed that stuff in colledge. It teaches of algorithmic analysis so you know which algorithm is more efficient, gives some examples of cool techniques and provides challenges to apply those techniques.However, there are things that I hate about this course. First of all this is about forums. They are broken down into sessions and there are too little people on each session. Staff provides exactly zero help. If you are stuck, you have no hope on these forums and will need to find help somewhere else.Programming assignments are great, they are relevant, interesting, challenging and the automatic grader system estimates not only if we get the correct answer but also the efficiency of our algorithm. There have been some problems in divide and conquer section though. I've been struggling with implementing binary search (which is quite a simple algorithm!) in JavaScript to pass the assignment for weeks. I've written and rewritten it in different ways, done hundreds of manual and automated tests, posted on course forums (receiving zero answers) and have gotten the same error again and again. I was able to solve this only by switching to Python. I am quite sure there is a mistake in the test case, which cost me hours and hours. Overall, the programming assignments are very time consuming and lack of support and not showing test cases make things worse.I do not like that we cannot see the test case where our program fails. Perhaps, if you could figure out a test case that might fail in your program that would make you a better programmer but I felt more like it was wasting of our time. The main thing is to analyze the test case that fails and understand why, it will bring the same result without wasting time and feeding anger,Some lecturers have a strong Russian accent, that is very distracting. It is not a lot of work to take some English pronunciation training before making a course, isn't it?Overall, I enrolled for the specialization and planned to buy it in full but bought only this course to start with. Now I am glad I did that because now I am not sure about buying the other courses and will look somewhere else first.Anyway, the creators of the course have done a great job, which is highly appreciated. I believe you can make this course much better by fixing the issues I pointed above. +Everything was super. Extremely useful course. +Really iam so so so happy :) this course is the best course i met before :) <3 <3 <# +Very good course. It illustrates many algorithms using simple ways, short videos and readable material. +Good content . And very good assignments. +Nice course with meticulous instructions +This course covers important aspects of techniques used to solve popular problems. But it misses to cover introductory points in some modules (i.e: dynamic programming module) as well as the accent of some instructors isn't clear enough. +great course +i don't know how to say thanks to you +This course is the basic of specialization and helped a lot to understand algorithms in a better way. Thanks so much to are the teachers +Awesome. Learnt many things. +Nice and tough course. Make sure to plan ahead for the homework if you expect to complete all of the assignments above and beyond what is required. After finishing the course I switched my session to the next one so that I would be able to complete all the extra assignments. It can be tough juggling this class if you work full time, and have other projects outside of work that demand your time. +Great course. I would suggest to improve pronunciation of some of the lecturers, add more material, lower the concentration of the material (by prolonging or splitting the course). Great work, thanks! +Very helpful course! Goes over a lot of concepts I see come up with Comp Sci a +Interesting and challenging! +it was a really good course..i had learned a lot from this course.:) +It was quite interesting . +Great course! I've learnt a lot and have deeper understanding of algorithm. Thank you! +Great place to start +I really had a hard time understanding Dynamic Programming. I recoomend to remove this topic and focus more on solidifying foundations so that students can be more prepared for moving through the whole Algorithm Courses. I never heard of this topic before and the lecturer ommited many steps when explaining the Edit Distance. I was forced to look for other resources like Open Courseware Algorithms course, and this is how could understand what was dynamic programming easily. Hope this helps! +Great Class +Very good and challenging course. Gets tougher as it progresses. Less support from the staff and the community, but proper content and explanation in the videos. +I think that some assignations are too difficult, and some indeed few explanations are poor +good concepts aree taught +Great class for students with some elementary programming background who are eager to learn the fundamentals of algorithm design. +The overall course was very good however the edit distance lectures were very fast to grasp the concepts +Homework was very nice, but strong accent of lecturers impeded me +Instructors are perfect. The course is intense and not easy. But the way the concepts are taught is very lucid. One of the best courses on coursera. I am leading my way to the specialization. Again, the instructors are really great. The assignments are the best part of this course. Must take. +It's really insightful, It would be great if the test cases for each problems, shared with the student.Thank you! +Nice course! Definitely, I have learned a lot. To be all honesty, I find myself sleeping sometimes during the lectures =) +Awesome course. Well explained with lots of examples.The must see if interested about the basics of algorithmic. +I like the assignments provided in the course +Really enjoyable, and a good learning curve +A good course , programming assignments are also good , even the discussion forums are good. Tutorials are wonderful everything is explained very clearly and hints are given at each point overall good for computer science undergrad. +Def a useful skills to have when starting to interview for jobs. This is a hard course to teach to begin with. I found the lectures really boring, too long, hard to understand and just not really motivated well. I think the homework problem are good, but they are very time consuming. You need to use various methods to find edges cases and though that might be a good skill to have as well, it's just too much to get done in one week and somewhat frustrating when you're only stuck in one test case. I think this could be an excellent course with a few modification on the slides and adding more motivations and making shorter homework problems that focuses on the main part of the material for that as oppose to things we've already covered in the previous week. At the moment, I don't think I'll continue this specialization the way it's designed. +A great course for beginners. I learnt a lot of new things from the course especially the really efficient and much needed algorithmic techniques. Had great fun!! +A little light on the theory +Great Course. A lot thanks to all instructors. +Congratulations for this well-designed, informative and extremely educative course! The language agnostic way of presenting and explaining these basic but important algorithmic techniques provides an extremely useful way to better understand and further elaborate these methods by using the programming language of our choice. Of course, some programming experience in at least one language is needed, but this course can also provide a great lab to start learning others. The programming assignments and the way you have designed them (time/memory constraints) are ideal to learn designing these algorithmic techniques correctly and efficiently. +Awesome course. Cannot recommend it more highly +I think this course is pretty interesting! +Thank you very much! I am looking forward to joining the second course of the specialization. +At my country I was dropped of the final year computer engineering and automatic control at engineering faculty due to health and financial conditions, with online courses I have the chance to prove what I can do, Thank you very much !! +Amazing course! Highly recommended to everyone. I've actually taken an algorithms course in university, and this one is much better! +Alexander Kulikov, Michel Levin and Neil Rhodes are awesome teachers. Every topic of this course opens a whole new dimension of concept. It was awesome. +Very useful for well understanding basic algorithm method! +Great course, however some assignment are really difficult and the forum seems not very helpful. +Programming assignments are well structured in such a way that it encourages one to continuously improve upon the solution. +I was great! A lot of useful and interesting tasks to improve your skills. +Well presented material. Good pace od lectures - short but fully understandable. Different instructors (you won't get bored ;)). Very good programming assigments. +Awesome!!! Thanks to all instructors. +Explanation could have been more clear, especially for polynomial multiplication. +I had already done "Algorithms: Design and Analysis Part 1", so this course was not as good as that one.This course had lot of programming questions, which I find very good to have for any course. I just hope next courses of the specialization will be beneficial for my career. +This course is designed with a lot of thought behind it and using basically every mainstream programming language makes it even more fun to participate. +Bad teaching quality. +The course brings a lot of knowledge for me, help me to improve the expertise and foreign language teachers are very easy to understand, clear pronunciation +An excellent course. The video lectures are brief but explain the main points very well. The assignments are very well organised. +Very well structured, good choice of content. All video lectures are engaging and you can feel a lot of though was put into making algorithms explanations both clear and concise. Many thanks to the lecturers. +An exception and resourceful course from best instructors n teachers globally.I am glad to be a part of this. +Awesome explanation, very concise. +The course is great +Overall is good course with many exercises, forum is supportive, however mentors/instructors never answered my questions (i guessed they bothered only with the very first session when course was launched) Language is sometimes overly complicated and hard to grasp the main principles of the algorithm (e.g. dynamic programming week 5) I watched youtube to understand same ideas but explained in much simpler way. +very cool +I found the assignments challenging in the absolute best sense of the term, and therefore incredibly rewarding as well! Whenever I've gotten stuck, the answer was always in the course material somewhere, even if I didn't see it there at first. The discussion forums were extremely helpful, and I was astounded to see that that instructors were still actively monitoring the discussion forums and responding to student questions. I'm obviously not an expert in this field, but I've been an educator before, and my own impression of the assignments was that they were extremely well designed: it was impossible to pass them without knowing what you were doing, the tools to approach them were always found in the lectures, and the challenge problems pushed your knowledge even farther. I would recommend the specialization to everyone. Additionally, I noticed that the content aligns well with other DS&A syllabi I have seen in brick-and-mortar institutions, especially the first 3 or 4 courses. It's also a very nice luxury to be able to submit in Python. I have certainly learned a great deal. +If one has taken the Algorithms 1 and 2 course by Profs. Sedgewick and Wayne, this course will be a disappointment and waste of time. +I like the course structure and material. It starts off easy enough to get you interested and then throws at you challenges at early stage, if you are up for it.What I don't like is video session itself, some of instructors talk too fast and dwell much into topic, assuming you understood everything. And as way to composite that, they offer a "resource" links to help you understand.Then some of them have "hard" accent, it's really difficult to follow them even for native speaker, yet alone for those whose English is second language.Now exercise and assignments are spot on but you are forced to relay on other sources to grasp everything. I doubt anyone taking this course has not reached for "outer" help at least once. +Really Useful Content. +great course, covers the basic algorithms and techniques thoroughly. great for someone who is just starting in the field of algorithms. +The accent from teachers would be a little bit annoying, also the fact that most of the topics (incomes, outcomes from the programs) are unclear for a naive student. But for the rest, is a great way to introduce programming. +Solutions are explained with too much detail. You should give the student a chance to learn by herself. +the material are great so much information and it is the first from the hole specializationbut! the explanation is so weak doesn't match at all with this big datathe pseudocode is so distracting and hard to readi always get lost and i don't know is it an array in the code or variable and what does he want to do with itthe pseudocode should be just a normal english code saying what to donot an understandable signs :\i am really sad that i couldn't get benefits from this amount of knowledge +Good collection of task and learning materials. Definitely worth it! More numbers theory and algorithms reading could be included. But agree, it better to read books referenced.Thank you! +Overall this was a good course. Some of the presenters need to work on their presentation skills (personally I had no problems with the accents). I also felt that the sections on dynamic programming seemed a bit rushed and I needed to spend a bit of time researching this on third parties before I felt comfortable completing the exercises.The grading system was really cool and the exercises seemed well thought-out and thorough. I'd recommend this course to existing developers without a computer science background. Those who want more mathematical rigour should look into the Tim Roughgarden/Stanford course. +Some features of this course are too good like Dynamic Programming. Thanks for helping me out . +Great course! Helped me a lot, courses taught this well keep me motivated! +It`s a very good course that covers some of the most fundamental concepts behind algorithms! +Very good subject and very good topics presented. Professors are very good. And the video presentation is awesome. +I found the course to have some really helpful approaches to solving algorithmic problems when test inputs are unknown. Great "Toolbox" for a programmer. +A great and exciting start for the Specialization +Awesome start! Loved the programming assignments! +To complete this course you should be familiar with programming. While the first weeks are relatively easy to follow, last ones are really hard to keep up with. +Overall I like this course. The beginning of the course was very light and easy to follow. As the concepts got more in-depth, the weeks (namely 4 and 5) felt rushed and somewhat incomplete. Regardless, having never been exposed to this type of material, and for the price, I would recommend this course to anyone looking to get their feet wet with algorithms. +Loving the course so far! Best balance between theory and practice! +Overall it is a great course, the most challenging part was to understand the optional prove of the Master theorem. I believe that this course and the whole specialization is all about learning not only the mandatory material of the course, but also the whole optional material provided. Thanks to all the instructors for their hard work! +Loved the problem in the course. +this course is very useful. Every topic is covered here and the assignments were also very effective to check your concept. +I learned a lot in this course and it was sufficiently challenging. My only qualm was that some of the pseudo-code was hard to understand and slightly misleading. +Good instruction and examples. Easy to understand. So great so far! +Great course! Thanks to the instructors! +One of th best Courses on Coursera. +Very good course. Basic course for Computer Science graduates. +AWESOME course ,A must for any programmer. +An excellent and methodical approach to learning algorithms and their related data structures (as well as appreciating the value and importance of efficient computing). Also a great refresher even if you have had formal training in Data Structures and Algorithms. +Near the end it becomes a slosh to get through all the information covered in the last two weeks. It feels like you are given some hints and pointers on what to do, but for the most part, the last two weeks are being tossed in the deep end and hoping you learn how to swim.I want to give a 3.5 but that's not allowed. With the amount of content covered this course is closer to a 4 than a 3. +I love the whole explanations and outline... i'd recommend this to me in the next world +Thank you for this course. +Amazing course about algorithms. Complex things described by common words. +I thought this was really helpful for my day to day career as a developer. It helped give me better tools to talk about what I am working on as well as introducing me to some new concepts. +It is a brilliant course, well organized and pretty interesting. However, the problems are not as challenging as one could expect. +This course is well-designed and delivered by the experienced instructors. It is particularly suitable for those who have some basic knowledge in programming (knowing how to use if-else if-else statements, for-loop and while-loop, etc.; knowing a little bit how to write a simple code in C, C++, Python or others) and would like to enhance his programming techniques through polishing his logical thinking ability while he is designing a algorithm. +I have solved more problems in this course compared to any other courses. This course has laid foundation to solve more problems in Dynamic Programming. Thank you to the entire team. +As the title suggests, this course will give you some tools/techniques in terms of algorithms design and implementation. You will probably also learn from doing the programming assignments. Enjoy! +I love the fact that this course is language agnostic and really lets you learn about the underlying algorithms that make our software run faster. It is challenging, but definitely worth it if you are fond of a specific language! +Great to lay out the basis of algorithms. Very descriptive and progressive. I enjoyed all the exercises that helped understanding and implementing all the concepts explained in this course.It is also worth mentioning that, towards the end, they offer more advanced algorithms to challenge your newly acquired knowledge. +The course gives a good overview on the algorithms types and problems, but it's cannot be used as standalone source of algorith,s learning. You should use good textbook as well.The programming challenges are really interesting (and challenging), sometimes it took for me a couple of evenings to complete all five week assignments.Thanks! +The content covered in this course is great. However, I hope there was a more efficient way to communicate with student. I hope there is a way to bring student together like a group chat function in the coursera app. So, people who want to be more committed can communicate more often and effcient. +These two stars go to the instructor in week 1. I left the course after week 3 because I couldn't tolerate the accents of the instructors. I got frustrated starting from week 2 where I have to reread the subtitles to understand the material. Please let someone who can speak English fluently teach the course, please. The course goes kinds of fast, this is first course of the Specialization and it quickly jumps to Greedy algorithm, really? In general Algorithm course, it is usually taught late. +The problem sets are great and probably worth the price, but the lectures become very hard to follow after week 3 and the discussion forums are very disorganized - it's hard to find useful information. Some of the lectures have slides available, some don't; some of the lectures have somewhat-useful subtitles/transcripts, others have incomprehensible garbled messes (I don't know if they're machine-generated or just transcribed by someone with no understanding of the material/vocabulary - logarithm != algorithm!).I really like the problem sets, but some of the lectures are pretty rough, just a guy talking in front of some pseudocode for 10 minutes. The instructors seem friendly and engaging, though. +Great course! I really enjoyed taking it. I think it is very challenging and it definitly updates your algorithmic's skills and changes your thnking +Good introduction to algorithms ! +My programming and algorithm design greatly improved after taking this course. Through the advanced problem sets I was able to appreciate the finer aspects of efficient algorithm designing and I'm sure that I'll improve a lot with courses to come.I would definitely recommend this course to any one who wishes to improve his/her skill set for designing efficient algorithms. +The ideas I learned about the classical algorithms and their run-times are really useful and interesting. The problems are also very good. +Learned a lot.The notions of testing and debugging really inspired me. +lots of mathematics and it's challenging +The dynamic programming classes could be really improved, but, overall, a solid course. +Everything is awesome except a minor mismatch between Niel Rhodes's and Alexander Kulikov's presentations in Week 4. Although Prof. Rhodes prooved Master Theorem in the first half of the Week, Prof. Kulikov didn't use it estimating algorithms asymtotics. +All the material was relevant to algorithms and the advance problem were very challengingA must Do course for those who are interested in algorithms designthank you coursera and its team +Awesome course, awesome algorithms! +The course material is very good indeed, but some of the instructors were somewhat difficult to understand because of strong accents. Subtitles were largely inaccurate. +Once they dig into the material, the difficulty ramps up, and it's absolutely worth it! +The full course should be available with the assignments for the non payers. Only the certificate of this should be provided to those who have paid. +Dynamic Programming need to be stronger +Basic algorithms, explained very clearly, great and helpful homeworks +Really challenging, starts easy but gets heavy and time consuming after 3rd week.Be prepared to study additional material and spend some hours cracking the weekly assignments. Satisfying when you accomplish it. Maybe a good idea could be to combine algorithms and data structures and separate in 2 courses Algo & Data Structures 1, and Algo & DS 2.I feel, a better knowledge of DS could have help me to solve the Algo assignements faster. +Excellent quality, loved the quizzes and graded assignments, completely worth the time and money! Highly recommend! +Very Good course. Best to prepare for campus placement tests. +Explanations were thorough, and the problem sets helped me gain a better understanding of the concepts with challenging but doable problem sets. +very well designed course ,very helpful. +I like it very very much. I would like to recommend this course to all of my friends. +It's a great course which helped me in a greater extent to enhance my concept in Algorithm. +This course was a great introduction to algorithms. I am a novice programmer at best and had little to no knowledge about algorithms before this course. The concepts and programming assignments were challenging and I did not finish all of them the way I would have liked to but the challenge has made me more knowledgeable and a slightly better coder. Thank you. I will be taking data structures next. +Loved the course, and the way the teachers taught! Learnt a lot of new things! +Nice course, learned a lot from it. +This course is awesome +Algorithmic Toolbox consists of a series of slides containing slimmed down explanations on introductory algorithmic concepts, followed up with programming assignments. The slides are the centrepiece of the course, as the presenters rarely stray from the bullet points and pseudocode they're comprised of.I learned a lot during this course. Although, to gain confidence in your knowledge, this is a course that will require you to seek out additional materials to supplement your learning. Perhaps unsurprising being an introductory course, but the presenters struggle when faced with setting expectations.Throughout the course presenters often gloss over fairly complex concepts, treating them as they were trivial knowledge. This applies to mathematical definitions, proofs where most steps are skipped, tree diagrams without the context of their underlying theory, or bullet points used in place of what could be detailed explanations.All material is left equally weighted. Rather than providing explanations like: "We don't need to go into detail on this, only x concept from it is important for what we want to focus on. Reference this chapter in this book for more detail." presenters would read mathematical definitions verbatim from the slides and move on. I was often unsure of how much I would need to know about such concepts.In terms of communication ability, the presenters don't hold up against many of the free/low-cost services I'm accustomed to using, for example: MIT OpenCourseWare, Udacity, edX, Khan Academy, Code School, Treehouse, etc. Perhaps unsurprising, as these competing services often feature professional communicators rather than professional researchers. But the marketplace for quality online education is definitely becoming a competitive one. Users now expect nothing less than presenters with exceptional communication/teaching ability.In most videos the presenters read verbatim from the slides and motion with their hands to explain concepts that would be better broken down on a whiteboard. Rarely straying from the slides, the times the presenters go into more depth on a concept, you get a scribble in the corner of a slide, lacking the clarity I've come to expect when approaching complex concepts from master educators like YouTuber PatrickJMT or Khan Academy. After a couple weeks into the course, I just went straight to the slides, read MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, and skipped most of the course videos.But all things considered, the course served as a good curriculum to guide my focus through the introductory concepts, regardless of where I sought it out. +Great Course...especially for someone who doesn't have a CSE background but is immensely interested in learning it +Clear explanation! +Some of the best course i have ever enrolled in...!!!! +Pretty Nice +Great course. I enjoy it. +Learn some new and very interesting things. It covered my doubts as well. +First four weeks of the course were awesome,some exciting problems,insightful teaching but fifth week's content I felt were not up to the standards of first four weeks.Nonetheless it was great experience.Thank you instructors and course forum. +nicely managed enjoyed learning +Great course. The team is doing a great work improving it all the time and the grading system and lecture are really good as well. +Excellent coverage of algorithmic techniques in this course, with very accessible introductions to such fundamental topics as the Master Method, greedy algorithm design, and dynamic programming. This class hits the sweet spot for people who find Tim Roughgarden's Analysis and Design of Algorithms course too intense and hand-wavy, but who still want mathematically-sound, proof-based discussion of algorithmic techniques. (Listen to Roughgarden's drive-by treatment of Karatsuba's algorithm in his first week of lectures, and you will appreciate Neil Rhodes' coverage of the same algorithm all the more.) You get an introduction to a lot of "greatest hits" from Computer Science, but at a level where you come away understanding the technique. The problem sets start off with fairly easy exercises, just enough to reinforce your understanding, and progress up to exercises that will prove challenging indeed to newcomers. You will get a lot out of careful study of this course. I look forward to continuing in this specialization. +very helpful +Extremely useful course, that will improve your understanding of the core algorithmic techniques. +Very clear introduction to algorithm basics. Reasonable quizzes and assignments. +great teaching and challenging problems +A well thought out course. Amazing teachers. Thorough assignments. Helped a lot. +I took this course as part of the specialization and find it to be an excellent refresher of what I learned in undergraduate and graduate Computer Science classes (which were solely theoretical, and I had little chances to code algorithms/data structures). Finally, in this course, I could implement what I learned before and now.Not a perfect course - lectures could be improved (pseudo code at times takes efforts to understand). But assignments are amazing and comfortably challenging. The vast choice of programming languages is a feature. Make sure that you write automated unit-tests for your solutions. This will reduce your debugging efforts.Thanks! +Very straight forward, this course comes from the basics and completes the theory with practice to ensure learning. 100% recommended for those who are not familiar with algorithms or those who want to have practice implementing and coding. +Great assignments -- Keep up the good work guys! +A great course in its own right but it also fills a void between the "Learn " and using programming languages to analyze Big Data. The instructors have put together an excellent introduction to the wonderful, and scary, world of algorithms. I must admit I was ready to send my PC flying through the window on numerous occasions when I could not get my particular implementation of an algorithm to run within the time AND memory limits set by the instructors. More so, because often you are not told what particular test case made it fail. In the end, I believe this is a great approach to have learners really dive into the material and think about the various run times before submitting a particular solution. Well worth while your time! +This course is very good to start algorithmic coding. +Very nice course! +Another one of Coursera's trademark course. Really awesome for beginners in Algorithms. +nice stress testing is now i am learned +I agree with some of the reviews here. It's fantastic at the beginning of the course. Towards the end, unfortunately the professor's accent is heavy and sometimes difficult to understand. The subtitles don't help either because they were auto-generated. My brain had to take extra cognitive workload to decipher what was actually said before trying to understand the materials on the slides and everything else. I also didn't like the way index 0 and 1 is mixed in different lectures. Why shouldn't we stay consistent in pseudocode using index starting with either 0 or 1? The slides are confusing regarding this matter especially when you translate algorithms into code.Nonetheless, I liked the assignments overall. The course's instructors included some of very interesting problems and indeed helped understand the lessons better. I also liked the course structure and the carefully prepared slides. +So awesome. The challenges were great and I learned a lot! +This is a good course, and I liked the quality of video lectures. The material is structured and lets the students understand the basic approaches they can follow to solve algorithmic tasks.Also a good plus is that there are assignments. First, they are of different complexity - so anyone will find an interesting task there. Second, there are prepared starter files for 3 languages - so you spend time working on algos, not on bootstrapping projects. And third - grading is automatic.Just for fiuture - as a more engaging thing there could be also made tasks to review of other people's assignments (as it is done in other courses) and implementing a test case which makes a wrong solution to fail (which is something like TopCoder does). But this idea is too raw and needs more thinking. +Update: As I proceed to wk 5, I know why there are some complaint on Dynamic programming,Reduced to 2 stars. Lectures are totally useless for the assignment,The course is really good until week 4 when it deteriorates very quick. No matter how many times I re-watch the lecture, I can't understand much. I ended up using wikipedia for the quiz instead :PI can't use much of the course forum since there are too many posts there and it keep crashing my chrome.This course gets my 3 stars from the first 3 weeks alone, otherwise it gonna be 0-2 stars. +Love how clear the professors explain the not-so-straighforward context. I enjoyed every single moment. The assignments constitute the biggest part of understanding and learning. +Testing cases are claimed to be generated randomly, in that way why can't we get the random test case to improve our result? Also, there is no example code after the course, if I didn't solve out the problem I may never have the chance to work it out. +Very good content and great professors, I like the short duration of lectures and more emphasis on assignments.. +Algorithm Toolbox is an awesome course for getting started with problem thinking and problem solving! +I would've never forced myself to learn to think recursively if it weren't for this course. As someone from a mechanical engineering discipline, with a minimal background in java programming, i was able to following along with this course and complete all assignments. The discussion boards and professor's lectures were particularly helpful along with the fact that I could download everything for viewing offline. +Very detailed and well covered +More information should be given for the failed test cases. Is a waste of time to find bug if you don't know what the bug is. ie test case 4/13 in the minimal dot product assignment +I always wanted to improve the algorithms and data structures field. The books wasn't so efficient. Especially they weren't so practical. These courses are the first courses where I really got a lot of knowledge. Especially because of assignments. All lectors are very good in explanation of the material and tell many additional useful things. These courses are the really good base, after which you can open the books related to algorithms and read more details if you needed.I am definitely going to complete the whole specialization!The only thing which was not convenient for me is that both courses Algorithmic Toolbox and Data Structures are started at the same time. It was difficult to find out the time for both courses and spend enough time to solve all assignments instead of only enough for passing.Anyway, now I am started the second iteration of the course and I am going to solve all assignments which I skipped.Big thanks to Daniel, Alex, Pavel, Neil and Mike!Regards,Sergey +Even though this course covers a lot fundamentals for introduction to algorithm, the course itself is not designed as good as I expected. For starters, the weekly problem designs aren't very good. Some problem statements are ambiguous and not very clear unless you read more than one time or take a closer look at the examples. Often, the input format/arguments are designed to take redundant info. Some problem even has more than one possible correct outputs, which is just confusing for learning purpose.In terms of lecture videos, it's good that there are some classic algorithm problems being demonstrated in the video, however the linkage between how to express a problem in mathematical languages is poorly explained. For example, in the lecture of edit distance, the realization of the matrix was not well explained at all. I personally appreciate a lot of the thorough proving steps introduced in the lectures, however I personally think the proofs are often not well explained to the audience (I also understand that it's more difficult to explain proving steps). Considering the large variety of audience, I would recommend the instructors separate the comprehensive more in-depth knowledge into optional videos, in this way the audiences could decide if they want to spend time in optional videos or not based on their own needs, meanwhile the instructors could spend a little bit more time to explain the difficult concepts better. Overall, I know that talking and analyzing algorithms can be kinda of boring and challenging, but I wish the course videos could be stated in a more interesting and intriguing way. +Thanks for explaining very clearly the basic concepts. +Great course to understand different categories of Algorithms and which one to apply to solve a problem +This course works on fundamental approaches, like divide and conquer, greedy algorithms and takes us to the more advanced dynamic approach which is ubiquitous and drives most of the modern applications.Really beneficial to solve problems on a day to day basis. +hard but great +Excellent material and very well explained, thank you so much for the opportunity +Feedback in assignment is not good enough.For example, for the points and segment, there are no correct answer in output as a reference. +It is a great course. But explanation could be made simpler in proof part of the course. +Really enjoying it. +The course starts very promising, but it gets worse week after week, culminating on a barely understandable week about dynamic programming. That’s when I gave up and decided to write this review instead, with just one assignment missing to complete the course.Some of the teachers aren’t native english speakers, which is fine, but their english is very hard to understand. I found myself having to watch some portions of the videos over and over again in order to understand what was being said. I tried reading the transcripts instead, but the they’re even worse! It seems that they were automatically generated from the videos, thus suffering with the poor pronunciation.The teachers use mathematical sophistication that feels unnecessary, but to be fair, they do mention it on the FAQ as part of the necessary background. However, even though it’s an online course, they barely use any teaching method besides very raw slides, some dry mathematical proofs and someone speaking about the content. The only resources offered to help learning are a few open source visualizations. I expected much more.The only good aspect from this course are the assignment checkers, which allow you to write your solutions in multiple languages.I deeply regret the money and time I spent on this course. +Very good lectures and programming assignments. +Gives you very good insight into Algorithms basics that gets you going great with advanced courses. +Indeed a very nice course to start learning about different kinds of algorithms. +That was such an informative course +Videos are very well explained, the exercises comes with several difficulties, good to apply what you learn and push a bit more. I was able to retake some stuff that I've forgotten and learn new stuff. As a 12 year experienced engineer, I'm please that I took this course. +Great Course +The weekly assignments are well designed and interesting +This is awesome and problems are challenging which pushes me towards my goal. +the content if very good, but lecturers are terrible. you better read slides and read any book you like. watching their videos it wast of time. +It's not too much work. For someone who wants to take programming classes online but also may have a variant amount of time, this course is perfect. +I finished the first session of Master Algorithmic Programming Techniques, the Algorithmic Toolbox course. This is an amazing course. To review why this course (and series) is awesome:1) 25 + programming assignments, ranging from easy to advanced.2) Unlike many other CS courses, this course allows multiple programming languages. You have choices of C C++, Java, Python2, Python3. They may add more to the list :).3) Super active forum, the learners come here to debate approaches and share knowledge a lot. There were so many times I'm convinced my algorithm can't be optimized anymore, then another guy came in with another genius idea.4) Plus, the instructor, Mr. Alex S. Kulikov is a super nice guy, he made 300+ forum posts in the first session alone, to guide learners thoroughly.Comprehensive grader: grades you on correctness, time use, memory use. You have no choice but to optimize all 3 aspects to pass.This course has premium access. However, both the quality and quantity are well worth the price. You can read other learners' comments and many agree with this. +Good course.But I wish there was a final assignment which covered all the weeks like a module exam to revise what we have learnt in all 4 weeks +Currently in my Week 2 of the Course and I have to say I absolutely enjoyed Week 1! My expectations are now even higher for week 2 and further. A great introduction to a critical topic and the best part was that I found myself completely involved to the course until I successfully submitted my assignment. Cheers! +Good coverage of the material, with several videos dedicated to individual topics, accompanied with complementing problem sets which have a decent selection of semi-optional advanced problems. +I love programming assignments in this course! +great leacture! thank youand keep it free for video except certification +Lectures were clear, for the most part, and the homeworks were fun and instructive. Material on dynamic programming might have been clearer. Also, notes and references to texts would have been helpful. Thanks for putting together a great course. +Very instructive and informative, helps resolving many doubts.Excellent examples and programming assignments, information provided by autograder is just about right.I feel like the programming assignment is just a tad too relaxing, for dynamic programming for example, I think we need to complete 3 out of 5 in order to pass, not just two. +This is a great primer for algorithms and goes one step further than similar courses I've taken by introducing dynamic programming. +Good. Waiting for session to began. +Having time left on the last programming assignment in week 4 and not being allowed to complete it was a downer. I'm not sure if this was bug or if I'm missing something. The course was great and challenging. Thank you for preparing, organizing and teaching this course. +This is an awesome Course. I'd like that the failed tests, of the submitted programs, to be shown, in order to have a better idea where you are doing wrong. +I really think this is a good course, but some of them is hard to understand for me as beginner. +A very good introduction to Algorithmic techniques. Well worth the cost of entry! +Good Algorithms are taken together . +Very Good. Waiting new courses~ +The best online class I've taken so far: not only because of the clear explanation and easy-to-follow videos, but also the effort the professors have put int answering most of the questions, especially Prof. Alex. He almost answered more than half of the questions within short amount of time. This is very rarely seen in other moocs. +Good Course +Very clear in explanations, I learnt a lot of new cool stuff.Assignments aren't always so trivial but there's always a hint to help in solving them +I enjoyed the course a lot and would recommend it to anyone who's getting their feet wet in the world of algorithms. +Really Great for any serious developer who is willing to break grounds +very excited, thanks :) +Excellent course with tons of exercises and interesting lectures. +Excellent course!! Thanks a lot!! +Amazing Course. I have been looking for this kind of course for months.Must for anyone who wants to be good in Competitive Programming and Algorithms +Very good course on algorithms,particularly useful for competitive programming. +good course with some very nice idea. I like the fact you can use a lot of languages for you programming assesment, the content is really helpful, I would like to have more indications from the grading system to save time. +This course does more then just teaching algorithms. It gives you insights and ideas that you can later use to build new algorithms. Personally, I think this is crucial, cause it helps you to build unique skill - reasoning about unknown problems. +If you want to learn more about both theoretical and practical computer science, do this specialization. I'm completely sold on this specialization after one week. The instructors are extremely helpful and have a high level of clarity both in the videos, and on the forums. The language semi-agnosticism is excellent! The forums are active and friendly! You will hit the ground learning right away with this specialization!This course has so far motivated me immensely to delve further in to my software engineering education. I did not get a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, just an Associate's. Though I work in the industry, I wanted to do programming competitions and personal projects to make up for the lack of experience with the ideas and implementation of algorithms and their data structures.This course has jump-started my journey beyond my current abilities, and I believe it will do the same for you. If you're even remotely thinking you would be interested in taking these courses, do! +Very good quality! +A very good course on Algorithms. +My first algorithms course in life :D +Very interesting course. +Very useful +An excellent starting point to get into a popular method of building viable business models. Good value! +Good learning model +This one of the best course, I am really appreciate offering such great course. +So much of the content was limited without paying for the course, that calling it a MOOC is a real stretch. Because of these limitations, most of my work was done on my own, and by purchasing the related book. Since my local Community College used to run this course, but now points to this onine course instead, it's a huge disappointment. Most folks who are going into business for themselves need good information but have little cash. The one star is for the handouts (I believe pulled from other websites but pointed to by this course) - these have been useful. +its was the best +It was nice, considering the messages and the amount of time. However, participation and feedback by others was really limited. +A short program on Business Model Canvas, good explaining and examples! +amazing course +great presentation +Quick and to the point. +Thanks : ) +Great approach and Canevas +Excellent course, the steps are clearly described and to work on your own canvas along the course gives an experience you could not get from the book alone. It helps if you can fill in a canvas with a real life case. Maybe you already have certain parts of the canvas filled in, this is just great because taking a holistic look at the whole helps to see where you can improve even an existing business. +descriptions was not enough for me, the BMC concepts could be more elaborated by giving examples and explaining different types of businesses. +It was really boring, just reading the text in the presentation.It can be made in 4 classes not 8. +Some times the videos aren´t in a logical sync with the upcoming activity, or the content from the video is somewhat vague and then not clearly explained in the class. +Nice course which focuses on the course title.I liked the animated videos a lot!! +Informative but not challenging enough. +I have given you a 2* star rating as on finishing my course promptly all the information I submitted has suddenly been locked! I haven't been able to answer a classmate's request to review his work & worse, I haven't been able to print off my own work for reference & this is a REAL project so I need to be able to do this. We were not given notice that this would happen.#disappointed +good explaination +Pretty good lectures and helpful for entrepreneurs +one of the best courses you may take to develop your business ,,, +The best course to understand and develop a Business Model Canvas, very useful course because provide tools and keys for success in the way to make the canvas for your own business. +Other than a few technical glicthes with the videos in both firefox and chrome browsers, this is a very good course. I learned to use a great visual tool for developing my business model. I would have liked to have joined in the discussions and tasks but, I think coursera is charging too much for this course. +Still waiting for my assignment grades for weeks 1-3 despite having had many people mark these. +A fast and thorough way to learn how to use the business model canvas. And not just how to fill the blocks, but also how to use it in order to get data which we would not have thought of, data which might well pave our way to success !Thanks a lot +short, effective and precise, contain all necessary for a initial learner about Business Model Canvas. In my case, I am an intermediate learner, so it was not enough. +If you are new in the learning of business model generation is a choice to start with. But if you already have some experiencie this course is very very basic. +Mix of the professional animated videos + more practical lectures was excellent planning. Highly recommended post-ideation to put some structure around your idea. +It's very good the way to describe the diferent segments to build your own business model and to give s better structure to your business idea. I'm giving 4 stars because the only way to complete the course or to interact with it is by paying the full certificate. But besides this fact it is very complete. +Excellent course. It gives you the essentials of the Canvas model, being very practical and useful +great. Learnt many things. Even though only from 3 videos. I wish i could pay the other course parts...As i'm only a school student i can't afford this. Hope you will open free courses to our future generation soon. Thanks a lot. +thanks youi love ot +This course introduces a relatively innovative technology, very easy to implement in many contexts (business, education, leisure...). Sometimes the lessons could be clearer, but the instructors give almost instant feedback to any question they are posed. The tasks are well balanced between regular assignments and honors assignments. +Very useful. +This was the first found by me AR course (I was seaking others but they were theoritical) that teaches you how do the things by your own hands. I am writing this review a half year after completing it, being invited to become a mentor, comlpeting the course for mentors and starting to help online to the instructors. It is a pleasure to see how the things happens, especially if you are not an ICT specialist. If you overcome the stress from the first meeting with the code in the second week, you would be able to complete the course. But you should devote enought time to do the practical tasks. I am not an ICT specialist. In the real life I am an architect. Honestly to say, in beginning I was doing for some hours the things that were sceduled for 10 minutes. Shame or not, my first meeting with the code took me 4 hours, then 3, 2, one, and in the last weeks I was able to complete the tasks for the recommended time. The instructors upload examples and the students their work in a gallery, done especially for this course http://www.mymultimediaworld.com/projects_gallery/ . I am writing this review to say thank you to the instructors for revealing the process of creating AR in real. I would be happy if more people start to use this technology. This course will help you to do your initial steps to this. +This is just an amazing course on a most talked-about technology of these days, and the teachers make it so easy to understand the concepts. And at the end you HAVE BUILT something real! +Very nice course with good materials and videos to understand the basic of Augmented Reality applications using the Araf. +I love the entire course. Thank you🙇 +Very qualitative entry -level course in AR ! This Course pushed me to look at AR from certain aspects and look at more additional information in internet concerning extending my own mobile applications with AR functionality. Looking at recommended AR browser I also came to Ionic-Cordova cross-platform framework. Thank you very much for your efforts! Merci beaucoup +Excellent course! The instructors are very terse and accurately teach the necessary elements to learn how to build and design an AR application. Well done. +The course is pretty good for a beginner.But it emphasis too much on using third party authoring tools and proper coding is not implemented.The required code is auto-generated and we as learners are only asked to make few changes on the already existing code. +A good introductory course to AR. In some parts of the course, the lectures go over the code for an extended period of time jumping across different lines of code and it is quite hard to keep track of this. Thankfully, the transcript helps. However, it would be better to explain the code in templates or another way which makes it easier to learn. Overall, this course is definitely recommended to understand the basics of AR. +Very Interesting Introduction to Augmented Reality +The course is awesome and i like the way the instructors used to teach. +This was an excellent introduction to various types of AR application and how to build them. The balance between using end-user tools and programming was great for me: I was able to build working AR apps easily using the end-user tools, but enough exposure to the code to satisfy my inner- geek. I now have an understanding of what resources would be needed to de +This course was a wonderful intro to mixed and augmented reality. Thank you all so much. +Great opportunity to get started with augmented reality! +good overview of ARAF +Very knowledgable +Enlightening! The Big History framework/perspective provides both an anchor and a compass for our journey through life - it's basic scientific literacy. +good teachers，enlightened course gives me a way to go back and forward the big history about the whole uneverse +A great way to get an overview of one's place in this world by understanding the whole history of the universe before and after humans. The multitude of sciences touched upon during the course made me research on the topics discussed more thoroughly. The teachers are good, the intro music is a wee bit too intense +It was very intuitive course with lots of example and explanation. +Its an excelent Course. I really learned a lot from the universe. +Well the course is reasonably well organized the material is in great detail exceeding what I would've thought the overview concept of big history would be. Other big history courses I've taken do not go into specific date and time detail, period by period But function more in terms of how preceding events may be causative for future events (more like a butterfly effect analysis over long periods of time).If you are looking for more detailed specific history than this course is useful. If you are looking for more of the big history overview concept this may not be the best course for you. +An amazing and very insightful course. This is the one origin story I will tell from now on. +Excellent and very well done. +Interesting concepts here and loved seeing all the connections. At times it was a bit too cutesy in its presentations. +A really well structured course filled with rich knowledge and important details. On completion of this course, the meaning of the word 'History' won't be the same again. +Enjoying all of it. Actually in process of going through it a second time. So much information is made available every week, that I am finding and learning new things the second time through. The variety of instructors and information sources is appreciated. Thank you for putting such a extensive course together and making it available for all. +Wonderful course! It really should be taught in every school. +A fascintating approach to historical inquiry. I learnt a lot and enjoyed every minute! +Very nice course, only minor issue is that the assignments were a tad easy +Good course to show that the sum total of what the Earth is today and what she is capable of is truly the sum of everything that has had an effect on the Earth since the Big Bang. Had the environment been off slightly in heat, H2O, O2, etc., the right elements had not been present, there had been not liquid water, no lightning, etc., there may not have formed life on the planet and Earth might be more like Mars. +Exceptional course! I learned so much in such a little span of time. :) Would recommend it to everyone. +I'm impress and very amazed, with this course. I'm just starting, but I have my first insights and connections to the things I've written and research before, to help people, and our enviroment as well, through science, and now, BIG HISTORY <3 love it... +Covers a lot of fields of knowledge. Beautifully illustrated and well explained. +Great class, please repeat it +I would recommend this course for everyone. +This is a fantastic and comprehensive course. If I had to nit-pick, it would be questioning the particular coverage placed upon China in the sub-topic of "How did Modernity evolve after the Industrial Revolution?" and the seemingly critical view taken towards its modernisation.One point in particular was "We've achieved a war over nature. Where we've done it, there's a cost to ourselves, as the intensifying flooding in Shanghai often illustrates. Early in October 2013, Shanghai was hit by two typhoons which came together and saturated Shanghai with the heaviest rainfall ever recorded." I'm not a Chinese citizen, but it sounded to me like China received her due comeuppance, which I felt was a little uncalled for.While China's trade opening may be significant in world trade, I'm not sure if the particular in-depth coverage on China in relevance to the question, is a stretch. +This course certainly connected all the knowledge I had about the Universe and where we are heading towards and why. +The discovery of David Christians approach, first by reading his "Maps of Time" and listening to some of his presentations on-line, then by attending this course was an eye-opener to me. I now try to explain the importance of the subject to as many people as I can. Not only adults or university students, but mid-level students as well deserve to be exposed to the view of Big History, It changes one's perceptions of the past and enhances one's apprehensions of the future. +Very good for everyone who want to know about Big Questions. +Totally enjoyable. The videos are professional, varied and so informative. Comparing the quiz to some others , I found they were better formulated and less ambiguous.Personally I feel I learned an amazing amount in a short time span and bother the content and pace were stimulating! so bravo!This is the type of general knowledge everyone should have but probably 90 % only have a rough, inaccurate or no awareness whatsoever. This could be run even at the school level, it could stimulate future scientists. +Such an amazing experience for me.I have always loved history and appreciated the sciences. This is the first I get exposed to the concpt of both being part of a bigger thing.Big History has connected the dots between the different academic fields. Totally recommend it to all humans. +An excellent course indeed! Strongly recommended for 'everyone'! +Excellent course. It is worth your time to to learn about our scientific origin story. +big history is a good course for everybody who interest history +Why is this course dangerous?I took this course because first I liked the idea to have a history lesson spanning the age of the whole universe. Maybe it is also intriguing to explain everything just with one principle: the second law of thermodynamics. BUT as it turned out they don't have any clue what this second law of thermodynamics means. They always forget the second part of it: it is just valide in a closed system. I think everbody will agree, that the earth for example isn't a closed system.In the beginning they tell you you should be critical about everything new you hear or get taught. But if you are critical and question things they teach you they will ignore you. One glance at the discussion forum shows: they are fast in answering good feedback and compliments by students, but critical questions (with scientific papers who show different facts) get ignored for weeks and months. They are cherry picking. They just see what encourages their view and their opinion and ignore everything that contradicts their course, opinion, believe and dogma. In this respect they are so dangerous. That is the same principle how cults work.Maybe their goal, stopping polluting and changing the world in such a speed seems to be a good one. But also here you have to be careful. When they talk about climate change and the overuse of ressources they are exaggerating by a factor of 50! In my opinion you are damaging an important discussion if you are lying and exaggerating in such a shameless way. For sure it is not helpful! But again, the truth doesn't fit in their world view.Furthermore they "teach" that cities get blown away by taifoons is caused by the "universe balancing entropy". This isn't just lack of understanding physics, or history, or flow mechanics, it is just insane.In summary: this is not a history course, but the "teachings" of a lying, exaggerating, cherry picking cult with no knowledge in particle physics, cosmology, chemistry, biology or even history.So please: if you take this course, be aware of this pitfalls and their intentions. +Great introduction to the big history concept. Awesome production. Content of the last two weeks is significantly weaker than the rest though +I have really enjoyed all of the lectures just for my own personal knowledge! ! Well done! +With a grand title and grand introduction, I found the course very superficial and gained little additional insight form "Big History". +very good..thank you +Absolutely impressive! Learning a lot +So many new awesome things to learn from this course. I enjoy checking out the provided resources as well. +A very professional and complete course about the history of the whole universe. +Really really awesome course! Thank you so much! :) +An amazing course, everyone should try out! +I recommend it to everyone who's curious about how we got to where we are now. +everyone should do it..... +The high quality of videos and content makes this course an outstanding, fantastic and entertainment MOOC course for everyone who wish to learn the big history that is hidding in the Universe. Thanks coursera and macquare University for let us access to this beatiful show of altruism and openness, both of you deserve not only a big five star but a great standing applasue. Congratulations great course.All my best Coursera community,Carlos Arturo Pimentel. +Exciting course. +this course combines theories and ideas from many different disciplines to produce a coherent picture of the world we live in today. The picture does appear to match the real world far better than what we see when just using a single discipline. It is joined up thinking +Amazing course that is interesting from start to finish. +Thank You!I have been waiting for a course like this for a very long time.... +The best Coursera course I've taken so far! A daring and entertaining stab at a theory of everything :)Thanks! +Great course! I learned a lot and enjoyed it very much. Great to get all the extra reading material on the various subjects. +Awesome project, awe-inspiring teachers. +The lectures are really well made, with nice animations underlining the material. I also enjoy the diversity of topics covered by different teachers. +Excellent course in integrating all the 'ologies' that give insight into how it all came together from the Big Bang to the development of life to a vision of the future landscape of human existence.Excellent presenters, the right level of subject matter content and an exceptional level of production quality.A great job done by the entire staff and much appreciated. +Just started this course, but so far love the graphics and the enthusiasm of the teachers. +An excellent introduction to this fascinating new approach to history (and everything else). +I've enjoyed this course. Thanks a lot. +Very insightful, entertainment and comprehensive. I strongly encourage it to anyone interested in having a holistic understanding of our Universe and its history. +A course that changes the way of seeing the history +Liked the way course is organized, posing questions at the beginning of each lecture is a great idea. +An excellent course with highly dynamic and interesting teaching staff. A mind blowing introduction to critical thinking and a eye opener as to different ways to view our world and knowledge in general. +Ambitious coverage of the human understanding of our reality to date. Gaps in knowledge are left for future finding, while the presentation of what we do know with some certainty is highlighted. The 4th lesson video of week 1 is a masterpiece. +An EXCELLENT multi-disciplinary course that provides a though-provoking overview of world history. The videos are interesting, the additional resources fascinating. +Very interesting and mind expanding. +This is definitely my favorite course on Coursera and anywhere else in internet! So glad I accidentally ran into it! Under a name that doesn't tell much about the content there is a real jewel - a multidisciplinary course that is truly able to connect many of the dots and make perfect sense of all these endless math and science, history and many other classes we all had to sit throughout our school years. I loved every minute of this course, all the experts zooming into subjects, all of additional materials (especially Crushcourse videos). Big History course is awesome for those always asking "but why?" questions. A very big thank you to The Big History course team for finding time and passion for making it available to everyone in the world! +Great course, fantastic presenters, smooth sailing and at the same time though inspiring. +This course has taught me so much and is very detailed and in depth. I recommend this to anyone +This is a very simple course about complexity. I do a lot of rabbit holeing so found the lectures a good way to organize further reading and research on various topics. would recommend this class highly +I find the week 6 of this course completely irrelevant. Also, I'm attending courses on Coursera to learn and quizzes are IMO an essential part of that process, but definitely not essays. For me personally, essays are just waste of time and there's nothing beneficial about them.Another thing that bugs me is how questionably and often misleadingly are thermodynamical laws interpreted by the professors in this course. +I loved every minute of this course. I only watched the video's because of lack of time, but really was sorry when reaching the end. Iit is packed full with (new) insights, very entertaining with excellent quality images, comments from the various lecturers that will make you think in a more balanced way about the world we live in.I did not know about Big History and signed up out of curiosity. However, I believe it should be mandatory for everybody to get this kind of connection of various disciplines to understand more of what got us here.Strongly recommended! +Great ideas. Great course. +A great eye opener and excellently presented. The rise of complexity as a driving force of development and evolution was a great learning point. +Absolutely amazing. Every detail of this course has been done with the perfect combination of precision and beauty. +Looks and sounds like a great course. Can't wait until the 28th March 2016 to start week 2. A bit annoyed with myself rushing quiz 1. I think one has to really pick all the meat off the bones of the information to get 100% (unless one is a Cosmologist - anyone got Stephen Hawking's phone number?)Just finished week 2 and I am already giving this course five stars. A really-really-really top course, a sit up all night job. Still haven't found Stephen Hawking's phone number yet. He probably realises I'm looking for it, clever bloke and honorary Python that he is, and gone ex-directory. Can't say I blame him, I'd do the same if I found out I was looking for my number! +Riveting lectures. Weaves knowledge from astronomy, physics, chemistry, economics, anthropology, genetics, geology, etc. into history. Enthusiastic presenters, unique assembly of knowledge, comprehensive coverage, entertaining and informative. Highly recommended. +It is very good but it doesn't explain every thing +Loved this course and I am recommending it to everybody I meet. A truly refreshing perspective on life, the universe and everything! +Excellent lecturers and high-quality material to study, although the course is heavily centered on human History as opposed to Big History - i.e. early Universe and its development over a time span of billions of years. +This is a good course. I liked the idea of the 9 thresholds of increasing complexity, with the energy required, the Goldilocks conditions, and emergence. I want to think about this a bit more, and see how I can apply it to other, smaller, thresholds.I like the idea of restoring the idea of a story to history. It's time to think about whether we should be moving into the driver's seat, and whether we have any idea of where we want to go.What would it take to make this a great course? The Discussion Forums don't seem to sparkle the way they do with some other courses I have done. I have completed other Coursera offerings, such as Origins (University of Copenhagen Natural History Museum), Our Earth (Climate, History, and Processes - University of Manchester), and Introduction to Genetics & Evolution (Duke University), and there was a lot of discussion among students. I felt that I learned a lot from the discussions, and not just the formal lectures. I also noticed the lecturers participating in the discussions. I cannot understand why this hasn't happened on this course, but it is part of my feeling that this course has a way to go yet. +Excellent overview of 13.8bn years, places a history framework around the story of the Universe. uses the concept of thresholds to help explain how increasing complexity has led humans to where they are today. +Wonderful course. The resources are very useful - I spend more time going through those, than watching the videos. The timelines and glossaries are very helpful. Everything is very well done. It's also interesting to have the variety of instructors with different backgrounds. If I'd had a course like this when I was in high school or college, I might have become a geologist. Fascinating stuff. +Great course! Tons of information explained in easy to understand terms. Lecturers were, by and large, enthusiastic and engaging. Plenty of extra material provided for further study. +Fascinating coverage of ALL of history. Great presenters +I am amazed by this eye opening course. THANK YOU! +excellent reconnection of knowledges obtained through reductionist methodology +Enjoyable course and I appreciated the interdisciplinary nature. At times, I felt like I wanted to delve deeper into the content, but I understand that this MOOC, like most others, are breadth courses designed for incoming Freshmen. +Very interesting, unbelievable professors and very clear use of the English language, that made the course easy (even in subjects I was not familiar with) for me since it is not my native language... +The Best and the most fundamental course for every human being. (I'm serious) +I am enjoying the course. +Great course! +Very nice! I like the variation and the montages of the video lectures very much. The variety really kept me enticed and paying attention throughout everything. This course would also be a perfect self-paced course. Interesting subject matter as well! Very important for everyone, to get a sense of where we are and where our lives fit into the bigger picture. +This is a wonderful and absolutely mind-boggling course. I am so glad I got this opportunity to take this course and be introduced to this topic. The range of topics covered are diverse and they make you think of how it all began, your past, present and future. I will like to thank all the professors and contributors who made this course. +I just love this topic. It is really fun and teaches you a lot. +I wish this will be a nice and interesting course. +The course content had met its objectives. I loved the way interdisciplinary sciences were explained precisely from Astronomy to paleontology to economics +This course is blowing my mind (in a good way). It has been a long time since I've felt the wonder of the world (and universe) of which I am a part. In addition, this course is expanding the language with which I can talk about and understand my environments (new and old). The information is well-organised and concise and the resources are a good blend of academic, creative, informative and fun and the lecturers are knowledgable and passionate. I hope this field floods the world's places of education. +Impressive, amazing and the really explanation of everything!! +Interesting and insightful for those who are looking to find their position in the history of the whole universe. +thank you very much for your efforts on this course +It is useful. +Exellent course, with +Truly insightful and enjoyable big picture course. Much effort must have gone into its preparation. Makes you want to to learn more. +Fantastic course - great content, very informative, and engaging presentations +A definite course to take. You learn so much and enjoy doing it. Can't recommend enough. +I love how experts from a variety of different fields of studies participated in creating this course! +Good, engaging and thought-provoking course. +Excellent course! Profound interdisciplinary expedition from the beginnings of the Universe (since "the Big Bang" ) through the creation of galaxies, to our Sun, planets, beginnings of life on Earth, evolution of that life, major changes to earth resulting from activities of our unique species (humans), toward pondering what the near and distant future might hold. Using the concept of "Thresholds", the course aims to make sense of and connect major themes and trends as it traces the fingerprints of the unfolding of the cosmos - of which we as humans are an interconnected part. +Initial reaction: Superb……Lectures are succinct and understandable. Support material seems well selected and informative. Forums are lively and peopled by very interested students……Towards the end of the course however I began to wonder about the efficacy of some of the claims and I had a growing doubt about much of the material used…... +Brilliant summation of knowledge of our universe from the beginning. Lucid and engaging. +A super well structured course with high quality lectures and enveloped in a deeply interesting narrative. +I recommend this course as I enjoyed every bit of it! +It was such a fascinating journey through time, knowledge, within myself and into the universe! I loved every moment of it and now I am touched because it's over. Nevertheless, I know Big History is in me, just as I am part of It (as small as, and apparently, insignificant one may seem) and I am full of gratitude towards the entire warm-hearted, generous, intelligent, very highly skilled and talented Big History team. Thank you very much indeed! +The course is very nicely done and well organized. The fundamental organization around sources of learning and the progression of lessons are well done and strongly support knowledge building. Some of the speakers have verbal patterns or flows of speaking that can be a bit distracting, but they are all interesting and informative. I like that you can also download transcripts. I am a very visual learner whose mind tends to wander off when faced with a talking head. Having the transcript to follow as I listen allowed me to highlight and make notes while listening, ensuring greater attention to the content. Ultimately, I made the decision to not finish the course. Not because the course was not well done but because it doesn't align with my own interests in systems thinking and complexity. It is a good course and well worth engaging in, even if you discover, as I did, that it doesn't quite match one's learning needs. I do recommend it if you are interested in cosmology and theories related to the origins of the universe. +A sweeping journey throughout the story of everything - an overwhelming subject championed in a tractable way with both a mind-boggling and sobering message. +A well-taught, mind-expanding, perspective-altering course. Everything is presented in an interesting and understandable way, even complex topics such as cosmology and chemistry. I can't rate the Big History course highly enough - it has inspired me so much and I can't wait to keep learning. +A very interesting and broad introduction to a new and exciting form of interdisciplinary form of history, that gives a wide perspective on a big range of sciences from biology and cosmology, to social and historical sciences. Would easily recommend for everyone. +Thanks for creating this course in very well organized format and sharing such an incredible overview of the history! +This Astronomy course is good but for people that are more interesting in the big bang theory and how the universe came into existence today. +Absolutely love this course. I would say this is the mother of all courses. It provides a very elegant framework to information and knowledge one may acquire. I am loving it. Apparently this course helped Bill Gates become a Polymath. +Finally! A creation myth based on evidence and multiple scientific disciplines for all humans is here! The time for stories based on speculation and superstition for the chosen group is finally over. +This course covers a lot of complex material in a concise and approachable manner. It is possible to understand the content (and most importantly learn about the subject) without having a scientific background. +Absolutely awesome! Thank you. +the last assignment is too time consuming, I didn't completed it though I finished all the other assignments. +Excellent course of history of our origin. +The history of the universe, mainkind and the future in 6 weeks. A very short introduction but a good idea +A very pleasant narrative from our story from the Big Band to present days connecting many areas of knwoledeg from astrophysics to genetics, passing through geology, archeology, anthropology, ancient and modern history, economy amomg others. +Very nice overview, but it seemed to be too much information for the limited time. There should be a separate six week course for each threshold. +A great survey of the last 13.8 billion years of our universe touching on the sciences--physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology all viewed through the lens of history. A thought-provoking overview that whets the appetite for more. +An interesting perspective. I hadn't thought of combining all history into one outlook before. Thanks. +This was an amazing adventure. I was really pleased to be part of Big History. I'd recommend everyone who's interested in history to check this course out. +A fundamental course everyone should take! +This is the history course I should have been taught at school! +Excellent course, really well presented. Informative and enjoyable. +i love this course. it seems good! +everyone should take this course!!! +Incredible course in every way: Highly competent lecturers, excellent video quality in both content and production, great pacing and delivery of information and dozens of links to engaging resource material.One of the best MOOCs I have ever participated in: fun, informative and intriguing! +Incredible course. +They speak clearly, allowing differences of opinions without insulting beliefs, break each segment into the components parts and giving current information on each so that a student has sufficient information to decide - and enjoy the 'claim tests'.I have taken coursera courses in each of the segments as well as having higher ed in some that are nice to get up-to-date - and all in one place - to begin to see what Alex Humboldt called the web of the world. +Various professors which are inspiring and knowledgable.Good format, short videos and links for digging deeper.But it´s a five star course because I enjoy being flabbergasted with my origin myth. +A logical expansion of the way history should be taught, Big History starts with the Big Bang and moves on from there. The historical information is not new but the perspective it encourages provides a way to tie history closer to science and the major events that have changed the universe, our world and human life. To often in history we get caught up in the details. Big History makes sure that the big picture, and how we fit into it, is always visible. +What a wonderful course! This is a unique perspective that links human history with science and the very beginnings of our universe. +At this moment, this course has been really good. +Thank you for this great opportunity! +Probably the best of Coursera's courses +This course was really good for me. I was able to learn the basic theory and working of how services and content providers work in Android. This course helped me alot. +Tricky concepts explained in a good and practicle way... But you will have to spend much time by reading and analyzing examples and solving optional exercises... And reviewing past Moocs to extract all date from this mooc. +Great and helpful Course! +This was a really good course, you'll learn, by example, theory and practice, why, how and when to use these Android App Components. Reading the entire code of each assignment is recommended, otherwise you may not fully understand why your code works, also, you may learn additional things by doing it. +This Course is So Great and I want to thank Prof. Schmidt 'cause every explanation is clear! +Need little change or update. But very good explanation! +This course took me three months of several hours of work a week to complete. While I definitely learned a lot during that process, it would have been really helpful to have more active instructor engagement and feedback (although I realize that this may not be possible when an official course session is not in progress, which is when the bulk of my work for this course took place).I also think many of the problem statements could have been more clearly defined. For example, I spent a lot of time on the "Bubble detection" problem constructing graphs that allowed for multiple edges between two nodes, when it turned out that in order to pass I did not need to implement this.That being said, I've learned a lot from the courses in this specialization, and thanks for the work put into it! +Really Challenging course, will make the mind to work.Enjoyed taking the course, was much harder than expected and loved it anyway.Worth the time ,effort and resources.The course was much less guided compared to other the course but instructor mentioned it that it was on purpose for developing self learning and facing real life sitituations. +challenging +The problems are interesting, the course is great. However, the problem sets in this programming challenge are often not so well-defined, which makes it really difficult to solve (especially the dataset problem). The solution of the problems usually turns out to be quite simple, but is not applicable to a large set of problems, only to the particular dataset that is given (and the characteristics of this dataset is not given; so I end up thinking about all possibilities that might occur for that dataset, which makes the problem more difficult).The examples given in the problem set are also not sufficient to describe the characteristics of the problem clearly.However, I really appreciate the whole courses, and I think it has been a great experience to go through the courses! Thank you very much! +very difficult course if you are new to R. Otherwise an okay course +Lots of good data. Really a walk through of coding without too much theory. Would prefer a little more theory. Would have helped in completing the course and capstone. Ended up having to take Eric Lander Intro to Bio course on edx to really understand what I had done. In particular, a better explanation of what is going on at a basic with methylation marks and how the Epigenome Map was constructed. +The quizzes were engaging but i think it requires some knowledge in use R for data science. Though i learned a lot. Thanks again. +It is a good start for people who study epigenomics! +The course is hard and needs previous knowledge of R. The time for for doing the "quizes" are not long. On the other hand, the questions resemble real world bioinformatics problems. The real inconvenience with this course is that the Forum does not work. Because not all that is questioned in the "quizes" are thought in the classes. So a help from the Forum is a real need for this course to work smoothly. +The course is tough and needs lots of practice and time to handle the stuff explained in this course. In my opinion the stuff should be split into 2 courses (partA and partB) with detailed explanation of every covered topic. +A nice course to introduce Bioconductor to students +I think it is a good class overall but the pace is fast and the resources that can help you is lacking. This will be good for someone who already kind of understands bioconductor. +the class gave me nothing. nobody wan's to waste tons of hours to learn nothing. so I personally think this course is on of the worst classes among the Coursera. +Course is not good at all. The instructor assumes that you have a good genomic background. +I struggled so hard! No way near the same level as the other courses.Came from Computer science background and felt that I missed so many terms and concepts that were required for this course +There is not support in the forum +Very frustrating and disappointing experience. The lectures were hard to follow on many levels:1) The enunciation was unclear and subtitles were often of-the-point, plus they covered-up the code lines that were being discussed.2) The lecturer often failed to explain logical constructs that were being used, despite the fact that the course should have been understandable with no R cran/Bioconductor experience.3) The method arguments were either not explained, or very vaguely mentioned, which means applying them to new situations was unnecessarily complicated.4) No feedback at all was offered from course organisers/reps to anyone, even after complains in discussion forum about quiz questions.5) No feedback for solving the questions/correct answers even after the deadline.6) Quiz questions required methods and logical constructs that were not explained/used/mentioned in the lectures. One quiz lacked background information of what data needed to be used (the info was available in the previous version of the course). Some quiz questions were biologically inaccurate i.e. confusing genes/transcripts/exons. +Discussions in this course are voiceless and dead and the instructor never appears in discussions. I couldn't understand anything from video lectures: cannot understand enunciation not enough detailed, lack of examples related to the assignments. So the only source was repository http://kasperdanielhansen.github.io/genbioconductor/ with html files. And a lot of searching through bioconductor forums.I liked the relevance of quiz questions to real life genomic questions, but all quiz questions were outstandingly difficult, because of both lack of examples in lectures and errors in some packages inside bioconductor.Overall I expected much more from this course and I cannot recommend it to anyone. +Excellent introduction to Bioconductor. Thanks to the team. However, absence of inputs from TA or Instructor was felt in the discussion. +I learned a lot from this class and the instructor is good. +Four stars because the content is good. Not five stars because the english is not so good and for a non-english expert it can be difficult to understand, and the subtitle contains quite often errors. +升级到第二学期！fight！ +complier error all the time!!!!!! +A good introductory course. Easy and you can begin to program after taking the course. +Easy to understand. +One of the best! +Minor mistakes in examples and exercises. +The teacher explains concepts very well. Really worth the time to go over the lectures several times.The programming assignments however lack instructions and the online judgement system has some strange requests which are not illustrated in the instruction. You have to guess what the assignment is about each time.Overall very good lectures but poor assignments. +The teacher is devoting and the courses are very helpful for first-learners. +This course is really useful for me. It helped me clarify many programming concepts and strengthen my programming skills. Thank you very much! +Great Lessons! Great teacher! +The problem sets are like real life problems and the lecture focuses on what are the most confusing parts. It is a valuable course for someone who has just a little computer programming background to start one's journey with C language. +So easy~But the teacher is well！ +Excellent content. The instructors are very thorough in their explainations. The only fault I see is that there isn't many students doing the course, and such it is hard to get help, especially if your schedule is tight and you can only do online courses on Saturday and Sunday. Looking forward to taking the Advance course though. +Excellent course. The high level modeling language that is presented is very powerful and relatively simple to use. Maybe a couple of more lecture specifically dedicated to the modeling languange itself would allow easier kick-in to the course. +C +"Basic Modeling for Discrete Optimiation" is an excellent course for anyone interested in optimization models, improving their problem-solving skills and have a nice challenge.The explanations and examples are fantastic and all these complemented with the utilization of MiniZinc, which make the course so much natural in comparison to other optimization tools.Highly Recommended 5/5. +Good Assignments. +Amazing course, amazing material and amazing lessons. For everyone interested in Discrete Optimization MiniZinc is a must know technology and this course does an amazing introduction with lots of different applications. +Cool +A very interesting course ! Serious and much developed work. Nice special interactive lessons (though speaking english is necessary to understand them), important to get deeper information about some themes. This course is very useful, to be able to evaluate animals welfare through their behaviour, and then to improve it with suitable ways. I just wish there would be more concrete examples of enrichment for wild animals in captivity... I hope this course will be used by more and more people in the world. Our animal friends need it ! Thank you ! Cours très intéressant, et développé. Les leçons interactives apportent des infos complémentaires bienvenues sur quelques thèmes (mais il faut pouvoir lire l'anglais...). Cours très utile pour apprendre à évaluer le bien-être d'un animal grâce à son comportement, et pour pouvoir l'améliorer par des moyens appropriés... +High quality material offer a good insight about animal welfare problems and challenges. This course really opened my mind to a variety of topics, giving me new points of view. +Absolutely enjoy the course fill with interesting knowledge. +great MOOC that I have learned, appreciate all of the teachers and workers job. +Perfect! I enjoyed learning new information about animal welfare though the parts of slaughter and use of animals in testing is not very pleasant, but it's reality. Thank you very much for this course! +Excellent course content, well presented enjoyed it thoroughly !! +It was a wonderful course. It gave me great insights into animal behaviour and welfare issues that really enhanced my knowledge and experience as an animal lover. The course is well structured and comprehensive. +An excellent opportunity to broaden my knowledge on the topic. Has been extremely helpful in my activities as an animal rights activist in Costa Rica. Well structured, clear lessons, witty and appealing. +Very insightful and important topic! I am thrilled that this is available. This should be a requirement for everyone who works in any setting with ani +Wonderful class, gives a lot of information and points of views on how to improve animal welfare. Lessons were relevant, direct and easy to understand, a real asset to anyone in the animal welfare community or people working in animal agriculture. Great and sensitive instructors. +Very usefull course as an introduction to animal welfare! +I found this course very interessting. It gives you a lot of information about animal welfare in different areas such as pets, farm animals, zoo animals and laboratory animals. It was easy to follow as the lessons were very clear and full of scientific data and real examples. +Amazing, super interactive, all the basic information is there to generate interest in the participants. I quite enjoyed it. +Excellent course! Very informative and usefull! Highly recommend it. +Very informative and useful course for developing the fundamental knowledge regarding Animal Welfare and Behavior. +i have many new idea about how we should manage the enclosure and breeding management +I found this very interesting and informative. +Essential knowledge to improve moral values. +I missed information about behaviour in wild and domestic animals and also, some of the papers that you recomend are not for free, so some of us can't acces to that information. +I am a dog trainer in the United States, and I highly valued the information I learned regarding animal welfare of all species. I am very passionate about animals and how they are treated, so this course was fine tuned to exactly what I care about. I enjoyed everything I learned here. Highly recommend! +well informed and covered a large range +Thank you for this course. +Animal welfare issues in this course are not presented as cruelty, as they truly are, but it is very informative and science-based, which is important. +Beautifully instructed in this amazing lyrics interesting and highly informative course. Thoroughly and enthusiastically enjoyed it! +Not very useful. Somehow general. +being veterinarian student it was a power pack course to learn about the behavioral activities in various animals. I am thankful for all doctors who helped me in understanding this !! +I really enjoyed the course. I would have liked to have more information about the regulations in the European Union and less stats for the UK. +I really enjoyed the perspective and things I learned. I thought I could have scored higher on the quizzes because I was saying the same thing as them, but just in a different way. I would recommend this course. +It was a very interesting course, I learned many things about animal behaviour...Thank you!! +I wish that it would have focused more on cats/dogs/horses-- but it was really well done! +Very nice course, thank you :-) +Great opportunity to learn and even if used as a "refresher" for things you may have previously learnt, it is well worth the time to doFantastic course, +Brilliant introduction to animal welfare. +Thought provoking introduction to the complexities of animal welfare. Thoroughly enjoyed the course and would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone interested in welfare issues. +I work at a veterinary clinic and have found this course to be very informative and useful for my current career path. The knowledge I have gained from this will surely assist me in providing the best care for the animals under my supervision. +That's my first course on Coursera, i couldn't even imagine how interesting it would be! +I have learned a lot about the research performed related to animal welfare and I have new perspectives of what it is needed to be improved, not based on my beliefs, feelings or point of view, but from the animals' perspective and needs to have a better welfare. I am so exited to be able to learn more about this topic and someday work somewhere I can apply it. +Very nicely prepared and impressively informative +Very interesting and easy going apart of the informal and scientific based lectures. I enjoy it a lot!!100% recommended not only for thoose who have a pet dog, but for all of us to understand better our four legged friends who live and a pat of human soceity!!! :))))Well Done!! +I can't explain how much I enjoyed this course. It's content and resources were so easily accessible and easy to understand. I am just new into the Animal industry so this was a perfect way into it. The passion the lecturers had was so plain to see and I loved that. I makes me want more.I am so happy I did this. So happy, I want to enrol on another MOOC :)THANKS EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY <3 +Great course, really interesting, informative and sometimes eye opening. +Very interesting course, I learnt a lot of new concepts and it gives you a whole new perspective on animal welfare. +Excellent course, with a great variety of topics regarding animal welfare. +Excelent course with many examples of animal behaviors ! +Good but can be long due to accompany material +Very good understandable ! +Thank you very much for creating and maintaining this educational material. +Great course! +This course is great for anyone who is doing animal healthcare or any related field. It gives good principles of what is proper welfare and also the issues of negative or debative welfare. They also talk about how welfare is applied in certain countries to give realistic perspectives and thought of how the world conducts it's business in the world of animal livestock farming, or wildlife captivity. It's a real eye opener and I'd recommend people who are just generally animal lovers, professional or not, to take this course. I absolutely enjoyed it and learned new things from it! +Very good course, I love ! I was afraid of dogs, but since I studied this course, my fear for dogs disappeared.Think you so much . +so much to learn. great course +great course +This was an exceptional course! I really loved it, the way it was set up, and taught.I would recommend this course to anyone interested in the welfare of an animal. +Interesting, diverse and deals with compex subjects. Highly enjoyable! +Interesting topics, and some good information presented on a variety of issues for many animals and situations. However, presented info is often vague and generalized, some sections discuss very little scientific data to back up claims made, and course is generally not very rigorous or challenging. +It's fun and understandable +Very helpful and covered a wide range of topics, this course has definitely helped me widen my knowledge on animal behaviour and welfare and will assist me with my future career. +Great course! :) +What an informative course! Your Professors (all women, and which I find very impressive and inspiring) are so knowledgeable, so broad-based, as well as detail-oriented in their quest to bring animal rights to the forefront of worldwide consciousness. I would love to visit University of Edinburgh someday, I'm an alumnus of University of Montana (B.A.) and Gonzaga University (M.A., and Ph.D. candidacy). Thanks so very much for offering this most important course for free and to make it available for certification so that it can be added to any resume. +Thoroughly enjoyable and informative course +Great course, covers all the basics on the groups of animals owned worldwide, very open minded and sensitive without bias. Thank you! +Excellent content very well set out +Thank you. +Great course!! If you are interested in animal welfare particularly animal welfare in animals produced for food, this is a very good course with lots of resources. +I totally love this course! And the teachers are great! +Opened my eyes a lot regarding the welfare of all kinds of animals and their situations.Really sad course content, but needed to show the severity of how bad it can be for an animal, and the ways being used to stop and protect them. +Very informative, well put together, and just so nice to be able to take a course on this subject. Really appreciate the free courses by Edinburgh University's Veterinary School. I've done Equine Nutrition and Do You Have What it Takes to be a Vet? I really enjoyed both of them and learned a lot. +Great!!! +This was a really cool, fun course, and I learned a LOT, but I was hoping that they would talk more about the animals in captivity, and major issues relating to them. Other than that, it was an interesting topic to learn about! +i found this course very interesting past it just need to know if i can obtian the certificatewithout taking test again as passed them already +Great course. +Very interesting course, well organized. Thank you +*No Stars*Another boring animal class that I would not recommend. The teachers do seem nice and well educated however it is still too boring and slow for me. +There are a few disturbing images, but otherwise it's okay. +I have learnt much on the course! thanks. +really enjoying this course so far +Excelent course!!! It makes you a better person because more conscious. It transform your way of understanding animal welfare. Thank you very much +Excellent Course! Thoroughly enjoyed it. +Well made course with very good talking teachers. The course felt alive. +It's great, i recommend it. +Great course! In the past, I've worked on farms and in the veterinary area, and I still learned a lot from this course. Thank you all! +This was an excellent course. It was well put together, and presented in a way that kept me engaged and interested. I learned a lot and feel that I am much more well-informed on the subject of animal welfare now. +Interesting, thank you for making this course available. After taking it I transitioned from being pescetarian to vegan and I wish that more controversial animal rights concerns were more focused on. +Very informative course. If you think you're interested in animal behavior and welfare, you will be interested in this course. +Opened my eyes to a lot of what is going on especially in the animal food industry, and animal behaviours and animal welfare that we don't consider when a visitor to a zoo or game farm. If more of us became aware, and understood the issues as well for both the industry and the animals, new policy via populace advocacy might help even further. It is taking too long for this, considering we live amongst animals for companions, and eat animals for survival. WEll most of us do. +Really interesting. Plenty of new knowledge for me.The additional material was really useful. +Wonderful course about animal welfare issues today and how to improve our their well-being. I have always been interested in animals and I thought I knew a lot about them. This course provided a lot of objective information about the experiences of all different species. There's still a lot to learn, but I will be recommending this course to anyone interested in understanding a little more than the basics about the welfare of animals. +Loved this course. It has really sparked my interest in learning more and building my small store of knowledge further. Good content, interesting lecturers, varied strands within overall subject. This is my second course run by Edinburgh University and I will certainly be looking for more. +Loved this course wonderful instructors very informative. +Very good course with a lot of complementary material and good classes. +Great instructors and good information. I would recommend this course for anyone who is interested in aspects of animal welfare across the board, but especially for someone who is considering getting their first pet. The concepts are explained well, and easy to understand. +very well taught and covered so many topics. thank you for teaching this course. I look forward to its next session. +i found this a great overview of animal welfare, i enjoyed the videos, and found the questions relevant to the content. +This is a very nice course. Thank you so very much for it.It covers so many aspects of Animal Welfare. At the introduction, it is explained on how to have a useful discussion on such a delicate subject.With so much information and facts given, one can develop their very own opinion on this Animal Welfare.I find it very important to cover Animal Welfare for anyone, who works with any kind of animals.Alongside this course I studied Dognition and Basic Horse Management. Soon I will be starting Dairy Farm Management and Horse Nutrition. +It would be perfect if within the learning material is included in PDF files. The content is wonderful +I loved this course. I wish there were more courses about behavior, welfare and animals in general.If I ever visit Scotland I'll visit you guys! Thank you for this opportunity.Regards,Carla Romano. +I loved this course because it was simple and enjoyable. I could easily finish is alongside my schooling and extra things. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in a career with animals :) +Loved this course +The course was very concise and accessible. I enjoyed the fact that there was a lot of people involved in the course, each one of them presenting their field of expertise. Sometimes a quiz-based course can be a bit dull, but the hangouts and comments let you question certain topics or practices and add depth to the discussion. I would recommend it to anyone interested in a brief, general introduction to animal behaviour and welfare (do keep in mind that it is not an animal ethics course, but the information provided can help you question or strengthen ethical positions). +Absolutely brilliant course. The pace, the information, the explanations, all very well done. I'll admit, some of the videos and images were difficult to watch, I would suggest a warning right before it is shown as to mentally prepare. However, I may be overly sensitive! Thank you for this course! +Informative and rational. Content stayed right in line with the objectives. Clearly outlined and discussed via lectures and informative readings. +Too many animal mistreatment clips were shown, also some gross misstatements of biological-scientific truths and widely held facts. Humans cannot change the genome of any living creature, DOGS are WOLVES and always will be. We have domesticated and bred for certain personality traits and characteristics. Done with your course. +A very interesting course and a much needed one in the times that we leave...I found it very difficult not to be affected by my ethical views and emotions but I managed to complete the course and learn a lot of new things. Thank you for making it available! +I learned so much about the welfare philosophies that are practiced across the globe! I look forward to future courses with this wonderful institution. +I like the course, since I was born into a family that loved animals. I believe that this course will make a better caregiver to my animals.Thank you +Very informative. +Excellent. As a veterinary student, I found this course to be very enlightening about the subject matter. I'm now able to implement some of what was learned about animal behaviour and welfare in my daily professional activities as well as in the classroom. +Great.!!! But if the content would be more. I find it unfair for a topic of such importance to be given so less attention. People will also respect it if the content would be more than it is right now...!! +Course was very informative. It also had many amazing resources! +Informative, though-provoking and enjoyable. Excellent materials. +good to have a knowledge about the animal welfare and their needs +That´s very nice course, my focus is Poultry and I did find very useful the information that i learned in the course, Thank you Coursera and Staff of the University of Edinburgh +I really enjoyed this course and I learned quite a lot from the lectures and extra material resources that were provided. The professors and speakers obviously love animals. +Thouroughly interesting and well presented. accessible to all levels of knowledge. But it has just wheted my appetite, I want to learn more! +A good way to get your feet wet on the topic of animal behaviour and welfare! +Nice overview into animal behaviour and welfare with enough examples to make it easy to understand. +As a Pet Care manager at a boarding facility I encourage my staff to participate in a continuing education progam for rewards. I stongly encouraged them to sign up for this course. I am taking this a second time as it was extemely interesting the first time. Anyone interested in animals in general should check this out! +This course tells us more about animal welfare and the problems animal face. +I will recommand my friends for this kind of course. +Fantastic course, well presented. Easy to take at your own pace, videos allow you to pause and rewind learning at any point.Excellent content, with knowledgeable presenters. Highly recommend +Five weeks in and this is one of the best courses going, This is a course every potential animal carer should take before considering 'cute' and 'expensive' just because they come with a certificate of pedigree with names one can't pronounce of prize winning ancestry. Drive past the puppy and kitten factories and go down to ones local RSPCA centre or council pound instead, you will never regret it. Rescue animals are the best because they will never forget your kindness for giving them a nice comfortable home. +My major is not about agriculture, but I love this field very much. That is the reason why I spent my time with this course on Coursera. This on-demand course is very convenient for anyone who want to know more about animal agriculture. I strongly like and recommend this course. +Fantastic! I am loving every minute of it! I would highly recommend this course to anyone interrested! +Very interesting course which makes you thinking and analysing while reading and listening and communicatin and looking at things seeming obvious from another angle. Helps to open the world and your own mind in different way. +Very interesting look at modern Brazil and a good practice for an intermediate level language learner. +Great! +Good course to improve your Portuguese skills: there are both audio, video and texts. You learn some stuff about Brazil too but there is too much talking about identity, which is very abstract. I wish there were more podcasts as for Week 5, which was the most interesting one. Thank you to the teachers for this interesting course :) +This is my second course in Coursera. While I found the first one extremely basic and too expensive for the content of the course, I think Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro is a well build course, full of interesting information about Brazilian culture and with interesting contents about language. In my opinion it's a good tool to help working on your Portuguese while learning about the culture of the country. +Great quality course. +Great. It help to improve advanced portuguese. +I really learned things from this coarse which I would not learn it easily from life . +I would like to thank the Course team for the very impressive work they did to afford us with such a structured and valuable content.It was a very interesting course that will help me to improve and work better on my carrer developpement.Thank you! +everyone looking for a job in any country should do this course. +Its a great course where we learn many tips to make our career successful! Thank you! +Very interesting course, although lacks course notes. The final test (week 5) had a few questions which weren't covered in the lesson. +great overview, and very enjoyable/interesting. +Really good course, taken whilst I was in year 9 of high +A great overview of the profession and the field, suitable for those considering becoming vet surgeons and vet nurses. Great job of working around the limitations of online learning for such a hands-on subject, too! +I have learnt a lot about medicine and how the world has a famous sheep and there is a royal museum +This is a great taster course in order to get a realistic insight into what a course in Veterinary Medicine is actually like. For me personally this taster course has further reaffirmed my dream of studying Veterinary Medicine at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies which I have applied for this year. +I really enjoyed this MOOC, it gives a good idea of what to expect at school but also as a client. I didn't appreciate being evaluated about the nearby buildings of the school or the name of Dick's sister. Really not the type of thing that would make me chose one vet over the other. +The richest basic course I've ever taken. +I loved this course and was pleased that my faulty science was not a huge stumbling block.The history aspect of the course provided tremendous context and I cannot agree with students who might believe it to be irrelevant. In order to progress to the future, one must always have an eye on the past. Having said that, long ago I studied the Enlightenment as an integral part of a BA in English Literature!Realistically, I am too old and lacking in science qualifications to become a vet - but were I to be 35 years younger - I'd strongly consider working hard towards gaining Science A Levels and aim for veterinary school.Nevertheless, I feel that this course has given me some insight as to how to get the best out of future consultations with my very lovely local veterinary practice.In addition, I was pleased to see Dr Andrew Gardiner presenting the final part of the course.Dr Gardiner's book, The A-Z of Cat Health and First Aid is a wonderful resource, particularly in respect of abscesses, a problem which certain other books only cover in connection with dental ailments rather than the very common problem of abscesses on a cat's back, shoulders and face as a result of fighting! +A great overview full of pretty important aspects and details. I Really appreciated having the opportunity of taking this course! +very good and easy to understand even though i am 11 years old i passed everything as the lecturers were extremely clear very good! +Excellent insight in case you want to become a veterinarian! +It was a very informative course with a wide variety of videos and additional resources. The only downside, however, was that in some review quizzes (particularly the one for week 5) there were a few questions on subjects that weren't covered in either the videos or the additional resources provided. +thank you +i really enjoyed this course +This was a wonderful course and it built a really strong foundations for my veterinary aspirations! It also set up a basis for some generalised learning which is indipensible and will prove useful over the next few years! +The course is uneven at best, with some modules providing insights and knowledge and others not so much. The presentation in some of the modules is perhaps an example of how not to do it, reading fro a script in a monotonous voice. Some of the material, like the lengthy historical review of Edinburgh's vet school, might be good advertising and interesting, but does not fall under the scope of 'what it takes to be a vet'. Good idea, but, with a few exceptions, less than average execution. +The knowledge share is really good, thought provoking as well as precise and straight to the point. Although, it is very basic, it refreshes your minds on veterinary practice and new things are learnt. +The only thing stopping me from rating 5 stars is that there are questions on the quizzes that are not covered in the lectures or supplementary material. So be sure to have your Google window open and ready during the quiz.Otherwise, I love the course and am happy to give it a 4 star rating for the quality of the lectures. +I'm so happy with this course because in the bottom of my heart I really want to became a veterinarian.. Thank you very much ^^ +This course was very interesting and gave insight to the kind of material first year veterinary students would be learning plus history of the profession (mostly the school). The professors present actual anatomical (dissected) organs and histology slides. I also thought the husbandry section well done. The clinical portion is a little weak but understandably, given the medium and safety issues. I still enjoyed it. The history portion is a bit too in depth, I feel, and though interesting, spends a great deal of time on the history of the school and founder itself. They are very enthusiastic though, which is a plus. The course does a lovely job of presenting some of the various studies that go into this rigorous education/career, such as client interaction, anatomy, histology, animal husbandry, and examination skills. It is so much more than just a love for animals. I will certainly look into some of the other animal science-related MOOCs offered by Edinburgh. I had no difficulty in completing this course in one week although I do have a medical background. +So great but I found the last module about history of veterinary medicine overly long and boring +The tests are kind of hard but they are qualified and educational. +good cource but its medical content about how to treat disease is low and needed to be moreand clinical cases is low alsobut another topics is very good +Hello, good day you have:I think it is an excellent course because it gives us a very broad about what is the career of Veterinary Medicine scene. Thank you very much for making it accessible to the person who wants to take it.If I may make a suggestion I would like pusierna subtitles in Spanish for people who are not fluent in English.Thank you very much to the University of Edinburgh, the Dick Vet and veterinarians who developed topics. Much success in any endeavor they undertake. THANK YOU VERY MUCHSincerely:Javier Martín Montelongo Montoya from Mexico +this course is very good especially for any one love to be avet he can know here in this course what he must do and need to be avetthanks for this useful course +I just completed my week 1 and it just very interesting, i love it! +Great Course! +I strongly recommend this course. It is a very good introduction to breast cancer and the management, with exceptional presentations. Congratulations for it!!! +Brilliant. well organized and tons of information. I totaly recommend it +Very good course! +l really enjoyed this course. l have taken many courses through Coursera and l have loved them all. l found that Dr. Chagpar is an interesting and fun teacher. l found her easy to follow and understand. l highly recommend this course if you are looking to learn more about breast cancer. +Wonderful, wonderful course made even more wonderful by Dr. Chagpar's enthusiastic and engaging manner of speaking. Kudos to our mentor, Denise, as well +Very informative and interesting! +This is an excellent course serving as an introduction to breast cancer and the many treatment options.Dr. Chagpar has done a magnificent job of presenting the material and her passion for the subject is evident.The world is lucky to have such a dedicated professional present this important health information to students around the world and free of charge from one of the greatest universities.I would have liked some additional information on diet and alternative therapies as well as proton therapies, however, as Dr. Chagpar explained, there is little data on these subjects and clinical trials are still going on.If you are interested in breast cancer, then this is an excellent place to start and highly recommended! +very informative! +Introduction to Breast cancer is an excellent course ! Anees Chegpar is an awesome and entertaining teacher. She speaks clearly and efficiently.The course is not too difficult to understand, it is well designed for patients, friends or family of patients and people simply willing to know more about breast cancer. +Great Coursera, great teacher!Mabye this is the reason why Yale University is known as Yale University!I wil learn this course one more time someday. +Great course with a great instructor. The course was aimed at general pubic interested in Breast Cancer, so the it is structured to be very easily followed. While I was looking for a more challenging course, the course does a great job as an introductory course. +An amazing introductory course ! and Dr. Chagpar has a unique teaching style +I REALLY appreciated this course! I was diagnosed with breast cancer in April and have been working to learn as much as I can in the interim. I actually learned that I need radiation from this course (none of my providers had mentioned it), so I am really grateful to have participated in this. Really good information, engaging professor, and well organized content. +Excellent! A very enriching course and is easy to understand. The professor is outstanding. +It is a really great course and I would like to recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about breast cancer. Thanks Yale for the opportunity given us to learn with you. +I learnt a lot form this intro course. I love the way the professor draw picture. +Great course; very informative, highly educational, fascinating... There were just two things I didn't like about the professor, though I liked HER a lot; she was very welcoming, hospitable, and amicable; she treated her students well, and was enthusiastic about teaching us. That is a trait I have seen for the first time on Coursera, and I have to give Dr. Chagpar high praise in these terms. The only things I did not like - which are very small in contrast to the things I did like - were that she taught a bit as though she was teaching to 6th graders, rather than seasoned adults. But that is not much of an issue. My only other complaint is that she seemed quite callous towards women suffering - even dying - from breast cancer. But I suppose breast surgeons come to distance themselves from these terrible, tragic events. +Loved the course! Loved Dr. Chagpar's enthusiasm and expertise in this field. +Mrs. Anees Chagpar has been an amazing course instructor. She managed to keep my interest captivated through lists of numerous NSABP codes and rather unfriendly data, on an issue that is much debated and triggers reasonable concern and controversy and is often viewed as a terminal condition. +perfect work.iam soooooo happy duo to connecting to this course +It has been very enriching, has freshened concepts, and I've learned to new visions respects. Very interesting, thanks! +Simple and easy to understand. Excellent introductory course to cancer in general. +Very easy to understand and also very helpful. +I really liked this course. I think there was a lot of content covered in a short period of time and the way that it was presented kept me focused. I think the professor was able to present the information in an effective way. I would definitely recommend this course. +Very good information. Thank y +Great! I got a lot. Thanks. +very good thank you +I am really impressed with the way Dr A.Chagpar teaches and explains , A very good teacher.Sushma Batra +This entire course was very well done. I enjoyed learning all that I did concerning breast cancer and loved the integration of interviews to practically apply much of the knowledge learned to specific roles involved with breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. +Good course, great instructor. +I have participated in several MOOC courses and this would have to be the most informative and enjoyable. As a breast cancer survivor, a carrier of BRAC1 and community nurse I found it reassuring and invaluable in terms of content; engaging in presentation; sufficiently challenging to keep me focussed and hugely helpful in working with Breast Cancer patients. A big thank you to Dr nees and her co- presenters. +Very informational, especially for hospital volunteers and health care employees +A comprehensive and thorough introduction to breast cancer. Great teacher! +Detailed course with recent information about new treatment strategies and clinical trial data. Easy to understand for non-clinical professionals! +It is an excellent review of breast cancer field. I enjoyed it very much. Thanks very much to everyone who prepared the course. +This course was just what I was looking for. I am entering into the field of pathology as a pathologists' assistant and this laid it all out in the simplest of terms. Now I can approach each breast case from the gross room with a lot more confidence! Now I feel like I can delve deeper into breast pathology on my own and have a solid foundation to work off. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! +Information is well +I enjoy the instructor, she is so passionate about the subject. What a great course! +Great introductury course. Well presented, excellent up-to-date-sources, and a tad of a challenge... +Great course! so engaging and easy to follow. very informative for all types of audience. +very good and informative course, really enjoyed it. +the way of introduction is quit helpful to see speaker and lecture +I really like the subject of the course. The presentation was really good. However, some of the concepts were not so easy to understand. The course does not provide any reading, so I had to watch the lectures again if I forget some of the details. Eventually I've started taking detailed notes and added screenshots to my notebook. I wish I could have more exercises just for practice that would not be graded. That would provide a safe env. to learn and practice before taking final tests. Some of the answers to exercises were very helpful to learn the concepts better. So, more such practical exercises would be helpful. +Thanks a lot to coursera ... +Course is mostly theoretical. So far it's difficult to say anything about its practical implications and usefulness. It's my first course on Coursera, so I can't compare. But I think sometimes it lacks a bit clarity, especially considering lecturer's English and bad quality of subtitles which sometimes do not match real lecturer's words. Anyway it was interesting and now I'm really intrigued about how I can apply this new knowledge to real everyday development tasks. Most probably I will try following courses in the specialization. Thanks a lot to authors! +Although superficial, it is a very good MOOC for introducing LTS testing. +Useful introduction. +very helpful +Very interesting and a good fine-tuning experience to my brain relating to systems! Awesome! +I've learn more thing's in this course..., thank you Coursera :) :) :) +i get perfect information about antimicrobial resistance ...thank you +Great course, It gave me an overview of antibiotic resistance problems. +I enjoyed this course. It was quite informative and good in introducing some concepts for me like the QA/QC/QM topic that I was not very familiar with. A good follow-up would be to present a course on how to build laboratory capacity in this area for countries wanting to get better at AST. I would also suggest that some of the presentations be shortened particularly those which will be presented in much more detail later to avoid the doubling up of information eg like the section on methods were covered almost twice for some material. Also, I would like to suggest use of practical examples when trying to explain these concepts. I thought you presented them well but for better understanding, use practical case study examples showing how you handle the situation in the lab. For example, provide us with when these methods are applied so they are not just random.Thank you for this course and I look forward to your follow-up course. +Very good complete introduction to a very important subject!! +Overall, the course contents is useful. If course slides can be provided, that'll be extra helpful. +Thank you so much for the interesting course. My thesis in master was on Antibacterials and (and more subjects) I am much interested in Microbiology. I am going to continue my PhD in Microbiology and this course was a kind of review for me with some new details. Especially ResFinder was really interesting to me. Thank you so much for the class. +I'm very interested while taking this course as it's very related to my recent study.The material and syllabus are very easy to understand.Thank you very much +Many thanks for a very enjoyable course. Please keep up the excellent work. +Good course, gives a good notion of the basics. Very technical (as in it emphasizes more the technical part of antimicrobial testing) and basic (in the theoretical part). I'm an MD student, currently on my final year. The course brought up new aspects to the antibiogram that I was oblivious about, something that I think is very important for the modern-age physician. +Muy instructivo +It was good learning experience!! +It was really a nice course, and it would help me from recollecting the past experience.My sincere thanks to the Madams, who delivered their valuable speech. +Best presentation for Antimicrobial. +This class was very much eye-opening as I have gained knowledge and experience +I did like to course very much. However, the in the last video, although the lecturer tried to speak clearly, I didn't understand all things very well. +This course teach all things that useful and importance for preparing to everyone who want to know about antimicrobial resistance. Don't think a lot. Take this course and learning it, NOW. +very good and useful +good but not giving marksheet which is much needed somewhere i want to used.. +I really enjoyed learning from Dr Lina Cavaco. +Excellent course to refresh or fresly learn about antimicrobial resistance +The course covers all points about antimicrobial resistance in a simple and complete way. +I loved this course. I study biology at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and it's helped me a lot to understand many things in general about antimicrobials susceptibility. Thank you all! +I found this course pretty useful and interesting.I am a pharmacist working as an information manager mostly on hospital medicines, and the antimicrobials play a huge part of the prescriptions.It was very good to better understand the mecanisms behind the resistances and the racional to choose the best agent agains it. +Content was good, but occasionally VERY hard to understand the lecturers' English. Worth taking though. +It was a really good course, but I think there´s a lot of repetitions in many lectures. It´d be good to avoid that aspect in order to provide more information to the people. +The last two weeks are a bit DENSE. Especially Week 4. Bring your Brain power. But a course worth learning from for relevant skills to use in lab. +Very good and helpful! +Great! Waiting for the next one +Excellent course. Thanks! +Thank you to DTU especially to Dr. Lina Cavaco for expanding my knowledge about drug resistance and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Hoping for more lessons about drug resistance. Thank you once again +Very educational course, however the lectures are very lull and do not hold attention well. +good work thank you all +The course is really interesting and I found it really useful. However, there are lots of repetitive lectures and I think they could be grouped and summarized or even expanded for topics avoiding the repetitions. +This course is very interesting but in some points it get repetitive and it gets boring. I recommend to reduce some videos and not to say the same thing too many time even when it's very important +Nice introduction course but with substantial amount of useful materials and knowledge! Excellent presentations! +This is an excellent introductory course in the field of antimicrobial testing. +It was really a good lectures and please I want to know about my certificate in have already purchased this course and submitted allThe documents let me know when will I get my certificate . +So nice... I've learnt a lot. +excellent for me and my carrier +Excellent course, looking forward to do other courses from the DTU in antimicrobial resistance. +good course +Amazing course. Thank You coursera +I feal so amazed by all the information, is a complete course and i would like to learn more about antimicrobial resistance. Thank you professor Lina <3 +I loved the first three weeks for the really well presented background information. Weeks 4 and 5 did not give me any further interesting knowledge. I also missed lectures on qPCR, NGS and other molecular methods for the detection of antibiotic resistance genes, as these methods are up and coming. Overall, thank you for setting up this course +Very important course that help to know several ways of anti microbial susceptibility testing. +It improved my understanding of drug resistance +Really interesting!!!!!!!!! +A good overview on antimicrobial resistance and how it is measured in the lab. +This course is quite interesting for people interested on microbiological field and research because show general concepts, different techniques and tools which are used on laboratory to identify, monitor how these resistance on microorganism take an important part on public health discussion. I recommended to refresh any knowleadge that have on microbiology field. +I really enjoyed the course, being a complete novice i found it challenging to understand some of the technical terms but learnt alot. +lectures are too long, it lacks clinical correlation.the course focus only technical lab issues, when you look for antimicrobial resistance course, the last thing that you need is tech theory. Of course that some concepts are needed in order to provide fundamental basis, but the main goal is and always will be how to interpret antibiograms and infere the most probable mechanism of resistance. So there is a need for clinical correlation. If its not present, the course should be entitled "Laboratory methods for antimicrobial resistance" +Really great, a little more specificity on the subjects (More time) would be even better. +Very nice lecure.easily understandable. +Great teacher and contents. +Great Course!! Some lectures were repetitive. So I'd like to suggest the course advisors to cut down on those lectures. Overall it was a great learning experience!! +vital information suitable for the workforce. +If you want to get in *depth with the philosophy and history of Tibetan Buddhist meditation, this is the course for you! I am so grateful to have had access to this vast sea of knowledge presented! Some of the lectures are a bit long and are not accompanied by PowerPoints, illustrations, or keyword pop-outs, but if you apply your meditative focus, you will be graced with an immense amount of information on the topic. There are also practices (with intros and conclusions) presented by three different teachers each week. You can really tell a lot of thought, effort, and love went into this program design. The inclusion of Dr. Saron was just a delight as well - I am inspired to continue in my research and my practices related to this course. Thank you to everyone involved in making this happen! +A great course. Really helpful and plenty of good insights. +Loved it. Extremely theoretical, speculative, deep and heightens inner world understanding. A true unpuzzling of the inner world! +Excellent course, plenty of food for thoughts! I totally enjoyed it. +At first, I thought the course was too academical of an approach to Buddhist meditation, but as I learned more, I came to understand the profoundness of meditation beyond the "meditation for dummies" process that I expected. +unnecessary, excessive and distracting time expent on the difference between pali and sanskrit. +The course has some Immense contribution by many brilliant professors, monks and practitioners. A Huge workload though, I had to make new replacements three times to catch up with the assignments, lots of resources, I also kept making screenshots as it is impossible (like absolutely!!) to digest all the gems provided. Special thank you to Dr. David Germano for super organised and put together lectures, and Dr. Clifford Saron, just listening to the later speak is a great deal of meditation - so special and highly connecting. Thank you to all creators and contributors! +Wowww! Thanks! Gracias! +Fantastic materail with terrible structure and loads of material. Course should be at least twice as long. +Excellent Course if you really want to visit your inside world - Manish Behl +It was much more complete, diverse and time-consuming than expected. The quality of the teachings was inequal in my humble opinion. I found Pr.Germano a bit stiff in his teaching and it was very hard for me to follow his classes. Other teachers were great though. +Excellent!!! The course changed my life, simply that!! Waiting for the others!!! +Sorry for my English.So many people looking forward to take this course and was very cold, robotic... full of theoretical and repetitive texts. +Extensive and lenghty, it's academic and practical approach makes it great for new meditators. Also the inclusion of traditional and new advocates for it complete the worldview it presents. It transformed my mind. +Its a great course! +Well-structured, highly informative, +Very intense course +It is excellent course. The sessions on meditation are very useful. However, for understanding theoretical part some patience +Wow! This course really reveals the full breadth and growth of Buddhism. It creates a deep understanding of all its past and current dimensions. +The course is supposed to be very informative. It is in fact. But after I spend hours raising my intellectual level trying to understand what they're talking about, I still have no idea what is the purpose of the meditation.Or rather I have it, but from another source, from a person who's been practicing it for 20 years. In 10 minutes I was given a crystal clear and logical answer on what is was all about. Unfortunately this course doesn't give this answer. It will rather improve your skill of understanding highly intellectual texts and will show you some interesting stuff about the brain. +This course was nothing like true Tibetan Buddhism which is my religion ! please consider canceling it immediatly or having me or a real lama as the teacher +Good overview of buddhist meditation +This is a course that sounds like a bad audiobook. The prof. reading a the lecture and giving lot of information without any soul or teaching energy to engage. I prefer then read a book about this topic than being here at this course get bored listening at the same tone a reading of a lecture. +Audio is terrible - can't continue +Not well presented at all. Great disappointment. +Great course, their are parts that are dry and very academic but taking the time to listen and take will payoff and be very rewarding. I particularly found the neuroscience research most interesting and engaging. The labs are a great way to end tie together everything that is learned in each section from: academic to science to history/application. +Good intro on meditation. +First time as a long (more than 30 years) empirical yoga and meditation practitioner that take an academic approach outside the masters himself. Wonderful experience. Very well done, excellent material and the best professors. Thanks +Really horrible in instruction, experience and application ability of lecturers, poorly put together and assembled. It was astonishing to experience such self-promoting hacks rather than knowledgeable practitioners of the art of meditation. It is very important to clarify the content of a somewhat titled misnomer. The course was an academic study in mediation bring is rather esoteric, questionable, and personal opinion concepts and comments; in effect a mesh-mash. +Audio was difficult to hear at times +Uninspiring and boring. +The amount of effort that was put into this course was impressive. The amount of information was impressive. There were wonderful and engaging speakers to amplify the learning process. +I am very disappointed about the content. It is not a course. Pr David Germano is just reading text. No design no learning experience. I would learn much better with just reading a book. It is a shame I was very interested in the subject. +It´s a very complete course with a lot of detail and valuable information. For me it has two parts, one very technical and the other that is more into the spiritual meditation and techniques. I think it was worth the time and effort. Thanks a lot! +This course feels a lot like it's being taught by a non-teaching professor. The lectures are very long, not chunked for easy viewing (to the point where I couldn't download to my phone for offline/off-wifi use). There are very long locally-hosted readings (so they're hard to print and you can't add them to an offline reader app), and the Reading section for each lesson seems to be a bibliography (rather than actual reading assignments), because there are no links and some refer to "Selections" without giving page numbers or, in at least one case, a multi-volume book. The information is comprehensive and very valuable, but the delivery is very lacking as a MOOC. +The course is very useless, there is no meat, only water - there is no substance - only talking around the topic. I am appalled that such research exists, and ashamed for the coursera +This course was one of the most useful of my undergraduate and graduate career. I have been a long time Buddhist practitioner, primarily in the Zen tradition and found it difficult to integrate, both in my own practice and through understanding popular literature. This course provided much of the intellectual background that I have wanted for a long time. I am particularly interested in the discussion of Buddhist Meditation as a religious vs. secular practice, and the cultural content of the various practices one encounters.David Germano's lectures are incredibly information dense. I learned to download the transcript and outline and highlight them as well as listen to the audio. Now I wouldn't cut out a thing.I particularly appreciate the many guest lectures, interviews and guided meditation sessions.All of my questions are not yet answered but I have some clearer understanding and ideas for moving forward. +Excellent course! History, neuroscience, practice, discussion... This course is a life changer. Thanks to all professors and guest. +Before I began this course, I had only a very general knowledge of Buddhist meditation. After going through a number of lessons, I realized I really knew less than I thought. I had only been attracted to the Buddhist world encountered in readings and travels. For many years, it was something that I wanted to know more about. So I appreciate having access to this course.Classification and organization of detailed and complex material is well organized. Great work amassing and presenting knowledge of contemplative practices.I feel there was some repetition or redundancy, but in my case that was not necessarily a bad thing, other than to add to the mass of information being delivered. The repetition helped to stabilize my memory and helped to establish a baseline of concepts from which to build my understanding.I became mired in detail, but absorbed as much as I could in lieu of being able to recall consciously specific pieces of information. I don't want to judge the presenters by suggesting that they tried to put too much information into too little of a space. I found my efforts to absorb the info meditative in nature, thus I welcomed the challenge.The videos of presenters reading texts of detailed and dense info was difficult to follow at times, but I discovered that it helps, in some cases, to download the script of the talks and follow along with the video as I read the script.The focus on history and historical debates and conflicts between shamatha and vipassana practices, etc., within Buddhism were helpful but not as key as the meditation practices. I suppose it is difficult to separate them since they are so entwined.I have learned a lot more than I ever expected when I began this course.I value discussions and sharing among students, but the course is so dense and time consuming that I had no time left to participate in sharing with others. Not to devalue the info itself, which is fantastic. +The course appears unfinished and very disorganized. The lectures are monotonous and boring. +Learned a lot and already integrated daily meditation into my life. +The early lectures were profoundly dense, monotone and cluttered with non-contextual detail while being (strangely given the subject) seemingly empty of a real desire to share, or convey, understanding. I am confess that, as much as I was looking forward to guest lecturers, I couldn't make it past the first three. +The labs are superb. The title is misleading - it is as much about the neuroscience as Buddhism, and the lectures are dry. However, because the labs are so good, I give it five stars. +Not for the basic student looking for information. Very detailed +I have to admit that the professors know the topic and are conducting amazing research, but the course was dry and terribly designed. The videos are too long, without quizzes or activities to break the long dry monologues. They also talk like robots and one gets lost really fast. I have taken many courses in coursera with long and short videos, with boring and engaging teachers but this is by far the worse. They are trying to show off so much information and in such a high level language (to most), that it makes it incredibly boring. I should add that I have studied Buddhism, and there are so many better ways to provide people an opportunity to come into contact with this beautiful topic. +Excellent guided meditations and a very well organized and well presented overview of the Lesser Vehicle of Tibetan Buddhist Meditation. The layout of the course was particularly good; with a theme each week and a set of lectures exploring the practice in question from a cultural and spiritual viewpoint, a set touching on the scientific aspect of the practice, a set outlining the history of the practice, and a series of guided meditations. +to much talk +Too much theoretical. Probably this is not the course I was looking for when I joined it. Nevertheless, I will try to get some concepts from it, particularly for what concerns the practice of meditation and mindfulness. +Great course combining the practice of Tibetan mediation with modern scientific dis +Amazing insight into various contexts surrounding Meditation, coverage of different cultures interpretation of meditative(contemplative) approaches, roadmap of practice to pursue a lifetime. Also on the side, covers academic dimensions of real life applications and impacts. Quite honored to come across such an enriched course and accruing such immense knowledge in such a short time. Hoping to revisit again in future to comeback to basics and not just veer away into real life applications and lose the way. +Very interesting course. +Very interesting history and practice of meditation +This is an excellent, in depth course packed with information and guidance on many levels including Buddhist philosphy and history, Neurology, Mindfulness and Meditation practices, and an introduction to both calm and insight meditation. Labs provide an additional resource with guided meditations and explanations. There are also inerviews with knowledgable academics involved in related fields.Instructors range from Buddhist Monks to knowlegable Professors from University of Virginia and other instutions. Most lectures are interesting and done in away that communicates well on video. Dr Clifford Saron took difficult scientific data and made it understanable. One extremely gifted and knowlegable professor, however, often rapidly read his lectures, full of academic jargon. Even so, it is well worth the effor and rewarding information wise to sit through his videos which you can stop and start to make notes.I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in the subject. +All right, this is not a very "easy to follow" course. But it's such a great opportunity to deeply study the subject with great specialists and meditation practitioners : how lucky we are ! By going slowly, step by step, being aware that I do not understand everything at once, I'm all right, convinced I'm learning a lot, from both an academic and personal point of view. +Watch one or 2 lectures before you join the course, if you felt okay then go ahead, otherwise don't waste your time and money, something wrong in the course structure... +The course gives multi-dimensional (traditional, scientific, research) perspective about Buddhist philosophy, primarily on meditation. A highly self-contained course, content completeness is remarkable. A systematic description of various type meditations is high appreciated. +great course. loved the talks by virtually all the instructors and might even repeat the course again. thanks so much. +I think the teacher had to little expression , it was like he was reading loud, and I felt I might have red the text myself. I lacked some enthusiasm +Great content - learned a lot. Would be easier to follow if David's lectures would be presented more accessible - not read in a monotone voice. +Was a LOT more more than what I expected, and more effort than any other Coursera that I have done before. It is also the best course I have done on Coursera by far! Well done to the team who put it together and I am looking forwards to part 2, 3 and 4. +it was a great experience that i get this course.regards for every one. +The faculty of this course represent a wonderful assembly of knowledge and experience. But the course was not well organized, and the emphasis on fine teaching that I have found in most Coursera courses was not present. +I didn't like the main lecturer of the course. I believe his is smart and everything but for me as non-native english speaker I found the way he speaks is extremely hard for comprehension. +empty of value +Very good course, profound and complete. I strongly reccomend it. +Interesting +Well presented -- I love the idea of combining science with history and meditation. +Simply not as engrossing as I had hoped it would be. +I have been reading about buddhism for a little while, and this course has shown me a bit of the great complexity, a most human comparison between differen schools where each one claims to be "better" (no doubt buddhists are also humans), the great importance of cultural differences between east and west, etc.I have also been fascinated by the introduction to neuroscience, the great complexity of our brain, the drawings of a blind man, our multiple channels to access and interpret the worl around us.And I am also grateful for the introduction to meditation practices.This is a great Coursera course, thanks to all those persons and institutions that have made it available for so many of us,,, +Clear and well presented +Really like what I have taken away from the course. I felt the presentation of some of the information a bit overwhelming, pure lecture without any visuals.As a suggestion, I think it would have been interesting to hear the presenters talk about their own personal journey/story with respect to meditation, even if it is purely academic without any practical implication for them personally.Many, many thanks!! +Terrible...can't believe how a quality the course is. Embarrassing. +This was a great course. The professor, assistant prof, guest lecturers and supplemental material were all excellent and very informative. I highly recommend the course to anyone interested in either learning about Buddhism, or meditation. With regards to meditation, you will learn about various types of meditation and contemplative practices, as well as several scientifically verified studies results which have definitively proven various benefits associated with them.I am waiting for the next course in the series "The Greater Vehicle" to come out, so that I can take that one, as well. +too hard to follow +The richness of materials presented in this ambitious course are impressive. There are lectures and interviews with professors and Buddhists from well beyond the expected disciplines of religion, sociology, and neuroscience--including education, law, and business. With guided mediation "labs" from three practitioners there's a style for everyone. Some of the lectures are dense and challenging to follow but well worth sticking with it. Looking forward to section two. +Overall - Good course - covers both theoretical & practical. +Very nice course, it varies a lot with the content so many different angles are mentioned. +Interesting topic, . but the videos are too long and sometimes lack of dynamism . I recommend the comparison with Science. +Very good. There is room for improvement. Congratulations. +Great theme for a course, perfect idea, but I had some issues with execution of it. So, these are the issues: +An excellent introduction to Buddism +The course was a very comprehensive introduction to Buddhist Meditation:- there were lectures about the different Buddhist meditation traditions- practical trainings on Buddhist meditation- neurological and psychological view on the effects of meditation on the human bodyand many more topics related to meditation.I found the course was actually overloaded with content: most videos were too long and there were too many videos. Some videos were more like reading a text: the lecturer was most likely reading his own script from a Teleprompter instead of really talking to the audience. The videos were not bad, but I see some room for improvement for most videos of most lecturers. My favourite videos were from Anam Thubten, he was most genuine and convincing to me.All in all it was still an excellent introduction into the topic for me: a big thank you to all people involved, you did a great job!! +I really enjoyed this course and got a lot of personal growth out of it. The variety of the presenters and the scope of the information was very engaging and enlightening. Kudos to all involved with this course material! +Super experience. The teacher I found less convincing is Prof. Germano who is very learned and knowledgeable, but conveys his lessons with an extremely boring, monotonous voice, adding lots of details making it difficult for students to grasp the essential ideas. Other than this, I loved the rhythm and the many wonderful teachers who shared their knowledge with us. +I enjoyed the course, the structure and the material. I really enjoyed the interviews with some of the speakers. Occasionally certain lectures were a little dry for video. +Very informative but not very focused or streamline. The lectures on brain plasticity and such I found largely irrelevant to the subject matter. Maybe an attempt to make the lectures a little less 'wordy'. I know this is Buddhism which is notoriously filled with concepts and long winded explanations but I think a lot of viewers could lose interest. I enjoy the course but I already have a great deal of familiarity with Buddhism. I was a Vajrayana practitioner for three years. Maybe a course focused more on Shakyamuni and the basics of Buddhist teaching along with a few courses familiarizing listeners to terms might be useful as a preliminary to the following courses. +Just the kind of in depth analytics I've always wanted relating to Buddhism. Excellent semantic discussions as well as descriptions of nuances of technique. +too many videos and texts. +extremely boring teachers +This is a very well done course on the basics of Tibetan Buddhist meditation, as well as a fantastic intro into the research being done to understand how meditation effects us physically, mentally, and emotionally. This is a course I will be coming back to again and again to refresh my own understanding, and I am truly looking forward to further modules when they are released. Thank you to all the staff for bringing us this contemplative gem. +Some lectures are presented in very flat boring to follow manner. Though neuroscience part is presented brilliantly and makes it totally worth. +I'm giving this course four stars because of the ground breaking nature of what is being attempted here. I appreciate its place in the historical assimilation of Buddhism into Western culture. I applaud the diverse and interesting bunch of people brought together to present the course. This despite the mediocre presentation skills of the principal course academics. +Very insightful, great interviews, and resulted in lots of thoughtful contemplation! Thank you +A well-balanced staff and selection of lecturers. A proper provision of the tools necessary to understand and practice the material. A very enjoyable and diverse course! +Very Informative! +As someone who was taught a small amount of meditation from china in the context of another training, I found this course very informative, I have a much better understanding of the history and of the practice as it has evolved to today as well as the connection to the Mindfulness Movement. The work by so many researchers trying to prove the benefits was very interesting. The guided meditation and teachings by the monks made this a wonderful course. +presentation has to be better +This course contains a balanced content of meditation practice and scientific studies on the topic. I enjoyed the content and delivery of the course. The course helped me understand the structure and organization of the Buddhist teachings. Looking forward to the next courses.N.B: First few sessions might seem a bit slow and boring. My suggestion is to be patient and not drop out, great material will come afterwards. +This course provided a very firm foundation for understanding the philosophy and traditions of Buddhism. The application towards understanding the growing interest in Buddhist practices of meditation is very well covered in this course. Throughout the course, we are introduced to the science supporting the value of meditation for helping us to maintain wellness, or to overcome various issues of suffering in human life. I highly recommend this course and the University of Virginia to anyone interested in developing knowledge of Buddhist meditation practices. +This course is pretty amazing and contains an enormous amount of information. Some of it is presented in a very boring and hard to follow way. It took patience but is worth the time. +The positive.What a wealth of material! This is a very worthy attempt to integrate the history, philosophical underpinnings and modern transformations of Tibetan Buddhist meditation.Clifford Saron’s Week 2 lectures on neuroscience and neuroplasticity were fascinating and intriguing introductions to the topic - very engaging.The negative.Too academic for an introductory course. David Germano’s lectures are full of information but he doesn’t help the learner to make sense of it. His ‘academic speak’ obfuscates meaning rather than making it accessible. More diagrammatic slides at the start would give learners a framework of the overarching concepts.Because of the many perspectives presented each week, this course needs A LOT of time. I personally would have leaned better if the course were broken into smaller weekly segments. +The course integrates information on practical benefits of meditation, results from scientific studies of neural responses, and historical and philosophical perspectives. Also, I found the guided meditations very helpful and interviews quite interesting. +Good content. MIght want to change up the presentations for variety - add visual aids, etc. +(I posted this review in a blog [https://guhyasamajacenter.wordpress.com/2015/10/03/review-of-the-free-coursera-tibetan-buddhist-meditation-and-the-modern-world-lesser-vehicle-course-given-by-uva/]. Much of the courseware was outstanding. Many of the videos were so poorly done (boring) that I couldn't watch them. (I do not watch people read prepared text in a video. Ever.)----------- From the blog ----------------------------------I recently took the FREE Coursera course, "Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World". (https://www.coursera.org/learn/buddhist-meditation) From the course catalog: " Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World explores the immense variety of meditation practices past and present. We present their histories, their philosophical underpinnings, their transformations in the modern global world, and we give you a chance to reflect upon meditation practices through secular contemplations designed just for this course." (Note: In the class overview, it is noted that the term "Lesser Vehicle" is "perjorative" but they use it anyway. ??")There are many FREE reasons to take this FREE "Lesser Vehicle" course (the first of four):#1 - An awesome, wonderful hour-long interview with Sharon Salzberg, one of the founders of the Insight Meditation Society. What an awesome lady. I was not aware that she is also a Dzogchen student. (Did I mention it was FREE?) Worth signing up for the course just to skip to Week 6 to watch this interview.#2 - Guided Meditations by Dr. Anne Klein and Anam Thubten. Very, very, very nice. FREE, it's ALL FREE.#3 - The Science of Mindfulness against the Background of the Scientific Study of Meditation videos with Dr. Clifford Saron, neuroscientist. His videos start in Week 1 and continue through Week 6 in building a basis for understanding the scientific research on meditation. He (and the course) demonstrates what can and cannot (presently) be scientifically proven about meditation. One excellent example: Two trained pianists were told to learn a complicated piece of music, one with the piano, and the other only in his imagination. After 2 weeks (I think) of practice, their brains' MRI patterns exhibited almost the exact same changes. Dr. Saron noted that the results are not definitive but still may have implications for the compassion/bodhicitta meditations we do.#4: An interview on "Buddhist Modernism", with David McMahan. Very much academic-oriented. One statement, in particular, struck me since, the more I think about it, the more I think it might be true: "The Buddhist Tantra teachings are not accepted nor are they popular in the West." For all the Buddhist monastics that visit the USA and the West to grab donations and go back to their home countries, few of them are sticking around to teach complete Tantra classes. The few that do (and do it well) are having a hard time making ends meet. (That's just my opinion, I guess.)There are also short 5-10 minute interviews with Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro (a short "snapshot" of the Tibetan take on the week's particular subject, which was often better (to me) than the 90min-long "talking head" version ) and Ven. Tsoknyi Rinpoche ("How does Buddhism change in a New Culture" and "Benefits and Dangers of Secularing Buddhism", the TB rebuttal, as it were. He did note that motivation is the key. Bad agenda = bad results, good motivation will cause good results.)Have I noted the course is FREE? So you can take the course, and the following courses, without doing any of the assignments/quizzes. Watch (or download) any video or transcript to your heart's content whenever you wish in any order you wish. (That assumes the courses are not taken off-line at a future date.) Further in the course description is a blurb that may point to at least 3 future courses in "Mahāyāna, …Vajrayāna, …and a fourth vehicle, which is explicit in many Tibetan materials, though no standard term ever emerged that was accepted by all sectarian traditions - we will thus term it as the “Natural Vehicle” or “Post Tantra”." If the quality of guided meditations (GM) in following classes are even half the quality of this course's GM's, then that's all the reason I need to continue the future classes, too.Course gotchas:#1. That said (other shoe dropping here), the other half of the course was videos of people reading their prepared academic papers, in monotone or semi-monotone voices. (Transcripts are available. I figure I can read a paper in 5% of the time someone else reads it to me in a video. Ugh.) However, they would probably need the voice of Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, B. Cumberbatch or James Spader to keep me awake. To be fair, the content is golden, although the papers seems to be geared to the academic community, rather than the student community. Books and Videos on these subjects are all over Amazon, YouTube, FPMT, Dharma-Documentaries, etc.#2. The Sharon Salzberg (SS), in her interview, brought up an excellent point. She noted that she and a noted clinical psychology (CP) scientist (researcher) (whose name I have forgotten) were at a conference where the issue on the table was that someone was having trouble with "loving kindness" meditation as a first meditation class. SS noted that she would instantly recommend the student change to "calm abiding" meditation whereas the CP could not change that student's meditation technique to another technique (such as calm abiding) as her research findings would then be invalid. Similarly, many of the non-Buddhist guided meditations that I viewed in this course felt like a physical education or "How To" class. Do this. Do that. It did not feel as though they lived the material, just taught it. (Whereas it was patently obvious Dr. Klein & Anam Thubten were definitely "walking the walk", so to speak, so were able to speak from the heart.)Interviews I did not watch, that may be of great interest to others, include meditation in the school system by Tish Jennings, meditation in the Business Community (an interview with David Mick), the Burmese meditation tradition in an interview with Erik Braun, the MBSR (Meditation Based Stress Reduction) with Susan Bauer-Wu, and meditation in the legal community with Rhonda Magee.And all that is just the first course. Many of it's "failings" may just be my karmic opinions. The course is worth checking out and watching/reading/meditating on those parts that interest you. In that respect, the breadth of the course content is quite nice and so well done. Grade: B-. +A lot of talking, little content. +I learned a lot from this course although I have been exposed to mindfulness meditation in the past. The discussion of Shamata project and research findings are enlightening. +The content of this course was superb. The level of detail and the connections between traditional teaching with modern science and western practice was very helpful, and much appreciated. The interviews and additional content on practice and historical significance was wonderful. The neuroscience content was presented very effectively, with just the right amount of detail needed here, and the critique and straightforward way that the research was presented was masterful, and so much needed in today's cult-like vision of meditation. I look forward to the other 3 segments of the course.I would recommend putting the transcripts of the lectures together in a more easily readable format, then use the videos by Dr. Germano to highlight the issues presented rather than just reading. +a miriad of diferents point o view.a lot of valuble information to drive the practice. +The course is very detailed, focused, comprehensive and very well organized.Although i gave the course full five stars, there are a few things that can be better. Firstly is the time frame for every week, that is, to my opinion, unreasonable for someone who wants to really study the material.Secondly is that in could have been served in a bit more engaging manner.Thank you very much!Guy +After being bored to death by his first highly complex and involved analytical/historical lectures, I skipped over every video that Prof. Germano lectured in. I'm not sure if his later videos were great or not, and they were supposed to be "foundational/historical," but the rest of the course was extremely educative and enjoyable for a beginner like me, and Prof. Germano's lectures were not needed for the graded quizzes. +, The course was intense, challenging and extremely rewarding. +I enjoyed and benefitted from some of this course. In particular I would highly recommend the Meditation Labs, the Science of Meditation videos and the short presentations from the Tibetan Buddhist monks . But I think the creators of this course need to be a lot clearer about what their aims are in that part of the course which Dr Germano presented. Since this was he was presenting the main overview of Buddhist content it was particularly disappointing that his presentations were so bad.I understand that there were difficulties in getting the course up and running from the various delays in its starting date and the change to its title and perhaps Dr Germano's role was more affected than the other lecturers. However it's pretty damning when he manages to to be so off-putting to so many of the students, going on the discussion comments. For my own part, I've studied and practiced Buddhism for more than 30 years and I am left with little sense of what his aims were for his lectures.To be more specificDr Germano's Presentation:-he read from what I presume were lecture notes but more likely he was reading from an academic paper. the language was pretty turgid.-he could have just provided a PDF of his paper / notes for us to download. That would have been much more helpful as presumably it would have had some structure to it. doing that would have enabled him to use his video time in a more creative way.-MOOCs are wonderful audio-visual opportunities but he had no slides or illustrations at all. The few text headers which appeared then disappeared in only a very few seconds and sometimes did not relate directly to what he was saying at that time.Dr Germano's content: the amended title was Tibetan Buddhist Meditation. This is a complex subject which encompasses many layers of meditation practice culled from historically earlier Buddhist traditions. Can I suggest that any future version of this course includes the following:-include a video which presents the main aspects of the historical development of Buddhism. There was some mention of this in Germano's material but he did it from the Tibetan point of view. Surely what a modern day presentation needs is a modern impartial historical analysis of the subject. It's not as if there aren't plenty of academics and practitioners who are active in this field.-it's confusing to describe Tibetan Lesser Vehicle practices but then illustrate them with Pali text sources, modern Mindfulness practice, and modern Brahma Vihara practice all of which have emerged from the modern Theravadin tradition.-it's also perplexing to include information about many modern Theravadin teachers (Sayadaw, Goenka) in a course apparently not about them.Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the videos about Sayadaw and the interview with Sharon Saltzberg, but I am left in the dark about just what differences, if any, there are between them and Tibetan meditation.Overall I think this course was offered prematurely. Much of its content was enthralling, inspiring and very useful practically. However much of it was not. +wonderful course, LOT of material that you need to go through number of times to digest.the work is totally worth it.Provides insight into a very distant and complex world view we westerners can learn a lot from. +An interesting class that traces the origins of Buddhist meditation and the Western usage today. A nice dovetailing of research topics covered to attempt to link measurable changes due to meditation practices while trying to maintain a good control group; not easy. +Excellent course on the Lesser Vehicle. I am really looking forward to the next course! +The content of the course is amazingly rich. I've particularly appreciated all the interviews.The science was also very interesting, although at the end (starting from week 4 if I remember well), the result don't seem so convincing. But it is still really amazing. (May I suggest to try to use Machine Learning algorithm to analyze the huge amount of result from the retreat project, they are getting pretty good at facial recognition and analysis.)The contemplative labs were an interesting plus.The only caveats is that, although the content presented by Germano and Schaeffer is amazing (and precious to me), I think they could improve the presentation. I would suggest to consult with a specialist in communication who will be able to point out what could be improved and how. I feel that without that, the communication objective will fail (as reported by most students including myself). Here are a few points I have noticed. Complex background create a distraction, especially when the reading is monotonous, it's preferable to have simple neutral background, like a library. Reading in a monotonous voice is not engaging for the viewer. Dandling around and all sort of gestural distractions don't help us focusing on the content. Sentences are too long and use too many technical words, two things that any communicator will immediately suggest to drop especially if you are targeting a large audience. In one video the background was nice (a forest), yet the noise of the bird were too loud compare to the voice. Plus there was many cut in this video and almost every time the camera had moved from its previous position creating yet another distraction. But don't get me wrong, I have appreciated this content, I just felt that it needed a huge investment from my part to be able to grab it into memory and learn from it. This is the reason why I haven't graded this course with 5 stars. I think that if the speaker could improve this part it would facilitate the students work and improve greatly the overall learning. +I thought this course was a scholarly perspective on the Dharma, which was fantastic to learn, in particular with the efficacy shown by studies. Hope to see more of these courses in the context of the other Buddhist vehicles. +Great +A thorough academic, philosophical, exploratory & experiential introductory treatise on Tibetan Buddhism that is already proving to be of incredible value to me. I was at first pretty overwhelmed my the sheer volume of lectures on here but when you get into the swing of it it becomes apparent quite early on that the large amount of academic conceptualizations are not the most necessary to become totally au fait with & that these are in fact followed up by a spectrum of other articles which are more philosophical, contextual and relatively up beat, as well as some experiential guided meditations etc.What's become more apparent though is the fantastic faculty behind this & the incredible work being done by them as well as other colleagues in the field. I am extremely impressed by the depth of investigation, research & organization.Extremely glad I took the course & look forward yo the forthcoming ones in the series. Higly recommended for ANYONE with a genuine interest in Buddhist thought. +I am absolutely honored to have been privileged enough to take such a fascinating course on something I'm so passionate about. Dr. Clifford Saron was my favorite part of the course by far; his methods of articulating his teachings, for me, were the easiest to understand and the most engaging/interesting to follow. I will definitely be using the information I've reviewed in this course in both my present and my future. Thank you, to everyone with Coursera & the University of Virginia, who made this MOOC possible. I'm eternally grateful. +A wealth of information - a true resource for anyone interested in the subject matter. +Most of the interviews were very interesting and useful addition to the lectures. Prof. David Francis Germano questions were of good standard. +I could barely get the videos to work. The information was great, what I could get to, anyways. +I am afraid this is only two stars from me for now. It is a course with great content and a lot of potential, but the way how it is delivered can be greatly improved to make it easier to understand and more engaging. I just hope the team do not give up, but improve this to be one of the best courses on Coursera - it can well be! +All courses have their pluses and minuses. This one is a gathering of many of the leaders in this field and is a wonderful overview of the land. I would like to say that the interviews were priceless and while the lectures were a bit dry when lsitening to face to face interactions I was struck by the level of intelligence and dedication of all participants. I am waiting for the next installment. +A very interesting course. I look forward to join the next course! +Needs to be more engaging. +not very good audio. +Very poorly structured. Purely academic and dull as dishwater. Buddhist meditation is a profoundly beautiful tradition but there is no beating heart here. I gave up quickly. +Very good a bit too academic by times but otherwise a goldmine for anyone interested in the science and context of buddhist meditation +I waited a long time for this class to start but now that it is here I find it impossible summon enough will to pay attention to the lectures. As a retired teacher I have more of an ability to stick to a class than many but life is too short to wait for this class to perk up. The professors seem very knowledgable but their teaching methodology leaves a lot to be desired. +The content is great, I think the delivery could be better, and there was a great deal of interesting but difficult and for me peripheral stuff about how the brain worked. Nevertheless, even this had me wowed at times. I have learnt a great deal from every aspect of this course, and am greatly looking forward to future courses, as you have promised!. A +As a beginner to the subject... I feel like I know even less if that was possible after just the first few weeks!! I plan to start again sometime in the future and see if I can figure things out in this course.. after I learn about Buddhism somewhere else first! +As a buddhist, I feel upset of this course. I expected it to be teach in a better way, with more lectures, PPT presentations...there ought to be a better way of explanation. +This was the first MOOC I ever signed for and I wasn't disappointed. Far more complex, detailed and demanding than I had expected.... which suited me perfectly.Although brilliantly researched and scripted, Professor Germano's detailed input is spoiled by his unecessarily academic style. I found that his tendency to accumulate endless lists of adjectives had an unfortunate hypnotic effect.I very much like the material presented by Kurtis Schaeffer, especially his contribution on the development of Buddhism in the US. His interviews were well-conducted and his remarks always to the point.Interesting - and again complex material from Clifford Saron who managed to caputre the attention of my rather non-scientific brain. Very well presented material and a pleasure to listen to him.The input from the Tibetan participants was more accessible to non-specialists, straight to the point and very refreshing.The work done by the meditators was brilliant and probably what I had been looking for when I registered for the course. I feel that I now know just enough to pursue the practices on my own. It all feels very new, a little bit scary, quite exhilarating and luminous.Some of the interviews were more interesting than others but they all contributed to broaden the scope of the course.I only give 4/5 to the MOOC because of the poor quality of the subtitles. Not being a native speaker and not used to hear American English, I had to rely on them. They were so bad that, at times, what was written was exactly the contrary to what was being said. Hardly any proper names or foreign words were spelt correctly either. Beware !The course has introduced me to a new world and I will definitely pursue my new-born interest in Tibetan Buddhist Meditation. I will also sign up for more MOOCs in the future. Overall an extremely positive experience indeed. I am looking forward to seing you again for the 'Greater Vehicle'. +Meditation is an amazing practice and can change and save lives. I reccomend that more people spend a few minutes a day becoming who they truly are. +The guided meditations were wonderful, but the introductory lectures for Weeks 1-5 were redundant and boring. These lectures could have been much shorter and would have been equally valuable. Dr. Clifford Saron's lectures were interesting. +Wonderful in it's details as well as in the general picture of all aspects of Buddhism, both in secular and spiritual context. +Far too academic. Nothing of substance but lists. I'm not here for monotonous lectures. +THIS IS COMPLETE "SERENDIPITY "Thank you to your FABULOUS TEAM {*.*} +Excellent course. Buddhist philosophy taught at its deepest and most profound level possible in the span of five modules. +great material and very interesting and wonderful research material +I was looking forward to starting this course, but so far, checking through the delivery of the first 4 weeks, I can't see spending time voluntarily following this. There is no doubt a lot of work put into this, but it is painful to take part, so no thanks for me. +In week 4 of this University of VA course. Course curriculum is structured methodically, backed up by longitudinal research conducted by several of the primary course instructors.Some of the lectures need a bit of work on the presentation side. The covered material and breadth of study is significant and does not lend itself easily to the Coursera lecture format. +Speakers sound so monotone and dry that they leave an unenthusiastic impression of an incredibly fascinating subject. Some video lectures and writings are so unnecessarily verbose they cloud what is being taught. Frustratingly fought my way through the lessons and failed to clearly retain what I was trying to learn from Prof. Germano. All apologies to the professor for any harshness, and I MAY try again one day, but not now. +Extremely interesting course for all. It has changed my thinking. +The introduction is great. After that it's unbearably boring. +Badly taught +Excellent course. I thoroughly enjoyed the scientific advancements and studies presented throughout the course. +Extremely dry, academic style presentation, could use a LOT of work to make it appeal to others in the future. "Lesser" Vehicle is also considered an insult in many circles. Not a good title for a class. +A simply outstanding course! Truly laudable endeavour on the part of Coursera & The University of Virginia +Joined this course as I was really interested in understanding meditation itself from a scientific perspective. The monotonous drone of the instructors combined with the super low volume that one has to strain to hear, the extra extra long essays which read like one long chapter less novel, the videos which extend what could've been covered in 5-7 minutes to nearly 30, all take the interest away. Unclear if this was intentional & intended to enable participating students to be more patient and tolerant of imperfections around them. +boring +This is a rather usefull and actual course !!! +Learned so much. Mr. Biss is an excellent teacher. +Insightful travel throughout Beethoven's music writing style, and more generally on musical structure of piano sonatas before and after Beethoven's contribution. +Very nice time spent with an talented person... Highly recommend +organized, insightful. Mr. Biss clearly has a passion for the music which comes through in his teaching, +Incredible class. +Thank you very much. +Really interesting. Highly recommendable. +In-depth lectures about Beethoven's life and music. I'm still not a Beethoven fan, but I appreciate his music now. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course. It was presented with great knowledge and passion, and despite being full of musical terminology and detail, it was always accessible to me as a non-player. I learned so much about how this wonderful music was structured and composed. +This is a great class to understand Beethoven. Thanks. +This was an enjoyable course taught by someone who is obviously not only a superb pianist and musician but also completely in love with Beethoven's piano music. The reason for my 4-star rather than 5-star rating was that I felt the teaching would have benefited from a few visual aids as well as demonstrations at the keyboard. As Mr Biss appeared equally enthusiastic about the music of Haydn, perhaps we might look forward to 'Exploring Haydn's Piano Sonatas' in the future? +I have finished this course and I highly recommend it. I am a musician moving from the rock and jazz genres into classical music and have been taking a number of classical/opera related courses. This one is a standout. Take this course, you will be happy you did. +Great course! +Although I have completed the course I still go back to it to listen to Prof. Bliss teachings. +Fascinating trip through the marvellous Beethoven sonatas.Although I love them since many years, I'm very happy to see that It's always possible to progress.Many thanks Jonathan. +Enjoyable and enlightening. I found prof. Bliss' straight forward lecture style very concise and his insight and passion for the material clear. +Love love love this course!!!Jonathan Biss is very well-acquainted with Beethoven's sonatas. His explanations are beautiful and I love how thorough he is! He goes through the fine, minute details of Beethoven's sonatas without sacrificing the zoomed-out view of Beethoven's life and influences as well.Besides that, Biss is an extraordinary pianist and clearly loves and admires Beethoven's sonatas. I hope he'll keep on adding to this course! +Great course for a beginner like me. It's an introduction and exploration of the adventurous world of music and musicians; passionately delivered by the expert, Mr Biss. +The course is rich in information and I appreciated the fast pace of the professor's lectures (especially his enthusiasm and passion for the subject which I found delightfully infectious ha) - however I feel that for many people his very quick elocution was perhaps a bit of a minor hindrance for those that process information a touch slower. I definitely plan to resume this course as I enjoyed the professor's manner and passion. +In discussing modulation in classical music, one of my classmates said that Beethoven's piano sonatas are bizarre in their styles compared with those Romantic composers like Liszt and Chopin. I don't agree with him, but I don't have enough knowledge to analyze Beethoven's work. The course titled "Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas" provides such a high-level overview of Beethoven's Piano music, I should say Thank you to the instructor! +I have always wanted to learn deeply about Beethoven's Sonatas as I listen to them on a daily basis. +For a Beethoven fan (or dare I say geek) this is an absolute joy. I'm 'only' a listener, but passionate enough to take on this wonderful journey through these piano sonatas with Jonathan Biss, he's just awesome and makes me want to come back over and over again ... for more. Please keep adding.Thank you for this opportunity to learn more about Beethoven and his music. +Outstanding introduction to Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. It has sparked a great interest in me for these pieces. +Going through it for the second time this summer. My all time favorite Coursera course, and I've done almost ten... +In depth analysis in a field that I was not familiar with. I recommend it to everyone whether they have an interest or not. +This course was excellent and I enjoyed it, but I was done with it when they offered more lessons and was very annoyed to get multiple emails telling me I needed to complete the course. I did complete it, as originally offered, and think that should be noted on my record. +MORE, MORE, MORE PleasePlease make another MOOC, I am dying to hear from you again, Mr. Biss. Thank you for making this learning experience so enjoyable. Your playing is wonderful, and your explanations are clear and concise, making this course a real pleasure to take. Great job, and please do it again! +I like this course a lot so far. Thanks Mr. Biss. +Absolutely loved this course! Jonathan is amazing and he has inspired me so very much. I can hardly wait for his next series. +Fantastic course! Very informative.I think the second part of the course was improved. Jonathan demonstrating more on the piano (as opposed to just explaining -- as he did more of in the first part) was a great addition.Looking forward to Jonathan's next concert! +Inspiration! +Fantastic, excellent musician and incredible mastery of the subject. I enjoyed it enormously. +Outstanding course! Tremendous insight, extremely well articulated, and explained with real passion and depth! Would highly recommend this course to anyone who appreciates this kind of music; particularly those seeking to understand Beethoven's idiom better. +Excellent course. I think I began to understand and — what is most important for me — feel the music. Thank you! +This course provides an excellent overview of Beethoven's most important piano sonatas and the innovations that he made. It is the point of view of a player, not a musicologist, and this makes the lessons quite enjoyable and closely related to the music itself. I loved it. +I have taken many courses by now, however this course brings to mind the fantastic "A brief history of time". Both go above and beyond my wildest dreams, leaving my expectations so far as to be unable to recall them.I learned not only about Beethoven the composer; but developed a greater appreciation for him and his music, for his predecessors and those who followed his footsteps, the sonata form and many other forms, and perhaps more important to ponder about the nature of music itself and it's relevance in our life. His presentation of the musical question, quotation, program music, and the notion of "jokes" exposed and explained a musical paradigm far broader than affective or cerebral qualities.It stems from these observations that there is a very rich and capable language with its own strengths and weaknesses. In this case, the history of Beethoven's sonatas is then a very close look at a critical point in the life of this language that binds multiple stages into a consistent whole.This subjects quasi universal nature, spans multiple cultures and allows us to look into snapshots of the experience of life. And this presentation has provided me with the necessary training to be aware of this and also to slowly delve further into this subject. And I find this in itself to be a very significant reason why to study music in the first place.My deepest thanks to all who made this great work possibleWither music?Most certainly :) +I am only halfway through this course and it is already a favorite out of the handful of courses I've successfully completed through Coursera. Jonathan Biss's passion for the subject matter brought me from an infatuation with Beethoven to a full-on heed over heels love. I am a vocalist, I was classically trained as a child (lately a lot more bluesy) but do not have a strong background in theory. Most of what I know is through an innate understanding of harmony, structure, etc. This is whetting my appetite for musical structure and thoroughly illustrating that musical analysis is so very exciting. There really aren't words for how much I love this course. It has really brought me joy. +Wonderful course, thank you professor Biss +Amazing course! I can now understand Beethoven's Sonatas in a much deeper level, as well as how performance and innovation evolved throughout time. +Fantastic! Thanks so much to Mr. Biss and Coursera. +Wonderful journey getting to know these sonatas with a very enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide. Thank you for this. +For true Beethoven lovers and others as well +I am learning a interesting things about the sonatas I love, even though some musical terminology is above my head. I would prefer a course, where the musical terminology was explained first (tonic, dominant, key, harmony and so on). Still, I am grateful for what I could glimpse though. +Exciting and Clear ! +Very interesting historical background and a paced, clear presentation of the musical techniques employed by the pianists. Very enjoyable if you are a classical music lover. +Fantastic course. Thank you so much for sharing all this wonderful insight into Beethoven's works. +Excellent course. You can go into great detail in understanding the intricacies of the sonatas or you can simply come away with a deep appreciation for Beethoven, his works and what goes into playing them. +Great lectures, great playing, excellent and enjoyable course. Thank you, Mr. Biss and Curtis Institu +Extremelly interesting! I am so unhappy I don't have enough time now to attend the course properly. +I highly recommend this course to anyone that wants to look DEEPER into music. Believe me, after you are done with this course. You will see classical music completely different. +This course was excellent. I was exposed to many sonatas I was not familiar with before this class. Jonathan Biss is a great musician and did a great job of highlighting the key points of the sonatas presented. I would like to see him cover another composer. +Jonathan Biss is really Beethoven Geek of all Geeks. Thanks! +Enjoyed this course. Looking forward to listening to Beethoven's piano sonatas with a slightly more educated ear. +A fascinating course for any classical musician, or keen listener of classical music. Jonathan Biss' passion for his subject, his rich language and his emotion-laden playing combine to engage the participant, so that one is left with not just a better intellectual understanding of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, but also, a much greater appreciation of the pieces themselves and the man who wrote them. Thank you to Coursera, Jonathan Biss and the Curtis Institute of Music for making this course available. +excelent course, gives me the inspiration and motivation that i need!! +Amazing course!!! Would definitely recommend it to everyone. +Prof. Biss is outstanding, clearly articulating his interpretations and providing exceptional playing. Loved the level of detail both technically and academically. Far and above other Coursera music offerings I've sampled. More please. +thanks. +Excellent course. Jonathan is a great pianist and a great instructor. +It was an introduction to some really beautiful pieces of music, and a look under the surface that helps appreciate them more; even those that are well known have hidden depths.I don't have much formal musical education, but I feel I learned something from this course, and enjoyed it greatly. +Thanks for the Wonderfull information, I love it. +Jonathan Biss is a superb musician and instructor! This course is a wonderful resource! +Just superb. Is there a better, more passionate and lucid guide to this extraordinary music than Jonathan Biss? The whole series is utterly compelling. It's made me listen to and absorb the sonatas in a whole new way, and it's opened my eyes to the full scope and scale, beauty and humour of Beethoven's genius in a way I'd never imagined possible. Can't wait for more new lectures in the future. +I'm not a musician and have little knowledge of classical music, but I figured that an on-line course would be a great way to gain some understanding of this type of music. Mr. Biss made the course both enjoyable and educational. While I wasn't able to comprehend all of the concepts, it wasn't for lack of a clear explanation and demonstration. Somehow, I managed to pass all of the quizzes and came away with an appreciation of Beethoven's music. +Perfection, both in content and execution! +A great pianist and teacher, bravo Maestro +This is a great course! I Highly recommend it to anyone like me struggling to find meaning in musical harmony in general. The interest in sonatas is a great side effect! And the way Mr. Biss emphasizes and explained the passages, this is just extraordinary. I am looking forward to any new courses from this great teacher! +This is, out of all the courses/studies I have done in my whole life, my favourite of all time. Mr Biss is a a wonderful lecturer. +Very insightful and inspiring +I rediscover the beauty of Beethoven's piano sonatas through Mr. Biss clear, interesting and engaging lectures. I like the fact that he himself is a performing pianist that made all the demo very enjoyable and convincing.Also, I did not quite understand the greatness of Beethoven's late sonatas before and now I almost cannot pass by a week without listening to one. Thanks for introducing me to the world of late period of Beethoven. Now there is much more to be explored: string quartets, piano trios, missa solemnis, etc. +Instructor is amazing! The best! +I am about three-quarters of the way through this course and I am completely enamoured with Beethoven in ways that were impossible before taking this course. I love the depth that Professor Biss imparts without ever getting pedantic or overwhelming. I have now listened to all 32 sonatas, some several times more over the past several weeks and I feel so fortunate that I can love this music in a deeper, more passionate way because of the understanding I have gleaned from this class. Highly recommended for all musicians and music-lovers. +great teacher +Pretty good! +Excellent, great fun, Jonathan Bliss is a top teacher, thanks !!!!! +Very good demonstration and analyse on Beethoven sonata and raise your interest in further exploring classical music +A must-take for all classical music lovers. +This is one of the best music courses in Coursera. Jonathan Biss is not only one of the great players of our time, but also manages to simplify and deliver outstanding quality content for learners in any theroetical +Excellent course! I learned a ton and the challenge level was just right. +Great, very satisfying to understand what's going under the hood of a computer. +Excellent intro to basic computer architecture. +Great course! Thanks a lot +This course is one of the best ones I've ever taken on Coursera. +The best course of this segment +simple with challenges +I cannot recommend this course enough! Although I have developed software professionally for almost 20 years, some areas beneath the high-level languages I create software with felt like dark mysteries. This course was extremely helpful in illuminating many of those areas. If you develop software professionally but did not graduate college with a computer science degree, I highly recommend this course to you. +Perfect :) +Fast paced but very interesting course. The teachers are brilliant and teach very clearly. I knew some digital electronics and programming, but this course helped me fill the gaps in my knowledge very well.Already enrolled in Part 2! +learned a lot from the course. this is a very useful course. +The course was very informative and interesting , I had a tough time doing the assignments but it was worth learning.Definitely a interesting insight into the building blocks of a computer. +I got principles of computer +This is a brilliant course for those who want to learn how computers really work. It takes a bottom up approach to build a computer all the way from logic gates to the CPU and the complete architecture. You get a tremendous sense of satisfaction running a program on a computer that you built.This course is especially useful for people interested in working in computer architecture or systems, but I would recommend it for everyone studying or working in computer science and engineering. +I only audited the course due to shortage of time. A complex topic like computer hardware architecture can't be taught as simple and nice as like in this course..I took many moocs and this is one of the best. I also loved the end of the lectures named as "perspectives" which is about the questions of students mostly ask about the relevant week's topic. Thank you lecturers a lot and a lot and a lot.. +Great course! I had tons of fun. Thank you! +This is an Amazing course !! A must take for cs enthusiasts +Great course! +Excellent course, i liked so much the content and the way to acquire knowledge throw practice. +This is the best course I've taken in my life +One of the best courses ever! +I really liked it and I'm going to take part II +Fabulous experience. Did it with my 10 year old son. We both loved it. +If you love computers or programming, this course is must. +An excellent course provided by phenomenal professors! Everything is broken down into simple, easily understandable portions, and leaves you with a clear idea how to proceed to solve a given problem. +Brilliant course! Very exciting. By my opinion, it could be better if it was more complicated to provide more challenges for experienced software developers, but this revision also is very good. Thanks to the authors. It was very interesting to fill this gap in my knowledge. +Amazing course, I really enjoyed it, I recommend to all who wish to understand better about the computational architecture from its foundation. +I would highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to challenge themselves to learn how computers _really_ work. +participation by the professors in the discussion forums , would in my opinion get this 5 star rating, overall a very innovative & fun course +Fantastic course which gives a wonderful overall insight of how computers are built upand working! +Awesome course. I've already recomme +Great course. Both simplified and interesting. +very interesting, constructed well and in escalating difficulty level.cons: hard to debug using the emulators +Amazing course. It helps very much to get an idea of the computer hardware. +Very succinct. Not a lot of hand holding. +Very interesting and well-structured course. Manages to explain something very complex by splitting it into manageable sections. I am enrolling in the second part as soon as I can! +The HDL syntax I felt was a bit fiddly, and sometimes hard to find the relevant technical details such as language definitions in the videos, but overall a very interesting and enjoyable course. Happy to pay for it despite it essentially being available free. +First Class Systems-approach Introduction to Computing! Together with the corresponding Textbook "Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles" published by MIT Press, this is probably THE BEST and most comprehensive course and Intro available - for both self-educated and degree-educated Knowledge-Seekers - into the vast subject of Computer-Science/Electrical-Engineering. Very practical and hands-on, but still conveying the relevant theory. A great second Computer-Science course, e.g after the traditional "Introduction to Computer Science" and before a dedicated Algorithms module. +Really Awesome Course, loved it !!! Very thankful to the instructors for sharing their knowledge, passion, efforts and time. I learned a lot from the course and it helped clarify a lot of concepts. Thanks again. +Great course! +Just the course I always wanted to take. I've been working for some 5 years in IT as a programmer with a background in mathematics. Since my education in university did not cover the low level details of how things really work deep down, I was always befuddled by the mystery of computers. This course helped to clear things out for me! There is a bit less mystery to it now, but even more admiration. Thank you very much Noam and Shimon for making things so accessible. I am looking forward to building a compiler in part II! +Fascinating course. Where is the part two? +Very fast paced overview of the computer hardware. Excellent material with a focus on the practical side. +By constructing a computer from its foundational components, this course demystifies how computers work. You gain insight into how your code is executed by the CPU, how the CPU manipulates memory, even how it works with additional hardware components such as your monitor and keyboard. After going through the first part of the course, you'll gain a deeper understanding of how the code you write runs on hardware. If you are the curious sort and enjoy peeling back layers in order to figure out how things work, you should definitely go through this course. +This course helps me learn the fundamentals of CS. +This course is worth every hour you spend on it, it is by far the most accomplishing course I took. +I am eternally grateful for everything you both faculty Shimon Schocken, Noam Nisan taught me.Really before the commencement of course I was thinking that this course will be boring.But after I started watching videos, the ultimate guidance and effort done by all the members of this course inspired me a lot.The course content is awesome. I am very happy that I build the computer. It was really amazing experience.Once again millions of thanks to teaching and non teaching staff.Thank YouHimanshu Tiwari +I loved this course. Some criticism though is that the course doesn't go into detail on the architecture of modern day computers. Also, some things were simplified in the course, which is a little disappointing. However, I did get to build my own computer, and I learned quite a lot from this course, so it was definitely worth spending time taking the course. +Very good, complete, and well thought-out course. Enjoyed every lesson and task. Gives you an excellent overview of what a computer essentially is. 5 stars! +Wow, super challenging and interesting.Loved it, now I understand the fundamental of computing ALU, RAM, ROM and Nand :) +Learned a lot of thing that I was previously unaware of. +The course is good. I just do not give five stars because we have to pay to atempt pass. +11/10 On IGN; Must have for people who want to make computers +The most amazing online course. I love how it is project based. Everything you learn is straight away applied to building the project and it it made me look at so many things in life differently due to the way it breaks down the concept of abstraction. +It's an excellent practical approach to understand the inner workings of a computer at a very low level. The instructors teach at a comfortable pace and cover in great detail even the simplest of topics. More light could have been shone on how and why the control bits produce the desired output in the ALU. +The best ever~! +It was really enlightening to build a simple architecture from scratch! Thanks! +thank you for such a great course :D +Simply great +Fun course to take. Makes you realize how much we depend on abstraction in our world. A few notes on documentation (your own code) and version-control would complete it... +just what i wanted +I love this course, I think it's one of the best I did in the past few years, most of the content are material that I read over twenty years ago, but the style and projects in this course bring the subject to another level.The course is fun, and by the end of it I had a working virtual computer from the components I built, running machine code from the assembler I wrote. The course is fun, it's clear, simple to follow, and the instructor are great.The truth is I felt a little sad that the course ended :). Looking forward for the second part of it. +I love you guys, Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken, for this tremendously successful course! I never thought I could acquire even a basic understanding of the inner computer structure in less than 6 weeks and honestly at first I had doubts if I would be able to finish it and now by your help we have created yet another computer!You are the brilliant example of how a proper education system can hugely intensify the students' learning abilities.I Surely recommend this course to everybody regardless of their study/educational background in order to "demystify" the computer in their minds.However, I need to remind others that the course sometimes really challenges you and you might need to think a bit hard to solve the projects. Nonetheless the teaching materials are extremely sufficient for resolving any kind of problem you might have, given you spend enough time on it!I am eagerly waiting for the second part of the course.My heartfelt thanks goes to everyone, Coursera and any other individual and instructors, who has made this wonderful course available to the world! +Very good cource, but only first part of it +Great course for understanding the bottom layer of computers +Amazing course, with the perfect ratio between depth and abstraction. For me the computer is no longer a magic box that does tricks. +This course is awesome and fun and very rewarding. I learned so much about how computer memory works! Pointers make sense now that I understand the basics of lower level computing. +A very amazing course for the computer system! +nice lecture to know someting about the elctronics ...thanks... +Great course to understand how the computer "black box" works at a fundamental level. Looking forward to the 2nd half of this course! +This is an amazing class! The software and unitests provided worked seamlessly - just as described. The lectures excellent pedagogical expositions. The class has also made me appreciate the intellectual beauty of computer science; I used to think programming was somewhat boring and hack-ish, especially compared to mathematics. I'm looking forward to the second part. Also, the book is just as good as the lectures! +Fantastic course! Everything you've ever wanted to know about the computer is taught here! Cannot wait to start the second part!!! +The first part of this course gives excellent introduction to base computer hardware principles. +The course is well structured, leading the learner through project based learning from one conceptual level to another. It's completion was very satisfying and I look forward to From Nand to Tetris II. +I have never wondered building a computer by simple logical elements until I found this course!This course is simple and funny. +It was a great experience building a computer hardware from first principles. I am wondering if I can build this architecture on an FPGA@ +This is a great course that explained every thing from gates to actual PC very clearly.I'd recommend this course to any one who try to fresh up computer science basics.I only have a small suggestions, the four week taught about machine language, fifth week taught about the CPU-ROM-RAM architecture. From the first three weeks, (in my own opinion) I feel the order should be reversed. +Must take course for all technology and computer enthusiasts. +This help me learning some basic concepts in CS. It worths to take! +Amazing and well structured course work. The end was challenging but it was worth it! +Fantastic. Quite difficult for me, but I learned the material along the way. Fantastic way to train yourself to think logically and parsimoniously. And the computer knowledge is invaluable. +Challenging, Eye-Opening, Fun, Well made, Well run, and Well assesed +Excellent introduction to how computer works.Looking forward to part 2 of the course on Coursera! +Fantastic course. I recommend it to anyone who not only want to know how a computer works, but want to build one out of transistors. +An amazing course that gets you started with whats inside a computer, and how it works. +I have completed the course and I must say it is one of the best courses I have taken because it is very clear all the information. In addition, the development of the projects allow you to learn in a deep way. +one of the best courses one can take to understand how computers are build from ground upThe course is organized in such a way such that its very easy to understand and relate +This course is an outstanding survey from logic gates through assembler. At the end you will have the gate level design of an elementary CPU and RAM, and the mysteries of machine code will be revealed. I am an older learner returning to computer science after a twenty-year absence. I had previously been exposed to this material, so I was refreshing my knowledge. It took me about 5-6 hours per week. If someone is brand new to these concepts, the syllabus may move a bit fast for them, and they should expect to spend some additional time to absorb the material. It is an outstanding survey course that together with part II will help you understand how all the hardware and software layers of a computer system fit together. I recommend this course without reservation. +Really good one. Would be 5 stars if there was better support. +This class teaches some very important subject regarding computer hardware design and low level languages. I found it very challenging but not too challenging, except the 4th and 5th week which were very difficult to complete. +This is a brilliant course. The information is presented in a structured and clear manner. The assignments are very interesting and really test your logical thinking.I am looking forward to studying the second part. +Had A lot to learn from this course ... Thanks +Very interesting course for those who want to fully understand the inner workings of a computer.However, the utilities offered are a bit neglected. Be prepared to fight bugs on your own. +Excellent,fun and highly very organised course. You'll be amazed just how quickly you "build" your very own computer, from the humble NAND gate to a working machine. +One of the best course on introduction to computer. Easy to follow. Well documented problem sets and instructions. +I was skeptical of HDL at first, and wished that the course had used a more industry-friendly language. I'm glad the instructors addressed this in the course. The HDL language used in the course is simple enough that hardly any time is "wasted" learning it. +Computer system internals, hardware and software architectures, concept of abstraction, divide and conquer method, the fun of building hardware, and the fun of writing programs, all combined into this course, in an organised way, I can't think of a better course and a better teaching! +Amazing course, I can actually build a computer from scratch. I love this course! +A fantastic course that should be considered as a requirement for any one working as a software developer. The tutors did an excellent job here, the course material was clear, and the assignments were fun and rewarding.I can honestly say I've now built my own computer from simple Nand gates and it was fun and educational. +Excellent course! I'm extremely looking forward to part 2. +Used this course to bolster my study group as we went thru the book. GREAT experience! +Simply takes your breath away to learn how computers are built from the ground up. This is like an art appreciation course ... but for a crucial technology that permeates every moment of our modern lives.Starting with the simplest pieces and moving all the way up to a functioning computer you will build nearly all the pieces with your own hands. You will learn how hardware is designed in the real world by actually making your own gates as well as an ALU - an absolutely delightful experience. You will then get your hands dirty with some assembly language - seeing how symbols are translated into bits before moving on to put together your functioning computer.The course is great because there is very little yak-shaving for you to do ... most of the boring stuff is actually handled by the software provided in the course. You get to focus on the joyous acts of discovering things for yourself and putting together the pieces of the puzzle at every stage.Many thanks to the professors and their team for taking the time to put this course together and for making something that's very abstract for most of us into something that's concrete and accessible.Thank you! +Fantastic course. I found it challenging enough to keep me interested, but not so difficult that I got annoyed or frustrated. However, a lot of the material I found to be a re cap of concepts I was already vaguely familiar with having worked in IT for 20 years. A true beginner would most likely find some of the concepts difficult to start with - but keep at it! +This is a concise overview of computer science. If you could only take one course in this whole field. This would be the course to take. +It gets more and more fun +Very insightful and awesome ....I am enjoying it !! Great work and efforts from both the professors ....respect ! Can't wait for the next course from NAND to Tetris II ...! :) +Excellent course with a layer-by-layer explanation on how to go about building a modern computer. +I've always been wondering how people make circuits work the way they want it to, and now it no longer puzzles me! Thanks guys for your work on this great lecture! +Very useful but I'm waiting for part 2. +awesome class +I think this is one of the BEST class on coursera.Instructors use a very efficient and easy way to teach the essence of computer architecture. +Great glass! The assignments were well designed and a lot of effort was put in to making sure students could understand what they were supposed to do. I've found that good assignments are were most other courses are very lacking. Having good assignments is what really motivates me to finish a class, and it's what helps me verify I've actually learned something. +This is one of the best CS courses I've taken so far. It's great to see how easy it is to build a simple yet powerful computer on your own, and it has given me for the first time the feeling of really understanding what's going on at the low level.The complete course is centered about the project of building a computer, so there are no quizzes and only few theoretical background lectures here. If you want a hands-on introduction to computer engineering, this is the way to go. +This is in my opinion the best course on computer hardware for beginners ever created anywhere, to date. Get ready to think and work though. It's not for lazy people that want it easy.Completing every module is a rewarding and satisfying experience and the teachers are great. +Good starting point but very slim on the 'why's and the hardware is quite unlike anything you'd find in real life. In addition, I feel they leave too much unsaid and rely on visual comprehension far too much. I had to use the book to figure out the last two weeks. Overall, I did learn the more practical sides of hardware that other textbooks failed to convey. If they would add a Status register and break 'branching' into a separate instruction then I'd be happy with the CPU. +Very interesting subject. The course is very well organized and clearly explained. The projects are progressively challenging and all of them are engaging. I have learnt a lot of things. +Excellent! I have my degree in EE and thoroughly enjoyed this trip. I highly recommend this course. +Excellent course with the brillian presentation. +This is a course makes people learn what was actually happening in the computer. It inspires me profoundly. +Excellent course! I thoroughly enjoyed it. +They claim it is the best computer science course ever. It is true! +The projects/assignments are awesome. Lots of fun. Very clear lectures.One thing is reading how the Computer works from books/articles. The other is to actually build a working CPU/Computer from nothing but Nand gates. Can't beat that. +Simply awesome. By no means does this course teach you everything about building a computer but it introduces you to the subject better than any other course that I have ever come across. It gives a voluminous amount of detail about low-level computing but the instructors took great pains to do so in a very accessible and easy manner. Thereby, the magic of low-level computing is made available for everyone regardless of who they are. Beautiful. +The projects are to die for. +I am a chinese student. I still can't express my words in English freely , so I just say thank you. +A very good self-contained course which takes you from "knowing nothing" to "building your very own virtual computer". +This is the best MOOC I have ever taken & it competes with brick & mortar courses. It is a truly *amazing* MOOC and I cannot wait until Part II comes out. +Great hands-on course with exhaustive and self sufficient material +Excellent pace and instructors. +Excellent best online course ever, very didactic an fun. It motivates you to continue learning and complete the course +Amazing Class! +The greatest lecture ever made for computer composition principles! +I submitted homework for week 1. I get an email telling me I did not submit. Then week two the course makes references to material not covered in week 1. it looks like a week is missing between week 1 and week 2? +Excellent course, didactic and informative. Every step is natural and easy to understand. Recommended to anyone who wonder how they work this incredible machines. +Boring course! +The course is fantastic. The teachers are both very good at explaining the concepts and the project assignments. The experience of building a computer from basic logic gates is enlightening and the course material is very good and straightforward. I also bought their book (The Elements of Computing Systems) which is also very good and I recommend. It's a very rewarding experience. We really learn how computers *work*. +I read the book before, it was translated in Chinese. It's really a good book and in very good topic. +Having none prerequisite is quite surprising indeed. +you get really great intuition about how compu +brilliant lecturer. i love the analogies. they make everything much easier to understand. +fantastic course so helpfull +It gave me you a comprehensive and up-do-date vision of the state of the art on current studies in cosmology for a high school level audience. Very well done. Thank you, professor Murayama, for this unvaluable initiative. My science students, at elementary school, will benefit enormously from the knowledge I've got through your lectures. Greetings from Brazil. 8-) +interesting course +Very interesting but too many informations on a short course +Just brilliant. This is one of the best Coursera courses I've ever done. +It was an excellent course with things broken to layman terms. I loved it. Looking forward to have more courses from Murayama sensei :) +Very good explanation by the professor. I have learnt a lot from this. +this is the best course ever +My jaw dropped at the gluon field. Amazing! +I loved this course... It made me realise how small we are yet how big!!! It helped me understand various aspects of universe and also about quantum physics...Thank you so much for the course.. +This course is interesting and well presented. The lecturer injects humour as well as a sense of curiosity into the topics. However, I would have liked to see more mathematics and derivation of justifications of theories. Much of the material was presented as mere facts or observations with little attempt to show reasoning which leads to the conclusions. +The course is well laid out and Professor Murayama is an excellent teacher. His way of teaching has definitely increased my interest in the universe. I now prefer to read articles and watch programs about universe than any other. +Loved every minute of it. Thank you! +Very interesting course. The Lecturer explained things in simple terms making it easy to understand +Great professor! great sense of humor, comprehensible way, essential data. Loved it! +Perfect corse and perfect professor. +Very good! Lecturer use very good metaphor to help understanding. +Great! +This is an awesome course.The simulation are very practical and helpful. You will know many interesting facts. +both highly enlightening and entertaining. +A wonderful and knowledgeable course +Really awesome course!! Loved It. +Maybe the best course I have taken so far. Very interesting subject great professor and perfect distribution of content. Would like to see another course by professor Murayama in the future. +Enjoyed this informative course... Some of it was a little over my head, but then a lot has changed science I was in HS and college. +I am so grateful for this course. It is very informative and well developed. +very good course with a lot of news from the field of science +this course introduces the whole story from big bang to Dark Matter and Dark Energy, with a few math. It is not hard for any one who got a high school degree to understand the details. +This course is the best suited for the people who truly wants to understand the working of the universe and what will happen in the future. This was the best course I have experienced. The teacher was fantastic and it was enjoyable throughout. +Amazing Course!! +Very interesting and well presented +its a great thing to be part of it +extremely good course for learning basic knowledge of our universe. +very well explained and informative +The organization of this course is very clear!I learn a lot from this course. +Probably the best course I have taken - perfect introduction to Cosmology. +Very good! I want know a qualitative approach. +Clear and sympathetic, well done! +Awesome course. I really enjoyed it. +An excellent introduction to our current understanding of the universe. +Fantastic course! Awesome professor, very witty humorous and creative in explaining! Big recommendation for this course! Hope to see more like these ones! +best description by instructor +The course gives a very good overview of the current state of knowledge about our universe and is simply to understand. +awesome course, perfect for learning interesting stuff in your free-time, please more and longer courses! +Very interesting and helpful! +Very informational, I enjoyed it very much. A great add-on to physics class. +Best on the interest for this topic +This course is very nice, just needs more details in the lectures to explain some difficult points in a simple way. And the homeworks could be much comprehensive to help students understand the rational of each theory. Although this could require adding more weeks but up to 8 weeks is worth doing as this course is essentially taken by students with research goals (like me). I hope we can see some improvements in this course year. +Very interresting course! I have learned a ot about the Big Bang processe and the inflation. +Very informative, and he keeps it interesting. +100% worth your time ! Astronomy is my passion, and I wanted to apply my knowledge elsewhere while at the same time enhancing my understanding for the subject. I hope to do some form of Astronomy/Astrophysics course at university and this online course has been perfect in helping me to discuss my extra work/reading around the subject. +Excellent course!Great updated information with crisp explanations from professor Michihiro Kandori +Very interesting, deep enough without using very difficult maths (although I think too much for a person without a minimum background in spite of claiming the information of the course it is not necessary) +an amazing class :) +Great course, actually interesting, scientific and very useful for those of us that like science and want to comprehend a little more about our universe +A bit too much math in the questions, although it seemed (in the videos) that we could skip it. I'm very visually oriented (and also a MENSA member), and I would have explained more with graphics. Or at least not have to much 'equations' in the questions. +I've learned a lot of new stuff in this course. +Simple. Informative. Neat and smart. +Wonderful course with excellent explanation +I love this course!! Great PowerPoints and presentation. It is very up to date. I am glad I got to binge watch this class. i would hate to have waited a week to see the next episode. The professor was fantastic! (He has a very subtle sense of humor that you have to watch for. ) I highly recommend this class for those interested in the topic. +Very complex topic and also the one of most curious one too. A very good amount of knowledge one can gain about the big bang and our universe. Straight forward lectures through images and animations. but I feel that some of the explanations were very twisted in the 3rd week although I understand that the subject itself is one of the most complex topic of the research and these are scientists and not teacher but there is this room for the improvement. Also the quizzes were too easy and very straight forward and don't test the understanding of the topic very much. I am a very big supporter of the Coursera, I have stared many courses but due to some reasons couldn't complete any, this is the 1st course that I followed till the end. Thank you Coursera for this wonderful opportunity. +Extremely informative and well designed for beginners +its a very basic course helps you a lot if . you don't have much background in the feild +Excellent course with clear, not too technical, explanations. highly recommended. +I get lost by the end, but was a great course, now I understand alot of things +Not what I expected +That's an amazing course! very good,vrey meanningful +Excellent piece of work for beginners.Created interest in the subject. +Amazing course. Gives a great feel of what has been discovered and what is going on in latest research about the science of universe. I highly recommend this. And I will be waiting for more advance course. +Prof. Hitoshi Murayama has Scienced the course out of dark matter! Amazing introductory course for young aspiring minds. Professor has taken a cosmic ride through the greatest minds of our history. It is structured beautifully like an atom, into four lectures, each more thought provocative than the latter. Can be completely understood by anyone with curiosity and high school knowledge of basic science. +The professor is one of the best professor in the whole world in my humble opinion. +Prof. Hitoshi Murayama gives a clear presentation on the most important topics in modern physics. As I am a physics student, I really appreciate Prof. Hitoshi Murayama's class. +A very complete course of the throughout history of the mystery space! Rate it! +Great course! +This course offered a well organized and clearly articulated presentation to understanding of the complexity of the universe. I would highly recommend taking this class. +The course is for a novice. There are some mathematical treatments which need understanding of physics and mathematics of 12th standard in India. But they are in small parts and can very well be skipped.I would advise any curious person who wants to know what's going on in the frontiers of physics esp cosmology to take this course.I would love to see a Hindi translated version of this course or some similar course which will be very beneficial for Indians with little or no expertise in English. +A great course for the beginner to get their teeth into, very well taught and interesting. +It was the best course I have ever come across about universe. The course is divided into four lectures of increasing complexity. It begins with every day phenomena like day and nights, seasons and takes you to solar system, galaxies, stars, particle accelerators, Higgs boson, dark matter, dark energy to big bang and inflation theory.I would recommend this course to anyone who is curious to know about origin and possible fate of our universe. +Very interesting.Professor Murayama explains really well lots of things with... few times. This course is very intensivebut so interesting.If you like astronomy you cannot miss this one! +Immensely enjoyed a highly technical course diligently presented in a very comprehensive way. It answered many questions I had in my mind but had not been answered +Very interesting programme about astronomy and physics. +I loved this course (in spite of my poor performance in the mathematics related parts of the lecture). The presentation made dense and difficult concepts understandable. +そんなに教授に感謝Interesting course!What are we made of?How about having devices in capturing and measuring our souls when we have stopped breathing?It could be in a form of energy returning to the universe, could it be the Dark Energy? +an excellent course,only one problem: it explain a little bit of equations +Very interesting course and good information. Could you more explanation and exercises to bridge gaps for those that are new to the field. +very nice course. I found the way the material was presented interesting to follow and learn something new even I had cosmology before. +Its very informative but not attractive. +More interesting than science fiction! 😁 +The contents of this course will be familiar to anyone who reads popular science books. The course is useful mainly for pulling various strands together, but don't expect much depth. +Very good course.Gives a strong knowledge of space and universe to those who seek that knowledge. +Excellent, I dont know a lot of word because I speak spanish if the course was in spanish it would be amazing +really good, with a bit of humor thrown in here and there +Thank you very much! +Very nice lecture(s)... +A great course from a Great Professor.I really enjoyed this course and i am kinda sad that is over.It was even irrelevant to my field of study ,but professor Murayama made it so easy to understand like i have been studying this subject my entire life.I highly recommend it to everyone!! Thank you so much ! +Very interesting! The flow of the subjects was very helpful +Introduces many interesting topics. +clear explanation and is helping a lot to broaden my general knowledge. Thanks a lot +Overall a really good course. I learnt a lot about astronomy from this 4-week course. +Very well taught and easy to understand even for a beginner :) +I want to say I like our teacher very much. Thank you so much. +The course is really good. It touches various topics of cosmology. Moreover not too much of mathematics is used. And Hitoshi Sir was really good in the explanations. Highly recommended. +This was an excellent course! It was very interesting, well-explained, and easy to follow (even for someone like me, who isn't necessarily up-to-date on mathematics). Can't recommend enough! +I am deeply satisfied with the course . It was my priviledge to study from the professor. Sir Hitoshi Murayama was amazing .He lectures were wonderful.Course contents were nicely organised .I want to thank the professor and of course, Coursera team for providing long distance education to the ones who look for it. +Fascinating course and great teacher! +Very Good course +lifelike and easily accessible +Excelent course presented by a brilliant mind. +Awesome course! Recommend it for anyone who is interested in Astrophysics but doesn't know where to start! +Excellently taught by Prof Murayama. Looking forward to more such courses. (Y) +Excellent Course. Mr. Murayama is a talented lecturer and he made the subject matter very interesting. Brilliant examples, fun assignments, and a very well paced curriculum and structure. Highly recommended. +As my first course here on Coursera, I was happy with the way everything was taught. +The professor explains concepts is such an easy way, that it is hard to believe the complexity of what you have learn't.The professor makes this course the most interesting course on the cosmos in coursera +This course is informative and very interesting, the Professor explains concenpts in a clear way. Thank you so much! +Excellent! Thank you ;) +Really amazing presentation and explanation given by Hitoshi Murayama. +In spite of no background of science I could understand most of this course! That's incredible communication skill! Thank you! +Great course , very much informative. +Excellent content in simple words. Many Thanks to Tokyo University. +Very interesting topics, nice pictures and animation in the videos, the lecturer with deep insight into the problems. +Introductory material presented by an authority in the field. Assignments were not difficult in the least. Entertaining and well done. +Dear Professor Murayama!Thank you for the amazing course—simple to perceive, short, and yet filled with lots of interesting information!As a person with very little background in this area, I started to understand much more about our wonderful world—with the help of your lectures.Best wishes and regards,Alla +It was not difficult to follow the course in terms of the mathematics. I wish there was a follow up course on all the mathematical side to the things explained here. The materials were arranged very creatively with a good flow which made a lot of things clear to me than any other thing I have read or watched up to this point about this area of physics. +I really enjoyed this course a lot. However i am not familiar with Math, i could pass this course with 92.8% and for me this high grade.Thanks a lot for Tokyo University and Prof.Maruyama who exerted a great effort in this course , and Also i wanna thank Coursera Team too, because made this course available to students who live in arid countries.Ahmed Osama Abdelnaeem. +Very interesting +Very well presented, excellent! +Gain moreLearn more +It is a little bit hard for the newbie of astronomy. But I do learn a lot from your course. It is quite interesting. Thank you. +A great review of current advancements in physics presented in a manner comprehensible to people with basic physics knowledge. Only issue was with some slides which had text in colours which was difficult/impossible to read for my type of color blindness. +Really nice course. I would highly recommend to anyone interested in entry level physics of the Universe. +Excellent teaching :-) +course contains subjects of interest and curiosity. +Very impressive approach to make such a complex topic accessible to everyone.Physics often requires being able to simplify concepts at first so they can then be pushed to larger horizons later, and Pr Murayama does it brilliantly. +Great course, keep going and thanks for your time to explain all this things +Well informative course . Liked it very much. +Very interesting course, with clear explanations and easy to follow!!! I loved it! Strongly recommend for those with any interest in the universe! +Really useful +Amazing course! +A masterful presentation that is sweepingly universal of the current understanding of science and theory of physics. It is presented in a manner that is readily understandable for both the layman as well as professional. It is a great and engrossing presentation esp. for the novice to understand the nature of the universe. +Strongly recommend to all who interested in astrophysics.This course is very good for high school students or for students of 1st year at the university +Nice course overall. On B-mode polarization, the recent results from the BICEP2 observatory was something that I expected to feature in the course content. +Excellent and clear explanations. +Just awesome. The way course was designed was great. Will highly recommend every one who wants to have a understanding of the universe. +very interesting!!. I´ve learned so many things in it, that I can use in my daily life. +It was a wonderful experience. +Entertaining way to learn about an interesting subject. +very good course, although the very beginning is very basic. exceeded expectations. I would have liked it to have the video transcripts, as i like to have another source for learning and understanding the contents. i liked the professor and his attitude. i think some things are left kind of unanswered or implicit, which for someone who is not directly involved with the subject confuse me. maybe Q&A sessions with the professor would also be a good idea besides the recommended transcripts. overall it was very good +From the Big Bang to Dark EnergyA very interesting survey of the universe from the big bang to the possible future of the universe. Professor Hitoshi Murayama presents the course in a very unassuming and welcoming manner. The idea of dark matter is explained in the problem of galaxy rotation speed, and the idea of dark energy is introduced to explain the strange idea that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. The idea of discovery of Higgs, dark matter, Cosmic background radiation and atom formation related to the time history of the universe is also introduced. Future telescope/spectroscopic experiments are given in the last lecture, and can be further looked at on the web with more understanding from this course. +Very interesting. If you were curious about what is happening in this universe, you should take this course. +Great course, the professor keeps it straightforward, interesting and fun/light-hearted. Highly recommend it to anyone new to Cosmology and particle physics. +Interesting course and a nice start into gaining more knowledge about the universe and what its future is. +Very entertaining +4 stars I given because there is no mathematical calculation +The whole course was great. Every lecture was interesting to watch and easy to learn +simple and don't need much background knowledge +Very good course, superbly explained. He really knows his stuff. I'd recommend this course anytime, hands down. +Excellent course. One of the best. Related complex subject matter in a understandable way for those who have some basic background in this area.I took this course twice. Liked it better the second time. Highly recommended. +Very good to get general Idea about the big bang, higgs boson, dark matter, dark energy, and antimatter. How were they discovered and what are their effects. +This was one of the best courses I have taken on Coursera. The professor was articulate, the material was organized, and the graphics were clear and helpful. I completed all the quizzes and completed the course. I do not want a certificate as I am well past the employment phase of my life. I enjoy the courses to help keep my brain's neurons connected. I would enjoy any other courses that Prof. Marayama teaches.Joem D. Phillips +An exciting adventure through the most recent discoveries in the worlds of astronomy, astrophysics and related sciences. Without requiring any mathematics or physics skills, the course is useful for amateurs like myself trying to understand the fundamental questions and possible answers about the origin of our universe, its laws and structure as well as its fate. It is a pleasure to follow professor Murayama clarify these wonderful subjects. +I haven't finished yet, but the teacher is amazing and I am learning a lot. I am really enjoying it. Many thanks for sharing it! +Expect another course given by Hitoshi Murayama! +Excelente combination of theoretical physics and related mathematical explanations. Gave me more insight into physics in general than i was hoping for. +I've excitingly learned about form particle physics to cosmology in this course.I recommend this course for who want to get what universe in a nutshell.I believe that this course is a nice entry class of cosmology. +Great overview of the origin and history of the Universe +Really nice course but not so advance, more like popular-science but anyway you can learn a lot of interesting things. +Excelent course with an excelent teacher. +Great Course with superb videos and knowledge. Would like to work with you sir +Inspiring! I love this course, and my deepest thank to the professor for bringing so much insight, wonder and fun +The best course +Easy to understand! +Excellent course! Hope there are more of these! +Very good course. Loved the way the course is structured and presented. +simple clear and nicely explained topics. you are a great exponent. +Thank Hitoshi for exciting course! It's very interesting and particularly important for students to find out more about our Universe beginning, evolving and the probable end ;) In a sense you helped me to define in what direction I'd make a research. As mathematician I'd like to see more practical tasks at your course with more complicated calculations! +it is good course for me and i study more thing of universe ,think you +Awe-Inspiring course where I learnt many amazing new things. +excellent job from prof.murayama. easy to understand ! +Awesome course. The professor explains this very complex subject simply and fully. +Outstanding presentation! +Very good and complete course.After this course you will feel fulfilled and know you have accomplished something. +awesome course i ever had in this fieldjust like watching casmos +learnt the course with an ease. Trainers knowledge and teaching skill are very good. +The teacher is really intelligent and professionnal ! +Excellent course. Down to Earth videos, great approach. I really recommend it for those seeking to go a little bit deeper in the strange but fascinating world of sub-atomic particles. Thanks Proffesor Hitoshi Murayama! +its very helpful for those who wanted to learn about the origin of universe. +Thank you very much. I finally understood the essence of the theory of relativity.It is very very interesting course. +A waste of time. +Great course! +Great course!I'll do it again for fun :) +Very interesting, non-technical overview of modern day Physics, and the mystery of the Big Bang. Highly recommended for anyone with or without a mathematical background. +Excellent course and instructor. +It gives a very concise picture of astronomy in a very short time. Many of my concepts are now much more clear after taking this course. A great course and very well organized and presented. I really enjoyed it. +Nice course. It has touched week every topic, but the quizzes are badly done. +I love learning from a different prespective about Astron +Great course +Great course though at sometimes the images in the background were more distracting than useful. +It is an awesome course!! +It was a great course. I expanded my mind about learning after take this course. +It's a great course that provides a instruction manual for your brain in matter of learning efficiently +Helps me a lot understand how to organize knowledge and study better. Thank you very much! +I really like this course. I recommend for students and professors/teachers. It's a course gives you differents tools for the way you deal a complex concept or problem.Congratulations to the professors and also those involved directly and indirectly. +It's amazing course!!! +Thank you Coursera for showing me new ways of thinking and learning! +Has changed my way to see my life. Thank you soo much! +Excelent course! Many insights and tips really useful for improving learning on any subject. +Thank you to provide me a completely new perspective regarding how to learn more efficiently. For sure it was a milestone for my life. I will never going to learn again at the same way and it includes how to enjoy more and more all those courses available at Coursera website. Amazing! :) +Excellent! I'm learning great and important mental tools to brush up my mind +Very Good! Thanks for everything. See you. +This course it is greate, I learned a lot of. +Great course! +Life changing! +Great classes, but lack of practical examples. +I'm still watching the course but I can say, it'll change your life +Perfect course, perfect professor. +Great tips and mind tools to enhance your learning. Has a wonderful methodology and great analogies for better understanding . Recommend profoundly this course that may help in any forward and complex subject needed. +Very interesting techiniques it'll help you to focus and learn more! +This course changed my life! Totally cray! +I really love this course. +Loved it! +awsome course, until now. +MUITO BOM!!!!! +Very Good. +For me that course was amazing! Congratulations +Barbara Oakley developed a great course. Congrats ! I liked very much the extra videos, especially the interviews. +One of the best courses at Coursera! The best! The best! +It is an amazing course. I have learn a lot of techniques to learn better. +This is the best course I see in coursera until now. And it will help me to learn the others I wanted to. The teachers are great, they speak clearly and teach in a easy way. +This course was awesome! The professors broke the information down to make it simple and they made clear connections from the material to our daily lives so that we would know how to best utilize the new information. They made learning fun and everything in the course was useful to me. Thanks so much to the professors and to Coursera! +Thank you for giving me the tools to understand the learning process. I loved the course was very important to my life. +the beste! +Very interesting! It was a nice option to get into Cousera's courses. It makes us feel a little less dumb and brings some useful tools. +I loved to do this course, maybe never learned so much in just few weeks. Congratulations to the masters that presented the sessions. Thanks! +This Amazing Course +It's a very importante tool to improve the technics of study and learning. It's fantastic and so necessary for any student! +It is very good to understand how the brain works. I totally recommend the course. +Very good! Excellence Course and professors !!! +Very good !!!!!!! Recommended +I amazing this course, because now I can understand how the mind work. +This course is a prerequisite for any other course you are planning to take. Simple, direct, effective and with a real outcome in your learning, no matter which subject or material you are trying to master. I highly recommend it. +The course is very interesting and interactive, going between the theoretical and practical knowledge to help us learn how to learn.o curso é muito interessante e interativo, navegando entre os conhecimentos teóricos e práticos que nos ajudam a aprender a apreender. +Excellent!!! Very clear and practical course. +It's a great course! I recomend!! +helpful +This course helped me a lot to figure out how our brain works and we can take some benefits of this. +Great course which bring to us improvements in our way studying. +Great! +It's very, very interesting!! I'm loving the teachers and videos +Awesome course to improve yourself... It really helps to understand how your brain can be dominated in your favor! +The Best! (Muito Bom) +Dear Dra. Barbara,I'm really glad for has been done this course. The content is extremely helpful and your methodology show me the true way of learning. +Just great! +I loved everything. It helped me in my job, my day life and with my studies of course. +I loved this course. Eu amei esse curso. Descobri técnicas e dicas que irão me ajudar pelo resto da minha vida. That's really fantastic. Thanks Barb .Thanks Terry!! +Help me improve my knowledge of how to learn and now I can learn many things more faster than before. I love this course. +Very useful. I love it. +This is the best course I ever see about learning. +A life changer course +It´s amazing the tips in this course. I´m learnig a lot and I recomm +This course has opened new doors in my life. Thanks Coursera! +definitely worth following.. +Helloto all how works in this course thank you +My course 3/4 in this specialization is still incomplete because the questions had wrong answers in the module quizzes and it was literally taking HOURS to complete the quizzes because you had to guess which one of the wrong answers would be correct this time. The questions rotate through slightly different questions each attempt so you can't simply use elimination on each attempt, YOU GUESS EVERY SINGLE TIME. IT'S LITERALLY 100% LUCK! I thought maybe course 4/4 would be better but nope, same problems here. I've wasted over 6 hours in total trying to pass these broken tests and I'm completely over it. I also reached out to chat support, they went through and said they couldn't find anything wrong and couldn't help me and a refund was impossible because it's past the refund date. Even though I paid for 2 broken, un-proofread, time wasting courses. Also, in course 4/4, the math tables in the videos are staggered all over the place and looks terrible. Seriously an issue of someone not even looking at the video before publishing, would have taken less than 5 mins to fix for the entire course. Also, every time a "checkpoint" question is supposed to pop up, nothing happens. In every single video, they're all missing. I've used Coursera for a few other courses and thought they were reliable but this makes me think otherwise and I feel like such an idiot for paying $200 for this COMPLETE GARBAGE. Other people in the forums have shown they have the same problem posted over a month ago but nothing. Please, someone from Coursera get a hold of me and help me resolve this ridiculous problem. +Extraordinary, expecially for the updated content and innovative way of communication +I love the way this class was structured with short videos and readings - the concepts were clearly articulated and easier to absorb in this format. I found the content interesting and very relevant to my work in education, health promotion, and development. +This course is a capacity strengthening one for civil society operators, quite enlightening +A very interesting course. +Another great social norms social change online course. +Excellent, very well structured with equal info on theory and practice from the field! +Amazing course! I've learnt so much from it, gained some new perspectives and enjoyed all of the lectures. +A Good course with an informative execution centred curriculum +It was an amazing experience. +Very interesting co +Excellent course and practical approach +Great Learning experience & informative! +This was really a great course and it has given me tool s for proper investment. +An informative course ; helps in understanding the fundamentals of Behavioral Investing. +very informative and interestig course +Nothing much to learn, the videos were rather short. There's no lecture on computing the angles and the full features of the framework. The framework wasn't updated for Swift 3. +waste of time and money +Why there is no "minus one" star? Because one star is way to much for this course. Stay away! +In this capstone project, you're given a framework to work with, and asked to create an app with pretty minimal required criteria. The problem is, there's very little instructions or support, so it feels like a classroom where the instructor said "do whatever you want" and walks out of the door. Overall the specialization feels ill-organized and of questionable quality, and there are plenty of negative sentiments in the forums. +After the first week, the instructors never showed up to answer a single question in the forums. The capstone project itself was disappointing, I learned much more from doing my own app in class #3.I took the Coursera Android specialization, which was eons better than this. I would not recommend this iOS specialization to anyone. I would never again take a MOOC from U of Toronto. +A Wortlhy Course +This capstone project was a huge disappointment to me. The course caption stated that this would be where we would use Location, Design and Usability, and Persistence and Settings to build a high quality app. Also stated is that "you’ll apply your skills to create a fully-functioning photo editing app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch." Earlier I have also read that we would be allowed to build an app of our choice or according to teacher's specification. That text now seems to have been removed.Anyway, none of these promises were kept. Instead we got something like 20 minutes of lectures in total for the whole four weeks, all on a simple framework to track face features. Unfortunately this framework isn't very competent, so there's only so much you can do with it. Most of us have only placed some static images and simple animations on top of the face shown in the camera view, and that is actually enough to get full marks according to the form used in the peer review. How does that even begin to fulfil the promises of the caption?We have paid as much for this course as for the previous three. There should of course be a similar amount of lectures on more advanced topics like current best practises for UI design, the Location API which was promised, and other interesting things that provide the building blocks for a state of the art iOS app. For a real cornerstone project, I expect that more than 4 weeks would be necessary in order to be able to build a good app, since many of us are doing this on our spare time.I feel sad that I had the misfortune of signing up for this course before it was made, but hope that you will take our collective criticism and make a good course out of this for future students. +The capstone project had nothing to do with the previous three courses. +I'm kind of disappointed with this last level. It isn't really what i expected. +This is a joke. +If I could, I would rate it 0/5 stars.Do not, I repeat, DO NOT pay and enroll this course. And you will be disappointed if you do. There, now you have been warned.This part of the specialization has been put together in a haste, without effort and absolutely without any care of teaching. I'm completely shocked and disappointed.In other words:It is a complete joke and a sad excuse for a MOOC. Shame on you University of Toronto!Yes, harsh words, and here's why:The course description does not reflect the contents nor the final assignment. Face tracking? That's pretty far from what I expected from this when I paid $284 for the specialization.In total, there is only 25minutes of video lectures. Really? That's it? It's way too little for a capstone project course.Staff does not care about learners's concerns. Zero effort to respond in the discussion forums. It takes days before there is any response at all.The assignment descriptions and requirements are sparse and vague. Why are we doing face tracking when the description talks about location apis and "putting it all together"? +The course has been released way too early, clearly it lacks most of its content and what does exist isn't working properly either. +Expecting more hands on experience with big data frameworks like Hadoop or Spark. Instructions of the final assignment is very confusing, you don't actually know what it really want you to do until you go through all the Q&As in the discussion forum, which is really wasting time. +I really enjoy learning for the first time after a long time. I will keep learning. +In this great course the instructors cover a broad range of topics related to big data models that is perfectly designed. +Good information overall, but the "peer graded" assignment at the end is poorly designed and seems unnecessarily arbitrary. Not a clear value add over a "final exam" format to justify waiting days for someone to "grade" your work. Instructions for this assignment are poorly written and unclear - for example, completely NOT clear you are asking us to identify a primary key versus stating there is no primary key, etc. +It was a great course from the best place in the world and best instructors . +I've learned a lot of things about data models and new ways to process the information. I want to learn new knowledge of big data because I want to apply in my professional life +Nice course to describe the traditional data modeling (RDBMS) as well as various semi-structured and un-structured data modeling and management of the systems (Batch and Streaming data processing) +Excellent professors! Everyday was a new learning experience! +good cource +very nice and interesting course i recommend it for anyone start new in big data +Thank you! +good course +Very well explained +Very Good course +Best course on Various Big Data models and management systems. +IMHO it's better to reduce the scope but provide more details of key technologies. Final assignment is not well explained. +Course material is very poor and did not give much support for doing assignments. +Too simple, no programming, just theory. +Very informative course. +I thought this course was great. It gave a phenomenal overview of the tool sets out there and some good practical hands on with them. This series of course is a must for anyone wanting an overview and some hands on in the big data world +I don't feel this course is always very clear. I Feel that I usually am missing the big picture. I follow it in details, but the pace does not match in terms of how you can view the big picture of it. +Course is very good, and highly recommended.More practice on this course will be appreciated +1. The course is very general and high level introduction.2. During the lectures there are some examples that in some cases are presented as very small images and briefly. I personally could not understand some examples presented in week 5.3. I found the hands-on lectures very helpful. I wish there was more that would delve into more examples in more details.4. The course was very overpriced given the amount of information offered compared to other courses I have taken at coursera.Thanks. +This course captures the overview of Big data modelling concept in a very simple way. I found this course very useful. Instructors are good to explain the concepts. Though it would be good to add one or two (add-on or optional hands on exercises) handson for graph and tree data modelling. +The course content was not very appealing. Explanations were not that engaging. What I really missed was the actual practical aspect where you don't work with command prompt but an much more user friendly interface that is more up to date with current standards. +Not Very relevant and detailed as the previous course. The content is not as clear and simple as previous course +The final test has little to do with the course. You must do extra study to respond. +Simply another great course within Coursera courses, thank you very much. +This course is designed well +Good Course! +Some concepts can be simplified by using comprehensive examples.The course is overall great! +Pretty good overall, although some exercises are a bit difficult to understand from the descriptions and instructions given, some graphs and initial reference documentation for exercises might help +Peer Assignment is not too clear +Assum lectures! Cant except better than that challenging assignments. +There has been very few on-hands training. It's still very very at an introductory level. At some points it goes very deep, for example with the vectors for a document, but with the rest stay at a very high level. Open an excel sheet can not be considered training ... +This course offers very useful high level overview of concepts and ideas which make you feel confident in the long run. However, the course is extremely basic and does not go deep beyond the high level concepts. The hands on exercises are boring and do not engage students. The course needs to be improved to make it more useful for students. This course is not very worthy of the money. +Very helpful +The course takes a broad approach to the subject.What I miss: the study material should provide more and better organized (theoretical) information (e.g. on topcis like database design, data structures, etc.)What I like: presenting of current software projects around big data +Great course which gives you insights into Big Data Management and various product differentiation used for Big Data +Great course! Although I think it would be a good idea to have all the HANDS ON instructions downloadable as a PDF to keep in personal files. +Too high level. Last assignment too ambiguous, peer assessment was completely random and not reliable to pass the course. +The course a materials are interesting and with significant value, same comment on the teachers, this would be perfect if the third party(the VM) is working fine, I can't say I'm happy about the course where the frustration is probably the right word describing my feeling right now, wish me luck for this week, I might pass might not ...... +The course gives an extensive overview of the topic. I have particularly appreciated the hands on section.My recommendation to all the students is to not overlook the hands on and create some personal notes and code archive to quickly review those topics.Some particular good learning for myself: lucene. I have used lucene at work both directly and wrapped within elastic search: in both cases I was not going deep in understanding the data model behind lucene and concepts like similarity. You can leave like that in the vast majority of the current jobs where lucene is a third party system invoked upon needs but understanding the model behind was simply much more easy than I expected. +LEarned a lot, wasn't easy but it was manageble for someone like me who has no IT background +Overall relevant and clear presentations. Course material quite general, but I guess this is expected from an introductory-level course.Peer-reviewed assignment's instructions can be clearer. +So useful and focus on main basic aspects. +Really nice course learned much about MongoDB and Spark +I really wish I could give this course more stars, the content is great and well delivered and at a perfect level for someone like me who last worked with big data sets when 20Mb was absolutely enormous and Windows 3.1 was cutting edge technology. But and this seems to run across the whole specialisation, support from the course team varies between very patchy and none at all. Technical questions aren't answered for days if at all. +The way for going through of material and classes is now better. +I wish the courses are more project oriented. This is a very good introduction but, atleast you could provide some optional projects or some tasks. +Modeling is the start and gives an insight how to choose the correct model for a big data project. The correct choice of the model spells success for the project. Many data models were introduced and the hands-on exercises were helpful in better understanding of the concepts. +The level of the exercises and quizzes don't reflect the content of the course. +it was a little too slow but is ok, specially with beginners as me.it can be a little bit more interactive or didactical. +Reasonably good, but less structured and organized that the first course.I hope the next one will be better on this aspect. +Interesting. Sometimes a little bit overwhelmed by a lot of information within a single video but it gives you an overview of what is big data modeling and management systems. +The course was very informative. One suggestion would be to include more practical exercises as it would help in internalizing the concepts better. +The content of the course is very good, but the definitions and explanations are not straight forward. +This course is a valuable introduction to Big Data Models and Management Systems for a variety of data types. The hands on exercises and company use case examples provide helpful context and application of the concepts. This knowledge also provides the learner with more confidence in navigating big data conversations in a professional environment. +Good to understand Big Data. +As a manager in an IT consultancy, I can't justify sending my personnel through this course, even at $69 per course. The amount of information gained is very thin and does not move one toward being productive. +Thanks for the education! :) +Just about okay. Wouldn't recommend to pay for this. +Course is very much intresting and i learnt so many new things. +This was my second course of six. It was so theoretical but at the final exam it required so much exercises. I propose enrich the course with exercises and hands on +Great introduction to management systems. I would have more hands on exercises for the final week, but it was a great course overall. +Very good material and overview. However, still a little bit too basic. Fundamental management systems hands on should be much more intensive. +Poorly designed assignment on data modeling did little to expand my knowledge on the topic. Which is a shame since the individual lectures were well done and very interesting. The "Pink Flamingo" peer-peer-reveiwed exercise needs to go. +Good course! +The last peer review is really hard to do. Hard is because the wording is very ambiguous and not all understand how to review. There was a guy who answered with SQL query. This is hardcore since we have not learned that yet... +Peer-graded assignments are bad for multiple reasons. Most important one -- If I'm paying for this course I expect my work will be verified by skilled people, not by other "students". +Not worth your time or money. +it was nice but a bit complicated for beginner though i like it +Although Content quality was good, the content is too much less and could have been easily integrated to first course or other course in specialisation.Secondly Quiz were not challenging ,it was just too easy to pass, and this actually takes away the very reason they were employed in this course. +Not too much useful and practical knowledge. full of basic concepts +Very basic, the 'hands on' exercises are not very hands on and do not actually add much value +it's pretty good. I learn a lot, but some information is not enough, for example TF-IDF, and vector model +Interesting course :) +More practical exercises should be recommended. +A good course taking into account that it does not require previous knowledge. I am giving "only" 3 stars because for a basic (no previous requirements) course I would expect much more additional readings. On the other hand, if you have programming or database experience you will find some topics too "basic".I have liked it more than the first course on the specialization but I would expect more details (I think general topics are well explained). +3.5+ star course. I hope by studying the following courses, contents of this course prove to be more practical. +hard to follow not because it is difficult, but the lecture is only slides, texts, reading slides, very boring and not so many hand-on instruction. only thing i remember is the instructor's face after finish this class. Dont know why you add this into such a good specialist. +Wonderful course! Definitely worth taking! +1*(star) to the professor very difficult to understand the professor many times. Even the subtitles fail sometimes to present what he says. 5*(star) to the content of the course and especially the tool used to explain and learn the BI concepts. I have already recommended the tool to couple of companies. +Great +A lot of the lecture material is unclear and does not fit with the content I've learned from other BI books, lectures, and experience. Additionally, the quizzes don't seem to test for real-world BI knowledge, rather they test for the ability to interpret the instructors fairly unique views on some BI topics. Furthermore, the additional readings need to be culled significantly, it looks like someone just googled BI topics and then copy and pasted the links they found. Please prioritize the additional readings highest value to lowest value and then post only the 4 to 7 reading that rank the highest. A pairwise comparison process may be useful when doing this. +Good course! Although there was some grading issue for last assignment +The course was very helpful +In this specialization it are all good documented wel explained courses +good course +Awesome course with complete coverage to BI concepts in general and in specific to microstrategy +Great, many resources.. +Awesome course +Basically just a product demo and the lecturer was very hard to comprehend. +Compared to the other Coursera course I attended ,this one is by far the least useful one. The instructor is super brief and his slides are mostly made of a list of acronyms!I would not recommend it until they make some serious changes to the content and presentation of material. +Actually, It's a great course from Theoretical perspective and from practical part +If you want to learn BI basics and Deep insights into how BI works and you want BI as a career go for this course. +cool! : +I recommend it +Loved it. +Difficult to understand the video lectures at time but really useful content. Excellent further reading sections at the end of each module. +Excellent content and references to additional materials. +Concepts covered a slightly harder to comprehend than with the previous courses in the specialization. I found myself having to keep going back and forth through the lessons in an attempt to understand. You really do need to read up on other sources to plug in some gaps, but overall it is a good course that covers a lot. +Orsum concepts.. much delighted after doing it +It was a wonderful experience of taking such a valuable course from a well qualified instructor, presentation was great, detailed and well understood. Thank you again for your time, effort and being the great contributor of this type of education. Many thanks again. +This course need Michael Manino. +Great +Thanks for a great course +this course is great in concept. but the reality was disappointing and will have to improve. the professor gave lots of links to interesting external materials. but his prepared lectures were much briefer and consisted mostly of presenting bullet-point lists. as a result, i found myself studying just to pass the quizes and not to actually enhance my knowledge. :( given the high standard of the other courses in this specialization, i'm sure it will be better next time.... +Very good course. We had the opportunity to learn some business issues and find ways to develop solutions via BI systems. We had also good lessons +Good Course +Direct and briefed to the point.new thoughts , Tools and Ideas :) +Content of the course is very good, useful and interesting, I greatly appreciate the knowledge delivered. But assignments could improve:-All module assignments seems mostly focalize on using Microstrategy tool. In assignments, i would like to see more exercises so that students learn through practice of business cases. For example, I prefer the way modules are organized in courses 1,2, and 3: concepts with examples, practice exercise, then assignment through similar exercise + a quiz.-In last assignment, there was no suggested solution(s) for the last question, i think this is missing for a good understanding. +I did the free part of the course. It was too simpleI did other free MOOCs that had much more.The videos were like reading a book. The subject is interesting and there's some potential to the practical part of the course.I only did the first 3 weeks +The Course is well laid out with plenty of assignments that allow you master the BI by using Microstrategy. Thanks to professor Karimi, it was by far the best BI course that I have ever taken. +Great course! The professor is very knowledgeable and the materials are up to date with the current industry trends. I was able to apply the concepts learnt in this course in my job. +lecture too focus on the theory that not very useful on business world. The BI tool "microStrategy" used in the homework is too slow and crash from time to time. +It is a really good and well structured course. Initially, I felt the structure is not making me think but when I reached the end, in summative project, I realized how much I have learned. Anyone with basic IT background would be comfortable with the course. Learned various concepts of Business Intelligence; and microstrategy as a BI tool is good for analyzing. After I am done, I am going to spend more time looking at other tools of Microstrategy and apply those in the capstone course if required. I came across some students facing issues with microstrategy in the Discussion forum but I think improper installation or hardware and software support could be the cause.Thank You, Mr. Karimi. +The course has some good technical and analytical understanding of BI tools and application plus the BI project helped me derive useful visualizations. This course has helped me build my analytical skills to a different level which I think is expected in the actual BI industry. +The material and the lecture is not so engaging. +Amazing course. It taught me how to balance my daily diets. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course! As a professional cook (I run the kitchen for a church in Boerne, TX) I love being able to learn more about my chosen profession from the comfort of my home and being able to share that information with those who work with me as well as put it into practice in the real world. Thank you for providing this opportunity to those of us who cannot attend classes in person and for the wonderful videos and recipes you have provided. +Very useful and encourage me to cook healthy food and notice well the ingredients of home cooked food and also the processed food . It also support me because I have a G6PD patient baby boy +It has provided a lot of help for me and my family, I love it and I enjoy every lesson! +Informational and filled with great imagery. Clear bullet points makes it easy to digest and learn. +I really learned a lot by how to make good choices when shopping for food and how to add in healthy alternatives to food I already eat. I've already noticed a change in eating and spending habits +Very Informative Course!!! +Great learning experience, and how to maintain a healthy diet. Thank you. +Out children are the future and their nutrition is a important thingfor their development. +Since I was a child I liked to help my mom and my grandmother to cook. They taught me to cook and I learned the traditions of the family. My two younger children were picky eaters, and at the beginning it was very tough to prepare food for them. Now we enjoy together to prepare and eat different types of food. We love our traditional food, but we are always looking for new recipes. This course teaches me how to combine different types of ingredients to bring to our table, every day, more balanced and healthy food. +Excelent teacher!.The course is compiled in a very clear way....She is very talented and presents the course with a great charisma! +Extremely usueful for familes~ +I recommend this course to everyone. It's easy, light-hearted, and you learn a lot from it with out feeling like you're studying! +It was very complete. The videos and the pictures were good to understand the ideas. +Interesting content, great stuff for every parent. +Good course for living well +Loved the course. Very professional, instructor was very warm and explained complex topics simply. Very nice combination of videos, demos, and lecture. My only comment is that the quizzes do not align perfectly with the lesson. There are numerous examples of being quizzed on something that isn't taught until the next lesson. +This course was really interesting thank you ! X :) +Loved the way the lecture slides are depicted and the short cooking videos [ie. Dr Adam cooking - actually practicing what she preaches :-) ] +A very good course for starters. +The material given is good for an introductory course on child nutrition. The graphics and didactic material is very good. I would suggest that Dr. Maya improve on her cooking skills (cutting and chopping), It takes too long to do every task and she must use appropriate tools. also, measurements are very important in the kitchen to be disregarded as she does. Remember, she might be teaching to people that have not cook at all. Cooking without measuring is for an expert or a least for somebody with some cooking experience. +Excellent, I really enjoyed and learned a lot. Thank you +Very informative. Provides lots of really useful information that you can then apply directly to your every day life. I've learned a lot about food and how to easily make better, healthier, choices for my family and I. The cooking demos are wonderful and I've made several of them which turned out delicious. The professor provides a lot of every day information that you can and will actually use and be able to apply to your life. Wonderful course and I highly recommend. +Such a great stepping stone to cooking simple and delicious foods. I have been encouraging clean eating gradually with my daughter and she absolutely picks vegetables now that they are presented differently. I would love to see more recipes from Maya to incorporate in our everyday menus. +I love Maya! She's so knowledgable and comes off very approachable in this course. The information she provided is also invaluable. Thank you so much! +It is a very interesting course. It contains a lot of helpful and new information. +Although I don't have children it was very helpful for me. Interesting information about organic food and allergies. Recommend it to everyone. +This course is wonderful! Each video is not too long but full with information. You encourage me to choose a healthier lifestyle. Thank you so much. I will use these knowledge to improve my family's health. +I did several online courses about health and nutrition. I really like this course because it is easy to learn the content and the dishes are delicious and easy to make. It is a bit US centric, but that is not really a problem as the issues are in my opinion becoming more global (if they are not already; e.g. obesity). +Good course Child nutrition. Thank you Stanford University & Coursera. +Just Amazing! Thank you Maya +Great general overview of nutrition and cooking for those who are just starting to work on balanced menus for home or group settings. +This course offers a great foundation for learning to live a more healthy and sustainable lifestyle. The information is presented in a way that absorbs well between the videos and the visuals along with the lecture. This course has the capacity to change people's lives and it has definitely given me the information and confidence needed to be able to move forward with action. +Accurate , but very basic information. +A brief and useful introduction to nutrition and building healthy eating habits from childhood—absolutely worth my time. +Enjoyed it but perhaps a little too basic for my needs. Still would recommend if you are not familiar with nutrition. +Really complet course with a lot of knowledge easy to undestand and very visual which it help to focus on the information, Im so glad I took it, no doubt to recomend to parents and people on the health area. +This is a course that teaches us how to cook in a much healthier way, as well as learn concepts of nutrition. +Please issue me a certificate. I am ready to pay the fees. Thanks:Devashree Shah +Very useful data(information) for everyone!!Lest try to give to our children more natural and healthier food. +lesson helped me understand the nutrients and spicy, foods when cooking for children +it was a nice attempt to get child and parents to enjoy, how to prepare to eat +I don't agree with everything that is being said. For instance, I prefer not to use sugar at all when it comes to cooking for my family. But still, some practical ideas are included and the recipes are easy to cook. +Nice but basic. +it was really intresting +It is interesting and so easy to follow. +This course is very helpful for young parents and caregivers. +First online course I finish, I learned a lot from it. It's recommended even if you never cooked before, as it is in my case +It´s good but really basic +Some lectures are just right for the public in general but most of them seem to be built from common sense, there´s where I wonder if the American people are so unliterate on food issues. The quality of the visual material is also variable, I am sure that including animation of more appealing graphics would be helpful to engage more people into the course; another challenge would be to prepare more challenging content. +Excellent course and very complete. It's a good start to understanding nutrition for yourself and your children. Wish there were more courses on this topic (I took the other nutrition course by the same professor as well). +A very good course for keeping your daily eating healthy. +The teaching style is very impressive of Prof. Maya ADAM, very inclusive, very informative.Thank you very much +a real pleasure to learn! +You did an outstanding job teaching this class. In another class, sometime I would like to understand things like salt and potassium and their importance. Good job! +This course definitely changed the way I feed my children. It requires more trips to the store, but knowing I am putting healthy, sustainable choices in front of them makes it feel like less of a burden. The way the material was presented was very understandable and made you want to continue. +It was great and very motivating. +This is a great course and I would refer this course to anyone willing to learn. +It's a great course. The teacher is very friendly. I can even feel her energy through videos. I love the way she taught. She will draw a beautiful and clear picture explain those important knowledge. It’s very helpful to understand those difficult terms. And the children are lovely and cute. I am glad that I have chosen this course, it’s useful and interesting. I highly recommend. +Excellent course. I hope I can hear from the book you're releasing soon. +I signed up over a year ago. the first time around I got through the first week and life got in the way. The second time around I finished it but due to the app I had to take the quizes again. It was a great reminder. Overall the course is great in helping you change the way we approach cooking at home holistically not only for the kids. I enjoyed it tremendously and would sign up for another course by Dr. Adam +Loved the course, would take a continuation if available. Little basic but with enough info. Great ideas for cooking. Felt it was too based in USA information and some was not really conclusive. +Really liked the instructor +Excellent course, the only thing I would change is the meat dishes suggestions. +very nice introduction for raising kids. +Basic principles of nutrition explained in an easier to understand and remember manner. I definitely took a couple of recipes and key learning points with me! +Quite useful ! Easy to understand and nice hits for child nutrition. +Very clear and fun. I really like it. Thanks +Excellent course, I've learned a lot about healthy cooking and how to teach kids to eat more vegetables. Thank you! +I found this class to be doable with a 2-month-old infant. I enjoyed the reading. My older kids, ages 7 and 11 enjoyed the videos with me. The class helped our family have many great conversations about what we see at the grocery store and why we cook at home as much as we can. +I passed this course 3 or 4 years ago. After completing the course I feel significant changes in my diet, grocery shopping , my kids food and their healthy snacks. This course gave me a good opportunity to restart cooking and shopping much more healthier. Thanks +thank you +Pretty easy, only complaint is that the instructor says the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body. This is not true and made me question the rest of the material in the course. +Shes sexy af +Even though I do not currently have children, I felt this course gave a great overview of the basis of nutrition and how to incorporate fresh, whole foods into my own diet and my husband's diet. +I really like this course and I learned a lot +This was one of the best classes i ever had! Clear, simple , comprehensive lessons with great practical examples! +Very informative, practical and fun. I loved the way she share the info. +Interesting method of teaching! So delighted. +I think it's very nicely organized. However, most of the information is common sense to me. But I really enjoyed the cooking demonstrations and gardening tip. Definitely thinking about starting a basil plant. +Really Informative and got me inspired to do another one and now I'm on 'Food and health' course. +Amazing course +A very interesting course with very nice videos! Thanks Maya! +Interesting info. loved the videos :) +Very informative and clear with a sense of today's world at stake +The best course on nutrition for kids! Everything a healthcare, a parent needs to know. I am a nutritionist studied in the UK. I wish we had such tutors there as well. +Thank you for this wonderful program. +The videos are short, very visual, and straight to the point. I loved the instructor's positive attitude and the way she presented information. I recommend taking this class for every mommy who wishes her child to be in good health! +Thank you for the course. Outstanding Broadcast and content. +I loved the course !! I am really inclined to such topics naturally. In fact I did want to follow biology sciences during college, however, somehow, the circumstances didn't permit. +Thank you for this motivational course. It helped me to understand how to prepare healthy, delicious and easily made home-cooked meals for my family. +Very simple to follow and nice course. My only issue was, that Doc Maya's voice is so nice, and soothing that I often had to watch myself from falling asleep. No offence meant, it is supposed to be a complement. :) +Quite a few tips and simple recipes. Very informational. +Very well explained and videos are easy to understand, however, I recommend this only to parents who are really not giving any thought to their child°s nutrition. Recipes are really basic, though professor is providing good hints on how to "sell" healthy food to our children. In the country, I come from, it is very common to cook for children and we do not have to face to such amount of processed food...yet.. +Great Course! +Excelent course, highly recomended for all parents that seek the best orientation on their childs nutrition. Is very simple and clear, but also the information is very complet, the videos quality is very good as also the content. Greetings from Monclova, Coahuila, in Mexico. +i enrolled and successfully completed the course. this course really enlightened me about nutrition. +i love this course, it is very useful to my future children +I'm halfway through the videos and other resources. bravo! +awesome course learned so much +I love how easily the teacher describes everything that has to be with nutrition, highly recommended for parents who want to learn about children's nutrition and for health professionals. +I really liked this course. And as I'm a woman couch, babywearing and breastfeeding consultant and a mother of three sons I'd like to prepare similar lecture and to present it in a our club for pregnant women "Expectating a Miracle". +Very good overview of child nutrition. +All familes sholud have this vourse, as it increases the concious on the importance of home made food and the time spent together with the kids +I like this course very much, it's easy to understand and to master some skills we might need in our life. Very impressive. Thanks a lot. +loved it! +Great course! Wich give us some important information about food and nutrition +Helpful course, with nice instructional video and a perfect learning curve. +All Mothers should take this Course +Loved everything about the way it was presented! :) +Love it. Thanks +I am very satisfied with this course! +great class +Motivational Course.... LOVED IT! +Just love it! +Thank you for the course, it was very informative! +This course introduces the topic in interesting way and should be checked by anyone interested in healthy nutrition and eating habits not only for kids. +Absolutely informative course, super well explained and nice to study. Loved it! +This course is wonderful and very informative for complete beginners with nutrition and cooking. The teacher is knowledgeable of her subject and creates clear content that lends to a good learning experience. I would recommend this course to anyone who is not familiar with nutrition and who has no experience cooking. +This was a great learning experience about nutritional food and explored various options to inculcate healthy eating in today's food intake. +I love this course. It has so much great information, and it even shows you recipes that you can use at home with your children. +Very good course. Great information. Easy to follow. Enjoyable all around. Thanks Maya! +There are some nice cooking tips, but this is targeted to very young students/parents with no cooking experience, and I expected more than general information on food impacts on children. +Not very useful. +Was expecting a deeper unsdersting and knowledge of child nutrition and its impact in the health of little ones... too general. +Great course the professor is very good at explaining the material so everybody can follow. +Really good.loved it. She explains so clearly and simple. +I loved this seminar! it was very easy to comprehend and remember what I learned. My whole family has benefit from it Very easy to apply dairy meals! +Nothing short of excellent. Informative and to the point. Complex ideas made simple. +Maya helped me conquer my fear of kitchen cooking, gifting me basic learning blocks of being my baby's chef-girl-r&d! +Love this course. +I love this course, it is amazing. This course brought to my life a lots of inspiration. Thank you Dr. Adam and her team. +Although I am now a grandmother, I really enjoyed the course and was able to confirm my home's "good eating habits" and detect some bad ones, like sometimes eating with the televison on. I learned more about the environment and effects of eating processed foods or meats. I revel in seeing today's encouragement of having children particpate in healthy food : shopping, preparation and cooking.Thank You !! +Video production was very good, and good balance of video and "blackboard". Also, a good balance of practical stuff (like how to cook healthy stuff) and theory (what is a mono-saccharide, and how do they combine to form di-saccarides). Well done! +This is a wonderful course and I have learn't a +I loved this course and I am waiting to enroll in any upcoming nutrition courses. She is the best instructor I ever experienced. Thank you so much +learned something, but not as much as i expected. hope to add more nutrition knowledge. +I love this course! +A great overview on basic nutirition and how to make simple recipes your children +This is a great course for those who wants to learn the basics of nutrition and to cook better at home. +I was so thankful to do this course a second time for my certificate because it refreshed my memory on the healthy pantry options and since I originally did it I had eliminated processed meats and cans from my grocery list but the refresher helped me to learn ways to create recipes, discover their nutrition facts and present it as for a recipe book +This course was very educational. Maya was great at explaining healthy foods and ingredients that her own family uses at home. I was incorporating her suggestions while taking this course. I'm working to include less processed foods and more fresh fruits and veggies in my families diet. I even started to make fruit/veg smoothies for my 8 year old daughter instead of buying her the 100 % juice I bought in the store as a way to provide her with more vegetables in her diet as well as less processed food. Great course! I will be looking for more courses to take that include Maya and her wonderful children. +Its a wonderfully compiled course which teaches us how to encourage and inculcate good and healthy eating habits in children and also gives an insight into what is food and how can food be made more healthy and palatable. Some easy recipes have been taught which will surely interest the children. +Its simple informative and has great info even for adults. +Love it, love it, love it. Great course. Great instructor. +The relevance of this course material for a common Indian household is not much as our basic meal have almost all the component of balance diet. But the growing trend of busy life in big cities has started the dependence on fast food in India too so somehow this will help people to remind the importance of home cooked food. +Trivial course +It is a great course to learn basics of nutrition and cooking. Recommend for everyone. +Very useful and closely related to our daily life. Highly recommended! +I love the information you gave us. I wish you have more recipes. +I'm not mother. I'm still a college student but, the course gave me a lot of tools to improve the quality and take care of the cooking at my home. I decided to take this course because of my dad, who has a heart disease. Thank you so much. +I've done this course twice (once for my personal information and work, and again to receive the certificate). I always learn something new the second time around; very informative on a home level and professional level. +Great course with lots of great lessons! +Very easy to listen to and understand, she is very knowledgable and I learned a +I absolutely loved this course! I liked how I could do it at my own pace and work on my own. I highly recommend this course. Wonderful instructor! :) +Good course. A little basic. +Very good course and easy to understand. It motivates me to introduce and provide my children (to be) with healthy food. +this coarse is very interesting i really enjoy it +This was one of the most enjoyable courses! +Helpful with information as I'm in the food service industry and it will help with how I can better serve the children on a day to day basis. +It's good to learn about how to cook for children. +I ve never expected that the lessons would be so understandable and adjustable with my difficult programme! thank you! +An informative, easy-to-understand introduction to child nutrition and cooking. +So informative, cute, and easy to follow!For scholars and parents, this course is so varied and helpful for anyone along any step to gaining the knowledge necessary to contribute to the fight against Big Food companies. The knowledge against these corporations is so ahead that it is almost like watching Food Inc. or Cowspiracy. +Great course with very easy to follow kids friendly videos! My boys and I enjoyed taking this class together. +Very informative and interesting! +it's very goodbut when I sending you finish the course +I really liked this course. It has given me a renewed appreciation for home cooking. My favorite part was the hand drawings for the main content videos. I also liked all the cooking demonstrations. I plan on trying them real soon In the future, I'm hoping for more content and the opportunity to earn a certificate. I'd like to see a section specific nutritional targets for certain age groups. Menu planning would also be welcome. +really useful course +Ths course is a fun way to brush up on the basics of healthy eating +I could learn more deeply and apply them in daily life. Every time I choose my diet, I remember contents of this lecture. Thank you for making such a good lecture and I hope to apply it again. +After taking a Nordic food diet course where they talked about children's' diets in the Nordic countries and how they were changing the norm, this course covered the basics as to what and why certain foods are good for you. I had been hoping for more complex recipes, but there were some differences to my dishes that I already make which were a nice change. +Great tool for someone that it is going to work with kids or even mothers. +Excelent curse for a good food children education. +I really loved this course! The instructor was very good, her lectures were informative and easy to follow with stellar graphics. Her videos were fun to watch, and her cooking lessons were very simple; she showed dishes that I would actually cook for my family! Best of all I believe she did a great job stating all the facts and encouraging people to make smart food choices without being judgmental about it, which is no easy task!I am lucky that I am already doing a lot of the things the instructor suggests for my toddler but the best takeaway I got was to take my child to a farmers market. We went this weekend and it was so much fun! I plan to take her there as often as I can. +Love this course. I love cooking, but never realized all of the meals one can make with such minimal ingredients. I love to see that I can make quick home made meals for my kids and not feed them so much processed garbage. Thank You! +Great course. Maya is a wonderful teacher and inspired me to make better food choices for me and my children. I love the recipes, too. +UsefulEasy to understand and grasp the fundamentalsEssential for parents +Very useful. I love the addition of the easy-to-make recipes. I'm eager to try them with my own family. +very basic and simple to understand as how cooking should be, as natural as it is ! Thanks ! +I really enjoyed the course.Short videos communicating essential information.I have become health conscious and now more careful while choosing foods to buy or cook.I would recommend this course to every one willing to have a healthy life. +Great course: fun, interesting, educational, easy to watch...I strongly recommend it! <3 +practical approach and good nutrition looked easy and inexpensive. +practical recipes and tips, with a wise and expertise teacher! loved to see how she actually inserts nice meals and options for her little ones. +Great, colorful and useful course. +Dr. Maya has done a fantastic job of creating this easy-to-follow course which covers a wide range of fundamental knowledge everyone should know! I work with kids and whilst education is merely one side of it, ensuring they receive good nutrition is equally important. Thank you Dr. Maya! +It is very educational, enjoyable and easy to understand. +Great course! +Informative, clear and simple :-) +I really liked this course, although the things cooked in it were a little basic. That being said, it is an admirable cause and I found Maya really inspiring! +easy and friendly, full of great information for any people how is interested en have better habits +I'm thirteen years old and I took this course to learn more about the rapidly changing "food world". I loved trying out the recipes that Maya showcased, and so did my family! Thank you so much Maya and Coursera! +Wow! I learned a lot about healthy cooking and nutritious foods. Thanks +making shoping and cooking easier, not difficult, quizzes are great; it helped me a lot when shaping my new diet +First, I would like to say that with the exception of ONE exam, I was able to take all the tests WITHOUT WATCHING THE VIDEOS. That shows that this is a poorly put together course. Secondly, this course did NOT cover CHILD NUTRITION, it covered general nutrition. There was nothing helpful in regards to meal planning with children (although there was useful information in the Lunch Packing Video.) Although it claims the project at the end of the course is optional, it will not let me complete the course without doing the project. I find that extremely frustrating. This course offered a lot of great information (even if it was a weird combo of factual/opinionated) I was frustrated by the fact that this course is OBVIOUSLY geared towards the upper middle class/rich instead of the the everyday blue-collar family. I will do the project to complete the course but was very disappointed in my first course through Coursera. +Good basic information for every parent to know.All of us should make time to cook healthier food for our families. +I have learned a lot and I want to learn more! Thank you very much Stanford University and Dr. Maya! God bless! +It s brilliant course for teachers and mothers. I found it very useful as found information regarding allergies and what we can substitute for that specific allergic ingrediant. +Very informative. +doens't address the vegan lifestyle +Fantastic crash course and feeding your family. It educates and simplifies. I recommend it for everyone.... including college students! +Very easy to go through, the material sticks to you and you will be making healthy choices in no time. +A lot of this stuff is basic and common knowledge among my own social circle. The reason I kept watching is because of the teacher's exceptional diagrams that beautifully explain complex topics in a simple way. As a teacher trying to introduce my own students to sustainable living, the instructor's style has given me so many ideas on how to communicate these concepts to my own students.Thanks so much for your hard work! I will take your other class and hope to see others from you in the future, hopefully something about GMO's or food access in areas of strife and the long term effects on child development in those areas. +Very informative. I have used the majority of pieces of advice in my daily life. Already recommended to my friends and relatives! +Amazing class, wonderful presentation and loads of information. it kept me cautious and full of hope that my family and I will be able to apply these take aways. +Nice and basic information covered. Nice to have the interaction with the learnes and their dishes. Would be great to have a follow up with more in depth info about Food requirements of the different age +totally worth and helpful. +This course has shown me very interesting facts about food and how to ensure that a child is getting the nutrients they need for their development and in a fun, involved way. +Very clear, and interesting. Very useful for educator and parents. +I loved the course!I loved the way that the different issues are explained, I like the graphics, the videos, the quizzes - everything!I just tried for the Passover the almond cake recepie and it was fantastic!I really recommend this course not only for child nutrition but also for 'picky' and stubborn adults.Thanks!! +In general, this course is very nice and informative but the recipes should mention cooking time. Also, I find it a bit scary that the author doesn't make her own chicken broth a processed one. +good to learn and very helpful +Informative and basic...would have liked to have gone into more detail. +This class is great! I have enjoyed learning about foods and what are healthier choices. I also have enjoyed the recipes and how you get to watch them which makes them so much easier to make. +Don't have a kid, but learned a lot about food and some basic recipes which will make my decision making for heatlhier food easier. Liked it that you also come from a doctor's background and gave a lot of medical research insights. +I have learnt a lot of English and eating healthy with this course. It is all very well explained. +Too simple for what I was looking for. Wanted more detail on specific day-to-day routines/ for weaning from breast milk to solids, including learning the nutritional basis for recommendations. Then also m +Thanks a lot! Hope that it is not last course about Child Nutrition! +A very good course for every family. Thanks +my 1st course, easy to follow and kept my attention +It really helps me review my diet. Thank you. +A bit american - but I like it! +I loved it. Easy to understand I liked that way of cooking practical , made for every day and to improve the health and nutrition of my family +i love this class +Very simple to understand. +I adore this course! My children are not so little anymore, but I still find it beneficial and fun. My son loves watching for new recipes and then cooking them. I try to watch at least one video a day and I will be sad when I am all done. Love it. +easy and interesting +Simple and educative! +It is a wonderful class and I have learned much from this course. Thanks a lot~~ +Simple, Knowledge rich and enjoyable +its a nice course 2 follow +I simply enjoyed taking this course with Dr. Maya Adams there was great information for moms with children. My child is big young man now but I need this information for the parents that I will be working with. The recipes are tremendous I'm making the chicken fingers tonight and crepe with strawberries tomorrow morning. I worked on and completed a sample work of foods for children around the world is it to late to submit my work for review +As an expecting mother, this course was just what I was looking for! Thank you, Miss Maya & family. And thank you for making this available to me, Stanford School of Medi +Easy explained, this course should be a MUST for every parent interested in their child nutrition.Congrats!! +Easy to understand and very helpful! +The lesson and tutorial from this course were very helpful and i would love to take more class +It´s a great Course for unexperienced Cooks. Most of the recipies are very Basic but I think they encourage People to cook even if they´re not used to cooking a lot. The explanations are very clear and easy to follow. Personally, I would have loved to hear more about preparing and storing homemade Food (freezing, storing in jars etc.) +Perfect! +Sinmple direct to the point and gives amazing informati +Great +A class that can benefit the entire family. Well worth the time. A respectable source as well. +Maya is an inspiring teacher and mother. I also consider her an artist for the wonderful animations that accompany the course. Thank you for inviting me into your home and kitchen, and reinforcing my choices as a mother and a consumer. It was a fun and interesting experience! +Very useful. Good recipes and tips. +I rise a small child and this course was very useful for me. I cook every day and enjoy it a lot! +Great little course +very useful for me as a mother of 2! thanks so much! +Great info! Good Recipes! Very Practical! +This course is well crafted and perfect for those who need to understand the basics of child nutrition and cooking. The instructor includes cooking tips and recipes that will be most useful to kitchen newbies and those who are trying to make healthier food choices in the kitchen. +Is an amazing course for learn about how is the best way for nourish kids. I love it. +This was a great course, thank you for the wealth of information! +I don't think the food in course suit to every child. +Great for any family +It really is a pleasure to watch Mrs. Adams' videos. She is a very positive pearson. Can't wait for other courses by her!!! +Very helpful not only for professional use but daily life with your own children also! +wonderful info. thank you so much! +Incredibly inspi +It is really complete and easy to follow. I really loved it +I don't think this course is for everyone. It's for the more industrialised societies who eat everything out of a jar. Not for those of us who still cook everyday. Having said that there was some information that was new and useful and some very good ideas to get kids more interested in the food they eat. I enjoyed it. +recommeded course!not only for a mother who already have a child, but for an individual person either.this course provide so many useful information for our daily life, I like it +A wonderful and life altering course, taught with families in mind! This course taught me so many wonderful concepts, opened up new ideas and helped me to understand that a rainbow of food without labels is what I should be feeding my family. I discovered a bit of the science behind food metabolism and how to make real, unprocessed food appeal to little taste buds!Maya Adams takes you on spectacular food journey through insightful illustrations, informative lectures and cooking demonstrations. I have taken away a plethora of knowledge and the realization that if children help to prepare the foods they eat, they will be more accepting of those healthy and wholesome meals.Thank you for this wonderfully designed course! +I get knowledge about cooking is main nutrient abroad for children increased.And professor teach very fun. +If you aren't familiar with cooking and nutrition this course is a good fit. However, if you have a bit of background in healthy eating, you may not get as much out of this course. +Awesome! really nice and easy to follow. I'll recomand it (i already did :) +I like it very much. Both the self peace study and course material. I can control myself. Very Good course !!! +The course is very basic, videos contain a lot of repetitions and quiz questions are too easy (in addition, I believe that there are too much negative questions). I believe that this course should be called an Introduction to the basics of Nutrition and it's only for complete newbies. There are no insights in specifics of child nutrition besides general concepts of balanced diet and some tips how to make your kids be more enthusiastic in eating vegetables. +I didn't expect more than basics and this is lovely way of learning it! From the very basic to trying it at home ;) +I love this course, it really helps with me being a mum who works full time to not get complacent with the fast foods that are readily available, and to go back to cooking properly and sitting down for a good meal. +Very informative! Love the positive outcome and attitude! +Thanks a lot Maya, I am cooking your recipes and my famly love them. I adjust them to ingredients in my country, I from Peru. The knowledge is great to complement my work. I am a doctor, i got a certified speciality from ACSM, so the course is important for my family and my patients. Greetings. +nice work teacher +its a very nice course i enjoyed +Enjoyed this class. Basic but to the point. +the course is really beneficial. +It is a helpful , applicable Course . I enjoy it and i finished it in 2 days, Because I was exited to continue . +A very good course indeed . A must take course . Very simple and easy to understand . +very useful info +The course was very good, very simple to understand and execute in our life. +Interesting, the information is very basic so if you already have some knowledge in nutrition it may be a little bit to simple. That's the only reason I put a 4 stars and not a 5, is a great introduction to nutrition. +Loved it +Very well presented. Easily understood and interesting. +Useful information and practical information that can easily be applied to everyday life. +Exceptional Content! If you have children - this is a must! Well done. +This course was very helpful to me. I needed to see how cooking for my children can be basic and healthy. It has motivated me to think more simplistic when cooking for my children and has sparked my appetite for wholesome foods. +Child Nutrition and Cooking is good educational for those parents need to learn and more widen knowledge in the health of their kids.This content is the best that can recommend in all parents. +Excelent course!!! Excelent teacher! +Very informative and I understand clearly. +All parents needs to follow +Maya is a wonderful teacher. She presents the information in a way that is easy to understand and follow +I loved the course! It was a joy to take and I had fun learning and taking it! :) +Very user-friendly course, easy to follow, explains complex ideas in a simple way. The information is delivered in a few different ways, using diagrams, videos, conversations - which keeps things interesting. I would recommend it to anyone who would like to learn more about the basics of nutrition and healthy eating, not just to parents. And I promise you will not get bored +Amazing teacher and amazing course, very clear and deep of ideas and education. I loved your drawings. Thank you so much! +dunno wwhat's the point of making two separate courses with different names.. the content are fundamentally the same. +Too basic. No processed foods.. ok but what else? +Really educational and full of interesting and valid arguments! Thank you, professor! +Extremely informative, invaluable lessons. +Excellent! Simple language, many nice recipes and a lot of useful information. +Love the simple tricks and tips to get the children eating healthier. The recipes were a big hit too! +I think this was a great intro course and parents would benefit from it greatly. I wish more of the recipes were vegetarian and diary free (I was in fact surprised that so much diary was part of the recipes). Regardless, a lot better foods than those being served on a regular basis. +Very informative and easy-to-follow.Please make more courses on nutrition. +very nice n friendly teaching +Nice and clear course, but the level is not university level... +Very thorough, educational, and very enjoyable. Highly recommended. +Very basic introduction and crash course to child nutrition and cooking. For the busy parent/working adult. +The course seems like it would benefit parents but does not do much for a nutrition health professional. +She is very easy to understand and listen to. I love that some recipe ideas were given and that I could go back into this at my own pace and time. +This goes over basics for how to involve kids, which is great. If you're already a thoughtful cook, it may not have a ton for you as far as recipes go but the information on how we use our nutrients and balancing food is fantastic. +good information to our healthy lifestyle +I have really enjoyed this course and it's packed with a lot of detailed nutrition, food, diet & health information. +I have not finished it yet, but I love it. +This course should be mandatory +I found most of what was presented very interestng. I found that when the lesson on chicken soup and stew was being presented, that you used chicken broth from a box. To get better flavour of your chicken soup, why not just add one cube of beef? Better yet, with your stew, why not add some homemade veggie stock which can keep in the freezer?Overall I enjoyed the course, but if you could address the above issue of chicken broth from a box, i would appreciate it. Also, is there a way to get your drawings from this lesson? Thank you +Hello.I found this course very useful, it has allowed me to know what types of things I should look for in food, diversify my family's eating habits and to have fun in the kitchen,Regards. +it is a best way to keep our family members healthy. +simple, very good and interesting classe! +Very helpful, fun and illustrative. I learned a lot. +Clear and objective, just what you need to set your cooking base straight and build healthy habits for yourself and your family! +Great! +I think it pretty good for me to learn health! +An excellent course !!! It helps me a lot to understand how to feed my children. +Easy to follow, and good contents +There was a lot of very valuable information in the course, and I very much liked the general structure. However, maybe it was due to my career and family background, but there was also plenty of information that I had mistaken as common knowledge. Apparently I have more knowledge in this area than I assumed.Overall, this was a very interesting course, and the combination of the videos and smart board graphics helped keep things interesting. I would very much recommend Child Nutrition and Cooking! +Really easy and useful. Thank you very much +Very much Informative and easy to use techniques.. Liked it !! +great and good recipes to make with kids +Very good place to start for beginners with some scientific information. Easy and quick to do food demonstrations, basic enough that students can build upon them depending on what is available at hand.Some ideas just tend to be redundant throughout the weeks, but I guess that is what she wants to stress on. No to processed food!! :)) I just wish you kept the discussion boards open, so we have a platform to discuss ideas and exchange recipes. +This is great course! +This course provides great information. If you have taken any other basic nutrition courses, as I have, most of the information is review. I found the that info wasn't necessarily specific to children but could be applied to all individuals regarding healthy eating, choosing local/organic etc. Even if you don't have children and want to learn more about healthy eating, this course would be beneficial for you. +Maya Adam, MD is a total inspiration. The course was factual and engaging. information learned was easy and practical to use everyday. +i learn so many things with simple explanation, the teacher is amazing , i was affraid that will be so difficult o boring but is great, so good that you forgett taht ypu are taking a class. +Thank you, it was very interesting and informative.And the best thing that my child is happily chewing on a carrot)) +Loved the course. Never really knew about organic vs non organic. +It is a great course. You could learn basic things about nutrition and how can you improve your children's +Really great basic information. Really enjoyed the section on why to buy organic. +nice content and videos, good examples. For people in the basic is real good. +I learned so much from Maya about healthy food not just for children, but also for myself. +clear presentation and useful info +Great format and which was easy to follow. +really enjoyed the course and was very informative. I don't have children yet, but it was still good to learn about nutrition for my use and for future reference ! +It is an excellent and easy way to have knowledge about food and nutrition to apply at home with your kids. I am grateful to Maya, she expresses herself very well and she shows she is an expert and a good mother.I super recommend the course. +Very basic, a must for all parents in my opinion. +This course helped me a lot in preparing and rethinking our family meals. +This was a very inspiring and motivating course. I changed the way of eating now and enjoy more fresh foods and vegetables. I also go to a food market once a week and take my child with me who enjoys a lot. Thank you very much for installing this course and sharing your knowledge. +This is a very clear and very well presented course. It covers the science of nutrition as well as the practical aspects of cooking through demos. The instructor speaks clearly and knowledgeably about her subject.I will note that it is definitely a beginner level course. If you already do a fair bit of cooking from scratch and have already read some Michael Pollan books, you may not learn much that is new to you.What it does though, it does very well.Also, the instructor's kitchen is beautiful and I spent most of the lectures coveting it greatly :) +Solid information provided in an excellent format by a outstanding teach +This course is great for anyone looking to improve their health, but spectacular for anyone who needs a relatively quick lesson on nutrition for children - parents, grandparents, childcare providers, cooks. Seriously a great course for anyone! +Thank you for this interesting course! it's really very helpfull for me! can't break away from watching lesssons! +Offered as extra credit for my nutrition class, but i am learning so much! My son just turned one and i want to start him off eating right and make changes to my own diet. this course is giving me so many useful tips! Even though i am single mother and going to school i feel like i will be able to prepare my son great and healthy meals using what i have learned in this course! +thank you, i really2 need this knowledge +Great!! +This course is well thought out an very educational to any who attempt to give it a try. I applaud Maya, the course professor on her undeniably fantastic information and the way she teaches is easy to understand and even fun! Thank you Maya! +Brilliant! A must for anyone responsible for children's nourishment. +Simple and clean, very interesting also for who, like myself, has no children to grow up. +A great introduction to nutrition and cooking for families. -Pediatrician +I love the course +Excellent course. I actually took it together with my wife and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. +Perfect! Educational and enjoyable. +Interesting materials with accurately prepared videos and animation. Author is an interesting and positive presenter. Concepts and examples shown in course are useful and can be used daily to lead a healthy life. +Great information with excellent presentation. I might take this class again! +Awesome tips for getting the kids involved in the kitchen as well as easy nutrition principles to follow. +Great course. great lesson. great recipes. It is really basic and introductive but has very important lessons which let us start to think different about nutrition and cooking +Great I enjoyed it a lot! +I loved this course. I would love to continue and implimented what i have learnt in my current life. +Very good tips to help making the entire family eat better +Excellent. I lo ve this course +I liked this course. Easy Giving information. Simple consolidate the material. It was interesting! +Very helpful. Straightforward and practical. I like the way Dr. Adam explains nutrition and I strongly agree with her views on home cooking, avoiding processed food and including children on every step of food preparation. +I really learned a lot with this course. +Simplistic. But so easy for anyone to watch and learn. I wish more people would take this course. +Good course for feeding children. very nice instructions. thanks to teacher. +Excellent course! I loved taking this course.Eventhough I did not learn much new, I got assurance via this course, that what and how I cook for my 2 year old is healthy and the right way. ;)While seeing some of the videos, I found it funny that I actually cook basically exact same way as Mrs Adams. +Amazingly simple yet full of information! This course on nutrition, including organic/holistic options, gives practical, easy-to-use ideas on healthy and enjoyable eating options not only for children but also adults. Recipes given are easy to use or adapt, and tasty as well! I highly recommend this course for anyone who wishes to have a well-rounded understanding of real, traditional (organic, grandma's kind of cooking) nutrition. +Very educational and easy to follow! +Some of the information from video to video was repetitive. However, I learned a lot about how organic food is good for people and the environment. Additionally, it was great to see how children can get involved in the kitchen and i hope that any parents who watch this try to get their children to be involved with a small garden or helping to prepare meals. Hands-on is the best way for kids to learn! +Very informative, helpful, and easy to follow and understand course. I've recommended this course to many parents. +Brilliant class. Fight the good fight. +It's very good but It should be given a certificate!! +Informative. I liked the demos. Enjoyed very much. +I really enjoyed taking this course. It was informative and easy to understand with the most elaborate diagrams/flow charts which provided a clearer picture of each topic and helped connect everything together. There were some great recipes that were healthy and simple which I picked up and will definitely be using in my cooking. This course is great for anyone who wants to be more informed about the food choices we make for our children and ourselves. +It is very helpful!!! +Great course for everyone who wants to learn more about healthy eating and how to promote it to your children +I loved it. You learn so much! +Thank you very much for providing this course, i have learned so much. +Amazing course! You don't need to be a chef, nutricionist or even have any kids to enjoy and learn valuable nutrition! I looooved this course! +Excellent class, it gave me good tips and encouragement to start cooking more healthy dishes. +Learned a lot from this course about eating healthy. +I love the teaching style that Maya provides. The diagrams are cute and engaging.A great course for those who are not used to eating healthy, and do not cook on a regular basis.For those who are already health conscious and enjoy cooking, this course may not provide you with much new information, but rather confirmed what I already knew and was taught as a child by your mother, or through learning how to cook healthy meals for yourself. +This was a great course with a lot of good information. I continue to use a lot of the suggestions that she gives in this course for my own benefit, as well as share with others. If you need some information about nutrition when it comes to children, this course will give you a great foundation to stand on! +Very useful! It can change many lives! +Great basic learning for everyone. +Both my wife and I are pleased to have come across a great course on Child Nutrition and Cooking. We happen to be aware as a family, but a reminder or new lesson is useful in the quest for a healthy family. Dr. Maya Adam is an excellent professor, one we trust immediately and can follow along. Thank you. +Loved it! Very helpful esp. once I become a mom! +Thank you for this excellent class. I knew all the intellectual aspects of it already, but the cooking demonstrations changed my life. I now feel like I know how to cook for my child, pack her lunches, shop for food together, grow a home garden and much more. +We don't have children, but I really enjoyed taking this online course on child nutrition and cooking offered by Stanford. Dr. Maya Adam did a very good job with the lecture videos, course content, etc. I just signed up for the Introduction to Food and Health course presented on-demand. You should join me on the journey. +Incredibly informative, definitely appropriate for beginners, but also useful for advanced readers in the field of nutrition, cooking or healthy living in general. The explanations are beyond great, even for people whose native language isn't English. In general, very very interesting and helpful. +Very comprehensive and informative! +I enjoyed the nutritional information provided and the way it was presented. I found the instructional recipe videos very easy to follow and fun to follow. +Very good info! +Relevant for me and my family. +This course is easy but useful! +Great Course. Easy to understand and follow. +Thank you. +I enjoyed taking this course because not only was it very insightful, but also easy to understand. The science behind the way our body processes foods is beautifully drawn and illustrated using charts and diagrams. It makes the course enjoyable and easy to follow. +easy to understand and very practical and useful in daily life. +It is a good course.I have learnt lots of fundamental knowledge about nutrition.Thanks very much! +Very useful to apply in daily life +This course is very useftul and attractive! It help me to sharp a healthy lifestyle and lead a happy family life +Good information, a bit basic though. I would've enjoyed a more in depth course. +Easy to understand and very interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed this course. +Changed my mind after watching the cooking. The course on nutrition is just "ok" but the teacher has a very skewed idea about what "healthy cooking" really is and fails to present with reasons for her recipe choices.Anyway I stopped watching the course, again, the nutritional part is fairly good but if you choose to continue the course at least make sure you keep searching for other points of view as well.Best of luck. +Heipful class especially for a working mom. Besides the knowledge, the lecture also demonstrate how to make meal or sweet treats. Very helpful! +This particular curse is an amazing reminder of what we all need from our childhood. My mum always cooked for me, and taught me to feed myself in the best way since I was 5 years old, after leaving home when I was 19 to live the adult life I let the easy fast food rule my life until I was a mother myself and had to go back to the healthy habits. So I adore this curse specially the way it's made! So real and simple. Love it! +Very good!! The teacher are so dedicated and smart! +An awesome course that not only teach us about nutrition but also many different recipes....The teaching method and the teacher used is the best!!!Really enjoyed.. :) +Great and conscious course. +The presenter is very confident and extremely passionate about what she is discussing. I have had a change of heart about how to take care of my child's diet. Usually the video presentations are great, very high quality, my only niggle is that sometimes the black screen PPTs go on for a bit too long, and can be repetitive. Overall a very good course. +This is the best course I've ever did on Coursera (and the only one that I've successfully completed so far!). The instructor is very practical and to the point in her explanations. Each session was very engaging and i appreciate the time taken for her to create the live/animated graphics. This never felt like a boring regular classroom session, most of them were shot in her kitchen, which kept the learner engaged. The tips and the cooking sessions are awesome. I don't have a kid yet, but will surely come back to this course when i have one. Kudos :-) +Too basic and too focused on 'farmers market' thinking. +It's a very helpful course ...Thank you. +Very well explained. +I loved it! +As a mother of a 5 years old kid,i found it so useful for my cooking.The course is easy to understand and conduct.The knowledge is very practical and the food introduced here are very healthy.Especially the freedom of the time.Thank you sooooo much! +Great course that teaches you the basic for a good child nutrition +Very good but basic information. This class covers some good solid skills everyone should have for reading labels and preparing their own meals at home. +It's a great course for parents looking for some nutrition advice for their children +very educational! +I don't even have a child; I'm in college, and the simple tips in this course helped me eat sooo much better this semester and even lose some of the freshman 15. +Excellent! I love this course so much. Its easy to learn and the presenter is so animated! +Great course!!! i learned so many things and now i see the in a different way the importance of a good nutrition to my kids.. +i learned many simple recipes. thanks to you. +It is nicely described.Language and accent used is very much easy to grasp.Well categorized and presented lecture are helpful to memorize the information. +Great info and easy to understand! +Very interesting; very important course +I have enrolled in many classes on coursera, but can not finished any of them. Because they all get boring at the end. Its my 1st course that I have finished. Because from first to last, this course remain interesting to me and got no chance to be bored. M. Adam is the best course instructor to me till now (I wish I could do her classes live) because she knows how to teach on MOOC. This course is no only interesting but also highy educative. This course should start give certificate of accomplishment. Thank You :) +This was such an amazing course. It has helped me a lot! +Excellently done. Easy to follow and well organized. I learned a lot! It was a pleasure to see the professor so excited and passionate about the subject and about her family.I love the plurality of the subtitles. Surprised and pleased by the quality of them (korean is the only one I can vouch for). +This is a very useful and wonderfully presented course on child nutrition. This course has given me a good introduction on the various aspects of child nutrition in an extremely engaging manner. The author is very passionate, knowledgeable and enthusiastic about child nutrition. I love her way of presenting many key points with the help of sketches. She has covered this topic in a very holistic manner, even covering topics like sustainable cooking, gardening. I really like all her recipes. They are simple, healthy and delicious. Thanks to this course, I have now become quite interested in the world of fruits and veg,God bless the author and her family for enhancing the health and happiness of many people. +I absolutely loved this course. I learned so much info that I will actually be able to use. +great course +I loved this course!! It is very useful, this course has helped me and my family eat healthier!! +This course should be mandated for high school students. Awasome ! +The knowledge I‘ve learned from this course is very useful and it makes for my family's healthy. +it was very educational and gave me great tips on how I should stay healthy. +This was an excellent course. It taught me about my own health and I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone who wants a no-nonsense, real-life class about nutrition. +very easy to understand and with lots of examples +Very nice layout of the course. Easy to +Fantastic cooking course! Maya really gets to the heart of what's wrong with our current habits when it comes to food choices. What a benefit! +I am already using the information i learned from this . I encourage every parent to take this course , Thank you, +This course was really interesting and helped me a lot, thank you very much! +Really inspired cursus. +easy to get . +This course is not only good and complete but necessary for all humans to watch, listen, learn and practice it in their day a day life. Kid's health is in our hands, and this course contains all the information we need to do the right thing with them. Thanks a lot! +While some of the information was a bit basic for someone who is a bit familiar with the material, it was an awesome review and I can see this providing a lot of great and wonderful information to someone who may not be as familiar. I would definitely recommend this course. +It's very interesting and helpful. +Very interesting！ +It's a great course and I enjoy it a lot. I learned useful information and great tips and tricks. I love visual aids (the black board) and cooking demonstrations. However I had a strong feeling that it is designed mainly for learners from the US. +Great information and easy to follow. +Our whole class did this in comparison to other coursera courses, Generally we liked this one better than any other ones. +Simple, easy to follow, informative, approachable, supportive +Great course. Easy to understand if you do not have any background in nutrition. However, mostly basics if you do. I especially enjoyed the emphasis on local and organic as well as the cooking demonstrations at the end of each week. I learned some great things about local and organic food and came away with some new recipes! +Very good content and best described +I really enjoyed this course, the lectures are easily understandable and the cooking demonstrations are very inspiring. Thank you. +It is a really interesting course, it refers to the general public, with smart tips and quick recipies. Also, for those who know nothing about the sience part of lipids, carbohydrates and trace elements, in generall, it constitutes a very informative ''package'' for everyone. There is no specialaization in this kind of coures us I expected, because I am a food technologist, I kwnow most of the parts, but still it is really helpfull and interestin! Verry good job! +Pretty good, I like it! It is easy to understand and makes me want to try a more healthy life. +Excellent Class recommended for all individuals who cares for little ones growth. +It's very interesting to read all these informations. +Excellent course, well presented and full of great information. Thank you for taking the time to offer it. +This course is so lively and interesting! That explains are intuition and easy to understand the curriculum +i like this course. +It's wonderful!o(∩_∩)o +simple and easy to understand. it is also helpful to get knowledge in this way +This course gives you practical knowledge with regards to nutrition and cooking, its hard to tell if you fully completed the course and if its only completed after you've had 3 peer reviews done on your final project. There is no definite statement saying course completed. +It was really helpful and i enjoy it a lot! +It was fun doing this course and at the same time was quite informative. The small things matters most is what you realise and long time back Mahatma Gandhi has said most of the things especially the economic and ecological aspects of our food consumption and habits and has predicted the difficulties we would face. JC Kumarappa on Economy of Permanence is a good read in this regard. Excellent presentation and even a kid will watch it with great interest. +Very informative, thank you. +Definately, I will promote this course among my collegues. +Awesome, no words to describe +Loved the class, well explained and a lots of examples (recipes) giving us ideas on how to create our kids meals. Very simple, and very delicious; I already copy (cooked it for my family) from the class. It was amazing. Thanks. +I enjoyed the course overall. However, I wish it was a bit more informative. I know that the course was designed as simple and efficient as possible but personally, I wished that there was a bit more depth. However, enjoyable course overall. +Great lessons, great teacher! +Very good for parents who do +Good course for beginners, but those with higher levels of nutrition knowledge will likely: 1. Find it way too easy; 2. Find that the recipes actually contain rather unhealthy ingredients (e.g., always avoid butter--too unhealthy); and 3. Find the lack of vegetarian, vegan, low-carb, and other diet-lifestyles discouraging. +Maya is great teacher. In this course I liked very much that every video is 3-6 minutes long.Thank you +lots of information but in a simple way to understand. i feel like i have learned a lot here and will be trying some of the recipes on my children. Lets hope they are a hit!! +It´s too bad that no degree is awarded. +This was a wonderful course, very detailed and the meals turn out just the way she say they would, healthy and tasty. +Great training about preparing nutricious foods for kids. +It is a really great course and it was interesting and active. +i love it and hope to continue more courses like this +The course was very informative. I enjoyed doing this course. +Maya Adam is just amazing talking about Child Nutrition and Cooking. Her drawings are really wonderful, they are clear, colorful and enjoy the course as I've never seen it before. Her good mood and knowledges make you feel happier and interested in the course.Congratulation Mrs Adam, I hope you'll continue on this way and wish so much I'll enroll in other courses made by you. +I loved the course very informative +Awesome and easy to follow for parents and people interested in food and nutrition. I recommend this course to people who are not even parents but just struggling with weight or nutrition issues as it´s well made, easy to follow and not too time consuming or deep. Thanks. +Very good basic teachings that can get anyone with a family set to start cooking more nutritious and delicious meals for the whole family. I like how simply it is and how one can easily apply the knowledge to their every day lives. +Easy and inspiring course that teach us how simple yes to take care of our children. +This course is v.nice& useful. I gain so much knowledge +Excellent information presented in a clear manner. I was able to put many of the suggestions to use immediately. +I learnt a lot from this lecture.I love cooking and hope more people can enjoy it. +This a wonderful primer (or refresher) for anyone that wants to learn simple, effective, healthy strategies for eating. I found it useful for all ages, not just for children. Thanks Maya! +HelloI recommend this course to all who are interested in learning more about the health of children and how to eat healthy.It doesn't matter if you can't understand everything in english because you can use the subtitles. +I learned some new information in this course and was reminded of some healthy eating habits I had forgotten. I love that she cooks meals cooking show style. The class about how to stock your pantry for healthy eating was particularly helpful. +I enjoyed this course because it taught me about chemicals contained in processed foods, and showed me healthy recipes. +I enjoyed this course very much and found it to be a very good introduction to the science of nutrition and cooking. It wasn't focused on children as much as I thought it would be. I would have liked to know a lot more about portion sizes and calories intake, which weren't much discussed. I knew that some foods were good and others were bad... thanks to the course, I now also know why! I didn't find the course too challenging and thought that Maya Adams was a very pleasant instructor. +I am really disappointed with the content of this course. If what you're looking for is the most basic of information on making better choices and remembering to wash your cutting board after handling raw meat, maybe this course is for you. If, however, you come to this course wanting specific information about how to build great meals for babies, toddlers, and young children, or you'd like to know how their needs change over time, this course is not for you. I was hoping for information like how to teach your toddler to chew/eat difficult things (ex: whole apples). I wanted to know at what age/weight you switch to 2% milk. I wanted to know how many calories a meal should be based on height and weight and how that changes over time. I wanted to know medically verified tips on getting the right amount of each nutrient into a toddler's diet and what, if any, extra vitamins should be added. I wanted tips on weaning if you're still nursing a toddler... I guess I just wanted more.In addition, the quizzes are so easy as to be silly. Actual quiz question and correct answer: Which is NOT a good way to approach grocery shopping if healthy choices are desired? Answer: Visit the supermarket hungry and walk through the candy aisle first. COME ON! Did I need a Stanford University course to tell me that one?!?!?While the instructor is knowledgeable, this course is geared toward someone with NO knowledge, not someone who wants to gain a deeper understanding. The videos are painfully slow (am I waiting for a doodle here???) and I could read the entire course worth of transcripts in under a half hour rather than go through all of the videos. And the recipes... good god! I don't think that someone interested in learning more about child nutrition is needing a slow tutorial on how to make basic oatmeal on the stove top. If she'd upped the game- showed basics and then talked about the benefits of adding, say, chia seeds, different fruits, flax, etc. and how best to make a basic bowl of oatmeal into a complete breakfast, that would have been a useful topic.I'm just hugely disappointed. This course is best suited to perhaps a health department; not to someone seeking college level information about a topic that matters to their children's lives. +This course is enjoyable, and very helpful. +I loved this course. It was full of great ideas and amazing recipes that I shared with my friends. Thank you +It's good for people who are beginners in cooking. +Very interesting, informative and useful! Thank you very much for this course! +Simple, neat and wonderful explanation for food. I love this course and want to try to have some recipe. +I liked so much this couse, thanks! +Great course!! it's AWESOME!!! +I loved this course.It was easy and the personality of the teacher was so soft. I liked it and her too.Thank you very much. +Thank you so much! +Child Nutrition and Cooking was a pretty fun and easy course. As a stay at home mom and experience novice cook since childhood this class was more of a recap of basic cooking for me and a nice reminder of nutritional goals and current standards. I enjoyed it for my introduction to Coursera. Unfortunately this course didn't offer offer a certificate or statement of accomplishment in any form at the time I took it. :( +This class was very helpful in better understanding the nutritionnal values off various foods and how to best prepare them. It covers a wide variety of food related issues, such as the agro-industry, food safety, antibiotics, pesticides... and helps in atking informed decisions when preparing nutritious meals. +Great course, I am learning lots. +Great course. Good pace, great visuals. It's an amazing first step to know the basics (without getting bored) and it really make you want to know more and more. Great job! +Wonderful course! Easy, straightforward ideas to improve your life and some science mixed in to explain the "why" of it all. Very inspirational. +Lots of great information. I appreciate the time and effort that went into this. +Thanks a lot for this course! I've learned such an interesting and helpful information. All the best! +Great information showed in a very easy way to understand. +very useful~ +I love that! Great tips, great ideas, great recipes! +I have finished this course and is really +Touches on multiple subject matters pertaining to food. Simplified in a thorough manner. +wonderful course, everything is simple and clear! +I love the course, even I am not a mother, but soon I will be, so I think this course really helpful. It gives me knowledge about how to give food to your family especially children. Start from choosing the ingredients up to cook it in a proper way.Thank You +Just amasing. I love this course! +My favorite parts from my course are when Mum Adams talks with us from her kitchen. It makes me feel like we are the kitchen together talking mom to mom. She is imparting helpful tips and tricks to be a good mom. The student was not as good at imparting that feeling of closeness. +I'm taking this course just out of curiosity and I'm loving it!There's a lot of information about food, how to understand what you're getting from the markets, how to be healthy in a world full of processed meals... it's pretty interesting! I'm also enjoying all 'cooking demonstrations' videos.Thanks for all the material and knowledge!Cheers, Thais +Very basic course, not too challenging to a non-american. +thanks very much for a very useful course! I am a mom-to-be, this course brings me a basic concept of food content and how to raise a healthy child. +A wonderful course! As a father and a sports Nutritionist I am always thinking how to make my son eat better healthier. Thank You Team Standford for putting together this great course. +be active and be healthy +The course is so interesting and helpful! Thank you for new ideas and inspiration! +Good evening, I'm from Mexico and I am a teacher in a School of Nutrition, however, I am Biochemical Engineer, the truth is that this course is very interesting and easy to understand, besides extending the criteria and me about this science. I appreciate the matching available online. Regards. +Definitely gave me and my the friends I've recommended to do this course, some well needed information. I must add that the recipes were easy simple and very much fun!! If there was a part two for this course, I would definitely sign up! +Really helpful with/o being a parent +Easy, simple and clear. Does not need extra learning time so you can do it even with a busy schedule.I think everybody should be aware and take in consideration eating aspects. Was totally happy with the course content. +Learned a lot of new things, very interesting course all 5 weeks! +This course is very useful and easy for me to follow it. I'll try to do some nutritive meal +Very well courses, I like it and all videos had very clear English language.:) +Amazing work from Maya Adam, MD. She is the best I have see here. +This is an excellent course for both adult and child nutrition. There are so many practical skills taught as well, such as learning about how to best combine flavor and basic seasonings to keep stocked in your pantry. +Useful and helpful strategies and information about nutritional cooking. +This is a great course. I take it every chance I get. This will be my third time completing it and every time I do, I not only refresh my current knowledge, but I learn something new, or relearn something that I had forgotten. I very highly recommend this choice. It has helped me make more positive and healthier choices +Very useful! Great lectures! Thank you!! +Fantastic course! Fab for anyone wanting to know more about nutrition for children and how to prepare meals that meet their needs. +Its educational. Good teacher. Thanks to great course, i had enjoyed :) +Thank you for the course. I have found it very useful. +Nice, easy and healthy recipes! +interesting, informative +It was very informative. Your basic nutrition and cooking class, but I loved the video demonstrations of the different meals. It gave me some great ideas to try with my own family. +Good course! +It's really amazing about the facts seen in the course videos.Learnt new things. +great,and useful. +an eye-opening course!!! +Wonderful course! As a first-time mum to a newborn, I appreciate Dr Maya's down-to-earth approach. Her bite-sized videos are perfect. +This course has helped me a lot to understand why our children need to eat better, how this helps in their growth and also how this encourages good family values. Thank you! +Very helpful. Thanks! +Very interesting course. Really good lecturer and well organised classes. Loved it! +It's a very interesting course! I found out a lot of things that I didn't know and I started applying the tips Maye gave! This makes a difference! +Excellent course if you want to learn the building blocks of nutrition and gain awareness of what commercial products are made from, what your kids (and you!) are eating, and much more healthy alternatives. +I like the structure of the course as well as its presentations.The instructors are very lively and creative in providing real-life information and materials.I suggest to have more courses with her that has a deeper understanding of child nutrition in various age groups.However, some of the cooking demonstrations do not indicate the temperature and duration of the heating.That's why I gave the course 4 stars. +Amazing! Great work :) +Great Course!! Very well explained, easy to understand and overall very useful information. I have learn a TON with this course and definitely i would recommend it to anyone concerned about their children nutrition.It would be great to see a Child Nutrition and Cooking 2!Great work. +This is a very good course, however it does not take into consideration certain details we learn in Nutrition. For instance the use of wood type instruments for cooking, they can hide microorganisms and the use of oil to fry when the best option would be baking. +Not very good nor scientific +pride if with family in learning +You learn a lot about nutrition without being overwhelmed. +Sounds interesting course. +Very informative Course.. Loved all the Cooking demonstrations and tried most of them. +It was a great course! +I enjoyed this class immensely +I loved it. Right to the point and simple! +Super useful! But I think it should have more chemical about the reactions of food in our bodies +This course is real, interactive and interesting. I learnt a lot +Great and easy explained with video's and drawings. Loved the cooking demo's for some fresh and homemade meals. Also great for families with no children since there are basic food facts everyone should know about. Quizzes are fun and informative and the time needed to follow up was enough even with deadlines. +Thanks to this course I buy healthful foods and cut my grocery bill by almost 40%. Tomato sauce and crepes are staples in our family now. I got really inspired to pack not only my children's lunches, but also my and my husband's brown bags. Thank you Maya and your team for improving our lives! +Very reccomended course if you want to learn the basics of nutrients and begin to change your nutrition habits and those of y +Absolutely amazing course. I really enjoyed it and it's so practical. I wish there were more of these courses around nutrition and cooking on coursera. Fantastic Instructor as well! +loved learning the great simple healthy recipes! Also great information for kids, teens, and adults. +This course has really been helpful for me and my family. I am soon to be a mother and it's great to know so many tips for a healthy diet. +Really useful. Very good lesson. +Thank you so much for such a great course Mrs.Adam!Being a mom of a little child is much easier now, at least at the kitchen! Now I can say that quality of the foods I buy will be higher and the quantity of the red meat we eat will be managed.Wish you success in your future project and health and happiness to your family!Best regards,N.U. Kurchakova +This is a great course for new parents who have no background on child nutrition. For those who are already familiar with basic nutrition, most of this course may be a review for you but there's some good information and facts to take away. I wish the instructor had a little more training/skill in the cooking segments (e.g. basic knife skills she said don't cut your finger but held the knife completely wrong, using the knife to point at different ingredients). +it's the core information that every parents or even every person should know about food & nutrition. this course has made me cook for our kids and plant our own veggies. +I found this course very much valuable for kids as well as other elder people. The teaching method was highly impressive and Dr. Maya Adam really inspired me. I wanted to give 5 stars but I found few things missing, such as food recipes were without quantity of items (especially in written format), gardening was described in a very short format (I felt that it required little bit more detail), market visits could be a very healthy and informative section, some experts advice & suggestion (including famous chefs), some discussion over food available and prepared in hotels/restaurants & also visits over there. Over all it's really a good course and I would definitely recommend to others. My all the best wishes to Dr. Maya Adam such a great work and hope see more from her.Thank you.Regards,Shoukat Shadat Ali +This class is awesome +I enjoyed the course and I cooked some of the dishes it is really taste great beside it is healthythank you! +This course reinforced what I know about nutrition and provided a more fundamental basis for the mechanisms at play. With a balance of facts with practical tips, this course avoids a lot of the extremes seen in most discussions on nutrition. Biggest takeaways:* The food that spoils the quickest is the best for us because the nutrients that pests want are the nutrients that we want too. As much as possible, choose unprocessed foods.* While this course is agnostic in terms of vegetarian or carnivorous diets, it suggests that most Americans eat more meat than is healthy for them and the environment.* As much as possible, eat a rainbow. Variety is key to getting a complete variety of the nutrients we need.* Plate size matters a lot* The fresher and more local your produce, the better it is for you and the environment.* Drink water and a lot of it +Clear and useful information. It worked really good for me that it was self-paced. +Informative and practical. I took this course because of my four year old picky eater. I got some helpful tips to help feed my child with heathy food with simple steps. +Very helpful!! I am not a mother yet, so luckily, I still have time to improve my cooking, haha! +Very nice and interesting course with a lot of useful informaion, easy to learn and understand. Thank you! Do you have part 2 of this course?:)) +Great course with great info! Love how friendly the teacher is in the videos. Glad their advocating for sustainability, too! +I loved the course! Would reccommend it to all m friends, really isefull! +Really interesting. Love it! +this is the best course in United States of America. #Obama2016 +This course is immensely informative, as well as fun! I loved the way Maya made things simple, with diagrams to accompany all of the the nutrition information. I hope she does more courses like these! +This course helped me understand more about the science behind foods. A lot of the content I already knew but it was nice to have a refresher. A lot of the recipes were great ideas (I have already made most of them before being introduced to this course). The videos that involved making the meals were a bit "dumbed down" for people who are not used to cooking but I like the cheerful attitude of everybody who came on screen. +Great course for beginners! +There's a little bit too much in the way of "buy organic!" when there's no evidence to recommend that but other than that a very nice course. I would recommend that they retool it to be more accessible to people on the lower income brackets. I got news for you, "almond flour" is not something most people are going to spring for when it costs several times what wheat flour does. +Teacher tells us many useful tips for cooking, which are easy to rememer and to do. +The pace of the course :) and the speed of narration was very good. In deed it makes anyone understand what is being conveyed. The graphics and animated narrations are fantastic and they talk more effectively.The demonstrations are crisp, complete and very clear and the push towards organic farming is very timely.The course also conveys a very clear message towards the family bonding which is lacking now a days.Many thanks Maya. +I only took this Course because I was forced too and I don't think it matters what you eat it's just how much you eat. You also don't need to eat lots of Vegetables and Fruit to be a Health person just saying .Plus this course is boring as hell +I found this course to be very helpful. It was informative and I learned new techniques to make meals more interesting. I would recommend this course for anyone interested in eating a more healthy menu. +This course is very good! +Got some great recipes. This was a fun course! Would like to know even more. +Nutrition is such an important factor to living well and reaching total human optimization. Living with young and growing kids, I took advantage of this free course to find easy-to-do recipes as well as becoming more educated on the benefits of eating natural, organic whole foods. My favorite parts of the videos were the scientific explanation and the illustrations that followed. +Every parent should take this course, it is a must for happier healthier kids +I liked this course. It is pretty simple, but very useful in everyday life (and not only for people who have children!) +very useful！ +Each lecture is really enjoyable with typical nutrition facts presented in an engaging and fun manner! Cooking looks so much more fun in the videos! +This is class is practical, packed with great information on how to cook and eat healthy. I really enjoyed it! +I loved it. +Thank you so much for this easy, beautifully illustrated simple presentation of nutrition basics and lovely recipes! +It is very helpful and informative, especially for moms like me. I hope there will be more like these. Thank you Maya. +I really enjoy this course. It's useful and I learned I lot. Thank you so much. +It was a very informative course. Thanks to Maya and the entire coursera team. +so many things I couldn't agree with more!!! Thank you :) +A pretty solid course, though there does appear to be a degree of cognitive bias regarding certain farming methods. +Great course! Thank you! +i like this course very much....and this is my 1st course.... +I love it! it's so fun and interesting! I learnt alot and I would love it if Dr Maya makes more courses. +I think this course is fantastic. Easy to understand, very informative and isnt too heavy. +I have no regrets at all in starting and ending this course! It is indeed a great motivation especially for me because I'm a semi-vegetarian and at the same time fond of organic food. I'll be always grateful to this learning experience! :) +This was a thoroughly enjoyable and engaging course that highlighted some pertinent aspects of child nutrition, which will in turn I believe help your child foster a positive relationship with the food they consume as youngsters into adulthood. Some highly practical cooking techniques were explored and as a new father I feel more confident in the food we buy, prepare and feed our son. A very valuable course. +Brilliant! +Loved it. +Nicely done. Only thing is its very 'American'. A lot of the recipes and tips are too elementary. Would have loved some more ideas on what to cook/ how to cook etc. +Change my lifestyle completely! +Course content is balanced with demonstrations and charts, along with quizzes. Enjoyed it. +Light but insightful. The course felt very humanized, as something anyone can relate with, so it feels like you are learning things that apply to your day to day lifestyle. Even thou I had a major understanding of the field, I still really enjoyed the class. +Great! +Informative, bite-sized chunks of useful information. +I find this course very useful, even if you do not have kids, like me. I would like to study more courses of nutrition after having taken this one. Thank you! +Great course!. I enjoyed every single video. All of them were helpful and interesting. Many thanks for coursera and thanks the lecturer for this amazing course. +I loved all of the recipes and cooking demonstration +Excellent for mothers to learn about healthy nutrition for her kids +Very Good course to know about nutrition, healthy cooking ways and child care. +My favourite course in Coursera! I was really surprised by this course. It’s a pleasant learning opportunity for people who want the best for their kids and it helps to promote healthy eating habits in their homes. Maya is an excellent teacher and all the staff made an wonderful job. Thank you for the opportunity! +This course helped me to solve some questions i had about nutrition. It also helped me with lots of techniques to include vegetables and healthy food at home. My 9 years old boy tested a cucumber yesterday with salad dressing! i couldn't believe that was possible. It's easy to follow and encouraging. Thank you.MG. from Venezuela. +Great +easy to understand +Education was beneficial to my everyday life. I help but revert back to the lessons taught when it comes to my diet, and the little ones that run around our house. Being a chef I was always looking for better ways to enhance the diet of adults, and taking care of a child's diet is just as pertinent to any dining experience. I would suggest this course to anyone, and though it may seem easy. The diagrams and lessons will stick with you through every meal. +Fantastically simple and informative. Been putting it into practice over the past few months with students in my classroom to get them more engaged in cooking and eating. +This course is very easy to follow and yet useful. I can really apply the knowlege and techniques in my own diet habbits and stay healthy. +This course was wonderful! I really learned a lot. Thank you for this great opportunity. +I loved taking this course. The instructor was fun to watch and she seems really nice, I wish I could meet her and her darling children. I learned a lot and I am happy that I was able to take the course at my own pace. +I loved every single moment of it, especially the cooking demonstrations. i am not a mom yet but i hope to be soon, in the main time i would apply all i have learnt to my self. Thank you so much +Great course, i love the way how you explain +Informative and well-presented =] +I learned a lot about nutrition not only for me but for children. I work with children and it is nice to be able to give insight on nut +It`s a very informative course as well as providing students with practical cooking demostrations. It is mainly focused on children but all the family benefits from healthy meals and habits,Highly recommend +very good way to remember about nutricion and diet +It is simple as anyone can follow, yet deep in knowledge and expertise. Thank you for preparing sucha a course. +Friendly, fun, clear and helpful.I loved it. +Easy, light, fun. A great experience! +A good introduction to child nutrition. I would recommend to anyone looking to learn about nutrition for children and the family. +I LOVE IT! GOOD SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR MY FAMILY NUTRITION! +Excellent course. Highly recommended +Amazingly simple reasons and ways in which we can keep children's food nutritious and healthy! +why are give me cartuficate +Excellent course, pleasant, easy to follow and informative. It is also set at the nice pace and consistency. Thank you! +This is surprisingly a very great presentation of a course. Even though I am an adult, I really want to make healthy dishes for myself, and Dr Maya Adam is a really great lecturer and a mom. I hope that Meditation course from University of Virginia learn from this course on how to present an interesting online course. Thank you again Coursera for making my knowledge broader, and possibly change my life in the future. +The course is simple and approachable by all. This course is practical, mixing simple science with statistics, rules of thumb, and cooking demonstrations that most anyone can follow. +My kids and I enjoyed this course. I have been recommending this to my families and friends. +Very useful thank you very much learned alot +Super course! Recommend to moms who want to feed their children with healthy food! +This course refreshed my knowledge, and I also learned many new aspects on nutrition for children. This course is useful for me who is a new mom and preparing to go back to work soon. The summary and graph are vivid and fun, which help the students remember the concepts easily. Thank you for offering the course. +I extremely enjoyed the couse. It changed my view of cooking! And I do appreciate the vivid illustrations and useful skills provided in the le +I really enjoy how in-depth the lessons are. I have four small children and have learned that they eat and drink what we do because they love to mimic us as their role models and if we would not want a bunch of junk in our bodies why should our children. This world is so fast paced and fast food junkies yet we can still make even small choices that are healthy for us like maybe a grilled chicken or a salad if we absolutely have to have something while out. Otherwise it's much better and cheaper to cook at home and have family time +A really interesting course and very helpful when it comes to eating. Not only for children but for oneself too. There course gives you theory and recipes which is a good combination to emphasize the understanding +I love this course very very much... i think the lecturer, Maya Adam has done a very good job for making this subject interesting,... I also like the way she explains stuff... she makes it so easy understandable! I hope she will have more course to come.. will defintely enroll again! Please notify me if she has any new upcoming course!! Well done! =) +I loved this course! It was amazing and she really teaches you the basics of cooking for children and suggests wonderful options for people with Celiac's disease! +Very useful nutritional and food information structured with care, combined with common sense advice to apply in every household.The whole package is served with delicate ambient music, practical recipes and kitchen advices, and last but not least, with love towards children and family.One might find inside some controversial aspects as maybe too much frying, cooking in aluminium foil presumed to be bad, using sugar when cooking, but everyone is free to adapt the content to his own perceptions, fears and style. The main philosophy proposed, the moderation, is a keeper though.I just loved taking this course +A very information-packed course, easy to follow and very worthwhile. Thank you :-) +Quite basic but some tips are useful to know. +This course has a lot of valuable info. Things are making sense for me. Sometimes you hear that certain things are healthier and you don't understand why. The instructor does a great job a +It was perfect and i learnt a lot, j wish i had a certificate or sort of reference to show i have completed it. Thank you +great course +So many important informations. Great teacher, illustrations and recipes! +Very useful course.It should have contained few food recipes of different countries.Great learning about child nutrition.Thanks n regards. +lessons were simply taught, easy to follow and instructor was delightfully pleasant. I learnt a lot! +It is a great course that mix between medicine and cooking, my two favorite things! I liked the lecturer Dr Maya, she has a meaningful way of showing her course information in s simple way. +This course was very informative and the subjects were explained in a clear manner. The recipes are great too! +Loved it, also loved that it was self paced. +Fun to watch and learn! Thanks a lot for an easy to follow course. +I found it brilliant! Via this course people can understand in a simple way the difficult terminology of the nutrition and the part with the recipes was very helpful and cheerful especially for people who want to begin cooking simple, tasty and healthy food. Thank you for providing me such a wonderful course! +Enjoyed the course. Has lots of visuals, which helps a lot to memorize all the information presented. +This very well structured course takes you through the basics of nutrition and then applies them to your family's diet. This course not only shows you what good nutrition is compared to the unhealthy elements, this course actually shows you how to cook great meals step by step. I especially loved hearing all about the psychology of supermarket planning to accomplish sales. Inform yourself and enjoy great food the healthy way . . . together! +This course indicated to me how important and irreplaceable is healthy eating during children's growth and development. Also, cooking for your child is a beautiful way to spend time together, express love and stimulate your child to develop good habits. During this course I've learned how to easily make several healthy meals and how to deal with everyday problems and healthy eating. Also, I got familiar with some crucial facts like reading nutrition facts labels and the huge impact of processed food on our health and environment. Thank you very much! +I very much enjoyed this course and I learned so much! Very simple, easy to understand, but highly informative and valuable information. I would actually take this course a second time as a refresher because I liked it so much! Instructor was very clear, easy to understand, and pleasant to listen to. Her videos were also relaxed and fun which helped keep me interested. +This was an amazing experience for me. The teaching method was an absolute pleasure for me as a leaner. Great graphics and short lessons worked perfectly for me. It was as if I just didn't want the course to finish. Well I guess what I am trying to say is, I not only learned so much, but I enjoyed the learning process. It was all smooth for me. Keep the strategy up! Many +Clearly state what we should do, why we should do that and provide simple solutions. No hard and confusing terminologies. Also, scenes like families eating at the dinner table is really touching. +Love it!!! +This course was one of the best that I have seen +It was too simple for my taste and not very fullfilling science wise +I liked the course, however it was too basic. +Excellent course...really enjoyed learning about healthy eating alternatives for children and how to involve them in the process of cooking. The class got me motivated to practice these great habits with my family. :) +I loved this class! It taught me a lot and was easy for me to pick up where I left off with my busy schedule. I'm so excited to try these recipes and all that I learned with my family! +Interesting class with great practical tips. The instructor encourages eating only the highest quality food, but is also realistic about what her audience will be able to obtain. The recipes make healthy cooking less intimidating. +Really useful as a CPD platform or as a parent wanting to research +I love Child Nutrition and Cooking. So educational . +I enjoyed taking this course. I have learned several *new* things about buying, preparing and cooking food. The videos are straight-forward and the content is presented in a clear and concise way. +the lady, her way of talking, her illustrations.. out of the world! +A long-time practitioner and a loving mother provides science-based learning about child nutrition. The content was very interactive and accessible. She not only conducts research in this area but also applies it to her daily life. +Excellent Course for me!!Thank you very much Maya! You help me a lot whith all the information, mainly because I've a baby and love to make helthier foods for him! +awsome for my wife , we need it!!!! +I felt like a lot of this information was VERY basic, and then I consider the people around me and how little they know about food and nutrition. Someone like my niece who is young with an infant would definitely benefit from this course. I like the way the information was presented, very easy to comprehend. Overall I'd recommend this course if you are interested in knowing a bit more about nutrition regardless if you have a child. +This was a really good course. The information was useful and down to earth and the Tutor was friendly with her presentation. I recommend this course to lots of people, friends and colleagues. +This was a good introduction to Coursera for me. Some of the information I already knew, but it was good to learn the "why" behind some of it. There were a few of the quizzes that contained questions from videos that hadn't been covered yet. Her information about food allergies was good, I would like to see her offer a class on just that topic. +Very beneficial. I LIKED IT. Deserves 10 stars indeed. +Excellent course. I have learned so many ways to cook healthy food. +The recipes shared are simple to follow... +this is the course that no one can afford to miss +Awesome course! +The modules are rampant with bias against "big food," without considering the science. On the other hand, if you take the course as a whole, then yes, the population would be better off if we all followed the suggestions contained in this course than if we continue on our current path for how we consume food. So the general idea is not without merit. However, I would have expected better from a Stanford faculty member. What is being taught should be just the science, without opinions or biases. +I love it that course.It is very interesting for me and I learn a lot of food and nutrition. +A good mix of theory and practice! +Very informative, easy to learn, and love the videos! I want my kitchen to look like the professor's! +Loved it +I found this course very helpful because of its advice on nutrition foods +Very interesting course +Very helpful in nutrition, not just for kids, but in general. Made me more aware of some of the processed junk I've been putting in my body +It was very interesting and informative course. One becomes more aware of what he/she consumes.Thank you! +The best !!! +This course was very interesting and informative! +highly recommended. very informative and very interesting. and maya a truly a great lecturer.smooth class. +Interesting course +this course is very simple and specific, very important to parentsthanks for all team +Thank you very much! It was very interesting and useful for me! Perfect! +Very interesting course. Many things I already knew it because I usually ook at home. +I love this course. It really help me put my family's health into perspective. Months later I still review models and let others, especially moms, know about the course. +the course is so great. I learned a much about nutrious diet which i have to feed to my littel sister. As a pedietrician these information i will teatch them to every mother in my clinic. Thanx alot . I appretiate your hard efforts. +Great course - I think there could be more on different grain types and alternatives to pasta and potatoes. Also the videos can be speed up during the drawings. Sometimes the sound changes awkwardly during the parts were there is only drawing. +Wonderful, very informative. Thank you for a great experience. +very informative and makes eating better exciting. +Gave me a better understanding about how food works and the different influences on human health. Really easy to understand content as well. +It is easy but useful course for everyone, especially for mums. I really love the teacher who is beautiful and knowledgeable lady. +Great course! Very informative and just simply put with great examples and step by step talk through. +very lovely and easy to understand +Great course with fabulous teacher. I still want to learn more! +I really enjoyed the passe and the visual stimulation. I appreciate that Dr. Maya Adam made the lecture personal by sharing her experiences and including her family in the videos. Thank you and I look forward to completing more courses especially if Dr. Adam is the presenter. +Perfect course +I really enjoyed this class. The teacher is very upbeat and interesting as well. Lots of good recipe instructional videos. She also breaks nutritional information down until its easily understood. Thanks! +Good and clear content. A bit from an American point of view... I missed some in depth explanation (like the class of the nerv-system or the Glycemic index). Overall easy to watch and good lessons. +Excellent introduction to child nutrition. +Worst course ever. I stopped partway through. Too many links to outside stuff. Tests/quizes were not based on what was presented in the lessons. Test design is horrible, too many negative questions. Glances over the good true information about nutrition to tell us about free range farms, farmers markets, etc., which most people do not have access to or can not afford.Giving it 1 star is being nicePeople who sponsored it should get their money back. +Interesting and informative. Contained a wealth of very useful knowledge about Brain Science, and it was delivered in a quiet, calm, and clear fashion. Simply excellent. Nicely done !! +Its Awesome +Good science, great explanations, simple recipes with tips and advice. Strongly recommended to people with little/no cooking and/or science backgrounds - especially new university students and parents. However, I would not consider the professor (she is a doctor though) a skilled chef - while her recipes are great and simple, the techniques she uses are perhaps not the best, given that she is conducting a course that's nearly 20% cooking demonstrations. I would strongly suggest consulting a Jamie Oliver book/video, or Michael Smith to augment this course.TL'DR: Great science and explanations, good recipes, could have used better cooking techniques. Good for uni students/healthy eaters. +Simple and useful information about nutrition. Very interesting! +Course is clearly and included lots of information.I am clincal dietetician so I can confirm that all of information are true.The teacher are prepared and watching her was my pleasure.I am recommend that course. +The tips and principles are quite useful even for a different cultural background. I recommended this course to a friend who just had her baby back then. +Very very interesting, and practical in home cooking for working mothers, , give important tips of nutrition about mixing food o all types, speaking of technical issues, video is very good quality, the teacher is clear, and production is very attractive and well created. +The course is very helpful not only for Child Nutrition, but Personal Nutrition as well. The course content was very interesting and easy to follow. +Exсellent course for mothers. +Interesting and informative! +amazing course.I really enjoyed listening to all information. Every day I try to cook something from recipes given. My 2 year old son loves them!!!Thanks +very informative +I leaned alot of new information I will share with my family and at the preschool I have worked in for 25 years. Really enjoyed this course. +A little too basic but it was a good class. Thanks! +I found it very basic. There were lots of repetition. I was expecting something more in-depth. Loved the graphics though. +This is an excellent course for parents! You can learn many simply tips that will have a profound impact on the way you cook for your family. Cooking healthy food doesn't need to be more expensive or more complicated that not so healthy options. Very recommendable! Maya is a great host. +Very interesting and pleasant to follow. +Loved this course! +The course has completely changed my approach in cooking food for my kids and family. Kids are much more satisfied after each food and they don't reach out for junk food. Thanks for giving valuable information about food and this is going to stay with me for rest of my life. +very good to be in healthier side after watching 1 week course. +Excellent course. The material presented was not difficult to comprehend. I highly recommend this to parents who are in a quandry every night when the question, "what's for dinner?" presents itself. More than the content, I was most impressed by the manner in which the course was taught. Instead of a "talking head" format, the instructor used a variety of techniques to present the material, including teaching the majority of the class from her kitchen, using an interactive "blackboard" to illustrate concepts while she spoke and lots of cooking demonstrations. Kudos to Stanford for producing such high quality content. I have started a lot of Coursera courses and this is the first one that I've been able to complete because the content kept me engaged. +Fun and informative. +It was fantastic! I loved every minute of it!!!!!! +Fun course. I learned a lot about nutrition and got quite a few easy healthy recipes. This course actually inspired me to cook for my family.I'm hoping there's a second part that will come out in the future. +is very useful and interesting +It is the first time I can hear directly about the importance of 'child nutrition' in every day life setting. I do thank for this introduction, thanks to the Stanford University for this interesting online course. I do hope that there will be more friends of mine in Indonesia that also should pay attention to this great source of learning +Amazing course! So positive, informative and engage learning. I want to watch and to learn one by one videos/ course materials with Maya Adam. She is perfect Teacher! Thank you +Great +I loved this course, the explanation, the cooking ideas, everything! Highly recommended! +A wonderful over view of nutrition for children. +Very helpful. I will apply what I learned to m +It's an excellent course for new moms who are worried about feeding right our children. Maya is really nice, and all the information provided is really helpfull and easy to do in our lifes. Thank you so much for taking the time of doing this course for us. +I absolutely loved this course! I learnt so much from it! +love the way this course is taught!, really enjoyed hope nice& sweet she is . +Practical and simple way to live and give nutritional and family values to our children. +It is an excelent course. Congratulations. I hope find more courses about nutrition. Thank you. +Good Course, but I was not able to get a certificate for completing it. +Learning so much. Thanks! +The course is appropriate for all ages. It helps me prepare not just food for children, but for others as well. It also provides detail scientific explanation of nutrition. The course is a very practical one. +very good advices!! +This is a useful and clear course for understanding food, nutrition and the role they complete in our life and healt. +Thank you very much for nice work, big effort and open my mind. Thank you so much +I had really enjoyed this course! +Great information, great tips and a great teacher... Thank you Maya +An amazing course for everyone who is concerned about children's health and well-being +Lovely structure of the class combined with illustration, interview and cooking is the best part of this class.The contents are very helpful as well!I really recommend this class whoever wants to know about nutrition and change your diet habit to healthy way. +Very useful for people who want to have a more balanced diet. +Great course!. Content was clear and precise. I would have loved to learn more recipes for kids. +Good for public education with general nutrition knowledge integrated with environmental protection, practical behaviors and cooking exercises. +I don't have any children, but I decided to do this course to gain basic knowledge of nutrition and how to sustain a healthy lifestyle for myself. This course was fantastic for me. The recipes that were given - I use on a weekly basis. The notes I took from the course - I look over often to refresh my memory. I highly recommend this course for anyone who wants to learn about a healthy lifestyle that then can be passed on to children. +am doing diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care. This course has helped me lot about providing healthy and safe food for children! +I love this course ! It teaches you what can be in your child's food, drinks, what they should have on a regular basis and the kind of routine that you should set up for them so they can get used to eating healthy foods instead of fatty, greasy foods from fast food places. I would recommend anyone who is thinking about working with children in their career to take this course. It really will help you and your family with eating healthy every day. +great course concise and percisethank you for everything:) +I loved this course ! Thank you ! +I think this course should be required for anyone who wants a healthy family. The instructor is amazing, not only is she charismatic, but very knowledgeable and caring. The information in the course is presented in away that is easy to comprehend and apply in life. There's not much more I can say besides - I'm happy I took this course, I'm happy it's been offered to me and my family is a happier family with this information I've learned +loved most of the information. totally loved the recipes and really hope that my grandchildren will +Incredibly good, sane and necessary course. +nice basic overview of easy to use tips for healthier diet +Super presentation and very good information +Thanks! +It is very useful +this course is very useful if you want to learn about something that majority of people(not including me) don't care about, and is based on out-dated info and opinions of a high middle class, house mom. this course is a waste of data. someone get some actual statistics here. +It is a good course to general people and even to who have some specialization, to relax and practise English if it is necessary. +Thanks very muchIwish i can take a certificate for this course. +Great and absolutely well done +Super clear, short & fun introduction to nutrition +I really love this course! +Informative without being preachy. Cute, entertaining drawings. +This is a course that shows, in a practical and funny way, fundamental nutrition concepts. I recommend to take it even if you do not have children, but you are interested into understand how our bodies processes food and how eating healthy could be easier than you ever imagined. +loved it learned lots of new things and my family is eating healthier everyday +I love the cooking demonstration most and the easy-to-understand explanation really helps me a lot to prepare my Food. +I loved almost every episode of this course. They are very different: some are practical, some are very informative and all of them are easy to get. The course is simple and i would say basic especially for those who have decided to change food behavior, but does not know where to start. +Nicely organised and content rich course; helps to know a lot about child nutrition. +This course was a great refresher for basic nutritional/health information, and comes with a really great message: don't worry if you're not a great "chef", basically any home-cooked meal will be healthier than fast or processed food! I enjoyed the cooking demonstrations and simple solutions for making healthy choices. +I enjoyed the course. +Nicely done! +Very good. Nice choice of person to teach this course Her knowledge and soothing voice and occasional cameos of her kids made this very easy to absorb, relate and want to learn more. My next shopping trip to the store was 90% more healthier than before. I made better decisions about what I want to feed my family....especially my 2 year old granddaughter that pretty much loves all veggies and fruit. Great time to influence her eating habits. +Very interesting and handy. I'm Spaniard, so most of the things are basic for me such as the use of onion and garlic in meals, and the use of street market for shopping vegetables. But the recipes were fantastic and since I'm a mother of a 1-year-old child, I will put on practice soon. Thank you! +I have loved this course. It is the perfect mix between nutrition, recipes and usefull tips for a better eating. I am so happy and I have learned a lot! +Very useful and easy ! I just love Maya! +maya adams class is very informative +Great information to use in my classroom as well as with my son at home!! +As a college student I really appreciate how many of the tips shared are simple and can be implemented on a day to day basis. A lot the recipes and ideas shared do not require really fancy equipment or ingredients I've never heard of, are super expensive, or hard to find. The instructor truly cares about students leaning how to cook for themselves and eat healthier and provides information to do so without judgement. Her passion is clear and I love how she promotes little steps and not some drastic change that can eat up all of your energy and focus to implement. Thank you!!!! +Really good!! I enjoyed a lot!! ;) +great course and great teacher :D +fantastic and informative course and good for the health +Good Lessons and solid ideas for all ages, all income levels. Good Job. +its pretty good +I enjoyed the mix of videos, demos and visually-oriented lectures. I learn best when I can see little drawings with main points, so that style of illustration was perfect for me. I appreciated the human touch as well, being able to see the instructor at home in her own kitchen, with her own children. Thank you! +I would like to recive a certificated +I really learned a lot. My baby is still 4 months old and I'm practicing to eat and cook healthily. I started reading labels and researching healthy alternatives of food. The way the information was presented was simple yet elegant. I'm hoping this course will have more lessons. I really enjoyed the current lessons. +A very educating course. +Informative and helpful! +On demand format was great for a stay home mum and all the cooking tips were very useful. +This course is great!! And fun too...I learn many thing that I've overlooked for these years, just like nutrition label and soon. This course tell me the basic knowledge of healthy meal and the importance of making my own meal. Unfortunately, this course is pretty much short like the other...It'll be SUPER if the content of the course could be extended a lil' bit (or a lot more is better though :p) +The best course I have ever had the opportunity to participate in. +I enjoyed the course. I would like a course that teaches the next step in Nutrition. +I love it, i learn a lot. Im now using the tips she gave to give my little baby the best food i can make. Thanks a lot for this course +Couple things I didn't agree with, but for the audience in mind I think it's very solid and has a wonderful introduction to child nutrition or just to grasp nutrition in general. +Very helpful tips!!! +This is what I was looking for! I found it very thorough, easy to understand and very practical course. Very grateful to the coursera and Dr Maya Adam for this wonderful course! :) +Every mother should do this course . +Thanks for all the advices, It was great to learn how to cook healthy. +Well,I learnt a lot not only in cooking meal,but also in getting nutrition in healthy way. +I enjoyed this course very much. This has helped me understanding many basic things about food and what is important for my kids. There are many little helpful tips. As a working mother with 2 little kids, it's so much better to have seen these videos of "simple cooking", than watching cook shows in TV that make cooking so complicated (by learning nothing) and tiring. Thanks for this great course and your effort in improving the health of kids of the world! Best regards, Huiyan Roy, a Chinese German mother +Really informative, if every parent had taken this course before having children the world would be healthier. Also a great class for adult nutrition as well! Thanks for including recipes, I would love some more cooking demonstrations! +Good One!! +A very good course and so apetizing ! +I really enjoy the food preparation and the important facts about our body, about our food intake habits. thank u a lot Maya. +I am a professional Chef and was really helpful for me to get some new view about cooking and using ingredients more careful. +The structure and the material taught in this course is excellent. The instructer is a very good teacher. +I totally recommend this course, it's didactic, fun and very useful. Even though it's plan for 5 weeks, I get in whenever I can. It's really motivating to change your habits for good. +very interesting and helpful,,,,,,,easy to learn,,,babies are so cute +I like how everything was clearly explained; besides, I think the teacher focuses on things (such as having a own garden or cooking one's chicken breast) which are really useful because they are affordable and they are easy to get used to. She doesn't talk about radical targets which are difficult to follow but quite common sense ones. +I found the experience on the course totally enjoyable. It gave me the opportunity to develop my passion for learning about preparing healthy meals and organizing my kitchen in a relaxed way without any pressures. +I found it very accessible. I am a student in Nutrition and this course allowed me to understand other areas that my current course does not provide. Thanks! +good course +This is a fantastic course! +Good overall course, basic and got me interested in cooking again! +Condescending, not backed up with evidence and preachy. Somewhere in there are some good ideas for making healthy food for kids but given I'm probably of similar politics to what they're pushing and I found it obnoxious I think they're alienating a lot of people. Must do better. +Very useful course! Take part of it weather you have children or not, beacuse all of us need a reminder about healty living! +This course has really good information. Very simple and straightforward and I am happy to say that I am using lots of the tips and ideas with my boys. I did find that some of the tips given were a bit unrealistic however it still makes you want to make better choices about food and your family. +Great Class! Wish that the quizzes were more difficult -- they were very straight forward and common sense. The cooking videos inspired me to cook with more variety in my own meals. +Great course +Good for everyone +it's a very great course, if you want to learn some basic knowledge about nutrition and how to cook a balanced diet for your children, this is the best course you can get. +Very interesting course. It has a lot of potential to develop interest among those who aren't really fascinated with cooking. Looking forward to many more courses by Dr.Maya Adams. +Great course! I wish there was a statement of accomplishment available when I complete it. +clear and easy for me to learn the cooking +Nice course about eating suggestions and good recipesIt could be useful giving details on how making a diet for children, with information about calories they need and so on +I feel very happy to receive this course. Thank all of you to give us such a great opportunity. +This is a very friendly course. It is complete and easy to follow. I highly recommend it. +Really good video lectures! Pedagogical and with many interesting examples. Could have been a bit more of the statistical stuff in som form of interactive exercises.. Perfect for a first grasp on the field of human behavioral genetics! +Highly recommended. I loved the structure - I could watch a lecture every morning on my commute and do a bit of reading over my lunchtime. Matt McGue was a great lecturer who broke down complicated topics into easy to understand chunks. I'm a Psychology beginner but I got a lot out of this course and most of all I really enjoyed it. Definitely give it a go! +This was a superb course. Very accessible for the non-specialist. Matt McGue is an excellent lecturer and very clear and conscientious about his subject. I feel I have a stronger grounding in behavioural genetics and am using much of the research in the classroom today. I would recommend this to anyone interested in the influence of genetics on behaviour. +Amazing... Thank you for beeing so pationate by the topic and keeping such complicating information so simple and clear. +Totally awesome! Great content, great techer, all videos are very well organized and well-thought. There is no need to have any previal knowledge in genetics nor psicology, it is meant for anyone who wants to look at the world and people differently! +"much better than the data science with R concentration provided also by John Hopkins. This course has concrete examples, and the lecturer doesn't treat his audience like the first-grade kids." I take this back. The lecturer doesn't know what he's taking about and what he is gonna talk about for at least half of the time. +Thankful that a course like this exists, as most MOOCs are quite basic. And thanks to Coursera for running the courses even though attendance seems to be low (darn, that pesky calculus pre-requisite). Lecture quality is varied--some quite good (such as the lectures in Boot Camp I) and others seem like he hadn't looked at his notes for a long time. It's great to hear a stats professor talk about the strengths and weaknesses of many approaches. It complements a mathematical statistics book quite well. It would have been nice to have had some problems that were more challenging. Overall, while the Johns Hopkins Data Science MOOCs are pretty good, they are a bit more basic than what's available through MIT and Stanford. +It was very challenging. It would be better if a couple of practice exercises were put after the relevant lecture videos and not just after the weekly lecture videos. +This course should be part of the Data Science specialization. Actually, you can supplement the Statistical Inference course with these two Boot camp courses really well!A great revision of statistics, very rigorous and thorough cover of all distributions and hypothesis tests. +The concepts are good but the delivery is quite dry. Very hard to pass the quizes, as there are no analogies or examples in the videos - just theory. I did not enjoy this course as much as I did the first two in the programme. +Great course +This course was a complete joke. Many practice quiz questions and even test questions had wrong answers marked as right so you had to re-write test over and over until you guessed which one of the wrong answers was right. Also, there was a theme of lazily worded questions and answers throughout the entire course. There is always a way to write in non ambiguous ways, it just takes some effort. Very frustrating to decipher the lazily worded questions. Someone should have proof read this course. I feel like an idiot for paying for it. +Thank you very much. It was very useful course and lecturers provided very insightful information. I look forward to participate at your next course. All the best. +good courses, easy to understand +If you look for improving your communication skills, then this course is for you. +This Course is great for beginners, and it helped to improve my English considerably. +Course is interesting but the quality of the videos sometimes not very good +Its a great course, right from the root. +It is a great course.Thank you +Very nice and perfecct. thanks sor the good course +not good enough! +Thanks all coursera team for their nice and helpful guides and information.Kind regards +This course is one of the best courses i have taken so far. +The course is awesome! I love their video classes. +Thank you very very much for this effort +very good courseThank u so muchST +I recommend this course. It has been a great experience learning the basics of Business English.Very well paced, amazing context. +I think it's a very interesting course, well focused on the strategies to arrange an effective communication. +it was a very good content with high level of knowledge +very clear, useful course about communications in business, basics of the basics. +discussion thread should be answerable and solution to the test should be available...all other things are good. +Very efficient course, now I can feel change in my communication. +I liked the course very much. All the lessons are interesting and informative, the group discussions give opportunity to know the point of view of other students +It is hard to be constructive when you do have something brilliant to compare with.The very first thing to say is that the course is presented through poorly drawn cartoons for 5-year-olds and ineffective lecture videos with little or no eye contact with the instructors. The presentations are filled with strange icons and drawings appearing every here and there, making not much of a professional impression.After watching videos, in just about 5 minutes after the lecture is over, the retained information was always going to zero. Sometimes I had to rewind the video to retrieve the points they were trying to make. Or maybe I just didn't want to listen to them. But it seems impossible due to the fact I am interested, and I do finish every course on Business writing I run into. Always with 100% final grade.The overall demeanor is not as professional as it has to be. I recommend the designers to watch "Write Professional Emails" with Gerry Landers by Georgia Tech and "Teach English Now!" with Dr. Shane Dixon by Arizona State University. I do not normally remember the instructors' names, except for brilliant ones. I do not remember the ones of this course.I do hope my criticism will eventually lead to a better experience for your students. I apologize if I was overly direct and wordy.Regards,Rafael +I've learned a lot about business, as well I enhanced my English skills.I recommend this course for everyone who intends to improve their English skills. +Very useful and well-organized course. Highly recommended! +Its nerve racking....it keeps one on the toes +I enjoyed the course. It was a challenge for me to have spoken assignments. But I did it. Thank you I learned a lot. +Great Course Thank you +Iam lahcene ifind this courses befor begin it very nice so iwould to focused it withe learning mucht timesBest RegardsLahcene +fantastic course from which I learnt a lot！！ +I could improve my speaking in this course. +Interesting and attracted course. I learn the ways to confidence and effective in business speaking, so far. I hope to get more experience from this course to make me stronger in English communication environmental. Thanks +I really liked the course and how it is designed, I think it is very useful to get familiar with aspects related to pronunciation , intonation and rythmn. Most courses only provide useful expressions and specific vocabulary but this course offers the possibility of sounding natural and fluent in business environments. +grreat +Great approach and content sharing. +Good for someone who has no idea of anything about calculus +Cool +Great course!! cover step by step all the calculus theory +It is a great class and helped me by understanding little bit more of li +THANKS FOR THIS COURSE!!! +One of the greatest specializations on this platform, 5 stars :) +This specialization was really great! Thank you so much! :) +I am happy to attend those classes, and I learned more . I love teachers and classmates, I'd like attend more and more classes. thank you , coursera. +Good for starters! +Thank sir,I have learned very useful knowledge from your lesson. +very good and useful,what I really mean is that this couse is very useful 4 new-man. +good course +Support National Taiwan University! +It's so simle concept for student who want to learn C language.I suggest this lesson. +Very Good! +Easy to learn! +very useful +Very helpful. +if you write on the Blackboard the name of course I fill difficult always to find it. +A lot of vocabulary, examples and exercises! +Just like the previous two, this course is excellent! I recommend it without hesitation. +This course is very useful for all professional as it can be use in dairy working. +Excellent for managers, engineers, entrepreneur and saleman!I recommend 100%. No matter where your are, Washington University will be there and they can help you to change your life! +Wonderful course, so helpful if you are in to Business. +Very clear and good contents +Great introductory course for Big Data . +Some quiz have some bad wording which make it hard to understand. +I have appreciated the course as it explains the main concepts of Big Data drilling through until several tools which can be used to implement important operations for Big Data analytics, for example, how does a search engine basically works. It has very interersting topics and will help me up in my daily job routines. +Nice and thorough introduction to data science and big data. +I'm grateful to the instructor(s). However, when I turned on closed caption to get used to the accent, the CC text covered part of the slide information. Overall, this is a good course to take. I'm glad I took it. Also, I was hoping that there's a clear instruction of Cloudera Quick Start on Linux. +Highly Knowledgeable & learning. +I have got very useful information about Big Data and the need for mapreduce programming model and Hadoop Distribution Framework. I had also got very clear understanding of how to run a mapreduce framework using open source cloudera virtual machine. The entire course is easy to read and understand and fun. Thanks for the instructors. +I enjoyed this introductory course because it really provided the scope for this area of study and helped chart the course for the rest of the specialization as I move forward. Excited to move on through to the next course armed with what I have learned in this one! +Great! +great course for a beginner +Excellent course for a new comer to Big Data. Helped me understand the basics of it before i can delve deeper. +Very nice introduction to Big Data. This is were you decide whether to take the blue pill or the red pill (sorry that's from the 1999 movie Matrix ) +It is a very interesting course with a lot of information to have a deep introduction to Big Data,Thanks,Eugenio +Excellent course. but not fully covered +This was a very good course to get a foundation in Big Data terms, concepts, and tools. +Excellent course for beginners! +great introductory course +Excellent course..I had no idea about Big Data earlier and this course so far has helped me understand the fundamentals of big data really well. The exams, peer grading etc are amazing. +Im familiar with programming, and some languages. But have 0 experience with hadoop and other programs pertaining, So i very much appreciated with thorough back ground information that was provided with the course. Very well done. Thank you. +Good first look at Big Data and the concepts. +Very well formulated with all the necessary details required to understand the basics +Overall a good introduction to Big Data. Needed no prior experience, but ironically I found I'd misunderstood the way Map:Reduce worked. Reading around afterwards I worked out exactly how it worked, but I didn't think it was explained very well. Overall though, a great intro into a subject which is highly hyped in the IT industry, and demystifies some of the concepts, explaining what Big Data is good for, and hinting at it's limitations. +Very helpful overview of all major topics around big data. Engaging, never boring. A couple of good framework to structure the various information around the topic +Very cool the course!!!! +The course content is okay and covers the basics well enough. However, the assignments are structured for memorization not learning and contribute little to the experience. I decided to cancel my subscription as there are better options on EdX and other Coursera courses. +Very useful course to start one's journey into the world of Big Data. Concepts were explained thoroughly and in a very easy-to-understand manner. The quizzes and assignment help in evaluating one's own progress. Must-do course for anyone wanting to learn about Big Data. +Great introduction to Big Data. so far best i have seen. +Great introductory course teaching the basics of Big Data and having some hands-on applications to work with. +It is an introductory course. So it does not include much about the subject. +Simple introduction, easy to follow. Probably too simple. +it is so helpful to understand big data +introduce the Hadoop framework, the data structure, and the characteristics of Big Data etc +This was a very good course covering great information on Big Data with many quizzes and workshops to reinforce the learning content. I found it very interesting and looking forward to continuing the big data journey. Passing this course was fun and exciting! I'm already using what I've learned on my job. I'm planning on registering for the next module but taking a moment to celebrate this success. +Nice course to get a fair idea for beginners +Fantastic course and all concepts were very well explained. Interesting quiz at end of every section that tests understanding of the topic and the glimpse of Hadoop in the final section is the best part of the entire course.Hadoop fs -Thanks Ilkay Altintas and Amarnath Gupta :) +Great Intro. +A BIG start with Big Data by understanding fundamentals and hands on experience with hadoop. +Excellent. Would probably go for the next course as well, if time permits. Thanks! +This course is amazing. For the beginners it will be really helpful for them and they can understand better what big data is and how it works. Exercise , assignments will require pure understanding of the concepts taught to you in the videos. +Great course. +Excellent course. Thank you for a marvelous learning experience. +This course gave me a very clear idea about why big data came out. big data applications, and the dimensions of big data. +Good course if you do not have any idea about Big Data and the technology used. +I really enjoyed this course. It offers a complete introduction for Big Data, suitable for beginners. +A fantastic course. However, I feel that probably its important to finish the 6 course specialization to have a good working knowledge +Great +Presenter is very bad lecturer. She seems to be reading (badly) from a tele prompt, rather than lecturing. The quality of the slides is very poor. Not the level of a reputable University. +In my opinion, a very basic course... +Excellent Introduction to Big Data, and Data Science. +awesome introduction to big data. Aimed at complete rookies +Was expecting more hands on stuffs, the class is too conceptual. The sound volume of the videos is not consistent, hope Coursera can improve a bit on this. +Good Stuff is provided +No technical support is provided for VM issues. +Good Introduction to BIg Data with many practical examples. +Excellent foundation...loved it! +It was very enjoyable course thank you +Really Awesome Course and speakers +Great stuff! +Good One!!! +A good summary about big data basics. Well structured. Very good course! +It was a good course ,That's amazing.Every time increase my passion for learning +Excelent course about basic knowlegment of Big Data, Exceleent materials and examples. Recomended +Course Material Was Quite Informative +Great intro for beginners to Big Data world. the pace of course is perfect. +Would love to have more practical hands on exersizes and examples of map reduce. +Very details and very cool +Right kind of introduction for any beginner of Big Data ! The pace of the course is also very good. +Great as an introduction to Big Data - now I've enrolled on the other 5 courses in this specialisation and am keen to get moving !! +The course is exceptionally well made and tailored to our needs. I had a great time going through the course. The course was clear and well tailored covering all the major aspects of Big Data. I started the course late and was unable to finish it by the deadline, but was auto enrolled to the next month and was able to successfully finish the course. Thank you Coursera and University of San Diego for explaing Big Data in such a simple way +Perfect introduction course to Big Data +Excellent introductory course. Will continue to complete more courses in this specialization. +Quite shallow... +Good INTRODUCTION , an understanding of data management will help digest alot of it. But very simple and elegant course with only simple concepts to grasp which in reality covers big data pretty well! Excited to take the rest of the courses +Overall, a good overview for Hadoop, Mapreduce and big data concepts +Best for basic +An amazing course to get a brief understading about Big Data, the course needs an improvement in the slides, and additional resources for better understading. +Excellent! Thank you! +A very good introduction to the Big Data world. Learning videos and supporting materials well prepared, quizes balanced, instalation guide for Hadoop was also perfect. +¡Excelent, I like It! +This course is so useful for the students who are just enetering the world of Big Data...It helps to understand all the terms and related meanings and also the applications required to do the big Data project +This course is extremely helpful for building the fundamentals of Big Data and Hadoop. The course was very much engaging and was presented in a very organized manner. Recommended to all. +This course is amazing for the one who wants to start Big Data! Great job by Instructors by citing real time examples and problems. +Interesting, very complete and really good explained, very participative, I'm really happy to had the opportunity to learn with this course and amazing professionals +Good Introduction +Good introduction to general concepts. Does not require specific skills +Great introduction course for Big data lover :) +Interesting overview, more examples will perfect it! +Excellent course with clear and didactic contents. +Excellent course! Very well structured and provides basic understanding of the concepts involved in a very clear way. +This course bring the real perspective of bigdata and data science , demonstrating real use cases and solution for business problems +Great class, I'm continuing on +Excellent course; thank you! +Learnt a lot about big data and its applications +Very informative, if you are like me, a newbie, this course gives you a good introduction to BigData. +a very good learning experience. really enjoyed it. thank u for this course especially to the instructors. +I did this course and have been enjoying all of the subsequent courses. I find the content great and the examples and lecture fascinating. I have been working with Cloud computing for 5 years. This course really opened my eyes up on the applicability and the inner workings. It is not a programmers course. It is excellent if you are a Sr. manager or strategist that needs to work with people as part of a data science team. I think this should be a mandatory course for anyone who thinks they may need to deal with bid data and the new computing cloud universe +This topic is new for me, therefore some of the topics required supplemental explanations to fully understand. +It is very useful. The professors are paced and explain so well. +Very informative and interesting. Instructors presented information well, and it was well organized. +Course is good to get initial background of Big Data and to understand What/Why Big Data. +The first week or so feels inconsistent and oversimplified. After that, when you get into the actual content, it gets much better. It then ends on a peer-graded assignment. While the assignment itself is creative and fun to complete, I've never been a fan of peer-graded assignments so early in an introductory course load. +The Big Data Analysis is one of the emerging topic. The course provides the detailed information about various concepts that can be easily understood by learners. Thanks to the faculty members who are handling the course. +Nice to get this course. +Very useful Big Data introduction +Great course!! Excellent for beginners!! +I learnt basic of Big Data, exicited to dive deeper.Very informative and engaging +this course need some odifications because of cloudera version +Great introduction course. The pace is slow enough that a person without technical background should be able to follow it. However as you are not restricted to only do the current week task its also great for someone who had some experience. +very good introduction. +it was very educative and it opened my mind to this new world +Too many concepts, better to provide more interactive questions during the video and more examples to demonstrate the concept.If possible, make the assignment submission free. +I'm not sure who the target audience is for this course. The level of presentation seems rudimentary to me. I had a hard time sustaining interest in the course and did not finish. +Comprehensive introduction to Big Data and Hadoop. Great and simple explanation of MapReduce. +I little slow to start but the pace picks up nicely. Content is generally easy to follow. Some differences between spoken and voice recognition subtitled text. Practical tests were interesting but not particularly well explained for the MapReduce shapes task, which seemed to leave a few puzzled. +Some commands need small modifications +I cannot complete the course due to installations problem of the software required even if I have all the requirements needed on my laptop. +It covers theoretical part of "What big data is" and basic info about Hadoop. Quality of presentation slides is below average. Most of them are not readable - many fonts, many colors, some with complicated pictures, some with no information at all. Part with Map reduce is just slightly touched, not explained in details, without examples. Practical tasks from hadoop are very easy and they show nothing (just how to navigate over hadoop file system. +It would be good if more explanation and more examples are demonstrated. +Great Course! Gives lots of insight into big data1 +Excellent course for beginners!!! +Very good introduction to Big Data. +This is an introductory course which met my expectations, giving overview with a little hands-on experience. Though instructional skills were not to the mark, supporting material and assignment instructions were good. +thanks for instructors this course helped me to understand what exactly bib data modules +Excellent introduction to Big Data and Hadoop. Practical exercise reinforces materials. +The classes could have been delivered by creating more interest. +This is a great introduction to the concepts of Big Data. Compared to whats available online, this course does a great job of digging into the components and definition of big data vs just diving in with code examples. Well worth it for anyone trying to get a holistic understanding of big data. +good introduction but it's a little bit expensive. +Great starting point if you want to understand Big Data ecosystem and basic concepts +Perfect! +Very good introduction to the field. Not too complex, so a good starting point. +Nice and pleasant course, gives the basics and it is accessible to everyone. +Basic info covered. +I learnt many things about Big Data. Now at least I have some basic foundation in it. +The time / usefulness rate of this course is very low. Most of the stuff they teach (at least in introduction) is very basic theory that's presented in not really interesting way. +Excellent introduction into big data. Material is well organized and well presented for anyone that is not familiar with big data +Great introductory course to big data! +Very complete as an Introduction, the tutors have deep knowledge of the subject and it has even a practical session. Indeed is a valuable source. +The course was awesome. It taught me the ins and outs of Big Data. Although its only the basics, I'd still recommend it to everyone before deciding whether you want to keep going as a Big Data specialist or not.Some steps are not uptodate e.g. hadoop and wordcount aren't in the same folder as listed by this course. They were in the other folder /usr/lib... . It'd be nice if you guys put a "find" command with that description, because I've had to search it myself. That's why I took one star out of it. +Excellent course. Very good foundation. +An excellent early approach to a big data implementation +It is a fantastic course for beginners. The modules and the teachers are very clear, and the content is so good.After this course, I can say I know something about Big Data, no idea before do this course. The examples and the Virtual Machine was so helpful to understand how hadoop works.Thanks a lot... a fantastic course... thanks true. +I really like, it is flexible. well structured. +Thank you all. +In this course, I learned how to use Hadoop basically. With the clear explanation of the Professor, I believe every one can realize in a short time. +very boring +It's amazing , gained knowledge about What is Big Data, its sources and much more. +Learn alot in Big Data +Quite poor. Just a lot of talk and nothing practical. +Excellent teaching method of teaching with short informative videos :) +Dr Altintas is an excellent presenter and very thorough. I would have enjoyed more practical exercises instead of mainly theory videos. The ones done with Hadoop in the last week were very enjoyable. I also enjoyed Dr Gupta's videos as well. Excellent intro to Big Data. +This course is very informative to enhance my carrier in right way of my own choice. +Kindler Gentler introduction to Big Data Concepts and Hadoop hands on exercise was great! +Good introduction to Big Data and Hadoop +it's too much basic stuffs. +Awesome course with very dynamic exercises +There should be some reading material to assist learning. The course was too expensive for the small content it provided +The course was very useful with what knowledge it provides. However, it would be better if there were more hands-on exercises on relevant stuff. The exercises are too easy and boring. Tougher exercises should be added and more time should be spent on the Hadoop Ecosystem part. Knowing the history helps but it should not replace more important topics. +"Dhaado sutho mukhe dhaado wanton" ( Sindhi)Very nice indeed i liked it very much +Really good course. I had the opportunity to learn about the fundamentals of Big Data. Now I want to take the following courses. :) +Excellent!!!New knowledge +The course is a lot about talking and theory which is not very interesting. Final part of course is trying to work with hadoop using virtualbox and provided virtual image. +This course is very useful and interesting +Great introduction +Good introduction course +A good starting point. +I learned a lot from this course and would recommend it to all. +Fun and passion. Expectations met. +Introduction to Big Data ! +That's comprehensive introduction +Great course which enhanced my background info about big data +An introductory course with lots of usufel information. It is a great start! +Excellent course for beginner in the world of big data. Some issues with the hands-on lab (maybe due to a change in Cloudera softs). Provided examples were not working as-is for me, because of some path issues. But great anyway. +too philosophical +Great +High level introduction. +Good Course! An accreditation like the others mooc should be there! +Audited the course. Great content for intro to big data! +Systematic introduction to Big Data...highly recommended! +Excellent course to learn about big data and how to apply this knowledge in real cases +Easy to understand and get hand-on exercise, and joyful +A good introduction to big data (last time I was working with it was in the 1990s when a few 10s of MB was a huge dataset!). Slightly let down by the forums, despite loads of mentors there seems to be almost no presence of the teaching staff beyond setting up a few posts to spark discussion which in reality just prompt short responses and no replies. +More practical use cases and applied knowledge base need to be included +It was a Good course to start with the Big Data. The content is also good and properly arranged. Good Instructors. I will suggest this course as a starter for Big Data. +That was fun!!! +Last exercise is half the course and took many frustrating hours to install and for me never worked. No support provided by instructors. You are on your own. +Good introduction to big data. I would prefer that the hadoop lesson have more practical exercices; +My name is Jose Antonio from Brazil. I am looking for a new Data Scientist career.(https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseantonio11)I did this course to get new knowledge about Big Data and better understand the technology and your practical applications.The course was excellent and the classes well taught by teachers.Congratulations to Coursera team and Instructors. +Good course if you know nothing about big data, like me =) +Excellent introduction to Big Data, clear presentation of concepts and motivation to continue the study of the area. +If you do not have any Idea of what big data means but you heard to talk about that a lot and you are interested, this is your course. +A very informative course to kick start on Big Data and Hadoop concepts. +Too many things I already know and which are quite obvious, when you have some little computer science knowledge, less practical information; the explanations for installing Cloudera etc are insufficient!!! +great so far. +This course is perfect for Big Data beginers. I loved how they explained haoop's architecture and big data principles in a simple way. +Very helpful. +Very nice introduction to the core concepts of big data. Gradually introduced you to the concepts +Very good. It was challenging. +Concept organization and presentation astute and informative. Thanks! +Very basic info. +Great introduction, very detailed and aligned with my expectations.Thanks! +If you're unfamiliar with how big data is processed and what makes it unique from "regular" data, this is a good introductory course. It provides sufficient detail to understand the key concepts, programs, and methodologies around Big Data. +Very good course for introduction to big data +Very very introductory course. +this course provides with a very good Introduction to Big data, concepts are clear and the detail provided is a good start point to continue learning about it +This course will go through all the definitions and the core concepts of Big Data.It is a great introductory course.Thank you so much. +Really amazing course +Very good course, excellent professors. No myths, reality of big data. +Language is not good, and Lack of Info +The course material is overall very good and easy to understand, although a bit abstract at certain points (mostly when it comes to technical things like what MapReduce consists of and what Programming Models are). Regardless, the instructors do a great job of explaining the concepts. Great course overall +Honestly, for the price paid, the value given is quite low. I expected to have more hands-on working with the Hadoop ecosystem rather than this course's focus on background that really does not help one to become productive. +Excellent learning from this. +First two weeks are too much theory , but i guess that is needed for clear understanding of an awesome week 3. +It is a great introduction to big data world +Great, very simple intro! +Perfect course. Great material and teachers. +The course provided almost no value , and there was almost nothing covered that you couldn't find online for free. The presentation was probably the worst part of the course: It was extremely boring and made it hard to get through the videos.I didn't expect much practical parts in the course, but there was even less than what I expected: What was described as setting up a hadoop cluster consisted of downloading a preconfigured VM image and running it, and then typing in a couple of commands that were provided to you. Again, nothing of value was added, and quickly going over the FAQ page of any of the products mentioned would be more helpful, faster and a lot more interesting. +This course is amazing. Excellent Introduction to Big Data! +It is very easy to follow the course. This first course is not complex. As the title says, it is more of an introduction of the world of big data and hadoop. Also, you will learn how to install and run hadoop as well as some very basic functions of MapReduce.Overall a very good course. As a tip, if you are fluent in english, I would recommend you to run the video x1.5 or x1.75. At the beginning it may be hard, but it will reduce the time that you spend watching video. +I would like to enroll many such courses . Excellent Teaching . Thanks to teachers who spent their precious time in preparing slides and delivering quality teaching.. Hats off to Coursera. I recommend my friends too , to enroll such a wonderful course. +Map Reduce hands-on assignment does not have very clear instructions, should be improved for future sessions. +A little bit too conceptual and very basic. Hadoop hands on and HDFS should be much more intensive. However, good material, well presented and explained. +A great introduction +Less useful than reading an introductory chapter. Being able to reiterate acronyms or idiosyncratic mnemonics does not demonstrate any real understanding of this field. The minimal information provided and low level of the instruction at least clarified that this specialization is not worth pursuing. +Very disappointing. Poorly written quizes and presentations. The level of the course is far too basic to be of value, but is required for the specialization. Why not offer an option to test out of basic introduction courses? +Content is very interesting, nice introduction to Big Data.Slides can be improved though. +Good course +Completely Worth it , best mentors , Guides .Awesome Explanation . +Very good course as an introduction to Big Data, It will give you all the needed info to get around and understand what is Big Data and what is HadoopI highly recommend this course for the people who want to have information on Big Data +Wonderful introduction to Big Data concepts and well prepared material!!! +Too philosophical. +Engaging and challenging, this course was an excellent introduction to Big Data! +Great introductionClear and consice. +Course is really well explained. +It's a good introduction, but more optional hadoop exercises can be added. +I'd recommend this course be taken as audit. Doesn't add specific value to your skill set! But, it's good to know :-) +An introductory course that seems like it should have been the first week of a more in-depth course instead of being a stand-alone course. The cost vs benefit of this particular course is questionable. +Good for starters. But could have been more practical than theoretical. +I found the course is detailed and explained nicely to start as a beginner. The quiz helps to understand and learned the subject matter properly. +If you're new and an aspirant to the Big Data field, This Course is for you! +Thanks to this course I learned the basics of Big Data and looking forward to take the other courses. +Good introductory course. The first lessons are slow so I recommend watching them on 2x speed. The last lesson (hands on) is better because it gives a real taste of hadoop +Good introduction course for Big Data. +The content of the course is alright and up to date. The instructors are also good, passionate and has a great knowledge.What brings everything down is the video editing and the slide design/quality. They are terrible and clearly not in the field of profession of the creators.All in all, it is an average course, but I can recommend it to anyone interesting in the topic, because it does its job. If someone could improve the slides and the video editing could reach the youtube video reviewer/critic level, it could easily do a 4 out of 5. +Great introduction to Big Data concepts and MapReduce +Most of the course is providing useless statistics, i didn't enjoy it and it's a really basic course. +Great to Learn. +This is a great introduction for Big Data. It helps me to revisit what I learned from the meetups and webinars, then put the fundamental knowledge and information in a solid foundation. Thank you. +Overall a good introduction course to Big Data. It could have been more condensed and contain more programming exercises. +I believe this course can be performed much faster, beware that it is really an introduction, and IT professionals persons may feel it slow, in addition the presenter speaks English very slowly, good for non English proficient persons, but bad for the others. +Course was good. I had issue to configure virtual machine . but it worked now . +The material OK, but some of the exercises and their interfaces are not well designed. +Despite my busy work schedule I had fun taking this course especially because of the forum that diverse learners from all around the globe participated it. Twice I got stuck with running hadoop and other learners had posted the solution so I tried their suggestions and I got unstuck! I appreciate those who put in extra work to make my learning easier and fun. Honestly, that was the incentive that made me to complete this course for I was about to drop out. Thank you. +Very basic. All this information of this course can be self taught by Googling and the hands on exercise at the end of the course is a joke. For the $59 price of the course, expected more. +The beginning is a bit theoretical, only the end brings some practical examples up. Slides are a bit old fashioned and presenters are a bit rigid +I wish to thank you for such a fantastic course to introduce to the exciting world of Big Data. The concepts were explained beautifully with relevant examples. A special thank you note for Prof Altintas and Prof Gupta for making this so simple.Looking forward to the next set of courses to explore Big Data in detail. +very good for beginner easy and give you the bigger picture +The course is ok but I found that there were some technical quirks that could be ironed out first. Example is to download the text files in the final assignment the command wget is invaluable. How to leave safe mode if the Name node is in safe mode. VirtualBox is default to 32 bit/ubuntu when the image is 64 bit/Centos/Redhat.In addition the course content is a bit little. It says 3 weeks but I finish it in 2 days. Perhaps it is about quality and not quantity. +It is the best course for getting the overview of Big Data. It builds the basic concepts of data very easily.Thanks to Coursera and University of California, San Diego. +Really nice overview about Big Data .. I guess you have to watch it 2 times for better understanding. +Good introduction. +The content is better than the last course, nice job ! +The course was in he sense truly introduction to Big data Domain and discusses the origin and reason Big Data technologies are required.The only improvement, I would like to suggest is raise the difficulty level of quiz,so that they motivate student to review and understand the key points discussed during tutorial. +That is great! +This course really usefull for me. +The course is very well made, with very clear concepts and therefore very useful to start in the world of Big Data. Recommended for anyone who wants to have a basic knowledge about Big Data. +The whole course is so informative. I'm so glad that I have learnt a lot! +Extremely basic intro, not valuable if you have any understanding of the the space +excellent course, very easy to understand,Hats off to Madam Ilkay Altintas and Sir Amarnath Gupta for explaining the big data concepts in such a simple way . +Very informative +I liked it, a lot of concepts for who is begining in the big data :) +Good work! Thanks for educating +Basic and easy clarification of big data. +This is absolutely a hands on experience. +A perfect beginner's introduction course to the Big Data World. +Introductory Level Course.Nothing much on analytical methods. +I feel that the course helped me a lot in understanding what Big Data actually means and gave me an idea of how it's being handled. Well structured and explained. +Very informative but the structure is a lecture where the concepts are basically read from a paragraph. Perhaps I'd give more stars if I only saw diagrams. +Loved every second of it, easy to understand, well structured, more big data usage examples in video formats would be a nice addition +better the second time around. +Really good course. But, I was unable to complete the final week as I had a lot of trouble installing the Cloudera platform for Hadoop. So, I would recommend others to get that installed well in advance or else if you wait till the last week you might not be able to finish it in time and 6 weeks of effort would go to waste like it did for me. +I love this course its worth for a basic and freshers learningThanks Coursera for this... +For an introduction class in Big Data this is excellent: concepts down to the point; good example analogies used; material provided to reinforce concepts and knowledge (transcripts, slides) were great. Videos were pretty good. Content of lessons are good; lab and software downloading/exercise with Hadoop give you a good sense of what expected in more advance classes.I would add a bit more of information regarding to the downloading software and its purposes for those with no computing background (like what OS used when running the Hadoop... maybe I missed that?).The class worth the money paid. +Good Intro course.for Cloudera VM installation to practice Hadoop session, be ready with at least an i5 PC with 8GB RAM +I am very thankful to you guyss +I enjoyed this course and happily displayed the Certificate on my LinkedIn page! +Great course with great instructors +It was nice n great experience. +This course allow me to become familiar with Big Data terminology and concepts, big data platforms and related applications. o believe this course this is the fastest way to get into the BIg dATA WORLD. +Nice course for a starter. +I learned some new things because I'm a total beginner,I think the contents are updated but not very structured,the hands-on part is just a small peek of the whole big data process system and not very useful.It's not a complete course if you don't take the later courses of the whole specialization.So I gave 4 stars for this introduction course. +I really enjoyed the course Big Data !!! excellent!!! I will continue showing it to everyone at the university.Gratitude!!!Thank you!!! +Excellent for a introduction course. More exercises would be nice. +This course is a good way to begin by the Data science world. I like so much the excercises with Hadoop. +The content of the course is ok. The main problem is that the way the information is presented. Ilkay Altintas, who is the main lecturer, is a sweet woman, but lecturing from a manuscript is not her strongest side. It is clear that she is reading from a screen while she is looking into the camera. Anyone could do that job, and they should have chosen more of an "news anchor" type of person with better pronunciation and more flow. It's simply very uninspiring and boring to listen to. Also, 59 dollars is far too expensive for such a short course. +This course gave us very clear instruction what the basic ideas are about big data and the structure of Hadoop. It's very easy to understand even without any background knowledge. +I like this course. +I found this program extremely useful to understand the concepts of Big Data. I can now get into any conversation and do not feel li +For a introductory course it covers a lot of things, not in too much detail, but it covers a lot of important concepts and definitions. +Great course and material. Well presented and practical! +Only skims the surface of Big Data, even for an introduction course. +good course +Good introductory course on Big Data. It does not dive directly into the technical aspects, but rather discusses the various related topics giving a clear overview of the overall Big data scenario.Helped a lot in understanding the Big Data landscape. +So much better than in the first version of the specialization! the peer reviewed project is a welcome addition to help understanding map reduce concepts +A good introduction, looking forward to the rest of the specialization. +the best lectures +Good content, good teacher. Maybe should have a little more hands on assignments, but it is an excellent introduction to the topic! +This is an introduction course, and no advanced concepts are seen. I think it provides a good background, that is all. If you have a solid technical (programming, databases, etc.) knowledge maybe you will miss more hand-ons. For me, for an introductory and theoretical course I expected more resources, for example additional suggested readings, optional exercises...Lectures are well structured (intro and summary at the end), but I have missed presentations from some of the most interesting videos (week 6). +Much better than the previous version (2015) with all concepts very well explained, using examples to clarify them when necessary.I would have liked to go deeper with Hadoop (in last version of the specialization, Hadoop was a separate course), but anyway, as an Introduction to Big Data, this is an excellent course. +This course got upgraded from 2015 to 2016. I wish I did not have to take twice because all the assignments and material seemed the same. Maybe next time you upgrade give students the credit for the classes they already took. +Really interesting course! Just dipping your toes into Big Data, and running some extremely basic operations, shows you how powerful Hadoop can be, and the potential for it :)Coming from someone with no experience in computer science. +Very good specialization +Fantastic Course. I'm so happy i took this class +Quite Informative and also touches the basics of Hadoop , Cloud Computing , Data Science.Really enjoyed studying it. +This is much better than the previous version! 6 weeks with much more spread out and comprehensive contents about big data with a nice balance between theory and hands-on assignments.Technical software taught are Hadoop, following the MapReduce framework, to which the introduction was very gentle and progressive. Thus, it makes it manageable to take in the and learn the rope by small baby steps. +It's exhaustive and resourceful course to the introduction to Big data +A good orientation class to level set key terms and concepts. +Good intro +There is room to improve, but much better than previous version. Thanks for your good work as a good resource on learning about big data +Great course. Thanks. +Amazing course ! +Excellent and interesting course. Very well put together and presented. +Superb course with great structure and well designed modules and videos. You end up with a very practical toolbox to think about business models in a very disciplined way. +Great course, very inspir +Very interesting and professionalizing !! Moreover it is done in a way that keeps you in the need for more lectures ! +Very good examples throughout the course : JCDecaux, the Spanish theatre, Michelin... +What a great course, I have to say that it has helped me a lot and specially now where I am setting up my new business. Congratulations to both of them for having inspiring me during the course. A bientôt FP +Odyssey 3.14 is an excellent approach to business models and I appreciate this MOOC that makes this jewel available to a wide audience. +I would have like a longer course about these arguments. Anyway it offers really a lot of examples, effective analytic tools and ispirations to develop innovation in the business. +Truly a pioneering course that has been explained in simple and straight forward terms yet highly effective context-based case studies. High valuable for start-up entrepreneurs. business unit managers and intraprenuers. This is exactly why HEC is one of the world's best business school. Thank you for delivering a world-class course. +this is a really good one and of course I had a very good time during the course and really great thanks to the educators of the course and coursera +i think this is avery good course thank you for it +It´s a requirement to put down a payment to take the quiz +Good topic great teachers +Informative, organized, and targeted for learning. Dr. Pienta and the other Hopkins professionals involved in putting this course together did an excellent job and were engaging throughout. I hope more material like this from Johns Hopkins becomes available in the not-so-distant future. +I work for a worldwide cancer research charity and found the course to be an excellent, challenging introduction to cancer biology. I particularly liked the fact that the course pointed towards some of the major questions that researchers are working around the clock answer, and that core materials were supplemented with examples of current research. +It was a great course form my favorite university, thanks very much for giving us this types of courses, I would like to be tested as a free course, but I coudn't +Great introductory course for cancer. It is simple enough for a novice to understand, and complex enough for someone who works in the field to gain additional knowledge. Great lectures. +Excellent class. I learned a lot. I like how they delivered the information into clear comprehensible segments. It was easy for follow the class, as it was well organized and clear. +One of the best but would have been more awesome and worthy if the quizzes were free too +Too basic knowledge, not enough information about targeted therapy, everything is explained without going into any details +Thank u for giving a attractive lecture and it really heIp me for future research. +I am an Undergraduate student and i didnt even read oncology subject, but this course not just start the beginer level , butt gradually it goes in depth and the flow of lectuures and topics is smooth +Excellent,thanks very much. +A great and comprehensive course covering all the basic concepts of cancer! +Great course, great motivatiin instruction, now I must pursue more cancer-related learning venues +Excellent course. Introduction to cancer at a general biological and pathofysiology level, as well as specifically in terms of risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment of the six most common types of cancer. +great course with very experience lecturers . it has helped me to gain more insight into cancer development. thank you so much Dr. Kenneth J. Pienta and the other doctors. God bless you all. +Loved the way they explained everything. But the tests are very easy. +Wonderful course. Very informative and exceptionally well designed. I have learnt so much that will help me with my work in Integrative oncology and botanical medicine. +Great course! +a rally good introduction +I am a biochemist and will be working on a cancer-related problem as a postdoc. This course was very helpful for me as it provided a clear general understanding of cancer, and I would have rated it five stars if it wasn't for multiple typos and inaccuracies in the course materials ;) +good for basic knowledge in cancer biology. +Great introduction for new leaner. +Great course !!! +Easy to follow and full of basic knowledge. +I've learned a lot - thank you! +Thank you so much for providing such a interesting course, especially thanks for financial support, I will be always there for courser, cant forget the great he +very good course .benifit and more helpfull in our life and studies +Very informative, easy to understand. +Extremely informative, but loses 1 star for reserving tests ONLY for members with subscriptions +Great explanation of basics of cancer biology. It helped me a lot in understanding of the process of metastasis and cancer development. +This course is awesome. As a current research technologist in this field, this course gives me great knowledge of cancer. I recommend anyone who is interested in this field. However, this course by itself won't give you everything. It is a course where you want to begin with if you want to begin a career of this field. +i love this course very much +Very useful any knowledge acquiring course +I like this course it was so enjoyable helpful to me since I wanted to learn more about cancer biology and I got the perfect opportunity to sign into this course! thanks to all coursera team and Jhons Hopkins university school for giving their time and effort to make this course.I liked the way of teaching by the doctors. at first, i thought it would be so difficult because I didn't have the right professional background about cancer biology and I wanted to start my own journey into fighting this disease but i didn't know where to start. suddenly, I found that this course and I've signed!i have some suggestions about this course:please put serious moderators not an ex-coursera students with some privilegeplease put some sizes options for the translation +I got out of it what I expected as a person who does not work in any medical field. But I did not like the fact that we did not see a person giving the lectures and only the diagrams were visible. Every Coursera course I have taken thus far has always had the instructor visible as he or she lectured. It gave me the feeling of being in an actual classroom setting which I like. There was some information which was well beyond my level of knowledge . I am a college graduate but my degree is in social science. Then there were quiz questions which were on the more advanced information . I passed on my third try though. +Wonderful course, lots of information. Dr. Pienta is an excellent teacher. Thanks also to his staff and lab assistants for helping to create such a well-designed program. I will definitely recommend this course to others! +it is very informative and useful course for memany thanks for all of you +Very interesting for those that are not specialists and cancer and want to understand better it biology. +It is my first on line coursera course and I liked it very much. Its a very good opportunity to review and learn about cancer. +This course is absolutely ecstatic because the professor is nice and he always comes up with the smartest and most complex information a topic during the lesson! +This course was put very simply and understandably. The information was useful in my projects and I am now able to understand terminology used in medical journals. Thank you Dr. Pienta! +Very nicely organized course. +very good course +I'm happy to find such an interesting course. Thank you very much! +Very good course! Congratulation to PhD Pienta and his group. +Thanks professors. Great course & good efforts. +An excellent course! Whoever is interested in the development and metastasis of cancer should take this course. The lectures are very well presented and structured, so they are quite easy to follow even for a layman. I found the part on the hallmarks of cancer particularly interesting - a course that would go into more detail here would be on my wish list for future courses. +Great Course, was literally hooked as content was very informative and well structured. Not too overwhelming with massive information. This is a brief but effective intro to cancer - however if you are not from a medical background you do have to do some background reading to understand pathways and functions of sub cellular components. +Clear, thorough and interesting course! +The course has a high quality. The teaching method is clear and easy to understand. Instructors also provide a lot of graphs which are helpful. Though the course is easier than I expected, I still think it's a good course for students who want to know fundamental knowledge about cancer biology. +Very High Quality +This is very interesting course of basic of cancelling pathway and the biology of cancer that can fundamental to the study of research of cancer. Thanks. +It will be very helpful to me for doing my research work on the very same topic.But all of these courses should be free of cost,just like this one.Thanking you once again !Regards. +Thoroughly enjoyed this online course +Very good course giving a broad overview of what cancer is and how we diagnose and cure it.Don't expect to be a specialist of cancer after it, it's only an introduction. But it is a good introduction giving some bases if you want to go further. +Depth and volume of information perfectly balanced +Excellent course, thanks! +I Higly recomend this course if you dont know mutch about cancer and you are interested iin learning about it, the information is prety simple (i am studing medicin so it may not be as simple for other people) but is very usfull and it gives an idea about the basics of cancer.Thanks for this course and sorry if my english is not perfect... i speek spanish +This course was really good, and I learned a lot. Thanks!!! +Comprehensive overview of the biology of cancer! +Great introductory course to cancer. I love how the course includes the clinical side as well as the biological implications of cancer and provides the information in a very simplistic style. The coursework is not overwhelming and I loved this course. +Good course to familiarize yourself with cancer biology. +Well structured, amazing instructors! +Thanks so much! Professor Kenneth Pienta and your team, you are so well prepared and the presentation is empowering. One is able to follow the step by step flow of information and tips. I enjoyed this course. As a health educator/promoter, it helps me act as a good source of information. Thank you once again. +amazing course ..thanks +The course was excellent, with very good structure, with the right level of difficulty/complexity, with very good slides & discussions. The only couple of points for potential amendments that I would propose is a) avert from calling/mentioning drugs with their brand names, but rather use the active ingredient names only, and b) perhaps providing resources for further reading (i.e web links etc) to all material after each lecture, like you did for week 6 final lecture. +Enriching experience for the adventurous student. +Well-structured course, Dr. Pienta and his fellow team-members are passionate in what they do, and that's evident during the course, but I can't help to think that they have barely scratched the surface here... The lectures are good, they provide a lot of information, but the quizzes offer no challenge whatsoever. That was somewhat disappointing, it felt like I was cheating. All in all, I don't regret buying and completing the course, but I really hope that Dr. Pienta's team will be back soon with a more challenging and advanced course. +Nice overview, not worth 50 bucks. +This Course is so interesting , it is full of alot of treasures and alot of informations. Thank You +really thank you very much I am thankful of that course +I loved this course as I found the topic fascinating (the 10 hallmarks absolutely blew my mind - those cancer cells are so conniving!). I think the instructors did a fantastic job delivering the material.I am a Product Manager in the software industry, and I took this class for my personal curiosity.I wish we were able to submit the answers to the quiz without officially purchasing the course. I did not purchase the course as it does not pertain to my profession and I do not really need a certification for it. +this course very useful to my that i gained a lot of information from this course. +An excellent course for reviewing the basics of oncology +Great information. Excellent course that has left me wanting to know more and be a part of expanding treatments. Thank you! +It is quite informative and useful course for begginers. I'm working with clinical trials, so I know so many cases, so many details, but this course has made a basement for my building.Thank you! Highly recommended for those, who know smth, but want to make all knowledge in order and prepare your 'brain shelves' +This course emphasis brief introduction to biology of cancer. Here by simple words and examples you can discover which risk factors can cause cancer and what prevention needs to be done to minimize chance of cancer occurrence etc. I will suggest this course to all my colleges. I am really pleased for passing this course.I wish all group Introduction to the Biology of Cancer further inspiration to create new interesting courses. +The course is quite simple and easy to follow. Very suitable for students who have no understandings in this area. The workload is also small so I suggest those who were major in biology or chemistry you dont have to follow this course. +Perfect +Hello all. I'm glad I took this course successfully. However, I have some notes. As a 4th year medical student, I see that the information is superficial. I finished the course in around 3 weeks, so medical students wouldn't get so much benefit out of the course. I wanted to learn more details, specially in depth about each type of the 5 cancers from the basics to clinical. Secondly, there was no interaction between the students and the doctor supervising the course in the discussion blogs. Thirdly, I believe that the assessment was too easy. I suggest a 60% passing grade with a more challenging assessment. Finally, this is my personal opinion. I enjoyed the course and I would like to see more improvement in the future. +It'sgood +I mean, I am really fond of Biology and the Biotechnology, I think I will really appreciate this opportunity. +Very good introduction. light-weight explanations.Better animations and videos could enhanced the learning process.questions are too easy.Needs more complex tasks to integrates the different sections together. +very intresting course +The class was clear and concise. I was hoping to get more challenge and in depth explanation but it is indeed an introductory class. +very good course and explains deeply yet clearly the biology of cancer +An excellent and intriguing course. Well structured. +I think this was a very good course and I definitely got out of it what I expected. I think anyone interested in advancing their knowledge on the general basics of cancer, this is a good place to start. +Very informative and helpful to both students and professionals. +A very good primer on the most common cancer types. I hope to see a more advanced iteration of this course for those who want deeper understanding. +I really enjoyed the course. Very professional training, with lots of insight in cancer therapy. +This was an interesting cancer basics class -- quick and simple for those with minimal background in oncology. The only disappointment was that the course description mentioned quizzes could be taken for no cost, but that turned out not to be true. Nevertheless, it was a valuable course. +A wonderful course to get started or polish the concept. +Great course, thank you very much! I hope to become a scientist and join you in the fight against cancer +more than excellent +A very complete journey into the knowledge and outcomes of cancer. Perfect for everyone starting out. +Interesting, informative and definitely have given me a better insight into the subject +I was working at a lab last summer where I worked on breast cancer cells. A lot of the signalling pathways taught as examples in this course is what I worked on. I loved this course. The Professors are fantastic and very knowledgeable. I would recommend this course for anyone who is very passionate about cancer biology. +Useful for health professions! +I did not think to find an on line free course about biology of cancer nonetheless this one is great. +I thoroughly enjoyed the content and pace of this course. +I would prefer to see the speaker during the lecture. +I am learning a lot! +Very informative. I learned a lot about the way cancer grows in the body. +Very excellent introduction to the biology of cancer from a high level University. +i want to study more about cancer and this course give me that chance +Thank you for the course. I am looking forward for even more detailed lectures about each specific cancer types, from the molecular mechanisms involved in transformation and progression, to treatment and patient manageme +This was an excellent course for people interested in learning about cancer. I enjoyed it. +I found this course useful and appropriate in the material offered and the assessed questions as an introduction and an update in cancer biology for CPD purposes. It is rather disappointing that the final grade achieved is not printed on the certificate. For A$65 to join the course and not have the full information such as the hours involved and the final grade achieved makes it very disappointing not to reflect the effort I put in as well as tricky to include this course as part of a CPD program. +So far it's a very good course. I always wanted to learn about cancer as it took two lives from my family. I would give it a FIVE STAR if the professors could explain more elaborately as I have very little experience in this field. Thanks a lot +Lots of useful info +very interesting course..!!! +it is really organized well and i appreciated the lecture!! looking forward to the next one~ +Fabulous!!!Absolutely loved every bit ...was a great learning experience!!!Thank you ! :D +I just completed week one and I am thoroughly impressed with this course so far. Outstanding work! +I wish that the classifications of the major cancer groups were more descriptive. concerning the treatment for different types of lung cancer for example. Nothing is mentioned about childhood cancers or the area of lymphomas. I realize that this is an overview of cancer but cancer cell biology and current treatment practices based on immunologic findings were not given the coverage they deserve. +Interesting introduction, very detailed with screening, staging (TNM) and treatment steps per most common cancers worldwide. Very clinical and with a glimp of promising research (clinical trials), only the counselling part of the patient is missing in this course. +Tough call on this. The course itself is excellent [5] but the "money grab, you must pay attitude" is horrible [0]. +Very good for beginners who have no inkling to cancer biology at the slightest. +Informative, well structured and clear objectives. Really enjoyed being part of it. thanks. +Informative and helpful for those who are intersted in cancer +An excellent course for Biology of cancer fundamentals. +Clear and enjoyable course +Excellent overview of the subject, not difficult to follow and very informative. +Great introductory overview of a complex disease. +Could have more indepth examinations. Reference material would be useful. +I think that the course itself is very interesting and useful, but unfortunately you have to purchase the course straight away to be able to do the tests. +Excellent introduction to subject matter. +until now very informational. the lecturers are very good and share the information in a enjoyable way. +Great course involving "experiential" learning! +Thank you, I really love this course and I will make a transition from the Servicedesk officer to Cybersecurity officer. I would like to know about the online degree program. Also, I want to know whether there are assistantships, scholarships and financial aid opportunities. +Very nicely conducted course. +Great course that provides good insights into the world of CyberSecurity! +Very nice capstone project. Really useful and practice related. +Great course on the financial side of startups. The course is well structured and presented in a logical order. The course is highly recommended for those that want to know the financial aspect of entrepreneurship +THANK YOU! +Better than previous but still not good quility +A bit too theoritical +Great learning experience. +Although very interesting, this course seemed too short for me.Professor Kofman is an expert in the filed, but he mostly reads thewords on the slides and shows little or no passion or interest in sharing hisideas and work whatsoever. +Great and valuable teachings! +Just good to catch the basics. Sometimes quite boring to follow the professor, but it covers the basics adequately. +Kind of helpful to illustrate the essentials of the global capital markets, including equity, debts, foreign exchange and forward, future contracts, etc. Hope you may enjoy. +This course is excellent and very interesting! +Very useful - even brought me to further research subjects covered. +It was a great lecture and an eye opener to me. +Really interesting i recommand ! +Excellent course, complete and exhaustive covering essential of this theme. +explained in the best possible way +good course +I have learned a lot from this course, although I had to postpone it due to professional commitments. Excellent instructor. +Great course! +Interesting, well structured and presented. Similarly to other courses in the specialization, content is made easy to understand. Very good overall!! +Very useful and thought provoking course. Recommended for those who are new to capital markets as well as those who're keen to understand the latest developments of the markets. +Amazing. Good knowledge +This course was really useful and interesting. Thanks for the opportunity! +I don´t like too much that you have to pay for the evaluation. +Very informative course! +Very amazing education, can't thank coursera enough +A decent introductory overview course. Most content shouldn't be too new for anyone interested in financial markets. Some concepts are mentioned but not explained further. +Overall, it's a good course. +Basic course that covers about how financial market works. +Exceptional course in all regards! +Very solid course, with a good overview on global market complexity. The final project seems a bit detached from the material, however. +This is a really great primer if you want to learn the basics of how markets function. +good clarity +Too much information loaded. +More challenging questions expected. +If you are a finace or business student this is not for you, its a complete re-run of most of the basics that re taught with some practical real life examples. Good for a person who is new to the subject of business or finance. +I am learning a lot. +Very good class that teaches you the basic statistic models and its use in real life. The instructor is extremely clear in teaching and the examples she used are really helpful for understanding and applying. Highly recommend this class!! Take it if you wanna have some knowledge about statistics. And its use in real life is more than I imagined... +Excellent Course!! Ms Dutta has profound knowledge and it helped me to implement the concepts learnt in my profession. I'm a Business Analyst and look forward to enrol in all of her courses. Thanks to Coursera for hosting such a great portal!!! +Great instructor. Complex topics were taught in an easy-to-follow manner. +A very good course, well presented by the prof. Many examples with solutions in Excel that helped to make it clear. +A very good instructor ...totally explain everything +Really great course! With a little bit of data you can explain anything! The course is really easy to understand with great and interesting examples! Thanks a lot! +Concepts are well explained with very good examples.Also doing it in excel makes it easier.Thanks!Great course for beginners +Lucid and follows a step-by-step structure which allows for conceptual clarity. +Great insights by the professor! +Excellent course. The lectures by Prof. Dutta were clear and to the point. This course helped me in clarifying a lot of doubts. +Well thought class by a very professional teacher. Easy to get access to a higher level of statistics. +very interesting, well taught +A complete course with relevant information & experiences trainers. It certainly does not misses out on any part +Well done. A couple minor issues with a video upload error, but overall a very well done and informative course. +Easy to understand and with tons of tips to help you out in your day to day job.Thank you very much! +It wasn't Exactly what I'd expected but was still a good course. +High-Impact Business WritingCongratulations on the platformCongratulations on the administrative order of the courseCongratulations on the Success of the Course +A very simplistic overview of necessary skills and helpful writing tips. The videos are a bit slow and the instructor stumbles over her words a lot, but the material is great. +This course was very good. It offered practical tips on business writing which proved to be very helpful in career progress. The course curriculum was well structured and the instructors were also very knowledgeable. I enjoyed a lot pursuing this online course. +Good course about business writing, there is always something where you can improve yourself. +This course is very useful! +Nice course. Gets you started. +I can fully understand how different is the grammar and vocabulary sentences. +I love this course +I really love this programme. Well structured and in a very logical sequence. All the tips are f +the course is very nice and have information can help is success in our life. +There are many tips that can be used right away in the professional environment. +This course helps me tremendously in my work career. +Extremely good course and as the topic say it did have a very high impact. +Nice one +THANK YOU! +Great course with good objectives of business writings. +This is very good and I would recommend it, but it is quite short compared to other Coursera courses that I have paid for. I think they should add more content for the price they are charging. +It was very good! +Enjoyable and helpful! +A simplified course that targets areas of business writing which most of us tend to oversee. In this era of digitalisation and information overload, this back to basics method was really refreshing. +The course was taught very well. +The explanations and the topics covered are very much useful for the professionals to implement in the day to day work.Thanks for such a wonderful contents. +Really enjoyed this course +its very essential for my writing. +Universally applicable, presented in an entertaining manner, and quite thorough. Even experienced writers will pick up on one or two aspects they usually overlook. Highly recommended! +the instructor keeps repeating the same information throughout all the lectures. It is not as impactful as I thought it would be. The last straw was her saying that-that was an article. +it was very helpful and very beneficial thanks a lot for the way you're considering your effort to help the student like me +Mostly common knowledge +Useful information. Would recommend. +Very boring +Sue Robins is an excellent instructor in the art of business writing. She will help you navigate the nuances and best practices behind a good business document +This course is easy to comprehend. The learning experience is so clear and concise it is impossible to fail this course. +very low quality and not practical +I found the videos, slides and shared websites very useful. Another great Coursera course. +An mix of general tips on how to write well mixed with some corporate-specific information. Broad overview, but I didn't really learn anything. +really help me in Business Writing in English +Could have more in depth content, a bit shallow sometimes. +Complete, clear and practical. +Learnt a lot ... Really interesting and informative +Helpful with reinforcing how to communicate in a business setting through writing. +approach more skills for business +Very useful, thank you +Well Organized and very helpful. +great course , learned a lot and understood all my mistakes. +I don't know why I didn't get my certificate though I get the grade 92. +I couldn't access all of the reading materials and could never finish this course. +Very basic. Tricky quiz questions. There seems to be multiple right answers. +useful and straight to the point +Great course, great professor.. I loved her explanations and style +Didn't really elevate my writing. Mostly due to the fact that there were no practical exercises included. Though some of the theoretical stuff that is covered is sort of common sense, most is still very relevant, so I don't regret taking the course. +Felt that it could have more writing exercises. +A good brush up and clear information. A bit basic for me personally. This should be stated more clearly. +Good. Overall it is basic, speaker could talk faster and in general the course could move a lot faster. Room for improvement. +Some irritating errors, but overall it was okay. +Extremely basic. Please put that up front in the course description. +Very good and interesting course, I recommend! +clear and concise +Good and practical course with very applicable content. +Great course, a lot of rules backed with many examples. +This course is really helpful and relevant for professionals across the domain. +I learned a lot with this course, but there are not so many exercises for students to train the content learned. The lectures are very good. +Clear, Brief and ComprehensiveThis course shows you the overall business writing patterns.Especially, the teacher provides a lot of extra useful materials online for self-study.Thanks! +Precise, structured, easy to understand and apply techniques. Very useful course! +Too high level +Excellent refresher on writing skills. Gives you the tools and resources needed for every day business communication in classic and modern platforms. +Very good teacher. Is clear in her speech and in visual aids as well. +Very useful for improving my business writing skill. +It is a good brush up course but a lot of it was common sense. +I found this course very valuable as much of my job centers around the principals outlined here. I see lots of this as common sense but find it very refreshing to have it in a formal format for others to learn from. I love the comment that we are surrounded by clutter in our writing and need to address it. +Excellent and very useful course for all business professionals. +The course is great. very informative and there are a lot of best practices i can practice in my day to day work.The only area i see improvement is the quiz for week 2. I found it very difficult to pass the the choices are ambiguous. +It was very useful course to revise and put together all the BASICS (Hygiene) of business comunication. +It's useful to anyone who wants to improve writing skills. +Great summary of all important things in business writing. I learned a lot from it. Thanks. +I am really enjoying this course and will certainly use all of the information I am receiving. +This course is not designed well. +Very basic, I hoped for a more advanced level. +I learn a lot from this course and thank you so much. +This course teaches the basic and fundamental concepts, idea, principles of various forms of business writing. Hope it provides more examples on each topic. +Very informative +Learning wise , a good course. Certificates for individual courses of the series would have been good. +Excellent course for those people that start in the art of writing! +Besides the course free fee, the content is meaningful and worth studying. Thanks. +There +Great and helpful information for professionals starting off in business writing. +Very helpful. +Excellent content, as it is concise and clear. +Testing choice isn't great. Writing a letter, outline, etc. and submitting it for peer review would have been more productive. Furthermore, some questions in Week 2 test are confusing, the original meaning the test designer is trying to convey is, which dictates what the right answer is, isn't clear, giving too much room to interpretation not allowing the answer to be empirically right. +Poor content. Clearly filler material for the specialization. :) +The course was very short and very basic. I do not think it is fair to call it "High-Impact Business Writing" when all you get is an introduction to business writing. It would be nice to have a more extensive course on this subject. I would retake it if it was improved. My rating reflects the lack of high-quality content with more examples. +Useful tips for writing. +Great course with lots of valuable tips, not only for business writing but also for learning how to deal with arguments & confrontation in the workplace. Highly recommended. +This course is very instructive +The course approches all the subjects related to business, providing wide and deep information to reinforce knowledge. +Thank you very much! It was very useful. The material of the course were right, prompt and good collected. +Very clear, crisp and useful for everyday communication. +Easy to follow, well-structured course. Enjoyed the sessions. +The course was excellent! The only thing that I would change is to have more instruction in writing for social media. +I needed to work on my writing and this easy to follow on class was great to just do that. +It was truly helpful and full of examples for everyday use. +Very useful information. +Great reminders and a few things to think about. +Informative and easy to understand, even though the course could have benefit more if we actually get a few peer-review exercises regarding the type of writing we learned from the course. Overall, good for beginner. +This is an amazing opportunity unfortunately I have to catch up. I plan on doing this on the 3 day weekend. I have put time aside specifically for my classes. I have already put it to practice just haven't had a chance to do the quiz on lesson 1 or work on lesson 2. Again this is really a great way to help people out. Hopefully I will be in a position to get some certificates out of it as well. Thank you for this wonderful experience. :) +It helps me a lot.it is a good choice for you to learn it.and i love the teacher. +Insightful +Great course, but needed more exercises for student practice. +I found the video lectures very choppy and difficult to watch. +Great Course! +it's to general. I would like to have done some exercises. Great framework without a punchline. +I would have rated the course higher if there were a way to practice writing the documents discussed in the lectures. Great introduction to business writing, though. Very accessible to non-business persons. +Very helpful course, I highly recommend it. +Some questions in the quiz for module 2 are unclear and seem unrelated to the course work. +Very informative. Loved the professor's tone and delivery of the lectures +Teacher Sue Robins competently and interesting has submitted all material. I am grateful for training on this course! +The course was very generic and didn't teach that much. Sorry. +Love it!! +The modules had a lot of aspects and covered each one in detail. However, it would have been helpful to have some hands-on exercises like writing an executive summary, evaluating a resume, writing an elevator pitch etc so that people learn from each other. Otherwise, its a great course with emphasis on different aspects of business writing. Thanks +Great helped me a lot with business writing that I can accomplish with my Dance Company. Easy to follow great steps. +Awesome, Brilliant and Value added. +A really good foundation for writing. A good refresh of the fundamentals. +Quite interesting and informative course +useful an I like her teaching style +Great course if you want to improve your skills to write +Some lessons were a bit obvious, but lots of good content overall. +Resources Professor provides are very helpful and well-explained. Each presentation slide is clear and easy to understand. Overall, I am very satisfied with the course. I wish Professor included more exercises for us to write and have a peer review. +The course was awsome. +Very helpful tips for preparing a professional business document. Hoping the course could have more focused exercises to make sure learners actually master the skills. +The course gave me few skills that I never used earlier and would start using now on.It was useful for me. +Not too interesting, but certain things were useful. +Great course with a lot of useful information +Good but basic level for Business Writing. +A wonderful course to hone your English. Thank you very much! +Thank you! +The information was very helpful. I would have benefited from quiz explanations I kept getting the same two questions wrong on quiz 2. +It was a very informative and useful course for officials involving business writing. I feel considerable improvement in my writing after passing of this course. +Fantastic course. Real examples and very relevant for the current working population.Great job. +I enjoyed this course very much. The instructors were very good at their job. The entire course was well designed and the lectures were easy to follow. I also learned many new things. This course also helped me to brush up my English communication and interview skills. +Wonderful.NIce methodically work the PEN.Simple video and explanation.Thank you. +Great course +It was really useful!The course went well and the instructors were awesome. +This was an excellent course and I am glad and honored to have been offered the Scholarship for the Verified Course Certificate, in case this course is re-offered, I am going to suggest everyone to take the opportunity to go through this amazing course. Thanks to Coursera and the Course Instructors for their valuable time and effort to provide us with such resourceful knowledge. +Thank you for this really usefull course. It is easy, interesting, motivating, and challenging at the same time. I really appreciate job you have done and I wish to join more courses from this university. Thank you again and good luck!!! +It's just a super-interesting course! +It is an excellent course for career development. +very interesting, not annoying. Teachers are prepared and seem to be nice people. Very usefull if you are scheduled to do an interwiew. +It was awesome to learn more career vocabulary and to practice all the english skills. +good experience +My teacher introduced it to me ... now I dont need my teacher anymore :P :P :P :P :P Just kidding its an amazing course ...... And I love my teacher :P +The course is perfectly prepared ! +Useful for everybody want to covert his resume in English from US +very good course and useful +Easy to follow. Very useful. +super useful the best course ever !!!! +Interesting and very useful course. I hope it help me to develop professionally. I like the methodology. The teachers explain very clear.Thank You very much. +With that course you really learn English for Career Development.The best course about that subject. +very helpful course. +Very good, thanks you very much +An Excellent course. I recommend everyone who is working to take it. +Great course!! +It is an excellent course which provides valuable tips for job seekers. The course is dynamic and challenging. The topics are well-organized, fluent and friendly.I highly recommend to take this course to improve your job seeking skills. +Very good course. But I think some exercises could be more difficult. +Thank you. Good course +Great course. I had the chance to practice my english skills while learning about the job search process and related topics. It was very useful. +I had thought that I got much experience in job seeking process, but with this course I have learnt much more than I could expected. Thank you very much! +Very good course, I really learned +This course is totally informative and useful for my future success! +This course help me a lo t to increase my grammar skilss and communication skills with people from differnet countries,and also I improve in the fiel of the employment +I hope all participants found this course useful like me.I want to thank the course teachers and the course supporting organizations.Thanks.... +good course for professional career development +I will post about this course in social media and send it to my friends and people like me who are interested in this course and many courses in cousrea and i know that most people will accept my idea and love to get Certificates from coursera. +I think this is well organized course for the profession job application, but the course name is quite mis-leading. The name could be Job Application Process and Carrier Development. +this is an excellent course, it help me a lot. +a good course +It's a useful course both to learn English and to help you to find a job +Very helpful course. Very quietly and unobtrusively helps то develop English and other useful skills. Thanks +Great course. Enjoyed it a lot. +amassing course , thank you for every thing +All people that wants to work in the US and is them first time, need this course for practice English and learning about the process. +I have learned a lot from this course, if you are a foreign job seeker or worker this will definitely help you from your Resume up until the Interview process in the US. +I loved this course, thank you! +very useful +Its really important and interesting course, it's improve my English skills, learn to write professional resume and cover letter and learn how I answer question in the Interview. I am highly recommended this course. +It really helps in advancing a career. +I did not know before that finding applying and interviewing is like a science thing that I have to study and educate myself for, I found that the course is very good and standardise the whole idea +Great Course, I have learn so much from it. +Very helpful course. Thanks a lot, great work. +great course everyone should do +This course is really helpful for improving our English for both writing and reading. I learned many new things from here. I am happy that i choose this course. +great tools to enhance the job seek process!! +I really like to learn about resume, cover letter, elevator speech and so. It was fantastic. Thank you so much +In love with this course, thank you so much !:) +this is the best couse I've learned ever +This course is awesome. I have learnt so many thing in this course that I am confident finding a job will be way much easier. Endless thanks. +All the lectures were amazing and very easy to understand.I did many first times through this course.I wrote a resume, a cover letter, an interview. I did them for the first time in my life.I got good knowledge about them and in the future when I seek for a job this course will be really helpful. Really thank you a lot.Hope you will be able to do many courses like this and help students like me in the future too. +great learning point.. :) +Great course! +Thank you very much, Bryan and Robin for this course! It opened my eyes for many things, especially how to write successful resume and cover letter. Really useful and interesting material. +It was an excellent course for me. It was my first course in Coursera and it won't be the last one. Thanks teachers because every session was helpful and understandable. +Course help for people who want to be develop their career. +This is very helpful to all job seekers and also to students. This will equip them with skills necessary in job hunting and career searching. :) +Very educational and informative +It was a course that I enjoyed most. +Just as an option, please send the certicates with approximate hours of study! Thanks +This course was very informative, well structured and with plenty of examples and exercises for the students. I learned a lot of things about the job search, applying and interviews in America and I hope my knowledge will help me in the future to find a better job. +very useful for me +Great teaching, very usefull +This is a great step to all the people who want to learn how the job process is in the United States, and not just that, you can also learn grammar and enhance your listening skills. +This course has taught me very well about developing my career skills. I highly encourage everyone to also take this course and learn what I've learned. To my teachers and classmates, thank you so much. I couldn't have done this without your help. +This course allowed me to improve my resume and show a new opportunity to look for a job. +Superb....learned a lot of things +It was a perfect career development. I liked the way of teaching. I learned well and knew more about the career, job process. Thanks. It was very helpful to me. +Many Thanks for your classes, it was excellent! +Hello, I want to send my congratulations and gratefulness to the teachers: Robyn Turner and Brian McManus, as well as to the tecnical team whose amaizing work makes possible the offer of this course. This is my first course in coursera, I enjoyed it a lot and learned many usefull things taht are helping in develop my career. Thanks a lot. +Thank you very much! +absolutely perfect +This course was really great. It helped me in developing and knowing my self more. It has also helped me in developing confidence. +The Course was exciting. +This was the great course which I was able to improve my English skills while I developed my skills which I needed to them to find a job. Especially in different job industry in compare with my country. +its so good! like its a good practice for those who need and willing to try this course. +Perfect Course for my language skills and job-seeking knowledge +I liked this course. Have a good professionals and articles.Thank for your help. +This course is a must for job seekers. With my experience, this had given me a lot of information and honed my skills in English for developing my career. Thank you so much to the Coursera community, especially to the University of Pennsylvania and to our remarkable teachers- Mr. Brian McManus and Robyn Turner. +This course is really awesome and i believe , it must be a lifetime experience to develop my future career. I really amaze to go through the course. The course outline is well-decorated and really helpful for every students along with job-seekers. A big thanks to Coursera for this course. +I already have 6 years of experience and I took this course to know the new things that I should do s I am looking for a new opportunity and you gave me a lot of information specially about cover letter and elevator speech.Thank you very much and I may use some materials to guide the new grads who are looking for a job. :) +Very useful course , I feel completely different after completing it . Thanks a lot ! +It awesome course with Sweet And Fabulous teachers i am thankful to Coursera And Penn for this Opportunity. thanks to Sir Brian McManus & Mem Robyn Turner.. Always keep Smile. +Thank you for the big help, yes i am not purely speak English but because of this, it will help me to find a better job and answer any interview on a good way. +this course was amazing and have a lot benefits to me +A great opportunity to develope my skills. It was offered me a very organized course with an excellent didactic and professional instructor. Congrats too all at Penn, you were wonderful!! #TrumpIsPresident +I loved this course! It will certainly help me a lot! +In this course, I had the opportunity to improve my skills for a job interview, write resume better, make networking and clarify my vocabulary. +Enjoyable and useful course! The instructors made it as simple as possible, without missing the main point: teaching how to be successful with job hunting. +thank you very much +Thank you so much. I have learned many new things about resume, cover letter, and job interview. +I loved it :) +this course will enhance and give knowledge to everyone +This course " English for Career Development helped me learn various important topics about how to be successful in Career. It helped me know my strengths and weaknesses. how can I write a proper Resume and cover letter . and I also learned how to face an Interview. This course was very useful and the knowledge it gave me is really helpful +This course is must-do for people who seek for jobs that might be posted in English, nor other language depending on where you from, but asking you to provide English resume and cover letter.Go do it right now! +Excellent topic which is very effective for developing the career. +Very interesting. I really enjoyed this course. +nice , really need to say thanks like your job career +It was one of the best courses that i have been joint ever thank you all for your great efforts and thanks a lot for your smile through all the lectures. +It's very intersting and useful course. It contains a lot of useful practical exercises. Thank's for teachers for clean and understandable,pronunciation +This course give me a lot of information about how to make beter resume, also teach me to learn about how to show our skill. Nice and thank you for Brian and Turner , you are great teacher. Thank you to AE and University of Pennsylvania. +Awesome. Challenging. Great. Spectacular! +very interesting, I learnt so much. Thank you +This course had given me a lot of things to learn not only for my career development but in enriching my English language skills and knowledge. +I think it is an essential course for all job seeker. +so important to get or submitting or a job vacancies +I'm grateful with the opportunity this course has offered me. It gives me new and better forms of knowledge of which I believe are very useful for future use. It doesn't only give me an opportunity to grow intellectually but also it gives me the chance to experience learning with people of different races from different places. That makes this course amazing and more interesting. Learning here is really fun. +The instructors are rightly just calm enough to teach student as good as they could. Happy to be in this course! :) +Good course for me but area need to be improved is the course navigation. +All I would like to know about how to prepare myself for career development. +Relevant and interesting choice of assignments. +Excellent course in strategic management, a perfect capstone to apply knowledge. +Culmination of the courses - to reinforce the learnings +Course was extremely current and allowed me to creatively present all my ideas. +Great way to put all the knowledge in context +Nice and interesting. +Exceptional curriculum layout with thoughtful lectures and assignments. +I wish it had more interaction with the teachers or to at least have more level of detail on the cases. I am afraid tha as a final project it was not of a very high use for me. +The content and the assignment were of high quality and I really enjoyed the case I had to work on.So overal the course was very good, but negative was that the course was a bit too long, I understand Coursera needs to finance the course, so it is better to have a long one and earn a lot of subscription fees. Bu the extra review rounds felt redundant, and because the course was so long it was difficult to keep focussed on it. +Being in this class and specialization was a great experience to me. Great instructors with great content but I prefer a professional person judge the final assignment of capstone. +Amazing way to demonstrate your knowledge, the only con is that the projects are peer reviewed, so no experts judge you. +Awsm course!!!! Precise and well structured...........Wish CBS introduces more courses. +All the projects are real life cases. They are close to our life, challenging but also engaging, Doing this project makes me able to implement the theoretical frameworks in real situation. +Interesting subjects to chose from. Also nice and short format of the assignment. +I must say that the Capstone Project was a good assignment. The issue is that the Peer Reviews were bad. I had to resubmit my assignment due to a student that choose to give me 0's when the other reviewers gave me 5's. There was also a bias to what each reviewer thought the capstone should cover so you had no idea which direction to update your work because the next reviewer may feel that the type of analysis you did was not Necessary.The course needs a specific Rubric and specific methods each person has to use in order to complete the assignment. For example, Must Use the Four Forces Model when evaluating Strategy. This way everyone knows what to expect and what to look for. Otherwise you can get a low grade on a great project because a Classmate thought you should have used another model so he gave you a 1 or 0 when the model you used demonstrated your knowledge.Capstones need to be monitored either by a student or assistant to protect against trolls that don't read your work and give you the lowest score. Otherwise the Course was great and the information was definitely well put together. The Peer Reviews brought my overall grade lower because I didn't get the High Mark I should have. +Excellent course. Great learning. Top Notch facility. Definitely recommended for somebody who want to learn Strategy Management in detail. +Thanks to Nicolai Pogrebnyakov and All Specialization Sectors. Good Course. If you want to have Practical Strategy Formulation and Implementation habits than Enroll !!! +very helpful on creating the strategic recommendation for Spotify. +Very interesting topics for projects! And real executive from "Bombardier" has reviewed my work! It is good surprise. +The course as a whole is excellent (5 stars), however, the Capstone project part of the specialization consists of 3 submissions that are reviewed by other students. Consequently the quality of the reviewers are of the same level as the student itself - which obviously limits the learnings from feedback. +During the specialization I only missed some support material. it was a fantastic courser, thanks. +Excellent course and teachers! Congratulations! +Fantastic learning experience. Thanks! +Ira Pohl is a great professor. There were a few glitches in the videos, but overall a nice course. +I enjoyed this course a great deal. The review of C++ and introduction of C++11 is exactly what I was looking for. The Hex Game assignment were fun. I was impressed at how the Monte-Carlo method could be used to create an AI player for a game. +Good contents +Very helpful. +Fantastic course +Just Brilliant +Excellent Course! Learning is not done by rote but rather by understanding the material. +very clear and useful. +Very good course. The teacher is great. Thank you. +Top level, very interesting and absolutelly exciting! +Great professor, but a lot of formatting issues with the problems. To avoid considerable frustration, make sure you reference this page:https://www.coursera.org/learn/calculus1/discussions/forums/WcY9_8ayEeSWEiIAC0wC5g/threads/CgOJwV-jEeWncxKXIFxpFQ +Great Course! ... Thanks for Dr. Jim Fowler and Ohio State University. +It was a pleasure to follow the videos. Professor Fowler's obvious enthusiasm for his subject shine through. +Excellent course. Good teacher and dynamic learning. +very good course to learn Caculus +Great lesson! It's easy for the one who have left these for a long time. +With all of the changes going on with the coursera platform, some stuff gets changed or messed up. Otherwise, this is a great course! Would watch just for the faces. +The many errors in the quizzes and the basic structure of the course - like having no link to a textbook in a central location - makes the experience of the course very very poor. The quality of the material makes up for it, to some extent - but there needs to be more Coursera support (I think) to get the errors in quizzes and stuff sorted out. The mods are doing an amazing job keeping people calm, but Coursera needs to do better. +Excellent, simply fantastic. Thank you so much for the effort in creating these materials. +Very fun to watch with great illustrations and explanations! Great course! +Excellent course and Instructor was outstanding. +I am definitely going to learn Calculus Two!! +Very useful and interesting course. It gave me more than an opportunity to just compute some calculations. I've learnt WHY these calculations are in the form I use them. +the best presentation I have ever seen +Extreme Good Teaching Method! +This is a hard subject to teach myself. I found the instruction distracting. I think in attempt to be enthusiastic the instructors frittered away my attention. By terrible coincidence, my computer blew up. Real Life intervened in that and other ways. I will continue to try to learn calculus, but this didn't work for me. +Great energy in the course. A lot of fun to work on. +I really enjoyed this course but week 9 was extremely ridiculous. I had a hard time relating the examples to the quiz and, when i finally figured it out, the answers were huge and complex numbers. Other then that though, i do recommend this course. +Beautiful course, very well explained with the right mix of theory and application of the learning. Many thanks to the professor and Coursera ! :) +Only the most essential information about calculus. Highly recommend for people w/o math background. +GREAT TEACHER +ThankI'll study hard as a can!! +Excellent course! Excellent and very energetic and likable teacher! Except minor technical issues with the quizzes it was perfect! For a similar experience involving a free certificate of completion I suggest http://ximera.osu.edu/ +It was great, the videos were fun to watch, the teacher did a great job explaining everything, but it was also very challenging. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to embark on the study of calculus. +Good course. I wish the technical aspects of submitting typed answers had all the bugs worked out. Otherwise great experience. +Very good explanation, interesting excercises. +I love the teacher so much! He can lead me to understand the mathimatic problems which are really difficult to me. And he also taught some "life experience" by calculus: in terms of life curve, when you feel you are "decreasing", which meaning f prime is less than 0, it's sad one way, but if the f prime prime is still greater than 0, you will recover again! So, keep moving~ +Thank you, the course was nice, good job. +This class is quite accurate and pleasing. I have enjoyed the course +The lecturer is very enthusiastic. Explanations are crystal clear. Quiz material is good. +The best calculus course I've ever taken. The professor is really enthusiastic and keeps you motivated. You will never get bored! +The course is clear, informative and yet not very hard. Jim Fowler is crazy looking but he's very engaging, you want to share his craziness about calculus, and by the end of the course I found myself enjoying when new approaches come from previously learned.The only one slight minus for me was, that there is no medium complexity "homeworks". Tests and exercises are sometimes too easy and repetitive. On the other side challenges given in lectures are too hard, and has no answers to check yourself . +Electric professor! Great course, without doubts. +This was the most challenging, rich, and fun Calculus I class. The instructor's high degree of motivation, personal interest, and sense of wonder at the beauty and far reaching manifestations of the laws that the Calculus attempts to capture is contagious and revives the sense of discovery and awe that Newton, Leibniz, Pascal, and Euler must have experienced. Great break down of complex subject matter into clear and concise language that even a dumb grunt, that is, an infantryman, could understand quickly and with anticipation for the next topic. My English teachers, Beckwith and Ellis, would certainly love that sentence. +Thanks very much! +An excellent introductory course on single variable calculus, Jim is an amazing and engaging instructor. I wish he did more Mathematics courses. +The instructor does a very poor job of explaining the material. +There is no good explanation of how to calculate the equations given in the quizes which is why sometimes i had to fail to figure out how to solve one of the similar equations so I can understand and solve the others. Overall is good and understandable. +The course is great! Jim Fowler presents everything is such a meaningful and insightful way. And he's very funny. But Dr. Fowler, please change the music :) +Dr. Jim Fowler makes Calculus a poetry. The concept oriented approach goes straight into the fundamentals before turning off the students' appetite with dry symbolic jargons. The same concept is explained from multiple perspectives making mastery of the material inevitable. I had the most fun learning from Dr. Jim Fowler the beauty of calculus. +The best Math Course in the world !! I mean it. "Best In the world". Excellently handled by Dr. Fowler. +Great! +Love this course. So interesting and so challenging.I like the way it's given and passion of Dr. Fowler motives so much +Fantastic course. A lot of neat tricks thrown in too. Jim Fowler's enthusiasm is contagious. +Thank you. A really useful comprehensive review of calculus & some applications. +Exceptionally good Calculus course for those who had a Calculus course in their past and want to review some credentials !!! +Solid course - well taught by highly enthusiastic teacher. Good online support from other participants and course mentors. Only frustration was syntax - sometimes you would get the right answer in a test but the syntax was not recognised (for example sometimes the constant "E" had to be entered in lower case and sometimes in upper case.) +This course was a big help. It has many applications which help you visualize what calculus really is about; great teacher, great examples and such a great time learning this. +This is an amazing course taught by an emphatic, inspiring teacher! This not only eased the effort of learning but made it FUN. 10/10, would recommend to anyone wishing to learn Calculus. +Very enthusiastic lecturer! +The Prof. ever :) +Best Online class ever! +Purely awesome +Educator is outstanding!!! If more mathematics teachers were like him, then we would have more people admiring and using mathematics, the greatest of all human inventions! +Teacher is very enthusiastic and good at providing intuitives for theorems. +Thanks Jim and relative staffs. You help me to understand the Calculus in deep, and know that Math is really fun and helpful. Though I leaned it several years ago, but now I really get some new concepts about it. Thanks every again! +that's an extraordinary course. Congratulations +Every minute I spent on this course was useful in improving my knowledge of calculus. Many thanks to Jim. +I would like to thank Jim Fowler, PhD at this point. The content of the course was explained very understandably, best thanks for it and all the best. +Excellent course. Thoroughly enjoyed it +Excelent course, great teacher +Very clear explanation. +I loved it. He is a very good professor. +Covered the material I needed to progress into mathematics; provides nice intuition about the concepts; very engaging. +Professor Fowler is an excellent teacher, and The Ohio State knows it. +comprehensive skills for basic calculus :) +Very good course. As someone with attention difficulties. The lecturer was very engaging and made learning fun. +if the input format can be explained in detail, could save a lot of time wondering the genuine "answer". But, overall, brilliant! really appreciate for the sharing of joys in calculus! thank you! +It is impossible to input solutions to quizzes/exams - even when they are correct, they are graded as wrong - a massive waste of time +I wish that Mr. Jim Fowler were my math teacher in high school +Good, step by step explanation. +Great lecturer. It is perfect in tandem with the mooculus's textbook (https://mooculus.osu.edu/handouts) +Professor is very passionate and the lecture is easy to understand for someone like me who speaks English as a second language . +Very intereting +fun,practical and fulfilling,thank you so much. +very motivated tutor, easy to understand and beginners friendly. +The best course I have ever taken. This professor is very enthusiastic about his subject. He is committed to teach proper understanding of topics and gradually builds students intuition. +This is a great overview/refresher course for Calculus. The lectures cover more material than the quizzes. +Great! +The way Jim Fowler teaches calculus is amazing. He feels what he's lecturing and it's motivating to go through his videos and then hit the assignments. It's incredible how much calculus our everyday lives is sorrounded and we can only apprecciate that by taking courses like these. I do reccommend it. Thanks for the amazing course! It's incredible +The course is very well structured and has helped me better understand calculus. +I have never had calculus explained to me so well before attending this course, Thank you! +This one got away from me. I think I need Calculus for Dummys! +The professor does a great job explaining the ideas behind the mathematics. He makes it very easy to understand. However, there are not a lot of problems, so it's best to complement this with some textbook exerc +very good course you can review calculus +It is very good course and give a better understand in calculus. +Exceptional course! This was a wonderful review of calculus. +A very nice course! I love his great pasion on calculus! +I believe that the teacher creates a great way of explaining what seems to be very complicated thought processes, and he does so in a highly enthusiastic manner.The only downside is that such explanations can be either too low level or not strong enough to explain certain phenomena. For example, the professor talks about how the absolute value function of x is not differentiable at zero, and how a function is differentiable at a certain point when the two-sided limit exists and, by extension, the function is continuous at that same given point. However, the professor in this regard never truly explains why the v-shape is not differentiable and how it relates to our definition of continuity. However, overall: a very worthwhile course and a pleasant experience. +I really feel like I understood a great deal from this course. The exercises were challenging and sometimes required me to rewatch the videos, ensure my notes were good, and look up some help in other places online. I feel like calculus is fun, and I'm looking forward to doing more! I feel quite prepared to take on some calculus courses in person now. +Incredible level of teaching. +This comical man makes me very annoy. +i never seen some one passionate about calculus like Dr. jim fowler i really learned alot from this course +Explains what calculus is well +Excellent instruction! An amazing resource for anyone interested in learning/re-learning calculus! +Great... a bit more variation int he quizzes would be nice +A refresher of Calculus doesn't get better than this! Jim is a thoroughly engaging teacher, and the lessons deliver concise yet detailed explanations of basic calculus concepts. While I have not put in enough time to master every concept learned in this class, I have come away feeling like I know enough for basic applications. Highly recommended! +Awesome course! +Awsome! +This course is awesome. To listen to professor Jim Fowler break down seemingly hard concepts into easy-to-understand chunks is hugely satisfying. But make no mistake. The course is not easy. But if you put in the effort, you will find it very fulfilling.The last three sections (weeks 14, 15, and 16) are probably the best parts of the course. It’s thrilling to experience professor Fowler solve hairy integration problems with u substitution and integration by parts.The grading section is a little buggy and may cause frustration for learners. But overall, you can work around the bugs if you take the time to review the bug list in the discussion forums.The mentors are fantastic and provide quick responses to your questions on the forums. +He teaches the intuitions as much as the calculations. I didn't memorize everything (it's hard and unnecessary), but when i see a function or a question, after drawing a graph, i can see through it all the integrations, derivatives, geometry etc. Thank you so much Jim :) +Really sparkly! But more is required, for example after studying integral it would be nice to study double and triple integrals. After derivatives it would be logical to go through partial derivatives and so on. +This is one of the best courses I have taken on Coursera and I would really like to thank Our Course Professor Jim Fowler and The Ohio State University for this beautiful course on Calculus.One thing I wanted to mention is to include more examples in practice exercises and module quizzes for better understanding and visualization of the concepts. +Calculus for complete dummies by a terrific instructor. +Well done and useful. I have found a passionate professor, a fascinating subject and a superior exercise for the mind. +Very clear instructions! Jim really knows about calculus and he knows how to teach well. +Great course, easy to understand, with nice and sometimes funny explanations of difficult problems +Excellent course. I took this course as a refresher to tackle a few projects involving machine learning. Highly recommend to anyone taking machine learning/AI courses. It helped me better understand and properly implement back propagation algorithm in my neural network involving a hyperbolic function. +I want more additional lecture please prof fowler.. very longed! to learn multivariate, parametric, differential equations, linear algebra, analysis and so on. I will wait for your lecture sincierely.. +One of the best courses i have taken as an Online and Tradional student. +the best thing ever in my life +had an awsome experience.learning made much easier . +Very nice introduction to Calculus! The instructor is just great! +An outstanding course with extraordinary intuition behind to make clear basic calculus. Many thanks for the content and especially for the creativity and motivation of the lecturer to deliver the lessons. +Ever since I started i don't want to stop +This course represents everything Coursera aspires to be. If only other Coursera professors cared 10% as much as Dr. Fowler in teaching. +HiMath is a great science.Great Course and a Great Teacher.Thank you +Excellent course and teacher! Right energy for people like me. ;) +It was a very good course. I enjoyed the learning experience very much. +Prof Fowler does an outstanding job of making sure the concepts behind the formulas make sense. That was important to me, and this course delivered. +wonderful instructor +Great course! It's fantastic the way that the professor explains calculus, his way to teach makes him one of the best professors I've ever had. And it's a course that doesn't take several hours of your time, it's simple and straight to the point. I'm really impressed by how they made such a well structured course for online students. I could really notice that people who worked producing this course really worked to make it the best as possible.I can't wait to start Calculus 2!Regards from Brazil! Thank you all from Ohio University. +Great Course Instructor with lots of Humor... Dude makes calculus easy!!! Thumbs up to the production guys the music at the end and beginning of the course is really exciting... I LOVE THIS COURSE!!! +A really good moth course!The teacher uses a simple way to introduce the Calculus knowledge to us!Thanks, Coursera! +I took this class to fulfill a prerequisite for my graduate program, and it was outstanding -- easily the best online class I have taken to date. The professor is enthusiastic and explain things very well. Not only is the material broken into manageable chunks, but the supporting exercises and textbooks are really helpful too. I highly recommend it. +Lecture videos are good. Assessment of knowledge (quizzes) are weak. +An excellent course. Has a focus on underlying concepts and intuitions. Could be hard to follow without recent exposure to math. I recommend doing Khan Academy videos and exercise prior to taking this course or in parallel. +Calculus is not an easy part in math, so i didn't hope that i could get through it as quick as possible. But from when i got this course, i see that to access a mindset of math's world needs persevere and connection basically. +I've always had a love for math, however I never did well in the subject in school. It's a paradox, but embarrassingly I struggled to even pass! Well, once I found this course, I decided to give it a try, and I'm glad I took it. I've learned new and applied concepts in math and Mr. Fowler makes the lectures easy to understand. The discussion forum and mentors are extremely helpful. I would definitely recommend this course to others. +The professor does an outstanding job explaining the various ways in which the fundamental concepts in Calculus including limits, derivatives and integrals, build upon the underlying algebra. I highly recommend this course to both students and educators. +Awesome. I always to learn mathematics with real world view and applications rather than manipulations of symbols and abstract thinking - not that this way of learning is wrong , just does not work for me. This is the great course to serve that purpose. +This guy is awsome! :D +Best thing of this course is that it is self paced. No need to worry about submitting assignments or quizzez. However, this is also taking some tome to get it completed. +You'd be lucky to take this course in calculus from this gifted teacher Jim Fowler +the lectures are awsome... he is an extra ordinary teacher... i haven't any idea about limits even exam time @12 but i have the confidence now... :) +great teacher +very good to learn! +Really good course. It is really good for people who want to understand calculus. It is not a course for one that have final next week but is sure a great course for those who want to learn it in a solid base. +You learn a lot with this course and the instructor is breath taking +Just one word to describe this MOOC , " AMAZING". Its been a great journey exploring the world of calculus. +The teacher is very passionate; therefore I enjoyed the topics that were taught very differently than when I took AP Calculus AB in high school. The answer input sections for the tests and quizzes were rather frustrating because I had to type very specific keys on the keyboard just to input a constant or a polynomial. And one typo caused me to fail some assignments. Also the decimal approximations were very specific to the point where if I didn't type an extra number in the tenths, hundredths, or thousandths place then I would get the answer wrong even if I did the problem correctly. +Dr. Fowler is passionate, engaging, and a great teacher. I highly recommend the course! +Quite easy to understand, the professors are active. Thank you for this class. +Easy to understand "harder" topic. +Good course!! +I'm more than satisfied with the amount of learning that I weekly get in this marvelous course +Amazing Teacher. Thank u +Brilliant teacher! +Very clear introduction to calculus. Good value! +Easy to understand basic concept of calculus but not so challenging. +awesome course！The professor is very funny so that i can pay more attention to the content. +It is an excellent course. I am a commerce grad without maths. i find it too good course. It is helping me a lot to understand calculus. +Thouhg I'm only 15,but Professor still make it easily to understand.It's great to learn such a course. +Learning mathematics is enjoyable with Prof Fowler!! +Very deep and informative for this level of Calculus +Great Profesor! +you must use the exact format to get the correct answer on problems, or it will be marked wrongthe course is "as is" meaning when there are mistakes in the coursework neither web hosting nor faculty have are available to correct mistakesmoderators are not allowed to correct course content, so what they end up doing is editing your post in the forum. get use to this: "A moderator deleted your post in Calculus One because of spam""Review our forum Code of Conduct to learn more about guidelines for participating in course discussions", but i and others are only posting problem areas, thus rendering the forum discussions uselesssince the moderators only have the power to delete and edit your post, there is a list of content errors for the course that you will need to look at. real smart. i asked to have my grade adjusted, but they deleted that post also +A very good course because of its content and its professor. Thank you for your help. +I absolutely love this course. The only thing that I would suggest is going into the trapezoid and Simpson's rule when evaluating areas under the curve. +It's really an excellent course with it's simple principles showing, great instructor professor JIM has very good communication skills and attentions pay, very satisfy +Amazing course! Jim Fowler really gets one excited about doing and learning maths! +nice and great, makes me full of hope. +It's so fun to learn calculus in this way! thanks! +This course helped understand what I am actually doing with calculus. +The best Calculus course I have seen. It has lots of real world examples to introduce the concepts, and there is a great balance between intuition and mathematical rigour. The exercises are also timed perfectly to help understanding the concept. +It is a long but worthwhile course. I took it as a well needed refresher and ended up using two sessions to finish. The materials were available between formal sessions, so I could work it at my own pace and Dr Fowler makes it fun and clear. Definitely recommended. +Great course!Coursera ... not so much. +Good for beginners, but maybe using examples instead of important concepts as elements of main structure can cause confusion. +Very interesting, well thought out and exciting course. The original style of the material supply by teacher "from God" is able to captivate any skeptic who believes that mathematics - science boring. +Tutor Jim Fowler is amazing with the real life examples and the energy he shows in the sessions. +I have finished this course and moved on to the 2nd part. In sum, the course was excellent and Professor Fowler is terrific at explaining concepts both visually and algebraically. He provides both rigorous and intuitive explanations. I learned a lot and firmed up many concepts. i really appreciated the balance between visual and numerical. The real problem with the course is the quiz CPU. It does not recognize correct answers even when those answers are exactly the same as the ones provided by way of correcting your "wrong" answer. There is something really wrong with the quiz review code. That can be a "downer" when you are seeking a little encouragement after some hard work - and you know your answers are correct - and In Fact have been correct on the same questions in earlier quizzes. So take the coruse - enjoy the learning - but don't be discouraged because Coursera writes Kludgey code.IThe course is not yet over but perhaps someone will see this and make some changes. The professor is clear and enthusiastic. The main problem with this course is the quizzes. On several occasions I have submitted answers that were completely correct, only to find them all graded incorrect. I know they were correct because I had mathematician friends check them after receiving the failing grades. They could not understand why the quizzes were returned that way. On certain occasions, questions on one quiz were graded correct - and then the exact same type of question on another quiz was graded incorrect. In some cases, my answers were exactly the same as those probided by way of demonstrating the correct responses. Identical - yet marked wrong. When there are several ways to formulate an answer, we have no way of knowing what form is required. On a recent quiz, it turned out the answers were required in raw form - not solved to their numeric conclusion. But how are we to know that? I will write more at the end of the course. It is a good course for learning - but don't get upset if you get a bad grade. It is probably not an accurate reflection of your work. A final point - Professor Fowler should learn to pronounce "integral." It is NOT "intregal." It is "integral." He is, after all, a mathematician. You would not want a surgeon to speak of "cradiac care," would you? Otherwise - terrific class. +very well organized course! +Great course +use simple words to explain complicated calulus, it is very wonderful. it is definitly worth your time. +The best introductory course to Calculus ever, with Dr Fowler, the best teacher ever. +Just awesome. it simply needs to provide information on assignments when keyboard sucks. +Course seems fundamentally sound. Prof is enthusiatic and obvioulsy highly qualified. Really appreciate the proofs he provides such as the geometric development of the trig derivatives, the chain rule, and the fundamental theorem. I'd give it 5 stars for content and clarity.I am disappointed that some of the lectures were out of sequence with the quizzes and I really found that entering the answers to quizz questions was difficult. In some cases the tool misled me i.e. when the question indicated E should be entered for Euler's constant but the grading tool required e. Also in one instance the grading tool didn't recognize the right answer and I believe the correct answer wasn't even available as one of the choices. +i love his enthusiasm +Marvelous :-) +it will be more useful if using more complicated examples +this is a good course +Its a very good course. The teacher teachs with love and attention. I just think could have more exercises in video to help to do on the assignments. I recommend!!!! +Very well designed, taught with much enthusiasm. Just soak in some of his energy and you would be fine. +A very well taught and approachable course. I highly recommend it. +best... good to perfect your basic concept of calculus... recommended for everybody... +I love your teaching style! +The professor is great and I'm loving this course! I did have to use Khan Academy a couple of times so far but this is awesome. Good luck +teacher doesn't teach what is on the quizzes. -_- +This is a great courser! +This prof is amazing. I could listen to him describe dirt. unbelievably engaging!!! +This really taught me a lot +I love it. I haven't learned anything about math since 8 years ago when I graduated from senior high school. And professor made me fall in love with calculus/math again. He is making every point clear in a easy-to-comprehend way. Thank you. +Very helpful and new way to look at calculus. I am taking this course in order to freshen up concepts when I start AP Calculus my senior year and this offers me a comprehensive guide for what to except. Thank you! +Really great class! Goes a little fast at some parts, but otherwise engaging and interesting. +very helpful +Useful and productive, tutor is good in a help to find a meaning of all this stuff. +Very very good introduction course which covers single variable differentiation and integration. The teacher is awesome! His enthusiasm is so contagious that I'm going to go through his Calculus Two course as well just because he created it! +easy to follow, good examples and practice exercises. +Its not five stars because there isn't portuguese legends +Amazing Course +The teacher is full of energy, I like the way he taught.It brings me into the world of calculus!!! thanks:) +It is very useful! +It's easy to follow and fun way to learn calculus! +This guy loves what he's doing :) +This is one of the best introductory course to Calculus. The explanations are lucid, the instructor is awesome and the level of problems is good. +I think this course is great, I like everything about it, but I can't say the same about the quiz format, it is rigid and non-standardI gave up on the course many times because of thisHow do write Sqrt(5) for instance ? 5x must be 5*x or it is not acceptable.I am sorry, this is pretty bad +Excellent professor, induce students' interest +The course is really good and clear. Love it +Really love this dude, and appreciate the self-pacing +An awesome course! The teacher is good, and the calendar is well organized.However, as to me, there are some points that have not been explained clearly and the some quizzes are just terrible.Hope to see the improvements. +Good for Beginnes. Love you Jim Fowler! +Excellent, very good teacher +This was a very well presented course. Jim Fowler is a fantastic teacher; he makes it enjoyable and relevant. It would be nice if Coursera could review the quiz addenda and update the quizzes. It is very demoralizing to take and retake a quiz due to an incorrect answer, only to find out that the automatic grader is wrong! I'd gladly take more courses with this presenter. +this is a perfect course by a great instructor +GREAT COURSE! EXCELLENT PROFESSOR!! +Cool +Great instructor! +Awesome lecturer +Really an amazing course. Helped me get a deeper understanding of calculus. Teaching quality is outstanding and assumes very little prior knowledge. The course guides you through the logic of theorems in an intuitive way at the beginning and slowly introduces more complicated problems. Would recommend to anyone with no calculus experience or who took calculus years ago but never felt they mastered the core concepts. +Very well taught, but I think the exercises were disjointed and did not always fit with what was being taught. Other than that, great course! +Awesome course!! It's just that sometimes its a little bit hard to understand XD +Very good course, I teacher of math +well-explained, good job +This course is amazing! It is a great resource to prep for AP Calculus and other course +I took this course a long time ago but I remember that my experience was overly good, the teacher demonstrates the ideas of Calculus in very creative and visible ways and simplifies as much as possible the somewhat complicated ideas of Calculus.I self used also Paul's online notes to accomplish Calculus but if you're not very much into reading and you prefer very simple and clear videos this is the course for you (although I can't guarantee that everybody will relate to the style of this teacher). +The professor uses many examples to prove and emphasize the main points. It is a very valuable course, which is also free on Coursera. +Very explanatory. Clear and simple explanations for mathematical complexities. +Thorough helpful and student-friendly. +The Instructor is amazing! +Very useful. +Very good. Thanks alot +It's great!all the chapters are explained as well as i could imagine... +Great and passionate professor. +There are still many more technical issues which lie unsettled for months in in this beautiful and extremely interesting course... +Good course that covers some of the most fundamental concepts behind Calculus. Although the lecturer is quite "in your face", the lectures are well structured and well explained. The intro music at every lecture (every 3-5 minutes) is unnecessary and annoying. +This professor rocks! +Quite concise and learning great +Love the way u guys teach. Each concept is clarified with examples. Everything seems so interesting and easy that once used to seem boring and difficult +Need to take a hiatus; this would be the perfect class to prep for my TexEs teacher certification test in two years. +Free is good. The Professor is a little hurried when he speaks, that distract me from the lessons.However, I prefer this online class to the On Campus math classes I have completed at the Oak Harbor Campus of the Skagit Valley College. +Great teaching methodology - although the test are a bit too centered on number crunching and not reasoning. (a lot of number crunching and no room for little numerical mistake although reasoning is good) +The professor's teaching was fun. But you need to rewatch many times if you do not understand. Once you get it, you will blame why you didn't understand it at the first place because it's so simple and you'll then agree with what every words the professor said. +Love the humour +The course itself is fantastic, but submissions toward the end of the course are extremely tedious and cause you to wonder whether or not you did the math correctly. +Great class, easier to learn calculus +A very well designed course with clear explanations. +great teacher gives great lectures +very clear. It should be more exercise +Professor Fowler is awesome! +Very fast-paced at times but very informative. He creates an enthusiastic learning process. +Instructors make this class FUN, even for a dummy like me. +Thank you for this course !!! +amazing course and amazing teacher. +Great teacher with a very interesting content and approach. To totally benefit from this course, going through the associated Mooculus print is really complementary to the video. This enthusiastic mathematician, beyond the raw mathematics, will give you insights, practical and inspired examples or applications, interests, and much more. You might end up seeing integral calculus as an epic rpg battle versus an ogre after this course (special thanks to the professor for this amazing image ), but you would have been well trained, fully equipped, and wisely guided. +He is an awesome instructor, Love from India, Thanks for this course. +Excellent course! The most clear way to learn Calculus! My grate thanks to the Lector! +A really awesome course to learn calculus +Great course. +I think the instructor is great. +Great!!! +Very good course, although too much long. +The course is best suited for an Intermediate student. Course is good to have since oit convers the topic from its very basic perspective. For graduates this course is more time consuming and dosnt recommended.Advantages:-very simple descriptions-even a non mathematical background student can easily understand-Proofs in all forms(geometric, analatic, practical) descrition.Disav:-basic are explained and consuming too much time-dosnt going for advanced level-no high level explanations or topics. +Jim Fowler is the best math teacher I have ever encountered, by far. +Very well presented! +This is an excellent course with the best kind of instructor! The explanation is pellucid. The examples and exercises are very practical. Thank you Jim for such a masterpiece of online education! +Videos are actually enjoyable to watch. The prof is an interesting dude. +This guy might be the best instructor of anything I've ever seen anywhere. +Extremely useful and student friendly! +The professor is passionate and makes learning calculus as easy as possible. Plenty of videos and explanations, but not many realistic problems given. +So lucky to take part in this course, since it gives me a chance to learn Calculus again. Thanks Mr. Fowler. +Solid course. Good instructor. The quizzes, however, often were inconsistent on how to input Euler's number so that it could be read by the computer. 1 quiz had an item that did not contain a question (Thank god it was multiple choice) , and the last exam asked you to select between two answers which identical except for the fact that one added zero from x and one subtracted zero from x. +I love the instructors enthusiasm!! +Professor Jim Fowler is FANTASTIC! He makes calculus thoroughly understandable, and memorable. His enthusiasm is infectious. Thank you, Coursera, for such a marvelous course. I will continue to Calculus Two. +great course +This prof. is great, he make Calculus much easier +Superb course - Jim Fowler is an excellent teacher. +Outstanding contribution to math education. Excellent course. Thank you kindly and best wishes. +Very energetic lecturer :) Thoroughly enjoyed. +Very interesting, thank you~ +Thank you professor :) you are a great teacher +Terrific instructor. Cover difficult topics well and in a very fine progression with very good transitions.Good explanations and good examples of concepts. Workable, useful knowledge gained. A very fine professor with a clear interest in teaching students. +quite interesting... better if was aware of the site few week before +C +Simply ¡Excellent! +This is one of the best courses I've ever taken. I recommend it 100%!! +it was quite mind opening to me. as it help me to relate calculus from note to reality and vice versa +Great course that I have known before. +i love the explanation +This course is awesome ! +THANK YOU !! +excellent course just let down by the frustrations of the inconsistencies of the marking of quizzes +Dr Jim Fowler is a great mathematician and an outstanding instructor. Thanks a lot! +Professor Fowler is great! He spends some time explaining the theory behind the topic, and makes everything pretty easy to visualize. I would love if there were a few more resources with example problems. The quizzes can be pretty challenging, if you haven't done any practice problems first. My favorite thing about this MOOC and Prof. Fowler is his excitement--which makes it feel, less like a lecture and more, like a fun conversation about calculus. +love the explanation. but it would be highly appreciated if some practice material was provided which would be reviewed by experts after completion. +Excelent course! I'll do the next Calculus two!! +Great course for calculus introduction. +The teacher is very passionate. The lectures are quite in detail and well explained. +Good course to take! +Great lessons and tests. Although I already knew quite a lot of this material, I still really learned a lot about why certain methods work the way they do.I would have loved to get some sort of a certificate though. +Amazing course, amazing lectures! +I am a philology major student, and I can say that this course made me fall in love with mathematics from the very first lesson. It is easy to follow, the explanations are very clear, and the tests are doable even for those who have not solved a single maths problem in years (in this case one will probably need to refresh some basic things, but it will not take long, because many of the school basics are also explained in the beginning of the course). Thank you, Professor Fowler, for these wonderful 16 weeks of Calculus 1! +Not enough material to understand the concepts. +Great course. Fun, engaging, Prof Fowler makes calculus feel easy even when teaching complex stuff, and has always a fun example or reference to cheer things up. If you are starting your calculus studies and you want to enjoy it rather than suffer, this is the course for you. +it was tooo helpful for understanding calculus. +very nice and easily accessible +Jim Fowler, PhD (the Lector) is awesome! +interesting and useful +Thank you so much for providing students with Calculus course. +The content of this course is fantastic, if you read the textbook with it. It would be 5 stars, but there are a number of glitches in the quizzes and exams. Information about the textbook and quiz issues can be found in the first post on the discussion board. +he is the best calculus teacher I have ever meet +simply amazing to refresh my 12th standard and masters concepts of calculus pratically +I enjoyed this class very much. I found the material lucid and well presented. I enjoyed interacting with the other students and mentors in the discussion forum. +Nice teacher, nice subject! +Awsom +Excellent course and very motivating teacher. I think more real life examples could be used, especialy in quizzes. Very compelling for begginers! +Not only does Jim Fowler teach new skills and knowledge he encourages students to think mathematically. But above it all, he enables learners to look at the familiar through new eyes. +It´s great. I´m learning so much about of the Calculus. Thanks fot it. +great course, its been almost 20 years since i took calculus, now iam refreshening everything for the FE Exam, and this course has been awesome!!!! thanks +Jim Fowler is pretty awesome prof. He teaches the course in pretty easy and exciting way. +That's great and fun class, it's worth to learn. +Dr Fowler is very enthusiastic, which is one of the most notable and best things about this course. Although some reviews complain that he over-explains things, I personally found this really helpful - you are taught not just how to do the calculations, but how they work fundamentally, which for me is a pretty important thing if I am to fully understand. The course is slightly above my level in some aspects, but I managed to pass with 100%, which I am very proud of! I'd say some basic knowledge of Calculus helps, but even if you are only just learning, I'd say this is set out in such a way that one could pick it up alright from this course. Only complaint is the sometimes glitchy quizzes, although the forums often say if there are any and how to get around them.Overall, I do recommend this course! +This class has taught me so much, just keep coming back to it because once I think I've figured something out I realize I didn't learn something else properly. I hope this class remains online and open all the time, it is very helpful to me because I was never really good at math in high school and I have decided to return to college after 10 years and I wish to earn a degree with a concentration and math because now that time has past ive lived a little and Im older I do see how advanced math is used in everyday life and I want to have a part in that. Thank you again for this class! +This is truly a brilliant and amazing course. It is as fun the 10th time through as the first. I never tire of it! Seriously! It is about more than calculus. It is about mathematical thinking. +I'm taking this course as a refresher, and the prof is simply brilliant! Thanks for not making this a monotonous course. This is the teaching style we must adopt if we are to improve the way people learn more complicated subjects.Evolution of learning:Make it fun.Make it applicable.Eventually all these courses will be interactive and on tablets, but until then, let's teach courses like Jim. +Wonderful opportunity to get to know calculus before I take it for credit at an engineering university. +amazing,good illustrations, good examples: ) +Incredibly Great! +Jim Fowler explains the complex concepts of calculus with impeccable clarity, resorting to analogies and graphs to help students grok the gist of each subject, rather than just memorising arid demonstrations (which the course also has, to a reasonable extent) or accept things just because. And on top of that, he's a lot of fun to listen to! +Very good course! the teacher is very enthusiastic and his english is easy to understand, even for persons whose english is not their mother tongue. +Jim Fowler has the ability to visualize complex concepts, make them easier to comprehend.He really made this course interesting. I'm very glad I took this course - it refreshes my memory also shows me learning is really fun. +Great Teachers, great content +A fun filled yet insightful course with great illustrations. You'll love calculus by the time you are done with this! Amazing prof! +I really love this professor! From his teaching, I can see that math is his love and he devotes a lot to calculus! It's much better than that in my university, I must admit it. +I took this class to catch back up before I resumed my degree. I have never been taught this class this way and I have studied under some fantastic professors before. This is hands down the best way to be taught this course. +Really frustrating method of teaching. Class is incredibly slow and does way, way too much simple addition, subtraction, and multiplication to prove extremely basic points for a calculus course. +This course is superb. Dr. Fowler does an excellent job of explaining both calculus concepts and the "why" behind them all. If you want to truly understand calculus, and not just be able to do the calculations, then this I highly recommend this course. +Very passionate professor! Excellent course. +Very nice course, with a very nice teacher, I took this course twice. +Excellent course for anyone who is looking to learn basics of calculus. +This course is full of fun and joy! +Great course! Everything is explained extremely clearly. The only 'missing star' here is that some of the final quizzes reject the correct answer due to a technical issue. +The professor spends LOTS of time doing really, really simple work -- over-explaining things, to be honest, in such a way that makes them more confusing. Then he does not explain much more complex issues throughout the course. Very frustrating, even as someone who has taken calculus before and is just taking this as a "refresher." +I have officially hit the halfway point of the course and am three weeks ahead of schedule. The last time I took a Calculus class was 17 years ago, during my Senior year of high school. It was the first time I ever got a B in Math, and ruined my love for the subject. Since then, I had all but abandoned my love for the subject because I thought I had a learning deficiency for Calculus. It turns out that my teacher was just sub-par, or leagues below Dr. Fowler. As someone who is strong with numbers, he is the perfect professor to bring out the conceptual learning student in me. The most impressive thing though is how he has delivered rules to me in an almost photographic format. After each lesson, which are all theoretical then provide graphical and numericalnexamples,I do one practice problem with what I absorbed and check the answer. It is normally incorrect, but after reading the correct answer and explanation I fly through the next five. Although I am sure that not having closed book graded quizes and more practice problems may subtract from his classroom course a bit, this is an amazing confidence booster and has propelled me nback on track! +I really liked this course. Prof Jim Fowler explains the subject very well and his style made me really enthusiastic about maths. I am looking forward to starting Calculus Two. Thank you +This course is brilliant.The lectures are full of information, but they're also funny, engaging and always enjoyable. And there are loads of them (25 hrs?), so this feels like quite a thorough introduction to calculus.Some of the exercises are pretty tough for a newcomer like me, but the answers are always thoroughly explained. The lack of a hard time limit is very welcome because it gives you time to take in new ideas at your own pace, without rushing you through assignments or tests.What's more, it's all free. Hats off! +I really love how the instructor motivates his class and makes everything easy to understand. +Solid course, I had some prior knowledge but still there were weeks that were new to me and that I didn't see before , teacher is doing its best to present material in fun way so I would recommend this course to refresh or get new knowledge in Calculus 1 area. +Loved this! The prof was very engaging and explained everything thoroughly, exactly the course I was looking for to learn Calculus! +I wanted the preview function on the quiz to be like "scratch paper". +The teacher teaches in a formal yet enjoyable manner. He is far better than any other teacher that I have ever seen, even in real life. He teaches with a balanced mix of enthusiasm and explanation. My only trouble during this course was being unable to log into mooculus.osu.edu. +It's a great course! I love MR. Fowler! He is so energetic :P And the concepts are presented in a realistic way ,easy to understand and easy to imagine.five stars :PI succeed in passing the course, I enjoyed it .Thanks to all the stuff involved !!! Best wishes. +Best instructor in the world. +The teacher is very knowledgable, charismatic, and communicates the curriculum extremely well. +Perfect for Calculus beginers. But the homework can be more harder, it's too easy. +it is very niice +the guy that speaks is so passionate about what hes teaching!!!which makes it interesting and not boring +Really thoughtful explanations of concepts that I have previously struggled with. Worth taking. +very good considering the amount of information conveyed in the short amount of time. A few of the tests were slightly glitchy in the acceptable range of correct answers (in terms of rounding answers) and would only accept things like 17*sqrt(15426) as the answer, even if an equivalent value down to the 6th decimal place was give instead. +These are perfect lessons !!! +I feel that this is a great course for all levels of calculus students- those who have just taken up a calc course in high school, those who want to review calculus for higher studies or even those who want to learn calculus because they find it an interesting subject and want to gain more understanding of it. The instructor has put in a good amount of effort to explain not just the topics themselves but also to build up some level of conceptual understanding and insight, without delving too much in depth and keeping his lectures jargon-free. This has ensured that all learners are on the same level and can reap the benifits of learning calculus. Another take away from the coruse is that learners come to appreciate that calculus is both interesting as well as useful, a total contrast to the popular perception that it is confusing, boring and can be learned only rote learning of forumlas. +This is a great course, eventhough can be improved by having more subcific information. +Great Course. Used it to review part of the math I had on University about 15 years ago. +Excellent courcse, aimed at understanding of concepts, not for cramming formulas in brain. +An excellent course and the best I have seen for calculus. It is very easy to understand and covers all topic and most importantly, it does so in a very short period of time. Thank you to the creator of this course. +It's Simply The BEST!! +It is the most hilarious course I have ever done online - and I mean the pleasure with learning. Not everyone can say the same about any maths course.Thank you for this wonderful course on Calculus. +The teacher Jim seems a very optimistic man. He is always happy. And the animation is just amazing, I never thought that the internet lesson could be so real and funny and successfully. Good luck. +Jim Fowler is the Janis Joplin of mathematics. He transforms math into a never ending source of happiness. +Fantastic teacher! +The content is good. Needs better maintenance. Certain bugs and assignment errors should be rectified. +Jim have a special thing, he make me feel that happyness when I practice calculus, awesome teacher and excelent course, it is the same in my college. Thank you very much Jim. My calculus final grade was 4.19/5 +The proof can be more precise and specific. +very good-course +the video lectures are clear and very well done +Taught very well; phenomenal teacher. +Great +It was too advanced for me +Jim's enthusiasm is contagious. +Great Teacher.Very simplified explanations on complex material. +the teacher is awesome +Good course, everything well explained ! +Great instructor, great lecture materials, best math class I've ever taken. +This course is great. This guy has a way of really breaking down the subject and making it very easy to understand the concepts. Thank you very much for creating this course. +Very well organised, and it makes easy to understand difficult calculus topics. +One of the best courses on Coursera. The material is presented in a very interesting way. You can get good skills in Calculus participating in this Course. +awesome professor and the classes are really helpful , thank you so much .please keep doing it , it means a lot to certain students like me who are actually facing difficulties understanding calculus . +Hey. It's really perfect !The great thing in thin course is the professor.He is really good.i'm in the first of Intermediate Level in English and it means my English is not good enough but simple teaching of this professor really good and Be very good in English is not a must for learning.Thank U All !I'm Ali from Iran. +This course is extremely interesting. I found (and understood thanks to the simple and concrete explanations) so many things about maths that I didn't know. Nevertheless this cannot prepare you to take an exam at university (it's unthinkable to learn all about Calculus One in 10-minutes-videos!), but it can surely help you fill lacks on your knowledge of mathematics and fix many doubts. The professor is without any doubt really knowledgeable, and he knows how to increase interest in the audience. I can also say that his English is easily comprehensible (considering I'm not native English-speaker).Thanks for this course! +Amazing Instructor !! Gives very good insights and relates the concepts holisticaly +I have never seen anybody who taught like Prof. Jim Fowler !!!!.Only he tells the "WHY" hidden behind every question.-Videos were FUN.-Practice Quizzes were making our understanding more clear about each topic.-End quizzes were extremely helpful.-Taking notes from his videos is "WORTH".THANK YOU +The course has rekindled my passion for math! +The teacher is so enthusiastic! This is a great course! +the best teacher ever +Cool stuff along with fascinating teaching. Teacher's energetic manner deeply absorbs learner.Thanks a lot cause of this in my view "masterpiece". +It helps me in all of my aspects in life and also makes me a more advanced and intelligent high schooler +Great Course +very clear explanation +Great course! Everything is broken up into manageable pieces and the assignments are challenging. I'm up to week six and am learning a lot. +Very fun way to mathematics.. +The best course i have ever seen!!! +The lecturer is a naturally gifted teacher with seemingly limitless passion and enthusiasm for the course material. Freely downloadable textbook is also of very high quality. This course is a cut above the rest and should be examined by anyone designing a MOOC. +Thanks +The professor is funny and clear. The examples are easy to understand. +The professor is great at explaining things and seems REALLY enthusiastic about teaching calculus. I would've never thought any maths course could be so fun and easy to understand, especially when I'm only an eighth grader!! +Excellent lecture videos and quizzes. Got a lot of help. +The teacher is Excellent. The materials used in teaching are very good.I liked the use of colors, the explanations in very details, and not skipping calculations. I liked the explanation behind everything, on how this is used in real life. I liked the enthusiasm of the teacher. He likes what he is doing and he loves Math.I think the limits subject should be taught in more details. I would liked it more if every theorem would have a proof. I think the use of epsilon/delta in practice was too little in this course, and should be expanded (it looks like this is a course for engineers rather than for mathematicians).The most painful problem in this course are the exercises, in 2 aspects.The first aspect: in many cases the exercises repeat themselves in a slightly different form - the diversity of of exercises should be expanded.The second aspect: exercises which require my typing have a lot of parsing issues, which are not clear, and are frustrating: example from integrals: the system would expect an answer like this one: (x)*(E^x) - E^x+C and would not accept a correct answer like this x*E^x - E^x+c. In this sense, I recommend using questions with multiple answers, and leave the open answers only for the cases where you need to type something where there are no parsing issues expected, such as typing numeric values.Thank you for this course.I liked it. +I am simply enjoying this. Thank you Dr. Fowler for those wonderful teachings. +I thought this was a well presented course with good coverage of the material. Only thing holding me back from giving it a five start rating is a few errors in the quizzes need to be fixed. +This course is great for Grade 5's like me +Easy, fascinating and very common course based on the simple explanation of the instructors. +never enjoied that much calculus +good lessons but i cant manage time to listen . but now i decided to be punctual. +straightforward and good pace with course material. this course really helps a lot in terms of preparations for more stats and calculus courses. +Fun & effective teaching! +This instructor explains very well.Thank you very much. +Great Course, Easy to learn and can be done at any pace. +Jim fowler is simply awesome!!!!!! +Thank you for this course, Sir! +Very passionate instructor. Has helped me with my personal math anxiety. +Fun and challenging! +It's awesome!!! +Good intro to calculus that is not heavy on theory +One of the best online and offline courses I have taken. Love the enthusiasm of the professor and focus on really understanding actual dynamics behind the formulas. +I have just started but it looking real interesting so far. +Great first year calculus course! +Great materials +Great, very good teacher, in fact superb teacher. Outstanding explanations, easy to follow, very dynamic. I would like have had a teacher like this when in college. Recommend 100%. +This was a very interesting course. I hadn't done any calculus for 40 years and it was wonderful to get back to it. I really enjoyed Jim's enthusiasm and the explanation of the fundamentals of calculus. . It would have been helpful to have the errors in the marking of quizzes corrected as they had been pointed out and acknowledged months ago. +Excellent. I really enjoyed the presenter. +I always wanted to revisit my university course of Calculus. This course was the best refreshment I could have. All the lessons were great: limits, derivatives, integrals...Special thanks to Jim Fowler for the passion he puts when explaining the lessons +The material is well presented and the instructors enthusiasm is really infectious. I did not finish calculus in college and this was a great way to revisit the material - and it is even presented so it makes sense! Very different from my first encounter with calculus. Thanks for producing the course!! +One of the well organized with best Teachers, best teaching methods, and easy to follow course. +The teacher is great! +This course helped me excel in Calculus I my first semester of college. Calculus is a very difficult course, but the combination of an actual calculus class and this online class through coursera made a world of difference. +lectures were really great +The teacher is greatThe course is funThe way I have to enter answers in quizes is boring, but doable. +comprehensive and fun! +Excellent analogies and people skills, overall, by the instructor. Excellent for visual minds. +Absolutely the best professor I have ever met. He is a god to me. +This is a very good course; it help to remind the knowlodges about the introduction at the Calculus I. +Funny and entertaining, besides rigorous. It givess an intuitive understanding of all the formulas and a clear big picture of what calculus is all about. +it's a great professor, +Jim Fowler is a great math professor! +Very interesting +Found what I missed in college life. +Great introduction to calculus. Very clear explanations and good pace. Thoroughly enjoyable! Thank you! +Great instructor! Very clear and specific. It helps me a lot on calc one. I recommend it to those who are learning AP calc BC if you really want to skip the calculus in college. I did not do well in AP tests, so I took calc one this semester and it really helps me a lot. +An excellent teacher and dynamics examples. Calculus becomes easier with this course! +Mr. Fowler has a very unique talent to explain complex things in a very simple way. I had A grades in mathematics through out school and university, but was never able to give such a practical definition of limits, derivatives and the rest of the foundational ideas. The best course on mathematics out there. +Great teachers, great explanations! Thank you! +I have never loved calculus as much, before. Fun, engaging and informative. Jim must be one of those teachers who can make any soporific topics fun. +It's one of the greatest and funniest math courses I've ever got! Thank you so much for providing this great courses on-line! +The classes are very didactic, however the professor sometimes meanders too much and doesn't get to the point. Also, some of the the quizzes have little or nothing to do with the video lessons. +Amazing teacher - must seen +This course is great. I have been in love with math since i was a child. But, I took an English Major at my campus. Though, it's been like forever since the last time i learned Math, I don't find it difficult to understand this course. +I'm missing mathematical proofs. +This teacher is great. Calculus was a problem for me. Now it's solving problems for me! +Superb course; it's helped me immensely in learning AP Calculus, and it's yet another reason for why Jim Fowler is such a highly acclaimed mathematician. +Exceptional technique of teaching. Keeps you gripped and interested in it. +really informative, with a great teacher who is clearly passionate about his field of work +Very useful!help me a lot +Wounder full, first time i deeply learn what is function, limit and the whole Calculus. i love it. +Amazing Professor +Excellent review of calculus!! +Energic lecturer. Love it! From how he teaches us, we can judge that he really loves calculus or maybe math in general is his passion. +Great course and great teacher. Makes calculus seem very easy! +This course is not good in giving lessons with examples that will help a with studying for the quizzes. +This character was made for MOOC - his passionate energy is contagious and finally provides the excitement and awe that is Calculus! +Superb! A very small but important thing that has grabbed my attention is the energy with which professor teaches. He tends to repeat very important concepts many times so as to make them permanent in the brains of students. 5+ stars. Keep it up. More than impressed. +It's a greet course. The teacher show he's breathtaking way to help us to understand about calculus +Great job，Great course +Great teacher, enthousiastic and energetic. Thanks very much +I absolutely LOVE this course. I've done calculus before and was taking this as a refresher course as I am planning to learn multivariable calculus. I feel like if Dr.Fowler taught the undergrad course in calc while I was in college, I would have enjoyed taking the class so much more. He explains concepts clearly, walks students through calculation steps thoroughly and, most importantly, is an enthusiastic lecturer. This is -- by far-- the best course I've ever taken on Coursera.com and I highly recommend it! +I THINK THAT CALCULUS NEW WORLD IM MY LIFE... +Extremely useful and as clear and explicit as possible. +Excellent course on calculus, Both the professors have done fabulous job. +great job done by The Ohio State University +Energetic teacher does a great job of explaining what he's doing. +impassioned professors! +This course is exceptional! Great Teacher! +Awesome class! Very interesting concepts of calculus were taught indeep by professor Jim. He was awesome too. In fact, it also help me with my cal class at my college. I love it. +very great course +The material is very well explained and the exercises at the end of each lesson are helpful for solidifying the understanding of each concept. +The teacher is so passionate it makes it easy to watch and learn :) +he is really can explain a profound theorie in simple language. +My brain hurts. +This course is the only reason that I am currently flourishing in my college mathematics courses with 4.0s, but even more importantly, enjoying it. Prior to this, mathematics had always evoked a feeling of distress, but I now marvel in its ability to make us less intimidated by the universe's complexity and vastness, although it certainly does not answer every question. I almost feel guilty learning all of the things which took the whole human civilization thousands and thousands of years to contrive, and am humbled by the geniuses who had discovered all of the finite crucial mathematical theorems which ultimately gave way to an infinite amount of physical discoveries and insight, explaining "the complex visible by some simple invisible", as Jean Perrin once said. +I am taking this course together with my graduation calculus course, and this is pretty much better than all my classes, so far.Very good. +It's easy to understand. +Amazing course very helpful on my first semester! Thank you very much!!! +Amazing course! Many thanks for all the effort that has been put into making this. I have loved taking this course and am looking forward to taking calculus two! +Loving it so far +Great thank to Jim Fowler and the rest disagners of this course for outstanding course! 1 this course discovered calculus better than a year of Calculus in my university (allthough it wasn't mathematition university, topics was same as on the course). +Great Teacher with clear examples and presentations ! +That's great! +The instructor has a communicative enthusiasm ! +i love the teacher, his way of teaching, also, hes very energetic, dynamic and passionate. +Great course. Nice lectures, well organized and challenging exercises. +Best Calculus cousrce I've ever been +I cant wait to start +Professor Jim Fowler is amazing: great scientist with 'this' sense of humor that inspires me to study math more,more, more... +Five stars, even though there were some errors in the quizes and inconsistencies of parsing E/e. But that's a minor issue when you have such an amazing lectures in the course. I've praised Jim for Calculus Two and I praise him again for this course. Superb instructor, the best I've seen thus far after working on tens of Math/CS MOOCs. I wish there were more courses from him, a really gifted teacher and amazing mathematician. +The teacher is great and the course is even better. +One of the best Mathematics course that I have seen. Prof. Jim Fowler is awesome. +Jim Fowler is a passionate teacher. Fortunate to learn from him. +I am in the course currently. Very nicely done with a most enthusiastic instructor. +The best math course ever! Finally, I find out all my issues which I wanted to know. +good.explains the lessons so simply and with a lot of examples so we can learn better. +I love this course! +I did calculus in my final year of school, and a couple of years later I've realised I'm actually going to need this calculus. This course not only got me back to the level l was at when I finished school, but it gave me a much better understanding of the fundamental concepts and processes behind everything I had once upon a time learned, which gave me a much better understanding. +A very funn course, for the way the professor brings the material, without turning the subject a havy stuff, as it usaually turns out to be with mathematics. +The professor is very easy to follow and makes a subject that is constantly deemed as dry much more interesting. I can't wait to learn more. +This course is just amazing! But it could have been a little short! +almost finish the 2nd week ! already fall in love with calculus One, refreshes my calculus mind :) +The way Prof. Fowler explained the concepts and the energy he put in teaching is commendable.I got confident in calculus I after learning this course. +Has a bit too many errors in the questions, and there's no proper introduction to new signs. +Brilliant work you got there........................Keep doing what you are doing i.e.,exploring........... +The course is just awesome. What makes this course so good is the enthusiasm with which professor Jim teaches this course. Brilliant! !! +Such a nice class.However, it does not cover some subjects in ap calculus bc +Very well taught course with lots of hands on work. +Very well structured! +The instructor is awesome - think if Bill Nye and Bob Ross got together to teach calculus. Loved it. +he is cute～ +The teacher is very energetic and good speaker. I can see that he worked a lot for this course. Videos have very good details(graphical effects, prepared papers for lesson). He teaches very clearly, i am understanding all the subject despite i am bad at English. +Prof Fowler has a really effective and engaging method of presenting the course in an accessible manner. The visual aids are used to good effect to illustrate each topic, whilst the module tests really help to cement the knowledge, occasionally boosted by being able to re-watch the relevant lecture should there be any sticking points. +Outstanding.The instructor has a _great_ and rare skill: He is able to make calculus easier, interesting and fun. It's a pleasure to watch these lessons and listen to the instructor.I had other calculus classes in past (now I want to refresh my knowledge) and they leaded me to consider calculus boring, not so interesting, and sometime difficult. This course convinced me that I was _completely_ wrong! Now I'm looking forward to watch the next lesson!So far, I really have to recommend this course to everyone. Don't miss it! +Great course content. Great professor. What more could you ask for? +It was a great opportunity. Thank you very much +This course is simply AWESOME. Prof. Fowler's explanations are great, but probably you know it won't do its job unless you really dedicate some effort on your own.Calculus is a pretty complex and intimidating subject but not an impossible one. Do as many exercises as you can. Play with it and keep your enthusiasm like Prof. Fowler. Understanding will be your reward. +Fantastic work, thank you! +awesome teaching !! +I am studying engineering and I wanted to study calculus before I had this discipline in the college. It is helping me a lot so far. +This is actually good. the tutor is very fun and it makes me feel clearly about calculus. But, it will be more excellent if this course give a short quiz for each topic in end of the section. And for the final test, can this course give more test? I mean like more question in number or kind of test. +Really good course materials and really effective explanations on topics relative to Caculus. However may not be very effective for people who haven't yet graduated from high school mathematics. +Great way to introduce Calculus to everyone! +It's an really amazing course. The teacher made every formular a lot more easier to understand. :) Thanks Tim! +The lecturer was really great and was able to explain things enthusiastically and simply. Unfortunately I feel the level of the course is too low. I think the basis of calculus has to come from rigorous definitions of the concepts involved and firm understanding of the proofs. Hopefully I will get some of that in your Calculus Two course. +There were and still are some typos in tests. +got the job done +Thank you Jim. You finally helped me understand the applications behind calculus and you did it in a fun way. Hope to see more courses from you on Coursera! +this is awesome course. +The instructor is great that make me to enjoy the Math. I never think Math can be so fun. Thanks so much. +The explanations are direct, simple and exact! The exercises are the reflection of the classes! The teacher is espectacular! Congrats to the team! +I'm loving the course so far! I'm only in week 2 though, so I'll let you know in week 7 or 8 if I can +Excellent!Read the book with the lectures.Inspirational. Thought provoking. Informative. Challenging.Enjoy :)Jeremy K +There're some errors in subtitle, around the Integrals Weeks +It was a really fun course; I have started to understand how the power rule, etc can be used to differentiate functions and also learning new methods to integrate (Riemann Sum) and differentiate! Sadly, I wish there were extra questions that you could attempt to consolidate your knowledge! +easy，but very interesting！！ +this course is very communicative and inspirative +it is 'the' course for foundation of Calculus! +The course is very well presented and the lecturer's explanation is very clear.Thanks to this course, and the lecturer's enthusiam and passion, I have gain a good appreciation of the subject. +Awesome. I have enjoy very much this course. +Covers all the information needed for a basic calculus course. All the videos were understood and it encourages the student to learn and keep learning while enjoying it. One of the best courses I've taken so far. +With it Calculus is easy! Could have more creative homework though... +I recommend you this course. This course is very nice.Lectures are very easy to understand even if you are first time of calculus.But I think the questions are too little to exercise enough.Anyway thanks for the instructor. He's very nice and passionate guy. +Some of the contents just seem overly complex, especially the videos. If they would do a few problems similar to those in the quizzes, it would be much more better. +Awesome tutorial. +Not only the contents but also how it is presented. Jim Fowler, PhD, presents the content of this course with so much enthousiasm. A very nice example of how teaching calculus, mathematics or any course/module at any educational institution should be done. +Really good explanation.Great teacher +Pretty neat course for filling in gaps left by your education system in teaching you, probably the most important of all mathematical concepts, CALCULUS. J. Fowler does a great job of explaining things clearly and is pretty neat, overall. Highly recommended! +Perfect! +The teacher is just awesome! I love this! Thanks alot for making this available for everyone for free! I really appreciate it! +This is an awesome course +The best course so far +Very clear explanations. Funny content. And the most important:Challenging! +best math class ever +Awesome, in depth, just the quizzes seem a bit difficult to comprehend. +The professor is awesome and explains everything very clearly. I think I can even fall in love with math after this course :) +Thanks so much, teacher!!!!You are the BEST!!!!! +Top notch . +Learning is intelligent and differente. Good work teacher. +Wow! It's just AWESOME :) +Very well explained and easy to understand. Some concepts that I missed in college got cleared.... +Excellent course, far better than any I have encountered previously. The course takes time, but Jim Fowler shows step by step how the derivation and integration fit together in one whole: calculus. Relevant theorems and proofs are highlighted clearly. +I wanted to go back a relearn some calculus long ago. I can't say enough good about this course. I love the professor's passion for his subject - always a mark of a great teacher. He breaks big subjects into small pieces for easy ingestion. +I have always loved math and I always will, but I enjoy this class because at times when I doubt my love of math, this class somehow reassures me. +The course will make you love mathematics! +Extremely enthusiastic teacher with an intense passion for what he teaches. Makes calculus interesting and more than palatable. +I came here curious about the chain rule (in connection with computing gradients for neural networks back-propagation) and to brush up calculus so I could help my high schooler kid. I ended up relearning lots of old skills as well as some techniques that I didn't remember (or didn't learn well enough back in high school). Prof Fowler is very engaging and a great teacher. I found his attempts to prove the same idea from multiple viewpoints very interesting. The self-paced setup of the course is also quite helpful, and the mandatory exercises at the end of each section help to reinforce the material. So great course and a great implementation! +This course is very impressive to me. I get many experiences in answering the questions. Thanks +Pretty great, must say. The teacher is enthusiastic and quirky while knowledgeable and learnt. +Great teacher, good material. It's awesome for those who want to become familiar with calculus. +Many thanks to Jim Fowler for the excellent course! +Perfect way to remind university Calculus program. +It is a good course, but the quiz/exercises are very difficult, and sometimes, unrelated to the topics +This course is great! Deep and very clear! +The professor is very motivated, teaches very well, uses different (including visual) ways to explain the content.The course is very detailed, but does not goes fast. So this is easy to get it done. +The course is really good, because the teacher is great, but there are some errors in subtitles, and even in some exercises. +Easy to understand and the teacher is cool +I already took Calculus 1 before and now tutor in it - and this course makes me feel like I'm seeing things in a new light. Jim Fowler is amazing! +Professor Fowler is a wonderful teacher. I am very glad I signed up for this course on Coursera. +Exceptional and Unique Style of Teaching! +Brilliant professor, brilliant course! +Love the instructor. You won't find a college Calc 1 class with a more engaging prof. +Great Professor. Made the subject simple, like adding two numbers. +This course was helpful for me. I learned some basic things. Thanks Sir. :) +Finally I can understand calculus. +Awesome course! +It's a great course with an amazing teacher. +Thank you ,i have learned a lot from this course, and this teacher is my favourate teacher. +Best way to learn basic univariable calculus there is. Jim Fowler explains everything incredibly clearly showing all the proofs, the intuitive evidence needed. This course is how I went from a maths-idiot to a maths genius in a couple short months. +awesome tutor!! +Great course, loving the energy so far! +Jim Fowler is a wonderfull teacher and this course explain theorem not like school does. An awesome way to learn and to remember what you've learned. His motivation and dynamism is contagious ! I think the message is "Use your god damn intuition !".Thanks a lot. +There is some good material in this course. The text is fairly good. But I have two main reservations about the course. The first is that the lectures do not always correspond closely enough with the quizzes, and with the text. There are times when one can take a quiz and think, "How exactly does this relate to the lectures I just saw?" The text has quite a few exercises, but there is a tendency to throw in one or two problems whose difficulty is an order of magnitude above everything else in that section, and I find this discouraging and a waste of time. Save those for a later course, or put them into a separate "Extra Challenges" section. Learning calculus is hard enough without trying to grapple without some really tricky trig problem at the same time. as a single example.The second reservation is with the instructor's manner. Many students find it very enjoyable. I am not one of them. Much of the time, he's OK, especially when the camera is not pointed at him. But as the course progresses, much of the footage is of him at his desk, and the closeups become more and more extreme, the hand-waving and fist-clenching approach sheer windmilling, and the exaggerated eye-rolling, grinning and so forth become so distracting that I can't bear to watch. I realize that the goal was to avoid being a dry-as-dust droning professor, and that is commendable, but there is a happy middle ground between that and hamming. I can almost speculate that there was an impulse to add in cartoon sproing-bonk-cuckoo-klaxon sound effects. (There is actually one such sound effect, but just one, so I won't quibble on that.)I would have found the class more effective with a demeanor that was enthusiastic without being histrionic. I'm sure this is one of those "you either love it or hate it" things, and I may be in the minority.The instructor is not generally one to throw out some concept that has not already been learned and then just motor on without explanation. He errs on the side of overly-detailed explanation, which to me is preferable to skipping over subjects or techniques and assuming you know them.Having said all of this, I repeat that there is good material, and you can learn the fundamentals of calculus for free in this course. +A course that changed my life and my attitude to mathematics. +Till now this is the best explanation i've come accross for the limits and functions +This is an online course that is designed as an online course. It is not just a recorded classroom lecture. It is an excellent math course, and an excellent example of developing and experimenting with new means of teaching and communication. One of the best MOOCs out there. +Great content, thanks. +Did not go over determining a point on a graph of g from two functions but had it on the first quiz +Was able to reach our imagination. Great transmission skills. +Love the way Jim teaches. It's easy to understand and grasp the big picture of calculus! I love it! +A great refresher to the calculus from high school, and then some. +A very useful course.Although I studied calculus before , this course was a good revision and helpful in gaining insight. This course is not only about applying formulas, but also understanding them.Recommended for anyone who wants to start studying calculus. +Very impressive, comprehensible and exhaustive course! Thanks a lot for a possibility to review and study such an important part of math. Indeed, very interesting. +The instructor is phenomenal - the material is clear, engaging and even entertaining. I am having a blast, ergo I am learning.Thanks a lot! +Excellent Course. Good professor and good exercisses. Good job, Professor. +It maybe early to say since I am just mid way week 1 but so far it has been great. Thank You Coursera +Love it. Very in depth and detailed. One of the best for college students I've found. Others go randomly from one topic to the next without showing any real, necessary application. +the professor is amazing. +excellent material delivered in a simple way +Thank you professor Jim Fowler! You make Calculus seems easy as pie. +superb course especially for beginners..... +Entertaining, maths the fun way. +I thought the professor was really great about explaining things in a clear, concise manner. I think some of the quiz problems were more complicated than they needed to be, especially considering that typing in a long string you're very likely to have a typo which results in missing a question you knew how to do. +so much use full for everyone. +A great course :) +Brilliant! Best course and first of all best teacher ever! Thank you for what I learned and how easy and interesting that was! +Excellent videos! The course is well-paced and thorough. Explanations and example problems are worked out in detail. This is one of the best on-line course presentations I have seen--and I have taken many online courses and MOOCs for both degree and non-degree study. +incredible :) It makes me feel the amazement of Calculus +I haven't finished all of the material yet, but this is a fantastic course. Needed a refresher on single variable and managed to learn a couple of things I missed in high school. +Perfection it’s not a “real” thing, it’s an “idea”. Perhaps, it’s just like a “Limit”. This Calculus Course is not “perfect”, but can leave you as close to that limit as you want to be. +Like the way you teach so much! :) thank you and waiting for your new courses! +Fun learning and the course is set up so you actually learn the concepts and not just how to regurgitate information. +interestingusefulthanks +Good teacher +I lost all my love of math while in college. This helped me take up interest in math again. I'm also using the material in this course to prepare for a masters in Mathematics. +Awesome teaching style. I must say, "This course saves me in mathematics" or "Re-inducts passion of mathematic" +Great explanations by the course guide. +Perfect Class +This teacher is awesome :) +The instructor has a unique way of presenting calculus that simultaneously makes it both interesting and clear. The only part of the class that was very frustrating is figuring out how to input answers to get them acceptable to the computer grader. +really easy to understand. :) +Ones of the best the professor is just amazing!!! +So far the professor is the most engaging math professor I have ever had. Very easy to follow the examples. +One of the best courses I've completed on Coursera. +interesting and comprehensible, very enthusiastic teacher! +This is the course that I'm taking for right now before closing time for math assignments for me. I know Calculus is a large subject with all new topics dividing into modules. The Calculus 1 will be included functions, limits, infinities, derivatives, and area and integrals. I will just do my best as I can in order to try Calculus; it's going to be tough for me to listen. There's a lot of stuffs going on in Calculus. +thanks , good challenge +The teacher is so cute!!! And this course is really insteresting and useful. +I like this course full of details.Thanks :) +The instructor is phenomenal. He really knows how to demonstrate the concepts well. +Jim Fowler is a fantastic explainer +Nothing is making sense. None of the videos are related to the quiz. None of the examples are remotely related to the quiz to even give you a suggestion on how to solve them. +A fun way to get reintroduced to what once was boring calculus. +looking forward your calculus 2 :) +Very good course. The lecturer was amazing!!!! The best Math lecturer +Awesome instructor, visualization, concepts and materials!!! +Amazing course and wonderful teacher! I wish I had done this course before I entered university. Greeetings from Belarus! Thanks a lot! +The Doctor speaks so funny!Look at his eyes!!HahahahahahaLoL!! +I Loovvveee This Class :) +too easy,not fit me +I Love it, the instructor is amazing. He explains everything so clearly, i dont even need the subtittles, who needs subtittles. +I love the instructors enthusiasm. Its extremely motivating! +Professor has AMAZING energy...just a solid class and perfect if you need a refresher. +This is a beautiful course about Calculus. +Course is really cool, though, there is some as for forms of Answers, e^x or E^x for instance, if fixed, it would get 5 stars +This course is amazing! I used it to study Calculus, all the videos are self-explanatory and the excersizes are a fun way of checking what one has learnt. One should have a working understanding of algebra though. +A total waste of time -- not challenging at all in any aspect. It was quite funny that many word problems were identical with only some parameters changing :) Buckeyes... please, try harder next time :) +It is a complete course, with visualization and with silent demonstrations accompanying explanations. I like very much the videos and the exercises. +This course requires really hard work, although it is worth taking and doing. The instructor is very enthusiastic, which makes me love engaging with this course. +Your teaching skills are brilliant. I really satisfied from materials and undoubtedly I try to get every course who you are teacher. +Inspiring lecturer! +It's a funny and fascinating course +The dynamics of the lectures, coupled with Jim's humour and his capacity of explain concepts in a simple way, makes the Excellence of this course. Hopefully we can continue through Calculus 2, 3 and 4. +Nice Explanations by the Instructors. +Excellent course and brilliant teacher! The best way to learn calculus basics for non mathematicians. +Fantastic teacher who teaches concepts simply and with passion. +Excellent Course. Jim Fowler is fantastic tutor.... +i like this kind of class, it makes Calculus attractive charmin +Great course! The professor puts a lot of passion in the lectures. Strongly suggested for anyone interested in calculus. I just hope that some little errors in the tests will be corrected. +Excellent!Extremely recommended to all interested in learning calculus.The teacher and the teaching tools are great. +It's a great course. Some of the points touched go beyond just the theory and are made so profoundly by the professor that you start looking at few concepts in a different light. +Lively, and more practial +this course is very good for understanding Calculusif you don't believe just give it a try! +This course is awesome... Simply enjoying the enthusiasm of dr. Jim Fowler.... Thank you... +Some parts of the course were either not well explained or too rudimentary in relation to the quizzes. +I like this course, the professor has explained problems clearly and orderly! I like the way he teaches. Many thanks! +Very good course to brush up Calculus +Brilliant course! Easy to follow, well-constructed - Jim is thorough and clear in explaining quite complex material. Even if you are new to calculus I would recommend this course. I'm doing his second one now whcih is even better. +Excellent lectures, and funny, too! I enjoyed this course. There is some problem with some quiz answers that should be fixed. +Excellent Course. Recommend all mathematics lovers to take this course. Prof Jim Fowler is absolutely amazing. Thank you Jim and Coursera for putting together this amazing learning experience. +would be 5 star if it gave certificates +Started with almost zero in Calculus and deeply immersed with professor's passion in math +The class is great and novel.And Mr.Fowler is very funny.I like the class very much. +Prof Fowler is the most engaging math teacher of all time! +Dr.Fowler is my best math teacher ever! +Great introductory course! +Lot of typos and glitches, as well as typing in equations being really difficult +Perfect! +best course i ever had .professor was just perfect nothing could be pleasing than seeing his overly happy face.good luck sir !! we all student really appreciate for your efforts . +get new material - new videos these videos for all your classes are years old - the quizes dont relate to the material taught and it seems you guys got this set up years ago and just forgot about it +The perfect companion for learning calculus! +Great course, although at times I had problems with figuring out how to enter my solution into the answer box. +The explanation of each topic is awesome.I used to find calculus to much to remember. After signing up for this course, I keep coming back to learn more :)Very nicely explained each topic +This course is very awesome. Professor's unconventional way of explaining the concepts really helped me learn some of the tough concepts. I really enjoyed Calculus for the first time :) +Excellent teaching methodology ! I really like the enthusiasm of the instructor Dr. Jim Fowler.Although I had prior experience with calculus, this course has helped clear some of the basics and made me look at Calculus from a totally different perspective.Thanks to Coursera & The OSU for developing this exciting course ! I highly recommend it . +I think this is really best course on courseera, teacher is just amazing, he is explaining very clearly and with good humor +Very passionate professor, +This course has been a great source to revise and learn calculus. The textbook and the course quizzes have added great value to the course. Thanks to Dr. Fowler and his team for providing a very good course. It would be great if they could come back with a course for multi-variable calculus. +That was awesome! This course was exactly what I needed, It gives me insight into Calculus. I love the effort instructor puts in and his creativity to explain terms. I am gonna take Second part of the course too. Peace +It's a very good course. +Every concept is taught excellently by providing examples. Just loved it!! +The best math course online. The format is great, and professor Fowler is a terrific teacher. +I enjoyed it. Jim Fowler does well, his enthusiasm and the time and effort he (and whatever filming and editing team he has) have put into the presentation is impressive. Difficult for me to rate it as a maths course - how would I know whether it covers what it needs and have anything meaningful to stay about the standard of it. I felt I understood what was going on, I passed the quizzes. Maybe that's all good?Occasional bug in the quizes - nothing you can't work around (eg totally blank question but four answers to choose from.) The mathematical symbol rendering doesn't work on the mobile app at all. +The course assumes no prior knowledge of calculus. The video lectures and explanations provided by Professor Jim Fowler on all of the topics in the course are excellent. There is quite a lot of work in the course overall, and it does require some perseverance to get through it. However, it does allow you to work at your own pace which is a welcome feature for a beginning learner in calculus. As well as providing a thorough explanation of the usual processes involved in differentiation and integration, the course shows many techniques that are not well explained in text books. From a personal perspective, the course took me about 6 months to complete and I learnt a lot by doing it. Many thanks to Professor Fowler for his teaching and insights into calculus. +It's fun +Clear and fun. +It is unarguably among the most amazing courses with a great instructor. I took this course to brush up on Calculus and I think it delivered way more than my expectations. +This course is amazing, I really learned a lot about calculus. Teacher is great! +Fowler is the man Keep on! Wonderful! +it's great and i knew what is calculus rather than doing thousands of problems i do frequently +awesome teacher! +Fun refresher for someone that took Calculus 30 years ago. Great lectures and examples. Quiz answers don't always use the proper "upper case E" for e correctly, so be prepared to be marked down for correct answers sometimes (but you can "correct" your answers on retake). It would be great to get this fixed! +Excellent course. Jim Fowler is a wizard! +The instructor is awesome. One of the best in coursera... +Amazing Calculus course, helped me a lot. +The instructional videos were very helpful. I've learned a lot from this course! +C +Really challenging. Great course!! +This course is an excellent brain exercise. +My least favorite course in the specialization. The lectures are harder to follow, and are actually all about bioinformatics algorithms, which wasn't clear from the course description. Thankfully, as with the graphs course, Michael Levin wades in to save the day for the last couple of weeks. His lectures are really well structured, intuitive and clear. +Another great course! I am a little sad since it was only 4 weeks long when the rest were about 5 weeks each. I feel like there may have been another topic (regular expressions?) that could have been covered but these are still great and now I see how we can do string matching in things like text editors and do them in O(n) time. Wonderful series, I've certainly grown a lot in just these past 4 online courses, keep up the great work! My advice to people taking these courses, be prepared to put time and really think about what you're doing. Try applying the things here to things you see in real life and you'll find they have much more relevance. Cheers and good luck! +I think last week was too complex and not that exciting. +Good contents, but lectures could be improved for clarity. +The excercises should be set up to be more comfortable. +Some tasks was hard to understand and solve, but it in general it was good. +The course contents we useful and easy to learn for the most part. The assignments and spot quizzes helped a lot to understand the string algorithms. I appreciate all the effort the instructors put to create the course materials.Few things to improve:1) Some of videos in week3 and 4 were hard to understand due to English speaking skills. I found a lot of grammar mistakes in the subtitles and the interactive transcripts.2) Please consider adding more contents like Boyer Moore algorithm, regular expression and etc. +Initially the accent was a little bit hard to understand, but after few minutes everything become crystal clear. Extremely useful course content. +I really enjoyed this course +I would recommend this part to anyone who wants to learn string algorithms. Thanks for the course! +Very focused on bioinformatics problems. +I have only one feedback: the relation between subsequent weeks are not clear. It feels like I am learning one technique in week 3, and then another in week 4, but why is the technique in week 4 necessary? What are the differences in terms of functionality, between the various techniques? I think these points are not explained quite clearly.Great course though, thank you very much! +Quite an interesting and well-organised course, giving a detailed overview of the pattern matching problem and solutions for it (on the other hand, if you are expecting to see a wide variety of string problems, the course title is misleading).Assignments and quizes are also likeable (although the pseudocodes in the slides and the code skeletons for the solutions contain quite a number of mistakes). +It would be nice if you could deliver the problem's solutions after the course ended. I ran out of ideas for the BetterBWMatching problem and i couldn't overcome the time issues. +This course is not precisely bad, but it's very lacking compared to the other courses in the specialization. Here are my complaints:-Much of the more interesting bits say "check out this other course in bioinformatics for details". Of course, if you aren't registered for that other course, you don't have access to those materials.-Not a lot of thought went into the homeworks. All of them are "implement this. Here is some pseudocode", with no "think about a problem that can be solved with the same ideas", like the other courses in the specialization (which are, in my opinion, much better).-We saw 4 algorithms for string matching (KMP, Rabin-Karp, suffix array matching, Burrow-Wheeler's transform), but virtually no discussion on when to use each one, strengths and weaknesses, and so on. Also, no Boyer-Moore?-After passing all test cases for a homework, we should be able to download a solution with the correct implementation, in order to improve our own. +too complex, and I don't think in the future work I will apply these. +Very difficult test programs +Very good course. I learned a lot. The most important part is the assignment. I have not watched all the videos, but checked it only when I am stuck at the programming assignment and the slides are not enough to understand. +The lecture was very abstract and difficult. I could pass the course somehow by writing the code presented in the lecture, but I must say I understand less than the half of the course contents.###Responding to question from the instructor, I clarify the comments above.I found the whole lecture difficult. This may be because the subject is not something I have even thought about. It was difficult to understand the difference and importance of key concepts such as trie, suffix, class, etc. Overall, I learned that the tricks somehow work, but my comprehension was not as deep as I can think about the extension or applications. I guess more examples or providing intuition would help me to digest the material. +This is an interesting and useful but a bit difficult course. +Excellent for working on string related problems in competetive coding as well as development profiles. +Still stuck at Problem 5 of Week 1, had to left this problem undone.Wondering if the mentors or professors can send those who completed the course the standard/reference solution/program via Email??? +Difficulty level increased a bit compared to first 3 courses, be prepared! +Course Content is good. Instructors are not that much active to give answers for the raised questions compared to earlier courses. +Great Course, assignment a little bit harder than previous courses in the specialization +Good course! +Excellent course, properly designed and well presented... +It's better to watch the Youtube videos to understand the concepts. +Nice introduction into string algorithms, even though Ukkonen's algorithm is missing and slides sometimes contain buggy pseudocode. +Really good quality information and examples (includes reasoning). It includes some of the latest developments in this area. +The lectures are a little bit confused +this course is awesome! +This course has wonderful algorithms +This class makes string algorithms a very interesting and enjoyable topic, and if you are interested in improving your algorithmic knowledge, I would highly suggest taking this course.The first algorithms you will learn are motivated by problems from Bioinformatics (genome sequencing), and new interesting problems arise and get solved on the way.All the material is very well explained so you can really understand why it works and not only how (there are even some very enjoyable proofs here)! The programming assignments (there are a lot of them) give you a hands-on experience implementing the different algorithms. This greatly improves the understanding and is therefore a crucial aspect of this class. +GOD BLESS! AMAZING COURSE! THANK YOU! +you have to let us know in the beginning of the course, that we have to pay for finish the course!!! +Test errors, no answers from staff on forums, poor narration at times, audio scripts that do not quite correspond to what is being said... It needs careful reviewing and more user-friendly features being introduced by the organisers. +is an interesting cours.... +Loved the course. Learned a lot. Totally worth it. +A great class, a great professor +First to congratulate the teacher, who impresses the class with a unique dynamism and uses tools so that history to be narrated so brilliantly, enters the body and is impregnated every neuron about information, which becomes a part of your life , Since that structure becomes a film that is narrating a history as a whole, that of Rome and that of the Jewish people. +Very disappointing course. Far too much repetition. A lot of opinion based on scant evidence. It would have been much better as a 30 minute video without all the fluff and unsubstantiated inferences. I would not recommend this course. +I think, I can understand, the more and less of living rooted in a common history. The description of life with the elegies and sorrows can be seen in the panel of the Arch of Titus. The most important teaching is positivism in the face of difficult facts and the capacity of the human being to give a different meaning to adversities. +I rate this course as excellent. It was fascinating and I enjoyed the detailed study. I also enjoyed the beautiful filming of the various locations and especially the Arch of Titus itself +I didn't really feel that there was enough material here to make a six-week course, so that there was a great deal of repetition, and very little context of the Roman period. +This wasn't quite what I expected. A lot of the "lectures" were very repetitive, which was annoying. However, I learned a lot and enjoyed the assignments. The Arch of Titus Project sounds really interesting and I'm looking forward to their next findings! +Historically the basic background have been discussed. Effort was to make it nationalistic and emotional.Significance of Menorah as a symbol is absolutely missing. All the emphasis was on the Arch but the Arch looses its very significance without the menorah. So this should be covered or shared properly. For example Questions like why 7 hands needs to be replied. Why 3 legs needs to be repliedWhy painting ? This learning was not supposed to be in it. Someone might or might not like painting as a concept to learn and the course title also gave no indication towards that.. Wrong to make it a mandatory part as an assignment. +Interesting and inciteful. Dr. Fine is an excellent instructor! Thank you, sir. I hope you will present more classes from Yeshiva University! +I really enjoyed this course. It both further my reading and knowledge in some areas, while introducing new topics to me that I'd not yet encountered.My only problem was with the final assignment - it does not do justice to the topic of the final week, which is the issue of colour on ancient monuments (in particular the arch, of course) and the implications of colour on composition and on later perceptions of antiquity. The assignment itself did not give me an opportunity to really explore these issues. +The last assignment is a time-waster and really poorly designed. Not all adults are into coloring; this is not elementary school and what's the point of coloring a picture of the Arch for you? Frankly I can't be bothered to look up sources for the descriptions of Roman soldiers' attire, and especially to figure what each number is pointing to. It wasn't even always clear what the numbers on the template referred to and two of the numbers were missing. In addition, there were a lot of glitches with the grading software. Finally our questions were almost never answered. Otherwise I found this to be an interesting course and I learned quite a bit from it, although it could have been condensed into three or four classes at the very most. The video lectures were videotaped a bit strangely, with Professor Fine often seeming to talk to an invisible person on the right or the left of the camera, instead of at the viewer. The videos I liked were mostly the office hours ones and the one with the interview with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove at Park Avenue Synagogue. I could have gotten a very good grade on this course, but the last assignment ruined that. No, I will not be recommending this course or any others by this Professor. +Highly recommended for the would-be historian of Rome and ancient Judea. A course which challenges the common viewpoint of both Christians and Jews, with major implications for the reinterpretation of other artifacts surviving from the classical period. +It was a very interesting, insightful and enjoyable course. A lesson of history which I wasn't consider like that before. The passion of Pr. Steven Fine was obvious and strong. Thank you for the opportunity to learn from you. +great course +The best course i have come across on Coursera +Too many generalities and roundabouts and little real detail. +great course, well taught. +This course is badly structured, with proposed tasks not being well oriented, and videos where teachers are constantly doubting and making mistakes. Not really happy with it. +Enjoyed working through this course. Well structured and paced. +It's a compulsory course to apply for professional accountancy Msc of UOL. Short, smart course. +Excellent contents with lot of learning and enhancing professional exposure +So fresh... +A very powerful course, I would definitely recommend any of my colleagues to do, especially, the ACCA holders who like to take the current Masters in Professional Accountancy. +Quite interesting and very relevant as a good reminder of the fundamental concepts. +Really enjoyed the course. +This course is worth learning in order to be uptodate with new things in the business and standards. +Good for a general understanding of the mainstream theories relating to business strategy and corporate governance. +GOOD AND COMPREHENSIVE +Excellent resource for getting up to speed with some of the challenges that the accountancy profession is faced with. I do however feel that this course and the accountancy profession as a whole needs to the consider the repercussions of rapid technological advancement and how these would impact the profession as a whole. The Accountants of tomorrow will need to be able to delegate the mundance daily tasks associated with financial accounting and bookkeeping etc. and be able to think and act more like business people. The course should also look into this aspect. +Videos are too short +comprehensive yet a bit too easy +Top option for learning. +There are serious issues in the IT infrastructure for this Online Course. Coursera needs to upgrade their IT infrastructure for it to be real time. You may go through the threads in Help for more information and issues posted by other users.Apart from this, it is extremely difficult to communicate with someone in Coursera regarding anything and in any form, i.e email, live chat, etc. +Very useful course ! +Very relevant program and applicable to current economic, social and global iss +Great and interesting +Good refresh of managerial knowledge, especially if combined with my practical experience, thx +Very Informative +Indepth and challenging - brilliant +The course is well-developed to cover key issues that are brought about changes in the +Awesome course. I would definitely recommend it to any Finance professional wanting to keep abreast with the various changes in the profession. +Great course. Well structuredould highly recommend. +Very informative +best coaching provided by coursera and its also a effective way to study with coursera instead of going through books +Already doneThank you +it is a very good course to start in android +its my first day hope for the best +This course is recommend for beginner to learn on how to create their own apps. +Excellent course that introduces students to android app development through practical and comprehensive topics. Allowed me to build my first app and launch on Google Play Store. +really awesome +So helpful and interesting.Thank you Coursera and all the team members who make this course. +good course +Nice course, thank you! +I love my course, since I started Ive been learning a lot. Thank you coursera +I really liked the course! Good combination of videos, example apps and quizzes. +I enrolled for this course because of pure interest in android app development and didn't think I would complete it with my existing work schedule (happened to me on several earlier courses) BUT this course is made to be feasible for the busy/less motivated/slow (all apply to me). The material is well organized and sufficient for beginners. By the last date of the the course I DID complete all the lessons and assignments. It was a tremendous feeling and the credit goes to the course setup. The exemplar apps seem trivial during introduction of the course and you wonder if they are too simple for a wannabe app developer but as the course progresses its evident why you need to learn developing them. The instructors also explain alternate ways to achieve a result. The quizzes are challenging and drive you to know more on your own. Best 4 weeks spent on coursera. +Good course to understand the basics properly and then take it forward from there. +The first courses are great.Unfortunately, the course that covered the installation (week 2 - "create your first basic application with android studio") got me lost. +The design of the course structure is extremely useful for beginners. +I am very sorry to say that the course is very poor in english (speaking), too bad you do not teach the course in french this could be useful for a lots of french speaking students and better for the quality of the course. +Excellent course to get started on android app. +Great course but can have some improvments +I especially thank you for those great 9 blocks. They are really helpful to start. +i need android programming based course specially in xamrin / visual studio ........... i feel so much disappointment . +its a great course and i learned a lot during this course process and finally created a basic android app .I thought that there should be a tutorial of shared preferences in this course +The instructor's explanation is not orderly nor structured, and with a lot of 'noises'. +Best course to begin android development. +Very useful and well designed online course! +Great Course :) +Very fundamental, if they can talk about some UI design principle, that would be 5 stars. +I enjoy this course. But why enghish ? +I havent' built an app as of now but am likely to build in few days. +I appreciated the building blocks approach, and the highlight to importance on prototyping in week 1.Some skills in java are required. +great course to start with +I would recommend this course for the beginners +Really Great, PDF and apps are captured with snapshots and explained in sort and crisp with diagram as compare to just sentences. Good for start up of android app development. Thanks to author and content creator to bring interest on this course. I recommended to all my team members and they also started this course +Very informative and beginner friendly. Thanks! +Great course +It is most useful,interesting and important course the basics they are given are very good. +Build Your First Android App (Project-Centered Course) is a well organised course with good introductory material covering basics of the android development. I recommend this course to anyone who is new to Android development or anyone who wants to brush up their android development basics. You'll need to work through out this 5 week course. The course material is consolidated with Quizzes. By the end of the course you will know how to prototype, design and code an android application with the best practices in mind using a rubric. Instructors of this course are good too in terms of knowing their stuff and being able to convey and explain it in simple terms. +Mildly fast,well built and useful. +very good course +It´s a great course for beginners +Great course. It shows and explains the whole process of application development. From the idea, the sketch to execution. We will learn how to install the development environment, and how the application is running. After the course we are able to create an average of advanced applications with GUI and use ready-made functions of Android. I highly recommend and everything in five weeks (or less) !! +This is very helpful course for my project and hopefully for my job in future as well +I still do not know how to put the application that I created to my phone or make it available to other phones to download. +this course was good for every begginner who has no basic understanding about android.. it help me alot to learn the basic +Took the free version of this course to learn some basic building blocks of Android app dev and to dive back into programming, already having Java knowledge from long ago. For my purposes it was a good intro. For a totally new coder this might not be best as there isn't deep explanation of the code itself. But for the rest, it allows you to quickly dive in. +i was very excited at the beginning of the coursebut when i figure out that i must paid for unlock some important lecturei really felt disappointed i thought i should only paid if i want to took the Certificatei had been wasted some time at this coursenow i have to search for another course but complete one this time. +Really looking forward to this class. Getting a better understanding of JAVA mixed with creating a mobile app sounds awesome. +I think it's a great tester course with very good Blocks of code, and these blocks of code are not seen until week 4 and 5. Week 3 was a hands on km to miles, and miles to km app, good hands on. I explored the course, so I'd not do any of the exercises, but did the final assignment from what I suggested I will create in week two. I created a great app, but wasn't able to share it, so i'll put it on github. +Poor material, terrible french accent, not a good Android course at all.I don't raccoment it unless you're a total novice at Android development. +What a fantastic course.Thanks to the mentors.One can learn the basic designing of an android application from scratch using this course. +Good basic course hard to get lost but does require some follow through if things are unfamiliar +There are courses that offer better level of details and better course materials and presentation .. and also for free ..However this course is a best-effort course and is helpful for beginners. +Good overall but you should use better microphone, because sometimes it's hard to understand and improve your English. +Explanation of concept was poor +Very good class. Need to have some knowledge of Java ideally. +I very much enjoyed this course. It gave a great introduction to Android programming for those who don't know any android programming to start with. I recommend this course as a place to start. +The course if well-organized and the instructors do a very good job. However, three weeks of slides and theory and then only the last two weeks of seeing code hardly makes the course project-centered in my mind. Also, requiring learners to upgrade to run an autograder on a quiz is ridiculous! +Great! +easy learning,understanding.. +Nicely targeted for the programmer needing a jump start into Android while having a good base in Java. +The free version of the course is far more restricted than other courses I've taken, the content wasn't brilliant, and it wasn't really more advanced than other tutorials with far better presenters which can be found online for free +Great learning experience. +I thought it was free. I might was well go to Google to learn Android development. +You really need prior coding experience to understand the training. I also was very disappointed in the teaching. We have an incredible opportunity to improve education, and I feel that this course is merely an extension of current learning techniques. It was extremely difficult for me to fully participate without paying. I was using this course to make a specific android app to control my wheelchair. I act as an analyst for my programmer husband. So I fully understand code architecture, but absolutely hate coding by hand. This course glossed over coding however it is far more code intensive then I was led to believe. +It is interesting. +excellent course to get started in android. helps build basic blocks that can then be used to develop more complex apps as well as know where to search for more info. great job!!! +This is real boring I just learned that +Very Good course, simple and deep. +Fantastic course +Well organized course. Refined down to details. Gradual introduction of topics, good test-case, the skill of the Professor is excellent. +not exciting, instructor too stiff and looked like reading a paper +This could be improved by adding more interesting subjects :- how to use list adapters with list view- how to use menus- how to use scrolling view- etc +This is a very good hands-on course to introduce new students to learning Android programming.I have basic knowledge of Java and found this course easy to understand and follow.Suggestion:Change the graded quiz to practice quiz so that non-paying students can submit and check their answers and learn from it. Or find another alternative to Coursera since it is not 100% free for students.I look forward to another building blocks Android course in the future! Thank you for this course! +Can't finish even week 1 if you don't pay +Very Good Course. +Big 5 star. Unfortunately I can't give more. My suggestions are to re record the section where the male instructor was explaning the very first android app,; the video quality on that section was very poor. My next suggestion will be: you guys mapped that course perfectly, you should add an advance level to this course or at least, create an android specialization for this course. At last, it would be a better idea after all 9 blocs, before the student submitted their project, the instructors create a big app that include some of the bloc or all of the blocs. This course will be my first completed course on coursera and I will definitely going to pay for that one later +Great course for biologists and non biologists. Materials well explained and interesting, stuff very helpful and eager. It opens a window to bioinformatics and is a good first step towards it. Very recommended! +Thank you.This course was very effective for me.It has a lot of details, and I need to review some issues agian +Personally, I never believed I would enjoy coding, but I had a deep interest for biology. This course not only helped me develop an interest and grasp the basics of programming in python but also gave me an insight as to how I can use this knowledge I gained in various fields such as bioinformatics. +It's amazing course +Excellent course! Instructors are great and the exercises using Stepik are awesome +A very entertaining way to learn programming and applying this new acquired knowledge to real problems in biology. +Limited intro course compared to one offered few years ago but still Great start , Thank you +Really interactive and challenging. I learned a lot. Thank you. +This has been a very helpful course, showing me how to program in a fun way because every coding challenge is linked to a biological question. I think the pace of the course was good, without any prior experience in coding I've had a few moments where I was stuck. But thankfully with some patience and helpful replies from the teaching assistant of the course to my questions in the discussion, it was possible to get past those coding problems. +Step by step method. +Great course. I learned a lot. I came into it with only a little bit of background in Python coding. I worked through the recommended Code Academy modules and attempted the course work early and often. I feel like my understanding of algorithms, molecular biology, and Python coding have all improved in just 4 short weeks. I look forward to learning more Python, algorithms, and molecular biology from UC San Diego and others. +Very interesting but i don't like switching e-learning platforms +It was a really interesting course! Some exercises were challenging but it was very rewarding when you found the solution. +True introduction to Bioinf.It helps a lot. +Really liked the course and love the topic, however the algorithms section was very difficult and could use some more in depth explaining. Without that, I would not quantify it as "beginner". +Good course for someone beginning in bioinformatics with background on computer programming. +The stepik interactive text was just amazing !! I think it is a great way to teach. Integrating with Code Academy to learn Python was really helpful. I spent quite a bit of time on a few challenges. However, arriving at the solution was very rewarding. As a biologist, it is a good start for first time exposure to bioinformatics and algorithms. There were some concepts I had to read multiple times to understand. Some detailed explanations by earlier students were helpful in a few cases. +It's a great introductory course for Python and Bioinformatics. I found the platform for completing assignments, Stepiks, to be very slick and easy to use. Completing this course was so satisfying, informative and fun! +Good introduction to specialization +Very good introductory course to new learners in bioinformatics or students who are just curious about this field. +The course was amazing! +I really enjoyed this course, thanks to coursera +Challenging and interesting. Only downside is the lack of help in the programming sections. I had been stuck on one of the last code challanges for more than a month without anyone of the staff answering my messages in the comments. Besides that, great course and content. +Very helpful and well designed, thank you ! +It uses mixed material from other platforms meant for pure Python programming learning, jumps between sections in the external platform going forward and back so its pretty confusing to find problems involving content that you have no chance to know if you do not have previous experience with python. I would not recommend this course for beginners in programming. +thank you guys,the most difficult lesson I have got,but I love the feelings when I finally accomplish it. +Good class, great for beginners to get started! +I had great fun learning each week of the course. For students interested in understanding DNA, I would sincerely recommend. Also was the best experience I had learning Bioinformatics and python simultaneously. I believe in learning contextually. Thanks +Pros: a lot of programming in automated online environment.Cons: inconsistencies in code like changing parameter order in often used functions, changing structure of some variables (arrays become dicts). This can be unneccesarily misleading. +cool +very challenging course +Really helpful to understand basic bioinformatics. +The course content is highly challenging and that's great for a sense of accomplishment. The biological problems motivates the biologist to go through the abstract mathematical concepts(but I have to admit there is a threshold where the biologist can not get it well anymore(greedy motifs, gibbs ...) and I wonder if he does really need it to be practical with day to day problems with chip array seq selex...)be ready you will struggle hard here +very interesting!, i liked the stepik interactive lesson very much, i prefer them over lectures +Thanks for this nice course.I would recommend to avoid exercises with very long calculations that cause time-limit problems.Regards +The interactive design in the course makes me impressive +Not a bad course, but it is a python programming class. There are some steeper steps at times if you are not used to python. Support can seem distant if you hit one of these steeper steps. It's best to have a coding attitude and not a "I want to read about biology and genetics" attitude to approach this class. +A good introduction to computational aspects of bioinformatics. However, the pace of the course might seem too low if you have a strong computer science background. +Nicely designed course. Frustrating at times but well worth the effort. +It's good, but I would prefer that the python was taught within the course. +Very good course, and very similar to the first course of the Bioinformatics Specialization. However be warned, it takes a lot of time and effort to complete this course (definitely more than 10 hours a week). +Excellent course for beginner like me!!!Thank again for introducing me to this matter. +It really has helped me programming on Python. +Very badly linked with other websites that provide the actual content. This is more like a click-bait setup than the actual course. I'm not sure why it's even offered on Coursera, other than to make money on a more popular website using the content hosted by less popular one. Very bad experience. +An excellent course that is a great opportunity for anyone interested in bioinformatics, no previous experience is necessary but either a biological, mathematical or computing background will give you advantages in certain areas. Being a biologist I struggled at first and many of you may do the same but stick with it, work hard on it and you will be rewarded and it is incredibly satisfying.Due to the practical coding nature of the course, each week can take up a lot of you time. Best if you have a few weeks free (e.g. a graduate student like me) so you can spend a few whole days of it but could be done before/after work if you are motivated and plug away at it each day - just something to keep in mind though, don't expect a light easy 1 hour a week course, it is intensive but in a good way. It can get frustrating, you will want to give up time and time again....but stick at it and you will have a shiny new Coursera certificate and a wealth of programming knowledge under your belt once you finish!A massive two thumbs up for this course, one of the best ones out there that gives you real worthwhile skills that employers and academia want. Thanks to all the course staff for a great experience! +Stepic issues with not syncing progress and assignment completion. All else was good. Well paced. +Frustrating as hell. Too much math and computer coding. +This is not a beginner's course unless you already have previous programming experience. The Python lessons are just samples taken from a completely different curriculum on Codecademy and poorly integrated into the bio-centric course content. The lessons are disjointed, taken out of context, and some of the examples are using the wrong version of Python and missing parentheses. It would be a lot better if they took the time to actually craft custom Python lessons designed specifically for this course instead of using ill-fitting lessons from other classes. +I give this course 5 star because I did Bioinformatics I and I totally enjoy it.This is where programming can be fun, and practical, and you'll learn some basic biology too.What's not to love? +Innovations and creativity have been immersed into my mind through learning the course. +Loved this course. Lots of great info and fascinating ideas. A must for anyone interested in astrobiology! +Good course. +A really nice course for someone pursuing astronomy or likes to know more about the cosmos. Really expands one's knowledge of the universe. +Again a course that comes with very simple (and not always good prepared) video lectures but for recieving a grade an enormous math knowledge is necessary, with no further help given +Really enjoyed this course which gives a good summary about astronomy to beginners like me. +So far a very easy to understand and enjoyable course. As someone coming from High school with some research and knowledge in Astronomy this was a great way to fill in the gaps in my knowledge and get a more technical sense of Astronomy. The prof makes this incredibly enjoyable. Lectures are paced well and the 'homework'/practice work is easy enough. +If you know nothing about astronomy, this is a great starting point. You will cover a brief overview of everything from the solar system to the frontiers of dark matter and dark energy. It will allow you to get a taste of everything so that when you're ready, you can dive in deeper to the topics that interest you the most. +This course is the worst i have taken on coursera. They just want to mention everything in very short time. Quiz is much harder than material on video. +Really great course, but I would recommend that if you haven't taken many classes in this branch of the sciences to take a different introductory course, first. It can still be done, but might require more study and review of additional resources. +a great introduction to a complex field, highly recommended. +Great Course! Very interesting! +Great course! Loved Adams' enthusiasm in sharing his knowledge with the virtual audience. Comprehensive and very spot on. Congratulations. +Great teacher! Extremely interesting lessons. The teacher was able to explain very complicated aspects in physics to non specialists audience in an intriguing manner. Thank you! +The best course I've seen on Coursera! Wonderful lectures, amazing pictures and animations and all very engaging. +Enjoyed it very much +great content and great teacher, thanks so much for this :) +Great course to learn the wonders of the universe by understanding a littler of how it works! Saludos desde Venezuela! +Very exciting, strong structured course, The most difficult materials in a simplified and exciting declamation. Great lecturer . +Easy to follow. Anyone who is interested in Astronomy should take this course. This course is better than the course (Astronomy - Big Questions) that I took at my University. +Very easy to follow, and immensely interesting. +THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST COURSES AND BEST LECTURES I'VE SEEN, AMONG A LOT THAT I WENT THROUGH! Such fantastic and humorous way to lead the audience through wonders of the universe! Looking forward to MANY MANY more courses from this lecturer on any subject really - that's how engaging this course was for me! AWESOME! +That the course was extremely interesting is an understatement, nothing that touches upon the most fundamental questions of our existence can be dull, but it also was very dynamic, the themes presented directly and well explained. The exerises where we used simulators were the final touch to completly understand concepts +Very good overview of modern astronomy. Easy to understand by non native English speaker. +Prof Adam has done superbly well in engaging viewers into the subject, the structure of the course is obviously well thought out, so that viewers will be able to comprehend step by step into the deeper mystery of the modem Astronomy has to offer without going into the maths.After the course, I have the dismay feeling that the course has ended and human being is so minute compared to the vast mega parsec of the Universe.Bravo !! +Great professor. Simple to understand and made me love astrology... Quizzes are a bit challenging though... +Very interesting course, isn't too geeky and mathematical, unlike many other astronomy courses. The only thing bothering me was the inability to learn the correct answers and explanations to quiz questions. Some of those were rather mindboggling. +excellent course! at last a teacher that explains the universe in plain English in a way that can be understood by most. +Not for beginners in the slightest. Enjoyed the videos. But the quiz just made me feel stupid as I didn't have a clue on any of the equations and simulators I was supposed to use. It got me thinking of how ignorant clever people continue to be! Every time a smart person comes up with a new theory it's taken as fact. Give it a couple of decades and someone will prove it wrong. The sun orbiting us proving wrong, easth is flat, gas giants only orbit outside the habitable zone etc etc etc. So when will we learn that just because something happens on this planet doesn't mean it will, has happened elsewhere. The deepest depths of the ocean have life forms, yet we'd perish. So who's to say life forms can't exact on a planet, moon that is nothing like the earth! The world is still at the centre of the universe to these academics! +Best course ever. With a very professional professor. All just perfect, every word and every subject! +Very nice. The professor is very nice and teaches with great experience. +This is a very good and informational course : however, the person who is speaking tends to have a lot of mums and stammers a lot. Overall, pretty decent course. +It's my first course on Coursera, and also my first astronomy course.It was fantastic, No lot's of calculation, but more focus on the concepts, such as relativity, standard model of particles, quantum mechanics. Sounds hard, but easy actually.Thanks Prof. Adam Frank.Everyone can take this course, even without science background. +Thank you!! Very organized and easy to follow. The questions at the end of the week encouraged me to explore more about the subject matter. +Fantastic. I got got what I expected and then much more. It gave me lots to think about. Impressive teaching. Thank you Professor. +Great course. Awesome Prof. Easy to understand and get into even if you don't have a science background. Can't wait to learn more! +Good course. Adam is a good teacher.The topics are nice. It's about the big bang, supermassive black holes, and how a star is born and dies.. and then some :)I really enjoyed taking this course. Two thumbs up! +Totally inspiring! +Very good course. Instructive and easy to follow. +I love this course! I have passed the first week exam. I really very very happy ! I will continue and pass all the exams! +As a quick overview to modern astronomy and cosmology this is a very worthwhile course. Highly informative and well presented. Material is detailed enough to provide an understanding of the topics covered and hints at more complexity to encourage further exploration.Marked down to four stars solely on the basis of the review questions. Some of these are ambiguous or have a lack of clarity. Otherwise this course, given the level and time allocation, would rate 5 stars. +This course provided a great overview of Astronomy. I thought the difficulty was about right for a survey course and recommend it to anyone who wants a better understanding of how we think the universe came to be and what we think will happen to it. +Now this course might seem small but it is not, the test are really challenging and the knowledge of video lectures aren't enough, you have to dig deep and study from other sources too. The simulations in the test and exercises are cool and fun way to learn. I will highly recommend anyone who is interested in cosmology to take this course but be prepared the ocean is not that calm as it seems.Happy learning. +twas nice +excellent course really enjoyed it... +The course lives up to its title. We indeed confront the "big questions" of modern astronomy: where did the universe come from, what is it made of, what is its future. The presentation is lively and engaging. Relevant topics are touched upon just enough to understand how to approach each question, without any feeling that dense physics is being discussed, as befitting the "highlights" term in the course title. The course structure is very enjoyable and illuminating, and the weekly exercises are superb. Highly recommended. +Good overview of the topic. Inspiring lecturer. No need for any complicated math. Having a background in physics on advanced high school level should probably be enoughto pass this course. +Great introduction to Astronomy! I learnt a lot about the current state and the unsolved challenges in this field. I liked that I could play with various simulators and develop detailed understanding.As a beginner in Astronomy, I had a little difficulty finishing the first and last week's quizzes. Apart from that, I was able to easily follow the content in the course. +Professor explains concepts well. +overall lectures are good and explanatory. +I strongly recommend this course to all who interested in Astrophysics. +Too much time required. The first Quiz had almost nothing covered in the video lectures. I saved all transcripts and was unable to answer the questions. The Sim's... I have never seen anything like that and again - it most certainly wasn't covered in the lectures. Disappointed in this course. It took 3 hours for each segment of the first week... not 3 to 4 as was stated. Leaving this course. +Hi,I tried to get knowledge about cosmology from my university but everithing was insignificant and boring. This course is more than amazing. I like it very much. Waiting for more courses ! Thanks a lot to you, professor! +Good but not deep enough. It could be longer to cover more aspects or more profound. +Wish I had more professors like mr Frank. His speech being concise and pleasant, it is truly enjoyable to listen to and watch the lectures ; also the 'touch the surface' attitude on various topics boosts your curiosity to look further on and search for answers on your own. This being my first enrollment on Coursera, I cannot but expect the best, as these first lectures have really set the tone. +Course has been very helpful; giving the apt amount of knowledge in a way that can be easily understood with a little background in physics. +This course is amazing, and the professor is great too!!!! 100% recommended +The lectures provided by the Professor were very much insightful and helpful. Especially the interview videos of the C level executives were great. Had lot of information and the exams were fun to answer. +A very informative course that will definitely help you to excel in your professional field. +better way of learning :) +Didnt find it very interesting because of language interpretation issues. The content was good though! +Teresa is great! she seems very friendly and kind but some contents are a little bit borried and difficult. +I love the interview parts. +I came across many new concepts and the articles shared were useful. However, It was not very challenging like Pricing Strategy - which is understandable. Nice course +More case studies perhaps? +The accent of this teacher made me struggle to comprehend some of the most basic concepts she was presenting. I learned way much more on the previous modules of this specialization.The course should be 2/5 stars, but thanks to Boston and McKenzie articles, I will give an extra one. +Great course - really useful insights +A good course, but not up to par with the first two. The content was far more theoretical and left me looking for applicable information. That said it was still a good course. +Not as complete as the two first courses of the specialization but still good. +Really great introductionary course with helpful additional recources! +good but sometimes cannot hear clearly what the tutor says whenever they have strong Spanish accent. +I liked the professor very much, and the expert interviews were interesting. On the other side, she used a lot of articles from the internet which gave not much knowledge. I think it would be better to use more material from professional manuals, not from "trendy" websites. +The instructor was hard to understand at times. +great course about distribution channels +Good course! For a student like me beginner in Digital Marketing the course covered my expectations. Recommended! +A great course! Of course I will recommend it. +I think the lecture is pretty basic and general compared with the other lectures in the Marketing Mix Implementation course. Many examples were suggested, but I think it would be better if there were more international brands rather than Spanish brands. There were many errors in subtitles. I would appreciate if they were double checked before release. +the quality of this course is very low, and the content are not interesting and useful at all. +A very informative course that proved to be very useful to me in my work. +This is a very great program full of important and accurate information! Congratulations!I find it very complete inside its category. It's pretty interesting since the first moment you watch the first video lecture.Good design and presentation of the program. In other words: beautiful!Thanks. Keep bringing quality! +The video lectures are informative and interesting, but the QUIZZES COVER INFORMATION NOT ADDRESSED IN THE LECTURES!! +info good, photos way too small, would be nice if they were full screen +Interesting subject matter, but offered in an insufficient way. Bad transcripts, for example: AND THE POTENTIAL IMPACT COULD BE SERIOUS FOR LOCAL POPULATIONS AND THE GLOBAL COMMUNIST, THAT MEANS YOU – am I a global communist? And quizzes with questions that cannot be answered from the course texts. There are far better courses on this subject, from the University of Alberta (Coursera) or the University of British Columbia (edX). +Great information from the lectures and great photo's of the Arctic, the free downloadable book is an extra bonus and helps with the quiz questions, well done Terry and team.. +Quizzes kept requiring information that was oddly specific (needing an exact decimal number without multiple choice options), which would have been okay except that it was not covered in the lectures. Ended up dropping course because there is no way to get through the quizzes if the information is not covered. +Great course, but there is a problem with 2 of the exams not accepting correct answers. +LOVE THIS COURSE KEEP BRING MY INTERESTING COURSE ON CLIMATE CHANGE. THANKS BRENDA +This was a very interesting course. I only wish it could be made deeper and extended a bit! +I thought this was an brilliant introduction to a complex and vitally important topic. I certainly want to know more about this topic +Great! +Great media support (video and Interact Book) with teacher's quality for explanations and course's structure +This rating system seems to be broken +Perfect course !! +Very usefull course but I think It should be also with spanish subtitles. +Excellent Presentations! Answers for Quizzes are typically not provided in the lectures and extremely hard to find in the textbook or challenging to enter. +This is a very bad course +Excellent course, informative, good use of visuals. Work is at an easy pace for those with less time. +This is a very good course. The material is formatted in a way that is very digestible even for those without a strong science background. Some of the quiz questions are harder than they should be, and challenging to locate the correct answer to. And it is not immediately clear that in order to pass the course a student must read the book the course is based upon. There are some spelling errors that should be corrected, and a few errors in the filmed dialogue. But the information contained in the course is good. +This a really nice introduction to how the Arctic is changing and its potential impact on lower latitudes in the remainder of this century. A big thanks to Terry Callaghan and National Research Tomsk State University in the Russian Federation for making this course happen. It would be great if there were a more advanced course on this topic in the +Good learning experience. +Thanks to this program, I was able to obtain a job as a data scientist in a big data environment. I built a graphical database using neo4j, which no one else at my workplace had thought to do. I really appreciate the training I got through this specialization. +Very poor explanation and very complicated topics. +Lower quality when compared to the previous courses in this specialization. Neo4j is very interesting but it is poorly explained. +This course is supposed to be the most interesting, and most challenged one of this specialization. However i am quite disappointed with the instructor and the contents he put together. He speaks too fast without much clarity, and worst of all, i can tell most of the time he reads from the scripts without really conveying much knowledge about the contents. +Greate Course +Great hands on examples! Really enjoyed the Neo4j and GraphX Hands On +Displaying handson queries graphically would make it more appealing as it was in Neo4j +Good approach for introducing to graph analytics +All the complexity of the course is concentrated to the last week. +I would have liked to put 5 stars. This topic is so important and relevant to big data. After week 4 hands on part, it became obvious we will not see how to implement or interpret the more abstract graph concepts presented in week 3. That was very disappointing.Moreover, the structure of the course is not as good as the other module. I don't understand the lack of balance between theory and hands on (Not enough hands on to reflect the theory) part.On a constructive note, I would replace some of the theoretical concepts of week 3 with additional information on how to link a graph database to machine learning OR I would add more hands on exercise to help using those more complex concepts and learn how to interpret them. +I like the content at a high level, and I have a better appreciation for the value of graph analytics. That being said, I struggled with the GraphX hands on exersizes, where many of the Scala commands simply hung. +Very interesting class, large applications possibilities, unfortunately the hands on machine wont work properly +The concepts are brilliantly taught but the technical part that was programming was rushed through and not explained step by step. This is probably out of scope for this course but would have been good to get a little more technical training +Thanks so muchyou are great people +The neo4j parts were good, and nice introduction to graph terminology and concepts. would like to see detailed hands-on for wk#5 (like wk#4 had w/neo4j, which was very well done). like the tools survey and concepts. would like to see recommendations for other course(s), not necessarily in this series or by UC SanDiego, about where to go for deeper math. +Really Thank you for all the big data course, just a little about the 5th course, Graph analytic, I think can must go to the deeper insight with more explanation, some of the modules was really vague!Thank you +Not so easy, but well worth it! +Probably because I'm new to all the big data and graph analytics terminologies but the lectures in this chapter were quite difficult to follow in my opinion. The instructor was just talking, not teaching nor explaining, just like someone who prepares notes and is reading to students. The hand-ons were a bit helpful, but overall this class is more for those who already know about the subject. +Concepts are explained in a rather structured way and hands-on with Neo4j are interesting.The last part with GraphX is pure copy-paste of orders, it is disappointing and not a good way to practive. +Very good material, very good Neo4j hands on for new comers. The critique goes to the coverage of GraphX hands on which, at least to me, is not explained clear enough +I enjoyed this course and learned a great deal. +This course was excellent as an introduction to Graph Analytics and using Neo4j. Not only did I learn a lot, I've been given tasks related to what I've learned in this course after finishing it. +Another good and interesting course but the total lack of engagement by the course team and community mentors makes it hard going. +Good Course to get introduced to Graph Analytics , Neo4j, Cypher Graph Query Language , GraphX through Spark. Really enjoyed hands-on exercises +The professor is well spoken and the class started out very well. But by the final section the hands on example were simply cut-paste with no explanation of what we were doing or how it worked. It's not the fault of the professor but this course and the Big Data specialization attempts to cover too much information. Graph Analytics should be its own 6 course specialization. But really, to understand graph analytics one should be spending a great deal of time with the subject. Perhaps online courses are not the way to understand such a complex subject. +Wonderful course. +This course allowed me to understand graph theory, evaluate graph properties, analitics and routing algorithms. In addition it introduces to neo4j and graphx, that are valuable software platforms for analyzing graphs +I was unhappy with this. It was clear that this course was pulled together from a superset of other material, and that it was not checked for consistency or completeness. The students were tested on their ability to write down a specific phrase from a video rather than on application of the principles learned from utilization of the graph database tools. (Broccoli -- REALLY???)Further, the lack of response to questions posted in the forum indicates a lack of engagement from instructors and / or facilitators. +Need to include more student project design in the course +First week of 3 min video. Seriously we want to dive into the subject. And the last two weeks should have more content. Felt like much more copy and paste without understanding why you did that. Understand this should be introduction to Big Data... But the price you pay for the introduction is too expensive. +Nice love it.... the best in bigdata +best course of the series +Maybe the best course of all the specialisation. Good balance between theory and hand-ons. I would give the fifth star with more details and explanations in some hand-ons (mainly the ones from the last lesson). In summary, a good introductory course to graph analysis. +The material on graph analytics was of introductory level. A string of interesting ideas, with unclear explanations. The lesson on GraphX was basically a copy-paste introduction to it's abilities without actually teaching how to use it. The transcripts are full of mistakes. Someone not proficient in English or hard of hearing would be confused by them. It was somewhat difficult to understand the main lecturer. The best part was the explanation of Neo4j - and it was at an introductory level. A disappointment. +Great course. The reason I did not give it five stars because I thought the last week of the course was not up to par with the first 4 weeks. The lessons on Giraph and GraphX were confusing in my opinion and the hands on exercise did not really clear things up for me. Otherwise, a great course. +interesting practices with neo4j +Basic concepts in distributed computing/ cloud computing covered well. +Thanks Indy very challenging. Project was very stimulating +Everything was really well explained, quizzes are hard as they need to be, but not impossible and the instructor has a really good personality.The only "bad" thing was the programming assigment. It was really hard (but again, possible) and the specifications were poor.In general, a five star course. +Very interesting course if you want to learn about inner workings of distributed systems. Lecturer was very knowledgeable and provided good examples. Exams and quizes were pretty challenging and fun. I love that there was a practical programming assignment. I would only suggest to tweak the template for programming assignment as it was a little bit limiting. And maybe allowing for different programming languages other than C++. +Great lectures of distributed algorithms +Very good aproach, theoretic and professionaly. A great work of teacher! :D +Very good course ! +Overall I really enjoyed this course, and I think I learned a lot, so thank you!However I think there were some things that could be improved.Firstly the quality of the code provided for the programming assignment was very low. It contains a lot of things that are far from modern c++ best-practices (e.g. using raw arrays instead of std::vector, mixing malloc and new, using new where there is no reason to use it, using raw pointers when references would be fine, missing consts, macros, ...). There were also some relatively minor bugs: the first log message doesn't print with the correct prefix, and the grading script as provided doesn't run (IIRC it was because the #! isn't on the first line). Since this course could be some people's first introduction to C++ I feel that it's important to set a good example, and to keep the code simple and safe.Secondly the symbols used for things were often inconsistent between slides, which was occasionally confusing but should be easy to fix.Despite these issues I still think this is a great course, it just could be a little bit better. +GREAT course ,the concepts and theories have been explained thoroughly. But I also believe providing a few reference materials would have been better for a theory oriented course like this one.overall still the best could theory course online +The course contents are composed of some superficial concepts of cloud computing. And the code framework for programing assignment written in c++ is probably the worst kind of code I've ever seen. +Great course! I learnt basics of current cloud computing technologies, even this is really tough course. +Indy you rock with that Uke. +very good course!! +This course was fantastic! I really appreciate taking part in it! It also was a good remainder of C++ pointer arithemtic. +Excellent course material, the coverage, and the articulation. You can reduce the pace a little bit. +Too much technical. I would have preferred high level generic concepts. Also, the exercises were quite tricky for a beginner. +Great course, very useful and well explained +Very good intro to a number of distributed computing topics. Challenging assignment and engaging material. +The contents cover a vast set of topics. just what i was expecting. I was hoping some good books, papers would be suggested +Good introduction to the concepts. +Not very engaging. Information overflow and poorly delivered lectures where the instructor is just reading from slides. I don't recommend paying for this, it is better to just check out the syllabus and read about this stuff online.Note to instructor: Very simple concepts were explained using overly complicated language. Also, please refrain from over using the word 'essentially'. +The course is worthwhile. The instructor explained the concept clearly in engaging way that I rarely found on Coursera. The most I liked is the design of assignments. As well as, it has some interviews of academics and professionals which shapes your thoughts very well. +Great lectures. However, the starter code for the programming assignment is quite atrocious. Overall, would highly recommend to anyone wanting to learn high level concepts in distributed systems. +Great course giving very good basics. The questions were also challenging and ensured that we go through the content in earnest +The concepts are explained very well. The only issue was the Programming assignment, which could have been more descriptive. Also, they could've given us the option of choosing a programming language. +Very good course. Challenge to learn. Flexible schedule. +Excellent Faculty, Clear and concise. The material covered is current and concepts are illustrated with clear examples. +Course lectures don't seem to match up with the questions on the quiz. It is also not clear if the typed in answers are not read by the program correctly or if the answers do not match what the instructor is looking for, in any case the 3 weeks quiz is very difficult to figure out. +I am loving this course. +I love this course. +The programming assignement was very long in relation with the resto of assignements (quiz). However, the course's content is very interesting and complete. +Worth every minute +Nice Course with Nice Tasks. +Esential to undertand the cloud +The best +The course introduces many cloud computing concepts, and briefly highlights the trending technologies. It is a good starting point for the beginners, it also contains a set of challenging quizzes and final exam, one could not pass unless s/he masters the course contents. finally there is the programming assignment which would not sound easy until you pass it. +Very difficult programming assignment if not an expert. +I am giving a 5 starts because I really enjoyed the course and I learned a lot. but to be honest I almost gave up. The programming assignment is a little bit frustrating since there is really not help and not much guidance. +The course gave me an interesting overview of different problems from the cloud computing field. The course start looks little bit slow, but later it gets more interesting. However I was disappointed with code quality of the assignment framework. +The instructor's lecture sounded too robotic and I feel like he didn't make any effort to explain some of the principles or simplify the course to the audience. It feels like he just copied concepts and pasted them into the lecture and then read them quick. +This instructor is fantastic. He is exceptionally thorough and his delivery is very good as well. This is a course definitely worth taking if you are interested in learning more about the cloud. +Great, and highly relevant/topical, content. However I found the quiz assignments to be needlessly tedious at times. +The slides are unclear and very very ugly and old style.The assignment is very specific to Linux based machine.Only one programming assignment.More theory than practices.The QCMs don't really help understand. They are just about remembering values.I woudn't recommande this course since it is more like a book then it is like a course. +The course teaches a lot of core concepts of distributed systems (clouds included). The content is well delivered and the homework reflects the material very well. The homework is appropriately tough.There is an optional programming assignment for setting up a distributed network of nodes with failure detection. I learned a lot about gossip based information spreading while doing the exercise. That said, the assignment is not clearly explained and it is hard to get started.Overall I did enjoy the course and learned a great deal. +Good course! +Great course but the main problem is that very little help is available. Programming assignment is not able to understand meaning not able to find how to start (what should be the first step?)pace is little fast. learned a lot about Cloud Computing. Homeworks are really challenging. +I wanted to understand what "Distributed systems" are all about, this course is the best resource IMO. +Great Course! A little more contents regarding the Programming Assignment would have made it even better. I'd like to thank the entire Team for making this wonderful course. :) +Good at explaining conceptsGood Quizzes& assignments +I enjoyed the contents and homeworks. Overall the delivery was very good, and I have grasped a lot.The main reason that I won't give 5 stars is the program assignment. I have spent and wasted 3 weeks to work on the tools, yes, tools, not the subject matter. Course should clearly indicate that the assignment only works in Linux/UNIX environment, and need to further test the scripts in most popular Linux OS platforms, different c++ versions, and different python versions. +Very useful course. It built my Cloud Computing basis from scratch. Fisrt course gives me the enthusiasm to start the later ones. A good place for studying and sharing with course mates. Thank you! +This course is a wonderful introduction to distributed and cloud computing. Definitely go for it. +Very well taught, easy to understand. The questions in the exams have been very thoughtfully selected, one must pay attention to the content and understand the concept. Going to remember the concepts for long time after watching & listing the tutorials. +The best open course topic I have ever seen. It's very helpful for career development to go into the technical details of all modern cloud technology trend!!! +Professor Indranil Gupta is apt in his explanations.Course Material is highly relevant. Good foundation course for cloud computing. +The course is not for beginners and WinForm lovers. This is real re-branding yourself. I would say path to reborn to what real open source world is living in. Low or no help from course instructor, community or google. Course comes in huge amount of concentrated videos. 7 hardest assignments. I would give up on the beginning but commitment is top of all. I respect anyone who has completed. +a very good course for cloud study. the content is colorful , a lot of examples to support deep understanding of the concepts. The biggest drawback is that maybe there can be some small programming assignment after each week's course. And the standard answers of the Week5 quizz have some bugs. +It's a great course, but the assignments are kind of annoying. +the test is terrible and teacher is just reading the ppt. boring +Cloud computing course provides an overview of the concepts of distributed processing. The algorithms behind real world distributed applications are well explained. The video lectures and quiz questions on various distributed protocols provide insights into the working of these systems. Highly recommended. Thanks Prof. Indranil Gupta and the Coursera community!! +The material is covered in depth and clearly, the content is very current while still covering the historic origins and the development of the current state fo the art. It comes with evaluations that are not aimed towards memorization, but rather towards understanding the subject. As a cherry on top, they allow you to take a verified certificate towards credit on the Masters degree. +Thank you for starting this exceptional course and the advanced specialization in cloud computing again. +I learnt a lot from this course! All lecturers are great and they explain difficult themes very well for the beginners but also offer interesting questions for advanced audience. I enjoyed the deceptive ease of DNA purification (I did it at my work too), comparison of sequencing technologies, and all algorithms and software described. I found all classes very helpful and would like to thank staff for this great, interesting and inspiriting lessons! +I think it's a great course!! +It is great! This helped me to develope my skills about science +Very simple yet comprehensible, this course has helped me understand complex subjects and apply them to simple things such as real day to day activities or decisions. Thanks Dr. Gershenson +I enjoyed this class and was amazed by how the Bible came about and the fact that it survived 2.5 millennia. I will be reading the Bible with a new understanding because of this course. I wish there were additional courses on the Bible on Coursera. +I found this course very interesting, and learnt a great deal about how and why the Bible came to be written. +Great! +Very complex and tedious subject. +As a casual participant with a general interest I found this course to be enlightening - it helped me ground the fragments that I had already learned here and there about the Bible in historical, social, geographic (in particular) and political contexts and thus weave those fragments into a narrative that makes sense to me. This JW thanks Emory's JW! +Excellent course! Professor Wright is passionate, warm and engaging. Loved it! +Very great course for believers and non belivers, packed with useful information +it would be better if we could do exams without buying certificate +I found the background given for the writing of the bible very interesting and gave me a whole new perspective on Hebrew Scriptures. +It's a very good course if you want to know how the bible came into being, events that happened from the very beginning and how the bible continues to remain and be read even today. Wonderful! +Compared to lectures offered by various seminaries, Professor Wright has organized the course in a way that has included both biblical sources and extra-biblical sources which are not permitted by seminaries. The part I love the most is the interviews by Professor Wright with leading scholars of different expertise.It is not hard to tell the effort the professor has exerted to put the course together. I would love to take more courses from Professor Wright regarding OT and relevant areas and am wondering how I can access them. +I just started this class this morning and Professor Wright is great. Usually I find the professors in a one on one lecture such as this, either speaking too fast or just boring. He is terrific. I have enjoyed the lessons very much. +This course has mad me look at the Bible in a completely new and exciting way. +Outstanding in every way. +Can't actually be done as a free course, like others on the site; you have to pay just to get a quiz grade. +This is a very enlightening course. I loved it. +Really fantastic. A lot of great information and insight and interesting interpertations. A lot of superb thoughts to think about. Very well taught. Kept my interest through the entire series. Professor was easy to follow. A lot for me to +Very interesting discussion about the writing of the Hebrew Bible. Particularly enjoyed the interviews with experts in the field. +This course is an excellent way of going about the history of Israel/Judah from a political perspective. It also presents many archeological evidences and compared them to the Bible. The discussions are quite interesting and multidisciplinary and the professor is really has a very practical approach. +I like Dr. Wright's observation of the Levant bridge between the 2 main powers of the day. +Really interesting thesis about the impetus behind the formation of the Hebrew Bible. Makes a convincing case by linking the historical, geographical, archaeological, and textual evidence. Great lectures and guest lectures. Also provides a case for why studying the bible is important even for secular humanists and atheists. Includes really interesting ideas about the genesis (pun intended) of modern conceptions of nations and states. +Great course! As a non christian I learn a lot about western culture and history +Thank you for giving me excellent information on Chemicals and Health. It is very helpful course for me. Thank you Johns Hopkins University and coursera. +Course is well organized and very good presented. You can feel the pre-work behind. Lecturers take their job very seriously. Examinations and peer review assignments lead to review what you've learnt and better understanding. Thanks to all efforts. +That was an interesting coursework. The lectures were taught to the understanding of all. +Nice understanding and structured course. It has strongly deepened my knowledge on health outcomes of chemicals. +Very Good Introduction to Environmental Chemical Exposure +Interesting and clearly presented course. Easy to follow with good explanations and various examples. I have learnt lots of new things. Now my own understandings of a safe environment have developed and I am more cautious. Great job! Thanks +Great course!!! +Excellent. Continues lectures on American Constitutional law and covers freedom of speech (in its many forms) and freedom of religion. I paid for this courses as a donation to the school, professor, Coursera though I knew I would be unable to complete the exams to get certification. Though I did get a certificate for Course 1 in this duo of courses. I would like to see a donation box for each course, if you want to contribute but cannot take exams. I want to financially support Coursera et al. +I thought that this was a fabulous course. It went beyond the standard coursework I had on Constitutional Law in law school with some different cases than I had read before. It really helped to have someone who had real life experience before the Supreme Ct teaching the course rather than someone who had gone from practice experience to a university position pretty quickly. I highly suggest both parts of this course. +The course was interesting and well presented. The only drawback is that if you are not pursuing a verified certificate you cannot submit the quizzes or the peer assignments. Even so, I would still take another course offered by Prof. Chererinsky. +Curso bastante básico de Ruby on Rails. +Anybody that has a big idea or wants to start a business, would benefit from this course.It's well presented and the content is spot on. +THANK YOU! +Good insight about entrepreneurship¡ +Great online course, really learned some new technics - others got refreshed. Looking forward to start my own venture using this course as the first buildingstone. +I like the course and I found it useful. Thanks. +Gives an overall idea of being an entrepreneur!Good MOOC :) +it is fantastic to learn your big idea +I think i learn a lot and can't wait to begin my journey! Absolutely excellent course! +Very Good Course and the Professors explained the material very well. Thanks +good course and well presented by both. +Perfect for me! +Good course, the ideas are organized , some many real example have been explained. I recommend this course for all people who have ideas in their minds. +Good quality. Very instructive and inspirational. Thank you! +It is a wonderful opportunity which offers Coursera to take this course to form an idea and more training about entrepreneurship, I recommend this course 100%, it is excellent +I really enjoyed taking up this course. I could recommend this to all budding entrepreneur. +Great topic +Very lucid introduction to the topic.I found it extremely useful. +this course is great +Definitely helpful. Highlights the most important points very quickly and succinctly. Would have wanted a little more detail and examples which is why I withhold the 5th star. +Best course ever! Very well-thought-about content. Requires you to go beyond just the videos and assignments. Far far better that course 3 & 4 of Cloud Specialization. +I loved the cloud networking course. After the great disappointment with the cloud applications course, and because I am not a "networking guy", I wasn't sure what to expect of this. But the highly professional Prof. Godfrey and Prof. Singla got me motivated from the start. They really know their stuff, and know how to teach. There were a lot of papers to read for this course, and the reading was actually required to answer some questions in the quizzes. It took me a lot of time, but it was worth it. The assignments were also well prepared and offered interesting insights. My only criticism: the programming work was too simple. Overall, I had to write less than 10 lines of code. +Great insight into networking in complex clouds! Fantastic approach: videos but also scientific papers! +Cloud Networking (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is a great class +Very good and practical! +Very good course, with well prepared materials. Programming assignments were a bit too easy. +Emerging helpful Course will lead to fully advanced skills in cloud networking ,traffic analysis & troubleshooting latest Issues. +This was a decent course. Some informative, big picture information but I felt that it lacked some hands on understanding. The minor hands on labs that were provided, were challenging for anyone that is not familiar with Python script writing. I would suggest that you brush up on that before being comfortable with taking this course. +It was very exciting course +Great Course. Content is very rich and assignments are very good to illustrate the concepts. +This was an excellent short course about key issues and solutions for data center networks. We read important papers on topics including data center network design, congestion handling schemes and network virtualization. The programming assignment were very helpful and gives one an appreciation of the power that SDN brings in programming a network through writing a few lines of code (and not having to CLI into switches to change configurations). I learnt alot from this course. +A phenomenal course on the challenges and solutions of today's Cloud infrastructures. The material is high quality and sourced from the best in the world. I'm extremely satisfied. +Good overview, but lack in details, lectures are to short. Assignments didn't really reflect the complexity of the content that is taught in the lectures. +Great and valuable knowledge, focused explanations, great teachers. One of the best courses in the specialization. +The video lectures were excellent. So much so that I wish they covered more of the material rather than relying on reading academic papers. Thanks! +Got very good knowledge about branding and all lectures very informative and well delivered by professor +Great course! Very useful and easy to follow. Congratulations for the course! +I find the course a very good summary of brand management with focusing on important concepts and definitions.I would like if the professor elaborates more on the Lemonade business example. That would give me a better understanding of how to apply in practice the brand and product management concepts discovered throughout the course. +Great Course! I got to learn a lot. Very useful content. +The course (videos and especially teacher) are very well done and I've enjoyed that however in my opinion the content is more for marketing beginners and doesn't go much in depth. +Excellent! I really enjoyed following this course. +This course helps me to understand better of marketing process. And real examples from the lectures was great help to apply to where I am working for (and made me understand why there are doing such programs such as brand ambassadors, dash boards, etc). I highly recommend this course to my friends who is interested in marketing and wish to listen lectures in off-line too! +Am really happy about this course am taking and I enjoy how it is being thought. +It is a course which offers practical knowledge. Provides a very good insight on the branding world. +Great Course, covered everything from Product development till Brand positioning +Very good content, awesome instructor!!! Can't wait to apply the concepts on my current work. +Great course to learn about brands and product management. +Analysis of an issue is super along with illustrations. +This course is awesome i like a lot +Fantastic course. Thank you! +good learning, +Very engaging and informative course.I'd suggest the organizer to add more assessment except the quiz that do not require much effort to get passed. +Great course and amazing professor! +Very informative +VERY THEORETHICAL. NEED TO HAVE MORE IMAGES OR MAPS OTHERWISE CAN GET BORED WITH THE GUY SPEAKING.GOOD LENGTH OF VIDEOSGOOD REAL LIFE EXAMPLES +Great!!! +A very nicely crafted course on brand and product management. Explained in a detailed and structured manner with abundant examples. Awesome learning experience! +Excellent course to develop you Brand as an Experience for Customer and among the employees of the organization. +I found this course very effective and helpful. Hope it will help others too in understanding Marketing approaches that are explained very well. +Beyond my expectation. +I liked this course 'Brand & Product Management' by IE Business School. The material is clear and specific with business cases of the real life. I recommend it to those who are interested in up-to-date brand management and marketing. +Informative and interesting course +The content was very useful. However, a little more detail could have been provided while explaining a few concepts. I am confident of using these frameworks in the future. However, before applying them I will have to visit the material again. Thank you so much. +better accent clean verbal this is how every course should be slow and steady +very interactive course.. very helpful +Good Job, really helpful!!! +Great introduction to the subject matter. +Thanks !!! A Lot !! +The information is very well organized, easy to follow and to understand. +Really great course! I enjoyed it alot! +Very enjoyable, easily translatable to real world scenarios and completely relevant and focused. It was a joy to learn and I had a lot to implement after successful completion of this course +Wonderfully designed course. Everyone should take this course for a good addition to knowledge whether one is a marketer or not. +Brand and Product Management is one of the most useful marketing courses provided by Coursera, and it gives me a better sense of marketing. +Great +Great teaching and comprehensive, clear presentation of concepts related to the topic. I have acquired a deeper understanding of brand and product management theories, models, frameworks and concepts at a higher (more macro) and more strategic level that is very applicable to the real world. The professor is very engaging and I like his use of real-life examples (through his work experiences, etc) to make the course material very relevant. Hopefully this helps in my headstart in my career switch! +Good one to begin with. Very well laid out and illustrated. +its awesome every one should go through course to be best in branding techniques. +Excellent course taught by a passionated professor. You deserve 6 stars.I just cannot wait the 2nd course of this specialization. +This is the best course I have taken on Coursera so far. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in marketing, branding or management.Thank you for this awesome course! +Excellent course!!! Would recommend to friends, colleagues and family. +what an organized , clear and understandable videos and content , +Superbly taught to the point. +the language of this video is to high, it's like to be for reading more than speaking ( Too Formal).The Content is quite good, but it needs more time in order to fully understand it. +i think this course is a great opportunity to know how the work is done at IE Business School. I am very proud with my purchase of the Specialization in Marketing Mix. Moreover. i want to say thank you to the professor because he is a amazing professional and his explanations are very nice and clear. +The lecturer is so engaging and easy to learn from. Really practical and doesn't use jargon. The industry words he uses he explains well so perfect for a beginner. +Great delivery, very informative and resourceful. +totally love this course <3 +Great, great course - many very useful insights +thanxxxx +5 stars, this is a perfect course with Impact. +I think that presentation slides should be offered to students. These slides will cointain information that is given by the expositor. Also, it is possible to offer a toolkit pages in each module to faciltate teaching.. +very very good course +Amazing course! +The Subtitles were bad not in sync with the words of the professor and were wrong in many cases.Delivery of lecture and Visuals of the lecture was Ok.Module 4& 5 were very confusing and not interestingThank You Professor for your time and effort +I cannot take the quizzes, because of money. The other courses let us take the quizzes without paying money. I dislike you paying policy. Please, let us take the tests without money payment.Sincerely,Garik +Great course for Branding Insights! +The instructor is one of the best teachers I ever had. He made the point concise and clear. He has natural talents of conveying knowledge and information.Please, please provide more classes taught by Professor Luis Rodriguez Baptista ! +A very innovative course explained in simple lucid language with the help of lemonade business. Prof. Baptista has very amazing technique of conveying the concept with practical examples. A course worth doing if you aspire to get into the world of management. +Overall, great course. The contents are meaningful and useful. IE's widely recognised expertise comes through all +This course is very realistic and practical in nature. Professor Rodriguez -Baptista has an incredible way of relaying the information and illustrating the practical application of tools and models to the real business environment. Highly recommended! +First of all, i have no words to appreciate Coursera for providing such a big opportunity to study from best business schools, which was not possible for person like me. This course was very comprehensive, have learnt some new and relevant examples, teaching style was also excellent and, provided many new ways to think and practice about brands. +I had learn in this course! More than my own university. +Great course! I really enjoy all the videos and lectures. +Great course with solid content and concepts, i definitely recommend it.I didn't gave a 5 star review only because i felt that more examples were needed on module 4. +This was one of the best professors I have ever had. This course was very interesting, well produced and had a good support material. +One of the best courses I have come across. Highly resourceful and worth the time and money. +Very Comprehensive ! +Thank you for the course, I like the examples and the quantity of the information very much. The thing I miss about this course is how to do the metrics that the professor recommends to do at most of the steps of most processes. +Excellent Course, really I gained a lot of information and a lot of exper +Great course.No bla bla. Straight to the point.Exactly what you need. +The depth of the topic taught is really amazing +Knowledgeable Course and excellent professor. Crisp and to the pointThank you very much +A very well explained course +Very good material with more than enough detailing on the subject. Wish it could have more practical examples and exercises. +Okay course. Techniques and content are a bit too traditional. +Love the course +Positive: Approach to the topics is solid, readings are very valuable.Negative: Some videos in week 3 and 4 have audio issues. Course should had a template with the course objectives, learning outcomes and grading scheme. 4 out of 6 quizzes didn't allow to see which questions were right or wrong. Social media resources such as a linkedin group for the specialization would add value. But the most negative aspect was not having the slides. A lot of the topics covered were presented very fast and not having the slides to review the materials made my experience in learning very frustrating. I note that also the course Critical Perspectives on Management had the same problems with the quizzes and also did not provide slides. what was somewhat frustrating also. Also, if IE is making an effort to become more relevant in this online space, it should allocate human resources to monitor and interact in the discussion forums. In my opinion there are a lot of opportunities to improve the student experience. What I found somewhat because being this a series of courses in marketing, a lot of these issues had to been fixed/addressed before the course started...Nonetheless my critics - which I expect to be considered as constructive critics, it is important to thank IE and Coursera for continuing providing online courses.I wish you luck.Ricardo J. Oliveira +Great courses +Only 1 week of study and I already got so much that I am excited to talk about MAPS all day long with everybody. +A nice course about the MAPS approach and the typical difficulties of natural scientists and mechanical engineers when approaching the political arena and dialoguing with stakeholders. I would like to suggest:1) to change the name in order to make clear that it is about the specific MAPS approach and not about "climate change mitigation in developing countries" in general terms.2) to integrate development professionals and some policy analysis / political decision making experts in the revision of the course but also in the MAPS approach in order to make it more effective or relevant for climate governance.3) to include (more) content about low carbon development and climate change mitigation strategies in some key sectors in the development context in order to increase the benefits for students interested in mitigation.4) to reduce the parte about the own difficulties of scientists and engineers when interacting with politics and stakeholders.5) to try to simplify the MAPS approach to make it more accesible to governments and regions in more poor countries.I hope the feedback is useful. Kind regards and thanks very much. +Hi everyone, Thanks v much for this opportunity to understand the Climate Change an burning issue at global level having impact at local level. In this course, I learnt basics of CC and mitigation measures being undertaken in developing countries.Though the the course and most of mitigation measure focused on sectors like Energy and Transport may be bcoz of their major contributions, there is need to work on other equally important sectors in this regard.In fact, I belong to Agriculture sector from India where Agriculture is major enterprise in terms of economy as well as employment, however badly affected by impacts of CC leading to food security threats beyond India and developing nations.I really further interested in mitigation and adoption models or results in Agriculture sector where enough awareness is created and many internationally funded projects are being implemented. +Positive and rich learning for all lives on Earth, congratulations. +LOVED THIS COURSE! Taking this course has truly shaped how I plan to pursue my career and gave me a much better understanding of the current ecosystem of climate change in developing countries. Everything about this course was just great - I really learned a lot, and even reached out to one of the speakers/professors for further guidance. Thank so much for making this course available! +I really Enjoyed the course +Very interesting and unique approach to tackling these problems together! Great course +A course that provides an overview of the challenges faced by sustainable development efforts, and the processes the MAPS programme practices to effectively tackle them. I wish I could have access to the detailed "models" that were a main topic to more deeply understand the kind of effort that goes into creating and adjusting them, and how they then translate into affecting policies. +It is very useful to develop knowledge on climate change. Climate change matters and that's how the course reflects. +Interesting course especially in the context of Pakistan +learned so much and will recommend this course to others!! +This course was very comprehensible and I learnt the complexity and excitement to tackle with climate change and economic development at the same time. Episodes from many countries are also introduced by kinds of stakeholders were interesting too. I recommend this course if you're interested in climate change issues. +Super-awesome course that taught me about the super-wicked problem of our time and how to effectively achieve climate change mitigation and development objectives from developing countries context +Good course for Climate Change learners +I enjoyed very much this course. +It explains the issue of how developing countries are facing climate change and on that aspect it presents the information not only the way they deal with it but the obstacles they encounter in the process. It also introduced very interesting concepts that could be used outside of this course. +Excellent intro to Climate Change mitigation and what has already been done, and how to take forward from lessons learned. +Thank you very much for the course. +If people can mitigation a climate change the world will be solve the problems . I hope this course can make me clear about climate change in the world . why's climate change ? what's the problems ? +I found this course to be outstanding, in terms of: Interest, inspiration, technical content, stimulating new ideas, learning from other course participants, and general enjoyment. +The course is excellent one giving specific outlook towards the problems faced by developing countries. +Excelent way to understand the mitigation process. Excelent way to evaluate the kwonledge +A excellent course to understand the mitigation process. +It was amazing. Really informative course. Thanks! +Excellent with lots of explanation & charts and future R&D stuff +Good knowledge sharing for a beginner. +Very informative course. Thanks Coursera and Yonsei university for this course. +This is excellent experience really getting with this course... +The instructor keeps the audience engaged +Great course for beginners to understand Cloud, Hadoop, MapReduce and CDN +Very basic. Could be improved by increasing the level of complexity. +ultimate teaching style, energatic +Excellent content, but it would be better if the quizes didn't need payment. +Great Course! Congratulations! +Good concise introduction for the topic. +Excellent work done on presentations. Nicely explained. +this course is very helpful +Its awesome....and fantastic course +Content delivery is very good and to the point. +This is a perfect course +I would like to thank the Younsei University and the Coursera for giving me this course immensely. My thanks to Professor Jong-Moon Chung who patiently and effortfully passed the course content to the best of his ability. Thank you very much for this opportunity. A big hug from friend Edivaldo. +Brilliant! +A very good course for Introducing to Big Data and Clloud, the teacher speak very clear and the explains are shorts and clear.Good material and very good structured.Thanks for this course +It would be nice to see more detailed explanation instead of reading the lines in slides. Also there is less practical content for real time usage +As a Cloud Consultant this was an especially interesting course. I was particularly interested in the way that Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) work as I know how to set them up (on say Amazon Web Services - CLoudFront) but didn't fully understand what was going on behind the scenes.Also thought this course was well presented with all the course notes in a single PDF which was extremely helpful in (a) following the course; (b) reviewing the course; and (c) Helping correct my initial mistakes in one or two of the knowledge tests!Well done...good format!! +Great introduction to the topics mentioned in course title. Thank you. +Most of the materials are conceptual, would like to see more real life examples and methods applied. +very good instructor. +That is a excelente course to start and comprehend more about big data and the current technologies about Cloud Service, Map Reduce. HADOOP, etc. +It's a very good traning for a beginner. Overall system and key concepts have been introduced in this lecture. Very good! +Not the best one on coursera. Included many details that are not really relevant and quizes just checked if you memorized it. +An entry level informative course suitable for everyone who wants to have basic understanding in the areas. +Very informative session ,specially BIG DATA part +Thank you. Now I know the basic conceptions of BD and CDN +Very good overview course. This helps you understand the terms used in Big Data, Cloud Computing and Content Delivery Networks. You will understand most of the terms fairly well by the end of this course. I'm impressed by the instructor, his English is very good. His command of the subject is great. He manages to structure this course in a way that makes it more understandable than it would otherwise be. +the content is simple, I think the course is just for watching during the break. +The course is really designed from beginner to advance level. Love it +Really good +easy to understand , highly qualified teacher +It was a basic course which provided insight into basics of Big Data, Cloud and CDN technologies. The lessons are well planned and articulate the subject matter in detail. +Simple to understand +Only an introduction which was also not proper. +Clear, simple to understand and very useful information +Recommended for novice in the field +Great, simple and lite. +Its very boring. Just someone reading off slides. One could read from a book instead. No examples or explanation to the information on the slides. +The touch on a lot of topics, but do not provide nearly enough information to make it worth staying through the course. +Excellent coverage of relevant topics. +Nice Overview of prevailing technologies. +it is very basic course just giving the introduction to a layman. +All the regards and proud & honor .High end features courses.New era of innovation learning.Let me say, for a future for all, it must continue with Coursera Learning Platform. +thank u +Presenter is reading the slides. I feel I would have been able to learn as much by just reading the slides.CDN course is a bit more visual, with some maps and charts used during the course +The courses are so interesting and I learned a lot from your programm. Thank you so much +very pedantic. course teacher just repeats the information on the slides verbatim. an interesting subject is made quite dull. would request more emphasis be put on presentation skills as the course material seems ok for a refresher +Had fun with this course. Precise, concise & the content is cutting edge & juicy! +easy way to learn fields outside of my own in short amount of time +Awesomely presented! A Semester course packed in a short-course. You need to be a tech savvy to follow the concepts. +somehow I feel the course materials were not prepared well also it was not effective presentation, it was more like a reading a presentation +The way the content is delivered is not interesting. And the lecturer basically is reading from the power point +Wonderful course, giving a valuable insight into the latest technologies. Had the course delved a little more into the depth then it would have been a perfect corse! +Not well prepared course. +Great course. But introductory level. Would appreciate if in future in dept course or specialization becomes available for each module of this specialization. +Good job on the explaining CDN concepts!In the two first modules, the lecturer just read from the slides. +Really nice course to clear the concepts regarding the new existing technologies and all the related terms. The tests and mid lecture questions really helped in testing the grasp of the course. +Poor context, no real examples. The guy just reads what is written on the slides without further explanations. +It's very helpful to polish my educational skills as a engineer +Good Cloud Compyting and CDN lectures and material.Lack of practical examples and use cases in Big Data track. +The course is very goodSpecially designed for the beginners of big data/cloud.Highly recommended. +Great entry level course +Repeating slides +I have enjoyed Learning this course, its very informative and I will recommend this course, the tutor is very informative. +A good intro class! Thank you for sharing! +I liked CDN course very much. +A very basic course for Cloud and Big Data. For a laymen its good choice to cover all basics but not for a technical person. +Good course for overview +Cloud Computing is the Future and prof is explaining the future very clearly , i really enjoy learning from him. +I know about cloud +Good, may be we can have some more real world examples. +Very good introduction to those with small IT background. +it's very good course.. congratulations! +One of the best! +Great Instructor, good examples and aspects. +Great course fr introduction into the emerging technologies +Course is very light and very informative. Professor gives enough information for future study. Thank you for the hard work and simplifying those very complicated topics. +simple and concise overview +Nice introduction to the technologies , I am very thankful for efforts of entire team that make this introductory course .Thank You +Great +Great Course +Good explanation, Less material. +great course for a general overview (plus plus) of the subject(s).clear and accessible. can help you get in the subject.. +my first course, and i liked ! +Great Slides! The slides were good enough to pass the exam. +Course is very basic , although contents are compact and informative. +Good material! +I found it way too condensed for introduction.I believe it needs to be slowed down, extended - as it is. it is just a blast of facts. +I'm supersed the professor can explain these concepts using words and figures in such a clear way, even for me, who don't have basic knowledge of big data, can understand well. +useful and short +while being informative, and a decent course, it does require some knowledge of databases and networking. +Very good content and presentations,Thanks, +it is good course +Not enough detailed. +Thank youu very much for the very comprehensive and informative content of this course. +nicely articulated ! +for a beginner this course is very good and provide good basic knowledge related to cloud computing and others..thanks for the course +Slides were informative, but the lecturer did not add anything to them. One could complete the course by purely reading the slides. +Was fully theorytical....Need hands on practical things so that we can do things ourselves +This course was very knowledgeable but it didn't hads anything to use in practice, no coding and only theory. However it was very good. +Good course to learn basics of cloud computing and CDN.However Big Data part needs to be more elaborate. +Good learn +Very Limited material. +the lecture just reading the ppt than extend it +Its good as an introductory course +CDN topic was very good and well explained. +Very good expression ! +The course was very basic and there was nothing new in the videos compared to the document(PDF) . Instructor was only reading the slides. +Excepting some coding on Big Data. +Awesome... Very helpful in building concepts in knowledge in big data,cloud computing and CDN. +Now, I really liked this course.Now, very structured.Congrats Professor Jong-Moon Chung :) +Map Reduce needs more crisp explanation. Too much content explained in short slides. Scope for improvement +very high level syllabuses, limited application description of BD, poor quiz and questions designed +While testing the questions should be increased. +Very good for understanding basic overview of Big Data Hadoop, Cloud computing and CDN. +Well done for a short course, I learned a lot. +Very Useful +For a beginer, this is a very good starting point.. I am loving the contents and enjoying my learning.. +This course was good but from practical side I was not able to learn anything. That thing lacked in this course. +After attending this course, I think I had some background about Big Data, Hadoop and CDN.By reading more books recommended in this course, I think I will have a deeper understanding of those technologies.Thank you +It is a good introductory class. You do not need any programming or math background to take this class. +It's almost desk work, not practical. +not of a worth +Good introduction to edge technologies, very good explained with examples which make it easy to understand. +Thank you prof. Jong - Moon Chung for your wonderful method of teaching.ruly enjoyed my learning experience +Very good course, I learned a lot of knowledge, especially in cloud services, which is the most updated tech in the world. +Wish those courses would be longer. I'd really like to learn more about CDNs. +Well laid out course with concise course ware focused on the core areas.Thank you Yonsei Uni!! +Cloud Computing and CDN courses were perfect. However, Big Data details was not very clear to me, the general idea was clear though. +Very useful, informative and easy to understand, easy to access. Great work, Thanks +Thank you +I got understanding about the big data, cloud and CDN. It really help to go further studies in Big data. +good to have a brief knowledge +Learned More. Thanks for the class. +Good course for understanding the basic concept of cou +Awesome course. Short and sweet and straight to the point. +It was very good and basic course. It would be great if its next part can also describe these technologies in detail and with hands-on experience. +Its a great course, Gives you a detailed explanation on what is cloud computing and the different types of various services and its current usage in the market.I would recommend this course to all the people who want a vivid clarity on what is cloud and bigdata. +Trying to cover many subjects and diving deep into less interesting areas.The lectures themselves are very clear and easy to understand, accompanies with good decks. +good corse +a very useful beginners' class +It was informative and very helpful for beginners +Great course. Short and to the point. It is also very motivating for me to go dig into the topics of Hadoop and CDN. +Quite an interesting view to keep updated, not being deep involved in too technical topics. +Great but must be little more interactive and deep +Very small and concise course. +I'm Current Working on Five Star Sedan Cloud Management System.Have Three parts Desktop Controller (Admin) + Mobile App (Customer) + Paas (Cloud Technology). It was recommended by Coursera and I start it for understanding how Cloud Technology Works. I gain a lot of free Education that is not available in my Country. Thank you my Honorable respected Sir Jong Moon Chung and Yonsei University South Korea. +Pretty good first introduction. +The instructor is very easy to understand for international students and the course teaches you the fundamentals and language of cloud technologies. It will be useful for both students and developers to take the course if you feel the need to learn more about these technologies. +The contents of PPTs are just read out in the video lectures. It's as good as providing only the PPTs. +It is a good short course to get an idea about Cloud Computing, Big Data and CDN.2 Points to the gentle instructor, Please try to elaborate more outside what is written in the slides. and the other point, please revise the Cloud Computing quiz as it focused on dates and history rather than focusing on the core of the subject. +Good overview of Cloud related technologies. Too many details sometimes about specific providers, something that in my opinion may not be really useful but overall is okay. +Generally pretty well put together. There were more then a few times some of the videos probably should have been combined into one, so as to be less cluttered. Otherwise overall a pretty pleasant experience. +Very interesting and nice, but too short! +A very interesting and very developed course, wth so many concrete details ! Serious study in the depth of chickens life (backyard and commercial). Much useful, to be able to understand chickens, to evaluate their welfare, and then to improve it. I think that, thanks to this course, it's really possible to be a good stock keeper, and to have a happy flock ! Thank you so much for this precious help ! +The course was clear and extremely informative. I have wanted to get chickens for a while and now I feel much more qualified to give them a good life! +I'm very glad I took this course. I've kept chickens throughout much of my life since childhood and some of the information presented here made me go, "Oh! Now I get it." The course was well structured and presented in an informal yet professional manner that I found appealing. This was one of my first coursera classes so I don't know if it's already offered, but I would love to see this team put together a course on chicken breeds if they haven't already. The only downside to this class was that the last section (slaughter) seemed (to me) a bad note to leave on. Maybe add a bit about bringing in the new batch of chicks or just anything a bit more upbeat. Thanks to everyone involved for a job well done. +I really enjoyed the course. I hope to see more animal specific behaviour and welfare courses in the future.This course mostly covered parts of the poultry industry, I would have enjoyed it even more if non commercial farming was included, like chickens at home or at the children's farm. +i have some backyard chickens this course helps me a lot towards understanding them and i would like to say they are doing really well in terms of health and i am glad. +Quality information & supplemental info provided! I own chickens and am very interested in animal welfare and I love edinborough's welfare courses. +The subject we fascinating and was presented to me in a very willing, patient and kind woman. +I LOVED this course. I don't have chickens, nor do I have much experience with them, but I want to keep them in the future for our own personal egg production (not commercially). This helped me really understand what I'm in for, and helped me understand different parts of poultry anatomy, behavior, and what I need to do to care for them. +I love this course! So super informative. +Informative and interesting. +Very thorough. Learned a lot. +I enjoyed the fact that the background was the real environment. The material was short and to the point and easy to follow yet offered deeper learning with the extra articles that were offered. I was amazed at some of the statistics and that gave me more appreciation of chickens. Thank you. +The individual lectures are kept short and the exams at the end of the week felt "fair".The course itself is very informative and comprehensive . I learned a lot and I feel somehow ok prepared to keep a few backyard chicken :) +Great practical short course, am very glad I took it! +nice teacher but the course is too succint.Each lecture is very short and theoritical with little visual content. the course could/should be more detailed and a section of the course should relate to backyard chicken farming as well. i wish there also had been a section on how to recognise different illnesses in chickens and demonstration on how to humanely kill a chicken for example.I enjoyed the course for what it was but i wish it had been taught with far more depth and breadth +perfectly organised and set on many short videos which makes learning much easier and simplified and i found all the topics very interesting and very well explained by the professor +Fascinating general information on commercial and backyard chicken welfare and behavior course. +Honestly, I am absolutely delighted to have access to that course. Information is reliable, strong, you can have access to a huge number of articles, studies... It is well structured. My only regret, is that there is a lack of actual images of the actions and the process described. +Loving this course!!!!! When I was a teenager we lived on a farm and raised chickens I even had several for pets!! +As a backyard chicken owners, I find this course to be quite helpful in understanding how to better my chickens' living environment.Thank you :) +I started this course knowing nothing about caring for chickens and have completed it feeling like I now have the knowledge required to properly care for a flock. I have also answered some of my friends questions, leading to the improvement of their flocks lives. +Thank you, it was very helpful. I am starting to raise chickens next year in my backyard and I've learned so much that my confidence is boosted to 100%. +very good course! after finished all the contents, I really have a brief and basic understanding abt birds and chicken behavior +I have learned a lot more about the behaviour and welfare of chickens. Highly recommended for anyone who keeps a few or lots of chickens. +This is a great introductory course for anyone interested in raising chickens or working in poultry science. Doesn't go much into biology of chickens; just the methods of raising and drawing conclusions based on observations. +pretty basic information with lots of repetition. course is short and really can be completed in an evening or two. instructor is knowledgeable. video of lecture doesn't add to presentation. there are few examples or interactive sessions and most of the time the instruction just speaks in front of a chicken cage. if i evaluate this course dispassionately then i don't think there is much difference between watching this course and reading a 5-10 page article. +Really great! (if you want to learn about chickens:) +Good overall information about small personal flocks as well as the commercial use of chickens for eggs and meat. +this course is excellant for who want to know more about chicken behaviour and welfarei belive that when we know the normal behaviour we can know the disordersthanks +Fantastic course if you're just starting out in the world of chickens. I feel that I gained vital knowledge which has boosted my confidence in my abilities as a back garden hen keeper. +An excellent course, whether you have backyard poultry or just want to learn more about domestic, show or commercial poultry care, this course is a font of information. +I learned a lot! Thank you. +This course was very very useful for my wife and I (backyard chicken owners). Dr. Sandilands's clear presentation makes it very easy to get the concepts and understand how to apply them in an actual flock. Highly recommended! +This class helped me understand chickens better. +Very well-explained information is given. Anyone who is a chicken-lover or keeps chickens should take this course. It's not too much to learn. The videos are short and to the point, yet well-explained. A very good course. +I have learned so much from this course that I hadn't even considered before attempting to raise layers. I especially appreciate the tips for rearing free ranged birds in an urban or small yard environment; expressly the difference in approach for broilers opposed to the layers. I will most definitely incorporate the tip about liming into our routine. I've used it in the past as it sweetens the soil and helps for a healthier lawn, but now I know it can help lessen events of worms. Couldn't be happier about the decision to take this class. +This is a great class. I enjoyed the videos. I hope to see more classes on poultry in the future. +A very informative and interesting course, a good cover of both behaviour and welfare. Each section was explained well, so no background knowledge was required. I appreciated the additional video content to explain concepts. I would have liked a little more information on disease and nutrition but I understand it is difficult to cover everything in a short course. +Awesome! I took the course to go along with my current job training and will use it to help me advance in my current career. +Clear, concise and comprehensive. Brilliant course. +Can be taken by anyone with an interest in chickens! Good references and interesting variety of topics! +Great!! +Interesting and not too difficult for a complete novice of the topic. +Very interesting course. Truly enjoyed studying the behaviour of the animals I started appreciating a lot. Nevertheless 4 out of 5 stars because I felt the course is typically focusing on the large scale agro industrial side more then the (increasing number) of small scale/hobby keepers. Also I would have loved to learn more about typical chicken health care issues and how to prevent. All in all very informative and definitely a course I recommend! +Learned a lot! +Very worthwhile. Great overview of pertinent behavioral, environmental, physiological and biological factors influencing chicken behavior and welfare. Good videos with supplementary materials that added value to the course. Thank you for making this available through MOOC. +I found this course to be very informative for those who are beginning to learn about chickens or would like to expand their knowledge to improve conditions for their backyard flock. +very good and helpful course +good concept clearing and appropriate problems and assessments to check your understanding. +This course wasn't the most riveting course in the world however it did help me to further my understanding of chemistry. Most of the topics had already been taught to me at school but considering I go to an English school, the ability to approach something from an American point of view was a new experience. This was definitely a useful, informative course which has allowed me to approach content from a new perspective. +Good course, I enjoyed learning chemistry! However, the pdf slides could be much better made, since most of them are empty, and the errors in the quiz should be corrected +If you have the time and the work ethic, it is a great course that will teach you so much +Great course to learn the basics of Chemistry! +This course was intriguing and eye opening for me. It was relevant and broadly useful.I hope I took the advantage of it and that it will help me in my future learnings of chemistry +The information is not presented well and the math is not always taught. +The videos gave really good explanations. +amazing one,I LOVE the way they teach and the explanations are clear and simple while the course level is not low +Excelent teacher and course! +thorough, detailed, everything's explained clearly, lots of practice problems, great examples and experiments (my favorite are the thermite reaction and the endothermic slush) - loved it and certainly recommend it +clear progressions and simple explanations. +plenty of video resources, very useful lecture notes and exercises solved step by step +I enjoyed every minute of this course and I have learnt so much. Thank you Coursera for this opportunity. I'll definitely recommend this course to my friends and colleagues. +I really appreciate the developers, professors, and all the staffs who have worked behind this course. It is really a wondeful introductory Chemistry course, well explained and filled with great exercises. The team who answer our doubts in discussion forum reply promptly and with great detail explaination. Thank you so much. Must for any chemistry lover or interested in it. +I am very happy i have learn new things in chemistry +This course is quite best for a student want to learn basics properly.👏👏🌟 +The course is very organized and the pace is very reasonable. Looking forward to part 2. +Thank you, this is a very good introductory chemistry course for teens as well as adults. +GOOD COURSE +I wanted to give a four-star rating because of the fact that I couldn't grasp quite a few things, but then I remembered that it was just me. They explained everything very well, I would very much recommend this course for anyone seeking knowledge on Chemistry. +I was really bad at chemistry to be honest and didn't like this subject somehow. With this course I am starting to love it, lesson are taught very clearly and explained in detail. Yeah, it's true that you don't like what you don't know :) +Very interesting course. Many examples of problems. Good lecturers. +Love the works of the class! Videos are easy to follow and go along great with the provided notes.5/5 +Very thorough, easy to stay self-motivated with the clear objectives and accessible lectures. Occasional demos were a treat! +Very good course! +the best explanation so far , thank you !! +Loved it! Some Organic chemistry courses coming up then? lol +Very good course with knowledgeable professors. +Very nice course! +Great course, complete and very well explained +It's a great course, but some of the questions could be improved. Many of the questions were too lacking in content. +it very very effective and useful course. It made me fresh my knowledge. +big biig thanks to my dear helpful teacher and university :) +Simple and clear explanations. Great to identify if you need how to solve problems on your own - so important for uni. +This is a great course. The primary feature is the number of worked and practice problems. Instead of memorizing, one learns by doing. Short of being in the lab, this is the next best thing. +It was a great course. I am looking forward to seeing organic chemistry course +Very good review, especially the atomic structure unit. The stoichiometry unit was also very comprehensive. I hope there could be more on gaseous state and solution/acid-base chemistry. Quizzes are very good. +I love this course +Poor lectures, inaccurate and incomplete information. Narrative about changing colors is reminiscent of Sal Khan. I just can't listen to any more of this. +Well explained and a lot of questions to practice. +Very good course, congratulation to University em Professors. +Very helpful for basic knowledge of chemistry.I like this course, very much. I hope for advance course in Chemistry from University of Kentucky. +I really like this course, it's simple explained and direct to the point. +Pretty difficult but, if you plow through, you will feel like a god damned genius in the end. +A very informative ,interesting journey through the world of chemistry +It's very understandable +It's been awesome so far!!! great work and material. Good way to teach too.Thanks a million +I have never been good at math nor chemistry but the professor explains the various processes in such a simplistic way that so far I passed the quizzes with a perfect score and I have a pretty good grasp of everything she's saying. Granted, I had to watch some explanations more than once but that's just my pace of learning. I'm thankful for this online course and waiting for the certification to become available! +Great tool for students! +Clustering demytified +Redundant, poor explanations and a complete lack of examples about the general concepts and the foundations of this discipline. The interaction between the teacher and the slides is limited to a reading exercise that does not provide any add value at all. Very dissapointed and still wondering if this course is worth my attention -and extremely limited time- or not. Plenty of room for improvement. +I have sat through 4 of the lessons and I am not very impressed. I fell that the topic is very interesting, but the professor does not do a very good job explaining the algorithms. It may be because I do no have the textbook, but overall a rather poor course. There need to be a little more explanation beyond the slides. +good course! +Learnt More Here Than I Did At My College!! +Very useful and well taught +too theoretical without enough practical quiz and assignment +Just read the slide., The presentations add very little since the presenter is (stumbling) over just reading the text on the slides. +Great course! +The course is very insightful and very helpful for the data mining studies at university courses. +I am concerned about the last assignment of this course. And I cannot get any help from here. +This class was a great introduction to the topic of building a data science team.The material was practically oriented, cited a lot of relevant external sources (e.g., news articles about data science), and was easy to understand.The production quality was excellent - easy to listen to, ready to follow the slides, and the questions immediately followed each short segment.I would have preferred it if the Professor had gone through different examples of data scientist and data engineering resumes to show me what performers in each quintile look like and what signals distinguish members of each quintile from the higher or lower quintile. Apart from the signals, and interview questions used to elicit these signals, how would the ability levels be different. +This course was very helpful! Thank you. +It was a bit.... general. That could be a bias of mine, as I have done quite a bit of management-type work, so maybe it didn't feel that new or informative. +Some of the multiple choice questions are _really_ more opinion than fact - making it almost impossible to get them "right" +Really enjoyed myself +Good introduction to managing a team from the perspective of Data Science. +Good overview for those without management experience. For experienced folks -- probably a good number since this is an Executive Data Science course -- it was pretty basic. Also some of the elements come down to management style. For some, other approaches have worked well and might not be ready to switch philosophies based on the course.Otherwise, pretty good. +Very good overview , very interesting and with a very good management approach. +As usual the team does a great job of distilling complex ideas without sacrificing the quality of information. Data Science is a complicated field. Don't be fooled by the topics, the walk before you run approach is super productive for your learning curve if you're not native to this field. +A nice course, and very helpful! +very good course for beginners, in my case I built the same team and processes by heart and it matched the suggestions in this course +Extremely practical and essentially human, this was really interesting to better understand the different roles and how to help data science teams to work together, highly recommended +This seemed more appropriate for a startup, and most of the content was rudimentary +This course was much better than the previous one in the series. +Great class! +Must do it! Really good! +Very helpful and easy learning and objec +A very interesting course focus on the true life with data science teams. This course is more about the day to day life and problem to manage a data science team and less about pure organization. The financial aspects are not covered by Jeff nor the complex problems of people organization. I have noticed that I was the sole person to post on the forum. +A quick and Great introduction on building effective Teams +Nice course. Thank you. +Jeff Leek is great, explains things in a very clear and understandable way. Loved the course. +Very well documented and presented. I thoroughly enjoyed the course. +Great knowledge +Good overview of the roles and skills needed, but loses a little momentum when it gets into the team management side of things, which is covered in many other business courses. +Great course, learned lots about building and leading a data science team; and also some tips on keeping teams motivated and ensuing communication and collaboration works well. +Excellent lecturer and the topic focuses on issues specific to data science teams rather than general business practice. +Good overview of forming Data science team. The challenges are typical of any SDLC project. However I was looking to glean some specific challenges between DSc team and product or marketing teams. +Very useful for learners who do not have a background in Data Science or, Software engineering +Very good course! Thanks to it, i got an interest in developing my skills in Data Analysis further. +Content was good and questions were well-thought. Video lectures however would need written notes to accompany them. Also when videos are as long and fast-paced as it is in the course it would be nice to throw the major point in discussion on the background,this would help clarify and focus the idea the lecturer is trying to convey. +For those non technical coming to the subje +Easy to understand and very valuable +Good pointers but not a lot of unique new insights. A lot of this is based on building any team, not unique to Data Science +Short, well organized, and very useful. Perhaps quizzes could be improved in order to address more relevant topics. Thanks! +Great overview, lots of useful tips, and an interesting angle to approach data science that i was not well versed in. +needed more depth, which still could have been achieved in a 1-week format +If you know anything about management, specifically software engineering management, this course won't tell you anything new. It's very high level survey of best practices. I'm currently working as a software engineer on data science problems alone on my team. I wanted some idea of how data science teams are typically structured for when I need to talk about my work to my chain of command and my peers and for interacting with other dedicated data science teams at my company. I feel I got a pretty good idea of that and a better understanding the roles in an ideal team. I also feel prepared for the future if I were to apply for a role on a dedicated data science team. As far as actually building a team myself, I think this course won't really give you that if you don't already have other management experience, but it does give you some insight on the specifics of data science people. Finally, Quizzes could use some review, the answers don't often line up grammatically with the questions. Also the one with the instructor's LinkedIn profile linked doesn't work because LinkedIn covers the content and wants you to create an account. A link to a resume or something might be better. +Excellent Certification course on Team and deliverable management related to Data Science. +Very basic +Material presented was succinct and easily understandable. +Very informative course on building a data science team! +I will be using in my project,It is really important to articulate the various areas of my organization with the data censors, can work transversally +very informative with practical inputs. +Some of the videos are very basic concepts on how to lead a team (i.e.: Management strategies, common difficulties,...). It is already known things for a manager with some experience leading teams. This course could be shorter. +great course and instructor! +Great useful course +For most people this might be four stars. There is solid content here, but I couldn't help but feel a lot of this stuff is fairly standard OD/management material and in some ways, it felt like asking, say, a project manager to deliver a data science course. If you have never done any managerial training or read material on intrinsic motivation, org and team culture, then you will get value. For me this was pretty stock +The mode of teaching was interesting and I hope you can do better in the area of providing answers to questions we missed after the course. Thanks for the opportunity given to me. +The explanation of roles is clear. So are other remarkt / piffalls / do's and don'ts. But those are valid for all specialist functionsCouple of remarks:(1) The target audience seems to be the data manager, rather than any executive (C/ C-1 level) of function (HR) dealing with building a data science team.(2) With regard to management and organizing, I missed the "academic" level (organisational design) nor did it help in setting up data science (where / how to start ?). +Hi everyone !It is my honor to appreciate what I learnt from this course. I love it,the university,and the instructors. It is a step forward for my carrier. +I'm not sure if the material presented in this course warranted a whole separate course (even if it only was one week). It probably could have been inserted in various segments of a larger data science specialization throughout the classes. Most of the topics discussed should be common knowledge to a mid-level manager of data science or even strategic marketing in general. +Rudimentary HR / new supervisor level information. Not specific to Data Science either. +Really well put together material and the Jeff Leek is engaging as a lecturer +This material is important, but the assessment quizzes were tedious as the right answer often hung on some small obscure remark that was hard to recall. +Great course for someone who will be leading a DS team for the first time. +Really great course, quick yet informative! +too pricy +This course delivered all the materials the way I expected it to and was easy to understand. +A good, enjoyable course with some interesting additional reading. I think I would have preferred a little more detail/content to have given it a full five stars. That said...I am very happy to have taken and passed the course. Thank you all involved. Now on to 'Managing Data Analysis'!! +Good and useful material +This course gave me good insight about building a data science team that can be easily related to my work environment. +My name is Jose Antonio from Brazil. I am looking for a new Data Scientist career.Please, take a look at my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseantonio11I did this course to get new knowledge about Big Data and better understand the technology and your practical applications.The course was excellent and the classes well taught by teachers.Congratulations to Coursera team and Instructors.Regards +There could be more work in the assignments in this course. The Quizzes are very simple. +Thanks +I will like a little more of excersices, "real"/"simulate" problems. +Great course! +Lectures are very brief and concepts that were delivered will surely help Data Science Managers intheir profession. +In my opinion this course does not fit to the specialization well. Not sure how big proportion of the specialization students have a background different from data science and are going to manage the data science team. +Very clearly presented! +Good course +Excellent overview of the structure and dynamics of data science teams in various types of organizations. +good insights and ways to avoid problems in building and importantly advertising your team +Very short. Quality of the course is OK. +Very challenging and practical +It does what it says +This is a great course and a daring venture for what is really an art form, beyond it's scientific requirements. This part of the specialization needs a little refinement.I posted this in the discussion forum.· 7 days ago · EditedFirst of all.....these guys running this data science department have their hands full. They are teaching live classes for students who have spent OODLES (lots) of money to attend this prestigious college . Johns Hopkins is about as good as it gets for a medical degree. Then they are doing experiments and other data science for the research division of Johns Hopkins which is also as good as it gets........THEN they are doing these MOOC courses on top of all their other responsibilities......Dr. Leek is a University of Washington Alumni, which is also top notch for Data Science.The video lesson is flawed, there is no denying it. But I must say these teachers are very open to improvement in the course and your comments on what could be better done are received and acted upon, so I would include them in your thank you letter to the teachers.ALSO I think these MOOC courses are best done by all members of the department contributing. Truly this field IS a team sport. I feel this course was good, but the videos need to be edited and scripted, so unnecessary language, which dilutes the core knowledge, that must be learned, is not diluted where questions are left in the students head about content when being tested. I learned long ago in a college calculus class that if your mark isn't perfect, it's OK, so long as you pass with a high score......even if it is the teachers fault. The course could use better video production with teleprompter scripting......maybe some AV students at Johns Hopkins could get on board. it will happen eventually I'm sure.You want to take a course that is absolutely one of the best courses I've taken anywhere and truly the best online. Try the number one business course on Coursera:GROW TO GREATNESS, either part 1 or 2, University of Virginia, Darden School Of Business...........A team created course with one helluva a teacher who is a business person, researcher and award-winning writer. I would recommend this course to ANY student and especially E-Teachers.The problem with this course is that there is a lot of information that can be included but may not be absolutely necessary as a "core concept". Needless to say, the more technical skills any employee has, the more insight they will have into their teammate's skills, as well, as the overall mission of the data department and the business it serves. I'm more of a tech and infrastructure person, I'm not real passionate about coding. I find it tedious. The more I learn about it, the more I enjoy it, albeit, from a distance. I can't see myself creating great blocks of scripts, but the more I know about how they are created AND what rules the code in a project must abide by, the better my skills will be as a data center manager. So I'm trying to learn as much as possible about R, Python, and companion programs like ggvis for creating visualizations. I'd say visualizations are an essential skill for a data manager, since you have to present results and projects, questions, and answers to higher ups and other departments.this link comes from the resource section of this course:https://www.datacamp.com/courses/ggvis-data-visualization-r-tutorialThis link or URL is of much more value to me, than a flawed test question and a reduction in my 100 percent average in the specialization.Without this lesson, in this course, I would not have this valuable resource.Another great link, which has a great FREE print publication as well:http://www.processor.com/ ...these people have been advising data center managers longer than just about anybody !Verbally and in the transcript are some nebulous statements that point toward the main idea, that concept being: the more any employee, on any data science or technical team member IS, a "jack of all trades", the better. So that could have been included in some more general way on the quiz, because really that is pretty much a general rule, I've found, working in ANY capacity in the tech industry. I have done a great deal of audio editing, working at numerous radio stations, with Adobe Audition. With others like: Pro Tools, or any other really good quality AV digital editor the result is streamlined, near seamless, audio-video, or one or the other. You just learn how to read and edit wave forms of all kinds.Years ago, in Dallas, Texas, attending Richland College. I learned a valuable lesson. I was taking a college level Calc-Trig math class being taught by the regular professor's WIFE. I don't know if the professor was sick, but this woman, who was teaching the class for the whole semester, frankly, was not qualified. I had always been considered an illiterate by my high school math teachers, a married couple who, frankly, were highly abnormal even on the geekiest scale. These people were acting like they were a world above most people in the class. Needless to say, I assumed, by their "adult" opinions, they were sent by God Himself, to educate me thru denigration.I was amazed, how 10 years later, in College math how well I was doing. I was carrying a 100 percent average ! So midterm this faux professor declares, "I'll be prefiguring all the arithmetic to be easy, so you won't have to bring your calculators !"SO I DIDN'T.......and of course the teacher's wife proclaims....."I didn't have time to make the arithmetic easy so you'd better use your calculators !" I literally had pages and pages of figuring in handwriting accompanying my 3 page test. The result was a C plus on the test. I angrily told the sub teacher "I did not bring a calculator to this test because you said it wouldn't be necessary, therefore I must be allowed to redo this test with a calculator !" She of course relented, "No that won't be possible...that's not a bad grade...." she continued, "what are you worried about ?"........I was so peeved, I was going to drop the class. It was too late in the semester, and I was so disgusted with this woman's cavalier dismissal of my perfect grade that I just stopped going to class. The result was a failing final grade.Who ultimately suffered from this dilemma ? That, albeit, unfairly was me.....who created this "academic" tragedy, by the aggravation of a deeply flawed situation. Once again, that would be me. +The information is useful, but I think the five courses in the specialization could be merged into a single one. +This was a fine overview however I was hoping to drill down into more detail on some of the roles and responsibilites data teams can have. For example data architects, stewards etc. +Good course to build a foundation on how to recruit your data science team +Well organized body of knowledge on how to build efficient data science team, from 0 to 60. Addresses a number of challenges including how to build an inter-disciplinary team, what to expect from practitioners from different disciplines, how to recognize right candidates, how to assign the right mix of practitioners to right business problems, how to cross-polinate the knowledge, how to keep feedback loops at professional level as it's fraught with potential for conflicting opinions, when to stop analysis, how to empower the team to initiate next iterations with business, common pitfalls and more. Worth every $ and all the time you'll spend on it. +great for existence human and android based life-form simulation internal lifestyle...The course improves life within the simulation 10 fold at least(when combined with the other specialization courses) ...Perfect learning tool for those who have worked professionally in research field sin our simulation and yet now have a touch of "the turrings" or you know : CBI...Special thanks to the designers of the course.Top scores for coursera.org &John Hopkins ... +Good but should come after the Managing Data Analysis for understanding better what the people you hire are actually going to do. Preventing the "Dilbertification" of the data science manager. +Gives a good overview for newbies in the field and provides a few great link +Great course +Useful information indeed, but still running into some disconnects between the course material and the tests, which is definitely very frustrating. +Great for a someone who wants to build or invest in a data science team. +Great advice, helpful reference material. +Interesting, but content is a bit limited +Very informative +I have studied this course as part of the Executive Data Science Specialization. I think this set of four courses meet my objectives by providing a very nice overview on the key points of data science projects. They are good to give a flavor on data science and data science projects helping decide if you want to search for more in depth knowledge. +A very helpful course in understanding how the team composition should be and the typical Job descriptions of different members of the team. +Easy to understanding the structure knowledge of building a data science team. +High level but with enough details and context to make sense of the manager/exec/director's role in data science or the enterprise employing data science. +This class had hard quiz.Sometimes it seemed very basic, but some are hard unless you read and learn really well. Great class/knowledge. Practical real-life examples help. +Excellent Course for everyone keen to learn data science. +I think the questions in this course do not map as well as they could to the lectures. But, overall it's very helpful. +Precise and relevant, and gets one into the groove ethically and practically , on the nuances of on-line learning and ettiquette. +A good overview on how to build and manage data science teams. +Very enjoyable and useful. +Gives a good idea of the roles required to build a competent team, dispelling the myth of the all encompassing data science guru +Short yet nice :) +Building a Data Science Team does indeed contain helpful recommendations for starting data science teammanagers/executives; for me it had a little too much of a Hu +Good overview on the roles and how to align expectations. +Probably, I wouldn't have a course just about how to hire/build a data team. +Expensive course.Good for how to find a team. +Great overview of building a data science team +Excellent resource for a manager in data science projects. +The courses in the specialization are - in my opinion, excessively short. +I really enjoyed this course and I have found a lot of similarities with issues and challenges that I face every day at work. This has been very useful to me bot as a way to get inspired on new ideas and techniques, and as a way to confirm what I am already doing.However, there were few occasions where I found the quizzes not to be clear enough.In some instances this was due to the fact that the question asked required some extra knowledge that couldn't possibly be achieved only by reading the course material or listening to the class. I was lucky I new the answers because of my personal experience but it seemed quite unfair in my opinion. Also lectures materials are very short and don;t provide any extra information.In other cases, the answers, especially when there were multiple answers didn't seem to be clear enough and sometimes contradicting what I had listened in the class. I don't remember specific cases at the moment, however I have left feedbacks throughout the course. You should have my feedbacks where I mentioned specific questions that in my opinion were confusing.Hope this helps,Giacomo +Great Course, Loved it. +Very good and interesting course, I recommend! +Ver good with clear and on point material. I would suggest to include real life stories of success and failure some managers had in building a data science team, and discuss about the mistakes or the strengths of their recruitment process. +Good interesting material but the quizzes were badly designed and did not test concepts well. +Covers theory of basics for building the team very well. +Topics are explained pretty good +information is useful. But, still, it is a shame to split one month course to 4. +Good overview of the different roles and skills needed for the roles of a data science team. +Very good practical review of the composition of a data science team. +I thought this course was great. +Thanks for your efforts, I can't put my hand on something specifically and say good job! but you did a great job! thanks for sharing your knowledge for everyone on earth without any complication!You have taught me a lot and I own you a lot! +Very Informative & Elaborate +Good coverage in a very fast intro to the subject. Definitely take away some things I am able to put into use in my work. I get the feeling this is quite a new course (compared with the very well established Data Science Specialization) and does not have the student interaction base yet. I hope this aspect develops - perhaps even with the TAs. For this level course student interaction could be even more valuable than the more hands on data science subjects. Hope this specialization takes off as well as the DSS did! +Great idea and syllabus.The videos are too short and missing some explanations. +Great Course +This is a great course for helping you decide where you fit in the data science domain. The content is very clear, informative and have definite suggestions and conclusions. Unlike most of the information available on this topic, which mostly says that you need to be a unicorn to be in this space, this course talks sense, divides scope, suggests achievable targets and you can plan and assess rationally.Also Jeff is a classic teacher,it's always rewarding to listen to him whatever be the topic. +Excellent course, good for both the medical professional and the interested layman. +it is a wonderful course. Highly recommended! +it is very good course but need more case presentation.to be more clinical more than academic part. +excellant/good job/ it help me in my studies ,my clinical work and devolope my skills +Learned a lot! +Perfect class ! +Learnt a lot, would like to get more advanced information on same topic +Wonderful course. Great instruction on very interesting topics. Videos support learning and a good amount of information every week. Thanks for the organization and delivery of this course. +Very well structured, gives basic knowledge and additional assignments to explore the subject. To go into details time schedule is sometimes a limit but possibility to continue in next section and finish the course can be a solution. Discussion forums and practical examples helped a lot.I really enjoyed this course. +Great course! +Very nice Medical Course..Must be done by individuals +very informative indeed. +Great! very well structured. +A very well designed and delivered course. I found it very useful, very well structured and the content was relevant and in the right amount of detail. Excellent course. +not being a physician I found this course challenging, but very interesting. thanks so much. +Very labor intensive and stressful course. However, I learned a lot. +Very useful for all the users, who are not still working in the transplantation field: for those people this course is perhaps too superficial. +fantastic graphics,clear content and concepts. +Perfect balance of content, teaching excellence. It has been very gratifying to take this course. +brilliant tuition and information, thank you thank you thank you! +Interactive, very well organized, good communication with the mentors, also updated information. +Awesome material and knowledge. +A great course to understand the procedure for non-medicos +Very well informed. +Sometimes hard to understand the speakers.The medical knowledge is also assumed to be relatively high, with no references to some of the terminology and background reading material that can bring one up to speed. +This course deserves no starts. There were no instructors answering the many questions raised by the students. There were no explanations for wrong answers, and so no opportunity to learn. I was helping other students understand the assignments, and spent extra time grading submissions as no teaching assistants were available to help.There were a couple of very good teachers in the specialization, however the structure is critically flawed and your time would be better spent studying on your own.Avoid not just the capstone, but this entire series. +It was realyy interesting expierence!!!Thank you! +Exvellent specialization you can learn alot from this. Recommended. +The course was great for the most part. The material was more challenging than previous courses in the specialization and really helped me pull everything together and understand everything a bit better. I will say that I felt there was a huge gap between what was taught in the Neo4j course and the Neo4j assignment in the Capstone. I'd learned a lot from the assignment, but it took me loads of time and their were parts I still don't really understand. There are also a some broken hyperlinks to previous course material. I'd also like to see better support for a paid service. There is no interaction from a Coursera employee or course instructor in the forums at all. It would be nice to have someone to clarify some instruction or material that may not be clear at times. +The capstone, just like the courses of the specialization are a strong illustration of the problems of higher ed. +Bad course. Things mentioned by the instructors are naive. According to my knowledge (my knowledge about Chinese philosophy come from A History of Chinese Philosophy, Youlan Feng; History of Chinese Philosophy, Sze-kwang Lao), that is not Chinese philosophy at all. +This serves well as a basic intro but not for people who are looking for a deeper dive. +It‘s not difficult， maybe I’m major in history， so I find this course very interesting. +incredible course！ +Some profs are very good, some are terrible. The terrible ones need to improve their teaching skills and even language skills. As a native Chinese speaker, I find some of the lectures very boring.Good lectures are clear, concise, and right to the point.Good teachers make the learning experience effortless and fun, poor teachers make it like a torture. +I learnt a lot and have enjoyed the course. Than you all the teachers! +very good.excellent lesson and very nice teachers. +The method of delivery is a bit conservative, dry and boring but matter wise, it was really comprehensive and easy to understand. Good beginner course. +Interesting material! It is really useful to understand the basic of Chinese phylosophy. +A little boring. Some lecturers did not deliver a good presentation and some "philosophical masterpiece" are not practical at all. +It's a good starting for Chinese Philosophy。 +Really far from the courses by NTU...quite disappointed. +A good course that gave me a good refresher on at least what I grew up with decades ago. It also introduced me to two that I am aware of but have not read them. I especially like 王阳明 whose philosophy I resonate with. I checked out his work 传习录 from public library thereafter and am a firmer believer in how I would continue to conduct my life working with others.无善无恶心之体 有善有恶意之动知善知恶是良知 為善去恶是格物 +As a health professional who works mostly (basically ONLY) with pregnant women, I found this course very interesting and at the same time I gained so much knowledge from it. I recommend this course to anyone looking to expand their knowledge of this process in a woman's life. +I like access to learn childbirth Emory university ! +I am really enjoying this course +It's AWESOME! I can't believe how powerful our mind can be, it's great to learn how to improve our learning process +I think this course is awesome, I really feel that I can learn what ever I want if I apply the techniques seen on the videos, THANKS! +Loved it! Planning to use all the techniques. +Thank you very much for this course! This really help me to understand about how the brain works and the interesting new learning techniques that I was not aware that they exist. +[ESP] Excelente curso!! Abarca interesantes hechos sobre el cerebro y conceptos del proceso de aprendizaje. Adicionalmente (y no menos importante) el curso ofrece valiosos consejos del día a día para ser exitoso en el Aprendizaje (y en la Vida en general).Lo recomiendo para personas de todas las edades y/o intereses (estudiantes, profesionales, etc).[ENG] Excellent course!! It covers interesting brain facts and learning process concepts. In addition (and not less important) it gives you valuable day-by-day tips for being succesful in Learning (and Life in general).I would recommend it for people of all ages and/or interests (students, professionals, etc).Thanks to Dr. Barbara Oakley, Dr. Terrence Sejnowski and all the people that made this course possible! +Useful, very interesting course. +I think this course is totally awesome, because even if you are a good student all the information that you understand here helps you to get more deeply the way you learn, so this way you can increase more effectively your study habits, be accurate with all things you want to learn and encourage you to learn more and more. +A great way to learn more +ONLY ONE WORD: WONDERFUL !!!!! +best of the best +GReat! +Learned a few things from this course. +It is an excellent course which shows you useful tools that you can apply during your whole +Excellent!!!, I learned much in this course about many technics and methods about how to learn more easy and is really useful +Amazing course and amazing teacher. Thank you so much +It is a incredible course, you must to enroll it. You will love, it is fantastic for know how to learn of the best way. +Excellent course, outstanding instructors, highly recommended. +An excellent course, I learned pretty good tips to improve my understanding on how I learn, it is still a day by day process to get use to, but it is fun and encouraging to know our minds always have the opportunity to grow. +Very fine, congratulation for dedication and compromise. +I love this course! +SUPER SUPER EXCELENTE, ME HAH AYUDADO MUCHO A MI Y A MI FAMILIA TANTO EN EL AMBIENTE PROFESIONAL Y ACADEMICO +Se lo recomiendo a todo el mundo, realmente es un curso que ayuda a replantearse la forma que tenemos de aprender.I recommend it to everybody, it is a course that really helps you to think again about the way we have to learn. +Great! Thank you :) +Absolutely amazing. I'm begging you who is reading this to not drop out of the course. The teachers really put it together in a very friendly, understandable way. +Everybody should take this sourse! +I will try now a Summary of the whole course, without notes, by memory, so I am going to...Recall the Learning how to learning course of Coursera.Our brain is the most complex thing that human been has discovered in the whole universe. We are still learning how it works and about its functions. At the moment we can talk about two basic modes that our brain uses in the learning process of both academic and non-academic subjects.The first mode is called Focus Mode: we put our attention in one specific idea, concept, material, or text that we are trying to learn for a reasonable time: not too long. We do not want to make tired our brains. Here we keep away as much as we can any distracting stimulus (phones, internet, friends, etc.). Focus Mode is an important part of the learning process, but not the only one.The second mode is the Diffuse Mode: it is related with all the process that our brain does while we are in a more relaxing moment. For instance, when we are sleeping, or doing automatic things like riding a bike, driving a car or just eating or watching television. This process is as important as the focus mode. We hardly could imagine the deep connections that our brain is making during this. The Diffuse mode allows our brains to discover new ways solving problems that sometimes we cannot manage with the focus one.I will continue with more concepts and less words:- The importance of mix both modes (focus and diffuse)- The importance of doing physical exercise (work out) in the resting moments or breaks during learning process. Sports or exercise in general maintain our new neural connection alive.- excercesing- The importance of go beyond procrastination:o The use of Pomodoro Techniqueo Having a Plan B to overtake bad habits, and create new better reaction when our minds do not want to do what we need to do because it looks boring or difficult what we are trying to learn.o Understand that the pain we feel when we simply think in these things that we know we need to do but we do not want to, is absolutely normal. This pain or ugly sensation will disappear when we begin to do it.o The more you delay the things you need to do, the more stressed you will become.- The importance of using metaphors and analogies to learn and assimilate new concepts or ideas. The more visual, likely the best.- The importance of “recall”: bring to memory what you are learning. It will be much better than read one time after another the same text, or repeat again and again something that you already know, but maybe you do not really understand in a deep way.- The importance of study in a large period of time, repeating a little bit every day the material you need to memorise, and understand. The more you master the concepts, more time you will leave between every new study session of this main topic, ideas, subject or material.- Create a task list:o Do it before going to sleep.o Write on it: your goals, and what works for you, and what does not to reach these goals.o Be realistic in your goals. Step by step.o This list will save working memory energy (you will stop thinking any moment: “oh, what I need to do?” “Am I forgetting something important?”....And all this kind of questions that make you tired and lose your vital energy.- You can improve your learning process if you know how to work in a good way with partners that are achieving the same goals of you. If you study in a group, try to:o Start on time the study sessions.o Prepare the material before the session.o Try to create answers for the questions if any.o Be active, giving examples or showing possible answers, and asking when you do not know something.o Keep not related with the material small talk as low as you can. And focus the attention of the group in the study object.o If your study group in not helping you, look for another one.- You have to use both sides of your brain. This is important because if you do not, one side of your brain could confuse you making you think that everything you have done in your test is correct. You must go back in your test and check your answers again. It is not a bad idea to review the test in other order than how you just did it.- Taking a test:o Check the before-test list before your test.o Ask your teacher everything you cannot understand.o Study hard until the test day, but then try to relax. The stress will never help your brain working well.o Use relaxing techniques like breathing exercises, not only just before and during the test, but also weeks before the exam. Remember: practice makes permanent. So, learn how to breathing deeply to liberate the stress.o Order to do your test: try to star with the hardest problems or questions, but if you see you are stack on them, Jump to easyo You can change the way you feel about something changing your thoughts and reactions after some sensations. For example: you feel yourself completely anxious and stressed, your hands are sweating and your heart bit fast, because the test. Here you can see two options of thoughts about these feelings: a) this test will kill me; it makes me feel so afraid about it, or b) this test makes me feel excited! I want to do everything I can to pass it!- List before tests- You can change your life changing your thoughts.- Take rest correctly the night before the test: this is maybe the most important point of the list before test, because if you do not sleep well your brain will be working with toxic fluids that will not allow you to think in a correct way.- It is absolutely normal have a hard moment during your learning process. Sometimes you may perceive like you are going back on it, but it is not true. That means you are creating new and better basis for your knowledge. If you continue practicing and studying every day at least a little bit, you will improve for sure!- You can learn and improve in any area of learning, not only where you find you have facilities or better capacities. You can also pride and take energy to improve from the very things that other people might use to convince you shouldn’t do this or that, telling you, for instance: “oh, no, you cannot do this. You are not good in this stuff, try another thing...” In the same way, you do not need to feel envy for others.- Sleeping after study will help you to internalize what you are learning. If you dream about the new concepts or ideas is even better.- Try to teach other people what you are learning. This will also help you mastering the concepts.- We can learn how to learn!- We can learn at any time during life!- Learning is beautiful!Thanks a lot my friends! +I am ver grateful with both of you, I learned some much things and I will apply these to learn every day. +Great information, great teachers, I love +Awesome course, I recommend you to take THIS ONE before any other course you want!! +I WISH I had known this information since elementary school! It truly is important to know HOW to learn. Way too many people are just getting by when it comes to their education because they don't know how to learn what they need to know. Dumbed-down tests don't help, either. Want to be truly competent in your field? This course will help you get there! +EXCELENTE TOTALMENTE RECOMENDABLE, TEMAS CLAROS Y BIEN EXPLICADOS POR LOS PROFESORES. +It is a great information and it help me a lot +I am a grad student and I am still learning how to learn. This course has been very informative and I have used it to analyze my own learning routines, and hopefully, improve! Barbara is very clear and concise and I enjoyed herlectures and the material. +Very interesting course. Easy to follow and very well explained. Definitely recommended. +Efective and ejoyable!Thanks +It was a great course, I learned a lot and allowed me to jump into understand some key issueas about procrastination which I can also apply into my day to day work and life.Thanks,Diego. +I think this course has very interesting information but it needs a way better format. It needs agile presentations, better, infographics, graphics and design and to be much more flexible and fun.I have not finished it but it does not make me get involved in the content even it is very interesting.It needs a better script and handling of the information to be able to conect with new students. +Notable +Great course! Simple techniques, easy to learn and start using them and become more productive / learner in the day-by-day. +great course for bioinformatic lovers +Informative! +I am looking forward to attend this course from China's number one university +I gained useful insight on data analysis from this course that directly applies to work that I am doing on assessing the accuracy of a new measurement method. +Just great, and really practical and useful! +Teaches some good applications of statistics with plenty of real world examples, and hands on experience with Excel.However, be aware that this class heavily depends on Microsoft Excel, so in order follow this class exactly, you will need a copy of Microsoft Excel and a computer and operating system that can run it. You can mostly get by with alternatives but you will be on your own to figure out how to apply the concepts in this class to LibreOffice or other statistical software. +I had audited so many courses until I found this one. The best!!! +Good instructor. Straight forward material. +good information shared +very interesting course +Great explanation! +Very good course, perfectly interlinking theory and practice of statistic decision making. +One of the best course I have taken in Coursera so far. The subjects is absolutely interesting and the teacher succeeds in making the course both rigourous and fun. There is plenty of practice material to consolidate the knowledge. +Good revision for data analysis using Excel. +This is is one of the best teaching courses I have taken. +Excellent Course and thanks indeed +it is an excellent course . very informative , recommended to all teachers involved in hospital based teaching +Excellent, Illustrative course. Highly recommended for all health care personals.who facilitate learning. Thank you all +Excelent Course, fully recommended. +Excellent source of review and practical application of teacher-learner situation. +Great course and great information very useful +this course is pretty thorough as far as data sampling goes. The professor is clearly very well versed in the statistical methods. This course is mainly about statistical methods used in the field of biodiversity, so at the end, you will have to use the formulas mentioned in lectures (without any worked examples), so if you are not comfortable with calculus, it's not for you. The transcripts are helpful but often incomprehensible. +A well organized course from basics of biodiversity to the field requirements; it has covered the necessary methodologies. It was very useful. Special Thanks to Dr. Roberto Cazzolla Gatti of NRTS University; who was the backbone of the course. +Subs are not always understandable. +At this point of time, when the climate change has gained pace and we are in a different world with erratic and unpredictable climate, it has become essential for us to set right the ecological balance, which is possible only by better understanding of biological diversity. +A very interesting and clearly presented course. I would recommend this course anyone who is interested in the study of biodiversity. +This course was very helpful but there is a need to discuss it more further in details. +This is a great course, very thorough and comprehensive introduction to Biological Diversity. +Great Course!!! +This course seems great, although plenty of errors in the audio transcript. The steepness of the learning curve increased very quickly and understandability decreased after week 3, which made me drop the course. I hope to be able to retake it some time in the future with the right mathematical skills. +Very nice, quick overview. Formulation of equations in Biology leaves a bit to interpretation but this is a systemic issue. The guy is obviously highly proficient and comfortable with the subject matter never falters in his delivery. Assignments are all quizzes and the whole thing can be completed without undue pain. +Lots of new information. Really great course! +Wonderful course +A wonderful experience, a course well planned and structured, and with the best human resource, I will miss this enriching experience. Thank you for helping me to improve and to love each day more my work and to help many people, just as you have helped me .... infinite thanks .... +I really enjoyed Preventing Chronic Pain: A Human Sysyems Approach. The information was invaluable and relative. I learned a lot about Myofascia and Orofascia Pain. Thank you Dr. Friction for presenting an outstanding course on chronic pain +assume class so much practical knowledge +Nice approach to manage chronic pain +Very disappointed with the information provided. I went through the second week, completing all assignments and quizzes, but did not learn anything new. Most of the information provided is common knowledge anymore. I was also a little put off by the frequent self promotions by the instructor, in reference to his treatment center, organizations and book. I am withdrawing from the class. +Overall, great work. The course creators did superb job. My only recommendation is that the questions should be more challenging. Even thought its an introduction course, course participants should be challenged. We should have individual and group work components attended to the course.Deeqo Godax +This was a very informative course especially for child rights advocates +The materials are good and the lecturers were so great. +very informative and good +pretty good course +Informative and easy to digest content that leave students with a better grasp of the challenges that children's rights advocates run into in the past and today. Course content is modern enough to discuss sexting and whether it infringes on the rights of a child. +i would like to thank all the persons who were involved in the implementation of this course, it was very helpful for my work in the child protection field. +I was slightly disappointed by the course: too much information was given and not always in a clear way. In particular, sometimes the sessions were jumping from one discipline to another with not much explanation and this was confusing. Also, the information provided was in huge amounts but not in details. I expected to get more detailed information on children's rights while sometimes the presentations were only very general overviews. +Very informative. I like the additional resources offered for further learning. +I thought it was enjoyable but the quality of some videos was not that great. But the topic and well researched topics were wonderful and made up for it +Although very interesting and very innovative in its presentation I had the feeling this course was an introduction to the Master program at the UNIGE, rather than a stand alone course. At times it was difficult to comprehend the speakers. I would have preferred deepening of one aspect of this topic rather than such a broad approach. +Thank you for a highly challenging, interesting and varied course. I have learned a lot which will be helpful for my work, but also personal interest in this area. I did have difficulty sometimes understanding what was said in the lectures (technical issues) and also I thought some of the quiz questions were not correct. They seemed to contradict what was said in the lectures. Otherwise, it was an excellent course and one I would recommend. +Good basic coverage on children's fundamental rights. The course could have benefitted from assignments being more consistently accurate to lessons as there are some gaps. The last module I found the most interesting as it covers challenges to child rights in real time cultural/social dilemmas. +A wonderful course indeed. I had a lot to learn. Thank you so much. You are doing such a nice job. +The content of the course so far is interesting - and to be fair, I've only completed the first week of this course.Unfortunately, the combination of multiple lecturers within one part of a lesson (often with highly varying accents, reading verbatim from lecture notes) makes the presentation of the course material come off as very stiff, over-directed, and hard to understand. It's hard to adapt to the idiosyncrasies and lecturing style of a new person in a four minute video, at which point you get a whole new lecturer and have to start the process over again.A maximum of two or three lecturers for the entirety of the course (perhaps with the occasional guest speaker) would be helpful. Also, either allowing the them to deliver the course material in their native languages with English subtitles, or perhaps having them record the course material in English in something similar to a classroom environment where they're accustomed to lecturing, would make things infinitely easier to follow.This 'too many cooks in the kitchen' issue is what I also suspect happened with the week one quiz. I do not know who generates the quiz questions but they seemed to require a lot of mental gymnastics for a multiple choice quiz. Perhaps on my end there could be a cultural misunderstanding in how a quiz checks your knowledge of the source material? Let me put it this way: in my previous university studies, I have never taken a multiple choice quiz where the question starts as 'In your opinion...'Sadly, I will probably drop this class - but the course has sparked enough of an interest where I will probably be picking up some books or doing some informal research on my own about this topic. +An interesting introduction :) +After finishing week one I am inclined to say that the course is compared to other courses labour intensive. The content is consistent, well structured and up to the point. However, the level of English of nearly all speakers is more than poor. Most of the lectures are read of the paper. The subtitles do not help to mitigate misunderstandings resulting from the poor language. Instead, it magnifies the problem (e.g. naming the "PISA-test" as "pizza"). Also the power-point slides hold many mistakes, e.g. in the formatting. Even the quiz questions are not free of mistakes and are misleading or grammatically incorrect or even hold incomplete sentences. Very annoying. Overall, the finalizing of the course was not done with due diligence. +Great course and specialization!! +Cover very broad range of topic +Dr Wentzlaff is an excellent instructor and explains the material very well. Homework and tests are well designed: the questions are fair and they help you further your understanding of the material.Only complaint is that some of the lecture video had out-of-sync audio which was distracting.Thank you Dr.Wentzlaff and staff! +Excelent classes, I learned a lot and I'm using it to design my processor using FPGA.Thank you very much. +Absolutely amazing course! Thank you Dr. Wentzlaff and all the mentors that created this course. I would take exception to the number of minutes that are in the syllabus as far as the reading time (it took me significantly longer!) +Very good overview course for CPU micro architecture. +Very Nice +This is the best Computer Architecture course available on Internet. The Exam material is really good. +This course was a very helpful for filling in gaps in my knowledge between high level software development and details of processor architecture and instruction sets (MIPS mainly). I didn’t have the exact prerequisites for this advanced course so it was hard work especially at the beginning (hadn’t done the earlier architecture course recommended and am not an electrical engineer, but have trained and worked in software development and physical sciences). The concepts are not unduly difficult but the course is VERY detailed and the sheer volume of recommended reading somewhat overwhelming: I got by with buying a Kindle version of the Hennessy and Patterson text book (plus a few peeks into a digital logic book). I appreciated Prof Wentzlaff’s insights: he was clearly teaching from experience.The course is however not really designed bottom-up for online teaching. The lectures are videos of actual Princeton lectures, with a few multiple choice questions hacked in. It helps to keep a copy of the slides when watching as when the camera pans out it is difficult to read the diagrams on the board.The course homework was quite difficult, even after the brief solutions were given. The mid-term and final tests exams were however well constructed and instructive and much clearer as to what was required. So all in all a real bargain for the cost of a text book! +vey usefull course, nice professor. +Excellent course, provide real knowledge. +amazing course +Excellent course! It was really nice to have a high-level course, and I feel like this course makes a great substitute for the Computer Architecture course offered in my university. +Fantastic course in Computer Architecture. I highly, highly recommend this course along with the hardware/software interface by U Washington. Advance level course - high level of background knowledge required. +Excellent. The best COURSE very formal. +Too shallow. It's just common sense and a little of vocabulary. +great course +This is a very good course, let me learn a lot of business skills, thank you! +My name is Jose Antonio.In Brazil, English is the second language. Very useful in business.My experience in speaking English is small because I don't practice it every day.I am in transition career to Data Scientist, doing specializations at Coursera.English could help me a lot at this moment in my professional life.The course was excellent and the classes well taught by the teachers.Regards. +I learned a lot in this course.Though I have learned English in China for almost 15 years and doing my master's degree in America, no one has taught me those basic skills of how to text ,how to write a invitation , how to decline an invitation and how to write a thank you note.This course is amazing and useful. +I found this course really helpful. I'll recommend with my colleagues. +Exceptionally good +I do like to thank my teachers for interesting course and for the work they did to teach and share so many interesting business details with me and my peers. Besides I would like to thank my course peers for valuable and positive feedback they gave me during our course. The course is great and it is very interesting indeed. Thanks once more. +informative course +Great!! +I like it! really good module! +it was amazing ,informative , exciting courseThanks +The course was really good. They give you idea what's proper way to use business language. However, it's hard to get professional feedback from the peer-graded assignments. +Very easy and very useful! +Very useful +the networking course has been very interesting, exciting and amazing for me, and, last but not least, very formative! Thanks Daphne Mackey and Richard Moore, and thanks to all the learners: the sharing has been very enriching +very nice and helpful material everyone can start applying instantly at work and daily communications. +Excellent.. Thank you. +Very useful. I am less afraid of socialising at business events. +To the team behind this course, it is actually a dream of mine to become a UDub Husky someday I just took my first step towards experiencing a world-class education. Thank you for the opportunity to learn more about networking in the business world. I can really use this in my day to day life as a young professional and will never forget the pointers I've learned from this session. I look forward to complete this specialization for me to be really equipped in the field wherever I'm at. +It's really good co +I think the course is very well organized and provides great ideas. I enjoyed doing the exercises and quizzes. +Good to learn about language to use in business, for email, conversation. +It was a great course! +Super useful, I recommend it to everyone +I enjoyed taking the course so much. It is very useful for my work.Thank you:) +I really like this course, after learning this course , I feel I am not nervous when talking about work in english +A really nice course. +good course +In this course,we can learn how we write email,or how we call someone or how we invite someone in formal,or informal situation.I strongly recommend this lesson to who want to learn business manner. +great so far +Excelent course. I've really learned a lot about Business English, specially with vocabulary. I do recommend it 110% for anyone who is interested. +This course it is great and amazing. They focus in the real important things. I am very impressed and I learned a lot. +Excellent course. Great teachers and very useful topics. I recommend this course for everyone who is in the business world. +Very good material. +It absolutely amazing course , I personally benefit a lot. really it's not just the certificate .Thank you Coursera for this huge chance. +Nicely organized, all lessons present new information in portions, the assignments are interesting and involving. Surely, one of the best courses on Coursera. +Very good course I wish it was 49 reais. :) +It was an amazing course including a lot of information which is very useful in any company and any work. +Excellent and very solid content ! Structured chapters with very informative and explained examples to develop skills in Business Networking.I'm very exciting to continue this learning adventure with the second course in the Specialization of Business English Communication Skills : Meetings.Thank's to the two excellent instructors Daphne Mackey and Richard Moore for this course ! Thank you Coursera ! +its a very good and interesting course specially if you are new to corporate world. i learn a lot from this course. +The knowledge gained is enlightening and life transforming. Thanks so much to all the the lecturers and everyone who participated in the put together of this awesomely amazing course program. +Amazing teaching. A very good courser for business student. +Excellent! All my expectations were met. Specially when I can see a huge improvement at work. And also I feel confident with my business communication.Thank you, +I got this after Switching, for whatever reason the first time people marked my submission wrong, I sent the same submission, and passed?! +help a lot. +It is really good for improvement of comprehensive English +This course was really great. Thank you very much ! +very helpul +Really helpful. +Learnt a lot. Thanks. +It's a very useful for all beginners and intermediate professionals.Keeping Learning! Good luck to all. +It's very practical. I enjoy it a lot. +Very helpful! +A very slow and dull course. Lost my interest Half way.Probably a course for non-native English speaking students. +Engaging Course. A lot of Assingments. Really structured information. +Great ! +Very basic stuff. Assignments can be done only in the paid version, but as it's so basic and everything is peer graded for me the course isn't worth the money (compared to other paid language learning classes online or in-person). +great course +useful but a little esay for me +The professor does not evaluate your assignments. Your classmates do, giving you sometimes unfair qualifications. I won't continue with the rest of the course because of that. I think University of Washington or Coursera should have said this at the description of the course so people can decide better if take it or not. +This Business English: Networking Course is so great. Thank You Very Much! +It's a very nice course for students who are just starting to enter the workforce and the vocabulary is very useful for everybody. +Great! +Very basic stuff +Nicely taught. +It is a very useful course, I have learned new things about meeting some one for the first time, making the conversation continue, exchanging bussiness cards and writing e-mails +It is one of the most useful course from Courser, and it significantly help me improve my business English skill. +I think it is useful for the freshman like me. +Amazing course. Highly recommended! +This is an amazing course, I completed the week first and learned a lot of stuff regarding communication, I am simply having an amazing time doing this. +It is excellent. +A very useful course! Thank you! +I enjoyed this course it was helpful to me on many different teaching levels. +This course was wonderfully constructed. It took simple, but relevant concepts and made them come alive with humor grounded in realism. +Great course! I highly recommend it both for teachers and teacher trainers. All content is delivered in a very engaging manner. Although I have already had a solid previous experience in the area, I have gained a lot from this course. It is definitely worth taking if you are interested in effective professional development. +Extremely helpful! +Excellent, useful, pinpoints and tackles the issues. +As a teacher trainer, this course reminds me to be clear and specific about my instructions. Sometimes, as a trainer, I got carried away and ended up telling the teachers to do too many things in one attempt. Thank you, Match! +This is my first MOOC and it has been a pleasure. Our instructor was creative and effective at the same time :) +Very comprehensive and useful! +A little to coach "driven" for me but good information and tools to use for specific conversations. +This is a very helpful course that balances theory with practice. The material is explained in an easy to understand way that makes it very accessible, even after a long day as a teacher. The videos and worksheets are quite useful in aiding comprehension of the material, as well as how to put the theories into practical use.Thank you, Match Teacher Residency! +Great course! Especially the practical part of week 4! I adore it! Also, names are awesome: Kraken, 4 horsemen, Big take way! Keep up the good MOOCS! :-) +Very interesting but perhaps not as in-depth as I would have ideally liked. That being said I learned quite a lot and would encourages others to undertake this course of study as well. +Wish this had been around when I started teaching! Invaluable strategies and specific, targeted interventions to improve your ability to facilitate learning and manage the classroom. +Great course! Well done and interesting! +The course +The strategies provided in this course have been very beneficial for me in developing my paraeducator skills. I thoroughly enjoyed taking this course! +I really loved that course! It was intresting, the video lectures were clear, the reading material to the point! I also appreciated a lot the encouragement I was receiving via email in order to meet the deadlines. +Thank you Match for helping make effective mentors! As with the first-year teacher course, I appreciate the goofiness to get ideas stuck in my head, and the serious examples I can relate to. This course also checks my understanding often enough to make sure that I've absorbed the material in the background. +I enjoyed this course. The topics, the instructor, the whole team, and my very wonderful classmates. Thank you, and please keep offering courses like these. +Very good course. Entertaining videos that keep your attention throughout and clearly outline and explain good practices for mentoring teachers. Highly recommended. +Very useful course. Thank you, Match! +Very useful!!! +I took this course after the previous one from Match Education. This was again a very accurate and helpful course. The amount of work is reasonable, goals are clearly set. Information is accurate, with detailed ressources that open the way to real implementation and experiments. Videos and explanation use sense of humor too, which made the whole learning experience very enjoyable. Thank you again ! +That's a very helpful course with many ideas. Thanks a lot!! +I really liked the course. Why only 4 stars? The references are missing, it's hard to validate the studies that are cited without having a bibliography. +I learned very little from the course. The tests were easy. But that's because there was little to be learned. +Of the several courses I have attended, this is the most helpful, juicy, and designed to be immediately useful of all. Nice organization. Nicely differentiated between reading material, video, audio, and practical thinking exercises. Well done. +I really enjoyed this course. I have to admit that it was hard for me to accept the theater-style of teaching at first. However, I soon got used to it, and it was very helpful addition to the normal instructional videos. It was a lot easier to understand different teaching-coaching circumstances through short video anecdotes like the ones seen here. I learned a lot and will definitely play around and maybe even translate the rubric and some of the readings for my Spanish-speaking teachers. Thank you! +The course is focused and clearly presented from a specific viewpoint. I appreciated seeing this topic, which will become an important part of my work in the coming years, from Match Education's perspective. Very helpful! +I took this course even though I am a teacher and not a teacher coach, simply because I loved the course 'Surviving your Rookie Year of Teaching' by Match Education. Your PD coursers are excellent! I only wish you offered more courses here on Coursera. +Very interesting course, I really like it +very poor. even though for the most part I found the videos engaging, the course's overall structure doesn't help to 'read the novel together', as is stated in the title. the quizes are poorly written, even for me, a native russian speaker, it was often hard to understand the questions, and sometimes its plain guess work on the opinions of the course authors. often a required number of answers to pass a quiz is the same as the total number of questions in that same quiz. the essay's topics rarely correspond with the actual reading of the book. for the very first week the essay required knowledge of the book that hasn't been read yet by the participants. or it should be stated that one needs to read the book prior to taking the course. then again that would require the change of the course's name. +Wise and humorous Professor. Charming and intriguing course which serves as a great introductory overview of Chinese literature. +Interesting: old Chinese professor speaks good English, class kind of short. +great course and fun to be exposed to some new ideas +Professor Zweig is a real expert on the topic. +This course gives absolutely unique insight into the making of Chinese politics. This is a very comprehensive course with content that would be difficult to acquire through other channels. I strongly recommend this course for everyone who wants to start with Chinese politics. +Great Introduction! How about part 2? +in depth knowledge about Acoustics and Electronics. Great Course, highly recommended ! +very helpful +really nice material and learning methodology +Very interested information but I thought that the focus was for other thing instead a guitar amplifier +Greate Course. An innovative, encouraging, motivating course, excellent teachers, intensive content. Excellent. Highly recommend. +Great course, now I hope I will make my own bass cabinet. +It's a great course!! Both teachers explain everything in a very clear way!! It's really the starting point for those who want to follow the audio engineering path. +A lot of good info in this course. +It is a great course, and you learn with very simple approaches to all the different circuits and physical phenomena explained. Would be useful to have a summary sheet with all formulas used for calculating the dimensions of a cabinet, as it can be very useful in the future. Thank you! +bad course .. teaching was poor... assignments were very high level.. but teachings very of low profile +The course was very enjoyable, nevertheless I would have expected to learn a little more about sound acoustics. The complementary exercises were helpful towards the understanding of the subjects, especially for the electronics parts. +Absolutely Excellent Course, Fantastic teaching; I found the circuit analysis for the last two weeks really challenging (in a good way). Very glad I stuck with it and finished it. +Real pros telling the fundamental things. This course will open the door into music hardware guts. +It's good for my life, thanks this team! +As a retired EE this was a fun course for me to take, but it does cover a lot of territory quickly. I really liked the more practical aspects of the course +I enjoyed all the lessons and discussions. The whole course was a great experience which eventually enhanced my knowledge and developed new skills. It is my first time to be in an online course but I could say that it is worth experiencing. Its so epic to complete the course. 5 stars men! +Excellent Course. I can't wait for part 2 after this course. Thank you to instruction for sharing their experience and knowledge with us. +For me, this is a very complete course, in my opinion it will be better for the students if you give to us a pdf documentation.I have a digital notebook, so I want to follow the class with the slide in my notebook, but, in general, is a great course.Thanks for taking your time reading this commentGreetings from Mexico +very good want to learn more +I got to know the use of calculus in the real world and it is very exciting. +A very interesting and useful course, and quite a demanding one, too. +Great way to learn the science behind my passion +Love it! +I learned new exciting things about the technology behind guitars and pickups! Great course. +..good for us musicians :) +Very nice intro course. +While the lectures were good, this course had annoying issues, such as in-video questions asking us to refer to previously shown material (which isn't easy given the Coursera interface). A few assignment questions were also poorly formulated. The course would have really benefited from .pdf reference material, for review and elaboration of topics presented in lectures. At minimum, a list of relevant equations would have helped.The acoustics part of the content seemed somewhat sketchy and hand-wavy; the assumptions and limitations behind the rule-of-thumb equations and models presented weren't given much weight, so I wasn't able to get a good grasp of when they were relevant*. The electronics part was more reasonable, but still suffered from some over-simplification (for example, the model of guitar pickups didn't include magnetic hysteresis).All in all, the course was worth taking, but I think the material deserves more rigor.*All models are wrong. But some of them are useful. +The lectures are unpolished and hard to follow, especially as the captions are inaccurate. The mathematics in the course are not explained clearly. +For someone without a couple of years of college or a technical school this could be way over your head. To much to learn in a short period of time. By eliminating all the basic engineering math tutorials and very simple circuit analysis the course would be more focused. It should be a prerequisite to have finished a pre-calculus course to allow for more in-depth presentation of the engineering material, especially the acoustics. However, it does cover a lot of the basics for understanding music engineering. I look forward to part two. +I never thought I'd learn so much in such a short period of time, thank you! +Great. +Need a good foundation with knowledge of calculus(integrals), electrical engineering and wave and acoustics. Not just a course to pick up for fun. +Very informative course. I like the ocntent of it and how it progresses through it. However I think it can improve in termms of practical examples on the differences when changing values of parameters. +Excellent. Very complete and didactic +Lectures have very poor teaching skills. +Good course. I enjoyed watching the lectures, especially from Bocco. The quizzes were also very representative of the course materials. Thanks for a good learning experience. +A very good Course!! +Good course for audio enthusiasts. A compilation of basic electric circuits and audio waves.I enjoyed very much. Would be great if lecture notes were provided.Thanks +I totally love this course! +Blended Learning course was not just a course but an excellent eye-opener. It has helped me to apply new techniques and teaching methods in my class also it has helped me to save more time and to use this time in improving the learning outcomes. Thanks to the great instructors and to all who contributed to this course. +This is a nice online course by great and passionate teachers inside. Thank you so much with the sharing and tips for the creative teaching strategies! +Great! +Do you wanna know about modern and efective edication? Take this course!! +The instructors are didactic and friendly. Congratulations. The course covers broadlythe topic and presents interesting cases. +This was and excellent course. I really was able to understand what high quality blended learning looks like. +Highly recommended ! +I like this innovation in the education. This course is really good job and teachers are awesome! +I am a elementary school teacher in Taiwan, I use teaching of Flipped Learning for 3 years. I feel that Blended Learning is a good way and upgrade my Flipped Learning. It's pretty good course that make everyone to know what's the Blended Learning. +Good overview of what makes blended learning different from just using technology with in-depth looks into the different configurations. The most helpful part was seeing the different models at work in different and unique schools that are each making it their own and taking ownership to build their schools as they want to. +This course offered many interesting ideas about flipping school classrooms, but offered no suggestions about the practical methods to do so. As a teacher, I need to have realistic suggestions about the technology necessary to flip my math class, not a series of testimonials about how great it's going to be once my class is flipped. +Very interesting and motivating course, thanks a lot for it.Only one star less because all the videos i've seen shows lots of computers in closed areas, lacks connection to another "real world": nature, plants, animals, rocks, sports ... and everything that can be learned at school. I love blended learning, and i would like to have more examples "outdoor" to be totally convinced and inspired... +Well thought out, although some of the work and links were unreachable. +Wonderful lectures with heaps of useful information including video on blended teaching in action along with teacher interviews and enthusiastic presenters. The course is self-paced though so you are relying on your fellow learners being up to the point you are for peer assessment. Also some links don't work and there is little or no interaction from the Course leaders or TA's. The lectures are well worth it though. +This Course is good. I got a lot of insight in doing the blended learning model and apply that in my class. +A must for teachers, trainers and educators who wish to be innovative in the field of education. +Michael, Brian and Rob have accomplished what they set out to do. This class is a first for me that upon completion I am confident I can implement the objectives of blended learning my situation and my school with success.The class is planned and paced well with clear examples and explanations. The assignments are not only helpful they are comprehensive. I feel that I can essentially go from idea, presentation and implementation upon the completion of this course. The goal, budgeting and application assignments are clearly structured and students are not just asked to imagine how to use them in a greater context but given ways to implement them directly in a classroom, school or district depending on their personal situation. This practical application makes it possible to truly understand the concepts; it will be hard not to think in these terms when planning in the future.I count myself as one more blended learner! +As always, teachers continue to be the most critical resource in education, new digital learning tools will only be as effective as those using them. As blended learning continues to evolve, the role of the teacher will undoubtedly continue to evolve as well . +Great course! It completely turned my ideas about right teaching process in school. Highly recommended! ++ Very clear explanations+ All the examples from real schools were so helpful and stimulating+ Inspiring(-) Too much focussed on teachers. I did this course because I'm interested in education, but all the assignments were meant for real classroom activities (and yes, they provided alternatives; however I personally didn't think that would've helped me get into the knowledge deeper. Also, I did a lot of assignments for schools when I was studying Educational Sciences, and it's almost impossible to contact a school and do an activity/research there within 4 weeks, so for me it wasn't possible to fulfill the practical assignments) Shouldn't we work together in education, teachers, policy makers, educational scientists etc. Too bad this course was so much focussed on teachers.(-) Too much focussed on the US. Please explain local settings and terms better. Took me a few weeks to figure out what was meant by 'K-12' +highly benefited. +Excellent course. Very well developed and accessible. +Great overview of Blended Learning. I highly recommend the book Blended as well. +Very informative and complete yet concise. It gave me great ideas and tools which I'll be able to put into practice. +Exciting and Challenging approach +Great introduction to lots of different blended learning styles, and tons of resources for further study +I am glad I took up this course and it did help me in having a better insight of what blended learning is! Thank you to all the profs and the team! +This class was very informative and practical. I teach Kindergarten and often things that purport to be K-12 are just not useful for the K level, but this class was really applicable to my classroom and what I am trying to do with integrating technology in an intentional way that complements and increases the efficiency of my instruction +The course is great! It is very useful for me as a teacher.Thank you so much!Olga +The course content is interesting and well laid out. The lack of contact details for course queries is concerning as is purely being assessed by peers who may not follow the grading guidelines very well (providing no feedback etc) +Mind blowing +I think the information in this course is well organized and the delivery is good. The video lectures are high quality and there are a number of different people interviewed, each one giving a different opinion on blended learning. Most of the example schools were elementary so it would be better if they could include some secondary schools as well.One area that this course could improve greatly on is the assessments. They are peer-reviewed and I think the rubric used for grading is so strict that it doesn't allow the graders to interpret what we have learned. I also think that some parts of the assessment being measured really aren't important when it comes to us demonstrating what we have learned about blended learning.If you are looking to learn more about blended learning, I would recommend this course. +Brilliant and well-organized. I am enjoying learning this course. Thanks a lot :) +The best course on the subject I've participated in. +So interesting and so much fun!!! +The theories and the cases give me deeply impression. I think the course is very useful and grounded. +This course is really relevant in today's education system most especially K-12. +I wish I could work in one of their example schools. Great teaching. +Comprehensive and pragmatic. I particularly like the real-life examples of schools using Blending Learning. +great information about new ways of teaching and examples of start-ups +Great Class! many different new ideas to wor +I found this part interesting and useful. While I have been doing most of these things already in the course of planning and writing content, this MOOC has given me more clarity. The peer reviews and discussions are very useful; some of the ideas shared are really good. +Social media IMC and IBM interview was amazing +Very useful, practical and with real-world scenarios. +The role of human centered design in reaching out to target audience has been delved with beautifully in this module. What to use - Image, videos, graphics and which medium to use - mobile, computer, tablet for making the biggest impact is the backbone of this module. +very good lecture and assignment design. But I prefer more case study in the lecture to help the learners better understand the rules. +I really like the concise and informative way in which this course is organized. Thank you for developing relevant, cutting-edge content and delivering it the wide world audience! I think you really contribute to the better world. +Very practical approach with useful information and great guests +Good course, but the assignment was underwhelming compared with the other courses. +Interesting material +good course :)can i get hard copy certificate after finish all modules sir? +Excellent Course to finalize the specialization, It was interesting all the different approaches regarding the way how security, budgeting and other strategies works in the Social Landscape +Day by day my knowledge growing with this amazing science, thanks a lot. +Great course! +This Course is excellent and especially Prof Randy had put in a lot of effort to give this amazing series of Mooc on Social marketing. I highly recommend these Moocs +High quality content and presentation. +I felt like this course gave me a better understanding of why data is so important. I took this class as a way to gain better knowledge of marketing analytics in order to help my non-profit in which I volunteer be more successful and I hope that I can share the knowledge with them so that everyone can be successful. Ducks Unlimited is the organization that I volunteer for. They have a very "old way of thinking" approach when it comes to marketing and, while it takes a lot to listen to its volunteers, I think if I share what I learned with them, hopefully they will listen to the volunteers, specifically this volunteer on how to make things better. I would have given this course five stars, but I felt that in Week 3, some of the test questions were difficult because I had not taken MOOCs 1-3 and wasn't aware there was an order to these courses. If I had known, I would have taken them in order. Thanks for the tips! +Awesome sauce +I did not find that this course added anything to what I already learned. Seems mainly a re-hash of prior material slimly disguising marketing pitch of other Northwestern courses. +Fantastic! Content very well prepared and shown in a clear and didactic way. +Perfect and best course. +Excellent course, very brief but does point out some of the important aspects of SM Marketing. +An excellent course for those new or seasoned to marketing. We live in a digital world and if you own your own business, work for a large company or are a freelancer (like me) you can grow your business and benefit from this class. Seriously do yourself a favor and take this class!! +All these courses have been wonderful! +Excellent and practical approach! +Great course! The course material is focused on the current Social media techniques. Recommended! +Another excellent class in the series. Straight-forward information about transforming social media marketing knowledge into an ongoing program. +This was a fantastic Course +not as good as the others and way too quick +A great start to this specialization, and excellently done. I've found out things in this course that made lightbulbs go off above my head - and after having finished all 5 courses, I've signed up again to review, and to get the paid version of the course! +I've really enjoyed taking this course and I've learnt a lot of very valuable lessons. +relevant contentIt would be nice to add a practical piece e.g. sell social media marketing program to our top management using tools from teh course. it would be 5 stars thenanyway welldone to developers of the course! +Good "cookbook" for create, apply and manage applied marketing, in a real term to a company. +Super courseThank you Professor and Northwestern University and Coursera for some wonderful material +Although still very good and insightful, I found that this MOOC was the less strong of the specialization and the three first MOOCs were the ones that taught me the most. Especially, I found this one was missing a peer-to-peer assignment. In MOOC 4 we were told to write various tweets corresponding to different parts of the Maslow's hierarchy. Logically, I assumed that the next peer-to-peer assignment will be about the results and how to interpret them and where to go from there. But no. Furthermore, we could have been asked to prepare a Business Plan to defend the project as taught in this MOOC. No again. +you can really learn a lot of social media and digital marketing with all this courses +Interesting course on the business side of social media marketing +Phenomenal Course! +Thanks for a better understanding of the business of social media and marketing. The series has really clarified much for me. +The course content and delivery ha +What I liked: Materials have quality and a professional approach. Speakers add value to the discussion. Toolkit is important.What I didn't like: This course, as most of Northwestern courses, is excessively short in video lectures per module. In this course each module had about 20 to 30 minutes of videos per module. That is clearly insufficient. Most courses in Wharton's, U. Michigan's and Illinoi's specializations in Coursera, have more video materials per module, than your courses in totality... 1.5 to 3 hours per module in the three institutions mentioned in average per module against about 2 hours of videos on all your course modules combined. That is a serious and very salient gap, that I think you should reflect on. In my opinion, quality MOOC's either singular courses, either specializations have to be very well balanced in content - both in quality and quantity. Your courses have very reasonable quality, but fails completely in quantity. As competition in the online e-learning domain increases at an impressive speed, you should benchmark what I mentioned above and do something about it, or probably after 2/3 runs of your courses, people with churn for more addedd value offerings in the dimensions that I pointed out.Good luck. +A lively introduction to the basic theories of Communication Science with a very easy-to-follow approach. I was getting into Journalism at the time I took this course and it has helped me a lot in the acquisition of some fundamental knowledge. +It is awesome.But if video quality can improve and add some interesting video,it will be much more better. +Hard; lot of theory, much information... but very complete. Very good course! Thanks! +Great I have learned a lot from this course! Recommended 100% +This course is good, however, it seems to much academic without practical experiences or exercises for learners to practice skills and knowledge. +It is an interesting and interactive course. I have learnt basic Communication science theories with a visual and understandable methods. Thank you so much for your great course! +Explain the basics in easy-to-understand language. Extremely useful for beginners. Cute visual aids! +This course was incredibly delightful and very helpful, as a media and communication student, this course widened the information I had and helped me with my home university courses. Thank you! +This course transmited good examples, and taught us to think about the media, in general, and the paper it has in our lives. But I think the more important thing was that our teacher taught us how to construct a different way to look at the world aroud us. Thank you! +This course is awesome! I learned a lot about communication science from this. +I love it so much! +This was an exceptional class in every way! The course was well organized and expertly delivered. The faculty presenter was engaging and energetic with an excellent grasp of the communication science content. I appreciated his examples and the integration of theory with an historical developmental focus. I wish I lived in Amsterdam and could attend your classes on a regular basis! +Very good lecture in selected content and presentation (interesting, motivating, concise and precise).The course could improve by providing a written script in addition to the excellent lectures, as this would make summarizing the material and preparing for the tests easier. +Give me new perspective in communication science +This is a best course for the Beginners in the Communication. +It was an awesome course with very relevant material from different scientific perspectives. I am really happy that I took this exactly course. Thank you for fantastic presentations, notes and interactive discussions. It was a real pleasure. +I love the example stories, very simple and effective. Thank you! +A great introduction to the Science of Communication, very interesting and properly articulated. +Loved this course! The University of Amsterdam has one of the world's best communication programs so when I found out that they offer a very short and condenses crash course on Coursera, I had to take it! It's a shame the university doesn't offer other courses regarding different aspects of this field. Would have loved to take more. Regardless, I give this course 5 stars! +An awesome course, very interesting and the teaching method was awesome. Loved the drawings presented, it made it a lot easier. Hope to be studying at this University in the future. +Good course. I would like it better if there are more depth in theories and analysis/examples used in lectures are more reflecting social media and the use of more cutting edge innovation in communication technology. +This is the first MOOC that I've taken and completed and it was very well put-together. Videos were of a reasonable length and interesting, and the quizzes were just challenging enough to test my learning and make me think. For anyone interested in the topic, I would recommend taking this course. +what to say about the Universidade de Amsterdã ? My Congratulations! +Great +The course explains variety of theories connected with communication science. The lectures included in the course are great and pleasant to watch. However, in my opinion the instructor gives too many information per minute and it's hard to note everything without spending hours analysing the lecture over and over again. Everything else was great! +Thank you for your valuable efforts to create this online course. It was totally of great use! Waiting for your next courses! +It was really fun studying this MOOC. I had a really wonderful experience even though I'm not a Communication Science major (I just took it out of curiosity to learn!). +I think the difficulty of the course and progress is very suitable for beginners, you can see very attentively when producing, I looked up some information in learning, think that teacher is very clear. So this course I'm very satisfied, very happy! +simple&clear,but not easy +it's very basic but excellent framework course about communication science. enlightening and inspire functions from either historical level or 3 mainstream approaches for communication study. +This was a great introductory course into the world of Communication Science. I learned a lot from this course. +While course uses a genie method for presentation the content, Quizzes are just made to accomplish one goal: to make sure you have memorized every small detail haven said in the course. Even if someone memorizes the details like specific names and dates, for how long he/she is going to keep it in mind? 2 days? On week? +Wonderful, enjoyed it. +Great course! Great capacity for synthesis of complex subjects, and tests are very useful +Dr. Rutger de Graaf is a great professor of communication science :) +I truly enjoyed the content as well as the format of this class. While the pace was very swift, it was apparent that a lot of thought was put into developing this course. I feel like I've gained a quality education on the basic introductory information to Communication Science. The Little Box of Nuances inspire me to further explore this subject. +From the first two lessons, I learned the general ideas and brief history of communication science, which provides me a frame and an overall picture of developmental path. +nice teaching +Helpful introduction basic theories and approaches in the Communication Sciences, which were explained clearly for those new to the field. +I thoroughly enjoyed it. The course material clarified many of the things I had learned during my years working in the communications field. The supporting material was excellent, the videos were well done, helpful assignments and the final exam was an excellent review of the course material. +Intresting and well structured course to give an overview of communication science, inc the history of it. It is not a hands on course to learn something to do but a good introduction course. I did it before going deeper into PR. +Great course! +It was a very interesting course and I like it very much. Thank everyone, who have been spending time to create it +Perfect! +Great course. Many thanks to this amazing University and its staff for making the world better. +Excellent introduction to the subject - clear, concise and engaging. A very condensed overview of the key topics, which is exactly what I expected/wanted, and presented in a friendly and enthusiastic way. +The course is an introductory course in the subject. I really want another one which is more focused on the cultural approach, given that we are facing many multicultural challenges in the work environment. Dealing with too much differences could be frustrating. Trying to communicate better then becomes a must. Thank you +The structure of the lectures is not really effective. +The course was very good. Learnt a lot.Thank you. +This is a brief overview, basically food for thought. I liked the small portions this course was broken into, it made it all the more accessible. +An excellent course, very interesting material, extremely well presented. Thanks so much for providing it. +The bulk of the material in this course intersects many disciplines (history, philosophy, psychology). Almost all of the material and information was new to me -- and I found each lesson interesting.So much value offered for free. +This course inspires me to observe, think about and analyze our media, culture and the society as a whole. After finishing the course, my horizon has been broadened, and I ammore interested in getting to know and read more about communication science as a way to support my career planning. I feel very glad that I took this course. +Very clear and complete! +Interesting first approach on communication science. +Great! Concise and comprehensive at the same time! Exactly what an introductory class should offer you: a good presentation of the field and a healthy sense of curiosity. +Great and extremely helpful MOOC. Thank you! +i think its a good way to introduce someone with little experience to communications science +very fascinating course +very impressive course but the accent........................................ +The Prof is awsome! I love love love the course +Very useful course! +This course introduces some basic but important concepts and theories of communication. It fits new leraners even through they knew nothing before. And most importantly, the doctor is so wit and helpful that I like the class best. +Informative though a little basic. +it is very useful。 +very useful and completementary vision....very nice work, interprets and MOOC +A wonderfully designed course. Really helpful and gives an in-depth view of the science of communication. +I founded so basic, I didn't feel engaged to continued. +Great course to understand the importance of the communication sciences! +great mooc +Amazing course that gives you an interesting experience. Really like it. +Excellent course, very rewarding. +Great material, great methodology and lots of knowledge to apply in a communicators daily work. +It is a really nice introductory course on Communication. Includes the basic concepts and helps to influence, tools and channels used in communication. +Very well structured and concise information.Unlike the classic "Introduction to communication theory" class that's available in most of the Universities worldwide :) +Great course! +Really interesting course. Useful and applicable in marketing, branding and public relations. Also good for those who want to expand their understanding of mass media and socio-cultural influence on each and every of us. +I'm leaving because I can't keep up with an 8 week course given in 4 weeks, and even less if the course keep on refering to the 8 weeks time frame. A pity, I loved this course. +The course is all comprehensive about models and concepts of communication science, however the break-down into small lectures turn out to be too brief in my opinion to develop rich understanding of the subject. It would be more conducive that lecturer expands more on the cutting edge study and research, to give people a sense of the finding of the field and its benefits. +A ver good course! +Very interesting and informative course. +It was interesting. Thank you for the french subtitle +Interesting +really helped in clearly understanding the various theories of communication as a concept. thank you for developing such a wonderful MOOC. waiting for some more courses from the University of Amsterdam so that I can learn something else. +I am the student of Communication Science in Indonesia. Before join this course, I have studied the introduction of communication science in the 1st semester of my lecture. But I have still no idea what communication is. This course is so helpful for me to learn the basic of communication. +I havent finished it but I love it! +I really enjoy participating in this course. It is very well structured and explained so that one can easily remember and put on a timeline the different historical, sociological and scientifically aspects of the communication. I recommend it to all working in the field. +great learning experience! The content was well designed and examples during the lecture really helped me to understand the theory a lot. The structure of this course was very clear. I have learnt some knowledge on communication before, but this course really helped me to get a better understand on the topic and to reorganized all my knowlege on communication logically. Thanks a lot to all those who contributed to this great MOOC course! +The teacher speaks too fast. +It has been great enlightening experience with this subject, I never knew such depths of this matter before I completed this course. Communication is the basis for success or failure for topic. I thank you courser & University of Amsterdam for bring this course +Great course, very well presented. I had never really thought about communication in science terms and this course has been very valuable in bringing my knowledge up to speed +Fundamental but really inspiring courses, extremely helpful for starter and those want to enhance their basic theoretical learning of communication.Clearly explain and expand the concepts of communication theories. +I didn't like the fact that you could not earn a statement of accomplishment but only a verified certificate.Other than that the course was pretty interesting. +Very informative and interesting course with a lot of visuals! +The videos lacks clarity, not loud enough and at instances it's ungrammatical.Certainly, there ALWAYS WILL be scope of improvement and although, it was moderately enlightening, thank you for producing this course (quite credibly flexible) +I enjoyed working with such talented mentors. Thanks to this course, I improved my English skills, got acquainted with the basic concepts in the field of business and entrepreneurship, got great experience in communicating with native speakers and expanded my horizons. Thank you so much for this wonderful course! +Great course!! Easy to understand and learn a lot from it! +Its course is very interesrting and exciting , Thank you all ! +I will recommend this course to anyone who would want to start their own business. This course is also part of a start up process for your business to be successful. +Great opportunity for learning more! +Very useful +Great course! +This is an excellent course¡¡ +Thank you so much for your helpful course. Awesome and Super wonderful. +I enjoyed the course. very informative, i had taken business classes at school about 7 years ago. the information i had in this course were refreshing and some were also knew giving the time that has elapsed since my graduation +The language . Think before starting a project. Business Plan +Great. Specially weeks 4 and 5. +It was the perfect opotunity to learn more about business sphere and of cause to take part for studing at University of Pennsyvenia. I was fully glad to do it. +What a fantastic course! It covered everything an entrepreneur needs to know in 5 weeks. I learnt the meaning of Venture Captalist, Equity owner, angel investor and so many other terms. Making the business plan was the topmost skill i acquired as that really gives one a clear picture of where one stands now and after 3 years.The videos were very clear and articulated the points very well. I will give this a 10 / 10. +A great experience. Many thanks all ! :) +Basic but well done +Another brilliant course from University of Pennsylvania. I had earlier passed and received a certificate of accomplishment for English for Journalism. Yet another certificate of accomplishment to do with English for business and entrepreneurship is for a complete cycle. Trust me it was not easy but dedication and hard work never disappoint. Is worth every effort I have had to put in. +It is good if you are looking for basic information, I did not finish the entire course, I think it was not right for me. +awesome course thanks for your efforts +Great course for those interested to increase their knowledge of business creation, management, operation and strategy. +Absolutely useful , it is a great opportunity for everybody.I highly recommend this course. +It was a very useful course, I really enjoyed. +very well designed course helpful to everyone aspiring to become entrepreneur. +this course is very useful for me, the assignment also motivated me because there were deadline. +I learned a lot of business vocabulary. How do I start my business, since I need to get sponsorship. The course is excellent. +It is very helpful. +Very comprehensible, interactive and useful! +good course +Very useful and efficient course +A cornerstone course for anyone wanting to improve their English with focus on Business & Entrepreneurship. Takes you through setting up you Business and the English you might need. Good Course! +Wonderful course I've ever known +awesome course in the course designed especially for non native english speakers +Very interesting this course +The very best course ever, thanks to our Teachers, who helped us in every way possible regarding the course materials up to projects with it.AN +Instructors is very warmly and clearly to give explanation, also this course is valuable for non native speaker to improve their English language skill. It is good course to follow it. Thank you for AE Institute, Coursera Team and lovely Instructors also UPENN. +This is a good coutse i truly like +I have learned numerous skills for business and entrepreneurship thanks to this course. +I have learned how to make a market research, a business plan and a elevator pitch. +I love the course and I learn to much, thank you +I learned a lot about entrepreneurship. It was easy to understand because they designed a great course for people who know basic English. This course is a good opportunity to improve English skills. I want to say thanks to everyone who are involve in the design, organization, plan, and more to teachers that shared their knowledge with us. Thanks to my classmates for review my assignments. Good course to invest your money. +very interesting and amazing, I had fun to enjoy this course. Thank You!!! +Great course, Excercises are a challenge +Great content with practical materials +Very nice course, it helped me get many specific vocabularies related to business and entrepreneurship +Thanks so much! +Excellent course. I learn many things. +I have gained so much knowledge after 5 weeks with this course. Highly recommend to non-English speaking students. +Excellent course of English for Business and Entrepreneurship. +this course is really helpful to me. i like it! +Good course for English starter +It's a very helpful course. I've learned many new words and got acquaintance with entrepreneurship. I strongly advise other coursera students to try this course. Thanks to the perfect instructors. +very useful +Great course. +Thanks a lot. I'm very thankful. It was for me very informative, Good luck in the future +this course is very helpfull and is such an effective way for non-native learner like me have more knowledges and vocabulary about business. Thank you guys for this course. +very useful +I really enjoy this course, thanks for make this way easy to learn and practice other things that we don't know. +It was an excellent experience. well designed course with up to mark quiz +very awesome course , really I have learned a lot of skills and techniques that will certainly help me , thank you so much . I'm so grateful to you coursera and university of Pennsylvania , i appreciate your great efforts +This course was for me as an interesting and exciting adventure in a business area in english. Amy and James thank you very much for knowledges that you gave! +Really helpful! +It was great! Thank you so much for this course! +What an entrepreneur need from describing your idea, market research, writing a business plan to making a persuasive pitch, the key element to attract potential investors. I do recommend this course +I would like to offer my special thanks to my teachers, they were so great to me . i will continue new course! +It was the best course i have took ever. nice lecturer and friendly tool with good platform. Thank you for working for us. +Great course!! It is a wonderful way to practice and improve the skills in English language. +brilliant one. +Very good, I suggest this course for everyone search about improve reading skill and English for entrepreneurship. +A very helpful course！ +Great course! If you are thinking about this course, you should defnitely take it! +Great! +Fine course for start-up entrepreneurs - I would highly recommend it +In my opinion the course is very complete. I've learned enough vocabulary related to the business world, plus expressions and strategies as well as the problems and steps as an entrepreneur. The platform is dynamic, helping to learn. In summary, a highly recommended course! +There might be some interface and server issues, but it's almost perfect! +Very good course.. highly recommended +This course is very useful. I not only learn about startups but also improve my English. Thanks! +It only gives you a basic overview of start up's vocabulary. However, it is very simple for who has never experienced economics subjects. +I am glad that I got an opportunity to learn a lot this course. +Great Course. Assignments are the best part of the course. +This is a great course to improve Business English skill for every non-native English speaker. +This course is very exciting. I love the contents and the instructors. Great. +It is well structured course. +Possibly a bit too simple for an advanced English learner. However, first time ever to complete a business plan writing. Pride of myself! +Nice course, I Recommended it +wonderful experience learning english for business +Very good course it's helped me so much +Thanks for giving opportunity to learn this interesting course! +very good course +Fantastic Course +This course was very useful for me in terms of remebering the Busines and Entrepreneuship concepts. This course is designed in easy and simple way to get knowledge on specific vocabulary. Teachers speak not fast and it is great for those who just starts to learn English for work or passing language exams. Course also have very bright, clear images, definitions and moreover it includes grammar classes. I can definitely advise this course that is led by teachers from Penn Unniversity. +Thanks Professors. +it was ok +Super! Ill look for other courses from Penn University. Thank you! +interesting course with different typer of exercises! +This is a Great Experian to Learn with coursera and university of Pennsylvania, A very interesting educative technological interaction ! +This course is realy amazing! +This course was great for me. I could gain a lot of knowledge of entrepreneurship. If there is another course like this, I will 100% sure take it. +Great course! +The courses were very interesting and I learn a lot of new vocabulary, phrases and all about entrepreneurship. They were the best teachers I have ever met, very well spoken so i understood every word. I recommend to all Brazilian students. +I would like to learn many great knowledges from this course +Excellent course. Very insightful and immensely helpful. +I'm loving it although the written part is very difficult. I won't give up. :) +great course! very clearly structure and important fundamental knowledge... +Fully funtionalExcelent trainning to gain vocabulary, english business focused lessonsGreat +Highly recommended! +thank you so much for this course , lectors are very good and the materials are easy to understand. +It was a very interesting program. I learnt a lot from it ! +Greate and interested course for non-native speakers!!! +Very nice course! Highly recommended. +This course is helping me with my English as well as its giving me notions and concepts that will help me while i'll be setting up my own business. The lecturers are excellent and make it easy for us students to learn. Anyone interested in both, English and business should start this course. +A very good course structured to help non-native English speakers and to those who want to get into an entrepreneurship. +It's a brilliant course. the mentors are very good and they use common English which is understandable to all +An amazing and comprehensive course!!! +Excellent course, because I learned a lot and would recommend. +I think this course is amazing. I can practice English and learn about entrepreneurship. I recommend it. +It was a great course, thank you so much for this oportunity. +Good course +This is great course for both Entrepreneurship learning and English.I was happy to have a opportunity to learn those with wonderful teachers.From Tokyo. +helpful, useful, interesting and fun. very practical and help me facilitate my business. +Terrific course! Very interesting indeed! +This course is very useful and practical. It helps me understand how to write a business plan and how topersuade investors. Furthermore, It also helps me idenfity which kind of investors are suitable for me.Good course, Thanks a lot. +I want to know why haven't I gotten my certificate? +Great course ! Easy, well structured, I also enjoyed different reading tasks for intermediate and advanced levels. Short videos, various types of tasks to complete - readings, quizzes, audios and videos etc. +The most exisiting and inspiring course! Thank you for intresting lessons and very helpful information! +Awesome Course :) +Its a great Idea to establish the steep about How I can do to start a business, development an Idea and to create the structure of this, and to grow the business plan. This Course is excellent to help the entrepreneurs, thank you for you knowledge. +I am in love for this course. Unfortunately, in the first week I did not had much time to study and know I am late, but I will certainly catch up rhythm. +This course is really good. I came at it thinking I know English well and do not need to be taught like I'm a first grader. But I'm learning more about entrepreneurship. It is fantastic. +It's greatful, fantasic and useful course! Thank you!! +this course is so good. i have learn so many things from this course. they use some creative way to make we practise our lesson. +I admitted in this Course , and I completed it. I would like to say that this course is the great course to improve our English skills. Even more, this course is the best way to start studying business for whom interested on business. +This course is very easy to follow with structured syllabus, nice videos and great assignment. Highly recommend for those who starts learning about Entrepreneurship with the beginning or intermediate level of English! +Very usefull. I have learned a lot of english and techniques for make a business plan! +I really enjoyed this course, it is very detailed and the instructions were crystal clear. The instructors were very good because they did their best to explain difficult concepts in an easy way. Also, the materials were very helpful and practical to understand the topics. +In general this is a nice course. I recommend it to everyone. +Its very trendy and informative course. Thanks Coursera for giving certification from dreem university. +It's was very useful to learn vocabulary and create a business plan and apply the new knowlege. +I recommend this course to anyone who wants to improve their English. +This course is very organized and well planned with various technique for stimulating students' interests. I highly recommend people who consider for working with or opening one's own business to English speakers. +This has been the most exciting learning experience since I left university.I am very thankful to have had the guidance of Amy Nichols and James Riedel. Their kind smiles were always inviting me to keep up.I will definitely recommend this course.Thank you so much,Juan Carlos Melo +Many thanks for this course. I take a lot of information about business and enterpreneurship.Best regardsDenis Vaschuk +it was very helpful and interesting, I learned so much. +Dear hosts, many thanks for this excellent opportunity to gain knowledge. I wish you all the best and good luck! +Excellent work and professional - the best way to learn ... thanks +Why the assignment of "Week 2,3,4, and 5 Locked until June 13. Will it really open by then ?" +This is such a great opportunity of high-online education class. +Wonderful course, It's a very big pleasure to learn new things with new methods. +Very useful course for those who want to improve their knowledge of English and business skills. +I haven't learned this course yet and this is my first time to use Coursera .I have learned course one ,part one .I feel excellent and I think this course can help me ,Thanks! +This course is the baste I've taken. Helpful and practical. +İ would like to mention that, This course was my first enrolment. I enjoy and really learn a lot of things about entrepreneurship,business plan i.e. +This course is very great.it has more knowledge but through the course is fun that me make me concentrate during learning with out boredom +It's very cool to learn 2 favorite subjects of all time at the same time!I will do my best for this course +Great course ! +Thank you so much two distinguished professors. +This cours helps a lot. It provides you with important knowledge in easy, fun way. +We can learn not only Basicaly English but also Business and Entreprneurship.Thank you for kindness staffs and classmatesHowever you needs computer , Android application software is not perfect. +It is really a good course and instructors are also great. +this course help me to understand more quicky and really a subject +Great idea but unprofessional design and programming.Looks like nobody double-checked it before starts to offer it, especially for money.Almost every Quiz and separate questions has programming bugs.Waiting for ver 2 ASAP. +For all the businessman is focusing management is very Important this series of courses that teaches Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship students learn to read market signals , but less noticeable , to be ahead of trends and make decisions appropriate , which is already one of the main characteristics of the have Entrepreneur is to know the information and use it for their own companies benefit and lead to success . +Great courses , well designed , explanations are clear and Exercices and quizzes helps to have a better understanding . I'm really delighted and grateful to have acess to that course +interesting but tough course.. lots of statistics. +A very good and effective course. +The course has addressed all the fundamentals and has given me direction and the information I required as a person that is not in the medical field, making it easy for further research. Some additional numerical examples in the keynotes would have added great value. The use of actual journal articles added a practical twist to the theory and applications of statistics. I am proud te be South Afriv +Very well explained the quantitative research method +Thank you for your course , statistics part was new for me, and I will try to take more courses on medical science for medical librarians, secondly, how can I get a certificate ? +Hard but rewarding! +Good course, most of the concepts were taught well. It enabled me to develop a more intuitive understanding of clinical research and statistical concepts used +The videos and key notes seem to be not in snc when it comes to some points . +This course is excellent!!! +An Excellent course, a very thorough breakdown of Clinical research. I am now better equipped and more knowledgeable in the subject area. +I would not recommend this course because the video lessons are quite poor. The teacher mostly reads notes from his iPad without a proper presentation or some kind of text. +Very useful course. It gives you the basic skills to understand the scientific and statistical methods of clinical research with a light workload +Excellent course to get learn how to interpret studies and select the appropriate tests for your own research! +Very logical and clear approach. Brilliantly explained. +This course is an excellent introduction to statistics in clinical research. Dr. Klopper is clearly passionate about the subject. This is reflected in his engaging video lectures and the high quality of the material presented. I now have a much better understanding of the meaning behind commonly used statistical tests and variables in the medical literature. +If you're interested in clinical research or just wanting to grasp the basics of Evidence-Based Medicine, this course is definitely for you. Dr. Klopper's lessons are clear and understandable, yet rich of useful concepts. Highly recommended! +I highly recomended this course, the explanations and the material are so clear. This a good way to understand the basic topic of stadistical aspect in clinical research if you don´t have a great knowledge of the mathematics aspects. +Great course! Easy, clear and effective in explaining the statistical basis of clinical research! Very useful for anyone who wants to gain insight in the process of clinical research +Excellent course, congratulations to the whole team +The course is very good, and I learned a lot. +Very good course.Can be improved with more exercises. +Good, Easy to understand and interpret. +Great info and entertaining course! +Well described and easy to understand. +A very useful Course with practical insight into clinical research and bio-statistics. +an excellent course, very clear and easy to understand! thanks!! +I have learnt a lot! more then I expect. People who created it made a great job! +very good start to understand basics of clinical research and its statistics +I increased my clinical backgroup through this course. Thank +very systematic and knowlegable +thank you ,for this course ,it was so difficult to me but i have much more understanding now about the statistical principles needed in any study,and for me that was very important for my next PHD study +Great course, really grabs the core of research without bothering the student with statistical equations.I highly recommend the course for all healthcare professions regardless whether they are interested or not in clinical research, because we are now at an era of publications, and everyone of us will be confronted by a piece of research that he will need to understand and at least be able to assess the quality of what in hand.I would like also to thank the mentors especially Dr. Juan, for the great effort and the simplified course they had given, it was really motivating to continue to the end. +its very useful test. Information id presented in a very simple and lucid way , easy to grasp and remember. The notes provided are very useful. Thanks Dr.Juan H Klopper. you were very helpful. Allah Bless you +Was a very helpful and interesting course with so much important information about statistics from the clinical view. I'm very grateful for taking it and I hope you'll do so. +Very recomended course +It is an excellent course and opportunity to learn about statistics and its applications in the medical research. The concepts are well explained and easy to understand. I express my heartfelt gratitude to the Coursera community and University of Cape Town. +Excellent course. Gives all that is needed in order to practically understand and criticize every piece of scientific paper in clinical context. +I found this course to be excellent. The material is high-yield in every regard, giving the right balance of big-picture understanding coupled with enough detail to flesh out the experience and the understanding. The professor was very direct and clear in his explanations; I consider the course to be extremely well taught. There were a few areas where the explanation could have been slightly more illustrative or detailed, but nobody is perfect. Overall this is a very valuable course and a worthwhile use of time for any medical practitioner who has to interact in any way with the world of research. +excellent and flexible way to obtain helpfull knowledge +This course mainly focus on statistics and statistical parameters and almost nothing about about Understanding Clinical Research - as title anotate +Excellent and concise. Thanks a lot. +Wonderful! I really enjoyed it and learned so much +This course was a pleasure to take! Thank you Dr. Klopper for all of your efforts, it is very much appreciated! +I believe this may be a more helpful course to those already quite familiar with statistics and for those who use statistical terminology daily. +Great course. A good review of material I learned back in University a couple of year ago. +One of the best courses I've ever had (including classes at my University)...Starting fro the basics, explaining the difference between numerical, categorical data, discrete and continuous variables, Prof. Klopper gave me a better insight in the subject.I am extremely grateful.Kind regards,Diana +Perfect for beginners! :) +have learn too much interesting concepts and perspective regarding interpreting the results of an statistical analysis, also knowing how to chose the perfect statistic tool for a given data set>>>>really enjoyed to have such course with that excellent explanationNote:can you guys make a better presentation image to visualize hard concepts. +amazing course. Recommend it to everyone out there! +This online course is one of the best I have enrolled so far. I paid for earning a certificate and it is worth the money. Some refreshers for statistics and also enables you to expand your knowledge about clinical trials in general. Highly recommended if you are just starting to learn about clinical research. +Well understandable INTRODUCTION to med statistics. +Really good. Worth the time invested double. +Useful course for clinicians in order to read medical research papers more critically. +Is a great course, easy to understand!! +An excellent introduction to (or refresher of) statistics that pertain to the clinical setting. The two peer-reviewed assignments were very valuable and interesting. My one complaint is that the videos are short, so some lessons are made up of many 2+ minute videos that need to be downloaded separately. +Good video classes, good written/complementary material. +A very comprehensive, thorough and complete course for statistics in the context of clinical research.Love the passion and teaching of the instructor. +Excellent introduction in statistics +It's amazing and very very helpful! I'll definately recommend this to my colleagues, classmates or those who just entered this field. +A very fine course ,clear and concise.well done . +Excellent work by the professor.I was always bored of maths and statistics but in this course everything was simplyfied and explained. 5/5 +-Would highly recommend for anyone looking to quickly get a basis for evaluating statistics and logistics of medical literature. Notes sections after videos are an excellent supplement to the videos (which are not too long), and does a great job of hitting high points.-If I could make 1 change I would expand the test section to explain more tests (logistic regression, etc.) +Excellent course! Thank you very much Dr. Klopper. A++. +i found the course very helpful and informative and i t helps to critically read and interpret research papers. my only take on it is that there was no responses to questions that i asked the lecturer +Very interesting and practical. +This is the first statistics course I could keep up with and understand. It is enjoyable. +i love this vcourse +Great course. Very useful as it has translated to me running a cohort study in a major private hospital in Queensland, Australia. +I learned a lot about statistics without doing any maths :) The course is a good introduction to stats and I feel more confident reading clinical researchs papers now +It was nice course. I have learnt a lot from it. +Very informational, exactly what I was looking for when I enrolled. +Great course! Easy to follow, gives you basic understandings about statistics in medicine. +Very clear and understand material.Tks +Having no knowledge of the actual types of statistical research, I felt I gained a wealth of knowledge that will help me in my social science research as well. I believe that this was a great introductory course, however, I do feel as though it is a more advanced beginner's course. +Superb Course!! A beautifully structured introduction to the statistics needed to understand clinical research. Please be warned that this is not a course devised to learn statistics or how to conduct clinical research. It is exactly what the title suggests, an overview of statistics used in clinical research and how to understand them. Dr.Juan Klopper is a great teacher and his videos are succinct and filled with nuggets of key concepts. I would strongly suggest this course for a deeper understanding of clinical statistics. +It's a good course if you want a general overview of the statistics of clinical research. Personally I was hoping for a little more depth in some of the statistical methods. Some links or suggested readings on the methods would be great as we move along the course. Overall a delightful course. Everything is clearly explained. Thank you Dr. Koppler! +I really liked it, learned a lot.:) +A thoroughly enjoyable course that explains fundamental statistical concepts in an accessible, common-sense way, illustrated by examples from medical research literature. If you're intimidated by statistics, Dr Juan can hel +Great course-really helps to gain insight into all the statistical info when reading the literature. This course has been particularly good in terms of understanding study results and how I can apply research findings to my clinical practice. +Excellent course and instructor. It covered the basics and related them to real life research. +Very useful course when you have very little background in statistics. You are taught the basic ideas behind the most commonly used statistical tests. The course really gives you a solid base to understand statistics described in scientific medical articles. Actually, after completing this course I felt confident enough to start doing basic statistical analyses on my own research data. +The course covers very useful and interesting topics, not in very much detail though. It is useful to begin with the topics, but it is really not more that a thin introduction. +I have been looking for a course like this for years. +Totally comprehensible and a most interesting course even for people not involved in the medical profession. Thank you! +Great course! +very useful and systematically designed course. +Thank you very much Juan, for your time and dedication! You really inspired me to take the path to research in the medical field! I never have had such a high standard course in clinical research! Thanks very much, I feel proud to have had the chance to be one of your students. +Great introduction to the clinical statistic usually encountered while reading medical or biology literature. However it would be much appreciated if more calculations could be incorporate into this course. +Great course so far.. +I highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to understand medical research papers. The concepts are presently clearly and I wish I had taken this course years ago! +very simplified beginner course on biostatistics concepts +Great course with intense knowledge. Just because I had little history background of modern China. Another short course to state facts of history may be helpful. This one is challenging. +Great course. Could have been longer, if you ask me. Also there were a few technical bugs. Notifications for assignments could have been clearer too. The system said it would email me when I needed to review peer's assignments, but that never happened. +Both enjoyable and informative. It is exactly the sort of crash course in Chinese politics I was looking for and I have been inspired to take my learning on the subject further +Thank you for such brilliant course. It was quite difficult but very informative and interesting. Now i know much more about China. Supplemental material was very useful. +I am audting this course and intend to attend the second part. The Professor is outstanding !Greetings,Bjorn OLUFSEN +Really good programme so far, very clear and structured input from a knowledgeable expert, who is nonetheless able to make the topics covered accessible.Tests are a bit tricky though! +The course provides fundamental knowledge regarding the topic. It's very organised and informative. +I am looking forward to the +Very Good! Excelent professor. +An In-depth looking at Chinese politics! +excellent material and lecturing!! +A well-structured, thoughtful course delivered by a true expert on the subject. One of the finest courses available throughout the entire Coursera platform. +I've just started this course, but +Really helpful. Very interesting. Especially the focus on evidence based interventions is going to be really helpful at working with people with ASD. As I worked with adults with ASD I found it very good, that this group was referred to too, not only children with ASD. I really enjoyed the course. Thank you! +Great starter course for understanding Autism. My 2 year old son was just diagnosed with a mild case of Autism and this was a lifesaver! +I have more in depth knowledge of ASD +Very good, it covers a lot in simple terms +Thanks for the rich and well conducted course. It was very beneficial for me and I recommended it to my friends. +excellent, I am very happy to achieve this course. +Very interesting +Very good!Congralutions :) +There are some errors on the quizzes in between the videos. I had to skip a lot of them because it wound't accept the correct answer. I liked the testimonial videos. +An introductory course for Autism Spectrum Disorders. Useful course. Introduces you to evidence based interventions and modules that could further enhance your knowledge and understanding in the field. +I loved this course, I found it really interesting and I look forward to using my knowledge in the future. +Taking this course has helped me gain greater insight into what kind of things I can do as a teacher to support learns with ASD. I feel that I will make better choices as an educator to create a more inclusive classroom environment in the future. +Thanks for this course: it is an important opportunity to learn more about ASD and provides useful and valid references to deepen and acquire tools. +Excellent course. I intend to continue studying about autism spectrum disorder. +This course was extremely informative. It helped me to understand Autism and corrected all my preconceived notions. With a better understanding of who they are, I am less fearful of them and more willing to interact with them. I am so grateful for this course. +I am verry happy to finish this course. It was very informational and beneficial. I believe that taking this course will help me a lot in clinical environment as an Audiologist. +very great and very informative. I've learned a lot from this course +Very informational. Seemed to be geared towards parents and caretakers. +I am extremely happy to have finished this course. Now I have greater security when applying for a job and achieving my ertificacion of certified therapist in autism.Thanks again. +a good course, especially if you are not too aware of Autism +I learned a lot of important information that will help me deal with my child, of which I highlight: recognize characteristics of ASD; Strengths and weaknesses; Types of interventions for the treatment of ASD. +This course provided an excellent review and knowledge of ASD. I think it is imperative that all staff in a school setting take this course to better become aware and familiar with the students +nice but too short. +Very good and clear overview of the diagnosis and characteristics of childhood autism and the assessment and choice of effective evidence-based treatment and education. There is very little about adults with autism, and there is no interaction facilitated between learners or between learners and educators. +I took this course because my ten year old son was diagnosed with autism. Although the course was developed for a wide range of individuals (from interested laypersons to professionals who work with children and teens) I would heartily recommend it to any parent, grandparent, sibling, or other relative who would like to know more about ASD. +This is an excellent course for understanding the basics of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The information is invaluable. +I work with kids with special needs, this course has helped to understand kids with ASD better. +The course is very informative . It is very concise and presented in a very simple way. +very very informative and academically stimulating +There was a wealth of good information, strategies and ideas for working with children that have autism. +An excellent overview of the developmental characteristics, academic implications and the emotional and behavioral challenges individuals diagnosed with ASD experience. It also provides some challenges families face when caring for a child with ASD. The importance of understanding evidence based practices and access to evidence based practices for individuals affected by ASD across the ages is paramount. +5 out 0f 5 +A great course for introducing teachers or parents to ASD. Found it an invaluable resource for helping me provide support to my students, both on and off the ASD spectrum. +Great class! +Very informative. I teach high school and am seeing more and more students mainstreamed with ASD. For some, it works out, for others it does not. Clearly, a case by case experience. I appreciate being able to take this course online and deepen my understanding of ASD. +In general, I enjoyed the contents of the course. It's a general overview that introduces all aspects of Autism Spectrum Disorder which is exactly what I wanted. However, half of the final week is a list of established and emerging practices, so this was quite boring. I could have read them off the screen faster.My least favorite aspect of this course is that you can't take the quizzes without buying the certificate. Currently, the certificate won't assist me; I simply wanted to learn more about ASD so as to be more informed. This was quite frustrating because I use the quizzes as a means of checking my understanding and retention of the material. +lots of information! loved it +Thank you for the knowledge that the course gives all concerned.Congratulations to the whole team involved in this great work. And thank you to everyone who shared their experiences and enriched the content of the course. +As a new teacher of students with ASD, I am glad this course was available. I learned great background and foundational information which gave me a better understanding of students with ASD. The course also gave lots of information and resources for further study. I will recommend this course for other individuals who work with or interested in learning about individuals with ASD. +Hi, im from Puerto Rico and i speck Spanish. This class for me is so simple, taking on mind that i dont know a perfect English. +Great course +Good introduction to ASD. +Full of information about a broad range of +Lots of theoretical information but very little practical information about what to do with people with Autism Spectrum Disorder +Very informative course, gave me a great insight into Autism Spectrum Disorder. +An intresting course. Lectures are small and very easy to comprehend. The whole course has a great structure and help you learn and remember things! +This course was wonderful! It gives a comprehensive overview of autism for both family and professionals, and gives the student additional information on the UC Davis Mind Institute and the educational opportunities there. +This course is a great guide for mental health professionals but everyone can take it. I really enjoyed it and I will continue visiting the recommended websites! It would be awesome a second part about Established Interventions.Thank you and all the best! +The course had some useful content, but there was too much time spent on USA centred materials for an iavailabe course. +Excellent Course, would love to do Part II if there is :) +This course was a good introduction to ASD. I was hoping to learn more about how to best serve students with ASD, but this course was not designed solely for educators. I will now look for a more specialized course in ASD. +This is best course to understand Autism prorperly.I will recommend to my friends. +This was an extremely informative course on ASD. It allows me to assess and design interventions more effectively. Thank you. +Very clear and complete for a first approach to the ASD +I am an Autistic adult and I took this class so I can understand myself and others on the Spectrum. This is a great class to take if you want to know about Autism. I learned a lot of things that I didn't already know. +Five Stars - Excellent Course. Very Informative +Really great course for people who want to systmatically learn ASD. No need for prior knowledge in Psychology. +I work in a Verbal Behavior classroom for toddlers diagnosed with ASD, and i am also the mother of a little girl who has Angelman Syndrome (a severe neurodevelopmental disorder with many crossover symptoms of ASD). I found this to be an very well done introduction and overview of the basic aspects of Autism Spectrum Disorder. I was pleased to see that the sensory integration issue was addressed so nicely.Thank you so much for this course. I hope it will be helpful to families and new staff alike. +Enjoyed the breakdown of the lessons from the core characteristics of ASD, to the DSMV diagnostic criteria, increasing rates and demographics, patterns of strengths and weaknesses, the explanation of Theory of Mind, and finally the evidence based practices and interventions. I am glad that massage therapy was listed as an emerging intervention. Massage has helped my son, and many other children on the spectrum, with sensory regulation and activation of the parasympathetic NS to help calm the fight or flight response, and tactile defensiveness. Would love to see UC Davis MIND institute do more research into this area, like that of the Touch Research Institute. Excited for more research and information! +It's a really great class to know about Autism. The information is sufficient as well. +very informative with latest research for evidence based interventions with those on the autistic spectrum +I suffer with sensory overload myself and learned a lot from this course. +An excellent overview of what ASD means and well designed foundation program for new beginners . +Aimed at those needing to get services -- in a spectrum of family living. Too much on California systems, not enough on direct coping with day-to-day. +My 2-years old niece in China has just been diagnosed as a ASD child. I took this class to help the parents understand the disorder and take prompt steps to start intervention when she is still young. The class is concise and informative. The 5 week contents provide just enough information for parents who have ASD children that has just been diagnosed to briefly understand the challenge and solutions of having an ASD child. I find the videos that illustrates how ASD children behave and what the proper intervention needed from parents, friends, and teachers very useful. By participating the class, I understand what ASD disorder is and I will pass what I have learnt to our big family so everyone has a correct and positive perspective to ASD and offer help to alleviate the anxiety for the parents. This is a very good course. +This is a very well organized and very interesting course, with a lot of useful information for those who work or intend to work with children. It also gives you an insight into the world of adults with autism, which is not a subject you can usually hear a lot about. This course can motivate you to investigate further about ASD, and it gives you good reference points. +Lightweight and marginally informative. While it is clearly aimed at a lay audience, a deeper presentation of the scientific foundations of the disorder is sorely needed. If you're interested in the etiology of autism, you'll need to look elsewhere. +very good course! easy to follow and learn! +It was excellent, but I expected more feedback in the discussion forums. +Short, superficial, and sometimes even condescending towards people with ASD. +The course is quite amazing.. It improved my knowledge regarding behavioral changes and role of educators and therapist in this field.. I must appreciate the way of delivering lectures and the content.. I wish i could attend classes in UC Davis Mind institute as i found this spectrum quite interesting... I hope other classes would be conducted regarding Autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders with further content at coursera so that i could better understand the process of dealing with those suffering individuals.. Thankyou v. Much the instructors :) +Good but short course. The statment of acomplishment is unaviable.50$ for short course is a big price +I found it very easy. But if you do not know anything about Autism, I think you might would contribute from it. +Could be more computer friendly. Had good information but hard to engage because the majority of the lectures are just powerpoints with the professor talking over them. +Very interesting and informative. I taught children with special needs for 33 years. I think this course would be very helpful to new teachers and anyone interested in learning basic info on ASD. +This course is informative and introductory. It has a value in generating a general awareness about ASD. It would be useful for parents and learners who are new to disability issues. The content can be used for introducing and familiarizing with clinical practice with ASD. But this course has the limitation on following grounds1. The contents of the course are coloured with medical perspective and with pathological view point2. At some point this course appeared like an advertisement for the institute and its research work3. This course tried to cover too many things like theory, practice, research, experience and so on. But at the end it failed to do justice all4. Finally the contents are infected with virus of medicine, market and military science. Terms such as intervention, package, therapy so many terminology. The unfaithful use of "social" in few instance look like an altruism to social science by dominant discipline.I am sure that this course has market. Evidence based research/ practice will corroborate it. Best wishes +This course was a great overview introduction into ASD. The information was presented so the information was not overwhelming. You begin the course by looking at ASD from a wide-lens down to details. This is recommended for anyone who is interested in learning more about ASD and then to take more details classes as needed. The videos that were part of the course were informative. There was not a lot of discussions nor was this class led by any instructor. I wished it had links to more articles or more in-depth information, especially the weeks on the developmental areas. +I'd like to learn a bit more about ASD. +More than helpful. Highly recommended if you're interested in learning more about ASD. Quite useful in terms of understanding people on the ASD. Quite convinient in terms on learning how to interact with people on the ASD. +Amazing course. Helped me learn a lot. I think people around the world really need to understand autism in depth to truly relate to their peers suffering from it. We all know people with ASD and we need to be able to understand them in order to make them feel loved and integrated. +I had problems to understand better about ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) because my 3 year old daughter been diagnosed as Autism Spectrum Disorder. The doctor explain yet I still couldn't clearly understand about after learning this course I clearly understand what is ASD all about.. +I was really, really hoping that this course would be educational. I personally work with an individual with AS and I excepted to have a better insight into some of the things he goes through. So far, however, I have found many of the lectures condescending. As a person with a disability I find it highly offensive when people speak like they're doing the person with whatever kind of disability a favor for even helping them. People with disabilities are just that, people. +Excellent information +Very helpful information particularly in the earlier weeks. I found the last couple weeks less helpful because of the large quantity of listed interventions without elaboration/examples - I did read the attached report but would have found it helpful to see some of the interventions demonstrated either via a video or diagram. Temple Grandin is a great documentary and I appreciated hearing her perspective regarding tactile sensitivity. She's also a great example of a person with autism who has developed her strengths and worked around her weaknesses and is a highly functional and successful individual. Overall enjoyed this class. Thanks! +very useful course. gave insight into a lot of the issues faced by children with asd. a little more detail would be even more useful. +What a wonderful course and great review of the new information on Autism and Aspbergers Syndrome. Thanks so much. +Thank you for a great course! +Very interesting course! +In this course I had the opportunity to show some of the skills that I have learnt so far. Thanks! +This part helped me channel my relevant experiences and things that I learned from other courses in UI/UX, especially from typography and imagemaking. It's nice to put your skills into practice through learning by doing, and have an actual portfolio after the course. It's also a good practice to rate others from draft 1 to 5, feedbacks from peers weren't always relevant to me but mostly helpful in solidifying my capstone project. +Excellent course, the material and lectures are easy to follow. The assignments are well explained. The overall experience was very enlightening. +Great course, it really encourages to apply the item learned throughout the specialization, I really enjoyed it! +I really enjoyed this class - it was a great way for us to put into practice all the interesting things we learned in the specializat +It was great in terms of working on closer to a long-term project and even learning what a branding guide is. Plus it added to my portfolio and I got a lot more working experience with my programs. +A great course in which I have learned so much about graphic design, working with programs, thank you coursera and call arts specially Michael W. +Excelent course where you put all of your design skills to action. +Nicely designed course +Really interesting to interact with students through the feedbacks +Great Course. +Very good course, very systematic knowledge about branding +Its hard to review this course without looking back at the other previous courses. For me it was more about self discovery. Every lesson and concept learned in the past courses have become part of my workflow and it was able to see it during the time that I was working in my final project. My peers' critics and opinions also helped me during this process, whenever I was not sure if something was working in my designs, someone pointed the problem or made a suggestion. A the end, I am extremely satisfied with my final project, I enjoyed every step of the process, and I discovered new talents thanks to this course. +I loved the process of branding from start to finish, including company/client. Although, I may not always be able to brand a company I make up, the process was very thorough and I believe will help me in future branding opportunities. In this sense, the class was invaluable! The instruction was very clear and interesting and the help of the class aid, Calvin, made this a great experience! I also loved seeing what others were coming up with and how they applied the principles of design learned in the other courses in this specialization. +A well presented capstone to the Graphic Design series. +This is a very good course if you are considering a career in graphic design, it does not concentrate a lot on the technique but rather on the creative process and the theory. The assignment are not too intense yet very helpful in giving that exposure to the role of the graphic designer. I definitely recommend it if you are a beginner or even if you already know some techniques but want to learn more about the theory.Also, throughout the course you get very valuable recommendations for further readings, I found that very helpful. +Great class! It provided concrete practice for presenting one's designs and thinking about all the elements of graphic design in one project. +Love the whole process. I learned a lot!! +I really really loved the entire course and will recommend it to my friends and work mates, excellent tutors and easy to understand their lectures. Thank you so so much!! +A real excellent course. I really enjoy it and learn a lot. Thanks everyone and the teachers~~~ +I always loved designing and had time only to do certification and this was a great opportunity and learnt a lot . +Excellent! Nothing minus! +The course was well laid out, had us tread old ground in a great way (especially with those of us who are already int he field or took the earlier courses in the graphic design specialization) by forcing us to look at the basics as we solved design problems. While it's great that people review (and are even left tips and hints on how to leave a helpful review) I do wish there was some sort of word limit (even a minimal one) for them because oftentimes getting a review like 'Great', or 'Nice' while heartening don't actually help the student learn about what the person liked about their design or what failed. +Enjoyed it a lot! :) +I love this course, learned many new things. Thanks +This course is just fantastic. It is well paced and very informative. There is also room for all levels of proficiency. It has changed the way I see visual arts and branding. I am now more aware of the history and the motivation of this discipline. I would recommend this course to anybody who is interested in learning how to enter or continue in this field! +This project provide us an opportunity to do a real work, by using the typeface, color palette, logo mark, layout, which is interesting and helpful! +Great course. Thank you team CalArts and Coursera. You have made an impact my profession as a graphic designer. +Great class, pushed me to be better and develop my skills. +This part of the course is really intense, but it teaches you A LOT about who to practice what you've learned in the integrated courses. Highly reccomended +Good way to get started with doing from just listening or reading. +Great!!!! I love Coursera and CalArts!! Thank you! :) +The Brand New Brand course has been simply amazing and easily the most fun of the specialization courses. I was really hoping they would allow us to be openly creative on this and they certainly have. Great course! +it was good, could be more dinamic though +This is an excellent course. well designed with historical examples. +Great course! +Course should have more homework to drill the appropriate concepts. +Learn something about the money supply and demand and their relationship with the exchange rate. but can hardly used in daily +well detailed course, much needed for the topic +The content covers very good the most important theories and concepts in macro economy and explains in detail the relationship between them. I wish the course would take more advantage of interactive multimedia tools in order to support the spoken word with visual means. +Very good course, as all in the specialization, the professor shows a great devotion to getting the students to understand these very complex topi +the videos are too longassignments are difficultand dr asfahani is not like dr larryi loved dr larry much moredr asfahani is not interesting in his presentations at all +Very helpful and simply explained. Everyone should love it. +Excellent course, highly recommend! +This is a good course, but be sure you have a foundational level of understanding of Macroeconomics before starting - it doesn't provide a lot of background before diving into more advanced topics. +Good material, fair presentation, too many peer evaluations. +Take your time, this course is harder than the others. Very worth it though, learned a lot and it was a lot of fun! +Good coursera. +One of the most difficult courses so far, but working hard you made it. +this course is easy understandable and interesting for the beginners! +a very good course! +A very well taught course that gives you the ins and outs of sequence comparision and introduces chromosme rearrangement analysis in a succint manner. This was +I thought at first according to the title of this course, that it should be an intro for c programmers. But it is more like a brush-up for already c++ programmers. Be ready to take some other course or reading parallel. Otherwise the homeworks are absolutely interesting and suitable for new-comer. It would be better if more videos with more details could be made. +Lots of overlap in the videos, not a lot of information on C++ features, too few hands-on activities with the features taught. +I enjoyed this course. It was great as a review of C++ and an introduction to C++11 for me. The assignments are heavy in graph theory and are non-trivial. +this is a great course +it actually introduced c++11 features to me well,it was my first course on coursera and it is benificial to me in ways . +Great overall introduction to C++ for C programmers. It should be emphasized FOR C PROGRAMMERS.Once you know your stuff and a little bit of Computer Science (data structures and algorithms), this course can benefit you if you never had a formal course or introduction on C++.The instructor is well-versed in the topic and the examples are pretty interesting from a CS point of view. +Great passion, great lecture.Thank you for your kind explanation. +Good course for people who want to be quant in future ++ good material-peer reviews-hard to understand exercises +It was great to listen to someone with as much experience as Ira Pohl. I learnt a lot in this course, but it required *a lot* of work on my part. It might still be better than trying to learn totally on your own, but I would have liked a bit more structure and assistance.The slides showed on videos (not available for download in the session I took) could be formatted better. The concepts were presented too superficially, in my view, and the structure was a bit disorganized. The assignments where difficult in part because they weren't stated very clearly, but they were very interesting and were a great way to learn (or review) computer science courses while learning to code in C++.Despite these shortcomings I'm glad I took the course and I'm overall happy with it. +I am a C programmer with little knowledge of C++.This course really helped me to correlate both languages. +Nice course with content focused on the extra things C++ brings - STL. However it would have been better if Inheritance also covered in this course. Also learned about Graphs through this course. Exercises were tough but were good. +Really interesting course. Learnt a lot. Professor Ira Pohl and the team behind the course did a great job.Thank you. +It accomplishes the main goal: help with the leap from C to C++, but:- It's damn slow. I had to use the 1.5x or 2x speed all the time, and I'm not native English.- The format of the slides is really ugly (e.g., those bullet points in the code)- No lecture notes are provided- The references are to his (expensive) books instead- No source code of examples is provided either- Graph theory is interesting, but out of scope. Waste of time for those who already know it are not interested in and just want to learn C++. It would be better to provide references for optional reading or reviewing. +The best c plus plus course for c programmers. +Do this course for the assignments and to have something that keeps you on schedule. But be prepared to do your own research on topics.The professor goes off on pointless tangents forever. C is also supposed to be a prerequisite but then he ends also ends up explaining basic C (prefixing his explanation with you should know this). He then goes into these very specific, typical academic-style examples that he spends time talking about them (again pointless). And then very little time is left to explain the actual new C++ stuff, and he explains it assuming you kind-of know what he's talking about. So you'll have to stop the video and look up the topic online. +The course should have a more detailed analysis of c++ +Peer to peer assignments are really slow and due time dependent. +Very poorly designed course material. Everything has been split up. +Very Nice Course... +I learnt a lot of new things about C++ and graph theory. Good course. Looking forward to part B. +Great class, I learnt a lot about C++ +From this course, you can learn some inspiring features of C++11. Moreover, you can grasp a basic learning about programming with C++ as a beginner. The homework assignment is also challenging, usually it takes me a whole day to finish the program. But those homework is a good practic and will prompt you to work harder and deeper on programming with c++. +The course presents the topics in a non-linear manner. It should be called "Learning graphs with C++" +i can review my c++,it's good for me +Just right for programmers seeking to update their skills to the new V11 C++. I recommend getting the book by the author that helps along with a text or Coursera course on Algorithms. +The course is good and exercises are not trivial, the teacher speaks very slowly but this is to accommodate not native English speakers and I find it to be fair.The course mixes a bit of graph theory with the teaching of the C++ language and I reckon that to be a good idea as it makes you solving non trivial problems thus stressing the C++ topics covered during the lecture, that would not have been the case if problems were simpler.The only big limit I see in the course is the grading system as the peer-review system does not work very well as the student's preparation is very uneven, you can't expect much more from an on-line course though.To draw a conclusion I had the sense of having learned something at the end of the course, which is rewarding, I really appreciate the work you are doing in striving to provide the best knowledge to everybody, I think it is a small revolution. +Very great course.Course is well taught and well organized ,It is not for beginners if you are programming at least from one year this is for you. +This could be better if the lectures have more hands on programming examples. +Excellent course. It helps you transition to C++ by understanding the reasons, not just a simple recipe. +This course assumes some basic knowledge in C. I really appreciate prof. Ira Pohl's approach to explain things in details and fill some gaps students might have rather that assuming everything is perfectly clear. Some might find the pace to be on the slow side but please understand it is intended for people with various background and experience. You will also appreciate the way prof. Pohl elaborates some of the fundamental algorithms and data structures in a very clear and well articulated manner. +Instructor speaks too slow and sometimes hardly audible with my earphones plugged in with 100% sound. Incredibly slow paced. Coffee must!!! Too much of story and history and introduction. Much less material presented for concepts shown. Much of the lecture time is wasted on things which does not matter, for example Djikstra shortest path... I would be more interested to know about the algorithm than a huge lecture on who is Djikstra, and also would like to have some exercise to implement the same and realise. Very unsatisfied with the course. But there is no other courses offered for C++ programming language in English Language. Not worth the time. +A very good courser, especially for people like me that have a lot experience in coding c program but want to learn something more to advance my career. I'll recommend this course to my friend. +The course is good overall but needs more to focus on new things in C++ and not on algorithms. I would recommend this course if you are struggling with C++,it goes throw the basics and tells you how the STL works.The homework are hard and that is a big plus :) +This was very good course to learn about the differences between C and C++. I have been C programmer for some time and never had a C++ introduction until this course. +The course content is good. But it needs some polishing...Major comment:The assignment submission/review process should be improved. Grading system is not clearly defined at the time of submission. Some grading question are inherently subjective "Is the code at least somewhat efficient?". But even for inherently objective questions "Is the code correct?" (as does it give the correct answer" the staff does not provide the correct answer... I think the staff should create some automated review for what is objective: does the code compile? does it yield the correct answer? is it efficient enough? (Just like many other courses on Coursera) And only when it passes the automatic review, use peer grading for coding style. Finally there a lot of confusion with the deadlines.Minor comments:Lucky Coursera has an option to play twice faster! Not that the content is too easy, but the talking ... pace ... is ... hum... very ... ... slow. Also how come for a programming course the slides with code are so poorly formated??? +I would like thank Prof. Ira Pohl for the excellent lectures in the courseC++ for C programmers Part A. The build up of C++ using C as abackground gave me a good understanding of the various featuresof C++ and how one can make use of these features to writeprograms in a good idiomatic programming style. The lecturespresented with a blend of data structures and algorithms providedmuch insight into programming in C++. Looking forward to the PartB of the course. +This course provides good overview graph algorithms. It is not an extensive C++ course though. +too hard in practice +The course was very useful for me. I have known new features of C++11 and now I use them in my projects, so my programming style become both more modern, and more effective. It was very lucky for me to have at the same time other course about graph theory, so I again learned and implemented those algorythms. I suppose for new students before this course would be better to have some experience in C++ programming and some understanding of OOD and OOP, so you can think about interesting ideas instead of trying to read a 1000-paged book in a week to learn base of coding. Now I am watitng for part B. +Very good course, the content is great and well organized. The slides with code are a bit of an embarrassment for the University of California. The code is presented on what looks like a power point slide with bullets so the formatting and alignment is totally messed up, and then there are no shortage of typo's and code errors. But, the material is very good and Ira Pohl does an excellent job presenting it.All in all a great course and exactly what I was looking for. +- Assumptions about the student are not clear, before starting the course.Instructor examples are not practical in all contexts.Jump to dijkstra in very second week, without clarity on major C++ concepts and examples, is too much an expectation from the student switching from C to C++ for the first time.Confusion with deadline for assignments.too many lectures during later week courses, as if the effort is to crunch everything in that week and complete the course.If its spaced properly with examples and problems over few more weeks, it would help. +A much needed course for all those students who have strong fundamentals in C Programming but lack the OOP skills in C++.Still there is a scope of improvement. +I am highly disappointed with the policy of providing the homework only to the paid participants. It seems this is gearing towards another means of making bussiness when it comes to education.I understand that grading and providing feedback requires effort and the fees charged is required to the cover those cost, but like before we must have an option to get access to the homework, allowing us to apply our learning while it maybe be acceptable not to have any feedback or certificate on the course completion.Currently, the closed homework policy goes against the basic objectives of MOOC and I hope it is reconsidered. +Very Boring!! +Explanation is really Good. Contents could be more elaborate. +The instructor speaks too slow. Teaching concepts that are not valid anymore. e.g. prefer inline over function call, const vs #define, declaring variable anywhere in the code etc...The topics are too small and too much time is devoted to them. +I've already written a review for part 1 and I have the same opinion about this one. The course is rather poor and not challenging. Only general information about relevant topics that as well read on wikipedia. No exercises, no code assignments. A lot of this content was repeated from first two parts of this specialization. +good course. I hope it can contain more contents. +Quizzes are trivial. Makes the certification worthless.Prof. Campbell is not a good lecturer.The topics are treated mostly superficially, then suddenly go into too much detail sometimes (how to use IntelliJ IDEA, machine learning).Subtitles are very buggy.I enjoyed Mr. Farivar's talks much more, it seems like he knows what he is talking about and his presentations are well structured. +Not enough depth. Put another way not a CS course. +Better understanding of latest technology +good practical materials which help to better understand the theories from previous courses +A very good course, with interesting topics about Big Data, Cloud Computing and MapReduce paradigm with real application examples. +good things to learn about real world big problems +Love this course!!! +This course contained a great amount of information about several systems widely used nowadays for large-scale problems. There were analyses of the inner workings of these systems and their algorithms, as well as simple examples of how they can be used to solve common problems. The only drawback of the course is that the coursework was not significantly challenging and there were no programming assignments, which could give learners an opportunity to experiment with some of these technologies and acquire hands-on experience. +The course could use a programming assignment to go along with the lectures. +Excellent course! I enjoyed the videos very much. +I like so much this course because all materials are very interesting, useful and easy to understand. The teacher explains very well and use good materials. The tests are also very helpful. I definitely reccomend! +Laoshi is just perfect. The course was awesome designed to understand various requirement of business.I found this program very using especially dealing with Chinese counter part. +I am lazy, but this course is easy to make me continue coming here. so helpuful, :) +This course is super helpful. It's not only for business people but also for employees, so I strongly recommend it to every learner of Chinese language. +I really liked this course。 I have a hsk 6 degree， and was looking for a course more of an intermediate-advance level， and it served the purpose。 Thank you laoshi！ +This course is excellent. The level is very appropriate - not beginner but not too advanced. The subject matter is quite applicable for business applications, especially sales, quality, customer relations, and personnel. The teacher is excellent - easy to understand, she repeats important points and vocabulary, and uses clear examples. The quizzes and assignments are good for practicing what has been discussed in the lectures. I hope there is a follow on course! +I learned a lot about business affairs in this course. Our teacher is really nice and skillful.Thank you for conducting this course. +I'm really learning a lot. +It was a great course although it was not exactly what I expected. +ES MAGNIFICO, LA VERDAD TIENE CONTENIDOS MUY INTERESANTES +excelent course, excelent teacher, muy interesting and funny +Excellent course and teacher. Congratulations! +The course brings lots of information, but the assessments are not at all creative, so it becomes a lot of theory with little practice.El curso trae mucha información, pero las actividades no son ní un poco creativas. Entonces se converte en mucha teoria con poca practica. +Very good! I don't understand the language, but the professor is fantastic and make it easy. +Awesome class! +Loved it !! Thanks!! +INCREÍBLE CURSO +Love it. +I think is really useful!I found it in a great time, because I was desperate and I didn't know what to do about my professional project and I lived worried all the time. This course made me feel better, with a all world to make things different.Thanks.I didn't finish the last item: write my assignment. It is my fail. Outside of that, I think is a great course.The course is in spanish (I'm mexican), I think it would be great for non-speaking spanish people the use of subtitles in english. +cool +Exelente, la relatora es muy clara y provista de muy buen material, las explicacion y la producción de los videos es bastante novedosa y hace muy fácil su aprendizaje, en cuanto a la teoría entrega muchos conceptos interesantes, menciona autores entrega guías y herramientas para evaluar algo que parece muy abstracto la creatividad.Excellent, the teacher is very clear, and give very good material, the explication and video production is really creative, and make learning easier, talking about theory, the teacher gives very much concepts, give authors, and tools for evaluate something which seems so abstract, the creativity. +I really enjoy the way the instructor teaches this course, becuase I am a kinesthetic learner and all her gestures helps me remember things easily. +Somewhat basic and not very applicable +Very Interesting!¡Muy interesante! +Needed of specific information to now how to be more creative in schools as profesionales +It's a great experience that allows creativity to flow that we carry within ourselves +Excelent course! Definetely, I learned a lot on how to be more creative. +Very interesting! Helped me in term of self-esteem, by realizing that I have inside much more possibilities to discover and embrace whose I totally unknew. Thanks to UNAM and to our tutor Guadalupe Vadilla! +I can't find my results +Very easy to digest and very informative +The interviews in week 4 is totally worthy to watch +Very useful and concise. +Great Course delivering practicable ideas, Tools and Tipps! +Great Course +It's really good opportunity to learn more about the environment inside the work and how to deal with the problems in a professional way +well structured material, recommend to anybody who would like to either get good guidance where to deep dive in conflict management topics +Great Course for anyone that needs help looking at conflict from all sides and not just how it pertains to you only +I was assisted in my journey by this course and would recommend it. +Good course +Excellent course and teacher. Congratulations!! +I had a very poor experience being graded by peers. Although the Capstone Project Assignment itself is EXCELLENT, the peer grading rubric is not. I was not fairly graded, and I am sure of this 100%. +Thank You Indy for a most challenging Course. I have taken >25 coursera courses and I would have this one is the most challenging. The C++ development project really strengthens your Computer-to-Computer Protocol Communication ability. Five stars all the way. +Just the same as the first course. Medium-hard quizzes and a hard programming assigment that is actually harder to understand than to develop.Overall a five star course. +Learned a lot +Very interesting course if you want to learn about inner workings of distributed systems. Lecturer was very knowledgeable and provided good examples. Exams and quizes were pretty challenging and fun. I love that there was a practical programming assignment. I would only suggest to tweak the template for programming assignment as it was a little bit limiting. And maybe allowing for different programming languages other than C++. +Very challenging and very well presented material. I wish all coursera courses could be this way. +Great Course!!!! I have learned a lot for P2P system, and replica etc. Thank You! +very good course! +Excellent Course! I found both the Cloud Computing Concepts highly informative and relevant for the course objective. +Good at explaining conceptsGood Quizzes& assignments +It make me strong +It's a good course for cloud studing +A nice and succinct overview. Even though I was able to get a full score on most quizzes before watching the videos, I still learned something new. +Excellent course. I would recommend this course for everyone who are interested and don't have the opportunity at their institute. +It is pretty exciting course with rich knowledge in clinical trials' field which is well expressed with practical examples +This course really helped me to understand trials and gave me starting knowledge about how to design a trial. But it is not enough itself, and you should consider taking biostatistics classes. +Understandable and enjoyable. I took home a lot of valuable inforrmation from this course! +Very well, lot of information ! +Definitely a great add-on cert for those with healthcare professional backgrounds, biomedic graduates, prospective public health grad students, or those wishing to pursue a career in the pharmaceutical industry. +Well done, very systematic and well selected, well structured, focused analysis supported by appropriate examples, definitions and discussions. Lectures are a little bit dry, but I guess this might be due in part to the nature of the subject! Thank you!Alex Ginev +Excellent course. It made me not only get a better understanding on topics i've seen scarcely prior, but also contributed to a solid theoretical basis in the field of clinical trials. Special attention to the first week of the course should be given, since it provides one of the best explanations about study design i've seen so far. +This course offers a broad, honest and critical view on the production and evaluation of RCTs. It is a useful introduction to the theme, although a small background may be required for full exploitation of its resources. I would highly recommend it for any student or professional in health care - being you directly involved with research or not. +Great introductory course about Clinical Trials methodology. It helps if you have some background knowledge on Epidemiology. +An amazing chance to get clear in the clinical trials interpretation +Great time, I've learned a lot of new informations. +I really enjoyed the course and believe the information was really beneficial. They gave great examples of studies that included the techniques that were being reviewed. +Great course +Eventhough my English language is not strong, i just can complete this course as requirement! Excellent! Thank you very much +presentation is poor, not very engaging +I learned so much and am excited to take more classes +Short but very useful! +Very comprehensive and understandable. Thanks for uploading such an informative course. Now I will read the method section of the article that I use to skip very often. +This was a good introductory course into clinical trials, providing an overview of its principles, features and design. The lectures were good and clear, and the accompanying slides were just as useful. I will admit to being occasionally lost on certain concepts, especially with regards to those which would've normally been covered in the biostatistics class, as Ms. Drye mentioned once or twice -- after all, I believe this is a class which is probably offered in conjunction with others. That notwithstanding, I can now consider myself aptly familiar with clinical trials and what they entail, thanks to this course.I will say, however, that having just 10 questions in the quiz is hardly neither exhaustive nor -- and I suppose this goes without saying -- a true test of a good grasp of the course. For instance, I'd read most of the supplemental material for Ethics (week 4) only to realize that that week's quiz could've been passed using common sense alone. I felt somewhat disappointed by that. And also, while one lecturer was very clear in her presentation and discourse, the other wasn't really; more often than not, I was confused by her sentences. +Comprehensive, pitched at just the right level. Perfect length of course. An eye opener - highly recommend. +Very GOOD lesson!! +Excelent for understand about clinical trial. +Excellent and very useful course! I recommend! +great course to refresh my knowledge and update some concepts +Very good course. +simple, easy and to the point +An excellent course totally recomendable. Very clear and focused. +well designed course and fair evaluation +Great work! Thank you. +Clear, concise, and well-presented, should be part of corporate educational programs for staff involved in clinical trials. +Clear, precise and very interesting content. I am working with Clinical Trials for 18 month, this helped me to learn about the bigger picture.Suggestion to Course creators: A module focussed on what is a Clinical Trial before we start with module 1 would be extremely helpful. +The course gives me more thoughts on clinical trials. +Good introductory course. +very informative course. give me a overall picture of clinical trial design. +Great introductory course to Clinical Trials. +THANK YOU +Very useful. Important aspects highlighted. Systematic presentation. +This is my first course in Coursera and I found it really enjoyable. It is well organized and easily explained. I improved my knowledge about this argument. +amazing and I have understand it tota +Very useful +Thanks for such a wonderful course. +The powerpoints and audio lectures are very clear and concise, much appreciated. I would also appreciate more exercises or reading materials, to help solidify our understanding of the topics. +Amazing course! +Excellent primer on the types of trial designs and how to interpret study results and reports. +sometimes they go through important topics very fast , +Good course but I hope if there are readings after each video to improve the understanding of information with more simplifying the content of ethics lesson. +The course clearly explains the concepts of clinical trials with great detail. The course was taught in a structured manner and helped me gain knowledge in this field. +Great course and instructors! +The course gives a great introduction to the design of clinical trials. It is very useful for people starting to approach this field of studies. +Great course. I am happy that I could participate.Ernest +thanks alot for teaching us this great course +This was a great introduction to Clinical Trials. I would recommend taking a statistics refresher before this course if you haven't had one recently. +Basically good. As I want to know the practical guidance of how to conduct a RCT, this course is not sufficient . +the lessons were too long in duration and i was really bored because the teaching didn't have anything engaging me to be more eager to listen and all the slides were with the same background and design and there were no pictures or animation or fun stuff to create some kind of diversity in the progress of the course. +Great course! This will help me in my graduate studies and future career. I have learned a lot. +The course really deals with great insights of randomized clinical trial +Great course! +a very good introduction to clinical trail +Informative course also for clinicians! +Intresting and informative course for design of clini +A rare course in clinical trials, and also a good one.Strongly recommend for those interested in clinical research!There's a reason why Bloomberg school of public health is one of the best healthcare research institution in the world. It is very fortunate to learn from such expertise in clinical research through this course. +Excellent course. Compared to others in the Coursera Catalog this course was rigorous to be sure to take great notes or you will be revisiting the lectures and literature often. I work on the financial side of clinical trials and this course was extremely helpful in filling in some gaps in my knowledge (many of those gaps I didn't realize I had!). Everything Johns Hopkins University puts out on Coursera has been top notch (my reference is the Data Science Specialization!) +This course has really helped me in my understanding and appreciation of how research should be conducted.Thank You +Easy to read slide materials with concise presentation videos. +This course is well-designed, well-paced and well-structured. The study examples described in this course really help you understand the importance of design and interpretation of clinical trials. +Not very much in depth and does not offer complete lecture notes, which are necessary for answering the quizzes... +Very good explain nd excelent material +I loved this course +I think that, besides lesson 11 and 12, everything was very well explained. I was a bit confused with lessons 11 and 12 since I am not new to econometrics. Perhaps I found it confusing the theory background related to the lessons themselves. Just my opinion, very good course. +I get lost a bit too often.The teacher sometimes explains easy concepts and omits the difficult ones (e.g. exponential distribution is explained as "for example if you are waiting for a bus that comes every ten minutes" and then he tells you how to compute expected value and moves on, but he does not say WHAT IT MEANS - is it the probability that I will meet an oncoming bus? is it probability of waiting ten minutes for the bus? is it the average waiting time? is it average number of buses that come every hour? - but there is detailed explanation of what A squared means in lesson two (!))The teacher often makes me confused as to where he got the numbers he is plugging in the formula or what answer the formula gives.But I take it as a challenge and I intend to finish the course despite all of that. Sometimes it is fun to decipher the mystic equations. And maybe it is me, maybe I was not born to be a statistician. Maybe there are people that find this stuff easy and understand it right away.I really like the quizes. They are HARD.One last thing: Wearing white shirt and using white marker makes it impossible to read what he writes. But I take it is part of the challenge ;-) +Excellent course. Professor Lee did a first-rate job of giving the intuition for Bayesian methods and building the foundations for further study of the topic. The course is short and to the point, but that is a feature and not a bug. It will prepare you to take further courses in Bayesian statistics or to study the topic on your own. Highly recommended. +Short course that's actually mostly theoretical with a bit of R/Excel analysis. This fitted my needs perfectly. My only suggestion is that they should have released more comprehensive notes for the lectures. +A bit too short. +The whole course is not bad. More examples in the classes would be helpful. +I found this course to be incredibly useful to learn Bayesian statistics and a useful guide for applying the information in r and excel. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in furthering their understanding on this topic. +Steep learning curve. really taxed my thinking capacity. I enjoyed it thoroughly! +Very concise and easy to follow to the end. The linear regression part could be more clear (i.e., with a lecture on the background). +I really like the assignments, they are very well designed and helped a lot in consolidating my understanding of the topic. In my opinion, these assignments are the reason why coursera courses are better than the video lectures available elsewhere. +As a long time frequentist, I occasionally run into problems that are very awkward to fit into the frequentist paradigm. I was aware at a high level that the Bayesian approach could be applied more naturally. Unfortunately, I was unable to "get it" simply be reading a book on the subject. This course made it very approachable. Professor Lee showed us the difficult math (tough integrals) behind it and how we can apply the results of that math in Excel or R +This class is very much an intro, so if you're looking for advanced topics you it might not be challenging. But this is a really good intro. The lectures are good and the supplemented material is great. I wish there was more R, but I'm very happy with the class. +The lectures were good, but I hope more background materials can be released. Understanding the topics needs a relative solid mathematical background. Although having completed the course, I am still confused about some concepts in this course. +This is my first course on Coursera and I am delighted by the construction, how it was led by the instructor and what I learned. Quizzez are great, I spent on some quite a bit of time, but I feel they really checked if I understand the concepts and calculations. The questions during the video are also an excellent idea to check if you follow. All in all I am very happy I took this course! +The course is excellent to learn all the basic stuff needed to master the technique of Bayesian Data Analysis. +I have learned a lot from this course. As there is not course like this one in my univeristy, I really appreiate it. +It is a nice introductory course on Baysian s +It's a great course, there is a lot of information and it might seem at times overwhelming, but it's organized nicely and prof. Lee has a very comfortable time explaining all the concepts. A few more examples would have made this course easier, but that does not mean it would have been better. It's as good as it gets +I could say , it is the best bayesian stat I ever experience till now. +Very good introduction to baysian concepts and very helpful in understanding the difference with frequentist statistics. +Good course, but in my opinion misses of lectures/pdf to ease understanding. +amazing quizes, and you don't have pay to take them. +If you already know everything about the topic and just forgot some little things or you are very strong in calculus, this may be a nice refresher. Otherwise, not very useful. Really dense and little explanation. I liked the Youtube MIT course on Probability (it includes Bayesian Statistics) much more, since it has good explanation of the concepts. +This course provide a very good understanding of the bayesian approach of the statistic. It is very accessible thanks to the learning material (pdf) provided before each lessons and which recall all the basis needed.Thank you Herbie +Very good course. Prof. Lee explains each concept well. Bayesian Stats makes more sense to me now than before!!Thanks so much Prof. Lee +A well-designed course with sufficient support materials and useful practice exercises. +Very instructive introduction to Bayes reasoning. By attending all videos and completing quizzes, you get a reasonable understanding of the concepts and reasoning. Thanks to prof Herbert Lee and all the supporting team +Learned something new :). Lecture were excellent, but, I need time to digest and hope I will get opportunity to use it in future. +I found this course to be really useful. It did progress through the math a bit quickly for my liking, but it was paced very appropriately and the discussion forums were helpful. Excellent examples are contained and I loved how both R and Excel modules were leveraged. Looking forward to seeing more Bayesian courses on Coursera in the future. +Really great, from basic to advance. +Some matters were just given formulas and there was a lack of practice. The course should cover less materials or be longer to be effective in teaching. +It was pretty intuitive and easy to follow the first couple of weeks, but then the assumed knowledge of beta and gamma distributions and their frequentist usage, stood in the way of me fully grasping the Bayesian part of it. In the end I just copied the examples from the lectures and passed the tests ... without really getting it. +I have studied some Bayesian Statistics before. I feel like the materials itself is not sufficient for entry level, and will actually confuse some of the learners. Anyway, this is just my two cents. :) +It was little difficult to understand what the professor , but anyway it was good. +from week 3, the learning curve become steep +Great course! Very concise, yet very informative! Go Slugs! +Very clear lectures masterfully delivered by prof. Lee. The quizzes are good, if somewhat on the easy side. Don't be discouraged by the choice of R as the tool for assignments. R is flawed as a programming language, but you won't need to do any programming, only one-liners to evaluate various statistical functions and plot results. +Very useful lesson! give me a new perspective on daily data analysis. +Short but sweet. This course is a good introduction to the subject. I particularly liked the instructor and the design of the tests, which are really complementary to the learning material and are really helpful to put in practice the somewhat abstract theory. The supplementary material is also well done. It would be nice to have a course book to follow though as referring to videos is not always easy. +A step by step course, designed to pay attention all the time with tons of practical examples and very clear explanations, I would definitely recommend it!! +Excellent ! Thank you so much ! +This course has given me some good new insights into perceiving data and has got me started nicely I am very great full. +Pen hard to see against shirt. Was mildly irritating to wait for prof to write out stuff, maybe prewrite it?Went too fast forward for me, would've liked complementary optional material, eg extra quizzes, to help understand and get used to the tougher parts. +An excellent course, it opened a new perspective on statistics for me. +A good course - recommended. +Very nice introduction to bayesian concepts and rationale. With this course I could understand why should I spend more time learning this technique (which I will definetly do on sequence). +Excellent introductory course to bayesian statistics. I'd like to thank Professor Lee, University of Santa Cruz, Coursera and all supporting staff for the opportunity. I'd enjoy if you provided intermediate and advanced courses on bayesian statistics that covers more topics. +This course requires solid grounding in mathematics. No meant of Social Science graduates without proper training in statistics/mathematics. The course was good in the sense that we could how probability distributions are used to model real world problems.Study material was certainly not adequate. +I really enjoyed this course. The lectures were short and clearly explained, and particularly highlighted why Bayesian statistics is different and what is useful about it. I would have like a bit more walk-through on some of the derivations in weeks 3 and 4. More R exercises and further resource recommendations would have been useful. +very great lecture +Instructor responds quickly to problems. Good job. +Great intro to Bayesian Statistics. The math gets complex but the professor illustrates with examples to help with understanding. The exercises are generally similar to the examples in the lectures and honestly not as hard as they could've been. The course is only 4 weeks and moves pretty fast. Although I scored well, I may take the course again to help make sure all the details and concepts fully sank in.I'm hungry for a deeper dive into the topic. I hope there is a follow up course in the future. +I enjoyed the lecturer, the material is relevant, and the tests are well tailored to ensure you are absorbing the correct information. +This course provides the student a profound understanding of the statistics behind the bayesian approach. Also, it gives some intuition for the difference between the frequentist and the bayesian approach, although that part could have been more explicit in my opinion. It would be very helpful to have more examples on the differences in using freq vs bayesian approach, the gains from using bayesian approach, examples of where the freq approach is limiting / misleading in its 'objectiveness'. More 'real life' examples instead of coin flipping examples - although easy to follow - would be very helpful as well, maybe in a consecutive course with applied bayesian statistics? +One of the best courses I took to date. Paralleled only by ML (by Andrew Ng). Non-trivial assignments, focused on practice, well-explained concepts in readings. Truly impressed. +I wish the last week were more explanatory. Although overall now I do have an idea. It's a good course. :-) +Definitly the best statistic course for beginners with some mathematical knowledge. Love the way the videos are recorded (Transparent glass between the camera and teacher) it should be a standard for online course! thank you so much! +Although I only spent less than one week to finish the course, I think it is quite valuable if you are interested in statistical inference and want to learn more specific in Beyesian Statistics. High Recommended. +Very good course, with less emphasis in the videos and more on exercises and critical thinking, the way I like and learn the best. I particularly liked that the lecturer writes on a transparent vertical surface standing between him and the camera, very convenient. For those not so familiar with mathematics, this might hurt a bit but the payoff is super positive. +Everything was perfect beginning from explonations and ending with materials +A good course but neither notes nor lectures were not in much details. But still it was worth my time. I strongly recommend it if you want a subtle introduction to Bayesian Statistics. +Clear, concise and well presented +As a grad student myself, I liked the way this course was presented in short video format and in only 4 weeks. Definitely there are much more to learn about Bayesian Statistics and one can go way deeper, but this course gives the required basic Bayesian knowledge to someone who wants to get familiar in a short time. +This is the first online course I have ever taken so I don't have anything to compare it to, but this course was excellent! The lectures and materials were very clear and I will be adopting some of Prof. Lee's approach into my own teaching practice. The bar has been set very high for any future online courses that I will take! +I want more practice programming tasks for this course. +I'm a graduate student in mechanical engineering. Thanks for the open course, it is really convenient and helpful! +Unfortunately I could not finish the course in due time. But it is very useful. +A very good course which enlights me the study of bayesian statistics, thank you. +Very well presented course. Interesting and intuitive introduction into the fascinating Bayesian world.Many thanks and congratulations!!! +Good and simple introduction for Bayesian statistics. +Amazing course ! Excellent. Prof. Herbert has a great didactics, the material is clear and very well planned, including the assessments. Thank you very much. Flavio Lichtenstein (Brazil). +Simple but well explained. +Very thoughtful and deep, great learning experience, thanks! +wrote in my comment.The course is extremely well presented and the difficulty level of the excercises is perfect. +Liked the course, but it was a little easy (took four days total to do the material for the whole course). Many questions were left unanswered (such as how dependent the credibility intervals are on the choice of prior distribution and the assumed distribution of the data), and it didn't touch on later topics that are interesting (MCMC sampling). Again, good beginning course, but I was looking for more in depth study. +I enjoyed the course. My background is mathematics, but not specifically statistics, though I do have a basic understanding of elementary frequentist statistics. My goal was to understand the fundamentals and uses of Bayesian statistics, having attempted that via a couple of textbooks without much success; this time, I got it!I do have some reservations about the course. Herbie Lee spent a huge amount of time deriving formulas and methods - a few gaps (either hand waving or 'leave it to the student to finish') would have been helpful, I think. This would leave more time for examples and applications. But the course was well worth my time and effort. +Very nice course that in my opinion nicely fits between Bolstad and Gelman in difficulty (talking in popular Bayesian Data Analysis books). Herbert Lee does a very good job at building one's intuition and understanding in the general Bayesian inference. Good starting point for moving on with Bayes. +The course creates great foundations for digging deeper into more complex concepts and trying to run some Bayesian statistics on simple real life problems +The lectures from week 1 to week 3 are nice and useful to me, but I think there should be more details about the content in week 4. For example, I think the lecture about the Jeffreys prior skipped many things and I did not understand this concept very well. +There are several things in the course that were able to clear up my understanding. The course instructor responds to more questions than I would have expected as well. The course uses a lot of mathematical notation and it helps to take some time with it but once you get the idea of conjugate priors down you can quickly employ them in your own problems. The course covers conjugate priors for several different likelihoods including the normal distribution and the binomial distribution. Although the derivation of the conjugate priors looks daunting as it is written down, the usage of the priors make Bayesian statistics much easier.This course uses R and Excel but is not a course in either. Most of the computations that are performed for the quizzes are pretty simple and require little skill in R.I am glad that I have taken the course and would take another if provided by this instructor. I plan to reference the materials provided in the future whenever I need a refresher. +Great Course! The material is very well presented. Highly recommended. +A great introduction. I feel like I know a lot more about bayesian statistics now. But I do mostly feel like there is quite a bit I don't know, and while I passed, I feel like there is quite a bit more I need to do to really 'get it'. The professor recommended some books in a discussion forum and I'll be going through some of those next I am sure. I also feel, looking back, I should have had some additional math preparation before starting. The calculus was vaguely familiar but with the pace of the lectures, I felt occasionally lost. I would have found it helpful if there was a quick primer on calculus to know and review at the beginning of the course. All in all great course. Loved the presentation method. +This course are excellent and Thanks for Prof for offering the course. I've learned a lot from the course. Thank you. +The course is a great introduction into Bayesian statistic analysis. I particularly liked the detailed explanations of where the parameter formulas came from. Also a great thing, in my opinion, was to write the explanations on the glass instead of just displaying the final results. It kind of provided a sense of interactivity and made the material more digestible for a person with not such a strong background in math. It greatly smoothed the learning curve for me and kept interested and motivated to finish the course. In the end the pace accelerated a bit but was still manageable. Four weeks seems a great duration for such a course - not becoming boring and tiring. Honors tests were quite easy, I'd prefer to have a little more challenge. Overall I'd recommend the course for everyone who wants a quick introduction into Bayesian statistics. It provides a solid background for further studies. +The course is nice, the lectures are really clear. Professor Lee is brilliant and he often gives some excellent interpretations of Bayesian results. For example, the classic example of testing for rare diseases is explained in terms of ratio of true positives to all positives. Another example is the explanation of predictive mean for normal models, or the explanation of noninformative priors. They're all clearer than what usually found in many books. The only limit of the course is that it's strictly an introduction, thus very useful topics for applications such as hierarchical models or nonconjugate models are not covered. +The course content is concise and straightforward. For novices it is very helpful +The material is good, but I've found the lectures challenging to understand even having some background in math. It would be good if all the definitions and key facts were stated more prominently in the lectures, as opposed to algebraic transformations which most readers can hopefully do on their own. +Out of 15 online courses I have taken over the last 3 years, this is the best. Professor Lee presents rather difficult material in a clear, detailed, style. The lesson quizzes are remarkably useful; it seems real care has been taken in aligning the questions with the key points in the lectures, and in furthering one's understanding of the same. +Great introduction to bayesian statistics +Good course. This course is quite challenging for people who don't major in math or physics. However, it isn't so difficult to understand as the post half of this course has a lot in common. In my experience, understanding the concept of priors and posterior estimation is the core of this course. Have fun learning this course. +Short, simple and clear explanations. I only regret the course is not longer. +it's very helpful for me to understand the Bayesian statistics. things are clearly stated and the quiz are good. Many thanks! It's better to have a further course on the Monte Carlo. It's better if the regression can be talked more in details. +I followed this class with a great enthousiasm. It was very clear and pedagogical ! +Just an introduction to the topic but very clear. +Great course ! Simple and clear ! +This course makes a lot of details clear to me. Thanks professor for this great course.I still have one question, is the professor writing on a transparent board in inverse pattern? The technique is amazing! +Excellent lectures by Herbert Lee. Great intuitive content for learners. +I enjoyed the course. +This course is a very good introductory of bayesian statistics. But it better that you have known the basic statistics inference. +good practice. +It was really useful +Very useful, full of important concepts which you can use in any field +One of the best courses I took on Coursera, and the best one for Business English learning so far in my opinion. The teachers know exactly what the ESL student need and put solid business material into it, which is really fantastic.Great job! This is the best one I could imgaine, and that I just want. Hope more great courses coming up in future.Thanks so much, and I really enjoy it and would appreciate every effort you've made in this course. +great course thanks +hey folks, what seems to be the easiest thing on the way to the top is taught here and carefully,what an amazing experience (!) +I thank Coursera for providing such platform to learn from word renowned universities. The course has been help me like anything in the teaching learning process. I feel highest level of satisfaction.I have a concern related to peer review assignment. What shall we do if the submitted peer review assignment is not up to the mark? If we review and rate as they deserve, they may do the same thing with our assignment. Less number of classmates is also a concern.In such case, I request the course mentors to take initiative and do the needful.Thank you +One of the most useful courses provided by Coursera, this course substantial improve my presentation skill; and I would recommend to all professions. +Excellent!! It is a great opportunity to get new skills. I really recommend this course. +Great. +Excellent. Thank you. +No TA, staff or instructor presence during the whole course. Students are left to their own devices. +Great way to showcase your newly learned skills. Extreme variety of projects reviewing other people's work. Very rewarding! +This is the rating for the whole specialization.1) Some course are nice and well done, but probably only 2-3 of the 9 (The entrepreneur one is really well done). But most of them are simply useless.2) It's too long. For the same amount of knowledge, I could have done just 3 WELL DONE courses.3) Most of courses are just things people read in front of a screen, without any passion or interest. And the concept are so easy I am wandering if they need to be teached at all.4) The exam are just sloppy. Even a monkey that didn't watch the video could answer them (sometimes I try to do the same and it works. If I already know what you will ask me, which kind of knowledge are you supposed to teach me?),5) About this project, the instructions are messed up.In the end, I finish it because it was my first specialization, and I was lucky enough to do the interesting one at the beginning, so I feel compelled to end it, but really, I am not sure It was worth my time. +Excellent, Nothing better than this to brush up your basic Management skills. in my opinion every manager should enroll for this Course +Great Course by Great University and best Teacher +Very educative and informative will definitely help in your career. +Brilliant course.. I learnt so much.. +It was a great privilege for me to be here, i really benefited from it, it increased my potentials on construction management... Thank you so much.. +thanks alot +Thanks from professor Odeh and his colleagues. +Very good course for civil engineer +You need to be working in a specific discipline to do each line item on a spreadsheet for detailed estimating. Here several ways of estimating are presented from budget to detail. Also Lean philosophy is incorporated. Owner cost protection and project specification, with respect to cost and ROI are addressed.In short if you are already an engineer, then these concepts are job applicable Right A Way (RAW).If you are learning, then this is also the right place to start. It may open a new door for your next job.You can list this achievement to your CV/Resume.I recommend you take all 4 parts of the Construction Management program thru Coursera, course work created by Columbia University. +Very important for civil engineers +Complete garbage...items not really presented in relevant details with respect to standard industry practices. What you will learn here is not how things are done on the job. +The course content covers a lot of topics related to practical cost estimation and cost control and the presenters did a good job in relating theory to real life experience examples and they were very engaging.The downside was with the test and quiz questions, there where several errors to what the questions asked in relation to what the actual answers where intended. All the quiz/test section needs an entire overhauled and a detailed reviewed should be undertaking to correct all the questions in relation to the provided answers. +Good Topics, but covered at a very basic level. +THE COURSE IS GREAT +Very helpful and interesting course... +It seems like the team have tried to do the whole course in one take! Perhaps some practice would have been in order? at least to work out what they are going to say next.... content is ok so far but delivery is tough to listen to. +I was fortunate to enroll for this program and i learned a lot. Now I'm confident to address the questions, issues and resolve with the solutions in Data Management for Clinical research. I've already recommended to my colleagues to enroll. Thank you very much...!!! +Quite an informative course to take briefly. It was able to shed light on what the thought process for work a data manager must use. Would be great if more real world application on how inter-working the data manager is with the rest of the team conducting the research study. +I find the course helpful and a good introduction into data management. I'm hoping that there is a follow up course to take us further and deeper in planning for a study and data analysis. +The teachers clearly explain the knowledge in clinical trial, using understandable words and examples. +Very good! Very interesting how to design a eCRF for a clinical trial +I feel I learned a lot in this course coming from a research scientist perspective trying to switch careers. I had some informal training at the pharmaceutical company in clinical data management, but this went over nitty gritty of the process and area of data management. Although it did not use the typical Oracle Clinical or related software, it did introduce us to REDcap. Just be aware that this is not a course that will teach you the job of a clinical data manager and show you how to use all the software, it is a course that introduces you to the topic of data management and REDcap. I still highly recommend it. +Excellent course! Enter the marvellous world of RedCap! +I went into this class thinking it was going to be dry, but it turns out to have been one of the best classes I have ever taken. +Much of the survey building topics were rudimentary, but the content covering regulatory concerns and Mobile Medicine considerations were worth the entire course. I recommend it for anyone who would like to get familiar with Clinical data capture concerns. +This course was a revelation of sorts. Although I have never underestimated the planning phase of any study, the level of attention given to the data to be collected, the conscious effort to be put in and the conscientious care taken at each and every step to maintain the data integrity in this course opened my eyes!! +well constructed! I am so glad I took my time in the course :) Thanks +Even though I didn't learn anything significantly new from this course, I believe it served as a great refresher when it comes to data management. Also, this course could also be applied to data management in general and not just for clinical research. +Great Course +Not very applicable -just a bunch of concepts.It feels like a very disorganised course.Paul Harris is extremely repetitive and takes so much time to get to the point. Sometimes he over-explains unnecessary things. His lectures need serious upgrade.Lecturers speak too slow, I have to use the 1.5x speed not to fall asleep. +Very practical! +The course content is good but sometimes very fast paced. The downside of the course relates to the peer-review system of some of the assignments. You can get stuck with a failed assignment for weeks and you have to kindly ask in the forums for someone to review it. +Practical and flexible powerful tool for building a research database +Other than minor technical glitches, excellent way to learn about clinical research, REDCap & general data management principles. +Interesting course! But the lecture videos are too long. +Very good course. Learned alot +This course was a very disappointing experience since it is designed around depending on peer reviewed assignments that don't get graded. I have been waiting for over 3 months for the 1st assignment to get regraded.In the future I suggest the creators of this course stay away from peer graded assignment as it puts students in a position where their grade depends on others and not the knowledge the student acquires from the course content. +Excellent course! I do not have a background in clinical research, but the instructors did a great job of explaining each subject and testing our knowledge and understanding. I would highly recommend this course! +It was very nice course,thank you for the course instructors,and thank you coursera ! +Very informational with hands on experience. Highly recommend it to others who are looking for basic courses in clinical data management. +This is excellent course for me as I started my career in as data management assistant for clinical trial and this course help me to learn all the things that I must know to do my job properly. Thanks lecturer and supporting staff who make this course more enjoyable and I hope to start a new course with Coursera again. +Very interesting and relevant course for anyone interested in research involving human subjects. The teachers are very good at making a 'boring' and difficult subject interesting by providing thorough examples and very good online hand-on tools. Excellent course! +Very interesting! +It was a helpful course which thought the basics of Clinical Data management. The sections on RedCap were new to me and I am happy about learning something new today. Congrats to the team for putting together a useful course. Hope to see more courses like these. +Very good and useful for those wish to pursue a career in Clinical Data Management.The classes were very good and the syllabus was well structured.Thanks for providing this opportunity and my sincere wishes to the lecturers and technical staffs. +Fantastic!!! Very useful. highly Interesting content +Red Cap is very helpful in understanding Managing Clinical Data and understanding various concepts. +This is course is simply amazing. Everyone involved with research, specially if provided access to RedCap at the home institution, should take this wonderful course. +Very useful tools to figure it out the rational thinking before initiates a research project +good for people who don't have any background about coding, and want to build a prototype of an app +I do not recommend this course. It did not fill my expectations. I am not able to create application for mobile phone after finishing it.First 4 modules were somehow useful but since module 5 onward it is just waste of time, I did not learn anything useful, I did not learn how to code. Advices for sources were very shallow and it was not shown how to work with them. I could gain same information with basic search engine request.The teacher is nice and willing to give information to students. But unfortunatelly he did not prepare for recordings of videos. His speeches lacked structure and focus. Very often he was lost in talking and he often re-explained (in detail) staff which was already explained in previous videos. This caused that videos were too long considering the amount of knowledge that was provided to students and watching them was waste of time.The course was shallow, information did not go deep. Students participation was not supported (nor required) after 1 module. +Interesting concept.However, in my opinion, there is sometimes a lack of :- practice especially for the coding part (entire courses are exclusively theoretical)- explanations (during the courses, I have heard several times this sentence : "don't ask me why", which is disappointing in my learner experience and frustrating not to get the answers I was expecting.)- subject mastering (the "teacher" seems to be lost sometimes and admits not being able to explain some parts of the course, which may confuse and demotivate learners not knowing exactly what they are being teached and how it works.Moreover, in the courses covering database subject, security issues are involved. Example week 6 - c video how to send a ROAR from the app to the internet) +This Course is awesome! I am by no means techie. They really break it down, I am so excited to see what i can create!! +excellent. i enjoyed and learned a lot participating in the course. +Good explanation +I learned a lot of useful information in this course--my first on Coursera--and I'm really excited to see how I will apply the things I learned here in real projects. Although I think that it would be beneficial if the course also required us to submit our code (not just watch and read) and also explain github at least a little, I feel that I am well-primed now to acquire more knowledge of how to make apps in the future. I positively adored the instructor (his accent and way of explanation made it so fun). Thanks, Clement! +my favorite Course.. :) +Nice Lesson and good subject +Best bang for the buck on Coursera. Beauty in simplicity. Commendably concise. If you're interested in mobile programming I suggest taking this course FIRST to avoid becoming overwhelmed. This may be the only class you need, or you may take more from the schools offering longer and more expensive specializations. Either way, take this class first! +An amazing tool for entrepreneurs +I really liked this course...its ideal for people new to mobile apps and who wants to quickly build mobile apps. +Great course for people with little or no experience in programming. Clement is great deliverer. +Outdated +This Course is very easy to learn, all it's themes are so good explained.I'm sorry but I might to change the RATE of this course.All went well until the course started reading the explanation of code , after that ... I lost , and I could not continue , because It just came out of nowhere , coding , there wasn't a previous step that says , we will encode here , or are we going to do this somewhere ... just appeared and disappeared as it appeared ... ... we were very well ... but I can not say much more ! +Pretty good beginner's cource +I'm already in week 4 and the course has been great. the lecture videos are easy to follow and there's so much content available. +Excellent course, with plenty of encouragement, community discussion, interaction, and of course learning! This course sets a high standard of how a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) should be. If you have any interest in coding mobile apps, CODAPPS is a great place to start. Coding can be fun, and opportunity awaits! See for yourself. :-) +the course is very well made and easy to +It is a course that will provide you a start on creating a Mobile App. The subject matter is very well presented and exercises are well thought of. It does give you the glimpse into programming and deployment of the app to your mobile. It does not make you an avid programmer of mobile app. It does brush upon the geo position tutorial. But overall very concise and well thought through topics. +I can't understand why this guy is trying to teach me if he doesn't know how to code?! +This Amazing Course +well structured +Really Cool, I love it! +Awesome !!! Similar to asp.net :D +This was a nice course, it put everything together from the previous 3. +Good examples...a little hokey pokey, but still good to see a good example of the coach in action. The fact that you are required to do a video of your own is not comfortable, but necessary to actually do it and not be intimidated by it! +It was a very good course which provided a thorough platform for launching and up scaling the coaching conversation skills +This was a fantastic course as it brings to fulfillment all the learnings of the previous courses. There are practical components which challenge the learner in a good way and bring to the fore reflective learning. +Very good course. Specially the assignment where in the participant gets to record the coaching conversation and shares for review. Also, gets a chance to review the assignment of fellow partici +I've enjoyed the material/ideas in this course and the way Kris Plachy presented the information. I do like her Introductions before content, and then ending each lecture with her Summary. And definitely enjoy her Podcasts during the course, they are very valuable and reinforcing. (I also appreciate her 'signature chuckle' ... gotta love it.) .... M +The videos of coaching are really well done. Highly recommended course. +A very practical courses. Very good introduction to Big Data sources and Computational Analysis tool. +Thank you so much. I experienced a new work in the MOOC of Calvin. I sincerely hope that this lecture provides a new light with the name of hope in Korean +I learned so much from it. The professors are greatly knowledgeable and the materials are helpful. +Extraordinary!! +very comprehensive course on bitcoin related technologies and economic theory +Great course. Love to see more of this material.Please find my promotion for it here on the first blockchain based social network:https://steemit.com/education/@blocklab/education-bitcoin-and-blockchain-technology-by-princeton-university-freeIf you want to donate Bitcoins for me to write further blog posts:1MaJ18dULBEMcGEkes4KQDFzMUt5TdHufh +The best course on bitcoin out there! +Course content good but labs difficult to work with as no offline unit tests were provided which made debugging painful. +This course gave me a good understanding of Bitcoin and fundamental mechanisms of main alternative cryptocurrencies. A good balance between theory and programming assignments helps to to deepen the understanding of matter. I found particularly interesting the explanation of how Bitcoin achieves decentralization. I was also surprised to find how many different applications could benefit from a decentralized infrastructure similar to the Bitcoin network. +Great +The course was really helpful.Considering the fact that I was not from security background, it went very smoothly +Well paced, very informative, challenging enough. +It is an excellent course with good resources. The only problem is that you need to know Java to pass this course. It should have better assignments to evaluate us. +I think that it would be a good idea to improve the grader, release more informative assignment information (take a look at the Algorithms course for example) and lecture materials in pdf format. +Extremely good course. Only drawback is that the assignments cannot really be checked independently. +Very well organized course about this fascinating technology! +The course is quite great! At least I wouldn't be silly when talking about the Bitcoin stuff. However, students like me who don't have any previous knowledge about crypto technologies should first read through the text book..... +The only downside of this course is Java. +Great course! Explain bitcoin system with a very friendly way. The topic is well covered with recent update. Strongly recommended. +As an introduction to cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular the lectures were top quality, and I returned a number of times to watch certain parts again. Thank you for well prepared lectures and material. The java exercises I found a bit laborous and not exactly matching with the content of the lectures; for someone with a lot of experience in java probably easier, but as I saw in the forum discussions, many java programmers had difficulty finding their way to the solution as well. +Good overview of crypto currency. The programming assignments are interesting (can help if there is some support on the forum). overall good program for someone wanting to learn blockchain +Course has very good content and well structured. However it lacks more details on the mechanics, under the hood functioning of Blockchains.The practical assignments are not adequate. Propose more exercises that goes up in incremental content and difficulties and allow students to get more practical insight upon how a blockchain really works. +Nice course with troublesome assignments. +This course is a very good introduction to blockchain technology and popular in nowadays Bitcoin currency. However the main disadvantages are assigments which are hard to accomplished because there aren't any tests attached, so you cannot check on your computer whether your solution is good or not and you cannot debug your code to find an issue if it isn't ;) +This course is a glorified Nakamoto whitepaper. It explains every nuance of it and goes beyond that. Even for scientists looking to do research on cryptocurrencies this course is a valuable reference to get some hints on where it might be worth investigating. All of these without feeling too scientific or informal.Assignments are a little inconvenient at first, but they provide a good insight on some details which need practice to understand.Overall, definitely highly recommended. +Great course, thank you +Great! +Testing environment for coding assignments was difficult to use to troubleshoot programs for errors. +Liked it very much. The exercises, however, could be better explained in some parts +I really enjoyed the videos and i get a good knowledge. +I really enjoyed the depth of the information in the course and the forward looking view of 'where does bitcoin go from here.' +Great overview of Bitcoin, solid foundation in Blockchain. This industry is fast moving so its a bit dated with its content -- for example, this was done before Ethereum so it is not mentioned at all. Needs to be updated. Plus -- no certificate dings it one more for me... +Overall it is a great course. Just think that the assignment could have been break into many smaller sections with a slower learning curve. +Good introduction to understand the fundamentals of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.The assignments in JAVA are quite challenging. They are cleverly chosen so that you can understand the problems under the design of a cryptocurrency. +Comprehensive and interesting course, covering BitCoin related topics in an easy to comprehend way.One thing that can be improved are programming assignements - it would be much easier if there would be project (Eclipse, IntelliJ, maven, ...) and unit tests provided. +Thorough overview of relevant topics. +Very good course, but be prepared to do some non-trivial java programming as part of the assignments. +The theory part is quite good: you get a rather strong in-detail understanding of the technology behind Bitcoin. The Java programming assignments, however, are an organizational disaster. +Wonderful course +Programming assignments are probably the best part as they force your to learn. +Very Informative and a great entry level course to get started on blockchain and bitcoin space. +great course (the provided material and assignments) to understand the basics of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies +Programming exercises were really helpful for understanding. Advanced course including more programming exercises would be very interesting. +It is difficult to complain too much about a free course, but I expected more from a course carrying the name Princeton. The videos were generally well done and interesting, but did contain factual errors almost every week.Unfortunately the instructors were absent from the forums after a couple replies the first week. The homework assignments were disorganized, provided components contained errors, the grading system had problems and the requirements were often unclear. The assignments require Java programming experience (not mentioned in course description). Most importantly, the assignments in no way reflected what was taught in the course videos. They were of course related, but were implementing parts of a bitcoin node, but in a simplified manner. The textbook PDF is good.It would have been nice to have assignments working with real bitcoin (or testnet) transactions, sigs, verification, hashing, etc.Anyhow, I'm enthusiastic about this subject matter, so I'm just happy the course exists, but don't expect a glossy polished course... it's a rough ride.Here is another Bitcoin course that looks good: https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/bitcoin-decentralized-technology +There is quite a bit of material within this course. Having the supplementary book and Princeton online material helped substantially especially when debugging the assignments. +Very useful information about bitcoin and blockchain in general. +Good course but I found it a little difficult to follow. The prof. speaks very fast. It becomes a little uneasy to follow the slides and I need to pause the video frequently. +great course +The best resource to really understand how Bitcoin works +Well organized and insightful content. +good and very informative +Loved this course! It was very thorough. However I think assignments could have been made more clearer as it was often hard to figure out what needed to be done without checking discussion forums. +Despite some issues with the automated grading of programming assignments this course was a great immersion into Bitcoin, surrounding technologies, and research areas. It is a great foundational course that prepares the student for many possible career opportunities as well as advanced studies in the field. The textbook is outstanding as are the lectures. +Very helpful to understand Cryptocurrency! +The course is very good! +Well structured, good explanations. Tests require java programming skills, could be a good idea to divide them into smaller pieces and combine them with other type of tests, so they can be distributed every other week instead of having 3 big programming exercises. +The course is comprehensive and covers technical, social, economic. legal aspects of Bitcoin. The technical treatment is hands on and gives a really good fell for how bitcoin and blockchain works compared to several other sources where treatment is superficial.There are several parts of the course I was not able to get a clear understanding - such as implementation of the actual bitcoin core in the stack based script. Also I found the questions for the programming assignments convoluted and not very helpful in describing what is required from the student. Had it not been for discussions on the student forum I would not have been able to complete the final assignment.Despite the shortcomings I would recommend this for someone who is good in Java and would like to get a technical as well as comprehensive understanding of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. +Course is good. Content wasn't updated after its initial run in 2014, so doesn't include recent developments. Could include a section on ethereum. Programming exercises could be structure better and unit tests could be exposed to students. +Lectures were extremely good, but assignments and graders were very low quality and difficult to decipher requirements from. Professors and TAs were not active in the forums. +Great course. Very well explained topics. The only criticism would be on lack of tests in coding tasks, and only one language supported. (Java) +Great course, definitely a complete introduction to crypto-currencies.Lectures are great and assignments interesting and insightful.Keep them coming !!!I would have only one recommendation: Try making a certificate course, and for example, the final exam would be to create a simplified cyptocurrency from scratch :) +If possible I would rate a 4.5 out of 5 for this course. The lecturers are very good and comprehensive (compared to all other sources I found in the web) at explaining how cryptocurrencies (especially BTC) work and what the up- and downsides are. The workload for lecture videos is pretty low for each week (1-2h a week) which makes the learning targets pretty easy to achieve in the proposed time. I found the programming assignments quite difficult when beginning with each one, since one needs to read and understand (most) of several hundred lines of starter code and also needs to understand the task setting which uses a somewhat different terminology than used in the lectures. Also for assignment 1 and 3 there is no simple test code provided to at least partially test your code submission candidates. That makes it hard to debug in case of small logical errors that cannot be detected by the compiler but probably break the complete solution and result in a very low score. I had no experience in Java programming before the start of this course but with a one day crash course of Java for Python programmers I managed to complete all assignments in time (and learn at least the basic principles of Java, which is nice for itself). Each assignment is expected to take 3h by the creators of the course. The come up with a high score (not just passing) I needed to invest about 5-9 hours for each assignment which is probably but not exclusively due to the little knowledge of Java. Nevertheless I would encourage the creators of this course to use Python assignments for future courses since this would make prototyping a lot easier (due to it's interactivity) and attract more students without having real downsides (at least to my knowledge). All in all I really enjoyed this course and would like to thank all lecturers and the Princeton University for making this course accessibly free of charge for everybody. Thanks a lot! +Please More Videos about Boincoin and Blockchain relation with programation +I enjoyed talking this course and it was a in-depth course on cryptocurrency. I loved the course thanks to coursera +The lectures provided an excellent overview to Bitcoin technology, its place in the world and the potential of cryptocurrency-based approaches.. The assignments were more technically challenging, requiring some knowledge of Java programming and data structures and requiring some extra thought on the algorithms for the highest marks..The assignments might be made more accessible if they were integrated more systematically with the lecture concepts but nevertheless the end result is a very impressive and useful course. +so great! +I find this course prepared very well. There are many perspectives and this course does not concentrate on the technology only. I find this course very helpful. The level is more then just beginner. +Why is this marked as complete there are more weeks of lectures? +This course is very interesting, I learned a lot of thing about bitcoin ecosystem and technology behind them. The programming assignment is challenging. Thank you. +Assignments would need to be improved... +The course is just amazing, the assignments on the other hand are much less: hard, grader issues ...Thank you! +This is just an addendum to my previous review. To make every bodies life easier, I would suggest imposing a requirement that all homework be done using Eclipse. It is a popular IDE for Java programming and certainly adequate for this course. Then, I would have the homework cast as an Eclipse Java Project for each assignment. In each raw assignment, include something like theDropBoxTest code that gives a testing framework. Personally, I would do that with a JUNIT style framework. Again, it just makes life easier. You could even bare bones testing assertions and have the students add their own stuff in which is what I eventually wound up doing. The test, themselves show how you expect the whole thing should work.Then, we students would import the homework as a new project, do what needs to be done and just submit the code developed. The point of including the testing framework is that ambiguities or interpretational variations can much reduced in what we are being asked to do. I found that all my problems pretty much came down to thinking about how I would implement the functionality of the specification quite differently then how it needed to be done to fit into the grading framework. There is really a lot of hidden specification in the grading framework. I could not have done the assignments without the DropBox... framework. The grading process gave very little hints about what might have gone wrong, which is ok for grading, but not so useful for debugging the problem. I think this kind of project approach would reduce a fair amount of the forum questions, and, at the same time, make this course more accessible for Java nubies. +Very nice course. Everything explained very detailed with examples and of course most important practice problems to program by myself so that I can remember the principles of work of ScroogeCoin system data validation. The one thing I miss is that I am unable to choose another programming language instead of Java +Good oversight of the ideas of crypto currencies in general and many details about BitCoin in special. The programming assignments gave me a good impression about the technical considerations in order to establish distributed consensus.A mostly fascinating topic presented in a mostly usable way. +Love this course! The lectures were outstanding. I took one star off for the programming assignments. There is much wasted time required. No test framework is given that allows developing code outside of the grader. And trying to debug code by submitting to the grader is difficult and time consuming. +The course and the teachers are amazing. I learned a lot of new things about the Blockchain technology and I also learned many things from the assignments. You should include more assignments in the future. It would be very constructive if you can create some suggestive diagrams in the assignments and if you can present the results for some simple test cases. +This course offers a full coverage of the topic. The programming assignments are very useful to apply the lessons. +thank you very much +Inattentive lectures. There're only a few videos that are worth watching. You need to be prepared for wasting a lot of time for programming assignments -- it's not because the assignments are tough but because of poor descriptions and out of sync with lectures. If you're interested, just download the online material (not videos) and read through it. Much better than wasting your time with the lecture videos and assignments. +Good course, but without Certificates! +The content and videos are good, but the programming assignments could really use some work to make them easier to understand and implement. +Great class, very interesting assignments, a lot to learn. +very interesting course. Thank you! +Incredible. Good Job +First and foremost, i want to say a big thank you to 'coursera' , and the speaker in charge of the class, 'Professor Edward W. Felten'It is nice lecture, still taking the classes. and i love his 'audibility', it is superb.am so enjoying the class. +Great teachers and topic. +Easy to understand and very Useful. +good course +It´s great, Excellent ,I recommend Spanish subtitles .Thank. +Dear Dr. Odeh,Thank You and Kudos for gathering and organizing such a high quality material for the CM Scheduling course. Valuable Hands-on exercises and best of all, having lecturers that are authorities in their field.I look forward to following with CM Budgeting and later CM Finance.With all appreciation,Hanna "Tino" Brenalt +Very good content +Very Informative. +Thanks Mr Odeh, this course is very helpful f +Lots of bugs +I like the course for its clear structure and straightforward content. +Its a very good way to start learning how to schedule a project and all the possibilities you have. +Exposure to numerous areas of scheduling software. The presenters were successful at getting across software exposure to the students. Further to scheduling software there were also scheduling analysis software introduction. +Thank You Prof. Odeh, this course i giving me better perception on the construction scheduling. Perfect! +I am really fascinated by this course and its a first step towards Project Planning and specially Lean Scheduling Its a brilliant and advance method in Construction field. +The Course is very interesting and helpful from all prospective. I'm the project Owner and it was great experience for better understanding of the scheduling, different techniques and Lean Delivery. +Great course, very informative ! +Very useful and concice, thanks! +THE COURSE WAS AWESOME +This is an excelent course to learn the art and craft of Construction Scheduling. +A very good course on Project scheduling, both theory and calculation.Very very great! +The course is very helful in understanding the various concept of scheduling. The course material gives to the poibt views and examples to understand tbe concept and very nicely delivered. +I really learnt a lot. +Very briefly covered and clearly explained, but in my opinion it needs to add more on Risk assessment and management, and baseline scheduling. +I can really imagine how helpful to course is to me, I really got so much information which could help to better my position. +This is a very powerful course with pragmatic solutions to daily coaching. Kris Plachy provides us a set of tools and techniques to implement straight away. I appreciate very much the work examples she gives and the way she deals with r +Week three quiz is real bad. I suggest you give it a try and see for yourself. +Great Course! Would recommend to all those would like to set up Coaching Culture and learn about coaching tools. The tools discussed are very effective and easy to implement and practice. +good course +Great course! I have some experience in HR, and also in coaching and I find the information very useful. +Found a lot of the tools in this class to be helpful in my career. +A good course with valuable insights, however, I'd like to see more assignments +Great course. At the end of the course you will have all you need to establish coaching practices in you company. +I think this course has many practical tips for coaching process +Good and brilliant one +Good tools and explanations, good audio. Thanks! +Useful and able to practice right now ! +Great course with really clear lectures! Nice methodologies to get management related stuff done! +Thanks for bringing us an excellent program and valuable tools for managers!Coaching is a key element in the organizations for handling the human resource and lead them to better performance and results that will set the path for the organizational achievement of goals integrating its employees.I´m glad to say that your course is very complete as it is an assorted set of enriching learning elements: video-lessons, quizzes, readings, peer-review assesments, and the suggested activities like interviewing an actual coach - which is a very fulfilling experience in the learning process and one of my favorite activities for it leads you to interact with a real coach.Please keep delivering and developing quality education. I express my sincere and grateful: Thanks! +Very good lessons. +Very comprehensive course content. An excellent way to get an overview of the English legal system. The tutor is very concise and explains technical areas in a well-paced, clear manner. +A first class course; interesting and enjoyable. Thought provoking content, which was logically, enthusiastically, and professionally delivered. The method of testing was imaginative and stretching. +Overall very detailed and informative. A great way to get insight into English Common Law. I just felt that in the last week (6), perhaps the transcripts in English had a few mistakes and seemed to be missing out a few words of the lecturer. Also a few grammatical mistakes, which seemed slightly odd? Nevertheless. Very happy ultimately. +A well structured course on Common Law. +pretty good course +Comprehensive introductory course that sets a good foundation for future study in English Law +Thank you very much for such interesting and useful course, which allowed me, a man who lives in the country with another jurisdictional system, to get better acquainted with common law, its principles and values. I really enjoyed it, got much from it and hope to continue my study of English common law further someday +Right amount of detail that the concepts don't overwhelm (or even bore for that matter) and one gets the whole, clear picture. Enjoyable. Great job done by Professor Adam. Word of advice, course could really do with an additional week on BREXIT and its likely consequences in the long-run. +Extensive and useful! Many thanks to the staff! +Brilliant course from best University of the world. +Good enough, but too difficult to understand if you are from another legal system. I would suggest to simplify a course and fill it with more examples. Every test was great! Thank you. +The testing element could be improved with in-video quizzes and the end of chapter test could be expanded to include more varied and generally more questions. The lecturer is clearly top-notch and an expert in his field. Very informative and thoroughly enjoyed it. +it was a fantastic experience +Given the nature of law courses (a lot of reading), there needs to be a great deal more written information on the lecture slides. Quotes from pieces of legislation, judgements from various courts, quotes from politicians etc. need to be provided on the slides, otherwise students are either left to search through the transcript, which contains numerous spelling and grammatical errors, or write what Prof. Gearey is saying which means continuously stopping and starting the lectures to get it all down. IN SHORT: Better lecture slides with more information on. +Excellent course giving a deep insight into the origins and spirit of the common law, as well as its functioning! I particularly enjoyed Professor Geary's elucidation and examples on common law and in particular, EU law and human rights law. +Great +A brief course of the key principles of common law and its relation with EU law. The course provides some theoretical knowledge as well as professor Gearey's explanation and clarification that makes it useful and interesting. +Taking this course in January/ February 2017, I found it to be jumbled, out-dated and frustrating.Materials are presented in a chaotic, roundabout way, which is neither chronological nor thematic, leaving huge lacunae. The initial lecture started with an entirely uncontextualised location-visit to Lewes, and mention of the Battle of Lewes in the Barons' War, with plenty of merry jumping over the *rather more important* Magna Carta. In later lectures, there is similar dancing around the English Civil War, which is shocking, given its constitutional importance... and then lots of vague, hand-wavy references to European law. I understand that these lectures were filmed before last summer's shock result in the EU referendum, but - honestly - would it have killed Professor Gearey to have discussed the context and possible implications of the referendum? By contrast, I'm currently following a Futurelearn course which is a repeat iteration of the original material (that's how online courses are viable - I understand that) BUT which the educator cared about enough to updated with topical material from the very week in which we were following it (Week 1 of President Trump)!It would have been far better to have gone into the Common Law course with clear historical anchors (e.g. Magna Carta, Civil War, Great Reform Act, EU membership), which would have given a proper framework for studying the development of common law, through cases and precedent. Instead, we get Professor Gearey sliiiiiiding into half a dozen subjects per lecture and then "leaving that question there for a later lecture."I must mention that other lecturer is much more coherent, and that he talks sensibly through various cases, actually demonstrating how precedent works. However, that's just not enough to make up for Professor Gearey's flibbertigibbet style of exposition, which seems to make up the bulk of the course.On a technical level, the un-corrected transcripts of "lectures" were a huge headache, since they didn't make much more sense than the lectures themselves, and at times made even less sense, due to incorrect transcriptions. It was particularly frustrating to have legal references mis-spelled (e.g. "Blackstone" as "Blackspen"), making it difficult to track down better sources to supplement the lectures.I can't actually be bothered to see this course through to the end, and am very glad I didn't purchase it. +It is very good to understand all the base of Common Law, but need to be updated in some aspects with the advent of Brexit. +The content is good, but it's lacking articles, important bills etc..; and the quizzes aren't very hard +No slides or writen support to guide the student. +I have found this a deeply frustrating experience. The main lecturer, Professor Adam Gearey, clearly knows his subject well but is a terrible communicator. His lectures are poorly constructed, repetitious and sometimes confusing. He seems at times to be delivering the lecture as a stream of consciousness rather than a properly prepared lecture: as a result he sometimes misspeaks himself, for example saying that murder trials are conducted in the High Court rather than the Crown Court, and these errors have not been picked up and corrected. I am forced to wonder whether anybody in the University of London team bothered to quality check these videos. These problems are compounded by the uncorrected subtitles and 'transcripts' of the lectures, obviously done by somebody with no understanding of the subject. It is also frustrating that when I raised these concerns in the weekly discussion forum, I received replies from a volunteer moderator which were so badly written as to be almost unintelligible. This moderator made no attempt to enter into constructive discussion, but told me that 'you cannot say our professor is wrong because you disagree with him' and that I should 'read the sentence properly': in other words, no criticism, however constructive, can be tolerated. Even some of the questions in the quizzes are carelessly constructed: for example, the 'correct' answer to q8 in the final quiz uses the word 'allowed' (which implies an element of discretion) instead of 'required', which would have properly reflected the provision in question (s.6 HRA 1998 - 'the authority could not have acted differently' ). All in all, the presentation of this course falls far short of the academic standards I expected from a university with London's reputation. +The court helped me to construct a set of comprehensive and systematic knowledge of English Comm +a wonderful introduction to the the law, and a fascinating new educational experience for me as a year 12 student that has provided me with knowledge and insights that are hard to find at this stage of my education. although at times i felt the lectures got slightly repetitive, this course has provided me with valuable skills that i will certainly draw upon in the future. +Useful update for old students. +Outstanding course, with great lecturers +Interesting . +This is a superb introduction to the principles of common law and how it functions in the UK. I would have liked supplementary reading, whether mandatory for the course or merely suggested. +Unnecessary video segment at the start of each lecture is annoying and a total waste of time. The content of the course lacks in substance compared to the "An Introduction to American Law" course. So much time spent on European effect on British law: this is not a course for lawyers, I would presume, but supposed to be an introduction. +very good! The teacher is professional. The course is worth of learning lots of times. I love the course. +Some videos are lively... some questions are unnecessarily hard... the instructor is generous and learned. +The course needs pdf files for additional information. +Great Course! Highly Recommended! +Very interesting course and very insightful as well!! +Excellent course for beginners to understand what is Common Law about and how it's really working. Greatly presented materials by Professor Gearey. I strongly recommend this course for first-year law students outside Commons Law jurisdiction or for graduates that are interested in studying in the UK. Cheers +Incredibly informative and well explained for people who don't already have a basic understanding of the common law. Also manageable hours for people who are busy. +Like it, very interesting and useful !!! Thanks a lot +Really badly organised. Course lectures are interesting however end of section quizes have no relevance to the material taught. There are no external links or additional relevant material attached to even link the question to the lessons taught. +A very well-designed short-term course. Served my purpose in exploring the English Common Law and the English Court system. Thanks to Prof. Gearey for putting together this wonderful presentation. +Excellent course! Professor Gearey delivers this course really well! +Wonderful course, packed with vital information. +It was a great learning experience. Professor not only teaches the concepts but socialise common law principles, structures and history through examples and discussion. At the same time, a very generous initiative by coursera to provide learning opportunity for underprivileged. +All talking, don't even have slides to assist with the presentation of materials, also seemed to have focused too much on the European Union/Convention instead of the Common Law itself. +Very Good Good. The professor is super brilliant and funny. What an attractive course! +This is an excellent course for those who seek for the basic ideas of common law, especially the English Common Law as well as the relationship between the English law and the European law. This course is very useful and easy to understanding even if you are not living in the United Kingdom. Everything starts from its roots and you can easily follow the concepts even you are not familiarise with the history and background of the United Kingdom. Another reason I love this course because this course spreads the European law, especially the European Convention of Human Rights, to the whole duration of course which allow students like me to understand how and why this convention is so important to the English Common Law. +Useful course for exposure to debates that animate the common law, with some bits about the relationship of English and European law, pre-Brexit. It's probably fair to say this course offers some experience in the elusive skill of how to think like a lawyer. The legal debates might seem a bit pedantic to all but the specialist. For example, the course attempts to sketch in the debates about proper use of precedent, with frequent reminders that the task of fully developing such debates is beyond the scope of the course--I'll bet some students were thinking, thank goodness it's beyond the scope. It's all clear enough, and delivered pretty much exclusively in traditional lecture format--there's even a lectern. Each of these lessons about the legal debates outlines and develops the opposing sides but doesn't give you a whole lot of new content to be tested. Thus, many of the quiz questions are on comprehending passages from cases, statutes, or commentary. Such quiz questions sometimes feel like those reading comprehension questions from a standardized test, rather than tests of the material covered in the lesson. +The contents look great. I just can't wait to begin this course. +I found the presentation of this course very straight forward, +This was a very informative course. It will be interesting to see how the laws will change with The United Kingdom exiting the European Union. +Thank you a most enjoyable and informative course.Baie dankie, ek het my gate uit geniet! +It has add knowledge to me as I'm pursuing a law class +Goes into constitution, EU Human Rights, and lots more. Gives you a strong foundation to build your understanding of the history and current status of Common Law. Thank You! +I am an engineer with no background in law, but found it rather easy to follow Prof Gearey as he neatly unravelled the hidden logic of a complex, amorphous subject. The lectures build on the topic from first principles and the quizzes are well designed. I am hooked on the subject and am ready to tackle some of the more difficult subjects. +A very informative course +A very lucid yet succinct introduction to the Common law. +Interesting material and good teacher but very poor use of the media (an audio file would have been sufficient for most lectures) and low quality recording for some lectures (background noises, echos, wind...) +A great starting point for further study in Common Law. The course explores the interaction of UK law with the law of the international conventions (Human Rights and the European Union). Prior knowledge of certain basic concepts of law (Ratio Decidendi, Obiter Dicta, Judicial process etc.) is recommended. +Interesting course on the English legal system. Just keep in mind that the audio is not that great in some areas. However I highly recommend this course. +Extremely useful to understand and learn about the Commom Law. +Informative and engaging. +It is an extremely informative course that presents a lot of information in an interesting way. It's a very serious course, so I'm glad that it's so accessible. +this course is help for the communication +After finish this cousre I gainted many usefull knowledge about communication. +Very well organized course... +Communication in the 21st Century WorkplaceCongratulations on the platformCongratulations on the administrative order of the courseCongratulations on the Success of the Course +Quizzes are extremely subjective and hard to pass. Couldn't find direct relation between content and questions. Cultural barriers might be to blame. +I need access to the quizzes +This course is a good one! +Great course to sharpen communication skills. +It wasn't challenging but more irrelevant to what I'd guess is a lot of "workplaces" +This course very usefull! +Simple and nice course +A wonderful format. Easy to follow and great learning materials. +I liked it very much, helps to develop personal and corporate communication. +thanks it just needs more time +Overall a good class but the required reading links could use some help as they didn't always seem to cover the videos of that section. +Cheesy. If you mess up in your delivery, press the little button and start over! Needs some judicious editing. +Short but well put together with many additional external recources (readings)! +Communication and Active listening is so very crucial. +While the course materials themselves were very useful, the quizzes didn't feel like an effective test of the material and consisted of very few questions, which didn't leave room for error (especially problematic because some questions were subjective). +I like the course content but the presenter needs to have a more friendly way to present it. +Kinda disappointed that in a course about Communication, Margaret can be such a "so-so" communicator herself. Except that, the course is good and offers some cool tips on how to deal with that new ways of communication that we must deal of. +Good course to learn communicating with various types of people in various environment. +hurry up. we need to finish all the course +Simple and nice course ... to the point +Very well explained and with rich support material. +Relevant Information, well documented and easy to understand !!! +Course is very informative and practical +Always good to learn how to communicate in an efficient way, even with new technology +This course is fantastic! +I did not meet my expectations from the course +The extra/outside content provided is great. As others have stated, but clearly not adjusted, some of the quiz questions aren't clear items covered in the material (which is frustrating). +I enjoyed this course. I used it for personal development. It gave great tools and information to think about as a middle manager and how to properly communicate with +Margaret Meloni was constantly looking down to read directly from a poorly-rehearsed script while trying to stumble through phrasing and lecture points. Considering this is a course about communication, this was very disappointing. The quizzes were vague and either didn't have clear correct answers or didn't feel applicable to the module to which it was assigned. After reviewing the material, I had to complete the quizzes by trial-and-error since the answers were not reflected in the lectures. +Thanks for the course. Clear and concise. +Overly-remedial information, but that is not what earns this course such a poor evaluation from me. The poor evaluation comes from the composition of the review quizzes: The end-of-section quizzes ask questions to which there can be more than one correct answer, yet only a single response will receive credit.Example: "A recommended solution to a problem is valued by an executive because..." Followed by four possible answers: One of which is clearly incorrect while one makes an awful assumption. These two choices can be eliminated easily. However, the final two options are BOTH UNARGUABLY CORRECT, but only one was briefly mentioned in the material (reading or video), and thus only that one receives credit.Unfortunately, this demonstrates the course creators' desire to value a student's memorization of the instructor's own unique words over the student's assimilation of the course content and ideas.Course-takers beware, this course seems more tailored to stroking Ms. Bravo's ego than to you actually learning anything of commercial value. +Simple and direct. Just the way it should be. +This course is really helpful. I would recommend it to my friend to learn how they can improve their communication skills at workplace and can be a good employee and a great manager. +I thought it was going to be good. Did the first week videos and Lectures. But I feel cheated because it will not let me take the quiz to move on without paying for the course. No where did I ever see anything that said ahead you had to pay -- if you didn't want a certificate or to do the whole specialization. Coursera used to be a platform I used and recommended. No more. +Wonderful.. loved it! +Very helpful, I wish the "slides" had more in them so that I could use them for quick review. +The idea of having support with the videos does not work with this course. Also, the exams do not match at all with the information provided. The anwers to the exams are so relative or subjective, and that's a problem for those who does not domain English very well, just like me. +Really well designed course, with lot of examples from world-class games. This course was very useful for my work, as I work in gaming industry. +Great Tools!! +Way too much reading material. Not enough video lectures/ explanations. The professor also needs to speak a little slower for people to follow. +Useful course for middle and senior managers. Helps with different perspectives and practical tips to be more effective at this. Highly recommended. Thanks! +A lot of reading material is unavailable (link does not work or it is behind paywall).I also found the videos lacking. For example, there were 5 important tips and only one was given, before jumping at next topic. +Great Course, really discusses how to communicate effectively in todays business environment at any level and how to choose best platform too. +The content of the course was good. Lectures were effective. I specially liked the last statement after every lecture "where ever you may be have a great time" +Nicely fine-tuned content -- relevant to multiple settings and spaces of work. +It is basic course with simple information +I think that , this course need to add more keys critical important point in each lesson by keywords on Videos. And examples how to use these skill on nature life +Brief, high-level ideas. Could use more specific examples. +I think the teacher was very welcoming, but the content was less than enough to answer the quizzes. In the quizzes, every answer choice was correct and there wasn't any possible way to discern. What the teacher said and complemented with the lectures didn't match with the question answers. So, my score is "2". +Great course, but really short. Could have more content! :) +A very informative course. Thank you. +speak speed is little bit too quick, difficult for non-english speaking student +It is good course. Very brief and practical. As always, the most important things is to practice in real life situation. +Cannot believe UCI have just very short course, compared to san diegi/Duke/Virginia/Copnehagan who have courses worthing thousands of dollars for free as compared to this one. UCI have exception course in objective C which is worth the money to be paid, but this series, are extremely below the expected standard +There wasn't a lot of information inside the video and the test's questions hade multiple possible answer.However, the links to ressources such as HarvardReview or Inc.com were pretty good and usefull. +More interviews were few real-life scenarios are discussed will be useful. Patricia is one of the most expressive tutors on Coursera and her energy & enthusiasm is infectious. +Theoretical, lack of activities. +Good tools, approaches, and guidance on communication with different people within an organization. The only drawback of this course is that it relies a lot on additional readings rather than lectures slides. +Very good course, I recommend! +A good introduction to Workplace Communication.The resources supplied were extremely helpful.I didn't pay so much attention to the slides that came with this - in fact, I'm not even sure how relevant they are looking back.I had expected the overview videos to be an insight to the resource content, but it wasn't quite compiled that way.The tests could have been longer, and perhaps could have contained obvious solutions - in some instances the solutions provided were all applicable, leaving the student to select the best option. In other instances the options available weren't even discussed in the content, confusing the student. +I love this course, its very helpful and practical. I also like how the course is short and get to the point.Thank you very much .Natalie :) +Has good collection of resources for improvement of communication skills +The teacher of this course talks toooo fast ! I`m for example a french educated student, so I prefer to take courses with a teacher who talks in a comprehensive way in which I can understand everything he says in order to proceed in my work and then to benefit everything in this course.Concerning the quiz, in the all of the quiz there is questions not related to what already said from the teacher or in the articles required to read. I red the articles coupes of time but in a specific questions, the answers, it seems, that we should answer from our own memory because badly it`s not mentioned in any article or in the video of the teacher.Thanks +It was GOOD !!! +great course.. top class collection of articles to help in communication. Most of the knowledge is in the articles then the videos themselves +it was great experience, and very interesting. +I really enjoyed this course.Very good material and lots of hardwork from our tutor... +I expected much more information in videos. Instead of that, videos are very short and provide only few information and don't allow us to pass the exams at the end of each module. There are some link to websites where you can learn much more and which are not even written by the professor. +It very useful for me, i can apply knowledge in my workplace +I think this course did a nice job of breaking things down into manageable pieces. The required readings were very helpful, but there was one link that was unclear what I was supposed to read on the link +Good course. It will help both managers as well as direct reports to find a common interface for better communication, and more efficient business relationships. +Less required reading and more targeted lectures would make it great. It often seemed that the questions in the quiz weren't properly covered in the material provided. +So I went into this not so sure about it but it's actually a fun little course. The instructor is actually really entertaining and makes what could be a very dry and boring topic interesting to hear about. +This was a great course. I understood how important listening is in Communication. +a nice "entry level" course lacking a forum discussion... was not even able to report some issue with videos and no explanation provided with quizzes results :/ +Useful for my career +Tiny lectures and no readings from professional books +the course is not that strong when it comes to communicating with direct reports . +I enjoyed this class and found the readings to be very helpful +Ok course. Well tught, but overall I prefer more business related classes. +A great introduction to basic communication theory as it applies to the workplace. +Great lectures, the only problem is I could not find the entrance of forum. I want to discuss some topics with other learners. +The test questions are abysmal. +materials/lectures are brief and could go deeper. +It's a bit hard to answer the quiz since the presentation is not speaking about the qu +I enjoyed the structure of the modules and the recommended readings were very +Aside form the sound quality issues during certain sections, the quality of this course is excellent! +The material was well delivered but I found it distracting to go between the video lecture and the additional material. +The value of this course is the collection of reading materials that can be found in the same place. The lectures don't add much to the course. +A lot of reading, but the course is pretty thorough. The quizzes are mostly just regurgitating information from the readings. +Gives just enough info. Great, but I wish it was more detailed. +Sound information. Would have liked more verbal communication regarding communication styles. Maybe some role playing scenarios. +Interesting course +it really help me to make correct and effective communication. +It very short and brief. I was thinking it will also emphasise and help us to grow our communication skills for the 21st century communication, but it's just a brief explanation of some changes and nothing more. +Its a great course, ive learnt the importance to do something now, also i didnt know all the stuff other countries are coming through now. i recommened +Good course with solid background information. It is definitely a good introduction that provides plenty of additional information for those who want to go more in depth. +Could and should be showed to the community +Integrated course from the basic to the action, well structurated and supported by specialists, practical cases, an in- deep access for further study. +The link to down +I paid the course and the course seem to be no longer supported, I tried without success to switch session , in summary : You paid and don't get to follow the course, incredible :-( ....... ! +This is one of the best project I have done in my life. This project gives you insights into how to build secure applications. It has three different rounds including a built-it round, break-it round and fix-it round and each of them were equally challenging and fun.I would recommend everyone to take this capstone project and you won't regret your investment ever. +A nice Course explaining the very basics of cataract surgery. Almost all areas covered, but for some topics videos can be added along with the theory lecture. More links to youtube videos explaining your point of view would be welcome. Nice initiative but I hope they keep on adding slightly more detail to the Videos in future editions. +Excellent introductory course for those beginning to learn and perform cataract surgery! +FULL OF ALL INFORMATION AND TEACHING FOR BEGINNERS CATARACT SURGEONSVERY NICE COURSE +Thank you to Professor Daniel Gordon, high quality course in both content and how it is presented (can feel it is through personal knowledge and experience vs. several MOOCs where people give the feeling they are simply reading their script...) +great course +THANK YOU! +Great course with so much precise information, process and examples.The focus is on how to develop the full business model +I had recently purchased the book and read through it. This course was very complementary to my reading and put everything in a better perspective. Mr Gordon did a wonderful job. I will definitely do the follow up sessions. +Great introduction , very detailed. Recommend to everyone good development practice. +Thank you Professor Julian Birkinshaw for sharing your knowledge with us. Very interesting course and well structured. +Very useful and very interesting course. I highly recommend it to everyone who wants to get a detailed understanding of 1) Managing and of 2) the Company of the Future. Thank you very much! I will look for the courses on the anagement of the same lecturer, Prof, Julian Birkinshaw. +Really helpful course covering lots of valuable topics. Julian was very good in getting his points across - very focused, direct, and efficient. +Very useful for me as an Engineer but a bit out of date +Very good course. Covers hot a hot topic (today, March 2017) how to change a company to more right handed, alternative management models away from more traditional management models. +This is a very interesting and enjoyable course that gives great reading materials supplementary to the main materials. Thank you to the course team. The key problem with the course design is the peer marked review system for the final assignment. In the language of the course, there is no 'intrinsic motivation' to peers to mark correctly or with any effort, leading to inappropriate marking practices. +great course indeed. +I really learnt alot from this specialisation course. It deserve 5 stars +Thank you very much sirs +The best course on management I have ever taken! Fantastic! +Excellent course. Very practical , relevant and applicable +One of the best online course I've ever attended. I have learnt many useful information which gives me clear vision of the future management. +Extremely interesting course, which widen our outlook on the management +An excellent course with a lot of insights into the traditional as well as emergent models of management and how these two converge to a compromise. The instructor was excellent in communicating and explaining the ideas with lots of good examples. +very useful and interesting for future career +The course is very effective for all the working professionals who have plans for their own start up in the later stage of their life +A great course, A great instructor, worth your time. +Very well structured course with videos from the professor as well as clips from important and knowledgeable people in the sector. Overall the course is easy as long as you can follow up with the material each week. Good insight on where management is standing and how it will be changing over the years. +Excellent alternative approach for considering classical management perspectives. +Great course! Highly recommended. +Fantastic! It was absolutely nothing less than a true pleasure to do this course. Everything from the strucure and layout of the course itself, to the good tools provided from coursera (I especially appreciated the app!). Excellent! +Great course and content delivery was outstanding +Excellent information +I learned so much, about the right way to present a case analysis! Very meticulous and the community really care about what you put in your answers. This course deserves to be taken seriously! +The course was very interesting and rich, with wonderful illustrations and examples. Thank you very much Professor Julian Birkinshaw for useful materials and assignments, as well as a special thank you Kursera team for organizing such training courses +Very traditional way of teaching through classes... would need an innovative approach :o) +Great Course, Professor Julian Birkinshaw make it comprehensive, thank you !!! +It is an excellent Course with and excellent explanation !!! +Great course, learned a lot of new and applicable concepts. Thanks! +The course is a wonderfulBut the idea of a peer and the final assignment a very badYou need to wait ... for several days and a waste of your time in order to be assessed by other peopleThese people may be incompetent and give you a zero for no reasonAnd lost your effort and your time +Useful knowledge for all people who diseire be a manager. +Very well structured, good foundation, great contextual environment and easy to understand principles. +great course to consider. +This course is very cool! +Great course! Brilliant insights into the future of management. Really enjoyed this course. +The course is very practically-oriented and the quizzes are actually designed so that the learner can make a strong emphasis on the weekly content. +Good lecture and content +This course is really explanatory and building simple concepts from the past till what will have today +Peers review is not that positive as people are not that fair. +Great! +Great course！ I have learn a lot. Thank you! +I really enjoyed the course. Lots of information. The professor knows what he is talking about and he is very interesting to listen. Most of all, I enjoyed the case studies in the end of every module. +Excellent stuff, very current , great teacher. I recommend +Excellent overview of Management Models to consider moving forward and how well they play out against the challenges managers faces today, its benefits and weaknesses and related points to be considered +Very detailed and well taught, liked Prof. Birkinshaw's methodology and energy. +Great course! +Good and clear. +Useful, pragmatic and realistic view of where to head for the future, as far as company mgt is concerned. +Great opportunity to complete high level course. +I really fell in love with the theme. Mr Birkinshaw has an excellent talent - he can just grab you into a particular theme and make you really interested in it. Thank you! +Great course! +It was a wonderful course to partake in, and particularly informative.Thank you Julian! +Fantastic course helping structure intuitive and acquired through experience knowledge in a ordered fashion. +This course and the professor was definitely worth spending time on and learning from. For those that are looking for more certificate, I believe London Business School has a good name, the course title and course knowledge is strong. My rating 10 out 10 and can't wait for the next one. +Course content was very good, easy to follow. Julian made it quite interesting and insightful for managers who see change as the only constant and want to get the best out of their workplace. Really enjoyed the course. Looking forward to other courses from Julian +Great Learning! +Good course specially for senior level executives who get caught in the usual rut of EBITDA/Profitability and Stock Analysts +Good course +Very Good Course.High +great course +not so much live examples full of theories.this has been thought in class it self. +This course has helped me to understand various aspects of compensation management it is a very great course and it provides very good insights about the topics related to compensation. +Very well explained! +Disappointed by the course content ( except for the 4th week).The course content is US specific which has no relevance for international students. How am I bothered about Obama care or other american statutes?!! +Good course content with great examples +Great +Very helpfull for those HR partners not linked to C&B and very usefull for HR Generalist which need this including to be promoted or transfered into an organization. +The most useful parts were salary benchmarking and explanation of stock options. I think there could be more details on how these small parts expand into +Too US-centric. Very strange concept of non-monetary benefits. It very common to forgo cash remuneration for non-monetary benefits (mainly for tax advantages) which was largely ignored in this course. +knowledge sharing and gave a nice chance to learn something new about us economy and trade practices. thank you +The content was very extensive but due to the fact that I'm still in secondary school some of the content was over my head and targeted towards people that have been in the field for a few years. +Excellent course! The learning design is very simple and engaging. I would recommend it to anybody who wants to build a solid foundation in compensation and benefits. +Very comprehensive course. +a very good and comprehensive course. The videos are very informative and the presentations are also very good.Some details can be added into ESOP development and how to budget for employee compensation. +I loved this module. Thus, I want to thank the teacher and the Minnesota University for offering me the chance to keep learning on this matter! +Very detailed explanation and perfect practical examples. Enjoying learning this course. +An engaging introduction to employee compensation, both monetary and non-monetary. Very useful for participants from other HR backgrounds looking to fill gaps in their knowledge. +This course gave me the overview on compensation and benefits I was looking for. The professor explanations are clear and well detailed. I recommend this class for anyone interested on the topic. +Great course. Thanks a lot for your time. +This course will give you a good view of how the different components of the pay mix affect employee compensation. The instructors in this course did a great job in reiterating the different aspects so that learning the material is easy and intuitive. While there are references to the other courses in the Specialization, this course can be taken as a stand-alone without missing anything. +I enjoyed this course. I learnt a lot of stuff about Big Data processing in a simple and clear way. +Pros: covers lots of good topics about Big DataCons: No real big data exercise +We need more exercises to use phyton and spark because with only the examples the hands on quizes are very complicated and I feel that I'm not understanding very well how to use the bigdata tools, is more like error and proof than real learningthanks a lot!!! +The materials explaining the course are too poor. This is a core course in the specialization.The quizzes are out of the material's league +Very Good Course! I'd never used spark before, and doing (and passing) the assignment on it was very rewarding! +This course is more hands on than previous courses, I've found it very interesting and useful +I think the last project was very badly positioned and explained. First the Coursera is using Cloudera VM, but if you execute and run the Cloudera Express to set the Cloundera environment up the Coursea exercises do not run There should be a warning!. If you do then the simplest Jupyter exercise it fails - this took me about 10 hours to figure out.Then for the final Project, technically to succeed you must miss country names in all lower case and you cannot match with countries with a 'space' e.g. 'Cape Verdi' and if you try to take any of this into account you do not get the same numbers to pass the test. There needs to be some warning on how to interpret and manage the files so that you get the same numbers being asked for in the test. Again this too me about 10 hours to resolve. Both resolutions ONLY because another colleague is doing the same course and we problem solved together. THIS IS AN AWFUL EXERCISE in frustration due to incomplete details. Not a learning exercise. Just AWFUL.... +One of the best ways to start to be in contact with the real Big Data Tools +Thank you. Spark in this course is very helpful. +Course was excellent. I liked the hands on sessions the most. Not too easy and not too difficult. They encourage you to explore more and learn more. +The course and presentations were very informational and good. I enjoyed that aspect. I would have rated the course 4-5 star based on that. The reason for the low rating was the 6th module, and the fact that I felt very ill prepared for the syntax of creating all the operations in Spark (building out the Jupiter notebook). We really did not cover much of that, and it was quite punishing to search the web and sources to make things work. Even the instructions to export the csv file were misleading at best. I have a full time job and a family, I am not some young undergraduate with copious amounts of time to waste. While I am not opposed to some searching of other sources, I would like to have more of the useful information taught so that it is not so much of a burden. I believe that if you are going to test people on something, you should at least cover it in some sense. +The VM doesn't work out of the box sometimes for the hands on activities +A little slower than the last ones, not my favorite but great use of hands-on projects and enagagement +This has been one of the best courses ever. A really good insight into big data. I will recommend it to all people trying to get into data scientist. +I have enrolled in this twice but can't see the course content. Every time I click "go to course" I get directed to the description of the course. Where are the lecture videos and other course content? +Lot of learning in this course compared to the first two courses. +Big data integration and processing is a very nice theoretical course on big data integrations systems and also includes a bunch of practical exercises with big data integration products. The assignments including mongodb and apache spark are worth doing. +Very good course and professors. I recommend it. +Poor presentation of topics, I don't recommend. +I found this course like the others. I really liked the hands on labs. It gave a real feel for the programs being explained +I learned a lot of implementation of the techniques and concepts that were covered earlier. A great experience. +Lots of learning of programming Spark and MongoDB +The course was good enough...but exercises were very simple. Only the final course was little bit challenging. For a guy that sits in IT business for a while it's rather too simple. Besides, I've learned spark basics which is super cool...so thanks for thatMaybe you could consider to build docker image instead of using virtual machines. VM is ok, but I think that docker can simplify all the stuff without necessary downloading, installations etc.Looking forward to the next spark challenges :) +Lots of good hands-on and explanation... +Goog hands-on and assessments, i like it and it took me sometime and reading to solve itThanks +course is very good. Excercises are very good. learnt alot about the mongodb and spark sql and RDD's +interesting course, I learned a lot about MongoDB +Programming instructions were not clear, and the version of Python that was installed on my machine did not support the Jupy +a wide spectrum of tools practiced. awesome! +The last assignment of the course is, compared to the others, more difficult. In my case, I ran into several errors which I couldn't get help in solving by using the course Forum, as the end of course deadline was just a few days ahead. I had to analyze the tweet texts for the last graded assignment without using Spark framework (nor any of the other "Big Data" tools explored in the course).I also found some of the videos by PhD. Amarnath Gupta were difficult to understand, his examples were unclear and, in my opinion, too complex and difficult to follow and understand what was the reasoning thread. +some of the stuff was not mentioned properly, like for last quiz how to expoert data from mongodb +I miss a proper buildup from the theory to the practical exercises. Especially the last quiz I found very difficult based on the limited number of exercises presented upfront. +Good amount of theory and also hands-on exercises with some of the tools. +This course is great!!! I love the handson most. Working with tweet text was really challenging for me but it was worth the time and effort. +Very well explained!! This course and specialization are really good! +The Spark introduction and exercises were good. It would be an added advantage if the final steps/answers also get published. +The assessments are quite tough compared to the course examples. Moreover, some programming basics should be given or made to understand, especially in Spark, as these are very +The best course so far (still not doing 4,5,6). It is more complex than the first two. +wonderful course but information much more condense for beginners for this course is hard because lots of error and even no solution on cloudera community blog. first experience with Mongodb after this course i am able to say that yes i have knowledge how to work with mongo and spark at beginners level. +Content was good however we need to get more support on hands on as sometime we feel that we are stuck due to non availability of the right +Some of the lectures seemed slightly lesser quality with regards to the materials. For moocs especially, I would like to have the lecture better documented in order to download and review later. +I had a considerable difficulty with the last exercise because it seams to aim to a different level of students than the ones that followed the rest of the course. I would suggest to put the rest of the course, videos, exercises, etc. to the level of the fine_project which, in my opinion, is the correct level. +Poorly designed, no help whatsoever from the staff, Forum is totally worthless. Worst course I ever had on Coursera. +I feel the contents of this course were great, no second thought on it. It makes your concepts crystal clear. But faced lots of issues during practicing the hands on exercises and did not get proper feedback or response on any of the queries. +It was a good course, different data sources and spark in action +The lectures were very structured and informative. The quizes were challenging. The final week was demanding and fleshed out concepts +It was a very helpful course in understanding of the Big Data Integration and Processing. Learned a lot.Thanks to the instructors and Coursera team. +I had many problems with the final two programming assignments with running Spark in the VM and there isn't a lot of help available online. +Good last week practice!! +Very challenging, specially in the week 6 quizzes where a lot of researching took place in order to pass it. +Excellent..but not easy. Be prepared to have to do some research! But hey....isn't that part of being a data scientist! +Great course! The practices were very useful to me to understand the subjects. +The final assessment somewhat not really well designed, imho. +Needs more depth. Instructors should reference more external readings since the lectures are brief. +Good experience of using the big data tools but a total lack of engagement in the forums by the instructors and community mentors make it hard going if anything goes wrong. The final quiz took me over 8 hours mostly because there was no one to ask for hints when I was totally stuck and confused! +Course is well balanced between theory and practical exercises. Assignments in week 6 for me was challenging but very instructive. I learned many interesting, and useful in real world, things. +Overall this course does have some good content and delivers big data concepts. However, as others have mentioned some content (especially in early modules) could either be combined or ommited. Key focus areas on Spark and MongoDB are not given enough focus and lab time.The quizes have badly worded questions. Finally the last assignment required to pass the class has bad directions and covers content not reviewed in the class. Spent a frustrating amount of time trying to get what most likely is simple code to work.I'm hoping this particular module is revised. For those just interested in learning Spark or Mongo and not doing the certificate program you can probably get better learning from doing your own research. +Great course !!! +I recommend more practical work but as an introductory course it is OK. +Quizes are inconsistent with given dataset. Questions are bad: i.e. what is the difference between "number of distinct countries mentioned" and "number of countries mentioned in tweets". +This is a very descent to understand MongoDB and Apache Spark. It contains hands on assignments will will allow you to learn how to handle these two software. The course is introductory level, and I recommend this course to people who have not used MongoDB and Apache Spark. +It's good +I tried giving zero stars. This course is very poor. In particular the last portion of the class wherein you are tested on things that were not taught. If I had wanted to spend hours in google trying to learn this stuff I would not have spent money on this course. +Loved it! Very practical and hands-on, with a variety of platforms used on practical examples. I'm off to analyse some social media data soon just for fun :) +Best course taking into account the first three. Good material, more in depth than the other ones. Very well explained. Useful to get a sense of various interesting topics and orientative. +I felt this module, like most, represented good value for money. It's obviously not exhaustive, but you shouldn't expect it to be for the price.The final quiz was a nice challenge and struck a good balance between course material and requiring you to research information online. +The course cost too much for the gain of knowledge. Feels like this course could be merge with the first or the third course. +Forcing users to install demo software which requires a registration is just too lame.Other than that, courser is very boring, introductory, jumps constantly between things and doesn't explain much. Stack overflow and 2 hours would do a better job. +Great fun, learnt a lot, and loved doing the peer-reviewed assignments. +this course should be the first one of the whole specialization. They are all so good! +I love this course, it gave me confidence to restart my interest in photograph. +I have learned a lot from this course! +Fantastic course, worth the time for any photography beginner as well as those who are not. +Really helped me get control of my camera and understand how to create the images I wanted. +Thank you Coursera, my wise teachers and fellow students. +The course is well laid out and the explanations are concise and perfectly clear. Ideas are laid down clearly and the student can continue his/her explorations. Good job. +I loved to do the course, it help us to open the mind. Congratulations for the Dreamers who made the course, congratulations! +very enlightening and interesting course. +great course +Makes the more difficult photographic topics MUCH easier to understand!! +The Course is very Practical, Enlightening and Resourceful +Great introduction to photography basics! I think everyone who buys a DSLR or camera like it should take this class. +I especially liked to learn about the equivalent and combination shooting modes. I was aware there was of course a relationship, but wouldn't have been able to explain it and now I can and find it very useful in practice. Also the light metering modes were very enlightening.Thank you so much.Kind regards,Robert +Now I can just go on to area of controls with ease keeping in mind the desired results, +Well made and practical. +really loved the course. +Great course. Just wish these guys would sort all the stupid bugs out. Uploading images can be temperamental. Can't do anything via the app. Images are to big. Nobody to notify. My review score is for the course and not necessarily for Coursera who need to iron out all the bugs. +It was a great step +This course is all about the controlling elements of a great photo.How to take a purposeful blur image,how to take a action shot.You will learn about all this and more in this course.A must for a photography newbie. +It is a great course everything is explained and the extra material is great. +Excelent course with very good sugestions for meking yourself a good photographer. +Camera control is the practical foundational course to bring you up a notch above everyone else. It is like knowing what rpm of the engine to change gear is most optimal - it may not make you a better driver, but it definitely help. +I really liked the community and the peer review assignments that made me do some creative stuff that i enjoyed +Basic knowledge about photograph, but It is so useful and great for me, an armature guide. Thanks teachers so much. +Incredibly clear and detailed explanation, great exercises to develop good photography skills! +I always thought that the photos are in focus right eral perfectamenet, without anything that moved.Today that capture the motion with my camar is an artistic way of expressing my vision! +I see my camera in a different way after this course. Thank you! +Awesome, Loved the course +Over all the class was great and I learned new things and tried techniques I have always wanted to use but didn't know how. I really wish there was a way to see all the of the submissions for the peer review once we have handed our assignment in and have finished reviewing the minimum requirement. I think a lot can be learned by seeing how everyone else in the class interpreted the assignment. It would be fun to see what everyone else photographed. +Great course!!! +This corse was awesome and fun. I enjoyed the lessons and getting out taking photos. I feel that I learning a lot and am learning how to use my camera more efficiently. +This course and the others of the specialization made me thinking of nothing else than photographing in the past months/weeks. I am learning so much from here and it makes me eager to know much more and to investigate on different sites for further details and lessons. Thanks to all of you at MSU who have helped in setting up this lessons! +Excellent, I learned a lot +Nice course. Gives a good overview for beginners.It would have been better if you show different camera's and their control buttons. +getting really back to the basic makes a good foundation to build on +this is great +Very detailed but understandable except for one of the tests...The references made are very difficult to correlate with the answer being sought. +This has an really great course of this Specialization, one the best I've ever taken, online or 'real' (and I have taken a lot, two Masters Degrees and PhD studies). Peter and Mark are awesome! +Thank you for allowing me to audit this course. +Excellent course and specialization. +Great course with a clear and simple explanation! Recommended! +very good coarse...would like a copy for reference.... what can we do about that? oh and by the way this coarse is so beautiful...I took photography for four years at a local junior college and didn't learn (or remember) nearly as much while being challenged and having fun at the same time.... its is so good you want to learn more....and you sure can, I am on fire trying to find out MORE. I now read quite a few articles about photography in various publications, as most "latest" info comes through the grapevine. I always inquire as " How did he do that"? it's amazing how much I don't know! Good job guys +very helpful :) +course worth doing. +Great course that explains a lot of core concepts and techniques (like controlling depth of field). Also gives a great introduction to the different types of lenses available. My only criticism would be that the last two weeks are lighter on content (however the assignments are challenging and a lot of fun!) +I am learning so many things I am loving this course +Simple yet comprehensively explained course that inspires confidence in beginners and I guess works, as a good platform for amature photographers to brushup the basics. +learnt heaps again, very beneficial. Thanks!! +Even though it's the second course in the specialization, it is still an introductory course, a great option to learn about the details of camera control and to improve or review basic techniques. This is also a challenging course, you will start to test your own boundaries. +Great, been learning so much through this course. Highly recommended. +The content is helpful in learning to use the camera and understand terminology, but it is somewhat, if not totally, a false representation of interaction with the experts. There is absolutely none. Some seems repetitive from course one. +As someone who has often been complemented on his photographs, this course has nonetheless been of great value in that it has yet again forced me to step back and think before pressing the shutter. I am already seeing the improvements in my photography. Thank you. +Peter & Mark hit a home run with this course, very thorough , great advice,this was a course full of knowledge and at the same time I truly enjoyed their way of delivering the content. +For people interested in deeper knowledge of photography this is the course to take! +I learned so much in this course, I would recommend this and the previous courses being offered in the specialization Photography Basics and Beyond from Smartphone to DSLR. +Well delivered course +This course explain more in detail the practice of photography and is step by step, I really lIke the course and is not so expensive, there should give a continuity for all the for courses, maybe an advance course online. +thank you. +wonderful course! +Awesome course! Will definitely tell other people about it +Weeks 1 &2 were worthwhile. Weeks 3 & 4 were very thin, not really up to expectation based on first course or even first two weeks +I am in love with coursera team, Faculty and their work for the youth and people who are trying to get educated and don't have the resources to do so.Keep up the good work. +Same comment as before. Do the professors ever look at the assignments? Can we get feedback from the people teaching the course? +Sorry but yet again a potentially great course spoiled by the implementation, way too many mistakes in the quizzes, peer review grading systems which in places are nonsense . I hope things get better and I give the the course the 5 stars the content would merit if it had been properly QCed and delivered to best Coursera standards +Lovely course, specially the blur action photography part +The glitches with Coursera itself are not excusable and should be taken as a black mark against the organization. They made the professors and Michigan State look less than average and caused confusion among the students. The material is good and it makes me learn about the camera that I use and try new things. +It is a very good course, both professsors using simple , clear but detail explantion to teach us ! Thanks a lot! +I'm a novice in photography, I know how to deal with my camera, but I'm not confident with it. This course lighted some dark corners of not-understanding of mine like the flashlight used by Professor Glendinning in his "My Paris" series. I liked it very much. Thank you! +Interesting aspects on camera usage are well explained. Interesting assignments as well. +Great content but some very choppy editing which spoils the flow. I'd much rather have longer lessons and less aggressive editing +Both the professors are trying to give max knowledge required for this course and they are 100% succeeded +Brilliant course with fantastic professors who explain everything in the easiest way. +If there hadn't been so many hiccups with the videos and quizzes I would recommend this course. However, I lost a great deal of time viewing incomplete videos and trying to complete quizzes covering material that was not addressed or only partially addressed in the videos. Then had to go back and Review all the videos once they had been re-uploaded. It was a very frustrating experience. I lost momentum and even motivation and as a result am now behind with the assignments and quizzes. +Excellent! I take my camera with me wherever I go now, and I am starting to get an eye for a photo; that tutorial on framing was a big help.These courses are very thorough, with lots of photos to view as examples.I am really looking forward to the rest of the course. +I have loved this course as much as the first part. My work has dramatically improved by taking this course as my understanding of what I am doing has increased. Thank you for providing this specialization and I look forward to the next part. +The course started really well and followed on nicely from the first course in the series but I'm really disappointed and frustrated with the video editing issues. Many were fixed but there are still some errors/omissions and the second half of the course was very short of content compared to the rest. Such a shame as I'm sure the writers really know their material and conveyed so well when the content was there. I'm looking forward to the next course and hope the material is all ready to go! +The only content I had access to were lectures, but I still want to say that I really liked this course. And I'm looking forward to another courses of this specialization.I'm a music student with bachelor's degree in Computer Science and dozens of coursera certificates (from the times they were free), I'm curious about everything.I used to say that I'll learn to paint when I retire :) But it turned out that I can do pretty good photos without having to wait until retirement. It's not the same thing, of course, but it's a visual art.This course and "Cameras, Exposure, and Photography" teached me a lot and brought so much joy into my life.I'm not planning to make money as a photographer, but I'm happy to have an opportunity to create better and better photographs.Thank you, Prof. Glendinning and Prof. Sullivan. And thanks to everyone who helped to create this course.My photos can be found here, in case you're curious: https://www.flickr.com/photos/140271759@N03/Most of them are made with my old cheap digital camera, only a few with a new DSLR. I would never have the courage and motivation to buy it without your courses. Thanks again for all the happiness photography brings into my life :) +Great introduction course to photo exposure techniques using ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. The course on depth of field was short and felt a bit rushed so I suggest using a supplemental text book or online resources during the section. +problems..problems ongoing +Got lost and left behind very quickly even after watching videos numerous times and doing additional research. There were videos missing even with deadlines approaching. Some videos were very well explained while others I didn't understand at all. +I have learned more about photography in the short few weeks than I have studying by myself in much more time. Great course. +The explanations are a bit and drawn out. For non-native English speakers, this is very difficult to understand as well at time difficult for native speakers. Also, the course for auditors is not very interactive and we cannot participate in some quizzes and work submission. +I think this course gives me the most fundamental knowledge of photography, which consists of many new words and ideas. Thanks to this series of courses, I began to work better on my photograph skills, and I found it really interesting and amazing. The only thing I'm not quite pleased with is the payment of the full course, without the upgrades, I just can't review others' works and that's disappointing. But anyway, I will continue this specialism and I hope it's the right choice. +Useful lessons to have the basic knowledge of photography.Clear and well taught. +During part 1 of this course, i kept thinking "I know all of this, when will we get to the interesting bits". Part 2 has caused me to put on my thinking cap, nothing felt really dificult, but it is obvious the easy part is behind us.Looking forward to participate in part 3 of this course and to be learning new skills +I had really high expectations from the course, I believe but it wasn't upto the mark. All it went through was some basic though I would have expected to go in details esp. for Aperture, Shutter and DOF.I am not sure if that i going to be covered in next unit but having gone though the basics in 1st unit, that was expectation in 2nd unit. +Great to be given such clear instruction. +I watched all videos over 3 days! Looking forward to next course. +I juist started course 2 ... and loving it!!!!A lot to learn about!Thank you Coursera! +I am learning a lot about my camera! +This course was pretty self-explanatory. All cameras are digitized enough for these lessons to be obsolete or redundant. +Recommended by my friend,I think it is a very useful.Most importantly,the instructor Dr.Liu is very charming! +I loved this course. Professor Chemerinsky did an amazing job making this course easy to understand. He provided real court examples after he explained the concept of the law. I strongly recommend this course of you are trying to get a basic understanding of constitutional law. +The profesor Chemerinsky, is one of the most brilliant stars on the constellation of the Constitutional Law. +I found the course challenging, the paper topics inventive and the quizzes straightforward. +This course was extremely interesting and well presented. I fully intend to take Part 2 of the course. +It was an amazing experience to me for the very first time I studied online.I learned a lot. I enjoyed learning with COURSERA.Everything was great! +Thank you so muchThis course is one the important courses should anyone take itGreat course +Although some matters are presented quite broadly and generically, some others are exhaustive and of practical usage, especially the ones supported by documents and references: very useful! +I found the lessons on cultural aspects were very interesting and well instructed. +Great Course :) +IT´S THE BEST COURSE EVER!! +EXCELENTE CURSO, ES UNA GRAN HERRAMIENTA PARA RE AFIRMAR CONOCIMIENTOS, ADEMAS UNA AYUDA PARA QUIENES QUEREMOS CONSTRUIR UNA VIVIENDA, SUPER PRACTICO, BASTANTE DIDÁCTICO Y PARA NADA DIFÍCIL, UTILIZAN UN LENGUAJE COMO PARA PODER ENTENDER DE QUE SE ESTA HABLANDO.100%RECOMENDADO +needs more info and practical references +Great course +Lots of examples make the lectures interesting and easy to understand. +Very helpful +Love the teacher，love the course！ +very good.but translation has some errors. +Good job! It's an interesting and easily understood course for people like me who hasn't learnt before the competition strategy. Just a suggestion, could you please change the translated quiz into the original english quiz? Maybe it would be better to fellow and solve the questions. Thanks. +A little boring +thanks for your fantastic cou +The course content is very good and useful. But the so-called "Chinese version" doesn't fit my need. It takes longer time for me to understand the quiz and find more information relative to the quiz items from Chinese materials. Exactly the course itself is clear enough to understand, but the quiz part doubles the difficulties to comprehend. +very useful to s +It's a good course for the basic study +Nice course.But the Chinese translation is weird. +I wanted to ask but it is not possible (there are not chat or discussión).I think this course is interesting but I need to learn more english first and I realy realy want to know it, How I can to know the profits (payoffs) by my company? +awesome!! the professor explained details very clearly. I have learned a lot +simple charming +it is a very good course! +step by step,i get to know what game theroy is.and combined with the knowledge i learn in my college ,i feel this course quite interesting。professor ‘s kind and does help us a lot.thx +A really nice course！ Thx professor. +IT IS VERY HELPFUL.THANK YOU +very good ,it's easy to learn and give me a chance to revise the course , and the quizes give the practice to be more efficent +It's a great course, which gives us a basic understanding of competative strategdy. +Very nice course,thinks! +very interesting +very practical, professional course +nice course, very helpful +Very good course to introduce Game Theory and give lots of examples to make the complicate theory in simple way. Much enjoyed. Thanks. +Interesting and useful. +A wonderful course! So useful it is! +very good course to let you know how is the strategy, and how you set up the strategy +very good speech, vivid and interesting, the next time may be your gus can add some programming materials and homework to have a practise +Very Clear! Very Good! +This is a perfect course. +Clear and understandable lectures and homework. +intresting !!!! +Helpful introduction to complex analysis. Sketches the intuition behind fundamental theorems without becoming too difficult for amateur mathematicians to follow. +Doctor Petra Bonfert - Taylor is out standing scholar and she knows how to deliver her deep knowledge in mathematics to her students. I remind her as great scholar in mathematics.Sincerely,Johannse +With this wonderful complex analysis course under your belt you will be ready for the joys of Digital Signal Processing, solving Partial Differential Equations and Quantum Mechanics. +good class +Excellent introductory course to complex analysis +Nice course explaining basics of complex analysis. +This is an amazing course.Cant thank you enough Dr. Petra , and also thank you coursera :) +This course is fairly appropriate for those who have completed high school eduaction and opt to pursue higher studies in the field of science and engineering. This is an introductory course on complex analysis and does not cover advanced topics like zeta function, Manderbolt set etc in great detail. If you are doing major on Mathematics and looking for a graduate level course, this is not for you.This course offers an introduction to complex numbers, then discusses briefly on function iteration. In this course, you will learn on complex functions, complex derivative and integration, Cauchy-Riemann equation, Residues. The topics required to pursue undergraduate science education are covered nicely in this course.It is essential to do the quizzes and assignments to get hold of this topic. I thought the exercises in the course are not enough. I would recommend to do more exercises from any standard textbook on Complex Analysis. This course does not specifically follow any textbook. You will get some suggestions for textbook in the discussion forum.To get a deeper understanding, it is a great idea to follow the discussion forum. If you have any difficulty in understanding any topic, you can share in the discussion forum. Also following other people's questions helps you to develop an insight on this topic. Discussion forum is an integral part of this course. Use it wisely.To conclude, any high school graduate can take the course without any difficulty. +A good introduction to complex analysis, well paced with good peer-assessed assignments and quizzes. +Excellente.This course is a great way to learn complex analysis. +Interesting and illuminating course on Complex Analysis. Thank you so much. +Great teacher. Subject matter well presented. +Excellent entry into the world of complex analysis. Dr. Petra Bonfert-Taylor carefully constructs the foundations for complex functions while constantly providing enriching examples. Complications in advanced proofs are sometimes obviated (she will mention what she chooses to skip). If you only need to learn to use complex analysis Dr. Petra Bonfert-Taylor provides more than enough guidance. Since I enjoy understanding mathematics from the axioms up, I found myself turning to outside resources to fill in the nuanced complications. Consider doing the same if you are like me. +I never took a course in complex analysis before and very much enjoyed this introductory course. I found that the material was presented in a very understandable way, with good and often illuminating examples. +Very nice course. It was very informative. Even though I did it in Audit mode, I am going to recommend my PhD students to do the course for improving themselves as physicists and computer science by knowing what actually goes behind the scene mathematically. I will recommend the course for all students of electronics (with strong desire to understand the mathematical basis) in general. +While there are a plethora of MOOCs around aimed at first-year maths, Prof Bonfert-Taylor should be congratulated for being one of the few to bring a course on higher mathematics to the masses. This is a particularly valuable effort that's accessible to anyone with a grasp of first-year calculus. +very nice explanations .....thanq somuch +I realy Love this course! thank you so much. +It'd be awesome if the content is more rigorous, but this works too! Thanks :D +Great course very clear and explaining well the motivations behind the results +Enjoyable and very solid course, excellent on all aspects. Great teacher. +Good introduction to Complex Analysis +Amazing course. Very interesting to learn about. +Pedagogically insurmountable! I recommend it! I am a PhD student writing the thesis, and need to refresh old subjects. Well, this was better than any math course I took in the University. The professor serves the aim to teach, and not to feed her/his ego, really next level education!! Loved it! +Very nice content, easy to understand, with assessments that are challenging but do not take much time. +Materials and instructor excellent. Got very good grounding. +Great, informative introduction to complex analysis, really interesting. +Great course, I wish there were more courses like this one on Coursera +A great course for beginners and engineers looking to just apply concepts of Complex Analysis without going too much into mathematical rigour. This course does not require any knowledge of "Real Analysis" or "Multi-variable/Vector" calculus as a prerequisite which is one of it's greatest strengths.This has especially helped in my preparation for a graduate-entrance exam called GATE that we have here in India.Although, I believe the course could include some more number of problems and solutions. +Thank you very much for you to explain step by step with diagram.... +Gets from easier basics to harder ideas very fast. We gotta work very hard. But well worth it. +This is an outstanding course; one of the gems of the Coursera platform. It is only the launching point for my study of and fascination with complex analysis. I'd say the course covers about three-fifths of the content for an engineering mathematics treatment of functions of complex variables. I'm a student of fluid mechanics and my ignorance of advanced concepts in complex analysis has kept me from mastering some of the advanced topics in FM. I'm well on my way to go beyond those barriers, now. +fantastic course for beginners +Good overview over the material. Many thanks to the teacher. +This course has been very exciting and powerfull. The lectures are very clear and the professor use many didactic tools for improving our learning. The content of this course is completed with some other advanced topics in mathematics (for example: topology), and the course is well enriched. I recommend this course for all learners who want to learn something of advanced mathematics. +I hated Complex Analysis when I first encountered it. This course made me fall in love with Complex Analysis. Kudos to Prof. Taylor +Very good course. I learned a lot of new things +Awesome lectures...Great...Explanation... +The course is really interesting and it is very clear.thanks a lot of !Sylvain +Very interesting course, lectures. One of the best courser I have taken here. +Excellent course with interesting content, great self explanatory notes and a nice teacher who explains it all meticulously! +An excellent Course. Thanks Professor and thanks to her entire Team.Thanks Coursera for making this possible. +Thank you for the great course! +I found this very interesting, covering some topics I did not expect an introduction. I think the pace of the course is about right, but I would have liked more questions. Unfortunately I became very busy during the course and failed to keep up. I look forward to repeating it when I have more time. +Very clear and well paced class. I like the early introduction to Julia sets to introduce recent mysteries of in the subject before teaching the classical results. The professor is a very clear speaker and was generous enough with her time to answer some of the forum questions. +If you could create a course Topology as good as this one it would be heavenly.Thanks +The proposed material is very good. The classes are very didactic and with good examples! +Clear and useful. I´d like to thank the professor for the course. +Very good course. The professor introduces evey element in a careful and insightful approach +Great Course!!! +Excellent!! A great way of introduce non-mathematics students in the wonderful world of complex numbers. +The course is very well presented. Great experience for those individuals who believe in purity and virtue of the ideas enchained by the mathematical consensus. +I am really enjoying this course +Super Great teacher, very interesting new things to learn.Highly recommended for people who love Math. +this course is fantastic, is a good option for learn about complex analysis. +Wonderful. I have been waiting for this course for some time. It begins somewhat basic, and progresses really fast, to cover some deep topics in complex analysis theory. Also, the instructor, Prof. Petra Bonfert-Taylor, does a very good job at explaining concepts simply, by not being too pedantic (e.g., with the topological preliminaries). Overall, really satisfied and grateful! +Amazing Course +Perfect overview on machine learning methods. The numerical example could be better. The Neural Network is also didn't cover that is very common now. +This course is a great fit between theory and pratice +Really fun, glad I finally finished. I got so distracted running off and learning things. I got familiar with scala and python along the way too. +This is the best course of this specialization. Dr. Nguyen describes and teaches the contents of machine learning with clarity and digested knowledge.I would suggest to add more in-depth contents to each of the machine learning category, especially clustering, classification and association, at least as optional contents in case the number of weeks allocated for course are restricted. +Very interesting cource! Thank you!I would suggest to advance python tasks +Nice course, very practical. +This course introduces the basic concepts of ML beautifully, the instructor explains everything in a very lucid way. It also teaches modeling with ML in KNIME. I would personally want to know more about spark, but this course gives a good introduction. Overall very good starting point for beginners. +Very basic things... Any examples for regression. +Very well explained course on Machine Learning. I am grateful for the highly insightful course like this. I will recommend this course for all data enthusiasts. +not enough work in the other machine learning models (the course centered the main part of it to classification ) +I think its a good introductory course, but lacking in exercises. +This is a valuable course in learning the basics of machine learning. but I was hoping to to get more hands on practice in this course. but overall, i learned a lot with the existing content. +well structured, fits well to beginners! +Good overview of tools specially Spark. The last demo handson with Spark clustering had too much content to be covered in 11 minutes. The presenter does not give any details on many functions he was using. Felt like copy paste coding. The rest was good, specially the lecturer compared to the lecturers of the other courses of the specialisation. +It is really great. +The course was the best introduction I had for machine learning. Helped me a lot to understand different concepts from people who already know about the subject and I didn't have any idea. +Easy to follow. Good resource to understand the basic concept of big data. +I really enjoyed the course since it's match with my patience and work, in addition I'd like to highlight the instructor, clear,organized idea and steps, this was 70% of the success of the course I believe. +It's ok for an extremely high-level overiew +Excelent Introductory course to MACHINE LEARNING with Big Data. +Great introduction with great tools. Has definitely inspired me to lean more about 'Machine Learning'! +excellent! best place to begin with Big Data and ML! +The course helped me understand the concepts of the machine learning from the very rudimentary level. It also laid the foundation for understanding and dealing with the practical implementation of the machine learning algorithms and their implementation in big data which eventually elevated my understanding of applications dealing machine learning with Big Data.Thanks to all the mentors and instructors for everything- the teaching materials, quizzes, assignments and hands-on; everything was awesome. +thanks so much +the course helped understand the machine learning concepts and the hands-on were very comprehensive. +The course content is very poorly explained. The quiz questions don't really test what was taught in the lectures, and the assignments are just copying and pasting things. I feel like I still have a very poor understanding of what was supposedly covered in the course. I cannot generalise or apply the 'learned' information or skills to other topics or researches because I didn't actually understand the core concepts or how to use the programs. +Both the professors are great , the videos helped alot in understanding lot of core concepts in machine learning. +This was a good introductory class to machine learning, but I wish it had more depth. +Machine learning is too simplified and spark part is not even explained, also very little relation of all course with Big Data. +Have to make sure that code provided are fine and without problem... also, better instructions on how to go about the tool needed to use. Remember, we are learning and the amount of tools in Big Data ecosystem is vast... +Good overview of working with SPARK and KNIME - acceptable little theoretical background for all the presented concepts for the sake of application use. +This is another course in UCSD's "Big Data" introductory course. The material is not pertinent to a specialty on big data technologies. Further the course does not increase one's knowledge of Machine Learning in any way that justifies spending the time in the course. +Almost a useless course - ML overview using KNIME which gives no insight whatsoever. +insightful +This is a wonderful courses for learning about cancer metastasis. +A very informative course that I highly recommend. Great explanations of a lot of terminology used when speaking or reading about cancer. I would love to see courses that go more in-depth about cytokines or cancer syndromes. This is the second J.H.U. course that I've taken about cancer and now I plan on taking the Prostate Cancer course, as well. +Everything was intresting and usefull. I hope this knowledge will help me in my research work! +very good course +I've found the course very helpful and educative. It has definitely widened my understanding of cancer. +Very informative and good for revision +Thanks for letting me know more about cancer metastasis! +Excellent overview of cancer metastasis. The class struck a good balance between large, broad concepts and specific details. I liked the combination of 2 quizzes for each week. Maybe it was just psychological, but I felt like I was getting a lot done. All instructors were easy to understand in their teaching approach. After completing the course I feel I have a basic understanding of how cancer metastasizes. +Best medical course ı have ever had thanks John Hopkins Unv. +As a biologist, it improves my understanding about cancer a lot. Glad to take this class. Thank you! +Excellent course. Gives you a well oriented description of the steps required for metastasis and doing so it opens our view of places were treatments can be implemented. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.. +Very interesting course, +Thorough course on Metastasis that anyone can follow regardless of whether they have a background in medicine/science or not ; loses a star for locking access to the quizzes to non-paying coursetakers. +Very succinct course, although if you have studied molecular/cell biology in depth, it will mostly be review. The pacing of the lectures was engaging, and each lecturer held my attention well. In short, this is a great course to review basic cancer biology! +Very interesting, very informative! +Good course, but why researchers whant to hold/control cancer in a human and not rebuild the destroyed mechanisms of autoregul;ation by genetic engeneering for example? That would be true cure. +Loved it! Thank you teachers! Wish it had bit more details though :) +That's was Avery good experience on the course it's really beneficial and very helpful and I want to thank doctors that had taken apart in explaining cancer metastasis thanks very much +The lecture and quizzes were very acceptable and I truly learned a lot from this short course. I have tried starting a few courses before and noticed that there was a huge disconnect between test material and lectures; this course was not like those. I am starting another by JHU at the moment and strongly recommend this to anyone who wants to learn more about cancer. If you are an undergrad like me, this is a nice bio 1 review of cell cycle and other things and their applications to cancer as well. +Excellent course, very high quality presen +I just love the way you develop each subjet! +Very clear explanation. Enjoyed watching and learning. Thank you the team! +It is a brilliant course. Loved it. +Course content was excellent, and very interesting. The presentation could be improved however; at times I found it hard to hear what was being said due to poor sound quality. Nevertheless the course has served as an excellent introduction to Chinese culture and would recommend it to anyone looking to learn more about it. +Fascinating topic, especially Chinese painting. The videos were enjoyable and instructive and the quizzes were tricky but not overly difficult. Glad I took the course. I learned a lot. +Extremely lightweight and totally missing in substance; I cannot recall whether they stated so in the course goals. +The comparaison between Chinese and Western Culture was really useful. It was a nice overview but it would also have been interesting to get information (at least some ints) about the long and fascinating Chinese History. More historical context would be appreciated. +Short and very surface level, this course offers many general pointers for people interested in Chinese culture. +Great course with clear explanations and very entertaining topics! Didn't expect to cover so many aspects of cryo-EM, would recommend it to everyone interested/working in structural biology or science in general. +I have worked a bit in cryo-em before and I find this course absolutely amazing! Very detailed and easy to understand. +Thank you for this valuable course, specially for the Fourrier image explanation. +Excellent class and Presentation with all clarity concepts +An excellent introduction to the topic, explaining from the basics to the detail of things. Useful and recommended to anyone in structural biology. +An excellent course to get to understand the field of cryogenic Electron Microscopy. The mathematics are presented at a high level, often geometrically, without getting into details. The physics of the electron microscope is presented again at a high level but with enough detail to understand the operation. The teaching style is well paced and inviting. +Really good introduction to cryo-EM and EM in general! +It's really useful. Thanks so much. +Very well detailed on a easy to learn pase. Will help you learn all to EM that is necessary before using them. +Great explanations and examples, even for complex things like the fourier space. +very informative, simple and easily understandable. Love it +Great information, great teacher, greater visual presentation. Disclaimer: I only took the first week. +Pioneering online course in Electron Microscopy. +Great introduction to Cryo-EM for biologists that covers all the basics in a clear and concise manner. +Simply AMAZING! +It" Awesome. Thank you. +very great course, including so much details. +best course for lab workers ,physics is deal in a great detail +Very nice description of electronic microscopy techniques +its really very helpful for me as a beginner. After learning the video, I kind of know what's going on when I got the training of TEM. Thanks a lot for the free video. +USEFUL THANK CALTECH :) +The best EM course available online +absolutely fantastic! +Very clear, very easy to understand, a lot of useful information. Excellent course. +This course was outstanding. Every aspect of cyro-EM was covered in detail. The professor's delivery was excellent.I would recommend this course to anyone who has a desire to expand their knowledge of the nano world +Just needs a certificate and some practice concept questsions added and would be perfect. Right now just really interesting videos for the intermediate mind...not much math...mostly concepts so good for the beginner who wants to know more. :) +It is amazing. I found it extremely helpful since I have just have an internship in a Cryo-EM lab. I found it difficult to understand these procedures without the knowledge of theory.So your course is just like a gift that exactly meets my need. I have told every friend of mine to see it. Thank you a lot for offering this magic course. +I highly recommend this course to my Post Graduating Friends and Research Scholars. This course helped me so much in understanding EM operation which is not available any where else. It is helping me in current Thesis work. Professor of this Course is explaining in a lucid manner. Thank you very much Professor Grant Jensen. Thank you Coursera. +Amazing! Practical and easy to understand every info. +The course gives a clear and means ideas about how communicate in works areas. +The lectures are very good and give a good overview of the subject of the whole computer architecture and its optimization. Unfortuntely only MIPS processor is focused and rest of architectures are not discussed. Furthermore, I think that it could be better if the quizzes were more tricky and that if there had been a comprehensive final exam at the end of the course. +The audio quality of the lectures could be better. Assignments need to be challenging. Programming assignments in Assembly should be used to evaluate the grade in addition to quizzes. +Cache coherence and branch prediction can also be included in the course. +A well done course. Some on-line exercises are necessary. +Could use more content, breezed through in 3h on 2x speed achieving 93%. +Makes the material accessible to a beginner +Good course, overview of computer architecture +Thank you for this course. it was very interesting +A great course for advance learner. +It seems the "summary" videos are exactly the "copy" of previous ones. It will be better if the professor could add more new stuff. +Very good course!. The professor is very competent and explains very well. +I followed the lessons of the course with great interest. I like to make a compliment to the professors and to the editors of the course material. The resulting insight into Big History has already helped me to better understand environmental problems and reports of newly discovered planets. +Thoroughly enjoyed this course. The assignment was also very appropriate, I enjoyed the challenge of complet +Awesome! I'll watch these videos over and over again! +Unfortunately this course consists of the Professor reading his notes very quickly with rapid listing of concepts and very little time spent explaining complex topics. The quizzes emphasize the terms for various elements of the analysis rather than teaching how to work with the tools to analyze data. There does not seem to be anyone monitoring the course forum and mistakes in quiz questions and questions asked on the forum are not answered or replied to by anyone. I was committed to working with the course but by week 4 it was unfortunately impossible to absorb and there was no way to interact with anyone to get help. I'm sure there is room for improvement on this course and I hope the instructor does work to improve with the course, but currently the course is disappointing as a learning experience. +The course is great. Although it is really fast and requires some advanced understanding of algebra and statistics, it is not bad. However, I would reccommend to expand it and to include the advances in non-manipulative causation, as sustained by proff. J. Pearl and F. Squazzoni (specifically talking about sociology). +This is an useful course for medical researchs even though you can apply to other social science. +Very good course! +Great intro to causal effects. Gives great intuition. +I enjoyed the topic. The lectures could be augmented by breaking them up into more pieces (particularly for Instrumental variables and double difference). It would have been nice if additional (optional) readings were listed to give interested students more direction. I also would have liked to see topics added to the course such as propensity score matching. +Material is goodLecture style is dull, monotonous & uninspiringFor best results - follow the advice given in the MOOC, i.e read relevant readings before viewing lectures. +This give a very good insight into what i did not know earlier. Thank you Prof. Anders Holm. I recommend this course to all all. I did a lot of learning. Go for it +It teaches an interesting topic, but it's a bit hard to follow the teacher. I learnt from the exercises, mostly. +An amazing course .Very crisp and clear. Thank you Dr.Inez for making learning so much easier and fun.Examples gave a better understanding.I'm sure I'll be able to apply it in my research. Thank you. +its Good in technical reporting and professional presentation, i would recommend it to anyone who want to improve that area ! +This course certainly gives a good idea of Data Analytics for a Six Sigma Project. However, for a beginner like me, I think one has to do extensive reading of different analytical technique such as 2 T test, ANOVA etc, as I found this course doesn't cover the theoretical aspects. Still, it is a nice course to start with and I am looking forward to further courses from the team. +This is my best class so far. It is practical, hands on, and detailed. +Nice Course! Clear explanation with supporting of good examples. Look forward to joining more 6-sigma and minitab courses, intermediate and/or advanced levels, conducted by University of Amsterdam. Thanks Dr. Inez Zwetsloot. +Data Analytics for Lean Six Sigma was a great introduction to statistics and the principles of six sigma. +Thank you Dr. Zwetsloot, your lessons and examples were: practical, crisp an clear. Learned a lot. Just wish I had slides to refer to. Can you include that in the future? +It is easy to learn and also good explained detailes about six sigma data +The course is structured and easy to understand with a lot of practice exercises. However, I use Minitab on a MacBook and there are differences in the layout and location of functions. I struggled to find certain functions; even googling did not help. I would suggest you incorporate instructions for Mac users to use software tools. Overall, the course is very informative and definitely adds value. +Good learning on data analysis & its method etc & how it can be used +very useful course. +It is a really useful course for starting in the world of Process Improvement. +Easy to understand, very informative! Thank you so much! +Perfectly Suitable my Professional requirements. +Very well organized, focused +Very useful and inspiring +Great course! Making statistics much easier, highly recommended. +Very good introductory course describing the whole process and usage of Minitab for each type of analysis. Team should consider having more course +This course gave me a better understanding of data analytics for Lean Six Sigma. It also improved my skills involving Minitab. A great first acquaintance with Coursera and MOOC's in general. +Great Course +MELHOR CURSO DE PYTHON DA HISTÓRIA DA INTERNET!!! +Great course, very nice teacher as well. +MUITO BOM. +I strongly recommend, this courser is very interesting. +A nice one indeed , felt good being challenged ...I will continue to study , +Great course, highly recommended ! +I like this course , It is informative and useful for the people who wants to gain knowledge about Cyber Security. It gives a general understanding for this domain. +The course is good but need to be more in depth videos and tutorial. +really... strange. Kind of childish. +Really in depth explanation of cyber security and its domain. I would recommend this course ! +Great course, should have more videos, but a lot of reading and helpful stuff and links to learn. +This course gave me a comprehensive overview of cyber security. The readings illustrated the concepts we were learning. I'm glad I took this class. It has been very helpful. +Excellent opportunity to learn about CyberSecurity in a structured way!I recommend to that would like to understand about Information Security basics from physical access, continuity, responses cryptography and other topics.I`m already using the knowledge acquired in my day-by-day business. +A good primer for the modern world. +Only fit for absolute morons and perfect ignorants. No content value whatsoever. I don't understand why Coursera allowed this one to happen to be on the Coursera website. +Most of the effort in the creation of this course seems to have gone into the visual and acoustic effects of the slides. The first week's material has no substance whatsoever (literally!). The second week' s presentations are just listings of lengthy definitions and "Best practices" which in fact are mostly goals, not practices.With the poor quality of the provided videos, my hope was that the reading would be better. But the second week's reading are uncommented links to a 270 page NIST document, an Open Online Course(!!!) and OWASP material.At this point it is clear that continuing the course is not going to help me in the way I would expect it from a course. When I compare this to the excellent Software Security course of Michael Hicks (University of Maryland) , which I also attend on Coursera, there are worlds between both.I understand that "Cybersecurity and its Ten Domains" addresses students with less prior knowledge, but especially for such students I would expect a much better didactic approach.One star seems harsh, but after the first two weeks, the only words I find for this are: "seriously?" +Content is very weak, sounds that are used very annoying... +A good investment in your time if you have some knowledge of how people and organizations use the cloud to send messages, share data, download and or use net-centric applications. The content seems particularly helpful for business people that want to learn about cyber security terms, concepts, mitigation steps, etc. It is a great course to move learners towards "content competence" (not "content expertise"). +This course provided the fundamental concepts of cyber security for beginners to understand the industry needs. +very helpful course +Not very helpful, very stessfull music and only read definitions, do discussion or explanations to go deeper into the topic. +Nice introductory course to the different domains of Cyber Security. Suggested for beginners also (no previous experience needed) +One word....Fantastic +Excellent for beginners , good assignments :) +The design of this course seems rather lazy. There should have been more meaningful contents and discussions in the videos. +Good foundation class for cybersecurity knowledge. +It was nice course and really helpful. +Good course to get attention and find out what is going on within Cyber Security +Thanks for your course +Amazing course great overall view for Cyber security with all domain aspects covering every major pointers +I rate this course with 5 because is focused on teaching the secrity from a management perspective and teach the right way to get things done +Great Learning +No content, essentially you just read a textbook. The videos are about 5 minutes per week. +Great course, a lot of content to be explored +This is a great course and I recommend it to everyone interested in Cybersecurity. The reading material is of exceptional value and I was amazed at the quality of the links to study material. What was totally new to me was Operational Security or Opsec, a totally intriguing subject, more or less cyber-self-defense!Yes, the videos are short but the reading material is quite large. I have kept the books and websites and will be reading them again, especially the NIST book.To everyone who claims that the course is not useful, I would say that you were probably one of those people who never read the books and the study material. +A real eye-opener to the various domains of information security. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to start a career in the field. +It was good and informative. But i did not feel challenge while taking the course. Good course for beginners. +Although I gave 5 stars but the background music in the video lectures is really irritating. +Content very light, near of empty course. +Nice course, very informative. +i think it gives you more than your average cyber security introduction. +Quiz isn't challenging enough to validate the understanding of the user taking the course . +Basic course with videos running too fast...... +This Course is a total scam. In doubt? Sign up for the free version and go watch the videos. Each video is only 1-2 minutes long, so you can watch all 7 weeks in half an hour ( speed 1.5). O, I forgot they also include a link to a 4 years old TED talk, FUn but not really relevant.This course is a disgrace to Coursera. It ought to be removed. +I do feel that I learned from this course, though I almost feel that it was too easy to earn the certificate. +So far I've gone through the first week. Lots of business and technical info. The video quality is AMAZING!! +The course covers the essential areas in cybersecurity. The challenge for me was in the suggested readings, although long it is required reading! +too much external references +A complete course if you follow the readings dutifully, good material, but the videos seem a little shallow and you wont learn much just sprinting through it, though you may pass. +Not recommend. Very basic and videos are only 2 - 3 minutes. +The free course is very short and only give a generalized information of the cybersecurity word. I can't review about the full course (but you should pay for it). +Good course +Very interesting course, good starting point to get deeper into cyber security as a field! +Addressing measure issues and concern with today's cyber world. +This course was really good but not too deep. I went on to study the CISSP manual and some additional training. This is a great course if you want an introduction to cybersecurity. +That's course is fast and informative +Wonderful course! +I had some issues with this course which is why I rated it a 2.First off, let me start by saying this is a very good overview of what the Cybersecurity Terms are, but I wish it went deeper into the subject.1. Having to pay just to take the quizzes for an overview course is kind of a joke. I could see asking for money if you went into more detail information regarding each lesson, but just telling me what each term means and then pointing me to a website, then asking for 50 bucks is kind of cheap considering no in-depth information was ever given.2. Why did you have all of those people that are in the field of cybersecurity just read off a list of terms? You could have done that, kind of a waste of time for those other people. I am guessing that you had to pay them. Which would explain why you are asking 50 dollars just to take the quizzes.3. Where was the real life experience? Explain to me the most common mistakes people make with each of the different type of networks as securities. That would at least be worth 50 dollars, for some real world practical use. I could have easily googled these terms and have in the past. I thought it would contain more detailed information about the subject considering is technically an online course. +Really good course for the basics of Cyber Security. +The course gives a perfect introduction to the field of Cybersecurity +the only reason to take this course is because the certification will look good on your resume. don't expect to learn anything new if you are already in IT or related field. i passed the tests without going over the material. there is a shortage of original content, although their graphics and effects department did a good job, and mostly they expect you to read outside resources.audit the course for free to get familiar with the content but only pay if you need the certification for professional reasons. +I DON'T recommend this course AT ALL. This college doesn't spend much effort to structure this course - just putting short videos (less than 10mins in total per a week) and external references (which someone else wrote). The assignments are just open discussion among students and have ourselves evaluate with each other. I haven't learn anything from this course. It's just a waste of time and money. Coursera should inspect this course otherwise these skeptical courses can deteriorate the reputation of this MOOC platform - I love the other courses/specializations provided by other universities though, +3 introduction videos each week, and tons of links for reading?Do not want.The worst course I ever took.Not enough Video material with good explanations. All we got - links to articles which we can found ourselves without any help. +very informative +No useful info for me +Too short lectures;The study material is not properly defined, only entire books to read as reference;The tasks/tests are all literal parts of the books to complete, no understanding of the subject is motivated, but memorizing and tiring reading of books without proper directions. +The high video production values of this course fail to hide the abysmal lack of content. With approximately 4 mins per week of video charging $49 for this course is a disgrace. Potential students should save their money and read the relevant Wikipedia pages. +great course +A good course for persons those who are employed as in security role to an any organisation. I appreciate the method of distance learning to all on online. Thanks. +this course is very important nowadays! +Course material reference readings were good but videos were pathetic. It was more like a high school kid reading the slides. +I expected much more. The course material is really weak, did not improve my knowledge about Cyber Security. I am very disappointed, also cos I payed 30 dollars to a certificate. I do not recommend this course +This was an excellent course. I found it very informative and useful for someone such as my self looking to enter into Cyber Security as a career path. +Great materials to learn, highly organized and so helpful to enrich your knowledge. +An amazing course!! +very interesting +This is not a course - each session is 4 mins or less... +Good Course. Google Search knowledge required +Gets us basic knowhow of security terms, and technology used to combat the issues. +It is not any technical 'lab based exercise bases I mean' +Boring course... useless videos... only the referential resources and exercises are good +Great Course. +I really enjoyed this course, It's very informative +too short, I prefer that the engineer share a little experience or make more in detail. +Course is very interesting but i think the videos are very short. Better to make longer videos +I love this! +A collection of links to other sites and short and highly generic videos +The course is very interesting. It is supposed to study many aspects of cyber security - their own. Overall, a wonderful course. +Very good course. However, you need to do a lot of reading. The videos are simply introductions to the topics. The course has a lot of reading. The readings are great resources, however, some of them are very very long. I wish the videos had more of a lecture component. The final was difficult as you had no idea what would and what would not be on it. Great information, in-depth course, but it could have more video/lecture resources. It could also have more information concerning the information on the final exam. +Superb course with lot of resources to learn concepts. websites really helpful to update knowledge. Simple rules will avoid hefty fines by govt and safeguard brand reputations +More like a good guide then an explaining lesson. +Poor video lessons. The course is sustained by the reading material alone. +I enjoyed the course, found that the videos didn't really help and guide that much. +This is the poorest Coursera course I have participated in. Very few and short videoes that only scratches the surface of Cybersecurity. Instead you are directed to massive amounts of readings with no guidance on what should be read. To read it all includes sometimes +1000 pages for one week (not going to happen). I ended up just reading the introduction, glancing through the texts and searching for the answers for the quiz.This course totally miss the purpose and potential of MOOCs and the great Coursera platform. It's a shame. +Excellent Course.. However you cant take this as a CISSP training course. +Poorly made very short videos that do not explain the subject matter, some of the content is outdated. +Teach me many things I don't know about security. +The course is for an overview of many aspects of cybersecurity. There are many resources to read, videos that briefly discuss concepts of the week. Then there are quizzes and discussions with the topic of the week, doing the possibility at the student to talk about that and post his idea for assimilate concepts and reaching goals of the course. This is useful also for discuss with other students and how your ideas is viewed.I think there is a very basic course in his entire length, with more reading lectures at academic or professional level not for a beginner. it can be adding videos with more length and in-depth that in a easy way the ten domain about cybersecurity. +awesome course to start the journey in cyber security field +awesome course +A lot of personal work and complementary readings, good course. +what a course, elaborative and to the point +Thank you for providing this course. It was really very helpful to get an overview of cyber-security.But I will also like to suggest you to add some supporting study material along with this course, So it will be helpful to the students who are searching for in-depth knowledge.Thanks again. +Too little course material; video's too flashy (noisy) and do not discuss enough information +Awesome course. Covered the fundamentals of Cybersecurity and its ten domains. +great course +Very very broad with no real depth. Basically a very light summary of what cybersecurity is. You could watch all of the videos in 30 min probably. The real course comes from the reading and peer discussions. +This course is very clear and comprehensive, I used a lot in my career . +This course is not prepared as well. You see several video with animated presentation and typical (vocabulary) terms.It is not for beginners because in course you didn't find answers.It is not for pros because in course you didn't find interesting material.Hope that instructors can change course to better. +Very interesting and also made me more knowledgeable on the general subject of IT security. +Amazing and progressive course with smart and concise videos.Enjoyed every bit of the domains presented and looking to build upon the knowledge acquired from this course. Thanks guys for putting this package together. +Very informative, easy to understand well explained! good instructors +I wish that the videos were longer. +I wish they spent more time on the content of videos and less on the silly effects and 30-second intro and outro sequences. Practically every question of the final comes word-for-word from a book not assigned in the module readings and not available for free to students for them to study. I won't be taking any other courses from this school if this course was an indication of quality. +Gets you to know the basics of Cyber Security. This definitely is a foundation course and has good topics. If you are looking out for information on Cyber Security and do not have a clue about where to start from, this course is recommended for you. +I didn't like it. It's all theoretical and there isn't any practice.Also, they didn't send me an accomplishment like the other courses that I already done. +Great to learn more knowledge. +Good learning. +This is my first course in coursera.Cons:Information redundancy, unnecessary required reading.Extend some information that only need few hours to study to a 6 weeks courses.Pros:There are some useful basic concepts & frames +This is my first class here at Coursera and it was fantastic: good teachers, good reading material. +Very good course. Some readings and the final test are not so easy for people with other mothertongue than english but it is possible. +good courses +I like the class and the assignments. Lessons are quite short however with the assignments and quizzes I am forced to search for the answers among provided reading material. I feel I am learning a lot! +I learned a great deal +Excellent overview of some current issues related to security and the Internet. I especially liked the assignments which required one to write a short essay. The videos are somewhat minimal but I do not think that is necessarily bad. Instead, one has to gather a lot of information oneself through readings and Internet searches. +Could have utilized video lectures more. Questions on final exam did not seem to relate to materials covered in course. Course seems to just comprise 1 or 2 minute long video lectures and then direct students to vast amounts of online reading material. +The course content does not follow the exam question is totally different what you learn from the two-minute video. You need to have the background in the field. This course should have gone through the beta test before release to the public. +Videos way too short, annoying music/animations, lots of stereotypes (floating 0's and 1's, really?).This doesn't seem like a serious course provided by a university. +The subject matter is very interesting, the reading material is well-chosen, but the video lectures are superficial, to put it mildly. I recommend doing th course, but strongly suggest the staff upgrade the lectures. +I Felt like this was a very in depth course, the reading material was very good. At times I thought the instructional videos were very short - I would have liked them to have been longer, perhaps going into more depth about some of the topics covered in the reading materials - I was not fond of the written portion of the course - I would have preferred exams to the written portion.thanks. +Very good beginner level course +A good course for people who are trying to lean the basics of cyber security.Regards,Kashif +It's good to learn new about cyber security and assignment are good. +The videos are too short, without enough information about the topics. You have to read a lot, Actually, this course doesn't look like as others Coursera's courses and I don't recommend it. +This was a very interesting course. There is more to Cybersecurity than I would ha +Interesting course ... final quiz is a little bit going deep into details +great stuff learnt !! +The best part about this course was that it made sure you are interested in learning the subject. If not, it is really really difficult to get on with it. It makes sure you understand the subject really well and you have to give back to the community.I liked the fact that you have to read the "Readings for this module" part, otherwise you won't be able to pass the Quizzes at the end of each module. You have to write a short paragraph which it will be reviewed by peers, who will in turn give you ratings. You have to do the same for other peers. This was probably the best aspect of this course.The music was extremely annoying and the quality of the content in the videos was okay, but the most important part is that it guided me in the right direction every time. Sometimes, by the end of the video, the music started in between the lecture itself and played itself for 3-4 seconds. +It is a great introduction to the topic and does not require previous knowledge to grasp the concepts. Simple and easy to understand +all on demand flow are bad. difficult to follow and see where we are and what is left... +More reading on my own than I expected but great class overall. +It's a course really structured, with expert people who work in the area. I've learned a lot and I'm very happy to have been gotten involved in a course like this. +Too microsoft-oriented, too much reading (sometimes not very related to the topic) that is not unique and can be easily found on the internet without attending this course, not enough video presentations and explanations.Final exam seemed to me a bit out of topic. +Very Informative even if you work in the industry the last part week 6 is definitely a learning experiencethe videos are short but the reading material is great +A little bit too much generalist, need more precision.And unlimited attempt for quizz is not a godd idea, because quizz don't mean anything +very good for begainers and if you want to start at security i suppose that course +Need more information in videos, but course is very nice - especially I liked submissions +Good but not so deep as I expected. +Loving it so far +Too elementary. I would recommend this course for non-technical managers or security/coding beginners under the age of 13. +I did not find the lectures at all informative and the readings were not targeted enough to understand what items required focus and what information was more background. I did not find the course especially helpful. +This course is relevant to Cyber Security and Information Technology Systems Security +Really enjoyed the Course.. Thank You +I find this course very informative, but at the same time the videos seem pointless. All the quizzes are on the suggested reading material. The videos are quite cursory- almost an afterthought. +Videos seemed disjointed. Assignments were marked inconsistently. Did not find the subject interesting but the course did give useful insights into the industry. +This course is very helpful +Interesting! It´s a good choice! +Good basic course +Very useful course for beginners in cyber security +The material may be nore specific +Not to much information during videolection as i expected. +Great Course with brilliant people and resources. Many Thanks +Videos are very brief - slide presentations of course outline. One has to depend entirely on reading materials to understand the course. +The video's could be more informative and longer +This is quite a good course. However it's pretty basic and if you are trying to dig deep into Cybersecurity I suggest taking the Cybersecurity specialization. +A new generation of MOOC with REL available for free on the web as teaching ressources!Already got that elsewhere... +I found the course interesting though the continual music being played in the background was a distraction for me and felt like a brainwashing exercise. +I get many opportunity according to this course +Video content barely summarizes the outline of each module. The questions in the quiz are not "though provoking". Peer discussion are rather superficial and do not cover half the content of the course.Readings are OK, show good sources, but there is no real discussion about them in the videos or in the quizzes. +An awesome course +The lectures are brief and a lot of readings on the reference materials are needed. +A great course, a great way to know more about cyber security! Recommended +Pretty average and way too short/fast paced videos. Felt like it was put together on the fly. I don't usually review but this was not great, the reading material they linked to was the best content overall. +Very Good. +It's not exactly I was expecting. It covers lot of theory part. Some practical work in coding and security practicles would have added more value.I enjoyed the some material pdf suggested. However, I didn't liked "Accordingly to Microsoft" question and material. It was made 10 years back. Course content must be updated and more invovled tasks or discussions with Course makers. It looks like some videos are once made and kept as it is. I never saw actual teachers teaching something in this course, just browsing, reading and eassy writing. +Practic and useful for any security person. +I have learning a lot about cybersecurity in this course, and I really liked the process of handing in assignments as well as reviewing other students' work. +interesting and excellent course not yet finished but about to end it, so thaks for transmitting these knowledgements to us in a comprenhensible way. +The videos and documents are not balanced with the quizzes. The quiz questions are sometimes verbatim sentences from one book with a missing word - which I find hardly a test of acquired knowledge. The course must rise above only a few definitions and rough concepts. Most of the video's hardly offer insights - they last only 2 minutes and cover a few of those definitions. This course has a lot of potential, but in its current format and content it was a disappointment. +animations, animations and animations... +The content of the videos are just some engineer citing with some brief headline of security, it's lacking of depth and explanation, totally wasting my time !! +Very informative. +Is a little basic introduction to InfoSEC but is nice a good to start. +This course is missing content but it is still very interesting to work on the exercises provided. +Its very excellent teaching method. short time more information. +I'm going to try to continue to the end but the first three weeks is probably 15 minutes of videos with the most annoying music available playing for way too much of the content. I also didn't need to watch 10 seconds of an animated caveman grunting and smashing things on the screen. I would probably enjoy that part more if I felt that the information that is supposed to be learned over three weeks was more information than 5 pages in a book. +The lectures were too heavy on Industry experts who quickly covered the important topics. I have taken many technology and business courses on Coursera with one or two professors covering the important content accented with industry and subject matter expert interviews. This format works best for consistency and learning, IMHO.. A student who is not in the Cybersecurity field will not gain insight into the meat of the material from the lectures. The final exam question material is almost exclusively absent in the lectures. One is required to read the cited material to gain the required information +One of the absolute worst final exams I've ever seen. Vague questions coupled with synonymous answers form a frustrating experience that ruins an otherwise decent entry in security topics. +Good information, would have preferred more in-depth lectures and detailed information. More lecturer interaction/engagement on the issues.Overall I enjoyed the course and it was great. +Like any course, you get as much out as you put in. The real learning comes from reviewing the reading material-- even as an IT professional, I was able to learn quite a bit. IMO, this material should be readily available as a high school elective. +This was a good introduction to the field of Cybersecurity, but I wished for a more in depth coverage of many of the topics and other topics. This class would not be a preparation for the Security+ exam, for example, but it is a good start as an overview of Cybersecurity. +Lots of interesting external material, though videos are not quite helpful. +The course isn't bad, but the videos explanations are all way to general, they should be more detailed. +a very good introductory course to CyberSecurity.It covers all main arguments, with a neat overall picture.Highly recommended as first course, then step further with Software Security and Cryptography! +Very basic +Worth to learn +Thank you! Loved the quick response to Doubts.Awesome! +Minimal video efforts, not enough content, and long readings. Definetly not a good course to get a verified certificate +Thanks +Great course!!!! +Good course +Short lectures, long intro, ridiculous music. Very quickly decided to learn this elsewhere. +Great course on Cybersecurity +Good amount of knowledge +This is a great course and a great addition to Corporate Finance I! Thank you Heitor! +This was the most intense and enjoyable courses I've ever taken. Professor Almeida is simply brilliant. He's the type of academic that marries theory with the real world. He's also a first class academic with some great publications. The course provides a great mixture of analysis and then true-to life case work on companies and deals. Be prepared to work But know that you'll come out of this class with a completely solid knowledge of corporate finance. You can't sit back in the class. He challenges you to work and practice and ask questions. I don't know if I've ever learned as much from one class as I did in this one. One thing, usually I speed up my video lectures but I had to slow down my video feeds with Prof. A.! This is the best business class I've ever had. +Great Professor; Meaningful content; Useful in the workplace! +Great course. Recommend with great enthusiasm. Comprehensive and extremely well taught. +One of the most thorough and fair teachers I have ever had. This course was well out of my wheelhouse, but I felt empowered rather than defeated with each exercise and before I knew it I was conversing about current events that previously would have gone well over my ahead. Prof Almeia is the best! +Very good review course +Great course ! +Excellent teaching +Great Course :) +My english improved so much! +Very good course, the teachers are great. +Thanks for such a excellent series of advanced lessons. Havind learned this course, I became more knowing of adverb clause. It's great. You are perfect teachers. +It was awesome! Thank you. +I really liked this course. I learned so many details that will help me to improve my writing skills. I consider that the information is well developed because even though the topic is complex the professors were very precise when organizing the material.Easy to follow, to understand, and to memorize. Professors, thank you so much for your dedication preparing each video. +I find this course, so far, too good, and looking forward to completing the course. I wish I could find all grammar courses at one place, and in order. +It is a very interesting course. Thanks for all this supportive context. I enjoyed it so much. I look up to the intructors. They are very professional. +Very fantastic course... +Hi everyone,I think that taking this class helped me so much to understand more about the English language.Thank you very much for giving the chance to attend the class for free. +Emily and Jake are the best, but the course was too difficult for me +MUY BUENA TEMATICA QUE SE MANEJA EN EL CURSO, LO UNICO QUE SUGIERO ES QUE IMPLEMENTARAN TAREAS PRACTICAS EN CUANTO A LOS REGISTROS CONTABLES. +CONTIENE INFORMACIÓN VALIOSA QUE NOS PERMITE ENTENDER EL MANEJO CONTABLE Y FINANCIERO DE UNA EMPRESA. +Very useful and interesting course +Gives the student real world exposure to the tools to study proteins gene regulation, etc. Instructor is involved and friendly. Highly recommended for someone who is interested in contemporary +Wonderful course. :) +well structured and useful course +I absolutely loved this course. The material is highly relevant to someone who works with large databases and computational tools. The lab portion really demonstrates how different online resources can help answer research questions. +very useful!!! +good but lengthy videos.. +Awesome Course! +I really appreciate these series of courses, I want to thank Prof. Provart and his coligues for their great job on preparing and presenting these series. Thanks a lot! +Great course with the kindest professor. +The best. +introduction to many useful online data resources +I use this course as a good resource it has been very helpfull for me the explanation of Dr Provart are incredibly good. +Very informative. Loved the course. keep making more please +Excellent. It's very interesting for the introduction to bioinformatic analysis. +Bioinformatics Methods II provides a broad overview of several bioinformatics techniques for co-expression analyses. Lessons & Labs are as interesting and exciting as the ones of Bioinformatics Methods I - which I suggest to attend as well.Again, this "training on the job" approach is useful for achieving familiarity with this rich and many-sided subject.Thanks professor Provart & team for this!!! +I think it is a very good course about Bioinformatics. The lab content is especially useful to me, +I was a very very useful course, specially the heatmap plot generation and R language lab exercises was great! +Excellent course with excellent support by the Professor and Mentor. Covers what you need to know about protein bioinformatics and detailed expression analysis. +At first the questions were wrong, but i contacted with the professor and he corrected them. +Excellent course for astronomy enthusiasts with really useful and informative Python Assignments. One of the best MOOCs I have attended. +Great and quick way to learn things. Thanks for the troubles taken to put this together. Some of the computational exercises could do with a little more clarity of language. But, overall, Great! +A very interesting course, even though I am not an astronomer. Plenty of examples on the use of Python for data handling, ML classification of astronomical objects (sklearn), plus a neat section on RDMS usage (postgresql + python). Many thanks to all at astro-sydney for their help and Coursera. +I really enjoyed this course. Lots of useful information about composing music. +Great course! +A very good course. nicely put together and easy to follow. +Lovely course. So nice to learn more about the chords. +Loved it! Very challenging, but I learned so much. It will definitely help me write music in the future. +Comprenhensive, fast and easy to learn classic harmony basic course. +good course for beginners can learn the basics behind composing.You will learn key techniques like inversion of chords, insertions & substitutions & progressions which i believe can help any aspiring beginner composer regardless of style.You will also learn to analyze music pieces. +Excellent. This course is really an opportunity to enjoy composing like mozart! +Great course! +Very Good, Excellent +Love the teacher.. +this course is perfect! in all ways. +Interesting content, good instructor +Absolutely fantastic, Edward is a wonderful pedagogue, thank you so very much for this course +Contains a lot of information for the short course time, but well worth taking even if you can't complete all of the work. It applies a lot of music theory, so consider it the hands-on practice for all of those theory lectures you might have taken. +This course helped me to understand what is involved in music composition. +If you know harmony it's Excellent!if you don't know it's good but difficult! +This is an excellent course. I cannot imagine better coverage in six weeks. Peter Edwards is a first class teacher and I hope he will do some other MOOC on a musical topic - I would certainly join it. The course has been an introduction that has already helped deepen my understanding of this period of music, and it has given me the desire to study these matters more fully. +An excellent course to learn the basics of classical style composition. +This is an excellent course and it really pushes you hard to learn Classical Composition. There are a few problems, however.Minor quibbles:1) The instructor does not really explain Parallel Perfect Fifths or Octaves; I had to look them up on my own. They deserve a whole lecture.2) One of the assignment solutions has a Parallel Octave by contrary motion, which is not supposed to be allowed.3) He also neglected to explain the Harmonic Minor Key being used for minor chords in his Lecture 0 of Week 2. Just a very short explanation would have saved me 40 minutes of stressful researching, confusion, and doubts about my own sanity ;)The biggest problem:This course should really be an 8- or 12-week course. The weeks are very densely packed. In Week 2, I worked 3-4 hours every day, and then was greeted by 11 classes due in 7 days when I opened Week 3. The assignments are rated 10 or 20 minutes but actually take about 2 hours. It would often take me thirty minutes to an hour to get through one 5-15 minute video. (I do take detailed notes and do recall and mnemonic drills along the way, however). If you are already solidly grounded in music theory and have much of voice leading on autopilot, this class is faster.That said, I would not want him to cut out anything. Every class so far has been necessary. It has taken me from almost 0 musical theory understanding to feeling very comfortable with advanced concepts, all in an extremely short time.If you try to complete all of his video examples just before he does them, they work like a charm. I came here to get solid skills, and Just three weeks in I feel like I have made a years' worth of progress.I highly recommend this course, but know the kind of work you are getting into. +This course taught me so much and it was easy to follow. Thank you for the opportunity! +Great! +An excellent lecture by Peter Edwards but couldn't attend it due to academic pressure.Hope will get similar courses in the near future.Thank you +I had no time to actually do the course material properly (due to real-life work) but I loved following what I could and eventually will take the course properly (next year). There is a lot of material covered and can be challenging for someone with little knowledge of music theory, but with some extra baxkground reading (and some wikipedia articles) one can catch up quickly. Highly recommended. +Very deep and fluid course. +Very full content of this course , the teacher does very well . Too bad it does not have subtitles in Spanish , it would be perfect if I had . +Really great and practical! You can really start to write some sophisticated music with this course! +The course is complete and clear (even better than the one in my conservatory ) I hope there will be course on orchestration ,even if it is paid I would take it ,thank you so much professor Edward. +Dr. Peter Edward does an outstanding job of explaining concepts for this genre of music! +Is one of the best courses I've taken +Practical and informative course for those who want to have an overview of current trends of Business Analytics. +That was a great course to start with. I started to work as a BA, and taking this course helped me a lot to get the general idea of how things work in business world. Great introduction about Data, Roles, Rules and SQL which is very useful for someone who is new to this field. +This course was great. The instructor really broke down the fundamentals of Data Analytics in several of modules. The only thing I would have liked a little more explanation on is the SQL section in module 3. I felt like this module went a little fast and could use some more supplemental information. Overall, this was a great intro into the world of data analytics. +Trust me, It is a wonderful course offered with great lectures. The course content is pretty cool (not easy though) and requires you to think on real-world-scenarios at the same time giving us an opportunity to build your our business models enabling us to think big, thus exercising our brain. Cheers ! +It has been a pleasure to take this course, as it contents a lot of new stuff of my interest, helping me to be iniciated in the Data Analitics world in a very well guided way.My favorite part was SQL as a tool to extract data, it was one thing that has been in my mind for a long time, but never had had the opportunity to enter in contact with this code.Great profesor, whose profound domain of the topic, his enhusiasm and passion made this complex theme were seems easy!! Thank you very much for all the effort put in this course! +The course was easy to follow and understand +Great course! I worked in IT for years and this course closed some gaps in my knowledge in this area. The course is easy to understand and extremely informative in many areas of data analysis. Big thank you to David Torgerson and University of Colorado Boulder. The presentation is just fantastic! +it was too much teory and not really data analytics tools. +Very very good. Needs some clean up in the PowerPoints and perhaps a bit more elaboration with some concepts. The quizzes were a bit tricky where some of the questions hinged on a single word or phrase in the lecture. +Overall, course quality is good and have a appropriate level of knowledge for new analysts. I will recommend for who begins learning about data analytic.Need improve:Some of the subtitles are wrong.Examinations need have more explanations, they will be helpful when we choose the wrong answer.I need to wait too long for reviewing someone in the end of course. Please consider this. +An excellent course, very clear and concise. Its already amazing, but extra material would've been helpful , especially in the SQL week. +Great overview of the world of data analysis. +I register in this course as a real beginner but I develop many practical skills in SQL, business analysis. I recommend it strongly for those who want to become a data analyst +Great +This was a really good overview/introduction to a lot of the concepts needed for Analytics roles in business! +Excellent course! Pace is good, and information is valid. I liked this course! +Great set of materials. Great introduction on data analytics +This course is a must for researchers +A very good introduction, especially starting with SQL +This required a lot of work with little gained. Some questions, referring to budgets and site layouts, required skills that weren't learned in the course. The 3 word feedback comments I got from all reviewers did not feel like worthy responses to the amount of time I put into this project. Additionally, I was graded negatively by some reviewers without reason, as happened in other sections. Overall, not really worth the money for a paid certificate. Would be nice if maybe for the capstone only, some sort of professional or professor weighed in on your project for some legitimate and helpful critique. +Very challenging with the goal to bring a complete strategy to life. +While I appreciated the challenge of the capstone project, I didn't feel like the assignment's requests accurately aligned or represented what was provided in the lecture series. As someone who bought this course as one large pack (four courses, one capstone project), it would've been nice to see more intersection. I felt a little "in the dark" on some of this. Given the short timeline to finish the work, too, many of these requests need more time (e.g. building personas needs user research, ideally). All in all, a good challenge to a content professional, but don't expect all of this to align with what you learned in the lecture series. +Seriously this is the best business-related course on coursera! The material and the professor is outstanding. I'd very much recommend it. You won't get bored while watching all the videos. You can see the effort put into producing such a high quality course. It's by far the best course I've took on coursera and believe me I tried a lot of courses. +Great course and quizzes. Learned a lot about competitive strategy and economics. Look forward to the next course. +Fantastic course and quite interesting material as well. I loved the pace and the approach where we looked at actual examples to study the content. +I recommend this course for people who work in field of commerce, trading, and business development. I think this course could bring valuable knowledge for people participating in industries mentioned above +The content was very nicely put together. The delivery was excellent, examples pertinent and course takeaways very relevant. Any one who is looking to understand how to analyse and interpret market competition, New entry threats and Game theory need not look any further. +Very good practical introduction to key competitive strategies concept. Professor Kretschmer provides real company examples that further illustrate and reinforce the concepts. The course does not delve into the theories behind the key concepts which may it quite fluid (though leave certain student asking for more. Course is well articulated, relatively easy to follow and quite funny at times (just thinking about the logistics of bringing the AT-AT along on field trips!). Well done. Thank you. +A lot of strategy concepts and basis, from Nash to Porter... Nice explanations, easy to follow and actually funny! +This course is good... The material and teaching methodology is simple and taught in a way that its easy to understand. +Very well structured, overall good (sometimes slow) pacing. In this introductory, only very simplified settings with few variables are considered. The course description could highlight that.Although they are not long each, I personally found the style of the videos a little tiresome (talking head scribbling illegibly on powerpoint slides). I therefore just listened to them as 'audio' while doing errands around the house, and only returned to my desk for the invideo tests. Worked well. +Helped me understand through multiple scenarios explained in the videos. +Very good course with a professional instructors and hoping to enrich it with many other examples for different rules +Eye opening now i know better how to plan operations for Q2. +The concepts are clear and well presented. Quiz questions are relevant to the course material. Flexible due dates make it possible to fit this course in a busy professional life. +Very good course! Well organized and clear content! +great tool to learn and develop Strategic Thinking concepts and behaviors. +Great course and wonderful professor! +Great Course and Great Professor. +Tobias is a nice teacher and he makes game theory looks like piece of cake. +Excellent course for those who are engaged in product marketing and management. Highly recommended. +Hello. Just noticed the new Competitive Strategy Specialization. Very much interested. Loved the first course. Made sense of all my old microeconomics classes.Nevertheless, I've already done Competitive Strategy Course with success and was already in the advanced one.If I do Specialization will I already receive a specific certificate for the course I did? Will I be able to pay a smaller fee for having done one course already?Final question, does the specialization have some specific certification from LMU?Thanks again. +An interesting course with real life examples and engaging content. The Professor's style of delivery and thorough use of examples made this an informative and easy to understand course, whilst maintaining a reasonable level of detail for an introductory course. Highly recommended as a starting point to understand competitive behaviour and strategies +The Course is an amazing gift from LMU. I am thankful for the opportunity of learning so much information with such a high level of quality. The course is very clear in all lessons. At the same time, it does not represent any loss in the approach of the issues, which is very complete. +This course was awesome! I've learned so much doing this course and that knowledge was really helpful in my later postgraduate course. +This is an exellent course with a lot of exercises. I ve learnt more during this than when I studied Strategy at school +Great course! Thank you Tobias and LMU for it! +A great course! I wish that Prof Tobias would author a textbook/book following the same subjects. +Don't have the certificate to certify that I've undergone the course. It is sad. The content of the course is good. However, without the certificate it feels like all my efforts have gone in vain. Please look into it.I would like to receive the certificate, I am willing to pay for it. But I don't know how +This is a very good course, however it is not in my main line of interest and I kind of lost interest. +Very clear presentation, good exercises, very good driven and with consistency. +The course gave me important insights about competition and decision making in different scenarios. Going through the weeks, the course provided me levers to make better decisions and understand better some strategic moves we see everyday in our company. +Great course! Recommend it! +Very interesting and well structured course +Great lecturer! Content nicely put in suitable chunks, easy to listen and interesting to follow. Good examples for better understanding. +The cours is informative and I'm really grateful to professor Tobias Kretschmer and course staff for the opportunity to improve myself. +Amazing way to understand industry strategy, as a game. Thanks for the quality lectures and the professor's great method. +One of the best treatments of a complex subject. I loved taking the course. +very good professor, taught in a interesting way +Got very good insights on the application of the various aspects of Game Theory in the real world scenario. +The course has added more value to the knowledge i have of competitive strategy. +Very good course with basic but extremely important concepts. +Amazing Simplicity to Deliver High Value Content! +THANK YOU! +The course is very interesting and easy to follow, but there are some concepts that are not that easy to grasp.I had to watch some videos a few times so I could fully understand some concepts.The test were real tests that made you study and think. I liked that. +Well structured course and considerable amount of materials covered. Thank you +Great course! It's very important to understand the decisions, and how to achieve them. +Nice course for a preliminary understanding of Game Theory! Highly recommended!!! +very good and up to date. This is one of the best courses I ever taken. Thank you so much +This is a amazing course with great content, keeps you on the edge. Ludwig is a master of this ! Cheers +Amazing knowledge very well delivered by the teacher +Really good for free. +It's a course that will develop your capacity of watch the company's decisions for a theoretical way, and be able to understand their choices.These decisions will be needed for a sustainable firm. +I am an MBA and have studied marketing but this course was an addition to my knowledge of strategy. The content was practical and readily applicable to everyday business scenarios. I have been thinking about my own business for some time and I found this course tailored for myself. This course helped me develop strategic thinking. +Miss Tobias :) +This is an excellent course. Very clear lectures with good real world examples. Highly recommended! +This is amazing course, easy and informative.Thank you. +This course was a truly exciting learning experience. The lecturer was very well capable to awaken interest and keep up tension. Thank you for that. I look forward to joining the 'advanced' class. +Very clear, concise and well explained with cases +well structured, engaging, educating with good use of modern communicaton tools +Great course. +I really enjoyed this course. Topics are well explained and there are a lot of real world examples. The only negative aspect is that there is no certificate for this course. +Fantastic course, it was really easy to follow and +Interesting and informative course! +Really good! +Well-designed course that gives the fundamentals of decision-making and crafting business strategies +Excelent course and content!! I'd like to have the course material to do a further study, though. +In order to be more clear with the exposition, the course started with a game theory introduction and that works a lot for me. Then the course become more strategic and more apllied. Great course! +The course was a great experience for a coursera beginner like me. The reader explained the issues with good examples and used descriptive use cases. The only problem I had was that some of the exams are broke down my browser, but I think that this was a problem between coursera and IE11. +The flow is the course is highly structured. It starts with what actions/strategy firms take in the general scenarios & then moves on to specific cases like market entry, deterrence, innovation etc.I highly recommend this course for all beginners who want to have a broad understanding of what firms think in a competitive environment. +Very good course. Easy to follow and served in adequate portions. Lots of examples and very didacting format that builds on the knowledge. Excellent intro to competitive strategy. thanks. +This course really helped me how to act rationally, in a way that benefited for me (or us) without ignoring the competitors. +This was an excellent course. The examples and diagrams that were used to explain concepts and situations were effective. The professor's teaching style was effective and engaging. It was worth my time!Namita A Shrivastav +Excellent perspective of competitive strategy in general. The lecturer was very articulate and gave insightful anecdotes to all the concepts being taught. Very good for developing business thinking on the fly with all the different considerations. Suggestion would be to create a end of course case project. +Interestingly, understandable +Very nice course. +This is an interesting course with inspiring strategical thoughts for many real-life scenarios. Good for both new comers for business strategies and seasoned strategists to recap the most important theories and actual applications. Highly recommended! +well structured course for every learner. +Absolutely phenomenal course, the instructor goes through the material in a very easy to understand way, is engaging, and the subject matter is presented with practical and real-world examples to support the theory! +Amazing course and the curriculum +Awesome learning experience.. Best course.. :D +great material and video quality, love it. +Great course! I really liked it. Very informative and didactic. +Excellent course. Very good content and the instructor is excellent, explaining concepts and using very clear examples. Thanks! +Very well designed and easy to understand, the professor really gave illustrative examples for students to understand the core conceptions. +An amazing and necessary course for anyone who wants to learn about the basics of doing business at any level. +Very much enjoyed the course; the instructor used good examples and the content was relevant and aligned well with the subject matter. Enough examples and quizzes to reinforce the theories. I'm looking forward to follow-up with the 2nd course. +really good!On suggestions: Publish the slides.Thanks +Excellent Course with a good learning opportunity with Examples and Quiz at end of each topic +The course is informative. The lecturer uses comprehensible language and examples. +basic but cool! +Great instructor! He simplifies everything without making it any less interesting. I loved the numerous examples too! so helpful! +This course is very much enjoyable +This is a great course! +Why some companies sell the same products at higher prices when there are competitors in the same city? Understand that the differentiation of a product is important to obtain profit is possible with this course. I recommend it. +Excellent! The teacher was awesome. The best!!!Can I know his name and the university where he teaches? +This lecture series is clear and attractive. Location and media use are selected smart and charming. The contents excited me and I deliberately deal with Game Theory. You have enlightened our world bright, ...Thank you. +I really really enjoy the teaching. The professor explains concepts in a clear and concise fashion. The quizs are useful too in helping me consolidating and realising the gaps in my knowledge. Game theory is now one of my favourite themes in Economics. +运用浅显易懂的例子让你很快明白它的basic concepts,然后会及时的出一些quiz让你active participating rather than passive listening +Very confusing course, unclear example, too theoretical (very limited relevancy to business questions)Also, presentation format could be improved (tables are not intuitive to read/understand) +Very interesting approach, even-though some exercise are not clear enough. +Very interesting and developed very smartly. Thank you. +Well-structured and entertaining course, in which basic competitive concepts are issued. I dont rank it with 5 stars because I think they should post the slides of the lessons for the students and they have to add the possibility of paying for a certificate +very slow and boring. needs better and more relevant examples. Instruction should be more fast paced. +Very structured which allows a step-by-step +This course gives a simple, concise, effective outlook to competitive strategy. I'm glad I decided to take it. +Very interesting, thank you~ +Its very good for understanding purposethank you so much +great course, great content and awesome professor. +Great teacher and very good explanation of the subject +Would have rated it 4 if i had received my certificate of accomplishment like i was told at the starting of the course. The course was very informative and explained thoroughly and all but when you put it down on your resume or something its good to have a document backing up the claim. +Really good! +So far , very interesting and covers much of the material that was covered in my Strategy Course in my MBA. It has been a delightful course as a refresher and putting more up-to-date examples than when I covered much of this material some time ago. Have another 2.5 weeks to go but I will look for more courses from LMU & Tobias ! +Thank you for this course +Very confusing subject which could have been better presented. +I would like to thank professor Tobias Kretschmer and his team at LMU for teaching me this course. Thank you for giving me a chance to learn those wonderful things free online. +Great course! Very comlex and engaging! +Great presentation style. Only recommendation would be to make the slides available for download. +I really enjoyed this course. It's an excellent exercise in applying game theory to competitive situations. As an IP professional, I found it helpful to see the other aspects of competitive positioning beyond patenting. +Thank you for new approach for the strategy! Great! +Excellent, content, explanations and methods, highly recomend it +Very Clear and insightful. +Very interactive, well-built, concise and interesting. +This course is extremely well paced and Tobias is great at explaining the competitive landscapes.Highly recommended. +I guess the professor is not a native English speaker,(neither am I,) So I find some sentences in the PPT quite confusing. Everything else is perfect. +Very good course, refresh on strategy +Enjoyed this course. There was a bit of confusion on some points, but overall really good. +Very good compare to what the courses in Nicaragua are like. Perhaps the bad point are the examples that the professor use, many of then are not so realistics. When learning about a situation that conditionate our strategy, we must also know what others inputs take part too. +Very good starter into Game Theory and Competitive Strategy +It has helped me to view business in a new way +Thanks for a wonderful course. +Thank you +very useful for our company ! +Great class to learn business strategy +Great! +Great course with easy and simple examples that helped me better understand these concepts. I am looking forward to enroll and start watching the videos of the Advanced Competitive Strategy Course.I recommend this one to anyone wanting to know the basics of competitive strategy, decision making and management concepts whether having or not a job related to management. +This course is awesome! +I have no previous business experience and I really enjoyed this class. It gave me insight into game theory and marketing and product development concepts. Good pace and good explanation of topics. +Really Good! I love the examples using on the curse and the attitude of the professor. +Hi, I took this course as a refresher and found it very helpful.It is well structured and easy to follow, clearly communicated through a rich set of exmaples. I recommend it for those with an interest in the subject matter.For myself I look forward to starting the Advanced module. +Great teacher! +Made it easy for understanding. +I am quite pleased with the course. The professor was extremely thorough and presented the information is a clear and logical fashion. ItI +VERY VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE I LOVE THIS COURSE +Very well explained +Excellent course. Very straightforward, very interactive and with appropiate applications to the real word and corporations. I do recommend it!!! +That is good! +Not the expected quality +Interesting examples and useful contents for strategists +lectures are very well explained by the professor and slowly the complexity of the subject is exposed. The content was presented in a clear and sometimes funny/remarkable way. I learned quite a lot, so my thanks! +Great course! I learned to combine traditional strategic concepts with game theory. I would liked some bibliographic references. +This course is really well built. Lessons are understandable and quite funny. Recommended for everyone. +I really liked this course, it taught me a new world about decision making that I will carry forever +Very well put together, explaining in a simple and direct manner many concepts that were forgotten to me. +Great course for an introduction on competitive strategy. Easy to understand and follow and the quizzes keep you on track. Recommended! +I would like to receive a certificate, that's why I don't rate it with 5 stars. +I loved this class it was very easy to follow along. +Is a good course. because have a resumed content with a practical view and usability in real world. +A very interesting course, not only for beginners but also for people who have already heard of the game theory and who want to deepen their knowledge! +Its a great course filled with information and practical examples. Doing Advanced Competitive Strategy now. +Great stuff! +Good analytical concepts into strategy with competitors. Recommended for anyone who is in business and or intends to start a business in a competitive environment. +Excelent course, I've learned so much. Examples and lessons are very clear +Wonderful course! I've learned a lot. Thank you very much for providing this course. +Nice and intuitive course +The course is very practicall and easy to understand. It provides a lot of examples and its separared in small 10 minutes lectures that make it more pleseant to diggest. Also, wonderful teacher, very clear and also fun. +Excellent course to get you started in competitive strategy. Clear and relevant examples, and the professor has made the course interesting and thorough. +I really like the lesson.I enjoy it and will re-take it to brush up my understanding. +I really enjoyed this course. The fact that I can go at my own pace helped me a lot to be able to finish it. +This course is very interesting and is helpful when in business. I highly recommend it to those who want to learn about competitive strategy. +It's a great course! Well-structured and full of usefull knowledge. +very good and very didactic.Keep pushing +this is a very informative course... +Very interesting course. Excellent teacher. +Great course and well worth the time. I took this as a refresher and enjoyed it immensely. Great content, good lecturer. +Excellent Course, It has been useful for my professional development and studies. +I have mixed feelings about this course. From a instructor and content perspective, this is by far the best. Tobias is a great teacher and he explains the concepts very nicely followed up by quizzes.What I hated about this course was the web exprience and how the final questions were set up. It gave a feeling that the intent was to "get you" vusrses questions that were more to see if a student has understood the concepts. Some of the multiple choice answers were borderline and a rational mind could go either way. So my suggestion is to significantly rewamp your quizzes.From a technical perspective, the system did not capture my results the first time, It graded me differently on the same set of questions (this needs to be really looked into) for example the first time I answered the question a certain way, it marked me correct, however the same answer in the next attemp was marked wrong??? This lead to a lot of confusion (and I am not saying because the numbers in the answers were changed on different attemps but the content itself was marked differently).I loved this course and would have loved to attempt the advanced strategy course however but for the above reasons will not.Its dissapointing that although the instructure and content is world class the technical glitches are too many for a student to have a seamless, learning experience. Hope this helps and topics mentioned aboove would be seriously looked into. I want this course to be a success as this the one of the most insightful courses that I have taken. +Explanations are clear. Examples are curious. +Awesome course. Very useful introduction to the concepts. +Excellent lectures, well thought out. Exercises were too easy but a great intro course. +Thanks, I could learn on it in an easy way. +Excellent course! Strategies were clearly explained. +It is an excellent course. My only feedback is to make it even more interactive that makes the students engage and learn. Also provide more real-life and challenging examples. +It was educational! +helpful and inspiring course! +Very good teacher! real examples! +Excellent course and very well explained. +A lot of information, well presented and delivered. I really enjoyed this course. +hiI am studying management and the new approach appears to me to see you.tank you :-) +I am going to finish week six and so far the course has been excellent !! +Great course! Very useful for developing strategic mindset in both personal life, business and career! I HIGHLY recommend if your feel interested in the subject! +An excellent course, and excellent professor and wery well explaned. Especially considering that I don´t have a very broad economical/strategical background. I hope we can enjoy and learn more in this way! +Excellent course. It is well organized and should be a required course for anyone thinking of starting a new business or simply wanting to increase his/her value to their organization. The concepts apply to small and large organizations, whether for profit or non-profit. Even non-profits are in a competitive market. +Great course, I highly recommend it. I thank to the LMU for creating such a tremendous course with great contents and excellent teaching techniques. +lots of pedagogy... +I love this class. It teaches much better than the game theory I took +Very good course, interesting and helpful. +Good introductory class to the topic. Much time spent on examples. However, each module feels somewhat a bit disconnected from the other ones. A case study or example which would navigate students through all 6 modules would greatly help students remembering it all. +Excellent course for a beginner in this subject +Very complete and well explained, goes slowly sometimes! +Splendid explanations, good examples and a great teacher. +I am doing this course at my own pace but I must say I am enjoying it completely. It is so much fun!Thank you! +Enjoyed the class, Game Theory has always been interesting to me. +Excellent course with extensive amount of real world examples. Really gives you insight in the fundamentals of the business strategy that businesses pursue in competitive markets. Quizzes are not hard but do teach you the point. Definitely recommended if you are looking for some insight in competitive strategy and the reasoning behind it. +Very good content, nice videos with interesting speaker. Very interactive course. +I really enjoyed this course! Learned lots of valuable concept for my business in an easy way. I suggest this course to every entrepreneur out there! +A good intersection of Micro-economics and Game Theory. Very well structured. +Even though the course talks about strategy a better tittle could be Game Strategy applied to Competitive Strategy. +This course is amazing, the structure and contents are planned in an outstanding way. I am very glad that I found it. It fulfills my expectation way further. Congratulations to every member, professor and the team that made it possible. +Excellent, content.I see this as a valuable input to change our mindset and tailor it to a more strategic approach. Technics like Backwards induction really help to achieve this.Thanks :) +Prof. Tobias Kretschmer is a great teacher capable of getting you interested in the topic, thus making the course itself even more interesting. The course is very helpful in getting the perspective how one should position himself in order to get the most out of the market. +Excellent course! Tobias is an excellent tutor. Course opened my eyes to a whole new spectrum of analysing the behaviour of firms in the market place. It gave me basic insights into my own business. I will never look at business and competition the same way. I just enrolled in the advanced competitive strategy course. 5 bright stars from me +An interesting course with a lot of examples. I was really enjoying watching the lectures. +I liked the course, it opened my eyes to new ways of thinking, and I'm continuing the advanced competitive strategy course. The approach of making models and calculations to see what the best strategy for a given company is, can help greatly with making sense of a chaotic world.Minor points to better the course: The lectures are sometimes too simple, especially the examples given can be sped up, up the ante ;)!. In the quiz one whole answer is false if one of the sub-answers is false, especially with 10 answers to give, I sometimes had a hard time to pass a question due to this reason, can this be resolved a bit? Say for example, a question is passed if 80% of the sub-answers are correct?Overall... thanks dear Tobias for having me in your class!Greetz Floor +Great course! The professor is very clear, concise and easily understandable. The different examples and cases illustrated very well the fundamentals of competitive strategy. I am looking forward to continue this course series with the Advanced Competitive Strategy. +very interesting and challenging course +Great Course +Basic knowledge of Game Theory and Marketing +Good course +Was really good +I really enjoy learning from Professor Tobias Kretschmer. He has all these interesting props related to the examples that always grab my attention and make me laugh. This course is suitable not only for those who want to learn more about strategy but also for those who are beginners to the business world. I'll definitely start the advanced one soon! +Very helpful to have a better perspective of the real world! +Great, well-prepared course! +i really enjoyed this course and i learned a lot from it...competitive strategy is really a great course and people interested in business should definitely try this course.. +Excellent course, very useful content explained in an easy and effective way. Highly recommended! +Very interesting and sometimes challenges understanding in the quiz. +Excellent course. Very Helpful in understanding competitor analysis. +Not a lot of practice problems and somewhat superficial information. +Very insightful, although very theoretical. It is great to create awareness of different strategical concepts and how they are applied, but not enough details in how it would actually play out in a real scenario between different entities. Kept me wanting to learn more though, which is a very good thing ;). +A great introductory level course to Competitive Strategy. Professor Kretschmer does an excellent job of engaging the audience, keeping the content simultaneously light and yet challenging. The course highlights the basic premises of how best to enter a market and how to keep a competitor out of the market. You will also find ways to strategically price products for profitability based on the expected, logical reaction from your competitors. Thank you Professor Kretschmer for a great course. +Good Attractiveness +Excellent course to offer deep insights into decision making in real business world. +Very useful. +This is a brilliant introductory course on Competitive Strategy. Instructor explains the concepts well. It would be useful to get the slides of the lectures. +A very informative course, looks at the application of game theory to the world of business. Clear explanations and good tests.I would like to know why he has an AT-AT next to him in lectures however. +Good, basic concepts covered with examples +I learnt a lot of things from this course. +Fantastic course except for the quiz questions. Many of them can be interpreted in a way that an answer different from the intended one can work too. +fantastic - GREAT instructor! +Awesome learning experience. The interactive way of teaching by respective professor Tobias Kretschmer has created great curiosity. The examples discussed are highly relevant and laymen for freshers. Definitely going for next advanced course. Enjoyed the learning Game Theory. +This course is very interesting, I enjoyed all modules. Teacher explains everything very well and the practice tests are very exciting to do. +Excellent course... A great introduction to Competitive Strategy, well dictated through theory and examples +Thanks to this course, I think economically my society and the world. This strengthen my economic wisdom. Thank you. +excellent course for both beginner and moderately adnvaced economy students and enthusiasts. press Kretchmer is very well spoken and explicit with his content +Well structured and really interesting. The teacher clearly explains and walks through the arguments with the aid of specific case studies. Strongly recommended for learners of business, finance and entrepreneurship. +Excellent! Mr Tobias Kretschmer really his way to teach is great, Obviously you can realize how he love that he is teaching, Simple great !! +5 stars. Highly recommented. +great!a lot of information, descibed in an easy way. I learnt a lot despite the fact that english is not my native language. So I decided to subscribe to the second course "advanced competitive strategy" as well. +Amazing online course. Tobias Kretschmer is a great presenter and lecturer. He has a good way of implementing fun into these subjects, as well as keeping them very informative. I learned a lot from this course. -Tobias Brouwers, Denmark +Slides availability could prove helpful +really informative, great teacher and I learnt a lot from this. +Very good! It was very intresting for me! +The course is amazing and very helpful for everyone who works on Business Development and Business Strategy. Definitely need the second course - Advanced Competitive Strategy. +Excellent for anyone searching for better comprehension on strategy and decision making. Is also a practical approach to game theory. +amazing course learnt a lot +It's a pretty well structured course with one exercise after every lecture that helps you to learn properly. +A very well explained course on how to break down decision making purely on rational and analytics . This course did not explain strategy in a higher level. It only explained in systematic decision making scenarios. +This Course teaches you about the basics of Strategy making and clearly explains about the step by step approach with real time examples .Beauty of the course is no prerequisites are required and explanation of the content is of top notch +The professor was good. There was an over abundance of game theory, however. +Really interesting subject, with helpful quizzes. Some technical issues with the videos but nothing there to stop you from gaining some really helpful skills, if you dig business related courses. +Wonderful exercise for your brain.That is simple story about math magic in real life. +very well structured course, good to have no limitations on start or end dates. I enjoyed it and learned a lot. +Excellent teacher, great structure, no words are superfluous, material is valuable and very relevant.Thank you! +Very interesting course, thanks. +Good course especially for those involved in business strategy. It requires attention and a lot of quizzes to be solved. Nonetheless all information shared by the professor can be useful and a knowledge advantage. This course can be taken by people who aren't familiar with business/finance/economics. +This is the best ever lecturer that I have observed. it's very much practical and would recommend every marketing aspirant to look forward to this. +it is great +An awesome course! I like the way the professor does the lectures. He gives a lot of real life examples, and makes a great difficulty balance so one could really enjoy this course. I hope we see more courses from Herr Tobias Kretschmer and the LMU. +Easily set up hence easy to follow! no room for boreness! +Interesting things about shiny applications nd creating own swirl courses. +A very good coverage on creating interactive charts using various facilities such as plotly, google vis, and the shiny app framework. The knowledge is very practical to be used immediately for my day-to-day work. +Great class, great series. Still much to learn. +Terrific for shiny and leaflet learners +Great class! +Great practical course ! +Thanks to these courses, I program production planning and control software for the company I work for. +Very interesting, lots of useful structure +Nice course and good classmates. It's very focus oriented and gives very good idea of Shiny, Rmarkdown, plotly and how to publish documents on github, Rpubs and other online sites. I learnt power of R +Excellent, relevant, and updated content and guidance through videos and assignments. If you work hard and use material from previous courses in the specialization you can start to feel how you are getting somewhere. With the technology we learned in this course I feel I can now provide usable products that provide interactivity and promote better understanding of complex data sets. +Nice course. Developping a web app in R is not exactly mainstream, but I learned a lot. +One of the best modules where you can learn how to apply the knowledge! +I think this one is the best from the Specialization as it is the most Practical one (more than Practical Machine Learning).Can be taken without the others if you have basic experience in R and want to learn about cool R applications.The reason I don't give full rating is for not having practical assignment every week. So there wasn't enough effort put into the course. Of course, we can do optional homework and make more applications, but assignments like these should be mandatory. There is no package building and no swirl course building - So why do we have week 3 and 4 at all? The quizzes are also laughable - no knowledge testing at all.So although I liked this course from the Specialization the most, I still can't give full rating because of the mentioned issues. +Great +Very Useful Course. +very helpful and teaching. learning practical tools for producting data products. examples in the course are not very complex, but give a very good intro for several tools. +Really had a great experience through getting hands on real projects +Really nice course! It extends our vision of what is possible to build as a data scientist. Strongly recommended! +Real world learning experience. Thoroughly enjoyed it. +Was a highly pleasurable and rewarding experience for me. +I didn't learn many data science concepts in this class +a great course, I know a lot of new stuff +This course is very hands-on and good for building quick prototypes. +Excellent course. Got to learn Shiny Application in this. +A course where you can show everything learned in the R language, especially in visualizations.I hope and in the future there are courses focused only on visualization with R +I really like the new version of this. It mixes a lot of tools, but most are useful. It was fun doing the assignments. +the course i enjoyed most in this specialization. Learning to use plotly, leaflet and other tools was great +Top 3 course of this specialization. +Really Interesting class, interactive app/plot is so much fun. Great to be able to make creative stuff myself. +Filled with useful information about practical tools. +Great Course +This course is packed with rich content that draws on all of the data science concepts in the other 8 courses. The best part is leaning how to use Shinyio so it is easy to share R analysis and visualizations. +Very informative +Excellent course, well delivered and adapted that help to build a structured output from a statistical analysis. I would recommend this course to anyone. +very good course to understand on how to present your work in a very structured and repeatable manner. +The course introduces us to a ton of valuable material for developing data products. But it is up to the student to have the initiative to dig deeper into the material by going through the various API reference documentations in order to create the final data applications. I'm not sure there is a better way to teach this course; but it felt like I was left to my own devices to complete the course. In a way it was a good learning experience to have to complete the assignments without much hand-holding from the instructors. +Awesome course. Overview of all the things you need to become part of the data science community in terms of contributing and sharing. +Great introduction to interactive plotting, mapping, and shiny. Deeper examples would be helpful. +One of the best course. +The final project was very cool! +Excellent content and very Practical +Love this course. Many interesting features (Shiny App, Maps, etc.) that I will definitely use for my job. +great course +Rewarding learning experience. +A bit fast paced as they teach so many things in a single week. But the stuff they teach is surely great and makes you appreciate the beauty of R +Great course, just like the others in the certification. +Really nice course. +One of the best courses in the Specialization. Really great content. +This is an excellent course that will teach you plethora of new things! The only gotcha is that things move too fast in the world of Data Science. Some of the topics and code might not work exactly as shown when you take the course, and many things will change. It's up to the student to make-up for the missing pieces, but I guess that is the only caveat when you work in a still-evolving field. +Great Course +I am a developer and know how to create advanced websites. This course has less use for me as in my day job i create sophisticated websites +Very useful +Great course, a lot of information! +Although I really liked the content of this course, the videos seemed to be have been done with rush. Many of the explanations were started but not finished and the presenter had many breaks during his speech to think or to go back with a better explanation. +Good course but I think it can be better. +Love it! +Had a lot fun developing my Physics App +Great Course. +The skills taught in this course are fantastic and I'm sure using them will blow my colleagues' minds away. However, I must say that the lectures on Rcharts and other interactive plot builders sound kinda sloppy, poorly prepared. I know the documentation for those packages is bad and it takes effort to figure out what they do, but that is precisely why a well-prepared lecture would be so useful. I would also talk about license, since we have been dealing with packages that are completely open for use, but these have some restrictions. +I enjoyed the class, but was frustrated when it came time to get my Slidify to work on GitHub (since RPubs wasn't publishing them correctly.) I had to convert it to RPres (which was easy, thankfully) in order to get my project submitted in time. +Nice course, but the discussion forum are not the same as in the old format. I also think that the shiny videos from Rstudio are better than the instructional videos in this course. +Great Course!!! +To be honest I don't think this is worth the money. +very useful to design a data product. +Good introduction to a wealth of great tools and to the concept of data products. +A very straightforward course on how to build fast and useful applications fora broader audience. +It was a fun course. The final project allows more practice with Shiny. +Great work +The Shiny project was the best part of the course! +seemed like a filler, nit are why this was included +This module is not the same level as the previous ones, giving a superficial view of several package but not on any deepens. The application development was the positive part of the module. +Really enjoyed learning how to build a Shiny App, and see a lot of use for this in my work environment. The Slidify product was not as useful - after 3 months of working on the project, I moved from Slidify to RPres, and was able to complete the project in very little time. +Easy tools to use and powerful +Awesome Course !! +The lecture is not so fluent taught than other coursers in the specialization +Compared to the other classes in the JHU Data Science specialization, this one is pretty laid back. It's useful information, and teaches a few nice tricks on how to present data analysis results. +The course is fine in the content. As usual, the presentation from Brian Caffo is rather rushed and stumbling. A better presenting style would improve the course no end, but ultimately, what is covered is what you need. I generally just avoid the videos and read the slides. +Love this course and enjoyed the shiny apps building exercise. +This course isn't as clearly outlined or carefully prepared as the others in the Data Visualization specialization. +Nice I like a lot, shiny nice tools. thanks to the teachers. +The best course so far and pulls everything together, surprised how much I have learnt over the specilaisation +Nice introduction which allows to start using some tools to present results of the analysis. +I greatly enjoyed this course. It helped me to improve my skills in the field of data science. +Would like to use the time to learn more machine learning/predictive technique, etc. +The class was OK. This was the topic I was most excited to get to in the specialization, so I started playing around with Shiny, Slidify, and other tools ahead of time. Because I had gained some basic familiarity with those packages, this class was a bit of a letdown. I was happy with the week on making R packages. That was all new and fascinating. If you're looking for something more advanced than a very basic overview, you may want to look elsewhere. +Excellent course, that helped me finish my own student project. +This is a very useful course in the Data Science Specialization that teaches us how to present the results of our data analysis using Shiny, Slidify and other R based data presentation tools. It also introduces open source charting APIs that we could use in our data analysis applications. +Good and useful module. +Fun making some apps and presentations in the context of Data Science. +Good overview of available tools. Lack of practice exercises makes preparing for quizzes difficult. However, the course project does a good job to get your feet wet with Shiny Apps. +Awesome course really enjoyed doing the project. +This will help you jump from office applications to more self developed products. +Although it is an easy course to pass, it is very important in content. It teaches the finishing moves, the ones you'll need after all your hard work. 5-star without doubt. +I liked the course and found it informative, but wish there were more stuff on Shiny Widgets and Input/Output/Render topic. R Shiny tutorial is pretty good, but I was hoping more relevant info about those topics from this course. +Loved this course +This is a great introduction to some of the many ways to present your data. It's probably the easiest course in the specialisation but shows off an impressive array of widgets and gadgets. +I loved learning how to build a Shiny application. I know this skill will serve me well moving forward. +This one's a keeper -- learning to do both Shiny apps and Slidify/RPres will be quite useful in the near future. Thanks. +Developing apps with Shinyapp is so much fun +Very interesting class. Need to watch all external (shiny+slidify) recommended tutorial to fully masterize the subject. +Great course. Very practical and state-of-the-art contents. +The course is OK, but I'd rather learned app development with Python or Java. +Updated and entertaining!! +Saves the time to explore the options on your own, nice one! +It is a true practical course. I love it. Thank you for your hard works. +The course not only instroduce me to great resources it also pointed me in the right direction to further develop the skills needed to create data products. +Excellent course with great didactic. Congratulations! +Lots of material in a short amount of time. +Although all coursera courses are same, the peer assessment is very useful for this course. It's very helpful to see products made by other people. +Interesting course showing some of the possibilities for visualising and publishing data. +Thank you son much!!!!I really like the course.It help me in my job =) +Covered really useful tools like shiny and slidify. +This Course was georgeous!!, i like the way of share my analisis, shiny rules! +Very practice oriented. After completing the Data Science Specialization courses with the course of Developing Data Products, I finally understand how important and useful R Programming is as a tool for research, data managing and inference making and for communicating results. Excellent way to crown the specialization's courses. +After several back to back dense, high paced, steep learning courses in the specialization, this course is a welcome break. Its light, interactive and has a certain calmness about it. It touches several topics like shiny, manipulate, googlevis and plotly. As someone who has taken all courses in the specialization, I always wondered, how do I show my analysis to someone in an enterprise production environment and not as offline pdfs generated from rmd files. This course attempts to answer that question. +For me the course was really interesting. Yes, all topics are not covered in deep details - but lecturers show what technologies exist and for what purposes. So if you're interested in some of them - it is up to you to discover more (useful links are included). Really nice and useful overview. +This course is cooler than the title sounds. The emphasis is on developing data apps with Shiny. In my case, I had only part of a weekend to work hard on the course project, yet I was able to make a nifty little data app that even impressed a potential employer. Leave plenty of time for brainstorming ideas for the course project and you'll find it very rewarding too. +The material is great; and learning to use Shiny and creating an application is a lot of fun.The only complaint I have with this course was it being put into the new Coursera platform. I felt like I was beta testing the new platform and that distracted from focusing on the course and the assignments within it. +Good course. Teaches you to take advantage of Shiny, Slidify, GoogleVis and Rpubs +I have not received yet my certificated and I can't see it in the list. Is there something wrong? +very interesting and useful for R programmers +Great introduction to available tools to get the job done. +Interesting course +This review does not reflect the course content. The new Coursera UI makes it impossible to download transcripts or slides of the videos. Without these features, following the lectures is significantly more difficult, and I can't rate this course any higher than 1 star. I would rate it zero stars if that was possible. +The new platform is very versatile and easy to navigate. The page layout is much more clear. It is easy to navigate from course material to discussion boards.I like the Quiz format, including expanding the number of choices for the multiple choice selections, but the grading was confusing. For Quiz 3, some questions came back with multiple "Well Done" comments, even when I had not selected the answer for which I was being praised. I also was told I made errors on the same question.... and this was after I answered the question (Question 2, on R generic functions) the exact same as I had answered it when I took the course earlier this year.I was not a fan of not having to take a picture to submit work, so I am pleased that is no longer a requirement. I hope the typing pattern match is sufficient to affirm identity.I have one comment on content specific to this class. Week 3 content lacks relevancy to the project and data products in general. I agree that knowledge of R packages, classes, and methods is an important part of understanding R. I am not sure where that fits in the Data Science curriculum as a whole, though. Maybe expanding the curriculum to include a second, more advanced R class, with a project to write our own methods, build an R package, or do something with yhat. That would assign relevant work to reinforce the lectures.I would be happy to do further beta testing.DCP +This is very useful course and I using most of the items especially shiny and slidify, and other tools, I have recommended this course of all my colleages. Now I'm writting my reports with RStudio. +In general, an excellent course, taught by competent professors. I believe that in the main this course does very well in achieving its objective of knowledge transfer. However, having experienced it, there were parts where the professor was demonstrating a topic using a video presentation showing him operate a process or screen sequence on his computer. These aspects, like virtually all the material on this course, are of a technical nature and contain many important details. As such, to help complete and re-enforce their learning, students require something like a sequence of slides that they can print out and retain for revision and future reference. In certain parts, the provision of the printable screenshots in the form of slides was absent.An important theme of the course and Data Science in general is "Reproducible Research". What I'm arguing for here is, "Reproducible Learning Materials" covering a complete course, not only parts of it. Admittedly, it was only a very small proportion of the course that suffers from this defect. But I would not like it to become the norm in the future. As a suggestion, it could be possible to author a lecture using HTML so as to combine the verbatum lecture text with every slide/screenshot image embedded in its right position within the lecture.I notice Coursera courses have also moved away from the weekly lists of individual lectures together with their links to .txt, .mp4, etc. files. The new presentation keeps you submerged within the flow within each week's series of lectures. One has to 'click out' in order to watch your progress and then re-enter the lectures at a resumption point. I prefer the previous navigation structure in order to access lectures and materials. Printed learning materials are also important for me, in addition to the video lectures. The latter are of course vital as the medium for the initial exposure of the material. +Taken this course in its old fashion style. Now reviewing the new design was a little bit displacing, but I ascribe this to the fact I've done all the specialization courses in the old design.However the structure of the course is quite good. Some typos were reported, as well as a bug on the unanswered questions in quiz 3. Main worst point was the missing format of several text boxes. I would have appreciated paragraphs, bold and italic, some links, picture, not only raw plain text.Overall review is nonetheless over the average. +This is my comment as a beta tester:1) The changes to the lessons have changed the course for the better.2) If you want to be factually right than the statement that Bootstrap is a style should be changed on a few places. Bootstrap itself is not a style, although it is used as a style guide for the development of products. Obviously this is not a big issue and people that delve into will find the facts easily.Bootstrap is an HTML, CSS, and JS front-end framework with a strong support for themes which people also call styles. Many themes/styles are available to build responsive, mobile-first web sites. Bootstrap was created by a designer and a developer at Twitter in mid-2010 and was released to the public in August 2011. It has become one of the most popular front-end frameworks and open source projects in the world. Bootstrap has a few easy ways to quickly get started, each one appealing to a different skill level and use case. +This course gives a good introduction on how to develop an application.It gives all the available tools in the field out for us to try and use them.The course is enjoyable and not stressful. I find the assignment as meant to get us to do the project and not really there to fail us. It is difficult to fail to course as only the minimum is required. +this is for your kind information that due to some technical problem i am suffering too much. kindly consider and give me certificates . Thanking you. NABAKISHORE PANDU +Great and totally interesting +Useful knowledge. Very recommended to be applied in daily activities or academic research. +very good and informative course +Excellent initiative by World Bank +Very interesting Course. +Everyone should take the course if they have a computer. We need to start admitting the science and focusing upon how to fix this over the next few decades. We need a plan. +To lock assignments for money is disgusting. +Algorithms in lectures were useless to programming assignment +I like this co +Very Interesting course! These assignments significantly improved my coding skills! +It's exhilarating! +Excellent material and excellent delivery. Thanks for the time and effort making these courses. +For a beginner like me its totally going over the head. I mean i get the logic but if you guys can please give more code...I am learning data structures for the first time and it is bit difficult for me to grasp it all and write codes in a week... +The only things for the learners is that the course is amazing , keep faith in yourself and see the change you will undergo through this course. +Another good course, though the last two weeks were a lot harder to follow than the prior ones. Not because the material was that much harder, but the lectures and homeworks were less clear (a lot of descriptions of how to do various operations without explaining why). +Great course, great lectures! +Awesome course!! +This course was really awesome and helped a lot to revise old concepts as well as learn many new things about the data structures +Great course! +This is a challenging and amazing course. I have learnt a lot. +Even though this course requires completion of tough assignments, I believe that this gave me a chance to understand and grasp core concepts about data structure and also about programming skills. +Great course - the homework problems were really helpful for cementing concepts. However, I did feel that the difficulty of the homework problems did not increase with the progress of the course. I think that it would have been very reasonable to increase the difficulty of the homework assignments as the course progressed. Otherwise, great overall course. +This course is very hard for non-STEM major student, even non CS-major student. Some concepts are very abstract to explain. The course team generally did a good job at explaining concept, but it would be better if they can offer more examples, animations, illustrations, sample code and explanations, etc. to help students understand these concepts. A rewarding course overall. Best if you are going to have a code interview. +A very good course that is suitable to young student +The quality of the course is very high. However I give a slightly lower rating than for the Class 1 from the specialization. The assignments seemed little unbalanced this time - some were very easy while other were very hard (I passed one after loading a special package to manipulate data or recursion limit). +I've learnt a lot. The content is very interesting but a bit challenging. I had hard times accomplishing all the assignment and put much more work than I expected. +Amazing course especially final task, I've learned a lot. +Very informative and, at times, challenging. +Learnt and still learning a lot! +Really liked this course - it is a comprehensive overview of basic data structures. Programming assignments are mostly to implement some data structure and use it to solve problem, but there are some challenging advanced tasks, which it was very interesting to do. +Nice and Tough. +This was no easy course, but definitely worth the time and effort! +This is a great course. The lectures were easy to follow, CLRS references are also good to clarify anything that is not covered in the videos. Programming assignments are challenging enough and spot-on to practice the concepts. +Very good course. I would not say its for beginner. But would definitely helps you in the future progress of your career. +First weeks are awesome, it is a great course if you want understand very well some structures like heaps or union/find. I just think the last week is too fast and concise, I would like some additional work about trees and for many users could be a problem, otherwise will be a 5 stars without any doubt, though for me this course worked very well. +Congratulations for this second course of the "Data Structures and Algorithms Specialization". This was again well-designed, informative, and most importantly an extremely educative course. Yes, it is demanding and some times requires significant effort and time for someone to pass the programming assignments. But there is "no free lunch"! Making easy to pass the tests or providing all the test cases may help more people to earn this certification, but the added value of a course that can really learn you how to design better algorithms will be missing. On the downside, I would ask from the instructors to further elaborate on some week lectures (modules), especially if the topic is going to be discussed in the corresponding programming assignments. The problem with the splay trees is probably characteristic. Overall, well done! Many thanks for the quality of the course you provide! Keep up the good work! +This course is pretty good. The most good part is that it includes academic learning and hands-on practice. +Some of the assignments seemed overly complicated and irrelevant to the topics discussed. On a few occasions the videos would mention something but never discuss the reasoning. Once I posted to the forum and no one answered so I never asked about the other questions I found during the videos. +Very helpful! The course is well designed with appropriate difficulty and the questions are good for practice and understanding the contents. +Tree exercise had absolutely no relevant video material. Videos give zero context for why data structures are important or when they are used....Should take a lesson from the Stanford course. +Awesome and very helpful course!!! +Great Courses. I have a much more clearer understanding now about the basic data structure and how to use them. The assignments are the most important part. +Excellent course well explained with both theory and practical examples! +First 3 weeks were great (as in first course of specialization), but material in last two weeks was very hard to understand. Feels some mess in explanations compared to other part of the course. Maybe its because of difficulty of the last weeks topics. +The final module with the Splay tree is way too difficult when compared to the rest of the material in the course. This course would be better structured with three assignments as follows: 1) tree order problem, 2) a simpler tree assignment that only deals with a basic binary search tree, 3) the set range sum problem implementing the splay tree, as an advanced problem. Aside from the difficulty of the last module, this is a great course. It's very comprehensive and you'll take away lots of useful information on course completion. +Feels a bit rushed, but overall it's great and challenging. +I found the assignments challenging in the absolute best sense of the term, and therefore incredibly rewarding as well! Whenever I've gotten stuck, the answer was always in the course material somewhere, even if I didn't see it there at first. The discussion forums were extremely helpful, and I was astounded to see that that instructors were still actively monitoring the discussion forums and responding to student questions. I'm obviously not an expert in this field, but I've been an educator before, and my own impression of the assignments was that they were extremely well designed: it was impossible to pass them without knowing what you were doing, the tools to approach them were always found in the lectures, and the challenge problems pushed your knowledge even farther. I would recommend the specialization to everyone. Additionally, I noticed that the content aligns well with other DS&A syllabi I have seen in brick-and-mortar institutions, especially the first 3 or 4 courses. It's also a very nice luxury to be able to submit in Python. I have certainly learned a great deal. +A really great course, you should definitely take this second after Algorithmic Toolbox, as that has an easier learning curve for the very 'CS professor' style code (lots of single letter variables and other quirks) and how projects should be submitted and tested.That said, there is a lot of good learning in this course. Make sure you have some good Algorithms textbooks to accompany the lectures, they have recommendations in the course. I personally use Sedgewick's book and CLRS which aren't exactly what they suggest, but work well. Take your time with the learning, make sure you really understand the concepts before moving on to the homework. Use multiple sources to learn (they provide plenty of links!) and you'll do well.In response to a very politely asked request for clarity: I rated this 4/5 rather than 5/5 stars as I found that for my preferred language (Python) some of the starter files were very poorly created. This meant I often have to rewrite the initial parsing of the inputs because it would create variables that contained incorrect or incomplete input data. Further, there were some non-harmful quirks like semi-colons or parameters shadowing Python reserved words in the code. The next course in this series, Algorithms on Graphs, did not seem to have any of these issues, though! +Lots to learn and it's fun to learn from different teachers. Very heavy (and high quality) course if one wants to do proper justice to all the materials presented (especially hashing and trees... Week 3 onwards). A worthy investment . Enjoyed it immensely. +Overall the course is good. The last two weeks on AVL andSplay trees need more examples and felt a bit rushed. +I liked this course alot.If you are a student and come from the previous course, you may only read the cons, since this course has the same spirit as the previous.Pros:1. The lectures contain quite a good material which is somehow difficult and they made me to pay attention. The lectures are based on dasgupta's book and MIT course book.2. There are links to additional materials, I found the dijkstra's book and MIT course book, so I was able to gain extra information for topics which interested me.Also slides are very useful3. The forum! This course has a life forum where you can find help or share your ideas.4. The teaching stuff! They are answering student questions and taking part in discussionsCons:Having compared this course with the previous one from the set, this course suffers from luck of interesting problems. The previous course has more than ~25 problems and for each module it has advanced problems,even more they added extra problems during the course running.This course has ~12 problems and only one advanced for the whole course!. Only this advanced problem made me take a piece of paper and a pen and draw trees, and play with toy examples. Only for this problem I wrote a stress test. That is the most fun for me of studying!If this course didn't have this advanced problem, I would barely give it 3 stars.P.S.Theaching stuff, please conider to add extra problems, the first course is awesome and it is way too good. This course is good, but it think you may develop it not only the first one. Otherwise students may get dissapointed if they come from the previous course.I hoped that you would have added extra problems, so I slowed down, my expectation didnt come true :( +Nice course, It was bit difficult for me. I think I will have to go over the few lectures again soon. Problems were very cool, these took lots of hour head down. Thanks all lecturers, specially Daniel M Kane and Alexander S. Kulikov. Loved your lectures. +The course material was good and the understanding of the subject was satisfactory . :)Thank You and keep us updated . +Some homework have challenges. But the discussion board and professor helps a lot! +Helped summarize the basics for a newbie like me. Glad I took it :) Recommended.Although, I do recommend some more material on the last two weeks - I loved the concepts that were taught, but I feel there could have been more lectures on BST applications, given how powerful they are!Thanks! +Interesting topics like DHT and ropes are included! +Excellent course in general, and I learned a lot of new data structures that one doesn't generally learn about in standard algorithms and data structures courses, like disjoint sets and splay trees.Only complaint is that sometimes the problems are too complicated for how easy they are. By this I mean that the problem statement is very long and elaborate, when what they are really asking is something trivial that can be programmed in a few lines, but it takes a while to understand just what they are asking. +The last two weeks felt rushed. The Binary Search Tree/AVL Tree module doesn't have a quiz or an assignment and it's easy to move on without fully understanding both data structures. This allows for wasting time on the last assignment which relies on understanding AVL trees. I recommend reading the external resources for each lesson and making sure you have a grasp of the data structure before moving to the next module. +Great course! As soon as you'll understand how the splay tree works and use a hint from the assignment, the rope problem (the best so far) will no longer be a problem. The course could have been improved though by giving a brief overview of B-trees and Red-Black trees. Anyways, thanks to all the instructors for their hard work and good luck to the all the learners! +Liked this course very much. +Best course of Data structure. +Pros:Effort has been taken in putting up the assignments.Cons:Quality of teaching is very poor and too fast to follow through . Instructors have rushed to present course material . I would not recommend this course . Princeton and Stanford offer much higher quality and presentation on the same topics. +Personally, this course is interesting and essential for the learner to proceed to other more advanced courses, either within this specialisation or not. There is only one suggestion that it will be better if the instructors can provide more details of the pseudo codes. +The optional videos are not allotted enough time. Those concepts are difficult to grasp. +The lectures are vert explicit. +This course is well paced and covers all the data structures needed to code efficiently. This course also provides good real life problems in the form of assignments. +A very good course if you want to learn how we organize data in such a way that we can perform specific operations with low computing cost. This course is language agnostic so it becomes more about learning the fundamental structures and less about troubleshooting the language you use. Very good course! +best course for algorithm +The last two weeks' content may need to be revised to provide a better learning experience. To me, it seems a little bit too fast. +Very useful basic data structures, interesting assignments closely related to the course. +All in all a great and challenging course. A big thank you to all the teachers! I especially liked the assignments as completing them forced me to think about all the little details and edge cases.A few observations/constructive criticisms:- While the first 3 weeks had almost everything explained rigorously, including complete, usable pseudo codes, the last 2 weeks had lots of holes in terms of details. I think it is down to the fact that it covered a lot, however, pseudo codes suddenly became very high level, to the point where a 5 liner translated to ~100 lines of real code. This in terms meant that learners had to do quite a bit of additional research about the nitty-gritty. Nevertheless I thoroughly enjoyed this extra research, just be mindful about the extra time required.- There are languages with first class support, namely C++, Java and Python3, which means there are starter files supplied. If you choose a different, supported language then be prepared that you have to implement everything from scratch, which again mean extra time, although I would argue that you will learn more, especially in the last 2 weeks.- Forums seemed to be more active in the past, especially with regards to teacher contribution. Be prepared to be self-reliant and able to come up with answers to your own questions. +great course but I think the last two modules are a little difficult to understand, especially for beginner like me +Good course! +the last lecture was too fast. Would be good to divide this into two parts. Rest all is great stuff. +Data Structures was really interesting, over all, also assignments are quite challenging. It's important to check the external references & discussion forums if you want to get the best of it. +This course helped me clear a lot of doubts as well as it introduced me to many useful things with their implementation. I must say this course is one of the best courses available on Coursera. Thanks to great instructors who helped me a lot. +Great content followed up with good programming exercises. Please keep up the good work! +I'm honestly quite pissed. The material itself is fine but I have had a terrible experience working with the instructors. I don't think I will continue taking these courses.I don't appreciate the amount of time and effort given into the programming assignments only to receive practically zero help. First of all, I don't know WHY I'm failing the test cases, I just am. Your program runs through maybe 100 tests to ensure correctness but somehow the instructors decide you should only see the first 3. But then, I try posting on the forums to receive help only to have it removed. Quite frankly, I have spent well over 10 hours at this point on a single problem and I've created my own tests and I have looked at all the very vague hints given in the forums and I still have no clue what to do. I have school, a job, and yet I'm losing all this productivity because I'm running all these damn tests hoping on the off-chance that I catch whatever weird bug it is that's failing my code. All I want is real, concrete feedback. +Great course with great content. Really enjoy the addition of support material and test cases for the difficult problems. +Pretty Nice +Course content is ok, but some lectors are really boring in explaining mathematical details.Tasks are pretty easy, and this is from algorithmic perspective, because from programming there are almost nothing to do.And overall it feels that there are not so much info as for 5 weeks course. If it would cost lest, than it would be ok. But for 80$ I've expected more. +Great course, I learn a lot! +[Slightly updated according to Michael's questions]The course is fine, but comparing to the previous one - Algorithmic Toolbox - this one is weaker and with lesser quality.Pros: the course contains some interesting data structures and valuable observations. The starter files for assignments are in place. Related books are given after each video session. All the tasks have automatic grader. There is a couple of interesting tasks to do.Cons: the material is mostly lectures, and there is even a video where lecturer just reads the article from Wiki (Splay tree - has the same information with same lack of some proofs). Expected: add quizzes as it was in the first course. The course has less weeks - only 4 as comparing to 5 in AT. So various important data structures are not discussed. The course has less homework - 3 tasks each week as comparing to 5 in AT. And all 3 are usually just implementations of some basic algos seen in lectures.I consider the course valuable due to a number of good videos and a couple of good tasks to do. But in general, this course has the area for improvement. +Recently the instructors updated the course and implemented a solution to all my past complains.In my opinion the team is really taking the quality serious.However I just want to mention, that there are regular session for each course so that everybody can avoid having two overlapping courses in this specialization at the same time.I did not know that and worked on two courses at the same time, until the instructor informed me about the short interval between sessions of a given course. +I learnt so much in this course +This course is very helpful, especially for its assignment. You must pass the time and memory constraints which will help your thinking of how to improve algorithms. +I think it will help me a lot. +Awesome Experience completing this course +the teachers are good and the visualization of lectures are very nice. +Excellent!!Maybe more examples and more details in the math prove +Really awesome Course , Must take it as a software Engineer and if you have already learned these things , It will open your eyes and make you correct your mistakes.Simple explanations in videos and covering all intermediate data structures.Problems are also good companion to the course content and allowing us to implement in many languages . +Similar to the first course in this Specialization, a great course on algorithms and their applications. Frustrating at times, but I definitely recommend this course (and the others) if you are serious about implementing algorithms for whatever purpose. +It is a really professional and enrich course ,, materials are very helpful and assignments really help me to improve and check my understanding. +The depth and explanation of theoretical concepts are better than the first course. I like the in depth discussion over various introduced data structures, for instance there are comparisons between naive implementations vs smarter implementations. However overall the topic is very theoretical, maybe add a little more connection of each introduced data structure with respect to its application would make the topic less dry and more motivating. +Course is Excellent.The final week is a bit fast, understanding the splay was very difficult for me.Could have given more examples for splay trees. +I like this course very much! Rope is the cleverest task I have ever done! Of course, I hope in future I will work on even more difficult problems, but this is pretty good already for me as a student! +Worse than the first course. I expected something that is not academic-like explanation, which I can't find it here.Please bring back those explanations style similar to the first course. +Great course although last lesson about splay trees explanation is too fast and basic for me to understand. +very theoritical +Great assignments +The course has excellent homework to help you study, but the course itself sometimes doesn't cover more generally applied knowledge such as red-black BST. Also, the professors' teaching style may be confusing sometimes and require extra work to understand, especially when they didn't have a pen in hand and were just talking quickly to the air. I do hope the following series will eventually tackle these issues, and I'll be glad to give the whole series 5 stars. +I always wanted to improve the algorithms and data structures field. The books wasn't so efficient. Especially they weren't so practical. These courses are the first courses where I really got a lot of knowledge. Especially because of assignments. All lectors are very good in explanation of the material and tell many additional useful things. These courses are the really good base, after which you can open the books related to algorithms and read more details if you needed.I am definitely going to complete the whole specialization!The only thing which was not convenient for me is that both courses Algorithmic Toolbox and Data Structures are started at the same time. It was difficult to find out the time for both courses and spend enough time to solve all assignments instead of only enough for passing.Anyway, now I am started the second iteration of the course and I am going to solve all assignments which I skipped.Big thanks to Daniel, Alex, Pavel, Neil and Mike!Regards,Sergey +The structure of the class follows the regular academic model you'll find in college: lecture -> lecture -> lecture -> assignment... repeat. I don't think this model is suitable for online delivery. Without discussion and the ability to interrupt and ask questions, the lectures are at times a more frustrating than useful (especially with Coursera's user interface, which lacks quick rewind and is generally speaking rather poorly thought out).For many of the topics, better videos exist online (try safari or pluralsight). As for the problems, they were the main source of learning, but were also at times a bit frustrating (the splay trees starter code was rather sad to look at). I find that hacker rank is probably better at delivering value (if you can forego the warm fuzzy feeling you get from getting a verified certificate, you'll probably be better served by practicing on hacker rank than from doing the problems in this course). +Thanks so much +Good course, but the problem set is too small. They will be much better if they are more. +Great course, hard and challenging.Couple comments.Please use pen during lectures easier to follow and understand .Some assignments require more then 8 hours to complete so please add to description of the course(don't make assignment easier) +Good coverage of data structures. Also emphasizes stress testing to develop your solutions. Can be challenging, but well worth the struggle. +A great class. Professors explains really well. +Awesome extension of the previous course. +Good explanations and resources. +The fact that test cases are not available is extremely frustrating and time consuming. I absolutely disagree with the instructors about the reason why test cases are hidden.Michael LevinHi,Learning new complex things is time consuming, it is essential, and it is ok. Without this time spent you wouldn't have learned even half of what you've learned while trying to find your mistakes yourself. Also, the testing techniques presented here are indispensable in the real life, and many learners of the Algorithmic Toolbox course have already confirmed thisHello Mr. Levin,First please forgive me for communicating with you in this place. I am not sure if there is a direct way to answer you, but I believe you will have access to my response.I entirely agree with what you said that this needs time and I do not mind spending time learning new things. That is why I am here in the first place. But I think that hiding the test sets misplaces the balance where this time is being spend.Let me give you an example: week 3 – hash chains - assignment no. 2. I wrote the app, submitted this and it failed on test no. 5. Having generated tons of test cases I was nowhere closer as all looked good, but still failed your engine. As it turned out the problem was not with the algorithm implemented but with the presentation layer. ‘Check x’ command when x is not found in the hash table should return blank line and my program returned nothing. I could not find this in the specification hence lots of hours trying to figure out the solution.It was not a bug with the program, it was the problem how the data is presented. I do not mind spending time developing solutions to the assignments. I would love if there were more advanced (even optional) problems to solve but I want to spend this time on the algorithm and solving the task rather than trying to figure out how to display the data.Please, do not get me wrong, I absolutely adore the course, lectures are brilliant and my opinion should be regarded as a constructive criticism even if you do not agree with me. Thank you again for what you are doing.Regards,Marcin +Clear presentation of basic data structures with non-trivial applications. Material is presented very well for beginning coding or as a review. Online grading is better than many programming courses. Works well as a stand alone course. +the problem is very good,the teacher has a good teaching. +A really great course that deliver exactly its promises : a college-grade algorithmic course.If you are looking to know all about classical data structures (arrays, lists, trees, heaps, ...) used in every program, this is the course for you. And if you are not interested in those topics ... well, you should !Or course, this is a challenging course by it abstract nature. But with some work, the support of the instructors and of your peers, you will overcome the difficulties. After that with your newly gained knowledge, you will be able to choose the right data structure for your needs or implement it efficiently in the language of your choice.Worth mentioning the course is language-agnostic -- and the assignment may be submitted in C, C++, Java or Python. +I found the wording of the assignments really difficult to follow so I didn't really understand what was expected of me. I spend a lot of time (and therefore money!) on this course but in the end I made a conscious decision to stop. I was taking it for personal pleasure and it was not worth the stress each week of trying to work out what was being asked. I have taken a number of other courses in creative writing elsewhere, and other courses on Coursera - this is the first one I have actively chosen to stop because I just wasn't engaging with it - either for education or for enjoyment. +Wonderful course. +Brando does an amazing job describing plot, explaining the structure, and describing the differences between good plot and bad. I highly recommend this course! +This course took me one step closer to my goal to becoming a good writer. The material was presented clearly and efficiently. I liked the implementation of the peer review system and I found the ability to go at my own pace extremely gratifying. +I was hoping the lectures would be more dense. My previous coursera courses where on data science, machine learning, etc. I somewhat feel that the content on those courses is twice or thrice more. +Great class. Inspired me to keep at my writing. Thank you! +I learned a lot from this course. +Brando Skyhorse is a fabulous instructor. I really learned a lot about the structure of plot. I feel my writing skills have improved dramatically. +This course is worth every minute I spent taking it. Thanks to Brando and the rest of the team behind the lens. You've made a better writer out of me. I'd write your name in my acknowledgements! +I found the teaching videos very easy to follow and understand. The assignments were relative to the teaching and helped cement the knowledge in my brain. +This is a great course. Although I have an MFA in Writing already, I learned valuable skills from this course. +I am so happy with this course and can't wait to complete the sister courses! +A super introduction to writing that leads, step by step, to the confidence to write. +A great course, I profited more from this course than from the other Creative Writing courses. Totally recommended. +This course got better as it went on. The first week, the teacher went through the entire plot of Harry Potter which seemed like a waste of time. The point was made long before the telling of every plot point in Harry Potter was done. I thought, really, I signed up for four months of this? Then the lectures got better, learning the basis outlines and structures of plot is useful. Simple, but useful. +Brando Skyhorse is a fabulous instructor! +Thank you. This has enriched my life and given me such purpose and drive. Fantastically put together course, can wait to finish the next 4. +Thank you Mister B. Skyhorse for organizing this introduction to creative writing and for sharing your many years of work in the field of writing. It is quite an achievement to be proud of. The material of the course is very informative and a great guideline. Thank you for sharing. Best Wishes. +It is a really good introduction to writing, I love it. The format of the course is excellent for virtual studies, the time periods are good for completing the assignments combine with every day activities. +Auditing is pretty useless with how this class is updated. I can't get peer reviews so my assignments get zero feedback. Coursera didn't used to be like this.Asked about how to be more involved in class discussions and peer reviews a couple days ago and haven't received feedback. +I love this course. This is the first time I have ever attended a Creative Writing course in University level and the first course I took here in Coursera. The lecture delivery was outstanding, and the content is very essential, very helpful for people looking to find structure in writing. I have re-written a piece I wrote based on the knowledge I learned from this course, and indeed, my re-write is so much better than the original re-write I did. People who have been informally writing will benefit so much from this. +I really enjoyed this course. It had a lot of concrete advice, and motivated me to start writing again. The assignments made sense, and gave me a list of things to look for when editing the draft. +Thank you Brando for giving me the tools to write my own. +Useful and tangible knowledge delivered succinctly. Writing prompts a bit rigid and specific. +This course is amazing because it really helps a lot. I've greatly improved my writing and discovered a new world of important structures that are very useful and make the writing process easier. This Creative Writing course is very helpful and I'm looking forward to completing the specialization. Thanks ;) +Easy to follow and exercises were helpful to better understand the classes and to motivate towards more interesting writting. Thanks! +As a beginning and inspiring writer, this course is a fundamental stepping stone. +Very good introduction class and i really learned a thing or two: particularly about the ABDCE structure and the guidance around always starting a scene with an action. +I'd rate any course as 4+, at the end of which I can learn something tangible. This course introduced me to basic structure of story telling. The assignment was fun and the explanation was simple enough.The best part was that the author explained concepts using Harry Potter and not some arcane book that I might not have read. +Step by step instructions with excellent examples of the various elements used in writing and crafting a plot. +I liked that the bulk of time spent was practicing writing. I learned many things like the elements of a strong scene, how setting plays a role, and the 5-act structure of a story. +This course improved my writing skills in a tangible way - I will apply it both for my aspiration to become a writer as well as to express myself better at work. My main improvement is in structure and understanding more about editing process, getting rid of unnecessary part of the outcome. +great course... short but learnt much. Would like if it were for more weeks! +Excellent way to start diving into the awesome adventure that is creative writing. The structure of the course is laid out nicely for all learners - both beginners and more advance. Highly recommend it if you want to start learning more about writing. +The course itself has been really useful, although I'm not sure it has taught me much that is truly new. What It has done, though, is to fill in gaps, and to give me a big helping hand into understanding how to tackle what to write about. Beforehand, I suffered somewhat from blank canvas syndrome, but this course has given me ideas to get past that. The Coursera site and app could still do with some work, since collaboration with other students is not as easy as it could +Very helpful course for an aspiring writer. +Eceptional +I had tried my hands at writing before, but this course gave a better grounding in the skills of writing a story. I feel more confident now . The module presentations were interesting and I particularly liked the interviews accomplished authors. +An excellent course for beginning and advanced writers alike. I can't wait for the next section! +I learned a lot from this course and enjoyed taking it. The instructor was awesome and the feedback from fellow students was invaluable. Thank you very much +The exercises are good, and the material is clear. I really like that the students have to review each other's work. I found the feedback helpful, and I found reading other people's work helpful too. I really would like a teacher to grade me as well though. There were a couple of times that I wasn't certain that I fully understood what I was doing, so to have me grade someone else left me feeling unguided and unqualified to assign a grade. I believe I got feedback saying just that at least once. +The device of giving feedback has to simplistic, given the scope of the audience, but it's difficult to get any real value from it as far as future revisions. There should be a free write section that's required for someone to respond to the story organically as well as the specific, "Did the writer do this?" +The course is excellent! It definitely helps writers in taking the story from their minds to paper, using methods to keep the reader's attention. +I really enjoyed the taped lectures and thought the assignments paired nicely. I'd like if Coursera set up a interactive element to the online learning environment such as a live chat with the instructor once a week and perhaps a live forum area with a set meeting time for the students. I've taken other online classes that have had these and found them extremely useful. +Thumbs up! I haven't taken a writing class at university before, but I've written a lot over the last few years - I'm a bit of a self-taught amateur. I was looking for guidance in growing my storytelling abilities. I thought this class was fantastic for that, and I feel that I have some more tools in my belt moving forward. Not only that, this class made me excited about writing! I enjoyed the interviews that Brando did with other teachers. Brando as a teacher is fantastic, he is clear and concise, and you can tell he is passionate about writing. On top of that, he has a lovely kind demeanour, which made the videos a pleasure to watch. I would recommend this course to anyone who is looking for tools to advance their writing. I'm looking forward to the next class in this series on Character! +This course was excellent. Brando is an incredible teacher, passionate, engaging and knowledgable. I learned a tremendous amount about plotting it out from this class - in fact, one of the benefits I got is that some level of intimidation I had about building a plot was alleviated. The lectures, materials and exercises were all so useful and absolutely thought provoking. Thanks! +A very good course on Plot by Brandon Skyhorse. Would have loved to go in more details into scene construction and structure. That is why gave it 4 stars, else it was a clear cut 5 star +Very helpful if you are picking up writing again. Not to time consuming, the content is manageable and the instructor is very clear and concise! +it seems good and hopefully will be valuable in my context +Very good course. Since I've only done the audit I haven't practiced with the assignments (probably going to do so on my own time with a friend though). +I loved the course especially where Mr Skyhorse talked about rising action. The assignments are very engaging and this course has been a great learning. +I liked the way Mr. Skyhorse explains the secrets to construct a great plot. It was excellent in every sense of the word. However, my only complain of this course it's that you can't report those "funny" peers that write "reviews" like this one:" ' "It's so unfair that some of us, the real students, took our time to write detailed reviews about every peer assignment AND expected at least WORDS as reviews. You need to implement some kind of report system to ban those "funny" peers that only check your work to put the point and to get their course done. And to start that "system" I will tell you that:SHOKRY MOHAMED FATHALLAH EL SAYARThat guy, gave me reviews as I described before. Not only in this course, but in The Craft of Character. So PLEASE, someone needs to make justice and punish this guy. I can even send you captions of his "reviews." +Loved it! +The course material and videos are very good, however I would prefer that comments about your work be emailed directly to the student so that they are more likely to read them. I found it to easy to just move on and not really look for the comments on my work. +Very interesting and enjoyable. Perhaps a little shorter than I expected, although I only audited the course. +Good course. Got chance to read some interesting stories while reviewing peers. Discovered what I was doing wrong while writing stories. +Very challenging, engaging, fun and for new writers its covers the basics. I learned a lot. +it would have been great if the final assignment had been grade +I had a dream , but always bushed it back ' writing novels; i had a false assumption about fiction. this course help me to see myself writing . +I enjoyed this course. Brando's videos were great, I took lots of notes and used them to help complete the assignments. Over the years I've picked up books on the craft of writing but I find the motivation of deadlines to be a big help in actually creating a writing practice. The videos are short- the time commitment is really not bad. Reader feedback can be more or less involved, I did find a pretty good mix. It'd be nice if you could keep pace with the same group of students but people are entering at different times within a range so you can't keep up with individuals unless you want to spend a lot of time tracking them down. +Great course to take as the first step in the sequence of the "Creative Writing" certification. Exercises are fun, professor provides useful methodology, load is manageable for someone with a day job. +A helpful one +I enjoyed the course which was well presented and I feel I have learnt much from it. +This course filled in the blanks for me as a writer. I love the way it is delivered and presented by Brando.Thank you. +Thank you! I learned so much. +An excellent course which will lead you to the significant entrance into creative writing. I am a beginner writer and I think this course helped me a lot to understand the general philosophy and some methods in creative writing. I strongly recommend this course to every person who is interested in any kind of text writing. +This course is what I was looking for. I wanted to learn the main aspects of story and plot structure and now I know! :) +I loved this course and the assignments were really putting every section to work right away.I wish that at least one of my papers would have been reviewed by Brando... but maybe that will happen in the capstone. +I think Skyhorse was very good. His instructions are clear. A little too heavy on Harry Potter references.The theory on the 5 act helped frame the work. This class inspired me to take all 5 courses.I wish is passion for writing would come thru a little stronger. It would also be nice to have more instructor feedback vs peer reviews. +I learnt much but only rated 3 stars because students are unable to submit their assignments or receive peer group or mentor feedback unless a payment is made. The previous writing course I completed with Coursera did not have such restrictions - you only had to pay for the certificate if wanted. However, thank you for free access to the content +I couldn't take the instructor seriously. There were too many comparisons to Harry Potter and various three and five act formulas. I wanted something that would be practical and adaptable to the ideas that I'm working on. This just wasn't the right course for me. The assignments felt like they were pointless as well. +Awesome for the beginner of creative writing! +Just great information and technique learned in this class. +Great overview and excellent teacher. Enjoyed the points discussed +This is a good course and a good series. It has been very helpful for me in terms of learning to be a writer and in terms of asking myself what kind of a writer I want to be. +Very informative course. I enjoyed doing the assignments and reading my peers write ups +Too prescriptive and prone to lists. "Do these 21 things when editing a novel". If that's what I was looking for, I could search the web for blogs. Maybe this was too beginner focused for me, but I'm not sure I learned anything really useful here. +Love the clear direct explanations. Would have enjoyed more examples, more robust practice examples and a longer class overall, to l earn more plotting, but love the prof. Brandon knows how to teach!! +I audited this course after completing two books - a novel and a memoir - that were going nowhere and fast.In both cases I knew I had a great story to tell, but I was telling it poorly. After taking Brando's course, I believe the biggest weakness in each story was my failure to appreciate not only plot generally, but the finer points he discusses here: show, don't tell; the five-act story; the 21 points of editing, and so forth. I've read Stephen King's "On Writing," but too often have dismissed the valuable information therein. Brando's course, both his own teaching and the valuable interviews, I know will make me a better storyteller and, will help me write compelling, plot-driven stories. Whether or not this leads to me getting published - well, hopefully someday I can thank Brando in an "Acknowledgements" page :) +This course is great for everyone interested in working on their writing skills, whether you're a beginner or more experienced. As a novice writer I learned about several useful tools that will help me improve my writing, got a lot more practice, and having a schedule helped me improve my daily routine for writing. For me the most valuable part was getting feedback and learning through analysing other people’s work. Oh, and just because the description says 1-2 hours of work per week doesn't mean you can't do a lot more! +An excellent class. It helped me sharpen up my writing. I would say this is better than any book I ever read on writing. A huge part of it was in the reading and reviewing of other student's work. I felt I learned even more in doing that. +I understand the importance of reviewing other classmates work however with the time constraints of today's world, I believe it takes away from precious time that could be spent developing the craft of writing . +Great instruction on devising a plot. +A good course that I would recommend to everyone that want to follow a career in creative writing or to improve their passion.It helped me to acknowledge things that you have to take in account when writing a book.I could not imagine some of this things when I was thinking about an action,and,how to put it on paper and sound good for the reader.The assignments are very good and you can also complete them in audit only mode , but only for yourself , no one will revive you.It`s not that easy to write something when you don`t know much things about the structures , how to build a character and so on , but , here you have everything you need and it`s free.I finished the course in audit only mode but if you have the possibility to buy it , don`t hesitate. +I really enjoyed how the instructor broke down plot, the examples and assignments. I would definitely recommend it. +Very good learning material even for non-english native person. +Thank you for the valuable information and providing the listener with plenty of examples, making it easier to follow and understand. I really enjoyed listening to the interviews and the explanations given in this course. +I have learned a lot from this course. I appreciate the good instruction from Professor Skyhorse as well as the encouragement, constructive advice and critique from my lovely classmates . +Simple, great start, could have been a little more profound though. Great start, no doubt. +Great way to bump up writing skills, especially with plot development. Really enjoyed! +Great course +Great class! Simple and direct. Brando Skyhorse has a great demeanor and very open and warm. Very encouraging. The assignments were clear and manageable and yet challenging. Stimulating to push past my comfort zone. Definitely recommend it! Thanks so much, Brando! +I loved doing the course, and especially while doing each assignment of writing a story. The short guiding videos were to the point and interviews with personalities was engaging, Thanks for the course!! +Very basic course with an extremely limited view on what makes a good plot. +I really enjoyed this course. I learned so much and i feel like it's helped me grow as a writer. +This "Craft of Plot" class--taught by Mr. Skyhorse--covers the ABDCE method, the 21 point checklist, etc. Stories written in this class must have dialogue, at least ten points of rising action, and must begin with an action sequence. No, this is not an "organic" story writing method. This class teaches students how to use formulaic writing to artificially engineer stories efficiently and effectively. I was very disappointed with this class. I enjoy reading literary fiction, especially stories in The New Yorker. So it is no surprise that I was appalled by Mr. Skyhorse's strong focus on, and praise of, the Harry Potter book series. If you plan on writing formulaic genre fiction, then perhaps this class is for you. Even though I disliked the class, I must admit it was well taught, hence the 4/5 star review. +The course materials are really useful as they are not just oversimplified guidelines, but practical skills that I can really utilize in my writing. The constraints in every writing assignment gave me new inspirations as I must come up with something that fits into the constraints. I especially like the interviews with other writers, which are included as part of the course materials. They serve to give me another perspective on the same matter discussed by the teacher and hence to stimulate my own thoughts on it. +It makes you write a lot and that's the most important thing. However, there are some small inconsistencies in the materials, so additional reading might be recommended. +This course was really useful and Mr. Skyhorse's way of explaining in the videos was so good +Perfect basic information for me. Thanks a lot +I'm really quite liking it! It's fun and I get to be creative! Yep! Good stuff! +The course work is easy to follow, full of great information and very clear. The only thing I find inconsistent is the reviewing of others work. It seems no-one ever gets reviewed by the same person twice, which means the standard of reviews is varied and inconsistent. Also, many people may not be/feel qualified enough to review or feel bad about failing someone so wont. There can be a great deal learned by having mentors or qualified teachers review the work. Given that, I have learned a great deal in this course and understand, and think it's one of the best online courses I've seen. I also understand you get out what you put in. Thanks for the opportunity. +Short and to the point. +I enjoyed this course. Brando did a good job in breaking down the important aspects of plot and providing examples. I liked that lessons were concise. Each one contained roughly three videos, most less than 10 minutes. I thought this was very beginner friendly. I found Feyman's pyramid and Alice Adam's ABDCE of plot structure particularly useful and I especially enjoyed the Shop Talk videos where fellow writers discussed their approach to writing. I only audited this course, but it bugged me that my board kept displaying overdue assignments when that feature was locked. +I found this course useful in focusing my short stories. I found the lectures useful, interesting, and directly applicable to the assignments. +Its just been the first week.... and I love it!!!!!!!!! +I learned so much about plotting from this course and it changed everything for me. +The course is nice and informative. Unfortunately one can not do any of the pear rated assignments or pear reviews. +Didn't pay to unlock the assignments but still enjoyed it. Lecturer explains points clearly and gives examples from familiar literature. Even if you aren't an aspiring (or struggling) writer, you'll still learn a lot about the structure of good storytelling. Ever wondered why movies and novels seem to follow the same pattern, yet it always works? You'll find out here. Great course. My only regret is that assignment reviews are locked until you pay for them. It would've been nice if only the capstone project required payment. +I absolutely loved this class. I found this course fun, interesting and informative. I feel that I have a better understanding on how to create interesting characters and how to make scene's that captivate and hold a reader's attention. I would highly recommend this class to anyone who has an interest in writing. +Nice, informative, but basic and short. +Clean, succinct, and clear explanation of the fundamentals of successful plot structure and movement. I appreciated the warm, encouraging manner of the instructor, and found the assignments well designed and helpful. +Brando Skyhorse is a well spoken instructor. Well done. +really good organized! +I thought the course was very informative. It had a lot of good and essential information for writing and the teacher was clear and easy to understand. +The peer reviewed assignments are next to useless, as there is no oversight on them. I think there needs to be a basic comprehension assessment done first, before allowing fellow learners the ability to pass/fail students in the course. +Very instructive once you get used to using the subscribed structures. Great mentor support and a nice bunch of people to bounce ideas off. +The course helped me a lot in understanding what a plot is. This is my first time to join a creative writing class and I did not regret signing up. Thank you everyone for a very great course. +I learned a lot about doing it the better way, than I did. What would have been cool: The essential graphics from the videos and some school material to print out and work with it.THX! +Putting aside the use of the Coursera apps on Ipad and Iphone (which are beyond awful and made the experience of taking this course utterly frustrating), this course was outstanding. The student will be given sold information on how to organize, structure, and edit a story. All of the material was approachable and extremely useful. +Course is a little formulaic, had trouble making my submissions follow the structure outlined but still, I learnt some useful tips and actually got to just write something orderly.Liked some of the visiting speakers (the third speaker who talked about character - mature lady, dark hair) was quite good. So was the first gentleman.Overall, the course is ok but given the strict methodology and requirements for writing, I don't know if I'll make it through the specialisation.Thank you for reading! +Excellent course. I learned tools that I can apply to my writing. Thank you +I loved this course. It really gets into the meat writing. I look forward to the other Creative Writing Courses and recommend it to anyone interested in writing. +I really liked the balance between explanation, instruction and hands-on-exercise. Brando Skyhorse explains things well and he seems to be the knowledgeable, skillful professional and teacher that you can trust to help you move forward. +I didn't take this class for credit, I took this class as a refresher. The professor gave a lot of good information and I really enjoyed the class. I enjoyed the class so much, I would take it again. Please recommend a book for the next class. Good class! +Brando Skyhorse is an excellent teacher, and the course becomes more and more challenging as you go. +Excellent skill-building, even for the novice writer! +Wonderful. Just wish it could have been longer. The shop talking sections with featuring Brando speaking with other writers were incredibly insightful. +Fantastic class! The teachers is organized, charismatic, a respected author of such interesting subject matter. He brings relevant outside writers to interview about their viewpoints. The assignments are clear and really opened my mind to other ways of thinking. This series of classes is more than worth time and cost. +Great course, doesn't take much time and you can learn a lot about writing. +Great course and foundational skills! Enjoyed the lectures! +A humble writer and teacher, thanks for sharing everything about writing! +Before taking this course I had no idea that there can actually be a format to follow to create a good story! I've learned a lot and Brando Skyhorse +I am very much enjoying how my professor breaks everything down to the simplest form. I find myself applying what I have learned to my everyday writing as well as things I read and watch. He is upbeat and energetic and the assignments are fun! Although he asks for 200 words and I find that difficult because I am accustomed to writing a small novel for each answer, as you can clearly tell from my review of this course.I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to begin writing or to writers who want a fundamental understanding of what they are already doing. +I audited this course so I was locked out of submitting assignments; however, I would recommend this course to any creative writing beginner (like myself). The course was well organized and concise and the concepts were clear. It was easy to apply the concept to the assignments and I was surprised at what I was able to write as a result of auditing this course. +This was a great way to get started writing again after a long time. The videos were engaging and full of good information. It's good to see and hear real authors talk about the work. +This course involved challenging assignments and very interesting lessons. I thought the course was well thought out and would recommend it to anyone. +very good and well organized course that helped me a lot to improve my writing skills. +Thank you very much! I was enjoying this course and I hope that I will be enjoying all specialization. +The course is easy to follow and informative. Challenging assignments and guest speakers add variety, clarity, and creativity to the way you think about telling a story. It touches on important points like structuring and editing. Plus, the instructor compares much of what he's teaching to how it's used in popular novels. +Thought this more than useful in relation to plot and how conversation should move the story along +I was not sure about this course at first, but I am so glad that I enrolled. Brando gives specific tips and ideas about how to write a story. He has made me realize that creative writing is not just about lofty ideas; writing can be improved and polished through approaching a story logically and methodically.One of the best designed courses I have ever taken on Coursera. Thank you Brando! +Creative Writing: The Craft of Plot is simply one of the best video courses I have found on the subject. Easy to follow, great examples, clearly explained, engaging presentations and assignments, tips from the experts; all those things made this one course I couldn't "put down". Brando Skyhorse comes across as a phenomenal teacher who really knows his subject and truly cares about it, that alone makes the course worth watching. I will definitely be referring back to this again. Keep an eye on the dedication should my novel ever hit the shelves! +A very good course for any beginning writers +Prof. Skyhorse has a kind, engaging face and mannerisms. The course was well organized and free of technical issues- wish I could say the same thing about Coursera in general! +Very good lessons to learn +I love it and very easy to follow. Great for the beginner trying to fine tune their work and/or get started. They offer you the tools to author your first story! +The instructor has done a good job with the structure and assignments for this course. He explains the course and the assignments very well. I enjoyed the course. +Thanks to instructor Skyhorse for devising a course that is useful, yet not overwhelming to the student. +A good introductory course to the craft of plot. Covers the basics, though I would appreciate some more complex assignments. Perhaps offer some more advanced course in the future? Maybe an advanced fiction specialization? Either way, good introductory course. +I learnt invaluable things in this course. I never knew of the Freytag's pyramid or the 21 point act structure etc and little by little, after doing the exercises, I feel I have learnt to edit my manuscript well enough. That has been my achievement as a learner of this course. Thanks a lot for the course. :) +The content is interesting, but not rich enough for a course. I finished all the videos and assignments in only 2 days. +I found this course quite hard to take to; especially after starting the second one on Character. Saying that though, it is good to learn about different perspectives and approaches as education whatever form enables us to move forward on our learning path. +Interesting course with new outlook and perspective on writing. However, I did find it rather brief and not much interaction going on within the forums. People had to wait a long time for feedback and I also thought that those who had paid for the first of the 5 sections, should not be obliged to pay for the next four if they wanted at least to access the material,without being graded. That was a sour point to the overall positive structure of the course. +i recommend this course , an excellent introduction for an aspiring writer or anyone interested in litterature as it explains and decomposes thorougly the mechanics of plot , thru very alive ideos and sharing of experienced writers , i enjoyed the submissions which taught me disciplin and structure . This experience helped broaden my horizon , i learned a lot from the peer rewiew also , this first module convinced me to go on and complete the full course. Thank you +Excellent course, helped me so much and gave me good ideas and inspiration. +Full of helpful tips and suggestions. +-Made on 10/05/2016- Low quantity of information and resources. For the cost , is not even near to other moocs. Block the sending and sharing of activities, and unable the peer evaluation because of a required payment, really handicap the learning and the quality of the course. If I pay a Mooc, is becouse of a strong quality and substantial learning; this two lacking in this course. I can give you a list of other moocs around this and other subjects (film, writing, mat, entrepreneurship, photography...) for you to make relations and compare structures. Please revise this course, you have nice video edition and the teacher is good, and willing to teach, but the global course is missing several things. I encourage you to take my words. +Very well presented, clear and concise. I have always just flowed a story out. This course offers insights into why some of my stories work and others don't. I found I do many of these things subconsciously but am now able to apply a solid foundation to build upon to ensure more consistency with my writing. Thank you +Clear and concise. Instructional. The only thing that I hope is to get more examples from the course except explanations. +This course was a great learning experience. +This course is very interesting and easily to understand for beginner just like me. And through read the stories of other students, I learned more and find my disadvantages. +I learned quite a few new themes. This is a great class. +A good introductory course designed to be effective for people of a basic background and beginning skill level. As a course from Wesleyan I was hoping for something a little more robust or actually at a college-level, so I was a little disappointed at how rudimentary this course was. Still, I did learn some new things about plot and would recommend for the new or beginning writer. +Congrats fo the Teacher. Best Creative Writing course I've taken. +Great course. Only accessed the course via 'audit'. Really enjoyable. +The problem is that the only feedback a student gets is from other students. I only received 1 feedback from the supposedly 3 each week for 4 weeks. I gave 3 stars because the videos are very good and good concepts but I paid far more money than they now charge. So I doubt I will finish the certificate because the final course relies only on student feedback which is non-existent. +Brando did a great job in presenting a structure for plot. I think his insights are valuable and he did tried to offer practical guidelines writers can use.What I didn't like was the reviewing of the assignments. Some times I didn't receive valuable feedback ( the same sentence copy/pasted in every section) and someone failed me for not understanding my intentions because he was not an English speaker.Away from that, I really liked Brando, his style, and his involvement. +This is an absolutely wonderful course. +Felt very much like an exercise in writing-by-numbers. Assignment instructions were too vague and the pass/fail grading system meant lots of classmates were upset that their work was not appreciated or understood. So many people on the course do not have English as a first language that the marking is often erratic. Great that non-native speakers are trying to write in English, enriching the canon, but in those circumstances a pass/fail system seems misguided. +Great course, really helped me develop my skills in plot. +Good exercises. Good, interesting, helpful teacher. short lessons. concrete instructions +easy to understand and funny Assignment +Great course. I just audited it but even the audit content was very helpful. You'll have to pay for peer review, but I just wanted to learn about plot and this course delivered. :) +highly inspirational, clear, to the point. just sorry that assignments are only for fully registered course followers +fabulous course with lot of do's and don'ts... and an inspirational guide and techniques for a startup writer or a beginer. course with its full content , quality and knowledge . +I hope the instructions were cleary and not too vague that it was open to many interpretation. An example would have helped and the rubrics/criteria for grading should have been shown beforehand so students would be guided what points they would consider when making their piece. +Great course, Brando is a great professor. The task are very clear +So overly simple with a lack of details in the steps. +Overall, I sincerely think this course was useful to me. I did learn, and that is great. I got some good advice from the reviewers. And I appreciated most of the videos, especially the shop talks.But I wish the instructor or his staff were more present in the discussion area, and I would have preferred a better written material. The transcripts are not formatted. They are completely raw and difficult to use.Furthermore, I don't think it is normal that people duly registered to the class have difficulties to get their 3 reviews. Too many people have to ask for it in the forums.In conclusion, a good course with good video material, but a lack of presence and organization. +Pretty good class; good information. The classmates are engaged and have good feedback to give.I'm frustrated at the lack of instructor (or even staff presence) until at least week 3, when finally a staff member answered *one* of the many student questions that have been piling up.Students are a great resource for critiquing work, but we can't help each other with technical questions, or with assignment clarifications. So there *definitely* needs to be staff on hand for that. +Good class, good lectures. The plot devices taught are very specific, but helpful for beginning writers for whom conflict, and movement are not easy. I'm a beginning writer and I struggle with finishing a story because at some point I just think, well now what? what's supposed to happen?The class helps you push the characters into conflict, and make choices, which is the heart of a good story.My only complaint - the assignments were so structured that they were tedious. the peer reviews in this class were also painful. Reading other people's work, I felt like perhaps we needed less structure and more space to practice simpler techniques.But overall, i'm using what I've learned in my writing, and its definitely helped! +I love writing, and even if English is not my mother tongue this course is enjoyable and useful! +This course actually got me writing! +Lots of great information. Most helpful for me was the story structure. My whole life I've been taught the same structure, either the 3-Act Hollywood Standard as told by Blake Snyder and Vikki King, or Chris Vogler's The Mythic Structure. It was nice to have a new approach. My only disappointment is that many genres, although follow a similar story structure, each genre has genre-specific elements. I was hoping that I'd learn the particularities of horror, mystery, comedy, and others. There doesn't seem to be much genre-specific information available online, except fantasy and erotica. +This is priceless. +Very interesting course and good advices! =) +The course is really intereresting and I am learning a lot of new skills. +It's a good course. The explanations of plot and scene have made me understand for the first time what writing fiction is all about, and for the first time I was bale to write fiction that is better than anything I had ever written before. +Good material. Brando Skyhorse is a very talented lecturer. The exercises look simple but are actually very difficult, so set aside more time than you expect to complete them within the parameters. +Thank you for giving me some concrete guidelines. I enjoyed following along without doing the assignments. Grateful to be able to be a part of the learning. +The course modules are helpful and easy to follow. I wish to give it 5 stars but because we, students, failed to experience the professor's feedback even in some of our thread, I think 4 stars are enough. +Exceptional clarity and with real life tools and inspirational, lively, all too short, presentation. +Excellent, great info. Loved it. +I expected to hear the usual "show don't tell" mantra that I have heard in other fiction writing courses. Instead I learned the one thing that makes that statement make sense to me. I learned what they mean when someone says "show don't tell" and then I learned how to do it. Thank you Brando Skyhorse. +Really enjoyed it. The teacher makes learning fun and interesting. Also the assignement are pretty challenging. +The course was pretty easy to learn, but the assignments were challenging, which is the best combination of theory and practice in my opinion. Although I didn't have enough time to dive into discussions and get to know with the community, I'd recommend this course to anyone who's making his first steps in creative writing. It will teach you how to limit yourself in your writing, be consize and yet create stories that are both entertaining and thought provoking. +I did learn. However, some info could of been better explained. I felt like some videos didn't really further my knowledge. And the lack of communication on the discussions by the professor, was quite unbelievable. More participation by the professor would be appreciated. I do understand there's many people doing this, but if other can, why couldn't he? Maybe have an assistant?Otherwise, like I said, I did learn a lot and I do appreciate it. +Better than AdvertisedEasy to understand and well explained concepts +Very educative with the knowledge I have gained from this I feel I've come out with much more than just valuable notes. +The video lectures are very nicely done. They outline the basics of how a story line (Plot!) should be, how the characters should be developed and how scenes should be depicted.The tips given are practical and clearly defined - even for noobsThe course motivated me to write, to refine my thoughts while writing and since there was always pressure of peers reviewing my work - I always revised what I wrote. I discovered that revision helps immensely, and I found I could express the same things in better ways and using lesser wordsSome students did have difficulties in understanding assignments - something that can get better with time. Also, I felt some learners received the brunt of bad grading since the grading guidelines weren't clear. Shaving off 1 star due to that +I enjoyed this course; it provided a thorough overview of plot - well worth the time spent watching the videos and completing the assignments for myself. +Besides an engaging instructor (Brandon Skyhorse), the modules' content is accessible for nascent writers. Moreover, I enjoy the shop talk series with authors. These lectures cum interviews show a fulfilling, intimate view of writing lives. I feel more confident in my writing and have been a better, more critical reader of others' work, especially my own. I recommend this course to anyone who needs to brush up on their creative writing skills and for those who want to start from a clean slate. +Brando Skyhorse was my favorite Professor. It was extremely helpful and will be wonderful for the capstone project. +Practical, well-presented, inspiring! +I gave 5 stars to the craft of character - because it was great, but this is even better. yay +Very well lead, clear explanations and great content. I found this course both useful and delivering to my expectations. +I enjoyed taking this course. It was interesting and I found every module useful. +While this course was interesting, it seemed very light. There was only about 10 or so minutes of 'content' a week, plus some interviews (which were very interesting, but didn't feel as though they taught too much). The assignments were all good except for the third one about the physical object. It was a weird prompt and not in a good way.I would recommend this course, but I'd also love to see it expanded a bit. +just amazing and helpful. thank you from the <3 +Probably one of the best moocs i have ever taken :) +This course is great. Before, I used to write not knowing what I was doing. Now, I write thinking about writing and having clearer gols. +The content of the course is very useful and delivered in a structured and effective way. I enjoyed the writing assignments and feedback opportunities. My only complaint is that there are a great number of people auditing the course and we had to create our own google community to share and get feedback as the assignments and feedback sections of the course are locked for all of the non-paying students.Other than that is was very enjoyable and informative. +Short, pithy descriptions; to the point advice/ suggestions with leeway to alter the structure. Worth the time. +Great course for beginners and advanced writers as well, has helped me a lot improving my stories. +great lesson to +The videos are quite interesting, though I think they are overly committed to very specific techniques. I did not, however, find the assignments and peer review system very helpful. People had a tendency, particularly on the first assignment, to read in requirements that were not actually stated or written down and failed people accordingly. There also does not seem to be enough people to review all of the assignments, either--perhaps due to the paywall for assignments. The very nature of the peer review system also guarantees you see a real range on the individual criteria you are evaluated on and the depth of the review. This exacerbates the very harsh "0 or 1" point option for all assignments (i.e. either you get a 1 and pass or you get a 0 and fail).Bottom line: I think the course materials are useful and at the very least interesting for developing writers, but I'm not sure it's worth the $79 entry fee to gain access to the peer review, unless you really need or want the course certificate. +Sure told me what I needed to hear +Someone needs to review/proofread the final part and assignment. Many students were/are confused about the final assignment. Revise the video too. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course. I would highly recommend it to new writers, old authors, editors, and anyone interested in stories. It was a great recap and refreshed the basics. +I loved this course. It was very helpful and gave me a lot of insights in fiction writing. Thanks for bringing this course to us! +Very simple videos to understand complex ideas. Had a whole lot of fun watching them +Thank you so much for this amazing course! +The material isn't bad, and it does provide some interesting prompts to think and write about. But, the curriculum is not at all creative. It focuses on easily teachable and repeatable lessons that teach a certain, standard way of doing things. It tries to reduce creative writing down to a formula instead of acknowledging that many compelling and successful stories can have almost any imaginable form. If perhaps many types of structures had been emphasized or structures had been pointed out as optional, this would have been mitigated, but the time period is so short that there's no time. The result is a class that feels more like "Writing: How to Make a Formulaic, Sellable Book" than anything with "Creative" in the title. +This is a very good course, but I would have expected transcripts of the talks as well. I have done a few coursera courses and the supplementary materials here are minimal. Also, in the week 4, it is confusing to have the video transcript in the assigment section - very unclear whether that's a part of the assigment or not. +Really professional and fun! +It was very clear, nice, entertaining and it looks like the professor has lots of knowledge in the scope of writing. +Great start on the course. +I finished this course in a single day in roughly about 8 hours, including taking notes and doing writing assignments. The material is quite good, more geared towards the beginner to the concepts of Plot. But, in my favorite parts - the interviews with Amity Gaige and Amy Bloom, I discovered new sides and tones to Character and Setting. And, they now compel me towards doing the rest of the courses in this specialization.I really wish I could submit my assignments even without the certificate version of the course.Thank you Mr. Skyhorse and the Coursera team. :) +Extremely innovative exercises and guidelines. Really opens one s brain to think creatively. The intructions for assignments need a bit more clarification.A worthy ue of hard earned money.Thanks Coursera +All the videos contain necessary information. The assignments are clear and very well structured. It is really a great course! +The instructor really gives the nitty-gritty of how to write a plot that will intrigue readers. He explains what a plot is (and it may not be what you think! The assignment is much harder than it looks! Believe me, it took three days for me to get mine done, sign of a good assignment as I can typically write 250 words in a snap (this review for example!). If you want to write, this is a good beginning. +I'm learning a lot about creative writing. The examples are very clear, the course itself is very entertaining. You won't regret taking this course.Cheers! +ÓTIMO CURSO, IREI REALIZAR TODOS! +A lot of great insights on the way a team functions and generates ideas and projects. The format of this MOOC is quite original (discussion between a few speakers) and stimulating. I +Good introduction +Lectures are rigorous. Homework and Quiz problems are very helpful! +For prospective students who are looking to enter the biostatistics/epidemiology field in the future. This course is designed as an in depth fundamentals of biostatistics where Professor Brain Caffo dives deep into some of the key formulas, origins of statistical formulas, and theoretical aspects of statistics.Great lecture with valuable information, however, due to the lack of engagement within the lectures, it absolutely leave students who have no background of Calculus or Linear Algebra in the dust with no reference to assist them in the course. Once or if a student has a solid foundation for the topics covered in this course, this information is very insightful and understandable.you might ask yourself, someone who doesn't have a prior knowledge of the material covered in the course if you should even take part in the course, my answer would still be yes, so long as you are willing take notes, save the videos, and return back to them at a later point once you build yourself up by studying calculus, statistics, and/or linear algebra. +Undoubtedly the course instructor is very knowledgeable. However I did not take away as much from this course as I would like to. It is mostly theoretical; very limited examples. I also missed the bio in biostatistics. A title like "Mathematical Statistical theory boot camp" would be better suited. I believe having a set of cases that get reused in some form over all lectures would be very beneficial for -at lease mine- understanding the topics. The form of lecturing is not using the benefits that an online platform offers. So instead of short interactive videos, this has slides with lengthy essential spoken word with it; hardly summaries. +Nice course giving strong mathematical basis for statistics +I think the process of the class is a bit too fast and it is hard for beginners to catch up +A perfect introduction to mathematical statistics. +This course should be part of the Data Science specialization. Actually, you can supplement the Statistical Inference course with these two Boot camp courses really well!A great revision of statistics, very rigorous and thorough cover of all distributions and hypothesis tests. +He terribly prepared us for quizes and gave about 4 examples in the entire course. I filled a notebook with about 40 pages of notes, about 3 of which were useful for the quizes. Though content was good, but i found myself looking things up because of his somewhat neive explanations of difficult concept. +Great course +Advanced level academic style statistics course. I liked the mathematical style of the course, which also brings me to the only one critics I have. The course is lacking a bit intuitive explanations. Otherwise, totally recommendable. +did not find too much about the bio part +I need to have a class. I really think this course could hel me a lot. +Statistics was never this interesting! Thanks a ton Bryan! +The material and presentation are at the highest level, but the course is lacking real life examples, and contexts. +I enjoyed the course. I wish there was perhaps a little more evaluation along the way (maybe occasional in-lecture questions), but otherwise very nice. +Very concise, well-presented course. This was my second time taking it as a refresher. Prof. Caffo does a great job presenting the materials. However, prepare to be challenged. +Good course, needs updating, since it was a first generation course. Worth taking, but make sure to review a bit of Calculus, especially integration. +Thank you very much for your course. It is clear and to the point.But it was very difficult to perceive a video-lectures of 30 minutes. +I wish this Johns Hopkins course is more interactive. Like the Ohio State Calculus One class. +It´s a very complete course, you need to know a littel bit of calculus. +It's a really good, well-paced course. +great course +Topics presented well for comprehension, good lecture quality.These topics are covered in grad level statistics courses at certain universities. +Despite Finance is not among the subject that interest me the most, the topics of the course are very well explained and help build the knowledge about the concepts in a easey way. Above of that, everything is explained in relation to the construction industry, from real state development or highways construction. +Very good course. Applicable to the construction and real estate industry. +Very useful! Thank you! +Quizzes are not challenging enough +Super useful. I would recommend to go thru all four courses in the way they are structured so student more clue of what are teachers talking about. But construction financing is crucial part to understand how industry works and this course explains that very well.Thank you! +Very nice course, Just the Excel sheet of Professor Anthony Webster is a big question mark, where we can get this file so we can follow up with him during the class +Excellent course, this course has very good and qualified professors. Thanks professor Ibrahim Odeh for this great class about Construction Finance... +the course really help full for every engineer. +Very Deep in Project financing +It's only enter-level for people who don't know R. For those who already used R, it's not a good choice. +enjoyed the foundational info +The course gradually introduces you to new R concepts in a natural manner. I highly recommend the Swirl exercises. Nothing beats exercises that have you actually coding yourself instead of watching just videos. +Great start to the course. Nice introduction to Git +Very nicely explained! +Good for newcomers. +Very good introductory courses. +Get started and feel good. +Real basics. Not certificate worthy though.. +The best way to start our path in the Data Science world. +it is a good course to start the data science career. syllabus was well structured and training in methodical way. +Great course +The content is very useful for beginners. Moreover, the material is very good, nevertheless the links target in PDFs cannot be reached. +Very interesting +Covered all basic about data science. +The course is great but there are some serious glitches happening in the Coursera platform that desperately need attention. I just went from showing that I did not pass the peer review section and in the next second was greeted by a big green Course Completion Certificate. +A good place to start of your entry to Data Science. You get to know what data science is, what are the tools used and get an idea of what can be done and cannot be done. The course even walks you through installation of r, rstudio, and git. It introduces version control system using Github too. +There is a pretty big jump from the content to actually completing the assignment. The assignments are not well aligned with the swirl learning or the videos. There is no logical process taught about how to move forward if you get stuck. It often means a student is forced to search the internet and hope the answer they find is appropriate so they can write their own code. +Some detail of the Quiz and course project were not mentioned in those video courses, it made me have to google or find out the answer in other ways. But through this, I did learned more . +Very well explained and helpfull! +Well structured course. +This is what, I always dreamed about!!!! +Great introduction to the discipline of Data Science and the necessary tools required! +What I like (so far) is that you have to search for information via internet and by practising your knowledge in GIT and GIThub you can discover what you have learned or what should improve. +It helps me a lot!!! +Good introduction to data science stuff. +It's a good introductory course, but it's very basic and I feel that I paid a lot for a very basic experience. I do understand it is the first step in a full specialization but I think it can be more challenging. +This was a very helpful introduction into setting and getting started to use the programs neccessary. +Good introduction to data science using R +greet efforts to learn us about Data Scientist's Toolbox, thank you very muchjust one comment, it's about the instructor talking speed .. it was too fast and was not easy to keep focus. +Insightful and Handson +Basic introduction and programming for data analysis. +interedting course +Very useful introduction to the tools used to get us started. +Very, very, very basic intro. The entire 4 weeks could have (and should have) been condensed into 1 week. +It's really a great course to understand the basic concepts before beginning the actual course. +Very intuitive and exceptionally good training material which helped me to understand the data science key concepts. +Great beginner's course +Seems like a good prerequisite course for getting started on remaining specialization courses +nice and short course +Very basic introductory course. Looking forward to the other modules. +Elaborate introduction to the data science arsenal of tools. Thank you so much. +Gives an excellent overview to Data science course and what it take to become a Data scientist. Well organised videos and instructions +Progress is a bit too slow. +This course gave you a general introduction about Data Science. but you need study much more to learn about this área. +This is a very essential course for a person aiming for a career in Data Science. +Gave me a good introduction to basic Git and GitHub operations +Really good, with basis for the next steps in statistics. For me the most interesting thing is the Github software and it functions and possibilities. +More exercises should be given, not just theory +It was a good overview. I understand that it’s really just a quick intro into upcoming specialization courses. I wouldn’t take it alone. But I’m excited for the rest of the courses! +Excellent course that covers the basics in a very step by step manner. You need to take this course to get your basic data science R tools. +I enjoyed it :D it was great from basic as I did not know much about R.Jeff and team you guys are doing a great job +too easy +really easy and nice course to give you basic understanding! +Mostly preparatory material and setup activities for the rest of the series. It's OK, but not a revelation. +Good summary of the available tools for a budding data scientist! +Great introduction to Data Science and its tools +A good introduction to the world of Data Science! +Great course - highly recommend. +Perfect start for the Data Science course +Good introduction to the Data Science and the courses provided here in Coursera +Better help to understand the basics +great course +Excellent teaching +It was good as an introductory course. +Good introduction to the tools needed for the remainder of the specialization. +Pls teach little more in depth. Little more. +This is awesome learning experience. +Great way to get started on the Data Science course with the right tools. +Thank you coursera for the studies, it was all a great experience. +A very Good Course. Highly Recommended. Project/Quizzes are very well planned. +This is an ideal starting point for data science journey. +Too little information and too basic. +Good encouraging start for a new comer to Data Science but also Coursera. The course material was specific and all topics explained thoroughly. +Very Good for basic understanding of Data Science and the tools used by Data Scientists. +Its a great course and keep it up +Overall the course is very good and well paced, but I believe it could be a bit more clear in the git and github lessons on how to push from your local repository to your remote one +This course is a good start to give an overview on the toolbox you should be aware of to specialize in Data science or analysis. You don't need 4 weeks to complete to complete it! At best you could complete within a week or 2 days. Best of luck! +Excellent content. Simple language to understand. +Very introductory - can finish the class well before the 4 weeks are over. +Great course, you get to learn about the tools used in the Data Science specialisation. +Good course, that brings goos insights on the basics about data science.The lectures about Git and GitHub are not so clear - maybe this classes would better fit when the class already have a more advanced knowldge on the course's theme.Thank you for the quality of the lessons and to make it available. +A wonderful course to get you started on getting the basic tools and packages of R installed on your PC. Highly recommended for first time learners of R. +The git and GitHub section is not very clear.... +Excellent course for anyone with basic knowledge of coding and wanting a peek into Big Data and analytics. +Excellent training with nice quiz +i feel that the course need more explanation .. i got really lost in the begging of the HW +More code and figure would be good for understanding. +I had a great learning experience +Very basic course, I was able to complete the 4 weeks on content in a weekend. I would recommend skipping this module and moving directly to the R Programming course. +Probably a good course if you aren't terribly familiar with GIT or some form of version control. It also helps to get all the tools in place to be ready for the other courses. +Appropriate level of difficulty for those who are not used to Git Hub and R +Was good intro to the course +Good introduction. +Gets you well set up! Great start. I especially appreciated how easy setting up Git and Git-Hub was. Thanks! +Gives a basic idea on the further courses. It's a useful course. +Excellent overview of information. +Covers the basics well +Good overview... ready to get to the real work... +A very good introduction to Data science and the required tools +Excellent introduction... Cant wait to get going on the next course. +Very good practice about data science. +It is a really nice course if you plan to complete all the 10 courses in the Data Science Specialization track. As a standalone, It is not that great a course as it basically introduces you to different things and you need to do other courses to actually learn something. +A good course that quickly teaches you the basics of setting up R, Rstudio and Gitbash and Github. +good intro to R and GIT +Well equipped with contents to begin with data science course. +This is one of the most important course which describes the essential tools used by data scientists. +Helps install and set up the necessary software, but does require you to do bit of searching on the web to completely understand certain aspects of the course. +Very Good! +Great！ +This is a great introduction to what this Specialization is all about. I'm excited to start the next course! +Very good overview of the core principles of data science +It's very good.I got what I want from this course and i will continue to learn. +Good introduction +Excellent instruction, step by step coverage of topic in easy to understand terms. Support study material is very good and useful for quick reference. +Nice build-up to the courses that follow. +It was accessible, challenging and I came out of the course knowing the essential information. +I like the pace and content. +Good course. +Good starter setup. Looking forward to the technical portion of the Specialization. +Give a brief and concise introduction to many of the tools a data scientists should be familiar with. It serves as a good starting point for someone getting into the field. +Not a bad intro; I don't know if anyone would benefit taking this as a standalone (or for an entire 4 weeks, for that matter). Still, it introduced some solid concepts for professionals and scholars, alike. +good course +Audio level is too low and not balance, ever worser then udemy, please fix it asap. +It would be better if we can attempt the assignments even if we are not enrolled to the course. It would really help us to evaluate ourselves about the extent to which we have understood the concepts. +Great introductory course for the specialization. +Good introduction. +Excellent one to start with +An elegant course that will help you set up your computer and GitHub repo so you are ready for the next adventures in this data science track. +Great instructors. Hope you can guide me into reaching my goal as a data scientist +Very basic introduction... +Very intuitive. +The word 'toolbox' made me think there was more in the course. 'Introduction' or maybe' Overview ' may have been more accurate. Good course otherwise. +I was expose to new things and I enjoyed it. Looking forward the rest of the classes towards the certificate. +This is a good, general introduction. A motivated student can run through it very, very quickly. As the first of ten courses, I understand that it is a very general introduction. Still, I think it could be ramped up a bit. Week 2 of the next course - R programming - is kind of a kick in the head if you're not a programmer. I feel like some of the content from R programming could have be included in the toolbox course in order to take advantage of the relatively light load. +Good course, but maybe this course and the following course R programming could be combined into an 8 weeks course as that one is took longer than 4 weeks and this one took less. +Easy and lucid flow and syllabus. +Course is presented in very lucid manner and give you ample information to learn from scratch. Great course those who don't have any background in data science and willing to learn it. Pedagogy is highly appreciated and assignments are never like fun activities that John Hopkins are crafted for learners. +great introductory course but could have been more beginner-friendly +I found this intro course really useful as a warm up and to get into the "data scientist's mindset". The only (minor) point for development is to devote more time to Git and Github, as some of the steps were not particularly straightforward. Well done though! +With my background, this was a lot of repetition of information that I already knew, but I was happy to have the reminder and it would be an excellent introduction to the specialization for others who do not have as much of a data science/computer science background. Overall, I feel that the course was worth my time and I feel it is a great start to the Data Science Specialization. +A good start ... just enough to get me going, without overwhelming me ... +Great course. +It is really good to learn new things, thank you Coursera / JHU! +Learn quite a few new things. +Great course, but maybe there should be a better explanation of git. +Too little substance, though I do expect the rest of the series to be good as I take this as a setup course and my expectations for those are high. Having said that, perhaps it would be wise to charge less for this initial course or even offer it for free. +This is a perfect good course for an absolute beginner like me! Thank you! +Things got a bit hazy when it came to adding the .md file to our data science repo on GitHub. Other than that I enjoyed the course. +I have never learned programming and totally new to this field. However, this course really served its purpose of teaching me the data science tools. +Though the course itself is introductory in nature, i wish there was a lecture on what and how exactly are these going to be useful with the help of a real life example and also an increase in the depth of the content. +Pretty good +This is a good overview of the Data Science track. +I wish the instructors can be more clear with the Git and Github part. I still don't fully understand how to use Github for various tasks. +Nice introduction to many basic tools and concepts that are substantial to the work of a data scientist. Also, a good start for a person encountering MOOC for the first time. +Good intro to basic tools. Would like more exercises. +Course was excellent. Learnt a lot.Had a good experience. +Excellent starter course for this 9 course journey. +Very informative. A great start to the sequence. +This course is the first step to dive into the data science course. One finds a lot of videos about how to create and use the tools to carry out the specialization. Great job! +More like intro to Github and RStudio, but useful for the sequence so a gentle introduction to the sequence! +It was good - I think I would like a bit more on Github, but it gets covered in other courses. It shall have more material on the coverage of data science. +Nice course! I liked it. +A very big difficulty for me, French people who uses to speak english everyday for may work is that :1) Teachers don't do any effort to speak slower and to articulate2) As with all other courses I've attended in english, it's impossible to read a transcription, even in english, while reading slides.Slides are not sufficient by themselves, i.e. without commentary beside. The workaround I've used is to print french translation or english transcription and read it, trying to guess which part suited with which slide ...For a non-free course, it's not really professional ... +Good course! Lectures are easy to follow, have good instructions, +A good course to set up your software tool kit before you start your dive into Data Science Specialization +Too basic, not very informative. Waste of money. +Very helpful +Great starting course for the Data Science Certification! +While this course is introductory to a specialization, I believe there is more curriculum that should have been covered in this course. +I enjoyed learning new things and starting my journey to being a Data Scientist! +Excellent introduction to Data analytics and computer sciences ! Easy to follow and pedagogical. +Great introduction to data science, git, github, and R. +Course is very descriptive. One can easily learn. +Nice insight about data science +This is a very good introductory course for all those who are eager learn about Data Science. It gives you good insights. +Easy to follow overview. +A simple list of programs that needed to be installed would cover 90% of the course content. Some of this content is also repeated in other courses in the sequence. If you have any technical skills this entire course is extremely tedious. +This is really bad structured. As analogy - imagine a cookbook that says: in chapter 8 you'll learn how to cook pies, but here in introduction let me tell you how to add baking powder in them. It is not useless information it is just very out of place.Learning some git commands was the most usefull in the course for me. (Though again, why would you first show the commands and just after that explain what's the tool for and where to download it?)And by the way it takes half a day to cover all 4 weeks material (listened through all videos, installed the tools). Which is not bad, just of other users information) +Good for a beginners course, could be a little more challenging. +It was a good starter course. +its a detailed and the lectures are good at explaining the complex concepts in easy way to understand +A perfect first step in the ladder of being a Data scientist +The content is good.still some content should be added. +Very good course for a beginner with just the right pace!! +Great to start with. +Too basic! +Nice and clear course for beginners +This Course is a great start for the specialization. The course is designed in a very thought manner so as to help a novice understand concepts easily. Thanks! +It would be better if more details included in the lecture on Git and Github. +Good introduction. The rest of the speciality is harder. +Basic but fruitful for begginers! +This hands-on-wheel course provided me with all the basics understanding I was looking for in my road to become a data Scientist. +The lessons were very informative and well organized. I only wish the audio were louder for some of the videos from Jeff Leek. Other than that, excellent course. +The tutorials have the ideal information about the data science course +it is a great course +it could have been better if it was more hands-on learning, for instance I don't understand why did we learn CLI till now and how will I link it to my studies +very nice explanation. Professors' knowledge is quite high. im completely satisfied with +Amazing Experience of Online Learning. +Great experience so far, this is my first time in an online course. +Coursera has changed the way of learning,Yes anyone can learn anything and everything at the comfort of their own time and place......Thanks Team COURSERA....Keep Going.... +Great course +Very enjoyable and well presented. +A good and simple introduction to the Data Science field. +low voice +Simple introduction to the tools used in the specialization. +Very well received by this beginner. I appreciated the time taken to offer an introduction to the command line, which was focussed on the immediate commands needed to continue with this course. Many other data science courses either overlook any kind of command line tuition, or they point you to an overwhelmingly large other tutorial on the subject which would take you 3 weeks to complete. +Super friendly to new beginners with clear definitions and easy-following learning path. Although a bit of slow for me. I'd recommend anyone without programming background to launch their study in data science with this course. +Good course, but worth only for really basic learners. +Very basic overview of the tools and installation of them. Should be an optional course rather than part of the specialization. +Very useful, easy and clear understanding. Thanks for your lecture and many peers. +Very Good Data Science Toolbox +It's really a great introduction to know the very basic things of Data Science. This course will be useful in setting-up the required tools of R programming on your computer. For the beginners this is a must. +Very helpful and informative. +Very good course, simple to follow. +A little bit simple, but maybe it is enough for an introduction course. +course is good... need to include video on Rstudio setup on windows +This module is just enough material for 1 or 2 lectures with "How to get started" notes.. +I have just started the course but so far the videos and education background references are exceptional. I highly review this website and university for its great learning experience. +Great course to learn the nuts and bolts of Data Science. +Very useful course. +Too little material for 4 weeks. All this could've been written in a PDF instead of videos. +Very instructive and interessant course +One of the best course and well explained +Setting up Github is so important. Thank you! +Its a good course those who prefer to study online.It gives a basic knowledge about the data tools which are going to be used. +So far so good, Git was a bit difficult to get going but I'm excited to continue with the specialization. +Meets expectations. +A little hard to follow only because this first course has been big on theory and definitions. Therefore it requires a lot of imagination. I found some of the quizzes a bit assumptive. Luckily I have a computer science minor so I knew the "type" of thinking expected. I think novices and beginners would stumble since some of these quiz questions are not directly covered by the material and require some "out of the box" thinking.Despite this, I could not design it better! I'm just trying to provide valuable feedback to the designers.Otherwise I have enjoyed it so far and it's DEFINITELY valuable. I look forward to the units where we actually start doing the "science" part on the data. +comprehensive and informative +Great Course,developed the basic understanding required to get into the data science. Nice content and presentation. +The course is a real beginner's guide to the world of data science and gives a good introduction to some of the tools used by data scientists. +I really loved the course. My peers were amazing. They always help and when they review your project they make sure that you will understand what you did wrong, explaining why and how you might gei it right the next time. Mr. Peng you are amazing. Thank you! +This course didn't teach me much about Data Science or the different areas to pursue after this introductory course. I probably could have got as much out of it as following the tutorials on GitHub and the new desktop tool. Following the tutorial which was made for windows was also a bit annoying at times. Finally I had to wait weeks to have my assignment marked and there is still conflicting information on the course page - in 'grades' it shows I didn't pass the week 4 task. On other pages it shows I did and earned 41 out of 41 points. However I can't see a confirmation of course completion. +Excellent Course I have learnt a lot from it. +Great insight to different types of data analytics and basics. +Very good foundation material. +Very help towards the journey of learning Data Science. +Pretty basic stuff. +Great course, I'll surely recommend to my friend. Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge with us! +It was a little to easy and the quizzes were not really necessary. Questions like "What courses are in the Data-Science Specialization?" don't help to controll my learning progress. However for a first, introducing course it was okay. R Programming is way more interesting and challenging <3 +Good startup course +This course is well organised to start the journey of data scientist. +Very Good course +Very thoughtful and well-executed course. Although, one of the professor's voice is not very clear. +A good intro to the needed tools. Thanks +This is a great class in preparation for the forthcoming treatment of data science. +Pushing file to GitHub from GitBash could use clarification. +Easy to follow and very helpful +It was a very detailed course and the mentors absolutely exceptional. The extra exercises really helped achieve a better understanding of how to use the tools. Thank you! +Pretty helpful . But 4 weeks is an awful lot of time for the content being taught in this course +Good course with very good foundation information. +Excellent primer course....just the entree...harder stuff is coming +Very basic. I am hoping it helps guide my time commitment for further classes. +Adequately descriptive and easy to follow course material. Thank you Coursera! +I like the pace and contents in this course and found it is very helpful. +Great and very informative ! I strongly advice to anyone who wants to start learning how to manage a data and be involve in data science field. This is an absolute course to become familiar with the essential software and technique to get start! +The course is very structured and helpful to have basic knowledge related to Data Science. +Great +Couldn't hear the videos +Good Course +Excellent!! Waiting for the others 9 courses!!! +Great class. Nice introduction to Data Science. +Good introduction, the first step is always important +A good intro to the tools, but for anyone with prior programming experience unnecessary +Really nice intro to a specialization I'm looking forward to!! Cheers! +I have no idea why you called it course, since there was nothing inside. +Very informative and easy to follow. +good to get the basic setup of R and git in place +This is a nice course for begginers, I like the excersices avaibles in the forum and that the project allows me to practice too. Thank you! +The course is a nice set up for tools and environments that you need for other data science courses. +Great start. The textbooks are most valuable. The 101 on Github is a little bare bones and could use an update. +Course content is good. I was able to get the basic understanding of git and github and also understood how it works. +There is a slight lack of clarity in videos in terms of audio and also in terms of what exactly the author/lecturer is trying to convey. +Very nice introduction! Unlike a lot of online courses, this course is no fluff or jargon. It is solid stuff with hands on experience. I only wished this course was longer. After completing the 10-week Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng, this course felt a bit too short. :-) +Useful as an introduction +It is much needed course. Helps in setting the environment for smooth flow of the later courses. +Its good learning a lot and looking forward to learn more +Excellent thanks very much +Good introduction to this specialization +Very basic but needed for people not introduced to R! Thank you! +I learnt new things.. I am super Excited to move on to R Programming. +I like how the course is structured. I learned a lot. I was able to set up a github account and download R, R studio and all the tools I need to get started. +It was a good introduction. Looking forward to the rest of the course. +Basic understanding of Data Science. +Provided a firm foundation of what to expect and how it will be accomplished. +Very good introduction to Datascience and an overview on the tools used for analysis. +Great introduction to Data Science. I will like to receive more emails with reminders about dates so I will not forget. Anyway, thanks! +Good Course +This course did give me some useful tool information. +My first online course and it could not have been any better. Gives me the confidence that I can learn online and add to my knowledge new things. Course material was explained in simple terms which is not the case always. +5’ is not enough to express my desier to study data science. +Good intro. +Very Helpful. +Really enjoyed this introductory course. Good exposure for a beginner. +Great initial course. +I've learned lots of new things +Clear, structured and effective. Nice and useful slides as well. +Pretty simple, the Univ of Michigan Data Science with Python set the bar pretty high. +Some video explanations are not so clear, so will be great to highlight some concepts, theory and methods or technical (with some reading), also will be great exhibit the latest news about toolbox(that is the current topic) or data scientists +A good introduction to the basic toolset you need for the rest of the specialisation, and what each "tool" is for. +Very interesting +Pretty light weight so far, but I certainly understand it's targeted at a broad range of people so the vanilla material is probably a chore for some. +Very good in setting up for the next courses. I would like to see more on Git though because I could have definitely understood it a bit better +Good introduction to the specialization. It might be a little basic if you already have a lot of programming background, but it's nice to have the foundation in place before diving into the nuts and bolts of the software. Does a good job of gently introducing the user to Rstudio, git, and github. +nothing special, no significant knowledge gained. +Github exposition is a little complicated. I believe it could be more detailed. But the rest is very well done! +It's the basic introduction courses for data science and it's good, we can learn a lot from this. +SUPER NICE!THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THE INFORMATION!!! +Clears the basic GIT bash commands and helps to install the basic software required to analyze data properly +Great course +The course is very explanatory and collaborative to learn. I loved it. +Great course, brought me to Github, myself would never do it. +This was a great introductory course. I am looking forward to the other courses in this specialization. +Great intro to data the tools used for data science. Very easy to follow. +Great online course. I can't wait for the 2nd course. +Great approach to the course! +It was a great introduction to data scientist +The course is too short and I didn't learn much. +This is really interesting and necessary course to understand data science +I knew most of the material in this course already, but I thought it was a good introduction to some of the tools that data scientists use. +Very good! I like the way the course is given! +Yet to explore more about Data Science, though this course provided with right insight and what to expect further from this course. :) +Not really a course, should just be Week 1 in course 2 +Very basic and boring +Very friendly to the biginers +Really good introduction to the specialization. Quite basic, but good for someone with absolutely no background in the topic. +The narration and content are excellent. The clarity of the slides has given neat direction steps to installing the software. However, I was not able to co relate the Command Line Interface with the R console after installation. I was overwhelmed with the huge list of commands immediately after software installation. The Week 3 videos have great information but lacks a coherence with the remaining course content. +Very good course, in terms of learning tools and preparation for the specialization +Fabulous course on the basics of data science. +it's pretty good start for this fast-growing field in business,and I'm terribly eager to learn R :D +Lots of information. I learned quite a lot. It was a nice and informative introduction to Data Science in all aspects technically and theoretically. +Fantastic introduction to a topic I always found daunting. Thanks to everyone involved for preparing such an informative and soft approach to a hard topic like data science. +Thorough grounding in the basics. Even a novice like me could grapple with it, even though it did not come naturally, all the information was accessible for tasks. Thank you. +A very detailed guide for setting up working environment. +A good checklist for the basic tools of data science. +Good course. +Quite a fast course. Material is a lot though and would be quite daunting for someone completely new to this sort of stuff. +clear and good. Recommended to every one +Great instructors...very well done! +Only informative. Not worth it outside the specialization. +I mean, it's replicated in the next classes, and it has silly questions in the practice quizzes. It's not worth it. Just kill this. +Very crisp and short.... like the way in which presented by Leek +Good overview. Helpful introduction to topics covered in the specialization. +Doing this course first doesn t make you anticipate how difficult could this speciality in the next courses :p +Very good, well structured and grading by peers is a good one +Are you ever tired of long-winded professors, focusing on a lecture for an hour or more, or spending hundreds of dollars for a class? Well, this course gives you the structure of a course, but the video lectures are concise, the topic is to get you in the door for data science, and all of my questions were answered quickly. I recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn data science. +It is an introductory course which will help you get started!! +Good course +Very Good Course... Learned new things.... Adviced for Beginners. +Very briefly introducing the background of data science, it is very suitable for beginners in this area like me. +Great course to get started +Great basic explanation for the course. +Necessary Basic Tools for the course +I wouldn't really call this a course, rather it's more like an introduction to the very basic tools of the trade. +very good course. if you are looking for a overview of tools in data science specialization +Very informative, a good start +It's very complete way to start learn about the data scientist tools and data analysis. +Nice course. Clean information e right forward on necessary. +Good introductory course. Gives you an insight into the courses and topics which you will come across in the future. Would recommend this for beginners who want to get an insight into data science. +Simple and very straight forward, I belive this is the best way to give a starting point course +Really enjoyed the course and Jeff Leak's clear presentation. Feel ready and excited to go and learn even more about Data Science starting with R Programming +I like the course +it was fun~ +Good course, very interesting. But, could you please make for audit purpose also can post quiz? +One of the best course to get into the field of Data Science. +Good course for the basics of R and learning Github. +Instructor speaks very fast so that i read subtitles instead of hearing what he say, in addition to i stop video more times to understand what he say, but totally the scientific and technical contents are great also his advises for us in which how we can find the answers for our questions about data science +An excellent introduction to Data Science! +Very useful, the depth of information was perfect for an introduction to the course +This course provide a good introduction to github , Rstudio and command line interface.it also gives a information about different ways to analyse data. +Super basic, each week was only about 30 minutes of video lecture... but I think that was their goal? Bad form on coursera for making you pay to submit assignments that are autograded to begin with. +Great intro to datascience and installation of required packages. Wouldnt pay for this though! +The Data Scientist's Toolbox is a good introduction into Data Science specialization and gives a glimpse of what can be expected from the other modules. Looking forward to other modules. +Jeff did a wonderful job with respect to his teaching style(pace,course structure,concise).I've recommended this specialization to my peers as well! +really interesting to study and learn new things +Very nice and useful into, worth the time and effort +The course introduced us to data science questions and got us to know collaborating with peers using Git Hub +Great course for beginner. +Very informational and well organized. It did not make me feel out of my depth as a humanities student. +Great introduction. Looking forward to going more in depth in follow-on c +Good beginning class for Data Specialization with R and Git set up well. Light weight, can pass the course in 4 hours without breaks. +This course is good beginning in Data Science. It's necessary complete with more. +Good course; homework exercises are not particularly challenging. +good initiation for those who want to begin in data science experience +Solid and good introduction to basic tools (R-related) for doing data science. +Did what it said on the box: got me set up to continue with the specialisation. +Good understanding build up on best practices among data scientists' day to day operation! +A good basic introduction to the types of skills, and the tools required for data science professionals. +It is a good course and gives a very nice intro to the tools for R. +This is a good intro to programming so far. It feels like I'm building a solid base from which to understand R. +I wouldn't take this if I wasn't taking the specialization but it's a nice introduction to the specialization. +Great course to get you setup - don't expect to learn anything besides getting the correct software and file sharing profile. +A very good for beginners. +very good course, dealt nicely about basic requirements to be a data scientist +Very Basic and informative Course. Looking Forward to next course +Great starter course for complete newbs like me! +Basic introduction to the specialization. It was way too simple for me since I already have knowledge in machine learning. +Good introduction to the entire track. +My first coursera ever. Comprehensive and clear. +Not worth 29$ considering you could take away very little from this course. +Great Introductory course to Data Science. +Really tough to review this class outside of the context of the other elements of the data scientist specialization. What was presented was straight-forward and quite well done. After I know how well prepared we are for next classes, I will re-evaluate. +Ver good course for the beginners +Very good base fot the next courses! +This is a clear introductory course, but the content is not as much as expected. Compared with other coursera course, this one is like one-week pack. +awesome course for beginners +Very good introduction to data science +Basic introduction to data science. +Learn what is needed to become a data science, some trivial but all must have tools to become a data scientist. +Great intro to Data Science Specialization. Hoping to complete the other courses as well. Dispels my myth about Data Science is all geeky stuff. Looking forward to bust more myths.This course is light, broad and introductory. 4 weeks is a sweet spot. Keeps you engaged. +Perfect Course! +Please add more non-medical examples +Got to learn about various tools and their uses.So it was a very informative course to start with data analytics +There wasn't much to learn that I didn't already know. There was a lot of talk but no real practical application (I guess except for github for people that didn't know how to use that). +Too easy, very basic +This is my first course on Coursera so i didn't really know what to expect and i apologise in advance for my ignorance. The course only takes you 8-10 hours or so to complete (even accounting for reading external sources) spread across a month. I enjoyed it, but it doesn't feel like i learned a lot and i think it could be a bit more intensive. Looking forward to R Programming (part 2) +Too simple, too easy +A good intro to the tools required for a Data Scientist. However, could cover the usage of the terminal and Rstudio better. +Not much of a course, I understand why it exists, but it's basically just getting setup with the environment. Almost not worthy of course status. +Good to give you and overview of what this course is going to take you! +A good start :) +Good for starters.. +I liked this course, I know it is basic but I found a lot of ineteresting things I want to learn +Really good! +Is this entire course going to be watching videos of powerpoint slideshows, wrapped in a rather buggy website? +The course gave me refreshment and new knowledge. +Take your time and do the recommended reading and tutorials especially if you are new to Command Line Interface (CLI) +Brilliant prep course for what to come from equally well prepared lecturers! +Great Course.!! +great to start with basics! +Good for introduce you to Data Scientist +This is a good introduction to data science and also informs you the tools that are used in data science. +Well planned introductory course giving insight to the tools required for data analysis +I've just started this course, that's why my rating is 4/5. But I'm very satisfied with the video lecture, and I find it very interesting so far. +Very good pace, sequencing, and mix of lecture and practice. Only suggestion is a bit more time on the "Add", "Commit", which appears to be a very core element of file handling/version management with GitHub. +This course provided a smooth segway for an older student just learning R, and getting back into "school". It was great preparation for the subsequent intermediate-level R course. Thank you! +Too compact and short. Should be integrated to other courses. +Not really specific, just a broad indtroduction to data analysis. +I found the way in which John Hopkins present the course, very valuable. Well structured, although the pace is quite fast ! +Quite basic - but good overview of general theory. Don't do this on its own, it's quite useless as a standalone module +A good opener, gives you a feels for where the greater course is heading. +Great introduction! +nice introduction about data science and tools +Really helpful for learning basic Git and setting up Github. +Gives a very good overview. +The course goes over the basic toolkit for data scientists. Overall it seemed too easy and maybe a bit simplistic. I was expecting more. There was a lot of optional reading made available in week 1, perhaps some optional assignments/quizzes related to that reading could be added to the course. +Audio on videos was sometimes unclear. Course content was interesting. +Basic introduction how to install R +Thank you for the fantastic effort. Here's some constructive feedback on the course.It's a very basic course, could have included more material. Also, the audio quality is not that great. To make it better, I'd Include more walkthroughs for Git and GitHub. +It was a great start to data science but also students should have it in mind that the material presented in the course won't be enough to get through it. +I absolutely loved this course, it a wonderful foundation for the rest of the course +I am glad to get a good start through coursera's Data Scientist Toolbox. +Impressive explanation on the subject., Freshers with no knowledge about the domain can easily understand the subject. Thank you so much for such a fantastic MOOC mode of learning possibility. Love it all. +Course Structure is good. I could able to gain the basic knowledge & ideas about tools & questions Data Analysts work with, then could also get practical understanding about the sharing & version control tools.Looking Forward for other Courses. +Great course! +great introductory course. enjoyed it. +Great course as it shows you the basics of what the Data Scientist needs. It is easily understood and you can review lessons after you have taken it. +Challenging and worth my time. It validated my understanding of the subject. +This course is awesome. It takes you by your hand from the very beginning and leads you through all the process to install softwares and sign in on the most up-do-date tools to work on Data Science. And, besides being very friendly, it doesn't stay superficial on the subject. Another highlight is the quality of the material and of the experienced instructors. Excellent value for the investment. Highly recommended if you are a beginner. +Nice introduction to statistics and tools. Great instructor. +Interesting Initation to the data science world. It make me want to keep on learning. That's gret ! +It's very useful course for people with no programming background. Gives a good review of Git and GitHub. Also I have processed my first commit :D +illustration is not enough for the commands. More schematic description could help understanding the course much better. +I didnt learn anything about data science. I could have learned how to install all those tools by myself +Good course for an introduction, the next course in the data scientist specialisation gets better. +Very interesting +This was a good basic overview and orientation for the rest of the specialization. +Excellent course structure to gain exposure into what to expect out of this specialization. +Ideal course to get you started for a data science specialisation. Informs about and helps you install all the required softwares. +the course was very informative. +It is a good start. +To start with, I have enjoyed this experience of online learning a lot and this is my first online course. The structure of the course is very well designed. The platform is very user-friendly. Although it was just a basic introductory course, it is just a step towards learning more interesting things from a renowned university and very good professors. Looking forward for more quality courses. One step at a time! +A thorough introduction! +Great course! I like it :) and it punch me in git :D :) +Really beneficial for the career. +Easy and fun! +It is a very nice introductory class. It starts with a good background leading to the courses required for Data Science Capstone. +The course helps with installing the basic software for data analysis, as well as makes a brief introduction into how data can be analysed. +Very good introduction. It is a very basic, but much needed step. Setting up the tools you will need. +Pretty great introductory course on types of data analysis. I can't wait to see how this builds in the future courses of the specialization. +it is a very great beginning course for people who want to start their data science study. +-Well structured course-Great instruction-Easy to follow-Applicable and effective assignments +Very useful and basic! +Good introduction to basics. A few improvements are warranted:Lessons could be reordered in a more logical progression, particularly when it comes to Git.Gitbash is not easy or intuitive. A more structured approach (e.g. with cheat sheets, command glossaries, structure diagrams, debugging algorithms etc) would help assimilate it. +The course is very useful. +Useful insight into DS +This is a good course for someone who is not familiar with the basics of Git,Github and needs to install R,Rstudio and related packages. If you are not the kind of person described above you will be able to breeze through the course very fast. +Just an introduction, not so great. +Good Introductory course!!! +Best course passed til now. Great! +Well constructed course giving the students a great start point toward the next courses of the series. +I have absolutely no idea how could this become a separate course - and one spread over 4 weeks. It is extremely basic, extremely general and extremely high level. It should be compressed to 1-2 hours and added as an _optional prerequisite_ to other courses in this specialization. I personally feel cheated out of my 29 USD.0.1 star. +Seemed like a great course for beginning programming! +I had so much fun learning from this course. I think this course has been constructively laid out and the quality of the presented materials are at it best for such a vital field. +Great course! Plan to continue. +Basic Introduction to data science good for newbies +Very insightful and great materials! +Great! +Good introduction to the world of data science +I really enjoyed this course and think it is a great introduction to data science. +A good overall intro to the tools and approaches in analyzing data. +Good Introduction For Data Science Beginners. +Easy straightforward course, good for beginners. +I was expecting 4 weeks of work, but it was more like 4 hours. +Very basic and insightful introduction. +I would've liked some practical assignments on using Git/Github. +very helpful but i think it is too short, i need some more concepts to fully understand what these tools used for +It was excellent course. I gained new information. I believe it need's hand on practice and base information for beginners who does not have any back ground. +My name is Jose Antonio from Brazil. I am looking for a new Data Scientist career (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseantonio11)I did this course to get new knowledge about Data Science and better understand the technology and your practical applications.The course was excellent and the classes well taught by teachers.Congratulations to Coursera team and Instructors. +Not much to learn, I would have liked a more thorough introduction to data science's principles.Yet, everything is really presented step by step to make sure that all participants install correctly all tools needed for the further classes included in the specialization. +Nice intro but i think only if you want the whole specialization. +i am so satisfayedthank you so much +Covered basic elements of data science and statistics. +I felt I learn some basics but nothing new or indepth +It is too easy as a "university" course. It is much more like a pratictioner course. The final exam is ridiculous, really too easy.It can be thought as a week course instead of a four week course. +I enjoyed it a lot, but I want more! +Awesome Course +Covers the basic effectively.Hope it's useful for the upcoming courses +A gentle start to the 10-course data science specialization. Would not recommend taking the course just by itself. If you're planning on the specialization, it's a great way to easy in. +great, can't wait to finish the entire specialization. +Great to develop the fundamentals! +awesome course for learning data science and R.It is really helpful for beginners who wanna start or learn data science.Recommended for anyone who knows basic programming ideas. +Great for beginners to start off with! +An Introduction needed. +Very informative and the course begins with very basic stuff +First course of specialization easy for understand +Gives a good overview of topics and the specialisation, however is still very basic. I'm looking forward to the next advanced courses +Very basic and helpful to new learners! Thank you! +Good introductory course to get started on the Data Science Specialization. +Very helpful. Looking forward to using what I learned in this course in the later related courses. +Useful introduction to the world. Could have been a bit longer and gone into more detail about a variety of other factors is my only comment, but overall pretty happy with it. +Just the introductory course I needed +Great course. Very nicely laid out and provides many resources for background reading that backs up the material in the lectures. Great job! +Informative. Making it more elaborate in terms of coding would be helpful. +It was an interactive session. The introduction to the tools and the examples related to various models were relatable. I am glad to have joined this course. The peer graded assignment is a good option to learn different methods in problem solving. +More number of hours are given than required. Good learning for non IT field people. For people with IT background, its too easy. +Started out a bit slow with material that I felt was somewhat extraneous, but then got to the good part (hard part?) of installing R and getting it working with GIT. +Does just what it says on the tin! +Great intro into the subject! Lots of basic hands-on experience is transmitted to the student in this course. +I strongly recommend taking this course! Very informative. +There is practically nothing in this course to learn. It can be termed as a introduction to the specialization +Good for start. +Interesting, but could be improved with further applications. +It was great for starting ! +Usefull introduction Course. Course material is clear. +Covers the basics +It's a good introduction to Data Science +Great. It was easy and interesting . +Good start for the beginners especially for people new to the data science. Topic are not covered in depth but as its just a introductory course so its totally fine.. +Feel Great To know about the tools. +This is a comprehensive introduction to data science tools and basic concepts, the invested was worth! +Excellent intro to Data Analyst tools! +This course sets the stage for the rest of the Data Science specialisation.You get a lot of textbooks for free and they cover a lot of material.The quizzes are a little bit underwhelming, especially the first week. Too few questions, testing some questionable knowledge (eg, what other courses there are in the specialisation -- hardly a required tool in the data scientist's box).Overall, it's a good preparation for what is to come. It managed to whet my appetite for more , however I'm not sure the course is very useful on its own. +Great course! well paced and timing appropriate. Quizes reflected taught lessons. +Very. Very. Very Easy. +good course +this course is very poorly structured. +Good, Good! My first try at Coursera classes. A well organized class and real field data samples to practive with. +Very good intro and brief us with the high level knowledge around the data science area +Thank you for this formation, i have learned many thing related to scientist's toolbox +It is very clear and useful course. It holds one hand to go sure through the contents. Anyway, I would suggest to end at certain point doing something simple in R, to give an end to this chapter in this story. +nice course, but it would be better if the teacher can give us more details more about git and github +Good and easy introduction to Data Science +It's a good course, but it might be a little too introductory for someone who already has some familiarity with programming (although I hadn't used R, I had other experience with a similar language). So for me, I completed this course much more quickly than I anticipated and was really just very eager to move on to the other courses in the specialization. +Excellent course that helps you set the foundation for the data science domain. +good starter course +Nice course for an introduction, Excellent +Its a good course. +Good course stuff. A little bit too fundamental for a programmer. +What a great introduction. It needs a lot of reading and self developing to be able to do that project at the end. It's kind of difficult but you'll feel that you've really learned something that will be useful for the rest of your life. Thanks JH and Coursera staff. +Great, Thanks! +excellent course to begin with. +Really very helpful course for understanding the steps and tools required to explore the innovative field of data sciences. +A nice slow intro to Coursera, but not a ton of actual content. Good to get your feet wet, but skippable if you are familiar with the basics of the toolbox or taking courses on Coursera. +Excellent Course. Will highly recommend it. +Excellent for beginners. The course material is very well prepared. Its neither too detailed nor too concise. +A nice course, it helps you learning the basic of data science. +Simple Intro and effective +Fun and easy, and still very informative. +I had fun learning this course. +very good intro to the Data scientist's toolbox. +This is a basic course but since this is what it is design to be it is ok. +I think the course was too superficial and didn't cover enough topics to be a standalone course. It could be part of a greater course. My feeling is that this wasn't worth $30 dollars, and that such a small course was put together just to charge for one more module. +This is a good course for the beginner in data scientist field. Thank you very much Coursera. +Really good material. +It is a very basic course to give you high level of what the course is going to cover and the tools that will be used throughout the course. If you have much programming background this course will be a breeze. +excellent lecture for me. thanks you +This was really basic information. It's not really a 4 week course. It takes several hours. The info is necessary, but it's sufficient as a single week of content for a larger course. +It is a good introduction to the Data Scientist Tools and processes. +Baby steps to become a data scientist +Well basically tutors only providing slides, speech, forums and ebook in this course...rest is self-learning, self-understanding, self-asking... if not, then you'll not pass this course i think.. +A solid course to kick off the specialization, but not worth taking on it's own. +One of the interesting course i have ever learned , helped me out to learn alot of basics for data science. thank you coursera. +Basics of GIT and R explained really well. Helps you get the basic set-up done easily and efficiently. +Nice course, it gets you started. Maybe they could lower the price for the verified certificate (let's say 10$) since it's just an introduction. Thanks for making me discover the world of Github! +A really basic course many programmers know all about this already. +Fast paced and a great introduction to the field of Data Science. Good background material and now I'm set up with the tools of the trade. +concepts were very good but teaching method/material must improve...some of the materials and methods used are too unstable to be useful for professional use...more work should be done by instructors to separate the 'reliable' concepts/info from 'interesting to know but not ready for mass use' +This was my first experience of a Mooc and I was impressed. In particular, I enjoyed the guided use of Git and Github. +extraordinary course +Very clear introduction for those unfamiliar with R, RStudio, Git, GitHub and the basics of statistical analysis. +good introduction, as introduction courses go +a bit too simple to be a paid course +It's enough for the beginner. A good guide +Good course for Starters +Fantastic Course +The first course is composed in articulate way that allows a simple and schematic way of comprehension, but some single parts of the first course seem to be lacking of some information, above all to me without previous experience in informatics tools like github. Maybe I suppose to master this tools too long in advance. +great course +$38 is a lot to pay for tutorials about how to install software. This course takes only 20 minutes to complete. It is also obsessed with command line interfaces. There's a reason that they were left behind in the 80s. It does cover GUI software like Rstudio, which is ignored for the rest of the course. How about something on the desktop Github version? https://desktop.github.com/ So much easier to use. +Is this a real course for a data scientist just installing shit and a peer reviewing for that screenshot and forking all repos ...very bad not worth to be with rest course in specialization +A really nice overview of tools used in Data Science! +Pretty good. Some lectures were good, a couple seemed rushed. Covered the basics OK. +Just doing week 1 and loving it already. +It is not clear enough for a greenhand to understand, especially about installing Git on Mac or pushing files to Github. +More of a warm-up than a course. Great intro to the specialization. +Great and interesting course +Very enlightening of a course for those starting their journey as a data scientist or analyst. +There just wasn't much to this class. It's not bad information, but it could have been done in one week. +It is quite good for a start up +It was easy to follow up all material and I really learn a bunch of things. Thanks Coursera. +Very introductory +perfect intro. thank to coursera and jhu. +It was great introduction course. Thanks! +Nice introduction to common tools in the area of data science. +Good introduction, but the professor could have been more descriptive about how to use git/github. These are new concepts for people so it may be difficult to grasp right away. +Good intro to the tools +A great introduction to the tools needed to be ready to handle data science. +Helpful introduction to people who have little experience with GitBash and R +It made my life easier on Github +Very very introductory. I didn't find the tooling aspects of this course particularly helpful, but I'm not in the target audience. It's length was misleading -- I completed the work in two days easily, but I am a technologist, and already had the tools installed. If you use GitHub and RStudio, the meat of the course is only about an hour of the lecture. +Maybe too easy for some people, but is ok to ensure a minimum level in order to enroll other courses in the specialization. +too easy,i wish we had more things do submit so we will learn more +Very methodical, easy to understand. +Good course. I would recommend it to others. +The introduction of how to use github is undetailed in my opinion. +It's a good course, you're not going in-depth but this is just an introductory course for the Data Science master and the tools you will use. You will learn the basics of Git and get acquainted with R and is thus somewhat essential for starters. +Good course +Very easy but provides the necessary first steps to the DS specialization +It's good but easy +Great course +Perfect course for the person who wants to expand his or her career in Data Science field. +I thought this was very very basic +The course is too easy to be called a course. Just an easy intro, which you can complete in a couple of days. +very basic. +No all the videos have spanish traduction +Awesome introductory course! +great intro to stats concepts for data science and the programs. No real coding taught in this though. +I would recommend it to any one. The introductory course is so basic that some might see it not important but the course has done a well job by easily getting across the foundation of Data Science as well as helping non-programmers to easily drift into this field. I would have given 5 Star if i was allowed to attempt my tests even though i am auditing the course. The only thing coursera should benefit from is providing the certificate. By freedom of giving test and doing courses people will surely pay for one course or another when they get more confident with their results in audited course. +Very well organized course. Well done . +Well presented, but this course should be optional in in the specialization. There isn't really enough material to justify it, but it does cover the basics for someone with little to no development experience. +This course helps people attain the basic knowledge of the tools that are to be used while creating scripts. It also emphasizes the value of community feedback, which helps us learn in a better manner. +Good Intro +Great videos, good walk through the materials for those unfamiliar with programming (: +It is a good introductory course, but it could be optional for people with some experience in the field, as it is very basic. +very practical and useful introduction +This one is just a warm up for the Data Science Specialization. +As someone who knows little to nothing about computer language this is very easy going and the TA's are very knowledgable. +Great intro for a beginner. Fun course. Definitely recommend. +The course is fine, however its more an introduction than a course. The course in itself doesn't teach much, should have been the first week of subsequent courses. I went through all 4 weeks in 1 week, the whole course is mostly about downloading different tools and signing up for accounts.What I didn't like is that the teachers seem to be really concerned about their reputation and workload. Its repeated several times that you shouldn't email the teachers with questions and that online questions should be of a certain standard, its understandable but its a bit patronizing. I think teachers should be available for questions, even if its only through the forum (which they are) Its understandable that there are a lot of students so direct emails might overwhelm but that's just part of the job, we pay for the course, we should also get support when its not working for us.Overall I wouldn't advise taking this course if you aren't taking it as part of the specialization. +Good introduction to data science, however it should have more details and practical examples about Git. +A light introduction to the Data Science field, in many ways it can be difficult for inexperienced people with software or inexperienced with stats - in my case it was not very difficult since some of the topics were already familiar.The course can be done in a couple of days if the topics are already familiar, in my opinion the course's contents are perfect for someone very new to this field.I would have rated more stars if the course's content was more "objective" for people unfamiliar with the subject - other than that it's perfect. +Would like to have seen more material using git and git bash commands. More repetition here would be helpful. Seems like a lot of this information will be lost or forgotten when it comes time to use it, especially as it relates to the Data Science Specialization. +Great! As a new,I think it can help me do a lot of basic and useful work:) +This is a fantastic way for individuals to get a leg up if they want a competitive edge in an ever-changing scientific environment. It is important to be able to use certain programs and code to some degree in order to be competitive using today's technology. +Just an introduction course but helpful in setting up the rest of the specialization. +Good course for a first contact with the Data Science world ! +$40 is way too much to spend just to learn how to install a couple pieces of software and sign up for a GitHub account. The entire course should have been the first week of the following course. +I loved it. Quick and concise way to start the specialization. +This course was a great intro to these concepts and helpful guide to getting things set up and getting used to the MOOC format, as well! A few times it seemed like the slides jumped right in while skipping over a bit of context, but was able to orient myself with some googling and asking friends some basic questions to figure things out. +Good introduction, tells you what Data Science actually is. Also teaches you basics of GitHub, R and Rstudio. +Thank you, this is Course good +A clear introduction, prepped for whats next +Simple, useful, keeps you on track. Artem +Serves as a good overview of the course but not recommended for persons that have some experience performing basic data analytics with git. +I would have liked more information and a broader understanding +FOR A NEWBIE IT IS THE BEST.THANKS +Completed. +A great introduction to tools such as git and GitHub +Good information, good format. +Too Simple for Professional +Good introductory course for the specialization. +This is a really basic course. If you have never touch code before, it's more useful, but little is actually covered here and the gap between it's contents and the next class, R programming is dramatic. +Great Course. +Amazing info for the beginners !!!!!! +A very basic overview on Data Science. You learn how to use git, rstudio, and other tools though. The other courses of the specialization are way better. +It was not harder... but It is a great start. +This course is great! It taught me how to install and start using RStudio and GitHub for data science. +Expectations for simply meeting the baseline learning objectives or to outpoint it aren't exactly clear and there are two monitor strings that are far from being clear (15 minute guide on xyz).Content and evaluations match in requirements. I learned a lot about softwares and databases in with which I can learn and work. +Very useful and insightful! +Extremely useful info, but the material is too shallow to be satisfying. +Great way to start! +Great Course, sets the foundations for the rest of the Specialization. +In this course was proposed the outline of the specialisation, showing in a practical and interesting way some of the principal points in the path to be a Data Scientist, I was wondering by the exposition and decide to finish the whole specialisation. +This should not be a course. It's just introduction and should be condensed to one video and a handout with pointers to those who need more specific and detailed instructions for setting up their computers. This is not a learning course. All they teach you how to install git, R and Rstudio. And they take money for this (if you want to say you "completed" the course)!!! Highly unethical practice in my opinion.The surveys are stupid too. They don't distinguish between those who completed (but not earned any credentials) and those who didn't.In my opinion this is a very dumbed down version of an introduction to a data science course (and not a cours in itself). Definitely not worth 4 weeks!A much more valuable course is Stanford's "Machine Learning" where you can actually learn something (and don't force you out of evaluation if you don't pay). +Love the exposure to Command Line Interface (CLI), Git, Gitbash and R. Will recommend it to anyone that wants a career in any computer/mathematics field. +Excellent course !!!I want to keep learningYou are to be congratulated!!!God bless you!!!! +Very shallow overview, not really a full course I'd say. +Good introductory course pointing to background reading materials and providing context for following courses as well as supporting the installation of the required software tools. +As a software engineer I found this course a bit useless, but I do understand other people don't have the same background. Having said that, I believe it should be optional in the specialization. +Wonderful tools were taught. Good course. The presentation of the tools was appropriate to get started quickly with these tools. Thank you Instructors. +It is a good intro course to get set up with everything you may need for future courses, but it's not necessary if you are already a little familiar with github and R. +Great course that allows an introduction into the world of the data scientist. Some instructional videos could be improved. +A really interesting course, and also, basic and simple. The lectures are a little fast though. I hope I would continue this course if I have time. +Does a good job of introducing students to Data Science in general and gets you started with R and github. +should contain more tutorials about Git and GitHub functionality. +Simply loved the course. Thanks for the material. +Interesting learning the basics of Data science. Very informative +A great course. But I still think there is a lot of room for improvement. +Nice Overview course +Good overview. But it is confusing for the first class when you have no idea about the topic. +A nice introduction to the field. +It is an excellent first contact with such a complex discipline as it is data-science. +A bit odd this one. It hase some points, but most of the training is looking on what the other courses are.. Like paying for commercial :-) +I liked the course. +Good and relatively easy course. Perfect to establish personal confidence. +Nice course, sets you up with the basics for R programming, and sets you up with all the tools. Basic introduction to Git makes it interesting.Overall, great. +I found this course to be very useful in shaping my analytics career. Many thanks to coursera for provinding me the financial aid to pursue this course. +Nice introductory Course +Excellent introduction to the use of various tools and some theoretical concepts for data science. +Good course for begginers like me. All information is provided very simple and it's easy to understand. Also involves srudents not only looking videos but offer books. In addition you will need to search some information yourself to complete some tasks.Thanks for this great course. +It's awesome introduction course of Data Science! +It introduces useful tools. +Good overview of the most used tools and methods used by Data Scientists. +Very useful and easy to understand. +A Nice introduction to Data Science. Well appreciable. Thank you Coursera. You Guys Rock ! ! ! +Very good course with all the basic knowledge provided as a stepstone for a Data Scientist. Many thanks +Leart very much from this course +Great introduction to the used software such as R and Git(hub). +I liked the course, it was simple and to the point. +This course provides very nice and useful tools for data analysis! +it was a nice starter course for anyone who wants to know what will be involved in data science and how to go about becoming data scientist. +Enjoyed this introductory course. I now feel ready and eager to dive deeper into this Data Science Specialization! +Excellent Course for learning Basics. I had no previous experience with software, computers aside from surfing web, checking e-mails and some Microsoft Office. I'd recommend this course to anyone Interested in data-science or coding in general. The course is easy but not too easy the frustration of dealing with computers exists and I feel it was important for myself to struggle a little bit. I followed the advice of the instructors and sought out solutions to issues. I spent twenty hours a week but if you are tech savvy, take good notes, follow directions and everything goes as planned you could possibly get through the course in a lot less time. There are also a lot of people willing to help. The course shows you how to seek out help efficiently. I didn't request any help this time around had I done so I would have spent half as much time on the course. +Good base formation for beginners. +The course is very organized, helpful and up to the point. +Definitely useful to get a start in the data science stream +The course itself only introduces the main aspects and helps with installation of the tools, while no actual programming is taught. But it is useful for having better understanding of the following courses in the specialization. +As a preparation class, I think it covers all the necessary things and made me very interested in the following classes. +If you have a background in IT you should get through this pretty fast, but it's still a well structured course with useful support in getting the basic tools set-up before the rest of the course. Clear, concise & to the point. +good way to start! Clear and easy to understand. +Basics are given utmost interest +Very basic +This is a required course in the Data Science specialization. If you're planning to take that specialization, you should start with this course. If not, you shouldn't bother - there's not much here. +Great intro class. +It was a good starter course +Consistent yet very basic course. I would only recommend this course if you are willing to complete the whole Data Science specialization or if you have troubles with the basic functioning of GitHub. +Very basic even for people with no DS background.Issues with quiz having passed and results showing as failed. Inability to speed up and move on to next module +Very short, easy and introductory course. Gives a nice high altitude overview of the subject but little else. +Too basic, but I liked it! +Very nice intro - easy to follow. The swirl stuff was especially helpful and a very good way to teach R "in situ". +Overall the course content is good, but the power points are not engaging and interactive. +Pretty helpful, things start from scratch and this works for me because I had no previous background in the subject whatsoever. +Great course!! I strongly recommend.Cheers,Gustavo Xerez +Just an intro and learning a bit about Git and Git hub. +It would be better if they are these practice teaching in detail. +Good introduction to the Specialization +Didn't learn anything in this one. +Good initial overview and setup for the rest of the series. +Very Informative +The material is apt and the timeline is also apt. +This was a great course!The beginning of the course was a little heavily focused to the rest of the specialization, but otherwise it was great! +All excellent and a very good introduction. I wish I was able to get my quiz graded without having to pay just to see if I was learning. For the rest, I recommended for a great intro. +Good Basic Course +With my background I found this part of the course rather slow, but I can see why it's necessary for people with less of a software background. +Really good course to shed the light on R and Git for newbies +This course is a very basic introduction, but I think it is an importa +It's a good first step into getting the right programs, learning key vocabulary, and interacting with important websites/programs at a very introductory level.If you are not from a math/statistics background you can still complete the course but you will not understand the previews for later courses completely, that is ok! But consider getting the eBook with this course.My only complaint is the quizzes, it often feels impossible to get a 5/5 based on only what you get from the lectures, there's always 1 question that is completely over the top compared to the other 4, but you can do the quizzes 3 times every 8 hours and just trial and error the 1 gotcha question on each quiz. +It's a very introductory course and in a sense I don't feel like I learnt something useful, except the part that shows how to install all the tools that are needed for the rest of the Specialization. +This course is perfect for really newbie. However, it also answers the question of "What is Data Science?" +Good cours for a starter +I have heard a lot of good things about this course. I still have to explore this. +It was good, well-executed course, but it was too basic. I expected more. +I found it interesting as an initial landing into the Data Science topic. +Complete waste of time. This should be a course on its own, and much less be charged for. This should have been the 1st week of an actual class. This only dealt with installing a couple of software tools. Hopefully the following courses will teach something worthwhile. +Excellent for anyone who is new in the topic, covers all of the basic material you'll need. +It is one of the most interesting lesson I have ever take. +A great little course, quite basic but very informative if you - like me - do not have a lot of knowledge on the subject. It can be taken in a day if you have some time to spare. +This is a great introduction to Data Science. +A real pleasure to learn +Audited the course successfully :) +Easy to follow, and a nice difficulty ramp so you never feel you're in too deep! +Awesome course to start data science with. +Important note: Opt for this course only if you plan to do the entire specialisation. It is developed solely for the specialisation and not as a standalone course. You will not learn much concepts or theories or practice any R programming here.In general this course was basic and good enough to get someone started for specialisation. The video lectures for setting up R, RStudio and Github account were helpful and very basic ( maybe coz I already had an github account). +Loved it. +This is a nice course on getting and installing the data scientist's tool box. In the future, this course should be improved with an example of creating files in Git and pushing them to GitHub. Although issues were addressed by peers in the class, going through an example before the course project will very much help future students with no experience. Great course. I highly recommend it! +Good course for starters. Can be more detailed. +Very nice introduction to this world. +Excellent course for anyone who is working on a data scientist career path +Very nice course. Talks about setting up GitHub and R etc. required for Data Science projects and key issues to address in a data science problem. +It boosted my career in data science! +Very interesting and good to follow +Not sure this should be a course that is charged ....on to the next one now. +Thank you so much for the great course! Looking forward to taking the rest of the classes in the specialization. I really love the GitHub info, lectures overall, as well as the Textbooks you have provided. +Well paced and well taught. +It was great! +Great introduction to Data Science and the steps to get the tools installed +Great introduction to R programming +Would have bee nice if it included a bit more "in Git" tutorials, but that is easily figured out when left to one's own devices. +I like this course. It is very informative though rather simple. +It's a good preview, but very little is actually learned here. +Love this introductory course. It really sets the stage for anyone new to the topic of Data Science +Great introduction. The lessons were clear and easy to follow. Github is a new tool. I used to be shy about using Github because I didn't understand all the commands, but I'm confident I'll pick it up easily during the rest of the course. I already feel more comfortable with it.I'm a mechanical engineer, so this is a different way of thinking for me. I was amused by the lesson on what data is and about the kinds of data analysis because the data I look at always comes a CSV file / Excel file, and I only do mechanistic analysis. So I'm looking forward to expanding my definition of data and analysis. +Introductory Course mostly around installation and setup for the other courses in Specializations +This course is not very "beginner friendly" +Nice introduction to the subject and the tools used in the field. +In my opinion, most of this information should be free and available as a pre-req. for other classes (installing R Studio).It was cheap, but in general, I thought I was going to be more out of this course than I did. +Good but it still too much basic +The videos might not seem a lot at first view, but they contain links to some of the most useful material out there. The mentors on discussion boards are immensely helpful as well. For the uninitiated in data sciences, this is a great module to begin with. +The course is well structured but for investigation methods purposes some subjects should be improved and more clear considering that not all of us have deep statistics knowledge. +A little bite long regarding the concepts number developped in this course. +They charge you to take a class that explains how to install a few programs. If you go to the program's websites, there is directions to install it anyway, so this was completely unnecessary. Waste of money. This class should give you some early training on R before throwing it at you in the next course without enough training. +Extremely helpful. It was detailed and at the same time brief, made sure I am able to connect with the content and learn in ways that will be useful in career.Also, the exams and exercises made sure that my concepts are deep rooted into me.Great Course. +Nice course, but at the end it is just introductory course, so i am waiting for the coming one +This course is very general! It is quite helpful to take this course as the first one for people who want to know data science. +A good intro to the tools used in data science. +A great starting. Perfect for providing a foundation. However, instead of slideshow, a few real-time videos would have been better. +Great course. Learned alot and am enthused to continue along the Data Science Specialization +An easy start ;-) +It's ok. After the first lesson, I should be able to provide a clear elevator pitch with a high level understanding of what I can expect to accomplish (4 or 5 steps) as a Data Scientist. Instead, there was one slide that touched on this quickly, somewhere in the middle. What are the problems, how do I solve them, give samples. +Course teaches how to acquire the tools necessary to complete the Data Science specialization. Explanations were clear, and quizzes and assignments were straightforward to complete. +Great and Excellent thoughts and course material. +Great introduction to the field and specialization. +It's an extremely basic introduction... which doesn't help in much for the next session (R Programming) +totally worth it !!! +Decent for a start. Focuses too much on Github. +Very intuitive and technical as necessary for a beginner's course. +Good, but would like a step by step walkthrough for MAC/Windows when setting up the final assignment to ensure everything is correct. +This was a useful & interesting course, Thank you. +This course helps you to establish a preliminary understanding of the Data Science. +Good introduction and instructions to get ready +LOVE IT!!! +Extraordinarily basic. Entire thing can be done in about two hours. +Good introduction to a complex topic. I appreciate being eased into this! +quite a beginning to a journey. +Very informational and had great resources. This class gets you ready for the rest of the specialization. +Succeeds in conveying course prerequisites, contents and benefits. +Git setup lesson was awesome. +Great course for a beginner ! +Very helpful, though it requires some persistence and a curious heart to learn this (at least for me). It's like a completely different world! +Overall this is a great introductory course to Data sciences. +A good basic class and collection of the tools. I wish there had been a little more explanation of what we would use the software for, but I found the lecture parts to be both concise and informative. +It is proper for the beginners +Easy to understand, good delivery +Straight forward instruction which easy to follow. Provide practice to get familiar with the course environment. +Very simplistic and could be covered in a handout as part of another course. Unfortunate that this is a requirement of the specialization, otherwise I would have skipped it. +The course design is very nicely paced and easy to understand. This course's take aways are going to help me alot in near future +Excellent course, it teaches you how to install and set all the tools needed for Data Science +A good start to the specialization. +Useless. The information content is close to zero. Just some blah-blah and a long tutorial to install software. +Good introduction +Good introduction! +Very good, explicative. Could have even more information and practice sessions on R. +Best in it's Class. Short but so much descriptive with a constant effort to deliver high quality teaching with easy understanding language and concepts!It's highly recommended to those who are new to Data Science, and want to make their Base strong( like me) +Good overview of the specialization. Probably very good for someone new to R and software development tools in general. +I was hoping to learn more stuff I didn't already know. This class is more of just a vague overview of the other courses. Can be completed in 1 week. +It superb +A good but brief introduction to a number of useful skills. I learned a lot in a short amount of time but I still have a long way to go. I was somewhat disappointed in the lack of communication with a TA or instructor. The message boards were desolate and could not support any kind of a robust discussion of the conceptual issues involved with data science. +What an amazing course!!!!!!!!!At first I skipped this and started R Programming. But then I thought let me just check it once and I am really grateful that I started this. I am looking forward to complete whole specialization +Jumps around, doesn't put anything into "real world" examples. +This class is a great introduction to the tools needed to begin working on data analysis. The assignments provide just enough instruction to cover the basics and propel you toward uncovering additional information on your own. The assignments are structured in such a way that you must pay close attention to the lectures; then analyze and apply them on your own. Great course overall. +waste of time. except for git and github ,nothing much is in it. +This course has given me a basic knowledge of different tools and statistical techniques that data scientist use to play with data. +Brilliant intro! Also a great (easy) CV filler :D +Great Course. +pretty simple overview of data science tools +Excellent course to start my journey towards data sciences +Very excellent startup to motivate a one want to become data scientist +Good introduction into basic data science tools and a nice starting point for the data science specialization. Yet, the certificate is a little bit overpriced. +Fine as a general introduction, but not a lot to it. Good explanations of how to use github and get set up. +Very helpful introduction to downloading R and Data Science concepts. +I is not so difficult for a beginner, but I suggest it could be more information in the course. +Way too basic for the price - almost no content - this is just setup - I resent paying for setup instructions. +Good introduction to these concepts and tools. +extremely helpful as a first step in the data science career path. Also doesn't need previous experience, You just need to be present and search for more knowledge to pass your assignments +This course was well paced and provided clear learning material. +Too basic, this should just be a read +they made this many courses as they can earn more money.I dont think this course should me taught seperately +Course doesn't seem to be of much use. Was not much informative. Only some information is relevant. +Great support! +Great +It's a very good start! +Overall, I liked being exposed to Github and GitBash. I felt this course gave me a broad overview of what to expect in the future! +Loved it! +Great insights and helpful for beginners. +Very basic, but interesting. +The course is basic, and quite simple. Some might say too simple. I think it should be about 1 week long. I already knew all the things going into it so it was easy to finish it over two days. +Would have like to jump straight to the material. Although I understand some may need it, the command line course was pretty basic. This course on it's own doesn't give much. One can get started with Programming with R w/o missing too much. +Good introduction. +Could be completed in a single day but spread across 4 weeks. I could understand a week but 4 seems silly. +Later courses are better. This one is quite easy. +I really enjoyed it! +I like the notion of presenting Data scientist's toolbox in a concise way. +So far it is great...just starting week two +I ran into a few unexplained issues with final project but a very good course overall. +Helpful for people with no experience on the subject matter. Very straight forward and easy to follow. +A very good intro course but must be priced lesser when compared to the other courses in the specialization. +Straightforward, interesting, and easy to follow. I wish it were a bit more challenging. +The way this course has been designed, it is very good for all the beginners +Excellent introductory course, even for those of us who just know HTML & SQL. +A good start... +Fantastic introduction to data science! I'm excited about this career choice. +Very clear and simplified course. +It's very straightforward. +Great intro. Too bad you need to pay in order to get quiz answer or statement of accomplishment. +The course is not updated. +It's a good introduction to data science. However, without prior knowledge of statistics, programming, and research methods the course would be fairly difficult to follow. +The course is excelent for people who don't know anything about R, Rstudio, RmarkDown, Git, GiHub and other tools. However, for people who already know a little bit of those technologies, they will find it a little repetitive. Anyhow, the classes are awesome for you to get to learn to use those tools. Congratulations to the team. +The Teacher is very kind and patient, statement is very clear and simple.The knowledge is very useful. +Not much content for this course, can be done in a few hours. +A good Introduction to Data science +This should not be a course in itself +Good Introductory Class, all though I think some of the videos were too fast. Need to provide more explanation on some of the slides. +Simple straight forward. It did push me enough to be interesting but not enough to make me give up because it was over my head. Nice step-by-step instructions. +This is a nice, thorough and clear introduction to Data Science. The instructor provides all the details to get started in this specialization. Can't wait to continue! +I think this class is best for academic people. I did not find what i was looking for. +great course +I found this course to have very useful material and good, clear explanations. My only criticism is that the last of the four weeks has practically no content. There are no lectures and the only assignment is grading the assignments of other students, which at most takes 20 minutes. +A great course.Erwan Bonnet +easy to understand and complete. +This course is a good first into to the topic. I think that the additional reading from the book and the Git manual will supplement it very well.My only complain is that in the first quiz, there was a question regarding some R packages used in Machine Learning that were not covered in the slides. It took me a while to find those so I had to take the first quiz 3 times. I think this question should be revised to guide the student as to how to find these packages. Another alternative would be that in the slides there some guidance in this matter.Otherwise, I liked to course and the final assignments. +By far to expansive for what you get. Anyway, thanks for the hint about swirl. +Great! +It really help me a lot to have knowledge on Data Science, with the tools we should be using. +Good as just an introduction to data science. Some more exercises using Github, maybe some collaborative works would have been nice. +I am delighted I took this course. It gave me confidence to continue in the full certification program. I was able to learn the information stated in the syllabus. +Good foundation for the following classes. +There were lectures about how to install R and RStudio on Mac and Windows. And the quiz asked about information on these lectures. You must pay attention to them even if you have previously installed them. +Awesome for the basic of the domain. +Very informative +Thanks for your job +A great introductory course that helps you setup the tools you would need to carry out data science related work. +great content, a little long course for the provided content +Very useful course to pursue Data scientist career path and +maybe this review will hold +It is good, but I think they speak so fast. +wonderful foundation to the specialization! +This course was a loss of time and money. Except from week 3 material, the rest can be found on the internet and should be required by everyone who wants to take that specialization. This course doesn't worth it, it's just to take extra money from anyone who wants to learn about Data Science. +Some interesting concepts, but way to simplistic in my opinion. Only reason I see to pay for it is the fact that it is a requirement in the Data Science Specialization +The instructions for using git and git hub left a lot to be desired. +Quizzes were based off of extremely high level overview videos not covering anything specifically or deep diving into anything. When applying the git commands covered, numerous errors arose. Overwhelmingly academic course with very little hands on. This is not for anyone actually looking to work in this field, but for someone looking to be able to talk about this field. +A good introduction to the language and tools of data science. +I think you have to say more about git commands and their syntax +Its very very easy and covers the basics. However 2 hours are enough to cover all topics instead of 3 weeks. +The course is well structured and provides a good introduction, however, I expected a bit more from a course that costs 20 pounds than just a few clips on how to install and set-up software/create a github account etc. This information is available for free online on the websites of the respective software.I understand that such an introduction is needed for the course, but then do not offer it as a separate 20 pound module. Instead include it for free with any other 'specialization' you can buy. +This course gives a wonderful introduction to the world of data science. You'l probably finish it with plenty of time to spare which makes jumping in the middle of the next course very tempting. I did that and i had a hard time. It would be best to familiarize yourself with the other commands in github and explore the many helpful sites instead. +Good Introduction to Data Scientist essential tools +Excellent introduction to R programming +Good introduction. Good to learn the way it works.... +Good pace for the first course. A little more guidance on Git command flow would be help. However, the available Help documentation on Github did the trick. The problem was having to work primarily in the command line which provides limited feedback. +Great course - solid on the basics. +I enjoyed the course - I wish there were more exercises, but hopefully they'll come in the next courses of this specialization. +the speech is too fast to be catch up with and doesn't have much useful contents +I think this course could be integrated into the other ones of the specialization, or, if it is meant to be just a course to get an overview, be free of charge. +Too expensive for what you get :( +Experimental Design is very great. Other contents are just fundamental for beginners. +Nice course for Beginners, No complains regarding course material, however there is little bit audio issue in some slides as it is bit low. +Excellent course to get started. But whish I could move to other courses in parallel without having to wait for the R Programming course to finish. +This course is great to start with. It provides overview of what is in the course and how should we as students be prepared to learn the course. +Might be a good introduction for those completely new to computational tools, but not useful for those with any background in git or R. Can be safely skipped. +Great course +Audited only. +Great introduction to the different statistical software packages, Git/Github, intro to data science terminology, and basic command functions to get started. +most part of this course is a duplicate of the "R programming" course.microphone/sound of the teacher quality is very bad.not original, boring, dividing this in "4 weeks" is too ridiculously long, this should be done in 1 week to enable users to take more time for the "R programming".this course should be free. don't lose too much time on it, it's doable in a day or a weekend and move on to "R programming".asking for so much money to see how to install R and github is a shame.feels like this course has been added just to have a round number for the specialization.even the survey in the end asking for feedback starts with a question not adapted to moment it's been asked "did you get a certificate?" of course i did not as i've just finish the course and now wait for my peers to review my final submission. +Sound is too quiet +Very well done intro into the subject to test your affinity for the work. +The course covered the foundations well especially how and what softwares to install etc. I would have given five stars if the course contains covered some extra details about R and datascience. +A nice introduction to the rest of the course. +I found this course very helpful and I had learned a lot of new +Good Introduction +Very helpful course! +The materials are good, but it felt like this class should have a been a 1-week introductory lesson to Data Science. It is definitely now a 4-week class, maybe a a 2-week one if you take very easy. You end up with a basic setup for the next class. That I found very useful. +helpful for student and field of computer science in the development and information technology science +Practical to do if you are continuing with specialization. Ensures all students have the correct setup, which is important. I'm not sure how useful it would be on its own though. +4.5 Stars. Decent introduction. Good reading material and quizzes. Would like to have more hands-on assignments. +Excellent Course, Great introduction to Data science. Gets your interest going. Next Stop - R Programming. +Very good introduction to Data Science! +This course is done +A pretty good introduction. +Great way to learn R and become familiar with how to use it. As a developer with an understanding of Python, Java, C and C++ I could quickly see how to use R, how to extend it and start working with it today. Very good use of supporting tools like Swirl to assist with teaching. +Too basic, but still informative. +a brief and yet organized and good resource for review old skills i have learnt and new skills that can acquire from here. +was too easy! +Precise and perfectly executed. +It has almost no content and isn't actually useful. I've heard later classes in the series are way tougher, so the ramp up isn't at all good. +Well prepared and well thought! +This was a great introduction to the tools. Just don't expect to actually do any analysis yet. +Course is good and well organised. +Good course. I've learnt many things. +This is a course to get you set up with all of the tools that you will need to go forward. No hard homework, but you will be ready to work. The intros into various aspects of the curriculum also serve to prepare you mentally for the coming weeks. +This was a great introduction into a Data Scientist Tool Box. While I did enrolled formally in the class it provided me with the knowledge to understand better Data Science. I would definitely recommend this course. +Excellent Introduction with brief descriptions of subtopics +a well defined course to know the basics +Lots of very general review information, not much new stuff. Did force me to start getting familiar with gitHub. +It is a nice introduction, but the material is barely worth a one week orientation lesson (I have completed it in about 4 hours with watching all the videos, taking detailed notes, and completing the quizzes for 100%) . Why should we pay for a specialization preview, we can read info about the separate courses on our own? I am really looking forward the next courses in the specialization since I really need a good course in statistics and this seems to be one, but the first course should be eliminated. The installation of R and github account videos should be added to the next course as an introduction. +Awesome content. I'm happy with the results. +Great start :D +Very usefull, easy and comprehensive course about the different tools available for data cience +This course is an excellent introduction to the basics of data science! +It is really a basic course, but it gives a necessary introduction to R, R studio, git and github. +Good start but not very hard if you already programmed bevore +Assignments are useful, background is interesting, but meat of it is nothing you can't get from googling "Data Science" +Very light workload if you're technically competent. I would have liked to have had more to do with the math and such... +A good introduction to the course. Opening up quizzes to help feedback what we'd learned (for free learners) would have made the course much better! +Basic content with detail course materials. Helpful. +A good introduction to the subject area. It would be nice to see more real-life examples. +The first week's quiz is really difficult and I had to go through the lecture material several times. Because of the great number of very short lectures it is difficult to find an asnwer to sought question. +It's more a preview than an actual class. +It very basic but still very useful +It's a good start to the data science specialization. +The sound volume is very low +Brief, to the point introduction to Data Scientist's Toolbox. Simple to follow instructions. +The course does not warrant the price, it has way too little information. Very dissatisfied. +Very helpful. Thank you very much for this initiative. Elements that I did not know exist and useful to launch a career in data science. Keep it up. +Very good introduction to data science. It gives a general overview on data and its problematics but also tips and help on how to start with the basic tools that will be needed (I haven't done any R programming and didn't have a github account so that was helpful for me). +Does what it says, gets you set up with the tools required to continue on to the other courses JHU offers in this Data Science series. +very good introductory course! +Great course although very basic. +It's a good introductory course to get those who are unfamiliar with this topic and type of learning environment acclimated with the necessary skill sets. +It shows the major tools to use in real life to program with R. +A good start! +Too simple. Personally feel this can be clubbed with R Programming +Quick, great intro information to get an understanding of the expectations of this course +Course content gives a clear and easy information. +This is a fantastic course, being a person who already works with loads of data I can surely stand by the statement that "This is a fantastic base line to all your data needs" +Awesome intro. +The course has been designed in an optimum way so that no strong backround in programming or statistics is required. By the end of the course you will be familiar with the necessary tools (Rstudio, GitHub) for data analysis. Moreover you will have a sound knowledge of the basic concepts in data analysis. It is an excellent way to introduce the student to data analysis. +Excellent Course I learned so much! +Basic introduction... +This course is a good, brief introduction to the foundational concepts of data science and some of the tools you can expect to use when doing data analysis with the R programming language. It's best suited to someone who intends to continue at least with the R Programming course that is also a part of this Data Science Specialization. +This should not be a course of its own. +The course was fine, but I think it should be offered for free even if someone is doing the data science specialisation track. It is really just teaching you what data science is, and how to install a few programs. +Not useful at all if it's audited. +It was pretty good, but most of the information is rehashed briefly in the intro to R Programming +As a novice to data science, this was an excellent introduction into the (very) basics behind how to get started in the field. Great way to begin an education in this area. +This was a very professionally done course. It is *very* introductory, which is either good or bad, depending on how you feel about it. +The course accomplished its goal. Nevertheless, since it is a paid course I expected to find more theoretical content +Good introduction to tools if you don't know them already. Otherwise very remedial. +Good course to start the data studies +Basic course introducing the minimum tools to start your journey in data science. The course was very important for me to get up to speed with Git and GitHub. All the information was given in a concise and objective way, yet covered all basic important points of such tools. +Everything was fine. It would be nice to add one slide about tortoisegit +This is the first course in the Data Science Specialization series by Johns Hopkins University taught on Coursera. It introduces all the tools necessary for subsequent courses on data science and gives a driving motivation for the specialization. +Extremely remedial. Not worth the time or cost on it's own, unfortunately it's required for the specialization. +Explaining everything that needed to start the course. To the point and easy to understand... +Clean and simple to understand. Hope the rest of the courses in the series are of similar quality. +Excellent short course for getting introduced to essential tools for a data scientist. +I didn't get much out of it +A good theory on data usage. +Good course. Short and sweet. Nice to be able to access future weeks' lessons and finish ahead of schedule if you wish to. +Really poor quality of the material. +highly recommend it, very useful background information to start the "data science" journey +It covers some basics, but doesn't go deep into anything. Definitely take the other courses in the specialization to go deeper. +This should be at most a 1 week course, that is free. Half the course is installing Rstudio and signing up for github. The other half of the course is simply learning what each course down the pipeline is about. Those lectures could just be tacked onto the description of each course and you would get the same thing out of it.I think this course would be improved by more instruction on what git is and how to use it and maybe going over some fundamental statistical topics. +The course was really insightful. Enjoyed a lot ! Thanks. +Really enjoyed this. And Mr. Leek's lecturing style is very straight-forward. +its so so inteeresting +This is a wonderful introductory course. I allows one to get an idea if they would like to continue towards the specialization. I would suggest taking this course with the R-Programming course. I have a very basic knowledge of Data Analytics and I could have taken the first two course simultaneously. However if you have a incredibly busy schedule just taking this course would be fine. +A necessary prerequisite for the other Data Science classes, but not really a standalone course. +it gives you the necessary tools and knowledge for just beginning the data mining course. so you cannot expect to learn about the process itself. +Content is very nice. +Not worth the price. Extremely basic stuff spread very thin over too much time just to be able to charge for it. +That's a good startup to excite you about the coming courses! +Very basic survey and mostly just setting up software, but confidence-boosting and fun +A great introduction to Data Science and GitHub! +short but good introduction +I expected more detailed use of Github - otherwise great course. +Appropriate for all levels of experience to get a concise overview of the current state of affairs. +Good course +Only include very basic contents, doesn't need 4 weeks to finish this course. More like a one or two day induction session. +Good course, but it needs to be more difficult and more in depth. +Very good start in the Data Science world +Great intro course. Good overview of why you need what you will need for the Data Scientist specialization. +Good start, looking to dig in more, as I already have a background in stats data analysis and data viz. +Good introduction +The course is in fact an overall intro to the full data science specialization. Some of the content are useful; but some of the quiz questions are not very informative, and don't really test on stats... +Excellent course, very useful to lay the foundation for the specialization. +A good overview. Set the expectations for what will happen in the rest of the Data Science classes. Gave a lot of good, basic information for people that are not familiar with git, GitHub, Rstudio, and basic Linux/Unix commands. +I'd like the course, because it is a very general introduction to the specialization +Basically if you take this course you are paying money to create an account on a website and download some software (both of which you can do for free). The rest of it is a preview of the other courses in the series. The quiz questions don't correspond to the information on the slides. I successfully passed the course, but I didn't really learn anything. Now I am debating on whether or not to continue to the R programming course after reading through the reviews of that course. +This should not be its own course, as it would be pretty useless if you were doing it on its own without doing any of the other courses. The end of course project literally being just to make a Github account and download R-studio could be quickly covered in the first week of the other courses. +This Course helped me to understand the foundation skills. I practiced on GitHub with assignments and now I feel the flavor of getting things done in a systematic way! +Really solid introduction to the subject matter. This course gave me a better understanding of how to go about finding the questions which need to be answered, which is fundemental to the study of data science. Also, it gave me a wonderful tutorial on where to find help and how to ask for help which I found very useful. +A basic introductory course +Great Course! +Certainly not worth paying for this course, only talks about how to install the tools.Not able to take quizzes when you try to take the course for free. +It is not worth 30$ +This was a great introduction to data science. It provides an overview of the science in general, and the course provides all the tools needed to move forward. +Might be useful for total newbies, but this was very simple for me. +Great course! +Good courses and necessary for people like me who never have a relation to computer science,,, But it is a waste of money...lol +Barely any depth +Upgrade to submit? That's meaningless. Especially for this fundamental course. +Might look trivial at first glance to more experienced users, but was very much essential for a complete beginner like me. Gives a nice overview of a somewhat overwhelming (and sometimes intimidating) field and equips you with the basic tools necessary (like how to use git). +This class makes the whole pictures of R clearly and simply understood. +Too short and easy. +Lays the groundwork for the next course in the specialization. +Great introduction to Data Scientist's Toolbox. +Great Course that will provide a good background about Data Science tool set. +Doesn't provide a strong enough base for R Programming. +Really good starting point for R +Good introductory course. However, an overkill as a separate course (and hence charging $30 for it). Courses 1 and 2 could have been clubbed together. +Good introductory weekly lessons .. +With many thanks to the instructors, I expected to learn more. I did not learn as much as a 4-week course in Coursera. Please include more materials and avoid advertising for other topics in the future courses! +It's kind of too easy +Nicely taught and good course contents. +The course is very nice and provides all that you need to get started on Data Science. Looking forward to the next set of courses. Thanks! +Great intro. Having no coding background, this was still a good blend of being shown the basics but still having to figure out a few tiny things on my own. +Getting things set up is not that exciting, but a necessary part of it. I'm looking forward to learning more. +Great kickoff course +Great intro to the tools of the trade and what you need to get started in Data Science +This course is (as stated) suitable for beginners on the subject. It gives a very good introduction to it, and helps people learn more about what the data science is all about, how it works and which tools are usedby data scientists.This course helped me to determine if the path I was thinking of taking as a career options is really interesting for me at this point. +Good advises not only for this course, in managing own's difficulties and good tutorials for this tools installation. +Probably more useful for someone with no background in programming. +Finished +Very helpful overview of the subject. +Maybe, I am already somehow experienced, but I think that the time I spent on that was a waste :/ +This introductory course is a good overview, goes pretty quickly through the basics, and gets you prepped for delving deeper in the subject matter. Planning to sign up for the next course in this certificate program. +Basic tools for shareing and develop that right now I don´t consider usefull. In the other hand, the content is well explained so right now I new how to use new tools. +Too little information, i think course need to be a bit bigger +Fast tour around the Data Scientist world. +This course must be a part of another courseres. +Good introductory course, but could offer a bit more of a challenge, with actual (basic) problems. Learned about R, although not programming, and more about GitBash and GitHub. +Not much substance to this course +It is great to have this course as the introduction to the specialization. +Great starting point for Data Science. Gives a very good intro to all the tools used for working with data. +Great!!!! +Nice introduction but actually very little content +very good material +Setting up the environment is often the tricky part that deters people from moving into, or back into coding. This class provided me with a hand-holding needed to start coding again. I recommend this course as a kick starter for those who were on legacy environments. +Excellent introduction to the Data Science world. Smooth path. Very good for beginners +i feel i just learn the superficial knowlege +Very mechanical in nature. Worth doing though as it provides essential building blocks for the remainder of the specialisation. +Great for getting all your software set up. +The instructors are great, but I think the content of this course should be embbeded in other module. Despiting being important, the topics covered here are very introductory. I recognizes, though, they are important to align expectation and to put everyone in a minimum ground of knowledge. However, I am not sure if Coursera should charge US$ 29,00 for it. +The course is great, I just think the course should has a little more content to be perfect. +I took me step by step, just what I needed since I do not have any previous education in statistics and programming. +Very good introduction to the course. +the first step to become data scientist. which is clearly explained to understand. +the lectures are full of the Prof misspeaking, this leads to you not knowing how to complete the task because the Prof can NOT communicate properly to us while we listening to the lectures... it seems like they completely missed the fact that NONE of us are data scientists...Now your Audience...... +Very helpful introduction to data science. +it's a very good course +Highest quality MOOC I've taken yet. +An excellent tutorial explaining the steps to set up the tools required. Easy to understand and effective. +An essential introduction to the rest of the specialization program, but not too much information included in the course by itself. +Thank you a lot!)) +This was useful. +Loved the format, I did find that in some cases I did need to use google and stackoverflow to get some answers forcing me to learn the subject. Overall I enjoyed my first Coursera class. +Excellent introduction at a leisurely pace. +Sets a great foundation! +Very informative and well structured course. It is highly recommended for all who are interested in advancing their careers with Data. +Students be more interactive. +Love this course! One of the best introductory courses for data scientists ! +Really enjoying the course. I'm finding it challenging but getting there through lots of practice. +Concise and informative overview of the tools needed for this specialization. +very good content +It is ok...Good overview of what is to come! +It was a good course. +I found this course a fairly easy introduction to the tools you will need for this series of courses, however I already had a rudimentary knowledge of Linux and Bash Shells. For the computer novice this may be more daunting. The one area that is worth spending some time on as an investment for the future is git and git-hub. Understanding how these work together is not transparent. It took me a while to figure out what I had to do to push committed files to a remote site. I think suggested reading could be more specific to guide people in this area. +Gives a great foundational overview of what Data Science is, as well as getting your technical environment set up for the future classes in the Data Science Specialization path. +Too easy +So far this course is pretty amazing. +Videos provide a useful overview. The week quiz kept me accountable to finish my work. The final assignment was straightforward. +A good intro course - however, it's up to one's own initiative to work independently in order to test out what you've learned from the video lectures. +The overall outline are great. However, the contents and requirements of this course are too simple to be integrated as a whole course. I think 1 lecture should be enough. I am looking forward to deeper introduction. +Very good place to start. Tells you just enough to get started and also just enough to get hands dirty to keep learning. +Covers great data science concepts. +Great course!!!! +Great for beginners. Just take your time and you'll be able to figure everything out. +Good course +It's way to easy to be a separate course. It should be part of R Programming. +A good starting point for beginner. +Very well done online course. Thank you. +Like it very much, getting all the tools needed for the next part of the course and getting a sort of background or introduction to data science! +Easy to follow. Might be too easy for some people with experience in data analysis. However, the instructors also talk about some frameworks and insights from their experience which could be helpful for even those who have experience. +Gives a good intro to Data Science and makes sure you get the essential tools downloaded. +Not useful by itself, but grudgingly necessary to get you ready for subsequent courses in the specialization. +good introduction +Good but needs more assistance with the students. +Introductory course about general aspects of data science and basics of R and Git which will be used throughout the whole specialization. +Easily digestible and had some great links to current events relating to the course. +I have completed the Data Scientist's Toolbox. I enjoyed learning this course. I learned a lot of new concepts, installation of R, R Studio, hands-on with these and GITHUB.The lessons are well balanced and help me learn the concepts and the tool usage in a cool way. I liked the Quizzes, Assignments as these help me evaluate myself and instill confidence within me. Now, I've the confidence in work on any of these with certain amount of instructions.However, I feel that certain guidance on progressing further with respect to R, RStudio, GITHUB could be provided as additional study material.Thanks to Coursera for providing such a wonderful course and to Prof. Roger D. Peng, Jeff Leek and Brian D. Caffo for their meticulous effort in designing this course and helping in my learning.Wishing my Professors and Coursera all the Success. +Nice, reasonable introduction to the tools of this series. +Perfect start to a great course.This has to be the best learning experience everMy best regards to the team from John Hopkins +great introduction +It's a very good course for beginners. If you already hace R and gihub it may be a little boring, but remembering the basics is never a bad idea. +This course is very basic for a person with an IT background, but nevertheless might come in handy for people without relevant experience. +A real science that I enjoyed. +This is a very basic course. If you are already a software engineer you could zoom through this entire course in an evening. If you are not a software engineer and don't know what things like github are, this class could be useful. +Very good course materials, videos and quizzes. Learnt a lot. :D +Slides and videos are a bit insufficient in order to finish course projects.Apart from that, this course is awesome! +Very good course for data science beginners. +Going great till now. +Very introductory. This material could have been compressed into 1 week. +Very interesting and useful. +Good and simple +I think there are only few contents. +Gets you all set up! Essential if you're new to R +Great foundations to the field. The instructions for setting up of GitHub and R/Rstudio is clear. +Brilliantly put together and well organized. The Professors are knowledgeable +I think this course could have been done in two 30 minute videos. It jumps in with overviews but contain some high level items you won't understand until later in the course and it really doesn't give enough context to be meaningful at the time. It almost seems like it was thrown together without a clear mission of what should be in the introduction. Being a developer who has used some of the tools in this toolbox (Git, GitHub, Command Line) this intro really glosses over tools that most non developers won't understand. If I had a say in what should be in this intro it would be one video end to end of setting up the tools. The second video would be all about the history and logic and some of the applications we will be exploring without all the r formulas in the slides. +I have mixed feelings. It was WAY too easy for me, but my wife did it too and it was about right in difficulty for her. But either way, I felt like it just taught you to install stuff rather than actually teaching meaningful material. +Useful steps for starting the specialisation, but should this really be a course that people are paying for? Come on guys. By the way, some R programming concepts could be introduced here and de-clutter the congested/crammed R programming course. +Very basic introduction to Data Science. Seasoned programmer or other IT professionals are likely to find this course really weak. +Great Introductory course for R. +Clear and concise. Can be completed in a very short period of time. +It's a good preview. +A little basic, but necessary to get everything you need set up for the next classes in the series. And it does that well enough. +A great introduction +Good course about getting the basics for the Data Science specialization, but a bit overpriced, as the content is low, and can easily be done in 4-5 hours. +Great introductory course into the world of Data Science, Git and R! +A good course with high quality information and good presenters. +Good introduction class. +Good overview, I appreciated that the course gets you set up and makes you prove it. More command line and RStudio simple exercises would be nice. +This course is good to get all your programs set up before you start your studies in Data Science.I think it could offer a little bit deeper knowledge of git and github in order to guarantee it will not be a problem later, since they will not be strictly related to data science. +Although the content is correct, quality models videos and materials is very low, wanted to make all the specialization, but I'm not satisfied with the quality of the course. It's a shame, because the JHU is an excellent University +Excellent course with great didactic. Congratulations! +Great introduction! +Great course! Explains the details of what is in the content of the rest of the certificate while not being too detailed. Showed which classes will be related to the content of each part of the introduction. Did a great job of setting up all required tools for the the R programming course (which I am currently taking). +Very light & not really consistent with the heavy workload of subsequent courses. Felt it could have been much much stronger explaining GitHub- which shows up as a problem in latter courses strongly suggesting that toolbox does not effectively cover GitHub for newbies +A great introduction to some of the tools of a Data Scientist. Just enough information to get you going, but still leaves enough mystery so that some investigating and problem solving is required. +Very Basic Course. Doesn't require the time that was allotted to it. +Super interesting and easy to understand even though is pack full of information. +Too basic content.I have not learned anything with this course (installing R and RStudio should not be part of exercises or lectures).I hope R programming course will be better +This could probably be compressed into a single week of setup for the R Programming course. There isn't much in terms of substantive learning here. +Great start to the Tools. +A good start. +Course was good, nice introduction to data science and its branches. There was not much of depth. +Great Course! Overall I would recommend. Had a little bit of trouble b/c I am using a Mac but after a few Google Searches I was on my way! +Very good composed, explains in a very good manner the complex topic, a general overview about the tools and their connection to each other would be great and helping, as there are many tools to install and understand the functions. +Very good introduction +Good introduction! +great introductory course +Very basic if one has already worked with software before. +Good foundational understanding of tools required +Not really enough content to be a course in it's own right, should be additional material as is useful, but definitely not a requirement. +The Data Scientist's Toolbox the second course that i have taken in the Coursera. I have completed this course in a short time but the course is awesome and providing info from basic and videos are helping a lot. I think to become a data scientist this is the best place to start pleased to complete rest of the course also. Thank you Coursera for providing such awesome course. +I would expect some more methodological material,\though everything else is fine +Good overview of existing tools but more information will be useful to dig into the data world. +In the course they use some tools' older versions and, for example, some Git commands shown on video are different in newer Git versions. +Very useful for introducing data science +Very informative on the tools and basic elements of the course. +Very basic material, but a good introduction and a necessary step to ensure a baseline of knowledge for future courses in the data science specialization. I would only take this course if you are interested in the specialization otherwise save your money and google the info you need. +It is perfect! +Great +A bit easy but a good base. Motivating start. +Gives you the tools you need to learn the rest of the courses, by itself is completely useless +Pretty easy and straight froward, for someone who is already familiar with Programming Editors, and Git shouldn't take 2 hours for him to finish this course including its project, so I guess it's an exciting start for someone who is new for Programming. +Very good introduction to Data Science. Well explained and great material +A good beginning to a promising journey +Insufficient available project available for review and thus unable to pass course due to technicality. This is a major problem. The course should still be passable even in the absence of sufficient other projects to review, which is a problem that no student has any control over. +The course is excellent for beginners!! +Really great introduction to Data Science and the basic tools and concepts. +Thank you son much!!!!I really like the course.It help me in my job =) +it's well done, i was expecting more details in the lessons while students it's requested to search many things on internet in order to learn, for instance GitBash. However it's a good first course +Too easy if you already know anything about github or Rstudio, although I do understand the need for an introductory course. The "Experimental Design" video was the only really useful part and contained quite entertaining examples. +Its a Great course... +I appreciate the opportunity to study in this institution. +Very Interesting and I continuing to learn +Decent starting course for beginners. +Good start for freshman to get into the data science field +It's a very basic introduction. Would be nice to have the option to skip it for more advanced students.Also the recorded lectures are really quite, so you have to turn up the speaker a lot. +This course should be a free trial for whole specialisation. IT will be more helpful for students to know what is further stored in the specialisation. +I really liked it!Good and interesting course! +It is useful to get to know the software that staticians use and some review about them but it doesn't teach you how to use them. A good introductory course for the specialization track but useless as a unique course. +It's fine, but mabe quite easy. 4 Weeks are too much. This course could be done in a couple of days. +The course is very simple +Is a very nice course. Is very basic but exposes you to the tools most used in the trade. If you have any IT background you will not probably benefit that much, except in learning what kind of tools are relevant to data science. +Loved it! +Good Start +Super basic introduction. I liked the last section reviewing data science methods and conceptual ideas. +Good ground level introduction to data science. +The real basics of data analysis. The course is not bad I would just say it may be too simple even for an introductory course +Great primer on how to get started. +This course was a great start. It was simple enough to follow, I guess the real deal is in future courses. Definitely leaves a good impression for the rest of the specialization! +a helpful toolbox intro to get beginner started. +Great introduction to the different tools that a data scientist will encounter and use, including RStudio, Git, and GitHub. I would have appreciated more practical experience linking Git and GitHub, as that is critical for version control of code. +Very great to have a course centered on installing and using the required software. +Very helpful course, an excellent introduction to the field. +Needed a step-by-step information sheet about what R Software and Tools need to be downloaded with links. +Thought it was too easy to be its own course :) +good introductory course +Pretty easy, but totally necessary information needed to continue down the track. +good and easily manageable. +It is a good course, however, I would have liked deeper knowledge in git +Very nice course gives insight to the basic tools useful / required for being a data scientist. +Good and basic understanding of terms.Can be made vast. +Very basic, but gets you up and running with R, Git, and Github. I was self-taught, so this course was good to consolidate and refresh on the basics. +Great course overview and prep for Data Science. +This course is good if you have zero background in R and using GitHub. It'll walk you through installing what's necessary and give you basic tips on how to use them. +Good, clear introduction to Data Science. Looking forward to the rest of the modules! +The Data Scientist’s Toolbox is a great way to dip into Data Science and the methodology behind it. The course is very general, and makes an effort to cover the bigger scope of things without delving deep in any. More than anything, it's a great way to learn the components and uses of data science and set a framework for all that will be coming after.The materials are very well laid-out and almost feel like attending college classes. The visuals and slides are a little dry, but the pace is lively enough to maintain momentum at all times. +It's a very superficial introduction. +The course was very helpful and instructions were concise and easy to understand. Great for those fumbling around to scour the net for which tools to start with. +Very good introductory course to start with on Data Science +Good introduction to data science, primary tools and what the spec. course is about. +good pace and introduction,thanx +The part of explaining Predictive and Inferential Analysis is confusing. I think it won't hurt to give some more specific examples and methods used in each case. Both types of analyses involve sampling, so I think it is necessary to keep it clear how that sample can be used to either "infer" or "predict". +Very little information for the cost. I was done with the whole course in a few hours. The review in the next course covered most of the same things. It certainly wasn't worth the price. +This is a good introductory course to some of the tools but it doesn't go into the details of R programming or Data Science. +great intro! +You will learn some command line commands, git, Github, and what you will need for eventually using R.I was a bit annoyed that this course is a requirement for the Data Science certification (which is what I am after). I already knew everything taught in this course and was a bit annoyed I had to pay for this in order to complete the track. I think 'courses' that are fully setup like this should be opt-in not required. +Quite basic, but good to set the needed programs +Good intro and start of your data scientist career in my opinion. +Good prep for R!!! +great introduction into data science. thanks +Helpful in getting all the tools installed and a "sneak peek" at how each is used. +It is unfortunate that I was only able to audit this course and not take it for free without the Coursera certificate, as it is currently not possible for me to pay for the whole course. +Great Startup kit. +Good course to start your basic understanding of Data Science. +I enjoyed the start up course and look forward to more, but am battling to figure out how to sign-up for the next step all roads seem to force me back to the Toolkit. +Good introduction to data science necessary tools. +Very simple to understand and very well explained. As a start to the tools used, it is very good. +My first step in my new world...I love it! +The videos were thorough and clear. This made learning easier. I also appreciate the informational tid bits about the data science field, including the history. :) +Just shows you how to install rstudio and github, rather slow-paced. +Brief and great introduction to Data Scientist arena +Very short and just a basic overview on how to install a few tools that most of them I already had installed. All this course content could be packed into an introductory lesson instead of having to pay for it. I abandoned the specialisation because of this, I know it's a big business but at least you need to offer some value for the money +good way to start a very wide course +I think more detail statements are needed on PDF.Because I'm not good at listening, so I studied by PDF. +It is a good Introductory. +Great Start to a an informative specialization! +Great Introductory Course, strongly recommend anyone thinks to pursue their career in this area! +A good course for identifying the field of data science and introducing the computing tools of the trade. +Very helpful since it is an introduction to the tools we are going to use and does not assume you know everything before starting the course! +Well. I don't think this could be categorized as a course. You can think of it as table of content for the specialization. +It is generally good course, but I feel it is just a combination of very little tools, skills and ideas. I believe it is quite complicate for me to understand, esspecial git and github. I think it is better to combine this course in other courses where you need it. +Good starting point for the Data Science +This has been a great introduction to the Data Science world. I really like being able to review as need +Good start to R, GitHub and Data Science +Get way to quickly familiarize yourself with the specialization. +sample,it is fit the first study student. +Informative and helps people like me who are willing to learn from scartch. The course content though can do with a little more updation. +A perfect course to build the base in data science. +Perfect start for the followu +Great introduction course. It doesn't take too much commitment either, so getting it done will motivate you fore further learning! +Very interesting and motivating! +Excellent. I had a little trouble interpreting my lessons and completing the final project but I figured it out. I was under the impression from the previous videos and the assignment descriptions that I needed to do everything via "Git Bash" in my Mac Terminal, rather than just going and doing it all on Github.com. Either I completely misinterpreted or something was lost in translation right there towards the end. Loved the course though. +The content is very basic. The whole course took my around 6 hours to finish. I think the instructor should add more solid training on GitHub. +Interesting to know about Data Scientist and the tools. Eagerly waiting to go through the next lesson +It clearly introduces the specialization and what to expect we learn throughout it different courses +Quite simple. It could be more engaging.When downloading PDF slides, links in them should be clickable. +For someone very new to this field, this is a great introduction! +It gives the firs tools for data analysis and provides the first tools and how to use them step by step +So far this course is given at a pace that is just perfect. The instructors explain concepts in ways that make the subject matter easy to learn, particularly for someone who loves data, but is terrified of heavy mathematical concepts. I've taken similar courses at local community colleges where class size is much smaller, and have been very disappointed. So f +Good introduction of what is to come, but nothing too provocative or thought provoking. +Really nice introduction. +Good introduction about Data toolbox! +Walks you step by step getting you setup and familiar with the core software. +Don't just rely on the lectures. Use this course to introduce you to a bunch of tools that you'll need when doing data science, and then go study these tools in depth on your own. +This course covers lot of ground up knowledge on theory and essential tools. +Not much helpful course +This course is very helpful for helping me walking through my Ph.D. thesis +Good introduction to basic tools and future work. +Good course to kick start your interest in Data Science. +Interesting information about data, statistics, and programming. Loved it! +Get my feet wet with Git！ +I've learned a lot from this. Thanks coursera.org and John Hopkins University. +This was a great starter for me. I have very little experience with Data Science, especially the practical work. This provided the foundation I was looking for. +Useful couple of modules for helping you get set up with R and Git/GitHub. Really doesn't require a full month to do.The quizzes were pointless. +Very common curse about common data things. +It is really basic course, I expected much more even if this is offered only for $29.. (the cheapest course in the specialisation) +Excellent course to understand the basic of data science. +Excellent introduction to the ideas around what data science is and useful software. +Very informative. +Good Course +2 weeks in. Just got my Github setup. I already feel rewarded. +Very informative course. The Quiz questions however may not be necessarily be in the course content. +You don't really learn all that much, but then again I have experience with R and some data stuff already, so perhaps it'd be more useful for someone else. +This course is a great introductory course for data scientists. +Clear presenters.Clear video.Very helpful to understand and practice Data Scence Toolbox, esp. in R (for beginners). +Very well organized and useful. +It has been awesome kick start to my first course of coursera for Data Science +The course was nice but seemed too trivial at times of discussion about basic tools like git and command line interfaces. +The course content is very useful, but explanations are short and It's unclear how to install R studio for the Windows (I found it at Youtube). Also I had a problem how to install the R packages, and solution was simple: you should run it as administrator (it wasn't in lecture). +Great Introduction! +Great course in getting set up to take the following courses in the Data Science Specialization. Class went at a reasonable +I liked the course. Is the introduction to the data statistics specialization so it is brief, but is fine! +Great course! I would recommend compressing the audio on the video presentations so it's easier to hear and more consistent in volume level. +It is an excellent entry level course for data science tools, specially for non IT professionals. +Good introduction to data scientist's toolbox +Getting started with the tools +Completely useless. Just a number of boring videos of what you may possibly learn in Data Science Specialization. +Great course, nice ease into the Data Science specialisation. +Learned a bit but overall it is literally not worth the price of admission. I think that this course could be offered for free and maybe the others are worth paying for. Hope that the rest of the specialization is worthwhile +Good introductory course. Learnt a more structured approach to categorising statistical methods. Much of the rest of the content was a bit basic, though probably useful to fill in any knowledge gaps pre-course. +Good starter but a bit slow paced (I think intentionally). +Very good introduction to the subject. +It's a luring start for a series of courses. +Dry videos. Most classes are someone showing how they do something their way, rather than guiding or teaching with the intent to have the student absorb and re-apply principles.Very difficult for a student to absorb material from this video series +Great course!!!!!!!!!!!! +Good overview of Data Science, but geared more towards people who have little background in computer science. Info that *was* presented was very thorough. +A simple introduction. Easy to cover very quickly, however important to understand the basics before progressing. +Excellent course, well organized and very pedagogic. Requires homework and motivation, but really adapted to someone not in the field, thanks to the teachers ! +Excellent introduction to the field of Data Science. +As advertised, satisfied with the content +A brief introduction and overview of data science and the specialization from JHU. It provides necessary information and materials for the following courses, but itself does not cover much technique details. Won't take long to accomplish but still necessary if you don't know Git, Github or background of data science. +The course is primarily aimed to get you primed and set-up for the other courses in the Data Science Specialization. This is a fairly lightweight course and can be completed pretty quickly. +Cool course.. covered required basic knowledge in data science +Easy to follow and the discussion board is active. +highly recommended for newbs in any kind of development, otherwise waste of time. +It is very intresting and the jobs of the instructors are interesting as well as amazing too! :) +Good basic knowledge on data sc +It's a course which is designed to preview the other courses. It could easily be eliminated +Very easy going, but I think week 3 has much information, maybe a step by step toturial might help. +It is an excellent experience so far +Great way to star on the subject, complemented by the book "The elements of data analytic style".Good Job +Great intro to the specialization. +The course was very limited, it should have been combined with Introduction to R. +A good Introduction to GitHub and Data Science +Very nice to receive such an in-depth overview of the entire course before starting. Also: great instructions on how to get help, I'm sure I'll need it! +Good intro. Very motivating. +Very well though through and organized. +The introduction was very precise and straight to the core concepts of data science.Please include a slide with the road map of becoming a data scientist. +First experience got me hooked. I love coursera. This course, even though an introduction taught me a lot and showed me an error of my ways in everyday life. One question in the 3rd Quiz was very confusing to answer. But that's about it. I hope the rest of the specialization carries on forward in a similar maybe even better pattern. +Nice flow for the course! +Hard to follow with a lot of technical intructions right off the bat with inadequate explanation, a lot of "read more about this at ." Videos were boring and the instructor was invisible just reading off the slides. Not very engaging. +From the basic layout of the course you would assume it's for beginners since it covers step-by-step instructions to install software and run command on command line window.But on the other hand, many advanced concepts are slipped in this course without even basic introduction. I remember in one class, "data dredging" is discussed for about 2-3 minutes. But the instructor did not give a brief description about what it is, instead it just goes on about when you do not have clear question in your mind, you would run the risk of data dredging.I think the course could be organized in a better way. But I do appreciate the instructors' hard work of putting up such a 10-course specialization. +Didn't provide much info beyond the basics of git. Could have skipped this one. +Excellent introduction to Data Science topics. The course material and the hands-on project assignments speak for high quality professors. +I'm doing this training for the second time, now as a beta-tester. Particular comments about lecture content, problems, etc. have been put in every lecture.General comments, in short:1) Related to the new platform and UI design:_ It is cleaner and simpler than the previous one. I like it, BUT..._ It lacks of some useful features: saving intermediate results in quizzes before submit them; calendar; limited number of subforums._ The most relevant flaw: there are not downloadable versions of lecture slides. Unacceptable! No way to check most of the links we saw in slides (URLs not visible)._ Description and steps in course project appear "too packed" together. I prefer the former design.2) Related to content:_ The course is mainly for preparing students for the rest of data science specialization program. When you said "toolbox" you mean the concrete toolbox you will need to do the program. Some people expect to have a general introduction to data science but that is only a half of the content. I think this is clear enough in the presentation but for some reasons there are people in forums who protest the content, so maybe you should insist more in this fact._ I would like to suggest some kind of reorder of material: week 2 is all about installing a running tools and week 3 about key aspects of data analysis. Maybe you can split both types of content between wk2 and wk3 to make wk2 more appealing for not technical oriented students._ Git is a source of problems for a good portion of people. See my comments in lectures about how Git is explained. +I would like to report some major issues with the new interface.1) We don't have access to the slides anymore. This is a major issues since some of the slides content important links. These links are not shown in the transcript (I've double checked).2) When we try to download the videos, subtitles or transcript, the resulting file name is the same for all content of the same type. More specifically, all videos are named "index.mp4", all subtitle files are named "subtitles.vtt" and all transcript files are named "subtitle.txt". This makes it more difficult for the student to save the files. In the previous version I would only right-click and saved in the right directory. Now, I have to right click, type the right name (which could be long sometimes) and then save the file.3) In the previous interface, it was possible to see all the threads we were subscribed to. It is no more the case. It is not a problem right now, because there is not a lot of posts, but in cases where the number of post increase, it will be a pain to go through the list of threads and find the ones of interest.Please ignore the review for now, I couldn't submit my comments without reviewing the course.More comments may follow later... +The new graphic is really nice and helpful. Even the fact that you can retake the quizzes after 8 hours is really nice. I have noticed that there wasn't any possibility to download pdf files of the lessons (or I didn't see it), the last time I took the course there was this possibility and I found it so helpful. +The great end of the great course.This course allows to dive deeply in the Could Computing Technologies and use those bunch of theoretical knowledge gained during first 5 parts. +This was advertised as a six week course, but the deadlines make it a two week course. The assignments are exceptionally challenging given that the instructors offer now actual instruction on how to perform them. Two and a half days into the course not a single moderator has answered a question in the forums and I can't find a way to contact Coursera about this problem.I am very disappointed. I was planning on taking additional courses through the Coursera platform, but now I am reconsidering. +I am disappointed because the course doesn't provide profound material on data analysis with python. The videos are too short and the samples demonstrated in the videos aren't thoroughly explained. For instance, the speaker often only says what she is doing but not WHY she is doing it or what the function of a particular parameter is. I felt left alone and forced to google. In my opinion it cannot be the purpose to make your student google basic things that could easily be integrated into the course.Considering that this is labelled as a beginner course I was expecting much more theoretical input. Other courses offer additional slides and scripts that are aligend with the course videos and allow the students to look things up. +Excellent course. I do recommend this course for anyone who is interested in analytics. +I would prefer more coding example provided by the professor, I will be super useful. +The course was informative and stretched me a bit. +The course is really helpful for beginners and is explained in a very simple manner. +The instructions for submitting through Tumblr are not specific enough, especially after Week 1. +Terrible. A waste of time and money. I recommend doing Statistics with R from Duke instead. This one should be taken off coursera. +As an English speaking student, I felt this course was easy to follow and translated a complex subject into a step by step process of interpreting data. I like the hands-on development of a research question and learning the SAS and PYTHON Data Analytic software coding to extrapolate information from data sets. I didn't like the fact that it was difficult to get an instructor to respond in the forums and very difficult figuring out how to contact Coursera with any problems. +Great course! Thanks! +Perfect for beginners +Being the first ever course I took seriously with, it was fun and a new experience. Liked it. The way of teaching, the unique grading technique used by coursera, the tutors were perfect and to sum it up it was much more than I expected. +got to grips with SAS +Very helpful videos and clear explanations. Easy to follow up. +The course is great otherwise, however the certificate of this course just completed 'Data Management and Visualization' with no mention about the skills learnt or the grade attained.Primary reason I enrolled to the course was to list 'SAS' (basic) as a skill in my resume, however the certificate does not mention anything about SAS. If at least the certificate said completed 'Data Management and Visualization with SAS', it would be a good value for money.I strongly recommend Coursera should look into this. Thanks! +This is a good course. I have done stats in the past so i was using this as a refresher but also to advance my python skills a bit more. I think you should take an introduction course to python first. you will get more out of the coding examples. I suggest the Intro to Python by the University of Toronto at Coursera. I found that to be an excellent course.I find that in these lectures they do a great job in explaining the stats theory. They do not dwell to much into the science behind it but more the applicability. This is all good. You can simply do a little additional research and get the pure science behind of it all +perfect first touch with data management +Very good summarization and introduction of data analysis process +Course content good but a little too basic in my eyes. I think the addition of more functions in SAS/Python would be useful. Having to do peer reviews is also not ideal. +A decent start for anyone interested in learning the basics. However, please make sure you add extra efforts from your end in understanding stats concepts if you are totally new to the subject as well as browsing things related to usage of SAS or python. The course touches only the basics so it is up the learner to explore and learn more about interested statistical tool. +Totally just marketing materials! Don't waste your time with this school at all! You cannot learn a program in a couple of minutes! +A very beginner level course aimed at starters who dont have much experience with Data. Emphasis was on teaching Data Management with area of our interest. In Order to support this, assignments didnt had clear objective. I would have learnt a lot more through a course had they been more defined assignments.Not a course if you are looking to be ready for data related interviews. However, this course will be okay if you are working on some other field and want data management as an extra skillset. +My name is Jose Antonio from Brazil. I am looking for a new Data Scientist career (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseantonio11)I did this course to get new knowledge about Data Science and better understand the technology and your practical applications.The course was excellent and the classes well taught by teachers.Congratulations to Coursera team and Instructors. +Great course, clear introduction to concepts and code +Good classes for learning SAS +It is a good beginners course but I think there are better lessons in SAS and Python if learning these is your goal, and the content in data cleaning and visual analysis is very basic. +Very nice course! Good starting point of learning SAS! +Very easy and very helpful course +Good Course simplistic way in explaining core concepts +Excellent introduction to SAS no matter what your field of research. Videos are clear and easy to follow. Looking forward to doing the next course. +The professor and instructors don't understand how to properly write SAS programs and ignored constructive feedback. It's very sad to see students follow suit by producing hard to read codes, ignoring programming conventions.As an analytic leader in healthcare industry (I am supervising some of my junior level team members to get some basic training), I want to say something to the students graduated from this course: if you program the same way as being taught, you will lose a competitive advantage during job interview. +This course didn't talk too much about data management and visualization, which made me feel quite disappointed. And you couldn't feel you could practiced what you learned in the course in the assignment. Most part of the assignment just focused on making some comments. +I'd pick 3.7 or so, really. The applied nature of the course is nice if you have a project in mind and to see the programming you learn in action. Without it, it might not be worth it because you could learn a lot of the SAS programming for free from SAS itself using their beginning programming coursework offered online (in fact potential students may consider taking the SAS programming essentials course before taking this because you learn a lot about the SAS coding framework that comes in handy for this class). +wonderful study experience！ +Really smooth conduct of people in videos and excellent way of explaining things. Very excited to keep going to see what this specialization has to offer further. Thank you. +Very Knowledgeable and interesting course. +A fantastic course for beginners, and an extremely useful tool to learn! Recommended for anyone who wants to get started coding or increase their work skills +This course is very good especially for beginners getting started with SAS or python for data analytics. The lessons are very clear and easy to understand. Learnt a lot of valuable information and also enjoyed it. +It is a very nice course, although I was expecting something a little deeper / denser on both statistics and SAS programming. It is getting better on Module 2! =) +It's very clear and innovative! +Excellent course easy to understand and very practice evaluation +Nice introductory course to learning both SAS and Python in data analysis! I look forward to taking the next course! +I appreciate the fact that this course doesn't go into the fine detail on how to code everything, I believe there is still more information on the coding and data management practices that could be included in the course content. In addition to that, I feel the course could use the following adjustments to make it better:1 - Have Python students grade other Python students and SAS students grade other SAS students. While it is nice to get exposure to another language, it is more than enough to learn one at a time.2 - Add quizes and/or other well formed questions that are graded (automatically, not peer graded) to help enforce the concepts being taught.3 - Make the assignment instructions/expectations more clear. I feel there are times when the grading criteria don't exactly match the requested assignment. While people follow the spirit of the assignment, the grading questions may ask for slightly different or additional items.4 - Certain aspects of statistical analysis are glossed over and should be covered in more depth in the training videos. While I like the short videos for brevity, I would prefer to watch 10-15 minutes more content and really feel like the material was well covered. +It was really good. +I think the course is wonderful for beginners. For somebody trying to learn this on her own, I found this course extremely helpful and easy to grasp. +Great way to get started in this field! +It was a great course for me! It gives a very important basic of statistic & visualization.I really appreciated the way it was presented. +It is too small and shallow. Whole specialization is actually one full course split into 4 tiny parts. +Great! Easy to follow, very well video lecture, and very useful! +Great +This course states that it is for people with no knowledge in SAS. I had to go online elsewhere to learn SAS before completing this course. There are free SAS tutorials on the SAS webpage - I highly recommend completing them before trying this course. +Choosing an actual research question allows you to find a topic of interest. This makes the content more meaningful and accelerates understanding of the concepts. +It's very useful. +This course is very simplistic, but interesting. I was able to complete the first 3 modules within a week, however I am somewhat skilled in this area. I was looking for something more difficult. However, my main goal was learning these techniques in python. It was frustrating that it took so long until we actually produced graphs (I don't like just looking at tables). However, all in all, it was useful and interesting -- I really like the applications-based approach. You get to analyze data about whatever YOU are interested in! +Course material needs to updated to reflect current software updates. +perfect class +There is a lot of self-teaching with these courses because there are no professors present to reach out to with questions. In addition, the course staff do not always respond promptly nor are they fully knowledgeable about all aspects of error messages that may arise out of coding. At times the code that were provided in the lecture videos were out of date and a lot of time was spent on googling to find the updated code. This is definitely not a beginner coder course and I do not recommend it to anyone who has not coded before. +there is not enough instruction of using SAS online~ +Simple material, and nicely presented. Good choice for beginners +Simple and powerful Course. If you are a beginner. Just follow the instructions and Assignment Schedule. The course may seem a bit easy, if you are good at math and have some prior programming experience, yet you can be surprised with what new you learned by the end of the Course, considering the time you spend. Also you develop sound reasoning to answer your own questions regarding handling and presenting Data. The clarity you develop is worth it. +The content is easy to follow and is clearly explained without adding unnecessary complexity at this entry level. This specialization reaches its goals. Instead of trying to over achieve it keeps things simple.I would recommend taking the "Data Science Specialization" as the next step. +It was good overall, some of the course materials were a bit sparse. You had to do your own research into getting packages working in spyder etc.I'd probably recommend that learners learn some python separately and read the docs for pandas. +Very superficial. Too few in statistics, too much in python and SAS. +simply a great start to data science , very practical skills +The course videos are fantastic +Well done. Thank you. +Awesome course. Thanks Prof. +Thank you so much for the course!I liked the research project, it game me a lot of interesting knowledge. I thought in the beginning it is pretty easy course but the last assignment took me a while. +I saw little interactions between students and in the discussion list. But I liked to learn a new language! +Great introduction to quantitative data analysis and a great refresher for those of us who have been out of it for a while. Presented well, the videos were great, and I enjoyed it very much. +The perfect pace for students new to statistical programming. +Easy to understand! +The course has its positives, but overall does not perform well instructing on the use of the two statistical software offered (SAS & Python). At the beginning they offer multiple data sets to use and formulate a research question, but all the examples utilize only one data set and do not cover the differences you might face with the other data sets - leading to a lot of missed opportunities. Additionally, the tutorials for using the statistical software do not lend themselves towards a thorough understanding and more to a route learning. +Very good introductory course on managing, subsetting, and manipulating data with SAS or Python. +Very disappointed about this course. The topic is very interesting, for me at least, but the course organization is horrible. Lectures do not provide enough information to complete the assignments. Zero interaction from course staff. Issues with getting assignments graded. In previous session the staff just refered you to the coursera helpdesk, but you cannot easily contact coursera directly.Main focus of course seems to be earning money and not educating. Be warned and don't pay for this course!I really don't get why this course has so many good reviews. +Very good references - codebooks and examples. +So far, course is one of the best I am taking. It moves at a slow enough pace that you feel you can actually learn explore but at the same time are not bored. The videos are well done and have the right balance of interesting content and skill building. +Very well organised and I really admire the project based approach that is and will be followed throughout the specialization.Thank you +The highest video production values of any class I've seen on Coursera so far. Unfortunately, that's the best part of the class; the support is simply nonexistent (a post by someone associated with the staff from a previous run of the course suggests getting help troubleshooting Python from Coursera staff), the instructions for the class software are out of date, the source material for the assignments is sometimes unsuitable to the task you're asked to perform (e.g. statistical analysis on a data set aggregated from disparate sources), and the pretty videos are at times completely unrelated to the actual assignments (the very first week with the literature review). Dropping this specialization like a hot coal; it looked quite promising, but the aggravation over the poor organization and lack of support considerably outweighs anything I could get out of it. +Very nice lecture videos and explanations! Totally worth it +The course is a very good introduction to Python for data exploration and management.That being said, it focuses too much on categorical data analysis, and I felt the transition to quantitative/continuous data was not very well done.Moreover, some more explanations about several Python functions or coding choices could be better explained.But it's encouraging to see this type of statistical course for Python and not R!! Again! +Great course! Perfect for starting in analysis of data +I really enjoyed this course. Have been using Python for years but never jumped into data management and visualization. This course helped me doing that and presenting results in a beautiful and useful way.I am not rating with 5 starts because the rating system is cumbersome. I submitted my first assignment late and they were not peers to review my work so I am still waiting after a month of rejoining the course. +It is one of the most structured course that I have ever seen On line and is very simple to understand. +The content is OK, but that's about it. Near zero interaction from staff, short videos leave a lot to be desired, and worst of all, there seems to be a problem getting everyone's assignments peer reviewed (which makes no sense).There is a somewhat comical thread wherein staff direct students to contact coursera directly via a "contact us" link on a page, but get this, the link isn't there. Students repeatedly pointed this out only to get directed again to the non-existant link. In an online forum it's important to actually address concerns. Replys that avoid directly addressing concerns sound like automated messages. And that's the feeling I get here.This course requires a DIY attitude and a willingness to proceed without feedback.If you're looking for a good example of online learning, look elsewhere. +The slides are excellent and instructions are clear and to the point. But that point is very limited. The main negative about this class is that there is absolutely no student/TA/teacher feedback and you're pretty much on your own learning. +I have never used SAS. I have done minimal statistics and my major in university was Sociology, which I did 20 years ago. So needless to say, I don't remember much. This course was easy to understand and was structured in a way to build upon knowledge from one week to the next. +this is not a review its my personal progress bar +I love blogging and i love data science. This course brings the best of the both worlds :) +Bad material, poor graphics, wrong mc questions in videos.More hype content than a course.This is not the way to learn Python, seriously don't take this one +Great step to learn data analysis in SAS! +Wish they offered R +excellent, thanks +The support from the faculty and the website is beyond explainable bad. The user interface gets stuck without reasons. There is no direct way to contact the faculty, if you are stuck on any assignments. There is hardly anyone who responds to the feedback that is sought for!!I will never recommend someone to do this course. +They put a lot of effort into this course, but especially for the videos it was a bit too much. So many different visual backgrounds, sounds, music, text floating it... It's as if they just wanted to use everything, while never thinking about when it would start being too distracting. +Beautifully designed course. Really helps me understand basic data analysis and improve reporting skills. +Good Learning experience and loved the way of teaching. +I really enjoy learning from the teachers of this prestigious Univresity.Videos are not boring and the material is great. +Well presented and useful; assignments mirror lectures +excellent course especially for those interested into playing with data +Really enjoyed this class. Just wish it could've gone into more statistical depth. +This class is well produced and suitable for people who might be a little intimidated by coding or statistics. It's definitely a great place to start, and with only a few hours a week and simple pointed assignments, it was a soft re entry for me into the academic world. +good but i thought it will cover most of SAS technology. But it has covered basics only . +Amazing Course! +Great course. +A great idea to create a project based online course. We should focus on application based learning not on lectures. You need improve this course still. 4 weeks are to short.We need more deep and more weeks. +Great course, teaching end-to-end on how to select data, "prep" it up, analyse data using SAS/Python and create custom visualizations. The project based course makes it more enjoyable as students can quickly apply the principles presented in each week's videos. The resources to learn Python and SAS may not be make you a "star" programmer (since this is not a programming course), but are more than adequate to get a newbie learn enough to process data and work effectively. Definitely recommend to anyone to get an excellent head-start on data analysis from a business and academic research perspective. +This is the best Course and Specialization I attended ever in my life. The way of presentation, the content(examples and detail) are really amazing. This is the course that any layman can understand. I would recommend to anyone who would like to understand and work on Data Analysis.Hats-off to the Profs and team. You did a fabulous Job. Thank you!! +I thoroughly enjoyed this course! The videos were very engaging and interesting, and the instructors did a great job of explaining all kinds of different scenarios involving copyright and how to evaluate the potential use of copyrighted materials. I would highly recommend this course to anyone that might be interested in it! +Excellent course, wonderful links to references that will be extremely important even after the class completes. Would like a disclaimer that this class should be taken BEFORE the Copyright for Multimedia class. +Highly recommend this course. +A very essential course that all educators, authors, academicians (and librarians) should take. +Excellent course! Many thanks to the three excellent instructors! :) +Very informative course presented by knowledgeable instructors. Gained a greater appreciation for the pros and cons of copyright, in addition to a respect for the complexity and nuance in this area. +Great Course that teaches well about copyrights +The assessments were exceptionally useful because they were very realistic examples, close to the course examples but not so close as to not make the learner think.I enjoyed the engaging team teaching and the clear high competence of the instructors. There was also an engaging switching of presentation modes (slides, team teaching discussion, presentation by one / two / all instructors).I would like you to maybe add a page where I can find links to all course handouts and further readings. This would made reviewing easier (instead of finding it again from each individual page in the course; page loading times in coursera can be quite long). But this is really the only wish I can add. In every way a well-rounded great course! Thanks a lot! +Really good. +This is a fabulous copyright course for academic professionals! If you've ever had questions about copyright law in an academic context, take this course! +Thank you. +Great information! Well organized. +This course helped me better understand the complexity of copyright. The teachers gave many useful examples and scenarios to clarify the frameworks and concepts of copyright. The course is well organized into manageable sections. The video lectures are extensive, and I did spend considerable time viewing them and completing the reading. This course is not what I would call easy. Be willing to put in time to complete this. I highly respect professionals who deal with these issues on a daily basis. +This course is great for online freelance writers! I have learned a lot! +Excellent course! Many materials, very good lectures and very practically comprehensive exercises. Congratulations. +Excellent course and teachers!! +Wonderful course! I found it very informative! +Clear, accessible, excellent materials for review and the discussion boards are invaluable. +Great course -- wonderful overview of copyright (especially for someone who didn't take the course in law school)! I appreciated the teamwork displayed by the instructors and their clear knowledge of the relevant subject matter. I wish I could get Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit for this course; it's so much better than most of the CLE I've taken! +I want to learn this since my childhood days. Thanks for keeping this course for me.Love you coursera.. +Wonderfully informative and intriguing. +Great team and good information. Logically organized. I'd love to find a similar course for writers, not just educators and librarians. +A great course that acted as an eye opener for me!! Thank you Duke University and thank you Coursera! +Organization of the class is clear and easy to follow. However, it might be better to place the Supplementary Readings after the Essential Readings for each unit. At times I would miss these required readings on the outline. Other times I would think they were required readings for the upcoming unit, when in actuality they were still part of the required readings for the previous unit. Most of the time, I come across the supplementary readings after the quiz has been taken. And when you're following the steps on the website the computer screen determines where you go once each step is completed. The quizzes at the end of each unit should be placed at the end of each unit. I appreciate the ability to take quizzes at least three times and that you use the same quiz for each time it is retaken. Something I would change about the quizzes is, that the quizzes display the questions that were asked, instead of just marking with a green check mark or red X next to the number and the question that was asked, once the quiz has been submitted. The videos and transcripts of those videos is very helpful. The videos are very clear and easy to understand. The content of the supplementary readings at times went over my head, but the content is both helpful and useful information.The due dates for each assignment was reasonable and flexible. Aside from including the questions asked for each quiz after submission I would change your policy of establishing the honor code. When attempting to have my picture taken along with my ID to establish identification my head didn't quite line up with the Head Frame displayed on my screen and the button needed to be pressed in order to take the picture. The button was either not visible or the head shot frame was too high up.I understand the need to establish ones identity during online classes, but wouldn't it be better to create a electronic pledge for the students to agree to? One that would uphold and honor the Coursera Honor Code; When someone is asked to type the same sentence repeatedly they're typing speed can increase because of the familiarity of that sentence. Also, the need to take more than one photo of the student before a quiz might make them feel uncomfortable. Especially, when the student is taking a quiz later in the day and may not exactly be "picture really". +Very professional and very useful. +An excellent introduction to copyright law for those in education! +This course does a great job laying the foundations of a very complicated legal world of digital and other media with repect to what consitutes fair and legal use, verses what is inappropraite use.A Must Take Course for every student who uses the internet. +This course offers the most easy and informative way of understanding copyright laws. Though the course appears to focus more on the US Law, the instructors actually offer a guiding framework that can be used globally. +Very useful +Very clear and easy to follow. +Wonderful course! +A great course +very useful and well explained +Good introduction to the Analytic Solver Platform for Excel used for various prediction and prescriptive modeling. Could use better integration of slides and transcripts but that is a personal preference since I like my notes to read more like a textbook rather than spread across a simple text file, a video, a sparse PowerPoint deck, and some Excel workbooks. Too disjointed for easy review in my mind. +I love the course ... its Awesome ... Thanks Coursera +Great course! +very good course +it was very useful course specially that content about construction technology trends and the guys delivered it very simple and covered almost most of construction management topics. can't wait to the next course from columbia university +It is so far the most demanding of Coursera courses I have done, but very worthwhile; the breadth of knowledge is immense. Only one or two changes could be made to make it more palatable - one half module is very US-centric, and the last week is very full in coursework, which makes it extremely hard to complete. +Best in class... +very good course! +Great course, I would just like to suggest more numerical examples on the Lean module +Great course. thanks a lot! +most enjoyable ! being on the next unit ! +a very good foundation to introcude us in the construction´s world +Very interesting course. I would reccomend it to everyone. The only thing that was not so useful for me were modules which are very specific such as Bonds. However, these might be useful in the future, for we dont only work where we live.Great course! +Recommended for entry-level young professionals. +Great intro to CPM! Highly Recommend +Great introductory course on Construction management. I liked the module on technology trends the most. +I loved and enjoyed this course it was very helpful and understandingThanks +Most of the courses/lectures seemed to be very basic Project Management principles. Some lectures did give a good background and high level understanding of Construction Project Management, but expected a bit more in depth info.Last lesson/assignment required more research on my part as it required general construction knowledge. The reason I took to this course was to get a better, high-level understanding of construction project management and planning, however, the Job Logic assignment expected that I would know what all is involved in the technical workings in construction (i.e. excavation, prepping, waterproofing, etc.) in which I have no experience or knowledge. A 2-hour assignment took me more than 3 hours to complete. +Well explained, specially liked the new trends in technology class. +Great course! +itisa really industry related programme and very useful . +Overall it's good. Depending on the customer's level of experience in construction. Some of the classes are very basic knowledge. But the structure of the course is consistent. +This is a very educative and interesting session. My knowledge about construction management has improved. +very good course +Not all the parts are useful for European construction market, but it's very good quality information. Thank you! +Great course! +I did not think the instructors were very engaging. For the most part they read from slide decks that were also on the screen. There should be more visuals and discussion about what it is like to work in construction management. +Great content, well organized. I like the lecture with the visuals and the slides to review after the lecture. +Excellent Course. Well presented and a joy to study. +this is very good for those people who are under construction manangement.please follow this course. +Thank you so much for the opportunity of learning and improving myself. It has meant a lot personally.Last year I was layoff shortly after giving birth my son in USA, had to repatriate to my home country, and have been unemployed ever since. Became a stay-home mom for the first time in my life, after 13 years of sucesfull career. I needed SO MUCH some brain work, adults time, international environment and also desesperately to fill in the gap in my career.Thank you. I apologize for making it personal, but I thought you would like to know how teaching can postively affect someone else.I don't know if will land a job and advance in my career, or if I will have to almost start over again. Regardless, I am greatfull to you all for bringing some professional meaning to my life during this really hard time.Thank you so much. +This is a really good introduction to construction project management. I have learn some basic notions and I would thank you for that. +it was a very useful course with a huge amount of information and so related with practical live +Good introductory course. Light on details, but can't do without. +Covered all key aspects of construction project management. +many thanks +Such a gr8 course!I am still in the middle of the first week but i can see -as i have completed more than 3 courses in Project management here in COURSERA - that its content is very rich and maybe more better than any course over here. still i see that it is better to know the principles in other courses like those offered by UCI to digest the material.May thanks to Mr. Ibrahim for bringing us such experience.Happy Learning! +superb.. i love this course. +This course offers valuable information on the different aspects of Construction Project Managment. The only critic I have is that the instructions/grading rubric for the assignments are terribly vague. The assignment starts with a simple example in the videos which the student can reasonably replicate and create their own version. The problem starts when you begin the peer-assignment grading and realize the grading points are painfully specific. Now you have to go back and re-do your homework assignment after you learned what was really expected from the student. This wouldn't be an issue except that your second draft may not get graded if all of the students are done grading. Plus it's annoying to have to re-do work that you could have done right the first time but the guidelines were unclear. +Thank you. +This course is amazing! The technical material is awesome! 100% Recommeded +One of the best and engaging course amalgamated with the best and helpful people. I am looking forward for several more experiences with coursera on the path of learning. +Interesting topics, most of the lectures felt topical and cited real world examples, would recommend to someone with limited PM experience. +Awesome course! +The course content and presentation is very satisfactory as its covers the relevant topics adequately. Most of the presenters who are very experienced CEO's and Directors used very good real life examples during their presentations. +Very informative and very useful course. Full of knowledge packed. Thank You so much to all the teachers. +Clear and understandable. This course showed me how to plan with professional notation and how to schedule any activity, not only related to construction project management but in also we could apply the in any type of project management. +This course provides a very good overview of Construction Project Management. Thank you! +Great course, very informative, full of insights and practical information. +The quizzes are not set up correctly and you get marked wrong when you put in the correct answers. It seems that the course was rushed and not properly tested before it accepted students. The content is good and that is why I gave it more than one star. +Great course and right examples and very detail explanation of fundamentals, in my opinion being clear in fundamental of subject would be easier to get mastered. This course provided that to me. +A vigorous understanding of the management of construction. From job contracts down to job logic diagrams I personally left well informed and hungry for a project of my own. +Easy to grasp. Love that I can listen to lecture anytime. +Great course, it gives you the basics of construction management and an overview of important topics surrounding construction. +Great curriculum and instructors. +Great course +Amazingly covers all the areas and new advances in Construction field. I would still like to get in depth knowledge about new delivery systems like IPD, etc. +An excellent way to start this specialization! The course was clear and very interesting. +Great content and amazing methodologiy! +It's a great course, covers the basics with leaders in the industry, so you have the opportunity to learn not only theory but to listen to their experiences as well. +Very good and inspiring course. +Very well taught course, in which I learnt a lot of things even though they are the basics. I serioisly trust the contents learnt from this course will be of good use in my career. Thanks! +Good start with Fundamentals. Need to take more advanced courses to gain indepth knowledge. +GREAT COURSE. ONLY ISSUE I HAD IS THAT FEW OF THE PRESENTATION VIDEOS DIDNT DOWNLOAD. +As I'm not a Construction Manager or Project Manager, I'm an owner for my first housing project. I've found the course to be just what I needed covering the basics ang slowly getting more in depth. +Dr. Ibrahim Odeh, was capable to put a five weeks course that surpass many other courses of one year lenght, the mix of theory and quizes based on real experience of top notch professionals of the construction field was great! - I recommend this course for any project manager that want to walk a step further in construction management. Congratulations Professor Odeh ! +Great course! Keep on to the next level. +Very informative and well taught +As an engineer in a construction firm I should admit that this course is very useful for those, who start their careers in this profession. +Great Course +Gives you a good overview of Construction Management. Good selection of instructors and they know what they are talking about. Organizes course material in a very defined and systematic way. +I have been very impressed with the speakers. Each is an expert in their own field and provides interesting, well prepared materials. The speakers do an excellent job of pacing their material and keeping me engaged. +This is so wonderful but i wish i would receive the printed copy of the certificate by post too. +More than my need nice course thanks dear teachers +Defining our leadership point of view and the importance of setting clear expectations is something we don't normally do a great job at. This course and extras from Ken Blanchard provides a useful framework to do this. +The courses in this specialization keep on getting better and better. I believe that I have never had a better grounding in what coaching is than in this series. +I find this course very informative and they way Kris explains the process behind being a great coach very easy to understand. After starting up this course, I have found that I did things quite a bit differently, and some of the time, wrong. Kris has really opened my eyes to the ways that coaching could be done more effectively, meaningfully and respectfully.Thank you Kris, UC Davis and Coursera for bringing this into existence! +A good course with valuable insights, however, I'd like to see more assignments +A comprehensive and practical course for managers - wish this had been around when I first started out -- would have saved me a lot of time! The readings are great and reinforce key ideas. Techniques are easy to apply ASAP for immediate results. +Instructor is very engaging and provides additional learning resources. Content very useful for long-time and new leaders and managers. Great specialization!!!! +Very practical, logical, and delivered in a very effective manner by Kris. +Very good audio and video quality. Explanations are very understandable and given with a lot of examples. Summaries and connections between the different content parts are provided regularly. +Amazing course. Loved it!:) +Great course, just loved it. I will definitely be using a lot of what I learned here in my job. +This was an incredible course with information that I could immediately put to use in my current, middle management position. Even someone that is not in management or is at a higher level of management would benefit from the skills taught. +The course content was clearly and concisely taught. The professor expounded on concepts and gave applicable examples. The only suggestion that I would give is to provide downloadable slides in pdf format for each lecture video. +This course provided great insight and strategies on how to assess your team.This training is a must for any manager! +Kris is fantastic. If you are a manager looking to sharpen your skills, look no further. G +Great Course :) +Fantastic course and offers a lot of great solutions for establishing exceptions with your staff. In addition I liked how the course gave several examples and tools on how to have sometimes challenging conversations with them to also assess their ongoing performance. +Great course. The knowledge I received is very useful for my work. +Very nicely designed. Motivated me to explore more in Indian laws. +This is a good starter for setting and framing your copyright policies if you work with Multimedia. +Excellent, informative and engaging course! +Slow paced but wonderful +Very informative! +The course is very interesting and includes a big number of practical cases and examples. Also lecturers seem to be so nice I wish I would have an opportunity being educated by them face - to - face. +Very good course with a lot ofpractical examples and real cases to be analyzed.Format also quite nice with many small sub-lessons on each topic. +Excellent course, incredibly informative and very well taught. Highly recommend to anyone interested in entertainment as well as the laws and liability involved. +Nice course. Important in today's digital world +Excellent. Love the videos lengths, which were easily digestible. +Very informative and well organized (with a ton of resources, references, and optional further readings). The instructors were clearly passionate about the subject matter, and excited to share their knowledge with the viewers. The videos were informative, full of helpful case studies, and oftentimes, funny. Definitely learned quite a bit from this course. I would take other offerings from them, if possible! +While I enjoyed this course and learned quite a bit, I think the strong leaning of the content toward use of materials for educational purposes should be made much clearer in the class title and description. Another primary complaint is that many of the quiz questions are are poorly written, requiring assumptions to be made outside of the information presented with the question. On a positive note, the wealth of supplementary content is very helpful. +Excellent course. The tests and quizzes were challenging. I look forward to taking the copyright for Librarians course as well. +Thank you. +Do not be taken in by the simplicity of the lectures: this course is designed to make you think about and apply (very carefully) the principles of Copyright Law. I recommend it to anyone who requires a functional knowledge of the law. +I loved the course. The information was presented in a very easy-to-understand way. It has been curated very carefully with the needs of anyone who would take such course in mind. No matter if you are working on a school project, blogging or running a website it would be extremely helpful to clarify the legal issues related to your artistic work.I am a musician and found it extremely helpful in many areas of my development. +Great course, the professors are passionate and very informative. +The content is good. I learned a lot about copyright law. However, it annoys me that most of the time the instructors are looking at a piece of paper while discussing. +A great class for higher education and online learning staff. +This course is a great additon the Copyright series, I look forward to more on this topic. +Very useful course. I really wanted to find such information. Thank you +Excellent content, very good lectures and good material to share about copyright issues. +It's such a wonderful course. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot. +I've really learned much! Thanks! +very useful! +The course is very well structured, but the teacher is boring +Really worth to join this lesson. +It is an excelllent course. Helps me a lot. The quality of the information it is great and it has a very good objetives to reach in every week. Thanks so much for this kind of course. +Perfect. Very helpful to business growth. +it's a great course offering a great quality of work covering everything i needed to know about meetings and how to handle meetings in a great professional way. +Thanks. It was very useful and meaningful in my mind. I liked it +I think it is the best of 4 courses. I loved it +Its amazing learning phase for me. +The total learning process along with our instructors lectures are presenting extra flavor to our Coursera Community. I feel pride to be a learner associate with the Community. I personally salute and thanks to our Community Mentors for their excellent contribution to perform these holy responsibilities. Thanks again to them. +Good oneVacob List is very good to remind myself.Thanks. +It was not w +Great Course +BEM is an important course which gives us knowledge and practical experiences about how to organize, plan and develop a successful meeting. +really interesting, it offers a lot of information about meetings, vocabulary, exercises. +The presentations are very clear and didactic. The course is very well ordered and gradeed. +Meetings is one of the most useful courses for all professionals. +All information posted in this course is very useful and completed, I did not really expect found all it at the same place. I am completely grateful for attending this course! +Easy to understand +I expected much deeper knowledge for the course. +Great course for those who learn English. Very good tests and challenging assignments. +Please stop reading from the screen, it looks ridiculous. +This course is very helpful so far, it teaches you many different aspects of a meeting. +This is a great course and I strongly recommend it! +qualified teachers and modern teaching methods. +This is mostly a sales pitch for the professor's book (you're required to purchase the book for the class). +It is a very useful insight into community change in public health and a must for every one who want to ensure sustainability is integrated into his intervention +the course really covered information I knew but made simple concepts complex - that is just my opinion +It was a very insightful course as it showed us how community change is effected in developing countries. The case studies were practical and showed the change that occurs in reality, not just theory +An excellent learning program..a great opportunity to gain knowledge.. +It was a very informative course that helped me understand the principles behind community work. The use of case studies to explain concepts was what helped me the most. +Great Course with in-depth lectures +The course is extremely comprehensive in regards to coverage of the subject matter and the professor employs a certain mixture of academic as well as practical knowledge, which is second to none. The material is quite approachable for a range of students who may have little or extensive experience with public health/community change models of healthcare. +the course was informative to me +Very useful course for those who work in the field and want to better structure their public health activities. Plan for more time than what is written if you really want to benefit from the case study homeworks, especially if you're a non-native (even good level) English speaker, but this should not stop you from taking the course: the topic is very well addressed and the examples tremendously relevant, not to say inspiring J! +LOVE the topic/content. I would like more small assignments to solidify defining terms and ideas before applying the course ideas to case study samples. I would take more courses in this topic and similar topics! +A very good course if one is interested to practise public health in the future ;-) +This course is ideal for anyone interested in community-oriented public health. It's worth the time and effort. +A good course with many recommendations on how to build a character. +Amy Blooms assignments were so complicated and obtuse that they were hard to dive into. The lectures didn't particularly hold me , either. Often, what the lecture was titled and what was taught seemed totally unrelated. Could be improved but at least it kept me writing. +Outstanding: Provides many tools to help the author better tell their story. Yeah +I felt like the teaching was fairly abstract, and I had a difficult time figuring out how I was supposed to apply certain lessons. Overall, I did pick up several helpful hints, so the course was worth it. +I did come away with some good books/stories for reading, but would have like them to be included in the course the way it is in the Setting and Description module. I found the videos did not always lead up to the assignment, and I think the assignments could have been more clearly laid out. I still came away learning, but it did not feel very structured. To be fair, character is a sort of amorphous subject to begin with. +The course information was great and the assignments were very helpful. What lost points for the course was not the content provided by Wesleyan, which was good, but the poor effort on the part of many of the fellow students to really work on constructive critiques. For each assignment I had at least one of the three peer reviews that was useless to me to improve my writing, sometimes more. There should be a way to rate critiques so that students can't move on if they don't do the work of critiquing well. +If the week 4 was not there, i would have a 2 or even a 1 for this class.Until week 4, there was very little connection between what we were watching and what we were asked to write assignments. And the assignments were also confusing and overly restrictive. There didnt seem to be any sense in why we were asked to write those. +A well thought out course that was very illuminating. Not sure about the complexity of week 2's assignment, but overall good value. +I found this course very helpful as a step along the path to improving my writing. I really liked the course director Any Bloom, who has an engaging, calm manner and gave very useful insights into writing about character and creating characters that feel as if they have a life beyond the page. The course is well structured and the assignments well designed to help you to think about point of view and character and I found myself being able to develop a fictional character that I have had in my mind for a while. I really enjoyed the course, thank you very much. +Really great advice on writing character. I have a toolkit I can use now that I think is quite powerful. Thanks Amy. +I think Judy Bloom is a brilliant writer. She is also an engaging instructor but I found it difficult at time to discern what the salient points or "take-aways" were from the lectures. I also found the assignment to be less than clear. +I had no idea how much I didn't know! I enjoyed the class and felt like I learned a lot. Thank you! +Very useful, I love it. +A pleasure to have learned under such accomplished writers and teachers. Thank you. A beautifully well conducted course. +very great +As much as I enjoyed completing this course, as I've enjoyed every course in this program, this one feels less organised than the others simply in that the learning material doesn't clearly connect with the writing material and it was difficult to predict what the review criteria might be. I found myself guessing at the meaning of each week's modules before completing my assignments and more often than not I discovered little correlation between the videos and assignments. +Learning a lot, improving my writing, enjoying the assignments, and meeting new people. What a wonderful experience. +I truly have learned a lot, especially understanding more about my strengths and weaknesses +Amy Bloom covers a very difficult topic of craft of character in her course and she does it really well. The course is very well designed and Amy explains everything in so much detail. My only feedback is that at least few of tools and methods should be explained to students as a beginner will have an extremely difficult time in creating characters. +Great course. Incredibly helpful. +Good course (I did the free version, full disclosure). Learned enough about character development to help me with my fiction - and non-fiction. I teach creative nonfiction and you need to understand how to make the people you use compelling. Wish there was more exposition, factual step-by-step and less interviewing. Liked the Plot class better for that reason +I found the assignment instructions to be quite confusing. Some of the questions asked for the peer-to-peer reviews were very unclear. I didn't feel the course, overall, offered the same level of content and knowledge that the Craft of Plot offered. +Excellent course. The video presentations are well done with information that is vital for developing the skill required to be an effective writer. They include videos that discuss concepts and interviews with successful writers. The assignments are challenging but enjoyable and well paced. This the second course I have taken in the specialization, and I am pleased with the big level of expertise that is shared by the instructors. +I loved how Amy Bloom gives us advice about writing believable, complex and alive characters. The course was excellent in every aspect. I loved the peer-reviewed assignments, the video lectures and the interviews. Definitely, one of the most useful courses out there to learn about characters! +Excellent course. It regenerated my creativity which is what I hoped for and it cleared up some confusion I had about point of view. +Terrific class that does a great job of teaching how to write believable characters. I also learned a lot about how to incorporate your characters in your setting and how to write different points of view. +I am honestly not a fan of Amy's teaching style. She seems to have a discussion with herself about character building techniques but not really explain the technique nor structure it for the student.There are too many shop talks.I would rather have a structure explained to me and then hear a discussion... the way Brando Skyhorse does in the Plot course... really a let down. I will have to buy the book she keeps averting I guess... after spending quite good money on the course already. Pity +I don't know how to thank Amy Bloom for this course. Her positive aura and the help of the other writers taught me a lof things about creative approaches for creating a character and all other stuff about character creating. Thank you very much. I'll continue to the specialization. +What a pleasure to learn from Amy Bloom! +I feel very inspired especially learning from the interviews. Even when I know I can't afford the course, just watching and listening to the videos is enough for me. The videos are educational, hinting famous stories that I would love to read. +Is too bad that for those who can't pay can't be evaluated on the assignments. But the whole course is very good and interesting! +This course offers great ideas and tools on how to make a character more 3D. Helpful links are offered and the discussion boards are very well done. +Great course, the instructor provided insights into what makes a character interesting. +In this course I learned how to build characters traits and bring them to life. I also learned about POVs and the difference between them. I wrote, rewrote and did it! A special thanks to Amy B. +This course is beneficial to all those who struggle with character plot. I thoroughly enjoyed it. +This course has been unbelievably useful. It has exceeded my hopes. It is well taught and the assignments have really challenged me. I have learnt just as much by reviewing the work of others. Thanks so much. +Typically writing courses deal with either the business of writing, or the pretentious art and literature side of writing. Almost nobody deals with the science of writing. Where is the talk on motivational arrows? Character likabilities like being unrelenting? Where is the meta-analysis of good techniques in writing? meta-data is the future of defining the science of writing, but it's not mentioned here even slightly. What about will he/won't he moments? Backstory interacting and being relevant to the plot? What about fish out of water? This course doesn't even touch upon foundational pillars and tenets that make good writing. I couldn't imagine paying for this course, since I've already paid too much with my time. As it stands, I could have taught a better course than this, and maybe some day I'll be so fortunate as to move writing studies in the right direction, towards the truth that older generation teachers are unwilling to accept: that good writing is empirical, and therefore can be learned. +Instructions were very unclear compared to the rest of the courses in the specialization. +I wouldn't recommend this course to anyone who's paying. The assignments instructions are too vague to understand and there's no example given. +This course was challenging and informative. The ability to speed up and slow down the video lectures is fantastic. These video lectures are jammed packed with information and I often listen to parts again and again to grasp a solid understanding. Without this feature this would become tedious and boring. The lecturers are knowledgeable and the words chosen to explain the content are spot on. Thanks. Loved it. +Wondeful information on creating characters and breathing life into them. +I very much enjoyed this course, and found it to be very useful and effective in improving my writing. The format of interviews with different writers iengaging and interesting. The most valuable part was the weekly writing assignments, and the peer reviews. The feedback I received was very useful to me, and I found that giving feedback to others also helped to advance my own insights and understanding. +Excellent lectures. Assignments were a little too "exercisey" for me. +I liked the course -- there were plenty of useful tips throughout. However, I felt some of the assignments were unnecessarily oblique and complicated (particularly the second assignment). Ultimately, it was a helpful course, though I feel much of the information, expectation, and specific instruction could be more streamlined. +Excellent experience. Instructor was very informative and the peer feedback was very helpful. +Just finished watching all the videos and it is excellent!To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. Phillips Brooks +Great course. +Excellent On-line Course in Creative Writing developing Character. Amy Bloom was an exceptional Instructor, both in her lesson planning and video lectures and interviews, as well as in her caring monitoring of the class involvement, progress and questions. Thank you, Amy, for offering us your knowledge in such an interesting and engaging form! +Just as good as the others in the Creative Writing specialization. Try them all! +Compared to other courses in the creative writing specialization, I felt that this one needs some improvement. The video lectures just didn't have enough meat to them. For example, in other courses in the specialization, there will be links to optional readings or videos, leading to a deeper understanding of the concepts. Some readings, for example, would be welcome to give example of great (or even not so great) characterization. +I absolutely LOVE this course! Thank you so much for offering them. +learned a lot! +Great material to rethink what you are working on and how to approach your characters +Excellent course. Looking forward to starting the next one. +I loved this course! Extremely useful and hands on. The course instructor was really impressive, both informative and empathetic, both arty and to the point. Totally admired her style of instruction. +The lectures in this class are well done and informative, and they provide a lot of good material. However, the assignment portion needs a lot of work. The instructions weren't clear for anyone taking the class which resulted in incredibly difficult grading. It was hard to even understand the basic ideas of what was required for an assignment.I think the teacher very much needs to go back and change the wording of the assignments, add more information in the instructions, and also post an example to show what is expected since a lot of the assignments are very strange, like a describing a character without mentioning the character in any way. +The peer reviewed assignments are next to useless, as there is no oversight on them. I think there needs to be a basic comprehension assessment done first, before allowing fellow learners the ability to pass/fail students in the course. +The excercises on the course are great, but the videos can be a little vague. +A really thorough course into making characters. I personally think that I have leaped further, in the quality of my writing. Recommend it to anyone willing to spend time to work on their writing. +Excellent teaching, be aware the meat of this course is in the interviews. If you read and watch them then the assignments are self-explanatory. The discussion boards were however a disappointment. +This course was very helpful in showing us how to create characters that writer and reader both can really know. +I like this course. I have done some good job and at the same time I can feel some disadvantages of myself. I learned how to find, create a character and how to make them alive. +Great inspirtation for practice writing +simple easy but not that easyAssignment tho it's good for you +Excellent scaffolding of exercises to provide a broad intro aspects of character development. Enjoyable, meaningful, and great teaching methodology! +Thank you. +The material is interesting and relevant. I found the assignments challenging and the review questions slightly lengthy. +I didn't find this course particularly helpful or useful. I'm not sure why, there was a disconnect somewhere, I think maybe that I didn't receive the help that I feel I still need on the subject of how to create a great, memorable, believable character. Also, some of the assignments were confusing. Nothing really stands out about this course, and it was actually a bit boring and I don't feel I learned anything related to the subject. Everything about this class needs some work: the videos, the instruction/syllabus/content, and the assignments. Sorry, I didn't like it. =( +The course was great. I really liked the way the teacher explained about the characters, it was really helpful. Also, I like the fact she suggested a lot of books to read about characters.Last, but not least the assignments to do were really interesting. I suggest this course to anybody who is interesting in writing. +This course was very interesting and the assignments were good. I thought it relied too much on conversations with other authors but overall it was enjoyable and I learned new skills. +Liked this course. It helps to make sure character is central to the plot +Amazing teacher, wonderful content - incredibly recommended! +Prof. Bloom was very interesting to watch and listen to. The course was well organized and free of technical issues, but it didn't seem quite as thorough a discussion of the topic as the plot course was. Very close to 5 stars. +I have enjoyed Amy Bloom's lectures and guidance on character. I feel as if I'm making different choices in the words that I use now, as well as focusing more on characters and how they can move (or not) a story. The assignments really helped me to lazer in on specific language that helps to illuminate character. +Good course, but assignment instructions were difficult to understand at times and no examples were given. +Very good course, gave a lot of insight on writing and specially about the character +This was a great course...so much detail and she asked to many questions that it really makes you think and then helps you to determine how to apply it to your story. Amy Bloom was very easy to listen to and learn from. The assignments were thought provoking and definitely helped me to hone my writing skills. +I didn't think there were many solid pointers...and not much that was original coming from the instructor herself. +I enjoyed the pace of this course and the constructive feedback I received from fellow students. +Very insightful .Thanks +Excellent, well-prepared professors! +Wonderful. Really helpful course. +I've got the chance to practice writing and I've learned some interesting insights, but I think the instructor didn't put too much effort into this course. All there is to it are 'shop talks' and too little structure. +This was my least favourite course in the the Creative Writing Specialisation. I learnt a bit about creating characters but I found the lessons bland and the assignments difficult to understand. +Enjoyed building my characters as the course progressed. +It is a really good course, i've got some problems with the task, because it was a bit difficult for me as my native language is Spanish, but despite that, it went all good. +This is my best course in this specialization. The assignments were challenging and fun, and it also made me realize that I'm more of a character person. I find it easier to create a character then to write about the setting. +One of the better and most in-depth courses in this field. +this was my least favorite of the classes - the lectures ere not informative, and far too lofty. The style class, the plot class and the setting class all had detailed, concrete teachings, whereas these lectures were too airy. Most of them consisted of authors chatting with each other. The assignments required real craft however, and it would have been helpful to LEARN those skills in the modules.For example, one assignment asked us to describe a character in a setting, while they were not actually there - say a divorced nurse in a hospital. Not once in the lectures were we ever taught HOW to do this. We watched a series of author fireside chats, and then people bumbled through the assignment. I really wanted Amy Bloom to just walk over to the board and draw a character and say "this is a woman, she's divorced, she's middle class, she tends to get very angry when things don't go her way" or whatever,and then draw out a list of how her internal states might manifest in the world around her - she throws things, she's disorganized, she writes mean notes in the patient charts.I wanted her to teach. She seems to think we already know how to do things like imply a characters state of mind through action. I mean, for a beginning writer, its helpful to just make a list of details about a character - where they're from, what they like or don't like, what sort of flaws they might have and so on. We did barely any of this. It was assumed we knew the basics of characterization, but most students did not!some of the other students frustration and confusion came out in the peer review, which was a bad sign. +I liked it overall, though there were some glitches and I was hoping that there'd be at least some feedback from course organizer. +The course was very helpful in navigating new ways to approach character building and finding their voice. Along with the other classes in this specialization, I feel anyone looking to improve on their writing should take this course to build stronger stories and write believable characters. +I do not understand why these courses over lap. I finished #2 today, tried to start #3 but found that I had 10 hours to complete the first weeks assignment? Who is in charge out there? +I love writing, and even if English is not my mother tongue this course is enjoyable and useful! +Great insight into character, voice and connecting with our story. The professor also references books that can be read to further our understanding. The only drawback is that auditing students cannot participate in feedback on assignments. +I like Amy Bloom, but the lectures don't provide the explanations or the processes for creating characters. In the Craft of Plot, Skyhorse gave us the tools we need to develop plot and structure, and even how to start to develop characters. But in this course, the lectures don't do that. They seem more philosophical than instructional and all of the lectures go right over my head. Craft of Plot gave me hope, Craft of Character confused me. +I didn't find this module very helpful and some of the assignments were truly confusing. I wish there was more "meat" in the sessions and more availability to access the lecturers more readily when there was confusion. I don't like the fact I pay money for other people to "assess" my work when half of them don't even read my submissions properly. Or the question. Or both. So if the lectures don't stretch me, I find my money spent unwisely. +I enjoyed Amy Bloom's guidelines and am keen to create some well rounded characters. Thank you for enabling me to follow along without having to pay ( no evaluation of the assignments). +Wonderful! Very informative. Filled with examples, literature and very interesting interviews! Thank you so much! You're a great teacher! +Another 5-star Wesleyan University creative writing course. Again, if you want to submit assignments and receive feedback from peers, this is not permitted if you're auditing the course. That aside, this course helps you consider character development on a more complex level. +I am learning a lot, particularly that I can write up to several thousand words per day; not just words, but meaningful words. +Amazing course! Thank you so much!!!!! +Good Course for Marketing +Very good course, extensive information, examples to form a clear picture on business strategies in general and in particular in emergent market like Russia. +Overall, I enjoyed the class and the content. However, I found it difficult to get feedback on the homework assignments and there isn't a way to review what you missed on submitted assignments after the course is over. Students should be able to get a copy of the solutions for the weekly graded problem sets once the course is over to keep for their records and to review what they missed. +This course was a very interesting and challenging. I highly recommended to anyone who wants to start with power electronics. The quality of the course was outstanding and the instructor really knows how to teach it. Looking forward to participate in the following courses. +Excellent course. Great professor. Homework was very helpful.Would highly recommend to any electronics student. Even if you havea PhD. in E.E., this course is a must because you will definitely learn somethingnew! Thank you for teaching! +Advanced my techniques for circuit analysis - great techniques gained +Nice anda hard course. +Very helpful course. This course has helped me in getting a good insight into Power Electronics. Thanks alot Dr. Robert Erickson. +Amazing course! +This is one of the best courses available on Coursera, it's very professionally presented and covers the topic from an academic point of view.This is not a cook-course that gives you circuits that are ready to implement, instead this course focus more on the design (from scratch) and the trade-offs involved.Also the details provided here is very deep in the topic, if you are expecting a nice easy intro course this one might not be the good choice.ISA I'm going definitely to continue the specialization and I'm looking forward to the knowledge and concepts I'll learn :) +Great course! +Aim to complete this specialization course. My interest and work both aligns perfectly with this course, and its immensely helping me out. +This is very helpful......Thank you very much +This is a very useful course +Good course. +Awesome course, very well explained! +This is a great course which teaches you several concepts about modeling basic converters. I recommend. +There is no feedback on quizzes. and no the moderators evidently do not monitor traffic in the dis. +Very knowledgeable and impressiveThanks +One of the best courses I ever had. Clear, enjoyable... only good stuff! +Best of all. Properly structured. Excellent and clear instructions. +The course is very challenging at time, but the models and formulas are all quite intuitive. Thanks so much! +Excellent! I love this course. +Great course with subjects explained in a very comprehensive way. +The course is very helpful. I feel that my skill of Power Electronic devices design increased significantly! +The course is detailed and also helps a lot to understand and reinforce basic concepts already known. +Very good, but some topics may need to be explained further, like the realization of the switches +This course was very knowledgeable. I found a great opportunity and a platform to learn something. Everything was awesome. And, I learned a lot. +Very good course +Great Course!!! +Well structured... +Great course! +Superb. Learnt a ton of new things. First lessons on semiconductor physics were a bit challenging but detailed enough to get a hold of the operation of semiconductor switches. It's great to repeat converter analysis techniques week after week so one becomes fluent with those tools. +It has been one of my favorites MOOCs, I would say a top 3 of the best courses i have taken.Even though you have to work so hard to deal with the homeworks, you are going to learn a lot. Professor Erickson is a great master in his field and he explains so clear. I really recommend this course to those who love electronics and want to develop their own projects. +Really good again. Thanks EPFL team. +Excellent and accessible introduction to object-oriented programming. +Didactic, the teachers explain very well the topics, some assignments could be a bit challenging but at the end of each week they provide you with some exercises that get you prepared for the weekly assignment. It's recommended to know a bit of French but no mandatory because the videos have subtitles and the assignments are in both French and English. +Fantastic course. The topics are relevant and very nicely explained in the lectures. +Very effective and concentrated. I learned all the essentials of C++ in just 2 months. All the programming assignments are very interested, the instruction guide us on the convention to write beautiful codes. The automated grader gives very concise and sometimes helpful feedback. The staffs reply on Discussion forum as well. +compact and to the point . I used it aside of my intro to POO class. very helpfulcours tres compact , je le conseille a tous. +Easy programming language . Thanks to the teaching team ! +a good detailled course . Thanks a lot !!!! +I recomend this course to any one who want to become a serius C++ programmer. +Amazing course! Great material with detailed videos as well as excellent teachers! +Very nice course. I like how even though the course is in French, the instructors still make English content assignments available. This is one of the rare courses on Coursera that teach C++ and I'm really recommending this course. +Well organized course with many exercises to practice and ameliorate programming level +Very nicely formulated. The professors made a very clear and organized course. +outstanding course +Wonderful course! Really opened my eyes to new ideas. +This course gave me courage to slice into my words fearlessly and cut the deadweight out. I feel like I am a better writer having completed the course and am feeling very confident about my writing future. +What an amazing class! Very structured, great exercises, excellent advice, and I learned a lot. +A great course that forces you to evaluate and re-evaluate the way in which you write, facing you with decisions to improve your style that are sometimes hard to make. +An excellent course dedicated to you developing your voice through tough exercises. +Great, easy way to learn style. Highly recommend. +Very interesting and educating course. I am very happy that I had a chance to learn something about creative writing from the writer such Salvator Scibona. +The course information was great and the assignments were very helpful. What lost points for the course was not the content provided by Wesleyan, which was good, but the poor effort on the part of many of the fellow students to really work on constructive critiques. For each assignment I had at least one of the three peer reviews that was useless to me to improve my writing, sometimes more. There should be a way to rate critiques so that students can't move on if they don't do the work of critiquing well. +This course is just what I needed, a lesson in the mechanics of writing. Difficult coursework but worth it. +Excellent course and excellent teacher, I see you soon inthe capstone. +For a beginner, this course was a challenge in comparison to the other three base parts of Craft of Writing, but as a result of the challenge, it is by far the most rewarding as well.The concepts discussed, and the material provides the learners with both broad perspective into several topics that I would argue to be crucial in becoming a writer, and also a deep look at some very key concepts to writing.I would recommend taking this course last of the four, before beginning the Capstone project - if you're planning on going through all the parts. If you're a more seasoned writer, I would recommend starting with this course, and seeing how you fare with it.I've enjoyed all of the base courses, but for me personally, this one struck the strongest chord. +Really enjoyed the course, well thought out, well presented, changed the way I am writing. Recommend! +Awesome class!! +Excellent course by Salvatore Scibona. The range of subjects covered was so wide and the practical tips given in the course are really helpful. Thanks a lot Salvatore, a well-designed course :) +This was an incredible class with a passionate, dedicated professor. Salvatore makes you want to write your heart out. The exercises were thought provoking and I was fortunate enough to get some good feedback, which helped boost my confidence. A wonderful experience! Thank you! +I liked the course very much. For a foreign speaker, though, I found it particularly challenging. The nuances of words are particularly important when dealing with matters of style, and I struggled through the exercises, which I found a bit more "abstract" than those in preceding courses of this series. Maybe it was just self-consciousness... In any case, because I encountered this struggle, the course was helpful in making me think about how do I want to pursue my next steps in the process of creative writing -- should I continue in English, or should I try, instead, to do it in my native language? I am sure this is a question that many other students have asked themselves. I shouldn't conclude without saying that I do recommend the course, in any case. +I felt this course was slightly tough. When it comes to the degree of strictness in passing, I had my share. I thank God I finally passed, though some peers are very hard to convince. +This course takes your writing craft up a notch! The writer hones his or her clarity while becoming a sharp editor and more powerful storyteller. +Extremely useful information. Thank you! +Excellent! Thank you so much! +I loved this course. It's helpful to have focus and direction. +I made comments in the discussion board which I think would help with the assignments. I would like to see the idea of "style" communicated a little better, but I haven't seen the fifth course yet to know where it's all supposed to finish. +Thanks so much! Awesome course! +This has been a great opportunity for me to force the work and get something done. I haven't been that happy with some of what I've written, but I like the challenge of meeting a deadline. +Great instructor and assignments +I feel like a much better writer and I feel capable of going about getting published now. +Excellent course! I appreciated the instructor's enthusiasm for the topic, and found his lectures thoughtful, interesting and enjoyable. I had several "ah-ha" moments, where things I had learned before but never solidly grasped came into sharper focus. (For example, the concept of "no ideas but in things," which Professor Scibona explains very well.) I think my writing will be greatly improved by putting into practice the things I learned in this class. I would love to see a "Part 2" that delves more deeply into the topics covered, and covers other aspects of the craft of style. +Having completed all four CW modules, I feel this was a tad "inferior" to Character. High quality overall, as always. +I like all the writing courses organized by Wesleyan, I find the content meaningful and the instructors approachable. +One of the best classes in Coursera.I heard about style but I never really knew what it meant. I am glad to have taken this course. I learnt a lot and I am very excited to apply these in my writing. "Not ideas but in things" was most challenging but it was worth the try. Thank you very much for sharing. +This is the fourth class I've taken in the Creative Writing specialization program. As a whole, I enjoyed the class, with only a few notes to make. As with the other classes in the specialization, I feel the curriculum could be expanded upon, perhaps with assigned readings to help illustrate the points made in the lectures. Another thing I wish to note, albeit a minor one, is that the videos in this course particularly feel a bit cut up. It seems like several takes were combined into one video, which makes the overall presentation feel a bit jerky in comparison to other courses in the program. +I thought this class was incredibly useful. It has a lot of good information, as well as good ideas on further reading a student can do to further their own knowledge after the course is completed. I found this to be one of the more useful classes in this specialization. +Another great course of the Creative writing specialization. It was really interesting and helpful. Thank you! +This had been my favorite one, incredibly practical and useful, I feel that I can understand better how to construct my story in a believable way. +Best course in the specialization. +Very limited teaching and contradictory assignments. For those with English as a second language be aware this course uses grammatical terminology but in a stylistic way and can cause a lot of confusion. Assignments are weak but as a whole for the four courses making up the Capstone just grit your teeth and get through it, the least enjoyable and instructive of all four. +I think this was the best of the four Wesleyan Creative Writing specialization courses. +Thank you. +This was a great class. I really learned a lot ... this is the type of class that will change someone as a writer. The quotes, the diagrams, the instruction, the assignments, the book recommendations ... everything was great. Thank you!! =) +I am just about to start week three. I am enjoting the close reading exercises, the tutorials are informative and the conversations are very illuminating. Very well set out. +FUN COURSE AND INSTRUCTIVE AS WELL +I really like it. I learned things that I was not aware of when it comes to write. +It is a very interesting course, but I think it is difficult to understand if somebody is not English speaker. However, I recommend this course to everybody who likes writing and wants to know more about style and text editing. The teacher is excellent, his explanations are clear. The exercises are funny and I could learn from them. +I was helped by the lessons regarding choosing words carefully. +I thought the videos were excellent and the interviews of great value. I always download the text, create a .docx, and follow the videos word-for-word. +This course helped me in my writing. I enjoyed the feedback and the exercises. +Great class for the content I needed. I audited this class and benefited from the theory discussion and practical exercises. The class guided me to improve my writing style which was my ultimate goal. +Loved it! Clearly set and inspiring. A charismatic teacher. +Great, short and sweet. +wonderful course, clear assignments, informative lectures. of all the classes this one changed my writing the most. I thought it would be the most extraneous of the series. I thought the plot and character class would be more important but in fact, just paying attention to style helped the movement of my stories - it forced things to happen, it forced a plot, it forced a character to do things. Scribona's advice is practical - use more nouns and verbs, pay attention to how you describe the world through the eyes of the characters, learn how to edit and so on. He helped me finally get a handle the POV i use all the time in writing, but never really understood, and so I used it badly.Some of the other classes in the specialization were too heady, and not practical. But most importantly, Scribona's love for the written word was so apparent during the lectures that it elicited the same reverence in the students. +Excellent class for learning prose and editing. I wish there was a class to learn even more about the craft of style, an advanced class. +Great course on the application of style in fiction writing. Professor does reference a few books for further understanding and example. He explains things well and in a concise way, sometimes with the use of simple diagrams. Very effective and useful assignments and topics. The only drawback is that auditing students cannot receive peer review internal to the course. +Priceless instruction - as with all related courses in this specialization. If you're auditing the course assignment completion isn't permitted, so essentially, course "completion" isn't a possibility. +So inspiring, thought-provoking and skill-provoking! ^_^ +Salvatore is outstanding! I would happily pay for more courses like this. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! It's been a fantastic experience and I can't wait to put what I've learned to use. Thank you again! +Great course, great teacher and amazing cost. +I decided to take this course to revise what I learned for the last 4 years in business school.I did not expect it to be excellent like this. I think this Corporate Finance Essentials is better than the Corporate Finance I had before in my university-sorry for my faculty lolThanks to this course, I was able to improve my knowledge and learn something small and trivial but very useful at the end.I highly recommend this course if you would like to know what the principals of finance would be like. +I have lear +Great Professor, and course +This professor was great. Finance is not my strong suit, but he made it easy to follow and understand. Thank you! +It is the best course I've taken in Coursera and EDX, it made me want to continue studying because prof. Estrada was very understanding in his financial terms and approaches.I searched for more courses in this matter (financial/business) with IESE but did not find anything else. Would really recommend to your Business School to sell a MBA or more alike diplomas with this exact type of teaching. +easy to understand and a guide to complex courses related to financial engineering +Was Excellent, the content, the way the profesor works and explain and really worths the time and effort, thanks to all the IESE team +really good course +Excellent course with outstanding professor. +Exceeded my expectations! It's not as calculation oriented as most other finance courses are. Rather it's very thoughtful and goes much beyond numbers. Well done witty professor #Javier Estrada, I tried to be an intuitive student. +awesome doesn't begin to describe this course. i loved it +Thank you for a great course with a great professor! I have really enjoyed it. +Good explaining, very basic stuff. Readings are basically the same as lectures, but maybe help to really remember the knowledge. I recommend it for beginners in the area. +This was very enlightening even for me as a financial translator! +My opinion about this course is very helpful for people who are in the corporate finance field.As a Finance specialization student it has been created practical knowledge. +Great course! +The material is covered in a very accessible way and it covers the essentials comprehensively. This is a great introduction to Corporate Finance. +It was really great! Tons of information in easy style and short term! Amasing! +Covering Basics, But awesome content, with solid examples. +Excellent course and instructor. Very informative! +Very good introduction for corporate finance +I loved this course. I learned some of the essential components of corporate finance and feel much more equipped to apply to modern finance +Very good course to understand the basics of Corporate Finance. +A very well-structured course! Gives an understanding of corporate finance basics. +Well presented, interesting and covering different aspects of corporate finance. Would recommend. +Great course as a refresher or introduction to the world of Corporate Finance. Prof. Estrada got the right balance between theory and real-life examples and is a great lecturer. +It was a fully practical course and the professor explained everything so clear that a child could understand. Excellent course! +Estrada is one of the best teachers that I ever had. Congrats +Excellent...Prof Javier is good. Concepts really well explained and as simple as possible ways ! +Very informative +Very elementary coursework. Quizzes were too simple while I expected some challenging questions that'll make you think. Please improve the assignment quality. +Great foundation course! +Great overview of Corporate finance with useful excel exercises which are related to lectures and readings. +It could be a good review for me. I did this course before. Thanks! +Probably the best course I have taken so far in Coursera in terms of time spent versus depth and quality of concepts learnt, and I enjoyed, too! A very simple, intuitive, straightforward and amenable way to learn the fundamentals of corporate finance. Although the name of the course may seem slightly intimidating to non-financial professionals, it turns out that Professor Javier Estrada manages to explain every single concept in a simple and practical way. It has helped me adjust, consolidate and expand my understanding of concepts that I had touched upon earlier in my career such as risk versus return, correlation, diversification, project evaluation, the CAPM or the WACC. Also introduced me to the essential concept of value creation in corporations. It has given me a deeper and broader perspective on issues on which I was already numerically proficient such as IRR and NPV, and yet Prof. Estrada does this with a few, simple sentences and examples. The readings are genuinely didactical. I must thank Prof. Estrada and the IESE team for this outstanding learning experience. Muchas gracias! +soon...basics of the introductory course for corporate finance.And highly recommend the suggested book written by the speaker Prof. Javish +It was a very informative course and helped me learn a lot about finance. It touches upon the crux of the subject, the important bits, without going into too much depth, perfect to obtain an initial idea for someone who is not from a finance background but is interested in pursuing a career in finance, business or just the curious individual who needs an understanding of the finance jargon and help related to investing in the market yourself. +This is definitely a great course. Prof. Estrada explained the basic concepts very well. Extremely useful for someone who doesn't have a financial background like me. The only reason I am giving it 4 stars is that I wished the quizzes were a little more tricky that would help test my understanding of the materials. Overall, pretty good, thanks Coursera and Prof. Estrada for the course!! +Precise and very useful. +Excellent Course! Profesor Javier Estrada is one of the best, very useful and 100% recommended +great course +Learned a lot throughout the course. Easy to understand lectures and good supplemental materials that makes this course an enjoyable one. +Thank you professor.Currently I'm doing MBA in Finance from Department of Financial Studies,University of Delhi,INDIA.The whole course is well designed and helped me a lot .It's really very helpful for an MBA guys like me who doesnot have any prior finance background. +liked the teaching +Thank you for making me understand the very basics of finance, OMG. Although I prefer Islamic finance (without interest), I wanted to understand how western finance works. The videos are short, to the point, and I would advice anyone to be committed. I like how Coursera sends you emails to remind you, encourage you and motivate you to complete the course. Much respect for the work you put into the technical notes, and for making the concepts as easy to understand as possible! I am so grateful for this course, it helps a lot with my Managerial Finance class!! :) +Great introduction to corp finance. +A very intuitive course! All the necessary information I needed to know about corporate finance was given to me, easily and successfully! I have completed my gaps in the knowledge of the WACC and the EVA which was a rather complicated factor. I look forward to enroll in more courses with professor Estrada! Thank you very much! +Very informative and precise for providing basing corporate finance knowledge; would not recommend it for people familiar with the subject +Congratulations to the team! As a complete starter in corporate finance I really appreciated the professor's approach : starting with Theory and then Practice...thanks again ! +Instructor is so clear. He really focuses on teaching the intuition behind finance terms and concepts so that when you finally face numbers, you know WHY you're being asked to do this calculation or that. I wish I had this instructor when I was in college. I would have switched majors in a heartbeat. +Extremely useful course, lecturer explains concepts really well, one of the best courses I have taken. There is a required reading, but even the videos cover everything. The examples given were explanatory and, also, the course offered many comments on investment strategies that every person should know in my opinion.In general, I learnt a lot, but then again I didn't have any background on this topic before. +Amazing course, from an exceptional professor! The instructor is very explanatory and uses several examples to make sure that the course's concepts are understood. I only had a very small background on Finance before taking this course, yet I managed to grasp all that was tought very well!On a special note, I also loved the accompanied course material provided. It is comprised of a few chapter samples from two of the professor's books and it has a very engaging and easy-to-understand writing style!I reassure you that this is one of the best courses on the subject that Coursera has to offer and I would be very excited if it had a follow-up course in the future! +Thoroughly enjoying prof. Estrada's course. he Witty Prof. vs Student notes is a very good read. +Great course for understanding the fundamentals. +Excellent short course for corporate finance beginners. +Loved the course, even though the explanations were too long. Overall I highly appreciated it. +Excellent course that really teaches or reviews the basics. The only reason I am giving it four stars (which could be unfair) is that I cannot give it 4.5. The only reason I believe this course deserves a 4.5 is the lack of problem sets or changing exams. I'd love to really master the concepts with different figures and situations. This course is still definitely worth your time and effort and is a great introduction or revision. +Great introduction to finance!!Totally worth taking! +Very well organized and easy to follow. +Very informative and easy to understand, the professor is really good, interesting practical examples. +Excellent Course. Very clear and understandable lecture and material. +This is a nice a course well explained +Excellent course! A great professor with clear examples..I warmly recommend it +This was a very good course for a down and dirty review of WACC, NPV, IRR, EVA, etc. The instructor covers the material well and I found that the reading material was a very good compliment to the lectures and helped embed the material for use in the assignments. I recommend this course for those looking for a review or an introduction to Corporate Finance. +Professor use very understandable language and focus on the sense/rationale of the question rather than on the formulas. +A very interesting course explaining the complicated concepts of Corporate Finance in a very simple manner. Prof. Javier is extremely eloquent and clear in his delivery. I will be eagerly looking forward to more of his courses. Thanks a lot Coursera tem, IESE and Prof. Javier. +Simple explanations with the main logic of the subject +I do not judge the course itself as I am a novice. But I can assure it is really well structured, easy to follw, well explained and at times intuitive. The professor has an engaging way to explain and the deadlines are feasable. I took all exams and finished 97.5% which is a good result to a total novice. Good job! I am taking more courses for sure! Thank you Coursera. +It's good course. +Fantastic Course! +Great introductory course +Excellent Professor !!! Many thanks for being so clear and passionate +great class, enjoyed the videos and readings, wish they had more examples and exercises with excel +I like the course which is easy to understand.From my point of view, it's both academic and practical.Thanks for providing such great course.Thanks Prof. +Concepts explained lucidly +This course helped me to understand the vague concept of finance. Now these ideal are crystal clear for me. Thanks for Courseara and IESE Business School. +Very practical course. Proffesor has good tips and very easy to understand explanations and practical examples. +As the name implies, this course covers the very essential materials of corporate finance. And it focuses on the interpretation and application of WACC. The whole course is a preliminary for Corporate Finance. +The Prof. Estrada shows a vast knowledge about the financial matters, very enriching course. I not only recommend but I'm also sure that I'm certainly going to do any other of his courses. +Clear explanation supported by examples +It is a very good course. It explained very clear the fundamentals and principles of finance.Also is free if you do not need a certificate.It does not have very deep explanation of the formulas, so it is only good for people who only want to know and understand the principles. +This course is a great source of information for those who are being inserted into the Corporate Finance Marketing. Prof. Javier Estrada has the brilliant method to explain all tough issues that compoud Corporate Finance.I truly reccomend you to check this course out and collect the maximum information you can. It all will worth it! +An absolute must for those interested in how we pick 'good' projects, create value in our companies, and choose the best investment +if you are looking for a killer course on this topic , then this course will disappoint you .best suited for very beginner and some refresher for the older guys . +It was fun. But I think that would be great to add more various tasks and do something with the quality of the video, because sometimes it was hard to concentrate on the content.Nevertheless, it is good start to develop your creativity and open some useful tools for yourself. +This is a fun and engaging class. I was challenged by the assignments on so many levels while taking this class. They have encouraged me to try new things even if it seems ridiculous to others. I especially liked the feedback, the constructive critiques all helped me through this course. +Not what I expected. Though the lecturer quite patronising and the exercises too juvenile. Did not finish the course, so it may have improved after the first few sessions. Thank you. +Could have been better. It was little boring when this type of course should be super exciting +I don't see how the assignments would make me a more creative person. Some of the content was new and interesting but overall I din't think it was a good use of my time. +The concept is interesting and the graph is visual. +elementary school level program, not college or university +I don't like pay to submit courses. +It was a life changing course for me. Although I didn't attempt the certificate or the assignments, yet it has helped me a lot to take a whole new approach in my business. +Creativity without a reason, without a real problem/question. Divergent thinking per se. Try to be divergent just to be divergent. Too simplistic, doesn't worth your time. +the course delivery is regrettably boring. The 90-second breaks don't work very well. The lecturer is not trying to be engaging or at least pleasant to listen to. I hope he lectures this way in the attempt of being clear. However, it comes across as being very monotonous and boring. I had a strong motivation to follow the course, but honestly had to drop without completing the second lecture. A missed opportunity. +Lesson 1 - no longer available via PCLesson 1 no longer exist to do via PC on internet.Sugggested . It has been removed. Cannot go ahead without having the Lesson 1 information. +There is some good content on creativity in this course, thoug it barely addresses problem solving."Do something different" assingments were an interesting idea.Some content material is missing, including the link to a text that is needed to answer a quizz which will influence your final grade.Grading standards are weird: maximum grades are to be given to assignments performed in public, as if things done in private aren't creative; there are better ways to have someone get out of their comfort zone. Assingments request that you be photographed or filmed, and there is no disclaimer that your photos or your privacy will be protected. If you are an introvert or simply a person who values privacy, this is not the course for you. +I can‘t open the website +This is good experience for me. +A very interesting and challenging course! +I enjoyed this course a lot, it makes you expand your horizons and challenge yourself in order to be more creative, i liked going through the different assignments and forcing myself to think outside the box; however i wish there had been more material and emphasis in actual problem solving which was the reason why i wanted to take the course in first place. +SO INTERESTING AND FUN. Have you ever took a stranger'S secret and propose another stranger to take that secret in exchange of one of his? This course is an opportunity to do crazy stuff like that! +Very inspiring and useful. Thanks for providing me with such a great service. +This was a really fun few weeks. I truely enjoyed the assignments of doing something different.I have to think about something. And firstly I always came up with 'normal' stuff. But just before the due date I had great ideas. I 'wasted' a lot of paper. Cutting, glueing, folding, writing questions, instructions.For the assignments I used the towns forest, which starts behind my place. I had not been there for years. And I liked, to have 'connected' with it again as a result of this course.I learnt many techniques. So I can choose one, that suits me and my problems-to-be-solved most.Thank you so very much for this course. +This type of course I was looking for, which is fulfilled. It will help to explore and polish my creative abilities. Thank you for providing it. +Such a great MOOC, I really enjoyed it a lot!! My life is not the same after it anymore. +Very intelligent approach of incentivating the creativity. Maybe the videos shall give even more activities to do. But it is a very interesting course. +Super duper awesome course.... It bring you out of your comfort zone and send you out in the world +The assignments do not give you any practical methods for actual problem solving. They're just a succession of activities that pretend to be creative by making you do things "you wouldn't normally do". It's like they forgot the part about "problem solving".The assignments are to eat foods you've never eaten, talk to people you wouldn't normally talk to, take a photo of yourself smooching someone/something, and to "give" something to someone you "never have given anything before". That is not creative nor helpful at problem solving. It's just a series of activities for people who have too much time on their hand and need something to do to get out of their routine.Not a course I would recommend for anyone wanting to gain useful skills. +It is very effective. A lots of things to learn from this course. +Not a course that helps you solve wicked problems which do not have solutions that will come suddenly one fine day and ones that require more thought effort and brainstorming. +This course is an easy, entertaining, and beneficial course. It is encourages you to enhance your creativity in everyday lives. The reason I gave 4 stars instead of 5 is that I would've preferred to include more theoretical knowledge in addition to the practical. +After about one hour the only things I learnt is to do "stuff" in different way (too vague concept) and the basic of photography. +Presentation is a little dull, bit the content is really good! +Not all the DSDs were useful, and some of the content is very dated (such is the nature of a MOOC that isn't maintained), but it was useful to learn about methodologies and tools to think creatively about issues and solving problems. +This was a great course! +High incentive, productive, informative, scientific, and unique course +Very good! Nice insghts about cretivity in a pratical way. +Really enjoy this course. +Good Marketing Course and great teacher!! +As previous courses in this specialisation it gives an opportunity to see all critical human's problems in the 21st century from totally different perspective. Thx! +A lot of information in a short period but well done, I enjoyed the experience. +Great professor and great material; applied for everyday use at work. +I am part of the iMBA program so my opinion might be a bit biased, but it was precisely because of courses like this one that I decided to be part of the program. Excellent value, the Coursera content is at graduate level, with plenty of practice material and use of real life data. The four honors assignments and additional readings allow to adjust for the level of engagement you want/need. +Great class, highly recommend it +TRES INTERESSANT +Good learning experience! +Excellent examination of management assumptions! Engaging lectures and materials. +Course was very much to my satisfaction and requirement at the time. Opened my imagination to a lot of different narratives. I'm glad I took the course and will recimmend it highly to others +A brilliant course! I could not expect it would be so interesting. Not only the content, but the way it is presented by professor Rolf Strom-Olsen was thrilling, funny, sometimes unexpected. It is really impressive how he made huge complicated ideas comprehensible for students, so that we could freely examine and play it during the class. Highly recommend. +Superb Professor!!! Best intelectual time I ah in a while.Very refreshing to have a critical point of view that adresses some of the actual business paradigms.Light and clarity needed in Business Ed. +Excellent professor. Great build-up and perspectives for very relevant topics. Interesting personal insights. Loved it! +Thank you for everything, it's wonderful. +The class was wonderfully informative, but would have been better if it offered graded tests without the paid version. Since the answers are multiple choice I thought it was strange that it did not. +Professor was excellent and the subject, well chosen, extremely interesting. +A good counter to the usual management training - real food for thought. +Best course I have done so far. I find the course interesting, stimulating and most importantly enjoyable and informative. Thank you Professor and IE business school :) +One of the best courses I have ever taken. Amazing. +A fresh and intelligent course that really fosters critical reasoning about management principles and practices. +One of the taught courses in the MBA program of the IE Business School. +Amazing! The course, with the instructor's charismatic and powerful delivery, lives up to its name. It truly presents management perspectives critically and with great impact!The delivery style is unique because the lectures are filmed at real lectures, with the instructor speaking to students and students contributing their voices. It feels like you're part of the real lecture when listening to the instructor's teaching.Beside exceptional delivery style, the course structure is very engaging with business lessons that draw from history all over the world. The assignments are thought-provoking and make students think critically about management through practical scenarios that were discussed during the lectures.This is really great! One of the best courses from IE Business School. +Fantastic course with a great professor. I loved the way Prof Rolf weaved the different practical perspectives into the story line while relating to the relevant aspects of management theory. The choice of topics, the different stories used to illustrate the concepts and the story line all make a fascinating course well worth my time.If you want to experience a different perspective of some of the traditional management theories, have a go at this and you really won't be dissapointed. +Great course, extremely pragmatic and the teacher is engaging and brings interesting views on both past and present firms. I learned much from these short 6 weeks and greatly appreciated the extra reading assignments that were optional. +Great, actual and interesting content.Excellent professor.It really gives you another insight, perspectives and different ways of thinking about the traditional management practice.Never keep questioning, is one (in many) of the most important lessons that you can take from this course.Recommended! +Great mix of history and management, with bits of economics thrown in. Emphasis on the 'critical' thinking side, as per the title. +really well done! +Undoubtedly one of the best if not the best MOOCs. Period. Has set a very high bench mark as it what a management course should be and how the pedagogy for the development of MOOCs in general. Ofcourse the quality of some of the vi +The lecturer is both well spoken and knowledgeable, the material is both interesting and very much applicable sound logic! +Applied management analysis, demonstrably relevant, with great case study examples presented with enthusiasm and interest. +Interesting course - good topics and novel angles used in approaching the topics. Plus intellectually engaging way of discussing over management issues.However - really annoying quiz questions. And good portion of the right and wrong answers were highly debatable - you had to know exactly what was the angle during this specific course. I still graded with 5 stars, hoping they will make some changes in grading. +Should be a required course for all C-level execs of medium and large public companies and the leaders of their stakeholders at the institutional investors. Essential insight that I did not get earning an MBA in 1985. +Great course with a lot of interesting information and unexpected insights from different points of view and sources. +The best course of ever! +Excellent course and teacher. Congratulations!! +In modern people's wisdom, wisdom of the ancients, a critical perspective in the discard the dross and select the essential understanding of the history, divergent thinking, to seize the core,excellent! +Rolf Strom-Olsen is one of the best instructors available in Coursera. He is a very unique way of presenting Management Ideas and Concepts using history as his channel, something I haven't certainly come across yet. Anybody who wants to pursue a career in management should definitely take this course before going through any books or even courses. +Lecturer is interesting, and manages to carry students along +This course will really make you think on the "hows and whys" of management decisions, and how they can destroy a business if not thought out carefully. The instructor's use of humor in a traditional classroom setting was also quite refreshing, as the interaction with the students is something that isn't present in most of the MOOCs that I've taken. I would like to see a second course offered on this topic by the same professor. +Excellent subject matter, teacher very fun to listen to and very knowledgeable. Would like the class to be more in-depth. +Top class. Very useful indeed for my job as a mining manager, especially on FDRS which I've found never works well as people become yes-men to the boss. And having a bit of a passion for late antiquity history, I was fascinated by the Roman grain trade and its lesson for us today. But wasn't something a bit similar set up between Constantinople and Egypt which ran successfully until the Persian invasions in the 7th century? +Insightful and lively lectures. Manageable assessment tasks. I would recommend this course to anyone. +This course is okay, kind of a bit slow-paced. +Simply the best MOOC on management I've ever participated. +The videos were ok, reading materials added some value, although about three years have passed since the launch of the original course and the materials are all the same. I expected that something new would be introduced to give it a bit more value. But what is very questionable is the architecture of the quizzes. On one hand it goes way beyond the simplicity of the lenght of the course, assume a mindset that extends well beyond this course, and on the other hand after doing the quizzes some times and observing the considered right and wrong answers, some of them - to say the least, are highly ambiguous and express a personal point of view of the instructor in what is right or wrong (what by itself is not very reasonable), and lack ultimately in objectivity regarding the materials covered. I am not by any means saying that the quizzes are hard or simple, I am saying that they lack objectivity and go beyond the scope of the materials and try to put the student on a state of trying to guess what the instructor's opinion is regarding the question at hand. In some cases the 'best' answer chosen is absurd. Highly questionable this approach. Again, I believe that evaluations should be challeging, but these quizzes are a bit esoteric, they lack objectivity.Nonetheless, it is important to say thank you for being present in this platform and having the will to put it together. I wish you luck for the future. +Brilliant instructor +This course was good. It was great to refresh knowledge. +Excellent. Good for pet owners and interested persons. Not as helpful for experienced animal professionals, but I learned a few new things regardless. +Very good course, especially for the (new) pet owner! +The content was inconsistently delivered and the topics disorganized. The content was excellent, although a bit repetitive at the end. +I highly recommend this course. In a short period of time this course taught me the skills needed to innovate, and most importantly, not to be afraid of failing. My toolkit is full and all I need to do now is to start using the tools to bring a change in the way I work and create an impact in the lives of the people I work with. +Great! Must Try. +I hope this course will improve my creativity with practical ways +This program is a well structured course designed to introduce participants to the three title concepts. There are useful and effective approaches to creativity that are based on rational and systematic content. Applicable to any discipline, the assignments and assessments were relevant and sometimes challenging and well worth the effort. I have applied the concepts to my own workplace and career. +This course really helps you look at creativity in a different way, it is very empowering but for this course to be successful you must apply what you have learned everyday, its practice otherwise the teachings will not be complete. +The MOOC was good and full of hidden treasures. Unfortunatelly, last week had a very low quality - it was the only part I wasn't able to take out anything. Week , on the other hand, was full of interesting techniques prsented in weekly homework and surely worth further investigation. To sum up: I'm glad I finished it, but I suggest to rearrange it's form - add some videoes, and remove other ones.all the best,Piotr Milewski +Super cool course with interesting tasks and outstanding lecturers. Keep the good work! +Very wonderful and useful course. It did inspire,encourage and change me a lot. I am very excited and grateful to watch every vedio and read every comment ,sharing and reply from my peers and nice teachers. It may help people to create new miracles in this world. Thank you. from Junfeng,Xu shenzhen, china +Very useful! You really start thinking creatively and understand these processes better! +It was a very interesting course. It has benefited me to stimulate my creative juices. Would really love to continue its next module if any.Thank you all the Facilitators for your support,help and guidance. +Amazing! You all are such great professionals, wish I could have half of the wisdom you all have! Thanks for everything, this course helped me a lot on how to open my mind regarded to the world around me! +A very helpful guide to every creative venture! +I enjoy this course because of the great interaction between we students and the novel and creative homework is also attractive. +The quality of videos was pretty poor. The question and answer format of discussion was not a great idea (might have been great for kids videos). Doesn't enthuse us to continue the course. Thanks however for putting the effort and making this available to everyone for free. Really appreciate that. +I totally enjoyed the course and it really opened up my mind to think in new ways. Absolutely recommended to take this course! +It is an amazing course which will truly boost your creativity, help you interact better and bring about change in society. The assignments in this course are also fun-filled! :) +Really interesting material for how to become more creative and get the best out of you. Innovation comes with a challeging world about how do we work it out with, this course will walk you throught it. +Excellent course, I learned a lot about my own way to express my creativity and how to improve it in all aspects of my life +wonderful and informative course +I think this course is full of fun. It taught me many techniques for creating things. I think in my future life, it can help me a lot. +This course is wonderful. I always thought that few people can be creative or innovative but thanks to this course I have a new perspective.I enjoyed doing the activities and think over all the information provided in the course +This course is what everybody needs! Take this course, enjoy these people's knowledge and change your life for good. +This is a creat course. It gives hands-on practical knowledge and material one can use straight away to generate ideas and solution. It shows, how each one is creative, in a different way. Once one knows this, one can apply the different procedures accordingly.The assignments allow to think about ones own life and wishes. The results will be very usefull. +great course! rally gets your brain moving +amazing ideas in a simple way +Creativity, Innovation and Change is a refreshing taking on using creativity to solve problems. It employs the use of structured but unique approaches to solve problems in an individual or team setting. +this course is really fun, inspiring and different from all the others. I'm loving those old hippies teaching the young how to be rebelious and innovative!! +Simple and easy to know how to improve your creativity , innovation and change skill. +Great and very inspiring course! Not the 08:15 "listen and learn" course, though. Short videos with a lot of things to think about and challenging tasks, some easy and playful, some quite demanding. Very recommendable if you want to learn more about creativity, how it happens and how you turn it into innovation. +I think it might turn out to be good for me in a long run. +A must for Engineers!! +thanks for a +Great course.. Really enjoyed it! +I Love the lessons, the task, its didactic and you learn a lot :) +one of the course you must learn on Coursera +Brilliant one to change myself!!!! +Amazing course that helped me a lot improving my creativity. This course can help you with a lot of nice assignments and useful techniques to push you to develop your ideas, with very interesting steps.You will discover that you are creative even you think you weren't!I really suggest this course to free your mind and re-organize it.Thanks to the teachers team, very inspiring and clear in the lessons. +An excellent course. A lot of eye-openers and very useful tools to live a more innovative and creative life. +one of the best coursera course +Very interesting topic, good short video-lectures and enthusiastic lectors. +This really gets you out of your box. +Best ever on Coursera! Thank you so much!! +At first the topic was not as concrete as I would like however after I got into the rhythm of the course, and the more practical frameworks of the course, and was more proactive about the coursework, assignments and grading component I really am enjoying the course. Would highly recommend. +I am very happy for joined this course and now that is over I can say I miss it!The weekly assignments were really useful and I know they'll still be useful for my daily activities. Thank you all for that! +Perfect course, I really like it +Thought provoking. Filled with excellent tools and techniques. +This was a very inspiring and self-awakening course. While I attended the lectures, I realized I could do much more than I am doing right now! I began to look at each situation in a more innovating perspective. +Great course. Very practical and challenging at the same time. It helps you to become focused and gives you tools to plan your life or what you want to do. +Strong accent +Really useful! It will teach someone a lot +An awesome course with good explanations and tasks.At the end of the course, it enabled me to think the other way that I usually do not do on looking at any object.Thank you team. +Great course with amazing ideas and knowledge you can directly apply in everyday activities! +Great course to find out how to find out are you a creativity guy or not? +Very interesting, definitely helpful in cultivating a creative mind and perspective. I would recommend this to anyone not just designers, artists and creatives. +Interesting course regarding Data Visualization. +Great entry level course to Tableau +Awesome introduction to the course. +Good but many problems with platform... and help center not easy to access +This course doesn't offer much of a learning curve. I would rather suggest taking Data Visualization Using Tableau by Duke University. +Excellent course, but very introductory. +A little too basic +Poor course. No original material, they use Tableau training material. I did the first 4 weeks of the course in 5 hours and learned nothing new, except using Tableau. I could have learned the same using the Tableau first video in 10 minutes. +Thanks +I was looking for a course that discusses how to think about the data and how to manipulate the data based on the questions you have. This course was more basic and didn't really focus on the many ways of visualizing the data to tell a story. The course did not discuss the pros and cons of each type of visualization (e.g., pie chart vs. line graph vs. column chart etc but of course more complex because we are using tableau) with the type of question and answers you are looking for. This type of content is what I was most interested in. +I like the balance between learning the principles involved in creating effective visualizations and practicing them while learning to use Tableau. I was happy with the visualization I created for my final assignment. It would NOT have been as good had I not taken this course and learned to make use of pre Gestalt principles, attentive attributes and decluttering techniques to reduce the cognitive load involved in viewing my visualization. +Really fun course and the lectures goes at a nice peace. Really recommended. +This course is really informative and provides new learning to me. It is just what i need in my career path right now. Kudos to the developer of this course and for making it available on the internet platform +Good course, easy to follow. +This course basically treats you like an extremely slow-learning retarded individual. Totally waste of your time by watching a bunch of videos. The contents are so thin. All the contents covered in these course videos can be summarized in a 10-minute video. If you have a lot of time you don't know how to spend. Enroll in! +Good intro +Excellent course. Very help full to understand the visualization basic by using Tableau. +The course covers all of the relevant parts, however it does not go deep enough. It is highly recommended for complete beginners, but not for those who already have some knowledge in the field.In particular, more content should have been provided for the following topics:(1) Data connections, e.g. include a real example for connecting to odata and web data connector, also create a sheet with the data;(2) The context of data visualisation (who, what, how, big idea), e.g. walk though two additional examples in different fields.I particularly appreciated:(i) The historical introduction (and I would have liked to read more about this)(ii) Live Connection vs Tableau Data Extract(iii) How to prepare an Excel sheet for import(iv) The strategy for making a story (but as I said, this is partial) +Excellent content. The fundamentals of Tableau are explained very well. +Good basics ! +Easy but really complicate to submit the assignment. +Although a very basic introduction to the use of Tableau, the course provides a broad and interesting background that should prove useful to anyone seeking to enhance their understanding of visualization fundamentals. +nothing special, I do understand this are fundamentals, but i felt like 5 year old +Each week was only about an hour. Most MOOC courses I've taken have at least 3 to 4 hours of content and learning. Very little learning for a 4 week course. This is a 1 week course stretched out to 4 weeks. +The material was very well laid out. I learned a lot about the basics of tableau. The resources and references were very helpful! +Just right for an intro - looking forward to the remainder of course. +Nicely Articulated and Delivered +No engagement from faculty, if you have questions regarding anything in the course, no one will answer them. Unclear and incomplete instructions for assignments. Overall, probably my worst experience with Coursera. +Interesting, but elementary content. But absolutely no support from 'teachers'. +Good intro to Tableau +Very interesting course, it motivates to learnand use Tableau more +Love the class! +The instructor moves very slowly (both speaking and covering topics). Points get belabored (I usually watched the lectures at 1.5x speed but I also have some basic Tableau experience). +Good start with Tableau. You will also get a license that is good for a year! (License worth $500+). +This course is absolutely helpful in every mean for a person like me who is taking his very first steps in the data visualization world. although it is very difficult for everyone to accessible fully as its not free. +So basic Tableau explanations +Clear and straightforward. Good introduction. +Pretty exciting course, really objective, clear and resourcefull. +This is an amazing course. One of a kind in Tableau. The course is very interactive and the professors are amazing teachers. +thanks for this wonderful knowledge journey +helpful +The course is great. Would have been even better if there were questions posed and answers given during the videos for Tableau case studies. Overall, an informative course! Thanks. +A good first class about the software Tableau. You will learn the basics and how to create a story in order to present your datas. A good glitch for a first class of a Specialization. +Course was OK - the material on Tableau though was very light. +Instructors are amazing and the course is not overwhelming at all. +One of the things that I loved about the course was that actual professionals in the field were teaching the course. +Great starting point +Really, fantastic and helpful course.Thanks Coursera and University of California. +Good course! the submit assignments weren't always celar unfortunately. +Simple & Understandable +The Course was well suited for beginners and explained pretty useful concepts, but I think materials of week 3 need to be polished more. +Good intro to Tableau +I'm sorely disappointed. I learned almost nothing valuable and found the content to be so basic that I didn't get a good feel for Tableau. I paid $20 elsewhere (UDEMY) and I'm learning a SHIT TON about Tableau through them. Tableau has great free resources too that are better than what I paid $80 for on Coursera. This class is a joke and not worth $80. As a UCD Alumni I'm embarrassed my school's name is on this. +Fundamentals should be like this! +This will be one of the Foundation skills for every professional in the future. Thanks Guys. +I like the course, helped me with the concepts of visualization and basics of Tableau. +Good beginning and good course +Nice Course focusing on Visualizations with Tableau instead of vague Visualization skills. +My name is Jose Antonio from Brazil. I am looking for a new Data Scientist career (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseantonio11)I did this course to get new knowledge about Visualization Tool and better understand the technology and your practical applications.The course was excellent and the classes well taught by teachers.Congratulations to Coursera team and Instructors. +Good for what it is: a rock-bottom basic introduction. I would have appreciated more technical instruction in how to create complex, involved visualizations and less philosophizing and design ethos. A better name might have been "What is Data Visualization? A Course In Tableau For Non-Professionals" or something like that. +I learned a ton in this course & I am looking forward to expanding my skills this is a great course! +This class was really lacking. The content was skimpy and the assignments overly simple and rote. +Great examples and perfect for learning the basics. +Valuable introductory course on Tableau. Also lays the foundation for by providing good reference material on Statistics and as well on the communication/presentation of ideas +Very basic course +Some off the instructions for the assignments were either incomplete or misleading. Uploading instructions were also unclear. +introduces the fundamentals of Tableau and gave examples of story board, explored basic functions of Tableau, a good introduction course to Tableau. +The course is very preliminary. Its content can be covered in one session and does not need 4 weeks. The assignments were not clear enough. The course material can not be downloaded and can not be retrieved or used as reference after finishing the course, unlike other courses I have taken with Coursera, but in other University. +very good content and standard basics +Very basic in terms of material covered. Would be nice as a free remedial class in prep for the main specialization. Homework assignments were confusing and did not appear to have been reviewed by the instructors before being sent to students (main problem, the free software students use was not the same version as that being used to develop the homework). Instructor support was not evident in the user forums. Below the quality of the free classes taken in the past. +Too good to start with Visualisation! +Excellent courseIt did kick my interest in tableau and data visualizationLuca +Awesome and amazing +This course is terrible for many reasons. Firstly, the amount of content is ridiculously small - only about 20 minutes of video lectures per week. Moreover, more than 50% of content is just non-relevant.Secondly, practical assignments are very poorly planned:1) in weeks 3 peer graded assignment students are asked to save Tableau workbooks as twbx files, even though this feature is not supported by Tableau Public that is used in this course. The assignment itself is just opening and saving file in Tableau.2) in weeks 4 peer graded assignment you just asked to write some vaguely defined 1 page description. It doesn't include any Tableau-related activities.Thirdly, quizzes are ambiguous and very general.Overall, this course is just a waste of time. For comparison, you can easily get more useful information about Tableau from the 4 minute long "Getting started" video on the Tableau website than from this course. Just wonder how Coursera allows such courses to be places on the platform. +Great material however discussion forums is dead (despite hundreds of views), mentors are unresponsive to questions +It was a great course! I learned so much and the difficulty was just right! +A very useful course for me +I really like this course. +The material was always good ( +Excellent course for starters in power electronics and great knowledge tool for industry people. +I wish I should had done this course earlier. I obtained clear understanding on converter control basic concepts. +Very knowledgeable and impressiveThanks +Excellent! Time consuming and difficult but excellent! +Great course +The analysis and materials of this course are very useful. A great section. If the MATLAB script for calculating the converter Poles and Zeros can be provided will be even better. +This is a great course to get a basic foundation of bode plot techniques and fundamental control theory in relation to power converter design. +Very good!I think week 4 was very time consuming, in contrast with week 3, that was very light. Maybe these contents can be better balanced in the fuute. +very interest courses +Good one !!! +It's a great course!With great professor! +Great content.Need more exercises, and solution to homeworks (eventually). +Contents are excellent.The only disappointing is that It costs to submit assignments. +PWM Switch modelling and use of that to simplify converter modelling not covered in detail.More theoretical. Intuition on the models that we derive is not there. +Sadly, I was unable to comprehend everything I had seen. :( +A very informative and easily understandable course! I always fancied math, but never really got deep into it, so some of the primitives discussed here were new to me, but even so I was able to easily understand them thanks to Prof. Katz! And of course it was super exciting to find out in which way are modern secure connections secure. 10/10 would pass again. +A pretty dry topic, but the teacher manages to keep the interest up! +Very interesting and challenging course. +PDF slides would have been appreciated. The course is good, contents are good. +Excelent course for beginners to get into the topic. +Cryptography is one of the areas that most developers know just enough of to be really dangerous. Reverse-engineering and debugging code I have seen way to many examples to list here of home-baked attempts at cryptography. +Interesting course, the math was certainly complex. I would have liked to know a little more on how the equation itself worked.Also more hands on work is also nice and paints a more clear picture.Thanks +Great course! Remember to reserve enough time. Its challenging course. If you are good in math that definitely helps you a lot. +Excellent course. The proofs that are laid out in a way that made it easy for me to follow along, and it gave me a good overview of the areas of cryptography that are most relevant to me. +They say that if you don't have anything good to say it's better not to say anything at all. +Pretty nice course, on par with the more popular Coursera course Cryptography I by Dan Boneh - more of an introductory course for applied cryptography while Cryptography I is somewhat more theoretical. Useful introduction to DH and RSA. Purely optional programming assignments - . +This is a good course for deciding if you want to pursue a more advanced degree in Cryptography, Computer Science, or Mathematics, but As part of a Cyber Security specialization, your paying customers are most likely working professional engineers or programmers, interested in practical applications of cryptography that they can use in order to create secure systems and services. This is a mathematics course and your paying customers are not going to use the knowledge from this course in their jobs. This is not an indictment of the instructor, but of the content itself. It is the wrong content for your target customer. +Very interesting course. I would like programming assignments to be mandatory, not optional. Or at least there should be a way to get some information that the assignment is passed on Coursera page. +Good course, but can get very deep at times, especially near the middle of the course.The first 2 weeks are rather simple, week 3 is okay, 4 and 5 are very detailed, and 6 and 7 are easier. +Wonderful and well organized course, it is really recommended to take it for those who are interested, which will definitely provide you with really understanding of cryptography! +Too fast... +I am now genuinely excited about cryptography. It is a huge field, but this is an excellent introduction. Having watching enough DefCon and Hak5, I know that a good number of 'professionals' in the industry are lacking the fundamentals. This course is the fundamentals. Dr. Katz is renown in the field, and obviously has a passion for the topic. I have also been re-inspired to 'make math my own.' +Could have given a certificate of accomplishment. +Course provides practical understanding for cryptographic primitives without delving too deeply into the maths. I found the accompanying book (optional) to be of great value in enhancing the depth of material. Would have been helpful to spend a bit more time on SSL/TLS to solidify the knowledge. +Great Course , Amazing Proffesor. I enjoyed it a lot. Worth taking +Lots of notational math but a great course to get into the meat of cryptography and understand the foundation of this most important topic.Underneath that Professor facade, I suspect he's a wild and crazy guy :-) +This course provides a very good introduction to both Public and Private Key Cryptography. +This is a best class I joined in coursera whit high quality of sound and method of teachingtnx +Complicated course that requires lots of mathematic background +Awesome course those who wants to learn more thing about cryptography should go for it.I really appreciate work done by Prof. Jonathan Katz.Thanks Jonathan Katz for sharing your valuable knowledge. +This is a really good course to get a high level overview of cryptography, the main elements and concepts, and the teacher is really didactic +I needed an introduction course for cryptography.finding coursera was amazing, registering and participating in this course was just what I was looking for.Explanations and examples are clear and understood.Keeping the pace for 7 weeks was a straggle worth paying !!Thanks for the effort invested to bring it public, will surly participate in more classes. +Nice course! The private-key schemes part was especially well structured. I would consider plus one or two weeks to have more time for public-key part too. This way the practical implications of public key cryptography, like the lecture on SSL, could be more detailed as well. +The professor is excellent. He covers a lot of subjects using good analogies without loosing depth. There are programming assignments to help you grasp the material. +Very useful insight about Cryptography, very good practical assignments. I advise it to everyone interested in Cyber Security. Very stimulating. +This course was enjoyable and challenging. Early lessons cover historical ciphers, along with some fun programming challenges to attack them.Later lessons dive into modern cryptography. This is more challenging and you will need to study some number theory if you have not done so previously. I ended up buying Prof Katz' book and also Concrete Mathematics to fully get my head around the subject matter. The treatment is not superficial.This is where I dropped one star from the review - I thought that the course could have done a better job of covering the theory in this space, or at least pointing to sources to study it, or mentioning it as a pre-requisite.I also thought that the course could have done a better job of describing how all the pieces come together - the discussion is there, but it is light and somewhat assumed you will get it. The only thorough discussion is specifically for SSL / TLS late in the lecture series.Overall, a good and challenging course. This is not an easy MOOC - so only take it if you are interested in a challenge and don't mind extra study time. +I am very fond of the way the course material was presented. I found the definitions and proofs to be rigorous and intuitive at the same time, which is of great importance when learning such material. The accompanying textbook is great, too. Although I was already familiar with parts of the material, I thoroughly enjoyed the course. +An enjoyable trip through the history of crypto schemes, and practical attacks against them. By the end of this class you will have a good basic understanding of modern cryptography and real world implementations used online everyday. It's designed in a balanced way so that both those with a Mathematics background and those with programming backgrounds can both keep up. +Very much helpful for learning Cryptography +Gotta love both the passion and the delivery of the professor. This is a very challenging and rewarding course. +Excellent course!The course has a very nice structure, the classes are amazing and the professor have a lot of experience and domain of the subject.Recommended! +Great Professor! Thanks a lot! +There are too much materials for each week for a Hong Kong secondary school (middle school) student. The speed can be adjusted to a slower one, so as to allow more people to catch up the course. +You Are Teching Great! Thank You Very Much +I found some slides to be inaccurate which makes the material difficult to learn. Also I found the instructor's presentation style to be too abstract. I think a more practical style would be more suitable. +It's really good +I felt it was a good introduction to cryptography. There were quizzes and programming assignments throughout the course to assess knowledge. +Funny workshops. +Undoubtedly one of the best courses. Loved it. The additional readings were really very useful and the lecture content was manageable and interesting. A must try! +I did this course for 2nd time. The course is very interesting & informative. Thank you Coursera & Leiden University. +I enjoyed every moment here. I recommend this course for everyone. +Outstanding course! +A good global/general overview of oppertunities and threads irt new emerging powers and states!For me, as European, it may had more focus on CSTO instead of NATO (we generally know enough about this organizations, and information about CSTO is more difficult to get (in English/German/French/Dutch)After all a very good course, i'm looking forward to see a followup comming ;-) +Good Introduction +Excellent course and teacher. Congratulations!! +I liked it a lot but I didn't´t find helpful the assignments and how they were asked to be corrected. The assignments ask you to list things that were seen during the course but dont´t push the learner to think and look up for further information in the topic. I have also taken Business Strategy also from University of Illinois and, in my opinion, the assignments are very well conducted and the make you think and go beyond the course info.I think this is very important to address it properly because it is when the learner really acquire the knowledge, when he/she has to connect what he/she has learnt with real cases. +I liked the concise content covering various aspects of the corporate strategy; and the online learning platform is a great experience. +Needs to structured a bit better.Answers to discussions if provided will be very helpful and help analyse situations in the way instructor aims to.The MIT Case readings, not 10min things, thos cases are all like 20 pages+! +Great! +A solid guide in corporate strategy. +Unsyncronize subtitle with audio. Please fix thisIMO, I think the video must not too long. (below 10 minutes/video), so lecturer separated it to more segment. And give pop-up quiz in video +One of my favorite +Really good course, great materials and well structured +Great course! +This is actually a skill on his own. Nice you made a course just on this. +good course, but the way it is required to be done sucks +Very helpful course, thank you! +Nice but only for those who search their first job. +A great course for anyone preparing for a job interview! Not only it shows you what you should know, but it also helps you sharpen the skills you already have and points you in the right direction towards career success.. +Helped a lot with my interview preparation. +UCSD, thank you so much! This course is extremely helpful and encouraging. +Awesome course!!! +Unique course giving great soft skills for interview preparation and also soft skills for working as a software engineer in practice. This course has given me insights into my strengths and weaknesses as a software engineer. Awesome course. +Great course. For me, having no knowledge of what to expect in technical interviews before taking this course, I found it really helpful for preparing for interviews +It's a great course, I learnt so much +Very useful information for interviews, especially if you're not familiar with the process used for interviewing software development candidates. +Reliable, good for people who still need to find their first position in the industry +Very practical course, It helps to master Software Engineers hard and soft skills during interviewing.Thanks to Coursera & Google +This course is really helpful and useful with great contents and tips ! +The lessons have been very helpful in preparing for a technical interview. Highly recommended! +it was an amazing course thanks for all of us :D +Just Awesome +It's a bit too simple all of this. There is not enough depth in the course. No way I would give 71 $ for such an introductory material. The best part of the course are the additional resources lists. The good and bad examples are useful as well, but they are all too simple as well.The videos are good quality though and there is some information that is useful. If you are looking for a simple introduction / never seen an interview / have no experience with public speaking / have not taken many oral exams then this is for you.I rate this at 2 stars because I was expecting more. A lot more. "Mastering...".. really? More like "Not completely failing.." +nothing in common with reality. nothing that can prepare for real interviewuseless loss of time +Good course! +Love all the teachers and the course! +awesome course! having had so many bad interviews lately, this course points out all the mistakes you can make in an interview and how to improve and practice your skills. +It's just amazing! So many really helpful tips and tricks. Thanks for this course! +I strongly recomen this course, it has helped to create a great CV, and above all it gave a great confidence towards the Interview. +I am not sure peer review is eventually working in this course. +I found this course is very useful. It covers all of the important points of facing technology job interview, even including how to deal with psychological emotions and build strong growth mindset. +I have switched session, but for the second time nobody reviewed my assignment for the second time! I have a doubt about such approach and this particular course as one before a capstone project (to my opinion it should be held after a capstone) +Practical and very useful for job hunting. +Nice course. Should be taken once you are done with the Computer Science basic courses like data structures, algorithms, etc. +The mock interviews are helpful +Very useful for job finding. +Good course for freshers. +Most of contents are already in the books like Cracking the Coding Interview and similar ones. If you have them, you don't need to take this course.It can be good for students who have never had an interview. +best to have to get an approach for a technical interview. +I spend a lot of time enhancing my software skills, but in this course I realize that I should also work on my soft skills! +Well crafted, but the number of questions could have been more. +Complete waste of time. I could learn the interview skls anywhere. +This is a must do course +I think this is a great course and gives very good insight into what is expected in a technical interview setting. :) +Very good advice on how to succeed in interviews. +It was really useful! Thanks a lot for the course. +Amazing course with amazing teachers .Worth every penny . +A really good course but not worth being part of a specialization. Should be very helpful for students / freshers who are preparing for an engineering interview. Personally, I felt most people would have taken up this course paying the course fee only because it was a mandatory part of this specialization. +Loved it .Best MOOC specialization I have attended.Thanks a lot!!! +Great information, very useful. +Interesting course. Definitely got a lot of Value to doing this, despite it being something not typical in a software course.For example, I realized that when I'm focused explaining something, I do have a very annoying tick. I say the word "basically" wayyyyyy too much!It's important to have this course given that good communication skills defines a major part of professional life which helps in a team software development approach. +PERFECT PERFECT! I wish this course was here 2 years ago. The materials are so useful and the mock interview too. Well done Professors! +Guys, I'm flying overseas on Feb 17th to a life changing interview, and although I worked in companies like BearingPoint, CSC and IBM, interviews in Brazil are not even close to the process I'm going through. The methodologies that you cover in this course matches, at least so far, the phases that I've passed. I feel much more self-assured now. +Pretty good information +I loved this course! Now ready to flaunt my basic Mandarin Skills. And finally ready to begin taking courses on HSK. +Useful and interesting +Great course. I was very pleased to see how all the individual specializations came together in the development my capstone report. I had to go back and re-learn some aspects of the specializations I may have forgotten, but this course ultimately equipped me on how to ask research questions and go about using the right tools to find the answers. Repetition is key, and the more you use it the less you lose it. +Great capstone course.The instructor was always available for help and guidance throughout the course; she also held many Q&A live video conferences.I highly recommend taking the course. +Really enjoying the courses so far. Learning so much from what I already know from past studies and work experience. +This course was excellent and I completed it feeling that what I have learnt is truly of value and relevant to this industry. +This is the third course I made on this journey to becoming a journalist at the Michigan State University and I'm very satisfied! Professors are prepared explaining clearly every aspects for being a serious and honest journalist. I recomend it to everyone who want to be a journalist, but also for people whoi want to know who means to be a journalist. Thank you to all Professors. I'm waiting for the next step! +Learned so much in a short time. Thanks for the great course. +I truly learned a lot from these journalism courses, I am in process of applying to a University here to persue a Masters degree in Journalism. These courses prepared me with a good background and motivation to understand this profession and related academic challenges. +Thank you for sharing the Course. I learn a lot and enjoy a lot too. +I am extremely happy to be here. +I found some of the topics repetitive and trivial, already covered in previous courses of the specialization. However, there was good advice that still makes it a worthwhile course. +This was a good review course. +Excellent content, inspiring teachers +Great course! I learned quite a lot and also got to get into the swing again of being in a class taught by a Spaniard. Totally awesome! +Spanish grammar is learned by indirect way. +me gusta mucho +simple but helpful，very like the professer! +Very well presented overview of the classical socioligists. +It seemed to me that it is a good introduction for someone totally new to the topic. +i personaly feel its too general, on the surface. i would rther know more on fewer sociologist. +Very nice Interesting precise whole Super !Thank you ! +i FOUND THE COURSE VERY HELPFUL AND THOROUGH. ALTHOUGH WE NEEDED MORE DISCUSSION TO SOLIDIFY THE CONCEPTS LEARNED, THE PROFESSOR DID A WONDERFUL JOB IN SELECTING AND ENHANCING THE MOST IMPORTANT POINTS TO BE GRASPED BY THE LEARNER. +This is definitely one of the best MOOCs on Sociology I have ever taken, and I am new to online learning so you can imagine! The professor is funny, clear and passionate about his work, his lectures and his students!! I couldn't believe this MOOC was over so quickly as I couldn't stop reading and watching more videos. I'm looking forward to more on this topic from Professor Heerikhuizen and the UvA on Modern Sociological Theory. I hope this MOOC will become a MicroMaster Program and I even might get my Master's degree in the future on Sociology (when time and finances permit). I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning about our society, dealing with people, situations etc. By having a more sociological mindset, it will allow us to be less judgmental, communicate more effectively and see the world as a whole instead of bits and pieces. Then again, in order to understand the world, one must start with the individual. Very interesting!!! +The professor makes the topic very attractive +I should say this is one of the best cours in this subject that i have ever seen . i am sociology student in MA and indeed i have spent a different classes in such this subjects, so it is normal to recognize all of this theory , but this kind of method in explaining and the way is selected by this skilled professor is really nice , at the end i should say he really know her audiences and their question too .thanks your team and website so much +Very interesting to learn mid learner about classical sociology +I really enjoyed this class. An easy and essential introduction to classical sociology! Thank you professor. Can't wait to take your next class on modern sociological theory. +I liked this course so much, I was sad when i finished it. Thank you! +Wonderfully explained by making connections among the first thinkers who were preoccupied with the functioning of society. +Fantastic... very well written! +Dr. Heerikhuizen has explained in such a great way that nobody else can, he has got great experience. I am pleased to get taught by such an incredible prof. +I love sociology when I was an undergraduate. Now that I am working, I have rekindled my love for sociological thought. Really grateful for the lectures by a passionate and engaging professor who ignites my thirst for learning once more. +This is one of the most fascinating classes that I have ever taken. The material itself is mind-blowing- it covers some of the most influential thinkers of the past few centuries. The professor of this class is what really made it special- he is an excellent teacher, full of great stories and examples. He truly knows both how to keep one's attention and also to deepen one's fascination with sociology. Thank you! +The course was great, though the final exam was a little too much. +Short, easy to understand lectures with a great lecturer. Thank you for this course! +A really enjoyable course. Very well presented and structured. I learnt a lot and it gave me much to think about in relation to world issues in 2017. Thank you. I hope there is a follow up course on modern sociologists very soon. +Thanks for providing courses of sociology! I love sociology, and although it seems not many persons are taking this class, it's still a very excellent learning experience! Hoping there will be more sociology class! +I enjoyed this class a great deal. Hopefully there will be one on contemporary sociological theory in the future. +Excellent course with a well-balanced approach of the classical sociologists' fundamental ideas. Self-driven research is required if you wish to explore the topics presented to a deep degree but this course provides a great starting platform. In particular, Dr. Bat van Heerikhuizen was incredible. His passion for the subject is very evident and his teaching style is clear, well-focused, and personable. I highly recommend this MOOC for anyone remotely interested in an introduction to sociology. +This course is well-structured, informative, and useful. I liked it! +A wonderful course full of interesting information! I just loved each of the explanations, examples and suggested readings. +thanks +It was a pleasure to take this journey through classical sociology with this charismatic teacher. +I want to thank dr. Bart Heerikhuizen and all the team that made this course possible. I'm very satisfied with the explanations and examples that dr van Heerikuizen gave in such a short time that lasted each video. I also look forward to go deeper on the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber and Norbert Elias. I have never had the chance to approach this latter author and now that I did I feel very intrigued and interested by his theories.In my considerations this MOOC achieved its goals. I'm very looking forward for the next MOOC about contemporary sociology. I hope it can happen,Thanks a lot to everyone. Best regards from Mexico City!! +Great opportunity to be allowed to inspect into classical sociological theories in a very friendly way.But please, take care! After it, you shall definitely see the world different than did before :) . +It is perfect if you want to know something about sociology! +Great course!The professor's explanations are clear and made me want to read even further for most themes. You can tell he's very passionate about the subject. I am looking forward for a similar one on Contemporary Sociological Theory. +Love this course. I really obtained new insight of those theorists. Thank you Dr. Bart and producers of this course! I will definitly come back to your contemprary sociological theory course. +interesting approach in teaching some of the hardest concepts. Thanks! +Great video lectures but a lot of reading +The professor discusses with ease every assignment that you'll completely understand from the most basic theory to the very complex ones. +Informative and well presented, but honestly you need to make the core readings available online, as it makes it really difficult to possibly get the most out of this course. I live in a remote part of Australia where are no universities or public libraries which would have a copy of the book by Calhoun, and even if I had been able to afford the book it would have taken 6 weeks or more to get to me. So I read the alternative readings but it clearly wasn't enough to get the quiz questions right which were obviously extracted directly from content of the Calhoun book. If it isn't possible to make sections of this book available online then you should at least rewrite some of the quiz questions so that they are accessible to students who can't get hold of a copy of the book. +I really enjoyed this course. I am completely new to the social sciences and I learned a lot. The instructor is a great teacher who explains ideas carefully. His enthusiasm for the subject is infectious and inspiring. The optional answers for the quiz questions are sometimes very close. It was challenging to pass the quizzes. I look forward to the next instalment: Modern Sociological Theory. +So great a course ! I learned so many subtletlies about the first sociologists. Thank you so much! +A fabulous course to start with. After this course I can indeed read and understand the classics of the sociology. And I also love the clear, elegant, sometimes concerned and passionate expression of Mr. Dr. van Heerikhuizen. +Looking forward for the Modern Sociological Theory course that was promised. +The professor is a delightful, knowledgeable and articulate lecturer. The pacing of the course is excellent. +I'd highly recommend this as an introduction to Sociology. Particularly beneficial for those with no previous experience of the subject. +An interesting introduction to sociology given by an enthusiastic and knowledgeable. Why, I even now have a Norbert Elias book on my Amazon wishlist :) +Course have nice subject, but somehow cannot take my full attention all the time. Missing more practical examples. +hope to see soon the modern sociological theory course! +A classic course! Eager to do the next part. +It's a course very completed and it give you a good sight of the classical theories, entering you to the social thinking. +GREAT COURSE! GREAT CONTENT AND EXCELLENT PROFESSOR. 100% RECOMMEND +Great course! I am just more curious about all the subjects studied by Sociology! I really look forward to start my undergraduate degree in Sociology in the city of Laredo, Texas! Greetings to everybody, I definitely recommend this course to anyone that has even the slightest interest in knowing about what Sociology is all about, this is the course you need! +Lectures are intuitive and easy to follow, while the quizzes complement them perfectly. I really enjoyed this course! +It's probably the best introductory course to classical sociological thinkers I've ever taken. +Absolutely perfect! Very informative and what a great professor! Hope contemporary sociological theory will come up soon! +LOVE this class! +Excellent course about the classical sociological theories. +A great survey of great sociological thinkers. Perfect for anyone who has never taken a sociology course before. Interesting historical background and social implication information for understanding modern sociology. +The course is great and beautifully explained by the teacher. I am a Social Scientist and it is being great to remember and review all the classical writers of Sociology.Thanks a lot University of Amsterdam and Dr. Bart van Heerikhuizen +It's fantastic! +Interesting course :) +Thank you so much. Concise and very insightful, it did make me want to read more of the classics! +its just great the way he explains everything, makes it so much easier to learn.. even on another languaje.im from Mexico and i use this house to complete my understandings in class, i wish all my clases where like this course.Thank you for this. +Witty and interesting! Exactly that kind of open course I'm looking for online! +It's a fantastic lecture. The content is clear and succinct. The lecturer is good at teaching the complex in a simply way. +The content of this course is very good to cover some greatest thinkers in human history. It is important to know them and their thoughts to understand the society and oneself. One thing could be improved is the exercises. They're repeative and fail to inspire me. +Very interesting course, deepened my understanding of how the social world around me works and in turn giving me power from ignorance. Thank you. +Great !!!! +Good foundational view of sociology +great courses, Thanks sir !! +Love the teaching style and the clarity of concepts. A great professor. Wish he had more courses on sociological theory +Great course taught by an even better teacher! The content is very rich and rewarding and it is explai +Very informative, very well organized! Thank you, Professor. +This one is a great course. +Great way to get an overview of Classical Sociological theories for those who have a general interest. +Very interesting course. I really liked the way it is organized and the way the teachear speaks. +Great profesor! :) +A must have to understand progress of human thought in general; also get experience of what a sincere and committed teacher is like. +The professor's love for the subject matter is evident and the retention factor of the material has exceeded my expectations. +A great lectures, I really like the attitude of this professor. He is really into his subject and I appreciated his resolution, when it comes to reducing the legacy of his favorite sociologists, into just one crucial point.Not five stars for quizzes, the parts concerning reading of classics could be much more motivating, in the aspect of the actual reading and anderstanding.Wish the course from University of Amsterdam on modern authors to come sooner. +the mooc really gave me a perspective on the subject +Great for anyone looking for an introduction to social theory. Accessible, interesting and not too demanding. +I appreciated this course because I found in it something more than mere information, which one can easily find in Wikipedia, for example. There is love for the subject, relativization, historical contextualization, stimulation of a critical thinking, and an holistic view. All things that are rare in sociology, at least according to me. +Great course. Very eye-opening and an inspiring professor. I will continue to explore more in that area after finishing. +Very good intro. Being a Engineer with a couple courses of humanties, this was a solid base for further reading. Pay attention to the readings! +A great insight on the classical sociologists +Excellent professor!I look forward to the next course about Modern Sociological Theory!This course was very meaningful to me! +Amazing teacher. He has the clarity and simplicity. Lectures are sufficient enough to grasp the essence of the content. People may feel that it is easy to pass this course. I must admit that I was pursuing this course not for a grade but for understanding. I got it. Thanks to the course teacher.I completed other mooc courses in edx and other platforms.I competed a few. I going through two other mooc from coursera. I had a mixed feeling after attending other two courses from university of Amsterdam. But this course is the best mooc I have so far completed. I was so immersed in the teaching. I completed the course in five days. I am eagerly waiting for the MOOC on Modern sociological theories. There is some element of Eurocentric Focus. But we cannot expect everything one Mooc course. +Great +A great course on social thinkers. +This course is the absolute best I have taken on Coursera. The teacher is very engaging, explains with ease is a very friendly professor that guides you effectively as if you weren't taking this class online. It is elegantly designed with in-video questions and helpful quizzes that are short and on-point. I liked the over-all design, it touches in the most important thinkers of Sociology but also focuses on aspects that aren't always taught in Sociology classes. A great course! +Excellent! Thank you very much for this experience. Very explicative, focused on the most important aspects of each social thinker's therory. Many thanks to the professor and his team. I really enjoyed it! +Excellent Course with extremely detailed lectures. +It was really a perfect course. Thanks to Prof. Heerikhuizen and his team. +excellent instructor and graphics...Very thoroughly explained in simple way... Well Done Coursera!!! +One of the best MOOCs I've taken so far. I've fallen in love with this series. +very good, can't wait for the course expanding on modern sociology. +I denotes the course thoroughly. It was a pleasure to listen to the professor. He instilled a sense of joy in understanding the classical sociological theories. I feel happy that I was exposed to the ideas of some of the greatest thinkers of Western Europe. I look forward to the next course on modern sociological theories. +Extremely interesting course!!! I realy enjoyed it! Thank you. +I've been delighted by this course and I still keep saying I have no idea of how long my learning journey might be and where it will take me. You just gave a challenge I'm proud of! +Great, useful for everybody who wants to start or enhance his worldview +Bart method is just clear and fantastic, in my opinion. Great course! +Very nice course with thorough explanations on classical theories +Excellent course to learn classical social theory. The teacher is wonderful. Thank you. +An amazing start for my first online experience! This MOOC was an eye-opener for a field I had minimal knowledge about. It is a great testimony to the hard work of the organizers and executors of this course. The passion of the lecturer -Dr. Bart Van Heerikhuizen- trickles down to his audience through every single video of this MOOC. The adequately selected suggested readings were extremely coherent and captivating that even a week was barely enough for me to complete them. The books that I have on my to-read-list further to this course are so many, and I wish to get the time to do manage them. If you are hesitant about enrolling in this course, I strongly suggest you give it a shot. Cheers! +gives very clear idea and insghte into the lassons +Very enthusiastic teaching by the professor. I enjoyed tracking my progress throughout the course. Concepts were explained very clearly and in an memorable manner +Great lectures lead by a professional!! Thank You for the efforts!! :) +It is perfect for who want to learn the bases of sociology. +Excellent overview on the major sociological thinkers from Adam Smith to Norbert Elias. A very good introduction to the subject. Beware though - the professor is an engaging teacher, but his quizzes are tough. You actually have to do some of the recommended readings to answer the questions - there are at least three questions in each quiz based on the writings of the sociologist who is the subject of the test. +I really enjoy all the lectures!!! +An excellent introductory course to classic sociological theory.I'll be eagerly awaiting the modern sociological theory course.It would be very useful a course about the different sociological perspectives (Functionalism, Structuralism, Critical Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, etc.), their difference at methodologies.Thank you. +Great lectures with clear explanations and illustrations. Well chosen readings. Extremely interesting topics. Some of the quiz questions were ambiguous, particularly ones that asked students to pick the quotes that best represent a particular idea. +Thoughtful presentation with excellent graphics. +Great course. Not only is the topic interesting and the lectures informative and clear, but the lecturer is thoroughly engaged, obviously loves the subject and his enthusiasm is infectious. Really well put together by the team at University of Amsterdam. I found the readings interesting and the regular tests were challenging. I feel like this stretched my brain, in a good way. Can we follow on course about the modern greats of sociology? Please?! +That is Awesome, really interesting, it´s real knowledge, you find new ways to see social sciences and in that way the adventures in the world, being by famous +The professor is wonderful. He is informative and full of genuine passion about his subject and joy for sharing it. He makes the subject very fun to learn! +Very Subtle; Lucid; Articulated; Insightful-Knowledge-Packed Course! +Outstanding introduction to Sociology's greatest thinkers. +The course that can best show you to understand human interactions in society. I now have explanations to most of the world sociological issues. +It is one of the best courses on classical sogiological theory, in my opinion. The lector summarizes ideaies in a comprehensive way and invokes an interest to study further the theories and their authors. Enjoying the course a lot! Thank you! +Professor Bart is a really good teacher. Take this course and you will see. I have studied sociology at University of São Paulo, the biggest and the "best" university of Latin America (according to international ranking), since 2009. However, during all this time I never found a Professor like him. +This course is a very interesting introduction to the Classical Sociological Theory. The main authors and their works are presented in a thematic and progressive way. The pedagogic skills of the teacher, based on his involvement and his enthusiasm, are astonishing. I hope to find nearly the course on 'Modern Sociological Theory' as the sequel of this one. Thank you very much to the team to this great work and best for all! +I like it!!!The Course is smart, interesting & appropriate level. Thanks to the instructor and the team. Thank you to the Amsterdam University for another great course! +Very fascinating course. I guess because I have a deep interest in Sociology. The way the professor explains the course is quite interesting and easy to understand. I do hope the professor develops a MOOC on Modern Sociological Theory. +Interesting insight in my favorite subject. A bit simple compared with my college classes +Excellent course. Very well and entertainingly presented. Very clear and informative content. Would love to it extended as a Part 2 to cover the more 'modern' Sociologists. +waw.... great course and great lectures! +Excellent, very interesting AND understandable, the professor is engaging and the love he shows for his subject quite touching. Thank you for this course. +Excelent contents, it is exactly the same that I learnt at University of El Salvador +Great profesor +Great course. Fresh and competent view of classic sociology. Weekly content is well balanced and the readings are very insightful. This course offers valuable insights about the sociology foundations that are still important today for evaluating social interaction. Thumbs up for a quality MOOC! +Excellent course and excellent specialization. The classes were well taught and easy to understand. +Thank you very much for creating this course. Basic concepts of Population, Sample, Sampling distribution, Sampling distribution variability, Hypothesis testing and ANOVA was really very helpful. the course is designed in a very nice way and the questions in between are of good standard. +Had important problems with SAS which were due to a bug in the software but did not receive any help from moderators. However the course was good and interesting. +Gives a brief introduction of basic data analysis tools and concepts. Simple yet effective videos. +This was good module. It covers the basics of inferential statistical techniques along with its application using SAS/Python. I would definitely recommend to take up if you are a beginner. +Interesting but very superficial I would say. +Found this course to be really nicely balanced... I learnt a lot and did not get bored doing so :-) +Good Course , simple but effective videos +Intersting Mentor. +Enjoyable and easy to follow along with. good videos and examples. Helped fill in some gaps. +Nice Course Thanks :) +It is not very deep, but it certainly helps to understand / consolidate some basic analysis / statistical tools. +A great course! Thanks. +Really good! +This course is very good especially for beginners getting started with SAS or python for data analytics. The lessons are very clear and easy to understand. Learnt a lot of valuable information and also enjoyed it. +Very clear description of basic statistics without all the jargons and mathematical formulas behind it. Unfortunately, somehow, such a good course lacks students and the discussion forum is like ghost room with virtually zero interaction. +Very informative. Tedious concepts like ANOVA, Chi square test etc taught in very simple and effective manner.There're two options for analysis, SAS and Phython. I'd recommend readers to read more on PROC ANOVA for better understanding. +Very well done. The videos are well explained, with nice illustrations and examples to clearly understand each concept. The assignments are self directed and do not take too much time to write every week. I really recommend this month-long course for anyone who struggles with basic statistic and wants to know how and when to run an ANOVA, Chi-Square, Pearson Correlation. +too mechanistic. not much creative modules. +Videos are good and to the point.Animation is very user friendly. +Very good from a conceptual point of view. +The material itself isn't bad, but the course instructors never respond to questions. What's the point of the class if I can't get my questions answered? +There was no explanation about background mathematics. Grading metrics are unclear because assessment of assignments are only peer grading. +Very basic introduction and not thorough or mathematical enough. +There is a lot of self-teaching with these courses because there are no professors present to reach out to with questions. In addition, the course staff do not always respond promptly nor are they fully knowledgeable about all aspects of error messages that may arise out of coding. At times the code that were provided in the lecture videos were out of date and a lot of time was spent on googling to find the updated code. This is definitely not a beginner coder course and I do not recommend it to anyone who has not coded before. +Amazing course for intermediate , well designed course material very good information about the different types of hypothesis testing. +It is a good course for a complete beginner in statistical inference. It helped me to understand some points I found confusing in "Statistical Inference" Coursera course. +It's one of the best course for understanding all the statistical tools , used for data sciences. Thanks to entire team for making such a wonderful course content +Awesome course. Thanks Prof. +Lectures are well realized (animation, change in contexts) and peer review process. +Easy to understand! +The instructors are pleasant, and the videos helpful. Unlike some classes where it feels like there is gulf between the toy examples covered in the lectures and what's requested in the assignments, the materials available speak directly to the homework.The virtually non-existent discussion board, lacking much activity from either students or staff, is a real downer. +This course is very interesting and every data scientist should take time and digest it. +Very nice lecture videos and explanations! Totally worth it +Complicated mathematical concepts explained in a very simple way. +Again, with no formal SAS training and minimal statistics background. I found taking the first course and then this course - week after week my knowledge grew in a consistent and organized fashion. +The manner how the course was done is very good. It was evenly paced. The only difficulty i encountered is when i try to submit assignments because for some reasons the internet in our area is so slow and i failed to create a tumblr account after several attempts. Also Im having difficulty with SAS also so i used other STAT software available on my laptop, it gives same outputs too. Great course! +Quick, easy and Practical way to learning statistical programming and data analysis with SAS/ Python. +I am just starting. But i like how peer review is made the core model of the entire specialization though :) +Very good for beginners. concept explanation as well as coding were great. doesn't take too long to finish. I enrolled regression modeling course by Wesleyan and waiting to start. +Great! +This is a good basic intro to both statistical concepts (correlations, analysis of variance (ANOVA) ), but also presents the methods for coding these tools in Python or SAS in a very accessible and easy to follow way. +very helpfull, thanks +I learn so much about forecasting with assignments ! Thx u Coursera :) +Just a great course to get the big picture of Demand Management & permits to be able to get the base to go further & in detail. Definetly a great course. +Excellent industry knowledge coupled with engaging video tutorials. Great intermediate course to further your knowledge on the way traditional hotel departments have developed into the intertwined entities we see today. +Excellent course for intermediate level, with good explanations and highly relevant topics. Well presented, too. +Comprehensive and very thorough. +Felt a lot less like a commercial than those videos of the previous session.These presenters are much more conscious of how many hand gestures they use.Thanks. +A really interesting course, complete yet condensed to understand most of the future of Revenue Management: the comprehensive Demand Management. Accessible to most and really well made. Will recommend! +High quality professionals spreading their knowledges about marketing , channels and resources in hospitality and IT business. Update issues in current matters. Thanks!! +Absolutely brilliant course with a variety of speakers from different backgrounds - loved it! +The course has intrinsic value, but as the complexity of the materials covered, the weekly slides were a priority to allow students to grasp better the materials covered. Just relying in the videos to assimilate the content is not an effective form of learning. Also pausing the videos to watch the definitions in most cases was ineffective as it was hard to see it properly. Please consider to release the lecture slides to all courses. If the slides were available, that would helped me to go further in my learning proccess. That's why I only give a 3/5. The slides are determinant to improve and master (to some extent) the materials covered. +This was a very helpful introductory course I would recommend to anyone with no experience. Lectures were clear and easily understood. +Well structured course. Accessible for everyone who has an interest in cryptography. Really good in repeating the key points. +Great intro to a complex topic.It could be improved by having the programming assignments be:+ Mandatory+ More related to actual cryptographic algorithms/libraries (only some are) +Nice Course for programmers +The Course has been more about knowing about and implementing them and has been more helpfull in doing so. +Such a good course +Succinct but in-depth course about the important crypto primitives and how they work behind the scene. Awesome course! +This course is the real deal. You will have to work hard to pass it. It gives a solid overview of the main cryptographic concepts like pseudo random generators, functions and permutations, block and stream ciphers, public key encryption, and key exchange. If you haven't studied number theory, plan to spend some extra time getting up to speed. +Thanks to Dan for the excellent course, really enjoyed it! +Excellent course and covers a lot of ground. Fairly challenging, at least foe me :). +FANTASTIC course!!! No better place to learn Cryptography. Prof. Boneh has amazing ability to explain difficult concepts in an easy way. Don't get me wrong - it's not super easy topic but the way you are guided step by step makes it the best Crypto course on Earth! EXCELLENT JOB!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! +Excellent course. Dan explains crypto from the ground up making it easy to understand more advanced constructions as the weeks advance. +Very interesting but sometimes too detailed. Courses often needs good knowledge in mathematics althought there are some reviews. +This is a fantastic introduction to the world of cryptography! You learn about the basic concepts of encryption, authentication, authenticated encryption, public and private keys and the underlying mathematical principles that (should) make it hard to break the ciphers! You also learn about historical developments, real world applications and current challenges that would bring you instant fame in the crypto world. Also it is not a disadvantage if you really love solving puzzles! +Professor is very knowledgable but he is fast... Even before i can understand the first line. he is on the fourth line. i find Hard to keep up with him. I am dropping this course. +Thanks, was a really great and enjoyable course. +Excellent course to master the basics of cryptography, and for smart card developers to understand what's written in the specifications. Crytpography II is my next goal :-) +Excellent resource for encryption primitives, and the math behind good crypto. +Very well explained concepts, a must for every student of crypto world +Amazing!!! It was long, but totally worth it. I hardly believe that such material is given for free in this platform. Thanks a lot to Dan for the course. +very systematic and thorough application of crypto +Just Awsome +Thanks for Coursera to give me a valuable opportunity to improve my skills coursera rocks +A fantastic overview of the subject. Highly recommended! +Cutting edge cryptography topics. Good explanations and slides, but pause button is highly recommended. Can be a bit too mathematical for the general public, and not very formal for mathematicians. +It was an absolutely wonderful experience. Looking forward for cryptography 2 +Lots of knowledge and an engaging course. +Thank you very much for anyone that make this course very interactive and fun. Special thank's for Prof. Dan Boneh as Instructor in this course. +Excellent course, i recommend it to any one willing to start understanding and working with cryptography. +The way material is presented and the cource pace is perfect. After lessons the topics are clear and there will be much more understanding why all those crypto libraries are built like they're built, and how to use them even in case the API is not elegant and is error prone. Can't wait until part II! +An EXCELLENT course on Applied Cryptography!!!! +it is a great course, covers a lots of different area with details and concepts. i like it very much. +Really cool course that was fun and very informative. Really well designed quizzes, homeworks, and programming assignments. It was pretty difficult compared to most online courses but I guess that's expected from Stanford... +This course is brillant, with awesome (optional) coding problems to learn who to go from theory to practice! Thanks for these wonderful materials. +Lecturer was able to communicate and breakup difficult topics into simple easy to understand lessons progressively. +Great course. Challenging topics and exams +Recommended! +Great introduction to Cryptography. +while i do my ms agree ,i found this course on the right time +There is no reason why this course deserves anything less than 5 stars.Everthying is nicely explained and there is so much to learn. +This course is definitely worth the time -- the explanations are very logical with refined transitions from topic to topic. I enjoyed every part of it including the tests and programming assignments. Thank you very much for filling many gaps in my knowledge! +Great introduction to the concepts. I really enjoyed learning everything in this course. My only regret is that I was too busy to take time to do the optional programming assignments. +the real MVP! +A great introduction to cryptography. The material is all contained in the lecture videos making it easy to work through. The notation becomes a little hard to keep track of following week 4 but that's probably my fault for not committing it to memory thoroughly enough +The course gives fundamentals of Cryptography. But I would say that it dig very deep with fundamentals so I would highly recommend this course if you need/want to understand Cryptoraphy +This course helped allot by which I learn more in Cryptography. Thank you very much for providing an excellent opportunity to learn this course. +Very theoretical and mathematical and not enough real examples. +I liked it! Hard but worth it. +Great Instructor, really enjoyed his style of expanding the math "sentences" into lay English EVERY SINGLE TIME! That really helped this learner "go with the flow" as my background is CS. +This isn't a beginners course. I dropped out in first week. I took every note I could and reviewed again and again. I really think the instructor is an intelligent man, but I'm not quite sure he understands how to teach well. I'm really disappointed that I didn't get to take anything away from this class. +Usually cryptography is something what developers don't like to touch or pay attention to. Fortunately, most crypto features are available: just use openssl. But understanding is still important, though the course was very helpful for me. Thank you very much, Dan Boneh. +One of the best introduction in Cryptography and Number Theory. Thanks to Author for clear explained information! +A really hard class for anyone not graduated from collage. +Challenging but worth the effort, especially if you work in software development. +great introduction to crypto.Enjoyable and well designed course. Challenging material and practical exercises. +Excellent course. I've worked with cryptographic methods and practice for many years, but this course provided me with a stronger understanding of the underlying theory than I'd had before. +The explanations are clear and the topics are relevant, interesting, and well explained. I have a background in computing science and machine learning. +The course is really what I wanted: It covers theoretical and practical aspect of cryptography. The exercises are also very well designed, although, I found some of them quite difficult.Overall, I would recommend this course to a friend. +Tough! But worth it! +Great course! +Time consuming and hard work but very rewarding. Took me several attempts to finish (other life commitments kept getting in the way).Will be doing it at least once more to try and finish all the programming exercises too :) +The course is very well structured and gives overview of whole flow and systematically prepares us to understand each of the part. I am really looking forward to Crypto II, where will be described more things about certificate and new exchange protocols. Thank you. +Great lectures to give a basic understanding of cryptography! +Very thorough, lot's of math. A bit too academic for my taste, it's not really useful in practice. +Really helps to understand the underlying concepts of SSl and hence helps understand the working of SSL. +Cryptography I is most interesting and useful course. I like it very much. +Amazing course, awesome practize - want more!!! +I always wanted to know a bit more about cryptography, and this course is perfect as a starting point. It balances theory with practice. The part I enjoyed the most was the programming exercises where you could use some of the theory in practice. +Very interesting course, I used it as Brain training. Thanks you. +Awesome course! +Great! +The course is very interesting and very challenging,As an firmware engineer who never had the chance to learn Crypto. the course gave me a grate introduction to this field.It is very fascinating to understand the different Crypto. methods and their vulnerabilities, and it made me more aware and gave me the ability to evaluate strength of Crypto. systems that I encounter.Before every topic there were a detailed overview on the Math theory required to learn it, the explanations followed by real life examples and it feels like the team put a lot of effort to make the lectures comfortable and easy to follow.The Homework are challenging and very help-hull to understand the learned topics. +Quite challenge but it is very well prepared course. +Excellent introduction to crypto primitives with gentle coverage of formal definitions and methods. +Very stimulating, very accurate, good balance between theory and practical examples. Many thanks to the teacher !!! +Great course! very interesting +This is a great course that was taught well, and had very helpful mentors. In general I found the course challenging but not too difficult. The reward was a good understanding of the open cryptographic protocols that are used in most real world applications. As minimum prerequisites, I would recommend having done courses in statistics, probability theory and programming. +Great course! +I am happy about the fact, that this course is teaches people very important Cryptography subtleties. This makes me think more about -- what would be the best way to preserve this information, so that it can guide future human generations! Thank you, Professor Dan Boneh! I am looking forward for the Crypto II. Kind Regards, Andrey Arapov +Great course indeed! +Fantastic course that gives the basic notions of cryptography. Both practical a theoretical tests are very useful. +Great course! +Amazing course! +Amazing content and great material to study +Very informative beginner course. Perfect for someone who needs to understand the basics. Prof Boneh's instructions were excellent and the quizzes were tough but valuable. +clearly and easy to understand +I took the course in 2014, whether you are a beginner in cryptography or a regular practitioner, the course won't disappoint you. Another master class from Stanford. The problem sets and programming assignments are of reasonable difficulty. So if you are planning to take a course on cryptography, this is just the one- comprehensive and up to the expectations. +Can't wait for Cryptography 2, excellent course, fantastic professor. +Quite good course to increase your cryptography skills... +Great course! Thank you! +Thanks for a grate learning experience. +I had to review college algebra and some of the prerequisite, optional material to get by. I found myself thinking I understood until I got to the quiz. There are a lot of spaces where he assumes you know things or that you will figure out that a+b=c (like putting 2 and 2 together). Notes should probably be taken in outline format. After watching a couple weeks you can tell how he organizes it. The teacher is very knowledgeable and explains concepts very well. The material can still be incredibly hard and gets easier as you repeat it. +This is a fantastic course. It has greatly kindled my interest in cryptography, and I look forward to learning more on the subject from Prof Dan Boneh. +Dan Boneh is an excellent techer, he has the ability to simplify complex topic. So greatful to be able to take clasess with him. +Wonderful course and the teacher is very well prepared. +Excelent course and professors.. +Amazing Introduction and oreview ! +Pretty nice course! It helps me understand why encryption algorithms have been designed to be the way it is now. +This is a tough course.but teaching is very good. +Good choice, recommend to everyone! +The course is clear and goes at a sustained but correct pace. I really like the fact to show the weakness to understand what are the requirements of a secure PRF, PRP & co!Optional programming assignments are really interesting unfortunately they take too much time to do and lack of guidance as it could be the case for the famous ML course. At least the first exercises should provide a development environment to get familiar with: hex, crypto libs, dictionary research, stats algorithms implementation ...The first two weeks lack of in-video tests. +So great! +The course was authentically cryptic. Just kidding. Once I listened to Prof. Boneh a few time over, I started to get the idea. asymptotic security while never stated as such played a fundamental role in the security proofs. Professor Boneh augmented the notion of correctness to include immunity from side channel (Power and timing attacks). The course was a great medley of pragmatic advice and theory. I am grateful for this class. +Amazing course and an outstanding teacher. Worth every penny and minute spent on this one. You learn not just how to build secure systems but also how NOT TO, which I consider even more valuable.The material is explained so fluently you have no doubts about professor's outstanding knowledge of it. This doesn't mean it's an easy course, though, so get prepared for some headache :) +A very challenging but worthwhile introduction to cryptography. +No matter whether you know what Cryptography is, and if you don't know whether you like it, you'll find the answer after taking this course. +Great into to the disciple for those of use who are interested in it but don't have access to a formal crypto class for what ever reason. This class made me fall in love with Coursera. +This is just a great course. The subject was new to me, and while it was difficult, I learned a lot and actually got a good grade.Prof. Boneh is engaging and very clear in his explanations. +Teacher is very clear and the course contents are very good. This course is highly recommendable to any who is interested in crypto. +I am very happy and satisfied pursuing this course. I love it. Cryptography is one of the very important concepts in Computer Science and just loved to have the course from Stanford University. +Hard but very fun, cool and the teacher teaches very well! +It 's the second time I follow this course and I still find that so amazing. I'm waiting Crypto II until a year and I hope it will be released soon... Thanks Pr Boneh for sharing your little (for you) big (for me) knowledge ! +cannot s it actually. +Very good course, it's easy to understand the concepts and the programming assignments help to understand the details of the implementation of the algorithms. +Great course. I haven´t finished it yet but is too useful and well explained. +This time it will be finished. I have such a craze on cryptography and network security. i want to finish the course perfectly this time :) +Great course, but a bit disappointed by the fact that I'll have to do it all over again to get a certificate. +Great course.Very intensive - not a single page without teaching you something new. +I didn't have time to finish but first couple of weeks were great, a lot of math concepts sometimes hard to grasp but I like it, that is why I enrolled, I recommend it for anybody who knows some math and want to know history, how it works and background of cryptography from beginning till this day. +pretty good, well explained and clear +I learned a lot about this course. This is a very helpful addition knowledge to my profession. +It's a great course! Professor Boneh has done really big work to explain the principals of cryptography. I really enjoyed it.) +Very good course with a level accessible without the need to be a mathematical guru. Maybe some videos are a little beat too long. +This is one the best course to learn Cryptography. This course is speacilly design for basic level to higher level. +Very good course, clear lecture. +Excellent and very practical course. Thank you, Dan Boneh. +Fantastic course. I am getting preliminary idea of cryptography from this course. Hope to take the "Cryptography II" course as well. +I love the pace of the course. The content and narration is crisp and informative. Exactly what i was looking for. I loved the initial brush up sessions on discrete probability. +technically sound course +Excellent course, even the persons lacking the very basics of cryptography can understand. +The course is super-awesome. I am excited for next weeks.... +Very exceptional material and courseware +Excellent course! I can recommend this to anyone who is not afraid of some basic math. But a person interested in cryptography should not be afraid of math, yielding that this course can be recommended to anyone interested in cryptography. +It's hard, yet it's really good. +This course is one of the best course I have tried lately and I cannot wait for Cryptography 2. +Really good course, instructor provides real life examples a tries to avoid the mathematic abstractions to minimum - relying rather on intuition and pictorial examples. +Simply amazing! A great social service in the history of Education. +Very very interesting topic. I like this course so much. It is the key to the information security. Thank you. +Real good course +I have already finished this course in 2014. This is my second time. Five-star recommendation! +收获很多，thanks! +Excellent course for those of you who want to know the very inner workings of encryption, how it works and why we use it. +Great class which inspired me with enormous excitements +When someone explains concepts and ideas in such an easy way, it means he/she understands fully what he talks about; this is the case of Professor Dan Boneh; I widely recommend this course for anyone interested in Cryptography topics. +very challenging +I liked the level commitment the programming problems demanded. It truly made you feel you had a deeper understanding of the subject after finishing them as opposed to just reading and answering multiple choice questions. Thanks for putting this together for the world to learn! +Fabulous course, great content would recommend to anyone in IT. +Wholesome experience +Really great introduction course for IOT and BYOD devices. +Would be better if this course includes guidelines and policies of cyber security +this course its very good +Links to 4 year old articles, websites and TED talks that can be found on Google don't really constitute a course to me sorry. +I liked the combination of video and readings, and short quizzes during the video. Very practical while still academic. +Cyber Security is miniscule in the topic. Mobility poses severe cyber security threat and syllabus is talking about MDM which is for compliance and cyber security. +Generally, a fair intro to key topics in "Cybersecurity and Mobility", however some of the sources are dated (and could be updated), given the fast-paced nature of the field. Still, worth some time if you want to learn more about where current trends are heading. +Interesting info and very interesting point of view +Excellent course for learning about the growing cybersecurity challenges associated with BYOD & enterprise users moving to their personal devices. Also places an emphasis on end-point security and application security without digging into the technical aspects but rather focusing on the security. User friendly BYOD policy and awareness are key. +Very effective! +A little dated, with most material and research presented from the glorious days of 2012. The issues at hand are however still valid, though +Good course for general knowledge of the subject. I felt the amount of reading, especially the 4th week, should be more accurately represented. At least for time management. +Its is a great course to take, it opens you the window for future knowlege about cybersecurity and mobility. +Course is designed very well, tutor explained all topics in detail and would be great if there are some additional information about the progression towards as a Cyber Security profession.Highly Recommend to other learners and many thanks again for offering such a valuable course.Farrukh +In my opinion this is not a course. The contents are a short interview cut up over 4 weeks, fluffed with a myriad of vendor-biased PDFs. The 90s classroom style video editing is annoying to boot. +A wonderful course delivered in a lucid and easy to understand format. I like the discussions much. Thanks. +A very informative course in the sense that though its very basic but its the first time I got everything in a structured way. I am already a Infosec professional however my domain is not mobility. So mobility with security and its use business development is a phenomenal task. Hence, I guess its a very good course for this specialisation. I am not giving 5 stars as there is always scope for improvement. However, it may be taken as a five star course.Thanks to all the people who designed the course. +I wish there was a little more meat. +Great class; interesting reading assignments +Useful course on Mobility +Excellent to better understand those new threats +A good introduction to the subject of computer security and mobile security. More of a general subject and not vert in depth, but a great start. +So far I've gone through the first week. Lots of business and technical info. The video quality is AMAZING!! +I would recommend the course for everyone who is either beginner or an intermediate researcher like me +Thank you so much coursera. I am so delighted. +informative course. Lots of information provided.Course set a foundation of knowledge that will be built upon.Good instructors. Good pace. +Great course, the instructors were clear and concise. I had zero knowledge of DM before this course and this course show the basics and essential at least to start to talk about data management. Absolutely indispensable to anyone doing research of any type. Kudos to the teachers! +I thoroughly enjoyed this course. It was well-taught and easy to follow. It covered many aspects of data management that researchers might forget to take into consideration as they begin their research. As someone who is interested in Library Science, I found this course incredibly informative and interesting. +It is a really great course! I learnt a lot! +Very good course! +It was wonderful reading and building our knowledge. Thank You our Professors and mentors. Please let us know the procedure to get our certificate. Please send the details in dangolreshma11@gmail.com.Once again thank you so much............ :) +An excellent course for all researchers that want to understand what Research Data Management is and how to apply this to your research. The course also gives very good arguments why managing and sharing data is an excellent career strategy for researchers.The videos are short but really informative and full of further sources of information. The practical exercises (optional for completing the course) are a great way to consolidate the new knowledge and to helped make the cognitive bridge to data management practice .A course any researcher that aspires in applying for a Horizon 2020 grant in Europe should take! +This course provided some god information on version control and file naming conventions, but a lot of the lessons just refer to the DDI protocol. +I probably should wait to finish this course before reviewing, but I'm halfway through and have found my motivation gone--I'm finishing it just to finish it. The delivery adds nothing to the content, especially as much of it is simply the presenters reading lists also shown on screen. Class content would better serve the students as a searchable PDF. And why are there super-specific questions on quizzes about things like what specific funders require in a grant proposal? That's information that you look up when you need it, not that you quiz people on. This class is a let down. +Good introduction to an area where library science, information science and archivistics come together. +It's very useful. I recommend this course. +A very informative course. i learnt a lot. +very good course! +I found this to be an excellent course. I have been teaching myself about data management for about the last two years as part of my work. I have read many documents, taken one course and have been to a couple of workshops. But I still felt that I was missing a lot of information - especially if I am to help researchers with their DMPs. Finally, thanks to this course, I have the more in depth information that I need. The topics covered, and the way they were covered also helped me to paint a better picture in my mind of the "whole process of data management" - an not just disjointed information which I felt I had.My compliments to both of you for making such an excellent course.Jitka Vavra +This is a an important topic and more scientists (and students in the sciences) should learn about this but the quizzes are not great as a learning aid and my motivation is running through lows. +It's a great course!!Fernanda Peset +Great course! +Very informative and deliberat +This course is vital for every caregiver. Thank you so much. +Thanks for a highly informative course +Excellent Course and fantastic TEACHER!!! Dr. Mannino is fantastic! +Good Materials with great instructor +good course for foundation +Very well structured course, with very nice contents. Needs revision for a lot of easy spottable errors, better lecture slides and better explanations. The last module also needs a complete revision because it has errors and it is really not well explained (beside the subject is relatively simple). +Great course. I learned database essentials before, but this course presents content way better. +Thank You for beautiful course. +Great Course and Instructors!Only think i didn't like is the peer grading system as many of the users grade low without any reason! +This course is really amazing! +best course for a database beginner. +Hey corsera kindly check my week 4 answers please i answered it before and no one doesn't checking it i finished all the weeks except week 4 thank you. +This course helped me a lot. It's a big help to me as a student to learn all of this in videos and words. +Comprehensive and good pacing for content. +Very Intresting +Personally they should add a free textbook and a vocabulary list with clear examples.So yes this course could benefit from more detail time to time +Would like more thorough definition of terms, examples with explanation application of terms. Still a great course. Learned a lot. +A great course with great exercises. +Amazing course +this course is giving me a lot of useful info and i recommend it to others who is interesting to start learning DBMSs +Coursera and this course sucks. You are at the mercy of idiots doing your peer review. +very Great well thaught and underastanding +This is the worst course I have ever seen in my life, I'm ain't lying these guys use the terms which they haven't thought and they use it so frequently as if they have thought it, One who were teaching may be industrial experts and have lot's of experience, but one thing to note is:Teaching is an art... +Awesome Specialization! Thanks! +Good focus on database essentials +horrible +It's so nice.Good explanation and matter. +Instructor teach well and thoroughly. Gives a good foundation for understanding databases, structure, queries, issues and applications, without excessive strain. Useful for understanding effort required at work to make changes and improvements. +Good course +Good for business/system analysts as well. Excellent course to learn how to conceive ERD diagrams. +The course was very helpful +Great course +Provides an excellent coverage of the essentials of Databases. +Recommended for everyone making transition into Database Career. +In wk3 my DB is totally messed up and I do not know where to find the CORRECT create statements to recreate the DB that the assignments expect! It shouldn't be too difficult to provide one page that gives the commands to execute to create the DB that is used in each week (for each week separately). Due to that I'm un-enrolling from this course. +It is very good beginning for BI. +Great course. Needs more than the suggested time to do it justice. +good learning +A free book to read would have been nice. +Excellent course content, very well presented, great slide decks.(When I hear "DB Management" I think of tablespaces and indexes. The course should be named "Data Modelling Essentials" instead. ) +A very comprehensive course to learn databases and related concepts. +Great course, learned a fair deal in regards to DB from a beginners POV. The only thing that left a sour taste in my mouth is the poor attitude of some students towards each other. The course uses peer-reviews and sadly some students take joy in poorly grading others whilst providing feedback along the lines of 'Great work!'.If there was the possibility to actually report these users instead of having to resubmit your work and pray the next set of peers have some decency, I'd happily change my review to a 5 star. +Course moves very quickly, but material covered was good. Some complaints that the peer-graded assignments need an appeal process. +Good as an introduction to DB! +Great course for a solid introduction to SQL and database concepts. I would highly recommend it. However - if you are completely new to SQL, you must expect to spend a lot of time on the first half of the course. +Course really introduced me to the basic concepts that I need in database design. I really appreciate. +Great Course +The material is fine but the course isn't taught well. The instructor tends to start talking immediately in subject jargon and abbreviations without first giving students an intro or explaining foundation material first. It seems a lot of material is left out of the lectures and slides on purpose and forces students to buy the instructor recommended text book (which is also authored by the instructor). After each lecture I'm forced to Google search a lot of what was mentioned before I even understood half of what the instructor was talking about. I didn't pay to listen to something that forces me to Google search everything. +Very good. thanks you for help me to improve. +Its good +No programming demonstrations, but this is a very good introduction! thx! +This course will be very help for me in my masters track. Since I am doing master in this field so I want to study all the topic in more detail. Furthermore, the course is helpful for me in my career development. +Peer Review is sub-optimal +great course +Awesome course, well taught. +This course is really helpful About Database Systems. +Good one +This course help me a lot in my career +Good instructor his teaching way is good!!!! hope so its easy ahead... +Great content, horrible technical support from Coursera and the team that runs this program (since it is clearly obvious that Michael Mannino just recorded the videos and is not part of the class anymore). +very good course +Very good but more examples missing +The course is very well structured and everything is well explained. You learn a lot, but for a person with poor previous knowledge about database systems it requires more time dedication than the the 4-6 hours it says. +This course is on-point and it has really helped me develop my skills is database Management. +Thanks. +It well designed course. It has good composition of basics and as well as use cases details. Thanks to instructor for good explanation. +can't wait to rate this course! I hope I could give 1 start but to show respect I rated it 2. It's just because I personally don't like the instructor and the way he talks, which could ruin the course! I truly hope we could have another instructor in the following courses or the whole specialization would be ruined and so would my interest in database. +I really enjoyed the course. I think the pace of the course was a bit fast but I could catch up with the lecturer because I was mostly familiar with the concepts. In that sense it was a great for revision. I recommend studying hard and solving lots of sample problems for newbies to benefit from the course to the full. Regards. +Really useful! +Nice introductory course for database management. Assignments are challenging enough for beginners like me but I like that. If I'm already 'investing' my time into something I expect to learn something in return. This course gave me that kind of reciprocity. Course would benefit from radically different approach to video-lessons. Reading from power-point slides which are written in the same manner, have identical structure tends to become tedious after a while. Professor seems nice and knowledgeable but a bit more relaxed and/or engaging approach would be beneficial to many. Oh, and peer-reviewed grading, wherever possible, should be replaced with an auto-grader. That's not a critique, though. Not quite sure if it's even possible with this kind of material. +Excellent course with lot of insight to Database Management System. +The content was very well structured, the practices were very appropiate to the concepts that the course is teaching. And the professor is very clear explaining each of the modules, one of the best courses I that have participated . Thanks ! +Great course.... with lots of practice questions. +Excellent course, with good video lectures. However, the written course materials, especially in terms of slides and assignment instructions, suffer from poor grammar and an occasional lack of clarity. +Good Course with good learning, but at some places it becomes extremely boring which drifts away the excitement and commitment towards the course. +very informative and rich content +This course is so interesting and very useful. +The course was clear, I had difficulties to find course materials, especially examples were used in the video class, I wish they had been put in more obvious places. +Very useful and applicable material. +Great +it is really good course. but the lecturer should speak slower and more focus on the important issues.Thanks overall is a good course. +Thanks for a great course +Good course for broad end-to-end discussion of database design and management. Lectures are decent, assignments and practice problems are pretty helpful. Class takes 3-4 hours/week on average, though it varies by week. Would have like to see more advanced discussion for some of the easier topics/shorter weeks. +Good review of DBMS concepts and practice, I felt it was a nice refresher. +An excellent course to start with. Great for people who are just starting to learn database as well as for those who want to refresh their knowledge regarding the subject. +very informative! +i will be applying for a bussiness intelligence job within 1 month, and within the first few lessons im feeling very much confident that taking this course is a good step towards my database management career. +This is a very good course that teaches you many important skills in preparation for the next courses. It does start off with the basics of SQL DDL and DML that most professionals may already know, but later modules that cover design concepts and practice are very good. There are a few errors in the videos but these are easy to spot. +Perfect for a DB beginner ! It has all the basic standards taught to follow when working with basic commands in DB. +Do not be fooled by the course description. You do need to know some basics before attempting the course. Be prepared to look a lot of things up independently or purchase the "optional" text book. There is virtually no moderator in this course and the instructor does not grade or comment on the discussions. Basically he is reading you PowerPoint slides and adding very little to the lesson by watching and listening to him do so. Your grades are based on what your peers (who are also trying to learn) think or interpret the correct answer to be based on their limited knowledge and discretion. I would not recommend this course for someone wishing to learn SQL as it is not the main focus, it is only a small part of the lessons. +The course is very well structured and provides good resources of practical data sets. I would recommend others to do this course. +Step by step explanations. Divided into small parts so that the students can digest the information in small pieces. I like it so far. +A good course to learn backend +Pros: Information is perfect for anyone looking at Business Intelligence as a career field, or already in the career field itself. I found the first week to challenge my on-the-job knowledge of a fuller set of concepts and general terminology.Cons: The wording on the quiz questions, in some cases, seems much different than the PPT slides and the instructor's language. UPDATE: The wording is a significant challenge, even when advancing into the more complex topics. I have had many differences of opinions on the solutions based on wording in the requirements. +Excellent for start the journey to a magnificent BI Analyst. +The specialization is great, and the course breadth and topics described in each is equally good. For this course, however, I felt like I could have covered what was taught by myself with a book, i.e. I didn't feel like it was class room level engaging with the explanations.I realized this is a one way MOOC, but I've taken courses off and on since they came out, and some others felt more interactive. This was more of here's a slide, I will read what's on the slide and explain some topics. The assignments were not bad, but definitely took more time than stated (just keep that in mind). The other thing that would help immensely is having TAs in the course. It's possible that they may get some later, but I've felt I learned/got feedback a lot more in courses with TAs.That said, this is an excellent introduction to databases course, and there's not many of them out there. If I had to go it again, I would, and I also paid for getting the cert - if anything for career advancement and having it on your LinkedIn profile as a starter DB course. +Very good course +Wonderful course. As an Electronic Engineer, I've always have a lack of Knowledge in Data Base structures. Nowadays, not only software applications but software based hardware solutions depend on this infra structure to warehouse data and information. Moreover, we live today in an Analytic world, deep mining knowledge to make decisions every day. This Course met all expectation I had and I want to get trough specialization track. By the way, professor Mannino is a great mentor and quality of support material (book, slides, assignment, etc.) is totally above the line. +Some terminologies are confusing, like BCNF, more in-lecture examples are appriciated. +I really enjoyed this course, the course instructor has a nice tonality and the presentation are most of the time well structured. The database installation should be covered in more detail and i had to buy the book in order to understand everything. Over +I you like lots of exercises to master your skills -- than this course is right for you. +assingnments are not grading .so i do not have reason to study something that can't finish +good introduction to database and basic SQL +i learned a lot from this course , its fun and it has very good exercises +Easy to get started... +Awesome professors made learning SQL so easy. Thank you. +I could not finish because videos were stuttered - even with bigger bandwidth - and as a consequence I could not finish the course and the exercises in my limited free time (therefore, only 2 stars). Is the problem solved now - cause I d like to resume the course again. If that's more successful now I would start the next parts of the specialization.Thank you for an answer! +This course is very good! +A very good introduction to database management, the professor explain very good and you can learn so much, also arouses interest in exploring the topic. +Exceptional but i still feel that reading material should be free of cost. +The Course was excellent, regarding the lessons, practice problems, and the assignments.Mr. Mannino was a great teacher, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.Regarding the reviews: I didn't have a problem in this course regarding the classmate's reviews. Everything what I have done correctly, it was reviewed also correctly. Where I had some mistakes, I was reduced some points. But, some of my classmates wrote that they were not fully satisfied with the marks given even if they provided correct solutions to the problems. Maybe in the future, you can think about the way how the students should be reviewed. This is of course just a suggestion.Best regards,Milos. +Not enough implication from the instructors in the course. Students are left alone with the material, without any answers to there questions on the course.Peer review process subject to personal interpretation and leading to frustration for the students.That's quite unfortunate as this provides a bad experience whereas the course might have been good without that. +Pros: The course content covers a lot of relevant topics on Database Management. Things like Basic SQL queries, Database Normalization, Conceptual and Logical databases, and making ER diagrams are covered in the course.Cons: Prof Mannino is a bit robotic in his reading out of long sentences and the constant pace of talking. There is tons of repetition of sentences and words mere seconds after they were just spoken. The lectures seem to be a collection of bullet points.The assignments and the peer review structure is really a low point. There's no specific grading rubric - so points allocation is random and based on your peer's assessment. I had many instances where my right answers were marked as wrong. There is nothing you can do to correct it. Moreover, the questions are iterative and thus the same apparent error carries on and you get multiple wrong scores.Assignments need to be submitted in documents. Separate documents for each question !! At times, even a one-line answer needs to be in a separate document. Pictures of database diagrams need to be pasted in said documents. It was a bit frustrating to take screenshots all the time. Especially when you make a small correction, and have to take screenshots AGAIN, then paste it AGAIN, and upload AGAIN !!Summary: Take the course for it's content, and use the assignments as good practice. Don't take the grading seriously. Also, focus on the content rather than the delivery by the professor, and you will still be able to get some value out of the course (and the specialization by extension) +Short videos, but good Practice problems and Assignments. +Professor Michael Mannino presents a very well prepared course that achieves optimal results in a limited time. Given my experience, it was a bit basic for me. Nevertheless, it filled in the gaps in my knowledge and gave me confidence to take it forward. +Great Course. Awesome Content. The sessions can be a little more interactive. +A good entry into database thinking. Homework is a tad on the high side for people who just want to learn on the side. Also, not clear why diagrams can't be automated directly from the database programs e.g. Access. Why would I draw an ERD and then design a database separately - better just design the tables and the diagram directly; then you have your ERD from the program e.g. Access or Filemaker. +good course +I found the content was great but the style of lectures were a bit too robotic and not conversational. This didn't help the learning process. Also, the course admin might consider explaining 'On' 'And' 'Where' 'TIMESTAMP', 'DateDiff' more than what was provided. +As I only interested in learning SQL, I did learn a lot quickly. +This is excellent course for someone that just started his journey with databases! +Good but with some errors in assignments and not real support via the forum - some question has not been answered +Very professional, very complete course. +Great first course to learn SQL language! +Nice course, but very little has been said about the performance of the databases. +Avoid this course like the plague. Terribly taught, no support, problems only vaguely related to the course material, and designed to force you to buy the manual for the course. The next classes in the specialization get even worse, with the student forums full of students who can't get any help though the grueling process of installing Oracle, Pentaho, etc. on a personal laptop. I was fortunate to have experience with the tools, would have never managed to finish the course just based on the terribly taught material. +Great course +A good introductory course. I would recommend allowing for extra time to get the database software up and functioning so that you aren't crammed for time trying to get it configured and do the assignment in week 2. +Awesome course content and teaching techniques used by Michael Mannino.Kudos! +This course is very well put together with detailed video lectures, many realistic practice example and extensive problem sets. It requires a lot of work but it can be accomplished quickly if you are dedicated. You can quickly acknowledge the value of the course by the amount of work the professors put into creating this course. If you want a course that gives you are complete introduction and detailed development of Databases and Database Modelling incl. MySQL and Oracle. This is the course for you. +A great course for everyone who wants to learn database management. +Excellent course. Sets a complete introductory base for DB management with some theory and examples. +Fair enough. Good material and content for someone new or that needs to remember basic concepts about databases. Not needed if the main focus is DWH and experience with DB exists +Great Course!! The videos are excellent and all the material given is easy to understand and practice It. Highly recommended. +This is a very, very good course about databases fundamentals and design. +Very useful information, and the explanation is really easy to understand +Severe lack of support (zero) from the professor or TAs. Some wrong solutions were provided for assigments but were never addressed or acknowledged that it will be fixed. Some assignment files are not Mac friendly or is just not viewable by all students (I can't tell). Materials are quite good but grading is subject to broad interpretations and there is no human to provide guidance on what are the best practices. To think that I paid for the specialisation in order to take the graded assignment AND I have to do the grading BUT I do not receive support? This is ridiculous. I will have to think three times before I pay for a Coursera course in the future. Never again. I will not recommend this to others. +Great teacher and awesome content!!! +Although not have any business intelligence content, I recommend it to people who need to strengthen their knowledge in databases. On the other hand, it should be an optional course for those who were interested in obtaining certification. +Interesting, I would have liked to deepen SQL knowledge and practice. The conceptual parti seems a little bit too important. +I enjoyed it quite well! +The lecture videos have a format that is a bit over structured. It feels like the instructor takes as much time asking and answering an often contrived "motivation" question as he does teaching relevant material. The slides are of sufficient quality however to make viewing the lectures optional. .I would have appreciated having all the courses documents in single zip file. +Very well prepared, skilled instructor +Poor english, hard to follow assignments (instructions spread out over 3-4 microsoft word documents with no links between them). Teaches SQL with MixedCase namings, all-named constraints and other non-standard syntax. +The way of grading is unfair sometimes. +A very well planned and prepared course. +This is a very well planned course. In a few weeks, the student learn a lot of things in a way that he/she consolidates the fundamental knowledge about databases.Congratulations to the course designers and thanks for the opportunity to learn all the concepts treated here!Thiago from Brasil. =) +Very useful this course. Thanks +The course was very well presented and was easy to follow. my only problem is that I struggled a little and as much as I was trying to follow and read the recommended reading material, I found that there was not enough time due to the volume of assignments per week. Maybe if the assignments were reduced or we have them every 2 weeks?! +Excellent Course and Very Knowledgeable but it requires some personal work outside the Course and it's only downside for me. +very good teacher and very helpful and learning style and really appropriate course content. thumbs up +Great +Excellent Course and well explained tutor +Great course!The course is well structured with clear objective for each lecture.The assignments are interesting and the practice assignments are relevant.Excelent material.Thank you! +Expected a lot more from the course. Also, the teaching style isn't very engaging either. +Assignments are very inaccurate. Mess with table and field names. Oracle VM is very heavy and slow to use on regular laptop. +I wish to have more contact with the academic crew. +Very nice introduction to databases. The lectures are not very engaging, the plus is there are practical assignments for every week, where you learn the most. First you submit your own solution and then you provide feedback to your peers. I like the format of the assignments. +The course is very good +Good course material and wonderful instructor. Was able to learn a lot. +The course is well structured with clear objective for each lecture. It starts by asking the main question about the course then summarize the answer and the key messages.Practice and assignment are valuable to apply and test courses knowledge.Thank you +It was a very concise and to the point course. really helped learning new concepts and tools. +Very nice class, well thought out and organized. The assignments are interesting and the practice assignments are relevant. +Very interesting ... loving it. +REALY solid information in this course are given, great topics allocation and scheduling, definitely the best online course in this field. +excelent material. Good task and Assignments +It was a very nice course, however, there was less focus on SQL and more focus on ERDs +Great course! My suggestion is to correct a few errors in the proposed solutions. Thank you very much to all the persons that make this courses possible. I enjoyed it very much and I will continue to finish the full track. +many mistakes in files +Very good course. Clarified some basic concepts, got some hands on experience on using databases, ERD drawing tools. Need a bit more detailed explanation for the topics. +if you dont have knowledge of database at all, then its little hard to understand concepts.but the videos are insightful and helpful..we need to work more and more.Normalisation is little difficult to understand here...my personal comment +Excellent course!It was my 1st experience with Coursera and I didn't expect that online learning can be so stimulating and exciting. The biggest advantage of this course is its very practical approach and fact that each week there is assignment. The only disadvantage here is the fact that this course has been more time-consuming that I initially expected it to be hence I had to spend more time on it than estimated 3-6 hours a week. For full-time working person it was not easy to keep up with deadlines, especially the weeks with 2 assignments per week. Nevertheless - truly intensive and interestingly presented. I strongly recommend:) +Good course +This is a very good introduction to databases, how the evolved, what they do and why we need them. The presentations are easy to follow and a good number of resources is provided to deepen the understanding and to practice.While there are, of course, technical chapters that require the student to delve into a high level of detail, a large focus is on understanding the business problem that needs to be solved. Detailed knowledge and practice are necessary, but knowing how to join tables is not what makes a good database manager.Understanding and assessing requirements, identifying missing or redundant information are far more important.Thanks, Michael, for this course. +really good one! +very good for beginners, truly wide scope of topics.also some assignments' conditions are not transparent and contradictorythank you +Great course! Thank you! +Interesting and Informative +The teacher's lecture is not very clear and all the assignments are graded by peer classmates which may occur several controversial issues. +Very comprehensive course on introduction to database. This is an advanced course so you should have some experience with DBs before taking it. The lecturer, Mr. Mannino, delivers a dry, straightforward teaching style. There are plenty of materials but unfortunately, there is little interaction in the forums from the teacher himself. +A solid course, I feel well versed in the fundamentals of database design. The 'opening question' bits are rather superfluous though. +The course has good material and solid assignment. It would be five star if it goes more deep in some topics +I think it's a great course to help starters get ready to what's next. +Enjoyable, thank you ! +Thanks to the Course team for the efforts +The course provides extra materials and so many extra practice problems, so that you can study thoroughly and really learn something. +To be an introduction, it is a good course. +nice course. however would have liked more specific examples of cyber conflicts along with how they were resolved to each country's satisfaction ( if there are any such examples to look at ). Thank you to you all for putting this course together. +It's Ok, nothing much to gain iin terms of knowledge realted to cyber conflict. +Great Couse! +The course was alright +Excellent materials and professors!!! +I like the comparisons between past physical wars and current cyberwar. However, the course take the long way to explain very basic elements of nations interactions and trust. +The videos were not always easy to understand because of the unclear pronouncing of the key speaker. Also although most of the tests were easy to complete, the ones that you had to write the answer down instead of only choosing the correct answer, were hard since if one word you wrote was wrong you lost the question. +The course in very interesting. It is focused on Cyber threats, cyber crime, Actors of Cyber crime, Motivation, attributions, psychology, international situation, cyber attacks in history, confidence building measures.I learnt a lot from the course and I highly recommend the course to others. +It gives you an interesting visions about hot subjects and provides with sources to go deeper. Maybe a course to short on each topic covered. +Pretty good course. While the assessments are pretty much just a repeat of the in-video questions, I feel I was still able to learn a fair amount. +Its indeed a plus to my career growth... +A detailed course which will give a great insight +Excellent Course, if you want to clear your aspect over International Cyber Conflicts. +I enjoyed the course and it ticked the boxes of my expectation. +A Great Course to understand the Cyber Conflicts issue. Highly recommend to individuals learning Cyber security or planning to go in that direction. Thank you to the Course Team for making the material easy to understand and interactive lessons !! +This course - analyses the Cyberworld - and what it is there for the people of the world. Very well compiled syllabus, course contents and assigment/quizzes. Thanks to the Professors of State University of NewYork as well as Coursera. +A political view of the Cyber Conflicts. +Nice blend of psychology, game theory, international relations and cyberwarfare, enriched with all kind of examples from the nuclear arms race. +EXCELLENT TEACHERS AND EXCELLENT MATERIALS +Interesting +Highly informative and interesting to follow even at this early stage I'l currently working at... +Course material was interesting but very rudimentary, the courses biggest challenge was understanding its spoken English. I do not recommend this course. +It takes time for me, as a non English spoken, to understand some professor's accent. Overall, I learned a lot from this course. This course helped me understand what causes of cyberattack are, the wa +Good way to be introduced into this topic. +informative and simple to follow +general view on the subject. some interesting ideas. +Very interesting topic with high level of explanation and references to self studies. +I thought SPECTACULAR HOW PROVIDING CLASSES, making THOSE WHO LIVE IN OTHER COUNTRIES, SITUATIONS AND POWER NOTE PROVIDING SUCH INFORMATION ABOUT ONE OR OTHERWISE COMMUNICATE IN OUR COMMUNITIES. +Good course ... good introduction to the topic. +The lectures are very well-organized. The topics are also cover in this field. However, the lectures are very dry and boring. The main professor were reading the scripts on the monitor. From my perspective, with his knowledge in this field as being described on his personal web site, he should be able to talk comfortably by looking at the topic on the slide then discuss about it in detail. I would suggest to change the environment to be at the wide open space, like coffee shop, to make this course more attractive. I'm sorry, it is not what I expected. +Superb course. Gave me a lot of insights. +Course in not only just about theory of cyber security .But also ,It also accommodates psychological view to cyber world . This makes it more interesting .The brief part of law related to cyber security buttress the content maturity .However, More information on privacy should be added .If done ,course is a 5 star Course .Moreover, every lecture gives information.So, efficiently crafted out of course .Overall,it's worth taking and worth time spending +A little bit short, but a great introductory class. Won't go into too much detail, but will get you started on the subject. +Excellent course, video lectures were very useful, psychology portion was especially interesting. +Professors accent very hard to understand. Week 5's lesson should be reviewed as may have no place in class +Parts are thin on detail. This is a good and broad overview but lacks in-depth information of use to cyber security specialists. Still, a good course to start with if you plan to move forward. +The topic of the course is very interesting, the readings were important, but some of the reading were based on a book, that I had to purchase. Was a very useful course, but was a little bit tiring, videos with 12 minutes with too much theory but less pratical examples. But was a good experience. I would like to thanks the professors, that made this course. +Good for an international perspective on Cyber Conflicts. Covers a wide range of topics +Wished the course was a deeper dive into this area. +The course content was great but delivery was a little dry. Appears that the presenters were reading from a teleprompter - sort of awkward. +This course was very informative and helped me understand about International Cyber Conflicts. Ahmad. +The same information was covered in multiple lessons. It was a very conceptual look at cyber conflicts that you could get if you paid attention to the news over the last five years. +I'm sorry that I'm going to sound harsh, but this course is useless.It touches so many different topics without going deeply into any of them. All you get is a basic knowledge about All Things Cyber™.The recommended readings are all over the place, the video captions look like they're just a basic speech recognition and like nobody actually proof read them. They're full of errors. Lecturers say one word, captions show a completely different word. Plus, they're full of spelling errors. (Kadafi regime in Libya!? Really!?)You can get the same amount of knowledge by reading two or three Wikipedia pages. Don't waste your time on this course. +Course was ok. However, some of questions were not clear based on excerpt from support video. For example, quiz #1 question 7. Course was "general" overview of very important subject matter of Cyber Conflicts. Looking forward to a more specific and detailed course structure. PS: A course concerning Cyberwar in Space would be quite interesting. +A comprehensive course with good thematic. +Good material. +Very useful course! ++ Excellent introduction and overview. Recommend!-Some of the readings were not available on the internet +Having no experience in cyber security, this course is helping me understand the basics of cyber security so that I may advance in Cyber forensics. I highly recommend it. +This course is very interesting and actualized.My unique problem is about the certificate, I need information about the quantity of hours duration. +Great information on cyber conflicts and the psychology of cyber conflict and warfare. +it was interesting to learn about the dynamics of the Internet and how it is used for villainous purposes. +This was a very good course (4.5/5.0). One area that could be improved would be the discussion of industrial control systems (ICS). On lecture briefly mentions STUXNET and SCADA, but this was rather incomplete discussion. A very recent incident that could have been used was the attack on the Ukraine Power grid as a demo of a cyber attack against infrastructure. https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/alerts/IR-ALERT-H-16-056-01?_mc=sm_dr_editor_kellyjacksonhigginsI am perhaps biased toward this area, since this is my field of work. +Excellent instructors, very interesting subject and great learning experience. Highly recommended Course for those aiming to master this subject. +awesome course I learned a great +On the positive side I emphasise the importance of bringing this topic to a Coursera course. Also the readings were important and added value to the learning experience.On the other hand there are - in my opinion some aspects that made this course a not so rich experience. First, there are some audio issues in the videos. Second, the quizzes are excessively easy and the in video quizzes should not appear in the weekly assignments. If there are required readings, some of the quiz questions should relate to those readings. This way students had an incentive to go over those readings. But the most salient thing that made my experience very limited was the fact that one of the instructors - the one that presented most of the videos, was excessively nervous and all that he did was read the slides, in most cases not doing so naturally and committing errors, rephrasing, stopping, changing speed. I found it very, very difficult to follow along what he was saying. I had to focus only on the slides, otherwise I would get distracted. I think it is ok to be nervous or at ease, but the team should alerted him to this, and shoot the videos again and again until they had acceptable and balanced quality.A minor thing, I would like to had available the weekly slides to further reflection. I think the video issues that I've mentioned should been carefully planned before this course made it mainstream.This is my opinion. Hope it will help you for future improvements of the course and/or other offerings.Ricardo Oliveira +Simply awesome! +Good course +Great course, understanding that our biggest security threat is our own behaviour is key to building cybersecurity. +There is a lot of practical and actionable information in this course related to cybersecurity. I would highly recommend anyone interested in their organization's cybersecurity take this course! +Very good content. It helped me learning more about the behaviour change models! Enjoyed it +A great course to check the vulneravilities that can have +a lot of interesting materials and articles for self-studying +Sways between incorrect definitions and buzz words to word dense academic papers. Lacks clarity to the point of bringing the providers expertise in to question (only those who understand a concept and have relevant experience have a hope of explaining it) . Calls in to question the motive of the course and coursera - this seems more like marketing or pre-sales than it does education. +Very informative and progress work for students. +Not worth wasting your time over: they state that which is blatantly obvious and provide little insight into human factors of security. +Tough course to get through and very different to the others in the specialisation but knowing about statistics has given me a different view of the world and I have really gained something from doing it. I can hold reasonable conversations with data analysts and the like now. +Really great course on statistical tests for experiments. The long quizzes are a little annoying, but helpful in the end. +I think this course missed an opportunity to teach ways to run real life experiments in abstract of R-Studio. Instead, this was an R-Studio course in running experiments in abstract of what or why you would want to even approach these types of experiments. It didn't fit the specialization IMHO, but I did find it valuable as someone who is re-approaching and deepening my existing skillset. +Too much statistics, too much coding and inadequate instruction. This is not a coding specialization and if I wanted to learn coding I would have taken a coding course! This 9 weeks course has been a nightmare! +This is the specialisation that sucks all joy out of the entire course. 6 month on and I am still on week 2. The software and the provided files are not fully working, something is always missing, constant error messages... If you don't have background in statistics, you will have a very difficult time. +Some times i felt lack of explanation. Because there is a lot of math. And quizzes are too big (10 + 32 questions on Week 7). But overall i would say that this course is the only one to which i will definetly come back +This is a complex course for people who don't know R Studio. While it is not very hard to learn R Studio (even for people who are not comfortable with coding), it is very difficult when people get stuck. I did not get the much needed support when my R studio installation failed or when installation of libraries failed with error messages. The instructor was good, course content is good, but the lack of a suitable support representative for such complex subjects pulls down the reputation of this course. Please provide a good support personnel to at least help with online queries. +I think it is a very good practical statistics course. Thank you! +Very nice course, at them same time challenging +Interesting to try R hands on. Could have made more definitive statements on the usefulness of each test (there was lots of 'you could have a look at this analysis, or this one, or this one' without covering why each one would be particularly good for this case). Some of the later exercises also made quite of a leap in terms of what you were expected to know about R syntax, although the follow up answers were good if you didn't understand what was expected. +NOT FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW R TOOL!This course needs an interesting approach to keep students wanting to study. The teaching method was boring. The professor was reading things from the screen 90% of the times (he looked bored himself). The topics covered in this course need more time for students to understand 10 weeks are insufficient. +If you already took statistics, this is a reasonable refresher. However, it is way too brief for the amount of material covered. +Far too advanced for a total beginner as I am, was really hard and very confusing. My industry friends said it went too far for what I need in the real world +Too much theory less practical things. +This is a thorough course, but was way harder than I expected. I needed to understand the experiment design more than to learn R programming language. I am glad I did, but it was hard for me and took a lot more effort than anticipated. +This module took me on an interesting journey with lots of twists and turns. While I love challenges and learning otherwise I wouldn't have taken this course. I'd like to suggest the following: mentor to assist students, review of codes I found lots of glitches, one quiz rather than two, cut back on timeframe. I'd like to give more stars but am being generous with 3 stars. +Way to technical +Love it! A lot of important concept, algorithm and codes learned. +Designing experiments wasn't what I thought, and had a very steep learning curve. +Very hard to follow and to understand if you don't have any mathematics background or statistic knowledge. But it is doable. +Great course, my advisor recommended to me! +Excellent course. Very well organised. Challenging yet satisfying. Jacob Wobbrock is a very good tutor and despite the complex nature of the course material, he is engaging and thorough in his approach but leaving just enough for the student to explore and practice on their own. Very enjoyable. Thanks +Quite hard, advanced, but rewarding course. +Amazing class. Covers a great deal of statistical methods and explains them in a plain/clear/accessible way with good examples.It cuts through the chase and gives you what you need to know (the real essentials) from a practical standpoint. You will not get a lot of theory (for that, there are plenty additional courses) but you will get enough theory to select the right method for each scenario.It will not teach you to program in R from zero (for that there are many other courses) but it will jump start you with snippets of code that you can read, understand, modify, and use.Real useful stuff... done the proper way... +Great course! It was difficult, but mostly due to my lack of basic knowledge about statistics. A primer lesson would have been great. But with some research on some topics on my own I could complete the course with a sufficient understanding of the concepts.I found the lectures and assignments to be very clear and concise. Props for the professor ;) +Much more emphasis on statistical analysis than on experimental design. Seems out of place with the rest of the specialization in terms of both length and subject matter. Course assessments seem to test in-depth knowledge of coding in R (which isn't gone over in sufficient detail in lectures, rather students are told to look it up in more detail on their own; however, the class is already longer and more in-depth than all the others in the specialization!) more so than experimental design or statistics. Should be less detailed, or split into multiple courses, or at least should have an introductory lesson(s) or prerequisite course on basics of how R works - I found it extremely frustrating trying to learn about and conduct statistical analyses in a system of which I had only minimal working knowledge. +Neither statistics nor R was covered in any meaningful way. At the end of the course, you are left with frustration for having to jump through the loops, but no understanding of the principles. I am a college instructor for Statistics, having graduated from a PhD program - even with that background I could not follow the instructor.The course designer never considered the audience, and never identified the goals of this course. The instructor was lost between teaching R and teaching stats, so in the end he did neither. Worst course I have ever taken, both online and face-to-face. +It looks great +Awesome! Analytics is what I like. Design doesn't always have to be about graphics and drawings and arts. +OK content but too slowly presentedpainful experience to go through all the lessons +Omigod! You're kicking this off in R-studio and teaching the whole course from this interface? Could you at least use a pen with ink that we can read when you're not in R?!This might be the last straw for me in this specialization. Nothing about this subject matter is easily digestible for a designer, and I'm okay with that. (I'm also a web/js developer, so I'm used to intense struggles with really abstract stuff.)What I can't get over is that this is part of an interaction design specialization that teaches design concepts, but whose instructors almost never practice those concepts in their pedagogy. "Do as I say, not as I do" seems to be the prevailing MO. The whole effort seems totally half-baked, and nowhere more so than in this course.I might not be so harsh if there weren't such great examples of well designed pedagogy elsewhere in Coursera, and for material that's at least as dry as statistics. +Despite of been a interesting course I find it really hard to pass it. In my opinion, previous knowledge or R should be required. +It's a great course. It is very well structured and provides a foundation of research and I am glad that it is a part of Interaction Design specialization. However, might be extremely challenging for people without Statistics experience. +This was the most arduous undertaking I have ever been through. My frustration is not with professor Wobbrock, who is obviously an expert in his field (though sometimes I felt like he's speaking in "High Valyrian" and not English). My disappointment lies with UCSD which included the course of such depth of information and a strong requirement for understanding R, without much thought on whether students will be able to follow. I feel that going through this course was largely pointless, because I'm not going to retain much of the depth of the material in the long run.Based solely on this experience, I'm NOT going to be recommending this specialization to anyone. +Very dry content and hard to retain any information presented in the course because of it. Quizzes are fairly easy to pass provided you have some programming experience. +The instructor for this course was great. He was very responsive to students' questions concerns. +That course was going to drive me mad but it's one of the most useful parts of the specialization. I already know where to use it in my job as most people listen to numbers more. I think that the problems that appeared in the process of calculating the results are some bugs in R and have nothing to do with the design of the course. Good job, Jacob and Scott! You're great, guys! +Very very difficult. Quizzes are quite easy to accomplish, but the practical "take-away" from each week is small. I would have preferred if the course focused on getting the results(data) and keeping the statistical analysis to a few (most common) areas.Too academic. More focus on practice use. +Quite advanced in contrast to the rest of this specialization! +As a stand-alone course this would be very good. The presenter is engaging and clearly knowledgeable, and the treatment of the course subject is thorough and well-designed. Grounding UX design in rigorous statistical analysis is important.BUT as a component of the Interaction Design specialisation it was much too long (nine weeks, as long as the previous three courses combined) and the coursework was un-interesting (long sequences of statistical tests with strange names) and very different to the creative and interactive assignments in the other courses. It very quickly turned into a demoralising "death march" for me.As part of the specialisation, this course needs to be slimmed-down radically, and perhaps complemented by other analytical approaches to UX and interaction design. In its current form, the inclusion of this course in the Interaction Design specilisation is represents an error of judgement. +I took up to week 2 and, so far, this course assumes statistics knowledge. I expected it would provide a background on the rather than just run a code and show the results. +Not finding it very useful, but it's good to know about the concepts and theories for each type of experiments. +This course was put together with lots of thought and care, and I appreciated the thoroughness of the files and assignments. The content was quite dry, and I'm not totally confident in my abilities to execute the tests in real life. +I found this course hard, but very rewarding. R is a tool which I see more and more frequently on job postings so I'm grateful for having had an introduction into the syntax and the tool. My only issue with the course was that, as this wasn't a programming course and was just an introduction into the tool, I had no way of troubleshooting problems when I had error messages or my answers were incorrect. I struggled to know how to fix my test answers when they were wrong and had to re-do most of the analyses until I got different answers.That being said, the course materials were excellent and have provided a brilliant grounding into the tool which I'm sure to use into the future. +I was able to follow the course and keep the pace but I got lost on factorial ANOVA. The professor is great but the course feels rushed through. It would be great if more time was spent on actual explanation of main concepts, since many here are the beginners in stats. I will try again, hopefully will get it this time. +This is a really well-run course. The lecturer explains complex topics in a very simple way and is obviously very passionate about his subject. He is also far more engaged in discussions than any other lecturer. Unfortunately tis a total mismatch in the Interaction Design specialisation. We need to know what results mean and how to use them, we don't need to be able to calculate them to this level of detail ourselves. This should be pitched at a much much higher level for it to be a useful part of the specialisation. +This course is good but TOO FAR from the real content this specialisation look for (or at least, I was expecting). +I think the intention behind including this course was probably well meaning. I think it was a punishing course to get through for those of us who had no background in statistics, scientific studies, or programming. While I was able to fail my way forward through it, it was completely overwhelming, and overly painful. I really think the expectation should be set before students sign on to the specialization, as was I wonder how many students gave up on the whole Interaction Specialization after this course. Prof. Wobbrock was great, but I think there was a lot of vocabulary assumed to be known to us that just wasn't. I felt like I had been dropped down on Mars. +I think the course requires some basic statistic knowledge which I do not know anything about, it is tough to keep out. If providing some basic reading or keynote before hand would be really helpful! +too complicated +I'm really sorry to give this rating, but I have no choice. The course was horrendously boring, and so far removed from the interesting and interactive work that we had done in the previous sections of the Specialisation. This is such an unfortunate course to have as a requirement to complete the Specialisation, and especially the final hurdle to get into the Capstone. Moreover it was the longest of all the courses. Thus the least interesting and also the longest - makes little sense!As I said, I'm sorry to give this rating, but it needs to be said. The teacher seems like a great guy. And I'm sure he's killing it teaching statistics and R Studio at Uni, but using R studio to such a standard just doesn't seem like the everyday work an HCI designer would do. A statistician or data specialist yes, but a UI designer?Perhaps you could make the course higher level, avoid the indepth R Studio, and make it 3-4 weeks like all of the other courses. +Disappointed ... very technical course and not so practical for today's world, there is a lot of terms and subjects that you require a good background in statistics analysis to understand well. It is a shame that this take part of the specialization program. +If you do not know R studio or R programming this course will be very difficult for you. The fact that they state you dont need to know this program and then require you to use it to complete tests is unacceptable. Week 2 test onward requires you to modify code or program code in order to get statistics required to answer the questions. Their helpful hints cause errors when used mainly because you must know the correct syntax or placement of the code to get the correct answer.I'm very disappointed in this class and probably will not pass because I do not have the time to figure out how to program in R. +Overall the videos related to the quizzes are to vague and un detailed, I more often than not feel lost.Also this should not be part of the interaction design specialisation, and just be a small part of another course.Not once have I needed R or statistic in my 7 year design career. +Not recommended. Not clear why we need to use R and learn all this statistics. Not practical for use in UX design. +This course is good. +Little to no use for me. Should not be included in the specialization... I didn't sign up for a data class... +Hello. Unfortunately- 2. Just my opinion - not enough information about R tests and program, what is this, basic details for testing and code, no details for Mac-users. Videos are to short to understand details and goals, what I will learn, how to use mathematic formulas? If I could - I wanna leave this course. Thanks for understanding. +Thank you for designing a course that demonstrates that UX is not just painting! +I enjoyed learning this course from day one till I finish. The lecturer is awesome and the supplementary materials are well-prepared and extremely informative. Plentiful scientific literature on survey methodology are available to deepen you understanding on this topic. I particularly admire Fred Conrad, his expertise in Survey Methodology is unmatched. I wish I had him and this course when I was learning Statistics in college. +This is an excellent and a very interesting course. I have found slides extremely helpful and the subject is well explaine +Many thanks +great class and useful information. However, it feels very boring. +Informative +Very nice course, with lots of insights about survey data collection and the issues related with getting right data for right inferences. +One of the richest course I've ever taken. The quizzes even help me to have a better understanding about the content of the course. Highly recommend to master and phd students particularly in social science. +There is one word for this Course "Amazing". No matter if you are a undergrad student or a seasoned researcher, you'll feel that you have learned a lot from this course. +Excellent overview of survey modes. The interviews and use of research was especially helpful! +Great ! Extremely intuitive ! A lot of state-of the art literature and bibliography. Excellent ! +This is an exceptional introduction to designing an organization. I greatly enjoy this iMBA specialization in Leadership and look forward to finishing all 7 courses. In one month, you learn a lot of very useful information through readings. excellent lectures, quizzes, case studies and written papers. I highly recommend this course. +very informative +A very good course that simply introduces the main concepts of organizational design +Great Course +An excellent course that mixed essay writing with quizzes to test the individual's knowledge of the course content. +Really Good Lecturer! He explains concepts in avery clear way. +MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE COURSE I VE SEEN +This is a very complete course, as well as challenging. It provides plenty of materials and resources to learn more on the subject. +interesting for my position as a General Managerl +Interesting case studies, but very uninteresting professor. +5 Stars! I really enjoyed this course as it provided plenty of real-world examples of organizational structures. A course easy to understand and relate to, with useful articles and essay assingments that allows you to research and gain a better understanding of the topic at hand. +The course is nice but the wording of the course is heavy and is confusing most of the time.You've to put a lot of effort in trying to understand what the instructor means or want to say/ask. +The lectures were great. The entire structure of the course is good +This course was good and the professor did a good job explaining content, however, it didn't really seem like useful information to me since it was extremely theoretical. +The course was interesting, but unfortunately it really felt like it was tailored to a male audience. The metaphors, examples (ie "surely you've taken part in team sports like American Football") and tone really made it feel like the course was aimed not at me, but at men. As a woman in an industry dominated by men, this was disappointing because I don't believe that I am any less deserving of a place at the top table, but this course made me feel like those kind of jobs weren't for me. I would prefer it if the course leaders would take the time to look at the content of this and other iMBA courses and ensure that the content takes on a more neutral tone, to make it feel more welcoming to people traditionally shut out of very senior roles +This course help me to understand the overall corporate structure and why the were designed as such +very useful content, great readings, but total lack of peer-to-peer engagement. It's like reading a book: nice but not up to industry best practices. Overall, the course is lower quality than the ones before from Gregory Northcraft. Another problem with this specific course is word hunting in quizzes. The ones for case studies are especially tricky. +OK course. Difficult to follow at times. The assignments and reading make it worth taking. +It was a very informative course - I definitely will apply with I leant in my every day management +Just taking part of the course material was rewarding. A good basic introduction to Organization Design. Looking forward to the next step in Designing the Organization +The course lacks coherence which comes as a big disappointment as it follows two excellent modules by Greg Northcraft. +I like the course. It's answer my questions about organization design which was a mystery for me!! +Loved it! +was suggested by L&D team to do this course. turned out to be a wise suggestion. +Very educational and relevant to modern day organizations. +Great cou +Very intribuing and engaging course! Seriously, one of the best that I have ever taken! +Great course. This course cleared up the confusion i previously experienced concerning the concepts. I will keep recommending the course to friends. +Content wise and pedagogically I found this course extremely valuable. It gives you a nuanced insight into 'federalism' and 'decentralisation'. Particularly valuable are 1. The conscious incorporation of a multi-disciplinary perspective that shows that the actual practice of these political architectures are by no means shaped primarily by their institutional design, but heavily influenced by historical, political, social, economic and cultural factors. 2. The extensive references to the three major cases in Africa, particularly through the reading. Very interesting articles also that draw attention to in-country variations and how recentralisation may occur within federal and decentralised systems. Pedagogically the course is also well set up. Jan Erks is an excellent presenter whose tone of voice, articulation and body language make for effective communication. What on the surface seems to be periodic 'repetition' of key points, in fact is intentionally designed so as to get key messages reinforced. There were only three weaknesses in the course when I did it: 1. The English transcripts should have been checked. They may have been done by volunteers whose input is admirable, but often there are grammatical errors or it was obvious that the transcriber didn't understand/capture what Jan Erks was saying. 2. Four out of the readings, which like the others should have been accessible, actually were not - only if you paid for them, which is not what it should have been. 3. This course now seems to be running on automatic pilot: there was no indication whatsoever that there was anyone making up a support person or support team who was monitoring the discussion forum, where the problem of the inaccessible readings was flagged up in week 2 already. So it wasn't rectified by the end of the course. That is not serious, certainly not for a university with a reputation as that of Leiden. Some attention please, and rapid corrective action! +Amazing and insightful course. +Excellent Material for the passionate students of better government in the future! +Very exciting, informing and educative. A great platform to examine if the promises of federalism and decentralization has truely lived up to expectations given the huge challenges of diversity, democracy and good governance in Africa. +Very interesting and informative. THANK YOU. +great work its about time we paid attention to this great ontininenti +Great course and very well explained.I have decided not to click the maximum puntuation because the course focused on Africa less than I expected. It focuses much more on Federalism and Decentralization, which is good. However, I missed more info about Africa.Congrats for the interesting course! +This has been the most interesting course for me so far on coursera (I have done about 9 so far). The lecturer and the topic were both interesting and presented in a lively and accurate manner especially concerning Africa. No assumptions or stereotypes on the continent or topic were made and I learned a lot.There ain't many courses here on Africa and this was was so engaging I completed a 7 week course in 1 week, that's how much I actually enjoyed it. The course material is deep and confusing thus a lot of focus is need and this was a course I actually wasn't able to multi-task on because it requires much of a person's attention. +Interesting subject matter. Very informative and complete. Dr. Erk did a fine job as an instructor. I did have some technical issues, but this is only to be expected in any large, dynamic organization. +expected so much more! +If you took the first course, this is a must to complete the whole picture. +Great course, with really good information. Instructor is excellent. +Great course, however some points could be improved because sometimes it seemed just a repetition from the theory one. +It was really helpful. +Loved the structure of the course. It was a great learning experience! +Very good and informative +Good insights! +Excellent Course, but is not for beginners.Excellent Professor too. +Excellent theoretical foundation and suggestions how to practice and use tools like unstructured data pulls or data hygiene/tidying. +This course was a let down. There wasn't enough practical or real world examples to practice with. Good candidates would have been software companies in the SaaS space. +Great use of information that can be put to use immediately!! +hands on experience based content would have been appreciated, Its a good course. +Great insight. +the information is outdated, and I have find some examples, services not working anymore. during the course. +It was good +Good course for basic information about digital analytics. +I wished the content and the tests were more challenge. +Its theoretical.No practical project to do +This is a dynamic, interesting course. It gets just granular enough for you to understand different types of data, reporting, and visualizations without getting too in the weeds (I'm not actually an analyst so this level of granularity was quite helpful). Highly recommended! +Uninspiring teacher, repetitive material that could have been consolidated with month 2 altogether.Did most of my learning from the supplemental readings. +If we can learn by a specific case study to utilize these tools, that would be more practical +Very nice content! Some more hands-on exercises would be very helpful. +Superb!!! very useful information i have got after completion of this course. Highly recommended. +I think its been amazing learning about ZMOT and the funnel, the ways the markets form itself, the moment of truth is really so great explained, Kevin Harman did a great job, i love all the course, and i would totally recommend it and continue this way. +The course content is very valuable to any digital marketing practitioner, but the reason I am rating it as 4/5 is that there was basically no "In practice" part. All assignments were along the lines of "discuss this," which might be OK to make us think, but analytics is so much about doing I missed having a chunk of data thrown at me to see what I can find. +It is a good course +Excellent course for Marketing professionals as well as for novices +All courses have their benefits. this one had fewer benefits than the second course in this series but still a good one to go about +It was really helpful to see rules to make data analysis easier to resume. How to make memorable presentations that the forum can take away and action. +great course +Very good insights and formation for the professional on digital marketing. +Great insights... +Very good course, give a practical knowledge about digital marketing analytics ! +This course is great. +This course was more specific and actionable than the theory course. It fulfills it's mission well. The readings are excellent. I printed several to use for my own blog and content marketing efforts.Though competent, the instructor is lackluster, frequently just reading from the slides. The substance is good but the style is dry. +Not that helpful for me +The content is definitely interesting. But I didn't see any "Practice" there... I didn't really get the difference theory vs practice between this course and the previous one "Digital Analytics for Marketing Professionals: Marketing Analytics in Theory".Sometimes the assignments were not very interesting, and didn't always help practicing the content exposed in the lectures... For example, the piece about the different statistical tools: I didn't get why it was included in the course... either we do exercises on it, or it shouldn't be in the course... but there is not point of knowing by heart the differences between the different statistical tools.The part about the customer decision journey, the plan for analytics, and the different analysis techniques were very interesting. I would have liked to see and practice more concretely how to collect data (e.g. how to perform clickstream analysis), etc.And the lectures should avoid general tips and guidelines (like "5 things to avoid in order to"... the web is full of this kind of content)... I mean, it has to be "in Practice". And the professor should know exactly the content of his slides, and prepare his speech.Lastly, a lot of the suggested readings were from a blog that is really horrible to read... The author of the blog might be very knowledgeable on his subject, but his blog it is full of useless jokes, very long to read... I mean one of its articles could 3 times shorter if he gets straight to the point +This is very much a primer. I was hoping it would go into more detail than it did, but I did find it a very helpful overview. +Very good course. Specially the coverage of all 4 phases (Plan, Collect, Analyse and Report). The last topic about how to present and the brain ways of working is great. Thanks for so great content. +This is a great course. I'm new in this ground and got a good introduction to analytics and a great procedure to comprehensively evaluate marketing strategies to feed the whole process with new insights to better decisions. It is best if the learner could count on an administrator account to a website to apply the knowledge in order to develop the skills. +Very good material, it added to my knowledge for sure, I recommend taking it. +Great content! With great teacher and great articles. Loved Avinash's articles! +Well explained, insightful, with manageable but challenging coursework and a lot of resources for further learning. +Very useful course. It talks about simple things but often it is these simple rules that we overlook while making our presentations/reports. +Great, though some parts felt like the lecturer was reading off the slides. +Great! I learned a lot ! +nice but doesnt give you much knowledge +Presents a useful analysis framework, but with limited practical examples to learn how to use analytical tools. +Very good course. Interesting content, great suggested readings, well explained lectures. I have no previous knowledge about the subject and I have learnt a lot about Marketing Analytics in both course Marketing Analytics in Theory and In Practice. +Was aware of how to present data, however did not know it makes difference in visualizing and presenting. I have learned the power of visualizing data with artful use of numbers found in the digital space. +Wonderful course and I would recommend everyone to do it who wants insights about digital marketing +Which practice? +Very interesting and challe +Great insights and enjoyable. +I stongly recommend this course if you are working in a marketing department. The only reason I give 4 stars is because I would like more recent extra material. Instructor Kevin Hartman is great and clearly passionate about his job. +Overall it was a good course but the only thing I would recommend is relating with the assignments. What I saw in almost all the assignments we should have had experience on the work to do them. But since not everybody has that experience it would be nice to think even for beginners as well. +Great course with useful tips and organized materials. However, some of the materials (recommended tools, hyperlinks, etc) are outdated so it would be great if they can refresh them. Also, the in-course quizzes are too easy to the point it seemed quite stupid - please include more meaningful questions in the in-video quizzes. +Good, however the instructor videos could be better in content. +Great Module. Enjoyed thoroughly. +Great course +Again the content and presentation is great.But the web site is getting really annoying, especially in the assignment area. The editor is faulty and on the submission on visualization you cannot use visualizations(!) to make your point due to technical limitations (can't paste charts or screenshots).Sometimes verification does not work.Support is sometimes very good, sometimes useless, depends with whom you chat. +This course hardly has any new content and a lot of it is also repeat from previous courses. +Great Course , thank you Kevin Hartman +Implementing the theory part of analysis by using practical tools and follow analytical processes this course teaches how to adopt professional ways for performing a Analysis in the Digital Marketing World. It is highly recommended that each reading in the course syllabus must be reviewed for better learning and experience. Thanks to instructor Mr. Kevin Hartman, University of Illinois and Coursera team for bringing the global community of digital marketers this professional course. +Great! +I liked the 5 highlights per lesson - it helped recap the most important content. +Great course. +Very useful information. Although you need statistics knowledge this course gives you a good broad perspective of the correct analytics practices you need to develop in order the have the right marketing insights. +Teacher has no parallel +very useful ,thank your very much . I will learn it again +It's great to learn from someone so high up in the industry and knowledgeable in this field. +For a practice course I found that was full of theory +Absolutely useless course +Even though the theoretical part was well put together, case study questions were too vague and should have been better thought out. This part of the specialization did not meet my expectation. +Nice teacher, all understood perfectly. Thanks! +Very insightful, a great combo of theory and practical information. +not enough practical examples. the information is providede on a bit higher level +I preferred the third course that emphasized practical application in the specialization over the second course that was mostly theory. The assignments were geared to engage your insights / ideas about what you know and/or are learning about real-life projects. Although it still only scratches the surface, I liked the ability to apply some of the assignments to a company with which I've been working. +Great course and engaging instructor. +As soon as I start this course I literally fell in love with Marketing Analytics and I don't have any background in Marketing studies.Great course! +Extremely well designed course in my opinion. Very clear and to the point information delivered well.Great introduction to the subject. Assignments were not too daunting and enough resources were offered that directly related to the questions asked. +If you want to understand the context, use and possible tools to manage digital marketing understanding the importance of data in this process, this is the course you should apply for. +I expected it to be far more +I'm really enjoying the course. It gets difficult sometimes since I have no IT background. But there's nothing that can't be figured out. Of course one needs to apply additional efforts for a deeper dive to the subject. Overall it's a great basic course to start with. +I enjoyed every minute of this course. Professor Hartman clearly has done an incredible effort in preparing the program. His style in conveying information is great too! Very good useful resources. Thank you +this course is very nice +Great way of tutoring. +I love it! +I am not impressed with this course so far. The quizzes and assignments are out of order with the materials being presented - the questions on each come from readings and lecture content that have not been introduced to the audience at that particular point in the course. The first module was a very, very basic outline of a generic analysis process, and really has nothing to do with digital marketing analytics in particular. +Excellent! The way the Professor explains the opics is very clear and engaging +Great content and well presented by the lecturer connecting to the previous module. +not worth the money. +Great course full of good insights and generally covers a lot but need to do your own research afterwards to truly understand the topic :) +Great course, and the instructor makes the class easy to comprehend. +Not practical enough +Awesome class. I really like this instructor. He knows how to present well and give solid readings and information, and I feel like I come away with actionable information. I wish he taught ALL the classes in this course. I would absolutely take more classes/courses if he were presenting. +Good theoretical and practial lessons. +Good course that provide basics. However, I wish it gave a chance to practice the gained knowledge! +Geat stuff.... +I would have appreciated practicing more +I was somewhat disappointed in this course as I expected much more "practice". The assignments did not have you actually perform any analytics activities. The course materials seem very out of date considering how much things change in the digital age. Reading Blogger posts from 2006 on a Blogger blog that hasn't been updated since 2012 is not forward thinking in my view. Yes, things don't always change, but the face of analytics changes daily. +Hated the course and the content. I truly regret investing my money on this course. +The course is very informative for those interested in data analytic and want to go for market research kind of jobs. +Great. Thank you. +Good course overall. I gave it only four stars because I expected it to be more practical and more hands-on analysis to do for assignments, instead of just discussing things. +Great course!! +This course provided an good high-level overview of how to attack a data analysis problem as well as data collection and visualization. +Very basic course without much in depth explanations or insightful matter.I hope this course is worth the money i paid, I'm starting to regret paying for this. +Was an improvement on the previous Theory course. +I really enjoyed this course. I liked the professor's teaching style as well as the materials the course provided. All the knowledge I've got from the course helps me when I do research online. +Excellent course. Gave me a great idea regarding the basics of Marketing Analytics. Highly recommended for those who has no prior knowldege about the Marketing Analytics Process +Great course. One drawback: exercises are not oriented towards actions +I think this module should have included a bit more stories just like the first module of this specialization to make it more compelling and engaging. +Good resources provided in the course material, good overview of how analytics can be used and processed, overall a very good course. +This course is acceptable for basic practices. Highly recommended for those who want to take first dip into the Marketing Analytics world. +Thanks Professor Kevin for all the work you put in this course ! Great explanation and great information ! +Interesting course with great insights on web analytics. It will be good if there were some assignments where we could execute some analytics concepts +Same as the theory class not much examples or case studies.... +Very boring presentation of the material. I am sorry to say so, but the professor is not a very engaging speaker. +Very interesting course with clean slides and good understanding of the key concepts. A bit more "practice" would have been better, but I still highly recommend this course for a basic knowledge in digital marketing. +To put more context here, I think you can expand a little more what are you teaching; especially in the data analysis part. +Hard but useful +Module 1 is good. will see and rate later +Very useful and lucidly taught by a very learned person. Thanks +Great Course! Complements the previous course (Digital Analytics for Marketing Professionals: Marketing Analytics in Theory) very well! +Good High Level understanding of Analytics +It is quite basic but gives a nice overview of the subject. +so far one of the best courses at the moment! +Simple, Practical and Crisp. +Marketing Analytics in theory was much more enriching than this one. It would be great if tutors can add practical examples to show how marketing analytics is actually performed it would have been great. +Nothing practical +It would be helpful if the reading materials had recommended chapters from the textbook that we were asked to download. While it it helpful to have the text book the course is entirely passable without the use of the text, what I caused for me is heavy reliance on the videos and recommended reading material because it consumed less time but then I still feel that there is a bit more I could have learnt. So I suggest using chapters from the recommended text book as well to broaden the knowledge of students who are quite new to Digital Analytics like myself. +Awesome very concrete course on the practicalities of digital marketing +A little too simple and too broad. Overall it's ok. +It was very interesting to understand more the analytic and now this part of my business. +Good Class，I like the meterials they recommand so much. +Very instructive and easy to follow. Kevin is a great teacher. I recommend this course for everyone interested in knowing more about Digital analytics +Since this course is about practice, more impetus should be given on practising the concepts. The concepts should have been taught in 'Marketing Analytics in Theory' course. +When going through the Theory course, I often wondered why the assignments are so abstract and theoretical, and I thought that maybe when we come to practice, we will be able to do something with our hands. No way! While reinforcing the theoretical background (mostly repeating same postulates from the Theory course), this course contributes very little to its name (practice). Only the last module on presenting goes a little further than making you ponder on abstract themes. This is surprising - there are lots of practical tools discussed in the course, and you have no opportunity to get hands on at least one of them (except Google Trends) and evaluate it, at least for primitive purposes. Why does the teacher not take the example of the brilliant Aric Rindfeisch's course Marketing in the Digital World with really well-crafted practical assignments? +Interesting but not much practice despite the title. +Great course. Like the slides and the way it structured. It could be broader if not so Google centralized and more international. For example in Russia there is Yandex.ru (ya.com) which controls 75% of search market and in China there is Baidu and others and no Google and Facebook. These questions is not highlighted in the course. +Very practical, clear concepts and very useful information +Good foundation class for marketers. Does not delve into ways to actually analyse data, but talks about sources to find data and how to present results in a meaningful manner. +It was an interesting overview and a good in-depth method of managing a digital marketing project. I wish there would have been more statistical insight and data analysis exercice. +I have learnt a lot from Kevin on web analytics which is beneficial for us as an analyst as most of the analysis we are doing are skewing towards digital analytics. +Great introductory course for those looking to familiarize themselves with the overall thought process behind analytics and visualization. +Good intro to implement marketing analytics principal, especially lecture 5 onward. +Awesome course +Basic, but good knowledge +I appreciate the practicality of this course/ +Excellent material and work from the instructor +I love the way the professor takes his courses +It was too easy for me. +had a good learning experience +I appreciate this course and the instructor's time, but so far I haven't really learned anything.The structure of every lesson is:"1. Here are the 5 things we're going to cover. 2. Name (not explain) those 5 things. 3. Here are the 5 things we covered"I think there's a lot of potential for this course in the long run. I would advise having a professor from Illinois who is not in the business school take this course and get their feedback. I believe the instructor is very smart and experienced in this area, so this is definitely a course that could grow into a Coursera essential. +Fantastic content, gives me a better understanding of the methodology which I was missing. I had a few problems with the platform, but managed to work after a few days. +welcome challenge. Informative but easy to follow for a tech dumb newbie +An interesting problem to tackle. I really liked that you started with very raw data and needed to work on many cleaning methods. Good practice for real data science. +This course introduces data science with a emphasis on large scale processing. The project was challenging and very interesting. Applying with I learnt throughout the specialisation to a real problem is very exciting. +Great content!! +I got very rich and enormous practical insights from this course +Very informative courses and great assignments. +Waste of money..... +I like that it took the knowledge I'd acquired over 20 years of working in the technology field and applied it to the new organized business analysis field that has become the norm. +Great course +Valuable course, the Ambiguous requirement concept is very useful +It's a excellent course about writing requirements from clients' stories. I just wish I dad seen more techniques about linking business requirements (high level requirements ) to software engineering requirements (low level requirements) and its management. +I enjoyed this course. Loved to learn from peers how same thing can be done in different ways, with different approaches. Excellently designed course.Thank you-BRShyamala +The course is ok, but it is discouraging for non-English speakers. +To depended on peer graded tasks, when all course is done an you are still waiting for others to rate you. This is really annoying part. +Very informative. +Like fine wine, the course is getting better as I dive deep into the specialization. Go ahead and take this course to get your basics cleared! +Great course, very concise and right to the point with great graded exercises to guide you to the end with the right knowledge. +Great course. You will learn lot of techniques and practices to elicitate requirements properly. +I know a lot of work went into preparing this material. Although the Table of Contents serves this purpose in a more text-rich, visually complicated way - something I would find very useful is a step by step table or guide (to ensure no step is skipped) for the entire process, i.e.Requirement ActivitiesUse CasesWireframesStory Board developmentUser Story DevelopmentProduct Backlog Developmentand so on. I hope this will be helpful. +Excellent material, very useful. I recommend this course 100% +this very useful thanks for this course +A very good overview on requirements engineering, for me as a practitioner. It was good to see non-agile as well as agile approaches +An excellent course, it helped me a lot in my work. +Very good. Highly recomended +Great content!! Very useful information to start implementing the scrum process. +Very software engineer, not necessarily in managerial role, should take this course. Collecting user requirement is the first step of a software development project. With the knowledge given in this course, developers can avoid lot of mistakes which they would do otherwise. I enjoyed this course a lot. +Very interesting and useful course +Thanks to Coursera and University of Alberta, I have got the chance to learn more about how to address client needs and also how to create good software requirement. The knowledge I gained from this course will support me a lot during my career as a Business Analyst and a Project Manager in the near future. +Very good content and good exercises. However, I would like to have even more practical exercises related to eliciting requirements, quality requirements +Good overview and refresher course +Nice course explaining pretty much everything a SPM needs to know about all kinds of requirements. A must if you work in software development, regardless of your position: developers, QA professionals and of course PMs will benefit from this one.10/10 would attend again in the future for a refresher/reference. +This has been very helpful, interesting and practical course from the SPM specialization. +I have stumbled into Agile project management, but I have no background in it whatsoever. So I'm learning on the job, and this course has filled in some of the details for me. Thank you! +Very useful. +What makes this Specialization of such high quality is the pacing; each separate course is thorough for its own sake, but the courses build the knowledge base excellently. +Very informative! Highly recommended! +The course is amazing and very well structured. +A good course to revise the concepts of capturing software requirements learned during a software engineering bachelors and to gather some of the newer techniques used in the industry such as use of user stories. +Great overview of the subject, appropriate homework assignments to understand de value of the concepts we ar talking about +All knowledge is very good. I help so much for my subject at my university +This course is very great. With this course I know what to do to be system analyst +It is the User Stories that seems so simple and easy for the first look and so practice-valued and attention consuming in practice. Great to study how to do it well! +For me, this was the hardest course, because I must to learn more about how to talk with clients. The U of A training supported me to understand a little bit about the beginning of project management, something unknown for me because my past was a programmer. +Simple to follow overview of useful concepts, helpful reference documents for further reading. +Really enjoyed the presentations, tips, format, quizzes and resources. I work in software development, so it was nice to close my knowledge gaps and affirm my specific understanding of disciplines I'm less familiar with. +It's really helpful for me !! +It is very good course and i learned many new Technics. It will be very benefit in my current job. +I liked the course. +Thank you very much for developing this course! There is so much that I have learned about helping client to identity their needs for a software and creating requirements that meet those needs. +Really useful and clear. +Great content and presentation. Thank you! +Thank you very much for the course - it was really interesting and I've found some useful techniques to be used in my work. However, there are some moments to be improved to make course better: correct questions statements and lack of communication between partipants (there were a lot of interesting topics to discuss but only very few users were involved in discussions, thus, discussion were very poor).But still thank you very much again!!!:)) +Very informative course +Presentation of concepts is really good. +Excellent, and very dense. To really benefit, must be revisited when putting in practice. +Incredibly frustrated by the peer grading system. I've been able to work on the course at relatively fast pace and have now completed all of the lectures, readings, quizzes and test but can't go on to the next course because not enough people have submitted the homework for me to grade. I understand the advantage of being able to "learn from others" but it doesn't outweigh the disadvantage of not being able to work at one's own pace . +This course is very helpful to learn client and software management skills.Thanks faculty and team. +Amazing course. Very practical.I have been working as a Product Manager/Business Analyst for last 9 years. I am happy i took this course. There are lot of details which i learned by going through this course.I strongly recommend to take this course. +Helped me to learn a lot a new things. +Great courses... +thanks +Very modular and detailed step by step explanations. Easy to follow. +Interesting but would gain by digging more on each topic. And give more feedback from the real life. The worst part, for me, was one assignment (ambiguities) that I thought was neither well designed nor easy to peer review (due to its desing ;-). Then again the course was nice to follow and interesting! +Amazing course, thanks to the TFs +Teaches you a lot about understanding problems. This course provides the basis of creating a comprehensive thought. Although it is about software requirements, going through this course will help you become a good listener. +Excellent! There is a lot of great practical info you can apply in real life. I would suggest instructors include some more info about SPM in the framework of startups (rather than client framework). +A great course in a great specialization. Very high quality content. +I like the clear explanation provided in the lectures by Morgan and Bradley. +I found it very interesting the way they present the information in the course +It taught me alot. +Everything was good but I think they have to re think about the ambiguous requirements module +Good learning. +great course +Great course with passionate instructors and helpful resources.Highly recommended! +Clear and interesting materials helpful for other teachers and students. +Very detailed and well designed, I specially liked the assignments. +It is pretty solid. I can see that issues with quiz question ambiguity and under-checking of learning criteria are getting better. Problems were not serious, they are better in this course than in the last, and they are better in the next one, and they are better in the next one than this one. +really happy to take this course and are now waiting for my last assignment grading so that i can jump in to capstone project :) +Very useful and well structured course. Thank you! +Very intersting and useful course about requirements engineering and business values elicitation. +Really good course for studying basics of software requirements domain. +Another great course in the specialization :-) +Great opportunity to ensure you really understand the clients needs. Fun exercises and interesting lectures +The material is really good and well explained. Totally recommended. +Great series +Great Course, thanks to Tutor! By the way, Karl Wieger's "Software Requirement" is a good addition for this course and specialization +Good introduction to Requirements Gathering in general but more specifically agile techniques (e.g.: User Stories, Use Cases, Story Boards) +One of the best coursers I have seen on Coursera so far. The video production quality, course structure and content is extra ordinary compared to other courses that I've seen so far. +touched the most important concepts like prototyping, creating user stories and removing ambiguities in the user stores. +It's easy for audience to understand the concept of software requirement. +This course was very useful for me as for Business Analyst in IT company. There is not unnecessary information in it. +Very nice content and presented so nicely. Must read and highly recommended course for all managers and business analysts. +I don't know how useful the ambiguous requirements exercise is when we only have one-way feedback. I also think that the ambiguous requirements exercise is the most important of the course, and the exercise missed the mark.I would suggest you structure that exercise as a dialogue, where a PM is working with the customer to elicit requirements, and not give us a big long wish-list of functionality. Structured as a dialogue, you can show that a PM would ask, "You said that the game would make noise. When is the first time it makes noise? How often would game noises be made? Does it ever stop? What makes it stop? Why even have the game make noise in the first place? Are there different noises made during the course of game play/"So, I can't recommend this particular course, and I'm concerned about what the capstone will look like if you give us an assignment where we're to make sense of functionality delivered as a block of text . +Great course, great materials! +A very interesting and complete course on the argument. +This has been my favorite so far! +Very good. I find a very good idea to include the topics about reducing the ambiguity, because it's one of the biggest problems in the real world. +I highly recommend this entire specialisation. It's clearly taught and requires your practical application throughout. I've learned a great deal and thoroughly enjoyed the process. Many many thanks Uni of Alberta. +Great course +Great course. I've learned a lot from your lessons. +Perfect!!! +Great content, wonderful course +Very good course to learn how to deal with software requirements, from an Agile perspective. Totally recommended. +I really liked to do it +Could be a useful course if you've never worked with IT projects, or for younger students. Everything seems to be about building a mobile phone app. +Excellent course. The explanation of various types of requirements and the kind of ambiguities that they could have is really nice. +Awesome Course, Thanks Much for making the course clear and crisp +I really like this course. I plan to take more courses in the sector offered by University of Alberta. +Very useful course to understand role of stakeholder! I suggest it! +Good for new people in the area. All the basics well covered. +Good material, easy to learn +Again excellent foundation course, it gives you teh tools and the +I really like tasks and quizzes in the course. It makes in much more transparent. Thanks! +Provides lot of clarification for such important stage of a project! +Amazing course introducing real and workable concepts. I will be applying this to my workflow immediately.Only downfalls being a little ambiguity in some questions and some `multiple choice` questions only allow one answer (radio buttons).Thank you! +Great course with a lot of useful lesson. Thank you University of Alberta +Great course. Thanks for putting it together. +Good course with an excellent assignment.Just if more details are supplied then the course be more valuable. +Excellent course and material. All of the assessments where really useful. +A great course. +Great production values and useful techniques and assignments for eliciting and expressing client needs. +Its a very good course, easy to understand and good explanations and resources all through +I liked the content and the presentation of the course a lot. It is a good structured starting point from which I can go on learning the respective course topics. Further reading is delivered. This course offered me a structured repetition for a general understanding on the topic client needs and software requirements. +I have to say thanks to both teachers, who teach me a lot of things useful for my career. +As a seasoned developer, I enjoyed taking this course. I think this is a fantastic course for beginners as well as more advanced learners. The presenters are great, quizzes are as well and perfect handouts. Just take it. +As a developer on multiple web application projects this was very helpful in defining, organizing, and prioritizing requirements/tasks. +really good practice tips +It's very good and useful course! +Too high level course. Expected more from it. +Thanks spm team,I learned a lot about requirement and the methodology we could apply on the real project, it opens a new door for me, and it helps in my work. +very good course +Very consistent and interesting course, assignments are feasible and engaging, very practical course, thank you! +Excellent way to gather wisdom about eliciting requirements! +That's interesting course - a practical method of learning a theory topic. I like the way people interact in assignments. Thanks so much. +Good overview. Wish there were more take away documents as well as links to additional information that summarized content in each section so you had a course book with terms at the end. +Great instructors and in depth coverage of the course material +very interesting and usefull!!!!!!!! +An excellent, practically oriented course with great use of quizzes and assignments to re-enforce learning. +At the beginning I thought I will not found out something helpful for me. But, surprisingly, I've discovered absolutely new and extremely useful information. I'm impressed a lot. Many thanks to the authors of the course. +Excellent course. It gives you what is needed +Great course!!!! Love it +Very useful course to build up a theoretical base for software requirements management. Relevant for every member of a software development team, especially analysts and product managers. +Excellent training! +great cover of what , how, why , to do to get it rigth +Very informative and efficient course. As a project manager i think this course is the most important from the whole specialization! +For me, a really nice combination of1. a theoretical overview of database and data processing concepts, MapReduce and the most important implementations of the various concepts (SQL and NoSQL databases),2. practical application of these concepts in real-world programming exercises.I like the way Bill explains, and I like the exercises - however, to complete those, you need to be ready to learn the technology on your own, the lectures are NOT about learning the technology (Python programming etc.) to do the exercises. For me, that's fine, but for people who have little or no programming experience it might be frustrating.So, if you like the combined approach of this course, I can really recommend it! +Very good and informative course for data scientists and data engineers +Course gives you good overview on different important data science technologies. Hands on labs are important to get the grip on concepts. +This course totally reminds me of some courses back in college: unorganized material and the assignments are unrelated to the tutorial. The assignments themselves seem to be very helpful but the tutorials did no help of achieving these assignments.I had a hard time following the instructor despite that I've completed all the certificate for python from University of Michigan. I'm aware of my background of python is still not strong enough so I thought it's probably just me not able to learn it fast enough.But then I watched the tutorial about SQL. As a data architect / ETL developer, SQL is something I'm familiar with and use it everyday and then I realized that the instructor couldn't explain a nested query well. The reason I was able to understand about the SQL part is because I already know. +Overall I enjoyed this course and got a broad overview of the various technologies used in big data analysis. The course is video heavy but short on practice. There are 3 assignments the first 3 weeks, then week4 is an endless series of videos. I really enjoyed the assignments but felt there should have been more assessment/practice provided -there are no quizzes to reinforce understanding. The readings provided are mostly academic ones which aren't that clear to beginners (even to programmers like me).In contrast, a Python data science course on another MOOC platform has 4 times as much content with practice exercises after every video, mid and final exams, weekly problem sets as well as readings.Ultimately the course showed me what I need to learn next to get into Data Science but the first course hasn't given me confidence that the rest of the specialization will be worth the money. +The course is good. But it does not has lecture slides that is better for students to understand. +The contents of the course were good enough. The assignments, though simple required some work in terms of understanding the kind of data that you are dealing with, which is important. Although, a lot of content has been covered, it was arranged in a logical manner. +Overall, this was an excellent introductory course. The instructor presented the material in a very clear manner and introduced all topics using applied examples. The weekly assignments were aligned with the course content as well, allowing me to apply the knowledge learned in each lesson. +Many mistakes in the slides and poorly defined problems in the assignments have gone uncorrected for over a year. The content is very basic, as would be for an introductory course, but can even serve as a refresher for CS graduates. +Outdated, unintelligibly exercises, terrible lectures. +recommend to improve assignment details +Great course! +good practical examples, usefull materials. Good job Bill! +This course is quite outdated. I didn't learn much beyond what I already knew before I started. The Spark courses from edX are way better than these. Hopefully "Big Data Analysis with Scala and Spark" from the "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne" (also from Coursera) is good (I know their Scala courses, which are taught by Martin Odersky, are quite good).There are very few quizzes between lectures and the assignments are not very challenging.Many of the videos, specially the ones at the end were extremely rushed over. They serve more as a review if you know the subject, otherwise I don't think most people will get much from them.The audio isn't very good for most of the lectures, many having an very annoying chirping sound (from when you leave an old flip phone near a computer... "teh-teh-teh teh-teh-teh teh-teh-teh teh-tehhhhhh....". Gosh, I haven't heard this sound in maybe over five years...). +Good content for Data Scientists but video lessons are not sufficient to be able to complete the assignments. It required great deal of own searching and trials and errors to complete the course. +A great course. I would just like more assignments and more information about spark. +The course was very good - especially the map-reduce part I found very well explained and inspirational. The problem sets were thought-provoking and really taught me a lot.Two things that could be improved:1) The problem sets are really nice (again, map-reduce is the best one), but there are quite a few errors in the description, a lot of information is dated (e.g. in ps.1 the twitter link is old), and working with the grader can be very clumsy. See Machine Learning by Andrew Ng to see how to design perfect, easy to operate and submit problem sets. Perhaps work with PyCharm creators?2) The second to last part was a bit lacking - it was basically skimming though all different types of databases, which didn't make me feel like I really acquired any skill. Because of how little time was spent on each database type and there were so many, I don't really remember much of it now (hardly anything to be honest). +The contents were very relevant and more geared to those with some experience already. The assignments are worth doing. The only problem is that some of the assignments have errors which are only listed in pinned posts in the forum (with a link to a ticket but nothing's been done about it). Still, learned a lot so the on the whole would recommend it. +Really useful course when you want to learn about big data management and need a starter. It is however definitely recommended to have some programming experience and knowledge about bash/command line. The course met all my expectations, but to make it perfect I would have wished for an extra exercise using Pig or Spark. +It gives good information, but frankly covers way too many tools at the end, and the explanations are good but somewhat rushed. Some parts were a little boring, as no immediate practical use seemed on the horizon. +Definitely need some background in R or Python and the lectures are a bit old. Seem to be from around 2013 when this first came out but most of the info is still relevant. +This class assumes intermediate-advanced experience coding in Python, so if you are new, you are likely to struggle a lot. The SQL part, however, was taught from a base-level understanding of almost 0 and is much easier for a beginner. +The lectures are all just the right length. As a working professional, it was easy to consume the course in my varying bits of free time. For the most part, the assignments were good. There were a few places where there were mistakes in the instructions or the code downloaded from github had some errors. It was fairly clear that these mistakes have been around for quite sometime, so I wonder why nobody ever bothered to update the code in github or update the bad instructions. This is the internet, not a published textbook. That should be pretty easy to fix. It was also a little disappointing that the 4th lesson was extra long in terms of lectures and had no related assignments. The course was marked as completed when I finished the 3rd assignment so the fourth lesson was effectively optional. +This is a quite wonderful course for large-scale data science. I believe I will have learned a lot via completing the courses. +Good introduction to Big Data systems. +Very nice course! +This is a great introduction. I would give it a higher scoring but was frustrated with one of the labs have issues in the grader and even after completion of the course its not clear what was wrong: the instructions, the solution data set, the input data set. Other then that enjoyed the content. +I had a lot, really, a lot of fun in this course.The first week was really awesome! Although the debugging was very tedious and time-consuming, I felt a great deal of achievement first hand dealing with Twitter data and coded up text analytics algorithms from scratch.Really a great introductory course to data science! Highly recommend because it's really fun. However, a great amount of comfort with coding and patience for working through ambiguous bug messages will be essential to completing this course :) +I'll say the same about this class as the rest of the specialization, if you have the skills to complete this course then you don't need to take this course. If you don't have the skills to complete this course, you will not complete this course. The course instruction is at 10000 feet level and the assignments are very challenging and the course will NOT teach you the skills required to complete the assignments.I recommend the Machine Learning Course (from Bill's colleagues) at University of Washington. That is a course where you get some real instruction and understanding of how to complete assignments (though still very challenging). +Excellent thoughts and concepts presented. +I enjoyed this course and found it challenging. Good job! +Found the assignments were 'very loosely' aligned with the lecture material and had poorly formed problems in places.Lectures were reasonably good but not quite up to the standard set with other U of W Data Science courses or other University Data Science / Machine Learning courses I have taken. +The assignments are really what make this course stand out. +This course probably deserves 3-4 stars in a better, maintained form, but the entire specialization is not maintained, the lectures have no production values. Basically, it's a money pit that Coursera is keeping up cynically. It's a real shame because the syllabus correctly addresses a gap in most data scientists' skills. +covers a lot of ground quickly, but you still get a good understanding of the underlying theory or technologies +1. The title is misleading since "at scale" led people to think that large scale data processing platform such as spark and nosql databases will be central to the course right from the start2. The assignments need a lot of improvements. I am not happy with how we're often only required to submit a single number as an answer. The biggest problem is that this way the grader won't be able to give you meaningful feedback / hint of where you might be wrong. A grader that only tells you "your answer is incorrect" does little to help you learn from mistakes.3. I think assignment 2 can be paced differently - now it feels that we have a bunch of very easy parts (a-g) that is not very interesting, where the last three are significantly harder. +Lectures are great and well structured. Programming assignments are just amazing and interesting. Great course! +Long, slow, rambling video. I watched most of it at 1.75x. Slides are kind of a mess and lectures are disorganized. +Very usefull course. Great! +The exercises are fun and challenging. However, the lecture are not related to the exercises and are very hard to follow (I think it's the same thing as Brian's class in Johns Hopkins' data science course) If you are taking Bill Howe's class, just go straight to those exercises and skip lectures. +The grader is horrible leaving you with such brief error messages. You never know what is wrong with your code. The forum is not as useful as I expected nor as it is in other Coursera courses. You know, few classmates. The videos provide you with tons of information, but not much of them are well-organized. I often felt tired and confused since these long videos seldom got to the point. +very interesting materials about RDBMS and nosql systems +If you are interested in data science then this course is the right one. +The power-point used has a lot of mistakes corrected live by the speaker.The speaker speech is sometime slow and not precise, it probably has been recorded only once.Apart from that the content covers the subject and the assignments are relevant and fun. +- great and very useful overview of concepts important in big data that does not get bogged down in random details- interesting and sufficiently challenging assignments +Good focus on ideas vs principles. The focus on relational algebra is a great way to look at data manipulation in general. Unfortunately, relational algebra is explained quite well, but not really applied after that. This could be a great course if it really taught to constantly think in terms of relational algebra.Okay-ish explanations of databases and hadoop. Not very deep and not always structured, but rather focused on the technology principles instead of the data principles.I think that this specialisation suffers the same problem most data science/mining/analytics courses suffer: it ignores the non-technical starting point: scientific or business relevance. How does one organise data, get to know completely new data, understand possible value? i.e. how to start a data science project if all there is is unorganised data and the wish to do 'something' with it. +Poorly designed videos, too long and confused +I learned so much from this course. In particular, I've got a much more solid grasp of SQL (even though I've been using it for 30 years), and much more clarity about "map/reduce". The lectures are clear, delivery is excellent, and the assignments are interesting. +Great course for those who want to know more about big data analysis. +Very relevant if you want to understand the theories behind data systems and algorithms. I consider it a bit time consuming but completely worth taking into consideration the amount of topics it covers. +Th first three classes are very 'thin' in content and the assignments are easy. The fourth class is basically optional and it has TONS of content. What's the point? +There are some inconsistencies in the course or the arrangement of the videos, maybe due to technical problems.For improvement I would really wish to have some substantial results, especially in the last week of the course. That is, I would prefer to discuss at least something in depth rather than everything broadly. +Good! I like the final (optional) project on running on a large dataset through EC2. The lectures aren't as polished and compact as they could be but certainly a very valuable course. +This course, which sounds promising in title and syllabus, has many glaring deficiencies. In fact, I feel terrible if anyone ponied up $100+ for it. It roughly covers some concepts of data science, but never at scale, and never very clearly. My background is a science Ph.D. with a lot of computational science experience.The lectures: Clearly poorly planned. Bill Howe has some knowledge about databases, but little skill in communicating it. The organizational structure leaves much to be desired. Much of the lectures are broad-brush and halting, simultaneously being too detailed as times and not broad enough at other times. Technical portions are marked by a number of errors in speaking and on the slides, as well as a lot of hesitation and jargon. It's as if he neither thought about the structure of what he wanted to say or a script of what he might say prior to recoding the session. Phoning in it is an apt description.The Assignments: The first assignment with Twitter was fun and interesting and gets the course 2 stars instead of one. The lectures prior to this will not prepare you for the assignment though, so might as well just skip them and do it on your own. The SQL assignment followed a set of lectures in which no proper discussion of SQL was ever given. The last assignment on Map-Reduce is acceptable although a number of errors in the homeworks are still uncorrected long after the first offering of this course. The autograder's idea of helpful feedback is similar to "Incorrect value. Try again" Week 4 of this course, which contains a vast amount of information has no exercises at all.Overall, this class is the polar opposite of a quality online course like Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Course. Do the twitter assignment and skip the rest. Lectures are poor and assignments are well below average. If I were at UW, this is not the kind of course I'd want representing my university in a public setting. +excellent treatment of the material +Interesting course, good hands-on exercises. very useful course to practice python +Going through the content really scares someone like me. At the same time, i feel that the challenge in doing the assignments will only help me improve well. I would suggest beginners to stay away and get a hold of the basics before jumping into the course. +Great course! +The course is very coherent and comprehensive. It covers only important aspects of the fields. Also, the exercises are very well prepared. +Its pretty decent. I liked the assignments. However there were some typos in the lecture slides and also the grader output is not very friendly. +Great course that strikes a balance between teaching general principles and concepts, and providing hands-on technical skills and practice.The lessons are well designed and clearly conveyed. +Very good course! Interesting problem sets. +Assignments were just not that challenging except first one +Very broad and instructive course with a good level of theory, many practical examples. Good teaching.Some nice assignments but a lake of assignement for the 4th weekI recommand this course +This course has appealing assignments and covers interesting topics. The course, however, has two fatal flaws. First, the lectures are a bit disjointed. While there is much to learn in the lectures, the lecturers style is a bit halting and scattered (it would have been much better presented if the lecturer had a script to read off of.) As is, the lectures are mediocre, which is unfortunate since the lecturer is clearly knowledgeable about the topics presented.Second, the assignments suffer from a lack of good error messaging and no support in the forums (aside from what you will find from other students, which can be very helpful at times.) The assignments themselves are a great approach to learning concepts (and you get to work with real data, like the Twitter data), but without good error messaging when you submit a script you pretty much end guessing where you are taking a wrong turn.I had high hopes for this course, but it seems as though it fails on execution. +Really good teaching: instead of cramming tons of information lecturer differentiates main ideas from technical stuff (that will surely change in several years). Also, exercises are good.Disclaimer: I have browsed several courses that touch these topics. I think this one is the best, at least on coursera. +Last week of the course is too much information and without any assignments it kind of doesn't make much sense and it doesn't stick. +Somehow interesting course about Data analysis. The lectures are interesting for those who have no prior knowledge about the topics, but boring to those who have it. The assignments are quite challenging and the disadvantage is, that they are not connected to the lectures and are therefore not well explained. What I like about the assignments is, that it is practical. +Great course. Very helpful! +Coding assignments help shed the resistance :) +The emphasis on methods rather than specific tools makes the course more resistant to the continuous changes in technology. The stage is set well, and there are practical implementations. Still, it's disappointing to see that errors from previous rounds have not been corrected. +Course is well structured, moving on with the lessons is a build up of techniques and concepts. Delivery of the course material is well paced and gives all the required information to grasp the concepts. +Great assignment and course design! Not easy for me. +Lost in details. Professionals(btw I hold a MSc degree in Computer Engineering) cannot get anything from this. What is the point of writing frequency.pl where there is a hist() function in R? If the instructor is trying to teach us how to program in any language, then I can assure you the data science class is not the right place. I recommend the instructor check ESSEC Business School for analytics subject to better comprehend the Coursera and its goals. +Very good course, but lectures could be more tuned onto the home assignments. A lot of independent work for me at least. Teacher is very good. +The lecturer is very, very knowledgable and seems to explain the landscape of topics both from a grand perspective and deep knowledge.Though there are a wide variety of programming exercise,I would prefer some more in-depth assignments (as is usually the case with me and Coursera). +Interesting intro to some powerful ideas +This was a great course - well planned out and really informative. Thanks! +Excellent overview of the Big Data field and its relation to eScience. +It was really frustrating that the autograder and assignment instructions didn't match. This course has been around too long for that big of a mistake. The lectures were the redeeming factor. They were interesting and presented the subject matter in a concise way. +While I haven't been able to keep up and submit most assignments, the material seems highly relevant and good to know. The videos are helpful and assignments provide good practice.Note: I am currently a software engineer and have an undergrad degree in Industrial Engineering (so I have some exposure to the concepts in the course). +Excellent course content and lecture, however, the homework design is not so friendly for students.First, instructions are not clear. I spent a lot of time in figuring out the real meaning behind each problem. Second, the judge system is not so rigorous. Though trying best on homework and not playing tricks are students' responsibility, the judge system is just too weak to survive those hackings.Thank you all for your efforts. +Great exercises one can learn alot from. +Brilliant course with amazing test tasks! +speed is too fast, I can hard to keep pace with teacher's s +Lots of good material, though I don't like how they've repackaged the original material from the prior longer version, which I worked through at my own pace a year ago, off session. Cramming all the material relating to NoSQL and Graph Analytics into the final week without assignment is ineffective. Instead, consider focusing the 4th week on NoSQL, and keep an assignment with it, maybe even the original Pig assignment that required and AWS account. I don't think the nominal charge Amazon will levy would hold anybody up who's serious about learning to process data at scale, it's just a few bucks. +the material is too simple. This course is just like a brief introduction, but not a course in college to teach student the real knowledge. I think MOOC course should be the same as a real college course. With the same difficulty and amount of material. +4.5 because it was very difficult to access the optional assignments and there was effort expended on reformatting them since the last offering of the course. Otherwise it's an excellent course and I've already been recommending it. +I feel that there should be more assignments to make the course interesting. The last part just briefly explained about different database types but it also focused two lectures on Pig. There could be an assignment to make the lectures more meaningful or perhaps, a quiz. Otherwise, last week is too much information to grasp at once. +This course left me with mixing feelings. I learned some new things, but overall I don't think that I got understanding of base concepts. Week 4 seems to have disproportionately more material than previous weeks, as though authors tried to Although free, this is course is also offered as a part of paid specialization, and I would be really disappointed if I'd spent money on a course like this. +it is very useful but easy enough +Good Course for beginner in Data Scientist field. I recommend this course +good for people who have some experience in python and SQL +This is a cooked up version from an earlier, more extensive course. Lecture videos now split from 10-14 minutes into lots of 4-6 minute videos. It seems, some assignments are missing, too. +Program instructions could be more specific. Make it clear exactly what format the programs output should be. +Amazing Course! +It gave a nice, challenging and very engaging introduction to different data preparation techniques. The course surveyed Twitter data stream analysis, SQL, MapReduce jobs and a host of NoSQL and Graph tools. While it could use assignments for the latter topics, the course was structured in an easy to follow manner and was sufficiently challenging to keep engagement. In addition, the way the lessons were broken down into digestable chunks greatly aided in keeping engagement and keeping my interest. I look forward to future courses offered by UWashington and the same professor. +It is a comprehensive course for learning quite up-to-date technology and concept. +Awesome course. I would love more courses like this.The only part I feel rather discomforting is that the course does not offer non verified certificates to those who cannot afford the 59 dollar fee (PS from India and 59 dollar for a course is huge deal for me) :) +great exercises and assignments. The course is involving. +This is a great course +Breaks down all complexity in Data Visualisation +It is worth the cost and effort, but ... four weeks did not provide enough time for the instructor to really demonstrate techniques for achieving the kind of results that are shown. The cost is low compared to other delivery mechanisms, but high compared to other, longer, more detailed, Coursera courses. +Very good course +Outdated materials, theory is taught and then praxis is tested. Course needs an update to materials and either teach AND test theory, or teach AND test praxis. I passed this class by switching sessions multiple times in order to use the time to learn the practical skills in data visualization I needed to pass the tests.Additionally, the presented materials and the lecture format are very uninspiring. +I wish for more hands on work. +I suppose that we should have some basic knowledge of data visualization before this course. There are no practical sessions. I could not understand many topics and it seems that content has been missing from this course. +Very good course +Excellent! Looking forward to the next one! +Let me deal with data in a new way. +Professor has a soft, easy to follow teaching style but the course structure has several pitfalls:It gets too theoretical in week 3 and 4 and you really don't need complex algebra or statistics to pass the course but it'd be hard to understand the core matters without them. Week 4's assignment is only a quiz and I think there should have been a project to really test student's ability to apply the learned materials in real situations. Besides, you don't need programming skill to complete the assignments, but it takes a lot of time to learn free, ready-made datavis tools and they are too limited to deliver the outcomes we want.I think if anyone is serious about learning data visualization, you can't get away with not knowing programming and statistics and those two should be prerequisites. +too theoretical without enough practical quiz and assignment +Great course to understand the basics of Data Visualization. +One of the excellent courses I have ever studied. Professor style of teaching is very soft and simple, point to point and very clear. I have given 100 out 100 marks. +Interesting course, but too much theoretical data without providing sufficient practical tasks to remember it better.In other courses they used to have mini quizzes embedded into videos. They are usually very helpful, but here we got none of them. +I consider the assignment is not very useful. Network plot usually does not help much if you are researching dataset. Scatterplot, histogram can be much useful. Tableau? Sorry, can't afford it, why not excel? At least, almost anyone uses it. Not very practical one, but it does contains a lot of information in the course. +I think the course is nice in general but I have one comment. I think there is too much information in the course videos and sometimes it is really hard to follow the video if you want to take notes. It would have been much better if the instructor gave some time between the slides for the watchers to digest. He doesn't have to stop but he could slowly go through a set of examples, even 30-60 secs would help. +I chose the "Data Mining" specialization to learn more about data mining ;-)I'm not so interested to present data +The detail that they use in the course is just so helpful. +The visualization can give you a general overview of data visualization. It opens an door for the data processing. +This is a great course. I highly recommend this course if you are looking to better visualize your data for an audience, and how people perceive graphs. +the third week requires learning a software package. +This course was excellent. It provided not only an overview of what data visualisation is but it also proved to be sufficiently challenging regarding the assignments and quizzes. This was truly a university course. +The course is awsome to get motivation and quite informative. However it teaches lot of practical concepts using Tableau which is a commercial software.Since these concepts entirely new to me. It take me a lot of time to understand videos and still I'm afraid I'll forget the things as soon as I leave it. I think some more practical activities should be introduce (on free platforms), to make knowledge more sustainable. +Starting it now. +My understanding is improving. Thanks to Professor Kart +Great course, very informative and definitely useful. +A course that can benefit you in both professional fields and daily works.It suit for all since it doesn't focus on theory but application. +The course do not match its price at all, it is catastrofically sketchy. First time while using Coursera I am so much unsatisfied with some course. +I really enjoyed this course. It gives very insights on useful knowledge, and opens the door to dig deeper into more specific knowledge, but is also possible to understand the concepts and succeed on the assignments without deep previous knowledge on programming or linear algebra. +It's not necessary for me +very interesting and useful information. A bit challenging for me to use the tools as I was not familiar with the software +Cool +Great class +I thought at times the explanations were a bit concise. If I look at the process mining course for example, a lot more video material is included (and its price is lower) with more concrete examples and practice. For non programmers it is not evident to find a solution to some of the assignments and there isn't much guidance on how to use certain tools. therefore, the time to be invested for non programmers - especially in week 3 - is far more than the hou +Carefully designed to provide an overview of data visualization concepts which are important for any data scientist. +Excellent opportunity to understand Data Visualization. I loved the home work given in the course, very unique and creative. Lot's of scope to cultivate an idea. +Very good course ! interesting aproach from the human vision and cognitive system to the differents ways of displaying data +I like the course because it helps you make visualizations of different types of data by using very simple tools based on rich algorithms. I understand the fundamental concepts to discover patterns and relevant information from the data, applying some design rules in the software. +Very enjoyable class. I especially enjoyed interactions with other classmates. And I learned a lot about data visualization! +Great course, i highly recommend as a primer for your journey into visual analytics and business intelligence. +Absolutely fantastic course! Learned so much. Thank you +It is an excellent course under data mining specialization. Going for it will be definitely a great investment in terms of education.Teddy Muchape. +I started this training with great anticipation by the central theme (Data Mining) and was surprised with an excellent training on data visualization. The richness of detail and material supply should inspire other training also the Coursera I have accomplished. +Quite clear, good for introduction +It is a really interesting course that help you know how you should use any kind of data and discern the type of data you are using to visualize and provide information that could help you make decisions or understand behaviors easily. +Too dull, no programming explanations. Sometimes too simple and suddenly too technical. +I found the class to be very informative. The assignments on creating charts and graphs for large data sets were practical and helped me understand the concepts taught in the course. +Awesomely worth studying! +Thank Coursera very much for providing such a good course. Also thank for the teacher from Illinois. +Great, useful course! +I really enjoy this course. It is informative, effective and assertive. The Group of Professors were committed for it in advance. You can tell based on the planning and methods. Two thumbs up!Realmente disfruto el curso, es informativo, efectivo y asertivo. El Profesorado se comprometió con las metas con anticipación. Se nota la planeación y los métodos. Bravo! +I really enjoyed Amity's style of teaching for this course on The Craft of Setting and Description. Her instruction, examples, and general style of teaching was very well thought-out, deliberate, and specific. One of my weaknesses as a writer, I believe, is around setting and integrating exposition but in a showing way. These exercises were helpful, I had hoped that the feedback from my peers would be more helpful. Some feedback was great, but some was too superficial (did they read it?) or too harsh (wanting to boast their own expertise). +The best parts of this course are faculty as well as the feedback received in peer reviews. +This, for me, has been, by far the best part of the Creative writing course. Amity is an amazing instructor and gives great incite and lessons on Setting and description. She takes it one step further with readings and visualizations. I have learned so much that I can put to use! Highly reccomen +The course, The Craft of Setting and Description, allows students to delve into the skills needed for polished creative writing. Amity Gaige was a great instructor who provided exercises and lectures that stretched my imagination. I really enjoyed this course. +Amity has been the best teacher in this course series. She had us, big gasp, actually READ some wonderful stories and passages. Nothing like a writer reading. Her lectures were spot on and interesting and dynamic. The assignments were clear and fun to complete. Thank you Amity! +Excellent, of course! This segment made a huge difference for me. It completely changed how I look at writing in terms of using specific details to describe a setting that fits the mood and movement of what I'm writing. I loved this lesson! +Really informative course that makes you look at what you read more closely. +This was so helpful in getting over significant roadblocks with ongoing work, and getting me to write new work. +good assignments and clear tips and inspirations. +it's amazing course that gave you a new point of view for writing and a very good training +Excellent. I truly enjoyed the content, the tasks, the feedback, and the instructor's ability to engage learners. I perceived Mrs. Gaige as a natural motivator and a great facilitator.Thank you so much for your time. Mrs. Amity Gaige.Sincerely, Maria Barreto +The same as I have written for the other courses in the specialty. The course information was great and the assignments were very helpful. What lost points for the course was not the content provided by Wesleyan, which was good, but the poor effort on the part of many of the fellow students to really work on constructive critiques. For each assignment I had at least one of the three peer reviews that was useless to me to improve my writing, sometimes more. There should be a way to rate critiques so that students can't move on if they don't do the work of critiquing well. +This was a great course. I feel like I learned a lot and was able to expand my writing abilities in ways I never knew I could. I absolutely loved the guided meditation and soundscapes portion of the course. Thank you, Amity Gaige! +One can tell that Amity Gaige has carefully tailored this course to teach us the craft of setting and description. I have never paid much attention to it before, always connecting much more to the characters' feelings. Only now after taking this course, I can appreciate how important setting and description really is for the reader and also for the characters in your story. Thank you Amity! +The way Amity Gaige passes on her learnings makes it extremely easy for the beginners to pick things up. Her tips on persuasive writing completely persuaded me :). A very well designed course and delivered very well by Amity :) +Just as the Amy Bloom's course, this course has no descriptive arch and one is left to try and grasp the teaching points in a flood of reference material. Teach theory in a clear structure first please then provide reference. See Brando Skyhorse course, very structured. +Interesting information, lots of inspiration and good excercises. +An excellent course under the mentorship of Amity Gaige. She is a gorgeous mentor. I learned a lot of new things! Thank you very much. +I really liked this course because it contained a lot of reading material and made me practice on various aspects of setting writing. My favourite so far. +So far, this is my favorite module. I can tell my writing is improving & am grateful for the thoughtful instruction. I would like some Instructor input, not just peers, however. That would be an amazing bonus to an already wonderful course! +I enjoyed everything about this course. I found every module extremely helpful along with all of the feedback I received from my peers. The exercises were extremely enjoyable and creative. This has been an excellent course through and through. +Great course that caused me to get out of my comfort zone! +In this course I practiced an exercise that changed forever my way of writing a setting description. I loved it! +Ms. Gaige very thoughtfully made it really practical rather than theoretical by bringing in examples of various writings from the past writers, adding in some videos as well for the learners to see it exactly for what something is, while making the points about what should you put into your writing and what you shouldn't. Would have liked a short goodbye video from her at the end though!! +Very thought provoking, inspiring and educational. +the most informative and most structured out of all Creative Writing Specialization courses so far. Thank you! +Great knowledge. Time consuming. +The assignments are challenging and fun to do. I feel like my writing has improved a lot! +The creative writing series of classes have been extremely enjoyable. The classes are very well organized, the pace of the work was perfect for me. Wish there were another series of classes I could take. +Awesome teacher, awesome skills learned! +I really liked how the videos set up the assignments and enjoyed the assignments themselves. They worked really well for a couple different projects I'm working on -- so useful and versatile. +Great course! +Excellent course highly recommended. +Amity Gaige quickly became one of my favourite tutors. I enjoyed all the meditation parts so much that it made me rethink how research should be done. Thank you! +The examples and the assignments are very cleverly thought out. Good teaching! +A great course to get you thinking about the what and where of your story. I highly recommend this course. +An excellent course to help you involve in the art of setting and description. I recommend it 100% +This was a fun course. I learned aloy about setting. +Amity Gage is an excellent Instructor with helpful tips and information regarding The Craft of Setting and Description. +Excellent course. I learned a lot. Amity Gaige is a terrific instructor. I enjoyed her method of teaching. +Challenging and very helpful course. I learned so much. Thank you! +Thank you so much Amity for all the knowledge that you have given me. Your approach to teaching is wonderful and I was intrigued by your views on writing. I thoroughly enjoyed learning from you. You are amazing and I feel blessed to have been you as an instructor. Again, thank you! +This course was awesome. Every assignment was really challenging and the classes were so interesting. I think it was the best course in this specialization. Thank you very much to the teacher! +I thought this course was very well done. The video lectures were very interesting, and the links to additional readings and videos was very welcome. Definitely one of the strongest segments of the creative writing specializations. +Such a great inspiring teacher. My favourite course on this Platform. +This was a difficult one for me but incredibly useful, I really needed it as a writer in order to create great settings. +The peer reviewed assignments are next to useless, as there is no oversight on them. I think there needs to be a basic comprehension assessment done first, before allowing fellow learners the ability to pass/fail students in the course. +Really instructive course and exceptional teaching, discussion boards were a bit barren but maybe that was due to the lack of mentors at the time. +The course was inspiring and made me focus on the small details in the environments I create. I think that the professor leans too hard on the quotes and the work of other authors as a core part of the curriculum. It would have been useful to have a breakdown in charts or a checklist to help push our descriptions along. Having said that, the professor seems to care a great deal for her students and that came through clearly. +This was an excellent class. The assignments were specific, challenging, and enjoyable. I enjoyed the instructor's approach and insight to writing. Additionally, I found the supplemental materials very helpful. Finally, sharing past student work with current students helped clarify the subject matter and gave me perspective on the required assignments. I wish more instructors did that! +Great course and exciting writing assignments! The peer reviews were mostly constructive and the instructor was clear and brought her learnings across. Highly recommended! +It was a great experience. This course enhanced my writing skill to a whole new level. The most important thing is that it was both: challenging and fun.I would recommended to anyone who wishes to improve their skill as a writer, storyteller, and so on.You would regret it if you don't enroll on this one. By the way, language is not a excuse. English is not my mother language, and I had a lot of fun with this course. It also improved my writing skill. Grammar is a must.Cheers! +My favorite of the specialization. Rich in information, challenging and engaging assignments, and nuggets of wisdom. +Thank you. +Great Course! +This class was pretty good. I liked the reading assignments, and there was some helpful instruction as well. I liked learning about the second person perspective, and the section on credibility and research was also really helpful. +i recommend this very enjoyable class , courses and directions for submissions are clear , provides interesting and efficient tools for progression . Teacher s personnality is a passionate and encouraging one . Great experience. +I am thoroughly enjoying this course. There is the right mix of close reading, difficult assignments and thought provoking conversations with authors. +This one was much more intense, and as such, much more fruitful. +One of the best creative writing courses. Truly enjoyed it! +This is great course for challenging your perceptions of things and encouraging you to try out different perspectives. +loved this course, the prompts really got me thinking and writing about things/topics that were different for me. Being forced outside my comfort zone has really gotten me thinking about writing from a different angle and I think that will help so much moving back to my own writing +I've enjoyed "The Craft of Setting and Description." It's given me a good chance to spend some time focusing on the details that matter. I've learned a lot about what to include where setting and description are concerned and what to leave out. It's been a very good course. +I have learnt so much about description and about power of meditation. I recommend this course for everybody who would like to show his or her world to the Readers. +Creative writing being an art, one may try and describe its constituents but never an entire composition. One such constituent is setting and description. Amity Gaige presents this constituent with rare sensitivity. She recommends inspirational reading materials, and designs challenging assignments that defines the space yet affords freedom to the learner. Additionally, she possesses an effective screen presence. +Gives out clear understanding. The choices of reference books are interesting, especially 'The Odour of Chrysanthmums' +Amity was nice. I liked the way she presented the materials the the instructions for the assignments.It would be nice to see more feedback from the staff. This is was the majority of the peers were expecting. +Very good course, thanks! +If you've not read a single book on writing, this class might be good. Otherwise, don't expect to get much about the ~30 minutes of lecture. +I enjoyed learning about how to create a vitamin rich unit of fiction and the importance of specific words. +I enjoyed the course of setting and description as this is an area I particularly enjoy and so it was a great learning experience and a chance for me to enhance my description and setting skills and Amaity Gaige really gave you a free hand at doing this. +Clear lectures with practical advice, and very good assignments. The assignments in the plot class and the character class were too confusing and structured, but the assignments in the craft of setting class were perfectly designed to help the student practice whatever was taught in the modules. I know it sounds unimportant, but we're here to write, and when we're given awkward assignments, the peer reviews go haywire and the writing quality declines for everyone.I read some of the best work, peer work, in this class and in the style class. +Wow! This is a real good one! And also the extra literature is waaaaaaay to interesting!! +Very good and interesting course! +I joined late, much too late to participate in many of the assignments with my busy schedule, but I took notes and read all the required reading. From this course I will take into my writing new, helpful skills. My favorite lesson was setting and description where I learned that the environment should not be described frivolously, but through the emotions and opinions of the character(s) who observe them. Thank you very much for your lessons, Amity Gaige, I'm now not as terrible as I was when I first started. +Amity Gaige was a tremendous instructor. It was a very enjoyable course. +I really liked Amity's style- a great presenter, great voice and very encouraging. She also really got into the meat of the subject. And her assignments were a challenge but really enjoyable. I have found out things about my writing in this course! +Great follow-up course to "The Craft of Plot." As a side note, those auditing this creative writing series from Wesleyan University must choose one of their paid routes of they desire to turn in assignments and get feedback from classmates. I guess this is the new course structure for specialized topics on the Coursera platform. The inability to turn in assignments was of little concern to me, but it may disappoint some, so I thought I'd mention it. Otherwise, at the very least, you'll have a firmer understanding and appreciation for crafting detailed settings and descriptions after auditing this course. +More engaging and inspirational than many, many other approaches. +Excellent course that both informs and inspires. There is a good deal of content as well as advice. The student writer is encouraged to explore and be unafraid. The only draw back is that the online classroom does not allow the auditing students to post and get feedback on their assignments and it must be done externally to fully get the benefit of our fellow students. +What a great course. It was accessible, but at the same time challenging. Wonderful! +Excellent course: Thank you so much!!!! +very informative and need some improvements. +I would strongly recommend the instructor provide pdf lecture notes that we could save please. +Great course, gets you reflecting on your practice +Excellent course! I learned so much about all types of disabilities and resources that could be used to help students. +A brilliantly structured course, with very thoughtful assignments. The pace of the course and the way information has been built in the for the students is awesome, and it gives an holistic understanding of disability support and helps create complete awareness of the subject. Loved it, and will expect a few more follow up courses as well. +Like it! Good information to get in touch with the experiences in accessibility that are occurring outside my country. :) +Was an excellent refresher for me as it encompassed several of my undergrad classes on the topic. I would recommend this course to anyone that supports individuals with disability through service, volunteering, or care of any form. Thank you for the opportunity! +great course and important materials +This course has been fantastic! I learned a lot of the Laws of Disability and the Requirements that Institutions must provide. I have Epilepsy which causes me to be a slower learned, so it's good to be refreshed on what I did know, and for me to be updated on what I didn't know previously. Thank You!-Justin Dougherty Winter Park, FL USA +Geared specifically to college professors, as opposed to general public. Could be more useful with more background information on ADA and IDEA and everyday implications. Could also incorporate mental illness and disability aspects. +A very practical and informative course, the links and readings are also very educational. +Glad to see the video is equipped with Closed Captions +Great material. Some things I didn't know about disabilities and colleges, however the presentation of the videos that were not of a guest speaker were poorly done. The instructors sounded like robots and you could tell easily that they were just reading from a script. +This class is a great introduction to disability awareness and support and as a refresher course. Having worked in education for more than 25 years, I learned a lot taking this course.I especially enjoyed hearing from multiple perspectives and reading posts from my peers on accommodations. The web links were an added plus. +Great course! This was very helpful and I recommended it to my colleagues. Thank you! +This course is great, but it took for ever to start!! +You have to pay to upload the assigments , this does not pas in other courses ... +very interesting +Great, but easy +Good course +Great job +Excellent course nice and easy +Great course with excellent videos! +Great course. For intermediate level it can be more inDEPTh. +a great course, funny and interesting material and really good lectures given by the profesor +very good introduction on the field of health research. I have a background in Mental Health , although the subjects in de course were more somatic related, this was not a problem. I actually learnt some interesting things about certain somatic diseases.The course could be better when provided with reading material. The only suggestion made was the authors book which is an obvious choice. Of course , with the help of Google one can find more reading material but I would have been more complete if the course itself had some links to web material or is able to unlock material by make a payment. +Goes to the point, warns about thinking wrong about DS because of hype and lack of (scientific) sustainability. +Quiz should be open to all students... :/ +Excellent introductory course for the interested in Data Science! +Very well organized and thought! +Extremely informative, you could finish it in half a day though... +This is great course for both beginners and intermediates alike. Thank you. +very elementary. Takes approximately 2 hours to complete.cannot continue with the in-dept material but have to wait until next week (and payment ofcourse). +This course gave a high level view of Data Science. +If you're looking for an introduction to data science and machine learning which doesn't get your feet too wet this course is ideal. Its meant to be a conceptual introduction to the subject. Just what I was looking for. Thanks Guys. +Very helpful +Great Introduction to the fundamental concepts of Data Science +Good intro to the terms, concepts, and approach for data science. +I really liked the content , the difference between machine learning and statistical modelling was nicely explained.I also like the topic hype from value and it was well explained. +The course can be described as the first hour lecture by the professor. It introduces students to data science, its uses and pitfalls. +Great course. Lot of complicated detail segmented and described in a way that was easy to digest. Thoughts for improvement are with the first few segments. The lessons didn't start with the "why". Why machine learning is used or what problem it solved. I had to google that in order to understand before the course which started with "what" it was. +I had gone through each session, it gives good understanding on the data science. My suggestion is to go through each session more than once. Both the faculties are great. +very good introduction to DS. +Easy to understand and I really got general idea of data science. +Great course +Great overview course! +Excellent course for beginners who wants to grow in Analytics space +Good high level introduction to the field of data science. +An excellent introduction to the world of Data Science for a layman. +A good crash course eliciting the basic nuances of Data science +The course can use more visuals instead of videos of the face of the instructor. It can also use more interactive examples as this is a more executive view instead of having scholar examples. +Its easy and good course for my field/area +I liked the course. The only problem of this course is it was a little bit advanced for a person like me who did not have any idea about data science. Otherwise it's a good course to start learning about data science. +A good course. Very basic, but that's to be expected for an overview course. +Great Crash course.It fills the coriosity about this field and encourages me to follow with this path.I'll continue, for sure. +A little too high-level for what I was looking for but a good introduction to get familiarized with some of the terminology and concepts. +Thanks for the awesome content!!! +Too theoretical. +It is good informative course for beginners. +A good course for people, who want to get some insight into Data Science +Good overview of Data Science but lacking a bit of meat. +Extremely helpful and informative this was my first time experience going through an online training, i should say thanks team for making it so easy and effective :-)Looking forward for more sessions and positive experiences. +Good overview course. Maybe include a few more examples that we can review offline. +Excellent intro to the Data Science. +Very useful introductory course to help you get familar with different fields in data science and typical data analysis procedures +Overly academic +Great course. Easy on the mind and not too taxing with details. +Good overview on data science. Assisted in better conceptualizing how as a manager to evaluate and implement data science and analysis concepts to decision making. +Great class! +This course was exactly what I was looking for - I got a high level understanding of the field and that knowledge has helped anchor me for further research. +really nice course! +Very Good course for understanding the Data science elements +The first week gave me a good insight into the data science process. I now understand the situations in which Data Science can best be applied. However, I still do not fully understand the statistics aspect. It would help me if the instructors would provide examples in detail of supervised vs unsupervised learning. I seem to understand the theory behind it but I am not sure how valuable it will be for me. +This course is very helpful for someone to know and understand what data science is in Small amount of time. +Helpful intro course. Easy to understand. +This was a well established course! +a bit of mumbling in the videos, and some of the single/multiple answer buttons were incorrect. +Gives good overview of data science. Maybe one example would have been better. +Great start, good examples and a very nice way to 'crash' into data sc! +Good one +Great course guys! Thank you! +Just great! +Brian Caffo's lectures were rambling and confusing, with excessive use of jargon without proper explanation. His graphs were overwhelming with information, and little effort was made to explain the graph. Otherwise, the other lectures were very good, concise, and clear. Thank you. +A good introduction to Data Science. Clarified a number of questions that I had about what it actually is. Presented in a way that does not dumb down the material, but still makes it accessible to a person without a science or data background. +truly Informative course. Well thought about the syllabus. This is very useful for doctorate students as well! +Great introduction. Clear, well-paced introduction. Recommended for busy executives looking for an intro. +Really helpful contents.. Presentations with examples are awesome..... +A great high level introduction to what Data Science is and how it is used to answer business questions. +I do not have a statistics background and i was abit worried at first, but this was well organized and i am really glad i took it! +Great material, good structure, right level of detail. Great for the executive overview specialization. +Easy to follow without the jardon. Recommendation for those interested in statistics, Biostats, and looking to cost effectively learn or enhance skill sets. +Great and straight-to-the-point introduction course for getting started with Data Science projects KSFs and pitfalls. +Great lecturers who make it easy to understand. +very well constructive +Just what i expected it to be helped me take my Data Science knowledge up a notch! +Very helpful, well structured and comprehensive course. +Clear and streamlined. I wish it could go deeper. Moving on with the other courses on the subject. +good starting course; information well presented. +Excellent introductory course! +High level, but very informative. +A good introduction to data science. +Solid introduction. +Good introduction in Data Science +Great course. +needed more depth +Well upto the mark,Content is very relevant and informative +This course gives a brief idea about Data Science. It is helpful for the beginners. +Good introductory course. A bit dry with no interaction with other students (the forums were not popular and there were no peer-graded assignments). +Some questions confusing (with less than 5 so missing 1 was a fail) and a few videos were lacking written summaries. Other than that not bad +Good overview... but expected more content.. +It is great to have some of the key concepts clearly explained. Often times things get overcomplicated when understanding the basics is the foundation to build upon. +some explanation was too technical too early +It's a good course, good material, videos and the quiz are aligned to the knowl +Great course! I start up my own headhunting company specialised in Data and this course is now part of the standard training process for all new employee! thanks! Aldo +Really good quick and dirty high level overview of how to structure and talk about data science projects. Great for improving communication about your project to your boss and people from outside of your team. +Very good overview. Most basic vocabulary is nicely explained with examples.Only one thing more could have been covered a bit more: Big Data and/vs Data Science. I am still wondering if there is 'any' difference between the two terms, what 'exactly' is it? +Nice overview for those of us unschooled in the language. Syntax of the notes and text is in need of major editing-proofreading. +Excellent Material and good explanations. Thanks. +Very basic introduction to data science. The class is well-organized and suitable for new learners of data science. +Good overview, highlighting many key points in DS specialization. +High level overview - not technical at all. +good introduction +great to s +Course Material is good however I felt trainer is not very much engaging with the audience. There is not liveliness in the way the videos are projected. +This was logically structured, yet interesting and engaging, great videos. The only thing that could make it better is more imagery for conveying some of the more complex ideas. +Would have been better if quiz access is available for free so that it is easier to reinforce concepts learnt. +It's a good starting point. I've now got a good idea of what else I need to learn. The course also provides an easy to apply approach to get value from my efforts using data science. +Great introduction for those getting into data science but don't have the statistical background. The knowledge gained in this course can be applied immediately to anyone looking into leveraging data science. +The course provided an excellent overview of the subject area and provided many references to the profession that will allow a beginner to become integrated with this work. +Great introductory course! +Simple but full of useful information. Thanks for the instructors. +I enjoyed this course. It was well thought out and nicely put together. +A good first overview of what Data Science can do in the corporate context. +Nice high +A good course to learn all the basics of DATA SCIENCE ! +I am a PhD biologist leading a team of data analysts. I found this course to be quick and easy to follow, well presented, and extremely helpful. The instructors are truly professional and they excel in this medium, I was very impressed. Thanks Coursera and Johns Hopkins! +some of the content and videos were too wordy and had more theory v/s examples. +While the course has excellent material, I would not send any of my executives to it. The information is to deep and technical for a business executive in my opinion. I would have liked more examples on how implementing this would benefit a business. +Solid executive level overview of the domains involved in leading a Data Science program. +Good introductory course but a bit too superficial. +Excellent course. Good overview and not too technical. Excellent presentations by the lecturers. +They could have stated the audience of the course more clearly. I found most of the information irrelevant that added little value. Most of the things discussed are generic and would apply to any project. +Excellent, succinct and applicable insights on Data Science for the uninitiated and the experienced alike. +Excellent course for getting the basics of organizing a data science team. +Excellent high level overview of data science +The material is of a good level, it is a good first introduction to the field. +This was really a crash course in various aspects of data science, with words being thrown around and defined for a lay person like myself. Overall, this was a good course for beginners. +Great course for managers that what to start understanding the most relevant concepts about the data science area and how to apply it in practice. +Course was really informative and provided a great hawk eyed view of the data science field. +Very nicely packaged, concise course for the one who themselves may not handle the data but have a need to understand what is going on around them and how to make team more effective +A great way to enter the field of Data Science theoretically. +Very basic course! +A solid but gentle introduction +This course summarizes Data Science concepts and its application very precisely and effectively. +As of now I have forgotten what I learned in the course but I am taking data science as a specialization , so this course would definitely be useful. Mr. Caffo has a good personality and good narration skills. +1-week does not seem enough for a Crash Course +Good intro to data science and has given overall information what a data scientist actually do in a high level. +The crash course is true to its word. It gives you a fast paced overview about data science. However, the learner is advised to read more about the matter. The free e-book is more than enough to give a solid background. +My name is Jose Antonio from Brazil. I am looking for a new Data Scientist career.Please, take a look at my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseantonio11I did this course to get new knowledge about Big Data and better understand the technology and your practical applications.The course was excellent and the classes well taught by teachers.Congratulations to Coursera team and Instructors.Regards +Great\ +This course leaves you frustrated, as valuable information is only ad the end and at the beginning. It doesn't really answer questions of what are data science, big data, machine learning, how they interact and how to use them. +Excersices! real excersices to really understand the theory. +Just the right knowledge that a beginner like me needs +A very good introduction to Data Science!! +Very basic course, gives a bird view of the Data Science +Executive Summary: Do not spend time on this course if you have minimal common sense and have read at least one article on Data Science.I finished the 11 week course "Machine Learning - Stanford University - by Andrew Ng" 2 months ago, which was such a great course! It kept me busy for about 20 days (at about 4-6 hours per day) and I learned so much!This course "A Crash Course in Data Science - Johns Hopkins University" , Part of a 5-course series, the Executive Data Science Specialization, provided just some superficial obvious information, took me only 3 hours to complete and even this time I would could wasted time.Finally coursera now starts to make courses smaller and smaller and them adding multiple of them up to "Specialization", so that at the end you have to pay much more to get a certain amount of information and course time. With this course they seem to have streched it to a new extreme. The price for the certificate for this superficial short mini course has reached the same price ($ 44) as what I payed for the extensive great Machine Learning course from Stanford University by Andrew Ng ! +Quick and fairly easy course to complete. Gives you good and short insight into what data science is all about. +Good for getting a quick summary of what Data Science is for those new to the field. +Really should be retitled to "An Executive Overview of Data Science." The course covered all the critical Data Science components that Executives or Senior Management should be aware of. Corporate america still does not understand, nor recognize the critical components of properly funding, supporting and committing to a Data Science effort or program. This course outlines the needed core components for a successful Data Science journey that could impact the top and bottom line. +Great for beginners in Data Science. Lecturer are good and instructors are very knowledgeable and provided valuable inputs through short duration lectures. +Fast and objective. Great course. +Very good and brief overview of the topic. +Basic course but very helpful and explained about the Data Science very well. 5* for the Tutors, material and for the overall course. +Information is well presented and keeps a good pace. Quizzes could be improved.Additional material is very good and interesting. +Is really hard to summarize the potential of Data Science and being clear, but I think that the instructors have done their best, so that we can achieve the most from the Course.Great Job! +Great to have an idea about what Data Science means +Indeed a crash course. Gives an excellent overview of key concepts in Data Science and whets your appetite for more +This course is the 2nd certificate course I've completed through Johns Hopkins and Coursera, and the content is always excellent. I suggest pausing the videos and take notes to grasp everything, and for reference if you're going to take other courses along this path. I am also going to complete the other Data Science certification offered by JHU +Good crash course. Not really sure if a certificate is really needed here though, since it's basically an overview/introduction in data science. +A very nice introduction to Data Science. Loved it!!! +It would be good to be able to complete the quizzes even if you are not paying for the certificate, this would enable people to understand how much they have taken away from the class. +I was quite satisfied with the content of this course. +Great crash course! Wide variety of information and useful for me as I lead a data science team. +Really organised, simple, the teachers are awesome. +Great beginning to Data Science +Good intent but poor execution. Tries to summarize all the major topics but ends up delivering a totally disjointed, cut-and-paste experience with no real flow. +Great course! thank you very much this was very insightfull! +Great! Very interesting & informative. +It is a good introductory course in Data Science +Great course +I recommend this course to all who wish to be a data scientist, and, for those who want to be managers of a team of data scientists. The course introduces basic concepts, tips and tools, and also good articles as supplementary reading. Recommended! +Excellent intro into what Data Science and Data Science projects really are. +Highly recommended - efficient way to crash into Data Science. +A little devoid of depth. +Good introductory course for Data Science +Great Learning +Great crash course with the fundamentals of Data Science. Excellent for having some ideas about the subject. +Very good introduction, by real experts. +Very short. Quality of the course is also not that good. +A wonderful course for getting exposed with the fundamentals of Data Science. A must for those who wish to understand what exactly the Data Science. +It was a good introduction to a subject that is polluted by big data hype. Although I am giving 5 stars I wish slides for software engineering part were also published. +Learned the basics of what goes on in data science world. +fairly general concepts of data science, but may be quite helpful l for people totally new to the field of data (e.g. not having any idea), or as material to review the big picture of data science +I liked the methodology to explain with details all the embasement of Data Science. I'm learning since the basic to advanced. I'm gonna do a MBA in area of Data Science and this certification become a more one step to me. Congrats from Brazil. +This course was Great! +Quite basic material... If you have some technical background you might fund this course not so useful.However, I think that it does provide the right information for non-technical managers in a simple and comprehensive way.Personally, I wish it was a bit longer and deeper to feel like I acquired more knowledge to take it to the next level independently. +Great intro +Provided a good, very high level overview. I audited so I didn't take the quizzes, but the questions were all on the general side. I liked how they used some examples of real-life research. +Quick and concise. A great deal of knowledge acquired. +Was a good introduction. The focus was good as I feel I came away with knowledge of the field as opposed to technology. Only recommendation is to ask professors to use more practical examples in the lectures. +Although it was the first course to which I registered (makes it hard for me to rate and compare), I really enjoyed the lectures and found the information clear and concise! Can't wait to start the following courses related to Executive Data Science. +Was expecting more of the how to's and a bit of programming or at least concepts of the programming/statistics, but I guess there are different interpretations of the idea of a crash course.Definitely geared for people who work with data scientists but not in the data science field. +Great overview. The distinction between statistics and machine learning gets a little fuzzy, but probably because I never took statistics, and have only used machine learning in a limited context. Really enjoyed it, thanks. +great for existence human and android based life-form simulation internal lifestyle...The course improves life within the simulation 10 fold at least(when combined with the other specialization courses) ...Perfect learning tool for those who have worked professionally in research field sin our simulation and yet now have a touch of "the turrings" or you know : CBI...Special thanks to the designers of the course.Top scores for coursera.org &John Hopkins ... +Too basic. +Great class! +I would have liked a bit more detail and some more examples from business perspective. But I am sure there will be a more advanced course that I could take. +Great course! +It is helpful for those who want to get an overview of what data science is all about. +Interesting but uneven. Felt like the first draft of a team-taught course +Excellent introduction. Especially liked the short lecture on supervised v. unsupervised machine learning. That answered a question I had at the outset. +This is a great course if you need a concise background in data science. The more you explore the resources and extra materials the more you will learn. The instructors are well versed in the field and certainly have their hands full constructing software and analysis for what is quite possibly the number one research medical hospital/college in the country, Johns Hopkins. Any certificate or credentials from this institution is indeed most valuable and highly recommended. The material can be a little dense since it is a "crash course", but if you retake your tests and use them as a review of the basic core components of each lesson, you will get what it takes to get a team off the ground working on a real time project with precise goals and applications. Use the variable speed on the videos to slow the lectures down when needed. A great introduction to the varying data sources you will use as a data scientist. +An outstanding short course on data science which clearly explains the what, why and how of DS. +Excellent introductory overview. +Excellent. Help me review stuff that i had learnt years ago. +Really basic course. Not needed for people you have already done data science specialization in coursera +It's too short, I think it should be a part of a course and not a course itself.It is a repetition of concepts and examples from other courses by john hopkins univ. +Good overview course. Better for managerial folks than data engineers/scientists. +Nice content and well organised. +Ref: "A Crash Course in Data Science" the content could be presented in a simpler way. Some of the presentations sounds little vague and conceptual level like an Advanced Math or, Statistics class. I am wondering since this is an Executive program, is there a simpler and easy to grasp way to present the material. The text download files (i.e. txt) document descriptions needs to be more clearer. The Power Point downloads are excellent and are to the point. +This course is very sparse on details, and just a week of content. The lecturer is not the best at explaining concepts. +Enjoyed the structure. +It was crisp and loaded. A perfect course for executives starting out in the field of Data Science, it, in fact, inspires one to pursue data science at a more detailed level. +The course lays out the basics of Data Science in a very easy to understand manner for someone who is a beginner and gives an overview from where you can start scouring for more information either through the further courses or outside of them. +Great teachers in this program +Very good course, I can't wait to continue the rest of the certificate. +Great, clear overview of the standards, principles, terms, and applications for data science - geared toward executives, managers, and professionals working with or directing colleagues and team members specializing in data science. A great snapshot for organizational leaders seeking to get a better grasp on how to make critical decisions about data science investments, resource allocations, applications, etc. +I want to give 3.5 stars but there is only option for 3 or 4.Given that it's geared more towards wanna be managers in this field. I would have expected lot of case studies, and links to additional material for individual reading plus a mini write up or a project at the end.For MOOCs to compete with a degree program or an onsite instruction few of the things I think that are needed areInterviews with industry practitioners which is a big plus.interviews/postings from people with similar background as the 90% of the MOOC students of this program who made it... this motivates the students from dropping from the middle of the course/specilization programslinks to additional articles that the students can read at leisurewriteup/project as assignments that the students can pursue and publish (not necessarily for grade but as a mind jogger)One more thing that I think should help (not specific to this course) is that the student with the best grade should be offered one free course and think this will motivate the students to complete the courses. +I have studied this course as part of the Executive Data Science Specialization. I think this set of four courses meet my objectives by providing a very nice overview on the key points of data science projects. They are good to give a flavor on data science and data science projects helping decide if you want to search for more in depth knowledge. +Great course for somebody who does not know anything about data science. When doing this specialisation there should be credit for those that did the other data science specialisation +I finished the course in just one evening. It is really quite and easy course into various aspects of data science. The biggest benefits for me is it provides many inspirations which helps me to decide which areas of Data Science I would like to learn more later. +A really good introduction to the subject. +Lectures were fairly straightforward but not really that exciting and the lecturers sometimes felt a little unprepared or underwhelming. +it was a great learning experience,the lectures were good and excellently designed +Really wonderful high level overview- quite helpful for me. +Great overview! Passing and internalizing are different goals - take the time to read & watch not only the mandatory items but the links to Wired etc. +Brilliant Course. +Good short introduction to the field who someone with minimal understanding of data science. +I think the course is apt to begin getting a feel of data science management and needs. I have realised during the course that it is a fairly complex discipline for a beginner with no exposure to statistics and the terminology.Initially it might seem like over the top, but with some research and reading of suggested materials , one shall be able to get a hang of it in due time.I also believe the instructors have had to work hard to make sure the upper level course can be delivered as close as possible to the level of a beginner.My only suggestion is if they could add a list of sorts for statistical jargon , explained in layman terms, which would actually enable quicker absorbance. +Excellent course, material and superior teaching. +The course touches upon most important topics in Data Science but doesn't go deep into the topics:- Covers most important important topics in Data Science on high level.- Course works as a "refresher" to follow the course you should know the basics in statistics and modelling. Concepts like parsimonious model would be used with expectation that student already knows it. +A clear and concise training of Data science. One example of Data science project would help to understand better. Thanks. +A great primer to get you started in Data Science or get up to speed quickly. +Good crash course, presents relevant concepts quickly +Very basic level, nice talks though +Thank you all professors of John Hopkins, for excellent explanations and relevant examples to help improve learning. +Very useful and prolific. All thanks to the professor and the whole team work! +Very basic, for absolute beginners/ managers completely new to data (let alone data science) +Very well organized course ..Short and to the point +Solid introduction. Not so engaging if using the non-paid options +Short yet nice :) +Too short to get any depth of information. Too expensive for the content provided. +It's what I was looking for! +Great value to get started; especiall +Very helpful and interesting. Well paced. +While to introductory, yet very good. +A satisfactory overview of the Data Science Specialization. +A really great overview of what is Data Science and how it fits in with decision making. It answered a lot of basic questions and got me curious to pursue other courses on data science. The professors were very knowledgeable and gave great examples. The only thing I would recommend to the professors is to make the lectures a little more dynamic. A voice over of static slides can be a little hard to follow. +Good, simple, straightforward, and applied. It starts to introduce you to the language and platforms of data science, but it is most definitely not a standalone course if you want to be conversant in the field. Really just a "taster" to get you into the specialization. +Very good introduction to the topic and also clarifies some terms that are in the air and end up misleading. like inference prediction and machine learning. +I believe this course is much informative & provide me a clear knowledge about Data science... +I am in the middle of it.I find it a bit challenging but very interesting. +Good course for someone wanting to familiarize themselves with Data Science and understand the basics. +This is a very nice executive level explanation of Data Science topics. These 3 professors are excellent communicators of this field. +Provides a quick overview on what constitutes Data Science. +Good one for the beginners in data science +A good 10000 feet view on the Data Science +Good general introduction. +This course is a really good starting point for people new to the field of data science. I come from a data warehousing and historical analysis background and I found this course useful. +Very good introductory to Data Science. +Interesting course +short and crisp +Great course about data science and terms involved in data science. +Very light overview. +Simple and to the point. I recommend this class to any data scientist or manager planning to supervise a data science team or plan projects based on data analysis. This class would make an excellent review for early PhD students in any science field. +Excited for the course! +I wanted to like this course but It felt entirely too academic in terms of both the subject matter and the way the specifics of "data science" are presented. The course content reminded me of my time a few years ago when I was enrolled in a Ph.D. program at a major Tier 1 research university. The professors were great, but the content was esoteric and incredibly focused on research based "data science" and less on business analytics or more practical applications of data science for the working professional. I felt myself re-watching the videos to try and understand the content because there were many instances where the professors' spoke about some fundamental aspect of data science but failed to provide some real world context. I liked the course but I would not recommend it as a crash course for the working professional, more like a crash course for someone who already has a degree in statistics/math/engineering who is looking to further their studies in an academic setting where research is the main goal. +The courses in this specialization are - in my opinion, excessively short. +A nice starting for those wanted to understand data science. +I enjoyed this class very much. It was concise, precise, and digestible. Not to mention the instructors kept it lively though out the course. Thank you for such an informative course. +Advises are really good. The course charges too much! A one week course should set a reasonable price, for instance, $19. +A very articulate orientation, which meticulously arouses interest about different corners of Data Science. +I got all the basic information about what is data science and what a data scientist should do. Thank you +Very insightful little course introducing what data science is and what it's used for. Would love to see more of this group's work. +Quite fast-paced indeed. Even the instructors seem like they're in a rush :)It would have helped if there was a glossary of terms for people who aren't well-versed in programming basics.But in summary, it's an interesting course =))) +too basic, the 4 courses of this specialization could be just one course. +Highly Enlightening for those who just beginning to learn data science,The courses are very detailed and well organized,All the aspects of the data science are introduced in intriguing mannerThank you +Too theoretical, e.g, comparison between statistics and ML is not at all useful. Too many quizzes after very short classes and on topics of absolutely generic things. +Good overview. I would +I left with a good understanding of the reach and dynamics of the field of data science. Even with experience in using data to answer questions in the context of an organization this has been a good way of mapping out the areas where that experience can be extended. +This is an amazing short course, covering the basics of data science. Must-do for all (aspiring) data scientists or management working on data science projects +A very good intro to Data Science by three experts. Well-paced, with reasonable quiz questions and can be completed in less than a week. However, I would certainly not pay for it, because it is feels more like a well-designed ad for the spesialization that follows! +Great course to start learning about Data Science. +As the name suggests, this is a Great kick start to understand what is data science. This course have given me a an insight into what is this big name Data Science is all about. As a Statistics graduate and a Software Implementer, I feel that my domain has taken a Thanks Brian, Jeff and Roger. +Good overview of Data Science - peaks interest but doesn't go into depth of any subjects +The crash course was easy to understand. The classes used good examples to give you visual details about the subject and the instructors were clear and precise. +1.Concise and well structured.2. Allows me to think about the core and the essentials.3. Creates the basics on which I can learn further, deep dive and build expertise. +Fantastic short introductory course. loved it. +good introduction on the lingo and bird's eye +An excellent summary of What data science is with great links, topics and books to go deeper into this industry. Thank you. +As the title of the course says, it's a Crash Course.Quick, simple, effective in giving you the very basic terminologies, use cases of Data Sciences. +As a complete novice to the field I found this course really useful to get a concise overview and understand some of the trends in big data/ data science. I liked the way the lecturers highlighted that hype needed to be distinguished from what data science can really do for us. +Concise but could already include a basic proyect. +Nice one :) +For an introductory course, this was really fantastic. It's really high-level, but it gives you a framework to understand the world you are entering into (or considering entering into). This is the first course in the Executive Data Science specialization which is built around topics like hiring a team of data scientists, and managing data science projects. So, this would be a great first class for that. But, it's also a great start for someone moving on to getting elbows deep in R Studio, Python, Hadoop, etc. I think. This is a really friendly introduction to the world of data science. +very useful for amateurs +Good course, with general and not over-detailed explanations of all the relevant topics in data Science. A good, general overview definitively worth working on. +very helpful! +Awesome short introduction about what data science is about. If you don't have a lot of time but want to get acquainted with the field of data science you should take this one. +Good One. +The course offers a solid overview of data science. If you have little to no familiarity with the field, I recommend taking a few hours to go through the course. +Short and sweet :) +short, but useful course :) +A good course to begin with data science +It's really a nice introductory course for Data Science! +A really useful introduction to what is data science. I found it very complete, besides maybe I would have liked a little more deepness in some concepts. I'm willing to learn more about the subject, maybe I will complete the whole specialization. +Very interesting course. +A great overview on data science world. +Simple and good overview of Data Science +Great course as an introduction to data science. +Quite useful for introducing Data Science. I will now enroll in the data science specialization. +I really liked it. Some of tje jargon was a bit technical though. But overall really appriated the opportunity yo learn, +Very general course. Doesn't give much insight into data science. +need to get a bit more specific about the tools required +boring +Great introduction into the world of Data Science. I appreciated the 3 different lecturers who each brought a different aspect of data into light.Thank you all. +It's very great course for understanding data science. +it's a shame to split a one month course to four. +Very basic course. If you know about data science, data analysis, or machine learning, you may find this class basic or boring. Good intro course for those who have no prior knowledge +Very nice introduction in Data Science to have a good overview of the discipline +Very good course to understanding the nuances of Data science and various tools used. +Good for introduction, start kind of 4 stars but get way better with the further lectures +Overall a compact course, illustrations could be better. +A good course to start to learn data analytic vocabulary. +Very shallow +A great brief introduction. A good starting point for other Data Analytics/Science coursework. +This course is too short. +Excelent as basics course +A good introduction to anybody interested in learning what is data science. +Quick and informative for those new to data science. +It provides a quich shot on data science, but the way it presents is not so interesting. +Quick scope of data science. I particularly liked the discussion about fad versus fact towards the end of the course. Some questions in quizzes seemed a bit arbitrary. The course delivers what it promises; crash-course with the key ingredients for understanding more about what data science is about +It was a great course .You can get idea about Machine Learning from this as well .Relevant information about data science .Well explained examples .Got clear knowledge about data science .Goof course . +Very crash course that gives you a taste about the different aspects of data science and makes you want to dive in the specialization program right away! +A good introductory overview of data science. Grounds you on what you can & cannot do with data science. I find defining the question really impactful. Teachers were enthusiastic and the brevity of the course gives it good appeal for beginners who want to "get their feet wet". +Good intro to the concepts. Not technical at all. +Very Helpful!!!! +Good introduction of a few essential key concepts. +I enjoyed this course. It gave a quick and thorough +Very good overall introduction to data science (DS). I would go for the other 3 in the specialisation. +great introduction to field, but there is lack of examples of bad usage data science methods and tools +Great for an overview of the different aspects of data science. +I really enjoyed this course, it gives me lot of new, interesting knowledge about data science, But there are some mistake about good (clean) programming. Please do not use comments, the comments show strange code, do not write big function etc... Clean code book from Uncle Bob helps me a lot of to write clean, maintainable code. +very small and easy to understand and worth to take +Fantastic overview of Data Science avaible to all public +This course was truly a crash course with less crashing and more succeeding on the parts of the professors. My only suggestion is to more clearly outline and link the next classes in the specialization. +Offered me a great refresher on the basics, in a very short period of time. Great course! +The course was very well covered and explained the basics properly. A good starter if one wants to know what Data Science is all about. +Only one week. Not much depth. +Many tools and methods beyond the power of Tableau +There were some good modules in this course and the assignments were helpful in applying the principles. The videos were not as polished as those in the previous courses. It gave the feel of the course a bit of "quick to market" feel, particularly given that it was a week late in getting started.Overall though, I would recommend it. +Week 1 & 2 not terribly useful; week 3 (in depth look at actions within dashboards) & 4 (significant content relating to building a story) are what I expected the class/series to be. +I very much enjoyed the challenge to use Tableau to make a presentation and learned a lot while doing so. +Overall its a great course to be introduced with tableau's functionalities and its usage in Business analysis and then explaining stories, Discoveries via visuals,dashboards and story telling +Some topics need a better explanation, and the programming assignments should go along the topics. +It's one of the best courses I've ever take! +Nice learnings, horrible experience with the exercises. +This Course is very interesting and very practical. I saw the reality of theories in the Mini Case where PV of Total FCF is equal to Enterprise Value in an all equity firm...I have been challenged, i Have learned new things and i will made a difference +The course is very much focused in the method of DCF, but there is a lack of information regarding how to apply it to startups in practice. +Just Great. Actual, Useful, iNTERESTING, amazing teacher,Thank you very muchDomi +I have no words to state how much I've learned, on a continuous basis. Excellent course design and content. And an amazing tutor:) Many thanks, Alina +Very interesting, providing knowledge, developing skillset, mindest and experiences,Chris!Thank You +it is so an amazing and excellent course! i am honor to have the chance to learn this course. it is interesting and practical. it enriches my life. i am from China. it provides a new access to learn RN. i will always recommend this course to my friends and colleagues. +Great class for getting acquainted with Medical Terminology! +I have been trying to get a job at largest hospital here in PA. I went through an interview process and I let the parties involved know that I was taking a course on medical terminology from PITT. I believe this was a plus and I would like to thank you for such a wonderful course. It was very challenging since I am not familiarized with the healthcare vocabulary but you guys made it easy with the many resources that were provided. I had fun and spent lots of time researching the internet as well.The good news is I got the job and I finished the course just in time because I will be starting my new job soon. Thank you Mrs. Swigart and Mr. Gold. +An excellent experience, thanks.. +thank you for your works +Love the course hard work and lots of studying but worth it +I liked the course because it allowed me to complete it in my own time. The material was well documented. I would have liked to have my questions answered in real-time and interactively maybe to others taking the course. There were some quiz questions that didn't reflect the material in the course so I got lost and had to find my own answers on the internet. Overall...I would recommend this course to anyone who would like to learn medical terminology. +That's a great idea! +great ! and very useful +This course is very complete in terms of vocabulary and helpful for people who haven't been in a hospital or clinic before to get and idea of how these settings work. The only thing I would have wished for this course to have a little more vocabulary is on diseases, conditions and procedures. +This course is great. I can totally understand how to communicate with each other in a US clinical unit. +thank you, this is my first course, and i want to take more courses. +Loved the course very interesting and helpful! +This course created by John Hopkins was designed for thinkers +For me this project was harder than all other courses combined but, because of that, also more rewarding! The theory is very scarce so you're on your own, that's what makes it hard. Once you get the theory right the rest is easy. I learned a lot of NLP and let me practice "Pitchs" using diferent R tools. +Great course, challenging and fun. I have learned a ton in a short time. +With this course I learned to go through a data problem from the scratch and get a real data product, and document it. My only constructive comment is that, when reviewing the projects of classmates, there is a huge dispersion on the effort and quality of the products presented, from very basic and simple Apps to a very professional products, and the scoring of them all is quite the same, perhaps one or two points of difference, in eleven points maximum score. +Wow i finally managed to finish the specialization!! definitely learned a lot and also found out difficulties in building predictors by trying to balancing speed, accuracy and memory constraints!!! +Excellent to start in data science. Nothing learned deeply but you understand how you can improve. Now I can improve by my own or choose other courses based on my experience, interest and capabilities. +Very interesting, but Capstone is much more difficult than the rest of the course.Be sure to study carefully the first courses, and don't rush. +The main reason for my rating is because the course is so "loose" on what your are supposed to achieve incrementally every week that it can lead to some hard situations.Just to give my example: the first week was piece of cake and I didn't feel like it really contribute for the following weeks. Then, I was struggling with the suggested library (tm) until I got support through the discussion forums and someone suggested me to use quanteda.Then thinks started to run smoothly, or so I thought. When implementing the language model (which, at first, I thought was supposed to be KBO), I got stuck for a long period. Not because my model was wrong (I was able to implement it and to check it against some hand-written and proved examples - which I should probably thank again), but because I was not able to make it run efficiently enough for the given constraints.Being stuck in this stage for longer than I wanted, I had to sacrifice another important steps of data analysis pipeline in order to not jeopardize my final delivery by not meeting the final due date. I know that this is exactly what will happen in the "real" life, but I think that some better guidance could guarantee the students spent a more even amount of time in across all steps.All things considered, I think the Capstone was really interesting and likely took more than the 4-9 hours per week, but most of this is probably because of the problems I faced.I believe that with a better guidance on the paths to follow or maybe some suggested libraries to use, a lot of "noise" (useless difficulty) could be removed and this course would definitely get more starts. +In my opinion, this course is a waste of time, it simply throws a bunch of links and terminology for you to google and research. The project is interesting but once again, you have to do tons of research and take up other courses to fill the gaps (might as well do the other courses instead of this one).I do not recommend this course or the specialization. +Although this project is very open-ended with little guidance, it definitely requires the "full-stack" of data science to complete. +A very stimulating and challenging capstone. It is stretching and puts all the 9 specialization courses material to use. It also gives the student a glimpse of what Data Science in real life is and touches on Natural Language Processing as part of AI. +NLP is a total different thing and should be a course by itself. I would prefer a a large scale machine learning capstone where we could make models and it would fit better to real life situation! Through all the courses I worked hard only to reach NLP capstone? this doesn't feel right! Please fix it! +My name is Jose Antonio. I am looking for a new Data Scientist career (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseantonio11)I did this specialization to get new knowledge about Data Science and better understand the technology and your practical applications.The course was excellent and the classes well taught by teachers.Congratulations to Coursera team and Instructors. +clear and easy course which gives a basic understanding of working with data. Great inclusion of the tools that are useful for presenting your data analysis. +Thank you Roger, Brian, Jeff +This gives a picture about the data science in live. +Simply brilliant ! Fantastic exposure to Natural Language Processing! Learnt a ton about various NLP algorithms for anyone who aspires to be a Data Scientist ! +It's been a challenge to learn all these new concepts and package them into a working product in such a small period of time. I am glad of the things I learned. Also, in my opinion the materials / resources given to this course are scarce compared with previous courses of the specialization. +Not enough information on how to approach the final project. The project itself is very time consuming with lots of self learning and unclear specifications. +it could've given more instructions! +This is a fantastic finish to a brilliant specialization. I gained real usable skills and a lot of confidence doing the capstone. +Really great course to apply all the techniques learned earlier in the specialization. +This course was great. I went from having a decent grasp on statistics and a little knowledge of software like SPSS to being employed as a data analyst where most of my job is using R. +I liked it. The final project was a challenge but it was a good test of all the data science skills I learned over the whole course. Thanks! +Self pace and with a lot examples and discussion forum support +This class was a huge challenge for me, but it pushed me to learn a whole lot and practice many of the skills that I had learned in previous courses! I had a lot of fun, too. Thanks! +Good scenario and a good learning opportunity. I don't think the quizzes related well to the problem we were trying to solve and introduced a red herring, however. Predicting the next best word is not the same as predicting the relative probability of 4 words where one is the "right answer" but not necessarily the best prediction of a text prediction algorithm. +It awesome that you can have the opportunity to learn so much just online. Thanks! +The Capstone Project makes you summarizes what you have learnt so far and take it to the next level, natural language processing . Besides, the ability to create a working app is a reward by itself.It is challenging and interesting at the same time. +Really nice proyect to recap on everything you learned! +Good test of what we learned in the courses. +This is not for beginners with no experience. The estimated weekly hours are absurdly low.No one has seen any sign whatsoever of the industry partner, SwiftKey, despite claims they will be around to help. The field has advanced dramatically since the course was developed. Be prepared to do a lot of research and trial and error.The specialization has been an excellent way to learn a fair amount on the topic, but it is just the beginning. The capstone will challenge you. It is rewarding when you complete it. +Excellent first step for Data Sc +This course is unlike all the others. Although you will need information gained in the previous nine modules, the Capstone Project requires you to work on a long and difficult problem using your own initiative. Mentors, tutors and Swiftkey employees are lacking throughout this project.I worked through many different R packages to generate the word prediction N-Grams because R has a tendency to run out of memory. Many students are forced to use a cut down version of the three million lines of text because of memory issues but I managed to find the proverbially needle in the R packages haystack that allowed me to use the entire dataset!I had problems with publishing the presentation to RPubs - it just would not work using either RStudio or RConsole but at least I had a fall back position of placing the presentation on my own website.It took me three attempts to complete this project, nine months (Jan-Sep 2016) and about 300 hours in total, I didn't give up so nor should you, you can do it! And Good Luck! Hope to chat with you on the Data Science Specialism LinkedIn Group for Completers!Finally was it worth paying for all of the certificates. Yes, it was! +The Capstone starts well with sufficient guidance. The second part gives much freedom however, it might be overwhelming and unclear at times what to do next. However, I loved going out on my own and slowly learning more and more on the subject.You can pretty much choose how much effort you put into it. +Difficult but really useful +The course has nearly nothing to do with the previous themes. I already have had enough knowledge, but as there is no support by the team it seems to be rather time consuming for others. +A good & fun idea to implement. Would have prefered implementing my own idea though. +Overall a good course that makes you learn a lot on your own (unlike the rest of the series). Maybe a bit too much self learning. However, if you can complete it does give you a lot of learning especially in some text analysis which hasn't been covered before. +This was essentially a self-study project with some social peers. The topic, approach, and standards were different from all of the other units in the Data Science specialization. I found the other units more enjoyable.Learning the essentials of NLP quickly is necessary to begin the project. I ordered a textbook, for example, and I was fortunate that it arrived quickly. If NLP is a prerequisite for this capstone project - whether in the form of a prior class or textbook knowledge - this should be indicated clearly on the course description page.Nevertheless, the main learning that I achieved with this course was in the area of software engineering - specifically, how to take advantage of vectorization in R to achieve reasonable computing performance. While this is a valuable skill, it doesn't seem the proper focus of a capstone course in a sequence focused primarily on other topics.As noted elsewhere in these comments, there was a complete absence of any traditional teaching support. Learning outcomes suffered as result. The missing resources included instructors, mentors, partners, and learning materials.The course site notes an expected time requirement of a few hours per week. My commitment was 20 hours per week, under some pressure. Numerous students take this "course" multiple time, in order to arrange for reasonable software development time.Producing working software was fun, as it always is. The course learner community was supportive, which is fortunately typical for Coursera.All in all, this project was *not* an effective capstone for the Data Science specialization. The project was interesting in its way, but it felt 'parachuted in' to this learning sequence. +Good and interesting project. +As a capstone to a series of courses that covered data science and R, I found this one to be a bit lacking. There was no involvement from the professors at JHU or the folks at SwiftKey. As was mentioned in another review, the course feels abandoned. All you get a few short (two minutes or so) videos that give you little in the way of instruction or direction. Basically, they just say, "Go do this. Good luck!"There were also no Mentors or TAs to guide students or answer questions. It was the students helping each other through the forums. Sometimes it was helpful and everyone involved learned something. Other times, it was the blind trying to lead the visually-impaired.On a positive note, you will use all of the skills from the previous courses: writing R functions, performing exploratory analysis and publishing it via RPubs. Your final product will be displayed for everyone via ShinyApps and a presentation using R Presentation (also published via RPubs).On a(nother) negative note, the topic of Natural Language Processing is not an easy one to just walk into and feel confident in providing a working next-word prediction algorithm in about eight (8) weeks. You're reading academic journal articles, watching multiple videos from another Coursera course (which actually focuses on the topic of NLP, and takes place over several courses and several months!).Supposedly, there is work going on to update the course, so hopefully future students will get a better experience. I did take a bit away from this course, especially since I made more than one attempt to complete it. However, it was definitely a shock to find myself missing those things that one typically finds in a learning environment -- descriptive background, assistance to problems, etc. -- and seeing that I was for all intents and purposes on my own. Even in the professional world of data analysis, I have never experienced the lack of support that I found in this course.With that, I am giving it three (3) stars. As I said, I did learn a bit, but it was a bit of a struggle that required multiple attempts to complete. This would have been better off as a stand alone topic (which it already is by another Coursera affiliated school), or having a capstone course that builds on a topic more in the wheelhouse of the JHU professors: a capstone project focusing on bioinformatics or biostatistics would have been amazing in comparison to this. +Hi, the prject was nice and at the end I learned some new things, but it didn't have people to provide any guide. In the videos it was said that personal from SwiftKey will be there as well as JHU teachers could provide some insights. It looked a bit like a phantom course +I enjoyed the course. This course took me waaaay more time than I thought because I struggled with a few issues. First, I wish I'd started by taking the NLP online course before starting the Capstone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aMYz1tMfPg). There was an issue installing RWeka, RJava and it took me several days to work through the issues. I eventually moved to using quanteda (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/quanteda/vignettes/quickstart.html). I also waited far too long to develop a method to test my model using a subset of the training data, so I could test whether changes to my model improved and reduced performance. It turns out that my model trained on a 25% sample performed just as well as a model trained on 100%. I'm thankful for the Discussion Forum and final peer review process. Both helped me learn how I can improve my model and demo application. I really appreciate the instructors for creating this specialization. I've learned a lot. +Nice capstone project. It leaves a lot of room for experimentation! +I loved doing the capstone project for the Data Science specialisation. I applied all the skills I learnt during the length of the specialisation on Coursera. Having completed this project, I feel more confident about my skills as a data scientist in solving real world problems. +Of all the offerings in the specialization, this one felt like it was thrown together in less than hour. I expected to have to learn quite a bit of material on my own, but even the references to additional materials were very thin.I could have saved many days if more guidance on the project workflow would have been given. The pre-processing of the data was quite extensive (9 steps before generating the ngram tables I used in my model) and was the key to getting decent results IMHO, but one had to step on a quite a few landmines to figure this out.The problem was an interesting one and I ended up reworking it after passing with 95% (the only class in the specialization I didn't get 100% on) because I didn't have time to implement much of what I had to figure out by 'hard-knocks' +A poor end to a poor Coursera specializations. +The sequence of activities in execution of the project envisages multiple interactions with your peers and unfolds your creative aspect to churn out a solution to put all the learning into practice!Cheers, DSS team - Brian, Jeff and Roger 😁 +This is a great capstone project. It requires the student to really have an understanding of the concepts learned throughout the specialization and apply them to build a prediction app. There is very little guidance asides from the discussion forum which could be discouraging at first. Otherwise I would've rated it 5 stars. +Great way to build up knowledge & experience ....A challenge considering the actual time needed for the Capstone project... but worth every single effort. +I hope it will involve statistics analysis in the capstone project. It is kind of bias to apply NLP knowledge and develop data product in the capstone project. +I liked every course in this specialization except +I currently taking this capstone and I must unfortunately say that this is the most worst course in the whole specialization. Of course the topic NLP and word prediction is interesting, but the problem is, that this is a dead course. A couple of students in the forum strugeling with details, but there is NO Mentor, no Professor or other course staff and no SwiftKey engineer as announced in the Project Overview.So everything you have to figure out completely by yourself and this takes a lot of more time than the 4-9 hours. And also why should you pay for a course where you learn anyway only ba your own.Pick any intersting topic you would like to work on and invest the time in this instead of paying for this Capstone without any support form Coursera, JHU or SwiftKey. +Practical approach to learn Data Science. +Great course for learning data science. +Unfortunately this project is not fully aligned with all the previous program, which is a shame. Ideally, the project was more related to quantitative data, or have compulsory module NPL. It was certainly a very important learning, but very stressful to have to grasp NPL and do the project in a short time.Learning NPL in short time in a DIY way without any help it was very negative and stressful. +I had no experience in natural language processing before I took this course, and now I'm kind of in love with it! Some of my fellow learners complained about the new data type and little information provided, but I feel this is a good simulation of real world experience as a data scientist! The field is constantly changing, so we have to be ready to cope with unfamiliar problems and come up with creative solutions. Due to other commitments, I was once 3 weeks behind the weekly deadlines, but finally poured all my efforts into this and deployed an App in time... You never know how much you can accomplish before you are forced to do a "Mission Impossible" ;-) I think I've improved my hacking + googling skills, and built more confidence over completion of this course. Thank you, JHU and Coursera! +Was a great course. There was no hand holding, this is the capstone so it was time to put everything to use on a problem that wasn't outlined for you and required you to self study and work with others to deliver. +Coursera lost my thoughtful 2-star review so I am replacing it with this. I learned a lot through my own efforts and through the efforts of students who bothered to post in the forums. The one mentor disappeared half-way through the course. +Well-paced, highly structured Capstone that allowed me to put to the test the skills I honed during the 9 previous courses in the JHU Data Science specialization. Strongly recommended. +Excellent course and this module! Makes you feel sort of real work :) Lots of interesting findings while working on the project. +The capstone project doesn't fully utilise d knowledge from earlier modules such as Machine Learning, statistical analysis, regression models n etc. +Very disappointed with this final course. Little to no support. Discussion Forum provides some level of help but you are basically on your own.Very challenging to come up to speed with Natural Language Processing techniques if you have never taken any class about it.My recommendation to JHU and Coursera is to add a separate course for NLP where you cover all the basics and then have the Capstone. +Most stressful but interesting. Not enough material was provided +Could be better. The teacher sometimes explain the concepts in a hard way, and not always shows how to do in practice.But you will get curious and in case of doubts, you can find more simple explanations on the web, and the forum is very good.The assignments are hard, you will need do research to accomplish then, but is the best way to learn.I think the specialization is good to someone without much knowledge on the field (like me). But it's only the start! +Amazing project! At first glanse It looks strange, but de facto it's standart data science problem: you should analyze raw data, clean it, build some models and make data product. I highly recommend this capstone. +The course is outdated and abandoned by the teachers.SwiftKey engineers are nowhere to be seen.There is no guidance. +The course allows you to gain some interesting experience in text mining. If you're into this thing, you can do really nice coursework +None of the previous classes will prepare you for this one. This is not really a class, but rather a project on a topic NEVER covered in any of the previous classes in this specialization. +Great to learn the basics of music. +Great Course! it really helped me a lot! +Nice Course...very funny and constructive +Awsoem Course, Incredible Teacher! I will remember that forever +REally Good +This pretty good but maybe should explore more than just theory septma chords blues and jazz encganche something that although is very good explanation leaves you anelando something more modern. +Great course, and a the best teacherThanks Berklee and Coursera +Awsome teacher, great and fun lessons, thanks! +thank you for your great spirit and the amazing way to teach us. really the best course ever. +Great course! just it misses some of the basics. Fortunately I already knew how to read a pentagram and note lengths so it was OK for me, but the "True" beginners had a little bit of an issue with time lengths at first +Excellent, easy to understand for starters. +I learned a lot of new information that will be helpful in my future career path. +Well-organized industrial know-hows and useful concepts of business model +This is yet another brilliant module by Dr. Ettouati and Dr. Ma. I really appreciate their bringing in industry experts with deep expertise, practical experience and insights to make this an engaging and interesting course. Definitely recommend it to anyone looking to get a good overview of the Drug commercialization process. +Excellent course on strategies for drug commercialization including pharmacoeconomics and how pharma partners with other stakeholders to accomplish this. Excellent examples of drug lifecycles. +This is an excellent course. It has input from leading industry experts that make it relevant. There is an attempt to make reference to EU and some other global statistics. But this is a course focused on the USA industry. However, many concepts and theory are valid globally. +Excellent learning program.. Thanks +A very interesting course, with all aspects of diabetes well explained. Great lecturers, and nice interview format. I especially liked the focus on developing countries, and what is different about the diabetes populations there, since this was new to me. +powerful course +The course was easy to follow and understand. The information was useful, and the way the course was set up was simple. +Great course, great instructor. The expert interviews are the best part. In just 3 weeks, they manage to impart so much relevant and up-to-date information. +It was very informative & awesome. +As a medical student, i found this course really helpful and up to date, lecturers are great, material are organized.Highly Recommended ! +It's an introductory course to key Pattern Discovery techniques with a comprehensive coverage of important subjects. However, it should be complemented by following the referenced material in order to obtain a wider and more complete picture of the field. +Great course for beginners without experience in Python programming +Should be more support in the forum for quiz and assignement +The explanations are not clear. The course is very theoretical, there's just one obligatory programming task. It's one of the worst courses I have ever enrolled in. +The course exercises are medium-hard. But the topic coverage is spot on. +I'd review this course for two parts: lectures and programming assignments.Lectures: Prof. Jiawei Han is a pioneer of the subject. However, I was expecting a more indepth elaboration of techniques. In almost all his lectures he covered very crucial topics at a near-shallow level. For someone like me, it was a motivation to be learning the subject from him but I was left disappointed a little bit. I felt if i was just to gain a superficial understanding then I would have browsed through any website/blog/article rather than paying for this course and coming here under his tutelage. I will not expect him to be as thorough as he'd be in his lectures at UIUC (although why not!) but a more elaborative explanation with more notable examples (instead of pointing to the reading material at the end of 4th minute of the lecture) will be more fruitful and a better learning experience.The programming assignments are challenging and will definitely open up the thought process towards being able to imagine what patterns mean and how to go about extracting them. +I learned a lot from this lecture. And I believe the lecture is excellent except that if he could become a little bit funny, then it would be perfect. Thanks,Clark +Really disappointing. The slides contain a lot of paper references that seem to be of high quality (that's the reason I'm giving it 2 stars and not just 1)... but the course itself is bad: it covers many algorithms, but so superficially that you learn nothing; and there are not enough programming assignments to really allow you to get any intuition on the concepts.I would love to see this be turned into a 5-course, 30-week specialization in itself (and the professor sure looks like he has the knowledge to fill these 30 weeks)... but as a single course over 4 weeks, it's not good. +too theoretical without enough practical quiz and assignment +I like this course. Its provides a good base for pattern discovery, with useful high level techniques, this can be used as a starting point.Something to improve can be incorporating at least one lesson with best practice coding techniques to solve the practical exercises. +The course is very helpful and brings fascinating insights for projects. +A list of research papers to read further that's it. The course is too short to cover the subject so it covers nothing in the end.The programming assignment have no help, whatsoever it's "do it" any language. The 2 programming assignment doesn't have much to do with the course. We don't even talk about the algo to use to do it. It looks like coursera has asked the professor to add a programming assignment to the course and he had 3 minutes to choose what it could be.It shouldn't be advertised in coursera as it is.Ah, forgot to mention that no one replies to the forums,actually no one uses them.I think the subject is very interesting but this course gives a really bad advertising to Coursera, the university and the professor.It needs more work before it's deployed on the platform.I am going to try another Coursera course in the same kind of subject I hope it won't be the same. +Cest Fantastique, the lessons ;earned here will give you meaning and transferable skills. +A great course. I have learned so much things. A good way to began seriously in sustainable development. +Great course, covers wide range of contents relating to Could technology. Quiz is very well designed to test your understanding. +Good class overall. I was not really a fan of the teaching styles at the beginning because they pack a lot of info and just keep going. Examples are pretty rare and quizzes require you to have an analytical understanding of the material which you can't get from the lectures themselves easily. +This is a great introduction for someone who wants to see what's available in terms of open source and proprietary cloud systems. The lectures definitely cover items that people actually use in industry, and the lecturers describe the technologies in products accurately. +thank you for everything ! +The content was interesting, but it was too much theory, sometimes a bit borring +As a developer I consider this a very poor course. It can be good for manager and business people to better understand what technologies are available these days, but that it. You can easily look at the syllabus, go to the wikipedia and read the pages on presented subject and you will get the same knowledge. There were no programming assignments, quizes and exams were not challenging at all and some questions were really confusing. I won't recommend it to anyone and it shouldn't be part of this specialization. +Really good course for distributed funda! +Well structured course. Gives a good overview of the basics of cloud computing. couple of typos in the transcripts. will flag errors in future courses +Mr. Campbell's presentations are quite boring and consist of a handful of phrases repeated over and over again. The subjects are treated very superficially and the presentation style is confusing. I recommend to other students to read the Wikipedia articles about the subjects instead. Several times it feels like Mr. Campbell has never before seen the slides he is reading from and he is simply inventing stuff. Some information presented is plain wrong. Also, there is repeated talk of practical exercises to come, but that never happens. To Mr. Campbell's presentations, I would only award ONE STAR.On the other hand I really liked the presentations from Mr. Farivar. He obviously knows what he is talking about and presents the material in a clear and understandable way. He should take over the whole course and let Mr. Campbell do some research back in his office. I would award 4.5 STARS to Mr. Farivar.The homeworks of this course are simply checking for a very basic understanding of the topics. E.g. "To do this and that, would you use technology A, B, or C?" Where the answer are some quite different technologies.The course needs more involvement of the students by going more in-depth and adding some practical exercises.Had the cloud computing specialization started with this course, I would probably have aborted it. +There should have been more examples and more use case and more applied rather than just a theoretical discussion +Highly recommended .Wonderful course and good content but a bit slow ..Could have been faster. +Not enough depth. +I would like to recommend the course for everybody to want get good knowledge in cloud technology. It's help me a lot to figure out the market trends. From now on, I got a big picture about the differents types of the clould services. I very excited to the next step. I also to hope you enjoy it. +the video is too long +At the start of Week 1, the course was a bit boring (too slow, too easy), but things were becoming more and more interesting: We were able to see many up-to-date technologies used in companies, several protocols, market tendencies, many competitors/actors,I recommend to students to open an account at AWS, Azure, GoogleCompute and create their own exercises (it is mostly free for limited usage). +Great course, extremely helpful!! +Interresting, but too easy to understand. Not much details. Very easy course, but you won't learn a lot. +The course is really good. However, in some situations, it is very high level and the instructor assumes that the audience know what he say. I would prefer to see some other figures for the cloud use and the use of the cloud in reality. +This course covered many relevant topics to the Cloud that you would't find in any other course. The professors have done a wonderful job. A must for any Architect or folks trying to deploy or support Cloud technologies. Even helpful for application or API developers to understand the Cloud technologies. +This course is ok, but it gives only high level overview of cloud technologies. I will do the second part, but I will do a free version. I don't think that it's worse this money. +It tries to cover a lot of ground. Lack of some practical tasks. +Wish there will be some lab assignments, for example doing some real work on AWS. +Consider adding a programming assignment to the course curriculum. Please address content issues in a timely manner. Thank you. +It was really focused on high level concepts of different technologies, the level was really basic. No details have been served. +Coming out from two very good predecessors (C3, parts 1&2), this course is somewhat a disappointment. The contents are too broad without real focused depth, and too much time spent on background info in almost all lectures. There ought to be more hands-on practices, and the assessments should be more challenging towards understanding, rather than matching terms. +This course is neither high level nor low level. After having taking Cloud Computing Concepts Part I and 2 (which were excellent), I expected a continuation of the very deep level of technical material. This course doesn't do this. Instead it is sort of much higher level except that the instructor fails to stay at the high level and will suddenly go deep - but without providing the detail so that someone to whom this is new will be totally lost. Given that I was expecting the technical depth of CCC parts 1 and 2, I already had much of the knowledge that was presented and could figure out what the instructor was trying to present, but I felt bad for someone who wasn't already familiar with the material. It is my opinion that the course needs to be taken offline and redone.Note: Apparently I took a prior version of CCC parts 1 and 2 so my comments on those two courses may or may not apply anymore. +Colorful information about various advanced technologies in cloud computing. +interesting topics but explanation is sometimes unclear +Well-structured course with great content. +Well organized course. I loved the content and the real world assignments in the course. Thank you to all the 3 trainers. +I love the course, good explanation of basics in Java.... NEEDED +very good course for data structure +Great course! +GOOD COURSE +Great Course To revise your knowledge on data strutures! +The course is really good, I've learned a lot. The only thing I am not happy about, is lack of posibility to check the assignments without having bought the course. +Great Material, and great teachers! +Really loved the course and how every aspect covered was related to a real word application.It is an awesome start to learn the basics about data structures and algorithms in order to move to more advanced topics. +Course is very well organized with solid projects. +A very good course for beginners , people having prior knowledge about data structures might found it a bit easy , anyways the projects were fun and was course was worth taking +Such a wonderful course! It will help you walk through a challenging path to learn java. +The materials are interesting, but the course can become better if the instructors discuss more about stacks, queues and trees +That's greate course. Strongly recommended. +Rebalance of the content could make the course even better. There were too many topics at week 4. Tries should be discussed in another week. The example code in the main at week 5 was a very good idea. Similar solution would make the understanding better during the other weeks. +I usually do not review courses, but this is far better than my expensive college java classes. I can not express enough my gratitude for the great quality putted into this program by the instructors. Thank so much for presenting the course in easy, challenge but fun way. you guys are the best :) +One of the best courses I have taken in coursera +This was another outstanding course. I will review what I've learned because everything was useful. +The presentation of the material, multiple paths to choose depending on your skill level and actual use / application of what was being taught make this an excellent course ! +Great course! +Very solid review of data structures. In fact, I learned a lot of new things along the way like how to benchmark test Java code and how to properly use JUnit and other unit testing frameworks. +Super awesome! I wish I had taken this earlier in my job search. It makes a lot of the algorithms you find in tech interviews super intuitive. +Great review of data structures +Again the explanation and representation was good.3.5-4 stars for some Data Structures and their performance. Few basic ideas and introduction about the gui of the project would make it 5stars. +Content is well organised and explanation is really very good +best than first part +Nice Job!Thanks for the course! +It's really well made, everyone who took this course should be very proud of the program they made during those weeks. +Very good course, well taught by the instructors. +Really good to learn and implement data structures and algorithms through project +Thank you. +Too much information in the StarterCode t +Good one. Nicely paced. Necessary challenge included.. +Best online course I have taken to date. +Covers basics well. The video lectures are easy and simple to understand. Liked the assignments and they covered the learned content well. +Thank you!Please keep up the good work. +This is awesome! +Brilliant course. Learnt a lot about Data Structures like Trees, Tries, HashMaps etc. The best part was implementing the back-end for the text-editor project. Highly recommend it. +Great course overall. Excellent, well compiled set of lectures and assignments. +its very basic stuff , and uses not optimal solutions to coding challenges , which might be okay for basics , for example the spelling check/suggestion project algorithm is probably exponential in time complexity . +Amazing course, I learnt so much about interesting data structures and gained a new understanding of how important it is to choose the right data structure for a specific purpose. +Grate course, really interesting and useful especially Algorithms.Assignments are organized very smart way it really motivates to go deeper.Thanks University of California San Diego for creating this course on coursera.org and make it available for online study! +Could be more challenging. But I really enjoyed the course!!! Highly recommended for anyone who wants to learn java and data structures. +Very good course, I learned a lot! +Excellent Course. This includes useful Data Structures. The Programming assignments are helpful. The instructors have done well to explain the concepts clearly. +Since my majors was bioengineering, whenever my computer science friends discussed about data structures and their importance, I always wondered what data structures are and why they hold so much importance. The course and the instructors who have beautifully designed and developed it, gave me really good insights into data structures. Thank you Coursera, UCSD, Mia Minnes, Christine Alvarado, Leo Porter! +wonderful course, most beautiful is the application +I love this class. There are a couple of data structure classes in Coursera and i think this class fits me the most. I like that it teaches data structures and how to use them in the real world. So, you will be building actual programs with the data structures you learn . It skips alot of the math stuff and I love it because i am not trying to be a "real computer scientist" . I dont need to know how to write a math proof on how a algorithm works what not. Maybe in the future when i want to do research, but as of right now, I just want to build cool software and have fun. +Good course! +It was really a very good course, you can learn many data structures and its implementations along with programing assignments and quizes which are quite challenging. The idea of concept challenge was awesome. You could learn performing efficiency of the algorithms, benchmarking, linked lists trees hashmaps and other data structures. +Fantastic, enjoying and challenging. +good course,i get much knowledges about java +Thanks +Excellent course continuing the tradition set from the first in the sequence. +The course gives you understanding of basic data structures, how they implemented and show their usage in real life. +Wow, I learned way beyond expectations! +Never know anything about Data Structure before this course and it changes everything!!! a MUST for any CS student or professional. +A very good course. Sets a very strong base in data structures. +Great course +Super easy and practical way of leraning the basic data structures, and some other important CS topics. +One of the best courses of data structures in the world ! +Great course to introduce intermediate level data structures to the person learning Java. I have previously used these structures in other languages, but this was a good way to knock the rust off my Java skills and update myself on Java implementations. Instructors are great! +Great course! +great course and valuable material that is worth to learn . +There is no one participating or collaborating here! There's no way to get help. +One of the best courses I have found!. +Well Done - I enjoyed these key concepts and how they were put across. Also the testing methods are pretty good. +The concepts introduced and the application of concepts in problems is very good. +Learning a lot in this class about OOP and class. +Perfect course for intro of data structure +clear logic and you could get to know data structure in a fast pace +Good but it was also good to let the students do some of the codings, I found the coding part actually very simple and short +I really liked this. Learnt a lot in java. Would have been a 5 start had it included some more optional assignments that appear in competitive programming contests like ACM-ICPC. +The most awesome course I have ever joined. +The course does an OK (but not great) job at teaching Data Structures. And it does an OK (but not great) job at teaching Algorithm Performance/Optimization.The lectures and starter code could use some better integration.The assignments could be improved. They give you a bunch of code and ask you to complete it. This is kinda the way things work when you inherit a bunch of code, but its not how it works if you have to write it from scratch.This course has been taught many times, and the forums contained old posts, and they didn't seem as useful as in other courses I've taken.My main objective for this course was to continue learning Java, and it helped me do that, so I gave it 3 Stars. +Really interesting projects +This is a great course. +Projects are a lot of fun to do! I strongly recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn about algoritms and data structures. +Good course about algorithms. +not bad,but too simple for me +Very good course containing interesting and fun projects! Professors' explanations make the topics easy to understand. +Just....Awesome +It's great that this specialization now get autoGrading for projects. It could be better if the Content Quiz is more challenging. +Excellent course... This course really a great pleasure to watch and do work. +This Awesome I can learn for free! +Very perfect course. +very good lecture format :) +The overall course is good. But might touch too little on Big O? Not sure. But still good course! +This specialization is really efficient. I passed first course. And I'm now on a way to complete this second course and go forward. +Very good series for learning Java and OO Principles. The big application approach is very interesting as we can see the whole picture even when we know little yet. The interviews with software engineers are very enlightening. +Great +Great course! Big thanks!!!!! +Amazing course with amazing teachers .Worth every penny . +The course is extremely good. It would be still better if there is inclusion of basics to create a UI. +Great course! I learned a lot in very little time. +Loved it .Best MOOC specialization i have attended.Thanks a lot!!! +Well structured and explained, and, as always, provides very good programming assignments. Love this specialization! +The lectures, assignments, and projects all encourage you to learn about how to design and use optimal search algorithms for text-based applications. I especially value how the discussions present the material in way that is relatively easy to see how it relates to search routines in general. My only complaint is that the instructions do not inform you about the constraints that the online grader implicitly imposes on you. This unfortunately meant that I was not able to submit code with further optimizations that I came up with. +The content includes interesting and useful Java programming examples. The lecturers are generally on top of their subject matter and can speak confidently without visible notes. The tests are thorough and you won't get away with only half-knowledge. If you take all the lectures and study the slides, you will generally get to the necessary level of understanding. +I recommend this course to all beginners programmers +A very useful and instructive course. The difficult abstract ideas are explained very clear way. You learn the basic theory, learn to develop understading why and where use a specific Data Structure and the porjects and examples are real world problem.I am very happy that i had found this course and finished it. Thanks a lot +Introductory course to data structures. The lectures are good, however the assignments are too much guided. Sometimes you can get it done without actually understanding what is going on. +A very good course. The concepts are common and basic but the projects are fun and useful. +What i really enjoyed in this courser is that I learned how to measure and discuss the performance of a software. +Here I had a good introduction to regular expressions also I like the design of the project. +Great course. I learnt a lot about data structures and Java in general. +Presented in an easy to understand format, videos are short which helps keep focus, assignments are well prepared which keeps student on the learning material. This course really helped me understand things more clearly.disclaimer: I have previously enrolled in Algorithms Part I (from Princeton). +Really liked this course! It tested my patience and logic....I am glad that I am finally been able to complete this with "flying colors :)"....Will take some break before the advanced data structure though! until then ... +An exceptional course in intermediary programming! +Very interesting and really well taught! +The course is fantastic! The professors are very enthusiastic and creative: they explain difficult subjects very clearly and provide visual aids and in-video quizes to enhance more deep understanding of material.Special thanks for the project assignments! They are very interesting and well-laid.I would recommend this course to programmers who want to deepen and practice their data-structures skills. For the novices this course should be taken after the first course of the specialization. +good course, but... paid, I can't submit the task +Very nice intermediate course in Java and Data Structures, highly recommended. +Great class. I hope to take more advanced classes with you guys, if possible. Will you a series on complexity theory, dynamic programming etc? +Awesome! Excellent methodology and contents! It goes to the point. Assignments are cool and help to understand the concepts. Perhaps, I found it a little bit easy, but this is also good because I can adapt my tight schedule to follow the deadlines while also remain motivated. ;-) +Was a good course for data structures and a good overview of Big O notation +Nice . But It could have been better if we ourselves were supposed to make the Trees and Tries instead of relying on the java's built in classes. I learned a lot! +This course is a excellent introduction to data structures and algorithms for beginners. The lectures are extensive, complete and very helpful. The assignments are challenging and stimulating. The project is the construction of a text editor with check spelling, auto-correction, suggestion and more. It was the first time I felt involve in a large project, and you learn a little bit of software engineering too. This is the second course in the specialization and it overcomes the previous course in every aspect.I'll give five stars. The only thing I didn't like was the concept challenges, and not because of the challenges but because of the discussion with the UC San Diego learners. They are not beginners, they are actor pretending they don't know how to solve the problems when it is evident -at least it was my impression- that they are advanced students. I found them annoying and not helpful at all. +I learned useful thinks about the Data structures like lists, and trees. +This course by Alvarado, Minnes and Porter was clear, interesting and well presented. In fact, it's one of the better MOOC courses that I've taken.The assignments were of medium difficulty: not too easy but certainly not so difficult that you will get frustrated and give up. In addition, they are interesting assignments. As mentioned, the lectures are concise, clear and interesting. In fact, I recently signed up for another course on algorithms and dropped it because it was SO BORING. Also, I am taking a course on machine learning that presents algorithms. In contrast, that course is not clear whatsoever; if I hadn't taken this one then I would be very confused. Finally, I like how they have the Concept Challenges where students discuss a problem. The thought processes of multiple people talking through the problem was helpful for me.As a result, I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to brush up on performance calculations (i.e., Big O), basic data structures, and a few basic algorithms. +Excellent engaging course, top lecturers and suitably challenging assignments. +Perfectly designed.. +Loved it +It is raising the standard. +Such a nice course on Data Structures. Whats stands out is the simple explanation and assignments thats solves real world problem. +I knew most of the concepts before I get enrolled into this course, but I find the project assignments really interesting. +The work load in this course is more intense than the preceding course in the specialization, especially on week 3. Other than that, I think this was an excellent course. I'm definitely glad I took it, it taught me a lot of the things that I was looking to learn as an intermediately experienced programmer. +Great course +Loved the assignment, challenging and fun. +very cool +I'm graduated in System Analysis, not Computer Sciences, and learned to program only by experience. After 20 years it's a good deal but still I missed the theoretical background and this always annoyed me. I knew and used to make good use of all the structures presented in this course but never could quite explain how or why, or talk in asymptotic notations. Now I can. I didn't stop here, I do take some topics to deep dive during the lectures. It's being a great experience and I only wish I could have more time to keep myself always enrolled in some course. +great course, straightforward and paced very well +Good course to understand the basics of data structures and performance of different data structure implementations +Great course to refresh my memory on data structure that I haven't been thought about after graduating from college. +Very challenging, but totally rewarding and worth the effot! +Very good Course. The assignments were fairly challenging and required 3-5 hours per assignment.The instructors were really good. This was the first course on Coursera which I fully completed. I liked working with a large software project as part of the assignments. +it grate course for me i learn a lot from this course. +This course covers some of the industry standard applications and they can be implemented. This really challenges the programmer to sit down and work some of the very good algorithms. And it shows the real usage of the Java data structures.Professors Christine, Mia and Leo's teachings were very professional and helpful.A word about the projects. After a student finishes the projects, they can confidently say they did something good with the data structures in Java.Thank you for the course instructors and everyone who worked behind this.Highly recommended for the serious Java programmers. +After so many years, I actually understood the core concepts of data structures. Thanks all three instructors. The amount of effort they are putting to make the things easy for the students is awesome. +great course, but the assignments are somewhat easy.... +Excellent Course!The explanation is so detail with examples, even a person new to algorithms can understand the concepts. +I really liked this course and the way it was taught. Although I am a CS major, I really learnt a lot of other stuff from this course apart from learning the core content of Data Structures. +Excellent course, packed full of information - A MUST for anyone who is learning the Java programming language. Lots of effort has gone into this course and is very well structured clearly defining topics week by week. +Very good teachers/instructors. +Amazing video lectures that help in understanding the concepts quickly. In video quizzes help make sure your thought process is right.But The assignments are way too simple if we follow all the steps provided. Assignments have to be more challenging. Surely 5 stars if they add more challenging assignments to this course. +Great course!I have learned so much from testing design using JUnit on Eclipse to Algorithm big O evaluation.This course is really a delight especially due to the very cool project we built during the course.Thank you! +Interesting and practical course. +Thanks a lot for great and interesting course. +The best course in JAVA programming and much much more! +Very good course. This is a very right course for Java learners, will be touched on all basic stuff that are needed in Java. I will highly recommend this course for my colleagues. +Very good lectures. +Great course. +This course is great and uses real world projects to teach. +Very well structured. Information complete and good exercises. +Best course on Data Structures with a very cool project to apply the concepts learned in this course. +One of the better programming classes. Definitely recommended. +Amazing lectures and practical assignments. +I can tell the tutors spent time on preparing the course. This is the most well-organized coursera course I took. +Truly exceptional course for any beginner who wants to learn data structures from the basics. Everything is explained in detail. Loved learning things like asymptotic notations, calculating rate of growth of an algorithm. Also I liked the way the pseudo code is presented in the class made complex algorithms too easy. +Are you good at data structures ? If not, this will be the best course to start with. You learn the data structure and implement right away in your project assigment. Very practical. +Great one +Additional Programming concepts, and solidifies programming skills in Java. +What l learn is how cool is data structure and how useful in real world. +This is one of the best series of courses I came along in online MOOC platform, such a brilliant course, this whole specialization is brilliant, such a interesting projects, I'm disappointed that I live in country that isn't that much wealthy to help this Specialization and to be able to do Capstone Project , but I wish all the best hope to finish all in time, this is in my top 3 online MOOC Courses and I saw a lot of them.I wish all the best to this team and people that made this possible. +Thank you +Cool +This is a great course. If you ever feared (like me) about implementations of linked-list, trees, tries, you should definitely join this! It would make these things much simpler!!! +Really good course. +Great stuff! Don't give up on the first assignment, the rest are more easier... +The instructors were engaging and most charming in the videos.Most suitable for programming learners taking the step from beginner to intermediate level. The material was divided into fun bite-sized videos, quizzes, and assignments; but still thorough with the details that were necessary. +The course curriculum is well designed and teaches students the basic data structures needed to be a successful software engineer. The project is good, and the weekly assignments are challenging. +but more depth is required +I liked everything about this course: the theory, the programming assignments, the consistency and clarity in explaining complex things. The material was structured, well-organized, valuable and helpful. I really liked the lecturers. Mia Minnes, Leo Porter and Christine Alvarado are the ones of the best I've seen in my whole life! A Huge Thank You for your hard work and your strong dedication to what you do! +A great and comprehensive course. It was well organized and carefully incorporated the user. +Promising one!!! +worth taking +Learned a lot of useful ideas specially how to implement your own data structure efficiently. +As all your coursers, great! I have learnt a lot! +Loved it. The assignments were fun to solve. +Fun and very interesting +Interesting assignments. Concise video lectures. +Not difficult course but teaches you much about Java +The data structures are basic in this course. But I loved working on the project. I had first hand experience on how to use Java to code these structures and I think this will help me a lot in the future. The course is well designed and I would recommend it to anybody who wants to learn Basic Data Structures with Java well. +The content that has been showed through this course is enough balanced and sufficient to help learners around the world like me to understand clearly Data Structures with java and also for with the other programming languages. +Amazing course! Very clear explanation of data structures and some basic algorithms. Very good preparation for the interviews.The only drawback is that the lecture slides are not available for downloading. +This is an excellent course with super awesome syllabus. It is taught in an engaging manner, with quizzes. It could have been more improved by adding in-video quiz. +Great course! Interesting and challenging tasks - all of them very well prepared. Definitely worth recommending! +Perfect! +Interesting approach of core and support tracks! Great content. +This courser deserves 10 stars and not just 5. I hoped that the team have started the series from the very beginning as to replicate the course 8A. I am perfering their style than from the very short Duke's course.Still Many topics to come from this extremely successful teamthanksAhmed +Amazing course! Amazing professors! +Very informative and helpful. Thank you for a great course! +HW is a bit boring +Nice, expesially the second part of the course. +Good, a lot about research and collecting data. +Important concepts like tasks, walkthrough scenarios, use cases, and personas are very well explained with good examples helping to understand the differences. There were methods like the quantitative analysis and ideation that I have not come across in 15 years of my professional life as a software developer - so there is certainly still a message to be spread. Questions are presented within the videos to make sure you are keeping track. A lot of hints for further reading are given. Great learning material!There are two minor points I would like to mention although they do in no way make me downrate the course. The part on the quantitative analysis I found a little too shallow and short - but on the other hand, these methods are more common and easily accessable in statistics courses and books. The ideation assignment I found a little hard - to come up with 100 ideas alone, not in a team which the method is designed for. On the other hand, it helped experience that the method works as I could come up with several really different ideas for the given problem. +I learned many useful lessons that I can apply to my work in designing social programs for partcipants. +very practical and updated course +The instruction is vague and boring. +this course is very useful and helpful, and it was made very careful, I would like to recommend it to my friends. +It's good for learning the basics. I'm a true beginner so it's perfect for me. +Exceptionally awesome course which teaches the basics of front end development +Concentrated on image manipulation which would be ok if you wanted to build visual websites for a living. If you want to code anything like business applications (like I did) I wouldn't do this course.Because pixel manipulation wasn't something I was interested in (in the JavaScript section) at all I found the course really boring but it was too late to pull out. +Great material. Nice for newbies to web development. +It is very informative for beginners. +Nice introductory course. The instructors have put a lot of effort into the course materials & presentation. +The course is very good and informative. +Excellent course to get hands on experience with JavaScript,HTML and CSS. I loved the assignments which focus on application of the skills and concepts learnt during the course. +It is very useful for me, to learn HTML,CSS,JavaScript. I am very thankful to the Duke +The course contents are pretty good, but the suggested time to complete each week's assignment is misleading. I spent on average 2 hours for each assignment that suggested 10 mins to complete. I end up spending way to much time on this course than I planned to. +Great course!! +Well Done!!! Excellent Course. Really liked the Honors Assignment. +Great course for beginners. It gives you the basics to become a good programmer. +This is an excellent code for both beginners and novice programmers who want to improve their problem-solving skills. This course does not only teach the languages but also teaches the best ways to approach a problem, and how to implement our approach into coding. I have learned various image editing techniques, gained domain knowledge and even built my own full website. The only downside is that the javascript libraries which is used in most of the exercises is written by Duke itself so I'm not sure if I'll be able to use them outside the course. But these libraries really helped understand the process. +way to beginner, felt it could've gone a bit more in depth coming from a known university such as Duke. +It was a pleasant journey through the web foundations.Thank you very much! +I think it's too simple....... I finished this course in 2 days. +It is helpful for me +The course is really beneficial and I did enjoy the challenging problems designed for the course. +I took the course in 2015 and found it very hard, so took a break. Now, when I resumed where I left off, I was very happy to see that the course has been simplified much more. I just passed it, thank you! +Some things were a little too easy (like the quizzes, for the most part.) Occasionally, there would be some challenges in exercises for which solutions were not laid out in much detail, making them harder. That's a good teaching strategy, and encourages independent thinking to solve them. The discussion board mentors were helpful and promptly responsive, tho I did not find the discussion forums until the end of week 2. I think there should be links to those on more pages. +A very smooth introduction to computer programming and computational thinking. The four instructors are top notch with excellent explanation skills. The courses exercises and the final project are very well designed. I highly recommend the course. +This course is very well-structured and is foundation course towards learning programming. The instructors are an expert and are very engaged. I recommend this course to everyone who wants to start learning programming. +Very nice course, you learn a lot by doing it slowly, listening everything and then trying it. I would recommend it to everyone. +very well taught. The concepts were well presented and explained. The exercises were sufficiently challenging. +I like the teaching staff!Excellent travail et merci infiniment ! +Good introduction to very basic stuff. I skipped many videos and found the same information on the internet. If it wasn't part of the specialization I wouldn't pick it. +This course is awesome and the instructors too. They all were cool and taught the stuffs really well... I will recommend everyone to enroll into this course. +A good way to learn the basics of web pages programming. +Thank you for the excelent course. +A great course for newbies covering almost everything there is!!!Hope you enjoy this as much as I did. +Nice introducing course. +Fantastic course, the teaching was good and the you will learn definitely. +Excellent starter course for those seeking their future and opportunity in the IT field. To see if this is the niche where one belongs to. +So many better options out there to learn to code. The videos on this course had me so confused that I eventually gave up and went to another website to learn what I was supposed to be learning here. Asked a question on the forum that another student was also having a problem and nobody answered me.Very very boring. Try somewhere else. +The programming development environments BIC & DLTP are very helpful. BIC with the Chrome console helped get unstuck on a couple of occasions. The presentations & the exercises effectively impart the basic concepts.It would be really nice if the quizzes have a button to confirm answers separate from the button to submit. +I found this course to be interesting and fun. I would definitely recommend this course for beginners in programming as this course teaches you how to solve some real problems with the help of html, css and javascript. I enjoyed this course hope you will too. Happy Coding :) +This is a very good course for beginners who want to start with HTML, CSS, and JavaScripts, and the detailed course & the embedded quiz & exercise are awesome as well, I will continue the course followed. +Great professors +Awesome course for refreshing Programing knowledge!! +Good paced exercises. +Interesting introduction to programming. +Well structured introduction to programming. By starting with HTML and a structured environment that takes most of the pain out of JavaScript but allows students to create real working applications, the approach makes you feel empowered and engaged while drilling through the basics. +i love to learn this course +The course focused so much in interacting with images instead of the HTML, CSS and JS subjects +This is a great course, it teaches you a way of thinking, the way of the programmer the way of the software engineer. Anyone who wants to learn programming or cs must take this course. Is one of the best decisions I've made. Thanks Coursera and Duke U! +Thank you for excellent content! +Great intro to general concepts :) +very useful +This course I can learn JS and Image processing at the same time, wonderful! +Duke university professor are really have good knowledge and they learn like as guardian . +great great course to get you started, and on your way programming +Thanks a lot for your front end design and image processing exercises. This course has provided me an extensible knowledge of an image processing with simple programming languages like HTML, CSS and JavaScript which I had never thought in my wildest dreams. Kudos to all of you. +The course content was fantastic!! +This was an engaging course prepared by an amazing group of instructors. I learned so much from it and I would recommend it to beginners in web development field. +Thank you !It was really interesting +Very nice and organized but the "Try it" exercises should be made easier to read and divided to small steps instead of long paragraphs +I think this is a great introduction to object oriented programming that Java uses. I have some background in Java already and can see the parallels this course brings +It is very course to learn and very easy to understand. I felt very happy that i got a certification from this University. +It is very interesting course with easy and comprehensive contents. It had short length videos which did not create boredom for me at all. I hope Coursera will improve it's stance more in the future. Thanks to Coursera team and teaching faculty. It is really adorable effort.Regards +Very Good and useful course +I have not felt overwhelmed by information at any one point while taking the course, so it's a really great starting point for beginners. +Clear and easy to follow. Encourages you to try things out for yourself. Definitely recommended if you want to start programming. +Can be mprovised in terms of course content +I have learned a great deal from this course. The lectures and assignments were very well structured. The most important feature of the course for me was that after every bit of new information, there were challenging exercises that gave me a good grasp of the newly learned material. It took many, many hours of working on the assignments, but it was worth every second! +Great course for beginners! +This is a fantastic course, a great introduction to html, javascript, css and programming in general. The best part of this course is the seven steps to solve a problem using image processing which is helpful in solving real world problems rather than some toy samples. This technique is used in repetition for solving different problems so that the student gets a deep understanding on how it fits in solving real world problems. I would definitely recommend to someone who wants to learn programming. You get more worth than the money paid for this course. Kudos to Duke and Coursera, guys keep going. I have enrolled in many other edu platform, but I see a lot of quality and value in coursera. +Excellent course! Highly recommended! +Very easy to follow. Kept me motivated! Great course! One note, probably update the dukelearntoprogram website a bit. It would be good with an easier navigation tool to access material on the website through Coursera, specifically with regards to challenge exercises. +student needs to read a lot out of this course in order to solve the exercises!the course materials are not enough, and they focus more on images, while this entire course for beginners level, it should be fundamental stuff.overall the course is good but needs more changes +Great course,very understandable and useful! +i didn't get the certificate yet +It is good course for beginners , it gives you overview of HTML, CSS and Javascript +good teacher, very nice video and practical task +Love this course +well done,very clear and useful. +Great introductory course! +I HAVE ENJOYED THE COURSE BECAUSE OF A SYSTEMATIC PROCESS OF TEACHING,LIKE IT IS DIVIDED INTO 4 PARTS AND EACH PART A WEEK. ONE MORE THING ABOUT THIS IS ABOUT THE (TRY IT) WHICH WILL MAKE YOU TO GET A GOOD PRACTICE. I LOVE THE QUIZ BEING KEPT AT WEEKEND TO ASSESS ME. +Awesome explanation. It is very understandable....... +Good course! +Very helpful class that give me the fundamental knowledge about Html, CSS and JavaScript. I'm ready to learn and develop my own website for fun! +It paved the way for my programming learning.Excellent Course! 100% recommended! +This is very good course for beginners and a bit advanced programmers. +Excellent course with good challenging programming excercises. +Good intro course +Everything is great and im so excited to be here and learn from Duke University +Very good course, I like the fact there is lot of exercises and in case someone gets lost there always mentor in discussion forums who is prompt to help. Especially I would like to thank Gerry, always got response from him within half an hour. If only you could add a little bit more material about CSS that would be perfect. +The way the proffessors deliver there speech is amazing and in a very lucid manner.One-Liners questions between the videos is really a nice way to enhace students mind so he remains involved and keeping him/her bound to that topic.I really appreciate the efforts of proffessors who taught me and all other students out there selflessly and with utmost devotion wihout asking anything in return.SPECIAL THANKS TO COURSERA. +I like the idea of using JavaScript for learning very basic idea of programming. It was very easy to follow and transitions well into the next course. +This is a lie. I do everything. I complete week 2 and now i come back to watch videos about week 3 and i see that i dont do anything.Can you imagine ?Good job guyz. +Well paced, mentors are active in the forums. You have a chance to mingle with everyone and share ideas. The course itself covers pretty much everything from beginning HTML up to Image Filtering and Steganography. I would recommend to anyone interested in learning how how the internet works or anyone with an interest in programming. +Great course, I learned a lot about programming foundations. If you do not know anything about programming, this is the course to start. The teachers explain very well with good examples and the tasks are a challenge but well explained and these can be completed with the material learned in the videos. +exceptional teaching nice documentation really helpful duke learn to program.at the end its all by COURSERA :) +Very helpful and interesting! Thank you :) +Great course! The assignments had been designed to help the student practice and learn what was taught on the presentations. I was able to keep up with the course and am very satisfied by what I have learned.Thank you! +I've always been interested in web design and this course was really helpful and now I know the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. +Very good course, from the basics to the advanced programming, very suitable for people with no basic knowledge of modern programming. Good teachers, with good explanations and a well balanced learning curve. +This course was an excellent introduction to programming concepts. I developed familiarity with html, css, and JS through the coding projects that accompany the excellent presentations by the Duke instructional team. Thanks for putting together such a great course! +All professors are excellent, and have a wonderfull energy. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you all. +Nice course. Helped me learn the basics well. The quizzes were really good and needed through understanding of the course. +Excellent Program for me and all the students, which have basic knowledge and a passion for learning something more. +Its an Awesome Course!!! +Great course; I learned a lot!! Not sure "beginner" level was the way I'd describe it though. I was glad I had some programming background. +This course was excellent. The instructors were very good and the material was very well presented. Once you complete the course, you will realize that you have learned a lot. +this is the very good course for your clear basic fundamental +Its a great learning package especially for beginners! +I love your course, best course I have ever attended and I am looking forward to the next 4 courses :) +wow. the presentations are really boring! the Java script part is super confusing! +Very informational and the teachers are extremely helpful and quick to respond. Lots of fun programming activities. All in all a great course! +It was a great experience! Very nice instructors and content! +the best +This course is very inconsistent when it comes to JavaScript. Instead of giving fundamentals of the language, course instructors prefer to give you a bunch of non-standard libraries and teach you a couple of randomly selected methods which could be applied to images. All core concepts such as data types, data structures are explained very sketchy. OOP paradigm isn;t explained at all. For example, they give you a line of code which goes something like:var x = new SimpleImage("...");no explanation of what SimpleImage is is given neither you are taught how exactly it works. Apparently, this course relies heavily on self-learning the lib docs given on their site.All together this leads you to simply monkey-coping lecture materials into code editor without even realising how it works and what it does. This course is at best serve observatory purpose to give student just a peek at what web development is like.This course could not be used as a solid foundation fow specialization. +Clear Explanation and provides a platform to dive in detail. +The course provides complete information and guidance for a beginner in Web designing. Me being unfamiliar with programming before starting here, our mentors and teachers provided study material in such a manner helped me (a fresh comer) learn HTML, CSS and JS quickly and pretty well. In a month, you really do learn a lot. You require a good amount of self-discipline and dedication for learning any new subject, specially if you're juggling it with a job or being a university student. But the quality of lecture videos, the material provided for extra learning and the weekly amount of work is perfect for coaching you in Web Designing.Good Luck !!! +Excellent Step into Coding and computer science program for beginners +Thank you for this course! Straightforward explanation with good examples! +This course is awesome! They really teach you the fundamental of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS +Really helpful and full of essential information. +Awesome course, thanks for providing it. +As a foundation level this course is very good.Practice will help you gain some confidence .The way this course is organized is very good.Even non-computer science student can try with some more effort. +Great course ! +Great course of introduction to web programming. +I thought this course was excellent. The lesson videos are very well put together and the overall layout and instruction for the "Try It Yourself" made learning the material so much easier. I look forward to course 2. +Moderator answer in a very short time. I was impressed of that. I think the course should add a video to explain more in details some concept as variables. many of my issues were coming from deep doubts i had about this. maybe explain variables on hardware and variables as pointers. +Very good concept. Helpful explanations and fun practice parts. The mentors are patient and answering every question in no time. Keep on going! +Decent introduction. Should consider more assignments with automated submissions. Maybe bonus assignments with automated submissions just to develop a broader introduction to different parts of the various languages discussed. +great class +I've been learning Javascript with lots of different online courses over the last 2 years and this is the first one that presented the information in such a way that I could understand it. Thanks! +The course was very well planned and knowledgeable.It taught me a lot of things like creating,designing,planning your web page,image processing and most important of all - the patience and perseverance to debug your own code because we will always make errors no mater what.Also the mentors were there to help in the forums. +Best to make a strong base in computing. Highly recommended to anyone. +Really great course! +Nicely explained but a bit boring for me. i believe that is my fault, because i don't like web design and i also knew a lot of the things in this course +Fantastic course.. Very well put subjects and classes. Loved the assignments. +Challenging, but bite-sized lessons. The lessons give you enough information to complete the required assignments - making you stretch but not leaving you in the dark like some other MOOCs, in my experience. Mentors responded quickly in forums. Really enjoyed the course and looking forward to completing the Specialization. +It was a very nice course. I was satisfied the way it was taught. The DLTP library is of great use for future projects. Thanks a lot for providing such a great course content which helped me to gain the basic knowledge on JavaScript. It was fun and interesting to solve "Try It!" section. +Fantastic Class looking forward to the next one. +We need more quizzes, want to make projects and to check them +You are forced to do your own research and study as the instruction is light. However, ample tools are provided like CopePen which allows you to test and play. The forums are a great to see what the rest of your class is doing and saying. Good luck with the course :) +Was very good, but the titles of week 3 and 4 threw me off since I thought they would be seperate weeks, not the same one. +I learned a lot with your course and thank infinitely +Great course on the basics! I enjoyed the activities. +The materials are great and easy to understand.In the videos,professors articulates the content well.I've learned basic JavaScript,CSS and HTML,which might help me in the future.I don't know when and where I will use it right now.But It has been an thrilling experience to gain knowledge. +Very good course i think i am addicted to programming! +I was amazing to learn and participate in this course. +I absolutely LOVE your courses! I have tried a lot of Coursera and other online courses that bored me to tears, but you have mastered the platform. Your courses are so well built and I love your sense of humor!Some things that set your course apart from other courses:1. A variety of instructors. Seeing different people introduce different topics in the videos makes it more interesting.2. Regular quizzes to keep me paying attention.3. Regular exercises to put into practice what I'm learning.Thanks for sharing your expertise with the world! +The content was very useful, especially the lessons that focused on applying the scientific method to computer science. I liked the fact that most concepts were taught, and then reviewed again at the end of a video, solidifying what I learned. I did find the quality of the videos to be rather lacking. As someone who develops online courses for a living, I suggest using two cameras so that you can switch between two views when a cut is needed to prevent jumping or leaving mistakes in videos. The professors definitely seemed nervous, but I suppose that goes away with time. Thank you for this awesome course! +I have written a review when I gave my feedback. +decent course for the beginners though it can cover more detail study of the topics. +Great course, very interactive and fun to follow. +Great Course! +This course is a great course. It gives you concepts and teach you how to apply them. It also provide good exercises and programming problems.I was just wanted the course to add more materials and more lectures about HTML and CSS.Thank You for this great course. +I love it, you guys doing great job +bad explanations, nothing you can do at exams without researching from external sources. +The teachers and instructors really should make better videos and stop giving peer edit assignment when people are picky and do not grade your assignment. The instructors should also give their contacts to let their students contact them when the discussion forums dont work +This is a perfect intro level course, I especially like the project. In a word, I learned a lot. +For the eager student maybe some more resources should have been shared. I was hoping to learn some production quality environment basics e.g. the ideal editor, best practices etc.That said- I really liked how the 3 components, css, js and html were stitched together to help understand interactive webpages using js. +awesome experiance ,good explanations but it would be better if you provide more time to do exercises +This course is very well setup for bigginers. Thanks to all the professors who put their hard work on this course. +A great and fun way to learn fundamentals of programming and basics of HTML, CSS, and Java Script. Exercises were simple and very good to reinforce what was learned on each session, plus they included challenge exercises for those who need something a little less basic. +Great course! I'm honored I could learn from wonderful people. I'm looking forward to learning much more! +Excellent description of how to take first steps in HTML and CSS. Thanks a lot! +The course seemed a piece of cake at the beginning, but as the weeks passed, it became more and more challenging. I'm glad and satisfied to achieve this certificate, thank you! +lectures should be more detailed! +The programming environments used in this course probably won't be used in real life, they are used to get the very basics of programming.But I recommend it for absolute beginners with no knowledge of computer science whatsoever,someone who already knows at least one programming language already will probably be bored by the semantics, but what I really found useful was the step by step explanation on how how to solve programming problems, without using a block scheme or intuition.No teacher ever explained that in detail to me before.I heard they are cutting out the steganography project, or adding it as something optional, but that was actually very fun, hiding images in other images, as though I was a spy, sending off a message that would save that world...But,laughs aside,it felt like I was doing something practical. +Very good presentation of subject matter. +This course is good for beginners!! +This course is not relevant in the real world. +This course is super awesome! Eye opening concepts and plenty of exercises to drill down the concepts learned, for a complete beginner like myself, the problems and materials provided are sure to set you in the right mental direction. I loved the emphasis on problem solving, which is key in the field. +was helpful in laying the foundations of my programming skills +Week 1 and 2 were very useful. As a beginner, I learned a lot about HTML and CSS. Week 3 was a big leap to JavaScript, and the level of difficulty was the reason why I quit the course. Concepts are not well-explained, a lot of material for completing the tasks is missing. Please make JavaScript part simple for beginners. +Im very happy to see that the authors improved the course by actually showing the students how to integrate JS and HTML. I still can't understand why its not allowed the access to the projects to students that won't purchase the course. There are several of other courses @Coursera that require payment only if you want the certificate. I guess that hundreds of students would be happy to see that as the general procedure.Thanks to all the authors for such a wonderful material. Im continuing to the 2nd level of the specialisation. +Very good and well structured course. +nice beginning course!helpful~ +The last module felt like I really had to apply my brain here! +I would like to sincerely thank The Coursera Community for providing this wonderful opportunity to get a overlook on the HTML,CSS,Java Script concepts.Now I am in a position where I can design webpages and edit images easily.I think Coursera is providing a wonderful platform where it integrates people from various communities into a common task-coding.I am feeling privilaged for associating with Duke Universities.I once again take this opportunity to thank the Coursera Community for providing me this opportunity. +The course is excellent in many ways. The course material,video is very simple and understandable to a layman also. one need not be an expert.The presentation was superb, leaving no doubt at the end of each week.The course material and video is self sufficient. I am very happy to have joined the course. I would like to complete the rest of the course satisfactorily. I would love to have soft copies of the material which can be downloaded for study at convenient. Thank you +Awesome experience> +I was very impressed with the level of the course. I really appreciate constant effort to make this experience even better for us. I learned a lot. THANK YOU +very creative course specially duke java environment. and codepen plateform. +Great course, with great teachers. Really useful and clear. +It was a very helpful and interesting course learned a lot from it. +Excellent beginner course that teaching many new skills +Can't be completed without payment +I really enjoyed the first two weeks. When it came to JavaScript I couldn't follow, so much information was missing and lessons were not clear anymore. I understand that the goal was to teach the most in a short time but this was not the right approach. +I am really learning how to create a website. The instructors/professors, that are teaching this course, and the way the online classes are set up, make easy to follow and easy to understand. I did not expect something like this online, right to the point no fluff class type teaching, besides I've always want to learn how to read and right behind the scene website, instead of making it from PowerPoint, and not understand why idea is not being executed. +Really enjoyed this course! +Amazing course, amazing teachers! +The teacher is very good, material is also very careful and useful. +I'm confused as to why there was so much emphasis on domain knowledge rather than a good, solid foundation of basic principles. I'm also failing to see how much of this is going to be applicable to future installments of this course. As a starter for a Java course I am worried. +Great fundamentals and it's nice to have something tangible to show for your work at the end! +Should Make courses audit +Great videos, interesting content. Quizzes were good, assignments were clearly stated. There could have probably been more coding work involved, but it is definitely a good first course as an introduction to programming in general. +An excellent course that is so easy to follow and comprehend. It has everything that a beginner needs. Wonderful teachers and very good content. I really enjoyed this course. Thank you so much! +Breaks it down very nicely for beginners...to the point where I can move forward to more complex languages.Cheers,Don Card +it is a very good course. Just need some adjustments on week 3 and steganography extraction and duplication. +This course teaches absolute basics when it comes to programming, with a few tips that give you an edge when it comes to professional coding. +It's a great course to learn the basics, plus you get testimonials about how some are doing in the business. Mostly younger college students but never the less, still useful. +I haven't finished the second lesson yet and I am in love with this course; it's simple and suitable for beginners indeed. I have know many concepts I never heard of lie SEO, UX, UI. Thank you and keep the good work +very informative and fun to learn +It was great to finally get to know about things I've been wondering for a long time. I got lost from time to time and struggled to keep up but, at the end I think I get the benefits the course was meant to provide. +learned a lot, images are fun!!!!!! +It is a very neat and organized learning experience. It is not perfect (nothing is), but it is one of the best learning experiences I have ever had. +Nice course for those who don't have the idea about the web designing in the front-end. +Excellent introduction to programming the web. +The most terrible course I have ever seen in my life and on this site. For some of quiz questions, you feel like you are dumb because you can not make connection between lectures and quizzes. I really wanted to learn java on coursera but It seems impossible to me. Focusing on rbg values and image thingies too much and making me feel uncomfortable at quizzes after watching all those lectures are the main reasons of giving 1 star. +It's a great course up to when you start dealing with arithmetic calculations. I was wishing for a clearer explanation.Also, something about explaining the structure of the coding, i.e. the syntax, the tokens, etc. that are being taught seems to be missing.Otherwise, teachers are great and the course is very engaging. +I found it pretty more useful in HTML and CSS.Teaching JS can be improved a bit by letting more videos about JS. +Cannot participate in graded work unless purchased. +A great course. +Great!! +An excellent course! Very introductory, but it is meant to be and the Professors are great! It was all well planned and organized. +This course is Amazing! I learned a lotabout webpages and how to style them. It only fails because we don't see an example of javascript on a real webpage. +Speaking of beginner level it is good until you are learning css in it . but as java script starts this course becomes a headache , not because javascript is difficult but they made it difficult . instead of going with basics they teach you to manipulate images . which is not every one's interest field . they should improve their javascript course . other than that it is ok . +A very good course that teaches many interesting and surprising things. I admit I was unaware of this material. Completely unaware. Creating beautiful webpages (HTML, CSS), creating and modifying images with JavaScript, encrypting and decrypting images in other images !!! Ooooh !!! What an unexpected joy !!! I did not know someone can do such things all by himself. I'm really happy to have gone through this course. One thing. It takes time. I think that the time required that is given in the information about the course is unreal. Anyway I wholeheartedly suggest this course to anyone interested in science, computers, and is energetic enough to absorb this amazing stuff. +A real webpage implementation of Javascript can be included in the course. +so nice a class as it is +My previous review is : This course teaches NOTHING about JAVA! Does not worth the money and time!After I learned more about coding I realized I was wrong that it is very important to understand HTML, CSS and JS before learning Java. The only thing is that I wish this course teaches more algorithm. +Material is relevant. Most of the assignments require student guesswork, writing functions not covered in the lecture. +This course is very difficult. I recommend only taking it if you have some experience with syntax. Although very challenging, I learned a ton. +Finished +This is a very good course and great experience, thanks for teaching +it is really good effort. i am actually learning +It was really helpful and I really feel like I learned a lot!! Can't wait to start the next course!! +Very well designed and taught course. Thanks to the Duke Univ team. +Great course +Awesome course... lots to learn about, one is Steganography. The faculties of Duke University are amazing. +The jump to javascript is too great for beginners. Fundamental concepts of programming severely need more time spent on but are in fact glossed over too quickly. +great course +showed me 4 videos and no course instruction, am bummed really wants to take the course +awesome course.veru usefull videos to learn from. +Although I have been studying programming for four years, this course still managed to surprise me in terms of content offered - really interested for the image editing and formatting from HTML and JS. Really worth the money!! +very good teaching skills I do say +This is a great course. Teachers are full of energy and desire to teach, examples are easy to follow (not so much at the end) but it is a great course where you will learn a lot. Highly recommended. +Awesome course. +I found the course both interesting and challenging and I definitely picked up new skills. On completion of this course, I am able to write a webpage with active URL links, pictures, make ordered, un-ordered lists and make tables with embedded lists and images etc. In addition I learned how to style the web page with fonts, colors and positions using CSS.The next section was about image processing using java scripting. We did steganography , hiding images and text within images. The whole thing was finished with creating an e-Portfolio, which tested everything we learned.I enjoyed the course and am now moving onto the next course in this specialization.Darragh Merrick +I think I learned a lot from this course. Thanks 4 teachers for giving us so many great materials. +No consistency, from very easy web design fundamentals to advanced Javascript with no explanation videos to help over a series of quizzes and assignments in week 3 lesson 3. +Great intro to programming, and learning to think, like a software engineer +that's very good course i love it +The HTML and CSS portions as well as the beginning javascript lessons are great. However, towards the end of this module the instructors seem to stop teaching and/or expect knowledge way above 'beginning' that make it necessary for me to teach myself way more than I expected. +It is pretty fast paced, I wish there was more studymaterial to help prepare you for the quizzes. +really helped me to have a hold in programming +HTML, CSS and JS materials were covered and were made easy to understand. CodePen and the Write Your Own websites cooperate great with the course. The quizzes are simple while I found he coding practice challenging and yet not too difficult.My only concern is whether the materials covered would help to build a realistic website, say, the homepage of Facebook or Google. It seems though I've finished the course, I still have no idea of how those webpages I see everyday works, let alone code them myself. The following courses in this series focus on Java, so ...By the way, spending 2-3 hours for a week to finish it as soon may help against forgetting. HTML, CSS and JS seem disconnected before you make them cooperate. Cheers! +The material is simple and easy to understand, instructors explains very well. +All the modules but last are really interesting and informative. The last week's module is very poorly explained, a beginner cannot really understand it. +nice, not easy, not too hard, yet challenging. it will surely improve your skill of HTML, CSS, and also JSP +I learned eight lines of Java code in four weeks, and we never implemented any of it into a web application (viz, a script that actually runs in a live website). Read a book instead. It's cheaper, takes about the same amount of time, and you learn a lot more. I gave it a star because one was the minimum. It should be zero because it wasted my time. +Really poor course. Rather than starting from the basics, this course picks random information to work with. Week 1 was information anybody with a computer knows. Week 2 was really good. Week 3 and 4 were completely useless. Rather than starting from the basics they jump into picture manipulation and encoding. Don't take this class if you want to learn about coding. +Poorly designed and explained. You do not really gain much knowledge from this course.I would not recommend my friends and basically others to take this course. There are far better courses out there for much cheaper prices. +Precise teaching. Informative. +Very good and excellent teachers. I have a lot from the coursera +Great info! +Great!! so far +Good beginning lessons for people who demonstrate an interest! The instructors are passionate and helpful. +HTML and CSS were well explained and clearly cover. However, some of the JavaScript was glossed over and very difficult to follow. +The course is well put together, however they say you do not need any programming background, but you definitely need a little. I had to use other sources to help such as Codeacademy and Udemy just to keep up. The do not go over loops, conditionals or basic C foundation that would help. The leap from HTML, CSS to JavaScript is massive. They need to relook some of the topics and either more videos or add in some easier teaching methods. I took a similar one on Udemy (that was free) just after I completed this one and it was 10x easier to understand and closed so many loops I had when learning JavaScript. +This is NOT a beginner's course. There is not enough coverage of fundamental programming concepts, and too much playing around with complex application concepts such as Steganography. Simple image manipulation is a good way to teach programming concepts. Teaching bit arithmetic in a first programming course is NOT. Also, there are many errors in the videos that should be corrected. And finally, this course is advertised as requiring 3-5 hours per week. What a huge underestimate! I have been programming professionally since 1989. Other than week 1, every week requires closer to 8-10 hours at least. Stop advertising this as a beginning course, or restructure it such that it is more appropriate for beginners. +The instructors overly explain simple concepts and talk about programming inbetween makes the course confusing then you get lost and quiz you on stuff that was not properly explaiuned +the last week material is too time consuming it's actually requires 2 weeks of hard work +great course except the charging assignment +This is a good course for beginners but for the more experienced web programmers this is like a good brain teaser only. +The javascript section was very good and helped me develop my programming skills. I really like the seven step approach and using it work through the exercises. The HTML and CSS sections were not very useful though. +Good course but I dont like how you have to finish each module within a week it would be better if you could finish everything in fourweeks +I will give it a 3* review as I really enjoyed and learned a lot in the HTML and CSS part (first 2 weeks), but the java script is really poorly covered. It is too hard and with no "translations" on what the hell is going on. The Duke University team is good and they obviously know what they are doing, but they need to review this course and make it more simpler... :) +This course is very good for beginners in programming. It is informative and reveals practical aspects of programming. +I learned a lot. Still, I wish the explanation were more geared toward beginners. +This course is fine, but by week 3 and 4, it is already getting very advanced. It is quite impossible to finish within 4 weeks +Although you might learn something, this course is not well organized. I wouldn't recommend it. +javascript part is not covered in depth +The JAVASCRIPT part of the course was to difficult for me I didn't understand enough. I would like to see more tutorial. +Steganography Wasn't upto the mark..! +it covers a wide range of material in fairly quick order. +Nice course. However I do not understand why javascript is treated in a way that separates it absolutely from its web-related applications (it is treated as a general purpose programming language, which it is nowadays, especially once node.js came to the fore, but still - it is primarily web language and it would be better to treat it as such, even more so when the rest of the course is focused on html and css. +It is a good course, but I'm not sure it's simple enough for beginners - it doesn't teach you all the steps you need to know +A great course whether you're a beginners and experts alike! +Lessons are too compact and some of the videos too long and full of content, so it's hard to process all the information at once. +interesting programming topics selected. Modifying image is something that everyone could relate to as everyone must have encountered with digital image before.The use of pencode which is WYSIWYG editor makes it more interactive and current. A huge improvement from the plain, boring Python platform and text editor.Most of the instructors facial expression are so dead, and flat-voice delivery makes it a chore to watch. Think how youtube tutorials engage their audience and makes it entertaining to watch. But maybe that's too much to ask for a traditional institutional lecture.Overall, this is one of the best intro to programming video I have watched. The lessons choice are relevant and could be followed with ease. +Excellent Introduction to HTML and Js +Great course. Amazing exercises. Really a warm-up course for someone who is willing to begin his/her programming journey. Finally the instructors were more than friendly. +One of the well organized and informative course for beginners. +Thanks to everyone involved with the design and creation of this course.This course added a lot to my knowledge, I hope to meet them again. +Very nice course. Not that boring as other intro courses. Image editing and stego part was awesome. Thanks a lot! +HTML/CSS - easyJS - extremely hard +Hard to understand JS part. +Tutors reading from a teleprompter comes across as robotic, lifeless and boring. We should be told before we do a piece of work that we can only submit it by upgrading, not afterwards! +It so simply to understand, I love this course!!!! +Good overall but the content uses library and other content that make it hard to apply the technologies to the real world, an emphasis on orienting the content to 'from scratch development' would be duly appreciated I think. Nevertheless interesting and well presented over all. +pretty good but very time consuming +Great class. All the professors are very good. Learning a lot of new things. +Good course. A little demanding for someone who cannot invest substantial time figuring out how to code some problems. +The class is very interesting and the teachers teach me a lot. +Javascript was a bit challenging and complicated but in general it was very useful. Thanks! +The sequencing of the elements and the pace are delightfully challenging but in no way overwhelming. This is a world class level offering. Loved it! +Though it is a nice introduction, I would have expect a more syntax learning lessons. +Took this as part of a Java specialization but would not have taken it otherwise. +easy and understandible +This course, starting from week 3 in NOT for beginners at all. If you are truly new to programming you would understand nothing from the Java Script part of the course. A lot of people complain about the same issue during the course. +Lectures are boring but the assignments are interesting and useful for the future, and quite involved. +It's ok... +Not really useful ~ I would like to email in a PDF file of comments +It is nice. Comprehensive and simple. +nice for beginner without any CS background! +This course was okay at best. The last two weeks focused too much on image functions and making. While I get that this can be a 'fun and practical' example, it became stale and annoying. It was more stressful than anything else. I really hope the future classes in the Specialization aren't designed in the same way. Variety is not a bad thing. +I quit this course as it does not live up to the specialization which it begins. JavaScript is not Java. The course description should clearly state that JavaScript will be taught and that it will be used to draw boxes of different colors. I was extremely let down by this course. +Challenging and difficult thus rewarding experience . I think the great thing about this course is the freedom they give to make certain programs with whatever way you want to use. +This is not for beginners at all. +The course is a bit of a show. Maybe that's good for teenagers and Millennials, but not for me. +I was very disappointed in this course which held much promise. Too much of it has to do with the changing of colours. I got bogged down by hex colour requirements and other ancillary requirements. I did not want to learn such things. I wanted to learn the methodologies of programming and how the statements in HTML, CSS and Javascript interact. All of these areas were only touched on in very minor ways and with little learned. I got more out of the books I borrowed from the library in the same timeframe. +Last project was pretty tough. The class is more ambitious than the title suggests. First two projects, not so much +Great Course for Beginners +Great run in with Javascript, HTML and concepts I remember from school days. If you have never programmed at all you might have a steeper curve as the work progresses. Also if you innovate on the tasks, prepare to spend more time than what is shown. I enjoyed this course. +Great introduction to the use of Javascript and how to publish a simple interactive webpage. +I really enjoy taking this course. I have learnt a lot since i started +Very good course for beginners, but some of the practical examples could have been done better.For example it would have been nice if the course had taught how to execute JS code directly from a webpage, with or without using CodePen.This is the only reason why it gets 4 stars instead of 5. +A fantastic introduction to the world of programming and designing your own webpage. :) +Nice Course Learned lot from the Course.. +A very interesting and informative course. I am happy I took it and I thank Duke for making the course available to us. +The first two weeks the course present a reasonable pace for beginners. The second two weeks, when the Java Script is introduced, the projects suddenly become very hard. It is assumed you understand binary numbers. Coding is introduced without a lot of explanation of Java Script syntax or methods or what actually happens when you write a line of code. The idea of hiding an image within an image is interesting but I do not see that as important for beginners web developers- how is this relevant to building a web site? +Doing it plainly for the purpose of specialization certificate :)Very eager about java courses though :) +Awesome programming exercises +very nice soft start into programming, for someone who has some background would not be challenging but encourage them to continue through this specialization where it will be more challenging through the specialization +please teach more about javascript basics +it started off as being for beginners but after a while it was rushed and made it extremely difficult for beginners to keep up. Please dont just tell the student to go and write the code for something without giving a hint. Also, there were math mistakes in the course material that are easy to fix. +Overall the course was great, with a nice variety of topics and plenty of time to complete it. Difficulty wise, the course was not difficult, however, some sections were a little bit confusing. Specifically regarding the JavaScript portion, some of the instructor videos that I viewed didn't really help and instead caused extensive use of outside for help. Sometimes the instructors would seem a little bit unprepared for the presentation as well, resulting in videos a little bit less polished than it could've been. +It was a great course nicely taught by the teachers. Javascript couldnt have been interesting if steganography hadnt been taught. It really stole the show. Great job (Y) +I actually managed to finish this class! +One of the best courses, that teaches you a lot about programming and the Instructors are AMAZING. +Nice introduction. +great course for beginners +This is a great intro but it's only going to get your feet wet (if not barely humid). +I learnt a lot of new information and I found the course content easy to understand and follow. +Good but I think the java script they jump into very advanced stuff if you have never code before. +Good course. Sometimes too easy, but go to start. +HTML and CSS is good. JS search for another course. +okay for an intro, not the most boring content. It is a bit aweful that the insist on you using their libraries and programming environments. You spend perhaps 20% of your actually practicing coding, and the rest is wasted in libraries you will never use again +Very good course +Thank you for such a brilliant course! +Pretty good. As a beginner, I have learned a lot about html, css and javascript from this well-designed four-week class. +Great course and great professors. Very interesting knowledge base to learn from. +A seriously fabulous course, well prepared and with really cool coding assignments. +This course is the best course to understand the programming +Love all the tutors in this +It was an amazing Course. High quality videos, good practice quiz and interesting assignments. also the idea of final mini-project is very good. Thanks all of you for preparing this course +I wanted to learn more about programming, but instead I found myself tested on RGB combinations and building a website straight out of 1998. The course is scatter and although it claims to be for beginners, it covers programming concepts rather quickly. If i hadn't taken other programming classes, I would have been lost. +This course is misleading in a lot of ways. It is not for beginners at all. The quizzes in the course are beyond impossible. The lecture videos give an introduction to some concepts, but you are left on your own to figure everything out. They do not provide the proper tools to enable students to understand or pass. Reading through a lot of the discussion boards, there are two types of students: 1. those like me, who have never programmed in their life, and cannot figure any of this out, and 2. Those who have all sorts of experience and write things that are way advanced for a "Beginners" course.Do yourself a favor, and seriously do some research on appropriate programs before signing up for this one. It needs to be structured way better than what it is now. +Best for a beginner to learn HTML, CSS and Javascript. +Very good introduction +Very good teachers/instructors. +Granted it's an online course so there's not the back and forth provided at a physical classroom. However, the presentation of content is efficient and if an individual puts in enough time and effort, they'll get what they're looking from with this course. +As the title of this course states, it is about web and programming for beginners. While myself I wasn't absolute beginner in Web and HTML, only Javascript was a new topic for me, I used this course to check my knowledge and experience and "brush up" my skills. Teachers are friendly , videos are good, questionnaires check your understanding. Tasks are interesting enoug for people "to get a taste of things" and do some funny stuff.Thanks to Duke University team! +The course was really good. I am web application developer myself and I learned some new things here. One of the most important things that I learned here was Steganography. It was a new concept for me and I'm glad I learnt it. The JavaScript part of this course I must say, was very poor. It wasn't designed for beginners like the course mentioned. You could have taught some basic JavaScript stuff instead of just focusing on image manipulation. Anyways, great effort teachers! Thank You for teaching us. +Everything apart from Steganography was well explained with examples. I liked that the quizzes were fairly engaging and required programming exercises to familiarize you with the content. +I really enjoyed the course! +Very very basic course. Learned about HTML ,CSS in initial classes. Then it was completely JavaScript. But there was no details about how to use JavaScript for web programming. Projects and Quizzes are kind of ok difficulty.I will recommend this course for the people who are not aware of programming. +HTML and CSS are good. Javascript is not adequately covered. +A good introduction to programming in general and in relation to web apps. A lot of focus on just a few problems, mainly graphics manipulation but a good starting point I think. Looking forward to learning much more in future courses. +Great Introduction Course +Great!!! +The content of CSS and HTML are really good in this course, but the details about the JavaScript Code are not sufficient, this let me hard to understand the JavaScript. +It is very helpful and engaging. If you are starting computing for the first time, this is a very good place to start. It makes the impossible, possible. In the end, you'll feel good about learning computing. I guruntee you. +So far I enjoyed and learned to many concepts about programing, I have none technical background so for me this is like learning a complete new language with different alphabet, they explain in a clear way, with examples and easy language, the Javascript part could be more specific but it is fine. +The course is great. Loved the HTML and CSS basics. I do have a couple of recommendations for javascript part.There was no example of how to integrate javascript to an HTML page. i.e., just a small example of a web page where user can upload an image and then process it would give a complete understanding of javascript. I do understand that this specialization is for Java so you don't want to concentrate on js much but that would be helpful.The steganography example seem a bit complicated for people who are new to programming. I personally loved it and in-fact found it very useful to not just program but also to learn more optimal programming but in the courses that I checked, most students seems to be struggling. You may want to revisit the video introducing steganography. I would still suggest you to keep this as part of curriculum. +Very helpful course in understanding basics of internet and website design. +very poor content on Java Script. If you just started JS do not take this course. It will be too hard. +First two weeks of the course were ok, but after that it became something like JavaScript clap-trap, oriented to playing with images. I wanted to know how to make web-pages, I didn't get that information from this course. +They make it very easy for beginners like me to follow. +Brilliant Course with Google Crew !! +Nice course. Everything is explained. Good first step. +Not everything is explained well so very challenging for someone with no prior coding experience. +Nice... the final assignment stegonography I found was difficult to convert RGB pixel values to 8 bit decimal values +thank u so mach for this course it was simple and pretty good for the first 2 weeks i really enjoyed it :) ; but the other two weeks though ... i had a hard time there , if you try to improve it , the js wasn't understandable at all or at least mention in the course info that js background needed !! +No ancillary reading material or text to help along with the assignments lead me to fail the course. +Great course! Very practi +very good professors. course really helped a lot. thanku coursera +o +适合编程初学者，有经验的可能会有些无聊It's good for the green hand. May be a little boring for the ad programmers +The lecturers are speaking very fast. Some times at the code practice it is not understandable how to solve the problem. +Last week was incredibly difficult. +It was my choice to join this course and now I am so glad its easy to learn and remember everything easily. A Big thanks to my Teachers. +Good Job !!Deserves Compliment !!!!!Keep it up forever +Good course for getting started. JavaScript might be a bit confusing for new learners, but learning slowly and looking up stuff on the internet will surely help a lot (and I guess this was the intention of the course creators: to make learners look up stuff on the internet on themselves). +Quick introduction to HTML, CSS, and Javascript for beginners. Compactly organised content. Excellent course. +Good overall beginner course but definitely for the beginners. Only the last week may be interesting to people that already know a bit about HTML and CSS, as the JavaScript part at the end has some interesting assignments; like hiding an image in another image. +This is an extensive course in beginning programming that covers everything from CSS and JavaScript to creating images from scratch and steganography. You will learn alot of useful and interesting programming techniques. +Good learning start to learn web development :)thanks +Amazing professors, who as a unit put a lot of thought and creativity into the design of this course. This was a logical and appropriate acquaintance to programming, covering also necessities of Web design, serving as a great intro to computer science. I'm taking the next course in this specialization! +Awesome course for any beginners for web programming +Final assignment is too difficult to do for beginners. It's crucial for them not to pass the course unless getting a certain score on the final assignment. +The instructors rushed through the Javascript part. Unlike the previous sections, this section assumes that one knows Java and its syntax beforehand. +Pretty useful entry-level course! +It was the best course ever....Thanks from the Duke University and their nice teachers. +Great course, very edifying. +Great course. The explanations made recover my love for programmin, sadly I didn´t have time to finish it, but next time I will. +Too much emphasis on taking tests versus actually programming. +I'm learning a lot and all the lessons are easy to follow!! +javascript was disconnected to html and css a little bit. +Amazing course. It's helping me a lot to understand how programming works. +Great course! Loving the experience of programming! +Well, I think I learnt some things about JavaScript, HTML and CSS. However, the course hasn't been focused on programming with JavaScript to solve real problems. All assignments are based on the creation of images from scratch, the modification of these images and hide messages in an original image. I really don't think these types of assignments can help students to learn Web technology. In fact, I know some professional Web programmers that they don't use javascript to manipulate images but in some cases when it is really necessary. I'd change the way of how the assignments are presented to prove the students' skills. For example, a possible assignment could be the implemention of a counter on a Web page using JavaScript or the creation of a web page with buttons, emerging messages, menus etc. On the web (Googling), there are a lot of codes that allow these funcionalities and could be used and modified by other students to create their own Web page. +Video Lectures are really great and easy to understand with hands on programming tasks. Very interesting and informative. Learnt a lot within 4 weeks time. Definitely recommend for anyone interested in creating websites. +Well done! Interactive, entertaining, and always applying and checking what you've learned! +I drop at the beginning of the Javascript, before Javascript, everything is good, after Javascript, "What are they talking about"? +This course is the first course in the Courser's Java Programming specialization, however, it uses JavaScript to teach high level programming concepts. If you want to learn JavaScript, this course is not for you. If you want to learn Java, this course is not for you.The course mainly solves image manipulation problems with Duke's proprietary JavaScript IDE. All the details are "black boxed" so you can't see what's in the JavaScript functions. I believe this is the wrong way to teach newbies because too much abstraction is never good.Also, as a man, I was personally offended by Professor Susan Rodger saying she wanted to see more women in programming. More woman means less men and that is sexist. As a supporter of equal opportunity, Duke University should take disciplinary action against Professor Rodger. I will not financially support any University that allows it's faculty to express inappropriate personal ideology in a classroom setting.I do not recommend this course, or any course with Professor Susan Rodger. +HTML and CSS were GREAT. JavaScript was very confusing as it did not teach me what each part of the code meant, including the syntax --- and hence I was unable to understand anything by Week 4, despite having listened to all the lectures and participated in the all the activities. I wish JavaScript's structure was more consistent with that of HTML and CSS. +Introduced me to some cool ideas, web services and ideas for basic web design but isn't really a beginner course. I've switched over to a similar course from University of London.The lecturers in this course were very stiff and scripted and not overly simplistic in their explanations- something essential to avoid frustrating those of us just starting out. If you want a course that teaches you the basics from the true beginning but doesn't make you feel like you're an idiot for not understanding try Responsive Website Basics from the U of London & Goldsmiths. +This course is divided into 4 weeks. The first two weeks are about CSS and HTML. I started this course as a beginner and was able to keep up with it for the first two weeks. Week three material isn't explained at all and for a beginner, it is very difficult. I wouldn't recommend this course to a beginner at all. What i did like about the course was that the material is organized but that doesnt help if you dont understand what is being taught. I dropped out of this course at week 3. Good Luck. +A giant and complete waste of time. $79, and 1 month of work and it's all Javascript, no java. Worse yet, you are required to work in BlueJ, (google it) with custom Javascript functions that you are not allowed to view or use outside the course. So, none of the code you write in this course will ever be able to be used anywhere else. (The functions probably are in a minified file, but the students were not given access to that file.) A complete waste of time. I would give it ZERO stars but can't submit this rating without giving it one star. +A very good course for the beginners. +Very good introduction to web programming! +Definitely not a course for a beginners, very confusing. The part with the Javascript is a real horror for beginners and even challenging for some newly programmers! +its very good for beginners. +I learn so much! I am thrilled!! +It's fast paced but you do learn a great deal. +Really frustated with this course. Lacks of explanation on the javascript part. Don´t think is recommended for beginners. +some of the quizzes felt haphazard and too specific, but overall, the material was timely and well presented. +this course is really helpful +Thank you for such perfect materials and knowledge. +The teachers explain everything very clearly, but the guest videos are a little pointless +Great Course... Challenging for the grey cells :) +It was great fun! Learned a lotThank u Coursera and Thank u Duke University! +This is a pretty handy introduction to the Web and programming. It contains pretty useful hands-on sessions. The instructors are very clear in their presentations and the quizzes emphasize on comprehension of the course material. I certainly recommend this course for anyone with no or little prior web programming experience. +A great way to learn and practice javascript. Great course for beginneer and great practice for a seasoned programmer. +Waaay too basic and simple for a comprehensive principles course. One or two concepts is not enough to gain an understanding. The power behind online learning is that if it takes you three views to understand it all, you have the luxury. Please beef up the videos and the assignments. The assignments had no feedback mechanism so I could easily plow through them without any knowledge of whether I did them right. +All the basics for beginners. Some step by step and some things make you think and research more references. I think that's a great combination. +Excellent course ! Really enjoyed it. A lot of learning -- the practical examples offered by the course were outstanding +I have learnt a lot in this course. Also it is great that the methodology and algorithm are taught systematically +I learned a lot in this course and it does not take much installation of software. +Actually it's rather hard to understand how JavaScript works if you'd never learnt it before this course. And all this comments like "write a programm before start the quiz" hold me up to ridicule, because as a beginner I don't understand logic of writing.HTML & CSS are simple, so there's no problem here. +The first week was a bit slow, but things picked up a bit after that. If you have programming experience, this course is not very challenging. +Week 4 was a big leap from week 3. Difficult with less time to complete the project. But course was good . I think course could be extended by adding 2 more weeks so that more practice sessions could be given to students. +Good for the beginners +It's really geared to beginners and very well planned. +This is a great course, I found the first week a little slow, but it really gets going and is a fantastic introduction to HTML, CSS, Javascript and computational thinking. +Needs better explaining on Java Script! +This class is challenging for a beginner but really does teach a lot in a short time frame.I feel that some concepts in week 4 were much harder than necessary for a beginner, but am glad I didn't give up. Some students said they were dropping it in the forums after having passed previous weeks. I'm glad I stuck with it though because I believe that I was able to get far enough in my understanding to pass this course and also give me an idea of some things I may like to explore in the future.It's possible to pass this course even if one of the concepts has you frustrated. Keep with it! +Very poorly structured. Explanation and examples were not very helpful. should revamp the course content and video lectures (specially the steganography part). +This course lost focus in later half and I nowhere I felt learning JS but just using JS as a tool to learn most of Image manipulation techniques. +The professors are erudite and give amazing lecture. They explain the hard subject in an easy-to-understand way.Besides, they cover more knowledge in a limited time. +Excellent course for begginers. +Good course! +Great course for the novice web developer. +Great intro course to web development. +I's not exactly class for the beginners. First half covers HTML and CSS and quite understandable and easy. Although, it might also help that I had class completely on HTML and CSS in the past, so I actually know what to do to write necessary code. The second part is on JavaScript. And here is where problem starts (at least for me). I didn't take JavaScript class in the past and it was all new for me. Professors try to explain it in few lectures 10-15 minutes each and then they expect you to write couple of programs and to make some project from scratch in few days. Sorry, maybe it's just me, but I got to have much more then about an hour of explanation to do so. I would highly recommend anyone who is new to JavaScript to take JavaScript class first and then to start this one. And no, I'm not new to programming. +This is the first course I am taking in Coursera.org. The valuable instructors of Duke University designed and created a masterpiece for learners. Thank you so much guys. Greets from Istanbul, Turkey. +Very nice course with level of difficulty increasing in a good pace.All of the tools used are easily available.Instructors clear on the message being passed to the class. +Great course!! +Amazing Course! +This coure was a boon for me .It is a best start up course for the computer science engineer. I want to thanks Coursera app and Duke University for such a innovative and creative course. +A perfect place for beginners in web programming +a good course for beginning. +I'm learning a lot of new and useful programming skills quickly and efficiently. I also love that I can make progress on my courses on my iPad. +Great！ Relatively intense but really beginner-friendly! You can make it in 2-3 days!Look forward to the next course in this series.Thanks! Drew, Robert,Susan and Owen! +Honestly not a very well designed course. I went through the videos and tests for weeks 1 and 2 and found that it's just rushing us through the basics while not really telling us much. Much of it was "here's an introduction to a tiny detail... You go find out the rest".. +Looking forward for week 2! +Very useful! +It was a great experience and fun! I strongly recommend it to everybody who want to get solid knowledge in web and computing at all. +very useful +An excellent course giving a comprehensive overview of the transformation happening through digital manufacturing & design; unveiling the future industrial trends by exploring the manufacturing’s “Fourth Revolution. Thank you University at Buffalo and coursera for providing this opportunity. +Too much short for a vast and challenging topic like digital manufacturing. +Thank you for giving me excellent information on digital manufacturing & design. It is very helpful course for me. Thank you University of Buffalo, The state University of New York and Coursera. +Excellent course for Industry 4.0 technology aspirants. +Not to much of interesting, but interesting +A lot of hype has built up around Industry 4.0 which makes it sometime difficult to recognize the key components. This great course let’s you organize the tiles to see the big picture.I also find it very appropriate at management level. You get the elements necessary to envision a digital transformation project and communicate with all stakeholders. +i see course must be require for every engineer ,that because the new technology and last updata of data +This course is just definitions... and the next one as well. I was expecting a few more technical examples or exercises (mixed with their accompanying definitions), but I will check another course that is not so academic. +This course is very informative, it discusses a broad of things regarding digital manufacturing, and it can put you on the right track by letting you know about the industrial revolutions, where are you standing, and which field do you want to proceed and work in. I recommend it to anyone who wants to start a career in manufacturing, even those who are already in the field and want to refresh their information or to know broader information regarding what they are missing, or want to upgrade their factory's systems. I recommend it also to engineering students, and young technicians. Good luck everyone! +It was very usefull information. Our Trade Center would have at 24 th of february this month a conference about Industry 4.0 I would be proudly inform taht I would be qualified soon and I already aware of it. +Gives a good insight of what really Digital manufacturing m +Everything very very good, except discrepancies grading the final quiz of m1w2... Question 3. +Great visuals, content and lectures from the professors. Easy to follow! +Its a nice overall introduction to what's coming in the following courses. +The course does not has lecture slides that is better for students to understand. +The big assignment at the end contains instructions that are outdated and incomplete. Given the length of the course, it feels like you already need to know the material before even taking it. +The peer-review assignment is not properly designed. From my own experience, colleagues tend to underestimate other people's projects. In addition, the peer-review had an extra/optional advanced component (analysing criminal patterns for a second city; comparing patterns across two cities), which I carried out but got no extra credit for. The extra work was not even part of the assignment classification -- there should be a bonus question for students who carry out the advanced part of the assignment! +Great and useful first week about visualization, although I wish it would cover more material . The ethics and cloud computing felt somewhat incomplete, but useful as well. +Good class, very effective hands-on homework tasks. One thing I found is that the time for homework is very underestimated by course creators. It takes much longer to complete the tasks than indicated and within time given. Otherwise, very happy with taking the class. +The instructions are very good, and it's nice to work on real big data. Also it is very helpful for hearing information about how a data scientist should consider problems carefully. Without taking the class, it wouldn't be easy for me to rationalize for example cost and sensitivity issues.However I took out one star because of the instruction for the final assignment being out of date. Although the task it self is not too hard to figure out. The initial instruction on how to start using AWS was outdated. +I was very upset by the end of this course. The documentation was terrible. I ended up spending way to much on AWS even though I managed it the best I could Terminating instances. In general, I think this course would have been more fulfilling if the documentation was appropriate. +This course is really bad. The instruction is not enough to solve the programming assignment. The almost contents aren't related to communicating data science result. +I'll say the same about this class as the rest of the specialization, if you have the skills to complete this course then you don't need to take this course. If you don't have the skills to complete this course, you will not complete this course. The course instruction is at 10000 feet level and the assignments are very challenging and the course will NOT teach you the skills required to complete the assignments. The AWS final assignment is a very much throw you into the deep end with no real instruction (well at least completely outdated instructions) and will expect you to swim (or more likely for most people, to drown).I recommend the Machine Learning Course (from Bill's colleagues) at University of Washington. That is a course where you get some real instruction and understanding of how to complete assignments (though still very challenging). +Excellent thoughts and concepts presented. +Very good exercise to pick up PIG and AWS environment. It is best to pick up jupyter notebook prior to taking this class for the first exercise. I like how David has been able to present so much content in a 3 weeks lesson. +This course is not maintained. It's flat out exploitative to throw students at an AWS assignment without updated instructions and with outdated versions of pig scripts, etc. They're setting students up to hemorrhage money on AWS and possibly not get anything out of it. Under no circumstances should you take this course or even this specialization so long as this assignment is gating it. +Much of the assignment was out of date. The content was not related to big portion of the assignment. There was no way of getting clarification over the outdated assignment content. +Nice lectures with lot of good information. AWC setup instruction need to update according new AWC interface. +Very interesting subject. Nevertheless the training course material is too theorical. +The lectures are excellent, but do not take this course if you are not already proficient in a graphing package, whether it's R, python, or something else much more sophisticated than Excel. Otherwise you will be faced with the painfully frustrating task of learning a package while trying to complete an assignment, all with a short deadline. +First professor was incredibly good at giving an overview over design choices in data visualizations.Second professor sadly somehow spoke too fast and had less of a red thread through his presentations.The first and second week of courses were good, the third week however was too hypothetical and one-sided. +Excellent content. Detractors were some of the lectures had a continual popping in the audio and the instructions for the final assignment seemed a little dated and required a bit more work to figure out the correct steps. +OK, but obvious for someone who has worked with data science. +Great class ! +It opened my eyes to things I didn't know about game design. Now, everytime I play a game I try to find the elements described in the course. It's a different way to see them now and to learn from the experts. +This is a very good course for experts as well as beginners . Quiz assignments were very challenging . I like the concept of practice and solved quiz +Very useful course with helpful examples and questions to strengthen theoretical concepts. +Very nice introductory course, broad explanation of traditional logic gates and synthesis tools. Graded Exercises and Practice exercises are chosen perfectly to grasp the topic +Very nice course the assignments are well designed and they are very challenging to solve +I already had done a digital logic course before. But, this course is different from that, as it is much more formal in describing a digital system. In this courses, the emphasis is on systems which is much welcome. The Processor topic is very interesting.Although the videos could be made a little better. The content is interesting, but the presentation is a little dull.I write this review after 4 weeks into the course. And, I personally am enjoying it. +This course helps me to understood the complexity of moving to the cloud and to learnt Best Practices and Guidelines can help me to define roadmap to cloud. +Great! +Taught by leading practitioners, the course presents realities that often buyers must be aware before embarking on the Cloud . In the next revision Authors could consider condensing the last two weeks content, which are generic in nature. +This course deals with Cloud Migration and change management. The technology is treated not as strongly. This okay, but I whish there would be more case studies and practical examples. Sometimes it is more like a course about change management and looses connection to the Cloud topic. However along the course there is valuable information provided. +1)the course is very abstract and is looks more like an obvious advertisement. Less than 10% contains useful information and the rest is describes the same idea "Cloud is good" with various words and phrases.2)buggy. And the worst thing is one of the last tasks contain a bug which doesn't allow you to pass this course. So you've completed all the tasks and in the end you find out that you just can't finish the course.3)The course is about "Cloud" as a technical term. Then why in the end you require to complete a task which is fully philosophical? And of course again - you have completed a course and in the end instead of finished course you will get this "sucker punch".Good luck to everyone who wants to try to pass this course because in my opinion it means a wasted time. +it's worthwhile course. My educational background is in economics, but it's possible to understand what really matters in the development of latest technology especially in computing field.It gives me clarity about the new era of computing. Thanks for sharing the informations.Warm Regards +THANK YOU! +C +Great course, well-constructed and very informative. +I really enjoyed the course, and found it really useful- it has inspired me to continue on and study applied mathematics at university! +Week one starts with interesting material that relates probability to data science. Unfortunately as the course progress the course material and videos become less and less helpful. Ultimately the student has to visit other web sites and youtube to actual learn the expected material. The course notes are next to useless and the video are equally unhelpful. I am sure the teachers know their stuff but they have no idea on teaching it clearly based on the material presented in this course. Avoid this course, and head over to KhanAcedemy and complete their probability and statistics program and you will actually learn all the material in this course with a ton of examples and top class videos. +Instructors made this subject so much easier for me to learn! +Awesome Course! +A tremendously useful primer on the fundamentals of data science math. This course is a particularly good option for individuals who have seen some amount of calculus and algebra but haven't used those methods in a long while and need to review. Thorough, easy-to-understand material.I would suggest to the course facilitators that they develop the provided lecture notes -- already a useful tool -- into a full-fledged text. I'm not suggesting something much longer than what they already have, but simply taking that document and adding a bit more rich content. While the notes are useful for more carefully studying the math being done in the lectures, even a bit of effort putting some pedagogy into the notes and combining them into a single document (which I did for the sake of printing) would create a hugely valuable resource. +I love this Course!!!! +probability theory was a bit fast but otherwise it was awesome! +at time the formulas are given without proof or intuitive explanations. overall a good basic level course +Great course except for the instructor videos for week 4 +Great Course!!!!! +First three weeks were mostly review, but the fourth week was incredibly helpful. Would appreciate some more background/derivation of the binomial theorem - it was hard for me to develop an intuition for it in the same way I could for the Bayesian theorem. +Very rushed presentation. Blows right through a lot of fundamental concepts without a deep enough explanation or enough practice material (especially in the last two weeks). I feel like completing this class will require supplementation with better instruction. +This course is very short. I've completed it in about 4 hours. Nothing was told about linear algebra, statistics, optimization. It is not enough even to learn Data Science. +Very condensed yet accessible material. Great invitation for further, more deep dive studies! +Difficult content not explained well by the presenters. +very good knowledge for someone who want to call back prob theory in uni or get an introduction in mathematics problem +Refreshing your BasicsThe whole course is a just brushing up your basic math. The videos are brief and to the point, and problems make you use your brains and they are not right out of the video or any other reading material. I feel only Bayes and binomial theorem videos are not comprehensive and the problems a quite challenging. +Material was well presented. Exercises could have been more involved; likely would have enhanced the learning. +Too basic. Should give an example on how these math skills are used in data science. +Great course covering the fundamentals which I had largely forgotten (not used) since college. +Good course to cover all the basic maths related to data science +Good course. I feel like Week 4 could have been explained slightly better but otherwise I really enjoyed it. +Very useful who wants to start or wants to revise. +If you are a right-brainer and/or rusty on math, I strongly recommend this course as a precursor to Duke's Intro to Probability and Data course. Some of the practice and final quiz questions really threw me (and that's good)... Most of them I was able to rethink and derive the correct answer and a few others remain a mystery... :-) +great course! it was a nice refresher for me, though I still learned new things as well! thank you! +Very important Review course +Very easy to understand and know how to succeed in the future on the learning path. Thanks a lot ! +The material is very useful, however, the second teacher is not the best... +A fantastic course for anyone +Am glad and happy +The Probability section could use more practical examples, I found it difficult to follow. +good materials and questions +Very basic course... probably won't teach you a lot of new things +This course is very strong with respect to presenting the concepts you need to know for data science. It is extremely WEAK in terms explaining those concepts. If you are like me and did this kind of math back in the 70's and 80's but have not used it since, be prepared to seek sources outside Coursera in order to understand the material and pass the quizzes. The instructors leave out explanations and skip important points leaving you confused about the concept.Example: In the Permutations and Combinations sections, "results" of calculations are thrown at you with no explanation of how the instructor got the answer. 10 minutes later, totally as an aside, you get the explanation. The course is not taught in such a way that A leads to B, B leads to C, and C leads.....; instead the instructor will tell you about C, might explain A, and forget about mentioning B until the graded quiz. That is why you will need to fill in the gaps using websites like betterexplained.com or kahnacademy.com.The student is better served by looking at the syllabus and then going to either of those sites - where the explanations are worth your time.In addition to failing to present steps in a logical order, the course often teaches at an extremely basic level but tests at a much, much higher level. Again, to get to the higher level of understanding needed to pass ANY of the required, graded quizzes, the student will need to heavily utilize outside sources. The explanations on the practice quizzes also fail in many cases to thoroughly explain why an answer is correct.Then there are the issues with Coursera itself, the course navigation using Chrome is quite bad. If I did not constantly monitor what part of a course I should be in versus what part of the course automatically loaded next, I often found myself taking a quiz for which no lectures had been presented. The TA's response to my complaint was flippant and WRONG. She then closed my question and I could not respond or ask for more details.If I had it to do over again I would invest my time and money somewhere else. In my opinion, Coursera should rescind the instructors' rights to charge for this course until the instructors improve and meet higher teaching standards. +I graduated with a BS in computer science and mathematics 15 years ago. Since then I've been working as a Business Intelligence consultant and I've recently decided to look into the field of Data Science. I was looking for a math class to refresh my math skills rather than start from scratch and this was the perfect course for that. Kudos to Daniel Egger for creating the class. It saved my a lot of time. +Basic math course help to get revise all the high school concept. Even those who haven't any background on mathematics can get it easily. +Great refresher course on the math used in data science! +Suitable for high school students. For a University student it can be easily finished in 1-2 days. +I loved this class, the only one of it's kind and much needed, unless you particularly want to re-do your long forgotten high school and college math. It was nice seeing a Venn diagram again. I did have to supplement some of the material that was covered quickly with google searches, but filling in the blanks was quick and easy. +the course is designed at a good speed and provide necessary information. +One of the best course, i have ever learnt. Even though i have been learning the Data Science for the last few years, i had no idea how the algorithms are working in technical. Which i was always skeptical. But honestly, now i am able to get things really faster than before. I am very happy, i have joined this course. Thank you so much for coursera to bring this course and importantly thank you so much for the professors to explain things in an easy for the people to understand. God bless you both and your family. +Maybe the course should be split in two, the one using NodeRed and the without +I've done quite a few online courses over the past few years, and I consider this is without doubt the poorest. The lectures do not comprehensively provide the information needed to complete the assignments. I think this is not just my opinion either as posts in the course forum suggest other participants have the same view. The stated module completion times are wildly optimistic. I only managed to complete the course by substantial independent research. Consequently, I would not recommend this course. +Very Good and Knowledgeable course. Thanks for this course IBM and Coursera. +An excellent intro to developing IoT applications with IBM platform. General programming knowledge is enough to go through the course with the only exception of last exercise where knowledge of JavaScript will make things much easier. I give only 4 stars because some screenshots inn the videos don't match current versions of IBM Bluemix platform. +This is an excellent course to start IoT journey +Assignment 5 could have been explained clearer. +Very interesting +This is a wonderful start for iOT development, it gave the pinch of everything that we need for iOT development. Only concern is the grader, it looks specific way so even our code works in our system grader fails. Need more explanation on Week4 final programming assignment, but good thing is we get support from teaching staff in 24 hours when we stuck. I enjoyed this course. +The course is a very good introduction into a lot of areas connected to IoT from an IBM perspective. nodeRED, Python on the Raspberry Pi, the SenseHat, node.js, etc. are very powerful tools.In Yianna's videos, the sound quality could be optimized significantly to improve the experience.Thank you! +This course look easy but the assignments are not so straightforward. It is a interesting and challenging course. Encourage people who are interested in IOT should take this course. +great course for introduction to IoT with hand-on experiences. +Very complete +Challenging if not a developer and grader needs very specific code. that aside, this was a fun interesting course, great intro to bluemix and Node-red and js. Need to allow significant time to research around content taught and decomposing programming assignments takes time. Make use of forums and post queries - peers answer as well as staff. You Learning in IBM suggests 12 hours - most on forums were taking 6-10 hours per assignment! Overall this was a good intro course +great course to learn the IoT platform from Bluemix +This course is a pure advertisement for IBM products. I entered the course expecting to learn about Raspberry pi and Python and got nothing our of it! If you are really looking to learn about IoT, check out a course called " An introduction to programming IoT" by University of California, Irvine. I am taking this course right now and already learning a ton! This course, on the other hand, is a total waste of time. +A very good approach if you are a beginner to cloud computing.You need some knowledge on programming, but you could easily learn on the go. +Great course along with hands on. I enjoyed hands on although I was new to Javascript, IOT and Python but course made me to learn these things in details. +I really like this course because it covers many interesting things related to developing Internet of Things solutions with Raspberry Pi, sensors and web services. The course is easy to follow. I especially like that there are a few home assignments each week that could be done in a couple of hours. I also like frequent quizzes. It helps to learn things better. There are a couple of small things I wish the course could done a bit better: update videos with the latest Bluemix UI and slow down a bit when showing a demo on how things could be done on the Bluemix site and NodeRed editor. Otherwise it was fun and very useful course. I highly recommend it to all my friends. +Awesome course, very structured +A well worked course, a course that is working thee. +There are a number of cryptic instructions that really don't need to be hidden. Simpler instructions would make the course more effective for those who aren't developers in their day-job. +This course includes very up-to-date and interesting technologies like MQTT, Node-RED and Node.js. As the course only lasts four weeks, I would advise to start the exercises a little bit in advance, as starting on week 3 it gets quite intense. +Very good course for the beginners to understand IoT concepts. +This is a very good course to get familiar with IBM Watson IoT Platform. The course is well structured. Since I was new to Node JS, I had some difficulty but the Instructors helped a lot . Thanks to IBM and Coursera. +Tutorials was not matching skills to achieve assignments given. Due to that was involved many ad-hoc works which may not the best practice. +Ready to use my new IoT skills -A developer's guide to the IoT! http://ibm.co/1qfZw9M via @coursera #DevGuide4IoT +Very well designed and enjoyable +Course was well organized. The sequence was very helpful to understand the concept by first using bluemix application and then sequentially moving to using API based application in bluemix and raspberry pi. But felt assigments description needs some improvement. For few assigments grader failed if there is extra valid 'if' statement. I felt grader should not be so strict to not accept valid javascript statements.Some of the lecture content were not up to date which caused problem in generating successful results.But overall a very nice Course. Thanks you. +The best course about Internet of Things +Informative class as far as how to use an IoT service to set up, publish and analyze your data. I do recommend brushing up on Javascript as with every assignment, it became more apparent you need to have some background in Javascript to complete the work. Otherwise you'd spend way more time on learning the language than learning the topic in class, which ended up being the case for me. +This course introduces many concepts on IOT. i was able to learn interesting technologies and concepts. This course gives a basic end to end picture involving communication with devices and cloud platform using different technologies. +A Excellence course for IoT beginner. +Very good course - very good for learning - some of the later assignments does get a bit chaotic which takes the focus a bit away from what you learned. But overall really good. +Good Knowledge +Very good content. Good videos and tutorials.Assignment was a bit hard to understand. +Nice Description about the Course +It was a really good introduction to both concepts, tools and offerings, I would recommend anyone interested in IoT and IBM Bluemix to take this course. +A very good course to help a developer understand how to develop IoT applications on Raspberry Pi and IBM IoT platform. +Very good course for developers looking for the basics of IoT development using the IoT Platform in Bluemix. Starter to intermediate skills in Javascript, Bluemix, Python and Linux are required. +Very interesting course. I would recommended to anyone interested in getting started in IOT but I would advice that you learn JavaScript and Node.JS first. +Very Good. Lot of new learning and understanding.. I liked the responsiveness of Discussion forum is great. It helped a lot as learning new subject..Points for improvement: Video may rerecorded as screens are different now in bluemix... I also there are material to learn on this IoT platform, like Blockchain Managed Device and Edge Analytics, it would have been covered in this course.. +The course was good, but what disappointed me was that the assignments were more focused on java script and less IoT. Also the lectures were short and fast at times, the instructor would move thru the demos so quick or show pages and not provide a detail description of what we were looking at, making things very confusing. At times for example I would look at the screen he was showing on the services running or docs and I was like where do I find this in BlueMix and what does all these nodes, services, etc.. mean? None of that was explained and if they were it was at a very high level. The assignments were not honest with the time estimates. Not sure about the others but I must have spent countless hours and nights working on these with little guidance or direction which would have saved me countless of wasted hours. The forums were not monitored frequently, and when I got responses they were late as by that time I figured my issues or some of the suggestions offered were cryptic not giving me any hints or letting me know if my approach was in the right direction.Either way, this course is very hard to do while also working on a full time job and travelling. With those aspects I hope that the forums are monitored by the instructors for a quick feedback loop and the lectures are updated to be more detailed. The only way I was able to finish this was because I worked 8+ hours each day and late night, and all weekends trying to make sure I finish by the end deadline (the last thing I wanted was this being monkey on my back for the next few more weeks).The positive is that I learned about BlueMix offerings and lastly I can play around now with the Raspberry Pi and do some real IoT and less Java scripting. +very good course to start with iot +Great tool to IoT and Cloud Computing +A must for IoT developers and innovators! +The grader functionality is bullshit. Working code needs to be fitted to the way its excepted to be. +It is really good for DATA SCIENTIST & ENGINEER to gather raw data from your IoT sensor as a data tool!!Specially, I had fun this course with Raspberry Pi, Pi-Sense. I feel like this course is very easy full-stack course (Front + Back ends). Also, we can easily use NoSQL-node in Node-RED when you finish this course.If you have strong patience, I strongly recommend this course. It's not easy this course because you will implement both SW(Python, Node-RED, Node.js) and HW(Raspberry Pi2, Pi Sens HAT.You can do it!! +Good Course +The course experience was a little bit weird. It's too easy for a dedicated programmer or IT person, but there are some obstacles to a person who are not familiar to the Javascript programming. (And maybe Python programming, too.) The main problem is too small community. I wrote some, but never got any answer. I think it's due to the charging policy of this lecture. +Great course to learn Internet of Things! +Excellent course from IBM IoT. Enjoyed it very much. The practical assignments were fun. It was great seeing my SensorHat board coming to life. The instructor videos were great and provided enough information to complete the assignments. I liked, it didn't attempt to spoon feed you ... and you needed to search for some of the solutions. Everyone was very helpful answering questions on the forum, and I liked the Coursera environment. Good stuff! +great start for IoT learner +Excellent course with a lot of examples and explanations. I'd recommended this course to all new students +I really enjoyed discovering and testing the various option available to interface with the IOT platform.The explanations were clear and the assignment challenging but doable with the resources provided and some research.Highly recommended. +ideal course to get started with the Internet of Things (IoT) - I enjoyed doing the assignemnts :P +Good Hands on intro +Good material, easy to understand +Completing this course was a great learning on understanding IoT platform. The course sessions provided by trainers and documentation were very useful to complete the assignments.Discussions column to work with Trainers directly improved my confidence on completing the assignments on time.Collecting of data is useful only when analyzed.Regards,Mohan. +Easy to learn and assignments are challenging. +This is one of the unique course on node-red and bluemix topics. +Good course - frustrating at times but you got to put the work in and really read the assignments carefully +Great course to start with Internet of Things. Good to have primary knowledge of coding in nodejs and python. Videos are awesome, instructors are really helpful. 9/10. +This is a practical hands on course with very responsive teaching staff. On mature reflection I personally wish I had made the time for a python tutorial before starting that assignment. Most of it is javascript though and probably the same holds if you are unfamiliar with javascript/nodejs programming - do a tutorial first. Overall I had some fun with this and I learnt new stuff. I had to use a simulator for the SenseHat; it probably would increase the fun factor if you have a real SenseHat. +Hi, I am an IT specialist (30 years experience). I undertook the course so I could learn about IBM Bluemix and IoT development, and extend my skills/understanding of the environment. However, I have very little good to say about this course offering. I had numerous issues with what was offered:The videos were generally ok, but some had poor audio. There was minimal video (compared to any other course I have done), and more detail and discussion in videos would have been more helpful.Some of the video material is out of date already, as I suspect Bluemix layout has changed - this made navigation a bit confusing.The downloadable Pi image has changed since the course was prepared, and the newer image has different code as standard. I ended up having to muddle-through manually loading packages and dependencies, etc. to get things to work.I lost many hours trying to debug and rework assignment code, just to get it to work for the grader tool. This was further complicated by not having good debug output from the grader to work with. Naturally some of the grader fails were my own fault, but the majority of issues I ran in to could have been avoided by better worded assignments and/or more detail about requirements.Lastly, it was taking sometimes days to get any response to requests for guidance on the forums / discussions. In fact, I think the majority of useful assistance came from other students who had run in to the same issue(s). When you have a course that is such a short time frame, you really need to be providing assistance in a timely manner.I could not, in any good faith, recommend anyone take this course in the future - which is a little saddening. I do thank the lecturers for their efforts thus far, and sincerely hope they can either improve or drop this course offering in the future. +A very interesting course with a lot of practice.I learn how IBM bluemix work. The weak point is that the assignment must be more clear and with more explication. +The intro video just really put me off. sorry! +This was a decent class to get started on programming a Raspberry Pi and hooking it up to a web service. The material was easy to follow and the instructions were precise. With this class, you'll be in a position to create interesting applications using the Raspberry PiThere were two negatives to this class:1) Most of the assignments used the Node Red environment. This is a visual programming tool. Although it's easy to use, I would have preferred programming using a more widely used and more powerful environment.2) The auto grader for the class was not very robust and did a poor job of giving feedback on why things weren't passing. Several times, the assignment would pass in my environment but fail in the auto grader due to (incorrect) assumptions that the auto grader was making about implementation.Overall, this was a worthwhile course but could use some improvement. +Gained very good understanding of how to register and connect an IoT device / gateway to Watson IoT Platform. Use Watson IoT APIs, Python APIs, Node.js APIs to send, receive and process events / commands and learnt how to use a Node-RED UI Flows to handle IoT requests from Raspberry Pi & Sense HAT devices. The hands-on labs and exercises inspired me to try out other examples / ideas to further extend my IoT knowledge boundaries. Thank you! +Lots of great information with access to excellent resources. But also lots of typos in the notes and missing steps in the instructions. +Very good introduction to IoT +Clear explanations for using Node-RED tool. The intro to IoT is a bit too verbose, and 1st quiz has like a "gotcha" question. +Nicely done and well crafted course here. It explains clearly what is IoT in theory and with hands-on project. For the cons, maybe should be better pointed out that specific hardware prerequisites are required. Also, I found it's a little bit too IBM-centric course. +The course is awesome. Not too lengthy video with good explanation. The only drawback is the audio quality of some of the lectures. +I was interested in this course but as it stands it is more like marketing hype than a proper course. For one thing it tries to cover far too much material in 4 weeks. Within the limited scope of the beta test I started the node red stuff. It looks easy but the lecturer didn't make it clear what it was for anyway.A much more thorough introduction should have been given to everything.The lectures on the Rasberry Pi were a joke. In order to do the course within 4 weeks I would have had to order a Rasberry Pi before getting to these lectures. A clear guide to course prerequisites and the Rasberry Pi and Sensehat must be provided.Neither of the tutors seem very happy about their job. This is a small point and not a show stopper.Overall - don't issue this course without major revisions (perhaps a new course team). +The obstacle of not knowing French is quite detrimental +A broad collection of different subjects. But only a part of it met my interests. +useful senibilisation ..... very well driven +I do not like the different language. I do not read fast enough to keep up and understand what is bing said. I think we should have a language button to translate to English or any other language that takes cources from Corsera. +Eye opening to me - comprehensive analyses that went beyond the paltry discussions of a viral infection. The course examined many ramifications of an epidemic, showed the importance of a cultural approach, discussed the successes and failures regarding efforts to cope with the new plague, and also dealt with the existing socioeconomic disparities. +Highly recommended +Decent course content, but fairly basic. However, the peer graded evaluations are subjective and take too long to get feedback and progress in coursework. I will not be taking another course that uses this loose of a peer evaluation. +very good course +Very usefull and didactic. +Basic concepts very well explained... +The Course Content is very good, no doubt about that. But there is some scope for improvement in the operations of the course conduct. Like assignments. It is completely peer graded and hence subjective. There should be a certain % weight for peer grading and % for instructor or examiner grading.Also I was given low marks in one of the assignments but when i re-submitted the exact same thing, some one else gave me 100 % marks. These things should be looked into. Some objectivity in grading would be helpful +The course has been really good and valuable. The first 3 modules have been outstanding and I reckon the 4th one could be much more simple and interesting. Overall, it's a great content and thoroughly knowledgeable. Any affiliations of Coursera with employer community would greatly inspire students too. Thank you Coursera and ISB for all the support and help in bringing this course. +This is my First Coursera course i did, i get impassioned with the quality of the course, all documents from very trustfully institution like MIT or Harvard, using material study from HBS. The Quality of the videos was amazing, the teacher really prepared and the videos dont take you tired. +Just great ! +Good lectures and content but the guidance for the assignments are not particularly clear. At times, it feels like grading parameters and questions are just loosely coupled.On a more personal level, I found that the deadline at the end of the same week of the lectures does not allow for a lot of time to ponder and digest the information. I've tried a few other MOOCs; they all granted students the week after the lecture to prepare for the assignment. +A littler redundant when you compare it to the previoud courses.The map part is good. +I found this course extremely useful as it helped me better understand design principles which can be put into good use in other visualization tools as well. +Great course; only limited by the requirement for peers to review the assigned visualization to complete the course. Although I turned my assignment in well-ahead of the due date/time, I had to transfer to the following class because I could not get the required peer reviews (2) prior to the course closing, despite multiple requests in the discussion forum for assistance. +Useful topic, great course. But sometimes there are unnecessary repetitions of information. +I enjoyed the class much, however I would suggest that a little more for feedback could be provided to questions raised by students. Also, PLEASE make the slides available for ALL the lessons. +I think the final project grading is a bit confusing. +I enjoyed the course as it highlights many strategies and insights into making effective visualizations. It makes good use to Tableau and gives practical examples. The only thing I would like to see added is a simple instruction manual to accomplish some of the methods they employed. Overall I think it was great to have this as a second course in the series because it lays the foundation for good design practices. +This course is only useful if you have no experience visualizing data. +The assignment for week 2 should have been the last assignment in this sequence and was not clearly explained or taught in the videos. +All it's about visual design. I was expecting more deep on tableau usage. +The course is really helpful +No Feedback from quizes, it doesn't even show you what you have answered, makes it very tedious to study the material. I like the questions during the video, that is an addition that ought to be used more often, because it forces you to remember and learn faster. +Great one +Very interesting to progess beyond a pure technical approach.Then some modules are really to much verbose and may be much more effective with more examples +They not only tell you how to do the visualization design but also tell you why (the physiology, the principles). I would highly recommend this class. +Good content, good opportunity to practice. But the teacher is very fast sometime +Very good at explaining design principles and to get the students thinking of making simple visualizations that convey a story. +Great course -- guards against some subtle pitfalls in visualization preparation. +I found this course to be very informative and impacting. Too bad, I could only audit it and not purchase the Course to earn the certificate. +This course was very useful to me! I'm a data miner wannabe and this course covers visualizations in a simple but very effective way. +great course！ +This is fabulous. +it helped me to remember the importance of diversity. Many times we tend to prefer teams with less diversity just because it is easier to manage. This course is a good reminder of what should be done +I did not enjoy this one. I find it too politically charged as it emphasized the "visual diversity" (religion, ethnicity) over the "second-order diversity" (diversity of professional profiles and personalities) which should be the focus of a management course. +The overall information in this course was very informative and in some aspects rewarding as refreshers as where the mindset is with some population standards. from a technical perspective I am not sure the system is working at 100%. +The content of the course is extremely useful, however assignments need review as the exercises results have mistakes and they are not explained very well (missing step by step guidance). +Unfortunately, the content of the course is poor. Too many interviews and some of them are pointless. +Very good assignments, honors track. +The content is too basic, and both lectures are too boring. +Awesome Professors!Great Material.Very thankful to Coursera for providing this course. +I love it. Would be cool to be able download all materials in one big .zip file (e.g for searching using grep) ;-) +instructions for assignments are not clear! Lectures are good, but its practically impossible to get the certificate. +Overall , it is a very interesting course.But I would like to say , that there are too many interviews. I think that it is a little bit difficult for some non-native speaker to understand the main and important things from the interview, because some interviewers talked in a very loose way. So I would suggest our teacher , to summarize the main points of those interview in a better way . +Excellent course providing not only the knowledge of algorithms but also useful insights into developing and maintaining recommender systems. Only thing that could use some work is the assignments. Spreadsheet assignment in week 4 is poorly designed (as evidenced by many forum threads with people not knowing what is it that the authors actually want). Other than that, that was an extremely helpful course. +Very good content ! Very interesting interviews with expert in the field that shows real examples. However the exercise needs a bit more work to be very useful. +I think this is very useful for introductory, but it lacks some references for who wants go deeper. +The data document for assignment is a mess. +I enjoyed the hands-on aspect of this course. I learned more about using Tableau from it that the prior courses in the specialization. I give this 3 of 5 stars for 3 reasons:1) My classmates and I think that the instructor left one video out the course which is necessary to answer one of the quiz questions.2) The instructions for at least 2 of the peer-graded assignments are incomplete. The grading criteria requires features that aren't mentioned in the instructions. As a result you need to alter and resubmit the assignments in order to meet all the grading criteria.3) The instructor repeats himself in the course videos. He's present a summary of the video while displaying a Tableau screenshot and then repeat the same summary while displaying a Presentation slide. I feel that more time should have been spent reviewing the Tableau features and eliminate the repetition of the material. +The course is very helpful. Please include LODs also to the course.. +Excellent course - really enjoyed it +I really enjoyed this course. It is completely practical. A lot of exercises. Presentations were well organized and focused on the topics +The videos for this course seemed to be 30% recap of the prior lesson, and 20% restatement of what was learned. Some even duplicated their own content in the restatement. The material covered was simply running through each of the menus in Tableau. Again, this material may be of use, but would be better as a primer for the class rather than presented as useful, paid content. Terribly disappointed. +Excellent course. Everything concise but well explained. Nice activities and quizes. +This course is not well designed, there are multiple mistakes in the videos, assignments, etc. The content is covered after you already had to apply it in an assignment in a previous lesson. The tests are also not well made. The instructions to peer-reviewed assignments are not clear and will not bring you to the correct result which is shown during peer review. No involvement from the faculty, no one to answer questions. +Great information presented clearly. +It would be great if mentors/instructors can promptly follow up with students' requests/problems. +Best class in the series yet. +This was the first course in the specialization where I learned something new. People with any experience with Tableau should probably start with this course. +This course was more focused on tableau, The examples were basic but usefull. +The content is essentially a subset of the information available in the free tutorials on Tableau's website. And a pretty small subset with that; the total length of the course is less than most of the MOOCs I have taken have for one week. +Another good course on +Great course +Very useful tips on creating beautiful and meaningful visualizations. +Great Learning exceptional skills gained looking forward to new course +Assignments should have been mentioned in details. +Interesting to acquire basics of TableauThen a lot of fundamental features are missing like interaction, Level Of Details, and so on +Cool tools with knowledgeable instructor, thumbs up. +Exercises were good, but the actual teaching of technique felt somewhat lacking. In a way, the instructors actually cover a lot of ground over a short period of time, but on the other hand, there are certain areas that I wish they would have covered more in depth in order to be equipped to complete the homework.For example: the Week 2 HW on Shipment status did not specify the criteria for early/late/on-time, so I ended up making a parameter for the user to vary it; however, parameters are not covered in this course. Also, for the same homework, there wasn't enough explanation of how to get weeks to be listed starting with a particular day, which made it difficult to replicate exactly what the homework sample is supposed to look like. +Really great experience and a must for every learner! +Great way to learn how to prepare a digital marketing plan in a step by step basis. +Overall the course content and quality is good and the lectures are pretty good and highly informative, but the course content need to be highly practical oriented and geared towards meeting the real-time needs of digital marketing professionals. +Hello,I've completed 5 modules of the specialization successfully with excellent grades. However, the biggest challenge and disappointment was the capstone. The case given is pertaining exclusively to the North American market. Students enrolling into the course are situated globally which makes it extremely challenging to gather data to understand and substantiate our work on the project. Several hours of extensive research yields no usable data which could provide a logical direction to the project. Reading material provided explains mainly the company profile, a few links are blocked due to geographical restrictions, reports that are available are to be purchased etc. While the money invested is not refundable now, however coursera with university team needs to seriously resolve this point. All learning done through the course remains largely a theoretical knowledge if a student isn't able to apply it in his/her job. +This capstone is unavailable most part of the year. I paid in advance for the complete Digital Marketing Specialisation which is a 1 year subscription thinking I can complete the course anytime I want (that is how they advertise it). I finished all the theory well within the 2 months into my enrolment. When I came to the capstone project it was unavailable and for almost 3-4 months. When I contacted coursera.org they had no clue when it is going to start. I am a working professional and my schedule gets very busy when I am on projects. And ever since then whenever the capstone is available my schedule has been very busy. I have completed 2 Assignments in capstone and 4 to go and the 1 year subscription is over. Coursera.org says I have to pay for it again to continue which I am never willing to. There is no courtesy to a student/customer who has paid for the course. I have paid in full but I don't have the Digital Marketing Specialisation Certificate. This platform is more about money than education. +Great +This was a challenging class that truly put your knowledge to the test. I felt it was very representative of a real-world problem. +Excellent course! well structured, gives you an overall perspective of Digital Marketing. Willing to gain deeper learning on the topics discussed. +It is ok, and not as good as the marketing class from warton +Excellent course, the only advice is it takes 10-12 hrs per week, plan accordingly. +This was a wonderful class, and definitely a intense cap to the rest of the course. I really learned a lot and enjoyed my time taking this specialization and have recommended it to many other members of my company. I will definitely be taking more classes and specializations in the future! +Great specialization and wonderful instructors! +Great course to understand Digital Marketing concepts and apply in real case scenarios. +There is no doubt that coursera platform is the best education in the worldBut I want to learn digital marketing and this Capstone needs to experience in the digital marketing not less than 10 yearsI wish there are a path or templates to work and learn, such as the Capstone project of specialization in marketing social mediaThere is lack of information and data and the previous five courses is insufficient for professional project like this CapstoneThe first course marketing in the digital world was really the best course in courseraand This course is really the worst course in courseraAnd unhelpful and I did not learn anything from this course only gather information from various sources to pass assignment +Was great. +The capstone topic was not very interesting. +Thanks for the capstone project.I learned a lot during the journey to this capstone.Got confidence that i can do more specializations on coursera. Thanks for my professors Aric Rindfleisch and Kevin Hartman for the great lectures. +Not easy, but worth it, especially if Digital Marketing is your career. +too long +Far more demanding than previous courses, and thus far more interesting. Lacks clear direction compared to previous courses which can be difficult to adjust to, it leaves you to your own devices so to speak and is challenging in that regard. +Hated the course and the content. I truly regret investing my money on this course. +Just three stars for the topic chosen Grainger, a bit to complicated and sometimes not strait-forwarded tasks. +Lack of information and clear direction. I could have produced a more cohesive document if all of the deliverables were described from the beginning. +It wasn't structured that well, Plus most of had to make a digital marketing report for the first time without even a sample of how industry experts expect to see when they look ata repot +Capstone exercises were very ambiguous, the students were left to interpret they way they had to finish and how they rated their peers.The peer reviews were poor with little to no feedback and the focus was on how the material was laid out vs what the content was.I have done other coursers and capstones in Coursera this was one of the poorest. UIUC has to revamp this. More guidance to students in the instructions would be the first step. +There were parts where the lack of context felt worse than others. In general, it was OK but I think with the years it will improve. +I will highly recommend this Specialization. I have learned a lot. Thanks +Very useful and challenging course. I'm glad I was able to gain some insight into how digital marketing is operated at a high level in big companies, such as Grainger and Bosch. It's always a good experience to look at other companies and the way to do digital marketing. +Great course with excellent content +Overall, it was an interesting course that touched upon various learning/teaching strategies. The course is relevant in the present times of digital transformation sweeping the globe. As responsible citizens, we need to keep reinventing the wheel when it comes our learning and teaching mindset. In this respect, this course has been a catalyst to nudge us to think and expand our cognitive horizons. Thank you! +The course is amazing. It gives you a good grasp on how e-learning can be used to better apply existing learning concepts. +The content of the course is satisfying. I recommend it. +Thanks for this great course! It was very interesting and informative, and I learned a lot about e-learning. +Awesome course. It's packed with tons of information on how to get started making cool interactive programs, especially if you are a music junkie like myself. Great work! +It was very useful for me. +A bit difficult in terms or using very complicated words.... +Great course! I had fun and learned some basics of dental medicine +the course was helpful thank you so much for everything +Amazing! This is a very well structured introductory class that will give you an accurate idea about the field of oral medicine and dentistry; they even covered advanced stuff like medication related osteonecrosis of the jaws. The intraoral/extraoral examinations were very valuable, insightful and easy to understand, even for a person with no related background. Great Job and thank you so much! +It was very well organized and structured course. Thoroughly enjoyed it! +Excellent course, although I did not find many disease entities that I was looking for ! +Objective course and well illustrated, many case examples. Excellent course and very well organized. Highly recommend! +very useful +Wonderful. Very instructive and easy to follow. +A very interesting and enjoyable course. The lectures were very well presented and extremely easy to follow. +I would like to say I am thankful with Coursera and Pen for give this opportunity to learn essentials about dental medicine, I am a dentistry student and it has been very useful to take this course for strengthen and increase sound fundamental knowledge +THE COURSE WAS AWESOME.IT HAS ALL THE NECCESSARY INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR A DENTIST TO REVIEW ALL WHAT HAS BEEN TAUGHT AT DENTAL SCHOOL LEVEL.I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED MY TIME WHILE PURSUING THIS COURSE. +very helpful course from great professors thanks alot +This is an excellent course to review basic dentistry, wish you all best +IThanks to everyone who contributed to this course very useful +I like the way they try to give you all of the information ! I would totally recommend this to all of my friends!! +This course has provided me with the general basic knowledge I need in order to start an education on Dental Medicine. I highly recommend it for all those who are pursuing any Dental Medicine studies and also everyone who is concerned about their dental health and want to know more about the subject. +All about oral hygiene, their solution and much more. +Great overview of issues encompassing the patient assessment and management in the general dental practice underpinned by theoretical basis of health and disease supported by the latest evidence . +great course +where I can find the resources of this course (ppt or pdf) ? +the course is very well divided and includes many interesting informations and cases. +An excellent course that provides you with an overview of and an insight into the various areas of dental medicine. For me as a medical translator it was not only a great learning experience, but also added value to my business. I can only recommend this course to anyone interested in dentistry. +we need more dental courses +Highly recommend this course for all dental professionals. Even though I am a dental hygienist, I have learnt so much by taking this course. 5/5 +Great course if you are looking at dentistry as a future career. Learned a lot within the 7 weeks and really appreciate the work to put this course together. +I absolutely loved this course! As someone who plans on going to dental school soon, this course was a great way to get my feet wet on a lot of topics. I definitely learned so much about dentistry that I had no idea about! +Thank you so much for the amazing lectures! I can't emphasize enough to say how the course really helped me to engage myself in the field of dental medicine! +Excellent class but A few spelling mistakes: fluoride/ flouride??also grammar mistakes: affect/ effect;is/are. Probably could be more challenging. I'm looking forward to the next class you make. Thanks so much +Straight to the point.Excellent piece of work. +This course is really nice for all who want to refresh their Dental knowledge. I liked this course very much. I recommend to all my friends and others who want to learn and get very important informations of Dentistry. It has great video lectures (with scripts) and full of detailed information about all different aspects of Dentistry. Thank you UPenn and Cousera. +It is quite helpful for everyone but for professionals it is superficial and I wanted it to be more explanatory with examples. +This course is insightful into potential careers with dentistry and helpful in gaining an understanding of teeth and dental practices. As a Qualified Equine Dental Technician I can also recommend this course to any Veterinarians and para professionals wanting to further their knowledge in the world of Dentistry. +I enrolled in this course looking for an introduction to supplement my current dental shadowing experience, but there is so much more. I really love the organization of the material. This course is thorough, and the instructors are great! I really wish there was more of an interaction with the instructors, but overall this is an amazing course and I loved it. I recommend all PreDental students to take this course! +This course is packed with interesting and useful information for patients. +One sentence that sums it all: "This is a MUST NEED for Pre-Dental Student." From, a Pre-Dental Student +Excellent course for Pre-Dental students interested in learning fundamentals. I put it on my application for dental school this cycle. +Great experience! Very interesting and educational. +One of the best specialization on Coursera. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to apply his/her programming skills to fascinating real-world problems. +Simple, direct and perfect +I haven't finished the course yet. However, up until now I have found that it is really complete, interesant and presented with amazing clarity. I would really recommend it. +Muy muy bueno but the test are only in french and the Google Translation is not so acurated, so I faild in some easy questions +I am never going to forget what I learned in this course. +EXCELENTE CURSO SOBRE DERECHOS HUMANOS +It's a very comprehensive course, offering an approximation to the notion of human rights that we understand from any system of protection of human rights. +I think it's a interesting course because in my opinion, nowadays Human Rights are one of the most important things to protect people in this capitalist word. +Very interesting content and specially usefull in a world more and more unjust. +Supper! Merci boucoup Coursera pour ces lessons.I really had so much fun studying and learning Human rights, It was a big pleasure for me. +Amazing course. +TRES BIEN, C'EST TRES IMPORTANT COINNATRE SUR LES DROITS DE L'HOMME, MERCI BEAUCOUP COURSERA +Excellent course, even though I don't speak french, I learnt a lot. +It was really well done, i think that most of the issues were raised, there were a lot of extra materials (it's worth to say: accurate matterials) and generally i'm just satisfied :) +Amazing course. It helps you understand college life and how college works. And gives you tips on how to get the most out of college. Definitely recommend it, specially for international students. +I felt that this course was very informative and would most definitely assist the first year student who is enrolled in the University. +Great course for those looking to go to college or those who are looking to help individuals go to college! I'll be recommending this course to all of my college prep students this summer! +This was a fantastic overview of how college works. I highly recommend this course to high school seniors and their parents to better understand the basics of what going to college is all about and the variety of experiences one can have in such a uniquer setting. +The course is very helpful, but it's an extremely messy program and needs more work done to it. +This course is helpful for all college freshers to know more deeply about the college and college life. +great course +I'm already graduated from undergraduate, but I'm applying graduate degree in UW.It is a double-degree program with THU, I'm eager to study in UW - it is my dream school.Thank you for giving us this wonderful class +Very informative, I believe students before going to college should complete this course. In doing so, it will help them know the ins and outs of college life. +Excellent course that illustrates what a future college student should expect in a higher institution. +You can find your object in this course, but this course is too platitude to make me feel boring... +please i need a pass certificate +Excellent course. Thanks a lot. +I've been to college, so I'm not the target audience for this course, but I was curious to see what would be covered and to learn more about colleges today. I felt the course covered mostly simplistic, obvious stuff and left out a lot that many students wonder about.One topic that was covered was the different activities of professors. I wished I'd known more about this when I started college. Of course I knew they did research, but I thought they were primarily there to teach. This is true at some colleges, but at others, the amount and quality of research can determine whether a professor gets to continue working there and reach tenure. So teaching may not be the first priority for some professors. Students may find that chunks of courses are devoted to a professor's research interests, which could enrich or derail the course. This could have been covered in more depth.Other things that could have been covered: why some courses are so large and the function of recitation sections and graduate teaching fellows for those and smaller courses; what a seminar is; the existence of course reviews that can help with selecting classes and professors; how to deal with not getting into a course you really need to take (wait lists, professorial overrides, etc.); when pre-requisite courses are really necessary and when they're just recommended; dropping courses; GRADES (how the college grading system works, what happens when you fail a course, academic probation, earning honors); campus codes of conduct (greater freedom as with class attendance; smoking and drinking rules, harassment policies) and disciplinary actions (disciplinary probation, expulsion); good campus activities for shy students. +Good introduction about American College life +Very much Helpfull for New comers in College or who gonna admitted in college and trying to start their undergrad life . Thanks for this Course . +This course is a great job giving a broad introduction to college. It tries to cover many aspects of life and how they can occur at different types of schools. Overall, if you're just about to start college. or just curious, it's worth it to spend an hour or so to take the course. +The course could be structured a little bit better and some topics should have been discussed in greater detail. But in general, I really enjoyed the course and found the two instructors very likable. +Very interesting course and most video's are fun to watch.Only the video's with a lot of interviews or where they switch all the time between skype conversations I sometimes find a bit boring, or I think the duration is too long. +Too many peer-viewed assignment +My feeling is that this MOOC is very inspiring in way that it brings out the fact and paradox that we previously were reluctant to say out , and that is we are not saving lives in an effective way and that's how we actually should behave if we are real egalitarians in ourselves. And it also provides us with simple tools to make analysis by ourselves.Space for improvement could lie in that the links between videos and reading materials of a same module or block could be strong, at least sometimes they don't seem so hooked with each other to me or I sometimes got confused what these contents together show something different from other blocks. +The content of the course was really interesting and made me think about things I didn't think of before. However, I found the layout of this course really confusing. It would be better if there was no division per week, but just a list of mandatory things and a list of optional things. +Engaging instructors and very interesting content. This course is unique because you can apply what you learn in the real world. +This is a very interesting and possibly even eye-opening course. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to use more rationality and solid science in everyday life. +I really appreciate the attempt of the course; what I got is that we should trust good research and that claims need to be proved. The problem though was the approach, in my opinion. I felt that someone was giving me the right answer for everything and I wasn't supposed to think about it all.I would rather focus my attention on the large gap between reality and "scientific" claims. The power of a cost-benefit analysis is enormous and it could be even broader with a personal interpretation and with a high level of awareness.Well done with the aim of the course, just develop the approach impact.p.s the part with the guy that is apparently in Asia is really chaotic and I couldn't follow that amount of short videos. +Great course! +AWESOME COURSE +Thanks a lot! +Simple, clear and understandable - Excellent! +The content is so good. +Wonderful course for anyone who wants to explore bioinformatics. I really liked the programming assignments. +Fascinating subject where informatics and biology come together . By taking these courses you get a deep understanding of how research results are obtained by multidisciplinary teams. +Doing the Honors track. It's hard, but extremely rewarding! Thanks for making an awesome course. +To be completely honest, I was expecting more from this course. One big setback is that the course material does not really go into biochemical fundamentals of what is going on, and instead jumps straight into algorithms. This might work for someone with enough background in biology who needs to learn to code. I, on the other side, have already had some exposure to software development and algorithms, but when Pavel mentions gene expression and transcription I have a very vague idea what he is talking about. +great introduction! +Great course +It may be more helpful to students who are not taking the honors code if they had access to ready made programming codes to complete the stepik exercises as it is extremely taxing and not feasible to solve all problems by hand.Brilliantly structured and very effective learning method!I also felt that Gibbs sampling could have been explained further or more in detail.Thank you! +You'll learn a bit of biology, but the emphasis is on algorithms and the interactive course will let you work your way through a series of (almost) real-life problems. Decent programming skills are needed to enjoy the course fully as some of the exercises are challenging, but the friendly forum helps anyone that gets stuck. Definitely one of my top MOOC's ever, I'll probably take the whole specialization just for fun. +I like the intersection of computer science and biology! +This is certainly not a course for beginners! The content of the course were rather complex and prior computer science knowledge is extremely helpful to finish this course. It was a struggle for me to finish this course without any background in computer science. However, it was definitely challenging and gave me an insight on how two different disciplines can be connected in a single field of study. The only improvement I could think of is if there were videos regarding the basic computer science knowledge that could have helped biologists such as myself. Perhaps giving an example on how things are done could be useful. There were only a handful of examples and the examples only gave the answers but did not explain how to get that answer well enough. +This course is excelent!!! +This course has been a lot of fun. However, I would like to experience more! +It is great! +Great Course! +Great course. Learn +A very structured course +Excelente!!!Very well explained. I'm a molecular biologist seeking for some programming skills and understanding of the basics of the everydays tools. I've found some caveats in the coding problems from stepik but I understand that's difficult to give complete and exact explanations to everyone and every programming language that someone can use. Besides that everything's perfect! And recommended! +Some of the algorithms are pretty cool but overall the course is not worth it. The material is pretty weak. +Very interesting course! I am enrolling to bioinformatics II :) +This was fantastic course! I've never experienced such passion in an online course. I've learned so much, and I am striving for more... fortunately this is just the beginning. No wonder it has been proclaimed as one of the 50 most popular MOOCs of all time. Not because it is popular you should take it, it has become popular because it is just marvellous.Worth it! +An excellent course. It worths to take it till the end. +Very bad course. No videos, just an interactive textbook. The course states all you need is "high school level biology" yet you require coding knowledge for the very first quiz. there are side questions on the first week like does this algorithm runs in O(k * l * x^2) or O(xllogk) without ANY explanation. I guess you can find much much better book about bioinformatics, and as this course is nothing more then a book i recommend a better one. +Very well explained for both biologists and computer scientists. +Very good course, but at the same time very hard. Unless you have quite a bit of experience programing, be prepared to spend at least 15 hours a week working on this class. The good news is that if you do spend that time, you will learn a lot. +Very interesting course for those who want to learn new algorithms. +Very nice course and information, but backend could be more polished. Many tasks (expecially about randomized algorithms) could fail even if you do 100% right. And very little debug information provided. +Excellent teachers, excellent assignments. My favorite MOOC so far, congrats! +Very well structured and informative. Got a good understanding of motifs finding and its related algorithms +The interactive lessons are excellent! Especially with the optional break-out lessons to dive deeper. +This course offers in terms of knowledge and programming far more than I had expected. Very satisfied with it. +Unfortunately, as often happens, what is "simple" and basic for one is not that for another. This course presumes a comfortableness with coding that I simply do not possess as a teacher of high school science. Please try and develop a true introductory course that normal, non-programmers can access. Thanks! +After completing only one Week I am absolutely sure that this course is amazing! +Excelent course, it fulfilled my personal goals and motivated me to keep advancing in the field. +With this course, I learned a lot of things about Unity. It is excellent for beginners. +Very good material. Needs more users participating to be perfect, but it's a very good course, with contents in Spanish. (Plenty of similar courses with English content so it's perfect). +Nothing special, thanks for the information. +Excelent, I learned too much in this part, for implement a little 2D game +The Course was great, except for two things. one it was too short :-), and two, the peer graded projects were confusing. +If you are interested in viewing the eclipse you need this class. It has excellent, very concise information about the eclipse and the sun. NOTE: Weeks 2 - 4 are about the sun. Weeks 1 and 5 concern the eclipse. +It's amazing experience. I had the opportunity to get access to new knowledge +Brilliant framework and well designed structure +Great Class. We need more of these courses. +Great course, great lectures and interesting subject. Learned a lot in a short time. +Excellent detailed course. Although US content. It is relevant since much development is done in the USA. +Great course. I will try now the optional exercises and try having a deeper understanding on this. +A good introduction into Combinatorial Game Theory.It's obvious this course follows the book Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays, vol I.This course does extremely well on its own,but you can also chose to work together while working through Winning Ways (which I personally would recommend, if you can get your hands on that book). +very fun introduction course. it doesn't take much time. however we don't go much in depth, just the concepts are given. The strategy to win at Nim is given as well, but no proof of it, not even as an extra, which is a bit disappointing because it was kind of being the highlight of the course. i guess we have to think by ourselves to understand why it works (or google it...)i was surprised to discover symbols such as up, down, star, ... and all those surreal numbers... the last lecture leaves us wanting more but alas the course is too short +Excellent! An interesting subject taught by a very good teacher. +I like it, but as a math undergraduate I wish we have gone through some of the exciting research trend in combinatorial game theory. +Tom Marley was fun. He is like a little kid in a candy store. +A good introduction to games without chance. +An invigorating subject to learn about. Learning made great by the lecturer! +The course topic itself and the syllabus was interesting and magnetic especially for someone like me who is equally interested in Economics, Game Theory, Mathematics and Computer Science. But I do feel that the concepts can be dealt with more theoretically so as to build formal background. I know it is difficult to make it mathematically heavy but still some of the concepts should have a theoretical explanation and proofs.Overall, course was good and I learnt a lot of new things. +I found the course content to be too simple, hence uninteresting. +Sadly, I found the presentation poor: not at all fluent, and under-prepared - sometimes what was said was different from what was written (which was correct), potentially causing confusion. Also, some results were given without justifying them, for instance the concept of simplest number was stated but not proper +This was a very enjoyable and clearly educational course. It sparked my interest in surreal numbers (which I had heard of but never explored in detail.) Doctor Morley is a delightful character with a personality well suited to the playful nature of Conway's games. +Very interesting and so much fun ;) +It's a fine course which enables you to learn some interesting things about simple games and a branch of mathematics most people are unaccustomed with. It doesn't need much previous knowledge, although a decent level of mathematics and mathematical logic is very helpful especially when it comes to understanding new terms and definitions. The professor helps you with simple examples when something seeming difficult to get comes up, but beware his weird sense of humor! Enjoy the course! +A nice introduction to the topic. Suitable for a beginner. +Great tutors and classes! I really enjoyed it! +This is an excellent course, I enjoyed full content about the every topics and some topics I improve along the course. Thank you, I recommend this course. +Excellent second course in machine learning. +I learned a lot in this course and it's definitely well managed and well taught by an amazing professor. +If you want to understand better optimization techniques, this is an excellent Course, the explanations and examples are one of the best, the Course is also very challenging but worth the time and effort, you will learn a lot. +Very thorough and nice course. Prof. Pascal can make even very difficult things funny and interesting!! +Very interesting course with challenging programming assignments +The best course at Coursera I've had so far. +I like the instructor teaching approach and the evaluation system, the subject itself took me a lot of effort and i think the LNS technique should be teached just after local search. +the brilliant lectures really inspired me to work hard +I've enjoyed a lot this challenging course. To get a 10 in all the assignments is very hard. But 7 is achievable. +This course is absoutely excellent. It has really time consuming and challenging programming assignments, but I learned more than I have in a long while. I could not recommend this course more highly, and I have completed 20+ MOOCs. This is one of the best ones by far. :D +Amazing Course. Enjoyed a lot +Great course for every software professional. +One of the best and most interesting courses I have taken a part in. Very demanding and frustrating sometimes but absolutely brilliant. Interesting lectures, problems to solve, etc. Small improvement in my opinion can be achieved in two areas:1. I could not get used to instructor's showmanship and he sometimes covers up the slides.2. I would suggest changing submission format not to post code but solution. In this case we would not be limited in programming language's choice. +While doing Tim Roughgarden's Algorithms course (https://www.coursera.org/specializations/algorithms) I became interested about the topic of solving NP-hard problems and wanted more. That's how I bumped into this course. I'm VERY happy I did. I never had so much fun programming since I was in high school. The assignments are tough and time consuming and super addictive. Don't be surprised if you find yourself at 5:00 AM trying to squeeze a slightly better solution then what you currently have.The course covers a lot of material: constraint programming, local search heuristics and meta-heuristics, linear and mixed integer programming. I think each of these topics could be extended and made into separate course. If you want to get a thorough understanding of all of the presented topics, you're gonna have to go through the additional materials. However, prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck is an excellent teacher so even though you don't have a thorough understanding of everything, things are gonna make sense and feel very natural and intuitive. Dr. Carleton Coffrin is also very active on the forums, constantly answering questions or encouraging interesting conversations. I've never seen a MOOC which such actively involved staff.Bottom line, if you have10+ hours/week and you like CS, definitely take this one. +Great course, enjoyed each hour. +Really interesting and engaging +Too good course! One of the very best courses on Coursera!Thank you so much. It is a wonder to follow your course. +Great course!! Love it!! +Good Introduction to Embedded Systems and operating systems, discuss interesting topics and the architecture of OS, a little hard and challenging but it worth it. +I do not recommend this course if you want to be taught intuitively. The slides are mostly just a list of bullet points, with very few intuitive figures or charts (normally figures/charts are easier to understand and remember, even the simple ones). You are just fed with lots of concepts throughout the course. But in the end, you are suddenly required to do some practical C programming in Contiki (an embedded OS), which you need to spend some time to figure out quite a number of practical issues just for a successful run. +I categorize this course in the beginner level not intermediate. +The course is for people having advanced knowledge in embedded architecture and knowledge. Until 3rd week is perfectly alright. But from 4th week the course changes to advanced knowledge. I do not think an intermediate could easily grasp enough knowledge from the 4th week. Kindly do the needful to change it. +IT IS VERY INFORMATIVE AND KNOWS ALL FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPT AND IDEAS +The course is a shallow introduction to a set of topics about embedded systems, it tries to cover too much without really explaining the concepts. The videos could have some diagram. +Useless bla-bla-bla in general words. Nothing concrete. It is not possible to build embedded system with OS after finishing it. IoT is mentioned just for marketing and promotion. If you seriously consider developing OS-based embedded system even just reading Wiki pages about EOS would not be such a waste of time as listening to this course. +Instructor is very good.His explanation about CONTIKI is simple super.Course Structure is very good.But,in my opinion require little bit elaborated explanation about ASSIGNMENT.Rather than everything is fine.Thanks to COURSERA. +I found this course to be dry. No practical examples. Just information presentation, like reading from a book. The lectures do not prepare you very well for the Quizzes and even less for the assignments. This is the only course in Coursera that really got me disappointed. Since there are not many students in this course one might feel a bit "left alone". +Initially it seemed easy and what I already knew... but the week 3 and 4 had alot of new and interesting stuff. It was great eventually... Especially the OS part and some practicals +It's very clear and easy to learn. The speaker used simple way to elaborate OS and ESP. To sum up, it is a excellent course! +It's a nice course, but there are also a lot of things that need improve! Thank you,teacher! +Good introduction to embedded systems development with "OS". but it needs to include better & more code examples +Main issues I encountered in the course:- many videos end with a suggestion to "refer to the suggested materials for more information". Which are these materials, and where can they be found?- the slides could use some diagrams here and there, as the constant text screens are monotonous and make understanding harder in some cases- the course does not settle on a balance between breadth and depth of information. Some aspects are presented at a very high level, yet using very specialised terminology and concepts. For instance, context switching when describing the disadvantages of microkernels, or pre-emptively scheduled systems - I have a CS background and had no problem with these aspects, but I am aware I am highly subjective. It's a case of "chicken and egg", where if you understand the low level concepts you probably don't need the course, and if you don't understand them you also can't understand the high level concepts.- At the end of the Week 3 videos describing the three OSs, it is said "In order to know the details on how to write a program and run applications in Riot/Contiki/TinyOS, please come back to our lectures who have more detailed videos."Which lectures are these, and where can they be found?- the only practical exercises in the course (Week 4) are only vaguely related to the course's targets-----All this being said, it is an ok introduction to the embedded OS world, if you bring your own CS and OS background knowledge. +the best :) +very good for basic fundamentals +Very in-depth, an excellent starting course for paleontology and prehistory education. +A very enjoyable course. Fantastic for those who want to learn about early vertebrates, particularlly those thar gave rise to tetrapods. While a small amount of biological and geological knowledge is useful, s +Difficult subject to get your head around but ultimately worth the effort. The teaching, as always with the University of Alberta's MOOCs, is second to none. +Very informative, great course! +The presenter is world class, and I really enjoyed the interactive maps. The quizzes should be a bit more challenging though - perhaps learn how to identify a few fossils, +I really enjoyed this course! +very impressed with quantity and quantity of information made available +Everything you need!This is the first of a great series - first-class lecture notes, well illustrated lectures and plenty of links to further study. +The professor could have been a bit more serious, he acted as if he was a kindergarden teacher. Seriously: do you really need to imitate with your hand how a fish swims? I don't think so.Also, the pronounciation of the latin words was horrible - then again, all native English speakers have problems with it, so don't take this remark personally. +The professor explains well, however it's a introductory course. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course and would recommend it to anyone interested in evolution or paleontology. The course does an excellent job in picturing one of those truly revolutionary time periods in the history of animal life on Earth. The level of detail, pace, materials and visuals are just perfect. And the presenter does a top-notch job of delivering the material. Thanks to the University of Alberta and the team behind this great MOOC! +good course! +Very nice , clear, precise, interesting and usefull. Very good speaker! +Exciting course! :) +Although not as strong as the other palaeontology courses by the University of Alberta, the current courses takes much the same approach and uses the same teaching techniques as these other courses. As such, it easily and effectively gets the millions of years of early vertebrate evolution across clearly and concisely. The video lectures are both interactive and fun, and the course notes are both informative and well adjusted to the video lectures. If there is anything to be remarked upon, then it's the slight lack of depth as pertains to the material covered. This, however, is hardly surprising considering the highly complex material (drawing from fields as osteology, paleoecology, evolutionary and developmental biology, palaeontology and more), the speed at which it is discussed, and the level of accessibility that is provided. Overall, a very good course, and one I very much enjoyed following! +I love all your online sources. I think the information is presented well and with logical questions to test the information. I like how the presenter was clearly knowledgeable and spoke with excitement. He was very engaging. The visuals are great. The fossils are great. The extra time and effort put into the materials is obvious. +Even if you've never had a lifelong fascination with natural history like I did, this course should be fascinating and educational enough to draw you in. Scott Persons is an amazing teacher: clear, concise, knowledgeable and passionate enough that you will never feel lost, learn a great deal and yet never feel bored. Highly recommended for anyone with even a modicum of interest in fossils and vertebrate origins. +An excellent introductory course on Early Vertebrate Evolution! +Very light and comprehensive content. The geology part is pretty well explained! +it is good for maths students who haven't studied biology and struggle with understanding palaeontology. vertebrates have been explained very well. +The topic is interesting and I enjoy the enthusiastic presenters.Recommended! +I haven't completed this course yet. Self pace and enjoying the lectures and videos. I've taken another Univ of Alberta course on Marine Reptiles which was great! I enjoy the Paleontol +I have learned so much from this course, thanks to Coursera and University of Alberta. This course is highly recommended for students with a passion for Evolution and Phylogeny. The handouts are also very useful. +Awesome course, pulls no punches in delivering a top-notch educational experience! +WOW, I learned a lot form this and it was fairly educational but not overwhelming or difficult. This instructor really gets the points across without being to easy or hard. A very good class. +Great course! :) +I think this was a great module wich gave a good insight into the early vertebrate evolution. I willl definatly reccomend it to any who is interessted in this topic. +Great course in vertebrate paleontology. +Very [very, very] nicely done! +realy usefull , direct and easy to learn i full recomend this course =D +Very interesting and entertaining! +Very interesting and well presented! Wish I lived closer to Alberta, Canada!! +Beautifully made. A new insight of nature. Awesome to see, listen, think about and recognize development of evolution in todays species. +I originally took Dino 101 as a U of A MOOC and found it very worthwhile -- and challenging. Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution was equally interesting and challenging. As the opportunity presents itself, I will explore taking other MOOCs in Paleontology. +This (like the other UoA paleontology courses available on Coursera) is an excellent introduction to the subject. Detailed enough to be really interesting to those with some background in the area, the material is engagingly presented by a knowledgeable and enthusiastic lecturer. The format is exceptionally well-structured, combining cutting-edge research and discoveries with helpful graphics. Highly recommended! +Short, informative and exciting course! +Lots of information; well-organized & well presented. +Interesting course +i like this. this is good. good can be fun. fun has rewards...yay, i win +This class was very interesting and explained things clearly. I already had a bit of knowledge about this subject but this course taught me new things and connected the things I already knew to these new thoughts. Thank you! +Excellently presented; very clear and concise. +Scott Persons really presents this course to make it interesting. Very nice. +Fantastic! Open a new gate for me. +Enjoyed the class, only part that was bad is I couldn't do any of the quizzes. I can't afford the cost. Other then that the class was very informative and I found it very entertaining as well. Thank you. +Excellent course, I really enjoyed the host. +I thoroughly enjoyed the learning experience on this course. Notes and videos clear and concise, well put together, as expected from University of Alberta. +Very interesting and compelling course, and I liked the questions every few minutes during the lectures as that helps me to retain information.My only complaint is that the lecturer's manner of speaking is very rhythmic and repetitive and that makes it kind of hard to lose track of his words. +A jurassic park image, with material you can read by yourself? +Typical of UofA MOOC's, very high quality. Excellent content. Well paced. +Great course! Very informative and all the concepts are very clearly explained! +Any one looking for quick refresher course in Business Statics this is the specialization to enroll.Prof/Instructor Sharad has explain the concept in crisp & precise manner & hands on practice in excel is big plus..!!For any one who wants to learn business statistics ,I kindly urge you enroll this course/specialization so you have basic overview of all topics in business statistics & later read text book Business Statistics by Ken black for through understanding of all topics. +The instructor's approach to presenting the basics of statistics as well as the application of excel functions is by far the best I've experienced in statistics courses. This is a refresher for me, and, I'm really enjoying it! +Contains all basic information on data descriptors, presented in a thorough and easy to understand way. More practice exercises (quizzes) would make it even better. +Clear and concise, great! +Lessons learned are very impactful. +The lecturer is well versed in statistics and he explained complex theory in a +It was a clear explanation to the statistical, and the examples are +Looking forward to more such courses on Statistics and Probability related to Data Science. +This course is awesome! +Absolutely great course. Learnt a lot of useful information. +Great course Even better Instructor +One of the most practical courses in business analytic I've ever enrolled. +Very challenging course, but I came away with far more knowledge than I entered it with. +A great course very educative and valuable! +The information in the videos was very interesting and well presented. I feel like I learned a lot. However, the quizzes and tests seemed to be of a very different level, and often covered material that was hardly discussed in the lectures. I understand that students are expected to do independent learning of material, but the gulf between lectures and test difficulty was extreme. If others were interested in learning about the basics of music theory, I would not recommend this course. +An amazing course on the Fundamentals of Music Theory! I am beginning my musical education with this program and getting ready to start community college in the fall, so this is definitely getting me ready. Perhaps, one day I plan to study music at this university in Scotland. +What a wonderful course. The instructors were so engaging and knowledgeable... and talented! It is a topic that I've always wanted to know about but never had the opportunity in school to learn about it. It got pretty technical at times and, like learning a language, it really takes a lot of memorization or experience to fully grasp the subject matter, but the parts that I could follow, was just what I was hoping to get from the course! +These professors do a wonderful job of breaking down difficult material. Thank you. +Great approach to the hard part of music understanding making it easy to follow and gain more appreciation of such an amazing subject +I've learn a lot here from absolutely zero. Before taking the course I couldn't even imagine that it is possible for me to learn anything about music and to be able to understand notes notation. Definitely recommend. But keep in mind that it requires you to work overtime and practice it. +This course is great! +Excellent!Not so easy for begginers.Very Useful. After this course I can explore many new possibilities. +It was good, and i learnt a lot, but it vexed me that in the first lesson they stated you didn't need to read music to get on with the course, but everything from then on seemed to require reading music including an very difficult final test reading some complicated Beethoven apparently! I understand why they did it that way, as they are used to reading music, but music can also be described as actual note names and the theory will be learnt nevertheless, without the massive barrier of having to translate it all from musical notation. +I'm not a professional musician, but I am a music lover, and always wanted to understand the math behind the music.This course exceeded my expectations. +Great course, great professors. Really fundamental +After going through each lesson, week by week and thinking I was really learning something, but I can't pass the first exam (even with my notes and Google) and almost had a panic attack when I looked at the second exam.I feel like I wasted fifty dollars and hours of my life in order to get what little belief I had that I might have actually learned something come crashing down. +Great course! Not too simple, not too complex. Approaches many things in a pleasant way. +really helpful, but also tough +I really like it.It help me a lot. Thanks. +Absolutely great so far. +Great teachers and most easiest way of learning music, thank you. +Not too easy, not too hard. Great way to learn fresh material or brush up, +Love this course so far! As I am using this for a quick review for my music theory to supplement my years of piano music before taking the AP Music Theory exam later this year, this course is very informational and helpful. I wish they had released a vocabulary list each week as either an assignment too for just a completion grade, or given hand in hand with the printouts each lesson to help develop the musicianship and familiarity of music's unique jargon. +its very good very informative +this course is comprehensive and very useful. thank you coursera +A steep learning curve for someone who has not gone beyond very basic music theory before, but worthwhile nevertheless. +Great course! Really helped me to achieve a better understanding of the music theory and how the basics of composition Works. +Quality Course material. +They just throw all the material at you without giving you enough explanations or exercises. This situation gets worse in the last two weeks and you can hardly breathe. It is like, "Okay now we have learned that 1+2=3. Let's talk about calculus." +First of all: Thank you very much for providing this, I've learned a lot!Why not 5 stars?In some cases you just used a link to Wikipedia as additional material for a video. In the first and second week you had more details, I know you already kindly invested a lot of time, but I would appreciate if you could add some details to those sections where you just used links. +Fantastic entry into the world of music theory. One minor complaint is the lack of corrections after submitting the quizzes. +Great course, worth the value! +One way (approach) to 'teaching' data shows only that you know data but haven't designed multiple ways of teaching it. No, feedback from instructors, directly, makes it hard to obtain conceptual understandings. ie, as soon as you become lost with the one-way taught week, no way to grasp the following weeks. There could be a higher rate of success AND enjoyment of learning, if more thought were put into 'How to teach' the material. Been playing music for over 30 years and am failing from week 4 on. This shouldn't be as confusing as Coursera has made it. Disappointed and DISCOURAGED! +Pretty good in overall, but there are a few points that could be improved:- The content is taught in a weird order and the difficulty doesn't increase steadily. For example, week 4 and 5 feel like they have been made separately and about the same subject, but week 5 goes further. The last video of week 5 is interesting, but it seems improvised...- There could be more examples, especially from modern music. John from week 5 uses examples from the Beatles, which is great, but he's the only one. Week 3 has pretty much no examples at all.- Suppplementary material and notes are uneven from week to week. Week 2, 4 and especially 5 have good summaries of the videos and examples, but week 3 almost only has links to wikipedia...- The final exam is VERY difficult. There are some crazy chords and rhythm to analyse and there are advanced questions on points which have been seen very quickly in the videos.I can't really compare since I new some of the content of the class, but I think it's weel made for beginners as well as for intermediate musicians. But you'll probably need to do a bit of research yourself if you want to be ready for the exam. +I have taken many other basic music theory but they are so hard to understand! But this one totally works!! What an excellent course!! Thanks so much! +Really interesting... +Very interesting! +Great course !! +I am an amateur musician myself, in high school. I love playing music and singing so much but i always felt like i was missing theoretic information. Thanks to this course, I feel like i am overcoming this situation. Thank you so much for making this possible. +I am absolutely delighted to have had the opportunity to study the fundamentals of music theory from a prestigious university such as The University of Edinburgh for free online. I extend my most sincere gratitude to Coursera and the professors teaching the course for making this possible. The course makes it very easy to build knowledge going from week to week. The assignments are all challenging. In this way this course encourages studying to understand the concepts. I have attended the course as a beginner in music theory, having encountered only some very elementary concepts earlier. I have found all the teachers to be very pleasant and very clear in their explanations. I have given 4 stars to this course because I would have liked to learn more from the professors on some topics which were very briefly mentioned. Some of the courses have external links to Wikipedia instead of a more clear explanation. This are however the exception and not the rule. The majority of the course is well taught and presented. +At the beginning, I thought the course was very good for beginners or people that know how to play an instrument well but would like to know more about the theoretical background.However, the last two sessions were very hard and there could have been more detailed course material throughout the course and more exercises to make sure the concepts are well-understood by all students.Nevertheless, the course proved to be very useful and enabled me to analyse a musical piece, which made it worthwhile. +A very well structured cpurse. A solid amount of information delivered, with the pace picking up maybe a little too abruptly after week 3. However, I did learn a lot, and investing the time required was definitely worth it. Highly recommended. +very very good course for beginners. +Great class! It filled in a lot of gaps for me on things I had picked up on my own. The explanations were great, and the amount of work and pace were perfect. +If you don't know much about music theory, it's going to be pretty challenging, and still is reachable. You learn as much as you want with this courses. I'm glad I could finish it. +Thank you all so much! Really useful course and beginner-friendly journey! Hope to take more classes from your university! +This was fun as a refresher course. If you're brand new to music theory, this course won't help much unless you spend a lot of extra time learning the concepts using secondary materials, google, youtube, and your own keyboard. +The lack of teacher or teaching assistant participation in the forum discussions is deafening. For an institution like the host institution, this is odd. I liked the course, but it was not very well organized. Seems like it was for experienced musicians, eve though the goals of the course hinted at it being for beginners as well. Good Course, badly organized. +YOU TURN ME ON +I think it is a really good course, unfortunately too advanced for someone that is just starting to play the recorder and recognises the notes and so on. Also the fact that the notes are ABCDEFG instead of DO.RE.MI.FA... made thinks a little bit confusing for me. I learnt some stuff until 3rd week where started to be quite complicated, 4th week was frustrating. Maybe in the future I'll come back to it. +This course is excellent. +Great and easy to follow +This course does not do a good job at teaching the material. The lecture videos gloss over the topics briefly, but do not give a thorough explanation of the core topics of the course. The quizzes will repeatedly test on terms not even remotely mentioned in any of the course materials. +could offer and cover much more subjects.spend too much time on basics, less on advanced.could have chosen better music examples. +A very challenging course, particularly in the last couple of weeks, but very rewarding. The instructors have produced an excellent set of video lessons, plus supporting materials. +This was a great class, but some of the information could have been more comprehensive, and some of the questions on the tests did not match the information from the lectures. +Good for beginners, introduced basic theory systemly. But a few mistakes appeared, though corrected in the videos too, but better to clear them in the future shifts. +The course material itself is enjoyable, but the quizzes don't work properly. The feedback given to the same responses between retakes is contradictory. +awesome, a bit hard at the end but, this course helped me alot to go much better along other courses. Thanks you ! +The course material itself is good and you do learn a lot but for a course that starts at complete beginner level the final exam is too much of a reach for many. It feels like the course should be at least 50% longer as in that exam you are literally trying to stitch ideas together into educated guesses (i got 80% plus on all of the course work). It needs work to narrow the gap as this is not good learning, it frustrates many and is not helpful. +Great course with excellent teachers. I learned so much. Thanks Coursera, and thanks to all involved in develloping this great project. +Excellente course. A great opportunity to learn. +Challenging at times, but doable with effort, and quite rewarding upon success. Recommended. +A little bit steep demand curve regarding to what is offered in the lectures.Well, well... The whole world knows that "they" are a little "thrifty" ;-) +Very informative course. Teaches all the fundamentals till they're painfully obvious. It has helped me understand the skeletal structure of the music I listen to and has helped answer many questions. Thank you. +Generally this course has good subjects and syllabus. In some parts of course they teach reasons of the subjects and it becomes more logical for me. The only reason that I gave four stars is lecture videos are not enough for the final exam. Especially for part 2 of final exam, some questions are more detailed for given lectures. However, it was a good introduction for music theory. +Excellent course. It's perfect to get a solid base to learn music. The explanations are clear, the progression of the contents is easy to follow. I highly recommend it. Thank +This is a very unevenly paced and constructed course - not at all delivered to the standard of the previous Coursera courses I have followed. Some lectures are clear and guide the learner step by step - and then others suddenly assume a level of knowledge and sophistication that is at a significantly higher level and includes concepts that have either not been introduced or have been dealt with in minimal detail. It also ends up focusing more on music analysis than music theory - while there is a relationship between these 2 approaches I did not embark on this course to become an analyst - as a practising musician I wanted to understand more of the concepts behind what I do and hear. Very disappointed - I will now look elsewhere to satisfy my learning. +Perfect because I just want to play piano again. +Great introduction to music theory. In some sections the layout of the course could be somewhat better. +Very interesting course: I'm a Computer Engineer and I found very interesting the lessons about bistability and about stochastic modelling. +This is a amazing course. I've learned a lot and all the knowledge will be usable to me in my work. +Great course +The first week on MATLAB was a great refresher since I hadn't used MATLAB in a few years +Easy to follow up and clear lectures to understand dynamical modeling methods +a little too much for my taste, but I learned a lot cellular biology. +Probably the best course in this overall very nice specialization +Lots of good parts to the course. Found the ODE examples very useful. Feel like it tailed off at the end in terms of detail and utility. Also, it seemed less adapted to the format than other courses such as Machine Learning by Andrew Ng and Computational Neuroscience by Rajesh Rao. +This is a great course.Very clear and well constructed. +Great course. Well taught and very useful. +it's quite very interesting +I liked it a lot! +This is a very useful and well dessigned general course. +everything explained in very easy to understand way. the assignments were designed quite well- not only to test the knowledge acquired but the assignment results were designed in such a way that they will be useful in modeling. +Very informative course with good exercises. Would recommend having PDE example code, as well. +Firstly Peter Clarke, what a legend!! thanks for all the help particularly through week 2. I owe you a virtual beer.One change would be to make the forums the same format as course 1-3 as this was a much more efficient way to review issues.Over all the material was good, I stuck at it even when I wanted to quit and feel knowledgeable now on the lesson taught. +A very good course. I recommend people who want to learn valuation should do this course +Very good course. Recommended! +This course is almost the final one for the specialization taught by prof Kaul. It is a little redundant with the 3rd course of the specialization. However, it is still of great quality, format and content, as the other courses were.It allows you to apply courses 1-3 in close to real life contexts. The exams are very interesting, and module 4 of this course made me want to go further into valuation problems. I encourage to take courses 1, 2 and 3 before this one. +The course educates about all the aspects of valuation +I love the professors explanations through applications +the prof is so good, even an amateur cant help falling in love with the subject +Great content and great professor! Best course.. Thanks! +This is an extraordinary course that teaches valuation of projects. As usual, Prof Kaul builds on the basic building blocks of valuation and makes us fall in love with the concepts. He then possibly sits back and smiles at us tearing our hair out with the assignments. It is great fun and invaluable learning, especially if you happen to have a non-finance background like I did. +An excellent course on Valuing a company and understanding the same with the help of assignments. +Excellent course as far as content is concerned. However, the older Coursera format was way more user-friendly. Also the discussion topics were not arranged appropriately as in the previous modules in this specialization. PDFs of assignments would be helpful if posted. +Exceptional teaching! +This professor is amazing. He explains things that others just overlook. I guess that others assume we should already know the basics, but this professor teaches the basics instead of assuming. He is wonderful! +Excelent! Really learnt a lot, thanks :D +Course realistically takes 15-20 hrs/week of work, not "3-5 hrs/week" as said in course description, that clearly assumes either someone already knows how to play piano well, or already knows music theory well, if either of these skills are lacking, be prepared to spend 15+ hrs a week to understand the material (2 hrs/day). The prof says in the video "just practice 15 mins a day" which is complete hooey, it takes at least 1+ hr/day uninterrupted practice at the piano to get close to skillful at the material presented, plus another 0,5-1+ hr of theory study on paper review. I highly recommend this course but the amount of time should not be underestimated (like so many music people seem to do, because they likely had many years of music exposure already). +George Russell is a beyond phenomenal teacher. I would fly to Boston just to take classes with him.What a blessing of a human being. I never played piano in my life and thanks to him and his amazing personality, am becoming proficient!Thank you for being you Mr. Russell!Leo Arias +Nice course, good intro. Pretty thin but helpful and good value for money. +Very low content: I got more information about Berklee than about music from this course. It is more of a show-off of the university than it is an actual informative course. Looks a lot like a yt tutorial, just much fancier because they are berklee. I watched from the beginning to the end waiting for them to start talking about anything other than naming intervals, but it didn't happen. They try to ear-train you, but any app for ear-training will do it better. Quite disappointing. +EXCELENT COURSE FOR STARTING PIANO AND MUSIC IN GENERAL +Great course! +Excellent. thank you. +I enjoyed the videos, but not the assignments. I wanted to have fun and learn more about the music that I think makes life more beautiful. The final assignment in the module was unclear to me and the feedback unkind. Telling me to wait a year, get outside help and try again is not in any manner fun or helpful. I can't imagine doing that to a student of mine, a peer, or even a stranger. Nor do I find it in keeping with the claim this should be fun. In the end I would rather be an uninformed lover of music than make myself crazy trying to learn it with people that are taking an introduction class and clearly forgot what it was like to be in your first couple of months of learning music. It is like learning calculus from the math instructor that thinks some of the steps are so obvious that he can skip them forgetting he has a PhD in math. +Excelent material... great videos, great motivation and a great teacher!!! +Great for the very start in music theory and practice. +Thank you very much for the very enjoyable and very educational experience. I Love it! +Great Course!! +This course was absolutely amazing! Developing my musicianship has me making up songs left and right now and I absolutely love it! +Great course for not only beginners but also somewhat experienced as it it super easy to understand and with very nice instructor. Great assignments which help you get back to all the basic. Strongly recommended. +Exactly what i was looking for +This course was a good use of time for me as I didn’t have much back ground in music theory.I now know how to construct a major and minor scale with any root. I’m also able to use those scales to build a number of chords to help guide improvisation.I found the ear training exercises to be a fun way to develop my musical awareness. I found them a little annoying because when I would go back to try them again my answers from the day before were still there. +It's a good foundation for music theory. This assumes that the student can read notes, or encourages self-help in that area, otherwise. +This is a great course. +it is so good, so interesting, so informative! +Great instructor!The content is basic and with appropriately narrow scope of theory and applications. +Very good for beginner. I learn a lot. +So far, I have been learning a lot from this course! my musical knowledge has definitely been improving. +George is the best teacher ever!!! It is my favourite Course at Coursera. Thanks to George, I have learned to differ musical intervals and the basics of improvisation. First I use to doubt, whether the ear training really does work. I had no music school education experience. After some few lessons I was so suprised, when I saw my progress and good results. I understood that the simple methods really work. When you have a slowdown, and you cannot go further (like I use to do) just trust George and try again and again. It will work. You do not have to be a professional musician to succeed in this course.George, it was wonderful to meet you at the beginning of my music career. Thanks a lot!!! +Perfect course +Cannot do the test without pay... +The best teacher I've seen for music. :) +absolutely amazing and i am soooo glad that i have chose to learn this!! +That is extraordinary. Loved it completely! The teacher is such a sweetheart, He is such a joy to listen and work (even online) with ! Great course! +Thank you Coursera. I'm really happy to have a course with Berklee, I'll keep going to learn more at . +This is an excellent intro course. The instructor clearly had a lot of fun preparing videos, and it's contagious. There is a high-level of polish here - even pacing, helpful study guides, solid video production values and active teaching assistant in the forums. I learned a lot in this class, but aside from that it was just a good time :). +One, flat three, four - five, flat seven, one! +This course is a great introduction to music theory. I have been playing by ear for a long time and i now finally understand some of the things that i did before. I recommend this course to those that one to get a good foundation in music. +This course whet my appetite for some more Berklee courses. Definitely recommended to musicians who would love to improve their craft. Thanks, Coursera and Berklee! +This is a really great course. It's broadened my scope of music a lot. I never use to think much of Jazz and Blues, but I've really got an appreciation for it now. :) +Very motivating and easy to follow. I enjoyed every lesson of the course. +Great Teacher and Pianist! +I learned so much in so little time. I actually impressed a musician friend of mine when I rattled off and showed him all the chords I learned on the keyboard. I played a 12 bars blues riff on the keyboard, tracked it, and then played a melody and tracked that and made an mp3. I cannot say enough. If I ever have the honor of meeting the professor who taught this course I will tell him I learned more about music in 6 weeks with his superb methods of instruction than I ever did in other courses. I am trying to save up money so I can take an official Berklee online course. This course was awesome! It truly showed why Berklee is in a class by itself. +I'm going to the 3rd week and I'm already loving it, the teacher is great, the videos are not so long, but very effective. LOVE IT! +Great course, the teacher made every lesson fun and interesting. +And intro to theory made fun and practical. The ear training is fantastic. Love Berklee's approach. Thank you! :) +Because I did not purchased the course, I was not able to do the quizzes, however I learned something about the Blues. +If you are doing this course, for a little preparation for Berklee's Audition. You're doing right. Everything you learned here, is everything they will ask you to do at the audition! +This course is excellent for a beginner like me. I'm loving everything about it - the content, structure, not to mention the instructor's charismatic style. This is a much appreciated opportunity to learn and understand music theory from someone who has such obvious passion for music. +I can already feel the revival of this course. This is going to change lives! +Learned the trend of latest Pharma industry and review the basic concepts in drug discovery +The course presents the basic concepts of DD and allows familiarization with the technical terms of the field. I strongly recommend for those who want to understand a little bit of DD. +The course was interesting, enjoyable and easy to comprehend. +The course has given a strong understanding of how the drug discovery process works with expert presentations by Dr. Williams Ettouati, Dr. Bourne & Dr. Stephen Burley. Thanks to Skaggs School of Pharmacy and ofcourse to Coursera for making it possible. +Awesome Course! Interesting speakers! +It is an amazing course. It reflects and relates to the most latest aspects of drug discovery. +Now I can see the complexicity of a drug design porcess. The course helped me to see the most important steps of drug discovery and drug construction. +Excellent overview. I had to dust of my orgo hat for one of the lectures. +A very informative and highly interesting course giving a high level condensed overview of the Pharmaceutical Industry, the key chemical and biological components of drug development and key concepts of pharmacokinetics and dynamics. +Very nice course. It helps you understand the importance of the new discovery methods and how the industry is changing. +Excellent course. Goes through the initial efforts to rationally get to new therapeutic molecules, then the testing and screening to maximize the chances of success, and finally the routes of administration with allusion to pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. +very useful, very practical. The professors told nice stories. +Although overall the course is interesting, it is clear that it has not been designed for MOOC format. A clear structure for learning lacks, and some of the lectures seem to be more about the people talking about their own work than trying to convey general concepts in the drug discovery field. I think the course would benefit from more structure in the way the lessons are presented, starting with a more general outline of what a good drug is etcetera. However, there are some interesting concepts I can take along in my further studies, but I am slightly disappointed. +Some lectures were quite interesting but the generel course level is very low. Furthermore, I think several topics is missing which I believed the course would cover like GLP Tox, CMC, IND filing and the topics which are covered should be covered in more depth. +Very good pharmaceutical chemistry overview course! +such an intriguing and exciting course. I have really learnt a lot. Thanks very much. +Great! +Very Good !! +Good information +Simply excellent. A brilliant 360º vision of trading food & beverages products from a very professional point of view. Highly recommended. +The course is very well structured to achieve the goals. The teacher is charismatic and very well founded. His style is clear and appealing, with great examples. I have learned so much from this course, and I will recommend to friends in the Marketing world. It was better than many of my MBA courses!! Thank You and Congratulations!! +Thanks! +Great course on geology +I enjoyed taking this course, very simple and clear information. +Videos are very well-designed and informative +very useful course. +great course +The lessons were pretty good and definitely focused on teaching. The assignment though was by far my favorite part. I think I might continue to do my own research on local geologic features just because of how much fun I had doing it for the class. +I highly recommend this course if you have enthusiasm for structural Geology, and have taken intro-level Geology courses. The resources available are current. The class is helpful for Earth Science educators as it reviews the new teaching standards, and the lectures are specific to the research done by the AMNH Scientists leading the course. I especially enjoyed the field assignment and reviewing others from around the world. A great course! I just wish it would have been longer! +well presented, I would have liked more Information on teaching geoscience though +Excellent course. Required some corollary reading, but basically supplied all materials required to meet course outline requirements. +Great course for people who are passionate about Geography and Geology! +Excellent Course! Great educators! +I FOUND THIS COURSE VERY USEFUL. BEING A STUDENT OF GEOLOGY, THIS COURSE WILL HELP ME IMPROVE MY KNOWLEDGE OF GEOLOGY. +so far i have completed week 1 course its quite interesting, and feel like reading a research thesis +Some interesting topics and detailed insight, but the course could be more systematic. +I liked the course very much, it could focus more on teaching metods during the assigments, but still give us a good material, tips and resourses to engage teaching practices. +I am a geologist, however, I found the course very useful! Very good job! Congratulations! +Great course for Teachers or those, like me, who want to gain general knowledge. I like the diversity of reading, video content and quizzes and the aspects of geology that were covered. +Interesting and tips for teaching are very useful! +Great course until now. +I wish I new it before my job interview . +This course gave me a great understanding of the history of political ecology ; it's also a clear introduction to the current total depletion of resources and to the transformation the earth system is living. Thank you ! +It's an excellent course that gives me the whole view of the disease and the nrw treatments and aproaches +very good course +This was very detailed course on Diabetes +Good course. Challenging, detailed and academic. Suitable for people with basic grasp of human biology, in particular metabolic functions, as well as research methods. +Excellent course, I would like more courses from this University. +its a wonderful course to learn the basic knowledge of diabetes. the course design is wonderful and it never looks boring. One of the best online course. +The certificate doesn't show hours per week and the topics we did during the course. I paid for an empty paper. +A wonderful course which provides complete grasp of the global challenge called diabetes. The videos are very lucid and every tutor give their lecture to the point. Lectures are down to earth. They are all very short and sweet (non-diabetic!). I would recommend it to any one. +Love it. +An excellent course, very nice learning experience.. +GOOD COURSE +i really enjoyed this course. We should be more carefully with the food we eat ad its quality.Thanks for this great course. +Very informative and richly educative course. I rate this course 5 star.Dr. Aloysius O. Ikwuka, MD +i really wait that moment to receive the certificate because it was very long course +Well organized course +One of a kind, course on diabetes. It contains few levels of difficulty. Weeks 1 & 2 can be passed without watching the lectures at all. Weeks 3 and 4 are some serious molecular science,presented by the top head on this course Jens Juul Holst in perfect English. So far, so good. Week 5 is somewhat easier than previous weeks. +I enjoyed the course very much. It's solid, updated, and fun! +Excelent course, complete, including information about new drugs and studies for treatment, well explained, it requires time and attention, totally worth it! +Very usefulModified easy way of learning and understandig the course subject +It looks great!!! +Excellent course with invaluable knowledge to review and update the current concepts regarding to Diabetes +nice and informative one. +A complete overview about the theoretical and new approaches considering Diabetes in the world. +This is a great course to know the basics of glucose metabolism and insulin action, what changes lead to diabetes and what current treatments exist and what more developments can be made. I learnt a great deal. +Great course with full of knowlege +A real learning process. Well explained and easy to follow! +very informative and interesting course. However it was mind bogglingly confusing about what was exactly required for the final assignment. Please be clearer next time! +Very informative course - I knew nothing about diabetes before, now I learnt quite a bit for my needs. Struggled at times with some tutors' English but subtitles always helped. Highly recommended course! +Excelent knowledge source +Very interesting courses, maybe a little difficult for me because I'm not a doctor and English is not my first language. Anyway I enjoyed taking this course very much and I recommend it to anybody interested in Diabetes. +Great instructors and excellent course! +state of the art coursei enjoyed it to the last piecemany thanks for the staff and coursera +Good one! +Interesting and concise! +great one but my certificate is over .... I just enrolled for a second time just to learn about the research advanced without sending homework and my passed certificate is over .... +Really, new informations but I wish you to present more about drugs.Thank you +This course is comprehensive and has a heavy focus on the latest science advances +nice, informative, update new techs, research, and easy to understand +Complex and cutting edge! +One of the best courses I Have had.. Thank you professors for this effort.. And for the updated, well presented Data, and the passion from the professors. +I am loving this course! +amazing course.....i am currently started working on diabetic retinopathy. This is course is helping me a lot. +Great +I WOULD LIKE MORE COURSES LIKE THIS, A LOT OF INFORMATION AND GOOD TEACHERS +This course was fabulous. I was recently diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, and the information that is available to the general public on this disease provides little, if any, factual information on what the disease is, how it is caused, and why certain treatments, such as diet and exercise, work. This course was taught at a level that was challenging but it gave me the information I have been looking for. The sections on treatment options will be particularly helpful for me as I discuss my situation with my doctor. +too much speciific details that make the course difficult to understanding. +The contents seem to start in a more informative than scientific way, but then it is a great course as the weeks go by! +DEBERIA TENER SUBTITULOS EN ESPAÑOL PARA QUE ASI FUERA DE MAS FACIL ACCESO PARA TODOS. +Excellent course material and challenging assignments. Really informative . Five star course ! +This course has a high quality, I highly recommend it to any public and especially to medical personal. +As a medical student I find this course pretty easy. +extremely good +As an aging American I have a personal interest in Type 2 Diabetes, and before taking this course have always felt that the information I had access to was too simplistic to be of use to me for understanding the mechanisms of the disease so that I could best optimism my diet and lifestyle to potentially avoid or delay contracting it. Along with alleviating the specific ignorance I just described, this course treated me to a comprehensive overview of the current state and future prospects for the epidemiological, laboratory research, translational medicine, and treatments using novel medicines and stem cell technology. It was beyond perfect for my needs. I am a huge fan of Coursera. ( If anyone is interested in the Gut Microbiome, Recommend another Coursera offering: "Gut Check...") +Interesting, informative +A great course. A complete overview of diabetes. +great course enjoying it is one everyone should join to create awareness about Diabetes and the health benefits of regular exercise +Highly appreciate the info I get from this course. +I loved the SQL lessons in this course. There were lots of examples to practice. +Very useful +The course was very helpful +Great +Good course +Well designed course to understand basic concepts and execute in project. +pretty challenging. Compact delivery. +Awesome content ,very well drafted and explained course content. I am thankful to the coursera team, who has discovered such kind of really good course and specialization. +Had a great experience +It was amazing, I am satisfied with all the knowledges I had acquired. Congratulations to Michael Mannino. +Excellent Lessons taught by Prof. Maninho. Big Thanks. +Great +Thank you for amazing knowledge +This course was very exciting, a little bit difficult, but interesting. Thank Professor +great course +Enjoyed learning about the Rate to Ratio and Cumulative Distribution fuctions +Great course. It helped me to expland my knwoledge in query structure. +Excellent Contents for concepts explained with sample queries and assignments. It is really amazing to go thru all the new concepts within such a short time frame. +Thank you for this well prepared and presented course.the assignment were very useful to test and validate our understanding of the course materials. I also liked the opening question and the answer at the end. +If you have Oracle installed from previous classes, there is very little setup required. If not, give yourself ample time to install/configure it. Assignments take MUCH longer than the quoted 30 minutes. +Yet again, professor Michael Mannino presents a very well prepared course that achieves optimal results in limited time. in this course, he ties everything together from the first two courses and gives good practice with real world requirements.just putting these courses on my CV helped me to get my first job with Data Warehouses. and then i found myself well prepared for the challenges of my new job. THANK YOU! +Nice course, would be nice to have more exercises and more elaborated, but fair enough! +Good course for improving working with SQL in Data Warehouses +This is another very good and useful, hands-on course. I am looking forward to Course 4 in the Specialization. +Excellent Professor and good lesson +I am very disappointed in this specilization/course. I am working as a business analyst in a data warehouse consulting firm, so I was highly motivated to take all the courses! However, lecturer's poor delivery has taked me aback! It is really hard to grasp the information when it has simply been read to you! The lecturer is always reading and it makes me sick (sorry!). Anyway, I would not continue with the courses if nothing changed. In my opinion, if the lecturer respects students and his field of study, he does not READ from the script and lack motivation... +Those courses are very well prepared. The instructor are clear and concise. The practice is super good for self-evaluation prospective. +thanks +I really enjoyed this specialization. +Presenters with deep multiple layers of experience and confidence in their value. Clarity of highlighting specific points for presentations of this length. Obvious each person could spend days speaking about these topics. Thank you. +Most of this course felt inconsequential, unhelpful, and not worth the money. I'd condense some of the commonsense aspects into other sections of the course and eliminate the 20-40 minutes of filler videos. +I took onus with a number of ideas/concepts offered, simply because they are either misrepresentative of SM or untrue. First, the the "prof" who talked about visuals OVERPLAYED the role of visuals online. The Internet began as a text communications vehicle, not a medium to share graphics (etc). The rise of video, images only grew as the technology evolved to allow easy distribution. Words are still key online--are there ANY websites major who do not use words? In fact, for many of the good ones, visuals take a secondary role to the actual written content. Second, the section about joining a community and then faking your way to gaining credibility by posing as a newbie etc--especially by marketers--is highly reviled by many SM communities. As an INFLUENCER who has been approached by many marketers in the past decade "to help them understand something" (etc) I can tell you, we do suss you out quickly and treat you appropriately. We are not here to provide free consulting to make you feel or look competent or knowledgeable (as we would for real members of a community). I contacted a friend who's an influencer in different communities to me, with what your "expert" suggested. He, too, was not happy with what was in this unit. If you want to know why marketers have a bad rep? It's because of bad advice given in webinars like this one. I am so glad I did not pay for this course. +I got a solid foundation in Content Strategy and already see results in my work. The information I learned taking this MOOC helped me to come up with an insightful proposal at work! I am thankful for every minute I spent in this course. +I love this course! They really went in on different content in this one. Definitely recommend to content creators. +I simply love you guys! That explains everything +The project for this course, as with all in the specialization, really emphasized the learning. The peer review did, too. +Nowhere near as useful as the first two courses. The assignment did not feel particularly relevant to the bulk of the course materials. +I didn't like the assignment; it did not make me think of the taught theory, or teach me any kind of practical skill. However, the rest of the course was good. +please open capstone soon +Great and interesting! +This course is good, but I think should it be split in two parts because of density of material presented. +its a good course to enhance our skills +The professor is very good. He explains very complex mathematical concepts very clearly and simply +i like the way of teaching .This subject is very useful to for me .Its related to broad casting side .And how to maintain keying in electronic media to visualize the picture clarity .I appreciate that are using chrome keying . I thankful to you sir .This subject helpful for my further studies . Thank you . +very good course +Extremely great course. For one who has had knowledge about this subject, the still feel a llittle bit hard to understand some mathematical material.And I think we need more homework to comprehend this course +super course Fundamentals of Digital Image and Video Processing +Great course on image and video processing. I learned many interesting techniques that will be very useful in my academic research. The instructor is very knowledgeable, and I'm looking forward to starting other courses with coursera. I highly recommend this course for anyone who wants to understands from the basics to the most modern methods in image and video processing. +Really a great course, with focus on the concepts and mathematics of image processing . More academic type course rather than a hands on one. Less weight given to video processing. I wish there was a bit more programming and practical assignments to accompany this compendium of DSP knowledge .Thanks alot! +Good course, could have provided more examples and more elaboration regarding the fourier transform. Good instructor who is knowledgeable about this field. Might be better to introduce tutorials that go through selected problems step by step. Thanks very much and all the best. +The course has been quite interesting, I have learned many things, which I will certainly apply in my work.thanks. +Self explanatory, good assignments, very helpful +It is a well structured course covering a lot of ground that is certainly worthy of your time. The only aspect that I found could do with some improvement was the practical side: the programming exercises could have been a bit more challenging or rather they may have demonstrated the more advanced or state-of-the art techniques rather than focusing only on the basics. I recommend this course to everyone working with images and video. +Well worth the time. Topics are clearly explained most of the time. I was getting a bit lost in the math towards the very end (last couple of weeks), but even though details were hazy, I think the general concept was conveyed well. The labs could be a bit more insightful for a few of the weeks but were overall good. +It is a very nice course and I learn a lot from it. If there are much more exercises about matlab programming, which can improve our application abilities, I think it would be better. +It's a great course although it'll probably make you go back to math very often but in the end you'll feel so happy because all the parts starts to make sense, I mean, you can understand mostly of what happens behind the scene (in digital video/image processing) and you read books to deepen your knowledge. +Very useful +Great course. Learned some basic as well as most recent knowledge and technologies about image and video processing. The test and programming task using matlab is very suitable for begineers. Professor Aggelos K. Katsaggelos is a good teacher. +Very good course. +gives full understanding of digital image and video processing +Good course, I only recommend to incorporate mini projects per week, ...Thankyou +I work for a software company, and develop image processing software. I think this course covers pretty much a wide range of digital image and video processing field. Assignment are moderate, well solved with lectures and materials only. You would have a comprehensive skills and knowledge you need to get into this field after finishing this course. +I enjoy the intensity and pace of curriculum offered in this course. The materials presented were comprehensive and relevant. +An exceptional course from a world-famous professor. The quality of presentations is of top level, the explanations are crystal clear and the examples are many and relevant. I feel lucky to have been a student of prof. Katsaggelos. +It is a very educative course. I like image processing and really enjoyed the course. The only suggestion that I like to give is to switch speaking pace or pitch time to time to keep the audience listening. It is hard to focus on a voice that does not (or try not to) have up and downs or excitement. +I cannot understand what the teacher says because of the accent, in the first time I thought it's not a problem but actually I was. +The professor gave instructions in a clear and logical way. I benefited greatly from this course. +I would like to study this course. So, It is giving me more knowledge. +The Course is very informative and definitely a good basic course to image and video processing. However, I felt that linking the course modules with python snippets for examples will help the people who work in the related fieds. Thank you. +Tremendous amount of information. Instructor often says "this will become less mathematical from now on!" when in fact it doesn't. Exact literature references are missing for later chapters. Still very useful material. +it must be 5 starts！ +Quizes were poorly worded. +Excelent introductory course to the subject of video and image processing, highly recommended! +Quite a good course. I just wished a free programming language being used in place of Matlab. +nice class! +It was great!! +Very nice course I learned new things. Thanks for the Coursera team and community. +I think the teacher should speak more clearly, he has a strong accent, however, the materials and contents in this lessons are pretty good. +This class is far too theoretical and abstract. You only have to get 50% to pass the quizzes, which indicates how difficult it is to understand the material. +Very good overview of theory, specific algorithms, and some practice of application in MATLAB. There's a lot of material to cover and the videos are longer, requiring self-pacing throughout the individual lectures. Some of the weeks are very challenging. Extracurricular study, practice and implementation helped in areas where I had yet to encounter supporting material and/or prerequisites. +Excellent but need more challenging questions both in theory and programming part. +Course lessons are good,informative and easy-to-follow. +This is an excellent course to get to understand the principles of image and video processing. However, this is not a course to take lightl. If your goal is to learn, you'll spend AT LEAST 5-7 hours/week (especially between weeks 5-9) if you want to get all the juice out of it. +A good course, with a tremendous amount of information. I would suggest to split it up to (at least) two courses. Prof. Katsaggelos is very enthusiastic, the summaries in the beginning and in the end are useful. Maybe, it would be helpful for the students to summarize the necessary mathematical knowledge for this course, because this topic is really colorful in mathematical point of view. As a mathematician, I really enjoyed that, but an outsider may not feel the same. All in all, if somebody learns all of the topics, he/she will have a very strong basis in this topic. +Good course! +The only disadvantage which i've noticed in this course, is that the examples shown in the lesson are not correct number-wised,which make a little-bit confusion to the students.for example,the critical and oversampling slides, the shown sampled picture is totally independent to the frequency domain shown beside. +As an amateur in this field, I realy enjoyed the course. It provides broad review of the subject. The mathematical details are not perfected, which caused me disorientation in week 7. Nevertheless, the main principles are very well explained intuitively. +This course material and the way of teaching of guide was awesome. I have learnt a lot from this course. I was newcomer for image and video processing, knowing not much. But finally learnt a lot , Now I am very happy and relaxed +Very complete. +The course has a good content. I wish there was an active participation by the mentors on the discussion forum. +The material is very unclear. +I am a Robotic and Machine Learning Person. I needed to know about the fundamental of Image Processing and Video Processing for some projects that I am working on. And joining this course is really really addressing my needs +Quite allright for an introductory course to image processing! But to really understand the course, one needs to have experience in basic DSP and statistics. Otherwise, many of material won't be as clear. +This is one of the best introductory courses on image processing. The lectures are very good and cover a large variety of topics.The only thing that I didn't like about this course is that the homework problems do not cover all the content. The programming problems should be designed to be more challenging. +It covers all the fundamental knowledge of digital image and video processing +that is awesome course . but , there is not any support from staffs (for example in answering in discussion ) +it's a good material and nice professor, but sometimes the material is rather theoretical. Some lessons are very heavy with details and very basic practice excercises. I was missing deeper excercises that cover more of the studied material +Very useful for my research +I was disappointed by the lack of response from teachers to the consultations +MUY BUEN CURSO, SUPER PRACTICO Y SE ENTIENDE YA QUE LA EXPLICACION DE PARTE DE LOS PROFESORES +Muy buen pensum me gusto mucho +It is a good introductory course. It can be included an application project to practice the concepts learned, in order to improve this course. +the best +An useful and amusing intro to Arduino +Very good course with people that seems to love to teach this subject. +Great course, congrats. +i´m learnng a lot, and in my own way.Gracias Coursera. +This is one of the best courses which you can approach to understanding Russian economics, particularly its contemporary challenges and also a bridge to know the transition era! +A very well structured course. It was a real occasion to develop and increase my personal historical and economical skills. Not only about Russia but also compare to other countries. The internal informations about Russia were really precise and it was easy to understand that researches behind were really strong.Thank you. +Thanks for this very innovative approach to understand Russian economy from an historical point of view. If you're interested in International Relations and Geopolitics of Russia this course is definitely well-made for you ! +Poor delivery, very hard to listen. Lector uses too many buzz words like "em", "am". This is not a live lecture so it could be worth practicing and recording a clean quality speech. For example, lectures from the week 2 are unbearable to listen. +It is too simplified to get a real view of the 90's economic situation , especially the 91-93 years.To talk about transition between A and C , better to talk about A and not only about B and C.It is an useful course for general knowledge of Russia , it as a start , for more accurate analyses I could advise this ( in russian) :https://openuni.io/course/2/and thathttps://openuni.io/course/3/ +Very interesting course. I have significant insights from it. +i liked a lot but im still to learning +So great course! +This course is just AMAZING! I am a composer and I found myself astonished of how much I was lacking, yet, the quizzes translations, man, are so bad, must of the time those where "Straight trough" translations that are complete meaningless on Spanish, it's like they simply used Google translate. You might think "it is not THAT bad", well there are sections that ask you to determine stability based on the length of the line... good luck with that (Spanish usually takes more words to write the same idea) +Its really helpful to learn such course from coursers. Amazing experience :) +I have learned so much. I hope I can help some kids around here. Many thanks for teaching us, you both are great. +It's an excellent way to help our students and to improve our teaching and learning skills. +This course provides a good overview of the topic. +Wonderful course for teachers to help children facing reading difficulties. +Found this course very useful as a teacher. +An exceptional course with extremely well thought out information and cleverly laid out modules that guide you through the complex information. +This course was very helpful to me as a teacher. I can identify a child with dyslexia and help him\her in reading and writing. I am also very grateful to Vincent and Jenny (our facilitators) for motivating the participants for their active involvement. I want to know the way to get the certificate for the course done. Your help on the above will be highly appreciated.RegardsMuskan +This course is wonderful. I have 3 kids with dyslexia. I am learning so much about characteristics, additional difficulties and strategies to support them. I recommend this class to everyone. Make sure you have a notebook you will have a ton of notes. Best Coursera course I have taken as far as information goes. +Excellent course, very well structured, explained and with loads of practical and useful tips. +Amazing course! Clear, structured presentation of material. +it was difficult but when you have decided this is what you need to boost your career, than no matter what you will go through it. +I really learnt an incredible amount from Jenny and Vincent! I will review the videos from time to time and use them to help me improve what I do. +I am a tutor working with special children, I find it easy when i adapt with the child in his way always reminding him that he is capable of doing things, not fast and rashly, but slow and smartly. i keep boosting them to read aloud sound the words and put them down I have found it easier to cope with their studies by translating in the medium they know best , repetitive reading,, selecting key words and putting them down in writing. I have learnt a lot from this course and yes the professors were awesome in their lectures. it has bettered my way of approach to assessing them. +This was one of my first online courses. I admit that I was little nervous at first when faced with Peer Reviews, Uploading documents, and facing deadlines, but I found it all to be quite beginner friendly! I was also happy to realize that many of the suggested methods of teaching were already being used by teachers in the school where I work. Second Semester begins on Tuesday, I am ready to 'hit the ground running'! +thank you for this amazing course +The course presents you with clear and structured information and guidance about supporting students facing specific types of learning difficulties. The quizzes are a good way to identify knowledge gaps and prompted me to seek clarification. +A very straight-forward course for those who want to know how to help Dyslexic children in a short time. +Lots of information packed in this course. I benefited a lot by doing this course. Thank you for putting together such a wonderful course. +I definitely loved this course. It is the most informative course I have ever attended. Great ideas, hard work, difficult assignments;) .. everything was taken so serious and to be honest I sometimes felt bein nervous of not being able to pass it so easily.I love the way both lecturers provide the informative lectures. It has greatly influenced my daily practice whhile working with children at risk of Dyslexia.Wish you the bests. +It is an excellent course for parents and teachers who support dyslexic children! +As a not native English teacher I encourage you to get into this course. Is extremely complex and accurate. GOOD sources and research material. Excellent educators as well!!! +This was a challenging course that provided helpful information. Well worth the time and effort. +Very helpful every teacher should try it ! +Very helpful and informative course. I love it! +A must for anybody involved with education. Highly recommended for parents also. +To +Absolutely wonderful overview of how to support poor readers or dyslexics. Great for teachers and parents who want to learn the nuts and bolts of dyslexia in order to help their students/children read. Especially loved the book on how the brain learns to read! Easy to understand and tremendously interesting. +Extremely useful and inspiring course. Thank you Jenny and Vincent for chance to peep into learner's head. I hope I will help my students to master English. +A wonderful, well organized, and very informative course. Dr. Jenny and Dr. Vincent have presented the course in a very simple and engaging manner. There are plenty of demonstrations that are very helpful. +I loved this course! It held my interest and I found that the information was delivered in a well structured manner with additional reading links and supporting documentation provided. +Really enjoyed the course. The materials were very well presented and well paced. +I found this course extremely helpful. I was able to build on my existing knowledge and feel more confident in talking to the teachers and parents regarding my students who are facing difficulties in literacy and in particular reading. +Thanks a lot! I do learn a lot from this course, and I'm sure will take more lessons like this. +It was very helpful to take this course as it gave me an insight to understand and look closely at the indications which will guide me in the future to deal with children who are normally labelled as 'slow', 'not focused', 'has lack of concentration' etc. The course gives a detailed understanding towards the psychological aspects and directs teachers to engage and encourage such children.I sure feel more equipped to handle such scenarios in the future. Would appreciate if more videos of real classroom training can be added! All the best! +Excellent structure, resources, information, use of research +Informative and intensive course. +I did this course as a parent of a dyslexic child. I thought it was brilliant and I made pages and pages of notes. It is well organised, engaging, and informative. I really liked the two presenters as well. They both seemed passionate about the topic and modeled good teaching in their explanations and advice. That said, I thought the assessment part of the course simply didn't work. It was far too narrow for anyone besides primary teachers and therefore excluded those who might be doing the course for other reasons. It doesn't matter to me, I don't need the certificate and I got a lot out of the course but for others it would be frustrating, I imagine. The quizzes too, for the most part, were a disaster. They were poorly written, confusing, and dishearteningly obscure. Otherwise, I loved this course and hope you will offer a follow up soon. +Really Informative. Information clear, functional and well delivered. Thank you! +superb!!! Perfect strategies to learning and preparation to test. +I am not a praticioner in this field but this course has allowed me to become fluent in the main theoretical framework and the issues concerning dyslexia. It has been very interesting! +Done it and got the certificate. I love this. This course will definately help me with job. +Very imformative +I really found this course really interesting and helpful for my career. +Just the best.Ana R. Pelayo. +Lo mejor... the best! +I understood the topic very well. +Interesting and useful to a degree, but I was looking for something a little more challenging. In addition, the quizzes were far too easy. +Excellent explanations, simple and accuracy. Both teachers are very qualified. +I would recommend this course to all educators since it has already helped me a lot +This course has been really helpful in forming my views in many arena especially dyslexia of course.a Big Thank You for reforming my views. +I found this course to be extremely informative, filled with the latest research findings and recommendations to assist those working with dyslexic learners to improve reading comprehension and writing. I have a better understanding of dyslexia, exspecially the psychological and neurological aspects. I have learned how the English language has evolved (opaque) and the challenges this presents to those with dyslexia. This course if filled with suggestions on how to make a learning environment more inclusive for those with dyslexia, incorporating multisensory teaching methods and explanations of the different learning styles, including planning to adjust to working memory capacity of learner. I highly recommend this course- don't miss it! +challenging but so worth it and learned so much! +A very informative, comprehensive course. +I haven't quite completed this course yet (the end is in sight!) but I want to report how challenging and worthwhile it has been. I have had a lot of my questions answered and I am inspired to read and review the content again as I am sure I will understand a lot more. Thank you. +Excellent course for beginners and specialists alike. I have worked with students with learning difficulties for over 8 years and still found the information presented in this course to be up to date, practical and very informative. The tutors, Vincent and Jenny, are extremely prepared and knowledgeable. They make the information easily accessible and relevant for those who work with students with difficulties. The course staff is quick to respond to any queries. I highly recommend the course for anyone interested in specialist work or supporting students. +This course gave me a great insight into how the mind of my dyslexic son works and good hints to help him succeed in the classroom. +This is an excellent course for teachers who want to better understand and support children with reading difficulties. The content of the course encompasses all of the main aspects of concern and the references to the research provides a springboard to further study in this area. Many thanks to Jenny and Vincent for making this course informative and interesting. +Not very well put together. It marked some answers as wrong that were actually correct. +This is a very nice overview of the research behind dyslexia. I would have liked additional teaching suggestions, rather than having the class be primarily about research and screening. +THIS COURSE IS ONE OF THE BEST COURSES I HAVE EVER DONE ONLINE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING UP WITH SUCH A WONDERFUL COURSE +very informative, research oriented. it includes multiple perspectives.enjoying it! +A very very helpful course that gives practical solutions in a classroom and school-wide setting. It was structured well and easy to follow. If I had one comment, it would be that some of the quizzes did not line up with the course so well (you had to study ahead to answer questions). Other than this, really worth the amount of time spent studying! +As a teacher, I found this course to be most helpful. Especially because as I got the to section on co-morbidities, one of my own students was diagnosed with Discalculia and had I not been doing this course I would have had a very limitdd understanding with which to guide the child's parents, as well as assist the child herself. +This is the best course I've ever done on Coursera. It's not just watching some videos, but actually studying the topic and getting challenged. I'm taking so much away for my work. Thanks a lot for all this enthusiasm and professionalism! +This course is very important and useful. I learnt a lot for my future experience.Thanks a lot for coursera! !! +Excellent! Incredibly rich lectures, knowledgeable staff/instructors and great resources provided. I learned a great deal from participants as well in the discussion forum from students all over the world. Thank you so much for providing this opportunity. +i gain a lot of knowledge! it is well organized and the teacher are experts!! +Excellent course very informative would recommend to teachers and parents. +I am just halfway on this course but I'm already learning a lot of things. I am becoming more aware about all the factors and interventions that a child diagnosed with dyslexia needs.A big thanks to all the persons who enable this free online course. It is very helpful and convenient to study. +It's interesting,,, +In my view this course is well structured and it focuses on business topics. I highly recomend do it. I'm an spanish native speaker and in my opinion with B1/B2 level you can follow it without any problem +the course content was good to improve business writing +Very well explained and easy to follow.Learnt a lot from this course +Thank you +I am very happy that courses like this are now online.I thank Coursera team to facilitate the course. +very good course +It was the worse experience I have so far on Coursera Platform; the course itself was sloppy and with nearly zero content. The instructors spent too much time telling you what you will learn and talking too slowly as if wanting to fill in the gaps than actually having some worthy material prepared for all the "pupils" out there, who gave their time, effort, and commitment. Pity really. +Good course. Excelent material but the girl of the videos speaks too low, always need to put the volume at the maximum and somethimes also in that way I hardly can listen to her. +i think i need more time to finish this curse +very useful especially for non-native speakers. +This course made a big difference in my writing skill. +I find the videos are overly formal and traditional in their rhetorical style. But the course' main contents and Practices are still relevant. +I cannot say much about the content, as I`m not a native speaker and can`t really decide about the quality of the language used.I really appreciate that we have the possibility to join online-classes but this courses made me have mixed feelings.1) I missed a proper Introduction - even tho Week 1 had a brief Introduction, I felt from the beginning like I was thrown in thr middle of a class starting somehwere2) The animated clips are quite nice, but the power point presentations were really old-fashioned. I think it might look more professional if there`d be a modern design as well.3) The teachers are quite difficult to rate. But I actually felt like in point one, even tho I was listening and understand what they were talking about, I didn`t felt related to any certain situation or example. Again, I felt like joining a class in the middle of the course.4) Writing some words big, some words small. In Titles/Headlines I understand that, but why do they write words like "Negative or Highly Sensitive" big within a text or in another text "negative or highly sensitive" ? There are no things like nouns in english most of the times, so why? That doesn`t look really professional to me.5) Lessons mentioned that didn`t seem to happen, like in week 2 or week 3 they referred to a previous lesson which never happend?6) Paying for the Quiz. I understand I joined the free audit and I`m really thankful to have access to all the material. But reviewing a quiz without paying would be useful even for people who don`t pay. As I`d love to know which things I did correct or which words I could use instead. +Great course! Extremely useful material and interesting tasks. Highly recommended to those who learn English! +the outline of this program seems good +Thank you for giving me excellent information on digital manufacturing. It is very helpful course for me. Thank you The State University of New York and Coursera. +Superb Course and overall a great experience. +The methodology taught was awesome. I, being an Indian benefited a lot, truly. It was another platform to interact globally. +It is extremely contemporary and a very useful course! +I really enjoyed this course. Be prepared though that some of the assignments take substantial time to prepare, interviewing others. Don't just assume that each 'week' in the course plan will take you a week to complete. It would be useful to have a bit of warning up front in the course overview about which weeks have assignments that require more time. +What a great class! Thank you very much for all your work on this. It was a great learning experience. +doesn't show the videos. +I discovered a lot with this course, it made me understand a lot of things. +If you enter fully into the course and participate with gusto, you will learn and grow as a leader. +The ideas presented in the course are interesting, relevant, and impactful. I wish the course was a little less conversational; however, I thought it was valuable and sparked new ideas, thoughts, and behaviors. +I found this course intensely thought-provoking. I wish to revisit it again just to reflect over the conversations that were part of the active learning assessments. It helped me rethink the methods that I used as part of coaching conversations with my clients and mentees. The course has inspired me to strongly reconsider my social identity group and evaluate the relationship with my inner circle of partners and friends. +Very useful +This course is very very helpful. Simply just loved it. +Simply awesome! +This is a lot of work a lot of reading but what a great product ! Emotional Intelligence has been basterdized on the web and in some books, thanks to the team, this course re position where EI should be : Neuroscience. Thanks to the teamMA Bouchard, Quebec , Canada +A very nice course for self improvement. +I have learned a lot and I hope to be able to apply it, helping a lot of people. +One of the best course of my entire life. You will find yourself in a theraphy which will make you return for further investigations in the fields of EI, empathy, mindfulness and ideal self besides many other subjects. +This course requires that you already are a manager or are in a position very similar to a manager. More importantly, this course is filled with "neuro-babble". The fact that the hoax (by now debunked) of the "positivity ratio" and the "attractors of happiness" are still in the course and presented as fact is a big red flag. Not recommended. +Great theoretical approach to obtain leadership skills is described here, though a little bit more visualized info (those academic case studies in PDF are really difficult for comrehension) could make this course much more effective in terms of knowledge acquisition and accessible for wider audience +I thought the recorded lectures, the reading and the assignments were well designed and really helped me to get a lot out of the course. The tone and pace of the lectures was great and even though they are recorded, it felt almost as though Richard Boyatzis was lecturing live. The frequent reflections and assignments really helped to build a good foundation of understanding of inspiring leadership. +Very useful course for my self development +I thoroughly enjoyed this course as I am keenly interested in neuroscience and how it impacts behavior. Furthermore, I have always been interested in OD. Wish I could study further with the instructors. +Good content. Impressive style of teaching. Thanks for such wonderful and valuable course +Very interesting +I love this course..I highly recommend this course to people who are interested in Organizational Psychology. +thanks all of you, you changed my thinking , i never believe that emotion can have this important and grate impact on others +I enjoyed this course and thought the material was interesting and well-presented. I gave it four stars instead of 5 partly because so many of the exercises were geared to people who were in a traditional work environment and since I am currently in transition and trying to figure out my next career move, the exercises were not as readily applicable to me. I did all of them and tried to make them relevant to where I am in my life. I plan to continue with this series so I hope the remaining 3 courses are somewhat adaptable to my situation as well. I did think the instructor of this course seemed to have a real passion and joy for the subject and for life in general, so he was a good ambassador for the message of the course. Thank you! Feby Shen +Exceptionally brilliant +The exercises are not very interesting. The exercises initially focusses on identifying a leader who we have worked with but It should also focus on how am I as a leader, what is my level of emotional intelligence, how do I scale up basis some test etc. I lost interest in the course because it was more about seeing some one else as a leader than myself.There is a lot of research into the course yet it is too theoretical & not put in precise & interesting manner. The module needs to be shorter. +Outstanding Course.. +Really great; I learned a ton! I especially appreciated the neuroscience data that backs up the overall philosophy/theories. Prof. Boyatzis is really really great. His lectures are very engaging and never too long. I was able to fit this course into my busy schedule, and I took away a lot of relevant knowledge as well as new skills, both of which I used in my work immediately and still 6 months later. +One of the best courses I've ever taken on Emotional Intelligence. I can't believe how good this professor can teach! +Incredible course +one of the best course I did! if everyone at work could do this course it would be a way better place to work!!! +brilliant course. excellent teaching and content. +Instructors took to long to get to the point half-way through the course. +Amazing content, well presented, and very applicable to anyone who leads people. So much of what was covered resonated at a deep level for me. I return to this course again and again for inspiration, and I share and recommend it with many other friends and colleagues. +very good course for all managers +Great course! +Great, great course - extremely uplifting and thought provoking +Amazing track and outstanding facilitator +This is a great course where leaders can learn what it means to be emotionally attuned to their people in organizations. +Incredible material, readings and asigments. +Great Framework. Love to see more interview videos of people sharing their experiences of using the framework in their lives. +Richard Boyatzis is super! Each word is a brilliant.. Vary useful +Really excellent! Gave me a new model for thinking about how to think about and apply emotional intelligence. +Excellent teacher! +I think this course was excellent! Definitely more of a workload than I anticipated, but the information was excellent. I would have just preferred more notice about the assignment as I had to rush mine at the end! +Anything with Boyatzis in it is an incredibly valuable course! Love the way he explains the neuroscience of emotion, motivation, and group work. I use this so frequently working with young people and staff teams. +I liked it. It was an excellent course about my life's strengths. +This course is very complete, the readings are understandable and also the classes. It does require some more time comparing to other courses, but it's definitely worth it. I've learned so much i can't even believe it.The only thing i'd maybe change is in one of the modules (week 5) it's kind of confusing how to submit the results of a review of some essays. that's it. +An interesting and inspirational course on an important topic - how to build sound and resonant relationships with the people around you. +This course opened my eyes to many issues. It's really my first course in what I'd call, economics. +Great subject, (more than) perfect teacher ! +I very much enjoyed this course. However the tests at the end of each week were not always absolute answers. In many cases several answers could be considered as corect depending on political views. +The course was very interesting. The content was well explained, and the examples were very well done +A must do course for beginners who are interested to understand the underlying considerations behind formulating economic and redistribution policies of countries. +This course was AMAZING, very interesting and useful for professional and non-professionals people. Plus, the Professor Yoram Y. Margalioth make it so EASY and ENJOYABLE to understand thoroughly a complex issue. +Great course. Adds some good depth to how and why policies may be introduced. +From the fundamental basis of economic to applications to real life examples, best course ever! +Very useful until now +Very nice course. Specially, the art of teaching by the professor is one of the most significant attraction. Thank you Coursera & Tel Aviv University for this course. +Great course - even for someone who is a novice in the subject, the Professor presents the fundamentals in a clear, simple and concise manner. I had thought before doing the course that it would involve plenty of mathematical formulae and statistics, but such was not the case, elementary mathematical knowledge of high school level would suffice. Anyone who needs to know basics of how a welfare state should or should not operate, ought to do this course. +Great, thanks +Such a great teacher! Everything explained very clearly. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course. It was very informative. I would like to see more up-to-date data incorporated (I did this course in 2017 and the data used was current to 2013). The videos were clear and easy to follow and understand and the recommended reading materials were appropriate to the subject areas. +Good beginner course. A bit easy at times but informative and well taught. +Very informative course. +I like this course very much, it is simple but very illustrative. +This course is simple and informative. After learning this course one can go and speak about Energy in general, take part in discussion, and expand his further understanding.Thanks for providing this course-ware! +Needs to be updated. Also correct some errors. +I really enjoyed this course and learned a lot about the energy industry and issues facing the US based on energy resources. I have taken another course that involved writing reports, rather than just quizzes. I think that a more in-depth assessment for the course might improve it slightly. +The instructor rambled on when back on forth on topics and numbers too much and made the videos much longer than they needed to be. Some of the information is badly outdated like the electric vehicle driving range and hybrid vehicles only able to drive a mile with ou +Very Informative and exceptional course on understanding US energy scenario +I learned lot many things related with energy scenerion. Overall this course is good. +It was a good course in spite the fact that it was all about the situation of energy in us.Very goodTHanks +It was really a brilliant experience taking this course shared by coursera and Georgia Tech University. I learned so many new things about the energy sector like renewable energy sources, present energy scenario and efeective utilisation of energy sources. Everyone should go through this course for having a sound understanding of energy conversion and utilisation because as the name suggest it really presents the big picture of energy. +Got to learn many new things. I would recommend this as a must for an aspiring energy engineer. +it could be a little more challenging to pass the course, like a work group +It is a great course about a big picture of energy. +A good introductory course which provides a general overview of the the US Energy System. The delivery is clear and succinct.Could be expanded to cover the global energy system. +Good introductory course on energy. The data shown is 3 years old (2012-2013) but the trend analysis presented holds good for a long time. Professor is very practical minded. I gave it a 4 star because more coverage required on Nuclear Power. +The course material as presented appears to be at least four years old. History has proven many of Professor Shelton's conclusions to be wrong. Having Professor Shelton read his powerpoint slides is a very dull way to convey information. I expected more from Georgia Tech. +Very good course and complete... Best Regards, +Broken links for texts, typos, not updated data. I would like to find a course on global energy that I could start any day, like this one. +Not very motivating way of talking about the topic. Also it's getting old. He's lecture is sometimes colored like a stereotypical Texan. His extrapolations as flawed as those of the EIA. (Which by now can be seen with hindsight) +The course is a study case for the US. It would have been more interesting if it had presented an worldwide overview. Still, great job! +Under the time constraint, its a good summary! +A great course! I definitely recommend taking it to whoever is concerned about energy independence and climate change. Professor Shelton gives a solid overview of the facts that one needs to know to better compare current technologies and the emerg +Great course for getting a basic overview of energy worldwide. Highly recommended as a starting point and then focusing in the field you want to specialize. :) +Excellent course presented by Dr. Shelton, who provided the facts and the energy situation on 2013. For me was very informative and I am hoping that he can have the time and opportunity to present an updated course with the current energy market situation. +it's a good course actually for overview about energy but not for specialization +Excellent course! Dr. Shelton is an excellent instructor and the content is very insightful. +The material is very interesting and relevant; however very quickly outdated in this area. There are a few mistakes here and there in the lectures and the quizzes. +Information needs be updated especially with the changes just made in France 2015. It was a little slow and quizzes were often frustrating due to questions and answers not matching up, or info was not given in the lecture. Overall, since it was 101 and basic, I enjoyed learning the new information. +A short course providing the big picture of US energy. I enjoyed taking the course as it provided background information in all the main fields - technology, physics and economics. The course would be even more enjoyable if it concentrated less on US and more on the world at large. +Course material providing out-dated concepts. Argumentation throughout the course is shallow, many of the the current arguments are not mentioned - from both sides of the energy lobby (fossil & renewables). +what in Stalin's name is "tail that wags the dog"? +it is an excellent course for beginners. +In all it's a good course to know some basics, but the data and some of the informations are out of date. It seems most datas are from late 2012 early 2013, things have changed. +Thanks, Dr. Shelton, for this comprehensive +Really not good. I am trying to find out how to un enroll +Good course, but be aware of the 101 part. One of the minuses is that a lot of information provided in the course is about US (to be honest i expected more world related data) and the professor is not that emotional / interesting (sometimes monotoneous). +I like this course. It is my first full course on Coursera!!! +Very basic info suited for highschool students. Many errors in transcripts that you will just have to slog through. +Inaccuracies and low level of engagement. +Good info, but a bit outdated and dull. +Good if you want to fall asleep. The content is probably interesting, but they would have some use of advice from the entertaining industry. +Great class. At times I was lost, when he talked about alternative +It's great course. Give you broader picture of energy world. I would like to have a follow up course with focus on solar and wind energy. +Very good overview of US Energy and how the facts should shape policy +Great information for anyone who is not knowledgeable in Energy and P +Very practical.Sam, the lecturer is a likeable chap. +Teaches a lot of the basics but all the numbers are outdated (from 2013)there is minimal use of this being a video course. +This course is great! It is truly a perfect introduction to how the world acquires its energy sources and how the real impacts, social, economic and environmental, affect us. +The course content is very well organized. Every aspect of the topic has been covered with emphasis on the important factors. +Covers a lot of ground, but the quizzes don't always line up with the material, the prof speaks painfully slow (needed to speed it up) and the info is getting dated. +I'm unimpressed with the quality of the material and uninspired by the professor's video presentations. Out of the dozen or more courses here that I have taken, this one ranks at the bottom. I'm not going to disenroll at this time, but I have lost interest without even progressing beyond the first week. Maybe if I get inspired later, I will try again. +Fantastic course. Very eye opening. Some of the lies that are created from miscommunication from other agencies. When you dig into the weeds and it's presented the way it was in this course, it was very enlightening. I don't think people realize how much energy or a carbon foot print that they create in their day to day lives. Thank you. +It is a comprehensive course presented form a good expert in the field. The course added to my knowledge +First of all, thank you for the course, as it enables students to get a bit more up-to-date and knowledgeable in the topic.On the other hand, unfortunately it's not worth one's time as it didn't deliver very good quality, nor on its promise regarding "The Big Picture".Pros:Easy to understand.Self-paced.Objectivity and positive overall message.Cons:Overall quality and clarity of the lectures is not very good. Lectures are a bit hard to follow, not because of the complexity of the topic, but because of some controversial and outdated data, and the speaking and presentation style of the lecturer.Assignments contain too many trivial questions, but also some mistakes which makes some questions impossible to answer correctly, based on the lectures, or at all.No staff engagement or feedback on the forums, which is especially problematic regarding to aforementioned mistakes.The title and description of the course don't inform students that it is completely US-centric, and mostly concentrating on petroleum/oil. So along with a lot of important topics, "The Big Picture" is missing. +Excellent non-biased course, I reviewed it on my tablet and now going back through it again on my desktop! +great information +So far, the course is quite interesting. Also, since I am a 1968 graduate of Georgia Tech in Mechanical Engineering (now retired), I am very pleased to reconnect with Georgia Tech through this course. I worked in the Canadian nuclear industry (nuclear power plant design and supply) during my working career, so a course about the various forms of energy is of great interest to me. +Uncomparable. This course is worth 1000$$ atleast. +Got good understanding about energy demand, supply and its independence.Good content and lecture. +This is SO out of date that half of the information is irrelevant +Great and useful information. +Very interesting Course. I really enjoyed it. I learned not only traditional sources of energy (oil. gas, coal), but also got wise to alternative sources of energy (their future perspectives). Also it was interesting to hear about energy supply from economic point of view. +It is an exciting course available to us; It opens our mind about how difficult it is to change energy resources to renewable ones. I feel enthusiast, we will achieve together our goal .... a better world for everyone not only US population?! but all world population. +is not just a survey about energy and sustainabilityExcellent course! +The gives a deeper understanding of managing diversity and inclusion +I refreshed economical knowledges and found something new. Thanks a lot to Mr.Kim for high professional teaching and funny time. Everybody will get benefits for life who will have complete this course. Good luck! ;) +I have learned a lot from this course regarding economics. +That is a truly great course for beginners like myself. Easy to understand explanations, real life example and a wonderful instructor. Recommend! Thank you, Mr. Kim! +This is a very nice, introductory course about software based investing. The programming part is not very demanding if you already know the basics of Python and libraries like NumPy and Pandas. Even if you don't know much about them, there is still enough time to catch up during the course. There are also some good pieces about stock trading (the more general contents are presented in the first two modules) and how stock markets work. The techniques shown to perform automatic trading are very basic –I assume this is to be completed by another course that will dig deeper into that topic.All in all, I really recommend to take this course if you have some interests in stock markets and programming: you will have fun with it and lear something in the meantime. +the tutorials are outdated. I could not install all the software needed to complete the course nor do I understand what they are used for... too bad. looks like a great course +Good introduction, QSTK not an optimal tool and many of the things were a tad too general. Technical analysis as a whole is a bit sketchy subject but this course gives a good intro to it. +Interesting and useful, with an accent on the practical exercises. It will test your Python programming skills, with application on the stock analysis and trading back-testing. +I liked the practice with Python. However, some of the code was outdated and didn't work properly. The course is abandoned. No one reacts on the forum any more.The instructor occasional made mistakes or was repetitive. Sometimes I wondered if Tucker was really knowledgeable about the domain that he tried to teach in this course.I'd only recommend this course if want to learn about CAPM, Sharpe ratio, and 'event profiling'. +great introductory level course on using python to study stock. +I liked the course. I learned useful information from it. My only disappointmet was with qstk which might have some bugs when trying to run the event profiler +The course content is not up to date. The course software tools updated 3 years ago, and the second part of the course does not cover in the same depth the topics it aims to cover. +Very superficial and too few insights. Could have been delivered in 1 hour. Probably ok for people with no knowledge at all in IT or Finance +Super Coaching!! +Good introduction to Pandas. Interesting information, but not that information dense compared to other courses. Musical intros and outros on videos waste too much time. Too many "ums" and "ahs". Later assignments can be hard to get exactly right due to bugs in QSTK and also uncertainty around event counts. Would have liked to be able to discuss work-in-progress code more, but understand that it's tough to manage cheating in an online course. +Just great +Very good intro course. Highly recommended! +An excellent introduction to the subject for the computing professional. I learned enough basic concepts of investing and fund management to be able to navigate about the literature and I got some good practice in Python, in particular Pandas. I got my hands dirty and now I think that I can throw a passable trading system and this is what I wanted from the course. It is only to be hoped that Part II of the series will be offered sometime in the future or that at least a reading list for this course would be made available. +interesting topic, but teaching is not so attractive. +very helpful +The Course is good which gives an overview and good introduction to the field to Algorthmic trading. However the course exercises are very easy, but on the otherside it gives oppurtunity to every learner to complete the course +Great 'hands-on' approach! I've learned so much! Thank you, Tucker! +I really like the wider range of topics covered in the course.Theory and practice are very well balanced.Thanks a lot Tucher! +good course but course material was too easy ... it should be more rigorous +The course material was interesting, but the TOTAL lack of support forces me to give it only one star. I left the following complaint in the general forum for this course 2 months ago. Neither Coursera, the instructor or any moderator ever responded. Many people were not able to run the software supplied in the course because of bugs, but the solution was left to the student. I have taken good courses on line before, but this is not one of them.It seems that the Dr. Tucker Balch and/or the moderators have totally abandoned this course, but Coursera keeps offering it and collecting money.The neither instructor or nor the moderators have posted on the Meet and Greet Forum.The instructor and/or moderators have ANSWERED NO QUESTIONS posted on ANY forum.The QSTK (software) BUGS have NOT BEEN ADDRESSED by the instructor or the moderators. Only students have answered these forum questions."Computational Investing Part II is coming shortly." That is what they said 3 years ago. Further evidence of abandonment. +I think the approach of the course, whereby the participant are forced to start writing algorithm and rather than the same being spoon fed to them, was very fruitful. +Terrible. Nobody seems to monitor the forum. No response to questions posted.I want to rate zero but there is no such option available. +I give this 4 out of 5 stars mostly due to some technical video/audio issues with the material and its presentation and editing. Also, there didn't seem to be anyone moderating and only a few other people taking the class so not enough forum discussions to help us out. Additionally, I'm also disappointed there isn't a part II that continues into ML approaches to the subject. Finally, I think a bit more rigor and theory could be introduced into the videos before just pointing to the accompanying textbooks. But I understand the tradeoffs. Looking forward to part II (please Dr. Balch!) +Nice introductory course. I thought Prof Balch was a interesting and engaging prof. The assignments were well thought out. Here are some tips: I would not recommend this course without a grasp of python. The more Python you know, the easier it will be. Next, and more importantly, spend time learning Pandas. Pandas is extraordinary, for timeseries data. You will save a tremendous amount of time as you get deeper into this subject if you have a grasp on Pandas. Read the professors text. It is compact and to the point. Expect that you will get more out of this course the harder you work. So, try your own experiments, read the recommended texts. Think of Prof Balch as more of a tour guide and it is up to you to go explore on your own. +Very effective overview of quant methods. Gives us a good foundation for digging deeper in the recommended texts. It even has a theme song! +I think the course is really missing some key parts. +I like Mr Balch but to be honest I learned next to nothing. Maybe this is a good course for somebody who has no background in finance. As for myself I felt that I was wasting time and money. The book associated with this course was just like the course itself: shallow and doesn't go in any depth to explain the matter fully and rigorously. If you want to know WHAT computational investing is, you can take this class. Googling a bit will have roughly the same effect, though. If you want to learn how to actually DO computational investing, do not take this course - its just not serious enough.As the name of this course implies, you probably expected to find part II somewhere, which was promised to be a course about using machine learning in investing. 3 or 4 years after part I went live, part II is still missing and probably will never come out.The software used in this course, QSTK, is buggy and has been so for 3+ years. Its not maintained by anyone, and the people taking this course had to find ways to overcome QSTK bugs to be able to complete their assignments.And lastly: the exercises. There are none. All you get is a lame quiz for every week which basically asks to change some variables in the scripts provided. I did some coding for week 3 but that was it. No coding practice after that. +great course. I am a software developer in this field and this helped me understand +Excellent! The professor and the teory is excellent, all the material is clear and good. +Although this course holds quite a lot of information, it is quite slow in the way the information is transmitted and unfortunately, the presenter did not 'made homework' in terms of preparing what to say. In addition to the lagging of 'so, anyways, uhmm...' or just silence, many of the videos are also quite low in quality - especially sound due to bad microphone.Overall the information was interesting and useful, and I'm looking for Part II. +Very interesting course, especially the homeworks on python. I learned a lot from these homeworks in programming with python. The only inconvenience was the software QSTK w +I wish the course covered machine learning. Looking forward for part II +I can't even access the site. +The perfect mix for those with background in computing and interest in financial markets. A starting point for a whole life hobby or even professional career. +Well balanced course with easy comprehension. +Coming from a programming background with an interest in finance/investing, I found this course really helpful. +The code teacher used is out of maintenance, students have to spend a lot of unnecessary time fix it. Even I have purchase it and finished week 1-3, I still chose to drop out. Not great learning experience. :( +Best course for beginners! Very much informative and practical. +course is pretty good and everything is very simply explained but i gave 4 stars only because many things was repeated so many times that it was sometimes soo boring and i thought we will compute in python more. +Simply Awesome, Great Teacher. (y) +I'm glad to find this course in coursera. I'm a Computer Science student. I searched for many website and tutorials to understand how stock market works and how to analyze and predict stock value using computer. Oh god! I could not get clear way and it seemed lot of hard work needed. But this course gave me a clear road map to analyze stock market using computer, especially using programming. I love this part. Thanks Mr. Tucker Balch for offering wondeful course. +highly recommanded +Listening to Tucker Balch talk is a pain. He keeps repeating himself... Not much content in the latter half of the course +Very good material. +I enjoyed this course. The content was good and the assignments challenging. The presenter was OK but he seemed a little unprepared at times. I think the course is a little dated in that the strategies taught simply don't work anymore, but as an introduction to some techniques and considerations for technical analysis then I recommend it.I also recommend that anyone considering this course without a strong python background takes some time to learn how to use Pandas - it will make your life much easier! +Good introductory course. +I have learned a lot, thank you for the course ! +It worth every minute... Take a look you'll like too. +It provide a basic framework for stock investment analyze +Simply love it! Thank you very much professor Bulch. +I'm really enjoying this course. Challenging application of lecture material to actual working Python code. You should be well versed in Python and programming in general before undertaking this course. Otherwise, the challenge is nicely balanced and quite attainable for a wide range of audiences. +I enjoy the Prof style to explain complex concept in a simple mode! +Excellent course! I learned exactly what I wanted to learn. +Some of the data that gets pulled in from the QSTK package is missing for the exercises. It takes a bit of work around to get to the final data set. +Extremely interesting and challenging. Looking forward to part II. +Easy to understand. Homework is somewhat challenging and the contents are very useful for novice. +I truly have learned a lot from the first week. +challenging course with lots of practice +GOOD:topicsBAD:presentation (poor sound, unprepared and unrehearsed presentations, long intro's, unjustified use of greenscrenns, etc)shallow with regards to the theoretical aspects of what it is presentedassignments are mechanical (easier than the tutorial and you have to perform the same tasks for different constants for several times) +Incorrect formulas. Very simplistic approach to subject matter +damn great course!!! I've been looking this topic for long. Really nice. +Really great course! The professor is very knowledgable and the lectures are informative. Would like to see other courses by the professor! +great course +great, curious about part II +One of the best automatic investing courses. Must attend for everyone who wants to build trading robot or interested in investments +Excellent real business cases and the course stays interesting all the time. +Excellent teacher and course.Congratulations! +It is an excellente course! The idea of inviting entrepeuners is a fantastic resource for those who want launch your own business. +The best couse that I did +Amazing course, I have learned many thing about entrepreneurship that are important and sometimes are forgotten. +Very good and in portuguese! +Very good course in entrepreneurship, giving good theoretical and practical insights at the same time! +Very good Course! Just 3 weeks and I have already learned a lot! Thank you Coursera for this amazing opportunity. I also want to congratulate the teacher Paulo Lemos for being a very good teacher. +Very good course. +Great course! +Larry is awesome! I loved this course. +Very helpful with my position +amazing course and amazing instructor +I am Mariam Qavtaradze and I want to say thanks to Lary and to all team who gave me the chance learn a lot and very interesting things ! Thank you all very much ! +Thanks for all guidance.Video and other Material was very good +Overall, good information that is very helpful for making the transition into the HR field. I wish the lecturer didn't trip over his own words all the time - it made it hard to listen to the video's. +great course +All the best. i really understood the importance of Managing employee perforce i really liked the idea of civility and its important. +This is a great course for anyone who wants to manage employees performance, starting from knowing what is performance and how to assess it to the idea of improving the performance and create the culture that supports great performance on the long run. +I really enjoyed this course, especially the feedback process and culture. +The scoring of the Peer Review, was not really measurable of your effort. +Great lectures from Larry bourgerie! I really enjoyed the course, though had some difficult time with the peer graded assignment. +A great course for budding managers and students. Gave me a proper understanding of the subject with real corporate examples,quizzes, articles, links and videos. Overall it is a great course to do. Really enjoyed the videos and assignments. +Loved the course +Thoroughly enjoyed the course. Every manager must take these courses to better understand and motivate their team members. +very helpful course +It's a great course for people who are newcomers in employee performance management. And for those who seek to have better career with this knowledge, I think this could advantage them. +It is a facet that any organization needs work on. It helps with overall engagement and retention of employees. +Great faculty and course content +Really enjoyed the course! Nice overview of performance management. +Thank you so much for such a fun and well done course. The material is very well structured and learning is done progressively. The professor is such a master of his subject and a great orator that it was very pleasant just listening to. A lot of insights, quotes, examples, suggestions are made and it really helped me learn and retain new knowledge.I would highly recommend this course, even just by itself. For future or current managers.Thanks for sharing this knowledge! +Thanks for this course. +Favorite course of all. Larry is such a likable teacher and very good, was actually sad that his course ended. +Excellent! The teacher is dinamic and it shows that he knows a lot of the subject. +It is great¡ I am learning so much. +The style of lectures is concise and straight to the point. Love it. +very good course. One thing, the 7 days to retake the exam, I see it is long time +Fantastic overview of Mech-E work. +The Applications in Engineering Mechanics course is a must for any engineer. The material is presented in a logical and straight forward manner with applications to the real world. Dr. Whiteman is truly a a great teaching Professor! +Great course +thats great program for the students who is in mechanical engineering program. Great examples of the related module. Thats the best explanation of the concepts by the lecturer i've ever seen. Thanks for the lecturer and university and coursera. +Superb instruction, great that there are optional levels of problem-solving (i.e., for those wanting only a review of the topic, you can do just the worksheet problems and skip practice problems). Still, the "none of the above" options on quizzes with numerical answers is something I would reconsider. +This is an amazing course. Highly recommend for Mechanical Engineer. +good teacher, excellent class.Luis Fernando Restrepo +Great course! +This course helps in understanding the basic concept behind the force and its reaction. This helps is visualizing and understanding the concept behind real-world structure. +Good one! +Great course! +Excellent explanation of all concepts with real time machine application. The course is organised systematically to understand the concepts sequentially. +Among the very best MOOC courses ever! +I really wanna thank Dr. Wayne for his efforts in this course, it really refreshed my Knowledge and add new skills, Great work +I am so happy with this course since it really achieve my expectations. The examples are the best way to understand the theory +Even though i finished my graduate course some 6 years ago.. This class was very good enough to bring back the entire concepts back to my mind. I would even recommend this course to anyone who is currently doing their graduate in mechanical engineering. +I am not really happy with the quality of the course, but the courses from Dr. Whiteman are the only mechanical engineering courses available on Coursera. And it seems that Dr. Whiteman is very enthusiastic, so I am grateful for his efforts. Well done! +Good lectures and amount of homework problems. +Course was excellent. The discussion form was very effective. whenever i post a query on discussion form it was always solved by some coursera expert(whom so ever he/she was assigned). +This is a fantastic course. Lots of examples used. Dr. Whiteman makes the subject very easy to understand. Excellent presentation of material. +Detailed and Vivid +Very well explained. +Great review of various aspects of mechanical engineering, a "must" for any engineer +Great course! I am able to learn some important skills +Very convenient and excellent review material for us engineers. +Just awesome! +Much more challenging than you imagine, but really good +The professor is really capable ,so interacting and hence making the course a wonderful one!!!!!!!!!! +hello sir! you are quite phenomenal in your teaching and we are learning a lot through this course. thank you for the support from you and coursera indeed to expand the horizons of education. +thank you dr whiteman +A course with a very good level of detail regarding every important aspect of the topic (considering the amount of time required); information presented in a clear way. +Well designed and well taught. Great learning for Novice +The Virtual Machine Experiment was very difficult to implement because the instructors' format did not allowenough detailed instruction specific to each OS platform. Regardless, students did learn how to use VM-Ware to make a virtual cloud on a home network and control it via smartphone. +very helpful +A course which improves your breadth as a machine learning specialist. +Really great course to supplement reading of Dayan and Abbott's Theoretical Neuroscience text. Programming assignments were really helpful in getting practical understanding of concepts. Only wish there were more graded programming assignments! +Congratulations !!!. You have managed to explain complex knowledge in a simple way +I recommend it +GIves a very good introduction to the field. It was quite hard on the maths some times. +I must admit that, before starting this course, I was skeptic about an online course on Computational Neuroscience. My initial feelings totally reversed during the first weeks of the course. I really appreciated the effort of Rajesh and Adrienne to explain the complex mechanisms of neurons and brain functions in a clear and enjoyable way. +this course is perfect for who wants to get familiar with computational neuroscience general concepts. +Excellent course, very clearly and well explained, suitable for beginners. Also, Rajesh's sense of humor makes the course very enjoyable :) Highly recommended! +This course is an absolute must for those interested in computational neuroscience. The professors are very knowledgeable and the course is very rigorous. The techniques introduced in this course are useful and the supplementary material is enough to last for you months of reading on this topic. +Very good teaching skills by both professors and interesting guest lectures and tutorials. Assignements that demand your full attention. I would like some more depth as far as the developement of programming skills and the practice. Great intuition and explanation. +I loved this course. It is an excellent introduction to the realm of Computation Neuroscience. The lecturers presented the concepts clearly and effectively. Dr. Rao was especially great. However, those looking to take this course should have some knowledge of Differential Equations, Calculus, Linear Algebra, and either Python or Matlab before taking this course.I had not taken very much Calculus or Differential Equations prior to taking this course, and I had to do a fair amount of external research to understand some aspects of the lectures.The professors who teach this course do a great job of explaining the concepts and ideas of the topic, rather than just reading lots of formulas. They break the math down to help the viewer intuitively understand what each one is doing. Someone taking this course who doesn’t not have that solid of a math background will have some trouble, but the course won’t be impossible. A bit of Programming experience with either Python (2 or 3) or Matlab, however is a must. +The teacher is funny! +It was by far the best course I've taken on Coursera. For someone not dealing with math in their everyday life it could have been a bit challenging, but I really enjoyed watching how math, physics and neuroscience use the same concepts and how various models can be interchangeable.Main subject was super-interesting, but I also enjoyed how it showcased how mathematical concepts can be used and applied. It's really disappointing that such approach is not that common in formal education many of us have received... For such interesting topics you presented I would go back to university and learned differential equations once again, seeing some purpose in them at last. I always knew that mathematics is a beautiful language, but during my education no-one showed me such profound and exciting problems to express them in it.The instructors were great and guest lectures were fun as well. I am almost regretting choice of my everyday computer science career when hearing about problems you get to solve :) Thanks a lot! This was definitely one of the best online courses I've seen and time spent on it was not wasted. +interesting instructor and interesting content. Now I know more about the theoretical research related to neuro function and its connection to machine learning now. +This course serves as a nice introduction to the field of computational neuroscience. However, at some points, more than basic knowledge of differential equations and probability & statistics is needed. +It was a great experience. Thank you very much you all. +Great course and really helpful for me. +please let me show quiz again please +I very much enjoyed the course overall. Lectures from week 2 to week 5 were a little bit tedious in my opinion, not because of the content, but due to the way the lecture was presented. I suggest that by the end of the course, one could see the correct answers (with explanation) of the quizzes, since that would help learning. I enjoyed the course and I learned a lot. I thank the coursera staff and the UW faculty who made this possible. +Very informative. I started the course as I am an undergraduate who is involved in a research and development project on Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity. This course opened me into the literature on STDP and helped me understand the relevant material. +Lectures are concise; quizzes are helpful. Great introduction to computational neuroscience! +An amazing course for people with a computer science background wishing to explore the world of human brain from CS perspective. +Excellent Course, with very clear and detailed explanations, and a lot of additional materials indicated through links and papers. I particularly enjoyed the Guest Lectures as well, showing the applicability of what was learned in real life. +Phenomenal course. My background is in mechanical engineering, but all the biological concepts were explained clearly and concisely. I wish a bit more modeling in Matlab was done, but overall I'm very pleased with the course. A solid background in linear algebra, statistics, and some basic calculus is recommended to get the most out of the course. +Thanks a lot for a lovely course, I rushed through it in 2 weeks in excitement. This course is not only good in its content and rigor, I also found that I was able to absorb mathematical concepts much better than I would in a pure Math class. I typically took about an hour per 20min of lecture and paused in the middle to really take in the maths, and that helped a lot. The non-academic highlight of the course was definitely Prof. Rao sense of humor. Only thing that could be nicer is the Discussion Forum which was pretty empty :( All the more reason to join in and contribute! +Excellent course, looking forwards to going back over the lectures and consolidating what I've learnt. Big word of thanks to Rajesh and Adrienne, but also to TA Rich Pang, who does an excellent job getting you up to speed on the maths. Very excited about what I've learnt in the course and the way it's made me look at neuroscience in a new and richer way. +Great course, but it requires quite a bit of mathematics/physics to get through. Enough material in there for three or four courses. The quizzes are not hard though - in fact I'd preferred it if the programming exercises had been more challenging. +It is an excellent overview course of computational neuroscience and a wonderful introduction for beginners who want to join in computational neuroscience research. +This is a very interesting course that provides many interesting ideas. At the same time it is quite challenging. Solid background in probability theory, linear algebra and signal processing is needed. Considering it "Introductory" level is misleading. +Learnt concepts about Neural Networks, Supervised / Unsupervised / Reinforcement Learning. Covers topics about Information Theory, Statistic and Probability. Matlab / Python assignments. +In general very good, but some concepts are rushed over due to the short length of the course. +Excellent overview of the different areas of computational neuroscience taught by engaging academics. +Good course! +Te course captures from the very beginning!The lectures and work with REAL data (despite it's obvious simplicity) will hold you till the end.The confirmation of the theory, calculated with my own hands, with the practical results from the laboratories.It's just a first step, the next one is in supplemental materials, and then proceed farther and farther.Well, and a fly in the ointment :) a lack of programming through the course, we can do more! :) +Wonderful course for introduction this field. Good luck! +It is fantastic. For me, it could be much better if it has Chinese lyrics~ Thanks a lot~ +This course is perfect for gaining a broad perspective on global energy markets. It also delivers useful tools for analyzing political issues, strategic business decisions, and energy markets. +Very useful +Too long, not enough concrete materials, too much focused on US. +Great introduction to the world of energy business. Provides the basic tools one needs to further analyse energy firms and markets. +please there are need to evaluate energy production in financial statement analytical +The course is well-designed. All the topics were purposefully chosen - enough to give a comprehensive perspective on the energy business. The lectures had a good mix of theory and case studies. Most importantly I enjoyed the course very much - maybe because I had a background in economics and strategy?! If there was a Global Energy Business 102 from Sir Orlando, I would take it. +Great course for someone who is not an engineer, like me. All in one course. +This course is a great opportunity to get a very complete overview of the very basic facts behind energy business worldwide. Highly recommended! +The material is very useful because a multidisciplinary approach was adopted in its delivery. Although I was not too comfortable with the references that was severally made to the US economy, but I guess this was influenced by the professors background. However, the last project paid off for this. +Excellent course! Lots of useful information. +Very interesting crash course in business development, coupled with energy issues and technologies. Suitable for beginners in business development strategies and concepts. +It was great learning experience. I loved the way Prof. explained, very simple langauge and explained with proper graphs and images. Inclusion of external videos was very helpful. I highly recommend. +A very well structured and systemized course which provides its listeners with first experience in the field of energy markets. Definitely recommended to economists who would like to specialize in energy business. +Very braod and enhanced look and description about global energy issues and its branches. +Very rich content, thank you! +Good course to introduction in energy business. +Important course for anyone...essential for energy professionals. +It is a very good course to get a pretty high-level overview of global energy business. For someone without a business background, the use of business fundamentals such as supply and demand curves and the use of strategic frameworks added a lot to my understanding of the subject matter. Thank you. +Good content and GREAT assignments. Main problem is that the lecture videos are unscripted and could easily be made more concise. The other thing that worried me was that most of the assignments that I peer reviewed had missed large parts of the question. I would rather have my work marked by people who have read the question properly. +Very interesting +Very interesting overview of the energy business. I would encourage Michael Orlando to release other more specialized courses on hot topics such as the levelized cost of generation resources, electricity or natural gas market dynamics,...I would thank you Michael Orlando for his time and effort to make this course available to all of those interested in energy matters.Antonio +Very informative course! +Very well structured course with a good introduction of thinking about the world energy business. Videos are very crisp and development of the course from broad base info of energy options to the strategy tools involved in making energy decisions is very well thought out. +Great work of the Professor Michael Orlando, going from the general but at the same time technical part of the different resources to the more specific analysis in the bussines part. The way of explaining how to do market analysis is incredibly useful not only for this kind of market, but for any the students have to do in their professional life; in my case related to consuting the explanation has been fruitful.Thank you so much for the course ! :D +Pace was slow and I was disappointed by the content level. From the title I thought this would give information about the "global energy business" but the focus is generally on the US, except for portions that discussed location/ use of global resources and demand and supply levels globally. The class begins with analyzing Supply & Demand curves for energy use and production which was interesting to me and I thought meant we'd be taking an economic view throughout. Then the large middle section covers very basic info about the types of energy production (coal, oil, NG, renewables) in the world -- low in factual content considering the time spent on each topic. The final section about political considerations was very basic and only focused on the US. I am amazed that the 3 branches of US government were explained on the simplest level; this is a middle school & high school topic in the US. I expected a more in-depth class with details and analysis about the global energy business. I am glad I did not choose to pay for the certificate. +generally satisfied with the course content and its execution. Gives a brief, but very qualitative, overview on the issue. Sadly as a citizen of EU, some of the course materials are focused more on the US economy/energy systems, which for me would be much more interesting to see these information about EU. But it is logical, as it is provided by an US institution.Overall I only can recommend to any newcomers to the global energy business or who want to get a little bit deeper knowledge about the issue. +This course provide an in-depht analysis of global energy market, mentioning a lot of aspects. In order to comprehend the material I was recommended to make some additional research on my own which I find very useful. The lecturer presents the newest statistics about the market, expleining as well the economical background of the market itself. +Covered a great deal of ground in a short period of time. Heavy economics. +An eye opener and a very intuitive Course I must say! +I did it twice. One of the best. Very recomendable. +I have benefited a lot from this course and the professor teaches perfectly. Thank you for such a wonderful opportunity. I will recommend it to as many people as I could and for people in this Energy Sector its a good brief of the market. +Excellent introductory course to the energy sector. Professor Orlando explains everything in a friendly manner and backing up the information with excellent sources, aside from his personal knowledge. I wish the university would create a specialization or make more courses from the energy management program available. +The course covers the various aspects of Energy business in detail, but is very effectively covered. The case study surrounding the political decisions was very interesting, as this is generally not addressed in detail in traditional courses surrounding energy business. While completing each quiz has been challenging to get the required score of 9/10, the questions have been built to ensure exhaustive coverage. It is worth taking this course seriously and completing it.I really liked the course and would recommend this course for any one trying to understand the basics of energy business. +Really interesting course, thank you so much! +The course content is carefully thought through. The participation contribution is rewarding and the instructor has managed to convey key concepts of the energy business in a few properly executed short videos. It will be great to develop a Specialization around the core areas addressed by this fundamentals course. I will recommend this for anyone interested in understanding keys aspects of the global energy business. +Great course for an introductory knowledge of the energy business! +i don't have an economic background, it took me a lot of time to understand in depth the expressions used and meanings. i admit that i have learned a lot. i understand now different aspects of the energy business, how to think about it as a whole integrated in a bigger system. i recommend this course for anyone who is involved in energy, even if you are not, you will learn a lot how the global energy business is working.Thanks a lot for the staff effort, special thanks to prof. Orlando. +Definitely informative and Instructive! The courses challenges you to new and old concepts, while refurbishing college education and giving a heads up on the geopolitical and economic impact of global energy portfolio. +This is the right first course that i took on courser, and it just helps to open my horizon that let me know i need to learn more than i presently have and i can learn much than i know. Thanks to courser, this is the start of my life-long study, from now on, i will never find myself nothing to do anymore. +Great Course +Excelent! Simple to understand energy bussiness economic, finaltial and technical issues, even if you aren´t related to this areas. And assessments are realy made to ensure our learning +Super! It gave me a lot of useful information. I enjoy it! +Great course, enjoyed doing analysis cases! Thank you! +Excellent course:My only (minor) disapointment is that the slides are not available +Great course +Good material. The notes or transcripts were rather poorly done, making for a lot of editing to get the supplied text to a usable form. More interviews with outside experts would have been welcome. Case studies were informative and useful. +Very smooth, easy and gives a good insight in energy business. +This is a great introduction to Engineering but make sure you know your physics (and some maths)As someone who hasn't done physics and math for about ten years I was struggling and I spent many more hours studying and watching other video's on the internet to get the hang of the questions.After things clicked for me I found the video's of this course easier to understand. +Excellent explanations, approachable exercises with real world applications. +well!!it was interesting. +Fantastic course for the beginners. Go for it if you want to develop your concepts and skills for statics. +Very good, through explanation of concepts. I enjoyed it! +Highly useful lectures.The classes can be more effective by active participation of more students simultaneously. A brief insight into derivation of some basic concepts and introduction to fundamental difference between different kinds of members used in engineering applications can be added.Thanks for the lectures !Practical demonstration of the problems provides a better clarity. +Going for Basic of Engg Mechanics ,These course is recommended. +Really Good!!!!!! Thanks for your course! +Thank you for the nice way of teaching the course was really good and you make it easy to understand all the topics. +Really Very useful +EXCELLENT TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND APPROACH TO CONCEPTS IS AWESOME. PROFESSOR WHITMAN EXPLAINS THE WHOLE TOPIC IN A PERFECT MANNER. I LEARNT A LOT FROM THIS COURSE.REGARDSARYENDER SINGH +Simple and very basic principles for engineers to know! +this course is very usfeul to machanical engineering +I hope received certification as a pdf on email, and money be for hardcopy certification , thanks Dr)) +Its very informative for the fresh studentscourse content is explained very clearly. +thanQ sir for offering this course at free cost .this will help in my future development for improving my skills and talent +Really Excellent Course. Learned a lot. The way Professor Teaches and explains is excellent. I would suggest all who are interested in mechanics should go through this course.Best Wishes. +A very interesting and educational course. Thanks +Thanks so much Dr Whiteman for clear explanations. I used this course to review the last semester and like it very much. +fantastic course designated for mechanical engineers +Great course I recommend this to all! +Very good course of an introduction to Engineering Mechanics. Good lectures and material. +Very good, I could solve a lot of doubts I had about moments and the physical concepts required! +Such a great course! +Great course to learn the fundamentals of static mechnical analysis. Dr. Whiteman is extremly clear in his lessons +This is a reasonable course, I definitely learned some stuff about mechanics. Things were generally explained well, though there were some things that could have been explained better. The quizzes were very simplistic (the type of multiple-choice questions where you often don't have to actually be able to do the calculations to figure out the answer, you can just look at the options and rule out all but the right one). +If you know the topic this course will be excellent way to remind it to yourself with learning new sides of known material. If you just started to learn mechanics this course will give you indispensible basics knowledge in detailed way. +very helpful to upgrade knowledge +Decent start to Engineering +Great professor, lectures are easy to follow. +Strict re-quiz structure and odious "None of the above" options, but superb instruction. +very useful course for engineers +I love this course +It's aver good course and i had learnt a lot of information from it . +As someone with no prior education in engineering, I found this course interesting and a digestible introduction to what the math of engineering looks like. I would recommend this course to anyone interesting in learning more on the topic, but would warn that the course required a decently strong background in math. +Thank you very much. I had learnt more information in this course. You have a very good and simple way to explain the problem. thank you again +It is a good course, however it is less demanding that the one I had in the second year of my engineering education in the 1950s. +Great course! would highly recommend it +Application based teaching. +This is the must-learn course. One of the best ever for Introduction Engineering Mechanic. I hope that the Georgia Tech will create more courses like this in the future for engineers. +very good learnt a lot but , a small suggestion is that please work out even more problems it helps us strengthen concepts . Thank you +Rather good one for beginners! +The prof was so good at explaining the theories and setting the foundation for his upcoming courses. He made math and physics fun. +Great course. Very straight forward. Good real world examples. +I took the the Introduction to Engineering Mechanics by Dr Whiteman. I would like to give feedback that the Dr Whiteman is awesome, his way of teaching shows great subject knowledge. The practical examples with scaled models is superb and I could understand different support conditions with the help of his models. Hats off to Dr Whiteman who made understanding so practical which no professor here would teach students in India. Hope he takes several courses especially Civil Engineering, most importantly the Design of Reinforced Concrete Members in the future, which will help interested students around the world like me. The way he talks about beams, columns and structural members is giving us a lot of confidence. I would love to take Theory of Structures and RCC (Reinforced Cement Concrete) structural design courses from Dr. Whiteman/COURSERA. Thanks from my heart to Dr Whiteman of Georgia Tech. Chandra Prakash (a middle class father of 2 daughters earning 2500USD per annum), Hyderabad, INDIA. +Enjoyed thoroughly! The professor seems to be quite friendly ad overall the course is quite easy to follow and understand. Also liked the concept of asking questions between modules to stimulate thinking and revision of prior topics. Huge thums UP :D. +It is very understandable and very practical(problem solved focused). I recommend it. +It's a great course for the students who want to learn more about mechanical engineering and how some machines work. +Basic knowledge of Engineering Mechanics, very good recap of College level Physics. Great examples in Engineering Applications. +the professor is awesome +good method to learn this course, thanks! +A semi easy introduction to a very broad and complex topic, loved it! +Best guideline for the students and very easy to understand each and every lessons. +Great, Sir! +Great cours thank you very much +It is a good online courses. I like the way Mr. Whitney present to us, he is using a tools to show us the phenomenon. Overall I like this course! +it was very simple and easily understandable at all levels. This course has made me understand the concepts clearly. Thank you. +it is very useful course +Brief and clear, very helpful. Definitely will recommend this course to my friends. +Very clear in terms of style of teaching. Very impressive. I was an EE student and now a postdoc in aeronautical engineering and was in desparate need of a course in introductory mechanical engineering. This couse suits me perfectly. I will continue in other courses of this specialization. +it was a great thing to refresh my knowledge and remember a lot of ways i had forget, thanks Dr.Wayne a lot, hope you the best +This has been a fun course. The length of it is ideal. It's long enough to think I've learned something, but short enough that I'm not bored or dreading it. I definitely spent at least 10-15 hours a week on it. I had to read most of the relevant text book sections (the free, online one) to do the homework. Results may vary. I'm not sure how intense this is compared to an actual college course. My guess would be about half as intense, but it would definitely prepare you to breeze right through such a course. I took it out of genuine interest and I might use it in my current career. +Outstanding! Prof Whiteman is a 'real' Engineering instructor. The course is very well structured. I look forward to other courses as well. Highly recommended... +Good course for an introduction at the concept of vector, force, momentum, and static law. Good teacher, english is not difficult to understand... Free text book available (optional) +Feedback: Great course! Only request is that the homework solutions be provided. Thanks. +very interesting course ,Thankcoursera +I needed to review my statics, this was a great course. +i loved the course content as well as the teaching style of sir WHITEMAN . thanks to the coursera team. +I highly recommend this course. The Course is designed so well!! +I appreciate the enthusiasm.Thank you +i recommend this course to any mechanical engineer out there. good basic +The course design was very clear and understanding. Kudos to Dr Wayne Whiteman.! +Thank you a lot.I got to learn so much from this course. +For me, as mechanical engineer, it was very useful to see how this course, that I had some time ago in Serbia where I live and work, is presented at an top US and world university.Thank You so much Dr. Whiteman, Georgia Tech and Coursera for a really nice experience.Drazen Kosutic, BASc in M.E. +Awesome lectures and course's materials. I enjoyed it greatly. Many thanks to the instructor. +I took this course to improve myself in fundamental concepts of Mechanics & now I can confidently say that I'm clear with the fundamental concepts & I can apply them confidently.I really enjoyed the course because unlike the traditional Lectures, Professor Dr. Wayne Whiteman used to explain concepts in much simpler & practical way. Because of this kind of teaching the concepts became crystal clear for me.Finally I would like to thank Coursera for providing me a platform to learn freely ,share my ideas with online communities, for learning courses from top most universities of the world & also for believing in me & granting me Financial Aid for this course.I'm grateful to Dr. Wayne Whiteman & Georgia Institute of Technology for offering such a wonderful course. +Very good!!!But try to cover more topics.... +Excellent way of teaching..crystal clear teaching of concepts..excellent use of models and providing good practice problems side by side +Professionally prepared. +Fundamental concepts are explained very well. Explaining concepts through solving problem made it easy to grasp the concept. Contents are short and precise. I loved it. +Sir,Honestly, I am a true beneficiary of this course. I have completed my Engineering and it has been 10 long years. I dont remember understanding this subject as clearly as I do today. Thank you so much for clarifying the topics in a very lucid way. Its a dream come true to be able to learn from top instructors and top universities. I have scored a overall grade of 86.5%. I hope I was a good student :-). Wish you and your family a very happy and prosperous new year 2016! All the best.Best RegardsCharan Siddachar +Awesome experience! Great professor, clearly explains topics with easy to follow lectures, examples, and graphics. Has plenty of examples in easy to download and print pdf format. I have not tested the online help forums mainly because the lecture modules are very well made and self explanatory. Wishing I had this excellent resource available when I was taking Statics in college. Highly recommend for any Engineering Major, or just brushing up for the PE/FE Exams, etc. +Excellent professor, excellent explanations, sometimes a little bit hard to understand for a beginner or he went a little to fast, however I was able to get help in the comment section.I will definitely suscribe to his following course on Mechanical Engineer. Thank you. +Professor explained the course concepts with examples and real-time models. I gained knowledge and i got new teaching aids and ideas for teaching Engineering mechanics. Thanks all. +Thanks a lot! +its wesome +simply and easily to understand. +Well structured, there's time for solving too , cool :) +Excellent course. Enjoyed the presentation. Variety of examples used. +Great course, I like short videos where concepts are well explained and the quizzes are not tiresome at all but I consider than the pdf of the power point documents could be better, the complete solution does not appear in most of them +Yes! It adds more stars to my bachelors degree in mechanical engineering pursuit +Good introduction, excellent instructor. +Great course and excellent refresher. Dr. Whiteman provided slides for all modules with spaces to write down the examples as following through the course. Use of props were excellent also, as my prof didn't use any props when I did this in Uni many years ago! +This course was my first engineering course and with dedication and drive I passed all the curriculums and achieved my certificate to this course. This course was very helpful in all aspects from beginging +Good overview of engineering statics. However, I wish the homework and/or practice problems were built into the coursera platform like the quizzes. +Learned a lot! +It was very beneficial! +All lessons is teached in a very good way. Thanks alot. +Dr. Whiteman explains the subject in a very good way, also using models and demos that help for better understanding. I definitely learned a lot from this course +very helpful for the freshman +I finished the course and I think the course is a great first view of what engineering mechanics can offer to the students at the university. I am a mechanical engineer newly graduated at UFRGS and the course was a great experience to recall some of the content learned at the university. +Concepts are explained very well with practical examples. Assignments are made in such a way that an overall understanding of the module covered is ensured. I'd definitely recommend it to all who have interest in mechanics. +Introduction to Engineering Mechanics is an outstanding course and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting a better understanding of statics. +This course is not easy but it is very interesting. +Wayne comes across as very enthusiastic and likable. The course material is interesting.It does feel like the course if artificially stretched out a bit too long, though. The material and exercises seem to get repetitive after week 3, when the pattern has been established to sum up all forces, and then to sum up all cross-products.Nevertheless, this is an introductory course, so too much depth can not be expected. As an introduction, it was a great experience. +4.5, Not perfect, but very clear and consistent (I'm only in week 2 and this is my first coursera course) there are some topics that I feel need a little more clarification, but that is my only complaint. Perhaps it would be a good idea for the site to have a FAQ for each individual course. The Professor or course instructor, could answer these questions for future course sessions. Perhaps there's a reason this idea wouldn't work, but it would be nice to see from the student's perspective. +Great introduction to engineering processes. I was hoping, however, to gain a bit more insight on general details of structures and mechanics, such as what types of materials or designs should be used in certain situations and why. This course covered only mathematics, which while essential, are not the only aspect of engineering in real life applications. +Easy to follow thanks to the great explanations of the professor. (You don't need to speak english fluently to understand these courses).Thank you. +its a very usefull course +Well-paced course with good accompanying exercises. +Besides those interested engineering, those interested in learning how stuff works will love this course. I have been studying calculus and was bored with math problems that do not have real world application. This course provided those applications in spades, although at a beginning level in mechanical engineering. If you love math and love solving problems, this course is a great place to do it. +Hard work but very well explained, lots of exercises and good content from a great university. +Very convenient and excellent review material. +Ideal for Highschool students/graduates who want to pursue further higher educational engineering subjects. A little bit challenging, yet entertaining, and worthy of participating in. Good luck for all!! +I would like to thank you for this wonderful course, I am a Mechanical Engineer, I studied outside the US and this course with other courses are very useful and the way this course was presented is simple yet with so much information. +it was a magnificent course. Thank you Coursera for this oportunity. +Good & useful course but with some errors. +It helped me a lot, it is a high level course +Very good course, even better if the homework exercises would be provided with the possibility to check your own answers. +An excellent course; it helped me to learn the most fundamental topics of Engineering Mechanics conceptually and with clarity.One of the major things that I liked about the course was that Dr Wayne made the otherwise seemingly difficult topics very easy and simple to understand.Questions (of lecture modules as well as quiz) were also very nice.Thank you very much Dr. Wayne! +Excellent course! It's very well explained, and has all the necessary stuff to understand the topics although it has 2 or 3 mistakes that have been noted but not yet corrected. Very recommendable! +Great illustrations! +I liked everything about this course except the unavailability of answers to the quiz questions. I think that once when someone passes the test, he/she should be able to view the answers. +Nicely delivered, engaging and actually teaching you what you need to know to prepare for the Mechanics/Statics courses at uni. Great job, professor! +It's a great course. You'll learn a lot and you'll be totally happy if you can apply the knowledge from the course in the real world. And it's great if you already want to learn some basics before you start studying at a college or university. +I was very excited when I discovered that the most influent universities in the world are providing courses for free to students. I had never heard about Georgia Tech, but because of this excellent course of "Introduction to Mechanical Engineering" I search about it and saw its magnitude. I really would like to study in somewhere like that and I appreciate your work here, specially to Dr. Whiteman who teached me a lot and made me laugh sometimes with his intelectual sense of humor. I divulgate the Coursera plataform and the Georgia Tech to my collegues and hope that more and more students could appreciate the technology that you both offer to us. Thank you! +This course of Dr. Whiteman was awesome . I can now understand the meaning of Engineering Mechanics. +very nicely taught...i learned many things +A bit fast paced, while the book is too long. I need something in between. :) +An excellent and worthwhile introduction, this course is a definite must for all mechanical engineering students especially those like me who have yet to take a mechanics: statics course in college. This course will provide adequate background to get started. +Dear Professor,I love the way you taught me since last month. Your way of teaching, using real life examples, helped me to better understand and solve the problems. Thank You for sharing your lecture in Coursera and making it available so that a distant student like me can take advantage. And THANK YOU one more time Professor.Sudesh Pathak. +Amazing course. Really enjoyed it. The approach is perfect, not very difficult yet forces you to think on your own. +Must for Engg. students... +Interesting, well teached, clear, exhaustive. Hard enough. +I found it one of the Best MOOC and I am looking forward to learn more. +Excellent, well structured and well explained.Thanks +Very insightful! Does a way better job than the professors at my college at putting concepts across :) +The level of this course is high. It's better to take a basic course on Econometrics and then take up this. +This course is great and satisfying. It's also challenging and demanding. It teaches you how to apply regression and time series to build model for forecasting real world events. It also requires you to have certain level of calculus, linear algebra and statistics to understand the underlying theory. Besides, statistics tools, like R, SPSS or Excel (of your choice), is a must for you to do exercises and projects. Studying all those videos, slides and exercise would take you many hours a week, but you will be very satisfying with modeling skills and working knowledge of time series learned from the course. Studying this course is a wonderful and unforgettable experience for me. I strongly recommend it to those who want to build a solid foundation of modeling data (not only economical data). +Easy to understand [If you are familiar to the course] and imparted by intelligent and intelligible professors. +Some topics that were covered in this course were not explained in details and, in addition, there was no explanation of the theoretical aspects of the course (for instance, formulas transcript ). +It is a good material to get quite valuable knowledge in the area of econometrics +The class recording could have been made simple. Lots of notations, and would definitely be difficult for people without prior econometrics background. +Lecture materials are very rich and well organized. +Really insightfull course. +Excellent faculty. The concepts from week 1 till Week 8 has been very exhaustive and worth the time.I have learnt a lot in these 8 weeks of the course.In the end, I would like to thank all faculty members in the course for explaining such complex concepts in a simple and easy manner. +Great and very useful and pragmatic course. Would recognize it to everyone for sure. Clear and easy if you're willing to commit to it 100%. +This is a fantastic MOOC: it has depth, exercise questions with solutions, challenging assignments and background material. The quality of the lecture videos is excellent! +Good revision for me of linear regression and basic time series. +very good, comprehensive +excited to do this course +This course very usefull +many mistakes in the exercise solutions +Generally speaking , I have to say that it is good course , I learned many things. More explanation should be provided for some concepts. +Very interesting intermediate course in Econometrics. I strongly recommend for both new learners and those are interested in refreshing their knowledge in econometrics.Maybe some blocks are too theoretical, there are some "bugs" in the content, and I miss a bit more of applied econometrics using statistical softwares.Definetly a very good example of teaching econometrics through MOOC, my heartfelt congratulations to the Econometrics team of the Erasmus University for the great job, it has been a really valuable course to attend. +Good experience! Very well organised and presented, given the limitations of the MOOC format. All key topics are covered lucidly and succinctly. Maybe a follow-up course on advanced topics like Stochastic Regressors, Panel Data, etc could be offered? +It is a good course, but a bit short in my opinion +excellent course with a lot of practice +This course was amazing! +Excellent work and thank you. the exercises and tests are great. Including some eviews assignments along with eviews access during duration of the course will be great. +It is really helpful! +Good information, and detailed mathematical representation of the concepts, but often you will have to do outside research to truly understand the material, and the building blocks are not very helpful beyond a basic refresher course on matrices and statistics. This class requires a lot of studying and initiative to seek outside help to understand the material.If more time was dedicated to truly explaining the concepts and principles and the REASONING behind them instead of just supplying equations and test names, this class would get a 5 star rating. +Great course and well taught! +GOOD COURSE! I can learn a lot of basic conception about econometircs, and the training exercises is good for me to understand what the teachers has taught in the course! +Great and very practical course. +I love the course structure where it started with fundamental concepts and used all that we learned to take on a case project. +I find this course excellent. It is a well balanced course in combining econometric theory and its application. The fact is that to apply econometric theory one needs to understand fair bit of econometric method (that includes matrix algebra, some properties of inner product space etc.) as well as how to apply those concepts in practice. In this respect this course does serve its purpose very well.Overall, this course focuses some fundamental aspects and properties of cross-sectional data and time series data. Therefore, it provides one a good foundation (over 8 weeks) so that one can carry out one's future quest regarding any empirical topic by oneself ! I admit that modern econometric theory develops more sophisticated techniques but all of them share one common aspect i.e. they are based on more or less the same fundamentals or properties. Indeed, this course has been designed carefully by targeting those fundamentals and properties. Thus it might be very helpful to follow the modern econometric techniques.However, this course does not talk about the panel data analysis, which share both the cross-sectional and time series properties (more or less). In my opinion it might be better to have at least additional one week session on panel data. In particular, when the data set shares both cross-sectional and time series properties, which set of properties will be dominant or how the estimation technique incorporates the variation of two dimensions (i.e. cross-sectional and time ) etc.Finally, I like to thank all the teaching members and moderators of this course. I have enjoyed the lecture slides and videos very much. +cool +Old fashioned Econometrics course, still using the ideas of fixed regressors (rather than the more sensible conditional models approach), emphasizing prediction instead of causal interpretation, etc. +Very practical, I would urge people who intend to take this course to come to this course with at least some knowledge of econometrics and statistics. It would come in handy. +Thanks everyone that help to do this course a exemple of excellence instruction. +This course is not for someone who hasn't taken much advanced math. There's a strong requirement of linear algebra, calculus, and probability. Someone who is relying only on the math prep they give you in the course will likely be very under-prepared for some of the more theoretical homework assignments.With that disclaimer out of the way, this course gives a fairly good overview of important econometric techniques, though I wish they would have done more with time series analysis.A major shortcoming of this course is some of the more complicated material (RESET test, Chow test, endogeneity, etc) were not presented in a complete way (in my opinion). I found myself referring to quite a few outside sources in order to figure out some of the more complicated material. Keep this in mind when taking the class and give yourself extra time to read farther into the concepts discussed in class. +Good and challenging course. +Tough course! Very close to being in a classroom with plenty of material in every video. Keep a book on the topic handy and you will understand the material better. +Very useful course for those who want to learn what is behind econometric tools and what their limitations are. The combination between practice and theory makes it an exciting learning experience that is worth the time investment. For those, like myself, that were not 100% up to speed at the start, a significant time investment is needed. To finish the course I had to spend in excess of 20 hours a week to satisfactorily understand the material and be able to reproduce the main takeaways. I am sure the course can be successfully completed with less effort, but grasping the essence of the material made sense to me as I am trying to get a better idea of how to use econometric tools. Conclusion: it is completely worth your time, but if you are not sufficiently well versed in math and statistics, basic college level, you will need to make a significant time investment to make full use of the material. +Great course to pick up on Econometrics quickly +Not much teaching going on here. The concepts are barely touched on before the student is asked to jump into training exercises that require lengthy proofs of concepts not thoroughly taught. +Good content and exercise, very pedagogic.The only problem are the use of the program: If you don't know how to use a statistical program such as R, you will spend more time struggling with the program than understanding the topic. +Very informing and attractive! +If I can understand all of these derivatives, why shall I attend your course? It is not helpful course, especially for persons looking for some practical econometrics applications rather than focusing on the mathematics side of it. +One thing I regret from this course is the content of the video lectures. Having watch the first week's videos, I found that the professor mostly just read the slides - and did it in a very faithful and careful manner, not to miss a subscript .... This is quite devastating for me. I can read the slides myself (although I have to download it first, since the fonts on the screen are very small). What I need is the professor to explain the logic behind the formulas, the *why* behind what is written, instead of just reading *what* is written on the slides.I find it amusing that with an expected learning of 8 hours a week, the total duration of the first week's videos add up to a mere 36 minutes. A couple of weeks ago I have just finished a course that subjectively is comparable in its difficulty level. That course is also rich in mathematical content and also requires a commitment of 4-8 hours per week. Each week, the duration of the lecture videos amount to somewhere between 120-150 minutes - and the lecturer didn't read slides; instead, he would explain the logic behind the concepts and provided papers for learners to read on our own time. That approach really helped scaffold my learning.I hope you'd consider revisiting this course's learning plan - or probably just state on the course info page that this course is more suitable for a refresher course rather than an introductory one. +This course greatly exceeded my expectations. Thank you Erasmus University Rotter and Coursera for giving me a happy learning journey. +solid content and dedicated teach staff! +It is a very good course I guess, but being 15 years old, it didn't make any sense.However, I got to learn a lot of new things about a field which I wish to pursue. +Found this course at a very crucial moment. Hopefully will enjoy the next 8 weeks with this course and it's instructors. +Very Good Course!Many Thanks to course development team! +I like the structure of the course that different professor is in charge of different chapter but the contents of each chapter are linked to the others. Each chapter offers different topic (of course) but the style and structure are the same. In detail, there are always theoretical and practical part as well as small quizzes in each chapter. In addition, the guideline and syllabus provide students with great details. On top of that, chapter assignments are provided with solution which are necessary for students to check their knowledge.I would love to participate in follow up course which might deal with more advanced topics after this basic one. +Awesome, helped me alot! Thanks MOOC cordinatiors. +Excellent & Well organized course with great team! +Really profound course in econometrics. +Highly recommend this course! Looking forward to learn an advanced version. +It is being a good experience for me, because the teachers and the structure of the course is great. +This course will be a good revision if you have known the models before taking it. But if you are new to the models, you may not really understand them. This course tells you which models to use and how to implement, but does not tell you the rationale behind (maybe the theories are too difficult).The teaching staff are really helpful and answer every question you raise in the discussion forum. +The course is excellent, with a good balance between theory and practice.The level is intermediate. I wouldn’t recommend it for beginners. +Very solid course. Instructors are great and the difficulty of the course materials are just right. I suggest finishing the Building Blocks first. +More focus should be given on application part in initial modules vs. derivation. Also, the presentation can be made a bit more simple to understand. +Not for the faint of heart! Be prepared to work hard at a fast pace. Put in your dues and you will be rewarded with an excellent understanding of Econometrics. +Excellent material and lectures. Top notch. +Great course, learned a lot. Thanks for your efforts. +Some of the terminology doesn't seem congruent with what we use in North America +The course it's great , however in my opinion it's too theoretical with few practical examples.If you're confortable with matrices and mathematics this course will provide you with very interesting tools and demostrations.I don't think that the course is for casual students, as it's very specific. +Nice overview of econometric theory. +One of my best Moocs course. +Very good course, not many available online courses on this subject.Warning: Course is very fast paced (and the instructors give only broad hints as they move from 1 step to the next and it is left to us to figure out stuff - which is how it should be of course). Therefore expect to be kept busy throughout the course.I barely had any previous knowledge on the subject, so folks with some basic understanding of the subject may have a different view +nicely explained. +Awesome course, it's helping me to remember all I learned in College. Thank you +The design of the course is very Helpful and efficient. The course is well explained. The instructors are very clear and master the subject. They very detailed and well organized. +This is one of the best courses I have taken so far +top course for learners +Funny presentation and helpful powerpoint +Very good course. But too much emphasis on statistical derivations. Also estimating models by using any statistical software (SPSS, STATA, R, Eviews) will for sure be an interesting ad on. +If you have to pay for the certificate itself, then the course can't be too serious or maybe even that much helpful. +This training is really useful for everybody. +Very good and well structured course. Very usefull and interesting interviyu +It really opens your mind and gives you a better understanding of a very complex topic that is doping +Very specific course. For me as an amateur cyclist it's good to know the face of the enemy. Second week is great for it's sociological info. +it's fine, not technical but ok +The teacher seems to mainly read the slides and the tone is quite scholastic, not a lot or engagement. Indeed the course gives some info on the social background of doping, on how it is fought and it is adopted. Worth it if you have a strong interest in sports. +The course is very interesting but the translation was very bad. +Great course. Fulfill my knowledge needs about sports and doping. +Good graphics and great rhetoric of the instructors. Recommended! +The course content is excellent, however the English transcript is very poorly done and there are words and sentences are either missing or translated/ transliterated wrongly. A native English language speaker would be great. +Very Interesting! I would extend the part on the biological passport and give more details on how the adaptive model algorithm works. +Great course! Thank you for making this possible! +thank you for a wonderful course really enjoyed, and hope to see more courses. +Very informative. This is obviously [now] an incredibly complicated and important issue.My personal preference would to have a bit more science science and a little less social science among the topics. +Brilliant Course! Very in-depth, educative and precise. The revelations on Cycling, Body Building sports & Socio-psychological aspects of Doping were eye-opening! Will add great value add to the knowledge base of anyone wishing a career in Sports +Fantastic course about a topic I knew very little about. Thanks so much. +The material covered in the course is adequate and relevant to various aspects to our social lives. The course's purpose is to get you acquainted with the broad field of emotion study, to pique curiosity and fuel further research and deep dives into the multiple topics that are presented. It does this very well by offering lots of references to research papers, articles and videos. The course doesn't aim to dig deep into its topics. This remains as your task depending on your interests. As a final note, and this is critique I've already submitted, the presenter doesn't add too much to the slides in the videos. He basically reiterates what is written on the slides and doesn't expand on it much or at all. You're basically given links and references to what to learn by yourself. Hopefully this will change in future reiterations of the course. +Thanks for the course. I've learned a lot and will share my experiences to my friends :) +Very interesting course. It provides good informations about the basics of emotions as a philosophical issue. +Really enjoyable! A lot of information clearly unified and in consideration of different points of view. A little bit hard for the accent at the beginning, but fastly overcome. +The lecturer and his avatar are funny, the course content is structured but the delivery is a bit loose... +This was a very interesting course. It presented a new way of looking at emotions I had not thought of before and the lectures were fun and interesting. The quizzes could have been a bit more challenging. Excellent forum participation from the mentors/staff. +This course gives some great insight as to why and how we act emotionally. It walks through the physical and cultural aspects of emotions in ways that really tell why we do and interpret things certain ways. +It was a fairly good course, the professor is funny and the slideshow itself is well made, but the content sometimes got boring and my mind stepped away from the course, something that did not happen even with other more difficult courses. +It wood be interesting, but unfortunatly Prof. Vallverdú's English is quite hard to understand. The scripts are therfore nearly unreadable. What a pity! +A useful overview, but I think this course tries to be too many things all at once. It would have been better to break the philosophy, the ethics, and the science of emotions into separate courses. There is a lot of confusion and oversimplification in the considerations of consciousness and self awareness, and the implications of those things for emotions in humans, that would I think have had a better treatment, if the prof had pruned out some of the other stuff (perhaps ethics, or artificial intelligence, for example). +Love this course. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to understand emotions. Jordi, I can't wait to do your next course. +A really good courseIt help me achieve all the skills needed to +Great course because it has provides excellent background and all ways that have to be used while using Conflict Resolution Skills to resolve a conflict. +this course is very interesting for me and i learned how to make conflict resolutions, its excellence and well prepared course +It was a good course so informative and simple to understand +not enough content - would have preferred more examples/scenarios that included conflict resolution solutions +I have watched all the videos provided for this course and I think it's very educative, simple and well organized for a better understanding. The only thing I think lacking is example of real conflict situations like those between and within states, those between citizens and their elected governments etc. and conflict resolution skills or approaches used both nationally and internationally to resolve them. Thanks again once more for such a wonderful lesson on conflict resolution, it's My pleasure to learn from the online courser classes. +She didn't seem interested at all in what she was teaching. She had a frown the entire time. Maybe she was trying to be professional? Either way, I didn't feel like she liked what she was doing.These were good tips for people in a new business management position, but honestly this was all stuff you learn while socializing with people. They are generally good social skills that every one should have. I learned little to nothing while taking this class. But, as I said, most of this is directed towards to someone in a management position. I guess this would be helpful when having to work with someone who is a drama-maker, although, fortunately, I have not had a situation yet with someone who creates drama. Yes, I know people who create drama, however, there have been no blowouts or severe problems. Maybe this is the reason why I didn't learn anything in this class... :-( +Very good course a lot to learn specially with the globalization and working with different cultures is a really with tool for personal and company improvement. +great course +Useful information for on the job application or even private interactions, as well. Easy to follow, common sense, and good advice. +Not too much material in addition to the Types of Conflict course but worth reading +I didn't feel like I learned much. Some of the problems I've experience would take more than just trying to find common interest and compromise.A lot of conflicts arise from personal agenda and gain and that's very difficult to deal with. +There was anything innovating in the course and the intro of each lesson was extremely loud. +I wish there were another conflict specialization on Coursera to choose from.. one that is more modern, up to date, interesting, engaging, less patronizing .. etc. but there isn't. So I guess we're all stuck with this one. Need I say more. +very interesting learning experience +Good, basic information on conflict resolution. Interviews were very valuable. +The course is very short and more advanced courses are not free. +The visuals and practical examples are very useful as they can even permeate even the very uneducated with understanding. +Effective presentation of conflict resolution ideas and challenges. +Just great. Leads to emotionnal intelligence too.The professor is awsome !! +This course provides its participants with an incredible tool to solve critical situations in the work place and in the private life. +A good course! The assignments were fun to write. Some videos were redundant, but overall I enjoyed it greatly. +corporate HR focused conflict NON resolution. +Really useful +It's an excellent course from University of California, Irvine.I would appreciate the course curriculum designers and faculty who have delivered the course through examples and case studies.Looking forward for the more informative courses like this.Regards,Hemendar PusaProfessional Social worker and Special EducatorIndia +Too much theory, too little real life examples. +Good survey of traditional communication methodologies and processes. Could be enhanced with inclusion of e-empowered tools such as blogs, e-conferencing, issue research producing position papers, etc. Remember KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! +Simple and easy to follow +Clear structure and examples. +Simple and practical! +This Course has a good and practical approach to conflict resolution in any a Organization. +I loved every topic. The presentation were great and the assignments made the mind think harder. +it is perfect course i take it until now thank you +So empowering and insightful - thanks. +Presentation is so boring and dry, I could not bring myself to watching past the first couple of videos. +Great cursory course, provides a good but brief and succinct overview of conflict resolution. +A must-learn for ALL +Set the collaborative stage and improve the resolution skill for conflict.and recommend more useful books for further analysis. +Excellent course and teacher. Congratulations!! +I really like learning this material, and it helps everyday life. +Should have been a complete course. The course did not give specific tools to conflict resolution rather information about the subject was disseminated +Great +This is a very useful and comprehensive course. +This is a joke right?5 minutes long videos with questions after it shall teach me effective?!you guys are ridiculous! +The course was very simplistic and more targeted to a new manager or a student who has never taken a conflict resolution course. I only found the interviews with Karen and Joseph to be of interest. The instructor's teaching style is too monotone - I didn't get a sense of her real world experience coming through. No sense of her brand. +I wish there was some more "meat" on actually resolving conflict, maybe it's in the next chapters :) +this course really helped me a lot. +Very interesting. +I love the detailed advice and resources in the course. Very clear, very well spoken. +The course is good but very basic. Suggested for individuals who have never had any exposure to information on conflict or humanities +I do love the content of this course, however I do wish we saw more scenarios play out when trying to get a point across. This course is just harder to obtain for me memory wise. +Using Mind Maps to explain can be a lot more easier! +Great introduction into this subject. +Thank you. +Very boring. Not many real life advices. Mstly theory +great course, a good introduction to the subject.easy to understand +Tell the basic principles of conflict resolution. Reminds me of the summer course I took at Columbia University. +Good Course +short and sweet. The course is quite short but covers the true essentials of conflict resolution in a professional environment. the only reason why I did not give five stars: the concept of Active Listening, although mentioned all over the course is not really well explained. +This a basic course and covers the Collaborative style in some depth. The case studies are the clinchers. I would have loved to have more on the other styles as well. +I like this course. H gave me a lot to understand more myself and others in cituations of conflicts. Great, +it makes an strongly initial to conflict resolution!! +Its great that Cour +The course material is interesting (3/5) but the assignments rely heavily on reviewing the work of other students which severely detracts from the course. If I wished to grade other people's coursework, I would have pursued a career in academia instead of becoming a research scientist. +I enjoyed this course and believe it gives a nice base for further development of essential skills for all. +Excelent teacher!! +The professor is very clear, repetitive which is easier to retain all the information. The course is easy, with great short quizzes at the end of each module! +Very good way to shift your mindset and show you that its really possible to start your own business +Very Good. +Great course - the best beginning for everyone to being entrepreneur. Not only in business but in whole life. +Hard to follow for non-native speakers. Especially week 2. There are a lot better Courses on Entrepreneurship on Coursera. Especially the Technion ones. +content 4, thx!delivery 2interaction 0TOTAL (average) : 2 +Challenging and gets you thinking. Awesome and worthwhile. +I really like the challenges. And the course is too interesting. The Black teacher (Sorry I don't have his name in mind right now) show how science can support empiric thoughts : Everyone can start a business !!! So run people. +Awesome experience! +The course made me think. The instruction was clear. This was an enjoyable experience. +Great content! This definitely challenges the mindset of what it takes to be a business owner or entrepreneur. One opportunity I see for the course is to better link the quiz language to what's taught in the videos and the articles, especially for the open ended questions. Those specific points can get lost in all of the ideas shared. +The course helped me understand that being afraid is common but that giving one step forward proves fear wrong.It opened my ideas to a million more, it guided me into clearer ways of understanding how my idea can come true. I definitely recommend this course if you don't even know where to start from. Don't underestimate the time you need to work on it ;) +Overall it was good. However, the content delivery could have been better. +Good material, insightful thoughts about starting a business. However, course material could be better quality. Looking forward to the following courses. +It will be helpful to reach my carrier goals. Thank you USA! +This gave an opportunity to present a product and show how easy it is to start preparing to launch your own startup! +Very useful course that preps you as a student really well. +Great course! Would have given it 5 stars , but this first course by itself is not much. I'm definitely going to check out the other courses in the specialization, as I'm pretty confident that as a whole it will be more complete. +Good and straightforward content but with so very little written excercises and thus very little room for lecturer feedback - I would not pay an additional 100$ just to get rated like that (I might consider it if the price included the mentioned books though). Still - I find it a very well designed, concise course. Thank you! +I love this course,and i will return back. +Course was clear and the exercises were very important to make us reflect and improve our mindset. +take the first step forward +Practical and useful... good for someone who has thought of opening a business, but who has never actually taken action. +It is a great course. As the presenters said, it is not tailored to Silicon Valley companies or to sell great inventions. It will help any time of business from dog grooming or barber shops to the Facebook +Very inspiring and powerful! +Great course! +Very good, very useful for beginners, + + + +Perfecto to start a change :) +The whole experience with TicketForChange is really changing the way you can interact with the MOOC. No wonder why the termination rate was so high last year. +Clear, complete and helpfull +Over the top +Very interesting and encouraging. Fantastic ideas and presentations Highly recommended +This course is amazing course ! It is the best I've ever taken yet ! I do recommend it to everyone who want to be inspired and find his way to lead the change, have a positive impact in his community and contribute to change the world. +Obviously this course is really fantastic, I learnt a lot and can apply a lot! Thanks +Great topic +Very helpful and interesting course !!! +Great course ! +too brief to learn +Excellent teaching of digital signal processing theory and techniques. Even form an engineering student who already has most on the material, is a very good review source. +Good one +The content of this course is really useful and contains the key points of digital signal processing. +This is a great review and reference for the fundamental knowledge of DSP. The class uses the concept of vector space and basis to explain all the linear transform in signal processing, which helps my understand of the material. You probably need some background of college sophomore and junior level math and system knowledge, but the math in this class is not dull. Rather, it focuses on applying on practical problems, especially on music signal process.In the filter section, there are not much material about windowing. But in general, the material is adequate as an entry level class of DSP.The only thing I don't like of the class is it does not provide the lecture slides. I like to take notes when watching the video, and I found it much easier to go back reviewing the material or looking for reference when there is a paper copy in hand than digging into dozens of videos. +Its is very helpful for me to study and understand this course +Excellent course with fantastic and passionate teachers +This course is very helpful for me to complete my academics with it. +A mathematical and, to a lesser extent, a programming and standards (ITU) perspective of Digital Signal Processing. If you have solid maths skills and are comfortable on the complex plane this excellent course is well worth the time and effort. +I am feeling very honor to complete this on-line course in your organization, i am feeling very thankful to this organization because you helped me financially to complete this course.I will educate my neighbors and friends to do on-line courses in this organization +The course is very good. I have learned a lot of things from the theoretical and practical parts of the course. I like the mathematical derivations and the signal of the day. I wish you can give advanced course about adaptive filter design, advanced digital communications and audio processing. Thanks to the staff! +The best "beginner" digital signal course! waiting for a stochastic and adaptive signal processing course +The best course on Digital Signal Processing taught in the most coolest way :-) +A pretty math-heavy class, but it is very rewarding in terms of understanding Fourier analysis and DSP. Very well organized overall. +Good Course, really helps me! +This is tough course for a novice, but such is DSP for you! I am absolutely happy that I took the course and have learned the things I would never manage to learn on my own, like Fourier transform! I was hoping to learn more on digital filters, and the course did the job best possible! +Very Good course +I really enjoyed the presenter who was engaging and interesting. I didn't enjoy the podcasts. +good experience +This feels more a like a sales pitch for Copyblogger than an actual course. Kinda feels like a waste of my time. I didn't learn anything new. +A huuuuge amount of great information. Very professionally presented. Easy to put into immediate practice. Thank you! +Really helpful course on environmental laws. +Very clear and approachable, even for people without a law background (like me). I will miss it! +Thanks for being a wonderful teacher and a jovial person. +By far the best, most interesing, most valuable and also challenging course I have ever completed on coursera. Highly recommended! +This course is amazing .Gives insight of environmental issues ,law violations,environmental protection and economics policies and there impacts.Professor teaches in an exceptional way ,makes you finish course before time . I would Recommend it to anyone who is concerned about environmental issues and law and protection . +This subject has been presented in a very interesting and motivating way by Prof. Hornstein. I have learned much about relevant legislation, Supreme Court jurisdiction and international agreements in the context of environmental issues. Since environmental problems concerns all of us I can warmly recommend to take this course to everyone. +The material was exceptional, but as I came to found out, that the assignments were watered down with respect to the earlier version of the course that was available in 2014. Please work to get back peer-reviewed assignments. Also, Prof. Hornstein's informal manner and way of teaching greatly helped in understanding the concepts. Thank you University of North Carolina and Prof. Hornstein for this wonderful primer on Environmental law. +It was very good to have such courses online. after going through this course i have learned a lot about environment and how should environment problem get resolved. I would highly recommend this course to everyone. +Awesome course! +Really informative and enlightening course! Prof Hornstein made the content easy to understand especially for those of us who don't have a law background. For anyone looking for some insight into environmental law, whether it's for your own general knowledge or if you want an idea of what studying environmental law entails, I'd definitely recommend it. +This was an awesome experience- I was very much impressed by the course material as well as Professor Hornstein's enthusiasm and approach! I certainly learned a lot and this course will truly help me down the road with my career and advanced studies. +I really enjoyed this class, it was a meaningful learning experience offered with a lot of passion. Thank you so much! +Absolutely love the course, piqued my interest in environmental law even more. Professor Hornstein is an amazing teacher, he makes everything so easy to understand. Great course! +great mooc !! an excellent way to gain insight into the north-american green policy and law. +Would like to call Prof. for a lecture as his teaching and aura has surely reignited my interest in Environment Law +Enjoyed learning about the different statuates and policies as well as how to read them. From those not from US and fear that the stuff learnt may not be as relevant, don't fret! What's introduced are major policies that are important to the global community! +A remarkable course. Well-presented and organised.Eager to enrol in more advanced courses presented by the same professor.5/5 +Very approachable as a student with little law background. The teacher was personable, very informative, and got me excited about the material. +I have tried to follow many different online classes but quickly lost interest but given the dynamism of this teacher, I feel it will be a breeze this time. Thank you for sharing your expertise.IS, from Canada +The best course on Coursera that I have taken till date! +I really liked this course. It was very interesting and Donald was a really great, enthusiastic teacher. It had some fun quizzes to keep the lecture videos interesting and the content was very helpful and well presented. +I had a great time doing this course. Excellent content and great case studies. +Professor is a great guy and keeps the entire course entertaining as I'm sure Intro to Environmental Law isn't the most exciting topic of conversation. He covers a lot of ground in a concise fashion. You learn quite a bit and many of the need-to-know details in this field. Any sustainability professional would greatly benefit from this course. +Great introduction to environmental law. Very well-structured. The case studies were helpful and crucial to understanding of the materials. Analysis and theory lectures are very interesting. Lecturer is knowledgeable and passionate about the matter. One of the best courses I've had on Coursera! +Im very happy to have taken this course!!! Thank you very much!!! +Great course imparted by a great teacher capable of transmitting not only knowledge, but also enthusiasm. The course, eventhough it is an introduction, gave me tools in order to make interpretative reasonings about my domestic environmental law (Mexico). +It was a great course with amazing enviromental cases. +Brilliant introduction to Environmental Law with an engaging teacher! Throughly enjoyed it! +Great course on the basics of environmental law an policy, very easy to follow and enganging for the audience. Still, would suggest to update some issues e.g. GHG as the Paris Agreement was ratified recently. But overall I would recommend for everyone interested in environmental issues as it was a great introduction. +Excellent tutor, relevant information. +One of the few online courses which is very much organised to understand. It is a great course indeed. +Fantastic course and instructor! +Amazing course! The teacher keeps it super interesting from start to end! Its definitely useful if you want to get into laws and policies and you have no background knowledge about it! +Don't think that I've ever had a teacher that is as detailed. He has great knowledge and makes the course entertaining. +I loved this course! The professor is so enthusiastic and easy to follow, and I feel like I have the basic background knowledge that I need for my job now. It also helped me to interpret cases - I read the case (which he has condensed) each unit, tried to puzzle out what had happened, and then listened to his lecture to see if I got it right. Thank you Coursera and Professor Hornstein!! +Such a great course, the teacher is so knowledgable and enthusiastic! HIGHLY RECOMMEND +Really Interesting and easy to understand and learn! Loved it!!! +Incredibly interesting and well structured. +The course gave me a valuable overview of existing legal tools in the US to protect the environment, as well as efforts at international level. Above all, it gave me an increased interest in environmental issues and solutions. Professor Hornstein is a wonderful and brilliant teacher, which not only makes the course interesting and easy to follow, but fun and engaging! +Awesomeness.Professor Hornstein brings in good insight and knowledge of law and policy that shaped the very environment we cherish today, and tops it with good wits and cheer which makes the course quite enjoyable. +Very insightful course.I learnt a great deal.The Professor is very articulate.I would highly recommend +The teacher is so fun and the course was very informative. I actually cared about not only the content, which had me interested in the first place, but how it was presented, and I learned a lot. Thank you. +Very interesting and practical course that focuses on case readings and the understanding of concepts, precedents and theories on environmental law. Great for begginers on the subject. +For a $49 course through UNC - the teaching was stellar and very informative! This course is a great supplemental course for anyone with a environmental science or even meteorology degree, like myself! +Thank you for all the knowledge you gave me! I opened a new scientific world... Will miss your lectures very much! +This course is an excellent primer for this topic. It's really well gauged for general interest public and it does not fall short for whomever would like to go a little further. I will extend a policy chapter on a course I teach on Environmental Science. +An extremely instructive course delivered by a passionate teacher. I recommend to anyone with an interest in sustainability! +Came to know and judge various topics and common laws including specific once.Great teaching spirit and good explanations. +This course was well organized and highlighted the most influential environmental law cases in the US. It would be great if the course could be updated to reflect the recent COP21-Paris Agreement +loved this! +I found the course most engaging and delivered with great enthusiasm. Professor Hornstein is a great teacher and even across the computer screen seemed eager to pass on to the student his very infectious love of the discipline . One cannot help but become equally infected. Out of that, I intend to engage myself more fruitfully in matters of the environment; the laws and policies that should govern how human being interact with the environment. I hope to further my knowledge of the subject by hopefully studying for a higher qualification. Thank you very much for the opportunity to study with Coursera. And grateful thanks to Professor Hornstein. +Wonderful primer for activists, journalists, or anyone else needing to know a little more about the law and policy shaping our environmental stewardship in the U.S. Shows you the complexity of these things and adds depth to many news reports. +Excellent work ethic of prof +This course is a solid introduction to Environmental Law, a topic where it's exceedingly easy to get lost in the weeds, so to speak. The instructor for this course is simply delightful. High energy and engaging, it's clear that no matter who the named parties are in a case, the ultimate client is the environment. If I had had the opportunity to take a brief survey course like this one when I was starting college back in the 1980s, I might well have gone into this field as a profession. Excellent course!I did not participate in the forums, so I cannot speak to the value that they may or may not have brought to the course. I did, however, do all the reading, and I think it's important to have students understand how to parse out meaning and significance from these often dry documents. +I thoroughly enjoyed the Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy course and appreciateProfessor Donald Hornstein's creative approach to teaching. I was both inspired and empowered by this course and look forward to further courses in Environmental law from The University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll.Thank you so very much. +I very much enjoyed this course. It provided background on environmental law and introduced me to some common law doctrines as environmental law. Good investment of time. +Great course, interesting and easy to understand +The explanation of material cover in this course is very clear. I really enjoy every week and look forward to learning new material. +Great +This was a great introduction to Environmental Law! +Awesome course and awesome prof!!! I learned so much. Thank you! +Very informative! Professor Hornstein makes the topics easy to understand & interesting despite little knowledge on environmental law. +Thank you +Thoroughly enjoyed this intro to law and policy. The professor is very enthusiastic with his teachings and made the class that much better. +The professor has an immense amount of charisma and a concise way of breaking down concepts. The content material is short and to the point. These short lectures allow the student to even explore philosophies of economics in detail giving a big picture to what the issues at hand are with Law, Policy, and Climate Change.Great lectures, materials, discussions, and extremely effective Professor. Highly recommend. +Fantastic course. The topic and the presentation were on point. +Very dynamic and enjoying lessons that don't spare details, making for a very cohesive and complete course. +Exactly what I wanted - a course to help me make sense of the basics and give me the language and the tools I need to pursue a deeper understanding of several of the subtopics which are most applicable to my work.And Bonus! Happy Prof = Happy LearningI appreciate that :-) +A rewarding course. The professor's passion, energy and knowledge will enhance your learning experience on Environmental Law. +good basic class +Don Hornstein is a very engaging instructor in his lectures, which makes watching the videos a breeze. I wish there was more though for reading materials. I gave the course five stars because it does as it states, it is an very brief introduction into Environmental law. However, I feel there are things lacking that can be improved upon, like written work and more in depth study.Perhaps a specialization where the subjects are taught in courses of 4 weeks, where they go in more depth. Such as common law and nuisance, wildlife protection act, clean water act, and air pollution. Then finishing off with a capstone project. If a specialization was offered, I would sign up. I feel the missing requirement of coursework beyond the quizzes is detrimental to my retaining the information learned. +Wonderful breakdown of cases over time that cite each other. Excellent introduction to Environmental Law. +Informational and very entertaining course. +I found the Course very informative and Excellent way of teachi +It was really a great course, super interesting, well designed, with a great speaker, Don Hornstein. Really loved it. Thank you so much !ByeLéon +The instructor was engaging, the content was interesting, and the structure held up very well as a self-paced course. +Excellent, easily digestable snap-shot of environmental law. A great class for anyone interested in how policy affects environmental causes! +Excellent course! Very organized and easy to follow. Interesting cases and examples were used. +Instructor was very enthusiastic about the course, I thought it was well structured and it's good to get a framework for things. As someone who came in as pretty conservative leaning on the Environmental issue, it helps me become more knowledgeable about why the EPA can do the things it can, and a better understanding of how environmental law works. More information is always better! +Excellent Course. Great instruction that can be easily absorbed and underst +Very helpful! +This course was excellent. I would highly recomme +This is really an awesome course. Lecture videos by Prof. Hornstein are very lucid ,informative and bang on point. Thank you Sir and thank you Coursera for this superb platform. +As a state government employee in environmental protection, I found this course to be extremely helpful in understanding the history of environmental common and statutory law. Professor Don Hornstein is extremely knowledgeable and well spoken on every topic he covers and is clearly passionate about his work. The assigned readings are interesting and illustrate the evolution of environmental law very well. Professor Hornstein's commentary encompasses these readings well and extends further to provide a better contextual understanding of each. The assignments are straightforward for anyone who completes the readings and watches the videos and help with retention of the lessons. Overall, the course was very good for those wanting a general knowledge of Environmental Law, and Professor Hornstein is a very fine teacher! +This course was well planned and dynamic. The professor extraordinary and presented all the topics in a way to make them even more interesting. +I'm only half way through but I'm enjoying this one a lot. Its clear, concise and engaging. +I really liked the structure of the lesson plan and the individual lectures. It is told almost like a story with parts for you to test your recall and understanding of the unfolding adventure. Really good course and very much worth the time. +The enthusiasm of Don was making it so easy to sit through any long lectures. And the interactive Q&A was helpful to understand concepts. Though I am not from the United States, this forms a very nice platform to understand legal systems. Thanks a lot +Absolutely love the professor. He is very clear and articulate. You also don't really need to do the readings if you're very good at listening. Or you don't need to watch the lectures if you're super good at law and policy and don't need any clarifications. He makes it fun and interesting. I also learned quite a lot. Love all the examples he gives. Great class I would definitely recommend for people trying to get a little introduction and background to environmental law. +Great course! Challenging and interesting! Teaching style both excellent and enter +Wonderful lectures and readings! +Enjoyed the course and Professor Hornstein's energy in teaching it. +I enjoyed the course and especially enjoyed Donald Hornstein's teaching style - upbeat, dynamic, funny at times and interesting always. I actually looked forward to each lesson throughout the course. Thanks... +Great course in delivery and design. A model for MOOCs in my opinion. +This course is awesome. If you really like the theme, you'll even want the course not to finish. +Excellent material, excellent professor, a must for any aspiring environmentalists, very comprehensive and informative lessons. +Balancing the perfect amount of information to help me know how decisions are reached and not overwhelming with technical or theoretical legal terms. +Great course and great professor! +Great course. Really enjoyed this introduction to environmental law and policy. Many issues and concepts were covered and the professor delivered the content in a interesting and well structured manner. +It is a very good course, specially for people who wants to know more about, of course enviromental law, and comonn law system too. The teacher gives you a practical and interesting focus about cases and precedents dictaded by the US law system. +This course is a great resource in understanding the foundation of environmental law. It is a must for anyone who is interested in the incidents and reasons that led to the inception of many of the laws and Acts that govern today's operations. +The lectures are really interesting and clear. It is a very good course to make all law students and staff working in environmental field get to know the theory and practice of environmental law and policy of US. +Professor Hornstein is brilliantly easy to follow -- he walks you through "legalese" at a beginner's pace, apt for a college undergraduate-level. I particularly like his One-minute Lawyer videos, wherein he explains the case readings in a conversational style. Very good for reviewing. +This is a very informative course that directly applies to many present-day environmental issues. If you're someone who has a passion for the environment and wants a better understanding of the underlying statutes framing these issues, take the course! It is heavily focused on United States law, but the basic concepts are universal. +Very inspiring and informative lesson. For people with no background in law, this course make a successful first step towards the way. +Very informative and pleasant hearing and description of different components in environmental law. +great course so far, great lectures and great professor +I was very satisfied with this course because it described the system and policy regarding Environmental Law in U.S., and provided the relationship between the current law and conventional nuisance. +Great intro if one is contemplating an LLM in the field +Good, but could have been a little more demanding. +The professor is very passionate about the subject which adds to the course. The studied material is very professional and understandable. +The professor is one of the best I have ever seen in LawStrongly reccoment this course +Superb professor (Donald Hornstein), interesting and relevant course material, just wish there were more courses like this on Coursera and/or by Professor Horstein... +Wonderful course. Very well organised. Lecturer is great. +The Professor was incredible!!! Very enthusiastic, made the subject very interesting!!! +This course was very helpful to understand the environmental law in USA and in the international level. I really enjoyed it! +It was an excellent course that not only gave an idea of what environmental law is but also how it is implemented and what it's significance. +Incredibly well structured course, so easy to follow along! +The contents of this lecture are profound and can review variety cases.I recommend this course to who works as lawyer and are interested in environmental dispute cases. +I really liked this Course.Although I am not a lawyer and more environmental engineer, the professor explain different environmental law cases (Waste, Soil, Water, Air) in an easy-going manner. It was simple but very strong content!100% recommendable!! +This is an amazing course by an amazing lecturer. I've taken classes in environmental ethics and environmental impact assessment and this is a wonderful addition to that knowledge base. +This course is highly recommended for undergraduates,graduates and professionals who want to get a general view of environmental law and policy. +Law does not have a reputation for being light reading, an interesting field full of personality and humor. Professor Hornstein defies that stereotype. I learned a great deal from this course, and actually looked forward to the lectures because of his good nature and lighthearted presentation of the material. For anyone who wants a basic introduction but may be hesitant about taking a law class, I highly recommend this one. +Prof. Hornstein - Thank You!!! +This was both informative and useful Thank you. +Excellent overview, interesting presenter (passionate about subject, knowledgeable and entertaining) and well organized in content. I would strongly recommend to anyone interested in environmental law. +The best course that I have ever had on Coursera. It goes along with a great pace, and sessions are not too long to lose you to distraction. Each session includes good amount of information which I think they are all useful for someone in the field. All in all, the course is designed perfectly. A+ +Very engaging ! Easy to follow, and well structured. +I thought the course was a fantastic introduction to environmental law and policy. I especially enjoyed the structure of each lesson (reading -> video) and the entire course. I thought the Prof did a great job of being enthusiastic and was mostly clear when explaining, analyzing and discussing each case. Perhaps, an aspect that could be improved in the future is to ask more in-video question to challenge the student to think critically while watching the videos. However, where there is most room for improvement is to have much better management of the discussion section. There was no authority answering any questions whatsoever, not content related nor operational. +I love this course to the extent that I was glued to listen to the video lectures. The professor is extremely well spoken and the course is nicely organized. I love to see the professor again in some other courses too. Thank you so much for your deliverance. +cute lecturer with strong logic +Our instructor is a well experienced professional and the material is up-to-date. Highly recommended! +Great knowledge about policies! +Prof. Don Hornstein is great at introducing each and every concept related to environmental law and policy. I am a graduate student of Sustainable Infrastructure having no background in Law but I finished the course with 100% grade and learnt many aspects and terms of Law, specifically Environmental Law. I would like to thank Prof. Hornstein for the wonderful lectures. +Very interesting and a great way to gain a broader understanding of Law regarding the Environment. Touches on subjects of pollution, waste control and trade; very valuable in this day and age in my opinion. Useful to anyone interested in the field of Sustainable Energies, World Trade, Environmental Protection etc. +I enjoyed every session, the explanations were very easy to understand, the 1 minute lawyer were a great help to understand the lectures +Excellent course!!!!! Not only was the professor's teaching style fun and engaging, he made environmental law exciting!!! I learned so very much. Although my current degree is in Environmental Management and I'm a Healthcare Sustainability Specialist for an International regulated medical waste disposal firm, the course inspired me so much, i'm actually considering going to Law School to specialize in Environmental Law!!!Thank you so very much Prof. Bornstein & UNC staff for offering this amazing course!!! +Prof. Horstein was a great lecturer - he had a very structured approach and spoke to his audience, not just "at" his audience. I enjoyed the mini-quizes inside of the videos, and felt his lectures were the perfect length. I learned quite a bit in this course! I'm a trainee lawyer in the UK and have a Masters in international policy (political science) so this was a very good way for me to see if I'm genuinely interested in environmental law - which I am. Thanks! +Thank you Prof. Hornstein! Excellent delivery, this course should be taught as compulsory. Would like to drill deeper on the proposed TPP agreement as it relates to GAAT with respect to (for example) BGH arguments, along with the potential economic machinations. +Thank you so much Prof for guiding us through a difficult yet an interesting topic. The course is well arranged in the way the choosen cases make it easier to understand the statutes, though it not that easy. I wish the course had brought in more international cases as the non-American students like me might be more intersted in.I love this course, as well as the T- shirts and the tux :) +So far it has been an interesting course which has provided me a new perspective on thinking about the law and environment +This was an excellent course. It was interesting and informative.The professor was a great teacher. +the course was fantastic especially the 1 minute lawyer segments. Not sure if it is a site problem, problem with the course or with my machine but I frequently had times where the picture would freeze and audio would continue. The videos while informative were also quite long and it might have been a better idea to divide each 20 minute video into 2 smaller ones. Otherwise though it was a great course by a fantastic professor. +Extremely informative and very well presented. Makes a seemingly dull subject come to life and engages the students with the material in a way that makes them want to learn. +the lawyer cum teacher rocks!! +I rate this course excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed my learning experience. It certainly opened my eyes and improved my knowledge. Thank +very very good i appreciate +too bored +Extremely well prepared, interesting material and great teachers. +Loved it! +Good mix between content and clear picture +Thank you! easy class and very interesting +I really like this course. The topics are presented in very clear way and in short time cover a big variety of issues. Also practical discussions are really useful and interesting. +Good practice +It's a very good course. Even it's a general view is very clear. The practioners point of view, put it at the end of some lessons are a very good idea and help to close the hole lesson.10 points and go for more courses! +better if to be more in depth! +Very good gourse, I persoally enjoyed the lectures in which the relatipnship with other areas of mathematics were discussed. +This is a wonderful course. The lectures are engaging, clear, and intuitive, but from my perspective the best thing about this course is the depth of the problem sets; although not long (usually 3 - 4 problems), each problem requires genuine thought, understanding , and creativity. This has been especially refreshing in the world of online courses, where shallow and computational problem sets can sometimes be the norm. I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in an introduction to this beautiful subject. +Excellent course. I hope there are more courses by the same team. +Marvellous online course. High level and ultimate lessons.Don't underestimate the level. +Good content, but way too slow. Please use pdf instead of writing everything. +Very insightful and detailed. Perfect spoken and written English +Really interesting and useful course to obtain great insights of the Ecosystem Services approach. +This course is excellent to learn, from scratch, how to write Unit and Integration tests, also you'll learn why, how and when to apply testing and security to your projects. You'll learn to use JUnit, Mockito and the InstrumentationRegistry. +very interesting course +I would advise anyone doing this specialization, to take the Java for Android first, then do the Engineering Maintainable Android apps, as its only in the Engineering Maintainable Android apps that there is an optional coursework to create and test a very simple app for the first time. All the other MOOCs optional courseworks start from very complex pre-existing app examples. I was able to complete these courseworks but I didnt really understand all the surrounding code that did a lot of important UI stuff, or the JUnit test. Its good to be forced to make a simple app and get used to JUnit from day 1. I did not take this route, but I wish I had. +personally speaking, the contents are not helpful. and the multiple-choice quizzes stuck me a lot. +Few content, bad quality, many mistakes in the material, no programming assignments, poor support.Definitely not worth the money. +Good information on unit and Android testing.Also provide some info on security issues.Could do with more hands-on assignments and provide URLs to Android testing, security, and debugging/code analysis tools. May be expand to include overview of code analysis tools like lint +The Professor is a Great Professor!! +Gives very good understanding of Android Apps +I really enjoyed every single lecture, especially that I was also learning French. If you are a lawyer (so you are familiar with the most important legal concepts) and you also possess some good French reading/understanding skills - you don't need to be a French speaker to easily underastand the most of the content of this course. +It is an excellent course. Professor Marchand has a huge practical experience and a sound theoretical knowledge in the course topics. An academic and practical course of great value in a very difficult topic taught by a real specialist! +A very good and useful course, taught with mastery by Prof. Marchand. Highly recommandable for everyone, lawyer or not, dealing with international contracts. +This course is good; but not the best. In some videos, the instructor was hard to understand and I had to turn on closed captions. +Very informative and engaging. Although I'm not US citizen, the practice and legal framework of the US that is being used to counter-act epidemic/pandemic diseases would help me understand how different parties can work collectively to control and contain the diseases. Thank you professors! +I want to give 4 stars because this course teaches you many concepts in a short time. In a very understandable way. +An excellent course, very nice learning experience.. thanks +there is too much about inside rule of US. I did not find that interesting or useful for me. +I enjoyed the course a lot, in particular the historical and more recent anecdotes and examples. +75% of the course is amazing, the rest needs some work. The course feels as if its target population is lower-level undergraduates or the general population. Would love to see more advanced graduate level content included. +an excellent course to understand Epidemics, Pandemics and outbreaks, which helps to get better public health understanding +excellent course quite informative and will definitely improve on my previous knowledge in this field. +First of all, let me congratulate the team for starting this course on Epidemics, Pandemic and Outbreaks. It was a very nice and I could come to know about the epidemics which occurred throughout the Globe. I have a suggestion. I feel that this the course may be more detailed especially about the problems of developing countries like Malaria, Measles, etc., My sincere thanks to all my teachers. Please keep in touch +Short, but pretty good; very clear and concise lessons, understandable for beginners or intermediate learners. +Was very helpful, I learned a lot from this course. It's a shame that the legal frameworks introduced in the course are limited to the US because I, as a non-american had some trouble understanding the last +Very informative course. I loved it and learnt a lot. +I hope there will be continuation of this course and expanding with examples. +An excellent introduction or a refresher course to this field! Provides a good amount of content for a 4-week course. The self-paced aspect of the course is also very helpful if you would like to make your own schedule. +An interesting course!Definitely glad I took this course. I was expecting a more medical approach, but it was interesting to see the legal issues as well. Sometimes hard to follow, and I think that might be due to my lack of knowledge on the l +very very helpful +I love this course everything is really informative. +Great Course. Very dinamic. +This is a truly enjoyable and intriguing course. Thank you! +The course inspires me to learn more about epidemiology. +Amazing class. Informative. +Excellent course! Concise and very different from other Epidemiology-type courses. Videos short yet very informative. VERY ENGAGING. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. +Very nice course. It is a pity that the legal framework is almost exclusively focused on the US. +was searching for an online course in the field of public health and found this .....its a brilliant course and was worth it...............good job guys......thank +It was interesting! +A very interesting course and a good introduction to the topic. Would be beneficial if one could gain official credits or points towards an online degree with an expanded/more in-depth course volume. +informative +Most of the lectures were very short. I would have preferred more in depth discussion of the topics +Very informative! Learned alot. +A very good process to validate your idea for a new business. 2 optional resources that were introduced in an earlier course of the same program - Business Model Generation (Osterwalder, Pigneur) and Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim, Maubongne) - proved indispensable for this program finale. I continue to turn to these books to tool my new businesses. The Capstone, and the program in general, became the turning point in my entrepreneurial development. +Awesome course. I was enjoying every minute in it. +I am so grateful ....thank you +thank you so much +A great opportunity to learn and experience the first steps to start a new venture! +this is a very good specialization course for entrepreneur to be. I recommend it to everyone +There is lack of communication with peers and mentors. Its like styding alone +One or two of the assignments were very similar to assignments that were offered earlier in the specialization. Otherwise, the class was a great finale to a very well-done specialization! +Feedback for the developed business model is missing and thus sigificant added-value cannot be captured. +A example of the Capstone quiz, could made this course best. I suggest to give example of a business idea analysis and also lecture on it. +A Must course, which every individual should take before entering into the awesome would of Entrepreneurship. +Great course indeed +Great course, I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot about policymaking and policy implementation. +The lectures made by the professor were really helpful and provided many insights into policy making within the EU. However, some tasks such as filling air pollution standards were not that insightful. Also, unsynchronized subtitles were a bit annoying same for the poor sound from invited professors in air pollution videos of chapters 4 and 5. +I like it very much +My name is Jose Antonio from Brazil. I am looking for a new Data Scientist career (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseantonio11)I did this course to complete my CV in English to the area of Data Science.The course was excellent and the classes well taught by teacher Karen Peterson.Congratulations to Coursera team. +Recommended for anyone +Thank so much for this course. I enjoyed the content. +It's good and well done!but for Italian/European users is not so common to have an Eportfolio (Linkedin a part). +Great course.Thanks Ms Karen Peterson, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Coursera. +I loved it this course. It was very pleasant in content and flow. +It is a very interesting course, on which you can clarify some statements and improve your professional information to be competitive. Thanks a lot! A greetings from Cali, Colombia. +Very useful.Thanks a lot :) +really great course ... if you need my advice take it +This course is very essential and effective both self and colleagues to do the job in Multi-national platform. Thanks to my instructors and the mentors to frame this kind of courses from the World Renowned Universities. +The View on Mobile app and Desktop is so different. When I posted week two work an old website I'd built populated. I didn't have time to even notice it. It did not meet assignment rubric. And once my classmates reviewed it and moved on I was forced to switch sessions because "nobody" was left to grade any resubmissions. That should have been visible in the mobile app. For a week I kept searching for the "problem" and the mobile app said all complete, the desktop assignment tab finally revealed my issue. +This course is impressive. +cool +I had the opportunity to learn useful tools about how to build an online e-portfolio. +Great Lectures! I enjoyed your lessons and I am now confident in creating my ePortfolio. +very practical, step by step approach!!! +A lot of information about eHealth Handled in very accurate way, with real life examples not only theory. +Very informative and interesting course with well substantiated real life examples. It was fantastic to have a variety of perspectives from knowledgeable professionals across the campus involving the private sector. A big thank you to Professor Tim Shaw and all the participating professors and industry professionals in helping make this course so enjoyable. +The format with a large variety of testimonials from experts in different niches of the healthcare sector was interesting. However, it lacked critical reflection and depth. Throughout the course, with only a few exceptions, I lacked the feeling I was learning something. +This Course is have a comprehensive content for the current trends in technology. I am glad to be a part of this Course. +Very interesting approach through interviews. Thanks for sharing with us such innovative subject. You rock guys!!! +Very very insightful. It's worth it. +this course is so important to all professional of health public +It was great to learn about epidemiology and public health from the masters of the art. +Videos and materials are fine, but insufficient for the quizzes, which are apparently very difficult even for PhDs in the field. +Geat cours suppling the general views of epidimiology. +It has been an excellent journey for me, I just graduated from dentistry school, and want to enter to this field of Public health, to make a change in populations, and communities around the world, this is the start of an adventure for me, before I take my master degree, and travel around the world for doing a volunteering an internship in Africa and Asia. Thank you. +Very good course +The teachers are fantastic. The content is introductory, but it covers a lot of information in an easy and clear way. Also, it helped me to pass the exam to enter into a Master's program in Epidemiology. It was really helpful, even more than some very well-known introductory books on the field. Thank you, it was great!! +Can't wait for the next course +I learned a lot from this class, but I had a difficult time with some of the multiple choice quizzes, which I think could be improved. I felt that the additional materials (PDF readings) could have done a better job explaining concepts like risk ratios, rate ratios, and odds ratios, among others. I hope the teachers of the class consider revising and improving the lectures and readings for clarity. +Very well delivered online course. Lecturers were able to explained the concepts of epidemiology concepts clearly. +A great introduction to the field of epidemiology. The lectures are easy to follow and understand. I liked the examples, which also gave a good insight in studies and possible opportunities to apply the gained knowledge. +Great course, I learned a lot, thanks! +An amazing which was well delivered. I have learnt a lot about Epidiomology and hope to learn more as I begin my journey in Medicine. +5/5 as an intro course. I wish that there had been some more in depth learning, but this course is intended only to give a broad overview of epidemiology. Good lectures, good examples, all around good course. +An interesting introduction to epidemiology. I felt that the statistical concepts this course covered were clearly explained, and the numerical examples helped further my understanding of these principles.However, from the course description, I expected the course to talk more about concepts (it covered this a little bit, e.g. the Bradford Hill criteria) and perhaps the state of modern-day epidemiology than it did (for example, studies and successes from within the last 10 years?). I would love to see a follow-up module on that topic! +Good course, very well structured, well signposted, progressive, very clear, with a good use of the media. As for the content, the examples are not always well connected to the theory. The speakers speak at a good pace, not too slow not too fast but their tone is monotonous and it is a little bit formal. Therefore the course is a little dull. As the course is very introductory, it would have been nice to be directed to other more advanced courses either online or residential. +Excellent introduction to the field of Epidemiology. The lectures were very good and the material was presented in a clear and orderly manner. +These are clearly well designed and structured essential basics in epidemiology. +this course teaches precise and useful concepts of epidemiology. the way of teaching is simple yet understandable. thanks a lot to all the teachers for putting in their efforts and for providing us with an opportunity to learn it! +This was actually a great course as I have learned a lot from the lectures. I would definitely recommend this course to my peers. +I loved it. The ladies did a great job :) Many thanks ! +The course is great, but more practices would be better. In addition, the exams are too detailed to test one's ability. +very useful +Thanks for the course. It was really helpful to review some of the topics in basic epidemiology. The course could be more better with better presentation and by sharing more basic information in a simple way. +This course provided a brief overview and covered some statistics. +The course gives an overall good introduction to epidemiology applied to public health. The classes are well structured and the basic concepts are cleary explained, providing a more pratical insight on the uses and importance of clinical and epidemiological studies to public health. In my opinion, the course fill its purpose which is to give an basic introduction to epidemiology.However, considering its six weeks long duration, I think that it may be suitable to add facultative activities (videos or even supplemental material) to provide those who want to go deeper a more complete learning experience. +Very informative! +The basics covered in this course were useful, however there was minimal interaction with instructors. There was also limited ability to work with the course components, such as lecture transcripts. It woud be a great course if it were a little more accessible. +Fantastic course, Learnt allot +Great course for entering the world of Epidemiology! +Great course, very informative for beginners. Examples used throughout lectures to help understand material.Recommend to other beginners. +A great introductory course into the field of epidemiology covering all basic aspects of the field. The educators are very well organized and the work load per weak is very manageable. It is to be noted though that the exams can pose some difficulty in first two weeks as some may consider them to focus on trivia, other than that a great course. +Great course! +C +Wonderful course, full of details and examples +one of the best, highly recommended +Good overview of the subject, and easy to understand for someone with no health sciences background. My only complaint is that the additional readings were redundant, covering the exact same thing and using the same examples as the videos--I would prefer either different readings or making them more obviously optional. +Good and concise introduction course for epidemiology +Interesting course excellently delivered by two of the best minds in epidemiology. highly recommended... +It was very helpful course,thank you coursera! +An excellent expose to the rudiments of epidemiology +It was a thrilling experience to complete Epidemiology (The Basic Science of Public Health) offered by Coursera. I am now excited to obtain the Certificate as I have paid by net banking an amoumt of required 1928/-INR & also submitted my photo ID.I want to know how long it will take to issue this certificateThanks & RegardsDr.Balbir S.Dewan +it was superb experience at coursera to get certificate on completing the course. I'll refer these courses to my friends and colleagues and will also join the other courses. +This course has been very usefull for profesionals and students of public health. Thank you for sharing us all of your knowledge +The course is interesting. It opened my eyes to public health. Now more than ever, I am keen to proceed on a postgraduate study. +The course was enlightening. The module on measures of association was very clear and simple. +I am a little disapointed with this course. I have completed the third week, but quizes are too big, and the questions are almost impossible to compare with the lectures.It seems like what is evaluated is your ability of getting languages nuances, and not the epidemiology subject. +The course was fantastic and learned the things which I could not study from many books I had referred. I have spread this message to many of my friends and colleges. Thank you very much. +The course cleared a lot of doubts i was having in public health linked to community optometry. Thanks for the basic knowledge. +This course was excellent as a basic course, highlighting the most basic definitions and concepts that anyone interested in epidemiology without any background should and can understand.Thank you lecturers and organizers, this course definitely answered some questions I had after reading scientific articles. +Such a great course, informative and concise +Nice way to start my journey in global health.............. +This is the first time I have learnt Epidemiology. It's give me a chance to know professional information about it. As I thought, It's a difficult cause. So many definitions are difficult to distinguish. I hope in the future I could learn more, especially in pharmacoepidemiology. Thank you very much. +Great course. May be expanded a bit with more examples from both developed and developing countries. Thank you all very much for giving me the opportunity to learn from you all +Very informative and liked the mini quizzes in between and the visuals as well. Made the learning experience smooth. +Not very in-depth, but I don't think it was really meant to be. Good starting off point to see if you like this kind of thing, and it's helped me understand the important concepts behind public health. +Succinct presentation of the information for a beginner. Highly recommended! +Although the content was informational, the presenters were uninteresting and made watching the videos hard to do. +I like to learn epidemiology basic courses through coursera applicationThanks! +Thorough and clear course layout. Engaging and interesting. I enjoyed it! +This is a very good course. I'm a resident physician and am looking forward to completing it. I didn't realize I would be so busy with work last month. I'm hoping to finish it this month if it is still available. +Amazing course! It is highly recommended to anybody interested in public health. +Good course, worth taking +Thanks for this excellent course. I am a doctor and in 2012 I have completed my MPH in Epidemiology from BSMMU, Bangladesh but for some reasons I have a gap in last 4 years in my career and recently I have started working with an Epidemiologist in NUI Galway,Ireland and looking for something which would help me to remind all those things I had learnt 4 years back. This course works like a magic. Now I got my memory back. Both teacher are very kind and they tried to make it easier for all which made this course fascinating .Best wishes for all...Dr. Sabrina Zarin +Important basic informations... +It's awesome. I am learning a lot. Thank you +Concise, insightful and relevant teaching material! +An informative and nicely structured course. Recommend those who want to gather precise knowledge about Epidemiology. +I am entering public health from another educational background. I plan to take the graduate course in epidemiology next spring when it is offered. This has given me a very helpful introduction to the field, as well as a review of statistics I learned in the past and different ways than I have used to analyze data. Thank you for making this available. +it is the excellent course,and most helpfull to my profession +Content was easy to follow and the tutors delivered material appropriately +Great course! The course covers fundamental concepts and terms used within the field of epidemiology. It also strengthens the knowledge, understanding and design of the different types of studies that may be useful for scientists in basic science. +great tool, really easy to understand +A well-organized course for the beginners. Thanks to the instructors. +it's an excellent introduction to epidemiology, with very clear explanations. +very good first step to public health +This course is an excellent introduction to Epidemiology. I am prepared to pursue my interests in the subject. +It was a very helpful course for me in preparing for my master's program in public health. Dr David is a very good teacher and it was a great learning experience! +Very informative and professional course. Great instructors and teachers. +I have just completed Module 1 and I am really enjoying the course. Good quality presentations with a good depth of subject matter. From a health professional's (RN, ENP) who has not studied this subject before, this is an excellent introduction to the topic so far. +Great and very well explained. Loved it! +I am really enjoying the course. It is really simple, informative and helpful. +Good course to learn the basics of epidemiology. +I have just started with the course and the introductory slides I found are perfectly designed. Thanks. +Very good and interesting course, I recommend. +This is a very good and very basic course of epidemiology. +Excelent!!! Very clear and easy to follow. +Amazing and simple introduction to epidemiology! The additional resources resume the information very well and facilitate reviewing the content of the course +good information. organized well and not too many lectures +This course was very helpful as a refresher for the epidemiology course I complete years ago. I would recommend it to anyone who wishes to learn or just need to review. +This covers a lot but in a clear and manageable fashion. Really impressed to find this available, just wish there were more public health courses on Coursera! +Course content was pretty detailed. I did not like that I had to write down pretty much every single word from each slide and that was said in order to make sure I could answer the quiz questions. Either the quiz questions were bad or it was taught in a confusing manner. I would go with the former. +I struggle with Epidemiology and Statistics, and this course helped me to get a better understanding of the teories of Epidemiology and helped me to use it in practic. Thank you for putting so much time in building these modules. +Loved this course! I learned a lot, as this is my first course on the topic, and had no trouble understanding the material. +Everything just on point. +This course is a great first look into Epidemiology. It covers a wide range of material from the general to the specific and does a great job teaching some of the statistical tools used by epidemiologists. I highly recommend this course to everyone with even a small interest in the field. +This is a great course. I learned a lot and was challenged a lot. Thank you professors! I hope to see you online again for a credited course certificate in the near future. +It is an interesting course, as a first contact with epidemiology and public health +Helpful to get an overview of the field of epidemiology and what options epidemiologists have in the real world. +very helpful,impressed by coherent topics in epidemiology. +Thank you very much Karin and Lorraine for your course! It really helped to understand more about Epidemiology, but more importantly about the mathematics behind them! I'm sure going to put in practice all the knowledge you gracefully displayed on those lessons! Thanks very much, your job is of really high quality! +Informative and complete, accurately provides the basics of the course. Perfect foundation for going deeper into the study. +The course explains key concepts in an easy to understand manner. Glad to be a part of it. +Thank you for encouraging me to continue the courses and quiz! I was moved by the motivational emails of the course for the first time since I started Coursera. Now I'm considering to apply to NC's online degree programs of public health, and change my career path. +An excellent introduction to epidemiology. The reason I gave it 4 stars rather than 5 is because I would have liked to see more statistics e.g. one or two statistical tests and maybe a prac on experimental/survey deisgn. +poorly done +The course provides a good introduction to epidemiology. Both teachers are relaxed and speak very well, which is important for foreign students. I would add more intermediate ,practice exercises before quizzes, intermingling them with lectures. Absorbing too much material before the quiz is not always easy. Especially formulas should be practiced repeatedly with some real life problems, although not too difficult ones, in line with the purpose of the course. +I enjoyed hearing about epidemiology, but didn't find the quizzes very useful. I was expecting more practice doing computation or examining case studies. The lectures also had no time in between slides to pause, write notes, and make sure I understood what was just said. I liked that the lectures were well organized and the review questions in between the topics of discussion. +boring +very informative +A great resource or as a reminder from previous material!! +Basic concept of epidemiology. +Very interesting, I learned a lot. +Clean, objective and full of examples. Lovely. +The course has been structured very well. Suitable for biologists without a strong mathematical background. I truly appreciate the hard work of the course instructors for designing a course that is worthy for the general audience as well as for those belonging to the field of bio-medical sciences. +Good course, tough, but good. Very engaging for those interested in Epidemiology. Lots of detail! I walked away learning much from this course. +Well organized - presentation engaging - Makes it a pleasure to take part +It is a very interesting course. I really have learnt a lot about epidemiology. +I really enjoyed this class, very comprehensive. Thanks Coursera +This course is exellent to have a complete vision of the field of Epidemiology. Iam considering myself studying a Master in this subject. The course gives you a great overview about what Epidemiology is , and I think they have achieved it very well +Great for beginners in Epidemiology! Not too intense, but covers topics from epidemiological studies, risks and ratios, calculation of CI and p-values. Very informative and easy to follow! +Great course +Data science is my passion, I love to do data analysis in public health to help our people. +A very good Basic and Refresher course on Epidemiology +One of, if not the, best course in the topic. Highly recommended for med students, statisticians, graduate doctors and public health servers. Great job Dr. Yeatts and Dr. Alexander! +Very useful and comprehensive information. I warmly recommend this course to all the ones interested in getting a proper understanding of the terms, concepts and designs used in clinical studies. +Pretty cool +As a Masters candidate in Public Health, I found the course quite informative. It covers all the basics and is helpful for understanding concepts in the subject. I study Epidemiology, and this course helped me revise and summarise the subject in the simplest way possible. Also, the language used, makes it easy for even lay people (with no health background) get a brief understanding of the subject. +Nice course, highly effective for other background. I suggest to improve the course content of week 4 & 5 which may be expanded with some other topics. +Love this course it is a basic introduction to epidemiology a MUST! It's engaging and the instructors explain things in a really easy way. +This course is well-organized and it is challenging to complete the quizzes +Excellent!! Now I understand more about Epidemiology!! I'm trying to get into a masters in Public Health or Healthcare Administration, so this will be really helpful to me!! I'll definitely search your graduate programs :) +It has lots of valuable concepts!! +Great for the begginers and the curious! Sorry for the bad english +educative +The coarse precisely and concisely says everything about basic epidemiology. +it was like a summary-short, clear and of great importance to all the learners of epidemiology! Thankyou +As a novice to the field of epidemiology, I have found that the course is very informative and insightful. +Great course. Contained little pieces of information that adds to my knowledge of epidemiology. I am grateful that I am associated with Coursera, because of which I was able to add stuff to my encyclopedia. +I liked that the quizzes were not easy, it made me feel the class was worth it. It is a good intro to study design and basic statistics. Definitely a gateway course. +Nice course with the correct approach on the basics of Epidemiology. Only one minor issue, i think the focus on the historical aspects, although interesting, was a bit too much in the lectures and the tests. Being able to define OR or CI should be more important than questions on history. Overall, great work! +Extremely well organized and informative. I loved the extra reading material provided as it was very straightforward and helpful for overall understanding of the concepts. I'm looking forward to learning more from the School of Public Health at UNC in the future. +Simple and logical for anyone to follow. +Excellent revision course for those who would have previously been introduced to Epidemiology and great for those who are now being introduced to the field.Reviewing of the added reading materials is recommended for heightened comprehension. +I was more than pleased to see the huge amount of information in a 5 week duration course. Very professional ! +Thank you, it is a very useful course. +I thought this was a good basic level introduction course. One suggestion is to update the quiz section to be able to click on the questions that were answered incorrectly and see the correct answer with explanation (after passing). +Great Course!!! +Thank You! +It was overall pretty decent. Learned alot. Almost every lecture is applicable in my real MedStudent Life as an amateur researcher. +Thanks for this very interesting course on line, thanks to both teachers, that was perfect +Great course! basic knowledge to start the comprehension of Epidemiology. +Gives a great overview of Epidemiology. Perhaps more clarification on cross-sectional studies. +There is no real flow between videos and questions, not easy to follow. Good efford, good content, just wrong methodology for online training for 2015. +Very interesting, comprehensive and easy-to-learn. +This is a great course that everyone interested in epidemiology should enroll in! +Very easy to unestand and now I feel more motivated to +Great course +This is a great course. It accomplishes its objectives to give a basic understanding regarding the basics about Epidemiology. +Very Educative. +Good introductory course for any biologist of life science student. +good.but why i can't see my certificate? i already completed and paid. +Not as in depth as I was hoping for. Useful for gaining a more precise vocabulary for epidemiology. +Learned a lot about epidemiology. Professors are really great! +This is a great introductory course (and it's even useful if you've already studied these topics but need a bit of reminding). ;) +Good enough for a free course offering very basic understanding of the topic. Lots of video errors, and sometimes the lecturer's speech isn't very smooth. Tests are poorly worded sometimes in ways that contradict the language used in the lectures, making them difficult to pass even with notes. I wouldn't pay for the certificate - if I were an employer I would not recognize this course as teaching any sort of proficiency. +This course help me understand history of epidemology, study design and methods to measure association and causaliy. I am very satisfied with this course. I appreciate +The content was really neat and definitely not something I had been exposed to before. I really liked the quantitative parts of the course and wish there had been more time spent on that and more quiz questions on that.The reason I am ranking this 2 stars is that I felt the quizzes were unreasonably difficult (or perhaps they had bugs). Week 2 quiz I had to take multiple times and really couldn't figure out what the correct answer was. Looking at the discussion boards I believe my sentiment is shared. I have taken multiple coursera classes (Astronomy, Astrobiology, Calculus) and these are by far the most difficult quizes I have encountered. +Thank very much for all the information and lectures shared. It was a very helpful course to get into public health.Best regards!Karina Vázquez. +Tough quizzes but its well said "you need to heat and beat the iron to re-shape". its totally worth your effort. +Great to learn the basics. Excellent explanations and to-the-point. +Useful content for health area.Easy to understand. Really love this course!!! +Fun introduction (I have no background at all in Epidemiology or related fields). However, the material is quite basic, and therefore not very challenging. Still worth the time if you want to get a good idea of what epidemiology is. +I am very grateful to you this introductory course, it has helped me a lot. I'm about to start a Master of Public Health and the seen here will be a great support. The topics were handled in a very practical way and explicit. No doubt in finding new college courses to which they belong, and considers much a doctorate. Greetings from Acapulco, Mexico. +very uneasy +Well organized and while challenging, fluent course materials in this course provides a fine introduction to Epidemiology. +Great course and wonderful style of teaching. +It was a good basic intro into the statistical methods of epidemiology. Quite basic. +Is a basic and useful approach to Epidemiology +It's a very great course for beginners who want to know the basics of epidemiology, I learned a lot from it. It gives a lot of examples, pictures, flashed to explain things, easy to understand. +No better course found, very direct and detailed as needed! +The best C++ MOOC online +Good course for engineering students engaging in computing science or coding oriented study. Will lay solid foundation for Data Structures. +Excellent Lectures! Some hard programming assignments. No TA or instructor around on line. Not too many to discuss in course forum. Overall, not an easy course. +very clear and helpful +Great! +pretty good ，learn with c++ primer helps a lot +boring and helpless +This course is very good ！！！ +best C++ courses I ever learned! +a vey good course of c++ +no one would take this course any more. +Great course to help you get start with C++. Give a lot of details about class. It is good enough thinking that it is a online free course. +Great C++ course, very helpful. +It's a nice course ,especially made by Peking University and teachers are quite easy and charming ,Itbetter to have more pratical projects about C++. +Teachers are very fun and intuitive!!!!!! +This is just what I want. +there are some fatal problems in its OJ system +Very Good Course. +very interesting and worth using time loving it! +I learn a lot from the course +High quality course. Ari Belenkiy, Vancouver, Canada +This course gave an excellent overview of epigenetics including molecular mechanisms with multiple case studies and a focus on cancer in the last week. I learned a lot and feel more confident branching out into the field after taking this course. +The course was great! I did not know much about epigenetics beforehand and now I feel like I could have an informed conversation. My curiosity was awakend +Highly engaging and in-depth! This isn't one of those dull cookie-cutter intro classes that is extremely easy. The material is highly specialised and the Professor Dr. Marnie Dewitt presents the material in a clearly organised and visual way. +Great course for learning the basic and intermediate level of epigenetics. +it's very interesting and very helpful to provide at least a database of the epigentics +I did not finish the course so far, but I´m already convinced of it. It´s a super interesting course that goes really deep on an awesome topic. What I like is that this is a really challenging course. It demands a good bit of effort to understand everything, but one is rewarded with a deep understanding of what so far is known about epigenetics. +I really enjoyed this course it's really interesting and I learned a lot about epigenetics. I really liked the professor and the way she explained and really enjoyed the materials she suggested us to read. +A brilliant course which enables students to understand the fundamentals of Epigenetics. This was my first online course and I am delighted to say that it was a wonderful experience and I gained immense insight into the field of Epigenetics. I'd strongly recommend it to prospective students and academicians. +Excellent course that is well structured +A great academically challenging course. Glad I have passed it! +An interesting course delivered in an excellent manner, with a challenging material being explained in a way that is easy to grasp. +Excellent course, easy to follow, well taught. Great depth of information. +A quintessential course for Genetics students all over the world. Very nicely prepared and elucidated by Dr. Marnie Blewitt .Many many thanks to Dr. Marnie Blewitt & Coursera team. +I find the course to be very interesting and full of information. The course is structured very nicely to make it easier for learners to gradually gain more and more insight into the field with minimum difficulties. I feel very satisfied by the time I finished the course. +A great course! I certainly learnt a lot. Please note, that if you haven't studied a scientific course before, then I think you would find this course too challenging. +Well constructed course and carefully designed questions. It is very useful for someone with biological and/or biomedical background to expand their knowledge on epigenetics! +Excellent course by an expert in the field. Full appreciation requires a background in biochemistry and genetics, but still a lot can be learned by anyone with interest. +this course gave a general ideal about epigenetic control, and it is helpful to me, Thanks +I have taken this course in the past. +Very informative, descriptive and useful. +The information is presented in a clear way and haves an apropiate level of difficulty. My problem is that the method of evaluation, with only multiple choice answers, is very lazy and easy. +It's pretty good :) +This was an AWESOME course. Really exciting, interesting, AND surprising, I never thought there's that much to talk about in epigenetics! I'm going to recommend it, definitely :) +Difficult course but very worthwhile your time +The more you learn the more exciting it gets.... +I really enjoyed this course, and as an Australian it is so exciting it comes form a domestic university. Thank you +Excellent course and i can say one of the best courses when it comes gene expression and i wanna thank to Dr. Marnie Blewitt +I highly recommend this course for anyone who wants to understand what epigenetics is all about, how the discoveries were made, and what are the open questions in the area.I wanted to give a big shout out to Dr. Marnie Blewitt for her great teaching skills.Her pace, and the amount of information and details provided are just perfect. Loved it from A to Z. +This course is amazing! +Great introductionIt is a great introduction course to this fascinating field. Explanations are very clear (supposing you have previous knowledge about molecular biology) and provided further reading links are very good if you look for deeper knowledge. I strongly recommend this course to biologstudents who did not have the opportunity to go into detail about epigenetics. +Very clear explanations. Four star because I think that the part on X chromosome is too long and covered with too details respect to other topics. +The course is very interesting for those who like Genetics. The lectures are delivered in an understandable manner, and the motion pictures make everything clear right away. +If you think that epigenetics is just about DNA methylation, you are wrong and need to watch this course. It is fascinating ! It is full of new scientific materials and bizarre phenomenon such as "X chromosome kissing" offered by a nice presentation and wonderful movies. +This course is brilliant. It presents a complicated topic with some details, taking non-experts in Biology, like me, to a good understanding. It is worth remembering the main elements in the course from time to time, so I am retaking this course (at least the videos) to refresh my memory. Wonderful course. I truly recommend it. +This was a wonderful course and I enjoyed it very much. +Good course with many aspects and details in the field of epigenetics. I think it is better to formulate the course at more weeks because there is much information at short time. The courses in specialised scientific field should get details like this course. +A challenging course that does a superb job of exploring the topics.The lectures are well-presented and engaging, the additional materials are well-selected from both popular press and academic literature.I wish there were more courses at this level! +Absolutely amazing experience! Every week was very captivating . Focus is on concepts and assignments test the understanding of them. Thank you Dr. Blewitt!! +I took an earlier version of this course and learned a lot! +Intriguing interective presentations and positive lecturer who grabs the attention not only on the course material, but on the matter and problems of epigenetics, in general. Very thorough and detailed course, but the material is easy to understand, interpete and remember. +Love this course. I don't have enough time to devote to it but I still get a lot out of it. +Interesting & Professional. +What can I say? An extremely complete course, very resourceful, dynamic and with great quality content from reliable sources. If you are interested in genetics, you will love this take on epigenetics; definitely worth it. +very well planned course. It makes the student want to pursue epigenetics for a career +As far as we have no Genetic, no Epigenetic courses in our medical universities. I feel that I have a huge gap in my knowledge in this field. I am so happy that I can attend such interesting and necessary course. Thank you very much) +very comprehensive +boring lecturer, monotone, passionless reading of even more boring powerpoint slides and images, and absolutely no intelligent discussion going on in this course, I have learned more from reading the book "the epigenetics revolution " by nessa carey, a book written for laypersons, than I have from this course taught by university professors. don't waste your time +muy buen curso, aprendi sin tener bases de marketing +Wonderful course, especially for non-finance professionals!! Very friendly in learning.... Take enough time out to go and deeply understand the terms and concepts explained... This will provide a good head-start!! Cheers Vaidya Nathan Sir!! You are amazing... gotta meet you some time!! +Introduction to Financial Markets was a really interesting and refreshing course which was successful in furnishing new concepts and intricacies regarding the financial markets. The videos were well structured and Professor Nathan exhibited great knowledge and teaching style which kept me engaged and intrigued all this while. +Questions in examination can be taken from a pool of 20, may be 30 every time but not the exact 10 always.Since all questions have maximum of 2 options, if it is wrong, for the next attempt other answer is true definitely. +great course +It was very easy to understand and has a lot of good information.I would recoment this to anyone interested in the Financial market.Only downside is that some of the videoes have sound issues, nothing major but a bit annoying that there is a buzzing sound while he is talking. +A fine overview of many things , Good in terms of knowledge. +It gave me a bright insight into the world of financial markets. +helpful +I like the course pattern as well as contain. It gives you all introductory information about Financial Markets. I am sure that I have enough knowledge to trade in market. +Had an amazing experience , the faculty was well qualified an and with best he helped me best of his knowledge with the videos . My basics are mostly cleared . +This course was really great. It help to broaden my knowledge.This was my first time to take a course about finance, i love the course and the teacher is great also. +Great course! +The course gave me basic information for further understanding about share market, currency market and bond market +Very Good starting place for a thorough introduction to all aspects of Financial Markets. +Excellent course for beginners to learn about financial markets. +Really good for a beginner!! +Firstly i am so glad to take up this course.Professor vidhyanathan explains micro concepts in a simple way .And gives a brief summary of financial markets .finally i am so happy choosing this course to knowledge myself and learn new things +good n valuable info....hd there been more pictorial representations of effect of inflation wud have added value. Thank u. +It is a efficiently designed course covering all the key elements which you basically need to know about the market. +Gave a good overview of the financial markets. I had enrolled thinking it would be on the Indian financial markets. Would be great if there was a similar course based on Indian markets. +Great explication about the markets. +Well explained and concise. +A great way to improve your profesional skills +It was a very useful course with a lot of practical examples. +Clarity, basic information and background of the theme well-explained. +This is an amazing course! Ir presents the Fundamentals for a Powerful Business Writing! +Great TIPS for everyday work related documents. +Good for a basic level but I expected more in this course. +Good information to follow !!! +Terribly difficult to engage with 10+ min lectures in every lesson, plus unorganized presentations and interviews making extracting important information difficult; the lack of organization in the interview videos (which are SUPER long) made it very difficult to extract significant information for the course and assignements. I will say that the research and academic readings made available in the course were exceptionally helpful and full of great information, i just wished that that information was presented in a more engaging and interesting way, sometimes more organized as well. Furthermore, much of the referenced material should be made accessible within the course rather than simply cited; it looks fascinating but from places like China, databases and websites with such relevant sources are often wholly inaccessible. Please include links or entire documents. +This course is really nice for someone who is working in teaching English as a second of foreign language area. It enhance us to be more understanding in L2 reading context, and I enjoy working on the assignment. +GREAT, JUST THE BEST FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS.... IT IS SIMPLY AMAZING +an eye-opening course for teachers who want to develop their knowledge in communicative approach in teaching English language. Thoroughly enjoyed each module as it was very thought provoking and detailed. It was a great experience to peer assess too. +Excellent, well thought-out course combining aspects of TBL and Best practice on Reading. +I loved everything about the course content, but peer assessment is a TERRIBLE idea.For one submission I could get both the highest and the lowest grade, without any feedback. Any internet troll could have taken the course and graded participants with the lowest grades possible. Not fun.I have passed the course (89%), but I won't even try another peer assessment based course.It's such an irony that (aspiring) teachers were not able to assess someone else's work properly. +It is very useful and authentic learning with advance scope of knowledge under the high professional experts. Very recommended +If you are new to teaching ESL, this is probably not a good course. I found the homework used topics that a beginner would not be familiar with. I did like how they used various links to supplement the course (ie a chapter from a interesting text book) to help illustrate points in topics. I may retake the course after I have a foundation. +Awesome! It was great to see how texts can be approached, through different lens from our cameras in the lessons. I definitelly recommend it! +This course was excellent! The material was scaffolded very well, and gave me a very good overview of TBLT, the teaching of reading, and how to create tasks for reading courses. I appreciated the mix of video, readings, interviews, and optional readings. This is the best MOOC I have ever taken, one of the very few MOOCs that I have ever completed, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about TBLT, teaching reading, or being a better second/foreign language teacher in general. +Overall great course, homework problems could be a little muddy at time and the significant figures asked for can be unnecessarily tedious +An excellent theoretical and practical introduction to average switch modeling, peak and average current mode control. Dr. Maksimovic really demystifies the control loop modeling. I highly recommend the course for power electronics students as well practicing engineers. +It was very helpful and pleasant lecture. I learned the many. So thank you very much for all lecturers. +The material was valuable, but support very spotty. It took a long time to get feedback, and I usually fought through the question by the time a mentor got back. Maybe that's how it should be.Also; I got 100% for all weekly tests, but this reflects some social engineering skills on top of electrical engineering. Some numerical answers require 3 decimal place accuracy based on whatever approximations went into the original calculations for the number required by the Grading Bot. For example, one question involving phase margin had the wrong answer in the Bot; however, the number the Bot wanted was plausibly in the same measured output that LTSpice delivers when it calculates cross over frequency and the phase angle of the cross over frequency (which the Bot treated as correct). I spent 15-20 hrs on each week's material, frequently to sort out stuff like that. Can only give 4 stars.On the plus side, the mini-quizzes (with answers provided after bad guesses) were fantastic, and I hope future versions of this material will build on that. +This is very helpful for me cause i am pursuing Power electronics engineering degree +Knowledge obtained is very valuable, but teaching stuff should improve by solving more examples in detail. +Good course +I really enjoyed the intellectual challenge of the course but I was a little bit disappointed by the set of problems for Homework #4. In my view, the whole set should be reviewed in order to make +Very knowledgeable and impressiveThanks +Excellent quality of simulation files and homework assignments. This course denotes a tremendous effort and hard work. I feel proud to have completed it, this course is by far one of the most challenging I have taken at coursera, and now going for the capstone project to complete my specialization ! +Dear Prof,I take the opportunity to thank prof. Dragan Maksimovic for his detailed explanation and excellent course material. I have learnt many exciting things while answering practice and Home work quiz questions. Looking forward for Magnetic design (next course in specialization). Once again thanks prof. for all that you gave to us through the course.ThanksPandu S +THIS IS A VERY WONDERFUL COURSE AND I BELIEVE IT WILL BE VERY HELPFUL TO ME IN THE NEARBY FUTURE. +Loved the course, it is very much interactive and informative. Keep it up! +One of the best online course available for data analysis using Excel as main tool for analysis. +Great course. Excited to continue with the rest. +Useful for business analysis +good course gives a basic foundation for data analytics ! Excellent for beginners who have no idea how to use excel for want to learn systematically excel files given at every lecture are very useful. +a clear intro to some basic-moderate user level functions in Excel. Good for those who have yet to use functions and graphing capabilities of the software. +Great review of how to use Excel to calculate basic arithmetic values, create charts, and some statistical values. +i am very happy as i was perusing the course despite the hard time i got while completing it, i earned a lot of skills from the course and am lucky that it helped in what i am doing currently because it touched many areas where i needed to apply a course outside, now that you did it online, it has saved me alot, the videos i downloaded for revision purposes... thank you so much for that............. +The whole online course was a wonderful experience. Its easy and can become more perfect with the assignments. I thank Sharad Borle sir for explaining the course in an easy and perfect way. The assignments were helpful as they were an assurance that you got perfect with a topic. Cant wait to use it in my work! :) +Great course that teaches you a lot of the basics in Excel. The instructor is very knowledgeable about the subject matter and explains the material in a clear way. I am now using much of the stuff that I learned in this course during my daily work. +Well Organized. Easy to learn. +I thought this course was straightforward and I felt that watching the professor go through the steps of performing different functions and creating different charts was a wonderful way to watch and learn. I felt the quizzes really tested my ability to apply the knowledge +Very useful, well balanced course. Thank you. +It is very helpful course, it give me a lot of fundamental knowledge in Excel to analyze data. +very detailed and clear intro and examples in the course on the very essential tools in Excel +Thorough and at the same time easy to understand. +good course to set foundation +Excellent professor and good course for start learning Excel!!! Basics on formulas, pivot table and charts. +nice course with a good instructor. +very useful +The course structure is set keeping in mind that even Beginners can do the course without any problem. +Well explained, good examples, easy to learn. +Loved it! The pace is perfect and the instructions are easy to follow. +It was very basic. No additional reading. +Please add more manipulations within basic data analysis using excel course +It was very nice to get my skills expanded. I would be very helpful, if the professor included handouts with functions, definitions, and instruction (e.g. on how to create a histogram). This way it would help to review something later without the need to open the videos again and searching for the content one is looking for. +Extremely engaging and practical course +Very good course +I found out I already knew alot of the beginning material in this course. So I just used this course for learning Vlookup, Hlookup, and pivot tables. The histogram section was a nice refresher if you have taken a statistical class before. Very helpful and great examples. +Presentation is good. Concepts explained in a simple and clear manner. Missing interactivity which is very important to retain the understanding of the concepts explained. +good course +Great course for Beginners and mid level. Thank you +Good course for learning the basic on data visualization. +very helpful +Very clear, good course but if you audit, you won't be able to get the answers to the end of week quizzes. +Excellent course for basic and medium expertise in excel. +Great Course! Concise and well taught. +I truly enjoyed the whole course. It is perfect for brushing analysis and presentation skills before moving on to advanced level. Thank you for this platform! +Great Course!! Quiz questions needs to be discussed or solved by the support staff if needed. +Great class, helped with basics +Very useful but not necessarily a course for beginners. Understanding the concepts isn't tough because they are explained very well but the exercises can be challenging for people who don't have a functional knowledge of excel. +This course will give you a great foundation in Excel if you have no previous experience. I now feel confident enough in my abilities to try higher level courses involving Excel. +wonderful, easy to understand +I use Excel constantly at work, but I have frequently gotten information from it the hard way. This course helped me increase my knowledge in some Excel functions that I knew about, but wasn't getting the most out of, such as Pivot Tables. I have already applied what I learned in this course at work and THAT is about the best that you can hope for from a class. +The course materials are designed logically and very easy to follow. Thank you very much for this valuable experience +The course is really helpful as it equips one to use basic and advanced functions of excel and explain concepts in clear details +This is one of finest course in excel i came across +Well organized introduction to Excel analysis. Well suited to beginners. +It is easy to follow and very useful. I have discovered many tools to improve my use of excel. +The course gives a good understanding of basics of Excel. Using various important elements of Excel it successfully shows how data analysis can be performed using this powerful tool. +Well structured course taught by an extremely good professor. Great projects and quizes that make you learn with each question +Excellent course to learn the basics of Excel and how to use it for day to day problems of data analysis.In short it is a complete package for learning excel to beginners as well as for those who know a little about excel. +Wonderful course. Great teaching. Learnt a lot. +Very Good and informative course!! +very basic. for novices. not worth it to pay money for it +Excellent introduction to Excel. I could revise my knowledge and I learned some new formulas. Videos are very helpful and explanation is clear. I strognly recommend this course! +Very helpful, enlightening and interesting! Thank you so much for offering this course! +the course is absolutly a 'must' for gaining new skills. +Very good preliminary course. Covers fundamental topics in a clear and concise manner. Video lectures are easily understandable, and each lecture is followed by a practice quiz. The quizzes for each week are also well constructed and test the student's practical knowledge. Overall, very good introductory course. +Not life changing but it told me what I needed to know with a minimum of faff. +Excellent!!! Thanks a lot to all behind this course ( specially the course instructor Mr. Sharad Borle for his clear and to the point presentation) . Examples, Videos, Sub-Titles, Quiz and other contents really help the learner to be more adroit and practical. I would like to complete advanced courses and other upcoming courses if possible. You guys deserve high rating, Kudos (y) +a great course. it made online learning easy. +Audited this course- very helpful, eas +Great very easy to follow and good videos and sound +A very useful course, I found lots of new and important staff to learn and can implement them all within my day-to-day tasks.I am expecting a huge difference after participation of this course into my statistical skills, thanks for the organizers of this course. +This course can further be extended to some advance level. +Highly Enlightening! +Nothing can be better than this......... +I recommend Coursera and this course for anyone who use Excel and data analyses in business. +I really enjoyed this course. The pace was very good, videos were clear and informative and tests helped me to memorise the lessons better. This course is a very good starting point for beginners when it comes to Excel and provided materials helped in constant working "side-by-side" with the professor. Thank you very much! +Interesting course to brush up already acquired knowledge in Excel and add up more skills. +Very useful with lots of practical cases for learning.Both knowledge and skills mentioned in the course could assist to uplift productivity and efficiency at work. +nice course....good for learning basic excel.... +A nice course for begginers in excel which includes business data. +Everything the instructor did, he did well. I just wish there would be more. +Great pace, all very useful materials. Only thing is I wish the instructor gave the excel data files that he uses to demonstrate with so that students can follow along. +Pretty basic course with a lot of 'dead time' not really learning anything about Excel. Tutor should consider a few more advanced and useful topics. +Good course. Basic level. +Overall, this was good study for learning basic functions in Excel. However, the tutorials and practice quizzes do not adequately prepare you for the actual graded Quiz at the end of each week that counts toward your final grade. You will definitely have to be either a quick study, who can pull a lot of inference and practical application out of minimal technical guidance, or know how to Google the steps that were glossed over in the videos or for which no practice question was provided. Also, side note, if you have a Mac, you will be somewhat flustered at times, and you will also need an add-on app for the Histogram portion. +its an excellent course. Enjoyed doing it +Excellent course. Thoroughly enjoyed the work. +A great beginning towards learning Excel +Such a great course I ever have! Thanks. +A course help me a lot in Excel. I can apply what I have learned in my daily work. +I would give 5 out of 5 without any hesitation. It is a wonderful course covering right from the basics to a moderate level, presenting the approaches to analyse the data. Good that Dr.Borle had presented tricky assignments for the course, that really helped us to use our brains and dig into the analysis. Much appreciated course. Thank you Dr.Borle and Coursera. Look forward to many more interesting courses on Data Analysis and Analytics. +Was a great course for learning and for review. It was relevant and concise. I would recommend it if you choose to do either. +Great course. Detailed instructor videos, good quizzes to test knowledge and materials were helpful. +Easy for a novice and very useful, but It would be better if there are more materials for each week. +Superb learning experience.If there is an advanced course to this would definitely love to do it .Very good faculty support staff and very enthusiastic fellow students whose guidance and thought process gives a different perspective. +Very concise beginner course in Excel. This is not a course for those who have intermediate (or above) level of Excel. +Very good course and instructor +Good informational & well planned course +The course was really helpful. Feeling confident to use Excel now. +Very nice introduction to vlookup and pivot tables. +Excellent explanations int he videos show exactly what is necessary to learn. Thank you! +Great course, very helpful - though a few issues around the techincal wording and interpretation of questions being asked in tests, and more support for Mac users +Learned so much! excellent. Challenging tests and interesting lectures +Great Learning Experience.Thanks!!! +Fantastic content. Learning to streamline and visualize data is useful for everybody. The additional knowledge on importing and managing data has given me an insight into the power of excel. I highly recommend this course to anybody, even fresh graduates/students. +Awesome and easy course! A must for the beginners or for a quick revision. I completed this 4 weeks course in 4 days.. I know 4 days are alot more of a time but i hardly studies for 3 hours per day.. Great course.. looking forward for other courses as well in this specialization. +A good course for consolidating essential Excel skills, may be a little basic for some but a good introduction and lead in to the specialisation. +Useful, helping the entry level excel user to be more familiar with excel function and tips. +Very useful if you just have a little idea about excel must do this course. +Awesome course for beginners. Explanation with examples are really good and easily understandable. +Great and essential for every business manager. +prof is very down to earth, speaks clearly and explains very well. the examples are terrific. material is very important for anyone in industry +Nice introduction to Excel for data analysis. Covers all the fundamentals. +exactly what I need, thank you +A structured and easy to understand course. A must for beginners who wish to start learning about various excel functions and tools. +Exceptional course. Course load is a little less if you're familiar with Excel before, otherwise learning while doing is really easy. The assignments are very practical and interesting. Looking forward for the specialization. +The best excel course I have seen on Coursera so far! Great for any analyst. +I am in a profession to provide the smoke barrier solutions so i am involved in the safety of people, property and environment around us. As i started the course, since very first slide, i realized that this course is tailored for me and anyone who want to know the fire and its effects on property, people and environment. This course covers the contents in best way and approach to get a person into this career oriented study is awesome. I would like to have such courses for hundred times. I am grateful to Maryland University for offering such good course. Special thanks for the instructors , who designed and delivered it right way and in extreme interactive way. +Congrats and Many thanks! +Good fundamental fire protection knowledge +I'm surprised at how much I learned in such a short lesson plan. REALLY useful information, both theoretically and to make me aware in real life of the risk of fire, and mitigation strategies and techniques. Thank you for a very engaging course! +The contents of the course are really easier to absorb and very informative. They are structured in a simpler way and very effective to gain knowledge easily +Thank you coursera for providing such wonderful course. Learned a lot and hope that it will help me to take my career next step ahead. Finally i would like to thank my professors specially Dr. James Milke. +Amazing course of fire science and learnt alot of new concepts and things. I am really excited to implement the newly learnt knowledge and skills. Thanks Coursera +This course is a great introduction to fire safety engineering, it gives a clear overview about the subject. I really hope there will be more courses on this topic! +great course but I cant seem to get a certificate even after paying and finishing it +I loved this course! +investing class with ideas i hadn't considered prior to taking the course. +entry level, very basic concepts for professionals. It would be very good for anyone who wants to know about fire protection engineering. No background is needed, but engineering background +Best for Gaining Knowledge deeply. +Its amazing how the general population view fire just in a small perspective as opposed to the broader perspective, this course has made me to understand. Its amazing how this course has made bare all the facets of fire and its management. I really enjoyed the course.... +Great course, interesting subject! +Concise and ample for the busy person. Very great insight. Much appreciated. +learn the basic and engineering concepts +Very well presented. Easy to understand with the examples that were provided. Details were clear. +Several of the lecturers are unusually monotonous and do not express excitement about the subject matter. +Clear and interesting! +Nice course covering basic doctrine of EU law. I recommend it. +I got a great overview over the fundamentals of EU Business Law. Nice concise lectures with lecturers that captured my attention. +Great course! +Good course. +Definitely recommended for people who have no clue about European law whatsoever. Its informative but partly the course fails to set the right priorities. For example: IMHO it makes little sense to ask for numbers of paragraphs in the quizzes - its not only a waste of time to learn them by heart but also it hinders the participants to show their understanding of the material. +Very interesting and useful course. +I really enjoyed studying with Lund University. I am specially satisfied by learning more about EU legal system. +A must do course for those outside Europe +Clears out the fundamentals of EBL. +The course is very informative for non EU member State lawyers +Quite good course providing structured overview of European Business law fund +The course provides with a detailed overview on how the EU is functioning. If you intend to study the EU law, this course is very helpful to understand the basics. +Content is relevant and concise, with enough materials to research or use if one wished to further their knowledge on the subject. Lectures are mostly lively, kept to the point, and presented with real life examples that aid comprehension and prevent monotony. In my opinion this course achieves its goal of teaching the fundamentals. However, if one wished to get a solid grasp of this topic additional work on their behalf would be required outside of the course. +It's a good course +This is a great course for law practitioners that want to gain basic knowledge in the field of EU Business Law. The professors explained the course clearly and concisely. The training materials are very helpful as well. Many thanks to Lund University! +Challenging but insightful and well structured course. As an American, my exposure to the EU at this level was limited, and the course provided a solid framework for understanding as well as legal analysis. +Just great! Many thanks. +Course lectures are good, but many quiz questions are out of syllabus. Sorry, I am not satisfied. +The University of Lund provided a great course. The content was rich and well presented by a team of dedicated professors. Thank you! +Nice course and every business man should join this class +High level course with great instructors. +Thank you very much for your course ! It was informative and useful ! +Thank you for your programme. It is designed to provide a compact but complete preparation. +Helpful course covering the legal basis and institutional structure of the EU. +This is a professional, detailed and enriching course that I, as a practitioner and legal adviser in the field of EU law, highly recommend. Well done! +A great effort to initiate MOOC users into the institutional complexity of the EU. +Overall good course. Clean and elegant style of presentation. Some videos had some echo problems with the sound. Also there were some english typos in some slides and in video quizzes that should be corrected. I would like to seen the slides for the presentations. Also if this is going to be a series of courses wouldn't it make sense to bundle it in a specialization?Nonetheless, congratulations and thank you for presenting this course in Coursera. +Another interesting course. It offers a wide range of resources and content, and the learning outcomes and objectives are clear. +Very informative and helpful in assisting teachers with learning how to assess their ELL students. +This course helps me to improve my teaching skills +I truly enjoyed this course. As a speech-language pathologist, learning the process of assessments for ELLs was especially helpful as I work in the city with very diverse populations. Thank you for the wonderful course! +Great unit. Highly recommended. Really appreciate the interviews with staff working in the field as well. +The course can be informative, but the presentation needs some work. All of the instructional videos were merely a person reading a Power Point presentation to the viewer. The "in class" examples appeared to be completely hypothetical and were also read to the viewer without any video demonstration of how the presented information works in an actual class.In addition, the written information in the videos was confusingly organized and had not been fully edited. In multiple videos, there were typos. In at least one video, the instructors had not fully deleted the sentences from a previous version of a slide. When the revised slide was presented to the viewer, a word from a previous version was in the middle of the sentence. In addition, the previous version was obviously about a different subject.I was disappointed and continually frustrated with this course, especially since the instructors required me to pay fifty dollars in order to take the module quizzes and the final assessment. I have no problem paying for a good product. However, the professionalism displayed in the course was incredibly lacking. +Practical and useful! +As a seasoned teacher, 20 years, much of this content is intuitive or has already been in place in my classroom. The course validated much of the methodology I already use, but I did lose interest from time to time. +cool +Informative! +I am an intern school psychologist, and was concerned that the content of the specialization would not benefit me as a practitioner. I was going to just take this Assessing Achievement with the ELL in Mind and not the other courses. I am eternally grateful that I decided to take all three courses in the series. I have a better appreciation for both instructors and students. Much of the content and strategies benefit all learners, including myself. I would highly recommend this class, and the +Excellent course which provides sources and ideas to help the teacher in the classroom. It is trully designed for and to teachers who have to deal with ELL on a daily basis. +I thoroughly enjoyed the course. It was a great learning for me and to understand how assessments can be created and modified for different learners. +Very interesting! I am enjoying taking this course! +Quite useful if you are trying to become a better teacher for your students. +Very useful! Highly recommended! +WOW! I learned so much my head is spinning--EXCELLENT Course!Amazing Content! Fantastic Examples! Well Organized! Superb Teachers!Thank you for the opportunity to learn! +This course is taught in a way that is easy to understand and gives lots of insight and examples to further solidify the knowledge presented. +Very clear and inclusive. Lots of practical examples too. +It was one of the best courses I have done on coursera.Also the instructor explains detailed subject matter very well which makes it easier to understand the subject.Certainly a 10\10 for the course ! +Great course, great things to learn. I enjoyed the +Through this course I get to know the essentials and the big picture of global health and the most important concepts and actors in this field. Thanks! +Very complete course and the teacher is a good one. +very good comprehensive Global Health MOOC +its one of the most powerful and skillful course for data scientist +Require quite a lot knowledge on statistics +good course with example and assignment, we get the real feel of doing things. +This course if very helpful. Lectures and assignments provide a great opportunity to gain hands on experience. +I really appreciate the course design. Even if somebody doesn't have much background in R, she/he can comfortably learn from the videos and understand the concepts. The exercises and project assignments are challenging and actually help you practice and re-visit the lectures and explore further. Though I had already known and used Clustering, PCA and SVD in my work before, I really liked the way these concepts were explained here. I would strongly recommend this course to anybody who is keen to see R in action! +Very instructive! +Very helpful! +Very helpful class. +Excellent course, extremely practical and useful +Good course. +Great course! +Help to Better understanding of R-programming graphical +Quite repetitious in covering basic graphing, and very shallow in regards of clustering, SVD and PCA. +Great course! +It was awesome to learn visualization. SVD and PCA part of the course could have been elaborated better, and a pilot project on that would have cleared the basic concept. As usual Prof. Roger is a engaging and amazing teacher. +Very useful experience +Really good. +First two weeks are too repetitive with other courses +Well crafted, carefully designed learning materials! +I really enjoyed this course. It's a must to start understanding your data before digging into analysis +Great course, really gives an insight on how you can get a set of data and actually make some sense from it. +Would have needed a litle more in depth explanation of the clustering analysis +Very fruitful course on how to approach issues and use plots to deal with it +Favorite course until now in this track. The visualization is very helpful for both academics and career. +Good course on plotting libraries and useful plots in R. Wished there was more coverage of ggplot and less on lattice, but overall a useful course. +Nice course! Workload was just about right. clear lectures and well-designed projects. +When it comes to hierarchical and K-means clustering, the theory wasn't explained clearly. When do we use U and V for what purpose? How does D come in? I'm left confused after this. +Great to understand clustering analysis and create beautiful graphs +Excellent Course, really enjoyed it and learnt a lot!!! +Good introduction to graphics systems and principles. Practical exercises are well conceived. +useful course for me . thanks to my tutor +Great Projects! +The course was fantastic. It was very challenging. I could do with some additional opportunities for exploratory analysis to reinforce some concepts. +Great course! It have been very useful for my job as data scientist! Thank u very much! +Really helpful. I really enjoyed getting familiar with plotting systems and also increasing my abilities dealing with data frames +A nice introduction to operating on Data sets. Clear examples, interesting projects. +I really learned a lot in this class. I plan on going over the materials as well as taking one of the next courses +Nice course, but too much focus on "R" as a tool.... Industries don't use R as much... The course must be made more generic and independent of R - understand it is not easy to do but .... +Great Course, that require to use all the topics you have learned in the previous courses of the specialization. +Thank you very much. I enjoyed the course a lot. I recommend it! +2 thumbs up +It delves into many important topics. I would advice to explore the topics in much more depth on your own. Overall a good breadth of topics. +Course is good in general but "HIERACHICAL CLUSTERING" part is hard to understand and is not clear, should be explained more. +Nice but basic course. +good course! +I love these courses +Well Structured Course, Learnt a lot from it +Clustering topic is covered superficially, too much time spend on employing ggplot graphs, not very useful since making graphs is straightforward on other software, like excel, once you aggregate datasets correctly. I had not found it very enriching as a course. I would merge this class within R-Programming section and call it Part 2 rather than categorizing into "Exploratory Data Analysis". +Able to learn and understand the way of doing exploratory analysis.the way of teaching is very good. +Good introduction to patterns recognition. I found principal components analysis technique very useful. It would be great to provide more lectures about this topic. +Awesome course, with a very detailed step by step approach +It was an amazing ride +Very interesting course on plotting with R and much more! I've enjoyed it. +It starts to get a little more technical and complicated when I reach Week 3. A lot of things about Dimension Reduction and K-means method. I would love to have some assignments or exercises on that.Other than that, I love this module. +This is a great course! I really enjoy the pace. Plus, the real world application isn't a bad thing at all either! +I love this course! +I did learn more about putting together a set of graphs that help to explore the data. I did see how subsetting and aggregating data helps to give a better understanding of the data. +Excellent introduction to various graphics packages in R. I've already been able to apply these skills in my job. +What a wonderful course to undertake. On my way to take all 10 courses :D +A great course. I was hoping to get some more hands on the actual case study though. It was mentioned that Exploratory Analysis is some times intertwined with modeling - and I think in later course it might get covered. But just a glimpse of the relation in the case study would have been helpful. +It was a wonderful experience to read the structure of data before delving into the advanced statistical levels of data analysis.The need for inclusion or exclusion of dependent variables or dimension reduction in regression analysis can be intuitively understood and visualized using Data Exploratory techniques and then we have the clue as what to do in the next level.It is like putting the whole characteristic of the data under full control. +A nice overview of data exploration techniques. +Excellent training! Lectures are easy to understand and let you focus on the subject. +The first two weeks were good. The third was a bit confusing and the 4th one just felt like padding. A more in depth study of ggplot would probably be more beneficial as I felt like we were only scratching the surface with it +Excellent course to develop and understand the technique of data visualization. +Very Nice! +This course is very helpful. Thanks for the teachers of this course. +This course is excellent in that it gave a great introduction to the plotting functions in R. They also introduced singular value decomposition, which is a concept that is interested but wish the course went deeper into. +Very well designed and delivered course.Glad to be associated with Coursera. +The exploratory part was very good. But, PCA was a waste of time. +One of the best parts is the introduction of Singular Value Decomposition and Principal Component Analysis. Also does K-means and other clustering.I would recommend reading the handouts to you get the math behind the technique. +Assignments were really good! +Course content and assignments were difficult to follow. Loads of statistical content along with high-level R content means it was probably the toughest of the 4 I have taken so far in the Coursetrack. +The course is interesting and the content is relevant. I do think that there are some issues with project 2 though. I did provide feedback on that to the course administrators. +good overview of how to make graphs! +Engaging main instructor and structured lecture notes +Excellent course, I really enjoy it +Excellent review of various visualization techniques. +Good course worth taking +Excellent class!I totally recommend it +Very good course that provides handy tools for data manipulation and representation +GREAT TEACHING IN GRAPH, I LOVE THAT PART +Very excellent course structure. Gives you all the bases you need to get you started in exploring your data. +Great course +Interesting learning more about ggplot and base plotting system, as well as clustering techniques. +This class gave me insight on how to better analyze questions. My faults arose when trying to present to much information which may have caused confusion or even disinterest. The main point is to convey results in a simple and understandable manner. Good class lots of practice. +An interesting course +Fun and good approach on exploratory data analysis +Awesome and must take course!! +Interesting. endless plotting possibilities +Excellent course but would have helped better if there would have been assignment related to clustering. +Great intro to R plotting +Great course +Like the clustering +Very good course. I liked the clustering examples. They were a little bit detached from the rest, but they were also great. +Thanks +Wonderful primer on how to get thinking creatively about data. +Excelent course! Very direct and informative, leaving many doors open to individual quests. +Thank you very much, it was very interesting !! +Very interesting course. the week 3 is the most challenging and the practical case of week 4 is quite cool also ! +Material teached in this course is must have for everybody who wants to use R for Data Science. Exploratory Data Analysis is one of first steps in every project. +It's extremely useful to learn how to make plot using R +Graphical Methods are taught in a very good way. +My name is Jose Antonio from Brazil. I am looking for a new Data Scientist career.Please, take a look at my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseantonio11I did this course to get new knowledge about Data Science and better understand the technology and your practical applications.The course was excellent and the classes well taught by teachers.Congratulations to Coursera team and Instructors. +About plotting in R. Not about generating real insights from EDA. +Great!! +Very solid class in terms of R's base plotting system. I wish Coursera offered an advanced class focusing on ggplot2 and the wider world of dat viz. +Prof. Peng teaches you not only how to use the r base plotting system but also how to make wonderful graphs using the lattice and ggplot2 packages. Awesome course! +A nice introduction to the three plotting systems in R. The second part is devoted to clustering, but it is not detailed enough to be really useful. +Great Course, Swirl is really where the value comes from +There is a lot you can learn during this course, I enjoyed it! +Well structured and very informative +The lectures in this course included theory and examples on PCA and SVD - however this was missing from the practical materials +Great course +I love all those courses, I have learned so much and I'm planning to complete all 10 units. +NEEEEEED TO EDIT MY PEER REVIEW FROM OTHERS +Really great and useful stuff +If you get data, take this course! You will love the course and your data! +I really enjoyed all of the data visualization techniques and packages that were covered in this course. +Overall a good course! +very useful course +When it comes down to it, there's simply not the support to assist a student that has a really hard problem, "hacker mentality" seems to equate to "figure it out on your own cuz nobody's going to help you". If things do not work perfectly for you then you are likely never to be able to finish because your "peers" don't know any better either. The way this class is set up makes me angry every time I have to deal with it. I would probably be just as well served doing just the swirl() exercises. I would quit if I hadn't paid all the way through in advance. I can't believe this is the type of school John Hopkins is to produce a course of this quality, but I guess I have to. +Very detailed. Like the case study by Dr. Peng. +Nice lectures. Projects are very interesting. +helpful. +Really nicely explained, learned so many useful methods for data analysis in R. The dimensionr reduction and principal component analyses walkthroughs were a little tricky for a newbie in those areas though. +Great Course +Excellent course with in depth analysis. A must for anyone who sees his/her future in data analysis. +Hopefully it could be clearer on dimension reduction. +The course is quite good and informative in the first two weeks covering a lot of information and a lot of exercises.Week 3 is very unrelated and hard the videos and exercises are bad, and I had to do this part by myself again.Also when we get to the final course project doesn't cover any of these techniques.In my opinion, week 3 should be replaced with something more related to plotting systems and distributions, also one project would be enough. +very handy and saves a lot of time for making plot with R +Very interesting content- going to be useful in my career +Loved the course! Super useful tutorial of the different plotting systems, and basic exploratory data analysis. Very practical and hands-on, which is what is needed for this kind of work. Assignments were relatively simple, but I think they got the key points across. +Good course +It is powerful and useful, In particularly for students! +This course was very important for my work. I learned so much and I want to say thanks to the professors. +This is the second course I have taken from Roger Peng and both were outstanding. I have a strong math background, but not much of a background in stats, but this course was very approachable for me. +A very good introduction to the exploratory analysis and the R's plotting systems. The most advanced exploratory techniques (singular values decomposition, etc.) are not explained in depth but the overall role that these kinds of statistical learning techniques plays in the exploratory analysis is firmly established.Great work with the course! +This course served as a great introduction to R and helped me to get ease with R +Great!! I highly recommend this course. +I wish there several comprehensive examples of exploring some real data as guided by the course instructors. +Course feels somewhat abandoned by instructors. Content is okay, but can't help the feeling that it's basically a cash cow - students would benefit a lot if instructors were move involved. +swirl is very used in this course. It is one of the best tools to learn R +Very interesting and insightful course. I enjoyed it.Assignment was okay, could have provided more challenge and depth though. +Good hand-on class +Great and Excellent thoughts and course material. +The course projects are interesting and challenging! +Amazing experience. Great job Prof. Peng! +A nice coursera, but I was a bit lost SVD. +Nice introduction to graphics in R! +great course but wish to have more materials or explanation on svd and PCA part. +The course covers very limited subset of plots and mostly oriented to R-specific technical routines rather than overall approaches. Case-study example is helpful and contrary to the most comments I do appreciate the final course project: this how most problems are stated in real life. If you would like to cover more fundamental concepts behind exploratory analysis I would recommend other sources. +The only missing point I would say about this course is how to deal with skew data and/or outliers. Although it is not specific to "cleaning data", I think there is a good opportunity there to at least give some hints on this subject +Alas, after only 10 minutes of the first video, I am reminded that this instructor does not gear his lectures to the true Beginners among us. He speaks much more for an audience of grad students. I do want to complete this Specialization, so I will try again perhaps after learning more - about statistics and R and who knows what else. I fought my way through the first three courses, but now I'm going to work smarter by finding other ways to acquire this knowledge. Then return to him; maybe. This course should be labelled Intermediate and Statistics should be listed as a prerequisite. (I think; since I don't know what it is that I don't know, I am making a guess as to the missing piece of the puzzle.) +Very good introduction to the various graphing systems. +Great +I enjoyed this course. +Pretty good course. Nice content. Middle section on clustering felt random. +Awesome course. +More real data example is even better!!! +Excellent course. Very accessible yet an extensive overview of techniques in exploratory data analysis. +Very useful !Teacher is awesome, statement is clear and simple.love this course! +This course is really awesome!Highly recommend. You'll learn all the data visualization techniques in this course. +This would be very effective for my personal skill enhancement. +Some functions are so tough to remember but general ideas that i received is wonder full. +Great course! +Good class - links and slides have not been updated recently. Frustrating to finish without the exact linkts to the data. +This course mostly about how to use plotting libraries in R. +Great course. +Its one of the most important steps in learning data science. Before even jumping into the real thing, it is worthwhile to explore a little bit the data set at hand. +Good course, but the SWIRL exercises (and a few quiz questions) needed to be updated for the latest version of ggplot2. +Very well explained and didatical! Thanks for the course! +A lot of broken swirl(), which wouldn't be so bad except *a lot* of this course is based entirely on swirl(). Also the swirl() text was almost verbatim of the lectures one has just watched.All in all, good information, but the swirl() badly needs an update. +For someone new to data analytics, this was another great, rewarding course. But as with the others, it demands exploration beyond the lectures and course materials. +Really useful and easy to understand +I found it very useful.Some space for improvement are better coding skills (naming variables) andsome more complex topics like SVD / PCA should be explained in a more intuitive way. +Good Course +Great course, lots of good things to explore! +Good course +Very unprofessional, compared to other courses. It wasn't well organized. +Great practical lessons on using plotting in R to analyze the data. +Great fun class I would highly recommend it. +Very good course! It's the hardest yet on the Specalization +This was an excellent course full of useful exercises, assignments and lectures. I took these classes for the data analysis +Excellent course, Rogers enthusiasm shows truly through to his speed-talk :-) +Love it, very helpful course for graphs and clustering! +This is a great introductory course on the topic and on R language.You will get acquainted with basic R functions which are most useful for initial statistical analysis. +The final project did not require use of the material in the course beyond the first week and a half. I did not take any quizzes or otherwise have my knowledge tested on the material in the second half of the course. +It misses an assignment which will allow to practice the clustering skills. +Great course! +Really nice course. Good to put the graphics functions in R to use. I think it would be helpful to have a summary page somewhere that compares the format of how to generate simple plots using each of the 3 packages - just for reference. +very very useful +I strongly suggest for future Data scientist, if you know R language with making Plots, you can be a good analytic +Interesting stuff, but not a lot of detail +Great course +The course content applies to R. The teachers focused on the programming language rather than the application of the existing graphs to explore data. +Good course overall. There tends to be many lectures that are just lists of commands. Also, they don't seem to be updating the material. Many lectures are several years old and still have typos in them. +Very important course towards th specialization and well done! +I loved this course!! All of the classes taken in the specialization all come together for practical use. Course 2 is where it really kicked in. Students will learn how to use R to explore data sets that send you down interesting paths. +Kick-started me into using graphs in R! +Very good. I enjoyed and learned a lot. +a great course +Really Enjoyable! +Material is to basic for an entire course. +Excellent overview of plotting and clustering. However, there were a few bits that were required for good completion of the projects that weren't covered in detail. Overall an excellent course and specialization. +This course is definitely helpful in data manipulation. +My congratulations to all those people who worked to create this course although I have to pick up something I've found a bit annoying:1- there were two video where the audio were nearly unintelligible2- I would link the link proposed by the video to be possible to be clicked3- Some exposition imperfection (even if they make these video more "real and human")4- Since quiz are not so difficult to be evaluated automatically I found it a bit annoying to notice them locked by not-purchsing, even if I understand there have to be something which would make the customer to purchase.I've found the swirl experience great although a bit annoying sometimes but I've no clue on how to possibly improve it so.Keep up with this great work!Bye +Great course! +Very good course for doing practical data analysis. +The course did a good overview of the different plotting systems in R, but it rushed through clustering. I had to watch the videos of k-means and hierarchical clustering at least 3 times to sort of understand it. The matrix concepts went completely over my head. Otherwise, the projects were very interesting, and I would highly recommend this course to other people. +Pretty useful introduction to various plotting tools and some deep down insights as well. +I like the course and it was helpful in understanding how graphics work in R. +The need update the homeworks +Very good course. Explains some very peculiar concepts of PCA and SVD very clearly. +Excellent course with great didactic. Congratulations! +A quiz or project question on k-means clustering or PCA would be nice. Overall the course provided solid coverage of the three main plotting systems in R. +basic plotting and getting the feel of data, this course really helped tackling that and seeing perspective in data analysis +Extremely practical, yet challenging for a R starter. +Insights delivered by the course were great. However, I think it emphasizes too much the lattice and basic plot systems to the point it is redundant with functionality on ggplot. It should focus more on concepts and techniques for delivering richer and meaningful graphics using ggplot rather than talking that much about technicalities on the basic plot and lattice systems.Assignments were too basic and don't reflect all the concepts learned in the lessons e.g. clustering, which I think are of great interest for researchers. +Thank you son much!!!!I really like the course.It help me in my job =) +Really great class that teaches tools you can put to use right away. +A Must have course for beginners in Data Exploration and Analysis. The best part is that exposure to these amazing concepts in R. +This has been a great course. Accompanies by a book, it constitutes a great piece of material about exploring and visualizing data. +Some parts of material is good quality, but some is bad - also some show bad practices in R. Extensively use swirl as assignments over self work. It is better to go through good tutorial over R base plotting system and ggplot2. +some swirl tests (4,5) don't work because of parameter method in qplot function. This parameter is not realy existed in this function now +I learned a lot and the assignments were the right kind of challenging. +Covers all the basics of visualization in R. Well structured and there is plenty of opportunity to practice your newly acquired skills. +pretty good starter course. I liked 40 min Case Study video at the end. It was very helpful to watch the instructor do the analysis from start to finish. +I think this is a great course. I learned a lot about data plotting and some multivariate techniques for understanding underlaying patterns of the data. +More challenging Problem sets, as in the R Programming course ! +Great course! +Wonderful course with lot of graphical representation of the data. Dimensional reduction and Clustering analysis needs a bit more detailed explanation. +Very good course. Clear instructions. +Swirl is really great! +If you know some R programming and want to learn how to generate plots for your data analysis, this course will give you a good start. I highly suggest doing swirl exercises after watching the lecture videos to reinforce your understanding of the course materials. +The course is useful with a lot of learning.The second half needs more of improvement, I think the pace is quite fast compared to others. +A worthwhile course that breaks down methods for doing initial data analysis to get a rough feel of the data. It provides enough useful information about the 3 plotting systems in R and how they differ to allow the student to do sufficient exploration on his or her own. +Excellent class with easy-to-understand videos. The quizzes and homework really help me master the topics. +Very nice course, plotting data to explore and understand various features and their relationship is the key in any research domain, and this course teaches the skill required to achieve this. +much better presentation +Very helpful and great lectures!best regards,Kasia +Practical, applicable, best instructors +ggplot2 module was extremely helpful +Great knowledge! +I have taken the course earlier, so am somewhat familiar with the layout and the materials. Overall it is a very good course and covers a wide range of subject matters. Roger has done a very good job explaining the concepts. I certainly would recommend this course to all who's interested in the subject.I realize that there's limitation on the time people suppose to spend each week, however, I would like to suggest adding homework, in addition to quizzes.Several video clips have some audio issues, not sure if that's fixable. +amazing course +Great content. thank you!! +Very interesting and very much useful course - I really liked it. Very easy to implement in your daily leadership roles. +Great content, presented in a direct easy to understand, easy to adopt format +Not a fan of this course. Reasons:1) The subject material is presented in a dry manner (too much talking and jargon) - I find it repetitive and boring. I have to play it at least 1.75x in order to get through the material and try and stay engaged but I still have a hard time paying attention. Seriously, so boring!2) There is a high degree of subjectivity in grading essays (peer reviews)This course can benefit from:1) Clearer introduction of concepts using pictures and animations, as well as cutting out the repetitiveness (and the assault of the jargonaut)2) A better approach to grading that places importance on concepts instead of key words (jargon) +Great course! +All the concepts you need, to manage the everyday leadership, either at work or in your private life.Professor Gregory Northcraft goes always straight to the point, very clear and effective +Great course, highly recommend. +Excellent!! Highly recommended +This course is amazing,There is very important information for employees and for employers. +Good conceptual insight. Basic but thought provoking assignments. +He's a great instructor, gives great explanations and goes in depth on the subjects. +The course itself contains interesting material. However, identical to the course one of the specialization, the writing assignments of the modules focus too much whether the student can name all learned phrases from the module rather than letting them express the answer in their own words in order to show that they understood the content. +Great course materials.Found it difficult to form groups of students and meet up for the activity cases. +I like it so much. +I really liked the courses as it was provided with good examples and case studies. +I thought this course was very well structured and the information immediately applicable. The instructor is clear and I enjoyed the examples he used to reinforce concepts. This is the first course I've taken toward the iMBA program and I hope the other classes are as informative and interesting as this one. +The course is nice and very easy to understand, Great effort from the instructor. +Well taught topics. Lectures were delivered in clear terms without much ambiguity.Thanks to the instructors, thanks to Coursera staff. +The segments of this course on negotiation and conflict resolution are extremely valuable for managers and entrepreneurs. Professor Northcraft's presentation style is very polished and the readings add depth to the subject. +Love it! Great valuable material and instructor. +All the topics in this course are very relevant to our day-to-day management. Content, Case study and video materials are also very good. Thank You. +very good course, very informative will teach you alot +Very well designed course, clear and didactic....Lots of rich strategy and tactics to take home! +Great class to prepare you for the iMBA +Excellent Course by professor Northcraft.... I loved the case Studies activities. +great course. Fantastic. The only thing that could be improved is collaboration part, that feels a bit under-thought. Description of case studies could be better in terms of what students should do. +Great Professor! +Very nicely put together course with straight forward examples and well thought out assignments. +I highly recommend this course by the Professor Northcraft. Great communication style, pedagogue and with a good sense of humor.Bravo! +A little light in terms of depth but very well structured and clearly presented. +Really enjoyed Prof. Northcraft. The material is well-organized. +Simply excellent. Professor Greg has designed the course in such a way that that the participants REALLY learn. +Excellent course! Very well taught. Dr Gregory Northcraft is very well spoken and engaging. This course is nicely structured with Readings, Videos, Cases, Essays, and Quizzes. About 6 hours per week for 4 weeks. Nicely paced. I did not take this with the for credit iMBA classes, but am considering doing so and might thus repeat these courses to take the iMBA classes. I like that you can get certificates and a Specialization in the Leadership and can even grow this into the iMBA which is a fully accredited world class MBA program from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I highly recommend this course! +Very much enjoyed the class. Articulated ideas in a clear manner allowing one to reflect and best approach problems. +Excellent contact with relevant case studies. I've been impressed with the course's organization, guest interviews, and level of interaction. +Great class. Challenging and thought provoking. Highly recommend. +Great insights into the application of everyday leadership concepts. +Invaluable information conveyed in a well-prepared way! Thanks +An important course on leadership and dispute management. I really enjoyed it. +Great follow-up course to the foundations of everyday leadership. +Extremely useful and clear course. Thank you +Very good & useful information that can be easily implemented. +Excellent Course! Well Taught!! +The course was wonderful and was well lectured. +Great Course very informative and easy to follow +It is a very informative course and I have learned some new dairy farming subjects here. Thank you very much for this course. +I AM REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THIS COARSE +It was a lot of fun and I was able to take a lot of the ideas and information and apply it to our commercial beef operation as well. +GOOD COURSE +Very informative! +The course has covered all the topics related to Dairy & Farm Management. Thanks a lot to the Professors for sharing their +Great Course +I have found this course very informative and got a lot of information through this course. I recommend all related people to join this course. +Interactive and full of necessary information. I love this new way to learn +This is a comprehensive and holistic approach to dairy cattle production and management. The detailed course materials has equipped me with the necessary knowledge and skills to succeed in modern day dairy cattle production. Thank you Penn State University, Thank you distinguished Professors for been my instructors through out this Dairy MOOC. +Very grateful! It taught me everything I wanted to know about Dairy management basics. +Lots of information, but could be presented in a more learner-friendly manner. Not a lot of information for someone who wishes to learn about organic/holistic dairy management. +Good information from a mass-production standpoint, may be adaptable to fit small-scale family farms. Overall pretty good. +Excellent content that is expertly delivered in a comprehensive and precise manner. +Very good course with solid background information touching on the fundamentals of US dairy farming. +Covered lots of detailed materials. +Great survey of dairy operations +Great!! +I missed more interaction with lecturers. +Well done and interesting. +It´s being a great opportunity to improve my understanding in the US dairy production and management system. Very useful lessons! +It is wonderful to see the tremendous advances in Dairy Production and Management methods since I grew up and worked and lived on a dairy farm. +Great course, loaded with information! Definitely worth going through for any cattle farmer or vet. My only complaint is that on some of the quizzes, you will never get the right answer because the answer keeps changing. But that can be fixed. :) +Bad videos. Reading material should be summarised +Excellent online tutorial. Course had a lot of application to my field of study in South Africa. I will definitely be applying for more courses and using Coursera more. Thank you to the lecturers at Penn State University. +Excellent course.It is a really good overview about Dairy Production and Management. It does not bore with too much detail. However provides enough additional material to work with and get as far into the subject as one wishes to.Thank you so very much for this online course. +Good course, teaches how are actually big dairy enterprises, in a country with unlimited resources, it`s not usefull in develeping countries, and doesn`t teach how to understand the way to start a business and the differences in small, medium, big and gigantic business in diary production. Aren`t there any small diary farm en USA ? It`s not feaseble to start a small diary business in USA? How different in costs and profit are diary in different countries?, How USA government helps diary business in USA? Thanks for your teaching and Sharing your experiences. +Useful...Excellent...Thanks. +Excelent course! Interesting lessons, good material and explanations. +Very interesting course covered a number of different areas I was particularly keen on the sustainable and environmental issues. I don't have any farm animals but it still taught me a huge amount of what is involved in getting a pint of milk to ones doorstep +Some things are a little boring but you have a good overview of diary cows when the course is completed. +I've been working in dairy genetics for less than a year, but never had any previous +A great course for awareness of one of our most important agricultural industries +A very interesting course with great professors teaching. +It is an excellent course! Thanks to it I have learned lots of things I dind't know about dairy farms. Also about care, food and needs of cows. The videos are so great and professors make lessons easy and accessible to all levels. 100% recommended!! +i found this Course really interesting broad the views and concept of Dairy Management , +Fantastic broad-based course content for all levels of dairy knowledge and experience! +this is a really well put together +Brilliant Course, very well instructed and a pleasure to be a part of- +Very interesting. Learned a lot about dairy farming. +A course suitable for those who are eager to use proper Turkish language and want to experience the impact of speaking in communication. +Very enthusiastic instructor! Enjoyed and learned a lot. Thank you! +This is a great introduction to key photography concepts +great course. really helps one learn how to use the different settings on a camera or smart phone. +Great course to start the basics! +I enjoyed most of the course but I found the last week a puzzlement and not as clear cut as it could be. I'm still confused as to what settings to use for blurred stop-action. +Great introduction to digital photography.After completing this session, I now have a much much better understanding of the workings and options involved in digital photographyI would recommend this course to others.. +This course a must have package for those who want to produce magic out of their camera or smartphone. +This course was so fun to be apart of, I really enjoyed the professors and the way everything was explained. Although the sound quality could have been a bit better on some of the videos. +Incredibly informative, basic without being condescending, truly a wonderful experience for an absolute beginner. Very, very accessible. +I learned a lot! Thank you for this opportunity! +This course, as part of the specialization is really a great start. +This is one of the most informative, well researched and philosophical course available online. It deals the technical aspects with such a humane flair that it transcends to more engaging and immersive learning experience each day. +It really helped me with getting the basics of photography down. +A good basic introduction to photography. Some nice resources are shared, including books and web sites. +Great lessons learnt +I love my the course and it's hard but im very satisfied and learn a lot with both professor. +I like the course because it puts the emphasis on creating great photos by finding interesting vantage points. A photograph can be technically perfect but still be boring if you do not find the right viewpoint. +Amazing course, I did learn a lot. +Great for basics! +Excellent content and Professors. Course is what every budding photographer needs to learn from the ground up. Loved it! +Simply awesome! +I've learned a lot and the deadlines have created a schedule where photography is incorporated into my every day life. +The professors are really good. They explained how even the simple things can make a significant changes in the photographs we take. This course is as good as the python course. +Love it +Gentlemen, thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge, the course is really useful for the basics. +Loved the course... it was informative and interesting. +Excellent instructors! Each has a no-nonsense approach, and yet, easy-to-understand and follow lectures. Highly recommend this course for beginning photographers and those that want to refresh their photographic knowledge. +Covered all the basics +There is a lot to learn from this course. Very well explained. +This course did everything I wanted it to do : it has made me a better photographer, it has raised my game by improving my practical knowledge and the way I see the world. +I have recently come back to photography, being from the 'old school' of black & White with my own darkroom. Having recently acquired a Canon DSLR, by accident I may add, it has renewed my interest in photography again and it is good to review the basics again, even though a lot of people might say, "I knew that", it is good to go back to basics after such a long time. The course is well brought and I'm enjoying my photography again and when walking, driving or whatever, I look at things again through a photographer's eye:). +An exceptional course carefully catered to open the mind of a new photographer to the real world of photography! +It is a great class and teaches me a lot. +Basics explained in an easy way. The professors are engaging. I only wish the rest of courses caoul be taking free of charge.. +Awesome course with excellent professors, Mark & Peter are the best mentors anyone can ever have. Has given me so much more knowledge about photography and helped me explore new aspects of it. thanks to Coursera and MSU for introducing this course. +I have been able to be comfortable with my camera by switching on to various pointers, changing ISO , gave me the clarity in understanding photography at the grass root level. +Great course with great professors . +Very engaging course for learning Photography Basics and Composition. Professors are very hands on and have great depth of knowledge of this subject. +Excellent Introduction to Photogr +Good course to start with the basics of photography. Group assessments can be hit or miss given varied experiences of other students, but overall a good place to start +great course really enjoy it and you can learn a lot from this. +I really enjoy the course. Thank you +It was really awesome, I'm I knew a little bit about photography but after this short course, my perception of the world and the things around me really changed. Also my technique improved and it was clearly visible in my photographs. Thank you very much. +Very enriching. I got to learn a lot about camera and photography. Professor Peter Glendinning is such an amazing teacher. He makes learning a fun process. I am glad i joined the course! +Dear professors Peter and Mark, I am very happy with the improved knowledge and results during the courses. Really, the excitement of you is mine too! I confess that I have a degree in digital photography and his classes always amaze me! It's a great joy to be able to access such a well-prepared content and watch your incredible classes! A hug with affection and admiration, until the end of the 4th. course!Fátima Nunes +This course is a great start in taking control of your camera and photography skills. +It is a great course. The only bad thing I can think of is the quality of the audio in the videos. +I learned quite a bit. This group of courses will take me to the next level in photography. +Incredibly clear and detailed explanation, great exercises to develop good photography skills! +10/10Would come again! +Suddenly after taking this course, I can not imagine any one becoming a photographer without this essential knowledge. These knowledge I now feel is basic to anyone who is serious about making photographs. Funnny how knowledge transforms us +The course was really helpful! +The course is a great introduction. I just wished that we could have designated people evaluating our submissions, instead of exclusively peer to peer. +The best! +Great, learned so much +good introduction to digital photography with some good tips. some chapters are a bit too long in my opinion. +good course +Good for both inexperienced and experienced photographer. Gives you a better understanding of photography as a creative expression, and will definitely make you a better photographer. +As a novice in Photography, this course taught me the necessary basics when you are starting out to become a photographer. Videos about content and composition of the photo are extremely helpful. +I have taken courses in photography before. I periodically attempt to brush up on my knowledge. A lot has changed with digital photography as a new medium. Everything is clearly explained and the professor is articulate. This course would be excellent for someone who is just beginning photography and/or it may be beneficial for someone who would like to review photography concepts. The peer review process could be improved, but also it is beneficial to review other peoples work. I still think its helpful to have a professional look at your work when possible. An extra credit assignment might be to join a camera club or talk to a professional in your community and possibly even show them your pictures as your progress through the course. The main thing is don't be too hard on yourself, or others too. We are all beginners here. +Very good intro into photography! +The course covered the material thoroughly, but the presentation could be improved: 1. the examples, charts and other helpful aside additions could be left on screen during the relevant discussion. I often had to pause and go back to study the material that was only briefly displayed. 2. Using the screen for just a video of the lecturer speaking seems a waste of the many video techniques that could be included, with the lecturer in a small window at the side. 3. Although the lecturers tried not to favor one brand over another, at times it seemed like we were watching an infomercial. Maybe this can't be helped, as all the camera's features, and their accessories, were described in detail. I for one have a camera that I want to learn to use more professionally. Purchase suggestions could be moved to an addendum. In my opinion it should not be in the body of the course material.I am finding a lot of good information in the course, and am continuing with the second section. +thank you very much for sharing your knowledge!!!I really appreciate it ... +Pretty good, especially about composition and advices for hardware, bags, and discretion.A good basic course. +Interesting class for beginning photographers +Love it from start to finish. I will teach anyone to know how to properly operate a camera, even a phone's camera. +I loved the course, it was really dynamic and descriptive. +I enjoyed every minute of the lectures! The professors are really enthusiastic and professional, and they are nice) The information is given in all details, but just enough - and you don't get bored.Thanks to Michigan State University, thanks to Coursera! +Great course with great teachers! +The first week was quite suitable and I had enough time to spend. The only problem was in editing of clips. They had bad cuts. +Very good coarse...I am now taking #3 soon be finished, its just keeps getting better all the time...its so good I may move to Michigan, .... but then who would root for USC (Trojans- the real USC +Information was excellent, and the assignments were incredibly helpful by integrating the peer-reviewing process to help get a better idea of how to improve your work! Both professors made information easy for newcomers to process by laying out all of the vocabulary upfront so everyone stayed on the same page. Highly recommended for people who photograph as a hobby and people looking to get more serious about their photography. +Thank you for allowing me to audit this course. +Loved it, super usefull +Really good course for clear concept about camera and exposure, focusing. aperture. +Intuitively informing. Thank you. +Good:very wide and also deep in transferring knowedgeassignments are clear and challenging because they require a story to which the shots ghave to followNot so good:sometimes the shown examples are show too shortly, and the videos toggle between professor and motiv to fast. Show both at the same time woiuld helpthe (iOs) app is a bit limited (e.g. assessments can not be edited). +This (so far) Is a great course, would highly recommend it :) +The course full of very useful information. Also it is so practical and the assignments are great +Loving this course. The material is well thought out and well explained. Great course. +I rate this course highly although I only audited it. It turned out to be too basic for my needs. But the presentations were well made. +not only knowledge of photography, but also creative thinking for the way you take photo.which is critical for you to taking the next step to reach the professional level. +It gives you great and useful information if you've just started using your camera. It definitely improved my photography knowledge. +Absolutely love the course, and I'm learning so much. +I really learned many things in this course :) +The professor explanation was good for beginners. +Very practical and the content was exposed in a common sense manner. Enjoyed auditing it very much! +So far so great! Thank you for building such a strong knowledge base. Let's see what is next! +I really learned a lot from this course on camera settings. It real +loved the course, learning a lot +Learned quite a bit as a beginner photography student. One thing that would have been helpful is if the weeks were flip-flopped. Week 3 and 4 replacing Week 1 and 2. +The content is helpful in learning to use the camera and understand terminology, but it is somewhat, if not totally, a false representation of interaction with the experts. There is absolutely none. +I learned a lot. This is a great introduction to photography. When I first saw the course content I thought it might be just a bunch of stuff I already knew. However, I was learning new things from the beginning. The peer reviews and feedback were a bigger influence on my experience than I expected as well. +For newcomers to the art and science of photography this course requires learners to have no knowledge of the subject and leads them to an understanding of the functions of a camera. Through the tutorials learners got to grips with the hardware of their cameras and started to move out of their comfort zone. Well it certainly did for me, as someone who has been using a DSLR for over ten years! +This was a fun course. Information is presented in digestible, bite sized pieces. The peer review process works fast and well--I was surprised how perceptive the critiques of my photos were. +It is very a great experience to learn about the grammar of photography, those are the basic. I also got an idea about frame, composition and about the goal of a photograph. This series of lectures guides the students to learn how start "working on scene". +This course content was brilliant. It is a good course for everyone, from beginner to the well seasoned photographer.I think Mark & Peter will find a way to enlighten you in this course. +A very good course that introduces you to a lot of photography related concepts and terms. The assignments are very hands on and fun to do. The course also gives you great pointers for choosing a new camera! +This course was just amazing! A proper and a brief description is given in each and every lesson of the course. People, those who are very new to photography can find this thing very much interesting. My fascination towards photography has doubled! I thank both the professors for their teachings. +A fantastic introduction to photography, it is a well organized course with clear examples and a very easy to follow pace.If you're new to photography and would like to start building your knowledge about this toipic, this is the course to go. On the other hand, if you're an experienced photographer or have notions of photography, this will be a really easy course for you, but you will certainly gain a good insight into the topics you already know. +Good and informative beginner photograph course. +Great introduction course for begginers in this great world of photography!. +love it very good +thanks +Great course, been learning lots of new things about my camera and the creative process that goes into creating better photographs. Highly recommended. +Nice introduction. +This is far too rudimentary to be something produced by a university +I really enjoyed +Good basic course that helps you familiarize and get started with a lot of the camera setup and photography principles. +This course is awesome. Thank you for being so helpful! I learned a lot and the professors are so great! +Fundamental but good course for photography. +Great course for beginners! +I enjoyed this course very much, thank you professors! +I am very new to the world of photography and this course was without a doubt geared toward someone like me. I really learned a lot from this course and I have told that my pictures are already starting to improve. +This course is offering to build up basic technical expertise in photography. Even though many photographers are emerging without attaining any related professional degree, the course will help to build technical proficiency that can help them to reach at much higher level. +It was really nice learning a bit more of the uses I can do with my camera. thank you +Wahoo! Thank you for this course! I love it! Informative but not intimidating. +Very helpful and continuously learning new things to help me in photography. +This class was really helpful, and my photography benefitted from it. +It is a fantastic course. It has wonderful faculty and assignments are worth taking. +A very good course. The information is really useful and the professors explain it in a simple way. It was not very interesting for me to listen to the functions of i-phone ans sumsung, I think it's better to do this information not obligatory but on choice +Very basic content, not that helpful - states what to pay attention to, but scarcely "how to". Also is very static, uses very little illustrations / animations / visuals, which is a shame for a photography course... +I wish I could at least read the assignments if not get reviews on them in the audited version. +Nice for a beginner. +As a professional photographer , I can say , this course was amazingI am teaching in art academy , and this course very useful for me in teachingThank you for this great job +Very good, got me to learn the basics about photography and many other things i didn't know! +The course is very informative for people who want to learn the technical aspects of photography. The material is helpful for those who want to turn photography as a serious career. It also enables enthusiasts improve their skills that will capture great moments. I highly recommend this course to everyone who wanted a peek on the science and art of taking pictures which tell a story. +Great course learned a lot +Excellent course. It helps a lot!! Recommended. +Very informative. I like the pace, but get the impression that the instructors never see our work. While peer review is awesome, professional review would be very helpful. +Essential for every Photographer +Very useful! +Great course but it's too expensive.... +Good introduction. Covers fundamentals clearly. +I cant wait for more. +I want to say thanks for all the information in this course it was really successful for me +Very good. Easy for beginners to follow up +Very interesting subject. Also useful to learn how to properly take pictures and help in daily life and learn about different art forms and techniques. +I learned so much information from this course since I am an amateur photographer. Also ,I just got my first camera 2 weeks into this course, a Nikon d3200. This course became very useful and gave me the foundation I needed to start taking pictures with my new camera. +Really nice class. Now I'm clear with some basic things +Absolutely Excellent. Tutors delivering this course are so knowledgeable but also present the information very well. They speak clearly and at such a good pace for learners. Thank you Professors Peter and Mark. +This topic is excellent, I learnt lots of things from this course. Thanks to Proffers Peter to provide such good session. +Amazing course. I'm looking forward to the next. +The content of the course is good and I feel it would be beneficial for beginners or those who want to top up their technical / academic knowledge on the subject.I found the terrible editing of the lectures distracting though, and it felt like no one bothered to over-see the final version that was published. I also don't think the fact that one has to pay so much to access the assessments, which many other courses don't do at all, is conducive to creating a strong engagement in the course. I wouldn't for example be encouraged to take another course from this series (not sure if one is offered). +I love both of my professors and learning a lot of new things about photography +It was nice, interesting and useful. +As a beginning course for photography, it teaches you quite a lot.The academic in me feels like there's not enough serious assignments though. To pass this class, a lot of what you'll be passing will be fairly easy multiple choice tests, with only two assignments that specifically require you to go out in field and take some pictures.I have high hopes for the rest of the specialization though, as this was only the very first of five courses. +One of the nice things about this course, is that it challenges one to DO something - take photos. My trusty old point-and-shoot doesn't know what has hit it - it has never worked so hard before. +Nice！ I've been wanting to learn how to make a good photo, this course helped a lot. Thanks! +Absolutely amazing! I had been waiting for a course like this for a long time. +Informative, numerous examples, great for beginners. Locked content is the downside. +Introduction course to all the basic camera controls from button functions to memory card formatting to type of camera bag to use. Good place to start if you want to begin with the physical aspects of photography. +Course contents are not very well organized. +Learnt some very basic info about my DSLR other than the basics, but nether the less its nice to know what +Super great~ I can learn a lot about the camera and creation of my own masterpiece😃 +not really possible to give a higher rating.at the moment too many problems. +Dear sir,can i get the hard copy certificate after finish this capstone project because the course is so interesting for me, i would like to get one as a memory +An Excellent course!!! Thanks Peter & Mark....Thanks Coursera!!!! +it is a very good course, it help the beginner understand more what is photography! +I have learned much more about photography in the short few weeks of this course than studying much longer on my own. Great course. +Thank you very mutch!! +I learned a lot from this course. It made me become aware that it takes skills to captures a photo that is compelling and eye engaging. I realized that it was not easy and it would take you a lot of practice to learn how to take a proper exposure or how you would want your photo to appear. +Great introductory class for beginners +Poor video and audio quality. Not worth the price. +This class was perfect for me. Although I have owned many cameras and have taken thousands of photos over decades, thru this class I have finally learned how to use the camera without always using the 'full AUTO' setting. By doing this, my passion for photography has been reignited and my creativity is soaring. Thank you MSU for offering such an awesome class. I am strongly recommending these classes to my photographer friends. +The course would be great if only everybody could fully participate. As I cannot pass quizzes and submit assignments not having purchased it, I have less motivation to carry on :( +This is a fun class and it is nice to start gaining control of the camera. +Great course, I've learned a lot, but it is somewhat discouraging not being able to pass the course because I can not pay for it. I don't need the certificate, but I would still prefer getting feedback on the quizzes and getting involved with the assignments. +I love learning and I love photography. It is great that this is o +Loved this course +Very interesting course! +SUch an Excelent course! thanks a lot! +I learned a great deal with this course and have become more confident in photography. There are a few little problems with the quizzes, but considering this is the first time the course is offered, that is quite normal. +The instructors have structured this course rather well, focusing on fundamental principles to enable you to take good photographs (even without a sophisticated camera). What is 'good'? Well, this course is geared to make one dwell on that, steering you to give some thought about how you can photograph even everyday subjects interestingly; and the peer review process serves well in learning how to view your own work, and that of others, objectively. By the end of this course, you may be eager to invest in a better camera, or to sign up for the next module in the series. :) Thank you, Prof. Peter Glendinning and Prof. Mark Sullivan. +I'm recommending to everyone i know +I am a beginner in photography and find this course of great help. It's much easier to take control of the camera when I get to know how it works. And I believe I could learn more from the course. +Good basic Info +Excellent instruction with interesting assignments. +this course covers basic and advance knowledge about cameras and photography that is what a new photographer needs in his starting days +There have been some problems and glitches, especially with the peer review but it's understandable since it's the course's first run. I learned a lot with this course, just starting to learn how to use the various settings in the camera. I also saw the instructor respond to some forum posts so that's a plus for me. +The course is really interesting, along with lessons, I like the cooperation between students in reviewing each other''s pictures - it's very interesting.Waiting for the next course with interest.Best of luck,Beso. +Great course. I learned a lot! Thank you. +Very effective and comrehensive course. I learned a lot in this course.Trainers were good. +Basic photography course, but a good place to start or to refresh your memory +Great course!But videos are not very good technically. Too much "jumping". +Pros:Good concepts. Peter Glanding is a very good teacher.Cons: Too short and concepts explained too quickly. +I have thoroughly loved and enjoyed watching videos and attempting assignments. Also Prof. Peter and Prof. Mark are really good teachers. I learned all that I could better from them rather than back in college. Hope to do more courses with them and also continue being a Spartan! And yes, hoping to meet the professors in person someday. +I have learned a lot of little rips and tricks that really help my Photography work become more and more Professional every day I practice it. +it was really a nice course i learned a lot from it . +This was a good introduction to understanding the Exposure, Aperture and Shutterspeed. Peter presents the information in a concise and clear format. +Love the peer review process! The professors are incredibly knowledgeable, the assignments inspire creativity, and the content is relevant and timely. +There were some technical challenges that made this course not as fun. The content was good. If you make the assignments easier to submit (for example: provide a box to write a statement as opposed to uploading one) it will remove frustration and increase enjoyment. +Thank You!!! i be learning a lot.. +Great introduction course for people with absolutely no prior knowledge +Simply excellent! Great professors! I really appreciate the step by step explanation. +Very nice course, lots of information, well structured. Tries to take you out of the "common" and visualize distinct aspects of your photos, new angles, perspectives! +Really enjoying the pace of this course. The video sections are easily digestible! I like the assignments and my classmates and I are learning to critique. It would be nice if the instructors could do some critique for the students who are paying for the full program including the Capstone project at the end. +Great info about photography, very easy to digest. +I have to say, I am disappointed in that I feel there is little to no interaction here between students and instructors/aides. Additionally, the assignments are not functioning properly and it creates much confusion. The instructors videos are great and have been helpful but the rest is lacking! There is no way to view other's bodies of work and critiques are very vague, etc. This is photography... where is the photography from learners (other than the assignments)? Why is there no gallery here? +Useful. So many information that can help to choose the camera and the type of photography we will want to make in the future. +I never believe that a course of photograph would be available and one that take you step by step is awesome, keep this kind of coursers where you learn everything and with a teacher that take you and have a patient to teach and give you examples, that is also the key, examples. +Somewhat repetitive. However I took this course to shop in my photography skills and I finally learned how to use the proper shutter speed! +I have enjoyed this class very much! I have learned many new things about myself as a photographer and about my new camera. I can +Excellent course, it is a great oppotunity to learn photography principles online! +Great classes, but I do believe some of the concepts are a little scattered, the way you present them could be a little more organized so we get a better understanding. +Although I've been active in photography for many years, there was still new information. I enjoyed the assignments as they made me think more creatively about my environment. I enjoyed the class. reviewing as well as the reviews from the other students. Thank you for a great class. +I really liked the course. A few adjustments are in place, but it was nice to have the feedback and the attention from the teachers and Coursera community. +Not sure why so much time was devoted to camera bags.Looking forward to the next lessons. Hoping to learn about being more creative with a camera. +I am completely new to the world of photography, the lessons are clear and specific, I am very happy with the course. +I found this class to be very helpful in exploring the art of photography. If you want to learn more of the basics and beginning elements of photography this is a great start. The classes are to the point and not very time consuming. The assignments are well written to make you go out and start using your camera. +I found the course very informative and useful. It has taught me to look at objects, landscape etc all at different vantage points and angles. +This course is excellent. Thank you. +It's a very interesting and complete course. They show how to use the camera, how to buy a camera according to your needing, and a very extensive list of accesories. Also they teach how to compose pictures properly, concepts of aesthetics, and so on. +Great course even if you´re not new to photography it stores and refreshes and widen your knowledge. And very clear for beginners. +It was quite confusing with unlocking next weeks work, and the filming of the videos were poor. Eventhough everything was understandable +A good course +An incredible introduction course. +Great introduction, easy-to-follow lessons. +Hello everybody!the course is arranged so that every next class is expected with great anticipation.I enjoy every moment.Thank you very much. +excellent overview of basics o understand photoraphy +delightful and very useful course +I loved it. There was a few technical hitches but it didn't take from the course. I learned much more than I ever expected and it has helped me improve my photography. I am looking forward to the next part. +so much detail and wonderful instruction. learning so much and becoming more familiar and comfortable with my camera. having a blast while learning too. +Very interesting and helpful, but as I didn't purchase the course, I didn't have the chance to take the exam and view others. +Wonderful introduction to the Photography World! +Excellent teaching +Wonderful Course. +Very interesting, great information and incredible explanations. +I'm a beginner and an amateur photographer and I find this course very interesting and useful. Great job prof. Glendinni +The content, although very basic, is interesting, and some of the teacher's insights do stimulate discussion, but the video quality is low, with non matching slides, etc. +Loving it so far - great lecturers with engaging teaching styles +very dissapointing to not be able to make the quizzes and the assigments without paying it +It has been so interesting! Learning a lot on how to actually see things. +I've learned a lot about emergent phenomena on this course. +All the topics are quite interesting and surprising (and I mean every one of them), but all are treated like popular science with little insight. I had to read elsewhere to fully understand some topics such as reaction-difussion systems. All in all, I wish there was a version of this course for those of us who have no fear of mathematics. +This class acted as an excellent overview of a wide variety of topics. The focus was on breadth rather than depth. I would have loved to go more in depth, but I think that is a limitation of the format and lack of mathematical prerequisites for the course. The professor interviews were some of the best material included! +Provide more examples of Physics. +This course could have delved in more depth in the respective subject. What was presented was good but I felt that more could have been presented. +Nice Course. Thanks. +Good lecture to know experimental method in lab +Loved it! :D +Very useful. :) +its very good. +The course was very interesting. It touched upon all currently employed techniques in good detail. The lab-based videos were the most interesting. However, the lectures were too long. It would be a brilliant course if the lectures were cut short and made to the point. +This a great course it helps a lot to get to know state of the art techniques and how to use them properly although the assigment questions of selecting the statements are quite confusing. +Excellent course with a wealth of information about system biology technologies +the lab was fasinating . i never seen those big machin in my life. THANKS!!! +very good introduction but as i go through the videos and then do the quiz i feel like the material doesn't highlight exactly what is needed for the quiz. Maybe i'm not taking the video lecture as seriously as i should. Something else to reinforce the material cause it seems a bit condensed.thanks for a wonderful course! +HighTech!! Quite difficult for someone who not from the field . +Thanks for overview of experimental methods and references to relevant articles!"Complete the essay" quizzes looks like a joke +On the bright side, "Lab based" videos are excellent for visualize the techniques. Nevertheless "Choose all that apply" questions in the quizzes are very ambiguous, these questions should contain an explanation for prevent confusion at the end of every unit. +it's interesting but it's quite difficult +Great course,Recommended if you are interest in new technologies +Great! +An excellent course that I would highly recommend. The best MOOC I have every done for improving my French and great fun too. I love the Coursera Platform, everything runs very smoothly and it is very easy to navigate. This also adds to the pleasure of doing the course. Congratulations to Coursera and the organisers of the MOOC for making this learning experience outstandingly good. +It was great! Lots of content, quizzes etc. The videos were clear and well explained. It helped me understand some grammar points I've been struggling with for a while. +Very useful and well designed! Even for students at level A2 like me, the course is really effective! Thank the contributing team very much for your great work! +It is a very well-structured French language course which encompasses every needs of living when you arrive in France for further study. It also has a metaphysical angle for higher command of the language. That is the constant exposure to different extracts of literature or exploring further on some language issues. It also has a touch with the current web culture and popular movies in France to make the course more real and down to earth. Professors are engaging with lucid, solid and well-thought explanations which could help clearing ambiguities. This course is a real success. I genuinely wish the team of École Polytechnique could expand further into providing the online courses for C1 and C2, or even French history and literature courses. +I audited the free version of the course. I found it helpful in brushing up and polishing parts of French which can sometimes be difficult to find and study online. There's a great portion of French media that is incoporated in the course which is great. Film clips, comic strips, pieces of writing.If this course lacks two things it would be more assignments, especially practice quizzes. And above that, more detail for some of the topics. For instance, I found the covering of pronouns to be lacking, particular in detailing the difference between "dont", "a qui", "à lequel", etc. and then asking questions about it. A good course. I think worth the time. +the best +This is a great MOOC I really wish we can enjoy more French-oriented courses like this. I did not like that is basically pay-to-learn. Other thant that I loved it. +This is a great course - very useful and interesting. I can recommend it for sure and would like to thank its authors - they did a great job! +I am never going to forget what I learned in this course. +great! recommended! +Very helpful, I definitely am much more equipped with ideas and proven methods to grow as an entrepreneur even with the challenges in economies like mine. +Good course for people involved in the design of public policies. This course is perfect to politics and CEOs, people with the money to invest or the ability to organice big group of people and educate them to invest. +Interesting course on how the startup ecosystem was build in Cleveland, Ohio. Especially interesting was to tell and read about how the startup ecosystem in the Netherlands and the countries of the fellow students look like. I would recommend this course when you're interested in how startup ecosystems work (and why sometimes they don't work) +Extremely useful concept wise with case studies. +This was a fascinating course on how to revive a failing business area by use of government financing of primarily tech start-ups. It was a place in the country that is very different than Silicon Valley. The knowledge to finance a new startup was very limited and had to be set up in government funded groups that could mentor all the new businesses. There was a quick tour to other countries such as Greece which showed that even the EU had set up a Fund for Greek startups. The one they were working on was a company that was trying to produce an app. They did say that due to the lack of tech knowledge in their country the EU Fund was still full of money and could fund other startups. The main course went back to Cleveland, where most of the effort was made to use a government approach. They set up their own foundations, extended loans, made contacts with Venture Capitalists that participated in Silicon Valley and in this new type of gov approach. After 10 years of working with this, they had some very good companies with great ideas. The only drawback was that they didn't employ enough people to revitalize the entire area of Cleveland. They were just beginning to do something that used the actual resources of the area. There was a well known Cleveland Medical Center and some of the Professors there had done research which was new. For some reason, again the lack of business resources, they had never created any companies from what they knew. They did begin to create companies from the medical researchers in the area. The main one had to do with maintaining cardiac health. And +It has been a great pleasure and satisfaction to have participated in this course! +Very good course +I would have expected more in terms of the depth of content beyond Ohio, but still it is very interesting and complete. A must do for anyone looking to build a startup ecosystem +great course with excellent teacher and very effortful videod! Really enjoyed it and learned a lot +A must have. Very inspiring... +Very inspiring course, focusing on building and strengthening entrepreneurial ecosystems. Very well made, fast paced, and the assignments ask you to go out and act.I enjoyed the course so much, and found Professor Goldberg so inspiring, that I'm very proud to be one of the community mentors on it now.Come join us, and learn how to enable entrepreneurs in your region! +Excellent teacher and courser.Congratulations!! +A really insightful class giving new perspectives on entrepreneurship in growing economies.I personally took the class looking for a few ideas for my entrepreneurship oriented association. And I ended up with a renewed energy on which steps to take and which doors to knock on.I definitely recommend! +Interesting course! Strongly opened my mind further on understanding entrepreneurship success, its impact on business and communities development as well as jobs creation.Thanks +The course touches the topic very lightly. There are transitioning economies around the globe in dire need of start ups and the overall entrepreneurship spirit of Silicon Valley. I wish the course had provided deeper knowledge on this particular subject, specially focused on The Americas. +This is not the entrepreneurship primer I was hoping for, but it did a tremendous job of educating me on the different ways in which public and private partnerships can potentially spur the growth of entrepreneurship in a region if utilized effectively. +Course helped to reinforce my knowledge and give support to others in other countries. +very practical and interesting +Good overview of the EU but you cannot do the quizzes unless you pay. +It is a course made in 2014 +An excellent course that will truly help you understand what the EU means.I highly recommend it! +I'd like all the information and the presentation, but actually I think it is need an actualization to comprehend the new problems that are appearing in the EU. +Thanks so much for a solid course that covers all the main pillars for understanding the structure and philosophy of the Union. Particularly important in those time of crises in which, the raise of populism and far right political agenda is being used as a tool to assign responsibility to the EU to failures at national level. Lack of transparency and accountability in addition to a lack of leadership is the real responsible of this crisis of credibility.Is for this reason that its essential to educate people around the meaning of the EU and this course fully achieves this goal. Only one point to take it into account that is regarding the feedback from peers. In my case were not quite useful, without almost no analysis and without understanding the meaning of the assignment in itself. It´d be good to further consider this aspect and/or see other alternatives like the intervention of the facilitator. +A great course about Europe. We will learn a lot about Europe, its instiutions, history, foundations,...And above all you will learn how you can act for Europe. At the end of the course, you will have everything in hand to know how and where to begin to act.You will need to study very seriously for this course but it worth it. +This course is lively and varied and I learnt a lot. The level is quite high though, and in view of the widespread lack of detailed knowledge in Europe about the EU, it might be an idea to have a 'light' version as well +Great! +Excellent and well-structured course that provides learners with the key and simply-explained information about the EU, its history, institutions, policy-making, civic engagement instruments, opportunities that are available to all of us thanks to the EU, and so much more! For me it was very interesting to watch interviews with people whose work is closely connected with the EU; these videos are absolutely inspiring. Quizzes are designed just right (I think they cover the most essential facts one need to know about the EU), and peer-graded assignments touch upon some thought-provoking issues and stimulate students' critical thinking. I would say the course is truly worth taking, both for EU and non-EU citizens. +Its an excellent and thought stimulating course. I gained good understanding of the structures and working of the EU through this course and the course has increased my appreciation for the EU.The quizzes and assignments could be difficult at times but are very useful to grasp the concepts and think critically. Highly recommended. +Very comprehensive. Good materials and presentations. Relevant to the current topic of Brexit. +Some of the exams are hard so you need to be on your game for this one. +This course is very comprehensive and covers a lot of information, videos are entertaining and Prof. Alemanno is not only extremely knowledgeable (as are other lecturers invited) but also very enthusiastic, adding a touch of humour to the lectures which make them very light to watch. Full of examples, very didactic and well designed. So, from this point of view, I strongly recommend the course, I've learned a lot about the EU and I am sure others will too. I must say I am frustrated with Coursera though, as the course quizzes are not open for students who don't opt for a certificate, worth 43€. This course was designed about 2 years ago, and although most of the information provided is still valid, there are several topics that require an update. Also, as the course seems not to be "monitored" as "live" editions, there was a very low level of participation in the discussion forum and little to no response from the supporting team to student's questions. Although I understand Coursera is a business and must generate income, it might have been more appropriate to charge, say, half the price, for those who still want the certificate despite some of the contents requiring a refresh or don't mind joining the course in "unattended" mode. +In a clear and easy-to-understand way to introduce the basic concept and major functions of the EU. Very useful and practical for the real life. +Excellent course about how the EU works, highly recommended :) +Nice Mentor and totally through understanding about general aspectsof Europe +Terrible englishQuite diffuse contentNo reading texts +Everything that need to be known about europe to understand it. That is a big relief to find a so clear explanation. +Very useful course, thank you! +Interesting course! Gives a good initial notion of how the EU works.Two written peer-graded assignments are cool: it's very interesting to read peers' submissions from all over the world (I got ones from Spain, China and US).A major drawback: the slides are mostly bright pictures. It would be nice to make the slides more informative and available for download. +The course is structured in an efficient way. However, it does not offer an unbiased opinion about EU as can be seen from the title of the course. There are many things that can be improved in EU and a more critical approach would be a lot more helpful. Overall, this course has an above average quality with an acceptable level of engagement. +This is just blatant propaganda for the EU. It's like a big commercial. I'm surprised that Coursera allows this tripe on their website. Awful! +Really great course material. I spent way too much time on the exams and projects, because i believe not enough information was given (had to spend a lot of time searching through discussion forums, stackoverflow, help files etc...and while that is useful experience, it was a lot more time commitment than expected from course description) +Doesn't worth the effort. You learn the most by searching online tools each time you encounter a problem while solving a quiz problem or following the steps the instructor did. +Fantastic! I find myself using the information I learned in the class on a daily basis. +In general, the instructors seem to think it's a better learning experience to give the bare minimum in R, then have the student 'hack' their way to the answer using online forums, etc. While I get the motivation, I think it'd be better to give a more experiential learning platform - more swirl type exercises but deeper - to guide the student to the most efficient path to competency. +To get value from the class, I used other on-line materials to understand the topic. Thus, I spent about 20 hours/week on this class. +I am so glad this course was available. Otherwise, I would noy have had an opportunity to build a data set in my everyday work +Very informative.. specifically the 4th week project. +This course gives an excellent introduction to the various data collection and tidying processes using R. This course is a must for any aspiring data scientist. +Good course, worse the time I spent +brought up some good concept inside, like "tidy data", but not in detail, how to grab data from different source shouldn't be difficult. should have more focus on talking about data.table, "tidy data" principles etc. +Great info on accessing data from multiple sources. Also some excellent teaching on relevant R code modules. +In my experience, this course has a huge gap. The lectures go through all manner of tools, commands, packages, etc. about cleaning. That's fine and probably necessary. It's like "this is a hammer", "this is a saw". That's fine and probably necessary. But then you get to the final project...All of the sudden you're plopped onto a construction site with your hammer and saw and a pile of wood and told to build a house. You've never built a house before and don't have the slightest idea where to begin.What's missing is some principles of "tidy data construction" in the lectures. When introduced to a new data set, what are some approaches to understanding that data? How do you develop a plan to build a tidy data set (i.e. how do you think about developing a plan, not looking for a step by step instruction set)?It's disappointing that the only way for someone new to data science, R, etc. to tackle the problem is to read someone's third party monologue about how to make your reviewers happy. +Would have preferred if there were programming assignments that incorporated reading from data sources on the web.For those planning to take the course, note the following:*The course covers reading data from a myriad of sources, but largely in passing superficial detail. These sources include XML files, mySQL databases, HDF5 files, csv files, txt files with various formats (for example fixed-with files), JSON objects, and web API.However, the course project only involves reading data from several txt files and combining them into a single R dataset.Course topic order: In the first two weeks of the course, a lot of information is glossed over in passing- this information involves reading from the various file formats mentioned above. Week 3 involves subsetting, sorting, reshaping and merging data. Some of this may be review for you if you've taken the R programming course or the "R Programming Environment" course in the "Mastering Software Development in R" specialization. Week 4 involves string manipulation, regular expressions and working with the Dates. A lot of this is covered in Roger Peng's ebooks "R Programming for Data Science" and "Mastering Software Development in R" (both are freely available- google them).Assessments: The only assessments in the course are 4 quizzes- each of which involves about 5 short programming exercises- and a final project which only involves topics from weeks 3 and 4 (specifically- subsetting data, sorting data, reshaping data, and working with regular expressions). So you can do the course project without understanding anything covered in weeks 1 and 2 of the course.Mentor David Hood is fantastic for providing valuable resources to aid you with each assessment and so is Xing Su for providing a complete set of course notes. USE THE DISCUSSION FORUMS IF YOU GET STUCK! +Good intro course to learning about ways of getting data into R. I think the final assignment's instructions could be a bit clearer though. +Thanks +Very informative and moderately challenging final project +The course of getting data is a little difficult, however, the cleaning data course is excellent. Using the package of "dplyr", I learn how to clean data effectively. My suggestion is that getting data from website can teach less, and the cleaning data course can add more practices. +Assignment difficulty is good and practical, however, I took quite a while to understand the raw data structure and the purpose of the assignment. +Great course. Could be more interactive and could have more detailed instructions for the Course Project. Last task for the Course Project uses a function that is not covered in previous lessons, which I think is not OK. +Very helpful and practical course to learn about data sourcing and cleaning. +Very useful. Well structured +Great coverage of useful R libraries for retrieving and tidying up data, and difficult but valuable course project. +great course... feel more confident with data analysis.... +Good! Actually I think this course is useful no matter what other people think. +Covers a wide range of topics without loosing transparency. In my opinion requires more work than the other courses, but is really worth a go. You end up having a firm basis for working with data and learning more about the process. +great course, very useful and insightful; challenging final project. +Very intense and covering a lot of material - After about an year from having the course and with a different understanding, this is probably the course to revisit. +Challenging and very educational. Needs a better explanation on the final peer assignment. Otherwise a great overall experience! +Useful course for me +Great introduction to scraping information from internet sources and turning complicated data into something that can be visualized and processed. +Informative and complete. +Before taking "Getting and Cleaning Data", I had no prior R programming experience aside from completing the R programming course in the data science specialization on Coursera. I found this course to be challenging and that it covered quite a bit of ground in terms of the "getting data" more so than the cleaning data. After completing this course, I feel like I learned quite a bit more R programming and the basic knowledge for obtaining data from a variety of sources/formats and cleaning it up to make it look nice and tidy. Overall, I rate this course very positively! +Wasn't excited about it. But I've used and re-used the materials for work. Good stuff. +This course is very interesting, useful and practicalI appreciate for all of efforts of my professors in this course +need to be crisped, over all good +Amazing course! Even after a few years using R in a daily basis, I still learned quite a bit of new / useful information. +This is a fantastic course. Well designed and incredibly useful as far as course content. +Materials (video and written) only partially prepare the student for the quizzes and course projects. +Solid course overall which covers in a high level many data gathering methods. +I really started to get interested in R only when I started this course.Before that, it was just an old, cryptic language that could not do more than what I can do with Excel.Now I am starting to see the full potential +I took this course a couple years back. It's much improved with lectures and exercises around specific functions to help with cleaning up data. Thank you! +Very useful and detailed summary of advance methods +Very good place to learn very important tools like dyplr and tidyr to access and clean from several formats +Lectures add very little to what you get simply by looking at the slides on your own. Facilitators are expert biostatisticians, not R programmers, and sometimes their explanations of R functionality is superficial and imprecise. The assignments are rigorous and challenging, however, and if you take the time to go through all of the exercises you will gain valuable knowledge. +Very fundamental things that all data scientist must learn. You will know how useful of data.table and dplyr package. +Excellent course. It gets through the "dirty job" of obtaining data from diverse sources (including API, web, and others), cleaning it, and transforming it into a "tidy" dataset. Highly recommended, along with the R programming course (which you should take first). +kind of simple +The course isn't that hard but there is a lot of content to assimilate. +Very practical and demanding. That's how you really learn! +Nice and hard course, which is good :) +I use so much of what I've learned here on a day to day basis! Using the suite of functions from ggplot, dplyr, plyr and others has greatly reduced my data management time. +Of the courses I have done so far in the specialization, this was the most practical. +Great teaching method :) +This is a challenging but very intersting course, I had to learn lot from the course and from the colleagues through the pairs work examination.Thank you! +Great +Really good course! It's basic before analyzing the data! +Provide a good introduction to getting data and processing them. +very good course. +awesome proyect +Very good introduction in advanced R capabilities. +I feel that getting and cleaning data course is highly important to know since this is where 80% of the work in data science is being done. +Wonderful course for those who are keen on expand their knowledge n R skills. +For such a terrible course to then change payment terms without my authorisation. Take $64 from my account without telling me clearly amongst all the other junk mail. Coursera have a lot to answer for, and this specialisation is not even worth wasting your time if it was free.Taught without purpose; meaningless instructions given to copy without regard of the bigger picture. +Very helpful and pragmatic.This course gives a general idea on how to get and clean data in r, and specifically taught me how to use "dplyr" and "tidyr".The assignment is very helpful, too. It forced me to use the knowledge I learned in this course, might be a little bit of hard for a beginner though. Nevertheless, you can still achieve a 100% score! +thank you! +Great course! allowed me to learn a lot of new skills +A pretty good course on cleaning up and preparing tidy data. However, the material for a couple of weeks was quite brief and could have been more involved. +Really great course which helps to understand basics of data tidying. I've also enjoyed regex explanation, it's really clear! +Very helpful +This course is little fast for me but real helpful. +A very nice and structural course. +This class needs more content, more explanation. It is clearly a very important aspect of Data Science, but the assignments were more complex than the given course content. +Absolutely Necessary course this!!! +Great lecture, easy to follow with R studio. Assignment are moderately challenging. +Could be more hands on! for example interactive tutorial where the instructor actually using the functions to demonstrate how things work. +The last course in this specialization had me second guessing myself on whether or not I could do this (based on how difficult the quizzes/course project was). I spent tons of time researching, looking at the forums, and programming documentation. Going into this course, I was surprised about how much I knew when it came to the quizzes and how my time looking at all the resources above decreased and I actually knew where to begin! The course project was still VERY difficult for this beginning specialization compared to what information is given in the lectures (spent over 16 hours on it and still didn't meet ALL criteria). However, it does challenge you to think and reflect on your knowledge. You probably won't understand 100% of what is in the course (especially the project) but you will LEARN especially if you are totally NEW to programming like me! My knowledge has increased and that is what I was hoping for. If you have those same hopes and do not mind not getting 100%'s on all quizzes/projects this course is for you. Do be mindful that I personally feel that this course requires more than 4-6 hours per week especially for beginners. I spent more than 24 hours on week 4 alone. +Teaches a crucial and often overlooking step in the data analysis workflow. Brilliant tips and insights! +A good course, which helped me understand how to get data off the web and from other sources, and improved my R skills +Very useful and helpful +decent enough but this is a heavy subject and really it is not that interesting although clearly necessary. I feel maybe it could have been organized better to make it more interesting Also reading some of Haldey wickhams book he deliberately keeps this part of Data Science away from new learners as it can be a bit dreary, so my recommendation would be to do some of the other courses first. +Not the funniest one but very useful !! thank you ! +Very interesting. I've learnt a lot. +This course was okay, but projects required much more in depth information than the course materials provided. +Difficult but valuable. You will be watching the videos repeatedly and become a regular at StockOverflow but it was completely worth it. Getting, cleaning, and processing data is pretty much 80%+ of the job, this course's information is vital to any future data worker. +Thank you for giving me opportunity to learn. These material (or this class) would have been super difficult, if it was taught through the same traditional channels based on my academical experiences. Yet, the materials were presented in such an amazing way that I wasn't taken over by the difficulty of the presented subjects, rather I was getting more focused to learn more and to be challenged. Thank you for letting me get 3 free online certificates. It means a lot to me and it has given me hope through this difficult time. I feel accomplished. It's a great feeling and it the best and the only gift that I have received and would probably receive this holiday. +The content is good for the most part. There are some errors in the instructions to the assignment which make the assignment more like a real-world spec than the authors probably intended, but that's not necessarily a bad thing! +Loved this course,best so far from all data science . +Insightful ! +A great course. I mean, It has not been easy, I have spent a lot of time in front of the PC practising and doing exercises, but this time and the tools that I have learned make me much more agile and confortable with R, and I have seen the big possibilities that this language has. +lectures are too fast.dropping out. +Kind of slow in the beginning but picked up to the end to give me a challenge +Very useful course. I suggest taking this course straight after R programming and before taking any other courses in the specialization. +This is a great course! I like it. It really helped me a lot. +Excellent course, I would like to see more content about cleaning data +I learned so much of R with this course. Thanks Johns Hopkins. Thanks Coursera.The course final project was so challenging that made research R tools I did know they existed. Such as generating MD files from RMD markdown notebooks, so I could mix live code with text. That's how I produced my CodeBook.md. Then I learned that there are a bunch of libraries for pretty-printing tables. I discovered even more about dplyr. And also learned how to return multiple objects from a function.You can really write papers with all these tools in R and getting expertise about knitr and pandoc.Thank you Jeff and team for putting together such a quality course. +Excellent course. You will learn about concepts of 'clean' or tidy data and apply it in R. One of the most important, yet often ignored, aspects of data science. +great course +Useful technics to make things workable +This course is quite hard, but it's really great!!! +Cool course,very useful info +A lot of self learning is needed in this course. Be prepared to search for function documentations and stack exchange. Quite frustrating but worth it. +Great course! I learned a lot from it! Thanks!!! +Good course material. A very good project at the end of the course that gave an idea about cleaning a real life huge dataset +Capstone project is a little ambiguous. Although that's good experience having to find a way to reason out what the objective is based on limited information.Introduction to chained dplyr is incredibly useful. +It is sometimes daunting and difficult, but now I do understand so much more about downloading files from remote sites and getting them ready for analysis. What I should have done is look to the final project so as get a better understanding of what the project entailed. I also should have done more work replicating the code used in the lessons so as to appreciate how it worked. +This course is really helpful and very practical. Provides industry standard information and adheres to the scientific principles. +Very helpfull. +Very instructive +It is a very good course, but it does not follow the same level of proposed work as in the previous course (R Programming). +This course it's a great job! There is too much information in here and a great amount of knowledge. I would like to say that in my point of view the current lesson should be updated in more different data sets examples that gives the students the opportunity of learning different kind of ways to manypulate some data. There are some standard ways so it would be great if you expand this. +Well done. Thanks for a good course. +Excellent information on getting and cleaning data. +Really great course! +This course provides a lot of methods and strategies about reading data, manipulating data. But I think some important issues in the real world are not discussed enough here, like how to treat missing values, how to deal with messy format data. +Good coverage of topics. A bit scattered in early slides and assignments were often inconsistent with coursework. Overall a great introduction of what to expect when gathering data. +Course is too simple, should be more extensive. +Nice set of techniques and methods! +Amazing course!Thanks for everthing. +Really can learn practical skills! I like that each sub course of data science specialisation just focus on a certain areas and takes only 4 weeks, this way I won't be overburden between work and learning, and also easier for me to absorb the new skills. +We have good course, thank you very much, teacher! +The course content is important. I felt the final assignment quite hard. I struggled a lot with R on it. Interesting enough, when looking at the solutions during the peer reviews, they seem to have found way easier solutions than I had. I am not sure why. I got the same result but my code looks way more complicated. Also the description of the final assignment was a bit unclear. For example, where we supposed to rename the features or not? Where we supposed to calculate the mean per activity , subject or activity subject combination? Where we supposed to select the mean() only or also the FreqMean(). etc. +Great course! Very well structured and complete in the knowledge it brings both on the R language itself and in the concept of data clean up and transformation. +This is an interesting, helpful class. It was challenging, and exposed me to a very wide variety of topics outside R for data analysis, including databases, XML, APIs for getting data. I would have found found swirl type exercises for those topics helpful, as the additional practice really reinforced the lecture material and homework/quiz problems. I also would have found some worked examples or discussion of the homework problems after they were submitted helpful. +A thorough course on how to structure and clean dirty data before making analyses on the data - very practical course in R. +Learned a lot! I have now dedicated more time to becoming a data analyst, and eventually a data scientist. The materials used in the videos were helpful and current (for me at least, 30 years young). I have started doing more learning on the kaggle platform as well as doing some hands-on Hadoop related training. Thanks to the professors! +This course is amazing! I have spent the majority of my time in R merely doing analytics. This course taught me the tools needed to go out and grab the data that I need for those analytics. +One of the best courses of the track! +Basically impossible to complete quizzes and course project using the provided course material. Poor correlation between instruction and testing. Makes one wonder: If I need to solicit others' guidance to complete your tests, why am I paying for your guidance in the first place? +Very Good Course +This course is really a challenging and compulsory for any one who wants to be a data scientist or working in any sort of data. It teaches you how to make very palatable data-set fro ma messy data. +a must have course before applying any math model to our data! :-) +My name is Jose Antonio from Brazil. I am looking for a new Data Scientist career.Please, take a look at my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseantonio11I did this course to get new knowledge about Data Science and better understand the technology and your practical applications.The course was excellent and the classes well taught by teachers.Congratulations to Coursera team and Instructors. +Interesting, challenging course. Opened lots of questions to the topic and gave a good direction to find the answers. +The course material is ok - it would really need a book like the other courses have. It is much easier to check something from a book than slides/video when doing the assignments etc. . +clearly this course gives important lesson. but i think lots of materials are overlaped with previous course. final assignment is really helpful. +Lectures and other material just don't cover the information needed in the course project. Majority of the learning has to be done outside of this course, in order to pass the course project.I cannot recommend this course anyone who is not deeply familiar with the topic already. The course project is truly frustrating! +Great course for a budding data analyst/scientist +Nice content and assignment!! Enjoyed it. +Great course, you learn a lot of ways to find data and improve other skills as regex and the use of "dplyr". +A great course. Learned a lot. However student has to put an extra effort practicing. +in my opinion, with more details, we could learn more about R +Course is great, specially the assignments. Don't depend on lecture videos too much, this is a programming course so you'll have to get your hands dirty. Don't forget to work on swirl() package, its a great way to learn interactively. +Thank you, it was very practical! +Great Course. +Great Course!The Course Project was really challenging. +This course is where the material starts to get difficult, and the learning materials fail to provide the structure needed. There absolutely HAS to be a better teaching method than "reading the slides of bullet-ed text that I'm also showing". No functional examples are provided in the lectures and the real learning content is linked out to web resources. You will have to Google your way through this class because the provided instruction will not contain answers to the quiz or exam questions. A real disappointment.I also think that Coursera knows this, because this was the first course where they ramped up the e-mail encouragement campaign. Their data must tell them this is where people fall off the specialization. Rather than addressing with marketing and messaging, they should encourage the instructors to improve the course. +It is amazing to learn how many different kinds of data exists and how to work with them using R. Wonderful course! +The best course so far (though that's not saying much). This course would be better as a follow up to an example workflow showing an end to end analysis. +Great way to learn how to optimize data +The only interesting part was dplyr. The rest was too confusing, with lots of lists and no explanations. +Useful to get the basics right +Thanks! I learnt a lot of practical skills/ +Well pack, but could have more practice. +Wonderful course. gets you through the basics and beyond in getting and cleaning data from diverse sources. Very well thought and explained. There is a lot to be learnt from this course, and it requires devoting a good amount of time to let the material sink in. +Interesting but too simple. +Great +good course. but some concepts are hard to understand for newbies. so felt it was a bit advanced in parts. +Learning how to create a tidy Data set was one of the perks in this course +The code for the final assignment is peer reviewed which doesn't make sense. It should be reviewed by either a TA or some kind of application than can verify what you've done. Also, the assignments were a bit of a leap from the video tutorials at times. +The video is simple and good.But the final project and some test are too hard based on material presented.Also staff's support are not good. +Very informative course. +Very usefull but can be technical and discouraging +Excellent course. Challenging but extremely worthwhile. +Brief instroduction of getting and cleaning data. +Very well elaborated. Very useful and real exercises and tools. +I think it is a decent introduction to data cleaning. Could be more detailed in terms of the content delivered. +Too difficult practical exercises with the theorical background given. I know that hackers skill should be used but it is too much assumption in the projects!! +Exellent course, which brings you to the next level of a Data Scientist.Getting and Cleaning data principles can be used in alot of situations. I found the build up of this and the assignment at the end to be very well tought trough and important. +Contents in first half weeks are very superficial, have low depth so that do not help me do some meaningful studies. But later ones are good for understanding the structure of data. +I liked the initial approach of this course, aswell as the resources given. However, I feel that the difficulty the exercises showed wasn't really linked to the concepts: many things were not explained in the lectures, and I had to find the complementary informations in various sites. So, rather than evaluating the understanding of the concepts given in the lectures, the skill to look for further informations was assessed. +awesome course, will require a lot of reading and re-reading though - mainly for the R part. +It's pretty good. It should provide a high-level approach to "getting and cleaning data"....and how it fits into the high-level roadmap of what Data Scientists do. Some of the quiz questions were written poorly - I expect better from an online course from a prestigious institution. I may have caught a few words misspelled as well. +It taught a lot of tools and introductions +Not well explained.... Previous module was better structured. +Poorly constracted course! +This course was very important for my work. I learned so much and I want to say thanks to the professors. +Using R with training through your course seemed almost too easy, your book also greatly helped, thank you for such a well designed course which is so practically based and geared towards commercial programmers like myself. +Topics were OK but the focus on R and no other tools is frustrating +This course could be a little difficult for people with no programming experience what so ever, even if they took the previous R programming course in this series. Examples are often a little too laconic and not all of the material is as practically useful as the best of it.However Jeff Leak teaches some excellent data tidying, cleaning and extraction techniques with modern tools and libraries, that I find very useful in my everyday work with data. +R is really just the worst, and the instructors do not make it better. The code in this class is unreadable:- too many one liners, because "it's faster to write", though harder for other people to read- variables are named cryptic things like spIns or x, rather than names with meaning (eg, sprays.by.insect), again "because it's faster to type"- way too many cases of "there is more than one way to do it", which just makes things confusing because the other ways tend not to be equivalentWhat I'm most concerned about is that I've seen lots of poorly written code in many different languages: Java, C++, C, Python, Perl, and now R. But I've also seen really well-written code in all the languages *but* R, I have yet to see any code in R that is flexible, maintainable, and clear. Which leads me to think that no such code exists, or it's so rare that it doesn't matter. It is clear to me that if I am to do data analysis, then I will need a different set of tools; but because this specialization is taught entirely around R (the lectures are about R, not about higher-level concepts), then this specialization is not useful to me. +It is somehow just an extension on R Programming course, with many unnecessary details that will be forgotten in a few days after the course. +Sometimes get a bit boring, though the upcoming courses in the series are real-awesome +Really fantastic even as an experienced R user. This is helping me remould my habits and break some of the bad ones. Thank you so much! +The examples used were good. +It was kind of exhausting, but great. +Awesome material and lots to learn +There is a lot of fluff in this course and at the same time it assumes that you have knowledge and skills that are not covered in this course or in the previous two (e.g. github). I'm really disappointed in the quality of this course--specifically at how vague many of the instructions were in the quiz questions and the final project-- and that most the time when explanations were asked for on the message board the professors just did some hand waving and said that figuring it out was part of the assignment. That isn't teaching (online or otherwise). And if your instructions aren't clear, you aren't doing the job of an instructor when you pass the buck and try to sell it as "part of the learning experience." I hope this fall off in quality isn't reflective of the rest of the courses in the data spec. +Very useful concepts taught in this course, one would be crawling data consistently as a full time data scientist. But even thought the pacing and project were good, I found the videos a touch boring. Nevertheless, it is part of the whole specialization, which in itself is serious education :) +The videos did not teach anything that was going to be on the quiz so it was like answering 5 questions at random using google. The lesson plans and project were very vague and too much time was spent trying to figure out what was even being asked. +建议更新课程中所涉及函数的使用方法Please update the using methods of some functions in this lecture. +good introduction and practice being given on handling data cleaning. Lesser thought on getting data merely introduction. Still good to give a try if you are new in data analysis. +The content of the course is good, but it seems abandoned - some links are outdated or don't work. I think it would be a much better experience for students if these first courses in the specialization got more love from the instructors. +Have challenges, but very useful! +Great and Excellent thoughts and course material. +The class is getting stale. The instructors didn't respond to questions on the discussion forums about quiz items, the majority of assessment items seem to be available on Google and 50% of the peer reviewed assessment I checked used plagiarized solutions. +Videos are very good and the content was well explained. However, in my opinion, at the last couple of weeks the content felt a bit too fast and lacked depth. +Good course, learned a lot especially through the quizzes and the course project, but slides/presentations could be more engaging. +I liked it, but I had the impression it wasn't as prepared as the other courses. Especially with the course assignment I had a bit trouble to understand, what was wanted. +Extraordinarily useful! +Great module with hands on practicals !!!!! help to build confidence... +Excelent course. It is a great oportunity to develop the aknowkedge in R and System analysis. +Its really help me a lot to build up my basic concept and now data wrangling is quit bit easy for me.Thanks :) +Good course, though I have to say that the final project was a bit confusing, and I am not sure that the people who did the final project really understood the course and how to create a tidy dataset, as the ones that I looked at did not meet all the principles of tidy data that were outlined. What concerns me is that they all had similar issues, and are all doing peer review of each other - this means that there is no one that can make sure that their answers are really tidy... +It's a good course, with right amount of exercises and well explained classes. +Decent course for learning how to navigate data sets in R. Not always obvious what the intent was, but it was good for learning how R operators think. +Peer reviewed assessment with students who are unsure of the correct answers = unsure if solution is correct. Perhaps a formal process (same as previous course where a SHA commit is submitted and source is automatically downloaded (and plagiarism detected) & run to verify the output that columns / data meet an acceptable criteria +less hands-on exercises and this course covers too much topics without details. More like general intro to each tool and data sources. Swirl is still a great package for practice. +The demanding complexity for 'programming-project( final )' should offer little more instructional support on lecture slides. +Insightful! +Great way to exercise and practice something that is often neglected in data science courses. +The course was a bit mixed in terms of its quality. +This would be very effective for my personal skill enhancement. +A really good course! +I believe this course suffers from neglect. Rarely did I see any of the mentors participating in the group discussions even though there were plenty of questions. Furthermore, some of the quiz questons seemed incomplete or confusing. The project was no better. I feel like the course was recorded a few years ago, and not much done after that to fix flaws, even though they are probably well known. The material is useful, but it would be nice to have a set of notes or a text to go with the lectures. You will spend a lot of time searching the internet to compelte the assignments. Sometimes that is good, but other times a guide geared to the course would have been better. +i apprecciate the learning by doing and the lot of support that the staff and classmates provide +Actually, very interesting and helpful class. The one area around more complex structures (API, XML) warrants more attention, since I assume those are more dominant access methods. +The worst! I don't recommend you to take any course from this institute. It is just wasting time and money. +The assignment was excellent but challenging, instruction wasn't too clear or obvious though, struggled for a while (good kind of struggle)The lecture was okay but the Swirl part is always fantastic. +Great course! +Great course, more difficult than previous two, but also more challenging and useful! +Powerful tool +Great practice for R programming and the MySQL part is extremely helpful for my work. +Description of assignment questions is not clear. The expected answer from the questions are confusing. +This course is of lower quality than the preceding courses. The final assignment instructions are not clear. The forums helped but I have the impression that they are not really followed by the mentors. +Solid fundamentals gained from this course on data manipulation +Fantastic knowledge cleverly delivered. This course adds structure and polish to your data munging skills. +The evaluation part of the course needs some fixing. Otherwise, very good course! +A reasonable course. Could use a little more focus on dynamically creating a codebook. +Honestly, I wanted to give complete 5 rating to this course, because the content of the lecture is well explained. But one feature I didn't like at all and that is Coursera has made it mandatory for the users to purchase the course in order to submit the quiz/assignment which I personally didn't like it. Except that the course is awesome. +Dinamyc and very usefull! +Good course. I like it. However, it looks a lack of explanations or training for me. It possible, there too much material for this number of lectures, or just I haven't due background. Maybe, it makes sense to add more swirl courses for people like me to gain a proper comprehension. +outstanding!!. learnt a lot. +There were a lot of good nuggets in here, but overall this course felt somewhat disjointed compared to the others. It would be nice to have more practice with some of the different formats (e.g., JSON) and for exercises to loop back to some of the early content. I did like that the final exercise required a fair amount of investigation into understanding the documentation and relationship between the files before undertaking to code. +I saw two main issues with this course: 1) dated lecture videos, oftentimes with R code that can't be replicated using up-to-date packages, and 2) lack of thoughtful design: example after example after example after example doesn't really teach you anything. +Ok course, level of difficulty on assignments should be re-assessed and converted to kind of conceptual assignments and tasks than repeatable code in each offering. +A good start for data science course. It is very essential to cleanse data before start analyzing. +Fun and interesting. Won't remember all the ways to get and clean data, but it's good to review them so I know what's possible. +Some parts of the course felt like... here are some cool things you might want to do... Google them. Otherwise valuable. +Toughest class in the offering. There really could've been 2 classes for cleaning data. I struggled with the lecturer's style (spoke too fast). +The project at the end requires actions that data scientists should know but does not actually talk about the items. For example the project "book". You hear about it but are not actually taught the right way to make one. At best case you are taking a guess and at worst you are learning bad habits or missing out on what should be in it. +The Final Project was excellent. Really satisfying upon completion. Course was good aswell. +Very useful and relevant knowledge to have! +Love the new strategies that learn in the course. +cool +Very good course. By taking it you have the opportunity to build experience with R and get used with the main codes needed to perform a data cleaning process. +A good course for dealing with different types o +The content of the course is too general, with too brief introduction of some commands in the lecture notes(slides), I don't think it would be very helpful for the students to deal with some real complicated problems. +The course was quite good, but the last assignment was really much too vague. +Nice one. I would like to have some more information like getting data from API +very well organized, good teacher, good projects. PCA and SVD are pretty hard to understand for who is not in the field (statistics), but no evaluation on this topic. +Helpful, but more than half of the knowledge is in the swirl tutorial. +Recommended for all who want to manage their data and not be handled by them +Very good course! +Really helpful on a subject that's not often covered. +For someone with no programming background and limited experience working with data, this was a challenging, sometimes frustrating, course. But perseverance through the struggle can end in a deep sense of satisfaction. Happily, this is how it was - quite rewarding. +Very good class for a beginner. Helps become more comfortable with R programming and aspects of getting data into R +very helpful +good, i need more pratice by myself and i haven't read the book yet :-) +Good course to learn how to use R to getting and clening data +great course, requires a little bit of programming background with no rigid specifics though. +Maybe some more notes about the quizzes and the course project would be helpful. +Great use of R. It really helped solidify what I learned there. +very useful course for making data +I am happy now with the single file HTML Documentation for the whole course, generated from md-Files in the cloned repohttps://github.com/DataScienceSpecialization/courses/It is much handier than the standard downloadable PDFs. +There are quite a few issues with the final assignment of the Getting and Cleaning Data course. I feel this assignments lacks quality in contents, suffers from a flawed process and lack of attention by the moderator. +Interesting course with a lot of time intensive quizes. It, however, opened my eyes on how to effectively work towards clean data.Thanks for the great courses! +Hi all,Course provides interesting insight to getting and cleaning data. However, the course misses practical examples (not only showing the code in the slides, but also presenting how it works in R or RStudio). +It is a great course so far, with a lot of applicable topics covered. However, I feel that some of the questions are structured poorly to achieve their goals.It is fine to have difficult questions where students are expected to do a lot of extra research, but it should done in a way that they students know what they are getting into ahead of time, and not include questions or code that does not run without explaining what is supposed to be done.It's just not a good teaching technique for learning. +Excellent course. It helps to complement the knowledge of data analysis. The project was quite interesting and illustrative, especially considering that they were real experimental data. +This was an incredibly useful and amazing course! +very nicely made course providing a good hands on with R language. Thanks! +Didn't really cover how to deal with messy data, e.g. if you need to join to datasets and have orphans, or you have no foreign keys between two datasets and you need to use fuzzy matching.Basic validation was also not covered (i.e. making sure that your data covers all that you expect). +This course itself is quite nice and important.However, I think that the instructor should have set more assignments to lead us know those techniques better.Moreover, the ppt can be more detail-oriented.Overall good but need improvement. +Sometimes is hard to follow +Very good content, but could have more content added.. I had much more free time with this one than what I did with the R Programming. Would be better to have more swirl lessons +This course lacks projects to implement the skills we learn. +very helpful +Easy to follow. It would be beneficial to recommend this course before or with Introduction to R. Most courses that start teaching R programming, start with teaching about cleaning data before detailing other functionality. Nonetheless, good course. +The materiel covered in the course was great, but more assignments instead of quizzes should be added. +Learnt a lot! +I worked hard, and I learned a lot. This course convin +I would have given just one star except the swirl() assignments are actually very good. The videos are just a (poorly) narrated glossary. Topics I learned in another course were presented here in such I way I actually got confused. Can you imagine? my knowledge was actually worsened, not improved by thus course. (!!) // If the swirl() functions were made the centerpiece of the course, and the videos were described as just a narrated glossary, at least our expectations would be in line with reality. // Even so, I come to Coursera because I WANT to be taught by an instructor. If I'd wanted a curated list of tutorials so I could teach myself, I would have done that already. Anyone who pays for this should get their money back. NOT recommended for beginners. // I going to complete it because I'm stubborn that way, but it is an unpleasant experience for me and everyone within earshot as I have to vent my frustration often just to make it through. // After week 2 I resorted to just reading the pdf of the slides and stopped watching the videos. The videos added NOTHING to my understanding. More often than not they put me to sleep. And what's worse, the narrator mispronounces "attribute". There IS a difference. I atTRIbute certain ATtributes to native speakers who mispronounce important vocabulary. +The course is excellent. Only problem is, for me, it is very hard to understand the meaning of the final assignment. The description is too simple. +This is just because of the unclarity of the final assignment. +Very nice course. +Easy to follow. Might be too easy for some people with experience in data analysis. However, the instructors also talk about some frameworks and insights from their experience which could be helpful even for those who have some prior experience. +Thanks for this wonderful session on Getting and Cleaning Data. I would like to convey my sincere thanks to Professors Roger D. Pend, Brian D. Caffo and Jeff Leek and my fellow learners for their excellent help in completing the projet to generate Tidy dataset. I would like to name Mr. Luis Sandino for his help and effort in putting a help Guide for this assignment. I follwed it and got the assignment completed. The step by step procedure helped me and other fellow learnerrs to complete the assignment on time.Though this course is over, still we have the doubt on the dimension of the tidy dataset, whether it is 180 by 68 or 180 by 88 as the total number of "mean' variables considered are varying. Request mentors or TAs to help us arrive at the correct dimension and help us understand the reason behind the same.This course has witnessed the need for support from TAs and mentors. Their help and support was very valuable in understanding the subject.Thanks to Coursera, my Professors, mentors and TAs of this course for their insight, guidance, support and effort.Wishing Coursera and Professors all the best and Success.The SWIRL component for learning the subject is the best and wish SWIRL support for all the heavy courses. Special thanks to those who made SWIRL course material possible for Data Scientisit's toolbox.With Best Wishes,S. Ramalakshmanan +Really nice course, practical exercises were very handy. +Slides and videos are a bit insufficient in order to finish course projects.Apart from that, this course is awesome! +In some weeks only about an hour of input where several topics have already been covered in R Programming. That's very little value for money.The final course project again feels like it's done in a rush and without another review: The submitted dataset should be automatically checked. It's simply impossible to derive from it whether the student did everything right, but it could be easily done programmatically. Some of the questions have wording and grammar issues that make it hard to understand. Also there is slightly contradicting instructions between the task and review description. +Perfect +Great! And the project is wonderful! +Some thing were very dificult and i needed more research +Great course! The course content is very good and the length is appropriated. +Excellent course with great didactic. Congratulations! +Course is great! Many examples are given on how to get data in various format. +Very challenging! which makes everything even more fun! +90% of data science is cleaning, this really gets people accepting that key concept +WHen i took this course i though i will never apply the knwoledge in here... i was wrong, the basis of a credibly analisis is here. Thanks! +Thank you son much!!!!I really like the course.It help me in my job =) +A Great one .. +Great course with good lectures and labs. Don't forget the swirl assignments! +Very helpful. +Great course!I think that cleaning the data in the right way is the key of data science. +Course is really well done and useful. +The course is good, but it doesn't really offer all the tools required to pass the exams. I had to take extra courses in other place in order to pass. In addition, the exams some times become a bit too subjective of what the classmates want to grade you. +great course so far +was tougher than expected. i learnt a lot! +Content is good, but the delivery could be improved (email alerts, assessment feedback, etc) +Great +Nitty gritty of organizing the data in to a form where it can be used for more complex analysis. +Great Course if want to know what data really is and how to handle it in the right way. +This is a very well put together course. It teaches the basics of data cleansing and how to setup data for modeling--by far the most foundational technical aspect of data analysis. +Challenging, but in a good way! +The lecture material was high level, and didn't seem to be a good preparation for the quizzes.The description for the final project was not very detailed, and the grading rubric likewise was not very specific for peer review. +Very interesting material and basic knowledge on R to read files and produce tidy data +Easy, mostly instructive Course. The Assignments and quizzes are quite good, and illustrates the lessons very well.See the videos for general presentation, but use the energy on the excersizes. +really thorough class... come prepared to learn and be patient as your going to get your hands pretty dirty reading data, cleaning it and manipulating the result sets with R +Great course. +Good introduction to data cleaning +The selection of topics is great. However, the course is too abstract. I think some of the materials deserve to be discussed more comprehensively. +Thank you to the professors who made this course possible and especially to Dr. Peng who was willing to spend some time with us face to face via video. I found the course very challenging but at the same time I did learn quite a bit about R. Working through the course assignments and the final project was the best part. My rating is 4 stars because the course lectures are not engaging. The lecture style is basically just reading the slides to us and they don't take much time to explain what is going on. +I thoroughly enjoyed the course project. Overall, It +One of the best courses for Data sciences! +it's a little rapid fire, but the exercises are excellent for applying the firehose of functions and concepts from the lecture +The content in this course is essential, but the delivery is patchy and the course project is hard to complete with just the learning materials provided. Read around the course and visit the data science specialisation wiki for extra information, and work through it at your own pace, rather than that suggested by the course. It's much easier to do this now it's on the new Coursera platform :o) +It's awesome. Very difficult, challenging, and lots of stuff to be learnt +The course is more challenging than the prior two courses, but also very rewarding. I can apply the skills from this course directly to my work, and produce results.A bit drawback is the some quiz questions and the final assignment can use more detailed instructions. Providing the clarity doesn't necessarily gives away the answers. +This is not a beginner's course, so a decent grasp of the R language is necessary. It is best to take this course after some stints with Data Camp, Swirl, or Code School. +Instructor reads lectures in monotonic voice. The lectures themselves are just a series of cases of some R functions usage with no basics of Why you need to clean the data or real cases with complete examples how and where to get your data and what steps you can do to make it useful.The course has a lot of links for tutorials in R. That's a plus. +Good course this... +Best instructors, best learning . . . +Really great class. I found the lectures easy to follow. The quizzes and homework helped me master the course material. +I was pleased to be selected as a beta tester, but it turns out to be a little bit boring for a course I did already pass and succeed. Slides are unchanged, so my concentration drops after a while, even with some good will. It seems there are new swirl lessons, but they don't seem to be available yet, at beta test time, bad luck.I like the new overall presentation (provided by Coursera?) where we can pick transcripts without leaving the normal course flow. I tend to click the "finger up" icon for each lecture, because I just think the general organization of this specific course is quite good, and the contents consistent and not uselessly overlapping (unlike some other courses of the track such as "Reproducible research"). Also, the theme seems to perfectly fit the 4-weeks standard slot of the track. I have been busy those days, so I didn't fully review the course yet: I'll try to review as much lectures as possible till the end of the countdown. I'll try to do it better for my next beta test, if any. Anyway, thanks a lot for that very interesting track (I plan to go up to the capstone project, certified). +Very useful course. It's worth to add slides and to make sound of lectures bit louder. +The course is great and useful. In my personal experience, this course were so important as R programming course, since on this course one get the essence of R and the hardest process when deal whith real cases. I could see that the videos has ensured about velocity and audibility; when I took it, it was difficult to heard and has a so high velocity.I want contribute as beta tester, and will try to follow all the course, at my own pace giving feedback in thankful to you for the opportunity you gave me to learn free. +This is an outstanding course due to Mr. Biss' extensive knowledge and passion for the Beethoven sonatas. I can only dream that someday he'll conduct a course on the Beethoven piano concertos too. +Amazing! Excellent delivery of content and virtuosic playing at the same time +I suppose a coarse yet hopefully functional metaphor is we get to fly "in the cockpit". Mr Biss guides the student through the inner workings of pieces covered, points to some of the the twists and turns and plants the seeds of perhaps a lifelong contemplation of some of the motivations, feelings and hopes embedded into their architecture. As great as the source material is, I would like to add that Mr Biss is a very eloquent, warm and insightful guide. This journey into rich sonic landscapes, is doubtlessly something not to be missed. One of the best life experiences available on Coursera, highly recommended. +If you are looking to increase your appreciation of music, and specifically of Beethoven's piano sonatas, this is the course to take! It does not require highly technical knowledge, other than a tiny understanding of harmonic progressions. However, Professor Bliss love and knowledge of Beethoven's music, coupled with his ability to explain its beauty, provides the fuel to push the student to the next level of love and appreciation for classical music. +Thank you for the lessons, immensely grateful for the classes. +A deeper and better organized course that Part 1. Thoroughly enjoyable and instructive. +Awesome course! Intensive learning. I recommend a few studies of astronomy before take it.There are some issues with the feedback of others proffesors +I found this course very interesting. +This is a very brilliant course and was taught in a very good manner. I really learned a lot and look forward to enroll in more courses +Requires some knowledge of physics to do calculations. Concepts are well explained (with examples and graphics) so that anyone can understand the material otherwise. +Prof Djorgovski's lectures are excellent, especially Week 4. I may be biased, as I knew much of the Planetary & Stellar material before, I didn't know much about galaxies, so week 4 was all new to me. The quizzes are well designed to test the student's understanding.I'm giving the course 4, rather than 5, for two reasons: a lack of further reading, which many other courses provide; and the forums are almost completely dead. Generally I learn by discussing things with other students, with help from the instructors when needed. The course could work better, IMHO. This should not be interpreted as a criticism of Prof Djorgovski'slectures, which are worthy of Caltech! +An awesome introduction to astrophysics +Good course It is a must for an budding astrophysicist!! +This is a very educational course.I came to know about various facts and this course is very helpful if you have your your interest in universe.all the points are explained in a very good manner.I thank professor Djorgoviski for this course.thanks caltech. +It is fantastic! I really want to learn more! +Great introduction to a wide range of subjects in astronomy. As an engineer with a keen interest in physics I really liked the focus on getting an intuitive understanding over rigorous derivations and proof. I enjoyed the course very much! +A bit dry, but so vey interesting. Thank you very much for the course. I loved the Course Cal Tech. +Amazingly interesting topic presented in a well structured way. +Clear explanations of everything you need to know about the Universe, really enjoyable and graphic. I love it +I have really appreciated this course. +It's useless and lacking enthusiasm. +This is the third or fourth time I've reviewed this course but it still keeps asking me to +I truly enjoyed this course! +covers a lot of ground in short time +In general it's fine, but I'd like to see more questions with calculations, such tasks help better understand the topic +Great course, contents are very accurate and comprehensive, explained in a simple manner. +Excellent class! Lacking a background in Physics, I was lost in much of the math. But even without understanding the details, I felt privileged to get a glimpse into how scientists have come to understand so much about a universe in which we seem otherwise insignificant. Thank you! +Giving inputs to the Universe. +Enjoyed it tremendously +Amazing Course!!! +Pros:ContentProfessorDepth of materialCons:Exams are shit, full of mistakes, stuid questions asking 2 values but you have one field to fill in the data. Totally unacceptable quality issues with exams. READ THE FORUM!!!! +serious knowledge +Great introductory class, do it again! +The course is easy to understand and has simple tests that test your knowledge once in a while. It helped me gain lots of information. Hope this helps you! :) +Great!!! +Nice work love it! Thanks for the great support! +A fine course and a necessary preliminary for the following course by the same good professor. +good course +Perfect. This is the best basic universe class I have even seen. +It was another unsival. +It's been a great tool for learning and exploring. Perfect for my curiosity for this subject. +It`s a great course! +One of the better course on Universe hosted by Coursera +Amazing presented and documented, change my view of universe and life.... +Very nice!! Thank you!! +Took this professor's course in Galaxies and Cosmology which was for 2nd year physics majors. I think this course is a more general course for non-physics-majors. Excellent course! +You know what, it's not that complex.... it was never that complex...... humans are missing something very basic, elemental, kinda stupid thing I guess. Humans need another stupid. +Course with deep notions. Prononciation can be difficult to understand. +I love this course! +Awesome course. Covers a lot key information in understanding our universe. +Amazing course. Gave a complete overview of entire universe. Just perfectly what I was hoping to learn from the course. Very interesting. +Great learning experience with well explained topics. +Need to review some question. Example: The universe is 13.8 billion years. No unit for computational question. Two questions for one field to fill.A good idea to add an indication how to write an exponential number. Use Coursera tools to check if the answer is a number by student. +Perfect MOOC. Well done! +Great Content! Very recommendable. +Outstanding in any aspect!!Thank all. +the teacher is boring. other then that its an ok class. need to explain things more. +Awesome course. Really liked the optional assignments. +Finally I studied the Fibonacci sequence and the golden spiral. I used to say: one day I will.Very interesting course and made simple by the teacher in spite of the challenging topics +Thoroughly enjoyed this course. Interested in the Fibonacci Numbers and Golden Ratio and was looking for more information, this was clearly provided. +An amazing course +I have learnt so much about Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Ratio in this class. This is so much more information that what I'd learnt way back in school or when solving Fibonacci based problems in Computer Science courses in college. I loved the content and Chasnov's teaching as well. Would love to do another course by Jeffrey R. Chasnov and this university :) +This is a great course. I learn very complete knowledge of fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio. Thanks for professor. Thank you very much! +Neatly planned with excellent information! +learnt something interesting! +Great course! A little short. +This course shows how mathematics is beautiful and fun +discussed some stuff I've wondered about for several decades. thanks so much. +Interesting, challenging and fun! +Good course. More problems sets would have been great! +Excellent topic and clear explanations. +great learned a lot . +Good course for introduction to Fibonacci Numbers. Should include more introduction lectures such as group theory, category theory, type theory, number theory, and algorithms. +Great course, please repeat it! +Very interesting course +good course, to learn something new +Very nice course, interesteing approach and examples. +Great course to learn the secret of Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio! +In this course so far I have been able to see what different types of patterns are and I have been able to see what kind of counting ways there are. I have also learned that the Fibonacci Sequence is everywhere in nature so I really like this course. +Very intriguing and interesting lectures. These got me thinking and venture into Fibonacci numbers and a bit of sacred geometry too. +The theory explained and the exercises are not at the same level. +More real world examples of Golden Ratio necessary +Very wonderful courses! Better than reading 100 papers! +I enjoyed how the course touched on all important aspects of EVs in depth providing relevant and supportive literature +It's a great course, learnt a lot. It would have been great if the slides were provided too and addition of discussion forums would also help to cultivate what we have learnt better by exchanging views with fellow classmates. Thanks very much for providing the course. +Well put together and very informative. Great job! +The course provide a general introduction of this field and the methods usde in the experiments. +This course gives an excellent overview of the field! +I am a masters student doing an EV related lab project, this course has provided great insight into EV research from leaders in the field. Importantly, this has made me aware of what to look out for in the literature.Many Thanks! +Excellent course. A great overview plus a lot of detailed information that can't be found by reading the literature. +The most important benefit of this course is the fact that it exists. At present the course is mediocre to bad: its educational value is low: transcripts are disgusting, they are not proofread, omitted pats of sentences, inconsistent English, they almost completely obscure, disrupt the sense of the presentation. The course offers no slides. I see obvious negligence in preparation of many lectures (especially bad week three).The target audience for the course is professional biologist that are comparable with arithmetic and elementary algebra and can easily use an internet browser.The course contains numerous mistakes: in particular, the elementary formula Dr. Cecilia Lasser presented in her week 4 lecture on Differential Ultracentrifugation contains an error.The lectures presented by non-native English speakers are very difficult to understand because of poor & inconsistent English.Please, make the lecture slide available for your students.Please, arrange a forum giving a possibility to ask a questions and get understanding of the material that remains unclear.The lectures on electron microscopy were very good, - thank you, Johanna!The lectures on AFM was the only one that was just excellent, - Thank you, Dr. Shivani Sharma.Please, review the sequence of lectures: I think the week 5 material may be moved to week 3. +This is one of the best course I ever completed successfully. The course instructor's describe all the critical problems arise during the lab work. I believe by following this course one may get inspiration to start work in the field of Extracellular Vesicles. +I found this a very informative course on the recent developments and the basics of the EV field. +This course was really well organized and paced but packed full of a lot of really good information from great sources and leaders in the field. I really didn't know anything about exosomes before I started this course and now I feel like I can even teach the people in my own lab a few tricks. +I didn't purchase the course so didn't do the quizzes, but the topics covered are so enormously important, regardless to the contents which is too broad to review in one course I gave it five stars just for bringing them up and presenting them to the public. +This course is awesome. It provides information about Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Insurances, and Taxes. The bonus material is also great which provides a chance to become a volunteer for the Internal Revenue Service. +Good Understanding of Personal & Financial planing for savings and investement +Great stuff. +I'm an expat and this course is super helpful for me to understand the tax, retirement and investment in the US +Some of his information was useful. It's pretty basic. +Really good! +I think this is a great overview for beginners in the subject of personal finance management. It contains lots of useful information, references to websites for everyday use, practical examples and exercises to absorb the content and put it to action. The reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is that the subject matter is US centric so part of it (taxation for example) is not as relevant for those who live in other countries. +Its a good lesson before starting a new life +These Course help me alot in planning,cash Management,wealth Management. +Good Course and Professor very clear. But a lot of content (40%) is for USA. +Practical information you can put to use right away. This class was fun and easy. It's an 8 week long course, but finished within 2 weeks. It's not really time consuming, so I definitely recommend anyone who's not too financially savvy to give this course a go! +There is a lack of supervision by the instructor. Some questions are too simple and basic, and don't really prompt much of any reflection upon the course material presented. I feel like participation in the forum posts was also weak. All in all, it was a good class for basic financial knowledge (e.g. financial terms, different investment vehicles, etc.) +Good course +It's my second time to enter this course, last time I quit in the middle due to time conflict. Professor is great on explaning these basic family financial planning things. Grateful & look forward to more related courses. +A really great approach to personal finance, with a lot of useful tips and information. +Great overview of personal financial planning! +Great Course, I've learned a lot that i did'n know. Thanks. +Some concepts are a little difficult for a non finance person. However, so far it seems very interesting and useful! +Great course, learned a lot about reading financial statements and basics of conducting business valuation and investment assessment, very nicely done! +This is one of the classes that I would recommend to anyone whom is interested to horn their skills and knowledge on finance. +Excellent course to give an overview of the Financial World. If you want to know the finances of your project or what the Finance Department in your organization does, this is the course to take. The course strikes the right balance between theory and practical examples and perfect for learners with little or not Financial experience. A big thanks to Professor Weston. Loved and enjoyed the course. +Outstanding course material +A very good course for those who don't have any Finance background but are interested in it. This course gives you an insight into the Financial Matters and helps you to make better decisions. Also the Mentor teaches in such a way that you find yourself familiar with this field. Very nice course and the way of teaching. +Fantastic course that gives you an overview of all the financial tools needed to evaluate companies and projects performance +Very informative course, flows smoothly and enjoyed the presentations and discussions. +Excellent course, learnt a lot and the Professor was funny and engaging. +A great introduction to finance concepts such as DCF, NPV, IRR, discount rates, and the usage of these in the capital budgeting process. +Amazing course. thank you. +The professor provides an excellent overview of finance. I work in a different industry but the examples provided gave me great insight and gave me an appreciation into finance. I can see myself using the tools provided in my own personal finances, and also evaluating different types of assets. +It's cool to do classes from prestigious universities, especially when learning how to be financially literate! +I really enjoyed this course as it simplifies the subjects and we build some excel sheets.Thank you professor +Name of this course tell youeverything , this course give enough info and wisdom to read and understand balance sheets , income statements and cashflow statements of companies . This is my first course and I'm happy that I took this course +Very concentrated, non boring and informative! :) +Awesome content and execution. Focused delivery and student-friendly approach. Highly recommended! +This is a full of content, very focused and well thought-out course. Mr Weston stays on topic and presents the material in a very coherent, logical, clear way. +I really enjoyed this course as a non-Finance professional. This is enabling me to better communicate with Finance resources on my team - on their terms. +I enjoyed the course a lot and is very inspiring to pursue my degree in finance. +Great course for somebody who wants to learn the basics about Finance. +Very well structured and clear course. Professor is truly amazing +Good and short video lectures that gets straight to the point +thanks! +I liked that this class was very much right to the point. Made it very easy to follow. +A nice course to lay the advance foundations in accounting and finance. +Straight to the point! +this is a good course with incredibly amazing stuff regarding the topics +The peer reviews should be anonymous. I graded a students work and gave him a 0 on both questions in the peer to peer review section. My answers deserved a 10 and I ended up with an 18/20 because this person graded me badly too. You should come up with a way to encourage fair grading without penalizing the person who graded someone elses assignment badly. +Great course for someone who has some background in financial accounting. the videos are short and precise and the concepts are explained in an easy to understand manner. Well donel +The advanced topics on the financial accounting have been really an interesting journey. I have more confidence in what I do now. Looking forward to the other courses of this specialization. +I have finished it, cool. +Excellent course. Prof. Oktay explained very well +Great and interesting course. All the video lectures are understandable and informative. Thanks to Associate Professor Urcan! +This is really an amazing opportunity to learn more and vast. +Great topics by great instructor ... exiting for future courses +Comprehensive and manageable. +thank for this course it's very good +I am confident to say that I now have better understanding of F.A. +Very concise lectures, but sometimes the content of the videos does not fully explain the topics that are covered on the quizzes. +Great class by Professor Oktay! I learned a lot and quick abo +Overall, very useful syllabi have been designed. I wish for more detailed, or at least less repetition of materials in videos and notes. Some of the terms have not been defined for me, so further research was necessary. +Great learning experience! Thanks a ton to the John Hopkins University for offering such a wonderful course! +It was great to see how does it work in real life. I wish there was more example and more challenging scenarios. I did enjoy it. +It was a great experience +There were a couple of bugs, but it was a great way to close a very well-designed course.It felt almost like a game! +Thanks for coming up with a near real-life problem. I understand a lot of effort goes in creating these problems. +this was good very practical and able you to apply your practical sense on making decisions... +A good way to evaluate what we have learned. +An excellent course to learn about data science areas for executives and managers +Excellent practical application of the knowledge gained! Chapeau! +The capstone project was too simple and not sufficiently challenging +Good course for quickly learning Data science concepts and creating winning Teams... +Good simulation of a real on the job project. +The interactive nature of the Capstone is brilliant!! +Very nice simulation. Thanks! +Good to get a formal overview of all the phases and ingredients of data science projects, without getting lost in the details. +Great course - even for those with only a small amount of data analysis, this is very useful in explaining the bigger picturing of managing data +the interaction with DataCamp is awesome!! love the data science capstone, I even felt under pressure from time to time, like if I was managing a data science team for real!! +Excellent project implement your learning and see the results. Very well planned as the last exercise. +Great capstone! Wish it went on a bit longer :) +Capstone project was very interesting and engaging in its interactivity. It is simple but not trivial one. +Great mix of theoretical concepts review and hands on approach.Good interaction flow, nice dialogues and great material. Great learning experience. +Fantastic and Fun end to an extremely enjoyable specialization, that was also very educational. Thanks! +Although it felt strange viewing pre-recorded videos who address me as a team member, and although I had difficulties to into this 'I am now the manager' role, I somehow liked the people recorded and I liked the sequence of the capstone. It wasn't difficult, it was overall just enough to achieve learning. I am actually quite impressed where online learning goes. Well done to all designers of the module! +I liked the way the Capstone is structured, it's really engaging! However, I think it was oversimplified (I was expecting something more difficult that really challenged me and examined most things I learnt during the first 4 courses). Overall, a great experience though. +Probably the best online class I've ever done! Loved the simulation and how it went beyond things we learnt in class and required making several context-specific decisions. +Quite easy to do it. I was expecting something a little bit more challenging. +Really realistic and fun! But it´s almost impossible to grad less than 100 after two attempts. +This required nearly no effort and is probably of little value in the real world. +was fun and engaging +Fantastic. This was the first time I had taken up a simulation based test. Was definitely an immersive experience +Thank you for such wonderful material! +Was not very challenging, I was looking for more detailed discussions. Good job +Great Experience ! Extremely morale-boosting after weeks of preparation and study !! +this was fun and really cool! +Very good overview. I did the full data science course but I'm a senior manager, so this was nice to get some organization perspective. Some parts might be a challenge for some IT people, but if you want to manage big data projects, it's worth the effort. +Short but to the point... +Exceptional way to launch into the field. +Very useful to put in practice some of the learnings obtained +Good way to put all the learnings together +Very accurate representation of how it looks to work with a data science team. Great job! +Terrific way to bring together the course. I have a background in knowledge management and I really liked this learning approach. +A fun way to end the courses.About the reading material for all of the courses - please proofread and edit the reading material. There are so many grammatical errors and typos that it made it difficult to read. (The non-word "wanna" was used many times!) +It's very cool idea to visualize the decision making process. Thank you! +Fun and real life problems, is easy but would be cool to make it longer and a situation in which real several problems are found. +Great fun! Attractive way of education. +The capstone project was really good and felt like a real project where the manager is tasked with the decision making. +Good course, it was interesting applied the learn knowlegde +Learned quite a bit and the course was +Thanks +Excellent capstone - using a real world situation made it very valuable. +Well done! Very realistic. +Fantastic overview course! +Great concept. Perhaps a little bit too easy to complete :) +Very interesting and related to a real project Assignment +Useful as a necessary step towards finishing the specialization only. +Total disappointment. This was only clipping through a tool, not a real capstone project. +This capstone was really fun!! Manager material :D +By far, the best course in the specialization but yet too easy to complete. +Very interesting and got me thinking about what is the most appropriate decision to make. +The class was a little brief, but I really did enjoy the way it was presented. The real life situation, with videos, and a famous company made this hit close to home. I really enjoyed the "choose your own adventure" format of it as well. Unfortunately it was so brief, where the $49 price seemed a little high in comparison to the content that was available in the other sources in the Executive Specialization series. I also would have liked a longer or more in-depth scenario. Lastly, for any of the "wrong choices" that were chosen, a debrief "why" they were wrong would have also helped. Even though there is room for improvement (and thus a 4 star rating and not a 5), I really did enjoy it and found it to be a very enjoyable way to end the series. +Great course +The app is neat but too short. +Very poorly constructed with links in the final exam that didn't work so I couldn't finish the exam. Then I was graded after only finishing 4/5 of the exam. I managed to get everything straightened out but it took some effort. +Fabulous way to live the lessons & put new skills into action. Loved it! +I loved the virtual environment. It was an engaging experience and really felt a sense of accomplishment in the finale video. This was very rewarding! +Excellent!I is a really good idea about the game +Very nice and creative. +great for existence human and android based life-form simulation internal lifestyle...The course improves life within the simulation 10 fold at least(when combined with the other specialization courses) ...Perfect learning tool for those who have worked professionally in research field sin our simulation and yet now have a touch of "the turrings" or you know : CBI...Special thanks to the designers of the course.Top scores for coursera.org &John Hopkins ... +I wasn't as challenged as I thought I would be with the Capstone course. +The capstone experience was really wonderful. Thanks for all these huge efforts and knowledge. +Maybe I'm biased, since this is my first completed specialization... but this is the kind of course-structure and capstone that I would enjoy doing for any and every subject!! +Fun. Challenging with gamification.Maybe it's a little short.I was expecting to put in a lot of work in this capstone maybe because I was expecting a more thorough, longer analysis challenge.So a recommendation is:In the same style, create more weeks where the challenges will increase. +Disappointing, thought it would be more involved, perhaps with a real presentation graded by other participants in the course. Was interesting to watch the videos, but it was a 10 minute job. The other parts were OK, but after the Capstone I would hesitate to recommend the course. +Thanks for creating short course for busy business pearson.But, it is too gamificate to (professional business managers) educate. In addition, this is the lack of contents.For improvement this course, I strongly recommend you to add create presentation and peer review assignments. This is the issue of the Coursera( included other MOOCs) Open Access Education philosophy. +Good case to touch the practice with Zillow, the real estate online and involve with the data science team members. +Too short, too easy, and did not result in a project that I can show potential employers. +This was very well done- high quality and fun! +This course covers all the basic financial management that you need. It is easy to understand,, easy to digest , clear explanation--- even for a person without accounting background. I am so happy that I can add the certificate in linkedin for this diploma, it perfects my CV and qualification in the market. It is a brilliant online course for those whose looking for learning in flexible hours. +What a great course. I built a great foundation of my accounting skills for my future use in the business world. +This course is very good. Everything is explained well and there are a lot of quizzes to test how well you learned the information. +Brief and clear, very easy to understand +i have studied many things from this course. i have got knowledge from this course. +Really good, clear, and perfectly explained. +Great entry level course for general accounting concepts. +This is a very useful course for me on my job, for the property insurance claim requires me to understand what the balance sheets are talking about +Very structured and easy understanding course content. It is a good start to pick up Financial Accounting Basic by watching each videos and work on the quizzes. Thumbs up! +In my humble opinion this course has been excellent to me, I found it amazingly interesting, I have never worked the balance sheet and there is a lot to get to know yet but the course got my deepest interest and I wish everybody to do this course, the professor Oktay Urcan is perfect, I like the teaching a lot.!!Thanks Coursera!!😊 +Good and clear explanations to refresh or establish knowledge about financial accounting principles. +This Course is very Helpful for beginners who are not from Financial field but are very keen to learn finance. +I thought this was a great intro course and that it reinforced some info I already knew, and gave me basic info to build on during the courses. +Really .. it's very good +Very interesting and applicable. Not just the concepts but also a contrast with reality. +Really it's benefit course +it's a good course in financial accounting foundations and I real liked the idea of the peer assignment +This course is very interesting, Have a basic aproach on accounting but develop the key drivers of financial accounting +A great course. I liked it a lot. Lot of effort has been put to make the course interesting and helpful in real life situations. Thank you coursera for the financial aid. Thank you professors and all the mentors associated with this course. +Very easy to understanding and practical, especially for the beginners like me. It give me confidence to go further. +Practice quizzes were really helpful.Overall a good course for the starters. +Awesome explanation! adequate knowledge gained. +Excellent class! Professor Urcan portrays brilliance in teaching accounting! Would highly recommend. +Love it cant wait to complete more in these specializations +Great program and good lecturer. I plan to complete the 7 courses. Anybody interested in this program should go for it. +Nice course. Very well organized and easy to follow +good course +Great instructor. Good course materials. +Very useful course ! +One or two mega examples to cover all the topics of this course would have been great +Outstanding! Absolutely recommendable! +A very well structured course. +Interesting course, totally enlightening!!! +Good foundation class for financial accounting. +GREAT SKILLS TO BE LEARNT +very interesting +Recommend the Introduction to Financial Accounting Course from UPenn, which is more informative and more engaging. +I feel better after having to lean all the concepts in this course. +I needed a solid introduction to double entry accounting. This course helped me understand where plan articles had failed in the past. +This is really a great course. I have learnt a lot about the fundamentals of Accounting.Thanks. +boring assignments +it‘s so great and I can get the point of each lesson. And I think it will play an important role in my future study. Thank you! +This is amazing course to clear your basic concept... Like it +Very detailed teaching! Really learned a lot of thing about basic accounting. +language accent difficult to fallow +Very helpful! +Find it really useful and like the short video for every module +Very useful +good, but need to pay to attend test +great foundation course! +This course really offers an accessible introduction +I have lear +Wonderful training contain. +I learn a lot, Now I can make finacial analysis!! +Good for learning how to calculate ratios and NPV. The course material doesn't explain the interpretation o +I had a little background of the concepts and content - and was therefore able to solve the numerical questions. However, for the uninitiated, the lectures contained more theory - while quizzes and assignments more numericals. Would recommend to include some examples of numericals in the videos so students have some idea of the concepts before trying real problems. Without this, some may find themselves lost. Otherwise, a good course. Thanks.. +Short course compressed to give high level understanding an +This is very useful and interesting course. This helps to obtain deep financial knowledge for my career in Credit Analysis +Very good course! Im glad I took it. Congrats +Great! +I find myself lucky and blessed to have undergone this course. +Could go into more detail and be harder. +The course was easy to understand. The example given were accurate to explain the concepts. +Very Good course giving details on different finance ratios +I loved this course! It was very complete and I learned a lot. Actually, I am already applying some of the things that I learned in my workplace. +Fantastic course to learn basic corporate finance. +Very well explained course which gives great insight about balance sheet accounting +Great course! It was insightful yet everything was polished and on point. The knowledge and the "tools" are really useful, for someone who is a beginner and interested in Financial Analysis! +Really good course, great professor, good examples, good information and very useful +Great Course. +Good initial knowledge about corporate finance.4 week of the course is the most difficult, because there are a lot of exercises. Looks like a lot more then any of first 3 weeks. Be careful to finish all in time. +Excellent. This course made my basics very clear. +A nice introduction to accounting, giving understanding of basics. Thanks a lot to mister Koffman! +I feel empowered with knowledge after I finished the course. +Great Course. +WOW!!! By far the BEST Course in Coursera catalog! Incredible the tools that are taught. Thanks so much. Absolutely recommended for every person regardless of professional background. +I am not in financial major, but the with the help the this course, they teach the basic conceptions and ideas about corporation finance.I appreicate a lot. +Very bad way of teaching and not reach content +Clear, concise +Very good course! +Excellent course, very helpful even I have no previous knowledge of this theme +The Course is very well structured and easy to grasp. +Excellent content and a simple manner but effective to transfer the knowledge of the issues. +Easy to undersstand +Very useful!! +Very clear explanations +Very well organized and planned course! +Just Great +Great course! +thanks,Paul Kofman for good explanation +Very concise presentation of information using real-world examples to drive home the points. Quickly and almost imperceptibly moves on from the basics. High recommended! +Good introduction! +This course has a very good structure and the material is really appropriate. +A great introduction to the basics of accounting, its uses and tools in financial analysis, upon which one can continue to build a deeper understanding of the complex world of Corporate Finance. The course content is made easy to digest and understand and there are plenty of suggested further / complimentary readings and sources. The tests are focused on theoretical understanding and background and practical number crushing which works great for me personally. Looking forward to the next course in the specialization. +excellent course especially for me as being an accountant i am learning and understanding how the numbers are used to analyze and compare +I quite enjoyed this course. It gave a good background on the necessary basics for financial analysis. +Basic introduction course.But it is interesting and well developed. +Objective and Professional Evaluation:If I could give this course a zero, I would have done so, but it is not possible. I shall explain my reasons below:1- The teaching method of this course is very lackadaisical and lackluster.2- The ratios are introduced and solved without having a P/L statement or a Balance Sheet on the side to see how the figures are extracted and implemented, which made it more boring.3- Its final 3-part quiz lacks the proper instructions and the redundant instructions already there do not help either. For example, it says Part 3 is answering NPV. However, Part 3 includes six calculation questions unrelated to the project to be submitted in Parts 1 and 2.4- The forms of putting an answer are unclear, although it mentions how to put a percentage and two decimal points.5- Peer assessment take ages and is unnecessary.6- Discussion forums are deserted islands where no professional staff interaction is given.I've stopped continuing this specialization and I strongly recommend others not to waste their time on it. +well-organized and well-presented +It is a great opportunity for whom wants to break into Financial Analysis and Corporate Finance. +Excellent!!! I am gain much knowledge from this course +Great lecture and great course. +Very good content and flow of information. +It is useful for beginner. +Great introductory course to understand financial statements +I highly recommend the Language and Tools of Financial Analysis for the new executive and the long tenured executive who is looking to refresh their knowledge and skill set to grow their business. The professor teaching the course does a fine job of delivering the course material. The tools provided to review the material and test yourself are very effective. Two thumbs up! - Darrell W. Gunter +For those who have already had majored in accounting, it may seem too easy. It may be considered as a course for review some basic accounting concepts. +Assignment is only allowed for students who purchased the course. I don't think this is a way to encourage learning. +A good course to learn the basic tool about financial analysis +This is a great course, simple to understand and well-taught by Dean Kopman. +This course walks you through fundamental accounting concepts (such as financial statements) and drops you off at the tools used by financial analysts to assess investments (discounted cash flow and net present value). The quiz questions throughout reinforce the learnings. Be warned: the final assessment on DCF and NPV is tricky - you will need a pen and paper (or spreadsheet!) to answer it.Regarding the presentation and pedagogy, top marks all round. The professor builds on prior concepts very neatly, ensuring the course is easy to follow throughout. +Very clearly explained in the video lectures +Nice start for basics and introduction to corporate finance. +Exceptional course in all regards! +The course delivers on it's promise - you will complete this with a pretty good overview of financial analysis and solid, basic, understanding of how to read a balance statement and P/L.However, I felt pacing was a bit uneven and the weekly quizzes didn't always capture the most important elements of the week's lectures. This led to missed learning opportunities and unnecessary stress on the final exam.The instructor speaks excellent but non-native and non-American English. As a native speaker of American English I found myself having to do just a tiny bit of extra work to understand some things and being slightly frustrated at ambiguous wording during tests and quizzes.All in all a very good class that with a little tweaking could be great. +Really good class! The class material was explained clearly. +Highly recommend for all those who thirst knowledge. +Awesome course! +A good introduction to some of the basics. The presentation was generally okay; the course materials could have been organised a little better. Requires no previous accounting knowledge (though that helps) and only very basic math. +Great quality, learning, applications. Enathe language and tools expected after course completion. +This introduction is very clear and gives a fast understanding of the basics +very good course +Very good introductory course for those who have to understand the basic of financial analysis +If you have no idea about how corporations and financial institutions works this a really good primer. +Great course, especially useful to learn the specific vocabulary and get insights into Financial Analysis. I found some topics could have been explained more thoroughly, for example regarding the evaluation of discount rates or number of time period (we have the criteria, but no example of a method). Previous accounting knowledge is a requirement in my view. +its is very helpful +It is a good ***INTRODUCTION*** to Financial Analysis, videos are clear and well edited and slides can be downloaded and are ok. Quizz difficulty is low, which is good for an introductory course; the final exam requires to calculate ratios and infer conclusions for a real company, which is a great practical exercise.However, students looking for a more in-depth course may check elsewhere for a detailed course on i) Financial Accounting & ii) Financial Analysis. +I realized that the key differentiators of the University of Melbourne are the degree of excellence in organization and focus on quality, whether in the selection of teachers or in strict compliance with the preset program. +More in-depth analysis would have been amazing. +Excellent! Very good tool for who works in financial. Very well explained with examples. +This is the perfect course to take to improve your understanding of the fundamentals of accounting and corporate finance. The professor's videos are very well structured, he cuts out the fluff and focuses on discussing essential concepts of financial analysis. Go for this course if you want to solidify your basic understanding of financial analysis! +The course represents an outstanding summary of An Introduction to Financial Accounting and Introduction to Corporate Finance by Wharton, providing handy tool of a real implementation of the knowledge in the real world. +Very Nice course for Corporate Finance +A brilliant beginners' course for an introduction to accounting and financial analysis. Prof. Paul Kaufman is an added asset to this course with his simplistic definitions and examples. It definitely has a lot to teach and much to take forward in a corporate career. +Just for fresh beginner in this topic +Great course for a conceptual introduction to Financial Accounting and Basic Corporate Finance +Solid class, good overview and a useful final project. Very informative for learning financial analysis. +Very interesting, educational and above all useful, thanks +The information was laid out beautifully! Being prepared with this knowledge will help me keep the emotions out of giving feedback. +This is an excellent course - the instructor was obviously competent and lucid in her approach. Each module built on the previous one and that made it easy to stay connected to the course over the five weeks. +This course has been my favorite so far. It has really helped me be a better manager to my people. It has hMy employees have even noticed the difference in the feedback they have received vs other management in my company. Thank you! +Very targeted toward managers. Would like some info from the perspective of non-managers. +A must take for any person wanting to be Task Team Leader or Manager. :) +I have many staff and I am always lookin g at ways of challenging myself to be better with them. Thanks for an awesome course +Excellent course. I started it being a bit skeptical, just with the intention to go quickly through some video scripts. but I changed my mind. There is so much to learn here +Extremely helpful. The video-based sessions were full of examples that made the learning simple yet effective. The examples are going to be of great help in preparing the training presentation for managers. Thank you once again. +Only directed to business situations. Probably great for managers. Some of the ideas I'm sure could work in personal situations as well but hard to know exactly how or which ones. +Good course overall. Would be nice if the course offered review of questions we answered incorrectly. That would be helpful feedback. +Very clear, lively and informative. Very good overall! +Interesting and really helpful +Not long but very informative course +Very Helpful! +Very useful course, presented in a lively interesting manner. Highly recommend. +I enjoyed this course and found the information on constructive work related feedback and suggestions useful. I did not pay, therefore I was not allowed to take the quizzes to complete the course. I am very grateful for the opportunity I had to view and learn from the provided lessons. Thank you :) +It helps me understand feedback and social environment in general +This course is very helpful for me now. After finished this course, It is good to think about how to study, how to commite with others in my life, and how to try to avoide negative feedback in future：） +Really good information and easy to follow. +Very easy to listen and absorb. I have recommended this course to my team members. +Very Nice course. It will really help a person to improve their skills and better relationship in working environment. +The information is this class was the best I have heard about giving feedback. The examples were very helpful. +Useful but a little bit fluffy (but i guess so is the topic).The material is good, the presentation (the speaker) is awesome: clear spoken and at a good pace.i found the questions in the quiz to be a bit vague. +I think it's a course everyone should take. It really lays out square and simple the main guidelines and counterintuitive ideas about giving feedback. Does what it says on the cover. +Everyone, I mean everyone, should take this course. It is easy to follow while full of tools and understanding. It brings not only the recipes but also the background behind helpful feedback. It changes relationships altogether and for the better. +This is the BEST online course I've taken on Coursera - or any other online platform for that matter. I appreciate the care taken to script each lesson and I also like the animation that kept me engaged. There's nothing worse than listening to an instructor who's not even prepared and is "just sitting there" in front of a camera.I also liked the final PDF documents. I plan on applying what I learned from this course at work. +this course, instructor Mr.Gabriele Troilo, course materials, videos, and interviews with professionals were absolutely perfect. I ve really appreciated the style of the course. I hope it lasted forever that I could learn more things. Thank you..grazie grazie grazie +What a wonderful course, I believe I certainly need to review the rest of content for months to digest it completely, thank you very for providing the course, thanks a lot for Universita of Bocconi and Coursera!! +very helpful especially if one is really new to this field. +Thank you professor and team, this is a subject I should learn by hearth as I will like to put my own venue one of those days. Thank you for sharing with us Coursera learners. +very good material for those who want to gain knowledge about food and beverage business +It was intense and at the same time efficient online course. Videos were clear and short enough to catch attention. Interviews and examples were impressive!I really liked this course from Bocconi University, and I highly recommend everyone who wants to know about food & beverage management as a beginner. +Thanks Bocconi for this course. So helpful for those who wants to create a business in F&B Industry. It helped me a lot to clarify my ideas and develop a better plan for the near future. GRAZIE MILLE! +Superv! it's quite remarkable the good quality of the Bocconi MOOC's but the outstanding contents, video, structure, overpasses by far related MOOC's,If yo are in the business of the food and beverage, no matter the size of your organization, this course is a must. +Average course, some cool case studies, but overall not amazing and not many business models +I've been working for almost 10 years in finance in an international F&B company and I think this course has been really helpfull for me as helped to fix lots of concepts I faced in my professional life from a theoretical and objective point of view. Very nice readings, attachements and interviews. Congratulations to prof. Troilo and Bocconi! +It is a very good course. Got to learn new things about marketing sector. I would definitely recommend some one who is willing to do online course. the language is very easy to understand, and the study material which is provided by the university is very helpful. +a great experience, an excellent insight into Food and Beverage management. +Very comprehensive, staight through concepts of F&B Management.The speaker of the lecture explains very well and the interviews really interesting.Looking forward for new courses related to business management. +This course is definitely an informative food and beverage management course, and helped me learn a lot about restaurant management ideals and brand name management. Thank you Bocconi University! +Great course, thank you +Very interesting course with the chance to access detailed interviews and extra material +I have found it very helpful to understand the food market. I particularly found the first week to heavy in terms of content, maybe it should be split in to two weeks of course. +Very useful course, which gave me the basic information about the subject. +i am pleased to do it..this course help me a lot to know about food and beverage management.i think i so so able to work in this sector..so thanks a lot coursera. +top +A educational course with a lot of useful information. The interview with different kind of stakeholders also help the student to understand the ideology of the food & beverage management. +The course is pretty comprehensive and has a handful of insightful examples of the F&B industry. The concepts are covered in detail and I would recommend this course. +Excellent course which runs through the 101 of Marketing with the F&B Industry as base. +Very interesting and detailed, but would be more interesting if have the chance to interact more with classmates and lecturers when doing assignments. +It was a excellent experience. I learn so many things about Food and Beverage Management and i feel ready to start managing companies of this subject. Lessons were useful for me to add marketing and management knowledge +really enjoyed the interviews! +This was a great course because I like a good challenge; it was way more difficult than I had previously anticipated. The course shined a light on some things that I normally wouldn't give much thought to, and as someone who currently holds a position at a company that is in the F&B industry, it was quite inspiring, to say the least. +Very Good!! +This course was very helpful. The information was very well presented, with a lot of examples and clear statements. Easy to understand, remember and practise. The tests were very accurate with clear questions and answers. The interviews were inspiring and clarifing the whole material of the course. +Relevant, Interesting and worth the time. +Very complete. Covers a wide range of subjects. Prof. Gabriele transmits a really clear message. Their quality is unquestionable. But, the program lacks of more specific examples. +Very solid training focusing on several key points and giving a full understanding of food and beverage ecosystem and the way the market is structured. +The course was well structured, well presented, and it had thorough content. The interviews were also well chosen and diverse, it added a lot of value and clarity to the concepts, very valuable overall. Inspiring course, it can be used on other industries as well. Highly recommended! +Excellent, so interesting and practical :) +Clear examples, outstanding lectures and interviews. +The professor, the explanations, the video lectures, slides, graphics, examples and interviews helped me to understand what is F&B management. The units were very well organized and the topics were very well explained. The course gave enormous pleasure from the beginning to the end. Loved! Thanks for everyone that worked hard to make this course. +I loved it! Very good material and information. +Great content. +The course covered a unique topic, not readily available in books or on the internet. It gave a new perspective to look at, in the world of food and beverages. I am thankful to the organisers and professor Troilo for giving me an opportunity to indulge myself in this area of +extremelly helpful and well explainedpractical and real life knowledge +Having majored in Food Marketing Major and Psychology this course is incredibly comprehensive about all aspects of the Food Industry. The professor uses relevant and interesting examples and interviews experts to bring depth to each lesson. +Excellent course, a very good instructor using good examples and clear explanations. I also enjoyed the interviews, the quality of the production used to develop the videos and the great locations. +Good course but slow, each video was quite long with the same concept repeated few times. +I have learned a lot from this course. Food & Beverages is also one of the main branches in Hospitality and Tourism sector, which is the path I'm going to take from now, and I really hope to apply all the things that I've learned.Thank you very much, +Excellent course for Managers and Entrepreneurs on Food & Beverage businesses!!! +this course was really helpful for my experience, it really enhance my day knowledge,the teacher Gabriele is really good, looking forward to do others courses soon! +Great course! +great courses! I learned a lot from that. +Very interesting for those who seek for food and beverage course with high quality. Congrats +excellent, innovative and eye opening course. +Very informative.. +Badly formulated alternatives in the multiple choice test +Great teacher Mr.Gabriele Troilo. I really enjoyed the course and have learned a lot from this course, the way the course was designed and performed made it very easy to follow and understand.Thank you +Amazing teacher and amazing lessons. Wonderful first experience here at Coursera! +Really well-strured and very informative course. I enjoyed my reading and listening hours, and am very glad to have completed this course. Thank you! +Informative course! I really learned a lot. +very good, but can improve with more interviews and experiences, thanks for all :) +love this! Im learning so much more than how to manage. +The course is well structured. It has a simple language, which facilitates the understanding of the concepts for those who are non-native English language, whitch is my case. The teacher is cool :) +A great mix of theoretical concepts and interviews from industry opinion leaders. My first Online course with Coursera an Bocconi and I definitely look forward to more. +It is a very good course and give to the people who look for a knowledge in F&B a better vision, a diferente way to see the food and beverage chain and how is the administration of the big and small companies and brandies and the way the manage your business, being it a big restau +High quality of marketing issues in food and beverageLot of significant exemples in all chaptersVery good teacher +Great course instruction, easy access and I can actually create notes while in class instruction, I can develope my test plan +Very informative course. Gabrielle is a fascinating lecturer and I very much enjoyed taking this course. +Very interesting and informative. I believe I will constantly review the course content in the future. +Amazing course! I enjoy every video, every interview. Professor is cool, a professional . I like that you provided not only the theory itself, but also informative slides, interviews with so interesting people, plus gave/showed visual examples. Videos are of great length (not too long, not too short), information is valuable and only on business. I had a great , kinda , customer experience studying your lectures)) And its more than lectures, its a joy.Thank you for your job! +Hello, I'm Giuliano from Milan - Italy. This is my first course online. I've got a food-pr Agency. www.GIROIDEA.it – I believe in continuing education. I deal with communication and I provide strategies to entrepreneurs who want to create new business. The fund of F & B is very interesting and long follow it with interest. I take care of the business of two eCommerce sites that sell wine and Parmesan cheese. +Excellent course, Professor Gabriele Troilo is obviously very passionate about food and the subject matter. I thoroughly enjoyed this course. +Highly recommended! +The best course in this field, there isn't another specialized course in food and beverage management here. +Very practical course +very informative and up to date +Clear. Concise. Practical. Well structured. Useful presentations. Nice pace. +really good +It´s a very interesting course, food and beverage are a very kid of business. +Very clear, good examples, teacher goes "to the point". What I have learned is being very useful for my business. +Prof Gabriele Troilo, you are amazing! Your module is fantastic! +The layout of the course, organization, the structure and the additional key points displayed next to the lecturer make it easy to understand and follow. Overall the course has kept me interested, and eager to apply to the universities summer program. +Excelent! Thanks! +This course is very well structured and conveys it's content in an interesting and comprehensive way. +Great course I really enjoy it. I saw a lot of new ad campains and the new develops and strategies of some companies. +Great course! Very well organized and with some quality interviews as well. Totally recommended +Course done with passion and knowledge of the subject. +Great course! Excellent stuff! Highly recommended! +Well-presented, interesting and insightful! Thank you +Really good! The professor was really clear and specific with the explanations. +Excellent course. Had exactly the right amount of information with respect to the management of food and beverage businesses that I found useful as someone who is investing in the food and beverage sector. +really nice! +find it better than what i expected ..thank u +Excellent structure and content!! Thank you! +very good content in the course +Excellent teaching +I learned a lot and it was really interesting and well prepared. I specially liked the lots of real life examples. I seriously think it will help our company to increase the efficiency of our marketing and management. +very in-depth view of the management company in general. It has presented different perspectives on management rather than the cliched management frameworks such as SWOT, Porter's five forces etc. The content on target, segmentation and creating point of difference is very actionable. +I higly recommend this course for someone who is interested in earning knowledge upon Food and Beverage management. Excellent presentation, easily understood, informative examples and case studies. Good work, congratulations. +I really liked this course! So interesting and useful +One of the greatest courses I've done so far. The lecturer is very insightful and his method is pretty straightforward and concise. +Great course, thank you! +Really high quality explanations, material and videos. +The course is beautifully designed and is helpful for learning managerial aspects of the food and beverage company. Thank you! +Perfect! +I admire of this lecturer and its structured information (espessially in presentations). I think this course gave me a better understanding of marketing than my university's course of marketing. I have finance background and I like to work with numbers but this course was really interesting for me. +Learned many new things I did not know on F&B. Thank you for your efforts and time. +An excellent course full of insights and masterfully delivered by a clear expert in this +Excelente course, excelent mentor, great oportunity, I hope you made more courses like this and from boconi +Useful in general, it is not very advanced but gives you a good overview. +Great! +These two are excellent courses. Cannot recommend them enough. High Quality lectures, quality assignments, and excellent content. If you would like to understand fundamentals of Derivatives pricing and risk management, then don't think or wait. Just enroll into these courses and have very productive 15-16 weeks of learning! +Very broad range of topics. Unlike FE&RM Part I, this part requires us to develop Excel formulas independently.Although all those quiz can be finished within a week, further review of the course is needed to gain better understanding of those core ideas. +This course is amazingHowever, I do not give full score for it because it lack of some quizzes. I do expect we study more since there are many thing left behind. +Very insightful course, working in the financial industry can often imagine the material learn't being applied in work environment which is rewarding. +Quite useful and hard +Excellent course and teachers with rigorous assignments. Must recommended for FRM candidates or Risk management professionals. +Great course! +Good material and grounded introduction to the complexity of the real world applications of the subject matter. +Good course with practice in Excel +Good content and nice explanations. The assignments might need a bit of clean up and couple places the Algo mentioned does not work as intended. +Very similar style with Part I. The instructors are clear in explaining the models. However, it would be more useful if the instructors can give several real-world examples on the financial market. +Very challenging course that I would recommend to anyone who is interested in financial engineering and financial risk management. Love the math! +Not at all what I expeted +Great course! Thank you!) +Good lectures and exercises. After this course I had much more understanding how the financial crisis had happened. +Just what I need to prepare for CFA Level 2! +I choose this course maybe september at 2015. however, i haven't take this course till now:) +Very useful and practical +Excellent course ! I'm glad I paid for the certification too as it helps me commit to the completion of the course. The lectures in part I and II of the course greatly helped me in landing a cool internship in financial engineering in the Pricing & Development team of Societe Generale Africa Technologies and Services in Casablanca, Morocco and I'm currently doing very well at the company. +The material covered in the course is highly relevant to the current job market. Professors Haugh & Iyengar were great at explaining the material and the quizzes were reasonably difficult. The learning spreadsheets were very good as well. Overall, it was a great learning experience and I will enthusiastically recommend it to my colleagues. +really good lecture ! support it ! +An useful analysis of the principal rules about the calculation of important financial instruments. +This course is challenging and the skills learnt are valuable. The materials are well-made and formulas well-defined. I hope they provide more practice quizzes. +Im very pleased with this course and the teachers, many thanks to the Columbia university. However, It will be usefull explain the answer when you got it like the first modules in part 1. +Answers to week 2 are wrong, no forum to discuss it, submitted a case over a month ago - still no reply. +There's no way to get help in this course. I'm stuck on one of the quizzes -- probably just something easy that I've mis-read-- but there's no way to ask questions, so there's no way for me to complete the quiz. This is very frustrating! +Following this course, and many FE books +Great speaker, very usefull information fon non-financials +This course has been an integral part in my work promotion. +Great course!!! +Easy to follow and understand.Actually interesting.. +the course. It has advanced my knowledge and understanding of basic financial concepts which greatly helped me in my career. +Finance for Non-Financial ProfessionalsCongratulations on the platformCongratulations on the administrative order of the courseCongratulations on the Success of the Course +Needs more examples +Very clear and very helpful! +It's a general overview and introduction to some financial concepts, it might be good to know some general terms here in a short time. +Although I am NOT a financial person, I did enjoy gaining a deeper understanding of the financial aspects of the business that I will eventually have to utilize. The instructor made a subject that I usually loath a bit less intimidating. Thank you +Excellent course as a refresher. +Very easy to understand and interpret the information. I would take it again. Finance is not my best subject. The professor was engaging but could be more so. +Definitely a great course for beginners. The pace is great and the exposure to key terms is very beneficial. +very good. but in general needs more explanations in the videos andIf you introduce more languages it would be better +The formulas were very clear and the examples were very useful for understanding the financial side of the business. +The course was good overall. I would have enjoyed more practical exercises, specially in the Valuation module. +Fantastic explanation on the course matters. Can improve further by giving more examples and and case studies. +nice course . short term for non-financial people +Very general but it shows the basics of finance. I wish it would had been a little more deep, but it shows what's necessary. +Nice brief introduction and passionate lecturer =) +Easy to understand, covered important aspects that while some may be intuitive, it is always good to see them in paper. +good. but a bit too basic +It was very intersting course and so useful for me! +Adequate course for non-professionals in finance, although I thought they were going to explain many more themes.. to short for my expectations and excesive for the price. +Giving a good understanding on the financial ratio and how it preform in a business cycle. +Clarity of fundamentals, easy to grasp; also helped me in my MBA. +Solid foundations course to give you a good overview of accounting and finance to distinguish between the two with some understanding of the tools and methods used by each with some practical examples. +The course is wonderfully designed for professionals who don't intend to take a full time course. +Very basic overview of the topic. Did not meet my expectations. +great course +Really useful course; it gave me a great insight into finance as a non-professional! +Great! Thank you Mr. David Standen! +A very good course for people who does not have knowledge of finances. I highly recommend this course. It would be better if the course had more practice exercises. +I didn't think it was possible to dislike finance more after taking a course designed for non-financial professionals. Clearly, I should have known more about finances before taking this class, and perhaps I would have liked it more. However, I left the course feeling more frustrated than ever. +Enjoyed this module right. I felt it was quite fast and just skimmed over certain topics but I definitely learnt more than I did and looking forward to learning in more details. +Definitely helped me understand some of the lingo use +First experience using coursera, and it meet my expectations. +This course is amazingly interesting. All the course content are relevant and easy to catch up. Everyone should join this course to create basic knowledge of finance +GREAT COURSE EASY TO FOLLOW. THANKS A LOT +Very well done and informative. A really good overview of finance and just what I needed. +it gives you a good summary of what you need to know however, its just a guideline you have to investigate deeper into the concepts on your own +Really easy to understand the financial concepts. I am from marketing and never understood the language of the numbers. Thanks a lot! +This is a fantastic course. I never thought that finance can be so easy and interesting. Thank you. Love from Bangladesh. +Nice and Succinct! Considering others in the specialization because of this. +very easy to learn with an awesome teacher.thank you sir, thank you coursera +A very simple coarse to understand the different financial terms and its usage to the business +Excellent course for beginner in finance +Great course. Thank you +Good and easy to understand. +Very easy to understand and broken down very well. +Learning a lot of practical information in order to work as an entrepreneur +It was a nice overview. I wish some topics were discussed more in-depth and with practical examples. Yet, in general it was a nice quick refresher. +Very informative +I love it. It was great. Thank you +For the first time I really understood some stuffs that I'd never knew. Thank you so much! +Great! +I found this course quite mainingful which helps us to have an overview of Finances and Accounting, including lots of example to enhance the understanding. +It has a lot of useful information. +Volume too low.... need more concrete examples.Thank you for your effort though. I learned from the course. +we will finish all this course +The course is good for getting an overall idea of the main topics of finance but not on getting a deep understanding on them +Very Useful, easy to understand, short yet informative course for non finance professionals to understand the basic concepts. worth every minute spent on it! +I learned so much!! thanks +Quick and general but useful and easy to understand. Thanks. +Was initially nervous going into this course however, the information, examples, and presentation were really easy to follow and understand. Well done! +I actually understood the lessons. And I suck at Math. :D Thank you, Prof. David. :) +Very easy to understand for those just starting out in Finance. Great primer. +Very informative and easy to understand. +Very good Instructor. Explains hard things in a very easy way. He made this course very easy to learn. +Brief overview of the topic but well presented. Thanks to the teacher, the university and Coursera. +It was fast with lots to memorize but I could quickly obtain the basic knowledge of the genre I was not familiar with. The clear speech and the slides of the instructor helped me a lot to understand and the price was pretty reasonable. Very satisfied!!! Thank you very much!!! +A good course for understanding the fundamental terms that I often hear when discussing issues with finance professionals. The supplementary material really helps grasp the concepts +This course is very well presented and the content has been made easy to follow through the use of simple succinct language and examples that are easy to relate to. An excellent place to start. +The instructor is fantastic. He is clear, concise and easy to understand. I found the class to be very informative and enjoyable. Thank you. +I've missed at least one practical exercises on each module.Overall is good. +Very good to gain basis in the financial terms and tools. +Very helpful to understand de accounting department beter. +A very good and quick introduction to finance and accounting for business. With this class, you will have the basis and you will know if you want to learn deeper about finance or not. +Great course, easy to understand but profound in content! +Great course!! +It was a good course but there were things missing, such as exercises and more examples. +good intro and overview. +A really good course for anyone with non financial background. Its literally taught right from the basics with very helpful examples +good introduction financial course for non-financial person. +Excellent!! Clear, concise, and practical. Thanks David! +As I am from science background, each and every terminology were completely new for me. After completing this course, I not only become familiar with terminologies but also understand their proper applications. Thank you for offering this course. +tough concepts are explained in a easy manner. +Really liked the examples you gave! Great teaching method! +Thank you, David. I enjoyed this class thoroughly, and learned so much! I feel much more confident in being able to work directly with accountants and finance professionals. As you said, there is so much more to learn, and I'm thinking about going back to University to take an Accounting Degree. The pace with which you conduct your lessons is very nice and your diction is pleasant and easy to understand. The real life examples help +Very general content. Not as useful as I thought it would be, but maybe I should have read the introduction better:) +very practical and brief to understand the whole method about finance +very interesting +Good course,is very good fo me +the best course l ever saw........thanks to the university and the lecturers [[[[[ +Excellent course, explained in a very fun way, CONGRATULATIONS !!! +This is a good course for non-finance folk. My only wish is that the assignments or the lectures had more examples where we could practice and find out if we are making mistakes or getting things right. More math please! Highly recommended for anyone wishing to enter the world of P/E ratios, discounted cash flows, ROIs etc. +Very easy to follow, as he gives easy-to-understand real life examples! Really good! +Great course. Good instructor. Everything is explained in an easy-to-understand manner. +Easy to understand. +Very Informative +Excellent course, definitely worth taking if you have free time and are willing to expand your kn +I found the course really useful and informative and the teacher was very enigmatic and engaging. My only comment would be that perhaps the teacher goes through the slides slightly too quickly at times,as I found myself often pausing to read them. Excellent course though. +Me gusto mucho! +Great professor. All the concepts are easily explained. More courses like this, please. +Great course for initiation into the world of accounting. +It was a bit confusing to understand the topics and try to learn them by heart. +Good introduction for non-financial people willing to understand some key concepts often present in out professional life. +Simple and useful +Fast, practical and constructive. I would also add pragmatic, lots of examples and case studies. +I have just finished the first week, and I already understand that this course has all what I need to be aware of accounting and finance for my first business! +The course was good but it would help if after specialization in particular subject,lets say finance,coursera could help connect students with employers around the world:) +Great presentation for non financial guys +Excellent overview of finance for a non-finance person such as myself. I learned alot more than i expected to learn in this short course. Great information, and broken down in a way i can easily learn. Thank you for a great course!!! +Concrete, easy and understandable!!! +The course gives a brief but concise overview of Finance. It would have been better if some more concepts and case studies had been incorporated. +A bit too hard especially in the last two weeks.Overall worth enrolling. +Good course for Non-finance people or people who interact too much with the financial chaps. With this course, One will not sit as a duck from the next time he / she sit in the business plan or other meetings, where price, cost, revenue, profit, performance, etc are disuccsed. +Very good course, easy to understand but it also lacks detail. +A very good course for beginners +Great! +Well done overall. I would have liked a little more detail with some of the formulas mentioned, but overall I felt like I learned quite a bit. +it was very simple , but i expected more content +A quick and very rich course, it is highly recommended for both:1- non-financial people who are interested in finance and accounting to understand basics and;2- instructors "like me" who wanted to help their friends who want to help people from number 1 +Quick and easy. But I would have liked more examples. For instance, how NPV and IRR actually works on Excel. Luckily, I have some prior knowledge of the subject, but sometimes it was not so clear for a complete beginner. +Very useful!! +I felt the course was really helpful for those from a non-financial background. Simple to understand as well. +This was a good refresh on +awesome . I recommend +Very good , easy to understand .I have learnt a lot of concepts very important . +A very basic, however, very important topics were covered for Non-Financials Pros. Great teaching method! +This is a really good Course!!!!!!! Easy to Understand!! I loved it! +Good basic course if you have no background in Finance. Reviews the important concepts that can get you along easily. +This course comes in handy for anyone without finance background and attract to learn it +Basic stuff.Good choice of subjects.A little too short. +Simple and important concepts that everyone should know. Took this self paced course and understood all the videos. I wish the course could have more information on Finance which is useful for entrepreneurs. +Love it! +Not a bad overview but overall far too shallow to be of significant worth on its own. +For non financial profissional like me, this course gave me plenty of ideas about financial concepts that you help follow any kind of financial discussion in my company. +Great learning!! Appreciate UCI and Coursera for making learning fun and accessible.Keep up the great job. You have made a difference. +Very professional and helpful professor! +A very quick overview of finance. Good review of fundamentals but not a lot of depth. +Very helpful for non-financial professionals. The course is too short for me. I'd like to get further knowledge about the finance. Thanks very much for your impressive work. +Great, engaging lecturer - Content was at the level described. Fantastic course! +The teacher is great and the subject is very interesting +It was a great Course. I found it very concise, to the point and well presented.Hessam K. +This course was a good, quick introduction to finance for those of us who haven't been really exposed. My only reason for not giving 5 stars is that there were not enough examples of actually calculating ratios to understand what exactly needs to go into getting the numbers required. +Give you a general conception of finance and help to understand some simple accounting. +Instructor is very good at explaining the topics. I like his style. +Very Good to learn the basics. +It is a good start for people always hear about terminologies in finance but never have a chance to lay out the structure of all concepts. +This is a good course to introduce the novice to financial terms used in common place.But in my opinion, the instructor could have a gone a bit further, explaining about Markets, Stocks, Bonds etc.Types of transactions involved.Maybe its expecting too much, but still, just a suggestion +The lectures are quick and concise. The lecturer speaks very clearly and gives great examples that illustrate the concepts well. +Good, help me understanding more about FI +Boring financial concepts explained in interesting way. The professor way really good. I liked the course! +Best beginner level course for finance novices. Superbly structured and filled with great examples. Happy learning :) +Wow,everything about Coursera is wow !! Love u +A clear, if fairly basic, introduction. The lack of discussion forums makes it a fairly sterile experience. +This course gave me a good basic understanding finances. I can now better listen to the investors calls with a added level of understanding. +Very very good course. Gives a simplistic view of accounting and finance basics with nice examples. This should help a lot of people in getting their finances under control. +This is an excellent course for everyone who wants to basic financial understanding +Good introduction to Finance and Accounting concepts for those with no background in either field, even as students. I liked the valuation module the most! +It is very useful for someone with only basic finance knowledge +Great introduction, overviewand usage of finance +Good course, good introduction about finance, but some terms and topics require more explanation. +My comments maybe not so useful as I had taken some study on this topic. This course give me opportunities to review what I learned before and I have to say this professor is really good. His explanation is clear. Maybe some addtional examples can be intresting +It's quick and easy, gives me an overview of finance and inspires me to want to know more. +Fundamentals of finance, very useful for beginners of finance +Decent with space for improvement (a bit more content) +Awesome revision subject. +Easy to pick up and helpful for me to start deeper learning. +Great short course for non-financial professionals. +I very concise overview. The teacher is excellent. I would have liked more real life examples,e.g. looking at the numbers for real life companies and comparing them to others and seeing what we could learn from these numbers about these companies. +Valuable course in a easy way to learn. +Good introductory course. Complex concepts are explained in a simple form. It's not deep. It just provide a quick overview of the subject. +Really digested and simplified for people unfamiliar with financial terms or without an strong background on economics.Strongly recommended to grasp basic, as well as, complex terms and definitions explained in a very simple way +Very informative course and very nicely explained +SImple, effective and interesting for the basics of finances in the business envrionment +Simply and clearly explained, good examples. Just what you need for a short review of the topic. +Very easy to understand...good le +Interesting, lectures are easy to understand +Really great course that was able to explain concepts in layman's terms! So easy understandable, makes Finance less intimidating :) +Good basic overview of financial practices and methods. +Good course, fast and easy to getCould be enhanced by a few practical examples where the formulas presented could make more sense +The presenter is good and knowledgeable, but the information is barely skimmed over and there isn't any real opportunity to learn. A few worked examples might be good +nice introductory course on finance +Great class....l.loved it !!! Great class to learn about business, finance and money !! +All the information that a professional needs to know, explain it in a way very easy to understand. +Simple and fast.Try to put more difficulty on the quizzes. +First noticeable thing is that the instructor doesn't convey competence very well. He lacks the practical examples to explain the principles more efficiently. The result for me was that, although he chose not to go deep, the principles weren't as clear, memorable or relevant as I think they could have been.I did learn a few useful things of course, but it was a disappointment in general. +Good course! +Very important concepts of finance covered in very short time.Very useful. +A solid overview of accounting and finance for the non-financial professional. I have 0 finance and accounting experience, so I valued how broad this course was and I imagine it's a good primer for more in-depth courses. +Very good for dummies in finance or pure techies. Can add a bit more content in IRR, ROI topics as we come across those quite often. Also these topics will help engineers with technical knowledge to understand the bigger picture of financial viability of the projects they handle. +the test of this course is so easy,i wish it could little harder +A basic overview of financial analysis starting from the structural underpinnings of accounting and moving into the frameworks of finance. +Nice overview but does not go really into any detail. Some case studies would be helpful to see the concepts applied. +Very helpful! Explained well. I'm a business and M&A lawyer and I found this course extremely valuable to skill building. +Informative for MBA guys +Excellent first look at the basic financial principles applicable to all corporations in all industries. +It's Very useful to understand the basic finance. +I've passed my first week within the night - that's how interesting it seemed to me.Hope there will be a lot useful knowledge further.Great thanks to the tacher. +Great course for non-financials +Test for module 2 had questions that weren't part of the course (about programming). I think it was a kind of error in coursera configuration. +Very good course. +Pretty hard to Keep track but the content was good.I probably need to be a bit more focussed next time. +Great, straightforward course. It would be nice to have "practice" problems to help engage the information beyond the quizzes and video lectures. +A lot of formulas in a few time. But the professor uses lots of examples which allow to better (and faster) understand the concepts behind all those formulas. +For me it was boring and too specific. I had a great difficult in understanding it....I quitted before ending. +wonderful course, it got me familiar with financial concepts.the instructor is very much appreciated. +Very simple way to learn finance, I strongly recommend this course. The instructor +Please include exercises for computing the ratios and the valuation methods. In-video questions would have helped more. The quiz does not actually test the understanding of the topic in-depth. There can be some external readings suggested - resources that help us get more understanding on the subjects discussed. +Directly and efficient. +A very good course that introduced a lot a financial concepts. Not too deeply but widely. +Probably the single best course I have seen on finance and, by extension, accounting for those of us going in more or less clueless. It's actually an entertaining course and easy to keep watching. +simple enough for outdoorer +I really love this teacher's class lol +I'm still not completed the full course but i can say it's good course and very awesome Instructor +too brief course... +Good, Introductory Course on Finance, +The course is a very well designed for the non-financial back ground professionals. Really gives an in-sight into the financial equations.Anil Kumar +Helpful to understand basic terms in finance. Thanks. +Great course to gain a basic understanding of Finance for anyone who is not a finance professional. I highly recommend this course. +Good content for a short duration course. +This is a must for everyone. From Financial Statements to Valuating companies it covers everything that one needs to know. Lucidly explained and compellingly presented. +lack of examples to workout. good short videos. good option for introduction +Great lesson :D +This is an amazing introduction to Finance. I am now much more confident in talking Finance with my colleagues and super +Wonderful course! I learned a lot of concepts with a very simple and clear language. Professor was very engaging and explained many abstract concepts with clear example. Highly recommended! +Good for Non-Finance professionals to get an overview. +exercises to practice and check correct application of the concepts +Overall, it is good :)Hope there is a way to download all the study material. +Very very simple. Recommended if you need a fast and simple introduction to finance. +It could be more elaborated. In the 3rd week, there was more equations and hurry to complete the topic, i think. But all in all good. It gives you a brief idea of finance. +Very brief and precise! Excellent! +Great introduction into the world of finance, highly recommended & very enjoyable! +This course gives a good introduction for financial knowledge. However, the quizes are too simple. +Great course, which give many useful information. +great lectures,thanks +Great course but, in 2 videos, the professor makes reference to exercises that should be for downloading and they are not. Please, either include them or re shoot the videos. +Very interesting lecutes! +Its been very effective and useful for my Startup +I am satisfied with this course. GREAT JOB by our Instructor +I enjoyed this course. I somehow remember the accounting terminologies better after having completed this course than before when I was busy with my "self-studies" +Very nice concise bird's eye view of the subject, which introduces important concepts, principles and practices. Highly useful for the non-financial professional who wants to get a basic understanding of what finance professionals are gabbling about! +This course is great! If you are an entrepreneur or any professional who would like a better understanding of basic business finance this course is for you. This helped me even in my own life in deciphering which businesses to invest in and even in figuring out businesses to do business with. It also will help you in planning your finances! The professor was engaging and easy to understand. +The professor did an outstanding job with explaining key terms and definitions. I loved the intro and how he broke down the difference between accounting and finance. Very informative. The only thing I suggest to add is a few examples in between formulas that students can valuate themselves during a brief pause. +Its an excellent course and I would recommend it to everyone.Thank you very much. +I have learned a lot from this course, as there are so maney things in this course which i needed in the start of my teaching career, thanks to Coursera and Staff specially for Instructor. +This course shows in a very simple way, the differences between finance and accounting, with no heavy mathematical formulas. Professor David uses a lot of examples to make understanding easy. Liked a lot. Could have some more literature so we could be always up to date. +Excellent. Brief and enjoyable teaching. +Simple language and easy to understand for beginners +Great course. +Really helpful +Thanks a lot!Financing is really large field! But it is a little too cramming for me... +It was clear and simply understandable for non-financial professionals like us. Yet, useful. +Very good overview. Could be a little bit more in-depth. +Hy,Great, simple and very useful course. Good basics for every enterpreneur. +Very brief course. +excellent presentation. not complicated with excess examples or digressions. good visuals that were easy to understand. Explanation given from a position of experience. +Basic course. Very effective +The concepts are very clear, but in order to get understanding I think it's necesary to provide additional exercises +A good overview for someone unfamiliar with finance but given the brief and introductory nature of the course, you'd need to do further reading to understand many of the concepts. +It is a real good course with rich content for non-finance people. Good understanding and explanation of +Excelent professor!Just include some more examples or quiz problems.Thank you UCI +Great for an introductory course! +basic , rough , but effective ! only 4 models , wish there will be more specification in the future ! +You may have wondered why brokers may get it wrong, and why accountant may willing, or unwillingly, do the same. Surely, Finance is a very complex matter and keep it simple cannot be a bad thing. If you want to know more without getting just more confused instead, this course meets your needs. For me, it provided outstanding learning/time ratio...! +I really liked this course beacuse of the content and who is teaching. +Very good course for non-financial professional +Superficial and not well presented. +The cource was to easy for me. I expected more +Simple, fast and useful. +Wish the course could add more example. +Course is so clear to understand and content is fair enough to learn basics of finance.It won't make you finance guru but you will be able to learn essentials.Lecturer David Standen has ability to transfer his knowledge to audience, so the lessons are easy to understand and comprehensible.More graphics, more animations or more visual items can be added to lessons to boost comprehension. +Simple; Understandable. Very Thank you for ur lectures!!!! +Great Course! Relevant material and a excelent teacher David Standen! +As a nonfinancial person, I liked that it is a good clear intro finance. However, I wished there was more reading content available on the site to go more into depth on the topics. +It's a great course!The Professor does make the topics very understandable. Everything is useful in this course. +is very useful and interesting +Great intro course and very helpful in building understanding for someone who is not familiar with the financial terms. Instructor had great presentation skills and provided excellent real world examples and insights. I highly recommend this course for anyone who needs a basic understanding of finance and business concepts. +Very good introduction that gives a high level view of finance +the course is very beneficial for people from other backgrounds. Understood the basic concepts of finance. thanks a lot. Waiting for such more at your pace courses. :) +Great course, instructor was very enthusiastic in his instruction. +Great course, clear explanations, I gained some insight about the financial world. +I am enjoying this class so far. It has given me a new way to look at companies and evaluate their financial stability. I look forward to taking more classes from University of California. +owsome +Highlight: The concept of the course itself is great and the course is well structured that makes it easy to follow. It was very basic yet had a lot of new information that will help advance in more detailed programs.Lowlights: Need more focus and details on the Cost module. +This is the first course I enrolled and accomplished in Coursera and I deeply enjoyed this. It helped me understand concepts typically used in business meetings. I strongly recommend this course to all Non-Financial Professionals. +It was a good intro course. However, I wish there were a few more videos to go a bit more in-depth. +Just essential for everyone +Brief and to the point +Good brief introduction! Expecting more details. +This is a very good course. I liked it very much! +For being a free course, it was pretty good. +This course is good for basics for Non finance professionals. Topics should have bee covered more in detail and totality. For examples Accounting principles coverd only 6 or 7 principles, while there are more principles. +This course was quick and simple. I enjoyed the definitions and monetary examples. I would have more quizzes and harder questions. +Brillaint short introduction to finance for non-finance professionals +A very nicely addressed course for the non-financial professions to apprehend. Short and to-the-point. However, if the course provided a non-paid certificate, just for keeping purposes, it would have attracted a wider audience. But overall, worth putting efforts and time into ! +Very good course. Thouht me hot to control money and plan for the future. +A bit short and general, but in a way that is exactly what I was looking for, as I needed some key concepts to start understanding the topic. +Very helpful +Practical, quicky and easy. +Found it useful +Funcional and complete course +Good course +cool +indepth overview of load balancing and autoscaling +great learning sets and again loved using all the tools introduced, but would love to see this updated with Spanner, Functions and other new features +This course and material does not articulate the 'Google Cloud Platform' offerings. Maybe Google does not want to compete with Microsoft Azure and AWS alike. If Google itself has approved this 'Google Cloud Platform' trainings on Coursera then vola I am out. I am way better off supporting AWS and Azure (at least they have tons of good trainings and stuff to keep folks in the field excited). +The labs are not up to date and several things do not work as they should. I had to fix several of the provided scripts to finish them. +Good course +This course its Amazing!! +The labs in this course have fundamental flaws which mean they cannot be completed. This is a major failing in a paid course such as this. +Another batch of interesting topics, but this time the labs are ... imperfect. There are are errors in the scripts, not difficult to troubleshoot and fix but still. Please review and correct them. +quizzes should have more than 1 or 2 questions in them. +Good Overview Course +Best balance of content and lab out of the 4 courses. +Last labs contained errors (or at least missing commands), but in a way it permitted to face issues and resolve themOtherwise great course +The title created too many expectations +This was a really good training. Thank you. +The course is really good, however, would suggest some additional detail be captured both in training and in the exams to add more coverage +Great course. I definitely learn a lot. +Good...again could have done with a bit more detail +Great course! +Very great course +I was doing hydraulic business for years. It is the first I understand this system more clear and which opens a beautiful world for me +This was one of the best trainings in this area that I have ever done in my life.I am very grateful to the University of Minnesota for the opportunity and initiative, as well as the developers of the coursera who are able to disseminate knowledge on a global scale.A huge congratulations to all. +Great course. Especially enjoyed the introduction to Simscape. +Thank you for giving me excellent information on fundamentals of fluid power. It is very helpful course for me. Thank you University of Minnesota and Coursera. +I fully appreciated this course which creates my deep understanding towards fluid power, and also it will be beneficial for my career growth.Thank you. +Very, very good course. Professors(both of them) are trying to show some pratical solutions in industry and explaining theory behind them and that is great.Only thing I would add is that they sholud concentrate more on Simscape solving homeworks beacuse quizzes are easy. +Excellent course, the practice and excercises are very useful +Unbelievably promising. I've regretted the classes I'd already taken at university as an engineer.I considered this course was a complete review of my years spent during my education life in that field.Thank you so much. I'm obliged.Hats off. +Very powerful MOOC in fluid mechanics, thank you to its makers. +It's a real contribution to the mechanics of fluids +Very good course... objective and very informative... recommend... +Not too heavy on theoreticals and gives a wide array of industrial applications. +A great course for fluid power +An excellent course to gain an appreciation of fluid power, which is often taken for granted in our daily lives. The overview of simulation of fluid power on Matlab gave me an idea of how modern fluid power systems can be designed, optimized and played with before a single component is purchased, certainly the trend in today's information revolution. +It really helped me a learn a lot about fluid power and honed my concepts and applications of hydraulics and pneumatics. +I'm really happy to learn in this course and I recommend every one to enroll it because it's very useful course if you was a beginner in fluid power +A great course. Really well explained. They provide you with problem sheets weekly and what is taught is obviously applicable to any fluid system. This course is also a good introduction to Mathwork's Simscape Fluids. +I found this course to be an excellent introduction to hydraulic systems. +it was useful and helpful course +I really enjoyed the course and would highly recommend it to others interested in the subject matter. Some may find it basic, but I found it very useful as the theory is explained in a manner such that it can be applied in a very practical way. +Yet to start but am loving it already!!! +Very usefull things shared. +This course is very explanatory and it has many practical life scenarios, which we are not exposed in college (here in india). Thank you very much for this course. +Quite informative course with practical examples.Must take if you are interested in fluid mechanics. +It is an excellent course with a solid introduction to Fluid power on the industry. It is a little biased toward hydraulics than pneumatics, but this don´t come in detriment of the high quality of the course. It is really a must if you want to grave a solid understanding of how to do things with valves and pistons. It gives a great experience for newcomers and experienced who wants to solidify their basic understanding alike. +Exciting course for beginners with a lot of examples of Fluid Power Application.This course has only one disadvantage - Assessments are too easy. Most of questions could be answered by substitution of values in a single formula. Тhis can be done even without understanding the subject. +Fantastic Course; i am a 11 years experienced sourcing professional; i always wanted to get to know few steps more than the basic hydraulics. This is the perfect course which i found on online platform.Great..... now only thing i have to do is finish the course. +Very helpful to understand the basics of this topic. +Great +Excellent. Very good explained. +To simple with little examples +An expansive survey with up-to-moment research info. Clears up many misconceptions about genetic engineering and biotech. +Excellent course to review latest biotechnology information such as using transgenic animals and plants in many different ways in addition to various dimensions of synthetic biology. The course also covers importance of genes and epigentics from a variety of angles. Thanks very much for providing it. Greatly appreciated. +this course was very informative and valuable +Thank you coursera for providing me the best lectures! +Great course, as a beginner i could follow along and learn. +I learned a lot from this course. It clears the basic concepts of genetics likewise instructors are also good. +Not being allowed to submit quizzes without paying for the course - I am withdrawing from the course and any other Coursera courses where this is the policy - I will enrol in other free online course sites where the are "free". +Great content but making the theory of ape or chimp the origin of humans as the corner of the course and intruduce it as a truth is very wrong and shameful. +The only option I had was to watch videos, I could not submit quizzes, which I completed, unless I paid.What's even the point of having this course as part of Coursera?Very disappointed. Shame on the University of Maryland, College Park. Will stay away from this school. +This course was definitely helpful for me and introduced a new approach about human genetic evolution and biotechnology.I appreciate your efforts...Thank you all +Can genes make us liberal or conservative ? If you want to know about genopolitics and many other interesting genetics, do not miss this fascinating and enriched course ! +Broad spectrum over view useful to beginners as well as advanced learners. would have loved to be able to download slides along with Transcripts for later revision , Thank you UMCP and the Faculty ! +Fairly dense material (for novices in the field like me), but mostly fascinating stuff!Dr. St Leger makes it very interesting with his animated teaching style, crisp and clear diction, and helpful illustrations.Sadly, the supplementary reading materials mentioned in the lectures never showed up on the site. Students would definitely benefit from followup reading suggested by Dr. St Leger.Overall, a solid effort from the U Maryland team, for which many thanks! +This course is amazingly interesting and presented in a clear, achievable way. HUGE THANKS to the professors! +I am a lover of the science of genetics and have some basic knowledge of the same. I joined this course with a hope to get my concepts clearer. The course is meeting with the expectations to the fullest - after just one week of exercise. +Very interesting course that teaches the basics about biotech +An AMAZING course for beginners. As a highschooler not pursuing biology in school this was still pretty easy to understand and enjoy (the reason I started it). Highly recommended for people wanting a light introductory course to genetics and a bit of evolution and those who can't take out too much time for doing an intense course. +Very clear and concise. Excellent course. I learned a significant amount and would recommend to others. +Best course I have ever taken. Thank you so much! Keep up the good work. +Provocative and engaging review of topics in human genetics. Requires some basic familiarity with biological principles. But well worth a personal investment in time and effort. Both lecturers are fascinating. Only recommendation for improvement would be to present sources cited in the videos elsewhere in the course materials. They roll by so quickly at the end of the video segments that it was impossible to review them adequately. Great course. +This course is an excellent introduction to a fascinating subject. The content is challenging but presented in a way that relative beginners are able to absorb the concepts. The instructors are engaging and interesting. +The best course I had on coursera. It is a comprehensive overview of current biotechnological techniquess and their established and potential results.The course keeps a shrewd balance between giving scientific information and looking at the broader more complex implications for society. You might think at times that the professor is not a scientist but a philosopher as well.The course is taught superbly by both professor and assistant, not one extra word, and not one word missing given the choice of topics.I think most of what is taught here should ideally be known by the majority of all people, in order to make more informed and thoughtful choices about life, as well as understanding what will happen in the next decades. +Great course -- especially the second half. +Lecture material is well presented with green screen. Lectures are very clear and engaging.Topics are recent and appropriate for this fast moving field. Quiz are at the end of the week and not immediately after each video to promote review and retention.Overall, a very informative, broad coverage of this field.Thank you +Not perfect because in the video, multiple times the lecturer mentioned external information or links that didn't exist. No additional information was provided +Instructors were very passionate. Very interesting topic! +This course is just awesome! +I just started this cours and I already like the way how the subjects are explain in simple and yet professional way. +I'm old - DNA was discovered in my last year of undergraduate studies. I am learning a great deal about what makes humans alike and different, what drives our behaviors. The course is informative +An excellent course as a short overview or as an introduction to a specialization.Seemed to touch on neurology and evolution more than genetics. Didn't get into the mechanics of genetics or molecular biology as much as I had hoped. Read Genetics for Dummies and reviewed my old textbooks to refresh on topics I found interesting and this was a nice course to accompany that endeavor. I really enjoyed the short segment near the end that delved into the field of biotechnology.Thank you so much for providing this as a self-paced class, I really enjoyed taking it. +This was an awesome course. Thank you for educating me on genetics. It has opened my mind to different areas of GMO's. I will continue my research on the safety. +Fantastic Course! +My first step to know about DNA, epigenetic, human ancestors, and genetic engineering. This course was great! +Large topic and well presented. Due to volume could perhaps be divided into smaller, more comprehensive, +Excellent course, I´m starting and I have learnt a lot of concepts related with the topic. I`m so excited and grateful with The Maryland University and the Dr. O'Brien for developing this course. +this course was great! I liked both lecturers, and found them to be very informative and great speakers. their lectures were easy to follow and brought up a lot of things i hadn't considered before (but this is my first completed genetics class). i would definitely take a class by them again. +I really enjoyed the course. It was very informative and the relatives used helped a lot. The best part was that the course aligned with my school curriculum. Double win for me!!! +This course did an exceptional job of providing a lay audience with a broad overview of human genetics, evolution, behavior, and associated technologies. The lecturers were engaging and have an impressively varied range of knowledge. This course lays an exceptional foundation for exploring a variety of in-depth topics covered with a more narrow focus elsewhere on Coursera (e.g., molecular biology, evolution, human behavior, neuroscience, &c).Tammatha O'Brien’s initial lectures did a particularly good job of introducing basic genetics with accessible metaphors, without allowing those metaphors to be overextended. She was also careful to flag the caveats and exceptions where appropriate to ensure students didn’t walk away with an oversimplified narrative of molecular biology (a challenge I’ve seen in other introductory courses).Raymond St. Leger’s passion is clear, and makes his lecturers particularly captivating. For the most part, he did a good job of flagging areas where results were preliminary (e.g., based on a single study) or speculative (e.g., based on his interpretation of the research). Nonetheless, there were some areas where it was unclear if he was presenting a well-established scientific consensus, or his own (well-informed) conjecture. In these scenarios, it would be useful to provide a more comprehensive bibliography for students interested in diving deeper into the research.As an aspiring science communicator involved in addressing public concerns over GMOs, I was particularly pleased to not only see biotechnology covered, but also to have it effectively dispel many of the common criticisms. I’ve generally found that once a basic understanding of genetics and evolution is established, it’s a short leap to disarm most of the fears; nonetheless, I’ve now taken five genetics courses that have steered clear of even acknowledging either GMOs or their controversy. Thank you for addressing these head on.Thank you for taking the time to put this course together and sharing it with the public via Coursera. The effort is recognized, and much appreciated. +It was the best class, I've ever taken. It teaches you so well and in such great Detail. +Genes and genomics, the emerging field of medicine and health +Thank you to Dr. O'Brien and Dr. St. Leger for an excellent course: solid information delivered clearly and intelligently. As the course moved along I found myself binge-watching! I must have finished all 7 weeks in record time-- like a good book, I could not put it down. This was an outstanding educational experience. +Through this course offered by Coursera, entitled Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biolechnology), I have learned an extraordinary amount of information about a burgeoning field of scientific study.I found this course to be well-paced and easy to follow, even though the topics discussed were quite complex. Both professors provided fantastic and enjoyable lectures; the course was like a really great book that you can't put down.I would strongly recommend this course for anyone who is interested in learning a bit more about human genetics. +The best coursera class I have taken! The instructor's passion for the material covered is contagious! +A very interesting and stimulating course. I strongly recommend it! +I really enjoyed this course. It was informative and thought provoking. Biotechnology has always humbled me always.. We call ourselves superior evolved organisms but one chemical group can turn us off... some organism, a virus which is not even as big as two lines of our fingerprint can kill us... I wonder if we are manipulating nature or nature is manipulating us in greater speed...I also wonder we should have stone inscriptions of our findings that can stay centuries later to tell the world of the future, our stories than software and hardware which might not stand strong against calamities...overwhelmed, humbled by all the information... +Great Course, very interesting and well- made. I find it easy to understand and it is a fantastic opportunity to implement my biology university's studies. Thank you! +Lots of bias on evolutionary theories. +I've learned so much in my first week :) +i'm in second week of this course and it's get better and better +it enlighten me with extra information at molecular level and new interesting things. thanks to coursera +Course is Awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!! +Much trouble with freezing and no sound +Very good! I learned a lot about genetic and biology! +good course a bit hard to understand at times the information can get confusing but the it is there wish they would add printable bulletins at the end so make information readable just for extra help with the understanding of the material +As someone that doesn't have much prior genetics knowledge besides intro science courses in college, I enjoyed this course a lot. It offered a good challenge and I felt like I learned a lot despite the complexity of the topics. The lectures were presented in a compelling way that related to day-to-day life and how humans interact. It has me excited for future developments in this field and has prompted me to do follow up research on some of the topics. +The course was pretty good. Maybe concepts were illustrated too general and briefly (not in details) but maybe this course is just a warm up for people who are not specialists in those fields. Nevertheless it was quite fun to listen the lectures and that's why course went pretty fast. I only regret that there's no free Statements of Accomplishment. +Excellent course and very good explained +I am liking a lot what I see. Great course ! thank you +It was really an exciting course with a lot of insights, sometimes controversial (especially the last part), but always recent and deep. I will miss the enthusiastic lectures of Prof. Leger. And I would recommend this course to others. +Very engaging lectures, very well executed! The best MOOC I have done so far! +Very interesting material, and very enthusiastic lecturers. I have done a few courses on here now, and this one has definitely been one of the more rewarding. +Really good course. I have learned a lot. +Congratulations for classes and tasks! This course is amazing and useful. +I love everything about this course. +Enjoyed every bit of it! Definitely a flow maker, enjoying and flaunting my verified certificate. :) +Really a great course +I loved that a lot of the content was easy to understand and convenient to follow. The materials is definetely helpful for anyone who has interests in eating healthy or even losing weights. I was just a little surprised that the last week of this class turned into a series of cooking videos. Overall, this was an amazing course! +It was a really great primer! I would not pay for a certificate for the class but loved the addition of a respected author. I'd love a second level of this class! +this an amazing course, with loads of information about where is the world leading to with all the unhealthy food supplies we are consuming... it is a sure worth it programe +Ver easy to understand and in the end of course theres a nice recipes ! +This course is awesome to learn about food and health for human body. Very Familiar of Maya Adam. +This is a very enjoyable course for beginners interested in nutrition/health. I would really like to see another course to follow this introduction +Thank you Dr Maya and her team for this excellent course, covering the basics of a healthy food nutrition. I loved the chapter where you show how to evaluate labels on packaged products and the cooking tutorials. I really hope there will be an advanced course, exploring in-depth specific topics like food categories (nutrients and benefits), student diets (food for brain power), athlete diets, food lifestyles (vegetarian/vegan...), food and disease prevention (Alzheimer, aging...) +This course gives you a general overview over nutrition. It is a good start for those who want to have an healthier diet. Personally I already knew most of the information provided and I am a bit further into the 'eating healthy' process. The course is well done anyway and worth a look. +I love the course! It's a great introduction on how to eat healthy. I've been meaning to know more about nutrition and this is a great first step :) +Good course, practical, simple and valuable advise. The information provided will indeed help improve my quality of life. Thanks a lot! +This course is very informative and makes me feel less apprehensive about cooking in the kitchen. I would definitely apply all the things that I've learned in this course. Thank you, Dr. Adam and Stanford! +Very useful guide for healthy eating with clear explanation. I've learned a lot from the the course. Gonna apply those rules in my diet slowly by slowly. Thanks for providing this. +The course is easy to listen and comprehend, and all material is pretty practical. However, it is rather superficial. I myself maintain a healthy lifestyle, and I didn't learn almost anything new from it (i'd say, around 5% of the information was new to me). I expected more. On the other hand, it's a good course for people with weight&lifestyle problems to figure out first steps towards a healthier lifestyle. +This course gives you the 'short and comprehensible' scientific story of food and nutrition. I recommend it to anyone! +LOVE IT THANK YOU DR. :)! +Very beneficial course.recommended to all +Thanyou for the course .its informative. I wish there is more metabolic description and consumer behaviour +Great way to re start my education. Learned alot. Thanks!! +I always enjoy any course that Maya does. I love that she keeps it simple and provides us with videos of her cooking these simple but amazing meals. +Awesome course! Got a lot of useful tips about food and eating. Thank you! +Maya is a great Teacher..!!!I´m really happy with my new knowledge about health and food.Regards From Colombia +Was great experience in terms of healthy food +Did not go into enough detail, reiterated home cooking and spoil rate but did not get into specifics. Perhaps another class on what foods do what in your body would be beneficial. +Excellent display of information. +Always enjoyed classes by May. Excellent delivery, interesting and easy to follow. Contents very rich and practical. +A very good course for a laymen +With all love to all the instructors, I personally benifited too much +Very informative, will be of much use to individuals looking to start a healthy lifestyle. +I feel like it was rather short and not too detailed +Very Informative. +Nice and light course on Food and Health. I really enjoyed taking this course. +I am still waiting for my diploma +very valuable knowledge +Marvelous course! I had a wonderful time learning and enjoying the lessons! I am very grateful for both! Professor Maya made everything so special because I could sense it was a pleasure to her educating her students and sharing this education with her family members. I am eager to learn more from her and looking forward to her next course!Adriana Bonorino de Aragão +Excellent information to start a healthy diet! +Just Great,Friendly, easy to follow and really practical and useful. +Just Wow +loved the course. I believe this course is vital to all American's today. I believe this class should be a necessary class offered in our children's schools. +Fun and exciting course! +I actually enjoyed this class very much, but it doesn't go very deep in the topic. The questions to the quiz are very easy to answer to. In my opinion, this class is great for a general public, but it is not an university level course. +It is a course that very single person has to take, in order to improve diet habits. +This course had a lot of valuable information but in the quizzes it was only the most basic questions asked. And I would have liked more practice quizzes. Over all a good course though! +Excellent refresher course! Brief and to the point, this is a no fuss solution to a sensible approach to clean eating. +Excellent course with simple language and a wealth of information. +This was an excellent course; My sincere thanks to the instructors - Maya Adam and Michael Pollan who made the course so insightful, interesting and easy to understand / apply in our daily lives. I will surely think about food and cooking very differently and positively after this course. Thank you very very much!! +High quality videos make this course entertaining as well as educational. Even if you have a basic understanding of nutrition, this course contains good information that will make you thirsty to learn more. +I love the course it is nice for the person that works and wants to take the course at the same time. +Great course with easy to understand and practical applications to improve your nutrition and health. +I learned so much with the few lectures I've done, I feel better about my eating choices and have integrated what I've learned from this course. +Its a very good course to cover basics on eating habits +It is a kind of introduction course as it was mentioned on course info, however it is very basic.If there would be follow up courses about the same topic it is a good start, otherwise that is not a learning based lecture.Thank you for your understanding.Deniz Ozalp +I just loved doing this course ! It helped me to have a healthy plate on my dinning table . I would recommend all to this course . The contents of this course were simple and easy to understand through which I was able to gain interest . +This class is taught very well and gives a lot of information in not a lot of time. I would definitely recommend this class +Thank you. I learned a lot from the course! +Great introduction for people who eat a lot of processed foods and would like to change it. I liked the simple language, rather than difficult breakdowns of chemical compounds and processes that I encountered in different course. I believe this will help many people understand the reason why they feel bad in a simple, understandable way. I cook at home every day. For me it's the best way how to stay healthy and know what's in my food. This course was right on track with my believes and I greatly enjoyed it! Thank you so much! +Nice and helpful area for students who are having food processing as their course it will help them so much. +Wonderful Course! My favorite professor +The information is helpful and practical, but the recipes at the end with all that butter and eggs just do not correspond to the message of this course to eat mostly plants +Very informative. +Good information, explained well +Very nice visuals and animations!! it's a pleasure to watch. The teacher was very nice also.Thank you! =) +Conscious eating plus a few recipes. I loved it as it was short enough to finish in an afternoon and have the key point stick to your mind. +I really learn a lot in this class about healthy eating and nutrition +A great Introduction Course into the topic of Food and Health. +One of the best courses I've taken on Coursera. All of the videos were clearly explained, had detailed graphics and were short enough to get the point across but not too long that I would get bored and uninterested. Excellent work on this series and the cooking videos at the end a wonderful bonus! +it was really interesting, thus very kind speaking. thanks! +Helpful. Got to know lots of things through this course about food. Recommended course for everyone. +pretty simple but clear and concise +Very informative and digestible information (pun intended). This course really makes you feel knowledgable about what you put into your body. Highly suggest this course for basic guides on nutrition. +Nice experience as well learning with coursera +Very easy to follow, I enjoyed it very much. +v good course i benefited too much +This quick course helped me FINALLY understand the importance of nutrient-rich foods and how they are used in the body. It repeats a lot of information I've heard throughout my life, but explains the WHY behind it. I feel confident to make much better decisions about my food and, therefore, overall health. +A very succinct, informative and pragmatic course! +Very helpful and informative course. Enjoyed the interviews with Michael Pollan. He always has something useful to say. I learned so much about nutrition, reading ingredient labels, shopping for groceries and living a healthy lifestyle. Enjoyed the recipes in the end too. +Simple and practicalI really enjoyed this course and how it managed to focus on the beauty and enjoyment of food as a main point in making healthier choices when it comes to diet. I only hope there is another follow up more in-depth course with more information on micro-nutrients and hormonal influence on obesity. +It's amazing course I've learned a lot things specially how to healthy by eating a right food.Thank you for an amazing course well done +This course was informative with great tips for healthy eating. +Great and very interesting course! Thanks a lot for the opportunity to listen to the speakers and to get very useful information! +A very nice warming session that stirs awareness into food, nutrition and health. +So much valueable information and knowledge about food and health +A simple, yet effective course nonetheless can deliver a powerful impact. +Excellent teaching. Clear and concise. Boon to students like me. Thank you Coursera and Stanford! Great job!! +This was a very thorough course that I really enjoyed and learned a lot from. +Very interesting and eye opening. +A well organized and informative course relating food to health. If one joins this course as weight loss program then it will be a disappointment. On the contrary, if one wants to gain knowledge about what are the right things to eat and what are the right way to eat in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle then this course is for you +I learn a lot from this lesson. +This course was much more useful than the things i was thinking abut that, thanks to Stanford University and the teams +Brilliant introduction to food and health. We read a million blogs every day on this topic, this course just sums it all up with an added credibility. +Very important for develop nutrition in the style life, congratulation need other for nutrition sport, thanks. +very practical knowledge with clear and concise suggestion and advice. Thank you. +Good information for those beginning to understand nutrition. I also highly recommend reading Michael Pollan's books. +This course should really be called BASICS of healthy cooking or for people with unhealthy habits. It is very basic! And very based on the US reality! Living in Europe and used to cooking healthy food for my family everyday I have not learned anything new! Very disappointing to see such a basic course being offered by big names as Stanford University. +good and interesting, and also very useful! Thanks a lot +very nice and usefull. +Very informative and easy to follow +It was a pleasure , i am now more aware of many things and the historical context es splendid +Useful information about nutrition, I would've loved to learn more about that. The part about home-cooking and how to reduce the health risks when cutting an onion where too superficial and unnecessary for me. +Very nice course about good food habit and for learning about nutrition. Thanks for this wonderful course. +Very good information. +Very motivating and clear course. Thank you! +I love learn about food and health, the explanation of the concepts were didactic and entertained. I'll definitely recommend this course. +Great for our health +Excellent course! It is a very useful and helpful course. i learned a lot of new thinks of food we consume every day. And get a new way to look at your food, to love it not fight it. As a med student i want to thank you for your efforts to help us eat healthy and be healthy +I love Maya Adam as a teacher. +Excellent! Thanks Maya! :) +Excellent Crash Course to learn not only how to eat well and live healthy but what are the effects of the food we eat +Excellent Course! Folks this is not just about type of nutrients and nutrition. All your questions regarding will be answered through this course. It does not only tell you what not to but also tell you what should you eat and what amount, I think that is the most important thing.I highly recommend everyone (even if you think you are not fat, you are very healthy) to follow this course. You can see there are years and years of research and experiments are explained in very simple words and along with solutions to all problems we face. +Love it! +The best way to learn new courses! Thank you coursera. +Nice introduction to nutrition. +Decent course. I really liked the instructor -- very well spoken, and the interviews were interesting. I would definitely take another course with this instructor. Course was pretty short, and easy. +An excellent course that interprets why/what/how to eat and introduces some key concept in nutrition concisely. +I found this course amazingly helpful and informative about the various kinds of foods we eat. Different facts and tricks and checks are listed out here to make sure that you stay healthy and fit. This course makes me want to cook more and not regard cooking as a tedious activity anymore. It is effectively explained by professors Maya Adams and Micheal Pollen. They are passionate about food and the need for everyone to be healthy. This is an excellent course and I would recommend for everyone to take this course. +This corse is very useful as a basic learning of food and health. If you are interested in how to control your health through food, I recommend it to you. +Easy course, but informative. I recommend it to everybody. +Real y interesting +A easy/simple/satisfying/excellent course that will surely benefit me and my family with no doubt. Couldn't recommend more. +Very interesting and worthwhile course, especially for overseas students. English used and speakers are very clear and concise. The content was excellent and opened our eyes to nutrition values and the sneaky psychology of supermarket logistics and planning. +Good Course +Straight to the point! +This course provide very useful information for my carrer. The lectures is friendly and attractive +I am loving the Stanford nutrition courses. I think this course, plus the Child nutrition course should be mandatory for all human beings. What I wish could be done is that their would be offered more serious courses, ones where people considering the career would truly benefit from. These classes seem more general and light, which is good for people that just want basic knowledge, but insufficient for people seeking more than just that. +Thank you for helping me; this course will help my career and personal habits.I'd like to know about the future courses you will be giving on coursera.THANK YOU AGAIN ! +This has been the best class I've seen on Coursera. The videos are broken up into small clips that are just a few minutes long. The videos are fun to watch as well and the presenter speaks very well which I appreciate. It's hard to understand and take notes when a presenter speaks too quickly or doesn't speak clearly or fails to enunciate. +Excellent introduction for the majority who have misguided beliefs about their eating habits; with some general background information and simple guide lines for improving physical and mental health. +Very informing and practical. Helpful even for a Food Science major grad. +Very nice course for introduction to food nutrition. The material was pleasant and easy to follow. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to have a better understanding of what they are eating and what can be done to have better and healthier diet. +Very interesting information. Easy to understand to all people, I think +Easy to understand with lots of information regarding nutrition and how it applies to your busy life; I enjoyed a lot of the info that was new to me. +Learned a lot of what I believed to be true. Recommend this as a simple quick family night of education. +I kept and have have made several of the recipes...awesome! +This was a very helpful primer in understanding nutrition. +Thanks this is an excellent curse. +Good advice to improve your eating habits! +I really got a lot out of this course, specifically because of the simple tips that were given to improve health and eating and the science behind it. I have shared this course with many friends! +i am very happy to complete this course , but unfortunately i didn't get the certificate +This lesson help us to know the basic of understanding healthy food and healthy habit of eating. It's very clear and easy to understand. +Solid info. Easy to digest! +It's a really nice course about food and how to consume healthy food instead of processed foods to maintain health and longevity. basic for people with little knowledge, but enough to make you want to start eating more healthy. +Great course content and delivery. Well-structured to provide practical insights about food and health. +It was a very clearly explain introduction to the relationship between Food and health, very practical and applicable way of estimating better eating through home cooking made fun and simple. +Should be required for everyone, even if you think you already eat healthily! Essential and up-to-date information about food and health is presented in an extremely clear and engaging manner. The quizzes are exceptional and you'll know you learned a lot when you are not only able to find the right answer, but correct the wrong answers in your head. Thank you so much for creating this course, I truly hope it helps change the world's eating behaviors and eliminates our population's chronic health crisis. +Lots of useful and practical information. Thank you. +It's a very nice course. I learn a lot thing related with how to improve my health and my eating habits. +Wonderful Course. very inspiring . Thank you Dr Maya and Paul. +The lectures are short and pragmatic, addressing the most relevant points of interest of an average person towards nutrition. Almost every of these lectures provide simple and doable advice to implement it right away, while all the information is research-based. Assessments allow you to strenghten your insights upon the information given through precise and thorough feed-back. +Too superficial, basic and short vs my expectations. It might be because high expectations or another target audience for the course, but full course content could be fit to the first week. +I loved it ,thank you. You're making our world a better place. I hope you come up with more moocs that concern about our health,fitness and lifestyle.This mooc is - without any doubts - a must. +It was really helpful for me... +Very helpful and concise. +it is very informative and interesting i really like the way you guide us thank you +Very basic course for American non-healthy food consumers. Would never call it a university course. Not useful for professionals. +This was a very informative and life changing course. I now cook more often at home and as soon as I move into my new house, I will be cooking at how on a daily basis for my entire family! +Very Great! +Understandable and useful. +I thought the course was comprehensive and gave information that I am still using months later. +This was a great course. I enjoyed it a lot. I'm positive that the information attained through this course will gratify you. +Simple, succinct and very useful information. Basics on nutrition clearly explained and very easy to understand and remember. +very good for basic information on nutrients and a great start for a healthier food choice. +Clear language, very good video stream. Good examples. Systemises the knowledge about nutritions. thank you! +perfect for a pre nutrition student, someone looking to better understand their weightloss journey, or anyone interested in knowing more about their own body. +Very Informative +Great course, thank you,Maya +This course is wonderful! Maya is a elegant lady, I like her a lot! I took her other course, too! The recipes she gave are so easy to practise! Will always love her and use all the wonderful tips in life, in everyday meal! +very important for every person to know +Short course but you will find something useful if you are not well versed in nutrition. Not sure how much you will gain if you already are. +Learned a lot and very informative and very interesting course. +Very Nice! +Nice course to get started on Food and Health +Very useful, simple and easy to follow advice. Now I understand more about how and what I should eat. +Easy course +Got a lot of this course. Upbeat, friendly and informative. Great visuals, inspiring for change. Appreciated instructor's warmth and presentation style. +I was expecting much more from a Stanford or Coursera course. Lack of scientific evidence .Processed foods have become an easy villain among many people and the idea that processed foods are dangerous to our health and the responsible for all our problems is a mistake. Very disappointing. +I really liked this course, it offers great introductory information to the subject of nutrition and encouraged me to eat healthier and care better for my health. +Very usefil course for everyday life. Highly recommended for all of you! +eyes opener for our food habit..!! +This Course is useful and practical for all the students and people would like to know the detail of food and health. Actually, after finishing this course, I have a stronger interest in food than before. If the lecturer can give us more information about this area, that would be better. +This is all information I already have in my arsenal after researching health trends and learning more about how I should eat. I was hoping for something a little more detailed. +Everyone should take this course. The language is simple and the concepts are not so in depth as to lead to confusion, but rather give a great foundation about humans' relationships with food. Educating the future generations on how to build a healthy life for themselves could really start with a course like this. Very coherent and manageable course, worth your time. +Very easy to follow. The course offers many tips you may easily apply in your everyday life. +Easy to understand and apply to daily life. Love it! +The course is very well managed and so informative from basic knowledge about foods and its nutrition then takes us a very fundamental but bold about nutrition and health. For those who does not like to read lot of books to come up with a simple and quick idea about how to have a health eating, this is a recommended one. +Amazing course. I learnt everything I wanted (and needed) to know about the basics of good nutrition. I loved how the course doesn't just give you general information but also practical tips to shop, cook and eat better. I feel that I gained knowledge but also the ability to apply this knowledge in my everyday life, which is very empowering. As a social scientist, I appreciated the effort put in addressing socioeconomic factors affecting people's diet. To me, the course was complete and thorough its its objectives, and the great quality videos were very enjoyable to watch. I could tell that there was a team of professionals who put their passion and skills behind each one of them. +Extremely informative and engaging! +this course is really helpful for people who wants to change their eating habits for the best. this course will teach you how to make first step to healthy food. +A wonderful Course +I found this course to be very easy to understand and practical. Thank you! +GREAT CLASS +very simple way of teaching for a complex course that actually makes a difference for peoples life to the better !! +This course was so amazing I will be recommending this course +Very informative. Really enjoyed lecturer. +The course should focus more in health professionals +Very interesting course! ;)I sincerely recommend it to everyone, who would like to extend the knowledge about healthy eating and how to make wise changes and choices regards to diet. Everything was explained in very simple way and the lecturer has a perfect pronunciation (might be important for non-native speakers, as I am). +Good course well presented :-) +I found the information useful, good introductory course. However, not as challenging as I had hoped. +What a pleasure this course was. Exactly what I needed. +This was soft and clear, informative and interesting course :) I enjoyed every bits of it, I SAVOR it all ;) +What a great course which helps me understand more about the correlation between nutrition and human being health. Highly recommend. +Very informative, simple, and effective! +The teacher`s pronunciation is really clear and easy to follow.And the movie makes me really relaxed and motivated me to the healthier life.This course is useful to change your view to foods.After this lesson,I became to avoid fast food restaurants and try to eat vegetables and fruits. +Very interesting. +Too easy. The biology, history and sociology of food was the part most beneficial to me. Since I am a vegan from Sweden I tend to cook food everyday. The course seems to be mostly for people born in the USA. In Sweden, there are some problems with obesity and people buying higly processed food. However, the problem seems to be more alarming in the USA. Discussing the differences between how the average person in the USA eats with how the average person in e.g. Sweden, Greece, Japan, Brazil and Ethopia eats, would, I think, make for an interesting additional lecture. +love the course... highly recommended +Very clear and well designed course. Gives a good insight and overview on food and health. +The course was really interesting and provide diverse points of view about the way how we eat. I really like the different perspectives provided by the presenters. +This MOOC is awesome! +I love the recipes she shared! +It's awesome. Helpful and re +Suitable for me, useful for my future. Thank you for a great course <3 +Thank you for giving me this course. Thank you for giving me a great teacher. This course has to be one of the greatest courses I've ever been in. Like I said before, thank you. I hope you can be in my next course.THANK YOU +Great course! +Well, this course definetely has a clear message and a good purpose. However, it is very basic and coursera might not the right platform. +This course was very helpful and I have learnt a lot of different things that I can use in my day to day life. +I really liked the material form this course. +I feel delightful and happy with what I earned from the course +Short, high-level presentation about the topic. Videos and sound are of a very good quality. +This was a fantastic introduction, as the food suggests. The commitment is very minimal, and the quizes are very fair, and help to reaffirm and commit to memory what you just learned. I completed the whole course in a few short days! Will definitely be taking other courses by this instructor if possible. +Learnt lot from the course +very useful +Love it +This has ruined my life. +Maya is the best teacher ever, every time I get the chance to learn more from her, I'll do it because thanks to her I became a certified nutritionist and a better coach to my pupils and students. +I'm a student form China exactly. I thought it may be difficult for me to learn in English originally, but illustrated with the lively and vivid cartoon, the course is more efficient and thorough to understand. Anyway, thanks all who provide such a exquisite and meaningful course for us to learn about. Thanks. +The course was interesting and it helps people to get basic, but really nessesary knowledges if nutrition and healthy eating. +Very interesting and informative but a little hard to follow when eating alone. +I am glad i took this course. It is very enlightening, and would help me as a future nutrition and exercise expert. Thank you. +Useful and practical information of home cooking and healthy eating. +Very easy to understand, and excellent filming. Great job on this one! +This was a very insightful introduction course,the lecturer was kind of passionate and looked healthy herself,what gives credits to what she says,wish there will be a deeper following course +Incredibly basic- more for the average person rather than a student or professional, but it seems as though that is who the material is directed at- so not a great course if you are a professional looking to increase your knowledge, but great usable information that the average person can easily apply. +Very helpful. All videos are short, smart and positive. Thank you for the sharing. I warmly recommend ! +This is a great and really inspiring course on food, nutrients to improve your health. It really inspires you to take second look and how you feed yourself and others who matter to you. Most importantly it teaches you to respect food and to see the connection to the hum +Basic but you still learn a lot ! Loved the way it was put together... Really entertaining course. +First things first, I am really glad that I 'stumbled' over this course. I got to know a lot about what to eat and how calories are not everything we ought to be looking for. After this course, I have come to know that I've been reading the nutrition labels wrongly all my life. +Great class and really love it +Very helpful, it added to my knowledge. Thank you +Very good course to learn the basics of nutrition and how it's related to health +Easy to understand, worth to learn +Wonderful course, great introduction to better eating habits and choices. I would love to see continuation to this course. +It reinforced the notions on food & health I knewIt taught me new valuable information +This was a wonderful course! I would encourage everyone to take it. +This is a sweet and short course. I loved that many of the things that I already knew from owning a Vegan restaurant and my own research were covered. I learned some of the scientific terms and bodily processes behind the common sense knowledge I had. Great course! +I learned a lot of things and information about health +Very informative. All key areas are covered. +thank you I had finished 2 nutrition courses by Maya Adam .and I wish to Diploma in Nutrition by Maya +Very interesting!!!!! +Very insightful course. I think every one should take this course regardless of whether the are interested in nutritional science or not. +Loved the course! Excellent content that could have long term health benefits when implemented. The videos were well done and the information presented was clear and interesting. Thank you! +What every adult should know but currently doesn't. Simple clear guidelines that follow common sense and science. +very interesting and useful +really informative, nice interface with the lecturer and nice co-lecturing by the second lecturer +It is quite good course for beginners and for everyone, who want to check out their knowledge and thoughts about nutrition vs. real food. +This is a great course for someone who is just getting into the whole healthy eating thing. As someone who is familiar with Michael Pollan, (I'm a huge fan!), I didn't hear too many new things. Nevertheless, the course has a fantastic flow, it's a pleasure to listen to, and even though most of the things I was already familiar with, the course is so beautifully designed that it was great going through it again and again. Thank you Stanford University, I wish you had more courses like this, just with a bit higher level of difficulty. All the best, and good luck to the future students! +I have learned a lot and I would like to say thank you very much! +Brilliant introduction to healthy eating and lifestyle +This has been quite an interesting course for me. I have had an interest in health and nutrition for quite some years. This was for me basically a refresher. This course was really good for that as it was complete and compact. All the info needed to learn in 4 lessons that were easy to follow. Highly recommended. +A great introduction to a healthy lifestyle, very useful to be aware about our daily food consume and how this can change our health and wellness.It does not go very deep into many topics but was entertaining and very well explained. +Very Informational! +It feels great to learn about healthy eating and having a great meal without incorporating any processed foods. +A nice introduction to eating a healthy and balanced diet. Brings to light quite a few things we have been doing wrong and highlights easy ways to correct those habits. +I liked this course, I lerned so much +Great!!! +I loved it! Everything was so easily explained and it just motivates you to change your life haha:) +Very basic so makes for a good introduction. Very informative and enjoyable to watch, concise lectures. I strongly believe every person should have this knowledge! +Learned some new stuff and it brought back joy and a new passion for food and cooking. Thank you! :) +Just completed Week 1, it's so great that it is possible, to gain good information about Food and Health, for free, so I really learn to make good choices. +Easy and well-structured course for those who want to begin exploring how food affects our health and what and how to eat to live a longer and happier life. Those who are already interested in the topic might find the course very basic. Most of examples are about so called Western diet and American eating habits so it might be less relevant for some other countries. +excellent teacher very accurate. Now i have so many ideas +I didn't come away from this course with a ton of technical knowledge or a complete understanding of nutrition, but I'm pretty sure the point of this course was to teach a simple set of guidelines to eat healthier and navigate today's environment regarding food. And it did that just fine. +A wonderful and informative course! Learned a lot about the dangers and benefits of food. Made sure to cook at home very much more useful. Learned how to buy groceries at the supermarket, and liked the recipes! +Wonderfull, very thanks +Very insightful and informative. +Loved it! Waiting for a part two, three, etc. +One of the best courses online! very informative, engaging , and useful +It's great for basic information, but it is very common sense, a little bit of more in depth information could be added +A great course to establish a fundamental understanding of positive nutrition as well as integral steps that can be taken and implemented everyday to start a meanginfu +I loved this class! It was so interesting and a great overview of food and nutrition. I especially enjoyed watching the videos and having the recipes at the end. I am so excited to incorporate the information I gained into my cooking and everyday life! +This course provided me with some vital knowledge about health and nutrition, however, I consider it to be very short and rather shallow. The issues would require more coverage, than, with some weeks, 15 minutes for the whole week. Another issue is the tests. 50 % margin for passing the exam seems too easy. The videos have great graphics and the issues are well explained. Overaly 3/4 stars. +Solid information to educate everyone about food and health to keep up the fight against highly processed foods imposed by economic interests instead of well being. We all can if we all care and spread the word. +Very basic knowledge +Before i began this course, I have been studying food and nutrition since i was 13 years old. this course has helped me so much, The quantities and what foods to start a meal with, it has made my life a lot simpler. For those interested in food and health this is a great course. +Great ! Thank you ! +It was a very helpful course, giving an insight about our routine when it comes to food and health. It gives an understanding of how to take care of ourselves in the best way possible, and how easily we are fooled by media and the society to ruin our health in the long run. It is more essential than we think, to maintain a proper diet, so thank you for this. +Well spoken, perfect quality, easy to understand and very useful! That's how courses should be done! +a best course gained a good knowledge +This course is a very easy-to-follow instruction of how to choose food and eat healthy! +Very useful and easy to follow. +Very basic +Good introduction to everything, but it is all very basic knowledge. +Nice and inspiring! +little accurate data, little useful. But for newers in science of healthy food course will be easy and helpful +I enjoyed the course but quite frankly, it was very basic. +It was a bit short but very concise and full of helpful information. I hope to find and enroll in a similar course past this introduction course. +This course is really useful. I'm able to know what kind of thing I should do in my daily life and what to have even if I'm very busy. +get a lot of information about the food and the health +Very insightful and well structured. The information in this course is presented in a way that allows for great detail to be given, while remaining simple to understand. +A great course. Gives helpful information on how to eat right, what is a healthy diet and how to manage healthy food intake.Simple and informative. +Not a very high volume of material. +This class helped me gain a perspective about what a healthy/nutritional diet is supposed to be like. Thank you for teaching this class Maya! +There very few things today that can set you mind apart and take your soul to full realization of an actual truth.The topic and approach, but more than that, the clear personal commitment of Doctor Maya Adam, make this course an impactful experience and a real catalyst for change in your life, i felt it, and i want to live now by this value.I want health for me and for my family specially my children, and i want to live long for them.Thanks Maya +Awesome this was the best in a long time for me! +Great experience! This course is really well structured. It have short but very objective lessons with really good take home messages. Easy to understand, and no time consuming. Congratulations to the organizers, specially to Maya Adams. I recommend this course to every one. +Easy to understand and navigate and know where I was in the course and I learned more than I had previously known about nutrition which I thought was helpful. Thank you for the opportunity to take this class :) +Great introduction to nutrition and healthy eating. Videos are simple and very easy to understand for someone with little to no knowledge of this topic - recommended 100% - thank you! +very insightful.... +Very good work! I really recommend this course to who care about their health. +Overall good course, but maybe too easy +A very useful course that I recommend to anyone who would like to have a healthier lifestyle. +Very inspirational and easy to follow. +It had very basic information but interesting and I liked how the subject was explained. +Simple but informational. +This course is very enjoyable and interesting if u want to know about nutrition, as well as inspiring for cooking. I highly recommend it... and want more :) +Relatively short but packed full of interesting and useful information (information-dense if you will) +Very simple and concret course! +It did teach me all I need to know about food :) +A very good course recommended for health personnel and lay person ;-) Learnt a lot especially about healthy home cooking recipes +nicely made, but too basic +Extremely interesting course. I feel the material and videos were very easy to absorb and understand. I certainly would recommend this to anyone with an interest in food and how it affects our health. +awesome class, very well done and super helpful +Interesting course. I really enjoy it. Thank you for all the information. +The course really changed my life .. i highly recommend +It's not a challenging course, but it is very informal at the same time. The interviews with the journalist throughout the course were my favorite parts because David was very detailed when it came to explaining how important food is a whole, compared to focusing just on nutrition individually. It's an introductory course, so I expected it to be an easy pass. Just take simple notes along the way, and you will pass the quizzes with no problem.Thanks Coursera and Stanford! +The course is short but very helpful. +Interesting useful +Very education, but short. I'd love to see more. Thank you for the recipes in week 5! +Thank you very much! It has been a very enriching experience for me. +Good for healthy living +A compact, to-the-point and well organised course for the basics +This course was great for an introductory course to food and health because it emphasized getting back to the basics of real food and cooking simply. It lost a star because I felt like there were certain topics that needed a more in depth and less cursory approach. They were almost dismissive at times for the sake of "keeping it simple" whereas a simple suggestion about washing produce to remove pesticides could've been helpful. +The course is a bit too basic, I expected to get deeper information about healthy eating than this course suggests. Thank you +So glad I took this course! I loved how easy it was to follow along! +It was amazing. This course s very enjoyable and interesting if u want to know about nutrition. +I am disappointed, from a place like Stanford I was expecting a real course in nutrition.This course doesn't teach anything. It's a mere half an hour a week of advice we should all already know, if we are interested in nutrition.I am quitting this course, unfortunately it's a waste of time. +Very kind voice and great content! +I am in love with this course. I want more! +Great Course for healthy food practices! +It was a great course where I've got a lot of knowledge! +The course was so awesome ! Got to learn may insights on Nutrition and health. +Great information in an easily understandable format! Highly recommended +I really enjoy this course, it helped me to understand how to stay healthy.Thank very much for making this course and I am willing to share it with others (: +This course was enjoyable and I learned a lot about eating healthier. It made me look at food differently, and gave me hope that I can choose foods that are delicious and healthier for my family. Thank you so very much!! +I took this course because I want my family and I to be more healthy. There is a lot of great information, which has helped me to make better lifestyle changes. +Very Helpful! Thank you +Really basic info that most foodies will already know. I liked the cooking demos but I am vegan, gluten-free and eat mostly organic already. +great course, wish there were more like it +I really enjoy the course although I've only been through Week 1. The video lessons are interesting and full of useful information. They use a very easy to understand language so I can recommend the course to everyone who likes to improve their understanding on the topic. +This has been an excellent Course. The content itself is very clear and gives you an enormous background about food and eating habits, although is focused mostly in the western diet in USA I think that at least in America continent an other parts of the globe eating habits are similar, Public health is a great concern and I think that in this way we should change completely our habits and stop eating processed food. Congrats Stanford University more courses like this one. +This was an easy course and I found the information very helpful in making you aware of processed food. I think it could have been a bit richer by exploring some other areas of health and food. I felt like the main focus was on processed food. The good thing though I learnt so much about processed food and I'm making every effort to cut it and eventually eliminat it from my diet. +Very informative course, which has encouraged me to research the topic further and to adopt a healthier lifestyle. Based on my research, however, I believe a mistake might have been made. According to the instructional material, the only group of essential fatty acids is omega-3. Based on my research, however, essential fatty acids include ALA, an omega-3 fatty acid, and LA, which is an omega-6 fatty acid. +I thank for system of knowledge which you invented, this simple format will allow ordinary people to understand food. Now each who completed a course will be more healthy and conscious. +Thanks so much for this course. It is really helpful.Good Luck with your future Courses. +After taking this course, I know what the Nutrition Facts of food means and what type of food is good for health. +Incredible, informative and clearly designed course!Thank you. +The topics discussed into this course are really interesting. The videos give some perspective at the time of taking care of our own health and eating habits.The only problem I see, is the shortness of the course and the videos. The topics don't go beyond the surface and there is a lack of: details, examples, and comparisons between healthy diets and harmful ones. +Quite good for those in need of heathy living basics +is a basic course but is a introduction i learn a lot wish it have more the teacher is easy to understand +Great beginner course to kickstart knowledge to start a healthy eating lifestyle! +A must for current outrageous lifestyle and eating habits. Informative! +Short and concise. The course strongly aims for USA residents who eat too much. If you are that person, this course is perfect. As someone from another country without health problems, there was not much here. I was hoping to learn more about food and how to optimize my diet so as to increase energy, improve mood, increase life-expectancy, and reduce chances for depression. I found nothing about that. But it's not so bad because the course took me less than 3 hours and I still picked up a few things :). +A really comprehensive and complete course to a "back to basics" on our essential needs ! :) +Excellent course. Maya adam is a wonderful teacher ,she teaches and makes the teaching and understanding different aspects of nutrition such an easy task. +its very helpful +I think that course is so useful ,, it helps me understand more about food ..the most thing i like about it is the great videos form as it gives me info in an interesting way avoid learners to get bored and frustrated with the info ,, it goes easy and smoothly so 5 rated .. +Highly informative and educating course.Sushma Batra +Very informative. Examples that were shown helped me.I will definitely review the class again because there are many attachments of interest. +Great course. Everyone should participate to improve one's quality of life.Ernest +Amazing.... Learning Is Too Much Here.... +Everyone should now these fundamentals. +This is an excellent course. Very precise and very informative. This course has changes my way of looking at food. I now treat food as "FOOD" comprising taste, health and nutrition. +Like it , a changing life course +i like this course very much. +a very interesting AND HELPFUL COURSE FOR EVERYONE +Starts off informative and then becomes very basic. It felt like it was more for informing families struggling with nutrition than for informative education on health and food.The interview with Michael Pollan that was woven in to each lesson were the main reason to finish the course. +Interesting topic and very good informationNot enough content (my opinion)Tests where way to easy, I could take them all without first watching the videos, and my grade ist above 90%. The questions are (espacially in Week 3 and 4) easy to solve with logic and a basic intelligence. Please work on making it harder! :) +Good course. It would be nice to have 1 or 2 healthy meal recipes at the end of the course as an example. I like that I can work on the course as I have time. The only downside is posting comments for each chapter because it is not an active discussion. +Everything I learned or relearned fit with my knowledge of food and food systems with one glaring exception: I am a strong supporter of organic standards and regenerative agriculture. Therefore, I would be unable to recommend vegetables and fruits regardless of their pesticide residue. +Amazing course! Learned tons that I didn't know about sugar, fat, and carbs. Thank you, professor!! +Hi thereThis course is very useful for basic learners and very useful to everyone irrespective subjects!!Thank you +Informative and thought provoking. +This is a very basic course on food and nutrition. I would consider the majority of the content to be common sense. I would not recommend it if you already have an interest or general knowledge of nu +I liked this course, it explained the basics about the healthy food and what are the best choices. It is really helpful for people who don't know about the topic and want to learn how to start to make changes for healthy foods. +absolutely wonderful course, the concept of home cooking and sharing the cooking work among family members is fantabulous. +Absolutely fantastic and clear, I strongly recommend this course! +Enjoyed it tons, really straight forward, easy to follow and common sense! Highly recommend it if you want to understand how your eating habits influence your health and how small changes can make big impact in your future well being. +Good introducing regarding healthy eating and the dangers of highly processed food. I recommend this course for everyone interested in these topics! +The videos were interesting and the lecturer captivating. Overall an excellent course and finally the first course that I have been motivated enough to finish! +It is useful for our health and can practice English.Thank you very much. +I strongly recommend. If you don't have any knowledge about food - this course is for you. However, if you know some basic stuff you won't learn anything new, but still it is good reminder and very strucured. It is very short, could be completed in about an hour and a half. What I didn't like during the lectures - Maya (the lector) was not talking with her normal voice, but kind of slow and unnatural, which for me was extremely anoying. At the end, when she is showing some recepies it is so much better. +Very instructional learning course, I have actually started eating healthier. +this is the most beautiful thing i have ever experienced about food and healthBefore this introductory course i had almost total dislike to the theme because of the incredibly high percent of low-quality sources - both human and media - both in informational (logical) and emotional (presentational) parts.Some highlights:0: It is a Scientific approach1. It considers sustainable goals2. It considers transitions to the goals - very important part which is often omitted3. It is does not confront with other models (like vegetarian) - this is the first sign of science (but not otherwise: a lot of people have this way of thinking: "science - corporations - just for money - bad for health" - it is obviously logically incorrect way of thinking but wide-spread)4. It suggest improvements for any income5. It considers emotional aspects of the solution (this disproves another wide-spread logical error in the area: "science in food - just nutrients - no emotions". For those who is trying to do the critical thinking this error is obvious as well - science is about objective knowledge about the real world - and there is enormous science knowledge about areas which study emotions, in this course the knowledge is gracefully used to transfer the information and construct sustainable goals and transitions).6. To have a bit of emotions in the last point: it is a very harmonious base knowledge about food and health. +I'm beginning to take courses on Coursera. This is a four week course but can easily be done in one setting. Great information and material that can be used for a long time.Easy to follow. I'm going to try some of the recipes that were mentioned! And it's FREE! +Absolutely fantastic course! Thanks! +Week 5 is the most interesting. Thank you for the course! +簡潔易懂，可以分兩天修完，多吃食材而不是食品Loud and clear, can be finish within two daysEat food without processed is better +Very clear and informative introduction course to healthy eating. Truly motivating and reasonable approaches to start a better diet! +great course, would love a certificate! +thank you so much MAYA i've learned alot +I'd learned more since I check Harvard Health Blog so often. +basic but interesting +Good quality introductory course +very informative . I liked it .it will improve my life style and my patients too as a health care provider +Very helpful information for those who are trying to make healthy changes in their life. +It was a great course that teaches you how to eat, how to cook and how to eat well. I've been always interested in the relation between food and life, and this helps me to have deeper interested in the subject. +The course provides with usefull, basic knowledge about healthy food. The video in the courcse is interesting and motivating. I think the course would be enteresting for all healthy consious people. +very informative +Good introduction! I wish it was deeper though +A great way of getting started into simple healthy eating! +Easy to understand +Very informative. +I loved this course. I useful and practical. The explanation from both the speakers and graphs is clear. Learned a lot. Thanks!Encourage to have more such courses. +it's good and important to learn the knowledge from the course to maintain my health. I already changed my eating habit after the course. Thanks! +Fantastic information. I am a nurse and a lot has changed since I took nutrition. Great easy class if you are looking to update yourself or wanting to eat healtier. This is not about a diet, it's about nutrition. +I loved the videos of the course. It makes learning so accessible. I'm now onto course number 3! +Enjoyable and refreshing! I wanted a brush up and this was perfect. +I really enjoyed this course.The explanations were very clear, she caught up my attention and I also love the book: "Food, Love, family". I absolutely recommend everybody in this course to get it.As a testimony, my life has totally changed, I started love cooking, I enjoyed trying new foods, and I want to make a better world by education in nutrition and the need for all parents in the planet to know more about how can they love their family better by eating healthy, fresh and homemade food together.Thank you, Maya.Cheers from Zacatecas, Mexico. +Each of Dr. Adam's lectures are short but very thorough. The visual aids in video lectures are very simple and effective. This class is the perfect intro to food and health. The material overall is very simplistic, but people wanting to learn about the intricacies of nutrition will find this class establishes a wonderful foundation. +Highly informative and clears many misconceptions about food.Bottom line of the course: "Avoid processed foods" +Worth not just learning , but apllying in day to day life! +Basic informations about nutrition, but very useful. And things that you are not usually thinking when you go shopping food. Great! +Easy to learn, yet really helpful +I learned a lot from this course! +This was a great course in learning more about how and why we eat the way we do. I enjoyed the detailed information I learned, and highly recommend this class. +Great Course! +excellent course. I love the recipes and cannot wait to make them for ny Family. +This is ok if you know absolutely nothing about nutrition. Otherwise, it's basically information I'd expect to be relayed to kindergarteners. +Great Course and very informative +simple and nice-designed course, i enjoyed it very much, thank u~ +Very informational! I base my healthy diet off everything I've learned. +It was really short, but has very good information. +This course should be longer and more in depth. However, I did find the readings quite useful and intriguing. +good stuff, but a bit preachy +It's totally an amazing course!! I'd like to recommend it to my friends definitely! +Straightforward and easygoing! +Great course. Teaches you the best of things about health and nutrition. I'm thinking I'm going to start changing the way I eat in order to get healthy and be pain and disease free. +Simple and clear way to approach food, but it would be great if we could add more nutritional science and physiology based info +Very helpful Thank you. +Good for general knowledge about healthy di +great introduction to food and nutrition knowledge for non-science background learners. +Good content but extremely basic +Excellent course that serves as a great intro and refresher for food and health. +wonderful course +I really enjoyed the first two weeks. It was all stuff I kinda already knew but was presented very concisely in a way that was easy to understand.The second two weeks weren't so useful and I completed them very quickly but I can see how someone who isn't too confident with cooking at home could benefit from them.Overall, a very interesting course that tackles an incredibly important subject in a succinct way. This kind of food education should be compulsory for everyone. +meaningful wonderful ！！！！ +i enjoyed this course its very benefiting , i didn't fee like i was taking a course , more like taking tips from someone who cares so much about me +it's amazing course ever . I like it +Thank you, it was very intresting +This course really helped me to be aware of packaged foods which are highly processed,thus less nutritious contributing to obesity and diabetics.It was very detailed which also put a lot of emphasis about the need to be health conscious.I really appreciate it and became more knowledgeable about food.Thank you a lot. +Very interesting course with solid information on why and how we should be eating better than what we currently do. +Amazing and excellent course ! Well done!This course is a great introduction into the up-to-date topics of food, nutrition and health!It is very informative, helpful, enlightening with clear explanations and demonstrations! +Very informative and easily accessible +Informative & easy to understand. +it was very helpful +Great course! Thank you so much! +Good & easy learning....liked it. +very informative!!! i learned a lot!! +Amazing course +Fantastic content!. Prof Maya condenses healthy eating into concrete and simple item sets -1.What food items to eat and what to avoid2. Where to find them in the Supermarket, how to read the nutrition labels on packaged food3. Healthy cooking with minimal ingredients4. Awesome recipes for healthy dishes +Great and helpful! +Amazing course! It's a great tool to help people choose better foods to eat!This course can also help people have a better life! Thank you for the opportunity! +This course helps a person individually and also help them to promote health and well being of the society. It also develops entrepreneurial ideas in the new field of organic farming. +Short, easy to watch videos fulled with high quality content and good ideias to incorporate healthy habbits in our daily life. +Covers the basics and must know well . All though it's for Western particularly American audience however it has many generic facts too . It was very helpful and has convinced me enough to have a good diet +Concise, informative, and well-done! +pretty good +Useful recommendation which can be used in everyday life and its quite easy explained. +These were valuable information not taught in med school! Thumbs up! +Very useful course! Recommend everyone who focused on healthy lifestyle to attend! +Excellent course loved the info and the way it was presented. Quick to the point and on par. I wouldn't mind seeing a little more info on seafood and fish in general I've read a few studies and as far as i can tell at this point in the game we've poisoned our oceans tremendously and theres been scientific studies that have found large quantities of highly toxic chemicals in the fish's blood and meat. so thats about the only thing id like to see is going a little deeper into the actual health risks associated with the damage humans have caused to the food we eat from the oceans to GMO's. These seem like hot topics in todays day and age. But like i said i really enjoyed the course and look forward to taking additional courses on nutrition and food prep. +insightful introduction to health and nutrition. +Clear explanation and demonstration and thank you for the recipes! +very helpful！！ +Great introduction to how to live a healthy life within the constraints of your daily work life. +I find this course very enlightening and helpful. +Basic but very important! +Very interesting and enjoyable, I think the mix between information about food and recipes for healthy food is a good one. I do think that for example adding recipes to lectures about certain types of food would make it an even better combination. For people living outside the US, the information about healthy diets might seem a bit US centered. +It's free and would serve many to be passed through at least 10-20 mins per few days. Good info. +I expected little more in terms of how to structure food habits and diets +Very good and interesting course! +very concise and informative class. And also the first and only class I actually completed since I started using online course ware like 3 years ago. Worth your time! +The very first lesson implies that sufficient quantities of micronutrients can't be obtained from a diet high in animal-based proteins and fats. In reality, organ meats and egg yolks are higher in micronutrients than many fruits and vegetables, and only small amounts of dark-colored veggies and fruits are required to balance a diet that already contains a variety of meats (as far as both species and cut). The body is also better able to synthesize glucose (or utilize ketones instead of glucose to fuel cell function) than to synthesize amino acids, which are more easily obtained in the correct amounts from animal sources. Plant-based diets work for some people, but if blood sugar levels, chronic inflammation and/or amino acid intake are issues that an individual needs to take into careful consideration, a high-fat, low-carb, diet with a variety of animal products is more likely to meet their needs. +i have some information i dont before know what it means so i am very happey to got this course +Simplicity and good piece knowledge about fundamentals of food and related habits throughout the course keeps the person bound with the course. +I seriously loved this course!! Good information, excellent teacher!!! I just wish you could get a certificate for this class. Would recommend to anyone! +I wish you add Spanish subtitles, is the second most important language and there is a huge obesity issue in south America. +Very simple and understandable chunks of information, charming and inspirational instructor, fascinating and colorful video... It would be great to enroll in advanced course :) +Very easy to understand, and gives you the most important aspects of nutrition. The focus of the course is for the student to understand how to make a balanced diet part of their lifestyle, and not rely on fad diets for short periods of time. +very nice course :-) Enjoyed it. +What a wonderful introduction to food and health, simplified so well! I thoroughly enjoyed this course, as it presents the information with clear examples and helps us become more informed consumers for our own, as well as the environment's, benefits. +I loved it! The format was excellent, the information was well presented -and useful- and I really liked that the recipes at the end were actually taught, and then we could have the printed version.The only thing I didn't like was that it seemed too short :-)I look forward to the next class!Marcela +Knowledgeableble information covered under the topic. +A great course for people who are unsure if they are really eating healthy. A plus are the really simple simple but delicious recepies at the end of the course. +Well paced, easy to follow, and very enlightening. +Maya made it look so easy that I completed the whole course in 2-3 hours. I now have an understanding of where I am going wrong with my eating habits. I am not confused about what to eat and how much to eat anymore! I guess I will start cooking more often as well! +Amazing course that is useful for everyone! I learned a lot. Thank you! +It's a good course, I wished it was a paid course with a certification (a diploma) with more number of lectures that one can study in his or her part time upto one year. Dr Maya, your teaching style is excellent. +Interesting, but not so much new things to know when you've already learned about healthy food. It's ok.It's quite hard because of the english language. :( +Learned a lot of the history of food and procedures it goes through to come to our table. This course helped me start making healthier decisions day to day. +Great introduction for food and nutrition for adults! It may be too basic for some of us aka those who are in health and fitness field, but it is super useful for layman. I am going to get my helper to study this also. +Interesting and engaging. My only con is that a few pieces of the information was out-of-date. +it is VERY basic course suitable for people who really struggling to find their way to healthy food and even to its determination. Basic recipes are giving for home cooking. BEAUTIFUL illustrations along the course as well. BUT I hoped to find more scientific information about nutrition and suggestion which products might cause specific diseases. Would be also nice to have lectures from scientific point of view like: why it is unhealthy to eat before going to bad, which products digest slower etc. +Great course! +Super interesting, but it is a very basic introduction to nutrition. Only the first or second lessons have information about nutrients and how they are different from each other. The other sections you could've gotten from a Michael Pollan book, or one of his documentaries. Nevertheless, very engaging, visually and verbally, and ideal for someone who is getting started on nutrition. +This really is such an insightful course. +I was hoping for something a little more scientific and a little less home-ec-y. +Very Easy to understand with sound advice on health and nutrition. +Typically aimed at the US lifestyle +This course is extremely well made! I am enjoying it very much! I'm personally using it for a review of nutritional principles and basics and this course is FILLED with wonderfully clear and visually captivating video lectures cut into shorter 4-5 minute lectures! This course is probably meant to be taken over a months time, but It's SO Captivating that I can't get enough and be through it in a few days at most! Thank you for putting this course online for everyone to take, learn and enjoy! I'm going to recommend it to my whole online nutrition course at my university for an excellent review of basic and key nutritional concepts! It will certainly leave a lasting impression on my further nutritional studies. +very simple to understand, clear and direct information is delivered +very helpful....already started adjusting our food choices! +It is great course what helps you to improve your health!Eat food.Not so much. Mostly plant))) +Excellent course & instruction! I thought I knew it all regarding food and health (haha), but no, I did not. I learned so much valuable information and tools needed to rethink and assess how I shop for food, and my relationship with food. I will definitely recommend this course to my friends and family.Thanks, Stanford. I really enjoy your courses! +Very good course!! +I think pointing out loopholes in food industry is a big plus! This is ACTUALLY educating people. +This course is less demanding than I expected/hoped, but nevertheless the content and its delivery was top-notch. The lectures present material in a clear and natural way. Course content is immediately and easily applied to daily life. The video production is the among the best I've seen in online education. Not groundbreaking, but immensely helpful to those unfamiliar with this material. Definitely worth your time. +It is so useful.Especially the professor will teach you how to cook and I felt so hunger when I was watching. +great course +Very good content! Easy to understand and very practical ! Loved it +very good thank you +Informative and practical. Mixes lectures with real life examples (from the professor's personal life) to validate content. +Fun, quick and easy course that had useful information for beginners and those with more experience alike. Don't expect to learn a lot about the physiology and chemical science of food, but has some great useful information for anyone looking to make healthier choices in their everyday li +This was a very baseline introduction and basically a summary of Pollan's books and ideology. The positive is that is was very accessible in time and presentation however provides little insight to ins +THIS IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND VERY WORTHY TO LEARN! AND VERY USEFUL FOR DAILY LIFE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS CLASS. i WILL BE HEALTHIER PERSON, +Very useful course for newcomers to nutrition! +Interesting course, talked about the food we eat and how to have a balanced diet. +Easy to understand and do learned something in the courses. +good overall conversation about food +A little too easy +Great content! +Great for an introductory class on food and health +Very useful cours. Thank you very much! :) +It’s a very nice course, simple and clear to learn about the benefits of eating healthy but also about the reasons, using some statistics and advise but keeping simple and entertaining. +Very educational and fun way to learn. Instructor was very good at explaining key concepts and I especially enjoyed the new recipes I learned during the cooking seminar. +It's brief but quite informative. It organizes its content in a way that's both educative and entertaining at the same time. love Maya's style. +I enjoyed this course! Very informative and very educative +Brilliant, enjoyable to watch, informative, interesting and practical. WELL DONE! +A very interesting and practical approach to our daily healthy diet. Refreshed some of my ideas about food. especially the last chapter " moderate eating" made me realize I do have over eat problem. ask yourself " are you still hungry " instead of " are you full" +Very easy to understand for a person with very little knowledge about nutrition. It provides the basic information and also a start for those who want to start learning about eating healthy. +great! thanks! +Well developed and useful. +it was not too difficult for me who is non-native English speaker to understand what they teach and tell me. In addition, thinking about health is a really important topic in our lives. I am glad to take this course. thank you. +It is a very basic course, very useful for general public. But if your specialization is nutrition or public health, this course is way too easy and does not have enough info. +Very clear and well explained, but a little too basic. +Fairly well designed course and quizzes +I now feel that when I go grocery shopping that I can make informed decisions on what to purchase so that I can live a healthier life style. I greatly enjoyed the class and the bonus recipe at the end is very nice. Thank you. +A lovely intro class. Although I feel I knew most of the information presented, it came packaged differently. This was a much needed update, thank you! +Great course, It is very informative and fun to learn. I love the fact that I can watch the videos on-the-go. And I learned a lot about food and eating. Great job! Thanks!! +Very basic course with lots of common sense. But could be good for someone who never thought about their diet before. +Really useful and practical. Helps with your knowledge about your own health and it's very indicated to people who want to start a new life style with healthy food. I truly liked. +simple, easy to follow, for everyone. Not really a "course" per se. Not many real nutrition "courses" on Coursera. :( +Good advice, well packaged, enjoyable. +This class was awesome, I wish there would have been more reading though. Videos get boring eventually and I like to research further and be able to look at the words rather than just hear them. +Very helpful and easy to understand. +If you are looking for advice on how to live a healthier life I believe this might be a great course for you. However, if you are looking for depth in the nutritional science this course will be unfulfilling. I stopped after the 3rd week of lessons because this course did not contain the scientific information I was hoping for. +Love it!!! Very educative and well resourced. +Amazing, easy to follow, valuable information!!! +Hate the music. And that permanent fake smile and constant nodding. Those are cheap brainwashing techniques which target human cognitive abilities and subconscious to make their words sound more deep and convincing.You often can see such brainwashing tricks in commercials and advertisements which try to elevate some concept or idea but lack any information or facts to back it up. And it is very weird to see same tricks used in this set of lectures, because these ones actually do have a lot of facts and information and arguments behind them.The whole course is basically just blaberring about vegetables. Almost no new or useful information for me. +I really like this course. For me, it was a good introduction to know how to eat properly and how I should combine my food. The way Maya teach is clear and close, and you can understand and assimilate easily the concepts. Also, the videos of the last lesson are very helpful. +wonderful info. thank you +I loved this course. +Very practical and applicable information. Great quality in the videos. +It's really an introduction, but in spite of it I've found some new and valuable information in the course. I recommend it. +Very informative and simple. I love all the recipes and I can't wait to try all of them. +Great introductory course. I especially enjoyed the interviews with Michael Pollan. +Very informative beginner course for anyone looking to learn more about Food/Health. I recommend everyone have the basic knowledge this course offers. +Great material, great insights and well-built tests. +I recommend widely this course, it reaches very important information about our western diet and how can we improve it to a healthy diet. As a Physician I got important tips for my patients, most of them have metabolic syndrom; and obviously I want to apply this information to me and to my family health. +If you no nothing about this topic, lectures are very good. +Highly recommended course! +Very informative, short, and well worth the time invested. +Not about the actual effect of food on your health, it's just a cookbook. +In the beginning it feels like a course, but from week three on it feels more like a conversation about food. It is more suitable for people with very little background n food science and nutrition, aiming to get some knowl on these fields. But the views are quite one sided and necessarily true when it comes to the understanding of the food chain. Of course, many of their opinions are valid, but I wouldn´t accept those views as solid rock statements because they are not.In any case, I recomend the course for people with obesity problems and those who are too lazy to think about the importance of home cooking.The quality of the videos is outstanding! Congratulations! +Great information. To the point +Short and sweet intro!! +I really enjoyed this course - the recipes at the end are very nice, even though, gluten free is rather unnecessary, as only a very (very) small group of people actually need gluten free diets. But I liked the other content of the course very much.Thanks for explaining and sharing. +Very informative and insightful. Great flexibility of doing it at your own pace. +Great course on nutrition.It highlights the key concepts and gives a good knowledge of the food industry. It also enables us to understand the major problems related to food & health as well as how to tackle them. +Excellent food and health information. I learned a great deal, very impressive. +Short and very informative. Such a practical way to a sustainable healthy lifestyle +The course was really illustrative and full of information, it has clearly answered all my doubts. The presenter is great and the interview with Pollan is totally inspiring. Loved it. +Utterly disappointing. I hoped for a fact-based education on current scientific thinking in nutrition. Instead, this course consists of a couple of people's opinions on eating, without cited evidence, presented in a feel-good documentary-lite format with good camerawork and cute children. This is a high school public service announcement, not a university course; not what I'd expect from Stanford or Coursera. +Good "basics" course. Great for beginners and reminders!I was hoping for something more advanced & was a bit disappointed. I am probably more knowledgeable than most however. The statement made regarding "eating fruits & veggies regardless of whether they have pesticides or not" was a bit tough for me as I became ill in part due to pesticides and still am. I might always be. I understand eating veggies in place of other foods (i. e. - processed foods) as I eat very little meat anymore. But coming from Stanford and someone as educated as he is, that was shocking. It makes me wonder who funded this course. +Really simple and to the point course. Learned a lot from this, really thank you to people at stanford for putting this together. +This course literally changed my life. I have been trying to cook healthy meals, and actually have certain ingredients I always have, like lemons, onions, olive oil, and several others. I took this course at a perfect time, where it really helped me move more toward plant-based meals. Thank you. +A short important course for life. +very good.I love u +Excellent information! +Wonderfully simple and sensible take on how our food relates to our health. Well produced. +Good introductory course covering a wide range of concepts. I particularly liked the lecturer - good tone and pace. +Good introduction to the food and very easy to understand +It was filled with a lot of interesting, pertinent information but I did feel that there was not enough variety in terms of interviews and I do wish that she had delved more into some of the topics. I understand it was an overview but I often felt that it was very brief. +Great, enjoyable, easy to follow and understand, and really practical knowledge! Thank you +It's a great short course! It changed my wrong eating concepts. I will eat more vegetables and fruits instead of highly processed food. +Informational and easy to follow! Thank you! +I really enjoy taking courses on this site. Very helpful and educational. +Very important field o +This was my first course, and I hope all future courses are exactly like this one! Maya has such a nice way of talking. The videos were easy to understand, without compromising substance. I also enjoyed the overall high-quality of the course. My only complaint is that some of the topics seemed a little bit irrelevant, such as the case study of a middle-aged, pre-diabetic man. I feel like that video should've been shortened by sevety-five percent and tacked onto the end of another video as an example. +Greate course thanks for share this all knowledge +This course was really very enlightening and interesting. +This course is very helpful for me and for everyone who want to have a healthy lifestyle. +Very interesting, useful +Interesting course, with a very popular guest: Michael Pollan (Netflix, Cooked) A perfect - more scientific underlining of the documentation "Cooked". +its a very good start when you doesn't know nothing about the food or habits +It's great! +nice intro for people lacking basic nutrition knowledge. +I like the course very much! and I like Maya and her recipes! +amazing course which can change the way in which people eat +Its good. It will motivate a person to have healthy diet :) +It is very basic and the principles are for a third-grader. After all the things said, at the end the first video was about pancakes (nvm they were gluten free) +good overview of the basics for people who want to improve their health (and don't realize that the standard American diet is making them sick). +A fantastic course that delights as it teaches! +Nice, easy to understand +EXCELLENT!!! In my humble opinion, this course has what it takes to learn about nutrition, nutrition talk is very interesting +The course is great for beginners in nutrition, it helps dissolve a lot of the misinformation in the food industry today and can help change our eating habits with some helpful tips and lessons. A follow-up course would be needed to really expand and touch upon the many subjects this course introduces us to. +Good introduction course +I loved it, i justed wanted to learn more and more with every video +Excellent, I really enjoyed all about the course, mainly the recipes. Thank you so much +It is a basic course about food and health. You could learn the most important issues about food and our habits. You can learn easy tips about how to bu +Brilliant! +Very good introduction to a more healthy life style. +A good basic review of healthy eating habits. +very nice studying for my life! +It was really a very rewarding course ! Thank you ! +I wish there is a continuation +Very Informative! +Many culture have different diet.But we all are supposed to consume more real food.And the moderation of labels is very helpful.Hope everyone can master the art of moderation. +Simple and informative. +Very engaging. Well presented and friendly. I would recommend this to high school students and really anyone who wants a basic primer on eating healthier. +Thanks for this amazing class!Since I started taking this class I have cooked more at home just because this class has helped me to understand that is not difficult. Thanks for his AWESOME class +Easy to follow. A great deal of information in a short period of time! Excellent. +I really liked the course. It presents simple and yet very good and applicable principles that I'm trying to apply in me everyday meals. Thank you! +A very systematic course indeed. Extremely simple to understand . +Very good Course for better understanding of daily diet and food habits. +It is interesting and helpful in developping good diets. +really nice video, I learned a lot +I spent 2.5 hours on this course and I've learnt more about food than 2.5 decades I've lived so far. Highly recommend! +Useful information, thank you very much for the opportunity to learn. +Amazing course, very applicable and easy to follow! +Easy to understand, easy to follow up. Love the recipes, hence these just prove, cooking ain´t complicated at all. +Very useful course for me and for my profession. I'm a young Doctor and I wanted to do this course during university. +Someone really put some work into this! Great if you (like me) do not have any clue on how to eat healthy.Somehow superficial treatment though, if someone asked me what i took out of this course i would say to best eat half vegetables and half meat/carbohydrates. I hoped for more answers on "why" questions, like "why are vegetables necessary?", or "what vegetables are needed for what body function?".Still, nice, flashy videos and great commitment of the editors. +Clear and simple. Very useful. I recommend it to everybody. +So practicial Thankyou Maya and team +Great basic information about nutrition and health. I wish it would go a little bit deeper into each nutrient. +Basic information useful for those without much knowledge of nutrition or want a review about healthy eating +Loved the course! Very informative! My fiance and I did it together and he enjoyed it as well! Wish there were more weeks!! +Really enjoyed this course, thank you x +learn a lot!! looking forward to some constructive life changes +Easy, quick and healthy! Like a good lifestyle should be. Very informative material, especially for those with less knowledge about the first steps into a healthy lifestyle. Good basics for starters and freshup for those with more skills. +Extremely informational and very engaging, exactly what I was looking for when I enrolled in this course. +I enjoyed this course very much! +Wonderful Program, changed me and my entire family, +general and shallow, not very informative, could be inspirational for those haven't cooked in a long time. recipe are at the end of course. +Excellent short introduction that helps you focus on the importance of replacing as much processed food as possible with more healthy choices. +Very well presented course.To certain degree, the concepts are basic. If you're looking for a course that explains the physiological effects of sodium or the chemical reaction of glucose, this is not it. However, it gives sensible advice about how to eat well for a healthy life.I took away a number of good ideas. Also, the course helped me put into a wider context some things I already knew in a disjointed manner, which helped me to understand them better.Good structure, script, presentation (including interaction between the presenters), visuals...In summary, I feel following this course was time well spent. +The course was informative, condense to be easily understood, and was well done. I left the course eager to learn how to cook!I think the course could have demanded / pushed the students a little more to think about this deeper.I am excited to try out the recipes! +BeautifulFunAnd very thoughtful! +Very Informative. A practical approach to daily life and food choices. Really appreciate Maya Adams and Micheal Pollan for thier immense knowledge and practical advice. +I liked so much and I learned to have better food habits. +very helpful +Fascinating course. Learned alot! +easy to understand and happy to learn +I am 25 years old, and 6 month ago I went to the cardiologist because I was having high blood pressure. Since then I tried to change my eating habits, but choosing which foods to eat became a task that I didn't know was so hard. With this course actually became a lot easier. Thank you! +Great course with beautiful images and illustrations. I would like to learn more about the topic, it would be great to make a second part for it. +It fit almost exactly what I was looking for in the course. Simple high level guidance about food, nutrition and communicating it in terms of the foods we would buy in a grocery and the portioning and composition of an ideal plate of food. Very digestable videos broken up to keep interest. One thing that might have been nice was delving deeper or providing references with more sources of each type of macronutrient so you could walk away from the course and just begin mix and matching. Nonetheless, I thoroughly enjoyed it. +It's a very easy course. I enjoyed it. And I learned a few new concepts for understanding food and health that I did not know before. +This course was taught well, loved the videos, it was a bit basic but did serve as a great overview. +I really enjoyed this course and would encourage people the world over to really listen to the truth in this course. Beyond food , I've learnt a whole lot more and I believe this would help individuals, coporate societies and communities make informed choices about this important sphere of life +This is less of a university level course and more of a long infomercial for Michael Pollen books with a cooking show at the end.There is no interviews with nutritionists or scientists. In fact, there really isn't much here in the way of science at all.The cooking videos are fun with some good recipes. +Incredible classes so easy to understand and great recipes Thank you Maya and Professor Pollan! +the start has a steap learning curve but starts to flatten from the second week. Learned a lot though +It´s a very good course, based on the information you get about food and eating. The best i get from this course is that i got interested in cooking and adding more vegetables to my plate. +Good course in a sense of introduction to healthy eating habits. Would like to see more advanced courses with larger emphasis on vegetarian/vegan lifestyle +Great course +Changed my view on food +Short and effective course. Good information and practical advice. Would recommend to anyone interested in what they're eating and what they could be eating! +I liked everything about this course, from the presentation, to the method of teaching. It was great. +really enjoyed it. +This course is informative course. Somehow, it may require some basic knowledge. Thank you and I have learned a lot. +Sound information, very well presented! (I Loved the Crepes!) +Very good! Everybody should see this course and try to get a better diet. +Very good as a introduction course! Its clear and easy! Congratulations for the contents! +Videos are fun and informative. I think assignment questions sometimes are too scientific nevertheless for some people this can be even more exciting. +Fundamental, but pretty good! +Broadened my perspectives regarding what should we eat and how we eat everyday: Eat (real) food, not too much, mostly plants. Excellent course!!!!! +Excellent course, very empathetic speaker. +Really good, I enjoyed from the begining to the end. +I really enjoyed the course, but i found out that there is not enough information about such aspects as vitamins, minerals and what happens to them while cooking, what methods of cooking are healthier, which helps most to preserve most of the nutritions and why, etc...Nevertheless, I really appreciate your job and it was amazing feeling to spend some time with you because it was helpful and i enjoyed listening to your speech, voices and the culture overall. The knowledge will certainly be useful! Will suggest this course to my friends :)Kind regards from your russian student! +Very good!! The best +It was well presented but a little light on, I was hoping for a bit more "meat" to it. But interesting none the less, & a fascinating insight into how few people apparently cook their own food. +Not much content +A simple and great comprehensive course on human food for everybody who would like to eat healthy. +Beautifully executed and fun to hear Michael Pollen speak, but sooooo easy. Too easy, really. +Would have enjoyed to have been shown examples of breakfast, lunch, and dinners for people that are just getting started. +I totally enjoyed watching it! Thank you! I'll recommend it to my family and friends. +Great class for anybody interested in how to get away from the western diet that is doing so much harm to people that eat it. Well-produced and thorough introduction to the causes of and solutions to the obesity epidemic in the US. +This was a great introduction with practice advice on how to make and suggest lifestyle changes. +It's a very good introduction to nutrition and food +Great quality course! Highly recommend for anyone interested in basic food and nutrition. I thought it would go into a little more depth than it did but the production quality was so amazing I didn't mind. +Really nice! +Thanks Maya a lot ! In 3 minutes you share more than others in a book. +This corse provided best insights about food. +Thank you for offering the course. I've learned a lot of new nutritional information that I will apply to my lifestyle. +Fun & easy introduction to basic concepts in Food and Health. +In my opinion the course was fantastic!! Very easy linguage, clear explanations and an excellent and nowdays topic: "Food and Health"I love the videos from Maya Adam!Sandra AguiarBrazil +Very clear and didactic. Useful concepts to the point. +Great information that is presented in short segments that highlight that topic. Very basic but good information that is a great refresher and good introduction to learning to eat healthier. Excellent presentation and enjoyable format. +Good info, maybe a bit basic. Would love a more in depth follow up.Thanks for all your hard work. +a tad simplistic - grades should be locked too +Easy and engaging and very helpful! +This class helps me to realize the significance of foods and health.I had a bad dietary habits,then I have been fat and some chronic diseases.I thought i was lazy and didn't know how to deal with it.But now,i determine to have a healthier diet and lifestyle.THANK YOU! +Great presentation of information. The course was exactly what I was looking for, very helpful. +It was really nice introduction, I would love to make higher level with certificate! +Extremely well produced. I would have liked a little more bit information but for a Free Intro class it's well worth it. Being a food professional in the industry over 20 years the challenge is getting others to change their eating habits. Stopping the super sized highly processed food consumed here in America is difficult when many of the people think that is their only choice and for some of the poorest it is. But all of us can and should pass this message on to others.On a side note, lose the animation of the overweight guy with the flannel shirt and the cutoff sleeves. You've just alienated a demographic you would like to see change in. Kind of elitist in my opinion. Not that I own any flannel shirts :)Thank you for a great course!Jon M. CostedoatLos Gatos, CA +It is a starting and refreshing point of view of how can we start to eat healthier without the feeling that we have to put a lot of effort, time and lifestyle. +I enjoyed this course and learning, specifically how to adapt a healthier diet and the evolution of food in the US. The videos were interesting and the information was insightful and applicable to daily life. The only thing I might change in the course is having the professor incorporate definitions to some of the terms (i.e. nutrient dense, , metabolic abnormalities) in the videos, or as a supplemental document.I would recommend this course to others. +Very clear and understandable messages about food. Actionable piece of advice for every day, much recommended to everyone. +The course is essentially a self-help guide focusing on the idea that cooking real food promotes health. This is certainly a message that many people need to hear.Unfortunately, the advice concerning what to eat is less sound. Let me illustrate this with a historical counterexample.Around 75 years ago, a Canadian dentist visited my home country of Switzerland, where he examined the health and diet of a population in a secluded mountain valley. He found them to be of exceptional health. Their diet?breakfast: rye sourdough bread, butter and cheeselunch: rye sourdough bread, butter and cheesedinner: rye sourdough bread, butter, cheese and potatoes, along with some vegetables in the warmer half of the year, and small amounts of meat on SundaysContrary to four fundamental recommendations in the course, these people ate a lot of saturated fat (butter) and animal protein (cheese), but few vegetables and had hardly any variation in their diet.They did prepare their own food, grown or pastured locally, in very mineral-rich soil, which imparted their butter and cheese with very high amounts of fat-soluble vitamins A, D and K2. Perhaps animal foods are not as unhealthy as the course suggests, and food (and soil) quality is paramount.Instead of taking this course, watch Maya Adam's TEDx talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-gyIkA-crM) and browse the recommendations of the Weston A. Price Foundation (http://www.westonaprice.org/) to learn what to cook, in particular their Healthy4Life dietary guidelines (http://www.westonaprice.org/wp-content/uploads/Healthy4LifeEnglish.pdf). If you still need a self-help guide to actually start cooking your own food then by all means, take this course. It'll only take you about an hour. +Loved it, and the recipes at the end are great! +The best nutrition course ever! Thank you very much Dr.Maya Adam! +extremely short & easy - fun-ducation. Not hugely informative for someone who's looking to learn about the links between what we eat and how we eat, and how human bodies respond. But the instructor is very charming, so it was a pleasant experience. The whole course can be completed in 1-2 hours +Too simplistic if you already have some knowledge about a healthy lifestyle +This course is very useful and helpful for those who want to stay healthy for their own live and the family especially if they want to instill good habit for the children in eating healthy food. +Great course. Learned much from this experience. +Good course, easy to follow and informative. I regret that the content was so basic, I would have loved more depth particularly when the instructor is so knowledgeable and such a good speaker! +Very interesting course, I really enjoy it +Exceptional. Simple and understandable and also useful in every way. The videos are made in such a way that you remember most of the things. +I really like the style of the video lectures! They aren't the typical boring lectures. I enjoyed the course and would to love to know more about nutrition! +Really interesting! Now a days I act suspicious about the food I'm buying. It's a journey to integrate this information to a healthy lifestyle, the workshop is great help for that. +The course taught me how to eat healthy.It's very helpful in daily life.but not that helpful in my study in food science. +Interesting lectures with helpful tips for staying healthy. I would like to have seen more specific examples or supplementary articles to support the information. +Good content +Good material, very basic but very meaningful +I thought this was a terrific tutorial on the practicality of eating healthy. It's one thing to be concerned calorie intake and understand the nutritional differences between protein, carbs and fat. It's another thing to become knowledgeable about real vs processed food. I really hadn't thought much about that. I will be looking at a lot more ways to eat plant-based and fresh foods. I would recommend this course to everyone I know. Thanks! +Simple and quick introduction on eating healthier! +A very informative course. Beautifully explained to let one give thought on what we eat everyday and even more motivating to start cooking super simple healthy dishes to survive on !!!! all worth it !!!! +Very informative and well produced! Can be helpful for everyone who wants to live a better life by changing a bit of the diet habit :) +Way too easy.. I was expecting more information in nutritional science.Still there's some useful tips for us to choose good food and improve our health +Information: excellentVisual aids: beautiful but sometimes tedious and repetitive, sometimes unpredictable, more creative ways of visual aids can help understand and remember better.Overall excellent course. +I really enjoyed the course, the simplicity of the lectures made each of the topics easy to understand.. it's been great to have participated in this course, I feel much more equipped in knowledge of nutrition and better understanding of the differences between nutrient dense foods vs energy dense. +I found this course to be very informative. It is nicely paced and allows you to gain some insight into the whole issue of diet and health. +Very informational! +Amazing content for beginners +A helpful comprehensive start to learning nutrition basics. +This is not a course - this is a 90 minutes lecture.The idea is greate. But this lecture is only start. Its very brief and not profound.This more advices and not scientifically oriented. +Very useful and interesting lessons on health & food, what to eat, how to eat, and some useful tips for home cooking, thank you!! +very enjoy learning this course. :) +Very good course overall. It gave me some good thought nuggets to keep in mind for the future. At times the course felt more like it was trying to sell the notion of home cooking rather than being about "food and health". Sometimes terms were hastily presented and maybe assumed to be common knowledge, which left me confused in one of the quizzes ("serum triglycerides", for instance).The course touches on interesting topics that could've been elaborated more on, for instance how transfats are made. +Very easy introduction to nutrition. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course! I walked away with a profusion of knowledge and a new lifestyle to focus on. +Very interesting course which is presented in a clear and easy to understand format. +Taking this course has taught me what substances such as (un)saturated fats are, what to look out for in food and several useful tips on how to manage a food lifestyle that is healthy and satisfying. +Interesting and well presented information. I wished the course had been more interactive and had spent more time on the chemistry of nutrition. Also the lectures and quizzes could have been longer. +The materials are wonderfully presented and the instructors are very likable and engaging. However, the quizzes are very pandering and the course overall is not very challenging. +Great visualization! Enjoyable easy to understand course. +This course has helped to connect in a very persuasive and positive way to basics of food and health. It gives a deep yet simple approach to food and the art of eating, living and enjoying life. Kudos to Maya and her team!Looking forward to more such courses in the future! +Thank you! very interesting and "easy going" course! +Very good introduction to health & foods :)Nothing much new if some of u have seen already the doco in defense of food :) +I have learned alot its beautiful and awesome. i changed my lifestyle. +I learned a lot, and it was easy to follow and keep up with. The quizzes could have been a little more difficult, but overall, it was a great course. +Thank you, this was a fantastic overview of nutrition. I feel very confident going further in my studies. +This is a must! Good tips and advices to gain health by the food you eat and the way you eat. Great teachers, short videos, easy to follow. +Every human being must take this course to be conscious on what they are eating and what they are feeding their children. The lecturer's clear voice and pronunciation will be very easy to understand, especially for those who are not native language speakers. +A Great course for anyone who wants to improve their diet. You wound'nt find any other course out there. +absolutely amazing, informative, and inspiring +loved it, can't wait to try the recipes +Great course! It was very basic and short and that's precisely what makes this course great. The information presented was concise and anyone should be able to understand it and apply the concepts into their everyday lives. If everyone in America applied such simple principles that were taught in this course into their daily lives, I have no doubt in my mind that the obesity epidemic would be ended within a few years. +Great way to understand some basics! The only thing to have in mind is that it's US based info, so you will have to research more about your culture and your society. But it's good. +Very straight forward course with essential information that is potentially life-changing and enlightening. I loved this course which has given me new understanding of foods and their value for myself and my family. +Well, I was raised by a home ec major and a librarian, so I already knew much of this. But for those who weren't, it's very valuable. +Loved your videos Maya, and your recipes too. +Straight forward facts presented in an engaging format. +Good, succint , well presented and informative course +Nice and straight forward informationVery pleasant deliveryThank you +Great introductory course which gives a more nuanced view on eating. Everyone would be able to understand this and start to cook by themselves. Would have been nice if one week would have been dedicated to some myths, like the protein shake or gluten free diets which are very much debated. +I really loved the course and found it to be incredibly useful and well taught.It was so well explained that I would like to have even more info about Food and Health.Please continue to have courses like this.thanks. +I am a pharmacist and I'm recommending pharmacists too to enroll in this course. Yes, it is true that I myself am into reviewing the Nutritional Values of every item I shop and often compare one against another brand. But this course changed my mind. Thank you Maya for sharing this. Mothers, wives, and health care practitioners must do this firstly and make themselves healthy first before making a difference to another's health. Have a great day! +I was hoping for something a little more technical. This course might be good for someone who has no previous knowledge of the nutrition content of food or how to cook. It would be perfect for kids getting ready to head off to college who've never cooked for themselves. +Good basic information. Easy to understand by anybody +This is a really well thought out course with plenty of sound advice. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to everyone who cares about their health. +If you have some basic knowledge about food and nutrition, then this course is not the right for you. It's very basic and sometimes trivial. But the lecturer and course itself was really nice. +Videos are very clear and very well explained... Nice animations, graphs, ... definitely a great piece of work.However, I have to say that I expected more content/theory on food and health inside our body rather than general advises on how to cook at home. I am a person that cooks already at home and does not like to eat much processed food, so majority of videos I found too simple and basic... +It was pretty basic, but great and very interesting!!!! +Easy to understand the fandamentals of our diet, well organized, and realistic and actionable suggestions for busy people. Highly recommended for people who are keen on their healthy lifestyle. +The one thing I do not like, is that its not long enough. +its the best course on food i believe . +strongly recommended for physicians +Very informative +Interesting to learn about the modern US diet and why it doesn't work. I thought it was a great intro course on benefits of eating at home but more important eating meals cooked at home. +Very helpful and beneficial! +Really very basic, anyone with an interest in the subject is likely to know most of this already. nicely presented though, good quality videos. +This is a great introductory and time efficient course that allows anyone to get a brief overview of a healthy life style. This course, aside from the first video, does not go into the nutritional value of food or micro nutrient variables. So, if you'd like to get more information on how to cultivate your own healthy life style this is a great choice. However, if you'd like the more scientific side of things this course is not for you. +Really enjoying the course. My only wish is that it would be longer and more in-depth. :) +A very inspiring course confirming the conclusions made on basis of my own life experience. Thanks! +I signed up for this course because of health issues - my triglyceride level was a bit to high on my last blood analysis. Even though I felt, and still feel, that this course is more specifically aimed at people who are inexperienced in the kitchen and maybe even overweight, it has helped me and my family improve some of the aspects of our lives that could still be improved. Furthermore, i think this is a course that everyone should take for themselves and especially for their families, since the person who cooks is the one influencing everyone's diet and therefore their health.Maya, thank you so much for sharing your wisdom (and your recipes) with us! +This seems like a good overview for those new to the kitchen, and/or health concerns more generally. For someone interested in deepening their understanding, it's of more limited value--but it is presented as an introduction. I wish there were readings to supplement the videos. +This course was very interesting. I would like to learn more Food and Health. Thank you very much. +Insightful and easy to understand and apply to your daily life. +This was an excellent class taught by a wonderful professor. Professor Adams needs to do a follow-up to this class in the future that expands on subjects taught. +It's a very informative course. I like the way the instructor presents and discuss the facts and current issues. +great, too short though, would have liked more on the underlying theory and on the applications +Course breaks down nutrition simply to someone who is new to a healthy lifestyle, or someone who just wants to refresh their memory on the basics to nutrition. +It's real time learning and mind awakening topics and learning more information contained herein . +Sooooo useful. And I love the simple rules that are easy to remember. +Great information, but in some instances I would have liked to see the course delve a little deeper into the topic. This was a minor concern however, overall it provided the information that mattered, and did so in a simple and "easy to digest" manner. Well done! +Overall, I found this course to be a good refresher given my prior knowledge / skill base. I could see this course being very good for absolute beginners with little to no knowledge of nutritional concepts or cooking. I personally was looking for more advanced / in-depth information about nutritional science in order to better equip me to be a knowledgeable resource for my clients (with whom I primarily work around health / wellness related issues). Additionally, the cooking ideas / concepts were all practices that I already utilize in my own kitchen / feeding my own family. One section that I did find incredibly helpful was the discussion about the different types of fats.As it stands, I would definitely recommend this course to a client, friend, or family member starting out at a beginner's level (like my fiance) or anyone who needs a refresher. +Very light, as it is broken down in quick, appealing videos, but super informative and complete. I loved the course and I certainly learned how to lead a more satisfying food life. +To me , you were preaching to the choir. I have been trying to follow Pollan's ideas for years. I was hoping for new information, but for me it was a rehash of stuff I have heard ad infinite. this did not seem like a class. This seemed more like an advertisement for healthy eating with it constant music and sparse content. Certainly it did not have the rigorous content that would have been required in a college level credited class. It was certainly not as interesting nor as informative as the Berkeley class "edible education 101"Still as an advertisement for good eating it was well done. If you found an audience out there somewhere who had not heard these messages, then you have succeeded and I applaud you for that. +This course was short, easy to understand, and provides excellent information. I enjoyed it. This might not be new information to some, but I liked this format and think it will appeal to people who like straight-forward talk about food and health. +Lots of good tips and reminders one may have forgotten in this busy lifestyle most of us live. +I star reduced because it was somehow lacking in assignments and practical applicable steps to start eating healthy. A great base of information to build on and offer more in depth of what foods to eat and not to eat. Would also love more information on label reading and organic vs Other food. Extra Virgin vs Virgin Olive oil etc. +loved the instruct +Its a good and simple intro. the the very important world of eating healthy, ergo being happy.I would complement it with Michael´s Pollan book "In Defense of Food".Excited to continue my learning journey... +Very interesting and well organised course where you can learn the basics of food, nutrition and health +This course is a good introduction to basic nutrition guide lines for people who have never learned about nutrition before. +Thank you for this beautifully simple, easy to follow, well-structured framework for a healthy diet. Maya, your courses are my source of inspiration to be a healthier person, a better mom, and a happier individual. +eat food, not too much, mostly plants... great course, thanks +I liked this information, but I wouldn't call it a 'course'.I'm a certified PT and I benefit from the information, but many books have been written about the subjects as well.I, personally, loved the information given, as it gave me a touch-up on my knowledge and tips to give to my clients. +This course has given me a completely new understanding of how my body functions and how I can "play around" with my meals to change my body and feel healthier! I thought (with this being an online course) that I would not gather much from the content that I didn't already know, but that definitely was NOT true! Thanks for a great experience! +Really good and useful!! Thank you!!! +Awesome course with invaluable practical information about daily food and diet. Would love to see follower courses about specifics. +Great introduction! I will definitely recommend this course to many of my relatives to whom I struggle to explain what a healthy diet means! To me, two aspects could be emphasized a bit more as I can see many people trying to eat healthy making those mistakes: 1. eating natural non organic food is better than processed organic food, 2. marketed healthy food is usually not healthy (orange juices etc.) as natural healthy food does not have to be marketed. Raise awareness against marketing labels "organic" and "healthy"Great job! Thanks a lot. +Great introduction to real food, cooking, and healthy living. Michael Pollan interviews are great. +Nice for a first approach, easy to follow. Good content. +Easy to understand, a simple guide that really orient me +Simple and to the point. Good practical tips to lead a healthier life style while enjoying a variety of foods. +Great class, but a little shorter than I would like and similar to Dr. Adams other Coursera offering. +Great introduction to nutrition. Entertaining, instructive and potentially life saving :). +Liked the course. The video materials were short and to the point. Learnt a lot and hope to improve my eating habits. +Nicely done, with lots of common sense. Got me motivated to change my eating habits and improve my well being. Thank you Dr. Maya. +more scientific evidence would have been useful +I love this course!! It helped me a lot! We are using all the information given and applying it in our kitchen. It would be great to have more courses like this.We´re creating new habits in our family. Thank you Maya for sharing. +Good introduction into nutrition +Very helpful! It gave me a better idea on what to eat and how to eat it :) +Basic information but well presented. +I found this to be a great introductory course. It gives helpful tips and ideas that provide you with the foundation to start looking at food, eating food, buying food and cooking food in a more informed way. +It's a really good introduction to food and health in our daily lives. It would be great to continue by understanding how we can solve a lot of health issues. The Dr. Kousmine succeeded through her researches to fight against the cancer and other diseases. Thanks again Maya for your great courses. +Thanks for keeping the videos short, as to not have to deal long loading/buffering/streaming time. +I wish all of my patients and their families would watch this course. -Pediatrician +Very informative! +Michael Pollan is wonderful! Great fundamental tips. Music can be distracting. Maya's speech is a bit slow...Pollan's pace was stronger. Visuals were clean and easy to digest. Content was succinct and memorable. Appreciated the brevity of the videos. Thank you. +an easy course, i would reccomend it to novices to nutritional science. If you're a more seasoned nutritionist, move on and find a more challenging course. +Information is very straight forward and short, which is very good for people, who claim they do not have time. I think this course sums up and clarifies many things I watched and learned over the years in a very orderly manner. +really remind us to always eat health. +Not in depth enough +This course changed the way I think about food. I became more informed about the choices of food in my daily life. I respect the views of Dr. Maya Adam and Mr. Pollan on cooking. It is a really short course and I have already recommended this course to several of my colleagues at work. +Way too basic. Only useful to people living in the US having extremely unbalanced diets. +Dynamic course with well presented info. +Very clear and to the point. Easy to follow and learn.It will be longer with more in-depth details about the different topics discussed!THANK YOU. +They talked a little about LDL and HDL which is good.But the rest was just a summary of avoid processed foods, eat less and eat less meat and ways to do it. It is important, but I thought the course lacked science and it was very very short. +the course is just awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +I don't know what I expected. This course was quite pedestrian, but it *is* an introductory course. +This s a very good course for the new so called busy generation. +It was great to have Michael Pollan. Thank you so much. +Quality course with valuable content. Good experience! +This is a "must do" course! Fantastic! The information is simple, clear, and very important for dealing with our modern days problems. +Very useful and straight forward class. I enjoyed taking both courses (children nutrition as well as this one). It helps me to make better choices in the food I buy and cook for my family. +Hi,I was looking for a good introduction course to food and nutrition and, alas, this is not it.I knew 90% of the things discussed in this course, and I was expecting more, but all I got was very basic advices ("eat less", "don't eat crap", etc.), all with videoclips and music which got annoying really quick.Disappointing.Take care. +Love it! +Most of the information in this course is common sense. It may be relevant for someone with very limited knowledge about food, but for anyone who is moderately informed and interested in food, there is not much to learn here. +Very good course raising nutritional and healthy awareness to this generation. +Awesome course. I won't say that it was way too easy for me to solve the quizzes. I have been reading for a while before I took this MOOC. Loved everything about this course. Both the instructors were amazing, especially Dr. Maya Adam. Would love to take another course with her. Some really good additions to my knowledge database. Though it was good to learn how to access a proper food market to buy good food. Thank you guys for such an amazing learning experience. I will be waiting for another course from the same team. ADIOS!!!! +Very inspirational and educative. My life will never be the same again! +I just review the first week of the course, and I think this course is what I want. It will help me to build my long-term health. +Awesome! Very inspiring! I wish it lasted much longer! +I really enjoy the course. I learn a lot of things about food that i didn't know.On the other hand I realized I was wrong about the amount of food we eat , the portions and the way of thinking about food.It's a very interesting course, the material is very clear. I enjoyed very much!!!Greetings from Colombia +I would have loved to get more information. Addtional readings, forums to share ideas and recipes, projects etcs about food, health and nutrition. Maybe homework would increase our knowledge! Some paper as final assignment would be helpful.Thanks for the course and enjoy your meals :) +Great but short! +Simple, powerful, and convincing.Thank you +Very interesting and simple, usfull for everybody +Very interesting +Great course for entry level knowledge of food and health. It was also a great refresher and reminder on rethinking how we eat and how we approach food. +Very Nicely done. Loved it. +Helpful ideas, but could use some more practical suggestions. +Very useful and handy! +干货很多，really practical knowledge! +Very basic content. I am not sure that there was anything new for me in this course. I am born in France and I guess we learn this from our families. +Down to Earth and easy to understand. I love the fact that Michael Pollan is involved! Thank you for the opportunity! +Awesome, very short though. A lot shorter than the first one. +Great course! love it! +Simple and straight to the point. A simple approach to healthy eating that we can incorporate into our lifestyle. +In general, this course is great! Thank you so much for it.Great lectures, great videos, animations and slides.One thing I didn't like is the assumption, that cooking at home will do so much help in slowing down the obesity epidemic. Here in Ukraine most of us don't eat out, but obesity is prevalent nevertheless. +Amazing! Just amazing! Provided with good advice based on science. +This course has to be broadcasted on TV every single day, worldwide :) +I am currently pursuing this course and I find this course to be very simple for a rookie to understand and implement. It clears a large amount of myths that we have regarding different types of food. I understand that in order to gain full benefit of this course we need to implement the stuff presented in this course. So I will start the implementation and additional research required very soon. +Amazing course +Could be added more technical question, but I understand that the course is trying to reach as much people as possible.However explaining a bit more details about minerals, which was not mention, would be good. Extending to flavonoids and some other stuff which most poeple is unaware would be interesting. +great course, wish it were a bit longer. +I love this so much, and I think everyone should watch these videos. This is a work of art really. There is so much useful, globally applicable information packed into a concise, interesting, and credible collection. I love that there are scientific explanations and that the chemistry is shown. I also love how understandable it is to the lay-person, and how there are so many sensible pieces of advice that I feel the need to take and run with. Thank you for this; I will be passing this along to everyone I know. +An excellent introduction to how food impacts health and how health can be improved by small but important changes in our food preparation and consumption. +Far too easy and far too basic for me. I would have hoped for a more in-depth and scientific look at food and nutrition. +Great basic course. I hope it give more detailed answer about cases study +I love it! +Very interesting! Is a basic geodesign course but introduce professions in a different and very important way of thinking: shows the importance on plane urban landscapes with more environmental respect. +This was one of the most interesting coursers so far, especially the Game part. I'd definitely recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn how to understand political behavior. +Very good basic course for everyone interested in the European Union. Here you can learn about the past and the present state of affairs in the EU, as well as get to know some future challenges. The course is filled with lots of EU-related facts and statistics and presents the EU from different points of view. I would say the course is quite a "light" one: there are no peer-reviewed assignments and quizzes are rather short and easy, but it definitely gives food for thought. Be aware that the videos are in French but with English subtitles. +Design was the one we have longed for +This course helped me a lot in understanding more about the different types of data (e.g., vector versus raster data) used in GIS. Also, I think the course does a great job focusing on the main points and gives good videos for work flows. +Takes one step above from Funadamentals of GIS...Must take course!!!! +Introduces some good spatial analysis techniques. You learn how to integrate raster and vector data. +I had a very pleasant experiential learning. +The course provides required knowledge to understand GIS File types, data formats, Design, Spatial Analysis and Creating Web Maps etc., My sincere thanks to the Instructor Mr.Nick Santos. +Great teaching material, great teacher, great tutorials and assignments ! +Excellent course. I'm a current master's student and this course was essential to my understanding of Raster GIS. A must for the GIS-oriented professional! +Its a very useful and informative course. +Easier than I expected to follow. Great help in forums. +Excellent course and great instructor. +This is a really good course, I strongly recommend. In this course we've learned lots of new analysis tools which are very useful in different kinds of work. Thank you UC Davis, thank you Nick Santos and thank you Coursera for this opportunity. +I didn't love the final project for this. It took a lot of time due to some software glitches. Seems like that is unnecessary and should be better managed in the future. +The final assignment is impossible to finish since I have 10.4 version in my computer. You, as the course provider, should modify the assignment instead of asking the student to make changes. The point is that we are trying to gain some knowledge, not wasting time on solving those bugs. +It's really excellent! The course helps me a lot! Thank you. +Good course to know about data formats and other tools used in GIS +Lots of contents, I really enjoyed this course. Good material and videos. Thanks +The video lectures and the course assignments are all challenging; and that moves my urge to go on & on...I love this course +Great course. Very useful level of detail into the various data types and storage formats used in GIS. Includes functional workflows and some of the key tools used by GIS professionals to conduct and share usable analysis. Definitely recommended. +Great contents, very wel presented and fun to do assignments! +The course was great. The tasks were a bit more complex than the ones from the first course, but they are still very fun. In the final assignment I was marked down on one aspect. I had every field in the new parcels layer but only got 4 points. I think it was a mistake from the grader. +So useful! The teacher is also absolutely brilliant. Thank you! +Great course! Thanks Nick, UC Davis, Coursera and fellow learners! +More in-depth work with ArcMap and associated principles. Redundant to a degree with the intro to the specialization, but good blend of instruction and assignments. +wonderfull and usefull course, now i m able to manage data for analyse and design it for a good understanding +The course has opened my eyes to a lot of new concepts, workflows and tools in ArcMap. Challanging, fun, motivating and educating. very pleased with myself for taking it on. +I Love every thing about GIS & Coursera +Fantastic course and the instructor is also really nice. I would highly recommend this course to my friends. +Excellent course. Thanks all for the oportunity! +I really think that this course is the best specialization already available online. +Excellent course, easy to understand. may give you a few headache if you don't have the correct ArcMap Version but +Peer Review system needs an overhaul. I would suggest increasing the number of reviews required by each student so you one incorrect (based on user error) review does not influence your grade so significantly.Otherwise, this is an informative and useful course. +Had fun learning about map making in depth. +It's a great course and the final assignment is very challenging and interesting. All credit goes to the tutor. +Scattered and lacking focus. The material is all there, but it feels like a laundry list of miscellany that didn't make it into the previous or next course in the specialisation. +Another really good course on GIS. I followed on from the first in the specialisation and I think I would have been quite lost without doing that.I like to follow the videos with the demo materials in an open version of ArcGIS - this can be quite hard as some of the demo materials are very big and my laptop struggles to keep up with big processing, a slight improvement could be to have smaller demo files. +Very informative course, thank you Cousera, UC Davies +Awesome course! Thanks! +Very good and beneficial. +This course is fantastic for people interested in getting practical experience of using ArcGIS +Thoroughly enjoyed the course! The lectures are well structured and organized and the assignments are very supportive. +After the Fundamentals of GIS course, this was my second course in the series. This course covers very useful tools that we need to learn. The lectures were short and simple, to the point. The best part was the final peer graded assignment. The course instructors did a remarkable job in designing the problem and it was a great recapitulation of what we learnt during the course. The discussion forum was also a great place to learn. Thanks to my course mates and it actually felt like being together in a classroom. I am thoroughly enjoying being a part of this specialisation and would love to continue. Thank you all. +Great course, great materials, great instructor! +I found this class to be a little more slow in places...mainly when it came to the big section about th data types etc. But it is important to know about them, so I'm glad I stuck through and finished the course. Learnt interesting and smart ways of adding tables and conducting analysis. +Another great class in the GIS specialization! The lectures and course materials are very well thought out. This course moves pasts the basics and gets into details for GIS data formats. The tutorial assignments and project are very useful in practicing the concepts learned in the video lectures. Highly recommend! +This is a really nice course that lets to go deeper into GIS concepts, at this point one can feel power on the fingertips - ability to create and publish own online maps can not be underestimated! +Great! Much fun to have the guest lecturer as well :) Thanks! +Very much recommended course. +This course was worth doing twice. There was so much information and I learned many new skills. The tutorials were in-depth. +Excellent course and I thoroughly enjoyed and learned a great deal of GIS! This combined with excellent teaching approach of the instructor, Nick Santos and the good balance of theory and hands-on makes this course absolute recommendation! +Excellent course. Very clear lectures and assignments. I learned a lot. +Very useful. +Excellent course. I will take the next one :) +I enjoy this course , Excellent learning resource for Gis Data Formats, Design and Quality that teaches with examples , +Well paced, well structured, good fun. +Awesome course. Comprehensive content. Great lecturer. Proper labs. I like how this course does not just let you wade through learning GIS, because the technical level is high. You'll be a pro after going through all these courses +Fascinating, really well taught with good assignment! Looking for to the rest of the specialisation! +Great course, I loved all the workflows and started thinking way more like a GIS Analyst. Hope I can make my own workflows soon. +Great class for expanding your GIS foundation skills. Learn to create and edit features; determine slope, elevation, and distance; upload your content to ArcGIS web maps. +Awesome..... The lectures are very helpful to the students or gis learners who wants to do some on-line, especially the final project was awesome... i really enjoyed and learned much more things... +This course was challenging but it really forced you to learn ArcGIS. I really liked every one of the class lectures and found them easy to follow and a perfect in length. I can't wait until the next segment open up! +Jus what i needed +Not always as up to date as could be. Overall very nice overview of the different aspects of Global Health. Good course! +Very structured, perfect overview of aspects of Global healthcare, engaging lectures with multiple experts and professors in their field. Highly recommended! +A very informational course. Gives a good overview of the concept. Only if they add recent developments and updates on infectious diseases like Zika and Ebola, it would be great. +Very interesting and insightful, with a broad range of topics. Thank you! +A great overview to Global Health - though a bit dated. Still largely refers to MDGs and all.... +excellent teachers ,teaching to the point. +Great introduction, really informative and manageable as a beginner course. +Very interesting course. The classes discuss broad topics with excellent specialists in different fields. I do recommend this course to anyone interested in Public Health. +Very interesting and well organized course +one of the most beneficial courses in this feild +I really enjoyed this course as it was an interesting blend of lectures, readings with practice quizzes and case studies. It gave me an overall understanding of the global health issues and I will refer to it whenever I need a revision. +Very good initial overview on Global Health +I am very unhappy about the Course Certificate for the following reasons : it doesn't state what subjects have been covered, it doesn't mention the hours of study involved. The certificate has a worthless appearance. In comparison I had a very good MOOC Statement of Accomplishment from the university EPFL which I can send to you if you are interested in making any improvements. jack.fairgrieve@gmail.com +alessandro demaio is very inspiring person ,he presnted ncds very well ,all lectures are good very easy to understand. +very informative course +Great course to expand your understandings about how our whole world works from a systematic point of view. If you are interested in an in-deep analysis of the challenges we are facing in the 21st Century, the topics of this course should be a must for you. +This course was informative and interesting. I learned a lot and found it very applicable. It was a great intro course to an important topic! +very comprehensive course! +Very interesting course with excellent teachers. +Superb, it helped me make out my mind about being a professional globalist! +Great course. I will keep in touch with the research of the University of Copenhagen through their newsletter. Hope our paths cross again. Thank you. +Provides a lucid understanding of the health issues across the Globe. +Very interesting and broad topics, inspired me to carry on learning more, I have really enjoyed the course. +Great material taught by such experienced professors and professionals in the area. Wonderful to increase your knowledge in this field, an area where there still so much to be done! +Some course content are not updated (links not working). Very few people in discussions. Didn't see TAs. I had some questions on the forum but not answered. +This course was excellent. +Great course! +Im passed week 5 and this is a fantastic course, providing a huge amount of insight into the challenges and most prominent issues regarding global health. A great introduction, helps you understand and define global health issues and topics.Highly recommend. +This is a great introduction to global health and to the University of Copenhagen. I'm thinking of doing a Masters in the field and have been considering different universities. Having done some of this online course, I +the course provides very rich knowledge on health issues in both developed and developing world. The teaching staff are enthusiastic and professional. +Great interest in working with various global health sectors in the near future, particularly Kenya. Embarking on this course will be a stepping stone. +Great overview of designed and organic data collection! I feel more confident interpreting and understanding survey results and providing input on community-based research projects. Some of the readings were challenging for me because I have not studied statistics, but it was a welcome challenge. I plan to return to some of the course materials after completing a stats 101 course.I took the survey questionnaire design course in this specialization two years ago and I wish I'd taken this first. If you're thinking of sampling courses from this specialization, I highly recommend you start here. +This course is extremely hard to follow, not because of the content but because of the delivery. Presentation, "visuals", word choice, speed, all very poor. I'm in week 3 and EVERY video has been just as difficult to follow.Quizzes are hard to understand and ask you about things that weren't of any actual value to the course, and/or weren't even covered. Also, because multiple answers are required for each question, you are basically answering a 4 part question that is only worth 1 point. Get one part wrong and you miss the whole 1 point. +One of the most informative courses I have ever taken. +This course is no joke. I struggled. I do not have a background in statistics or research but took it as pro dev for what I do in my job as a system administrator (admin for our university's survey tool). Excellent content, great introduction. Opened my eyes to how much I DON"T know. Will be pursuing the rest of the specialization. +Stunning cutting-edge topic to convey Data Science results. +Thanks +The course content was good but teaching method was too poor to understand. First time little disappointment by coursera.com +this course is really good. i enjoyed a lot. +I think this course gives the basic & important knowledge about survey and data collection. Some can feel the course boring. But I believe the important knowledge boring sometimes. +AWFUL monotonous way of talking. I have such a great interest in this topic, but listening to her makes me want to rip my eyeballs out. +Great overview of the survey process. Instructor presented information in a concise manner. Highly recommended. +Excellent introductory course! +This is an excellent introductory course. It provides the learners with all the basic information required to understand surveys. +Great overview of data collection and analysis. +An entremely good effort, gives you a wonderful introduction to the wonderful world of Survey Research in general and data collection overall. One of the plus point is that it directs you towards quite a few new sources of data that is pretty interesting if you are an active researcher. +really helpful. and nicely thought! +This is a rare course that teaches data collection framework from the ground up. +An extremely thorough overview on overall survey design methodology. +The deliver papers are great but slides are poor. In overall, a good course to begin learning about Data Collection and Analysis. +Gives a basic overview of data collection processes. +A good overview of surveys and data collection methods. The Total Survey Error framework is good, but its application isn't shown as strongly as it should be. Regardless this is a good primer for future material. +A great course Prof. Halderman explains the concept of Digital Democracy from the past to the current events in our society. +Clear and interesting +Excellent and Interactive Course... +Very thorough and interesting take on the topic. I am bit horrified how unnecessary complicated can voting system become and i see now voting in my country in a bit different light even if it wasnt part of this course +I really enjoyed this course. The reading material is a thorough listing of what I can continue to reference in my continued work in this area. I aspire to utilize these new skills in subsequent involvement in my local government elections. +A very interesting course, more relevant than ever... +excellent content made very accessible. thanks! +Enjoyed all the real-life examples +Interesting review of historical voting mechanisms and their flaws. Easy to finish in one setting.Not to offend the course instructor, but 'uhm' how can I say 'uhm', every sentence starts, stops and 'uhm, is interjected with filler words 'uh' 'um' etc. Extremely annoying at 1.5x speed. +If you are worried about electronic and on-online voting systems in your country, you MUST take this course. The teacher uses real examples to illustrate the weaknesses of many voting systems around the world. After that, he gives tips and solutions to improve them.There's no need of engineering or programming knowledge. +Amazing course. Loved it. Thanks :) +great course +This is a great course. Excellent history of voting that puts everything in context. Good overview (with details) of how voting machines and systems are vulnerable today taught by a professor that is good at what he does and enthusiastic about the topic.Although it is not presented this way, this is a good course for those in CyberSecurity.One of the better Coursera courses available. +Awesome course, the teacher has very good knowledge on the topic and he explains very well. +Thanks für the team of the course. I have learnt a lot about Securing Digital Democracy. +Taught very well. Assessments can be frustrating (i.e. "select all that apply" questions) but it adds to the learning process. +Great course on a real battlefield in Systems Security. A well designed academic "mind opener". +Especially loved the DRE voting machines part. +Teacher is so goods,and so enthusiasm. +Definitely worthwhile! +Fascinatingand slightly scary! Anyone who votes should watch these lectures. Some of the "correct" quiz answers are dodgy (illogical factually incorrect) but don't let this discourage you. Also, accepting peer marking is not for those with fragile egos or low frustration levels. +Having been out school for over 30 years this was a very challenging but rewarding course for myself. I'm glad i took it +The educator is really wants to be boring. The questions doesn't reflect the material. Why am I learning so much about a dog or who is whose relative in a bioelectricity course? +Well explained, I liked it! +The course was a great learning experience for me, and opened me to the world of microeconomics. Prof Larry has presented concepts in a very lucid manner, and the references / reading materials are great too. +Very interesting lecture videos which makes it a great learning experience. +More detailed explanation possible. On the whole, very patiently taught by the professor! +Totally enjoyed this course. Highly recommend. +Great course +An excellent course with very informative content! +Great instructor, and the quizzes and exercises genuinely make you think a little bit. +Its an excellent course. Many difficult concepts have been explained in plain language with good examples. +I loved this course, very interesting and great teacher! +Excellent course and excellent mentor who can really make you to rediscover the economy and love it much more than before. Great thanks. +Great course! Extremely rewarding +Awesome instructor, awesome materials and awesome learners. Of course, difficult assignments that I taught me a lot! Thank you Coursera, Dr. Larry and the entire team behind the scene. +I have thoroughly enjoyed this session with Larry DeBrock. A delightful presentation. +Excellent course. Larry is a great teacher and the quizzes and assignments give a great opportunity to consolidate our learning. One recommendation I would give is to try to make the forum more useful maybe by including TAs o including mentors that response on the course contents and not only on technical issu +good course to learn something more in the markets +A great teacher and interesting course ^^ Thank you so much. +I like this professor and he taught beautifully even in Producer and Consumer behavior, the prequel course in this specialization. High expectations from this course! +Great course! +Another great course! This is the 2nd of the specialization and I just love how the prof., Larry DeBrock, explains things. With real life examples, he makes it easy to understand and apply to everyday-life. Really great course! Highly recommended! +i have done the previous course in the series , this is absolutely a delight for a student . +Detailed explanation about forensic accounting +Amazing course! please offer more courses like this on fraud examination and forensic accounting. I would also be interested to take a course on Internal audit, Internal controls and res management. +Very informative, well structured, a lot of important information provided in a limited period of time. +amazing course! thank you very much +Was an informative and even fun course. However was too easy and I wish that there was more deep dives and challenges to push me further. +Great Class. A must for any manager or business owner. +Interesting, practical information presented by academics who know their stuff. +Pretty interesting course, though I think the title is a bit misleading. +My review: 75%. It's a big picture course. Despite not so deep, it's sometimes a bit confusing, because the topics are aparently uncorrelated. Maybe in fact I couldn't catch it... +Good overview of topic. Videos well presented. Poorly worded quizzes. Refers you to outside site where they want you to pay to access further material regarding actual fraud stories that they tease with a part of the story each week. +A very informative course which I have taken while preparing for my Advanced audit and assurance exam - which complemented my preparation very nicely. I am now considering in due course to take the CFE exam and potentially pursue a career in the fraud examination field. I highly recommend this course to anyone who has a passing interest in this subject. +Very useful for my career. The lecturers are abreast with current trends in the industry and that makes it a plus. Keep up the good work, Professors +Great Lesson and great mentor. Hope there's more case study on the next batch +I found this course very interesting. It has definitely deepened my interest in fraud examination, I hope a similar course comes up soon +I took this course to explore what Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination entailed and if it would be something I would want to pursue in the future. The instructors were excellent and delivered a considerable amount of information that was clear and interesting. +Great information, layout and insight into what fraud is and its classification or predators and accidentals frauds. Very informative. +great course +Very informative and educational. Case studies was relevant. +Very well informative. +Excellent Course on Forensic & Fraud Accounting! Highly Recommended to all professionals working in Accounting & Audit. +very informative and interesting +very good introduction to the subject +Very well explained and with excelents examples. +The course is concise, educative and well taught by the lecturers +I found this course to be quite interesting especially because of my current work requirements. It actually provided me with some insights on items I can include in my staff training as well as in my day to day operations.One of the things that this course has done, is that it has inspired me to do more reading / research in this area and possible pursue the CFE accreditation which I have been pondering about for some time.Good place to start... +Excellent course! It gives you an understanding of1 the meaning of fraud2 the fraud examination process3 how and why does a person go about committing fraud4 what are some of the internal controls that organizations should focus upon along with the red flags suggestive of frauds5 using data analysis for detecting frauds +It's wonderful. I enjoyed this course. It was the most challenging I have encountered so far. I enjoyed the lectures and the practice real life examples on fraud. I will definitely be recommending this course to everyone who would like to pursue Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination. +exam questions are designed for raw facts instead of critical thinking and resoning. Sorry maybe its my poor english. Regards. +Great course and great teachers! +The Course is very useful in terms of emphasize my work and let me gain more understanding on my current work in order to detect fraud and identify internal control deficiency. +Well done course that works well with studying for the CFE exam. +quite inciting and informative exepercially in my society where fraud is very prominent and seen as a way of life.i am now convinced that with the knowledge i have acquired i can help to design control measures for institutions and organizations alike coupled with my background in Accountancy.thank you so much COURSERA +A good fundamental knowledge of Forensic Accounting!!! +Very complex but clear enough to facilitate learning and skill development. +A lot of useful information +The Professors were wonderful, issues with wording of questions on tests and grading of tests +The course is good for providing introduction to Forensic accounting. What would be good is to include some analytical tools or examples of how exactly text analysis will help us find fraudsters. Overall the pace and content is good. +Good overview of fraud, relevant fraud studies, and counter-fraud processes. +Would be good if correct answers are shared for all the questions listed in the quiz. Great work. Wish to learn more on the same topic. Thank you. +Very basic stuff, but informative. +This is an excellent course, i was able to start my learning on Forensics Accounting due to this course. +This course have improve my understanding on auditing, fraud investigation and others. +An extrely good course to introduce people to Fraud Examination and Forensic Accounting. I think a future course may have to be somewhat longer and have a bit more detail on Forensic Accounting. +Expert learning experience . +Congratulations. This introdutory course is useful and recommended to anyone who works or has interest in the subject. +Provides inside details each Internal Auditor should learn +West Virginia University offering the best coursera and most difficult courses with an easy method of learningThanks WVU +For those who have been working in subjects such AML/CFT, Anti corruption and other similar issues is a great complement that add value to that fields. +Overall the course impressed me well,but even more coverage of broader topics/chapters in the course would have been an added advantage. +An excellent course with real life examples that zoomed in on many of the essentials in fraud and forensics. +Great class, easy to follow and very informative! +Quite good but kind of too theoretic. Some practical examples would make the contents more understandable +Excellent program, I learned a lot to complement my knowledge of fraud examiner. I will recommend it to any one interested in Forensic accounting and Fraud. +Great job! +Fantastic course. This course provides strong basis towards CFE certification. +An excellent course full of information that is relevant to anyone working in accounting and management. who is concerned about fraud in his/her organisation.My only recommendation is; would it be possible to include some practical case studies for course participants.Thanks for the great work +Very interesting content that introduces many common fraud schemes and warning signs that may help prevent or detect the fraudulent act. Additional real life frauds were incorporated into the lessons which was one of my favorite parts. Wonderful teachers and a class that encompasses accounting concepts, forensic and investigative skills, and curious minds. Highly recommended! +This course is a better learning than general auditing course that was taken in university by me. Awesome knowledge provided. Very easy and slow english speaking letting us to understand each word. +informative and challenging course +Brilliant introduction to fraud examination, informative and intellectual instructors. It has really helped expand my knowledge of fraud. A+. +It is very good for someone to have basic knowledge in this subject and want to stu +this course has gave me a new sight of accounting. The easy to understand and follow in explanation by the professor and example of fraud case. Thank you for the great education. +The videos are eye-opening. It provides very comprehensive discussion on FRAUD and how these things happen, the studies conducted about it and interviews from some of the prominent people who were known to be involved in some FRAUDULENT matters. +This course help me in better understanding many areas of fraud investigation, so I recommend it to all! +A great insight into Fraud Examination. Very beneficial to a future in this field +Too qualitative, too much theory, narrative.Needs more specific examples of how numbers are manipulated for e.g. in financial statement fraud. Perhaps show real data on how outlier transactions are spotted. +Just buy the book and memorize it. +very interesting course. Concise and easy to understand. +Excellent course when requiring the skill of fraud detection within a working environment and the systems required to prevent fraud. +This course is an excellent platform to know the basics of fraud and the mode of operation of itit will help you to do better in your career +Very informative. I learned a lot. +One of the best Courses I 've ever taken +My issue with this course is the lack of depth. Most videos are shorter than 10 minutes, the instructors race through their bullet points without developing the ideas enough. The pace is frantic and the content is superficial. I understand the topic is massive, but that only leaves me baffled as to why there is room for 5 min videos in this course. +Amazing. Simple videos but powerful content. +Positive: It was refreshing to see this offering in Coursera. It is an important topic and there is limited amount of offerings (the Wharton course in accounting analytics crosses in the benfords law topic). The discussions in Madoff, Snowden, etc are positive to stimulate critical thinking. The approach was solid. The videos with real fraudsters were very good allowing to connect the theory to practice. The final exam with 60 questions is also very positive to force/stimulate the student to 'cement' the knowledge gained.Negative: This course was shockingly short. If discounted the weekly videos with real examples of frauds, per week there was only about 20-30 minutes of 'real' materials. This is not nearly enough a balanced output of resources to allow students to grasp the concepts. Institutions like Wharton, U. Michigan, U. Illinois, U. Virginia and Yale are packaging in their top courses/specializations at least 1.5 to 3 hours per module (what can have between 4 and 11 modules), plus resources - slides, readings, excel spreadsheets and others. This is an enormous gap. Also - although it was positive to see the materials of the collegue and acfe sites, more was expected. For example, it would be extremely valuable to have resources related to Bernie Madoff, Armstrong, Edward Snowden to engage on a more dynamic discussion. The slides used to back the video lectures should also been made available. Also in some topics more detail was expected. For example, Benford's Law. It should been shown the formula used, what is the threshold value to raise suspicion that manipulation might be present in the financials and also what are considered to be normal values.Overall it is positive to see your offering but I think it can be improved and add a lot more valuable.I wish you luck. +I really like the lectures of this course. But on the other hand this programming assignments are...I am not able to see why using such a complicated main code template is useful to understand the principals of the finite element method. I spend 5 hours for trying to install all the libraries and finding the correct header files of deal.II and this visualization thing which is needed in the write_output.h file). Because otherwise you will not be able to compile the code. This is not the first time I did installation of complicated code in unix and I know by heart this can be cumbersome sometimes.But why doing this for a simple programming assignment. I started this course because I want to learn about finite element method and not how to install deal.II software. But exactly installing is what the first assignment is about it is not about coding what will be only a small fraction of the whole assignment then.And the next thing is there is not only one person facing this troubles there are quite a lot if you look in the discussion forums.On the other hand if there would be sufficient help given for the installation it would be fine, but it is not.The only help which is given are sending some links which is nice. But links I can also watch by myself.So I really liked this course and found it interesting ( or I still find it interesting ), but I don't see what learn effect I should have from messing around with those deal.II libraries. +good for learning. +I've encountered very few courses that demonstrate the detailed connection between what we learn in theory and applying them in programming languages. The instructions on programming assignments are limpid, can get through them even with very little programming experience. +This is a good intro course which introduce the Finite Element Method step by step, which suited me perfectly since I hardly coded in c++ nor did FEM before.Nevertheless, as a graduate student, the pace is very slow, and the outline and motivation unclear, which would likely have discouraged me if I did not review video in x2, and stuck to second week lectures and onward.I would advise to introduce more outline and motivation at the beginning of the week lecture to keep students motivated.Apart from that, I recommand the course ! +It is very well structured and Dr Krishna Garikipati helps me understand the course in very simple manner. I would like to thank coursera community for making this course available. +A rigorous and organized introduction to the subject with the additional benefit of learning through implementation. +Very weak presentation. Must be improved to keep attention. +This was a great course, I can only recommend. The tutor really explains basically all that there is to linear PDEs. What I miss, maybe as a different course is the case of nonlinear equations. +Professor Garikipati provides a thorough explanation which is of immense help to a beginner in FEM like me. The course is very interesting! The practice of making entire video in form of notes is very efficient for a student to grasp everything the teacher wants to convey. +This is the best course as iam learning I so happy about your lecturer'sIt is an wounder full experience that iam getting from you +EL PROFESOR ES MUY CLARO Y ENTREGA BUENA INFORMACIÓN APLICABLE AL TRABAJO +Excellent introduction to how to run genetic data analytic applications on a big data infraestructure.The theorical concepts related to data analytics were explained with highly professional quality; easy to understand for those with a data science backgroud. Also there were efective, efficient and acertive in the on the process of knowledge transference.An outstanding course that exceed my expectations on regarding to data analytics theory and methods.A good start. Congratulations.The course has some minors mistakes that does not affect the essence of it. +Great course, it was exactly what I was missing to help me progress in my work analyzing genetic data. By studying the content, I gained in a short amount of time the new skills I needed to analyze genetic data. The course is very rich, and I enjoyed it very much. It is very visible that the professor is an expert in this field ! +Poorly organized course. The lectures seemed to jump around from one point to another. In some cases, way too much detail; in others, not nearly enough.The subtitles have so many errors that they are virtually useless. +This course is very well organized, has a ton of very practical information I could not find anywhere, all made available at your fingertips. I really enjoyed all the material, and am grew in confidence in analyzing big data from biomedical domains. Thank you for spednign the time putting all this material together ! +Very Happy to learn about Genes. Expecting for More Praticles +Difficult to understand due to her very strong accent and poor audio, meaning I spend 90% of my effort trying to make out what she's saying. As it turns out, all she does is read from the slides! no additional insight, nothing. This makes it boring to hear and she comes across with no personality (although a quick rate-my-professors search tells us a very different story, a real shame since people seem to really like her). At any rate after one week of this course and not seeing any improvement, I've decided to call it quits. +The course is amazing, I want to purchase the course but it is not being working...I don't know what is the problem. +It is undoubtedly an awesome course. +A great introduction to the topic. It will leave you wanting to learn more. +This is an amazing course that combines different areas very well to a level understandable to non-specialists. Thank you for sharing your knowledge Isabelle +The course was fairly good and covered different topics about big data applied to genes. The resources and the course content were useful, to get a good understanding about the field.The assignments weren't as good as I anticipated, I would have preferred more hands-on work. +Amazing course! one of the best courses on couresera! +This course equip me with the basic information about university and how to research articles which might be very helpful for my future academic study,it contains many useful knowledge and I think that continuing study is needed +This course is good and useful. +A step in the right direction. +The course is helping to understand a lot about academic research. +thanks +Great course! Excellent materials and presentations. Although in some videos I turned the volume all the way up but I could barely hear anything... please check. I learned a lot from this course, more than I expected! And I can take what I learned and start applying it directly to my current project. Thank you! +Great course!! +Great course! Highly recommended! +Amazing course! Essential for professionals that want to become Strategic Advisors in the Health Sector! +A good introduction to the Healthcare Marketplace though the pace of the class makes hard to understand all the economical concepts. +Great Introduction to US Healthca +This was a great module. Loved it, learned a lot. +Great material, but presentation was way to fast and can benefit from some additional details and examples. +Total awesome knowledge on Health care domain +A good overview of the Healthcare ecosystem. Definitely recommend to anyone who looks to get an overview into the industry. It also serves as a good base together with the other four modules for experienced professionals looking to transition into this industry. +I never new there were so much procedures and steps in the healthcare industry. This course has truly gave me a better understanding of what's going on around. +A very helpful course, it acts as a perfect accompaniment to the existing knowledge of any health professional. +The course could be improved by cutting the repetitive materials, avoiding the time-consuming drawing on the slides and be more precise on the wording. +Learning is part of the growing and acquisition of skills by which one can contribute to society. Coursera has very good courses. I am so happy, you provide opportunities for study and scholarship. Thanks. +This course was very helpful to my current position working in a Hospital. It was very thought through and I enjoyed it! It kept me wanting to know more! Thank you! +He talks to0o00o fast and His slides are too wordy and I feel so sleepy When I was watching these videos! (I don't know why)!However As a PhD biomedical Eng, I'm learning alot from this specialization and I highly appreciate them for creating such amazing Idea. I'm Canadian and I know we have lots of similarities with you and I think I should make it for Canada and our university.Sincerely,Azadeh +I thought this course would be kinda boring, but I have been pleasantly surprised at how interesting it is. Steve Parenti has a dry and sly sense of humor and the content gives me great historical and current perspective on the way healthcare works in the U.S. and to a lesser degree, in the rest of the world.Only quibble: There are lots of typos on the slides. Sometimes these are pretty amusing, but sometimes confusing.Also, some of the listed handouts seem to be relevant to the next course in the series, rather than to this one.All said, I think Dr. Parenti would be someone fun to go and have a beer with. +Some of the lectures were too general, too fast, or left things outI also don't like the peer review type grading structureAlso, I am sure I'm not the only person taking this course (or the whole series), who does not CURRENTLY, have a career in healthcare; I am working towards that - So; to ask us to do a market sizing memo and come up with something from nothing, while swearing not to plagiarize, is not a good method.I'm here to gain knowledge and skills - a broad overview.Perhaps a course or actual 2nd degree in Health Info Tech or Healthcare Admin. is better way to go for me; however, I cannot afford it finance or time - therefore, am trying to learn as much as possible off here.Kudsos to Parente for having super cool interests though - the sailing, the places he sails and the awesome vacation home in the Scottish Highlands! +Poor English. Unfair assignments (( +very informative and interesting +Only catered to the American healthcare system. This course was not mind numbingly boring as hell +lecturer is very monotone and isn't engaging. Course also focuses a lot on the history when it would be more relevant to look to the future. It is peer graded which is extremely unreasonable, people do not read the submissions fully or fully have the knowledge to be able to grade someone else's work. People also have different standard which causes a large variation in grades. Grading rubric does not include areas for where extra research has been done either +Excellent course because is: Organized, current informed, excelent references, high quality, and deliver for very experience instructors +Unclear assignments unfit for an international participant base. +peer review is not fair!!! +Very comprehensive and content-rich. A great course for the average citizen to take to expand their awareness. +Excellent! Very clear presentation help the learning process... +This is a good course, providing quality information. It has a bit of a financial lean, as the professor has a background in this area; this was stretching for me as an engineer, but ultimately I found it helpful, as the financing of healthcare is an incredibly important issue! Unfortunately, the professor is a bit hard to understand; he does not speak in proper grammatical structure and often rambles or mutters, so even as a native English speaker, I had to turn on subtitles in order to understand the point he was trying to get across. Overall, after taking this course, I feel *much* more versed on the healthcare landscape and all the players involved therein. I recommend this course to students who want to better understand the general workings of the healthcare industry. +The professor just read the materials through all the modules, and the course was really boring. But, the content was quite updated that was the only good thing. Does not worth such a high payment. +Very well strucutred and with real and updated references! +great course +the quality of the lecture is poor - slides are dense and full of bullet points which the professor LITERALLY JUST READS OUT on videos. I did a google search, and found almost all of the analytical charts he presented, readily available on the internet. What exactly is the point in the lecture then? Instead, why don't you compress some valuable learning nuggets into half the course time, instead of hearing you ready through your ocean of bullet points, and needlessly underline (in red) the current bullet point your reading. Seriously, this is one the poorest quality lectures I've ever done!The quality of peer assignments to grade are a joke. Classmates are simply copying bits and pieces of the lecture material to make up the 'market sizing memo'.I seriously doubt the learning value in this class, and the quality of instruction. +Overall a great beginning to the course. It does comes across as a systematic dive into the rather complex world of health care in US. My only concern is related to some of the questions in the quizzes. Sometimes they are too literal, like year of XYZ etc, which comes across as test of memory rather than an evaluation of knowledge. Else I am enjoying. Am on speed. And keen to continue. +There is no staff´s to help you through the course. +totally recomeded this course if you need to learn about the medical system the EEUU +This course provided an updated refresher on the healthcare marketplace for me, who studies health systems in college a decade ago. It was much needed and very helpful. I am excited to apply these concepts to my daily work as a healthcare analyst. Thank you! +Unclear, ambiguous direction and material that is unhelpful for building the final project +Very useful,I will Recommend this course to my fellow mates . +Excelent course. Much of your time will be needed to do the assignments. +The course is not very well developed like course 1, 2, 3. +Very good course to enhance BI learning. +Mentor review for the final project takes long time to be completed. +Course is good but mentor grading needs to be a bit sorted as in they required almost 2 additional weeks to grade one assignment in total that is 1 month to grade an assignment so that needs to be taken care of +Excellent contemporary course content and hands on course. Recommended for everyone who wants start or change into exciting career in DWBI. +I have submitted all my solution long back but the last submission which was suppose to been by mentor is pending from one and the half months. +Great +The best course in the certification path. +Awesome content ,very well drafted and explained course content. I am thankful to the coursera team, who has discovered such kind of really good course and specialization. +Very Beneficial !!! +this is an excellent and rigorous course and a valuable preparation for working with data warehouses. frustratingly, the assignments contained errors, inconsistencies, and vagaries that left me wondering if the professors did this on purpose, to simulate real world situations. anyway, the bottom line is that this course offers a great opportunity to learn and practice. they say you get out of it only what you put into it. be prepared to spend 8 to 16 hours on the assignments. but it definitely was worth it. THANK YOU, PROFESSORS! +Excellent course..provides hands-on experience on designing a data warehouse for BI implementation +It was very challenging. Not everything was well prepared. But overall good! Thank you very much! +The capstone project is interesting but requires far too much time compared to the other courses and to what is announced. +Awesome Course! +Well framed capstone project. no less than real project. +Thank you for giving me excellent information on digital thread components. It is very helpful course for me. Thank you University of buffalo, The State University of New York and Coursera. +Very helpful to understand the vital nature of information in product life cycle. +This course is just definitions. I will finish the course, but I do not recommend it for someone who needs a technical approach. I was expecting a few more technical examples or exercises (mixed with their accompanying definitions). This course are pure lectures, no practice beyond open-ended questions. I wish it was a blend of lectures and practice. and not so purely academic. +The course is good, Examples are briefly explained. It doesn't cover a couple of subjects, but still good. +Many Example and quiz problems have wrong answers, other all is prefect, simple explanation & great content +I graduated eight years ago and never took the FE. After some pressure at work I decided to take it, but I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a review course. After completing this course and doing the practice exam, I was able to pass the FE on the first try. This review course is very good because the topics which are discussed are discussed in detail. I would also recommend getting a review manual that goes over all the possible topics. I had a number of questions on engineering economics. Thank you to the professor for providing this wonderful course. +The lectures do exactly what you need. He starts with just enough theory to help you understand a concept and then jumps into applying equations and solving example problems. The biggest problem is that there are examples that are wrong every once in a while during the lectures and one or two in each quiz. It's not a huge deal because sometimes figuring out where he went wrong helps you to understand the problem better. It can be annoying for some examples though. +Great refresher and guide to passing the FE +very valuable courses and great instructor +The course is well made. Unfortunately, you will find at least one, minor or fatal, error in every video as well as quizzes. It also doesn't cover all the important subjects, so I would not call it an "FE Exam Review" course as the title might be very misleading. The course is good for reviewing the mentioned subjects but don't depend on it as your sole source of review. +I am glad that this exist but notice many errors. Every chapter has at least one error. Wish the admin address these issues through the discussion forums. +very helpful for FE/PE +So much better than the paid courses available +I think it is a good courseany one can get benefits +This course is very helpful if you're preparing FE exam. I passed after study this course! Very recommend. +This course was a good refresher which hit a lot of topics covered on the FE exam. I supplemented this course with some reference books and the NCEES manual and I was able to pass the FE Exam. +Great review!!! +This is a fantastic course that helped me prepare for the EIT exam. Thanks for providing this and it is greatly appreciated. +Great resource and very well explained. The lessons are concise and to the point. Thank you very much. +i think this course is extremely helpful if you want to refresh the subject without using the damn manual +It is very brief,creative and simple .Thanks +Great refresher +the session was was most interesting and knowledgable..i loved it +An advanced course of fluid-solid interactions, probably suitable for first or second year graduate students.Personally I hope that the course can be longer (which is hard to achieve for courses on Internet) so more details can be talked about. Sometimes the students need time to respond to derivations of equations and physical significance of an equation. +The best course and the best teacher. I would like to see the advanced version of this course to be offered. +It's very interesting, thanks¡¡ +It is definitely one of the most interesting MOOC I did and would congratulate you for the simplicity (and fun) with which you explain the complex coupling models and approximations.I am currently working on FSI for bubble collapse close to solid walls in cavitation, and your MOOC has helped me gain perspective and understanding to solve many practical problems. +Excellent course, making such a difficult subject very easy and understandable. But I really think that the pace of the course is fast when compared to the contents.Also the addition of numerical/ programming examples would be of great use +The fundamentals of fluid-structure interaction was well explained through examples and laboratory tests. However, small applications should be explained and done by the students in order to have a better representation of physical phenomenon. +It was amazing, very interesting and well explained. Unfortunately I could not do the quices without paying the course, which is a pity. I would have rather done the course first and then decided whether to pay for the certificate. In any case, I learned a lot and this is very useful information I will use in my Ph.D studies. Regards +Very nicely instructed. This is the first course which I like the most but cannot afford to pay. +I am delighted to subscribe this course. Thank you Course team to introduce us the wonders of FSI, the way this course was designed and the contents explained are all excellent. Thank you Coursera for giving us this opportunity. Hope more courses by the instructors are coming soon. +Got a lot to take back from this course. It's very rare to find courses online on this topic! Thank to EPFL teaching faculty and Coursera! +absolutely brilliant! This course is very well structured and very well presented. It touches upon a rather complex area of research but has masterly conveyed the essential skills and methods in a pace that is a bit challenging but not to a point of intimidating. I have watched each and every lecture video for at least 4 times. It is a very good starting point for anyone interested in FSI. +very very helpful course! +Great course. Very organized and performed.A more general point of view using non very complex examples and rich with applications.Congratulations!I suggest a second course using CFD and FEM, for example.Best Regards and thanks very much for this opportunity. +It is an excellent course. Professor LaGrange has an extraordinary skill to facilitate the understanding of the fundamentals of fluid-solid interactions. Every week of the course combines theory and experimental demostrations in a very balanced way. The visual images accompanying the equations and the summaries at the end of the sessions are great course assets. Without any doubt I will enroll in a future sequel of this course. +This course is very informative and gives starting platform to pursue this field. I really like this course. There is one thing that I felt missing. I could use some coding assignment to better grasp the course contents. it can be made optional. This could provide more help to people who wants to have a deeper understanding. +Lessons were pretty concise, engaging and well arranged. Quizzes were relevant and stimulating. Would love to take an advanced version.Thanks to the team. +Very clear introductory course about fMRI. It touches almost every concept needed to understand an MRI experiment. Many complex topics were explained in a very clear and concise way. +It was a great course.However I expect more discussion in foro and the proffesors opinion +A though class. But I think I learned so much. Anyone who interested in working an area related to fMRI should take it +Very great +It goes a bit too much into the details sometimes. Personal researches are sometimes required to understand what is explained. +This is a great course to have available. However, I do think that in order to truly grasp many of the concepts, you need to either have a good baseline statistical background (ie, more than one college stats course), or be willing to spend a lot more time looking up many of the concepts (though many can only be found referenced in papers). For those who are engaged in applied statistics/signal processing, this would probably be fine. The course was very interesting, but I do wish they spent a bit more time breaking down the statistical measures and more examples/figures/analogies to make the course overall more coherent, and encourage a deeper understanding from a big picture perspective. It would be helpful if they had optional supplementary videos that dive deeper into the stats for those who could use it. +Great course. Great overview of fMRI, including the background for statistical tests used. +Great course！ +In general terms the course is very good. It would be great if they could include at least one real example of each statistic method presented. +Great course +Some of the mathematical models and statistical models were hard to understand had I not taken mathematical and statistical classes on my masters. I really appreciated the slides for each individual modules; it made it easier to follow. +Extremely helpful and well guided roundup for any one who is interested in experimenting with FMRI data and experiment. +Statistics should definitely be a pre-requisite for this course. I study clinical pharmacology and my knowledge of stat was limited to mean, median and mode and standard deviation haha. good course though for whoever studied statistics. +It has been very useful informations for me. The method used by those teachers was very good and didactic. Thank you. +The language is clear. The video edition is fine. The mathematical parts were illustrated fantastically. In my case , practice made master, meaning that I saw the videos several times and searched on wikipedia and googled words a few times. Maybe some ideas would've been better understood if it had been included the use of a special software such as AFNI or SPM, that's why I didn't give the five stars to the course. +As a person who actually studied physics and knows a little about data science, I am literally baffled the way information presented and lectures speak. Really don't recommend this cource at all. because Week 1 materals is a imcomprehenisble mess full of incorrect explanation and vague definitions. +Whenever examples were given, things became much clearer, but there often weren't examples. In many instances it would have been nice if there had been a second take of the video taken to prevent potentially confusing mis-speaking from making it into the lectures. Obviously you get what you pay for, and it's great that I got a vague overview of the subject for free, but I easily aced the course without feeling like I'm at all prepared to run an fMRI experiment. +Instructors tend to talk too fast and read off the slides verbatim instead of thoroughly explaining the topic +I was incredibly impressed by the way in which Professor Lindquist and Professor Wager were able to take relatively complex concepts, and present them in a way that was engaging and accessible. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone interested in familiarising themselves with fMRI research. +Great. +great course but more technical than I needed to know.....interesting, however. +Terrific learning experience! +An excellent course to gain a working knowledge of fMRI and fMRI data analysis! +I found this course very interesting and useful. Even though it is more based on theory than in practice, it really manages to provide a wide range of ideas about different aspects that influence on education. It motivates active thinking about concepts that I personally had not thought about before. +Excellent for anyone who is interested in education or is looking at a career or profession in education or just wants to get a bigger & broader picture about education. +This is a great opportunity for me. I am very pleased to this courses. Thank you for that. +Insightful lectures every week, but the assignments' grading criteria is a little too simplistic and does not push students to really think further about the future of education. +It was not a great course. I found it not very rewarding, because the discussions were hard to follow. Also, it did not present historical literature and research on the subject. I was hoping for peer-reviewed articles and readings that helped illuminate the history and the psychology of education. +thank you +This course let me the direction of future education and I, as a student in normal university will devote myself to this career. +Great course that focuses on reflective learning. Highly recommend it for educators and those interested in Education +This is a really great course. The topic of discussion is not only very important and urgent but also very interesting. The interviews of each week were really well done and the people interviewed are experts in their field. The course is challenging, but the feedback of the other students is very serious and supportive. +Insightful and reflective material; great facilitators.The sessions were a little less engaging in between because the facilitators didn't talk to/engage the user but were talking between them. +Really great course, with lots to learn. I recommend doing this course if you are self-led as a learner and motivated to develop your own thinking, as a lot of your learning falls to you and your responsibilities over your reflective blog. +great course except for the "testing " system +Good discussion video, faculties of UCL were excellent. should have more contents and further reading materials. Felt the course is more UK centric, also bit more insight to education referring to the old educationists should be added advantage! Thank you for this nice course. Need more such courses for teachers and +Awesome online course. Put together really well. This course makes you reflect on ideas rather than just teaching you concepts. A great opportunity and a must for anyone studying or working in Education. I loved the experience ! +Very well structured, great lecture-videos with experts in their field. Love the vibrant discussion forums as well where i get to learn more about different education cultures from all around the world. My only one criticism is that it became to predictable - pre-lecture activity, lectures, discussion forum, reflection. rinse. repeat. thought perhaps the learning, and maybe the assessments could have been diversified more? Instead of personal reflections, maybe we could do reflect on case studies? +Great job Dr. Brooks! +Very well organized. I have found this course very applicable. +A really excellent course - well delivered, informative and insightful. I would highly recommend this for anyone working within the education space, whether a new practitioner or experienced. +Excellent course. Teachers and partners bring the support not only to learn but finishing this meaningful course. +it OK. +From the start it seemed politically correct and ideological. Did not even broach the topic until the final week (as far as I can see from the list of videos). Life is too short. +This course is an eye opener for me. +great time to rethink about the future and interact with many people who have different perspectives +excellent very useful and adaptable to different realities. +I like the delivery and I like it more that I am learning so much. Very excellent presentation. Thank you. +I like the lectures -let's say sincere chats- between Clare and other educators. They are good in their field and the messages were quite clear. Being have to comment to others' posts and padlet and other interactive exercises made the course more "natural".Course also gave some new perspectives to me.Thanks for the great course! +Really helped to reflect my thoughts on education and how can we improve it. Got some peer reviews and they were really motivating and I am thankful for such great peer review system to Coursera +Most informative and thought provoking particularly as I teach across two educational systems. Many thanks. +Very interesting +thanks +It is a perfect course both for a beginner and a professional! +This course is great for people who want to learn the latest about being a good teacher. +Good to know about education on future +Interessante, porém poderia ser melhor elaborado.This course is interesting, but could be better elaborated. +I very much enjoyed this course, and it has an active forum with some good contributors but I found that it felt more informative and engaging on the starting topics, rather than the core question of what is the future of education. This may be more due to my personal interests rather than any fault of the course, however! Particularly enjoyed the first few weeks "How do we learn", "What is intelligence and does it matter?" and "What makes a good teacher?". +could clarify some more on the question it asks, for example, the question about intelligence. +Excellent course. Every educator should take it. +I found the course thought provoking and a good example of using technology effectively in a PL environment. +I genuinely enjoyed this course - Brilliant insights and allowed me to further expand my knowledge with regards to education! +The way the teachers give lectures are compact and easy to understand. It has been useful for me to join the class! +My rating is for week 5 - Why do governments fund education. Everyone should know that. +Great and informative course held in a very relaxing and enjoyable way! +I enjoyed the course and its interactive nature. +Very informative. However, some videos have audio problems. +I love this course! +It was a pleasure to follow this MOOC course. It is a very good opportunity to assist some good experts talks and also share knowledge and experience with tutors and some peers around the world. I learned a lot by dedicating time to the activities and papers. Thank you all for your care and congratulations for the course. Regards, Arnaldo, Brazil. +Well orgnized course with self-paced homework and essay writings. +great discussions and a refreshing point of view +My dream to create the Best Learners Academy is just helped by this course to a great extent....Outstanding content and knowledge shared by the professors.. +so far I'm liking the course... i'm not really sure about the last assignment where we need to submit a TED kinda video... not sure how this complement the goal of the course overall.. but so far the videos and the journals are so relevant and make valid points to discuss and think about them, whether you are a teacher , like myself, or a learner or both +Great course! I enjoyed it very much. I feel like it is slightly more directed at teachers and those who have a career in education, rather than individuals interested in the topic. +pretty good! +This course is well organized and provide me a chance to review various educational theories with context. +very beneficial :) +Excellent introductory course to the subject! Requires some basic math (and programming if you are not an excel fan) +As the first serious encounter with financial engineering I found the course challenging but very rewarding. Very good theory-practice ratio. I would definitely recommend to somebody who is interested in the topic and willing to spend many hours with it. My experiences are based on 4 weeks of completed sessions, so please take it with a grain of salt. +Great introductory course! +Concise and informative content. Good intro to the overall subject. Really enjoyed it. +Excellent course content supported with relevant excel sheets. Requires rigorous practi +really great course +Great course. Highly recommend. +Really good insight into the pricing of financial instruments +promising +Good introduction to term structure modeling, arbitrage and other similar topics, quizes were challenging and required independent thought. Good course overall, the lack of guidance on incorrect quiz questions except for through the forum is the only reason for a loss of star. +The only reason i passed was because i ignored the lectures and asked others for help, once i did that finance became a lot easier to understand. +Help on topics is very limited. Nothing more than instruction videos. Discussion forums are helpful only to solve assignments. There is hardly any input from instructor about genuine theoretical questions. +It was OK! One of the most valuable parts of this course are their excels woorksheets, very very useful. Moreover, the clever view of the trainers is fantastic. +The course is very elementary and basic. It should be a good intro 101 for those who have never studied mathematical finance. You can also practice using Excel if you have never used it before. It could be more challenging and fun if there were more modeling questions. +Interesting, useful, with very nice examples and helping tools. For me, Prof. Martin Haugh's style was more appealing, but I congratulate both Mr. Haugh and Mr. Iyengar for a difficult and beautiful course :). Thanks vm! +Wonderful course with helpful materials and assignments. I especially appreciate the depth of assignments, which really helped me discover blind spots in my knowledge structure. +It is a great entry-level course for engineering students like me who want to learn some basic finance. The assignment after each module did take me some time but it is quite worth it. And the last module of background materials that cover a lot of finance mathematics is very helpful too. +Great courses, extremely clear. Thanks a lot to both Mr Haugh and Mr Iyengar. +Very comprehensive and quantitative! +The course in general is fine. Although it is not an introductory level, and users should be aware of it. By the time you finish it, you will have an idea of how financial engineering works and will understand the math behind the scenes. The required level of mathematics is not very high, and high-school maths are enough to follow the formalism. Also, several assignments are done in Excel, so basic knowledge of its features will help. +It's a very nice course for those of you who interested in financial engineering. Highly recommended +Fantastic class. I hope in the future someone teach how to code in python for the assignment. Thank you so much. Also i suggest someone mention what's next after this series. I want to be a quant. I believe this is the first step. Want to know more. +Very good course, quite challenging. I think I understand financial world better now. +Gorgeous +very good course. the exercises are very useful to review the material but it seems that rounding errors can make the difference between right and wrong. +Eye-opening and powerful crash course introducing to the life of a quant. Problem is in the discussion forums, where there is very little interaction with mentors and week-long (or more delays) in getting feedback. +Very rich content +This course is amazing. The structure is very clear and coherent. It is very mathematically focused and the models are interesting. I would always recommend this course to my colleagues. +Great course. Level of support from the mentors was non existent though. +It's terrible if one wants to accomplish the quiz using Garud Iyengar's Notes!! Examples in his notes were not well explained!! +I think that the simply reading slides doesn't help people understand. The idea is to make this courses as accessible as possible. +Truly excellent course! I really enjoyed learning through the guidance of Prof. Haugh and Prof. Iyengar. I loved the end of week quizes. For more details, please see my review of the Part II. I completed Part I in Oct 2016, and Part II in early Jan 2017. Very good beginning to the New Year! Time well-invested. +Very good this course! +The course provides me the first experience of a complete foreign course!Although some of the theories have been known to many, this course is still worth a thorough learning for its insightful financial ideas. +Great learning experience. Learnt the various concepts on financial modelling and related topi +Great learning experience. Learnt lot of concepts and pricing models. Thank you Faculty for efforts in explaining various aspects of inancial +I really liked this course and definitely recommend it! The videos are well prepared and make all the math easy to understand and the quizzes are excellent to resume the ideia of each lesson. Congratulations to the team! +I think the way it is taught is not very insightful, the lecturers clearly just read a script and make it difficult to follow. They assignment questions are often hard to understand. Most importantly, there is very little about the actual mechanism behind pricing financial instruments, instead they just state the formula. +Excellent course and learnt a lot of details. It really gives me lot of confidence and motivation to do more courses and I have already started Part 2. Can't wait for it complete. +Fantastic course, Good course on financial mathematics. I am looking forward for FERM II. +Great! +Really good explained. I also loved the exams. but I think you should have some background in finance if you want to enroll. +very good basic courses for beginners +Was very educational, learn't a lot and the great thing was having to implement the theory learn't in the notes and lectures during the assignments. The "curve" ball questions were great too as it forced you to apply understanding thus teaching you to apply your knowledge based on the core principles learn't. +Pretty cool course. I hope they come out with two course sequences, one based more on theory that doesn't back away from stochastic calc so much, and another on practical methods using something other than excel. +Great CourseI like It +The lectures weren't always easy to follow but the quizzes were really useful as they meant it was necessary to understand the material. Definitely a useful course, I will be interested to see how it relates to the real world of derivatives pricing. +Very good for basic understanding of FInEng field. Especially on Binomial Model. Many thanks. +looking forward to lots of self-learning experience!! might be needed for my master program later on. +I took this course to prepare for the interview for the MFE program in Columbia, and I am so excited to see these two professors in person in this fall. Cool course, quite intro level, but practical to take for the preparation for interviews. +Unfortunately, no tutors/instructors present to supervise the course, which made inconsistencies between course material (slides, videos) and solutions calculated for assignments horribly annoying to deal with, especially for someone like me new to the topic. Further, the solver addin (needed for the week 6 assignment) is not consistent across different excel versions and libre calc, which resulted in a whole lot of guesswork to pass this assignment. I'm sorry to say the course never came close to my expectations, despite the very interesting topic. Would not recommend. +It is a brilliant course covering all the key concepts in the financial engineering and model calibrations! The assignments are challenging but really help me reinforce my understanding of concepts and practice basic excel modeling skills. Highly recommended +Very good course to understand financial products. The excel spreadsheets give a good overview of how to price such products in the limits of the model. +Good course for a dry subject. I feel that the modeling could've been more thoroughly explain. For example, the professor could've used cases to analyze/explain what relationships between variables signify in greater detail. +Makes clear concepts I've been struggling with, for me, understanding equals easier to digest and remember. :-) Well done. +Great knowledge! Thanks for making it available! +It has better content provided than ours. +Not at all what I expected--big disappointment +Its an amazing course. +Nice course, covers a wide aspect of materials. However, much of theories are not that easy to understand, so it would be better if the instructors could add a little bit more real-world examples/applications of these theories. +it is the best course that i have ever learnt in coursera~~ +Great course! Thank you!) +Great Learning! +top +Excellent course for students with some finance background. Content is nicely paced and well illustrated through models and examples. The quizzes range from straight forward application to challenging (given there is no feedback on where you got a question incorrect). +It is not an intro class. This course is challenging particularly when you are not an English Native. In this course the most frequently used model is binomial model that can be fairly dealt with in the Excel sheet. +Very good course! +The teacher in the first few weeks is hard to follow; it sounds like he reads from a paper and he barely writes anything on the slides. It sounds like every sentence he says is crucial to understand, which is hard to follow. The other teacher does a much better job at this. The course would also greatly benefit with exercise material so you get a better feeling of calculating these things. +I find far too theoretical, too dry; no examples, no exercise guidelines. It's almost having someone reading the slides to you. Still useful for someone like me that never done financial engineering, to find all the concepts in one place. Hence the two stars as oppose to one. +Awesome...the concepts have been explained in a superb way, the contents are itself high class, he example computations are jist wonderful. Although I am yet to finish it, I am just enthralled with it and have been a fan of coursera big time!!Expecting more detailed and rigorous course on financial engg which can be a testimony itself for an entry to the industry!! +The course goes into a reasonable depth of the area. I particularly like the excel models for pricing of various financial instruments. My only suggestion is to provide more supplementary material like open source books, research papers etc on the topic so that one can expand their knowledge even further. +nice challenging course with very good lecture videos and supporting material. the questions tested the material very well and were just challenging enough for my taste. Also the teachers were explaining the material very well. +It is not a recommended course, when they explain something they assume that we are expert and we know all what they are talking about, they need to have statistics experts which is not mentioned in course prerequisite.================I recommend to review the material and to review the purpose of this course +Excellent material with high quality quizzes. Highly recommended. +Just what I need ! +A very good mix of Detail and comprehensibility +Challenging course but I've really got a good sense of the mechanics of main financial instruments such as bonds, options, futures, swaptions, etc. Being able to do all the exercises in Excel is pretty convenient. Exercises are difficult because there is no feedback - it's either right or wrong. +I wish it could be harder and have more challenging quizzes than simply arithmetic and multiple choice. +Excellent, in-depth and comprehensive +Great course. I learned a lot and I'm fucking master in Financial engineering so it's a good sign +Bit difficult but worthy +Good course. Personally I think it is almost the perfect level for those who have some basic understandings about finance and look forward to go deep(such as me). This course requires some understanding about using Excel, which is quite useful when doing the quiz. Mastering Excel well would save a lot time. Some material might be a little hard but with patience and hardworking, it can still be solved. Highly recommended! +Very technical-based teaching style, great experience with substantial amount of calculation. +Brilliant course! It requires some prerequisite knowledge of finance and quantitative analysis but introduces you to financial concepts from a new perspective. +Excellent approach, robust presentation, demanding but rewarding quizzes, overall a valuable course.A slight drawback is of technical nature and is responsibility of the host platform: a couple of module videos contain wrong subtitles. Nevertheless, both teacher speak clear English, and it wouldn't be hard for most participants to follow. +Perfect Course,Thank you! +The material covered in the course is highly relevant to the current job market. Professors Haugh & Iyengar were great at explaining the material and the quizzes were reasonably difficult. The learning spreadsheets were very good as well. Overall, it was a great learning experience and I will enthusiastically recommend it to my colleagues. +A very good course for students of Financial Engineering. Recommend people who have basic financial mathematics knowledge to join the course. +Inconsitencies in instructions and information for some assignments otherwise very good +It is a little sad that the materials taught were not matching test materials well in the quiz. +Very interesting course. I think i get a lot of technical and important tools. Thank you! +Examples have to be more clear. i cant seem to get anything correct because of computers +This course is a great, from the perspective of how it is organized as well as the assignments provided at the end of each module. The way the content layout is well-suited and leads student step by step gaining insight to the mechanics of different financial derivatives and working on those assignments is a great method of pushing student spend time to understand how the mechanics works.Both instructors are great! and I appreciated greatly their effort as well as Coursera.The only one improvement I would suggest is that if a TA can be assigned for this course, it'll be a great help to all students.Thanks! +The course is good. Would be better if there are more examples given and lively interaction with fellow learners on the forums though. +very strong on the basics +good learning with explanation on basic financials +Very well presented, structured and selected material, easy to follow, relevant and interesting. Quizz problems are well thought through and have a reasonable degree of difficulty and length. +Both the tutors are very nice and I like the way of explaining simple concepts and building upon them for higher level concepts.The course content is really nice. I wonder if part of Stochastic calculus and ito's lemma could also be added.Thanks for sharing such vast knowledge. +have not finished it yet , but a very good course so far, a lot theory mixed with exercises. +A very interested course. Only suggestion:a. if possibile more interation with the professorsb. being more realistic in the case studies +Definitely worth taking! +This course is rigourous, the quizzes are challenging. I hope they provide more practice quizzes +Very good course! Well-organized. The homework helps understanding. +Very good course !! It combines theory and practice ! +Dr. Martin's teaching is wonderful! +Sufficient rigor for a course that is notoriously quantitative and challenging! Working with Excel models is the best way to get your feet wet with abstract price evolution theory which will ultimately be implemented in algorithms of C++ and Python! Kudos to team who is the best in the field educating this subject to the masses! +Great Course +This course is conducted mostly more or less by reading just the slides. +Good course! +The course provides a very thorough introduction on the basic models and mechanisms by which various financial products are priced. One issue I had, was that the quiz questions sometimes used terminology or jargon for which the link with the material covered in the videos was not always immediately obvious. Also, the course, especially the later modules, heavily relies on Microsoft Excel, which some people might not be willing to pay hard cash for. It is possible to pass by doing the assignments with e.g. Python, but it's a lot of work, and not for the faint of heart. +course needs problems with explanations and/or better feedback on quizzes. there is no way to tell what error one has made - it could even be rounding. a student forum might be helpful, too.application of some formulas is not clear, leading to errors on quizzes. in some cases I have used external resources to give me a way to achieve the correct result +Great! A difficult subject that has been very clearly presented. +Great course! +Very good course indeed. +Low quality slides. Monotone lecturing style. +Great insight, but the lecture is quite hard ! +This class gives allot of good information on those who are interested in the stock market and how it operates.Wish I would have started this class sooner. +Very well structure +It is my major! +very useful +iI have joined late but worth it... +Great course that require some background and some work but excellent. +Three stars for course structure, two stars less for every poor course material which doesn't contain any guidance to test questions. +Very interesting. The quizzes after each model compels me to learn and research more. +Extraordinarily dry presentation. It was a struggle to sit through each video. +Following this course, and many FE books +The content of the course looked promising. But then I took a first look: the instructor is reading formulas from a slide. This is missing the whole point of a online class. There is no motivation for the formulars, no context why they are important. And from a learning point of view the course is very hard to follow. No real advantage compared to reading a book on that matter.I just took the "Economics of Money and Banking course", which is one of the best courses I ever attended (personally in class or online). There are other great courses on Coursera. And for easy introduction to some of the concepts Khan University courses are unmatched in accessability.Too bad that this course doesn't match up to the above examples. The topics would deserve that they are presented in a way that they can be understood by a wide audience. +I would like to see the discussion forum back. That will help debugging the answers to the quiz. +Excellent, well done course and an opportunity to touch some topics on finance very interesting +Im really fascinated with this course.By the way, i think some quiz have few mistakes as the module about pricing swaptions in the calibration model. The answer the professor gave is not 13300 or 19400, but 1330 or 1940 respectively.The quiz#6, the answer for the question 1 and 2 is multiple, its between a range and i cant complete it, please check the parameters again. +The content of this course is apropiate for drive the finances and risk, We be lear more about this courseI am Engenier in Sofware, the know of finances is aplicable in anyware software. +This course provide with a lot of useful knowledge about financial market and different types of securities as well. +Great course, challenging and very interesting! +Thank you so much prof. HirschfeldI'm so sad the course is over - it was a weekly meeting with a different, higher reality.Thank you again +What a shame. English subtitles were promised and not arranged. I truly wanted to learn this course. Obviously Coursera doesn't care. +Lectures are in Hebrew. English subtitles are in Hebrew also. Completely useless unless you understand Hebrew. I am about to drop this class. +an usefull introduction to Data world and Ananlytics tools +it's my first online course , i liked it too much . it was an amazing experience +Satisfy with the content +Its a good basic level course, which discusses on how to think strategically and approach for the real time problem at hand. +Too high level compared to what I expected, but does give a good overview of the topic. +Very good and dynamic overview of (big) data analysis approach +Disappointing. Just brushed the surface of most of the topics, felt a bit too much like an ad for PWC or story telling about client engagements. Content was lacking +very little useful information, more like PR for PWC +Basically this course was an excellent promotion of PwC as a consultant. A well crafted introduction of buzz-words with very little substance (Unlike the following courses on Excel and presentations) +A good overview of data and analytics from both business application and technical perspectives +Excellent material, I was delighted to take this course and really think it is very helpful for data analysts.Thanks!! +Great course. +Very helpful for building an outline for data-driven decision making. The exercises are also well designed for helping to review and strengthen the things learned in the courses. +was an excellent c +Great insight. +Very well designed course to help understand how data analytics is changing the way we make decisions +I really liked the material in this course! It was very helpful to gain a base understanding around big data and the potential insight and uses that come from tapping into it.In terms of the assignments and projects, I think the strategic approach to helping firms tap into insights from big data was a little bit vague. +Great course that provides insight on the various types of approaches, techniques, and tools utilized across data analytics and visualization. This first course of the specialization is a great opportunity to learn about the concepts. I am looking forward to the rest of the courses that will be a little more technical. +Excellent high level overview for a complete beginner or someone with a passing knowledge of the tools and processes. Taking the class just to get an idea of the PwC data analysis framework is worth it +Peer Reviewed Assignment not a well planned marking system. Grades can be to vary. Dependent on fellow students for pass not most ideal. +Very great course. An awesome foundation for anyone who has a keen interest in data analytics. I am glad I took this course +A very nice course for beginners and professionals.It helps one to improve, achieve results and also gives a chance to experience the knowledge and expertise of Professionals +It is a good introduction to data analytics techniques and methodologies. However, I think there is over-repetition of basic points which undermines the more subtle, yet significant, points. +very boring lectures. expected a lot more from something like PWC. Doesn't worth it at all. Didn't learn anything new. +it is a really good introduction to the data bussines world +Very nice intro course to analytics! +Just gives a very basic and layman level information about data analytics. Good course for people who are curious to know what data analytics is all about. +A more practical assessment should have been there. Although, 100% satisfied witht he content and the curriculum with insights from the veterans at PwC. +Excellent concepts building materials and flow of the course. +Excellent course materials, progress, and outstanding course instructors focused on valuable knowledge and the latest trends in data, analytics, techniques and tools. Thanks +Fantastic introduction into Data Analytics area! +This is a solid introductory course which provides a good framework to structure your approach to solving complex data problems. +Gained hands on knowledge in Big Data and current Data Analysis +It gives very good direction toward business application of Big Data. And helps you to get rid of that misleading Dilbert cartoon style worship of "Big Data that lives in the Cloud", which is quite common in the corporate world nowadays. +Thanks A lot +This is a very helpful top down approach for how to frame a problem and select analytic tools. +Could have been more practical. +Lovely course that lunch you to the world of Data analysis +Excellent way of teaching. I really appreciate the materials used which guided me throughout this course. +This course was a great intro to data analysis. I was able to learn about all the different tools that data analysts use for analytics. +This course will change the way you think about business in general and will definitely influence the way of how to make smart business decisions +Please let the graded assignment to the financially poor candidate as well. +Too high level the course is. +A very good course that matched my expectations and is ideal for anyone without any prior knowledge of the topics but manages to elevate you at the right pace. Thank you I look forward to more courses in this Specialization +Very easy to understanding and practical, especially for the beginners like me. It give me confidence to go further. +Its a very good course to understand the importance of data led decision making in the organisations. +The simulation was very interesting, but there is a lot of theory leading up to that which was at times a bit overwhelming. Summary slides / videos would be helpful. +This course is very useful. Data analytics are so important to the success of any business, public or private. +Great course! +It made me aware about all the insights of the decision making through data. I am been able to understand the industry in a much better way. Thanks pwc. +Too many speeches with too few slides. +Overall, this is a good course. It provides many handy tools, frameworks, techniques for data-driven decision making process. It does improve my decision making skill. However, the course is quite short and doesn't have much in-depth content. +Wonderful Course and very motivational experts , Thank you +A good introduction to Datas, decision making and PWC approach. A good way to begin this specialization :) +This course does a good job overall of framing the importance and challenges of working with big data, and certainly inspired me to want to learn more. However, I think the material could be organized better, and the lectures are not nearly the same quality as the universities' courses...not to mention too heavy on the PWC pitches. The quizzes and assignments don't necessarily correlate well with the lessons, and the assignments are structured poorly. Based on my experience, I would not recommend a PWC course to serious learners. +Very well organized, provides easy to read material and has clearly seperated modules. +Lear +A board overview of big data analytics +Very well presented and with clear guidelines. Also, a master course in presentations by itself. +Very good course in one of the new domains which is becoming increasingly important everyday.Very lucid and easy to understand as well. The simulation session was the best part of the course in my view. +Very insightful and structured course! +A very good course to get a head start in Data-driven Decision Making and the field of Business Analytics. Looking forward to more such courses from PwC. +This course suit for beginner who wants to explore data analytics world on the surface. It is a good tool to introduce you to data-driven decision making +Helpful course and practical case studies to assist learning.Thanks pwc team +A good foundation course. I believe the information regarding tools and techniques could've been presented in a better manner by working on live files and displaying it. It was monotonous. Apart from the rest, the final course case studies were brilliant and helped us to collaborate our understanding of the course. +Very eye-opening. It makes sense now to make decisions by going through and analyzing data; no more gut feelings and intuitions (probably just a little bit). +Good overview of big data and an interesting case study. Could be graded more difficultly. +A must do for every intending decision maker +I really liked the course - it is interactive, very helpful for your daily life and really ap +Please add Case Studies in every week. +I really liked the Discovery, Insights, Actions , Outcomes Model and enjoyed the application to the case study. +I found this course extremely interactive and easy to understand. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone who is interested in data analytics. +I thought the course was extremely valuable and on point with the type of information I needed to know. I do ask that you keep newbies in mind and some of the videos went a little fast and indepth for newbies to the complete data analytics process. Some more basics would also be nice to add. +this course brings a excellent overview of what data are changin organization and how to planning data analysis to improve bussiness +As an overview, introducing not only an analytic framework, but walking through how to apply it and the rationale behind its use, this course has been quite helpful in organizing thoughts around problem solving. The different scenarios offered give some measure of flexibility to think about the applicability of what's learned (available tools, changing trends, guiding principles) across different industries. The lectures are clear and concise, and the progression made sense. +I had so many issues about organization of analytics clear out with this course that from life will be easier. +Really excelent course! +Insightful with a lot of +Extremely informative. The project work in the end provided a good practical view and a hands-on approach. +Good course content. Helps create the foundation for getting an understanding of Analytics tools and techniques +Very good course. It helped in understanding many a topics clearly. +This is a Great Course! +Very well structured and presented - and great supporting notes +Nice basic knowledge about the big data and easily to understand. +I was expecting a lot more detail on ***how*** to perform data driven decision making. What I found is just a lot of buzzwords and very shallow overviews. +As consultant this course was very useful to understand how data analyst consultant works. +Great course. The videos and the reading are very well done. +One of the most practical oriented online course.Keep it up PwC and Coursera. +Good summary in data decision. +Very interesting and easy understandable course! +Thank you Very much. Excelente course to Learn how to manage Data Analytics. +excellent course, looking forward to the next ones +extremely high level +An insight into pwc way of doing things. The course was worth the time, effort and investment. On top of all, it has pwc to ensure its value. +Interesting course however the website is very slow and can be hard to log into at times. +Quite informative, great learning materials, and interesting corse project. +A good start for anyone wants to know about data analysis +It was very useful and knowledgeable course and I am looking forward to complete the specialization +The reason why I am giving only one star that the course did not covered much information and the time allotted could have been less than 4 weeks. So it was not really worth the money. +The course is good for elementary understanding, th exercises were fun too. However, the tools could have been described +This course has several highlights, very good structure, organization, concepts, experience and the msg of each vide is very good transmitted +the structure of this course is well organized and interactive at large. Even beginners will not find themselves lost in the process since there are multiple sources of assistance along the way. Highly recommended. +Loved the course !!! Happy to be a part of the learning experience ..... +The course is well done and well structured, however it's too theoretical. +Very useful overview +Good overview of the state of the art data analysis tools and methods. +Very useful, when I meet problems or come up with cases, I know how to deal with it. +Very insightful. +The course is very usefull for finding more about data analytics for making faster and better decisions for business. Thank PWC for giving me this course, it will help me much for my career. +This course is really interesting and very useful, if interested in Data Analysis. But even if you're not pursuing a career in Data Analysis, still the knowledge you acquire is very practical and may come in handy. +The course is extremely helpful and the content is good. However, it is hard sometimes to follow the Principals/Directors teaching the course. Additionally, it would have been fantastic if a lot of time was spent on giving examples, practical work demonstrated and a thorough structure of how it was done.Maybe, all this will be coming in the future courses. But for beginners, it is hard to understand and catch interest on the topic if not discussed with detailed examples and not merely giving highlights on the examples. +Good introduction to the topic, provides a high level overview of data-analytics and visualisation and their importance in the work place. After this course I'm inspired to dive further into the field and looking forward to PwC's follow up courses in the specialisation. +It is really a good class with comprehensive interactions between students, cases, and good for those who would like to further learning about Big Data and how to analyze it in a high level. +Very good introduction into the field. Peer reviewed assignment could be better +Excellent and very useful!!! +This course is very good and informative. +Simple and structured introduction to the importance of data, and the tools organisation should use when dealing with big data. +Nice Introduction to Data and Analytics +Good to know the data analysis trend and useful tools. +Excellent presentation. Gradually built to the conclusion stage. +Loved the fact that we are sharing the PwC expertise internally. Good to see the ocean of knowledge and the excellent te +The course was really good. It was structured very well and at a great pace. I would have liked more handouts as there was a lot of information and descriptions. Also, more examples could be really helpful to remember all the information and scenarios. +The course is helpful in providing a basic introduction to how data can drive better decision making in real business context. It provides a basic introduction to various tools and techniques. The best part is the final submission in 4th week which ensures learning from the entire course.A possible area of improvement is including more case study discussions during the course which help understand what kinds of tools and techniques should be used in which scenarios. Currently the course devotes very less time to this aspect. +Very good at focusing your attention on what matters. +Good Overview for data-driven decision making +Very informative course, focused on building the practical problem solving skills and application of knowledge. Help +This is an excellent course to study. +It's good, even though just having some brief view of the Data-driven Decision making, it brought me a new word. I know data is important and does effect the decision making, but didn't know how. This learning session provided a good chance for me to fully discovery what happened behind the sen. +High level overview of data and analytics in business +Great course. +Awesome Course i ever had about the topic. +Don't walk, run to your PwC laptop and take this course pronto! +I found this course amazing! It was just what I needed to update my knowledge on the subject. The videos and the readings were really informative. Congratulations on a terrific course! +Excellent course, great material, concepts well organized, nothing to complain really. The presenters were all very good too, and I'll be taking all the related courses for sure. Recommended 100%. +This was fun! +Excellent: presentation, content, resources. Fascinating as well as highly instructive. +Fantastic introduction course! +I am an absolute beginner in the topic and this course is perfect for me. I am learning a lot and the sessions have the right length. +The best course of paleontology and paelobiolgy. Thanks! +Engaging intro course with superb visuals and virtual specimens. +I love it!!!can´t get enough of it, want more more more :-) +1rst and best +Thank you for this excellent course! I really enjoyed the short videos, the concise notes, and quick quizzes (both at the end of each lesson, as well as the main point quizzes throughout the videos). +Really great teaching and use of wonderful tools to reinforce and assist with learning. Would enjoy doing more courses with Betsy and Phillip. Thank you for taking the time to put this material together and thanks for the brilliant presentations. +Great course, so interesting, I learned so much. It is presented well and helps you to be methodical and taught me to analyse with a new perspective. I find I am now able to understand better the scientific papers that are published. It is such a shame that it is over, but Intend to continue with my studies. The additional material at the end of each lesson is a great idea which causes you to research even more. If you have an interest in these fantastic creatures, how they came to be and why they disappeared, apart from the birds of course, then this is the course for you and you don't have to have a degree to complete this course, just an enquiring mind. S. ATKINS +Thank you to all the instructors for putting together a very educational course!!! :) i enjoyed every lecture and have learned a great deal (my childhood dream of becoming a paleontologist (or at least as close to one as possible) has almost come true! :) Hope to continue learning in further paleontology courses. +I am really enjoying this course +The amount of information I learned as well as retained was astounding. I had no idea I was going to be taking in this amount of information from an online course no less. The course it's self is well structured and allows for you to work towards the goals at your own pace. Highly recommended. I will be looking into the other paleontology courses offered here on this site by The University of Alberta. +Brilliant course, pitched at the right level for an introduction into Paleontology. I got a lot out of doing this course and it has kick started my interest in Paleontology. +This was a really beneficial and well-rounded course. It was interesting throughout and I have learned a lot, so, thank you to Betsy, Philip and the University of Alberta and Coursera for providing the opportunity. +great course and great reading material. Easy to understand but precise and deep +This course was fantastic! +Really enjoyed the course! Cant wait to take more. +Wow, what an awesome course. I can't find anything to complain about. The notes were useful and well-formatted, the video lectures were concise and full of clear language and examples to demonstrate ideas, and the quizzes were a lovely balance between easy and impossible, they gave just enough challenge to make me rack my brain for some detail I'd almost forgotten. Awesome course, I am walking away with what was once just a passion for dinosaurs is now a concrete starting point for an academic intrigue in the entire field of paleobiology. +Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology is a fantastic introduction to the world of Dinosaurs and to some of the science which underpins our understanding of them. The course is well designed and gradually builds upon your knowledge. The information is clearly presented and easy to follow, and most importantly - learn.I have throughly enjoyed learning from this course and would recommend it to anyone, amateur or potential professional alike. +Thank you for all the efforts you put in this course. Lectures are very interesting! It's definitely a course that I would recommend to all dinosaurs enthusiasts! +I think this is an absolutely fantastic course for anyone with a passion for Dinosaurs and wants to know more about them! +very fun, informative and interesting. definitely recommend to any one interested in dinosaurs +very interesting 2nd course I have taken with Alberta +Excellent course. I appreciated the notes, teaching from experts in the field and being exposed to new information and research that was new to me. Thank you. - David Haitel +This was a most informative course. and for me. not an easy one by any means. For an under-graduate, I would say is essential. Well done! And thank you! +I loved this course and I am definitely going to be a paleontologist, I love dinosaurs. FIVE STARS! +Interactive, thorough, and interesting. +Great course for beginners wanting to learn more about the life, anatomy, origins, and extinction of Dinosaurs +I LOVED taking this course! I've learned so much! I can't wait to take the additional courses available on this subject! +It was a great course and enjoyable to learn lots. Thank you! +Great course, learned lots and really enjoyed the content that was taught! +The (near) Perfect Course for me.Uptill now I was not especially interested in Dinosaurs, but as amateur Palaeontologist I was looking for a Course Palaeontology that suits my special interest: Pleistocene Mammals.But this Course Dinosaurs Palaeobiology offers so much more than Dinosaurs and many of the toppics are useful for other species too, such as:Death and Fossilisation; Eating; Moving around; Birth, Growth and Reproduction; Attack and Defence; What is a Species; Evolution; Stratigraphy and Geologic Times and Paleogeography and Plate Tectonics.I have studied the Lessons with great pleasure and I learned a lot thanks to the clear explanations of Dr. Philip Currie and Mrs Betsy Kruk. The Course is very well composed with PDF for reading, Video for watching and interactive media for doing exercises. The quiz at the end of each lesson was also good and easy to answer after studying the lesson and handles more about understanding the content than reproduce endless lists of difficult names.Now I am studying the last 2 chapters and I can say that I have learnt a lot, thanks to Dr. Currie and Mrs Kruk and I am looking forward already for other Courses of the University of Alberta. Probably Early Vertebrate Evolution will be next and Marine Vertebrates after that. +This class does EVERYTHING right! I am a course designer (the world is full of junk courses, including from Princeton, shudder) and I love, love, love this entire sequence, but especially this course. The flow is logical, the questions in the video ask you to think but aren't too far (they are scaffolded) away from what we might know or guess, the final questions are fair. And you don't use 5 new tech terms in the same sentence; you let us absorb the new info at the rate that the human brain can actually learn. I learned a few things just by watching you. A lot of credit to Dr. Currie for some of this: he uses the terms that need to be used, and plain English for common things like "river" (another class' Waterloo). Bravo to the gents and brava to the wonderful presenter. I just wish you had the budget for another 15 classes.... sigh. +Awesome stuff. +Excellent course! I appreciate the insights given and the +This is my first time trying out an online course and I must say I am extremely impressed with the detail.This had made me even more interested in Dinosaurs now! Firstly a great way to learn about Dinosaurs and palaeontology .This course was brilliantly detailed and extremely engaging. Everyone in the videos were clear and engaging to listen to,the way the information was presented in different locations simply excellent.The video lectures were wonderful with the way they make you think,especially putting questions within the video lectures were wonderfully done. The notes before hand were also well presented and put together.So thank you Dino 101 team I have really enjoyed Dino 101 and will be looking into your other courses in the future. +Excellent! This course changed my destiny. +A serious, attractive and well done MOOC. Big thanks to Mr Curry and his whole team for sharing knowledges in Paleonthology with people interested in. I really enjoyed learning those courses, which deal with many topics, give the basics and more about new discoveries. Best whishes ! +Great course! Thank you! +Super interesting and educational! Would recomend this course strongly, it was interesting to study about how to know where fossils are from, how to know what animals belong to what group etc. +This course is great. I learned very much. Thank you very much! +Clear simple language well presented. Keeps audience interested. +Good course for new learners. Switching back and forth between Time Value of Money and the Decisions framework can be off-putting, though. Organisation of material is not necessarily the best, but the course is definitely worth taking for Finance newbies. +Good learning experience +excellent course: topics are well explained and easy to follow. +great course. simple, powerful. +Fundamentals of ManagementCongratulations on the platformCongratulations on the administrative order of the courseCongratulations on the Success of the Course +Excellent, I've learned new ways to be a leader and how to manage change in business. +This course is very important. +Great course an clever instructorthank you coursera team and big thanking for Prof: Nagy +this course easy to understanding even i'm beginer. +The valuable information in this course got me the promotion I wanted.Higher management noticed I had changed my management style in a short time period and was pushing the employee's to get the job done.In fast food it's all about timers and labor.The employees trust me and I have confidence that shows. Not east considering they are mostly teens and young adults.Thank you, Tammy G. +well structured course with illustrations +Well structured, clear examples. +Great course! Engaging and useful tips and tools +outdated, and the guy is really hard to listen to for hours. +Very useful course and a lot of information that could be used in real world . Even with my 15 years of experience I learned a lot from this course +This is the most challenging course I have ever took. And its also gave me lot of experience.Thank you very much, EVERYBODY +Excellent course. You will study a very clear class about management, leadership and control. +Great course! It helps to explain the issues I encountered as a manager. I can't wait to implement the lessons learnt here. +very good for me in overview about management +Good start for fresh students who want to learn basic knowledge about management. +Very useful for everyone +the course is useful and meaningful for me. +THANK YOU! +Good to know for every manager +Thanks Sir! You are very good! This course is very important and necessary for young people as me! +Very interesting and easy to do! Great sheets!! +Such an interesting course for understanding the basics of management. +It was an enlightening experience. +Too preliminary! +comprehensive overall view to the management topics +Perfect course for entry level +Great Course . Thank you +The course provided a good basic and conceptual idea behind Management. +Great content but a little too slow in my opinion, still great input about management. +primarily thanks for financial aid,by getting financial aid from the couresera i entered to tis programmeafter get in to the course learn lot lecturers were explained well understandable mannerthank you coursera :) :) +Nice and easy explanation clarifying all the concepts properly. +The videos are excellent and it provides good information +It is really an awesome course for any level of learner or professional in management field. The course is essentially of beginner level, but it covers all areas of interest for one who is ready start career in management. Above all, the course is short, simple, introductory, and well-explained. +Exciting course :) +Good materials, but too long and drawn out. +This is the best course if you want to learn the Fundamentals of Management. Dave keeps it very simple and explains the topics lucidly. I have trained in some topics as part of my job which made it easy for me to get certified in this course. Some of the questions on the quiz have real world scenario's which are pretty fun to work on. +Excellent MOOC with almost all the basics covered,.! +frankly so far this is the best in Career Success but still not well presented +Excellent course for begineers +Simple and Understandable! +Very Good Content +Excellent content, but the instructor does not motivate +Very practical, understandable and useful, thank you! +Informative but there were less videos shown specially on real time situations. +Many New things are available to learn. I am alrealy a management student but this course help to know me that i dont know anything and I am continously learning many new concept. +The course is an overview of the principles of management, but t's a great introduction to the principles of management. +Very well explained. Easy to follow. +absolutely a must +Dave Nagy sir has explained this course with such simplicity that one can understand the course with ease. Thank you sir. The videos, and the related articles are so distinct that it helps us understandvery well. I personally enjoyed doing this course and am looking forward to do more courses. +A Simple Course on the basics of management that surely could benefit any working person...I would have love to come across this class much earlier on in my life...it would have given me a much broader view on what it takes to be in charge and lead others and would have made some past experiences a lot easier to transition through...thank you for providing these learning opportunities online... +Great Course for those who wants to leant capstones of management! Good structure and materials! +Great course. Precise and clear content +It was a nice course. It has a nice content and powerful tips. +This course was very useful, provided me with the basic knowledge that I needed about management. This course was my chance of exploring this subject which I grow interested in recently. I'm very happy I found it on Coursera and now proud that I have completed it. Thank you very much! +Start very basic but at the end it becomes VERY interesting +I really like simple, but well rich explanation of fundamental basics of management in this course. The lector is great. +I liked how the course is structured and Dr. Dave Nagy is amazing in delivering the information, Thank you Dr. Dave Nagy. the course is 100 % structured and deliver all the information +Nice one +A brief basic course. Good understanding of Management. +Great Class the concepts are fresh and new. +Awesome course! Loved the instructor. +very useful course! great organization +i like this course because the material which Mr. Dave gives is easy for understanding and he explains so good! +5 Stars Course! +The Fundamentals of Management is a good introduction into this area of knowledge. +That was fine. Not great, but fine +Course material is fine.But the instructor isn't the most inspiring. The course feels like the instructor is just reading off the presentations.Overall, just an average course +Down to earth course +Very importent things only. +It was really informative and brief course on management +Great for people that, like me, does not have a management background but maybe end up dealing with this type of position. Good guidelines, simple but complete and using understandable examples. +Nice content but a few bugs with the videos and sound track when watching online. +Excellent! Highly recommended! Thanks! +4/5 for content, 2/5 for presentation. Compared to other courses, the lecturer is slow and often reads from slides. Nevertheless thanks for the course. +This course was very helpful in my professional and everyday life. Many thanks for the information and dose of humor :) +Nice course to know about basics of management +I would like to send my thanks to this source. +It is a very simple and clear program, ı have ever seen in this area.Thank you so much Dave NAGY and to provide this program.Knowledge is universal and should be shared. +Gained good knowlegde about management. +great for beginners! simple explained +It was OK, but a bit too basic +The course was very helpful +Short but Still Very Impressive Distribution of the Topics with Good Learning Experience +very clear :) +Clearly explained concepts and relevant references and resources. +I just finished this course with my happiness and pleasure. I be always grateful about this course, because thank to course, I learned the number of vocabulary of management that I never knew before. Besides that, I also improve my English skills, especially Listening and Vocabulary.For this reason mentioned above, I really grateful this course so much, and helps my dream come true. +Mr. Nagy presents an introduction to fundamentals of management that can be used by experience managers as a refresher. He presents the contents in a clear and concise manner, with useful examples that help retain the concepts he is presenting. I highly recommend this course to anybody, whether he or she is just entering the workforce after College or people that is already involved in management. +Great introductory course for Fundamentals of Management +A good starting point for new or future managers. +Thank you very much! +This is an excellent course. It clearly explains what are the key functions of Management and what skills are useful in a Manager. It also highlights the importance of Networking in today's global environment. +For a developing manager this has some great insight to help you work to become a great manager in this changing environment. +A Very Good overview of the "Fundamentals".One feels like they have all the information they need to start managing after completion.The Questions are fairly simple but the Content is Meaningful.Overall, I got a lot out of it, it's an enjoyable introduction to management. +Excellent course content, flow and example sharing by Mr. Dave Nagy. Thanks UCI for providing such a wonderful course.Thanks!!! +Excellent lectures. Teaches simple yet important points. Does not inundate the learner. +Nice one , This course having basics of the management , i will recommended to all my peers bout that... thanks to coursera. +Very useful for me - a small farm manager +As for information in course itself, it was interesting for me to enroll and to be part of the course.But I highly dislike that there was a feeling of that the lecturer is trying to remember any things right while the video goes. It is not a real class, it is a video and it could be done much more accurately. There were many many boring moments, while management itself is not a boring discipline, it is very interesting.Anyway I am glad I participated in the course. +The course gives an overly simplified vision of management, but is still very useful as an introductory course. +This course really helps me to get the general concepts about management.I'm willing to take further courses provided by UCI.Thanks for the faculty. +Concise. A good tool to learn in few minutes. +too easy quizes( +nice course! Thanks, +I think management is not easy to teach compare to engineering. I didn't learnt many knowledge and not get plenty readings as well. Even I get some knowledge, it's just like I read an article or TED or Youtube. Since I have the inherent implication of China or East, I give it four star. +Second and third function of management lost :( +I enjoyed this class and it gave me some good ideas to apply to my career. +Good information presented in a basic and unassuming way, with practical and easy to understand examples. +Excellent. Very clear. Concise. +Amazing material. Great Professor +Wonderful Content and well explained +simple and or +it is good useful course +A good program for Beginners. +This course does not go in-depth into the selected management topics selected. I used it as a benchmark to make sure I am taking into account the most important / basic tools of management science. +Thank you very much +Excellent - full of high-quality content. +Very good course, that is very useful for people who did not studied bussines at the university +Maybe a little thin in terms of content; besides interesting +Very good course and provides a clear fundamentals of management +In spite of this course being very basic it give you a quick highlight on the fundamentals of management principles. +This nice course and I enjoyed it . +Great insight! +Nice review of all things learned during College. +Good Course +Fairly basic but very important course. +Too simplistic and not enough real world examples. It was clear instructor regurgitated material directly off of the screen, offered zero highlights to real world experience or issues. Rather than wasting a couple hours listening to presentations, download the slides and read them yourself. Disappointing. +concise but great course. the teacher also uses some examples to explain. it really helps. +Great course to give you some pointers. Not a difficult or a deep one but definitely worth its time. +Yes, this course is nicely tailored to know the fundamental of management.I enjoyed this course alot +Even though some of the information seems like common sense, it's good to have it stated aloud. I thought the pace was well done, the examples used applicable and easy to understand, and the instructor seemed to enjoy the topic he was teaching. It's a good introduction to thinking about these topics and understanding jobs and roles in any business. +The Course was awesome, and Dave Nagy is really a good professor, he explains clearly with practicaexamples! thank you so much +Just soft teoretical material - need add some "real life" exsamples. +It's an amazing course and I like it! +Really simple and easy to follow along. I learned things that will definitely help me work more efficiently in my business. I found it faster to just go over the slides instead of watching the videos. +Good course that gives a basic idea how management works and what is the difference between managers and leaders. +Interesting course! +Quick primer of what management and supervising is about +Very useful course. Thanks for authors! +I really enjoyed doing this course.The lecturer was very insightful,engaging and knowledgeable.It's my hope to continue doing other courses. +Amazing course can't wait to learn more! Thank you for giving me this opportunity. +I recommend this course for all beginners interested in management ! +Very good fundamentals course on management. I was able to complete it in a couple of evenings. +great course ,thanks +It was great to learn all basic of Revenue management. I have not remembered all words used for revenue management but could understand almost all. I will read materials and watch short movies again after this as well. +great learning ! +Excellent course that introduces you into the world of Revenue management! I suggest it to any beginner! +I really found the course quite insightful, and was surprised with the amount of factors and variables that are taken into account when developing revenue strategy. I would have liked to see some mathematical aspect to this course. +Solid course, but needs a little bit of a more practical application of the theory presented. All in all fine upgrade for people that up to now haven't had the awareness of revenue management importance. +Excellent course. Very interesting, and well taught. Good supplemental graphics. I wish all courses were like ESSEC's courses. +I personally found this course extremely interesting and useful though I, myself, on the other side of the road as far as the Hotels are concerned. It had been though very important for me to understand how the Hotels are seeing the future in regard to revenue management and strategy. Thanks a a lot to Duetto team, the guys were absolutely phenomenal, I could not stop educating from them. Thank you all very much for another tremendously interesting and educational course. +Course was very interesting regarding the application of revenue management and specifically reviewing "Revenue Management Terminology" within the context of past and present trends in the Hotel Industry, but the course and it's additional reading material were slightly dated due to the fact that "Rate Parity" was referenced many times and I understand those clauses non-existent on OTA contracts anymore due to their dubious legality. (It seems that most of the articles referenced were from 2013, and a handful from 2014/2015)Also, unfortunately, Augustin Cacot was a little difficult to understand at times, and I speak French! +Very useful. Thank you so much for this course. +Thank you for establishing such a ground and base establishing course <3 +Excellent course material with gradual approach +This course is a bit repetitive and provides only a few real life examples. As well as this, the evaluation of this course is based on the result of a single quiz of 15 questions, which is not enough to prove any knowledge at all. I think it should focus on a more practice oriented course in order to master the price optimization process and see how it fluctuates in real life examples.However, this course gives great insights and useful concepts that are of huge importance to the application of the revenue management activities. +Simply awesome! +Great content, valuable insights. Thanks! +Great course, lots of interesting material!However, I wish this course was not so fast-paced. If more time was dedicated to every subject and more examples were provided, that would make a learning process more effective. +A very interesting course outlining the important of good revenue management and flexible pricing to maximize hotel revenue and profits. I would welcome a few more practical exercises DURING the course and not only on the final quiz. Also, it would be good to have the tables and presentations on .pdf or . jpg format as details are not readable behind the presenter. Looking forward to the next course in this specialization, namely Demand Management. +Great introduction to the hospitality business revenue management basics +Very helpful. Only wish we had more opportunity to practice on a facultative basis. +Very nice overview of the major revenue issues facing hotels today +While I enjoyed most of the content of this course, I felt that it was one long advertisement for Duetto. I will certainly continue the course series because I enjoy the learning. Also, a note for presenters, please be aware of how distracting so many hand gestures can be. Thanks! +Excellent course for hospitality professionals who want to learn about revenue management +Last lessons were a bit repetetives. I suggest to introduce more real case studies or revenue strategy building process simulation. +overall course was very good +Tests and quizzes don't really ask the right things and the answers given are hard to understand. Bad quizzes but lectures informative. +You can get to know about basic points about RM, like user segments, forecasting and pricing. +The course is highly theoretical. Only good for coming to know the terms that are in use in the industry and their meanings. Very little take away from a practical perspective. Some live example or a case study to be incorporated where the students can apply the principles first hand. +Up-date content and well expalined concepts .Added value as reading and links . It really engagement me to going on for the next. +Such a great course! Very interesting course with a lot of information on the renewable energies of the moment, its operation, numbers on it and advantages and disadvantages, also a lot of information about fossil fuels, in short an energetic vision of the moment. +it wasn't smg that i expected . too much chemistry instead of physics and explanation how are things working. really long hours to complete a homework but it was worth it! in the end i really enjoyed the course +I think everybody should at least have this knowledge. +Fantastic course, great material and very complete and insightful. It would be great if the information could be upgraded to see how we currently are. +A good course, giving a thorough understanding of the various types of renewable energy, their issues and opportunities. I cannot rate the course higher because some of it is so out of date. It really needs to be re-done. The Paris Agreement wasn't mentioned, some of the research is from the early 2000s, many of the lectures are at least 3 years old. This is an area that is changing rapidly, monthly, and this course can't really be seen to be current any more. Particularly the politics section in week 8. +This class was bizarre. Some of the content and lecturers was fantastic, but some lecturers were quite dull and some lectures and quizzes were poorly written and misleading. The class was also strangely designed and executed: the amount of content per week varied significantly; the vast majority of the content was in a very specific energy sector (biofuels) and other key sectors were almost entirely overlooked; it also seems like the content is already a few years old. It was more of a description of UCSD's research than of the "future of the energy". +Too much information for a short amount of time to compile. I liked the questions in the middle of the videos, but I would be great to always have the justification of the answers for a more profund learnning. +Excellent course with well explained instructions. Broad range of topics and in depth enough to have a good grasp o +This course is informative and comprehensive. +A very good overview of energy that opened my eyes for how to solve in a sustainable way the global warming and food issues. +An eye opener on the energy possibilities of the future! +The course provides a detailed account on the current state of the global energy demands, environment and climate. The lectures also discuss the the steps being taken to improve current state and the future technologies that can be adopted as a holistic solution.It is important that we try to find the silver bullet but not forget to use the silver bucks in the meantime :) +Great learning experience! Easy way to get an idea of the work that is being done to better our lives in the future in terms of energy. Very interesting lectures and would highly recommend it. +Excellent Course to have an overview about Energy Management and future challenges. +Truly enriching stuff. +They give an overview of the most used and innovative sources of alternative energy, well explained!! +Very informative course even for someone with a prior knowledge in a particular segment in renewable energy. Covers diverse energy resources along with economic, and environmental considerations. +very encouraging course , nicely put and very hard work to put all these themes together.Thank you +Super class Present Generation needs it. +Excellent course. I learned a lot. Thank You UCSD! +Excellent teachers, thanks to you all.Dr. Stephen Mayfield inspire respect for the subject, Congrats! +This helped me to understand much better what is Sustainable Energy and what it implies. +Nice course with lot of numbers and facts. +I am a retired US Army Officer and Wind Energy Professional. This is a superb course and is immensely relevant. +An excellent course for environmentally conscious individuals interested in the different options we have to create a 100% renewable energy future. +Very interesting. +Great course so far ! +Nice and comprehensive information from all the fields.A real world wide problem!We are looking forward for even more up-to-date information, and data, and more in depth information, when they are readily available, either as in video information or as text links. +It's a excelent course to study the all perspective about the energy situation in the world. Covering the poor and rich countries and diferents technicals skills to develop new and innovation s +This is a great course on energy technologies, with quite in-depth lectures on the technologies, current research, future prospect and delivered by experts in their field of study. The assignments were also interesting, and tailored to inspire what you can do to be more energy efficient and explore your local surroundings on existing or future initiatives on sustainability. I'd recommend this course to anyone interested to know the current and future energy and renewable technologies, or aspiring researchers to explore and zoom in their field of interest. Great job! +A week thought through collection of different aspects regarding our energy future. +you must take this course if you want to know basicly about energy past, present, future +Excellent, in-depth overview of today's challenges for Our Energy Future +For every person with social responsibility. +Excellent course for those who have interest in Renewable Energy and very comprehensive and informative for everyone. +I appreciate the fact that the course addressed not only the technical details of each of the most promising technologies that are being developed in the energy sector but also the socioeconomic and political issues that we need to face in order to make a meaningful dent in the negative impact humanity has on the world. +It is an excellent course +good course with detailed information. I enjoyed by part of this. +This is an outstanding course which covers such a wide range of energies including wind solar, and a large variety of bio-fuels. I was impressed with the selection of different presenters who were all specialists in their field. The level of technical detail is appropriate for a layman while being quite in depth. In fact in some cases one might feel overwhelmed but this was intended in order to give a good feeling of the innovative technologies, problems and futures. It was good to review the well known energy sources like nuclear, hydro, fracking, corn ethanol, etc, but I would say most people are unaware of all these alternative sources of energy such as from various plants, algae to make bio-fuels or electricity.The questionnaires were both helpful in forcing one to pay sufficient attention even if sometimes they are near impossible to get 20 on 20. Also I thought the interviews were especially well prepared and helpful to recall the basic material presented. Bravo +Because of this course, I'm considering a masters degree in the Field of Energy, In sha Allah +it is an excellent course, after going through this course i came to know that the situation is not aggravated still we have lot of opportunities to save our environment while improving per capita energy consumption specially in developing and under developed countries. +Great course. Very useful information and very wide approach to the subject. +Very good, informative course. A broad field of science is included, from biotech to sociology, and lots of information. Recommended! +Found material interesting and informative +One of the great course I ever attended...well structured, very fruitful...definitely guided me to do something for clean energy and green environment..Thank you all professors... +Informative and well composed. +I took this class out of curiosity about our energy future and was pleasantly surprised! There were numerous teachers providing lectures on their expertise and the information provided for this course went explaining how we got to today, what we are doing today to energy in the future. It really opened my eyes as to what can be done now, and what is possible in the future. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone with a curiosity in energy! If you are taking this course for marks, take notes during the lectures. Awesome course! +Very good and interesting overall, the slides are very helpful. The only thing for me is that it's going a bit fast sometimes. The content can be quite technical and for a social science graduate like myself it would be nice if some very technical things could be explained just tiny bit more. But overall it's understandable and clearly done. +This course is awesome! Im finishing it and its very complete! +I love this course, very helpful +Not adapted to an online format. Low quality videos.Interesting topics, but no efficient progression. Many sections become an update about UCSD research, not adapted to the audience. +This very interesting course looks at both the science and economic factors that influence energy technologies. +A Fantastic course, bring forward a lot of new material to me personally. Having not studied any science since i was 16, and completed high school, i found this course extremely interesting and very much enjoyed the clear presentations. The content on bio-fuels was, for me, the highlight. +very informative +This course is an excellent introduction to energy topics especially in the optic of the energy challenge that humanity faces with global warming! +Exceptionally eye-opening!!! +best course in the world! +Difficult course. If this is what you are interested in,the work is all worth it. +Very informative! +A very good course. I totally recommend it for those who want to get some insight into the world of energy from different perspectives. +Amazingly informative and thr +I really like it. Thank you! +Not really helpfull +Have to say: this course is not useful +The project is too unguided, you can set an example by creating a sample website throughout the course. +I felt the course went far too fast and is definitely NOT a course for beginners. I gave up after the 2nd week and I now feel more than ever overwhelmed by setting my own website. +Took the mystery out of a few things that were new. +great crash course for anyone interested in the web design process. +I though it would be a little more detailed. Thank you for the course! +I did not find this helpful for a complete beginner. I will try an alternative course! +Worst course on coursera. +It good for beginners who have no idea where to start in creating sites .But, can improve some of the audios are not complete yet the audio has finished and in some of video are not completely organized +This course does not live up to the high value that I've come to enjoy and expect at Coursera. The videos are read by the "teachers", so the inflections are wrong, making it very hard to follow. The videos are clipped short and cut off the words at the end. The information is given so quickly with terms not explained that a novice will likely not understand parts of it. I found no value here. There are far better tutorials on the web. I can't see how any college or university would respect any certificate from this course. +makes it very confusing. I was looking to make a business websites. +The course is very disappointing and useless. The two lecturers are not explaining anything properly, they are just showing slides and handing out links.The only useful part of the course is Module 4, which is outside the scope of the course and taught by guest lecturers.I would not spend time on this course and instead find another source for learning WordPress. +too short and not very helpful for me, I was missing more details. +I was really happy to join this class, until I saw there was no video learning, everything is articles. I need something visual. I am sorry but this class is not helpful for me, I do thank you the teachers but please do remove me. Thanks. +It's quite simple and doesn't show specific steps of how to do it. +Taking this course is like getting lost across a ton of different websites! +If you have any experience with websites, this course is not for you: it is merely about the soft stuff. Got a couple of nice links to color scheme generator et cetera, but did not deliver what I thought it promised. +Very limited information on Wordpress. Then added some lectures on web design that could have used information relevant to Wordpress such as image compression plugins instead of tinypng.com (see last component). +I have some html/css background. I listened to the first Module and then part of the second module. For a intro level course to get a site up and running using Word Press, I feel like it is missing some key information. As a non-beginner I am finding this course frustrating and not likely to continue. There are definitely better courses out there. +A little too simple of a course, but meets the expectations! +The sequence of the learning movie are not good and some times while teaching the the movie is ended.Besides, rather than educational material this course refer to several website. +Very horrible and boring course, poorly designed and the teachers can't even speak properly. +Great Course but needs a little prior knowledge +So basically it cuts off. It's like it gives you part of the information and then drops off. They also speed through it much like my old math teacher in college whcih caused 73% of the class to drop. Now I'm in them mist of it Paid for blue host. Paid for my web name and it looks like I'm going to have to pay someone to finish it. So bascially what I got was a bunch of added on expenses and still no web site. I would not recommend this course. +They jump around too much and it is very hard to follow. Often I feel like I missed out on content. +I thought you would learn how to actually create a website, not just how to pick and install a premade wordpress theme. +Solid basic course. +Nothing good in this course +I'm sorry to say this is a poor course. The audio is bad, the sound editing is bad, the "videos" are mainly static slides that sometimes aren't even showing what the audio is talking about. There are no worked examples or annotated slides. As an example, there's no discussion of the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com. The only time that is mentioned is when they touch on plugins, where they say you can't use them if you started with WordPress.com! The additional lectures by guest website designers were the most interesting part, but they were supposed to be after the final project. I just gave up after less than an hour and went and played with WordPress myself. Created a website in 2 days, but with no help from this course. +Despite all the bad reviews this course got I told myself to give it a try to refresh my antic prior knowledge and since it is for my personal usage and not a career I m not interested in a certificate. So I went through all the open sites which were extremely disappointing. Since I was warned by the reviews, I was not even tempted to pay to unlock further pages. I attended many interesting courses on Coursera, but this one is simply a waste of time from the very first moment. +No content for the first two weeks. Only links to websites. +I normally struggle to give poor reviews to free online content, but there are so many glaring fundamental issues with the presentation and content of this course, that it I feel it's important to warn people not to waste their time with this course in it's current form.The mapping and planning lectures raise some good points, but the rest give only the most basic overview of the topic at hand, glossing over steps enough that you would probably learn just as much watching youtube, or looking around inside wordpress on your own. The delivery of the lectures needs a lot of work, with distracting, erratic pauses between words, and the sound frequently cutting out mid-word as they switch between slides. I found it difficult to make it through more than 15 minutes of content.I gave more than 1 star because the links underneath the slides contain some valuable information, so if you can be bothered trawling through the slides you can gleam some knowledge there.Hopefully the creators of the course take on board the many negative reviews and give a major overhaul to the course, to bring it in line with the quality of almost all other content on Coursera. +If I could give this course a lower score, I would. It was not helpful at all. I ended up having to take another course so I could actually complete my website. +This course is very helpful to motivate oneself to create a website. But it looks like the authors themselves made the course in one weekend. The lectures are too short and not informative enough to complete the assignments. Some videos don't show what the lecturer is talking about, maybe there is bug or something, but there is only some irrelevant picture. The due dates are inconsistent through different pages. Finally, the next day after the course ends I am not able to view my assignments and the grade for the last assignment, even though the authors sent an email that it would be possible. +This was the most poorly designed course that I have ever encountered. Whoever is in control of quality assurance was caught napping on this one - the instructors were woeful! It was as if the principles of instructional design and adult learning were abandoned entirely; there was minimal instruction and I had to rely on my intuition and the assistance of a study buddy to work hard to complete the course. If you are completely new to website design (as I was), prepare for a steep learning curve as you will be spending many hours preparing and organising your info - the title is deceptive and misleading!Ann, Melbourne, Australia April 2016. +The content for teaching how to create website is nothing. The name should change to how to create a website with Wordpress. I found some videos on the internet help more than this course. However, some links and information are very useful. +cheap !!! just money involved in each subsectionswhich r the most interesting parts +It was really nice - I found the last week lectures most valuable. +Not enough teaching from the professors , just presentation slides. Which kind of reduced the human component of learning. +Maybe som of the material i section 4 shoul have been given earlier? +This is a bait and switch. You must purchase the course even though parts are free, it's really not. +More basic than I was expecting +This course is super fast for beginner and i colder find the pause button. Great info but could've been delivered better. +No use at all +This course should be called "Intro to fundamentals of website design". You may learn, in the process of a few days, how to create a website, but not "how to create a website in a weekend". +The most boring course ever. I just couldn't go beyond the first day +The title of this course is so inspirational that I actually ended up creating a website in a weened. Now I am using course material to enhance it. +1 out of 10.A waste of time. If I cannot participate in discussions, forums, submit assignments, or give reviews, I might as well watch youtube lectures.The course content was very poor as well. (this is based on the unpaid material)This course should be scrapped and not offered as an unpaid course. Its a classical case of bait and switch. +Assignments should be free for everyone to try and be peer reviewed! Payment should only affect the certificate. +I was very disappointed because in order for me to move to the next module I have to pay to unlock some of the course materials. Coursera is changing. I understand that in order to maintain such a big structure is expensive; however it wasn't clear to me from the beginning that I have to pay to unlock the 2nd module courses. +Learning how to create a website is by far the first skill for the new entrepreneur. I'm here for that. +Sorry to say that this is the worst Coursera Course I have ever taken, and I've taken quite a few. The instructors did not do a good job at explaining how to use Wordpress. They didn't explain how to use wordpress to make a website that looked more like a website than a blog. They didn't explain the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org even though they mentioned them both. They talked about hosting but didn't explain how to do it. They mentioned hosting on bluehost but didn't give any instructions. The few tidbits of information that they did give about using wordpress were so brief with no examples. They mentioned Jetpack but didn't say what it was. They didn't explain what benefit adding the social media icons would have or how to link them. And on I could go.The only good part about this course was the last section where they had guest lecturers, some from Coursera - those were all excellent. +Very informative +Good enough for a fast start. +I can't believe this course is aimed at people with no experience in building a website. The videos are actually slide shows and use too few screenshots. Had this been my very first introduction to how a website was built I would never have progressed any further than these lessons. Much more in-depth information is necessary, including step by step screenshots of various processes.Terrible course. +This course lacks a level of professionalism. The splicing of the videos is bad, and for me actual video of how t +The links provided are informative. +Excelent second part, very useful. Hoping to complete all 4 parts. +Great explanations for most subjects. The tests are significantly more complicated than the excercises covered by the lectures. +Would've liked more on the truth table of the conditional. +A good continuation of Think Again I. However, final quiz had lots of bugs in it. +The material in this course is well presented, though scarce at times. However it has its share of problems :-little to no interaction from TA's or mentors in the forums-the quizzes are often out of sync with the lectures-the final exam has severe problems with questions (form not content).In more detail, on the final exam, some of the questions don't even contain all the content to answer them. They can request multiple answers but have single question boxes and/or the reverse. +Great but too short. I realize that it is hard to know where to start the course from but it is true that the Introductory Course for the Genomics Specialization has a lot of over lapping material. I suggest getting rid of your intro material and go just a little farther in depth.Thanks, MC +It's a little bit hard for the fresh guys +I really appreciate how much effort the authors have put into the course 'Algorithsms for DNA sequencing'. The clarity of the lectures is absolutely amazing and the assignments are doable. The assignments took me a lot of time because my only programming background is the 'Python for Genomic Data Science' course. Another really positive aspect about this course is that it helped to consolidate the python coding I had learned in the previous course. +Finally a course that really combines genetics with informatics !!! +Awesome! Although you should get some python experience before taking this course. I had a blast :) +Very nice course! +Great Course! +This course is worth every cent you paid! Expecting new courses from the instructors! +Engaging course with a lot of information. +The lectures and practicals are very easy to understand. The programming homework is a little bit hard for a python beginner to finish. I wish there are more hints or test examples. It would be better to include some reference papers for those who are more interested in the sequencing techniques and methods to read by themselves. And it would be very nice to have a summary slide at the end of the course. +Great job to teachers ! +This lecture was amazing.The practical was also very helpful. +Excellent explanation. I really enjoyed this course (among others of the Genomic Data Science specialisation). Thanks a ton :) +This course was very helpful at building a perspective of how useful algorithms are in DNA Sequencing! The tools I have learned are invaluable. +Excellent course, not like the first and second one of this specialization. +This was really fun. Really enjoyed the a-ha of the algorithms and the fun of solving the alignment and assembly problems. Feel mildly powerful after assembling a virus genome. +This is the best course so far! Teacher is amazing! You have to spend some time on this course, but "at the end of the day" it is worth it. +Very well taught and gives a good theoretical background, while still focusing on the practical side enough! +Already having a computer science background, this module was right in my comfort zone. The instructors not only got down and dirty with the technical aspects of the algorithms, they preceded each practical coding session with multiple lectures with great explanations and well thought out visualizations. +Very nice review of basics algorithms and data analysis problem. Very good introduction to python programming in biology. +Absolutely nice +the best course you should take if you wanna do bioinformatics +Excelent teachers and content +Good course! +Excellent course that gives enough to understand a lot of interesting DNA related algorithms. Great instructor. +Awesome course. I recommend it to all how like programming and biology, specially DNA. +My favorite online course ever. Thoughtful attention to detail, polished presentation, and helpful cohort of students made this topic really great. Thanks! +This is a good (albeit short) introduction to algorithms for DNA sequencing. The instructor does a good job of explaining some select algorithms as well as the pitfalls they may have. The programming assignments are short but fairly challenging for inexperienced programmers. If you like this course, you will enjoy the 6-part Bioinformatics specialization from UCSD on Coursera where they go into these algorithms in much more detail. +Very Clear! +I had a lot of fun doing the little programming assignments in this course. I did not know I like algorithms this much. The pace is good and it is well taught. +Nice course even for people who don't understand Bio-informatics that well. +Excellent intro to the computational challenges in analyzing genomic sequences.Lectures and programming exercises explain algorithms very clearly even for beginners. +Awesome, you will learn a lot about how DNA assemblers work, but very challenging and time demand in, especially if your background is in life science and not computer science. +Great course. The instructors are very clear. I learned so much about algorithm in DNA sequencing. +This course gives a good introduction to some basic algorithms.The standards it sets for students, however, is very low. They ask you to download an already written piece of Python code and change a line or two.To get the most out of this course, I recommend implementing all the algorithms yourself, perhaps even in a different language."Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences" by Dan Gusfield will be very useful for that. +The subject of the course is very interesting. Lectures are very engaging and professors do a great job explaining abstract concepts. On the other hand, assignments are extremely difficult and frustrating. The lack of feedback for the assignments leaves you with important knowledge gaps and that's a serious flaw for a course that offers so much most of the time. +very good and very helpful +Amazing experience so far +Amazing course in Finance for managers ,loved it.Specially the professor Tom's teaching style and amazing communication skills and detailing of the concepts.Will recommend every manager to take this course and save hell lot of money in going other colleges and spending huge money.An experience to cherish!!Thanks professor Thomas smith !! +Too general... extremely easy to solve the quizzes. I would say needs deeper evaluation of the learned materials. +Do you want to be a good manager? Well, start taking this course +make it more interective +Really great content! +It was fun :) +Just love it, I learn a lot about how approach a idea, the guys in the videos are amazing, and the teather is so cute :) +I loved it! Watching all this great artists working and giving you advices is so useful. This course really help me to design characters in a more creative way. +Very interesting way to learn by observing the approach of different artists. +Absolutely help me! +Very insightful course. Teaches good design basics. +Excellent course in teaching you about the design process from different designer. Helpful exercise were given to teach you how to apply the learned skill. +The best course in the group, with a lot of masterclass.That' my opinion, and I hate to draw, so this means that I loved this course a lot. +I enjoyed this course because I learned about the more practical aspects of character design. The assignments were based of the same theory but didn't feel repetitive. The only thing I found was that the grading was veryyyyy easy.So: A bit underwhelming but fun and interesting. +Great! +As I said earlier, I recommend this course for everyone; doctors included (:I like how this course was treated in a different way. We see people doing the job on there ground, that's interesting. +Best teacher in the Calarts courses! +it give me a strong basic knowledge on character design, i enjoy every session on this course +It was a fun and artistic. I learned alot from it +Awesome, really learnt a lot! +First week and last week were pretty useful with some good tips from the videos... the other weeks not so much. +I would like a different approach on the way this course is given to the student. The first couple of classes were really cool and inspiring, but the later two became more of the same and kinda took my inspiration and motivation down to finish the course. +Very good and helpful course. +Top knotch! Great professor, great interviews! Great material. +I liked the assignments and the creative ideas discussed in the class. However, I wish there had been more practical, step-by-step instruction in approaching design work; game artists of more diverse styles; and some discussion of game character design as a career. +I have an MFA from Calarts in animation- so I can speak from experience- the course here is on par with what I have studied in the past. It's well thought out, offers insight, and gives a chance to hone skills. Very good intro to character design- for comic writers as well! +This course is exceptional! it really helped me improve my designs and was super fun to participate in! +A very interesting experience. I got imagination level-up. Though it was really difficult to understand what should you do in each assignment. I've spent quite a while time to realize what to do each time. And some students did their homework completely wrong. But except of that it's a great course. +It was a fun course, not sure about the educational content, but it was fun. +This was a really fun and educational way of exploring different aproaches to character design. I didn't want it to end! +Instruction was through watching other characters designers talk about their process. +Interesting course overall ! Suitable for beginners. +Beautiful course, very informational. Great community here, too! +This is a great course, and your created material can go towards a good developmental and presentation portfolio. +Great course, fun projects - inspiring and informative. +a good way to begin to express our ideas +The Course Was Awesome +From the first 30 seconds of the first video I can know I'll love it! +While the information given by Fran was useful, the part where other artists talk is not presented well. +Good course, especially since you have the option to take it for free. Nice assignments that gets you to think outside the box or challenge. Recommend it if you wanna keep yourself busy and learn. +I love this new course!! Thank you for the opportunity of the know how it works and for learn something new. +One of my favorite ones up to now, long and interesting classes with amazing artists. +Great course, I like to get some experience with these artists. +Very open way of learning. Few talks with people from the industry, sharing their approach.Not much of fundamental knowledge.Generally great motivator to exercise Character Design. Not that great resource to learn from a beginning. +I've known a lot of new things and they make me become a better designer and think more about what is a good design. +great first week, I like Fran's First week video, with the puppets and very engaging interaction,the next following 3 weeks are total bummer, It does give some tips for character design (such as what is tangent, or some other design tips), but it feels like a bloated interview and not a class-like experience. Great first week, terrible following week +The good best practice and insight in the topic was greate +Awesome course! :) +Very well organized. Awesome interviews with character artists. Super videos! +I learned a lot from the teacher, and the guests gave useful insight into the industry +really good +This course was great, like other courses from this series. But this one was especially hard for me because it requires a lot of drawing, something I'm not so good at.But anyway, great course, recommended! +Thank you +Feels like a money grabber rather than teaching anything useful, when designing character for video games is also important the skill you have or obtain while doing it and this doesn't place any emphasis into it. So for the price the charge in the certificate it really feels like a money grabber rather than teaching anything useful at all. Other schools like Gnomon WorkShop and DVDs like "Eat3D" and many others out there, which gives e more content for a fraction of the price they charging here! It needs to be deeper and more robust if this course wants to stand out, right now is not. +The best course that I have passed! +great professionals! +For the first course, you will only be drawing. You will not learn anything about programming video games. It was nice that they showed famous artists for cartoons, but the videos felt too long, with dialogues that felt like rambling at times. +I would have liked to get input on my work by an instructor instead of just other students, but it was a good exercise to hone my skills. I wouldn't pay for credit because I feel like my work isn't being professionally graded. +Really good course, must be done with the rest of the specialization. +Really fun course. The different artists have pretty interesting tricks and tips, which can significantly improve your character design skills. +Great course! Great teacher! Fun, engaging and very useful. I've been using the first four courses from CalArts Game Development Specialization to develop a game idea I've had jotted down some time ago and I've found them to be the best thing I could've done to get my game going on the Narrative and Visual fronts. I've been doing the first four courses in the five course specialization as an unpaid observer, but after taking these courses, I'm signing up for the full specialization. If the quality holds true, the project driven fifth course will be amazing and well worth the money. The teacher in this particular course (Same teacher as in the Introduction to Game design class) is funny and entertaining to watch. Definitely goes the extra mile, doing interviews with great character designers and exploring their unique processes. Highly recommended! +This was a great course! It was cool to see the perspectives of different artists. I only wish there had been more of them, with more different styles (What about someone who is more realistic? What about someone who is super stylized in a different way?) Really delightful to have the opportunity to hear their perspective on things and have them describe how they think about what they're doing and to see their different processes. +It's the interviews with famous artists which make this course great! +As a complete beginner to character design (and game design in general), I found this course very easy to understand with many great assignments to reinforce learning! I especially liked watching other designers create characters from scratch - seeing and hearing about the process other designers use to turn their ideas into a character they can use in a game - even animated characters - was particularly helpful. After completing this course, I now have many different character designs I can potentially use in my own games, along with awesome feedback from peers to make my character designs even better! I recommend this course to anyone interested in getting into game design and development. +It is powerful and enlightening for those who want to go into the field of design of video games, design of characters, and simply story telling. +I liked the talks a lot but didnt expect to be forced to draw :) +Guest artists were AMAZING and the weekly exercises productive. Thanks Fran. +An awesome class to learn character design +Lots of useful information. +Not only did I learn more than I ever thought I would, but I had fun, as well! In fact, I liked this course so much that I've enrolled in another course offered within the same specialization. +Enjoyed a lot! +coolest stuff ever, please do more of them so I can tell people to join the course +A very good experience, but if it could've helped me to find a job it would have been even better. +It's a great course I strongly recommend. Not only you are going to practise different character design through various exercises, but you are going to watch some great artist talking about their work while they are drawing. So interesting! +I really enjoyed this class a lot! Taught me a few things about designing a character, for sure +The interviews were great, and useful to see a real experienced designer, however the contents in the course were almost nonexistent. The homework was well planed but it depends much more in the student to learn something that the contents exposed in the videos. Tips aren't the same as methodologies and content in character design. +there was 1 concept taught in the first lesson that of density. then it was loads of videos of other people drawing characters, not actually going through a design process. and then a few assignments designing a few characters . I was hoping to learn more about some of the principles of character design- wasnt blown away by this course wont be taking any more of these +This course teaches a lot by talking professionals, each one gives something unique and that's great! +Lots of fun to join in and nice easy pace to complete the assignments. Overall had an awesome time participating! +An amazing course, I really enjoyed it ..very useful assignments .. opened my mind in different wayswould have loved references or so .. +It is cool. but it does not give any certificate of completion at the end as other courses do. +This is one of my favorite courses since it encourages creativity and really contributes to good game design practices. +Great course I really enjoy it +Amazing course! +Excellent! Sorry, I didn't do any assignments, but I really enjoy the course. The words of Robertryan Cory were brilliant! Cheers. +One of the best courses I've ever taken on-line. Good explanations and artist's examples, and the assignments were awesome. Thanks! +The 3 masterclasses are so awesome... You will not only learn a ton about character design, but also about professional work, design, communication... These 3 artists are so inspiring! +Loved the different approaches to character design and the insight on the ideation and work processes of the different artists! +Very interesting course, would definitely recommend it! Learned new things to refine and introduce into my own style. +I believe that exaggerated the amount of minutes per video and lack of theory, but it was still a good course. +I love the set up of this course - the fact that we get to sit in on artists as they draw and talk about the design/decision making process out loud. I wish the world design course was set up this way. +Found the course I imagine to take +Awful course. The lectures IN NO WAY prepare you for the final assignment which is supposed to take two hours. The "course" consists of really boring videos of the instructor using Galaxy and in no way teaches you anything about using Galaxy or how it works. The lectures and quizzes are a joke. You can pass the quizzes just by watching the videos. I got to the final assignment and had no clue what to do if you. I know nothing about bioinformatics, or NGS (which is why I took and paid for this stupid course) so I spent WEEKS on the final assignment and I STILL could not finish or pass the course. Whoever allows this course to still exist and waste people's time and take their money should be ASHAMED of themselves. Read the discussion forums and you'll see what I'm talking abut. DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE. +Good course to learn how to use Galaxy. Only one problem, it was difficult to perform the final project wiht the knowledge we got from the course. At the end I didn't know if the workflow I used was adequate. +Good, but a brief overview. +I think the final project required much more domain knowledge than what the course actually taught.Peer review system can be sometimes very confusing. Some of the confusions can be clarified by reading bunch of past discussions, but it'd be much better if there is a single place (not discussion forum) where students can find all the necessary information regarding the final project and how to grade. I think this info must be part of syllabus. +This course is really bad. I didnt understood anything until by myself and with tutorials I could do it. +I like the course, very useful tutorial to start working with Galaxy, as a programmer it gives me a lot of knowledge to help the bio molecular scientists +Very bad explanations. You don't understand anything about what you're doing, just pressing buttons. THis should maybe go after the command line course, so that at least you would have any idea of what you're doing. +Very poor presentation and content. Difficult to navigate and all the links used including that for Galaxy are outdated. There was no effort made to provide a method to get through the course given all the changes since the videos were recorded. This course is the reason I have decided not to pursue the specialization it falls under. +I think this course is ok but is a limited version you need to spend a big time researching a lot about all the things to understand well the purpose and the final project. +Not enough guidance for final project. +The content of the course is not explained clearly +I am very dissatisfied with how there was absolutely no outside help/feedback from instructors or mentors in the forums when clearly the final project was outside the scope of the material presented. In the future it would helpful if either the lectures were modified to be more helpful in completion of the final project or the final project to be reflected of material in the lectures. Either way I felt like I taught myself all of this material using web resources and got absolutely nothing for what I paid for. +I am taking this course as a requirement for the Data Science Specialization. I appreciated the concept of learning a platform in which I could conduct bioinformatics, but I feel the course did not provide adequate guidance and information. The lectures were basically video workshops with a few gems of knowledge here and there. I am now at the end of the course but I feel like I learned nothing but a few steps to running an analysis or two ( which I could have done for free through the Galaxy website itself). More significantly, its not wholly clear to me why some of the processes were conducted, or what, explicitly, could be gleaned from the analyses. My expectations were that the lectures would be more in depth about the science behind the tools available, why you would use such tools, and when to use such tools. I think this course would have been perfect as primarily an intellectual course with a hands-on introduction towards the end. +Save your money and just work through the free Galaxy 101 tutorials on the Galaxy site! I found that the lecturers sometimes used random terminology without ever explaining it (for example, "tags" is another word for sequencing reads, but this is only ever used in RNA-seq methodology, and then only rarely). Also, the final peer reviewed project isn't explained very well and uses tools and methods that aren't even within the scope of the module. Mostly just a waste of time. +The material/information required for the capstone was not covered in the lectures and required considerable additional time and effort to find via online forums and the galaxy pages themselves. A manual of code examples and types of jobs would have been great. Further a better use of time would be to start doing the capstone on day 1 and do all of the lectures and quizzes later as the quizzes were very easy and anecdotal, but the capstone required more time then scheduled in the course. +The course Info was too simple. While the explanation of Why Galaxy and what the idea behind it was great, the content taught by the videos was more than basic. All this I have learned by trial and error myself, and I completely missed the info of WHY using THIS tool and not others. About extra options we did not talk at all.Additionally, after all these easy lectures and quizzes we were left with the final assignment that was super-hard. The vidoes only prepared for 1/3 of the workflow asked for, and for the rest one was left alone with a tool that was suboptimally introduced. Furthermore, the galaxy instance was crashing regularly, making the convenient batch tool impossible to use.While I liked the idea of grading each other, it was too much work, as everybody got different answers, because of too hard questions. Therefore I spent quite some time on grading, which I did not expect +Good introduction to Galaxy. The final project will require a lot of reading and time understanding various tools. +Excellent explanation. Thanks +Galaxy seems to me out of date. There are some useful information, however there are also some drawbacks, especially not clear criteria of assessment of final project . +The course material did not cover anything that we needed to complete the final exam. Although I learned a lot working on the final exam, I felt overly stressed & I had to self teach myself in order to get through it. +Overall very helpful. The peer review instructions for grading may need to be expanded; found helpful notes in the forum, unfortunately after submitted. +This course doesn't teach much beyond how to use Galaxy tools. +I suggest to do this course ONLY if you're doing whole specialization.Course is simply bad, teacher doesn't give to much information and project is very hard to finish. +A lot of complaints about the final project for this course. To be fair, the course content wasn't directly relevant to the final project. However, there were parts of the course that communicated saved workflows, how to import, etc. In order to identify how to do what was asked I found an example workflow that could be imported. I also found an example history that allowed me to read through the approach and then complete myself. I was honest in turning in the assignment that it was based on an imported workflow. There is a big part of community and reproducible research to the Galaxy tools and I had no issue completing the project. +Course was pretty simple but the project was the toughest and took me another attempt to pass. But i enjoyed it! +This course is supposed to be part of specialization. Unfortunately this is a second course, and the first part doesn't provide necessary information on what we actually do with Galaxy. It felt like following instructions to push certain buttons.I would only recommend it to knowledgeable people with certain background, that should be listed as a REQUIRED knowledge. I hardly learned anything, except for that there is something called Galaxy, we do some analysis by pushing buttons, using preconfigured tools. I don't have expertise to analyse data on my own... unfortunately.As I applied for a financial help here, I won't complain much :). +Great introductory material, please do suggest more reading material! +This class presents very elementary information in the video lectures, then it requires knowledge far beyond what is taught in the course to finish the final project. +I think this course might have been great if I did it like 5th or 6th in the certificate sequence. I think this course assumes you have a lot of knowledge about both biology and statistics that I do not have, nor will anyone else who has only taken the first intro course. Even after having submitted my final assignment and peer reviewing others, it is not clear whether or not I or any of my classmates used the correct methods to complete the assignment. A valid solution to the final project hasn't even been given to us as part of the course, so I'll never know whether or not I did it correctly. +Course assignment requires knowledge that is not discussed in the course. Various inconsistencies throughout the course. Week 4's material is not really helpful and I had a feeling that the instructior just wanted to "wrap up" the course and didn't really care if the material is appropriate. Poorly written quizzes. +Good intro course for people trying to understand data science role in Genome related data and other informations. +First, the instructor assumes that the students know so much background knowledge when the students are expecting to learn these stuff in the course. I also feel that this course teaches students to memorize steps needed to accomplish certain operations in Galaxy without explaining why it occurs. +Great instructor with clear and thorough understanding of the material. If you don't have any experience with this technology, this course will walk you through it patiently. +Very nice course. However, the final project is not very close to the course content. Still, it is very well doable thanks to the very helpful tutor / mentor. +Awesome Course +I have very mixed feelings after completing this course. I can hardly say I feel I have learned any valuable stuff, especially in contrast to the first course when I had a feeling "I am growing with knowledge".Here, I was able to follow lectures' instructions but I did not fully understand why I was doing this and that. I believe not enough foundation was given to make people use the Galaxy tools consciously. The final project was ridiculously far more difficult than what had been covered in the class. I truly believe in the idea of giving ambitious final projects, but I do not believe in the idea of giving the project that is by no means doable based on the course content. Very discouraging. +Very good and useful course with very deep supports ! +This course did not make any effort until I had to dig deep into biology by myself. The course content is insufficient. I think if a sample input was used and every field of the input were explained and also the outputs were explained then it would make much more sense. Poorly designed and demonstrated. Thankfully I started the last assignment very quickly, it took me 10 days to understand how to proceed with the assignment. The TA is excellent, without his help I wouldn't pass this course. +This course's content is useful but honestly the final project is ridiculous because it is peer reviewed and the project is not very straightforward. Everyone gets different answers and without an answer key, no one knows what is right and wrong making it is almost impossible to pass. This needs to change. +The final project is the real challenge, the course lectures are just and introduction and you learn the hard way with the project. +Course Project is way outside of what was taught in class. +Really interesting course! The introduction to Galaxy and all of the analysis tools is awesome. There is a pretty big cliff between the course content and the final project; it would be helpful if there were more detailed information along the way about what each of the analysis steps means (i.e., interpretation of the information, versus just knowing what file type to select at which analysis step). Based on the discussion board, many students had similar thoughts. Grading the final projects for others is a bit uncomfortable, given that no answers are provided for the counts, and there are multiple different workflows that could be considered correct. +Good introduction to the galaxy tool. However, the final project was too difficult for what was given in the lectures. I spent 97% of the time I spent on the course doing only the final project. It was too difficult and unfair. I think a way to improve the final project might be to make easier a little bit and give exclusive lectures to help students to do the final project. +The cloud computing service with amazon described in the course is not free anymore. I was charged money for using it. The course also took much more time to complete than I wanted to spend. I believe a better design of the project could lead to a more efficient, less frustrating learning experience. Details below.The usegalaxy server was extremely slow. As shown in the course, I installed an instance of galaxy in the AWS/Amazon Cloud. I was under the impression that this was a free service for the first year. Amazon has changed its interfaces and I could not do the installation as recommended. But I managed to run a few analyses with some workarounds. I did not explicitely terminated the galaxy instance for ~ 6 days. Charges of $280 accumulated.The course project in week 4 was far beyond what was covered in the lectures. It took me a whole week, spending multiple hours every day. Many dead-end roads coupled with extremely long run times on the galaxy servers resulted in very inefficient learning and many frustrations. Help via the discussion forum was critical to design an analysis pipeline - so thank you Dejan and all contributors for the support.This is not a course I could easily do part-time: I don’t have time to read the fine print on what is available for free on Amazon, nor do I have time to go through all of the tools on galaxy to find out what would be the best for my analysis.On the positive side: I think Galaxy is a great tool. +Course project is difficult for someone who have little idea about the steps in pipelines. Could have included a video that explains few commonly used pipelines and ask the participants to do a project based on it. +This was a bit challenging, not in content, but more in organization. I felt like I was getting freshman-level lectures and than was given a graduate-level assignment. The directions and expectations could have been clearer but the TA was terrific in trying to help us thru our difficulties. +Very good experience. The lectures seemed to have covered very few topics but I was able to manage. It will be nice to have more information on running galaxy locally and the way tools and genomes can be imported/installed as that is one thing I really struggled with. Overall the course is good. +I feel dual emotions about how this course is organized. Although the Course Project was hard to perform without much background in genomics, it was the part where I learned the most - thanks to the staff and the other students in the forums. +Nice overview of Galaxy, but does not really provide enough information for a beginner to start using it without additional resources. +I liked this course. I would like to study more examples of genome data processing. I wish good luck to creators and mentors of the course. +This course was very disappointing and much of the content in the tests and course did not show up in the course project. I felt like the course project was far more advanced than all the other detail. In addition, there was minimal to NO detail on instruction. VERY poor development here and I would not recommend it to anyone. All you need to do is look at all the threads of complaints. I am looking forward to the next Python course and h +It gives a quick background on Galaxy and its softwares. Content is appropriate but does not prepare you for even the final assignment or real genomic problems. +Good course, great tool. +Quite confused during the majority of this course, especially after how clear the first course was. Was able to follow instructions but did not fully understand why I was doing anything. Not enough foundation given. The final project came out of no where. We did not learn nearly enough in the course to be able to tackle that. The majority of steps that needed to be taken were not taught in class or if they were, they were glossed over. I was floored by how the class went form simple to extremely complicated with no transition phase. +The lectures were very informative and clear. I had no problem giving the quizzes with the lectures. The project I had no clue where to begin. There has to be extra lectures included to guide the project. I hope they add some lectures as whatever lectures are currently available are +clear content +very helpful class. instructor is very clear. +Perfect for basic analysis using Galaxy. Course will help you get over the fear of using some of the rather complex tools used for RNA-seq analysis. +The exam really covers all material in the course. Prepare yourself by reviewing all materials, especially on graphs, dynamic programming, and algorithm complexity. +Great Exam :D , this is an excellent specialization frankly, I highly recommended If you have zero idea about this domain. +Great course. Thanks. +Loved this specialization. My only complaint is that I became very attached to many of the other students in my cohort and I felt that this course did not give me adequate closure. We kinda needed an end of course virtual party. :) +This specialization has been nothing short of awesome. This exam really caps it off on a high note. Not only the quizzes were challenging and interesting, they are also very relevant to all the concepts learnt throughout the specialization. The exam consists of a good mix of conceptual, algorithmic, debugging, optimization problems, graph modelling and mathematical computation problems. The very tight time frame of only a few weeks with only 1 single attempt each week forced me to be very careful with my solutions and double check my work carefully before submitting.The only thing that I wish to see is that this exam should be 2 exams instead of just 1 exam. I sort of still hunger for more challenging exercises like this exam. I really hope that this capstone exam course sets a good example for other Coursera courses because challenging mini-exams like this are incredibly valuable tools to validate our knowledge. +This was a very helpful course to prepare a resume. +I only did the free version but feel I got just as much out of it. I would recommend this highly to anyone serious about presenting a good looking resume. +Good for students +This course was fantastic. Logically set out and full of great content. Made me really reevaluate my own resume as I learnt a lot. +This is a very interesting and informative course which is ideal for college students and young professionals to enhance their resume writing skills. The instructor's approach to writing resumes is quite impressive. +Very good course :) +The course gave me a lot of useful information that really helped me to revise my resume and make it more competitive! Thus it was short and a bit simplified... +Completed the course. It provides nice tips and tricks on resume building. +It's very engaging and I learned very much about resume writing that I was able to revise my resume in good time for job seeking. Thank you very much! +pretty good, would be better if some of detailed document in the video could be attched +Good For under standing basic concept. +Some points were technical making a key understanding of how to present a resume +It's an interesting course. I have learned and exploded many helpful things during study this course.Thanks so much for you all contribution. +I feel like i made an improvement to my resume with this course. I was good before, now it is even better. +This course is best for recent graduates. It covers the basics. Feedback from course participants is not very valuable unfortunately. People just don't have the time or the experience to give any substantial feedback. For a project-centered course, I would expect feedback on the project (your resume) to be important.A better course that covers the same topic in more detail is: Writing Winning Resumes and Cover Letters. I've taken 5 MOOCs on resume writing and this course is by far the best. Much better use of your time. +We are expected to complete a quiz for which we can submit responses only when we purchase the course. What Bullshit!! +very informative and will let you create your professional resume to attract employers +Very important information. Real experts advice. +Wonderful and a must enrol for all those who are writing their first resumes. +Not bad, I knew some tips from this course, it was rather brief and informative, but didn't contain full information of resume writhing. So after finishing the course I can only orient on the samples given and on separate lifehacks, but not making my resume by steps.Still almost perfect +Some information don't work in our context. But generally it's helpful to me. +I have gained wonderful Knowledge. very good course +It helps me a lot to re-understand the concept of resume and recreating my resume in more professional way. Thanks Zach Slaybaugh! +Does what it promises with no nonsense.Warning for those not living in the US: this course is tailored toward US resumes, which have requirements such as not being longer than one page, which may not be applicable to you. That said, I still found this course very useful despite being Dutch myself. +Genearlly it helps but I hope it would be much better if you have chances to review resume from each other and receive feedback. Thank you. +really helpful! +Practical and really helpful! I redesigned my resume as it is instructed. +This course does not allow us to answer the assignments without purchasing the course instead they should allow us to do so. +It was a powerful guide for building and improving a resume. +Some really good pointers. I would have liked to see more for the experienced person, this was quite focused on new college grads. +Excellent course, pretty straightforward and completely oriented to nowadays agile developments using the latest technologies available in markets. Love it! +A lot of content...great concepts I hope we review a lot of this things in course 3 +Very interesting course well explained, good assesments, I learned a lot +It's so intuitive and engaging. +Thank you for all. +Very good course. I learned the basics of data warehousing, design and data integration, and get abilities on Pentaho (a data integration tool). +I enjoyed learning this material and found that the Pentaho Kettle hands-on experience was a nice additional to skill set that I can provide my clients. +It's a great course, with quality content. But I would like to see more practice videos for the tools. +Great course with a lot of practice +Best course for beginners to learn and develop their careers in field of Data warehousing. Also Coursera is best learning source. Thank you all +Personally I don't recommend this course. I really need to learn data warehousing for my job and I have no problem with learning by doing. This course gave me basics, but the learning was very stiff. I think it's just to theoretical here. +I love this course! Especially with the practice exercises. This course has helped me significantly improve my understanding & the technical skills revolving data warehousing. It would be much better though, if this course has a lot more technical exercises, learning how to utilize essential data warehousing tools efficiently. +The course was very helpful +Theory and practical content very well balanced. Use of tools to see how ETL concept works. +Good learning for Data integration and ETL learning. How data from source to target table transform over the business requirement to be ready for processing +Awesome course for Datawarehouse professional to understand the concept in systematic way. +Course is very high level and teacher inspiring. As I highlighted already it took me 8 hours with a professional to install Pentaho... for what? to explain pivot tables totals. that is very unecessary. Also from Europe virtual machine use is just killing my computer and I end up spending more time crashing and restarting my pc than working on the course. (and I am surrounded by IT professionals in my company for reference). This is sadly a big let down for an excellent course theory wise. +Excellent introduction to data cubes and data integration. +Great course +Well organized lectures but the documentation is full of errors. This in combination with the lack of response on the a lack of responsiveness on the forums might make this class frustrating for some. +Very instructive, engaging and challenging. +Great look to the integration problems, drawing and theoretical exercises was not as good. +I love open source tools description. It is really good designed course to refresh your basic. Good job from instructor side to make this course enjoyable. +Very clear and complete concepts about the design and integrate data to populate de Data Warehouse +ThankYou :) +Fantastic Course! Very Helpful! +A good course, but the learning curve in the middle shoots up so the hill is quite steep to climb. Some typos here and there in documentation, but overall a great course that really challenges you to think hard. +Pretty nice course, although installation and pre-requisites could use a higher note before installing since there would be a couple of tries before getting them working. +very good course +For me this course is one of the most important in BI. We had good teachers that helped us to understand the important issues. +useful information +Excellent course. Very logical sequence of presentation, accompanied by well designed exercises. +Clearcut explanation from basics +Pros: Information is perfect for anyone looking at Business Intelligence as a career field, or already in the career field itself. I found the first week to challenge my on-the-job knowledge of a fuller set of concepts and general terminology.Cons: The wording on the quiz questions, in some cases, seems much different than the PPT slides and the instructor's language. UPDATE: The wording is a significant challenge, even when advancing into the more complex topics. I have had many differences of opinions on the solutions based on wording in the requirements. +Many thank! +Week 3 wasn't taught well. And the assignment was too difficult. Other weeks were fine. +great course with hands on practice of the concepts. Getting the tools installed is a little frustrating but once you get past that part there are a lot of good exercises to apply what you are learning. +Very good course +The course lectures were too sparse leading up to the final, very important assignment of learning to how to create an ETL package. More time and energy should have been spent on the technical aspects of the Pentaho Spoon program, rather than doing overviews of application pros and cons. +Excellent information, I liked this course. +Excellent course in the way of preparation to be a Expert in Business Intelligence and Data Warehouses.100 % recommended! +quite challenging, high paced lectures. It seems like an easy course because the lectures are quite brief, but make no mistake, there is no repeating of concepts or endless bla bla. To succeed in the assignments one is very likely to watch lectures again. Without any previous knowledge in this subject it is almost impossible to grasp everything by just watching the videos due to the new vocabulary and the information density. The assignments definetly take more time than indicated. +This course needs a cleanup of loose ends on some of the assignments. Some assignment requirements are very ambiguous and in some cases the solutions are not matching the requirements of what was due. +Not enough implication from the instructors in the course. Students are left alone with the material, without any answers to there questions on the course.Peer review process subject to personal interpretation and leading to frustration for the students.That's quite unfortunate as this provides a bad experience whereas the course might have been good without that. +I think this course is great, however weeks 2 and 3 should be restructured to ensure students acknowledge topics properly. I had a bad time solving those week's asignments. +Again, professor Michael Mannino presents a very well prepared course that achieves optimal results in limited time. This course provides the background and basic skills necessary understand and work with Data Warehouses. +Real world data warehouse integrations are more complex than just inner joining the tables to drop those rows not found in the original tables. i wish more complex scenarios are covered. +Awful. Just awful. There are dozens of students trying to install Pentaho and failing. Only reason I managed is that I have prior experience with the software. There are no TAs, no help, nothing. The Quiz is a scam designed to force you to shell out even more money of the so-called-optional textbook, and the assignments are extremely vague and orders of magnitude beyond the laughable 30 minutes the instructor suggested they should take. My submissions for week 3 total over 30 pages -- and I work a full time job... Avoid this class, do not reward terrible courses with your cash. +Overall a great course mixing concepts, technical skills and self learning very well. I'd recommend this course for anyone who is looking to learn about building data warehouse from scratch with minimal starting knowledge. +I like the course, and I learn a lot (having plenty of experience already). However, the assignments take far more time than the quoted 30 minutes, and a lot of time is spent installing and getting open-source tools to work - which I would have rather spent on actually hands on work on the subject-matter. +The instructions for installing the software are not very intuitive and can be very frustrating at times, so make sure to allot additional time getting it installed. The assignment time listed is FAR less than the amount of time to complete the assignment, again, make sure to allot additional time for completing the assignments. +Good for Beginners to go for. +Good course. Give basic concept and practical experience in data cube designing and data integration. +This course was not better than the first course. Not too much of practical included and mainly theoretical +Hello,Thank you for this well structured course. Exercises and tutorials are very useful to complement lectures and help increase our skills in the domain.Tools deployment and connection (Oracle database on Virtual box and pentaho data integration) was a nightmare.It would be great if you package all the tools needed for a given course into a predefined virtual machine image ready to be downloaded from the course.Kind Regards,Mouhammad Moustafa +This is a very well-structured and demanding course with an excellent professor.I'm looking forward to finishing the entire specialization! +Excellent structure of the course and very interesting +Very interesting course +Amazing course. Thank you. +Solid class overall, however video lectures do not provide enough background info to complete some of the assignments. Expect to spend much more time than the estimated 30 mins to complete. +I enjoyed the first two courses. However, I would have liked to continue but as a Mac-only guy do not have access to an Oracle database, which seems to be a requirement for the assessments and the case study.The first two courses went well on MySQL, so I'm afraid I have to leave here.Thanks and bye. If the MySQL option gets added, I'll be back. +Missing course material about how calculating fact table size ans sparsity +Very useful this course. Thanks +Great course to learn DWH concepts. +Very nice introduction to databases and data warehouses. The lectures are not very engaging, the plus is there are practical assignments for every week, where you learn the most. First you submit your own solution and then you provide feedback to your peers. I like the format of the assignments. What I dislike (giving 4 stars instead of 5) is difficulty in setting up the environment for assignments to complete - it took me longer just to properly install the software needed for assignments 2 and 5 than to work out the assignments. The lectures could be also improved. +This course was full of issues related to the installation and use of Pentaho Pivot 4J and Data Integration. The professor's presence is resolving these issues was practically nonexistent. Coursera needs to do a much better job at insuring that their professors are offering a quality course and living up to the expectations of the students. In the case of this course and the professor, they failed miserably. In addition, it is practically impossible to get support from Coursera when an issue exists and in most cases when contact is made, the assistance is minimal. It is a shame as the platform is nicely designed and the course topics are very interesting. If you are considering taking this course, be forewarned that the majority of the support of problems/issues come from the community, not the Professor or Coursera. In addition, you are required to grade the assignments of your fellow students. This is not done by the professor. +Overall - great course giving possibility to learn working on tools such as Pivot4J and Pentaho Data Integration. While I am more interested in Business Analyst approach - it certainly gives meaningful background to data warehouse concepts and data quality. Biggest disadvantage is in my opinion module 5 with rather difficult and unclear assignment. I wish instructions were more precise and whole assignment more analogical to presented examples. +Excellent course. Very logical sequence of presentation, accompanied by well designed exercises. +Very nice class, well thought out and organized. The assignments are interesting and the practice assignments are relevant. Getting hands on on Pentaho was a big plus. +Excellent course.The hands on project ties together the background knowledge learned so far. +Satisfactory! +It was very easy to follow the reading and the videos helped to answer many questions. Very informative. +The course is well structured and remains focused on the topic on hand. It is easy to follow Kevins thought, but the discussion is quite superficial; no concrete numbers and examples are worked through in the discussion. It would have strengthened the course if the discussion went step-by-step through a balance sheet of one of the companies featured in the course. +Easy to comprehend but far too basic to be helpful and I don't feel I received an "Understanding of financial statements" because the course was too rudimentary. +Great course, nicely taught. I learned a lot about balance sheets. +very good course, helps me to pick up a lot about accounting basics. +I found this course to be a good introduction to reading a balance sheet, with a lot of personal examples. +What at a great course. I hated accounting and the presentation of this course has changed that. Now I clearly understand. +Great course...the instructor was excellent! Really was clear and understandable, and held my attention despite this subject not being my strong suit. ;-) +This course focuses entirely on how to read a balance sheet. You will learn the three principal parts of a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, and equity), how they relate to each other, and how they describe the underlying position of the company. This is illustrated by the professor talking to a number of small businesses in the Urbana-Champaign area.If you have no experience with accounting or finance, this is probably a great place to start. It's a gentle introduction. However, while the focus on local businesses is interesting, a relatively large amount of time is spent learning about these businesses and their owners without necessarily teaching much about accounting or balance sheets in general. +It was very very nice.I go forward more steps.I am so glad to take this course. +Very good course. Gives a view on corporate business finance.Teacher is also great.Recommend this course to anyone who want to start finances, business or wants an dive deep into entrepreneurship. +really its very helpful for me and helped me in my College thanks you +I made the right choice when I chose to take on this course +Really well taught! +I learned so much, and the format was easy to follow. +I really enjoyed this course! The professor did an excellent job in walking students through the basics of financial statements. +Thank you for the work and creative idea of presenting the information. I now feel as though I have an idea or overall gist of financial statements, however, I would like to get into the ratios and analysing part of these statements. +New to Accounting-Will need some additional study-Would like to move on to the nex +Very informative, enjoyed the course. +It is really works to make you understand a balance sheet practically +Wonderfully designed. Clear and interesting explanation. Love it! +This course is a great introduction to understanding Balance Sheets and has been a big help to me in my job. I highly recommend this course and I really liked the Professor. +I think it's a good way to introduce the world of "accounting" but I think videos need to be more specific and I would have appreciated if there was some practical exercise and not only quiz! But all the informations are exposed clearly. +Great course, it teaches you a lot in a simple way. The material is presented to you in a easy to follow format, with lots of supplemental material. +This course is extremely basic. It took me about four hours to complete the entire course (minus the peer reviewed assignment since I audited). This wouldn't be an issue in and of itself, but there were quite a number of issues with the presentation, from questions appearing in the wrong video, to badly worded and misleading questions. It's as if the course material was quickly thrown together and not reviewed or tested. Overall, there is some good info in it if you have no background in accounting and no idea what a balance sheet is, but if you're looking for insight into interpreting balance sheets, this is not the class for you. +Enjoyed this course thoroughly. Very good instructor, good content, well-designed. +A very detailed and easy to understand explanation of accounting with good examples. Enjoyed this course! +It was pleasure to participate in this course. +This Course Had Help Me in My Ramay Trade LTD Business in Rwanda +Great course! Mr Jackson put a lot of effort into the construction of the class and explained everything in detail so that you get a solid understanding of the Balance Sheet +It was great +Simple and effective course!!!! +This will refresh my memory of what I learned and more +I really liked this course. It is short, useful, fun and really objective. I started the course because it was an evidence from another course I am taking, but I ended completing it just for satisfaction. Great explanations, great teacher, great platform. Thank you! +The content of this course reflects its title: "Welcome to game theory"! +Great Course! +Excelent introductory course +A very great leture about Game Theory. Really appreciated +Excellent introduction to game theory. I started from zero and I was looking for a general sense of how game theory was applied to modern situations. This course gives you just that, so you can continue your journey. +Its simple and really useful to start with! +a good course to learn the basics of game theory +Wonderful class, great insight into the world of game theory. Sensei did a phenominal job of breaking down what was at least for me very difficult ideas to understand (I'm bad at equations), into visual examples that were able to not only understand different aspects of game theory but the equations themselves. Hoping this class continues to be offered on Coursera for future students! +Unforgetable new thing. +very nice course +Rather philosophical then mathematical. An accumulation of simple, but essential and interesting reflections on what game theory is and how it relates to reality. Thank you, it was very enjoyable! +Good intro to game theory. Many real-life examples, easy course to follow. Recommended. +I find this course a very good primer for introducing Game Theory to someone who has zero prior knowledge on this topic. +Great Teacher!Fantastic work!! +It was realy interesting. +Excellent course, I found great the examples and application, like in evolution as well as in social behavior (and cleaning the living room), I want to repeat it to get a better grade +Dear Professor, I found your lectures quite inspiring. I reaaly enjoy your introduction on game theory. +It makes you to use your brain haha +Great option to learn new things of mathematics and probability +Very good introduction to game theory. The content is well presented, clear and nicely organized +Excellent way to see the economy compared with real situations!! +loved this course +Good introductory course; very high level, as expected by an entry level course. Basic mathematics only, which was good but also a downfall.Recommend this course, introduces some interesting topics and points. It has convinced my to pursue another course or two minimum in applied game theory. +Nice introduction, light and easy to follow without being completely trivial. Questions are a bit too easy or too loosely asked in the quizz but for an introduction it's better to avoid disgust student. +An inspiring introduction to game theory!!! +It's very nice that I can learn game theory very easy. He teaches about concept of game theory very well by using many situation. +Good course to learn the basics of Game Theory +This is an unexpectedly wonderful course, a fantastic introduction to not only the basics of game theory but also to applications and results you (and I) might not have expected. If you begin the course, do not stop - the first two weeks lay out the basics, without requiring much math background (leaving that for the Stanford/UBC course which is quite good). But the final two weeks are eye-opening as they show uses and discoveries based on game theory, especially with regard to social and economic concerns. Prof. Kandori has done research in these areas and has passion for them - don't miss those sessions.The only drawback to this course might be that it is a bit slow, with much repetition, a useful technique in the classroom but not quite as effective in this online mode. But speeding up the videos one notch might help :)Were Prof. Kandori to speak here (the San Francisco Bay Area) I would eagerly attend - and his ties to Stanford might make that possible - my antenna are raised for such an occurrence. +An excellent basic intro or refresher course. Very light on math. +It is a great course that Ican"t stop learning. +For an introductory course to Game Theory I think it is quite usefull +Exceptionally well explained course. +Excellent introduction to game theory, high on concepts and practical applications, low on math.TA's are active in the forums.Quizzes usually have 4-5 very easy questions from lectures, 2-3 which require a little thought. +Excellent course on game theory by prof.Kandori that will get you started on the concept, applications and some concrete assignments that took a bit of work for me to handle. I must do for those who are interested in a high level process theory with concrete applications. +This course is opening my eyes. +An easy to understand introduction to game theory. Excellent course! +In taking this course, I have been guided by a fully knowledgeable professor and straightforward explanations provided with the help of powerpoint presentations. The material is exciting, and the delivery is great. I will now dig deeper into this awesome subject! +Excellent introduction to the subject, good course to follow before diving deeper into Game Theory (as I plan to do). Small problems when showing images but nothing that ruins the experience. Dr. Michihiro Kandori is a great teacher! +This course is very interesting, it helps to understand basic knowledge in game theory) And it's also easy to understand, because of available explanations of material. +Good teacher and good lectures! Awesome!すごい！ +Great! +This course is basic yet so powerful and will excite those who enroll that they would like to study the subject and that I feel is the most important objective of any course. I had already completed two game theory courses offered by Stanford university and still I found this course to be enriching. The course deals with basic conceptual knowledge of Game Theory and how and why it is useful and applicable in the world around us. I have read Professor Kandori's and he is one of the leading researchers in this field. I feel great to have been taught by such a faculty. +Teaching quality is good, but more example needed. +Excellent course and introduction to game theory. Some parts were difficult, but quality teaching needs to be challenging. I think there are areas for improvement, but I would overall recommend the course. +Great course!! Really interesting and enjoyable. +I looked into the course because I'm an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology student that got into Evolutionary Game Theory. I wanted a more basic and fundamental understanding of game theory. Really good lectures - I particularly think the examples/applications are interesting. +Very good course. Should be followed by Game Theory II +A very basic course, and oriented more towards economics and predicting behaviors. The course sure is nice, but not what I had expected. Wanted something more on the logic side. The one by Stanford looks better-suited. +Is really interesting, It makes you think about the simple things in life. +The course was useful in providing an introduction to the basics of game theory.However it would benefit from a native English proofread and smoother delivery.There were also problems throughout regarding the display of graphics and notes behind the professor, who kept pointing to something other than he was referring to.A couple of math notations were also incorrect, for example "<" when the professor said "less than or equal to".Overall though, I'm pleased that I took the course and I learned several important aspects of the topic that will benefit me in future study. +Very nice course. I strongly recommend. +As my dream university, Mr. Kandori did really well to explain these basic ideas. +It's a peaceful and well produced introduction to Game Theory. It helped me a lot to uncover the Social Sciences from its obscurity, subjectivity and boredom stereotypy. +It was a great learning experience! I would like to thank Coursera team and University of Tokyo from developing such an insightful course. +This course is an interesting course. Game theory is applicable in all the fields. Having a strong foundation in game theory is advantageous in the 21st century. +it was really useful!! thx! +I always wanted to know what Game Theory was and now I know. It is something that is a little hard for me to understand. +Interesting +While the subject is interesting, the professor sometimes makes it confusing and dense to understand the basic ideas.Maybe this course does need a mathematic or economic background... +It1s a wonderfull course, the lectures are very clear, and you just have to have some discipline to learn the basics of game theory.Good Job +Many thanks for teaching this course! +Very educating . +good to begin with! +It is a bit complex, maybe it would be more feasible with more dynamic or visualizing resorces +I thought the course admirably fulfilled my expectations for a general introduction to Game Theory.It kept maths to a minimum and the explanations were clear and always backed up by examples.Seeed to be very little forum activity, don't know why... maybe that's just says soething about the sort of people who want to learn about Game Theory!It's a good length with a good amount of time dedicated each week. Sometimes it was a bit challenging, but all round pretty good, I thought. +pretty good starter's course, Professor explains information good, hope for more complicated one, less newbie friendly +Very helpful course for beginner~!. +Very entertaining introduction. +Really great and interesting course!Professor is a great speaker too! +It is good. +Good introductory course, great lecturer +This is very good basic course, a one star missing due to some difficulties in good enough explanations of some of concepts further used. +It is good for any green-hand in game the +This is a very good introduction to game theory having never before studied this subject I have found that the Lectures are easy to understand and flow very well from one to the other. +very helpful for my master degree.thank you so much! +Very good introduction to Game Theory. Works everything out with intiuition. +amazing, it rlly halped mi overstand the importance of strategies even in social situations. +Video Orientation is not proper. +Really interesting course! I recommend it to anyone interested in game theory! :) +This course explains game theory from the perspective of social science. +The course was really great. It gave powerful insights and tools for aspiring public policy practitioners like me, and for broader social scientists as a whole. +It's an inspiring lecture for those who have little background about game theory. +A very interesting introductory course to Game Theory, which is a very complex subject. Professor provides a easy-to-understand approach and daily examples, which can raise a big interest for students. +sth not bad +Just read the ppt +Great course! +I like what kind of job you have done creating this series of courses. But the final course was too long. In the end, I made the final document for the last night from scratch, received 100%, and I was a little upset. I would like something more complicated as the final task. Even the criteria for evaluation were extremely formal, with no concept of quality assessments. Nevertheless, thank you very much. I learned a lot of details and nuances of game development. And I got a bit of confidence in the chosen field of activity. +Excellent specialization, I have learned a lot of how to create a Game Design Document and a prototype. +Fantastic course, recommendation for everyone interested in video games design.It could do with more video lectures, and maybe even little harder assignments, but overall it is really great course, and specialization as a whole. +Excelent project to close up the specialization. I loved the constant feedback and refining of an idea through the whole course.P.S: Had some problems with mi verification in the first week of the course, so I needed to retake that asignment; apart from that all perfect. +The course was nicely prepared and structured, in my opinion it lacked a bit of content compared to the rest of the specialization. But it's a good rounding up of everything we learned before. +This course was mostly working on the same document, and refining it for six weeks. I kind of wanted a little more from the class beside extended peer review time. I thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the specialization's courses, but I didn't think this one was quite up to the same caliber. +This is a course almost without any content. You coul pick any book about game design and you will learn more of game design in the first ten pages. I recommend Level up! by Scott Rogers for begginers like me. You could be fooled by this course if you dont know the principles of design and narrative structure, but if you know it you will not find anything of value here, becouse dont explain almost anything about videogame concepts like gameplay, balace, GAME DESIGN, etc. They explain very basics things in the first course and then they forget everything. The rest of the information are very very basic knowledge about character and world design, without being vinculated through metodologies to the games!, only with empty words of inspiration recorded in useles videos. Sorry the critics, but i followed all the courses and paid the monoey for the certificate, hoping that some week the course could show somethign usefull. Never did. See for books if you want to learn something. +An intriguing course.Uncommonly advanced material.Rare content on Coursera. +Several comments, in general the course is well conducted,it is not easy to follow, but this is natural as it a very abstract subject. The exercise sets (peer-reviewed) where very instructive, but I think that the quizzes where a little too easy in comparison. I missed a little a more intuitive view, a broader view of the subject as well as a review of more advanced applications and developments, such as infinite Galois groups, etc. +It is a rare online course of advanced pure mathematics. Overall it is very good. It is not recommended to take other courses in parallel with this course as it will consume lots of time on external notes and references. I would recommend National Research University to open more similar courses on abstract algebra, like Groups, Rings, Fields and Modules as a bridge program to this course, or an extension of this course to Lie Algebra or Representation Theory. +Overall, this course has very solid content. In fact, this is one of the few (probably the only one) advanced mathematics course on Coursera. More specifically, in order to take this course, you need to have good understanding of group, field and ring. In other words, you are assumed to have taken general undergraduate level abstract algebra courses before.However, there are some aspects of the course that are worth improving. First, probably due to the nature of online course, I personally find learning Galois Theory online very challenging. The lectures themselves make sense. The practice problems and quiz, however, sometimes do not seem to be reinforcing the lectures. The materials on tensor product seem to be unrelated as well. Usually these are covered in a course on commutative algebra. In addition, there was almost none communication within the discussion forums.Overall, I would definitely recommend this course if you have good background in general abstract algebra. After all, Galois Theory has long been a capstone type of course. If you have some background but not solid, it is definitely still doable. +Outstanding course so far - a great refresher for me on Galois theory. It's nice to see more advanced mathematics classes on Coursera. +The material is very interesting, but the course goes very fast, and the presentation is dry. +Very interesting course for poeple with knowledge in algebra. +It's a good topic. However the quality of the lectures are pretty low. In my opinion people could learn the topic more efficiently by reading Stewart's book. +Hopeless ! Less clear and understandable than simply reading a textbook.A waste of time. +Great course! +That's a great course for those who want to broaden their horizons in mathematics. Learning process involves a huge amount of useful information from different areas, such as linear algebra, fields and rings theory, and many more.But I'd like to share some thoughts with possible readers of this review.1) A learner should have a really strong mathematical background. I would say that it's a graduate-level course, and I couldn't recognize that from course description. Otherwise,2) One needs a HUGE amount of time to learn all the material thoroughly. Just to clarify, I'm changing my job now, so I fortunately have a lot of free time. And I spend almost ALL of one for this course! :) That's great, I'm ready to do that, but how many people have that kind of possibility? Amount of given information is enough for a separate specialization in Coursera terms, so maybe it would be good to split this course into several separate ones.. for sure, it fits into a standard HSE university course. But I can say that I do have some background in maths, but a number of years it was unused, so it takes time to recover a lot of things. Just my thoughts, but I see how discussion in forum is fading away, guess it means that a lot of people start giving up.3) And finally I would suggest to add some small quizzes within lectures as it's done, for example, in 'Learning How To Learn' course. In my opinion, it can help learners to catch more from videos.So, 3 weeks left to finish this course, so I'm starting a next quiz! Thanks to everyone and happy learning! Or teaching :) +Actually rigorous and non-trivial maths. +Brilliant course :-) I found it a lot tougher than the previous courses but still interesting and fun. +I really liked the course. Even though I passed, I know there is so much more to learn before i can pass the real test. In this course, I had the option to pause and play the recordings and take breaks and resume the tests which I am sure wont be available in the real test. I still feel there is a lot of vocabulary need to master. And since I don't know many Chinese people where I live, I need a lot more listening and speaking practice than I have access to.I loved the course since it allowed me to learn so much new vocabulary and grammar in such a short time.Thank you very much to all my instructors. You were lihai. +Learnt alot of new things even though I'd say i've got experience in this field. Evaluation and conducting interviews as part of principles is a fresh way to look at how we understand design! :) Recommended. +This course is boon for designers. Very detailed and absolutely rewarding specially for those starting a new career in this field.You have the best faculty here. You not just learn the tools of the trade you are walked through this course by one of the authority in the field. +Great~ +Design Principles has been meticulously structured, although, I'd have loved to lean more on Typography. One feedback to Professor will be to update his content and include more contemporary examples. +It was great. The tasks where challenging, the explanations were simple and concrete. I loved it. +This course give me more information and knowledge about how to do design and the basic design principle ! It's simple and helpful get starting of design. +Great, if brief course. Some occasionally ill-worded test questions. But this course piqued my interest for the ones that follow. +Very interesting, but I found it a little bit confusing. +This is a well-designed course with assignments from which one can learn a lot. It is only 3 weeks long so it is very accesible. In particular I enjoyed week 2 where topics about typography, spacing, layout of contents etc., were addressed. +Good introduction.This course was verry useful for me +Great course - but tougher than the last! +Gave basic introduction to design principles but the assignments were very engaging +Fantastic course! Learned a lot from it - both theoretically and practically. The hands on exercises were very smart and applicable. I'm left with a lot more interest in the subject, a bunch of books for ruther reading and some new tools under my belt. Thanks! +This is an excellent course. +Excellent.Learned three distinct set of skills. 1) Product design that makes the job easy for the user. 2)Elements of importance in designing layout for soft screen 3)Conducting experimental studies on users.Great course!!! Good teaching Scott... +Great intro course! +This course as much content in it and it's difficult to have an holistic idea how it all fits together. Some videos are taught having the same problem like, for example, some tools/themes are presented without us knowing what they are for. E.g., Chi-squared test and null hypothesis. Only after a while we understand their use. This bring a lot of overhead to us who are learning.Some videos seem to have been re-worked over time and present cuts or jumps.As for assignments, they should be better worked because some questions are not clear or misleading regarding the criteria that you want to evaluate.For example, I already reported that in Question 2. and 3. of the assignment for the 3rd week. The example you give is a short introduction with two problems: 1) "I did the website", which can make the participant not to be at ease to criticize and 2) we're no evaluating the participant performance but the website. Next, you ask us to rewrite the introduction, which we do with those two problems in mind. Now, when we do the peer review we realize that you're expecting for us to rate the new introduction based on having "early prototype" and "user feedback". The original problems just seem not to count. Only by chance you can eventually write the new introduction touching the points that count for grading. +This course was very informative and well structured. I feel like the concepts stacked and that by the end I had a better understanding surrounding the "why" behind a lot of these concepts. +Great course loaded with a well planned spread of topics. +I love it , 5 Stars, but -1) Please ad the functionality to zoom into posted pictures!2) Please more further reading material or videos linkedThanks! +An essential course for any job in the field of Design, it teaches the core concepts such as Typography, Colour, Positioning, Spacing, etc. and requires one to work hard on the assignments. +Interesting materials. +Several errors in lecture and lack-luster assignments decreased my perception of value. +Great course! +Some of the evaluation methods just allow other people how doesn't do to much work to just pass... +This course really helped me understand what to ask of my Design team! +Overall it was mostly good but the maths was not well enough explained and some of the course materials felt out of date. +Huge informative course materials. +It was a good course overall, but some of the material was very complex and would require more than 3 weeks of study. I am not sure whether it will be useful in a real life, especially calculating Chi-squared and such. I also wish the professor would simplify the language in which he speaks in the lectures. +Great introductory course work +good tips for testing experiments +Great! +I feel that this specialization is not focused enough on developing portfolio pieces. One portfolio piece at the end of an 8-month course does not seem adequate to me. So I wish we focused more on developing high fidelity work - in addition to the need-finding, user research, sketches, short weekly assignments. This high fidelity, digital work could even be optional, but I need some guidance on what work to develop and how the overall process should look.Even being allowed to enroll in the capstone before completing the first 7 sections would be helpful.The review is kind of about what you are looking to get out of these classes. If you just want to LEARN about UX and human centered design, then it's a 4-5 star course. But if you want to PRODUCE some great work that will help you land a job in the industry, it might not be for you. +This is a great course with tons of valuable info. The peer-review projects are very hands-on, and you learn a lot by doing that. However, I wish there were more explanations for certain things (for example, for the experiments section) - or at least, more resources to get further info. Also, for Assignment 3, it would have been very helpful to have the answer key, since there is some confusion around some of the answers. +Slow review process (can be). +I found the information and the references in this course very valuable. +The first assignment was very confusing in terms of what was required, and it should be fixed. +A really good course - much more concrete and in-depth than the previous one in the specialization. +Everything is great apart of the third week assignment. I guess it needs to be changed. +The basic principles of design and their philosophies were covered well in this course, and it was taught in a quick, efficient manner. I liked undergoing this course and would recommend it. +If you don't pay the fee to get the certification, you can't do the assignments :( +I didn't like the way contents were organized. It was too much information in a very short time. +This class was insanely insightful, and I found many of the topics covered very interesting and fascinating — towards the end of the course, specifically around designing experiments, I found that whole terrain to be pretty difficult to comprehend. I think the lectures have opportunities for improvement here. +Thank you very much for this interesting course! I still do these excersizes and try to notice good and bad design solutions in everything what surrounds me. I love this course and I am reading now Don Norman's 'The Design of Everyday Things' to understand design principles more deeply. It's an upgrade for me! +Definitely improved from the first course of this specification. Better feedback on errors regarding quizzes' questions and still really interesting assignments for peer review that help you to learn. Still missing a document or a file with all the notes that one can take away and use as a reference guide, hence only 3/5. +Very interesting course. Lots of information is considered. Lots of example that makes everything clear. +Superb breadth of the content. +It's great to help you get insights about basic principles of design. +I think that is a poor course; a lot of much theory and little practice; is better read a book and see youtube. It doesn't meet my expectations. +Another very good class in this specialization. +Such a great and intersting course! +Lectures are clear and extensively cited; assignments are interesting. +very good course! the final was much more logical than the first course +Another great course, it was challenging..... +Should go into more depth - esp with Visual Design. +Great stuff! +Great for the first 2 weeks of class, the third week seemed really unbalanced though and all of the sudden was about 4x the amount of time to watch videos. I wouldn't have minded if the same material was spread to an extra week. +After this course my interest in web design is increased and all material was very useful. I liked examples too. +This course raised my awareness of the design of everyday objects that I had always taken for granted before. It's definitely a great intro course into design -- and to raise everyone's awareness about how things are presented to the user -- and why that matters so much. +Simple & Clear , Handsome teacher! +this course is wonderful +Learned a lot! +Good One... there are few rough edges but a good start +This course wasn't good. Many of the assignment instructions and questions were poorly written, and students clearly had trouble understanding what was asked of them. The assignments also weren't very deep or imaginative, and some of them requested very specific answers relying in keywords from the lectures rather than ensuring that the students had really understood the concepts. The design principles were introduced at such a surface level as to be just silly rather than useful. This was kind of a waste of my time. +I enjoyed this course a lot. Very useful information about basic design principles (within subject design, between subject design, online studies, etc). Also good to catch up and remember things from past studies. +Very interesting. The assignments test the learning are and more related to what we see around us. It is a test of our perception on interactive design. This is very helpful. +Good explanation of few design ideas and technics. +Interesting topic, however I quitted. Video lectures were recorded almost phrase by phrase, making it too hard to follow the contents properly +Really a nice course for a UX beginner! +this class is really cool! +Really good introduction to interactive design +wonderful lecturer! and wonderful way of explanations! +Scott Klemmer is always the best +very good, I like this course, It teach me many knowledge about dynamics. +The best course I have taken. Totally recommended for those who want to improve their knowledge in dynamics. +Great Course!!! +Can be very challenging if you aren't well-versed in the various problem-solving tricks used for MechE problems (how & when to choose axes/reference frames, how to visualize the motion intended by the sketch, where/when to assume friction exists or does not exist, etc). Discussion fora are relatively inactive for assistance. +Great course with fantastic supplementary materials. +An amazing course, which has helped me tremendously with the conceptside of mechanics +Excellent explanations of fundamental concepts in Kinematics and Kinetics of particles and rigid bodies. +I will finish all this course. +It's really good. I am revising these concepts in the best possible ways through this course! +A brilliant course, gave me a great foundation for more advanced courses in mechanical engineering. When ever i use some of the things i learned in this course in my work i think of Whiteman. +Excellent course!! It has been very useful for my engineering studies!! Thanks a lot!!! +good course....!! +The courses are extremely helpful and Professor Whiteman teaches amiably with great clarity.And I have a personal suggestion: the questions in quiz are great and challenging, but I don't think they should be challenging in calculation. When I did not have my calculator with me, there was nothing I could do to deal with those weird numbers in the questions.Anyway, I really love the mechanical engineering series and hope Professor Whiteman can put on more courses. +Very helpful to me. Thanks GIT and to you sir. +Excellent teaching by Professor Whiteman. Easy to understand and simple explanations which render even complicated concepts easy to grab. Moreover, he relates the concepts to real world applications which makes the course even more interesting. Best course on Coursera. +Great explanations. +Excellent course, very substantial and properly taught. +Excellent course, I can only recommend +Very useful and dynamic! The teacher is great, very knowledgeable, and very relevant to day-to-day reality. Especially for those of us who don't speak finances fluently. +An excellent teacher! +Great Instructor videos, bad assignments and peer grading system."Is the file submitted as PDF? Rate from 1 to 5" everyone puts 1 as my score even if I submitted it as PDF file, should be a yes or no question. +Fun course although a little too conceptual for my liking. +This course has a lot of info to offer. The instructor is enthusiastic and provides lots of helpful links to articles, books, and resources that are really useful. I also appreciate that there is a portion of the course dedicated to social issues in games, which often get overlooked or dismissed.However, the course appears to have been restructured at some point, which can make the videos confusing, as they refer to things you haven't learned yet or make you wonder if you accidentally skipped a video somewhere. That said, I also don't think the current structure is ideal, because what you're learning is sometimes at odd with the structure of the assignments—for instance, a game design doc isn't finished until a game is nearly done while a prototype should come early in the process. So why does the game design doc assignment come before the prototype assignment?Also, while I appreciate that the instructor attempted to make the quizzes and grading more fun, the resulting options are often misleading or unclear. For example, the typical grading options are 1) You barely did it or didn't do anything, 2) You went above and beyond, and 3) This is pretty epic. If the person satisfied the requirements but didn't add anything else, do they really only deserve a 1? I didn't grade that way, but the options suggest I could have. Also, if the question is "Is this a zip file?" these options don't make sense at all.Overall though, I recommend this course and give it 4 stars for the level and variety of information it covers. +The quiz feedbacks are empty, this is not good. +Love it. +Very useful as basis to learn more! And the Professor is great! +It's okay, I like the instructor and I really enjoyed the assignments creating worlds and such. I found that Im not a complete dud when it comes to making stories, it actually comes easier than you think ,especially if you play games a lot. Towards the end of week 4 though, I was about done with all the theory and wanted to get back to some Unity work, so i bombed through those videos, and actually skipped social impact on designers (or something like that), but I aced the quizzes though. Kind of funny, the only videos I didn't watch are the only ones I got fives in xDThank you!Ugo +The course is amazing.I started to work 1,5 year ago as a 3d modeler and i found out that many many people dont even know about how important is a good game design.Great presentation great teacher.Thank you so much for the valuable knowledge. +The course touched just the basics of game design principles. Everything was mostly theory based without any practical examples. I was expecting some kind of other approach of teaching this kind of topic. +This course helps your game go from concept to reality. It pushed me to get a digital prototype made and ready to demo. Great depth of information related to game design and the gaming industry. +Professor Casay is awesome! The course is very well handed and paced, I learned a lot. Also, I enjoyed extra lectures and videos, thanks for print your passion on this! Great job! +The course is interesting.The peer-review assigment and grading system is the weak park of this course : you are asked to do a prototype in one week that must be reviewed "pretty epic" from the other students for the highest grade. +Hard to follow, ideas are not organized and are not well presented. Lecturer has many pauses, that even on increased playback speed (x1.25), are still distracting. Do not recommend! +I found that the momentum build in the first course of the "Game Design and Development" specialization was lost when going into Principles of Game Design. In my opinion the course became too focused on the theory, where it could have combined the learnings of "Introduction to Game Development" with the principles of game design in a 50/50 ish combination.However, if your sole purpose is the theory of games and game design, and you do attend the course in relation to the specialization, then by all means, it's a decent course. +This course is mandatory to design a good videogame. +Could have more information about concepts. I would say this is a very, very high level look at game design. Concepts are not explored very much. For example, level design is mentioned. I can sum up the whole lesson in that as "Game designers create pieces and level designers put those pieces together in interesting ways." How to actually do level design, what makes a good level, etc. are not explored at all. There are some generic tips, like ("Make sure it is balanced," "it should be interesting and paced right." The most value of this course is the documentation to write down game ideas in.This should all make sense by the fact that the course alone is 4 weeks long. 1 week of the machine learning course is about equal to this whole course. +Excellent thank you +Really great course. Highly recommend. +It was great opportunity of learning game development and designing process. I would like to recommend it highly to everyone who is interested in game development. It will boost your skills and concepts up to expert level. +My difficulty in completing this course is that I am having to actually develop a playable version of a game. The information in the course is excellent but it is taking more time than I have to develop the playable version of the game I used for the exercises. +A great course - I thoroughly enjoyed it. +Wonderful course +A lot of conceptual stuff going on, I learned what's a high concept document, a game design document, and the importance of prototyping! +Lots of good information. +The course covers a lot of interesting topics i a short time, citing external documents, webpages and books; sometimes some questions in the quiz refer to external documents.About the assignment: it start quite easy, about high concept, story bible, game design document, making the student write more and more detailed, focusing all the attention on the documents. Than, at week4, you need to create a prototype, digital or non-digital, based on your creations. I found this unexpected and really it's unrealistic to be able to create a decent prototype in the same amount of time given to write a document.About the grading system: to take the best score, you need to go "epicly" beyond the call of duty. I don't like that. A student should take the maximum score if he does everything required, and he/she does it good. No need to overdo in my opinion.About the quiz: if you make mistakes, he doesn't tell you what's wrong, he doesn't show you the right answer. It's not a problem of the Coursera platform, as in the previous course, the teacher filled the quiz with all the explaination of the correct and incorrect answers.So, should i suggest this course? Well the topics are interesting, they could have been transmitted better, with better assignments and grading score. +Excelent course. I've had chance to see how process of design game looks like. I'm new in games area so I've got a lot of usefull information. I also think that many techinick can be succesfully used in other life activities - especcialy brainstormin, idea creation ect. +Pros: Good lectures. The professor (Casey) provided a lot of interesting readings to supplement the discussions. Some of them were a bit on the scholarly side, but overall surprisingly interesting and informative. I also watched the documentary about indie game designers (Indie Game: The Movie) during this course and found it very helpful. Cons: I wish the quiz questions had explanations of why something was right or wrong. +Loaded with great information! Thanks! +Well worth the time spent becoming more knowledgeable about what goes into making a game. +I enjoyed this entire course from conception to prototype. Brought the game to life at the end. I wish there was more time for this course. Felt like I could have put a lot more detail into the game design. +Nice abstraction about all kinds of games not about a specific game genre. But I'm not into it because I like developing games more than thinking about design. This course's homework is somewhat irrelevant of the course content. +The course is great but there is some room for improvement. One awesome way to improve learner experience, I think, would be to provide one or two examples about what is expected to deliver for each activity (good/bad examples from previous courses, preserving anonymity?).I know a lot of creativity is involved in the process, but sometimes I felt like I was wandering in the dark, trying to complete an assignment without knowing whether I understood appropriately the instructions. +Don`t put your irrelevant politics in games +Some say you should make this course just when you have a ga. +Great course on game design! You learn and you do... +Amazing teacher, and amazing concepts! I REALLY enjoyed going through this course and learning a lot of great concepts for getting ideas for video games, and general advice for game design! +It would be the best if the written feedback on assignments are compulsory. Currently it's sometimes difficult to get useful feedback +Great Class, I have learned a lot stuff +With this course I really learned how to think about a game idea. +This seemed like a somewhat outdated course but did have a lot of basic info for people who want to make a game but haven't given it much thought. I also found the quizzes and review options frustration due to poorly worded questions and rating choices, as well as the lack of a written feedback option besides comments. Some of the videos seem to kind of drag on a bit as well, but overall it was still helpful for developing my game despite feeling like I didn't gain much new information. +That person should not teach. Nobody. The person is not able to construct a sentence without denial and course has really little information, but lots of empty talking. +Excellent course, it was sure difficult at the beginning but be patient, at the end you will be amazed of the amount of game design skills you've learned! Thanks a lot professor O'Donnell! +I probably have to rate this course 5 stars just for the supplementary reading materials provided. There's a lot of great information provided here. This course helps formalize a process that highly talented people just do intuitively. With the information within, you're able to better understand different aspects of your creative process. At times, the professor's delivery can be a little distracting (he has quite a few awkward pauses in the middle of thoughts, and uses the phrase, "right?" a little too unconsciously). I also found some of the lecture material difficult to connect in a practical sense. Some aspects of the design, play, experience model could use better examples in lecture to make the points more concrete. It is a deep model, and they do in fact point you to a whitepaper published on it so there is that, but just for the sake of the lessons; the examples need better explanation. The quizzes were easy, but challenging in the wrong way. Often, questions are posed that weren't ever directly answered in lecture or the materials, and sometimes they are worded in ways that make it difficult to pinpoint what they are looking for. It would be nice to see student responses to the free-response questions make a comeback in future lessons or at least know that they could possibly carry into the material used to teach the next incoming class. The assignments follow a logical progression, and again are supplemented with great materials. The review system is a little wonky. I've posted in the boards about this. They need to make the criteria more clear. The community activity is pretty low. I'm not sure how this can be addressed, but overall this is a great course and perfect second stop on the journey towards the Game Design and Development specialization. +The quizzes were too short to be effective, and without requiring written feedback from peer review, the process doesn't seem very useful. The best information was from the articles and books he recommends. +Very nice course ! :) +It was difficult, but interesting +why intro is so long?it becomes boring without any physical interpretation of knowledgecan't you take at least one design project or demomany things were said but very little went in head +Nice lessons, but the "teacher" use too often the word "right", what is really annoying. I hope you caneradicate this terrible habit and fix the course materials after that. +It's a really nice course it's teach you a lot on how to design a game from begin and make it something big! +good game design introduction course, lots of concepts, great! +Peer review is really bad idea for such assignement when you are writing your very first design document. It's very subjective and peers cannot provide a valuable feedback on your work +Fabulous introduction into a world of Game Design and documents writing. Highly recommended! +Very insightful course although the assignments were a bit redundant +When I'd started the course, I did't like the course, because of the course is mainly theoretical! But soon I got to learn that Game Designer is the foundation and creator of games! And, I love the way our tutor taught the lecture. This is the best course for any game designer! +AMAZING COURSE!For an introductory course on game design this course is amazing! +Really good course! Gives you the basic foundations you need for the specialization. +I will review this course appointing its pros and cons.Pros:- The instructor: he is a captivating person. It really seems that he like game development, he make jokes and try to make the course interesting. So, he’s personality is makes the course less boring.Cons:- The course name: when I saw “design” in the course name and the icon of course page, I thought it would be related to graphic design, or history telling and so on. But no, the “design” means “project”. So I think a better name would be “Principles of Game Project”. Although, it might be just me who thought this way, because in my language design means something totally different.- The course content: this course should be at the end of the specialization. It is too much abstract and, in some aspects, very obvious. I will not say it is completely useless, because it is not. It gives us a structured view of the stages of game design and its documentation, but I think it would be better if it was like a case study.- The assignments: probably the worst part of the course. They very very complex, to be sincere, none of the assignments I reviewed were full, I gave max grades to many because I think the person tried really hard to make it. Imagine this situation: you are not a programmer, not a graphic designer, not a writer and with a week you need to make a prototype of the game idea you’ve been working on course. This prototype must show the game mechanics and aesthetics, should be playable… And can be non digital? Come on, we are here learning the concepts of developments digital games and the instructor says that we can make a non digital prototype? Some people did it, and I can say for sure that I couldn’t imagine the real game. I made a digital prototype using the knowledge acquired from the first course, but as you can imagine, it is not enough to make our game ideas come true.- The peer review system: the grading is completely non sense, as I said before, the assignments are complex, so it is difficult to show our ideas clearly in a document, without the abilities to make concept arts or something. In 2 of the 4 assignments 2 of the 3 people gave me max grades and 1 gave me bad grades, and did not left any feedback! One of the assignments when I first submitted it I got 12/20. Then, when I resubmitted it, without changing a comma, I got 20/20. So I think this system must change, maybe the mentor should do it.If you want to do all the specialization, ok, go and do this course. But, if this is not your objective, do not waste your time. +The lessons were very informative. And the instructor made everything easy to understand and follow. +I enjoyed a lot to have classes with the teacher of this course.O'Donnel helped me alot showing us some importants essays of Game Design and guiding us in the way to how to have a simple idea and work on it in order to make it in a good game.Thanks! +Love it ! +Great course!!!! Big round of applause for the coach :D +There's a lot of ideas and materials to make you think.I also appreciate the pragmatic tips and document templates.The best course on game design I've seen so far! +Very interesting course. I am already familiar with software dev documentation, so a lot of it was not new for me. The style of teaching in the previous course was more pleasant for me. But I am well aware it is just a personal preference. Very good course indeed. Thanks! +This course was a little stressful, but it seriously pays off. The instructor was excellent, he explains everything clearly and gave us quizzes and projects not only to do, but to really learn from. He discusses subjects that really are worth thinking about, if you are considering becoming a Game Designer. I highly recommend this course for avid learners and those that would love to work hands-on on projects that concern Game Design. +The lecturer is very engaging and for the most part these lectures were valuable. A few of them bordered on "why are we talking about this?" though. Felt more like filler than actual value. I think this could have been condensed to three weeks without losing much. +A really interesting course which details how games are designed from the inception of an idea, and what kind of work goes on before the actual development of a game. The instructor is absolutely brilliant. +It appears the teacher doesn't take the necessary steps to polish content and tests, everything feels unstructured and ad-lib. Course videos don't seem to follow any kind of logic or purpose and tests are based on highly subjective content, but are not prepared to deal with the subjectivity of reviewers (i.e. forcing them to provide feedback instead of giving points arbitrarily). +Excellent and amazing, motivate you to use your brain and imagination. +The first steps into the world of making games. All those important documents that you have to write is all well explained here. I highly recommend for everyone. +This course gives great insight to the importance of planning out the various structures of a game before building it. The valuable resources such as the readings were also very much helpful. The instructor has a calm spirit and his lectures are interesting and easy to understand. +Very usefull and with great material to read +Great course. A very good balance between practice and theory. This a very well documented course. +Very interactive and good practical knowledge about game design development +There is a lot of writing here, but the course gives a better understanding of what is required outside of actually building a game +Great content and great teacher. But I found the assignments and the quizzes not that great. I reckon the questions and corrections were a bit subjective and time consuming. +Very thorough coverage of the topic. Helpful. +After the excellent first course in the specialisation, this was quite a disappointment.I realise that the subject matter in this course will inevitably involve abstract concepts and subjective opinions, but I didn't really 'get' the way that Casey was presenting the subject given that there were quizzes and assignments to follow.That's not to say that the videos aren't interesting. But, given their rambling style, they would be much more useful as reference material rather than driving the course, in my opinion.Many of the questions in the quizzes felt like they'd been added simply to make them up to the correct number. Some were so loose that you could write any answer and I'm sure you'd get a mark!Also, I'd say not to even start this course unless you have a clear idea for a game. The assignments require you to produce design documents that are tedious, going on impossible, to write without some firm rooted idea to start from.Maybe if you really want to be a game designer then this will be the course for you. If you are doing the course out of curiosity, for fun, or to learn how to control Unity, I'd give it a miss. +Very comprehensive and thorough introduction to game design. I gained lots of insight into what it really takes to be a developer, and the steps involved. This course really helped to explain the process of getting a game idea off the ground, fleshing out details, and making it presentable to a team or prospective producer. Thanks! +Teaching style a little loose for me, but man did he make me work on my assignments. The information is valuable and the references are beneficial. My take-away from attending this course gives a good base on how to think about a game and set things up properly from the start. No quick short cuts here. Just good old fashion hard work and how to approach things logically to get things done constructively and productively. +It would a 4.5 star actually. The thing is the course thought me more in just a few hours than a 4 month physical course in Game Design. That it super awesome.There a few things here and there that i wish were more elaborated upon, but then again i only audited the course not participated in it actively. +Great course!Thought I wouldn't use the stuff that I learned in the videos at first, but as I started working on my own projects, I realised it was very important knowledge for a game developer. +Awesome course for Game Designers +This course covers everything you need to know about planning and designing your game. Don't be afraid to think big and even if your aren't sure about a game idea you have write it down and keep coming back to it. My capstone project was based on my design from this part of the course after many iterations of the idea and my game came out great. +Tasks are different in complexity, but time is given the same.Speaker's constantly interrupts sentences. Hard to understand for people, who bad speek English.Questions for peer review are bad:"Mark 5 if work amasing". But we just student, our work are rough, not amasing. And everybody can grade as he wish. +This is a great course, if you want to hear The Questions you need to Answer to make a good game design for your game. It does not give you the answers, but it gives you a road map to follow.Downside of the course are Quizes and Peer Reviews. Quizes sometimes have shady and non-clear answers, especially for non-native English speakers. Assignments grading criteria makes your peers to choose from 1 to 5. And 5 is "you did so awesome, that you've impressed your peer very much". And this is not happening often. +A pretty nifty course for game design. I loved getting to work on the documentation planning for the game I was creating. Simple and easy to follow. Some of the quiz questions were a bit tricky as I had spent more time than I though I would, going back to the lectures to review the questions. +This was a very good course, however the assignments were too long to complete in only a week. +Sometimes it was difficult to follow! but good overall +Great ideas and things to learn here, makes you think about a lot of stuff. +One of the best course i have taken and would recommend it to everyone who wish to start a carrier in Gaming. +I really like your course, It is easy but yet make me understand and have a clear point to start!Great course sir +Casey O'Donnell is very talented and knows a lot. Thanks for the course. +It's a really good course but I feel like you need more time to really do the assignments, one week between assignments is kind of little time to do all the design. Sometimes the lectures are not directly relationed with the assignments. +This is a great course for the people like me, that have programming background and want to learn game design. The transmission from programming to design could be very challenge, but this course provides lots of help. Please enjoy the *hard* fun. +A great course +I would have liked that the written feedback in the assignments were mandatory, it would allow us to improve on our designs +Didn't learn as much as intro to game dev'. +I learn a lot by doing assignments and reviewing other people's assignments. The important con of this course was some of its quizzes' questions which was ambiguous or badly framed. +I really enjoyed this course, I learned a lot of thing that will help me to build better games and today I have a clear idea of the whole process of creating games. So I think that everybody that would like to build games, should do this course. Thanks to Coursera and Casey O'Donnell for providing this course. +One big user-experience comment is that I wish that the videos had been edited; there are many long pauses and times where there is a lot of talking around the thing that you actually want to say. I think you have some great things to say, but perhaps streamlining those ideas and editing out the times when you need to pause to think (which is definitely legitimate when recording yourself!) or other things of that nature, would have definitely cut down on the length of the videos. Long videos aren't bad, if they are well put-together and conveying information in an engaging way. +Great course for fleshing out ideas. The only problem was the third assignment: making a prototype should take about a month, and we only had a few days to make one. +Very good course. A unique experience for who's interested in these topics. +Really Great Course +This was a very wordy course. Some times it felt like they just kept repeating and rambling, but I did learn the proper documentation for big games. +The information is good but is going too fast and I don't feel I have learned much from it. I'm on week 3 and I'm still not sure of how to make my assignments in a proper way. The quizzes are very confusing too and sometimes I felt frustrated. +The information in this course is great +I find the course interesting in its totality. It's more difficult than the first course, because of its theory but every piece one near another makes the whole! +Great course, thanks! +The course is not bad, right? It gives you interesting texts to read, right? And explains a design process, right? Is it OK to say right after each sentence? (English is not my first language, right). +loving it so far +This course has a good starting point, but there are so many things that ended up being wrong that I just can't force myself to give it more than 3 stars (and I'm not sure if it should be 3 or 2 stars). I think this is also the first course on Coursera that didn't get 5 stars from me (not sure if I've given 4 stars once only).So the bad parts first:Assignments are so unrealistic it's unbelievable. Week 1 is doable. Week 2 is problematic if you have a complex idea, let's say it's still doable, but you would certainly need more time than expected weekly hour work. Week 3 is insane. It is so out of the scope of this course. And week 4 is even worse, I had to use pen and paper and then explain only 1 of the core mechanics (even that used more than expected weekly hour work).Some of the quizzes are not fully clear if you are not a native English speaker. Sometimes I had to re-read things several times, and still wasn't sure what I was doing wrong (I realized that only after I managed to literally guess the correct answer).And most of all grading is the worst I've seen in any course. All of it based on a personal opinion. Hey I even managed not to get full points for a "document is HTML/PDF/....". I mean - how can I not get full points there? It either is or is not a HTML. It's so much subjective that it's making it awful.Now about the good parts:Professor did a great job, the course inspired so many ideas for me.The material is concise and it was a pleasure listening to this course.Most of the courses are too slow for me, so I have to fast forward them to 1.5 and some even to 2 times speed. I've run this course only on 1.25 speed, which is a good thing. I'm not a native English speaker. +While I really liked the first course I have massive problems with this course. The first 2 assignments, a high concept document and a story bible were doable.But a full GDD and a prototype on week 3 and 4? These aren't part-time tasks for a few days, these are full-time tasks for at least a full month each to do them properly from scratch. These assignments are so unrealistically hard that they demotivate. And I'm saying that as someone who already had quite some ideas for one game and even started experimental programming. For people that are taking this specialization without a focus on game design and/or without ideas... this course is going to be hell to finish in time. +The concepts are good and important, writing the assignments was not so easy :)It feels like there is a missing link between the concepts & the writing the documents.For example -the last exercise (prototype) was not good at all for most people I checked (including myself?).On a secondary importance level: some of the questions/answers are hard to understand or related to extras (movies, for example) I did not I need to see, so it was a bit frustrating. +Just perfect! +This course has made me more thoughtful and analytical, about things I did not really look at previously. Plus I learned to use Twine, it is a great tool. +great teacher, good material and excellent examples.He knows how to teach =) +Amazing! That is why i LOVE Game Design.. HAHA! +Very good course, allows you to actually "think" and implement a game, which I love.Only issue is the grading. I would change the name of the scoring, makes it easy for people to give bad grades. +Not very informative content, some parts are interesting but not worth the money.The worst thing is, all assignments are writting work that are evaluated by colleagues, meaning, it is purely objective, to the extent that one question asks if my uploaded file is in a readable format, example pdf, txt...etc and two out of three marking my pdf file as not!!! and not even leaving a comment why they are giving that bad score on obvious things! +It is very well structured, easy to watch&listen course. Highly recommended! +The information is great, but I think they need to make this course in two phases because there was a lot of information to process and the assignments need more time if you want to do a good work. The other part that I didn't like was that the information doesn't really correspond to what you actually need to do for your assignments, I think the course needs more videos and examples of how to create the required documents. +An exceptionally informative course that covers the more intricate principles behind the actual design of a game (not to be confused with the more technical aspects of development). From brainstorming ideas to developing a concept to actually testing your game before release, this touches on the more difficult thought processes that one may not learn by simply picking up a game engine and learning how to build a game from the ground up. Couple the concepts learned here with the technical skills from the game development courses (or your own technical experience and knowledge), and you'll be much better equipped to make a solid, marketable product. +I wanted to take these courses to supplement my own university's Game Focus in Computer Science curriculum, and I got even more than I'd hoped for. This course is the perfect introduction to key game design concepts that most universities don't teach (as opposed to pure programming), and I'm certain that my ventures into game development as a career will be much smoother thanks to this course. +The best Game Design course ever! +This course is very thorough, explaining game design principles (NB: not just the barest basics!) in-depth, yet it is not 'rocket science' in terms of difficulty - the material is conveyed in a friendly and comprehensible manner. If you're seriously passionate about game design, not just idly curious, this is definitely the course for you! +Excellent introduction to Game logic and documentation +Great course, i loving it. +This class started out very rocky and the videos had errors, the quizzes had problems, and the assignments had a poor grading system. Hopefully, these will be corrected in future offerings. +The templates are very good, but the course videos are too general. +Just great! +The course material is good, and Casey always gives further reads and references. I specially liked to have book references and I started to read one of those.I found however a disconnection between the idea of using the MDA/DPE framework described in the course, and the actual projects which were more into creating the set of documents used in game design to collect the details, create a better picture, and think better about the game. In some way, the iterative process of coming back to the idea, from document to document, helped to refine the game, but it happened more as something natural.I wished we would have had some sort of checklist to evaluate and apply during the design process the framework.As feedback to the instructor, I think he needs to stop using the ending word "right?" to finish his sentences. At some point, of the course it became really difficult to follow, right?. right?. right? ... ufff ...Also, I believe he knows a lot, but a bit of preparation and flow in his lectures would be appreciated. Maybe the use of some sort of autoclue, would help.Last, but this could be more for the course editors, the instructor has good slides and material, but usually during the lectures the slides disappear (just in the moment one need to focus his attention in the written material) and the instructor appears in first plane. I think you could keep the instructor in a PIP box all the time, and perhaps put him in first plane only at the beginning and end. +Content is interesting but the lectures and the content is far below the first course in the series in my opinion. +Very good course if you are interested in games and/or game design. +I was able to learn a lot! Worth the money. +This course has some great content and assignments that I'd never make myself do on my own, for that I rate the course highly.I did find myself often wondering exactly what was expected of me on the assignments, and during lecture I'd hear "this is something to think about...", but not what I'd like to hear which is "here's what to do".Overall a great fit into the game development specialization. +it would have been cool if they could have tied in some of the projects from the last course and talked about ways to better organize their design, but all in all this was a pretty good intro to game design. There were a lot of links to outside resources which was cool too. +At the start, I felt this course was mostly uninteresting, irrelevant and unnecessary. Pretty much a waste of time. But as things progressed, I discovered there were lots of great theory and concepts introduced that play a critical role in how the game industry and professionals need to think and work.My only complaint after having completed this course is that the instructors didn't do a good job explaining why this course should be taken. Once you're in and working your way through, you should see the importance. But on first glance it sounds irrelevant. +I enjoyed the teacher. On online classes the teacher can make or break a class and this teacher did a great job at keeping my interest because he was obviously passionate, informational, and intriguing. Thanks for the great class! +Once you set the video speed to 1.5 it improves a lot ;-) +Amazin course coverin a lot of info about Game Design really useful for every aspect of the Game industry. +One of the worst courses that I have taken in coursera.The videos feel unstructured without preparation and boring.The quizes are subjective. You can pass all of then without watching a single video or lecture.The assignments are interesting but the way of grading them are bad designed and subjective.Sad, I passed this course without trouble but made me stop wanting to get the full specialization.Spartans! Review the course or better close it. Its a shame. +Very practical course! I recommend it! +I didn't like the class despite getting 100% on pretty much every assignment. I learned very little from the class. I don't think 99% of what was in the class was useful to me at all. The grading for the class had ludonarrative dissonance with the quizzes. The projects were graded by peers, but the rubric was nonsensical. 1-5 scale for submitting a PDF, for example. So, someone might give you a 1 for submitting the PDF and thus you wouldn't get a full-score. It was just idiotic. +Great course. +This course competes with a full specialization on Coursera with a slight flavor of the "Understanding Video Game" course also available on Coursera.The grading is supported by quizzes and assignment associated to a poor grading system. I found this single class less challenging and interesting than the full specialization on Game Design from CalArts although it allows you to have another view of the process of Game Design in a more engineering way (e.g. writing documentation and not thinking on creating game...). +Very helpful information with lots of solid, practical advise (prototype! test!) and a few important questions to think about (genderfication? accessibility?) when designing. Excellent learning experience for game design documentation. Quite worth the time and effort. Thank you! +A lot was discussed, and many resources were offered, but I felt the general direction offered was too loose. When time came to do each week's assignment, I was not always sure how to execute. +Great Course ! +The course has several mistakes; the instructor forgot to remove some of the clips taken wrong inside the lectures, and the project for week 3 was incorrectly written. However, in general the course is very appealing; it's the main part of making games. And if some may think that you don't need to take a class to "learn to be creative", this course was an excellent way to put my creativity in practice, learn about how game design works, and read many interesting articles and stuff from different sites, provided by the instructor.Highly recommended, it's a very fun course. +Amazing, I recommend to everyone. +I really enjoyed it :) +Very good brainstorming expirience! Thanks :) +This course is perfect to giver an overall view of what is a game designer. It has interesting articles and templates inside this course that will help you to give a direction. I recommend this course to everyone who dreams to enter in the game industry. +Interesting ideas but a bit disorganized. +Great overview of how games are designed. Course includes brief overviews of key topics in a game such as mechanics, rules, story/narrative, input/output, and user experience. While not very detailed on each aspect the overview provides a starting point of the various ideas and components to consider when developing a game. Additional resources on examples of games and articles on the topics are useful in further exploring the concepts. +Although the course content is highly informative and interesting, the way it's all presented it not the best, most of the time concepts are confusing because of this, quizzes become guessing games most of the time. Forums feel neglected by the course tutor, lot's of question that someone knowledgeable should answer become random rambling as nobody is sure as to what the tutor actually meant. As somebody said on the forums "I feel like I'm alpha testing your course". +This course so intensive and onteresting!! +This course give me really a lot of! +great information from diverse teachers. +I am a frontline physician working in Scotland. This course is certainly relevant to my daily clinical responsibilities. Excellent course. The topics covered all aspects of GBV and delivered with clarity. Does it change my clinical practice? Absolutely. +Very interesting course if upgraded will love to be notified for furthering. +I liked this course, but sometimes the presentations was boring because show only letters and no images or graphics. But in general I liked very much the content. I think, that this course is very interesting and proffesional. I learned many new frames about GBV. +Excellent course, speaks not only to health professional looking to investigate introductory concepts related to GBV and VAW, but for policy professionals as well +I loved to attend this course! Congratulations to all the people who made it possible. +Great information! I highly recommend this course. +I learned a lot of new things throughout this course. At first, my skeptical approach was: "well that I've seen on YouTube", but after 1st week I started realizing it gives you more - the understanding of how games made, what it takes and what you're capable of when left with limited knowledge and some ready-to-use tools. This month wasn't that easy for me and what I know for sure - if not for college-like system and approach - I would've put studies away to solve life problems, which would probably result in putting it away for longer. +Very well made. I enjoyed this course enormously! +Pretty good +Great learning experience! Beginners don't sweat it. Very good place to start with no prior experience. +I learned a lot of useful things, and had to work harder than I expected, but it was fun :) +Loved it! Great intro into using Unity +Nice introduction of Video Game Industry..it helps me open the door for my new career! I want to do more and more in Game Development! My goal is getting closer by finishing this course! Just like Serena from Pokemon XY, she found a new goal as Pokemon Performer! Thanks Serena and Ash Ketchum to encourage my career! Never give up until it is very end! +Learning online was better then expected. Sometimes there was some hard tasks without all the hints, but searching for answers is a good way of learning. There forum isn´t very helpful though +Very good tutorial +Great course! I loved every minute of it. +This course is one of the best courses for begginner game developers who want to learn Unity3D as well as basic C#. The course content is well prepared and is taught step by step by the instructor. The assignments given at the end of each week are very educatory. +Very well structured course with good pacing. +I very good course..giving a basic understanding of Unity game development. +Great courses. Helped to learn the basics of working in Unity Engine, as well as the basics of programming C#. +Very intense = useful course. Some complain that it is too difficult, but as a non-programmer I found it the most efficient course among 10+ others I found for free. +Great course as a first approach to game dev. I'm taking the full specialization and so far I'm having a lot of fun. Totally recommended! +Excelent course for those starting from scract! +I enjoyed the course, but I the scripting part was still mainly, "here's a script to add to the game, and then we'll look it over". There was very little scripting until the project, which really didn't require much scripting either.I recommend adding more ACTUAL scripting, or a new section or course that discusses ACTUAL scripting.Otherwise, I did find it informative. I have a lot more questions, but until I see the final course, I can't say whether they'll be addressed. +Excellent! Brian is very simple and clear in his instruction. No messages missed or trouble understanding the program. Also, when you think your system doesn't have something, they provide you with the equivalent of what they is required. For example in the build case and getting Web Gl support. yeah! You'll see it.Thanks, I had a lot of fun doing this course. Now on to the next!!Ugo +Brian is a wonderful teacher he didn't take for granted all the aspect related to basic principles of game development in Unity. It's clear that he has built the lessons in order to teach you the method to approach the use of the tool rather then a detail explanation of specific features leaving the learners to deeply inspects this aspects on their own. The session are all well written and enrolled and Brian never leaves you alone during all the courses. +Thoroughly enjoyable course, lots of examples to work through and get you going making some basic games. A lot of room for creativity as well as well-structured and explained lessons. +Great intro course. +Great way to get comfort +Great course! Shows basic concepts of game development using Unity3d Engine! +Nice way to introduct yourself to Game development ! +Brian is a great instructor. This course was a pleasure. +Loved it, a must for newcomers... Worth the price. +This is the best course for a beginner to start working with Unity3D. The instructor had explained the concepts in a simple and precise manner. Thanks for this great course. +Great. It moves fast, Brian Winn wastes no words. +The course teaches you the basics in Unity game development. It shows you the most important things, from usage of game objects, prefabs, camera and UI. But I hoped that it would be more extensive, that it will cover more things. Also the Quiz questions and final assignments were too easy. +I love this course,I learn very more thing int there. +Excellent introduction to Unity's engine although I found it doesn't hurt to know a bit of engine and programming to really graps the basics and more from this course. Thanks for doing it continue with the rest modules of the Game Design and Development. +This course is a walk through most things in Unity3D, knowing Game concepts, and basic components to make a game. I strongly recommend this course to who want to start from scratch. +I learned a new views on game design and development that I would never knew about in my years through college and online resources :D +Found that the course lived up to my expectations. It was a solid four week learning experience, where you get to know Unity. I do wish that the teacher would spend less time reading from a manuscript, as it hurt the immersion from the student's perspective. +i love the instructor and the content +I like this course a lot as it provides all the necessary topics for a beginner. +Fantastic course to start developing +Great course! Simple and clean instructions. Specially the course instructor "Brian Winn", lots of <3 <3 <3 for you sir :D +Very good introduction to Unity 3D. +Very nice and simple course +Great course! Congrats to the teacher!It was clear and I learnt a lot! +The course is a great introduction to video game development using Unity 3D.Highly recommendable for those who love videogames and want to create their own. +Very Addictive Course +A very detailed and nice intro to unity +Pretty amazing introductory course to unity, makes you feel like you've learned a lot! +Best course for the starter, +Very comprehensive and suitable for a beginner +Greate course for beginners. +This was a great introduction to the Unity game development environment. +An excellent introduction to game development in unity. +This course is a great opportunity to understand the basic game development concepts. Is a good way to make an approach to Unity3D as Engine and its integration with programming tools. You can create 3 projects that give you a perspective about how exactly you can create a video game from the beginning. +A good start for learning game design and development +You cannot even complete the first quiz before they demand your :P +Great Learning! +Very nice course for someone who wants to learn basic concepts of Unity. My suggestion: create more challenging assignments +The course is clear and to the point. There is enough detail to explain the concepts underlying game development, but not too much detail to overwhelm beginners. +A very good course for beginners! +good class for beginner +Pretty useful if you are the beginner. +Thanks for all, thanks for the opportunite. +Great course, easy to understand, step by step instructions. +I found that the course was an amazing beginning level course. Brian Winn was straight forward in what he was teaching us, and helped me get a good handle on Unity +This is a strong start to game development using the Unity editor. This course covers the basics of game development from graphics to game programming using the C# programming language that the Unity editor uses. It opens the door for growth opportunities. +Very systematic introduction to unity development. But be ready to continue self education after the course! +Very detailed introduction and instruction on this topic! I have learned the basic elements needed for game developing from this course. +Good Course, but fairly easy to pass and repeatitive after week 2. Good intro for Game Development. +Excellent course. Thanks +No allow to submit quiz +Nice course for 3D games beginners +Very good insight into the world of making games using modern up-to date platforms! +Wounderful course. Congratulations! +Very much helpful course to head start in Game Development area +A very well organised course, leading you through the understanding of the Unity 3D program, and helps you get the basic understanding of how game design works. +Awesome course and the teacher was so explanatory did't have problem at any point in whole course long. +Great intro to Unity! +Best course for beginners to learn the basics of Game Development. +It was great opportunity of learning game development and designing process. I would like to recommend it highly to everyone who is interested in game development. It will boost your skills and concepts up to expert level. +Excelent course. Gave me a gerat ideai of how to develop games using Unity +Excellent course. I highly recommend it! I learned a lot with the instructor and by reviewing my peers' work. Again, It is an excellent course! +The course is very good, its a great start for people that want to begin developing games, but don't know how. It motivated me to start other courses and put more effort on the subject. +Great introduction to Unity3D and common gaming concepts, +Excellent introduction to Unity3D. Wish it went more into the process of developing games. +I've been using and studying Unity on and off for a year, but every lesson of the course introduced some important pieces of knowledge. Brian was methodical and had a great way of making things clear. Even the quick view of C# helped me understand it better. Thanks! +Great Lectures, learnt a lot from it....Thanks for uploading this certification. I am proud to be a part of it. +Very detailed material and hands on examples. It is a great introduction to how to build 3D game in Unity. +Great introduction. You can see how relatively easy it is to build your own game! +I really enjoyed this course! +Such a nice course offered by the Coursera! Our course instructor professor Brain Winn design the whole course syllabus such a way that anyone from the beginner level can easily understood the basic things of Game Development.I just love and enjoyed the whole course, and very much interested to finish the whole specialization courses. +The course is fast-paced with 8-16 hours of workload for me (mostly for the assignments). The videos are pretty clear, but because the concepts are pretty difficult I had to watch some of them many times. The learning is reinforced by weekly assignments. The solutions from peers became progressively better over the first half of the course, probably because of student attrition. This course does require some hard work to follow. It help not just learn UNITY 3D also it create concept for learner programmers about C Sharp. it help how to efficiently use all features and functionality in game. I'm very happy i got my first ever experience with Michigan State University and really big thanks to Brian Winn Sir, who provide nice lecture with energetic style. Thanks to Coursera to build affordable and financial aid for all nations. i recommend to all. +its really help full specially students like me how cant pay full fees and learn alot +Great course, very useful introduction to game development! +Absolutely Great! Brian Winn is just amazingly concise and to the point, pragmatic, organized, exhaustive in every detail and alternative variation. A fantastic course. Thank you! +Very informative in game developing study +Very well explaining different things of game development and how things work together. Also I liked the fact that he explained how to use Unity and different ways to do basically same thing i.e. not only using the one way but also alternative ways. +Loved it helped me get into Unity game design +A very useful basic course on the process of making a game and using Unity. The lessons are well structured and give an excellent overview of everything that is involved with creating a videogame, though never going into the detail (it's not a programming or 3D modeling course).The quality of the lessons is the best I've experienced here so far and the videos are very comprehensible to a non-native english speaker because of the clear speech. I loved the fast pace, but I guess it could be a problem if you're not used to it. +Great course for beginners to understand game dev and understand basic of Unity. +Hands-on instructions and a very practical knowledge. Thanks! +Trust me, you should choose this instead of any other game development courses in Coursera. +Taking this course was quite exciting and challenging to me. Thank you! +I've enjoyed the experience. This is the future of education. +The best course and structed material for every of beginers in gamedev) +it made things easy +Hi, If you want to create your own videogame programming on unity, this is the first step to get it. Brian Winn is an excellent professor. This course covered all my expectations. +This is the first MOOC that I have completed. It gave me a brief insight of how games are made. The instructor is superb. I'll recommend this course. Thanks, coursera and MSU. +This course made me do three functioning games in Unity. My dreams are closer to being achieved. Thank you, Brian Winn. +Great way to start off learning about the development of games. +Very well taught and complete introduction to Unity3d and Game Development. I'm a Unity developer since 2010 and i can say this course covers all the topics in a nice and clean, structured way. The projects required are quite easy to make, still require attention and some time if you want to make a step further.Definitely suggested to everybody. +3 stars because the lecturer is really good but talks a little bit fast so foreign students cant clearly understand what he means or get "lost" in the course. You will say "you can reduce the speed" but this would reduce the sound quality too. +The course gave a cler introduction to unity with fast results which are motivating to go on. You get a hand on basic unity features and learn how build a simple interface. +Perfect for newbies like me :) +Very good opportunity to gather some basic knowledge for game development +Great info +A very useful course for beginners who have no knowledge of Unity. This is the best course to learn about the basics in the Unity and using the Interface. Scripting walk through was not enough. A few more exercises would have made it the best course +What do you feel when you've created something? Did you experience that exciting feeling playing your own 3D first person shooter? If you are keen on game development and looking for a starter course, this one is exactly what you need! The course content is well structured and easy to understand. So, if you decide to start this course you will be totally satisfied with the result! +The materials are awesome! +This was a great intro to a new world! +its cool! +This course is comprehensive. All you do is concrete and hands-on. +Excellent course for learning the ins and outs of Unity. Though I would have liked to learn more of the scripting aspect of programming with Unity, the course was still quite satisfactory. Beginners are taught the basics clearly and quickly, and those with more experience don't have to wait long to get to material relevant to them. +very interesting and informative +I really liked the course a lot! The information he gives you beside the course itself it's really useful in making your own games! and practicing by your own. I would be gladly doing this course again if i were in the position to want to learn gaming development! +Great course, I would like to compare it to unity tutorials, they might give you a better coding experience but this course gives you a deeper understanding of game creation process an a feeling of consistancy. +Fun course! The teacher was great at explaining concepts taught through this lecture! I would really recommend this course along with the other courses in this specialization! +This is a great course - a very comprehensive intro to the basics of Unity. +This course was amazing. I learnt a ton about about Unity and making games. I can give you a long review, but in short, it is challenging to understand, and there are slight loopholes which are hard to figure out sometimes. It was slightly disappointing that the course does not go into coding specifically, like the official tutorials do, but the official tutorials rush learning - these are much better. And when you see those official tutorials, you will see why you don't do much of your own coding - C# is not the easiest language.So, what does that mean? It means that this course is very much worth it for beginners. It is relatively easy to understand, but expect to do a lot of work! +This course is simple enough to understand the complexity that is game development but that is not to say it doesn't pack a challenge. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for offering this amazing course up to the public. Which I wouldn't of had access to without wonderful and awesome people like those at Michigan State and Coursera. Thank you so much. +An awesome introduction to Unity! You will make two 3D games, utilizing tools like Player Controls, User Interface, Light, Collision, Music and Sounds, Camera and many more. Everything explained in a very practical and clear manner. I liked the teacher very much! +Provided Unity scripts for projects don't work properly with newer versions of Unity. Quality of video recording is kind of crappy esp. audio. Most of the stuff learned in this course you'd be able to learn straight from the Unity tutorials anyway. Not recommended unless you absolutely need scheduled assignments in order to learn. +nice course but needs more quizez in the middle +A brilliant course for all those people who want to know about game developing, who want to get their feet wet. This is just the beginning and will make you decide whether you want to pursue learning more about it or game development is not your piece of cake.I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it to all those who would like to test if they have it in them to become a game developer.If you enjoy this course you will surely enjoy the next courses from this specialization. +Excelent for first contact with Unity 3D +Helped me a lot, great course for digging into the real stuff. +The way He explains is Good But it would be cool if he also Explains Every small thing in Unity. But yeah ,Great Course for a beginner though. +I highly recommend any of the courses given my this instructor. This was interesting and enjoyable. +Very good сourse. But it would be better if it covers more information. +Best course to start Developing the games. +A great course of beginers in game development. The content is clear and concise. Brian has a good command over the topics. +It's a good start. +A very thorough explanation to the concepts. I would like more challenges and an exercise section to practice what i've learned so far.This would be very important. +Great class packed full of info! The videos were fully explanatory in what they hoped to achieve, instructing in the basics of Unity 3D. An overall well balanced introductory course, my only problem was with a broken link to an assignment. I had to get the specific course materials from another student because the download link didn't work for me. I was hoping for a Moderator/Admin to get back to my complaint, but after a few days a fellow student that had the problem previously was the one to help me out. 4/5 Stars. Be kind to your classmates, you'll learn a lot from them as well! +This is a great introduction course for anyone that wants a taste of game development. One great strength of this course is that the instructor communicates his ideas and concepts clearly.I enjoyed the fact that I was able to review other student's designs. It's a great way to find students that get creative. +I totally enjoyed the course. Very well structured and organized. Contents are clear and relevant. I learned a lot. Great opportunity for beginners! +Great intro to game development. I wish it had covered a bit more about coding in Unity as well as importing assets from other software, but overall very informative. +Excellent course that provides the fundamentals of Game Development. By the end, you will be able to create basic games. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to learn the basics of developing games on Unity3D. +As a starter, this course is an wonderful learning opportunity. You get to know everything from basics. +The special thing about this course is that it does not focus on theory only but also largely on practical work to make the student use to of unity3d's environment. Great Course! +Very good course. It helps me to understand working processes in Unity 3D and essential scripting using C#. +Excelent intro. Dynamic and interactive content in all four weeks +Thanks a lot. +A great introduction to Unity and game development in general. Occasionally feels too "scripted" when watching the videos, but otherwise good. Thanks :) +Introduction is much more than this course is, in my respectful opinion. When I read the information on the specialized program, I thought it was something more compact, more useful in the face of the video game industry.However, this program of courses is rather a paltry touchdown, an insignificant approach. I think it should be underlined that it is a course for those who have never had any experience in videogames development.Considering all this, is a great course. You have to be objective. +Very good pace, sets you on a path to creating your own basic games using Unity in no time and also brushes upon scripting with C# which can make your games x times more interesting! +A good course that gives you an overall view of the development of a game. +Straightforward and gives the required pieces to make a couple simple games that actually play well and are easy to expand. A great introduction to Unity and C# scripting. +Perfect intro into Unity3D. Great instructor. Only downside is if you finish earlier, you'll have to wait for others because of peer review setup. :D +Excellent course to dive into Unity3D, great materials and instructor. +Excellent introduction and good coverage as a start.Thank you! +Awesome Mentor and comprehensive course +The perfect place to get into game developing :D +Loved it +I think it's a good course and easy to use. +Both the instructor and video + documents are great. Recommended course for anyone who want to create game in Unity. +best instructor ever +For an introduction class, I got to create awesome games while learning Unity. +This course will be very help for me in my master track. Since I am doing master in this field so I want to study all the topic in more detail. Furthermore, the course is helpful for me in my career development. +Easy to follow and understand, good balance of conceptual lectures and hands on practices. +Great Course. Thanksfor evrything ! :) +Recommended even if you have some experience with Unity. I have a Computer Science degree and worked as a professional game developer on released iOS and Android Unity games, and even though the material was a breeze, I still learned from it. Fits the description as a good introduction. The code week kind of throws beginners into the deep end a bit (lots of material just sort of thrown at you, but they warn you about the ramp up requirements). Good idea to invest time in some beginning programming resources before you dive into the week 4 material. What are you waiting for? Enroll! +Some given assets need to be upgrades or provided for the latest version of Unity. Otherwise a great class well worth the time and effort. +Very good introduction to game engines, in particular to Unity 3D. There are several projects that provide hand on experience. The only negative side is that the first 2 weeks provide very little material whereas most of the work is concentrated on the last 2 weeks.Overall this is good experience for anyone interested in learning about the subject. +Instructor did a great job explaining functionality in Unity 3D. Class material touched on basics needed to start building games using the tool.On some advanced topics the instructor moved too fast in the videos. Could pause, rewind review to catch up but it was a bit too fast. +I tried other complex Unity3d courses online, and this one beats them all in the way it is built stage by stage. It doesn't pile too much information from the start, and lets you use pre-generated complex assests first, and only later explains them gradually. Even though I had some basic tutorial in Unity3d I couldn't imagine getting that far within a month, investing only about 3-4 hours on the lectures. The projects themselves consume as much time as you want/have to put into, with at least 3-4 hours on average, but if you want to really learn and improve your skill, it requires a lot more than that. +i liked and enjoyed very much but the discussion form is not good , i don't receive answers of my problems. +Its really a great practical "Hand on projects" based course! +This is a very introductory course meant for people having absolutely no background in 3D graphics or 3D game development. As a student with some experience in OpenGL and concepts like 3D transformation algorithms and whatnot, I believe that the course clearly delves into the making of the games rather than having deep insight into the algorithms required for that which is absolutely amazing and easy to understand for a starter. However if the course takers are expecting a deep insight into the 3D world and the mathematics behind that, you'll have to rely on other sources like books on Computer Graphics. However as an introductory course this clears the required concepts to a required extent. +I have learned a lot from this course. It was clear enough to follow and fun to customize as well as challenge oneself. +Great lecturer, easy to understanding and extra content to explore more of the course. Give it a 5 star! +Great!!!! +Really helpful and amazing course! +A very interesting course of the basics of Game Development. Gives you plenty of luggage for further exploration. Clear instruction video's, fast pace but very understandable and lot's of fun! Thanks a lot! +Great walkthroughs of features and concepts, fun to do. +Great intro to Unity. +Very informative and very hands-on. I enjoyed being in this course quite a lot. +Very interesting! +Great and very informative introduction. +Awesome Course +Really good intro to Unity and its basics accompanied with great lecturer. +Perfect course to those who want to get involved with Game Development! 5/5 starts! +Well this course is absolutely amazing, all the 3 projects were hard fun but week 4 was quite tough for me. Overall it's the best course to start learning Game Development. +The courses introduces very well the Unity Game Engine. I wish i could find it earlier. Thanks +The tutorials are so simple and so useful for the beginners who doesn't know much about any software development. The projects are also very basic for us for starting. I would rate it 5/5 for this. +Great class, you learn to use Unity at a great pace, instructions are clear, and everything is reasonable to do as you are walked through the process of making games. +Just perfect! Though I already had some experience with Unity3D, this course had taught me a lot of new things. +Good course, really liked it, even if you are not a programer expert, or are a beginner, it's possible to do it.Strongly recommend it to who wants to start in the Game Development. +Great course!!!! Big round of applause for the coach :D +Excellent course. A great hands-on introduction to game development! +It is very easy to understand. +Love this course!! Perfect for beginners to Unity and Game Development. +A well organised and cohesive introduction to Unity engine. totally worth it! +Brian Winn is an astoundingly good teacher, and has leveraged a huge amount of professional knowledge to pour his heart into what is arguably the best $400 I've ever spent in my life.This teaching/learning format is inordinately effective, and I'm 100% looking forward to course 2, 3, 4, and the capstone.Thank you for going above and beyond in creating a truly fantastic learning environment, syllabus, and a plethora of wonderful content. +It's a real good course with a great base for know where and how start your own project, this course allows you to build basic 2D and 3D games, with a little more effort you can build amazing things. +Good Starter Course, will be Nice more Unity Examples +Top notch course. Even in the first few weeks, I feel like I've learned a great deal, especially for the price. +Such a amazing course!!This course is amazing for whom is just stating in gaming dev. +Nicely Placed Course!! +Great course. I gone through it and learned much more than many months before! Highly recommended for beginners like me) +happy for learning this course +Very interactive and extremely helpful. +Very good introdution, gives a solid foundation for future studies. +Lots of learning with a little bit of study burden. +the instructions are clear, and the teacher is a total pro, totally recomended +Very basic introduction. Though it covers all the needed information it lacks of interesting content. +Really well structured course, really basic from the scratch for everyone. Try it! +This course is superb! +Teacher is boring. just learned programming from kahn academy and the teacher was excited to teach. this guy though.....PUT A LITTLE EFFORT IN! +This course was very informative and hands-on. I learned so much from watching the lectures, working on the assignments, and from the amazing community. I highly recommend this course for anyone that wants to start game development. +As a newbie game developer, I find this course very helpful to know the basics of game development. The course materials were perfect for newbie learners like me. +This is an incredible first course in game design with Unity3D. The professor does a great job teaching the material with perfect sized lessons. The quizzes help reinforce the lessons topics while having a good depth of knowledge. +very good intro. to unity engine +The instructor did a great job taking freely available tutorials and breaking them down into actionable and explainable components. I cruised through this course in almost 2 weeks instead of the recommended 4 because of how enjoyable it was. Many thanks for putting this together. +I found this a great course.It launches you straight into building games and its easy to understand.A must for any budding game designer. +Great course. Hands on all the way with concepts clearly explained and demonstrated. +Very good course for beginners but I think you need to take a separate C# programming course as this course doesn't really teach you how t +The hands on approach game me a solid foundation on how to work with Unity and the Assets Store +Excellent course! I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to get into game development or game-orinted coding. It is also a really good introduction to Unity's interface and features. +An awesome course with an awesome instructor. +Awesome course! I learned a lot! +I've always loved video games, but knew nothing about game dev. I decided to take this Specialization because the dev courses focus on Unity, a good choice for indie development. The example projects are fun and Brian Winn is an excellent, clear, and likable instructor.I'm a software engineer by trade, so customizing scripts was fun and easy for me, but it would probably be challenging for someone who has never programmed before. +Tons of information in this course! I loved it! Very easy to understand even for an absolute beginner. I really enjoyed the instructor's style and the projects! +For the price, I felt like I learnt a lot, and the way the learning was structured helped me learn quickly and efficiently. At the end of each week I was happy surprised how much work could be created in such a short time! +very great course! +I really liked this course. I learnt a lot. +Excellent Course. I Learn a lot of Unity. The explanations are very good and step by step. Thanks to Michigan State University +Excellent - Learned a lot! Great teacher. +Perfect introduction to game development. Does not delve into a lot of theory and instead focuses on the making of games. I really think this helps motivate learners better. Great instructor! +Great course! It just has some small problems regarding scripts considering that most of them give some warning messages, due to the latest version of Unity which made some changes and deprecated some stuff.I've also felt sorry discovering that I can submit the tests and the projects only if I purchase the certificate. +Based on the first week, this course is awesome! +Very useful +A must for new devs, I learned alot. +It really helped me understand Unity 3D and feel more capable in using it to create simple games. I can't wait to see what the other courses in the specialization will teach me. The instructor is very clear and easy to follow. +I learned so much in this short course! I learned more than I ever thought I could about making video games, considering I'm a complete beginner. Great step by step videos for learning to make games in Unity, plus lectures about aspects of game development. It would not be very challenging if you are not a beginner, and there is almost no focus on writing your own scripts, so this wouldn't be the right course for someone wanting to learn to code their own games. I subtracted one star because there was no professor interaction (such as on the message boards), although the professor is very good in the videos. +great and didactic introduction! +Just.... great! +This course is a great introduction to Unity3D as a tool for game development. Helped to cover some gaps on my self-taught Unity skills +It's a simple and straight-forward course that brings you through the basics pretty fast. If you have the time, you could actually do the whole course in a day or two, just coming back for peer review. There are no surprises and the projects are simple. The instructor even lists what the objects of each lesson and video are, so if you need to look back at a specific feature, you need only look at the titles and then watch that one video. It's also interesting to see what people think of when creating a second level, if they try to go further. +Awesome course for people who wants to start their game development career! +Nice intro to Unity +I am really happy I have started this course as it has made me a good game developer and it teaches alot for begginers!!! +It's a good, but timid, introduction to game development with Unity. It addresses many relevant game development concepts, like programming, collision detection and 3D coordinates. It course may be better appreciated if taken as part of a specialization. +Good intro to Unity and easy step into game development. +very clear introduction. An additional week with a bit more scripting practise would have been nice. +Great course - You're learning the foundations of building games with the most ubiquitous game engine - Unity! +A great introduction to Unity and how to think like a game developer. +Very very good course :) +This is the course actually allowing me to believe making game is possible for me. Thank you. +Great course, some items where hard to follow, but over all lots of fun, and frustration. +Really like the course, I wish there was projects involving coding (specially for those of us starting) +Great for getting started in game development with Unity 3D!I had a lot of fun with the assignments. +Great teaching. The code walk-throughs for the final few lessons were quite intense compared to the tempo throughout the rest of the course, although multiple viewings are encouraged. +Great course for introduce. Review the content of the four week. +Excellent intro to game development. Really well done and balanced to be interesting for all levels of skill. +Everyone must take this course if they seriously taking Game Development as their profession. really helped me a lot. +I can learn to many in this class, thank you! +Really enjoyed the course as it was full on unity dev +With this course I was able to teach some stuff to people that is already working with Unity3D. +Great course to learn the basics :) +Awesome course on Intro to Game Dev. I hope you guys will provide one on Game Dev on C# as well. Thanks a lot for this course. +Great course. Really nice... +Good course with both theoretical and practical content.It lacks instructor and staff support. +Great Course! You learn a lot about Unity; for someone who has never used it before. I've tried to start with Unity from books and tutorials on my own, but I never got as far in the 4 weeks of this course. You make three basic games, which gives you all the basics of Unity. Very well worth taking this course, and the instruction/materials are superior. +This is a very good and complete course. +I'm not done yet, but this course is amazing.The instructions are well presented, the teacher paces the class properly and I'm actually learning useful information that will help me on my journey to become a 3D developer!Thank you! +Excellent course for people withought previous experience in Unity. I really enjoy it. +A very interesting and informative course. I really enjoyed furthering my knowledge of Unity. I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning how to make games. +Great introduction to real independent game design and production. It let you build games since day one. +excellent course, well paced and a great introduction to game development +Great course to really understand the basics of unity 3d.Cheers, Tom +I liked the way the lecturer went through all the material slowly repeating information. +Good for beginners. I am not sure if anyone who has designed even a small game in Unity will be interested in this course. I was quite bored and had to go through all the videos just to complete the assignment which cannot be completed if you don't go through all the videos which I think is the drawback for this course. But again, its for beginners. As for me, I am looking forward to interesting and in-depth topics to learn about. The specialization will hold no value if it doesn't pose any challenge to its pursuers. +This course is really cool (Y) +The lecturer is quite good and this course is very useful +One of the best course i have taken and would recommend it to everyone who wish to start a carrier in Gaming. +The course gives you a good understanding of Unity and +Solid course with a good introduction to Unity. +Served as a perfect introduction for me to Unity and game development in general. Being a programmer, I need a rounded picture of the whole process and this course gave me exactly that without dwelling too much on programming. +it is perfect course +Learned a whole lot!Great community, helpful guides and an awesome instructor!Count me in for more! +Professor makes the complicated process easier with his detailed lecture. This course is really great for beginners to learn how to make games and the concepts of games. Thank you professor! +It was great to learn about Unity with step-by-step instruction. I think a little more code explanation would have been nice at the end (Like what an "!" meant before something...I figured it out, but it pulled me out of the lesson to have to look things up or wonder about them.) Very interesting stuff. +Great introduction to game development for people, who had no experience in that and good base for future skills development. +This course can open our minds to a possible balance between Art and Programation, creating a light atmosphere that embrances all of us to put the projects to work. +Great course for beginners in game development. +Great course, although I would've liked a bit more emphasis on coding. +Thanks for your course! +great start for any one who would like to build his own game +Very good course. A unique experience for who's interested in these topics. +This course is filled with the things that are needed and organized so perfectly. It was great pleasure to do this course. +This course is absolutely awesome! During 4 weeks I realized that there's no such fun as making games in the world! Also with the help of modern tools (like Unity game engine) it is very easy even for the beginners. You only have to focus on your ideas and the engine will take care of all the physics, visualization and interaction. It's absolutely amazing!Thank's to Brian Winn and all the comunity! +Good start result in 50% success. +We really need more coding on this one, perhaps half the time should be dedicated to actual coding. From creating environment grappling- hooks. As well as showing 2D gaming and how to work with Physics.The UI and the Unity Walkthrough on everything from Objects to Particles and animation was really well done. And the Tutor is very good at describing the differences between things, as well as alternating how to create things. +This course shows a good introduction to game development. The instructor goes to the point without losing track. It's my first online course for game development, and this gives me good hopes. +The course was really enjoyable, I learned a great deal about game development and Unity 3D in general. I loved the practical approach and getting to know the ins and outs of Unity a lot better. The very last project was the only part I didn't learn as much from. Where going through the code wasn't really helpful - as it's so complicated to someone like me who is very new to C# and coding in general, but I understand it would take too much time to go in depth and that isn't really what the course is about.Otherwise I had a fantastic experience and would definitely like to continue my learning with more courses similar to this! Thanks! +Great course, interesting and challenging! +Best course to start game development.Even if you don't have any prior experience this course will help you start making games. +It was pretty informative. Some things felt too rushed, but I definitely learned how to use the basics of Unity. +Course was very informative and helpful. I learnt a lot about unity and its tools and concepts. But there was very less scripting (coding) in the course. +Good technical base introduction to Unity 3D and usage of standard assets for basic prototyping. +Great beginning course. +This course give basic's of developing on unity3d. As a beginer developer i had lots of gaps in my knowledges about Unity3d. This course has filled them :) +Excellent course for beginners. +Great course for learning the basics of Game Development and getting into the Unity 3D Game Engine.Suggestion: The workload needs to be re organized, the first two weeks need little to no efforts while the last two weeks are more intense. +Great for learning Unity! +I loved it! +Been waiting for a Unity course for a while and it's finally here!Too bad there is no free option, so I am just following it without any grades. +Really good course +I had a knowledge about graphics using OpenGL and I found this course a great introduction for using unity and Game development in general. +Excellent course to get started with. Concise and fun lessons with really fun assignments. I do wish the quizzes were slightly more challenging/longer.Would recommend, 8/10! +Really great introduction to game design in Unity. Would be nice to include a more detailed intro to C# as well, but I expect this to come in the follow up course. I would choose this over other online beginners courses. +Thanks. It's very useful to start game development . +It was informative and had the right-level of difficulty. +Great course, fast but really explained, I recommend it 100% even if you dont know anything about unity +Great course if you interested in Unity3D and some boring games! +This is the best course i had ever done. I learned many concepts in a very short time. Thank you... +Fantastic course.Brian takes a well-reasoned approach of introducing you into game-development through learning about the Unity editor first and then looking at how scripting can supplement and expand your abilities to create games. Well presented, and very useful. +Great introduction to Unity3D. Everything is taught in a very comprehensive level. I would have liked to see more fundamentals of C# scripting though. +Great walkthrough guidance , learned alot! +This was a very good survey of an intimidating topic. The walkthroughs are thorough, and each lesson gives you room to incorporate your own ideas. +Very great course. The instruction is spot on, allowing me to listen while I work without the need to actually watch the video. Definitely worth it for novices and even intermediate level developers. +All those things got explained here , someone want to know +Excellent course! Very interesting and fun! +Really Cool for a beginner +Great Introduction to Game Design and Unity3d +Whirlwind but strong introduction to the Unity platform +I'm finishing up week 3 and I'm loving it! Very easy to understand even though they just brush up the basics of Game Development. +Good examples and great video tutorials. The learning curve it's well balanced and the workshops are well structured according the lessons. +Outstanding. I'd never thought I'd be able to produce some results in such short time.This course opened my eyes on many things. I'll love explore Unity 3D +Very good course and the instructor really explained everything . +This course is a brilliant introduction to game design. If you've got little or no experience in the area, or with Unity 3D, this is absolutely THE place to start. Congratulations to Professor Brian Winn and staff for the excellent work! +Best Course Ever. Brian Winn is very talented instructor. Thank you! +awesome course +Very fast and easy introduction in Unity3D +I really liked this course. I started this course with no knowledge of Unity3D and ended with an intermediate knowledge of this rather complex game development platform. The instructor is very enthusiastic and explains everything in a clear manner. I recommend this course to anyone who wants to become a game designer. +Very good introduction to 3D game development in Unity game engine. Projects are also interesting and leave ample room to showcase our own creativity. +Nice course but so easy . +The first course in this Specialization was very fulfilling and I've learned a lot in a short time, even though I had quite a bit of prior knowledge on some topics. The assignments were fitting and realistic, the instructor sympathic and the course was overall great. +It was a great course.The topics were well understood and the techniques used to make the games are providing a good basis for further game dev learning (in unity) +Great introductory course to Unity ! I wish that we worked more on scripting . +Very nice intro do game development using Unity. +Hi, I had fun doing this course :) Having some experience in using Unity3D my main intention was to consolidate my knowledge, but I also learned a lot practical hints, that makes using unity even more efficient. BR +I think the course is good. I could've wished for some more engagement from the lecturer as it often felt like he was reading from a script, and I might as well have read the script myself. I also think the course was very slow paced and I finished all the projects in a week alongside my MSc-studies as well as working part-time, I wish the projects would've gone more in-depth for those students who wished to put in more hours into the course. +Very nice course covering the basics of game development using unity3d, very well arranged and step by step approach. Special thanks to the instructor (Brian Winn) who put his maximum sincere efforts to make this course great stuff. +The course is a great start to learning how to develop games in Unity3D. I have enjoyed it thoroughly. +Amazing! Everything is so well explained, Brian Winn does a great job teaching us the basics. 100% satisfied! +That is a incredible course!I've learn a lot of things, and now i can go to the Game Market Area with more knowledge of this sector. +quality of the video-presentations is top! assignments and quizzes are fair +With the understanding that this course is focused on how to develop a 3d game in Unity, it is a great course. The material is presented in a way that helps understanding.This is not an introduction to Game Development in general terms, it does not cover game design or other aspects of producing a game. There are other courses that cover these design aspects. +Learned so much from this course, definitely knowledge I can use building games in the future. +Great work Team, have been waiting along for it. thanks. +Really nice itroduction to Unity 3D +Excellent course and very good intro to Unity. Videos, assignments and everything really helped to become familiar with Unity and adopt good practices when making projects. +is excellent programme game development. but i need your help. i have problem download or installation of this unity 3d programme. please solve my problem i thanks for you.your friend jawed +Good course. A good intro to the use of Unity3D for video game development. A lot of the code is already given, everything is easy to install, so no coding experience is necessary prior. The teacher is very calm and teaches well.I would personnally have liked a bit more coding, but that's only me I guess. +Awesome Course! +Dont think twise ,If you want to dive into game development just enroll +A nice introduction to Game Development. The content is great and it doesn't overextend to the point of scaring you off game dev. I would give this course 5 stars if it had a little more spice. Everything in the course felt too scripted. I would suggest doing some fun live sessions on the side or something to let us know we're not being taught by robots. +I love this course and the way Coursera force us (in the good way) to learn. :) +The only thing that stands between the 5 and 4 stars evaluation of this course is the fact that assignments should have a broader range of grades for the peer review (like 0-2.5-5-7.5-10).On all the rest, congratulations! It is a great course! +Very Informative, and educational. I most certainly recommend! +Very good lecturer with easy to understand material. Thanks a lot! +Amazing time learning this course. It is hard fun indeed. +Very good introduction to Unity3D game engine, if you want to do this on Coursera and not on official Unity tutorials. +Excellent course to learn Unity3D!!! The hand on projects help a lot in learn the Unity3D environment. I definitely recommend is class. +Interesting and hands-on. Enjoyed it. +Easy and the instructor is REAL EXPERIENCED +Amazing course, really gets you going with unity +Easy enough for newcomers but with enough room to have some fun if you've already started studying. +Great course! +Great course! The lectures are very thorough with all the necessary details. It would be nice if they made the lecture slides available for download. +Amazing! I recommend it to all who want to simply be introduced into the complicated world of Game Development. The videos and your classmates are a tremendous help so make sure to interact with them frequently. +Very detailed and well-explained course. Thank you very much for teaching me the valuable concepts in Unity and game design. I highly recommend it for anyone, even if you are not a game designer. +This is really good course for people who just started explore Unity and basics of the game design. +An excellent course, I have learned a considerable amount about Unity. +Great hands-on experience to get started with game development. +I learned a lot. Before taking this course, the word "Game Engine" was a scary term and I though it's only for the very professionals. Now I see everyone can easily use them. +Great course overall, just an issue here or there, but great experience for the most part. +This course is really fun to take!!! +Although classified as an introductory course, the material is very complete and comprehensive. +This course provides exactly what it promises - introduction in quite easy pace to grasp ideas of game development and practice using Unity3D platform. It is professionally designed. Good stuff. +Was hard to keep up with work as well. +"Introduction to Game Development" was amazing course personally. Through taking the course, I gained a greater appreciation and interest in creating and developing games. +Didactically I was a little disappointed since, as so often, allegedly innovative e-learning is based on a conventional transmission pedagogy, with the instructur delivering frontal-teaching-style lectures and the learner imitating the instructions. As a comparative novice in the field, I'm not sure that I am now able to apply independently what I imitated for the assignments. Scripting went right over my head.Rhetorically, many of the lectures were preformulated written texts rattled off, sometimes quite fast, in spite of the complexity of some of the information. Where the instructor formulated freely, the excessive Uuuhms and "go ahead's" nearly drove me bonkers.On the whole, a useful course, though. +Very well structured and handled! +Very fun as an intro to Unity. +The course meterial was state of the art. As a software development engineer I know a bit of OpenGL and I personally found it interesting to see how much is really covered in Unity already so that you can really focus on game flow more than on nitty details of trail rendering for example. +Really cool, quite intensive hands-on introduction to unity development. I am really enjoying it. +A very good start for beginners, and informative to the experienced. Give the real online college feel and completed with real examples. +Interesting and well taught. Five stars. +Awesome, I really love how it started and went to the final with ease with many topics covered. Unity is a great tool, and the teacher has a great method of speaking. The projects assigned to these cover the basics for making great games, from design to script. Can't wait to continue the legacy of game making courses. Thanks Coursera! +loved it !!awesome course,Brian winn does a great job in explaining the concepts, very useful!! +Great Course, I learn a lot, now I feel like a real developer.. :D +Great introduction to Unity 3D game engine for people interested in game industry. +Incredible course! It´s awsome to feel like taking classes inside the university again! +While I enjoyed the projects and found the instructor easy to follow and understand, I was disappointed in how little coding we did. The code walkthroughs were rushed and I barely learned enough to scratch the surface of some of the scripts we used in the basic projects. Since scripting is such a huge part of game development, I feel like there should have been more focus on it. Maybe a new term in each video or something?And I understand that the course was only four weeks, which doesn't allow much time for deep scripting analysis, but maybe the course should be longer than four weeks.Overall a fun class and I now have two games to show off to people. +I learned a ton about game development! Fun course so far! +Good course that gets you going with Unity3D. Very simple to follow the hands-on lectures, just repeat in your own editor. The assignments are very easy, this is the easiest course I've completed on Coursera. Very basic coding involved, and you don't need to write anything from scratch. I will take the next Course offered by Michigan State University as well! +Easy to understand format. Starts off from the basics. Concepts are explained through projects which are actual games- so you gain hands on training. Excellent course. +I loved the course through every single lecture and assignment. I think the projects we worked on were a perfect introduction for people who had never worked in Unity before, and for an experienced Unity user (like me) they were a great way to touch up on the basics and even learn a few new ways to organize projects. I'd take this course again a thousand times over, and recommend it for anyone interested in getting into the game development industry, programmer or otherwise. +I think this course is ok but it is not enough. +Excellent intro to Unity and game development! Clear, concise, useful +Great start for me +Great introduction to the game development world. Very easy to understand and uses free tools to teach the theory. +This course gives you a very good foundation, how to create beginner-intermediate complex games. Great example projects! +Amazing introduction to game development on Unity. The course used the latest build on Unity and taught me enough to feel confident experimenting with game development on my own. The videos are clear, concise, and valuable. +A very good intro, and everything works. I loved it +Great course, i love it.. +Very interesting course. If you want to know the basics of Unity, is a great option to do. +Excellent hands-on introduction to the Unity game engine, the development workflow and the many nuances of how these all work together for the artistic as well as the technical designers. I especially appreciate the instructor's careful attention to learner-centered demonstration, and for his respectful use of, as well as frequent nods to, Unity as a top notch engine for quality development. Packed with a great deal of information, and the demonstration of how to apply this knowledge, I would highly recommend this course to anyone who is wanting to break into interactive media development, or is wanting to broaden their methods and application knowledge in this area. +Very good introduction to Unity3D. +Only hurdle was some downloaded assets that wouldn't work with the animator.Well paced, clear, and easy to pick up. +Well taught course. Thanks. +The course introduces the student to the production of a game using Unity, but it lacks on programming focus. +Very well made and taught me a lot thank you very much +An exceptional introduction to development in Unity that combines theoretical concepts in game design, with hands-on experience that enables development of a guided project, coupled with a comfortable introduction to Unity and its various tools. +Sweet introduction to unity 5. +Great course, great intro to Unity and Game Development, pretty useful, for somebody that know something about programming it was sometimes hard but fun. +I loved to follow this course and learn the basics of Unity3D to start making my own games.The material was well structured, and Brian challenged the students to learn and test what they learned with the course quizzes and the projects.I have recommended this course to my all friends. +Great teacher! +Really good course for an introduction into the Game Development! It's brief yet complete, making it a good course for doing online. +Ever wondered how games are made ? After taking this course you will be able to make your very own video game.Very hands on course with lots of practical assignments. +Awesome course, just what I was looking for +Great course! +The instructor did a great job of presenting new aspects of game development in Unity, week after week. The deadlines and assignments did a good job of reinforcing what I'd learned while still letting me to have the creativity to feel like I made the game 'my own'. +This course is great! I wish that we'd spent a little more time working on scripting, but otherwise I have no complaints! Great introduction to using Unity. +I really loved the course and learned a lot. Thank you +It's great opportunity to start thinking like game developer. It gives a lot of information and tips which helps start specialization. +Thank you for this course, things are more clear to me now. DefinitelyI will go for the specialisation. Keep up the good work! :) +The class started with great instruction and was easy to follow. Coming into week 4, the class sped up really quick and became a lot more difficult to manage. +followed instructions to download twice waste of time both times still kept getting an error never got past this to continue with the course so didn't learn anything other than there is little support out there to resolve the problem i think because the course is not monitored or if it is well then more fool me! it would have been a good opportunity to explore this had it been possible to download Unity oh well those who can do those who can't resume their day to day life packing boxes. +Very helpfull and intesting. Thank you. +Great topic and extremely well made and balanced materials (lectures, projects, etc.). +Great course to get familiar with Unity and game development +Very interesting course. Entry level but enough challenging for a beginner. +The course works nicely as an introduction to Unity 3D, and some of the basic concepts that you may find later in game development. +I enjoyed the course. Very fun playing with the Unity editor, and the assignments give you some freedom in how you tackle assignments. The class was fairly easy and doesn't need much time commitment. +Very good course. +Really good course. Very high quality teaching and lectures +This course gave me much insight and experience in creating a game +I wish this went into 2d game development as well +Great course!!! A lot of contents, but really well explained. You can feel that you are learining as you follow the lessons. Does not require any previous knowledge, but gives you a reallt good insight of what would it be to become a game developer. I totally recommend it. +Great instructor! Thank you! +Course very good. I learned a lot about architecture and game design with Unity . +This course was AWESOME! No joke! The teacher is very clear and pedagogical and I'm already recommending it to some of my friends :) +Really enjoyed the fast paced teaching methods and the hand on training :) +Great course to introduce Game Dev +Very good course. I have learnt a lot about Untiy3D as the teacher explained descriptively each section. +A very nice and practical introduction to game development. Thanks Prof. Winn! +Excellent course about Game Development introduction. It will be nice if they include achapter about Mobile game. +Great introduction into unity3d and game development. +Very good introduction to Unity3d. +A great course for anyone wanting to start on unity3D in a light way. There is no need of previous knowledge neither in unity or programming language, just will to learn. For anyone that don't know programming a good complement after this course would be a oriented object programming course. +A great course to explore game development using unity. Great Instructor. I've learned a lot from this course. +Easy to understand, very interesting. Learning really fast = Enjoying it a lot! +Great introductory course for all starting to play with game development. +The content of this course is well explain and easy to follow, I have a lot of fun doing the assignments, it was sort of playing. +The instructor videos were clear and informative. The course had a balanced mix of game development theory and practical exercises. Solid introduction to the Unity game design platform. The projects increased in difficulty and time commitment as the course progressed, building on prior knowledge. The peer review of game files was challenging at times, but it was a good experience to create actual games. +The best course I have done so far - entertaining, interesting and especially a lot of fun. A really great course by Professor Winn! +Very efficient and to-the-point hands on learning (and teaching)! +This was much less about the development of games as it was an intro to Unity. Furthermore, the assignments weren't graded on a timely basis, which left very room to collaborate and refine. Overall, I felt like I learned to follow a few basic things about Unity, nothing more. +Great start for someone that has an understanding of computers and basic programming, but wants to get started in video game development. Didn't know anything about Unity or game design to begin. +Very informative, funny and practical. +Super and clean concept and explanation. Good for beginners. Not enought programming, but when you start with Unity it is not so big problem. +Great Course, exactly what I expected it to be, well done +Excellent !!! really useful and inspiring. Thank you!!! +Really awesome Intro to Game Development and such a great professor. +Exactly what I've been looking for! And FREE! +First, I enjoyed the course. They kept it at an intermediate level. I got some problems, but I was provided with enough materials to solve that problems. +Liked the whole course, more practical and extensive than other similar courses. +Useful!!! :)Nice and Good! +Good course to begin with game development if you are open to learning new things. +few theory, lots of practise, easy to understand and learn +Great intro to game development for those who have no prior experience in this area. I had some, but found a great deal of information, knowledge and skills in this course. +A nice quick introduction to game development and to Unity 3D framework. +Good introduction to Unity. +Excellent video content and quality, engaging assignments and helpful resources. +Great Course!! Excellent teacher and methods, with very pleasant projects =) +Professor Winn has developed a very organized and fun course. +Would have hoped for a bit more coding without hand holding, but I did learn Unity basics well! +I really liked the precise walkthroughs +Amazing course, this is the first time that so much essential information about learning is accessible in a such well organized matter.It was exciting to learn about the process and the organic materials in the brain when effective and non-effective learing process is take place.I believe that this course can really help me to managie further learning processes on a daily basis.Thanks,Shai +Very nice course +thanks MSU! +Awesome，I really desire the cousea like this! +good experience and definitely a great primer on unity. didn't really focus on coding until the last lecture; even then it was pretty minimal. +Great course. Just the right balance of lessons and hands on activity. Taught an old Cdog new tricks. +This course is Good. +Well-prepared course that is easy to follow and teaches the basics of game development with Unity 3D. It was fun and engaging, and the instructor seemed knowledgeable. Recommended to folks who want to get started with Unity and game development in general. +Awesome Awesome ! You have to pay for quizesThank you a lot for the cource like this +Love the projects and classes!, but i was expecting more interaction with the teacher due that we found some bugs in the content , we were able to solved using the forum, but i was expecting that the teacher step up +Best unity tutorial I have seen. +Very enjoyable, and a lot of fun. Instruction is easy to follow, and the workload is quite manageable.On the downside, there is no interaction with the instructor or any course staff on the forums, so if you have any issues, it'll be up to your classmates to help you. +An excellent course which requires hands-on work and well worth the time investment. +Exceptional introductory course. Lessons were well organized, different methods were used to perform the same function to show flexibility, simply a pure joy to take! +Interesting and useful course, easy to follow and full of contents +Good course, I learned a lot about Unity. However, I feel that it does not promote investigation by ourselves. Basically, the videos are the steps we need to do to complete one half of the assignment, and the other half is just about repeating those steps we were shown. Also, I expected a bit more depth in the scripts week, but I understand it's hard to add a lot of content for just a week. The course is still good, but maybe too easy. +Great class! Very informative and enjoyable. One of the best I've taken on Coursera. +On of my best cours on coursera so far. Great teacher! +Very useful and interesting course +Excellent course for someone who wants to learn and make a video game! +The material provided is fantastic. After the first introduction week, you learn a lot how to use Unity. The last two weeks are intense due to the amount of information to assimilate. +This was both a fun and interesting course, I am looking forward to Principles of game design. +mainly explanation part is nice and overall its a good course +great course for everyone +Its a lot useful for people who want to learn how the development of games is done from the scratch. Few basic details are not concentrated well, but overall the course is very valuable. +Great intro to game development and Unity3D! +This course is very good at explaining both how and why you would do things a certain way in Unity, something that is missing from most of the tutorials you can find out on the Internet. The professor explains concepts behind why you need to use certain components instead of just giving a list of things to match up to replicate the projects. I've rated it 4 out of 5 stars not based on the content, but because the response time, interaction, and feedback could be improved upon. The content is definitely 5 of 5. I took this during the first run of the course, so I'm sure that the course staff will improve on this in the future once they get a bit more used to running a MOOC on Coursera. +That's great. It is useful. The basic knowledge is simple and easy to study. I lovest it. +Great for an introductory course. Fast pace of the course keeps the course very interesting. +Best course I attended yet! +Pretty good, just wish it had more time to focus more on programming for this free portion of it. +Very well designed, excellent material and the practical exercises were very fun +Great course. I recommend to everyone. +Excellent Introduction. And Prof Winn is SO right. Creating games is hard fun. With this course, you learn much in a short time and come away with a more-than-passing familiarity with both basic game mechanics and Unity3D -- as well as a little C# coding. It IS hard (for a beginner) but it IS fun!! Thank you. +For beginners of video game development tool (Unity), this course is a great start. I think it would be even better if it can have maybe one or two more weeks for more example projects, and cover more about scripting, computer visual, imaging concepts etc. +Excellent, nice introduction to game programming with Unity 3D. Good Webcast, excelent course materials, Great teacher. Very good Job. +One of the best courses i have ever attended to.Full of useful information. I can't remember a session that was dull, or out of context.Nice pacing, application of the principles and technical know how in the projects.After this course i have a very good understanding of the UNITY development environment.It's a must if you consider a career in game design.Useful for both technical and non-technical persons. +Really like this course +Loved the course, although it could have been a couple of weeks longer to provider longer time to absorb the more complex material. Many thanks to Brian Winn for making it hard fun to learn! +I like making game after this course! +This is arguably the best tutorial on the internet for making games in Unity. It will provide a solid foundation upon which a student can expand his/her horizons in game development. This course has the right pace too. +It is a really good introduction to developing games using Unity3D.This course is 100% hands-on and you won´t need to read hundreds of pages just to get started.As stated, no prior programming experience is required since you won´t write code extensively. In fact it is reduced to just locating and inspecting the available scripts. +I loved it. I learned a ton about making games and I learned it by doing it. So, I have two games and a media simulation to show for it.Unity was covered. However, 3D modelling, illustration, and audio were not really taught (but a little bit, in theory.) I think it somewhat has to be like this, unfortunately. For me, I used Blender, Photoshop, and Fruity Loops to create my assets, but mostly just the game development is handled in this course. I'm only saying this, because you should know this upfront, really, which I didn't.Looking forward to the next class... +Incredible basic course. +Amazing course, great teaching, you will really understand all of the subjects taught and it is 100% one of the best courses I have ever taken. +Really great course to start developing games on Unity 3d. +Really good stuff +I'm currently starting week 3 of this and already I feel I have got a huge amount out of it.I was not a complete beginner going in, but with the course taking me back to real basics, I found it helped fill in a lot of blanks that I didn't even know I had.Even if the rest of the course from week 3 turns out to not be as good, I will still feel I got a tremendous amount out of this! The tutor is straightforward and an excellent lecturer, the course is so far structured really well and the practical exercises are simple to set up and get going on. +Unity3D is no exactly a new thing for me but this courses is very interesting! Love my first project, Solar System Sim! +Brian is an amazing teacher. This is the best course that I've ever taken on Coursera. +The course is like. Very interesting learning.Best regards! +An interesting course. I really enjoy it. +Thank you so much for this amazing course! It is very challenging, but at the same time very interesting! I like it also because the material is structured and the explanations are very clear even for the person who never had experience with the backend languages. +The Course id realy good design to the beginers. I'm enjoyed to create game in unity with the spiker. +I find this course interesting, knowledgeable and fun. +Really ice course, the videos are ease to follow, and the instructor is really active in the forums (which is awesome) +Awesome teacher and awesome course. +Excellent introduction to Unity. I learnt a lot in this short course. +Cool! +I really enjoyed the course so far. The explanation is great. The only downside is the video quality is not that great its not bad but it would be a lot better if it was better quality. Its very Blurry even in High quality. Although thats not a problem that did not stop me from enjoying the course. +this course have a very practically knowledge and a proper go through to all basic topic. +I really liked this course. Although some of it depended too much on pre-made scripts it was at the level of games that make sense to a beginner without being to complex (like all of Unity's own tutorials are). Sometimes, it went to fast and I was quickly switching from Unity to Coursera to hit the "pause" button to give me time to catch up. I thought that it took way to long to download other participants work in order to evaluate it, but I think that is an issue with Coursera and not with this course. +Very Nice Course!!!! +Excellant course. Assignements were at the correct level and it was a great introduction to the unity editor and game design +Excellent course. I will definitely +Very good course to learn the basics of game development in Unity3D. +Awesome! :)Covers all you need to be introduced to Game development basic conceptsand also experience using this knowledge in projects and assignments.thanks Mr.Winn, coursera and spartans! +Great teacher, very organized and clear lectures, cool topic and a lot of fun! +That's really a great course, even if we're at the starting point I wanna vote and give a five star cause the first lectures were amazing +So far so good. The professor explains very well and the material is excellent. +Good and easy to follow +This course gives good motivation for learning. +So far I love it! +That was a quick module, and makes you comfortable if you have worked across on multiple UNixes/Linux +The quizzes are too short +A little light but still effective course +good course and will take it again +great learning sets and again loved using all the tools introduced, but would love to see this updated with Spanner, Functions and other new features +This course and material does not articulate the 'Google Cloud Platform' offerings. Maybe Google does not want to compete with Microsoft Azure and AWS alike. If Google itself has approved this 'Google Cloud Platform' trainings on Coursera then vola I am out. I am way better off supporting AWS and Azure (at least they have tons of good trainings and stuff to keep folks in the field excited). +Videos are okay. Content and labs are great minus a issue with one lab where the supplied files were probably designed for a later version. +No practical learning, use case basis discussion. All course material is just google provided document. +Unless I missed something, the penultimate lab (startup scripts) seems to contain some errors or missing parts : the /proxy/proxy_cloud_sql script is not installed on the guestbook instance and there are some permission issues related to the SQL API. I wonder if the Startup Scripts labs shouldn't be positioned after the SLQ API lab, at the very end. By the way, it's not a blocking issue, just a little bit frustrating. Troubleshooting brings a stronger understanding of the various steps. +Too sample , and I would expect more in detail. +The final lab had an error that took a long time to find a solution for, which was disappointing. For a paid course, you would expect the labs to be better quality tested. +Very good course, regardless of the fact it is extremely shorter than the previous two. I do wish the quizzes had a few more questions each, but the course as a whole does a great job breaking down some important GCP features. +It's really useful how they are showing management tools for GCP. Great course. +Good Course +Informative if shorter then previous two courses. Very useful labs. +Very good for learning. +Could have been a little more comprehensive...but enough to get the gist! +I was expecting more modules on configuration management like deployment manager service. +Johns Hopkins University shows how versatile teaching institutions needs to be these days, delivering an extremely well prepared online course. Having Professor Yaakov Chaiking on the driving seat, was certainly a wise choice, as he is a great communicator, able to keep the audience interest up to the very last lesson.I was looking for an introductory course on HTML and CSS, which is amazingly covered during the first three weeks of the course. Javascript was a plus, a highly useful one.This was a great learning experience, and a fun one too! Hats off to Professor Yaakov Chaiking for such a great performance! +Excellent classes! I really recommend it! +Very good course! I recommend! +I like this course, I'm beginning of this part, don't have much(almost have no) background about web development. But this course is really nice organised and easy to understand. I also like the way to do the assignment, make me understand better, also by viewing other classmates work, also helped me a lot. Highly recommond. Thank you Yaakov. :) +Great course. I learned a lot. Very well organized and presented. +This course is nice for beginners, and experienced peoples +I learned a lot from this course. +Just perfect! +Great! +Translation from English only on the first slides. I thought it at all lectures. Spent a lot of time beginning to study. +I really appreciated this excellent course. Many thanks to Yaakov Chaikin and his collaborators from Johns Hopkins University for sharing this opportunity. +Loved the way this guided me and the examples on the way +Really worth to learn and take this course. Professor is so nice in teaching.Thank you coursera !! +Thanks a lot for this great lectures !I've learned so much following this course.The whole lectures are easy enough to follow and understand.Very good starting point to jump into the web development world. +This is the best course for beginners +Great course to start learning html, css, and javascript. I personally would have liked a bit more in-depth discussion of Javascript as it went a little quick for me, however I would definitely recommend it for anyone looking to learn some web development skills. +Best Programming Lecture EVER!!!! +Yaakov is an excellent instructor, as long as you are able to listen, and do the coursework, you have an opportunity to learn quite a bit from this class. +Loved it. This is the teacher I like the most. +There was very less practice and understanding of AJAX compared to other topics like HTML, CSS and Javascript. Very less hands-on practice was there for AJAX, otherwise the course was very well set up and very well explained! +A really great course combined with a very good teacher makes for a great learning experience. A very beautifully designed course which takes you from the basics to quite advanced levels. Anyone looking to start learning web development, look no further! +It's a great course to learn web development. +Great information. Wish it would teach more individual css instead of base on bootstrap but very helpful. +The Javascript part isn't explained that nicely but overall it's a very good course. +I enjoyed every moment of it. The explanations are very thorough and it seems that Yaakov is answering the question that you're going to ask in a moment... +Very helpful and informative course! +Absolutely loved Mr.Yaakov's teaching. I began learning web development long ago before dropping it as most of the tutorials out there were not exciting and really lacked in organisation of material & fundamental concepts. Either the tutorials were too slow or went over the top. Kudos to Mr.Yaakov for making the course interesting, dealing more with fundamentals and for the way he integrated HTML, CSS and javascript topics on a real-world website. I for sure learned more regarding web dev over past week more than ever. +Nice course for beginners +A really great course! +Nice, but not the best. +Nice one! +As an Iraqi student I have to give huge thanks Yaakov Chainkin. He is enthusiastic and explains the materials very good. I hoped to know more about navigation bars, anything else was amazing. Also, I think the organization needed some sort of simplification. I really hope if this professor can teach in our American university.Thank you professor Yaakov Chainkin. +Very clear and well organized! +Very good course, 100% recommended. +Great course! Love it! +It was great! +I enjoyed the html and css portion of the cs but the java script portion is not for beginners. +This course provides a concise introduction to the topic. It covers the basic theoretic aspects, but does not lack easy to understand examples.The lecturer clearly put a lot of thought and effort in creating this course, which makes learning very efficient and motivating. +very good course +Great teacher for this course. It is not just a one time thing. Students should keep coming back to take all kinds of tips from Yaakov. I guess the Rabbinic education has a great role to play in his approach. Baruch HaShem, you even wear a kippa to the lecture. A big thumbs up for that. +A very nice course! +Great class, very helpful forum if you get lost, the videos are very straight forward so if there's ever the case you get stumped during an assignment you can get right back to the lesson. +Great Course! +Hi! I think that this course gave me information that will help me in my future career. This course is easy to understand although it gives you good knowledge. Thank you! +I first went through the Angular course first and after trying to learn Angular several times, I finally learnt it. That made me go to this course to refresh my knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS and I not only did that but I understood several concept also for the first time. An excellent course for everyone! +Awesome course! I really liked the way Prof. Yaakov Chaikin has structured the course, very informative and very interactive. Thanks to Prof. Yaakov. I would definitely recommend this course. +It's a great course even you (think that you) already known HTML, CSS and Javascript. This course surprise me because the teacher brings to me relevant information where some stuff come from and how to use it in a consciously way. +If you don't want to actually learn what anything means and just get walked through steps on how to do things then take this course. But if you're a beginner to HTML, CSS, and Java Script, this isn't for you. He doesn't actually TEACH you anything, he just takes you through the process. They haven't updated the course content to actually match what is on GitHub's page, so from the start you have to go into the FAQs to figure out where to go from there. It's really frustrating because he will just skip steps, and because he doesn't explain WHY he's doing something, if you miss a step, you get completely lost. I've taken a few coursera courses, and this was the most frustrating course I have taken. +Really good, teach me the basic skills of web development. +Awesome course. Thanks Yakoov +Excellent broad exposure to many things which have changed significantly since I saw them in the past. +It's Really A Cool And good Course... We Get To Learn A Lot! +A very useful and interesting introduction to most actual web technologies. I'll suggest to everything that would become a web developer. Thanks Yankov! +Best online classes, Nice content.Fantastic way of conveying. +The teacher is awesome: he explains coding in an extremely clear way with such useful examples. Totally recommended! +Very effective method of teaching, high quality of the contents +Very simple introduction course for web development with great lecture +It is a really good and well-organized course! I definetely recommend it to anyone who wants to start exploring the field of web development! +As a systems programmer, this course was a great into to the world of web design. The introduction of HTML, CSS, and JS was absolutely perfect. The site definitely gets more difficult in the latter weeks, but with a bit of extra time everything I needed to succeed was there in the lectures. Great course! +Great course! Clear, well-thought out lesson and one project each week to test your understanding of concepts. I did have to do extra reading and coursework outside of the course to fully absorb the javascript portion of the course. +Very good teaching.Thanks you very much sir. +A well-designed course that allows me to understand the web development concepts. Each section is clear and flows to the next section. A great teaching method that makes you think and try out the changes. It does not matter if you make mistakes, the tutor as your back, and provides the before and after source code. Brilliant, other course providers should follow a similar method. +Just great +Excellent course to start with HTML/CSS/JS. Many thank to Johns Hopkins University team! +very bad course but i have come to the point that it is ok for the beginers +Excellent course! Instructor develops a real-world website in the videos and builds the conceptual understanding of web development through a "this is the problem and this is how we'll solve it" approach. Don't miss out on this great course! +I give 5 stars for this as the coverage of HTML and CSS is like teaching for Dummies. JS and Ajax there were little not so easy to follow. But its certainly lot better than many premium courses available on net for HTML and CSS. +Great course! +I loved this course. It filled in a lot of knowledge gaps that I had. My only reason for not giving it 5 stars is because the JS portion went a little fast, and it was difficult for me to keep up with it having minimal experience with JS. +Great course!!! +Professor yakov taught very well this course. His lecturs are amazing :) i highly recommend this course for web designning +Very funny teacher :) +Great course!! +Love the professor and how detailed/informative he is. +Really well organized. Supportive teacher and reasonable deadlines. +The best course for beginner developer +This is a very good introduction to HTML, CSS and at some extent to Javascript.The first two topics were very well explained in details. The classes had a good pace and every topic was made very clear. The exercises at the end were a good challenge that matched the level of the course and gave us that extra incentive to push a little bit beyond.The Javascript part was a little faster than the previous two topics (HTML and CSS). If only one thing should be corrected at this course I'd say that the same pace should be followed for Javascript.I'd definitely recommend this course as a great introduction and one of the best courses I've taken at Coursera so far. +Great Introduction .!! Great place to start web development it helped me so much. +Explained in very simple way.Excellent course to proceed with. +Any most aspects an excellent course. The teatcher is engaging and inspiring. The only thing that I have to be negative about is that the pacing is a tad fast in the javascript part. Some concepts would be better understood with more examples and repetition. +Very good course! +Great course. The instructor is able to simplify complicated stuff, grasp, focus on teaching core concepts of latest html, css, and javascript functions through using real example/application. This helps me as student to quickly understand the technologies and apply them without spending too much time or losing focus in every details. The exercise and assignment is very helpful to measure what we learned and how to apply them. +I have really enjoyed this course, especially the real-life content in which Yaakov helps an actual restaurant develop a better website. I also really like the focus on the Twitter Bootstrap framework since this is an awesome time save for CSS! Yaakov makes it really easy to follow along, even with complicated issues, and I immensely appreciate his attention to detail when explaining the "why" behind the use of certain tags and classes when using Bootstrap. +I would prefer more difficult excercises +Fantastic course. It was well done and I really enjoyed the instructor's creativity when conveying the material. +Although I audited the course, the course provides a clear and concise instructions and in particular the Java script and AJAX videos are excellent. Highly recommended. +This course was a very good intro for me to get to web-development. you will learn enough while the whole course is fluid and easy to pass. +Good lessons but the issue for me was that some of the video content was a little outdated. For example, it doesn't cover the update version of github website and how to use it. That being said directions sometime can be a little bit confusing. Another thing is some of the instructions are not clear for instance the guidance to how to submit an assignment. It is also intimidating that questions cannot be answered directly and if you want answers you have to dig a little bit dipper to get exactly what you are looking for. +Writing html, css and javascript made very accessible +Very good course :D Easy to learn from the teacher Mr. Yaakov- and good coverage of material with videos. +I learned very much in this course. I enjoyed each moment studied the content. The teaching methodology is wonderful and teacher is so nice. In general, this course is excellent and I recommend it. +Great course, Yaakov, thank you. Very easy implementation, explanations and a lot of fun. Good luck! +Great cours :) +It is really a perfect course for a beginner and also for the experienced to learn the logic behind each topic. Thanks. +great course on the basics of front end web development. I liked the part on JavaScript best, challenging but not not too hard +great course with enjoyable assigments +The content of the course is really great and helpful but I hope I can have more practice through this course. +I'm not best at this but I'm loving it guys! +This is my first course about web development. I am very grateful to Mr. Yaakov Chaikin. I got the right direction and a lot of new knowledge for further study. This course to anyone. You will not regret the time spent. +I am so glad that I enrolled for this course, initially I was thinking that I know all this stuff but after starting the course, I learnt and understood the basic functionality behind things and I realized if I would have not taken the course, I would have missed on so many basics. Thank you so much for designing this course. +Enjoying the course, looking forward to take angular js course from the same author! Thanks Coursera. +the best course for front-end developer +I was joined this course , thank you so much ! +Very good course on the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - and Bootstrap. Also, promotes the usage of Git and Github. +Great course. Thanks. +When I started this course I was a beginner in WebDev. After this course I feel that the tools and skills I had the opportunity to get familiarized here gave my the necessary guidelines to pursue a more advance level. Five stars! +Great course! Gives practical knowledge. +Fantastic course. Yaakov is really good at what he does. Thank you so much! +A very helpful course for who want to learn some basic web development skills. +it's been greate... very well planned... instructor got an A+... very good materials an topics +Brillant ...ONe of the Best courses I have seen with real time scenarios +Congratulations, Yaakov and JHU team! Amazing course! =] +Think you Yaakov Chaiki !!!, it' a very nice course. +thanks alot +Thank you, Professor Chaikin. It's a fast-paced course but deeply focused in important topics of html fundamentals, css use and organization, javascript fundamentals, and consistent ajax basics. +Amazing Course. I learned a lot. And Yakoov is an excellent teacher. This is for sure the best course in Coursera. +I already feel like a web developer, all thanks to Yaakov Chaikin. Its been a wonderful and exciting course. +Awesome Experience +This is a very useful course. Despite the fact that covered a lot of topics, the teacher gave the most important knowledge +Great course that covers all the crucial stuff for frondend development. I really liked how information is presented, tasks that make your brain work and use all the knowledge that you gained in previous videos. +best and very valuable course +Great course! This course gave me a clear understanding of JavaScript basics and Bootstrap framework! Thanks to Yaakov Chaikin Sir! +Great course and great teacher, all my expectations were met and I had a lot of fun while learning! +The CSS part was very funny. I also liked the video about the communication with the client. +Wonderful course for beginners of web programmers +Amazing course, amazing instructor: Yaakov Chaikin! Everyone who wants to improve their frontend skill should take this course. It is intuive, concice and very clear! And the instructor is AMAZING and FUN! +The course is quite thorough for a basic course and is challenging in pace. The work load is higher than the guidelines suggest for someone who hasn't done any programming for a while and is not familiar with object-oriented programmingYaakov is very knowledgeable and presents the material in an accessible way. He throws in some humor, which helps with absorbing the material. The quizzes are good learning guides and are appropriate for the material in the course. They require some thought, but adhere to the topics in the course without assuming additional knowledge. The exercises are difficult and take more time than the listings. But the reference materials are helpful and the online forums are very useful in clarifying points of uncertainty. I found some of the assignment descriptions, especially in modules four and five, to be unclear and it took some additional research to understand the intent of the task.The registration process and installation of the needed software was clearly explained and easy to accomplish. The software worked well with the course and enhanced the learning experience. I especially liked the way BrowserSync worked with Sublime Text and Chrome. The Chrome analysis tools are very useful. The use of Github as a coordinating platform worked well, for submitting assignments. The Coursera UI was very efficient at tracking progress and coordinating the peer level reviewing.Overall, I enjoyed the course and found it well worth the effort despite the few frustrating hours that always accompany grasping new skills. +Excellent course. It is challenging, but you will learn much. No previous programing experience required. +课程设计非常合理有趣！老师讲解的很详细，而且真的特别幽默！！虽然报名了好几个课程，但这是我在cousera上完成的第一个！ Although I've registered in several courses in Coursera, this course is the first and the only(so far) course that I have finished! So much fun and I learned a lot! Thanks Yakkov! +Loved this course! I thought Yaakov thoroughly reviewed the concepts, while focusing on good programming fundamentals. I feel that I can adequately apply the skills that I've gained through this course in my future web development endeavors. However, I do believe that the grading guidelines are too generous, so it would be difficult to employ a student based solely on a specialization in this course. +Great course. It is beneficial even for a seasoned professional like me. Learned a lot. +Hello John,Thanks for your help I gain a lot from this module being a graduate in electronics it is very difficult to survive in core IT industry on software side you really me help me in this I am still searching a new opportunity and will sure I will get it soon once thanks a lot one thing I would like to suggest you if you can start some course for testing tools also that would be really greatThanks and Regards,Divyansh Bhatnagar +Nice job, only that I believe they were quiet too fast with javascript and it wasnt well thought the way they did with html, css. Great Job. Cheers +You learn how to produce a viable webiste and a lot of things that can help you develop your skills as a web developer.Sure it can get better because some things are not clarrified and u might have difficult time starting and learning the fundamentals and the logic of how to use the tools you are given. +Setting up the development environment is sadly dated. GitHub has changed and doesn't match the videos so any information delivered doesn't help get someone up and running. Videos run way to fast when someone is working between multiple windows to accomplish tasks. Update info in videos and course would have value. Expecting people to pay to update tech skills in unrealistic in todays competive environment when you are competing against other pla +Professor was awesome! Lectures were really good. The only thing that I can think to improve on is some clarity on the explanations but even then that was on point. Enjoyed this course very much! +A very good course. I am glad I took the time to complete it. A bit lacking in Javascript though +The concepts are very clear conveyed. Even if you have no backgrounds on HTML, CSS and Javascript, it would be suitable for you. +Nice Teacher and Nice course +Really good course with a really a good teacher and instructor. Everything is very well explained and I feel I've learned a lot (specially as a newbie in this field) :)Thank so much! +This course is awesome!If you have some programming experience but you don't know how to use HTML & CSS & JavaScript to build your own website, then this course is made for you. This course is awesome! Just before taking this course, I didn't even know how to write HTML, let alone CSS and JavaScript. But! After I finished this course, I have built a very well knowledge system about web development and I believe I have had the ability to dig deep into more practical and more difficult fields.Thanks to Professor Yaakov Chaikin and Johns Hopkins team ! Thanks to everyone who makes efforts to improve this course. To be honest, this is the most excellent course I have taken and it helps me enormously. +it is a great course and you will benifit from it 100% thanks mr yakoov +A clear and concise course - presented by an engaged instructor. +Great course and instructor. Requires no pre-requisites and goes quite deep. Will teach alot about web development, and instructor responds in forums with detailed replies. Active community. +It was an excellent course +Enjoying this course and hoping to keep going!! +Stunningly effective training. +Great Course, Step by step, clear, usable.Thanks a lot !! +It is a nice course, i leant a lot from it. +The Javascript module, and specially the Ajax part was more abstract and vague than the rest of the modules and I honestly didn't get much of the Ajax part. I learned a lot, though, and fully appreciate the amount of effort put into each lesson. Loved it! +Excellent course!!!. Very clear explanations. However, I think more time should be spent on the last topics as they're more complex to understand 8for me at least!). +Very thorough, helpful, and well structured. Instead of explaining what every single HTML or CSS tag does, Yaakov goes explains all of the core elements in web design in high detail. The course also does a good job of covering useful tools and templates that greatly speed up the web design process and make it much simpler. +Very good teacher and course +Great instructor, great course. I learned a lot ! +This was a really interesting course, it shows you not only the granularity of a project, but also how to build it in a way that allows you to keep scaling with different technologies, basically as the title of the course says, you will implement a real site, and Yaakov will give you a ride to the clients restaurant in order to take requirements, you are going to create a website for that restaurant, and step by step you will see how to improve it, from simple HTML structures to complex Javascript code (using good practices). It will give confidence if you already have some knowledge and you will learn a LOT if you are new. +Great job +As a person who hated HTML, CSS and JS previously mainly due to my ignorance with the subject, Yaakov has helped me in understanding the core concepts as well as common pitfalls that surround the technologies. Now I am a huge fan of web technologies! +I really enjoy this class. Easy to understand what's the teacher said. The best part is those assignment which testified I learned or not. +Good teaching style...!!! +It's an amazing course. Thank you Professor Yaakov! I'm going to continue learning your angular course +I have just started this course, but I can already tell it is like no other on this site. It already feels immersive and I feel like i'm really part of the group. All the other courses seem harder to follow a long, but I feel great on this course. +This is a very good course for getting your fundamentals. I like all the content it provides. It can be made better on the Javascript part where explanations can be made little slower or some more references may be provided to explain. +Simply awesome. Especially after passing W3Schools HTML and CSS tutorials.Thank you. +Very good course, after I started to take this course I also signed up for the other courses in the specialization and they also turned up to be very good. +Concise, simple and well structured practical course to easily learn HTML, CSS & JS for web development +I wanted to write this review just when I'd finished the course, when I have seen all.I want to thank Prof. Chaikin for this great course. I really liked it and enjoyed all the material. I'm new to HTML, CSS and JavaScript and the course just enlighten me a lot. I had the opportunity to understand a HTML, CSS and JavaScript file, and I know that now I can write a web page and a web application. Now it's a matter of time and dedication by my part. I also realize that my knowledge of Java still applies with JS. I really enjoyed our field trip to Baltimore. Thanks, Prof. Chaikin, for going with us and for sharing, more than the course itself, part of your being. I can tell you are an excellent person. I had lots of knowledge and fun. Thanks again, Prof. Chaikin. I was very nice to meet you...I Also want to thank Coursera and Johns Hopkins University for made it possible for the course to be in my laptop near the countryside in Colombia. Thank you! +This Course is very good. +Great course. Learned a lot and the subjects where explained very well. JS and Ajax are kind of difficult to grasp when you are not a full computer science person, and although some previous knowledge is assumed and fair to be expected, it still would be nice if there could be a bit more of an introduction to them, for the less savvy out there. But overall, great course, easy to follow, with a nice real world example and peer-reviewed assignments. +Highly recommended course!Because I improve my knowledge of CSS3, I learned to develop an environment working with Git, create pages in GitHub. I wanted to create my first page in GitHub and I made it through this course. I also improved my JavaScript skills and learned Ajax which is totally new to me. And finally and no less important the assignment of module 5 was super incredible. I thank the Instructor Yaakov Chaikin is a great instructor super inspiring and the whole team of mentors were fantastic, they were of great help. :)Thank you very much! +Great Introduction to HTML&CSS Javascript +Great Course.Learned a Lot of different things.Will Recommend anyone who is looking forward to get a good understanding of web development. +I have godd experience during this course. +easy to understand material covering almost every basic things you need to know about html, css and javascript +Well done and very useful +Great course! Good pace, enough challenge and nice teacher. +Very good, practical and complete course. Thank you. +Great course! +This was the best web development course I have come across on the Web. Yaakov is very knowledgeable. He +Absolutely loved this course +This was a great course and I wasn't expecting to learn as much as I did. Prof. Chaikin is one of the most clear and concise teachers I've had the pleasure to have. The quality of the course is awesome and I recommend it to anyone who wants to get a grasp of Web Development. +Very clearly presented and interesting to follow. For now you can also access all materials without paying. Great. +Excellent course ! Thanks a lot +Yaakov you rock! Love the course, thanks you for all the efforts deployed to give it to us. Cheers!!! +It's easy to learn with good example! +An excellent introductory course to these important web technologies, and delivered in a very invigorating way. I was surprised at the details I didn't know. +Great course and very well explained, I've learned new things. +very good course forme. +really good course +I'm learning a massive amount of information. The course is well paced, clearly articulated and provides excellent examples. +This is a very good course,this results in Professor Yaakov Chaikin who has a great training plan.Thank you,Professor Yaakov Chaikin!!! +Clear, concise, informative, and great fun. You must have put a lot of effort into this to make it so wonderful. I don't want to give 5 star or 7 star. I want to collect all the stars in the sky and give them to you. and every shining star says a thank you. As you can't really count the stars, I can't say thank you enough. +Excellent Course....Learn't the bascis of web development real quick +It is indeed a great foundation for Web Developers! Easy to understand, great examples, very recommended to all web enthusiast! Awesome jobs John Hopkins University! +This way lecturer explained about each topic really very good, covered all required topics. So This is really helped for me.Thanks to Yaakov Chaikin Sir. +It's actually true you learn a ton of new stuff. Information is so packed and concentrated it is amazing! I'm sure that there are people working in the field that don't know a lot of the stuff covered in this course! +Great introductory course! +It was a very good course. +The course is valuable especially due to the personality of the teacher. As an obviously experienced developer, Mr. Chaikin provides you with modern techniques of using Javascript and responsive design. You'll probably encounter most of these techniques in the real life of a developer. The course is centered on practicing and the pace is fast. Don't be mislead by the colloquial tone and the quality humor present in lectures. Although the humor is good, you'll need to replicate most of the code examples on your machine, if you want to feel you've really learned something at the end of the day. That being said, the course is not perfect: the AJAX part might deserve more room in the future versions of this course. For those with previous exposure to some web techniques (my case), the course was an excellent refresher. +Great content and solid interpretation with specific real-life example. +This is the first proper course I took of web development and it's a great way to start and learn a lot. I could feel very comfortable with the content and learning process. Yaakov produced a very good content that can brings practical knowledge even for those who hasn't background in IT. +The HTML, CSS and javascript parts are VERY enjoyable. The videos are nice and short and Yaakov is an extremely good presenter with lots of enthusiasm. There are a lot of review questions which builds up confidence. I personally found the ajax part to be over my head - because we are jumping into the code without a basic conceptual understanding of what the structures in the axaj wants to achieve. Thank you however for the explanatory links to the w3school ajax pages. I thoroughly enjoyed the course - and appreciate the manner in which you are making the course materials available. I also learned to use git in the process and this has been extremely valuable. +Great course. I learned a lot even I am in intermidiate level. The best course I ever take in my life. It has everything yes everything. From creating real websites to tips in design and functionality and speed to marketing with clients. If the teacher was my university's teacher I will never miss a class. Thanks so much +This tutorial site is the best side ever for the freshers students. +Great course! +Best course of HTML, CSS and JavaScript I've seen so far. Teaching skills is everything and this Yaakov Chaikin is really good at it. +Very good course!!! +This course is awesome! Before I started the course, I had very little knowledge of web technologies. Now I understand how these technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, backend stuff) work together. You learn how to write a website from scratch using HTML. In the second part of the course, you will attach a nice design to your website using CSS, and make it responsive, so that it looks nice all kind of different devices (phone, tablet, pc, etc.). You will be introduced into the Bootstrap CSS framework, which is very easy to use and used by many different websites. In the last part of the course, you will be introduced to JavaScript, which will help you to put some user interactions to your website.I highly recommend this course, especially if you are a beginner in this field! +Completely perfect! +That was a very good experience.Also, I've got to admit that teacher is the best! +Excellent and the best course. Lectures are very clear and neat. Additionally the samples websites info was very useful. +Great course +Excellent course with great series of tutorials. +greate course +I learned a lot of basics on front-end programming.CSS was through - the Java Script side felt a bit rushed. +The course helped me a lot at my work. Good material and explanation +Sir is fabulous ..................... +Greate tutorial and very easy to understand...inevitable +Yaakov explained the positioning element is easy to understand, and also on the JavaScript part, he summarised what the recommended book (JavaScript and Jquery by Jon Duckett) does is also easy to understand. I am very impressed his actual visit to the restaurant to do the requirement elicitation technique too. +First part (HTML&CSS) are good, but JS is to fast and hard to follow for the beginners. +Great course. I am learning a lot so far, onto Week 2! +Awesome course, by an awesome instructor. +Great course with fun learning +Great introductory course, and maybe more. Five weeks are not enough, if you don't have previous experience in programming but the assignments are not hard to be passed. Both books of Jon Duckett, that are proposed by the course, are great and very very helpful. Finally, the tutor is excellent and gives a well structured course. Furthermore, his speech is clear and comprehensible, something that is very helpful for non native English speakers. +I'd give a 10/5 if it was possible. I had a splendid experience during this course. Yakov did a great job explaining the basics also touching important points. I love this and highly recommend to anyone looking to start a new career in Web Development. +Awesome course for learning important aspect of HTML, CSS and Js. Yo get a big picture but also learn the technical material. You can learn what you can and cannot do with these technologies. +I personally felt this course being very interactive +very good course， really learnt a lot! Thanks! +like everyone said this is awesome course. I just want to mention several things it can improved.1. assignments are too easy such that you can not really learn much through finish it.2. this course contains fair amount of content but don't go much detail into each topic especially the final week class video. it could have contain much more detail about how to implement the code and the mechanism behind it. Unfortunately that part is missing so you can only get a very sketchy whole pic and in the end what you learned from that part is just some funky words. +This course has been very enlightening. I have come to understand the basic of how things work when it comes to web development through the use of CSS and JavaScript. Course materials were on point and the exposure was very educative. +wonderful course. Thank you. +Class is very well done - great organization and great presentation. Thanks! +It was my first course on coursera and i learnt a lot from this. I would recommend everyone who are interested in web development to take this course and benefit from it . And last but not the least Thank you Yaakov sir for providing us this course. +I really enjoyed this course. I was already familiair withHTML and CSS but I didn't know the theory behind it, so very usefull. Also the many tips for the work-emviroment are great. And ofcourse Javascript where I knew nothing about; hard to follow but I figured it out eventually and the possibility's are fantastic. So my developing-skills got a great boost from this course. Yaakov knows how to keep things interesting so for that many thanks! +The content in this course is well-structured and well-presented. Topics are broken into short digestible segments that are narrowly focused and thoroughly explained including relevant examples. Quizzes and assignments reinforce the critical aspects of the lectures. +Great Course! I learned a lot, specifically the JavaScript part in which I was really really weak. +Very good course +It was a bit fast and some things were not well explained but other than that a great course, love courseera already! +The course was really good !! +really awesome course for beginner +Awesome Lecturer and really helpful course for new Full- stack developers. +Excellent introductory course for simple web applications. Covers basic layout for responsive design, javascript coding and structuring of the final project. Everything is explained very well and thus the course feels easy (although if you have never before seen HTML, CSS and/or Javascript, there are plenty of new things to learn) - especially the later assignments for Javascript. I feel at least the last assignment should be somewhat more complicated. +I have compared it to other web development course and this is the best course so far in my opinion.Thank you for such a wonderful learning. +All the topics are covered with apt description and detail!! +Very informative, very well structured, I liked very much. The teacher was excellent. +Excellent course for starting web developer. I feel that I got solid foundation for learning more advanced front end frameworks. This course also introduced important development tools and good tips for using them effectively. +My condition: a total computer science newbie.This course, as its proclamation, is very suitable for someone like me.It is a condense and delicate course, which means in order to get the skill to build a website, the only thing has to be done is following the steps in the video and finishing the assignment ; and yet every topic in the course, even a line of code, deserves further contemplation."Why Yakkov does this instead of that?" is a question I frequently ask myself during the course.In short, this course provide a solid ground for developing skills in web development, and I sincerely recommend it to everyone who's interested in this field. +It is no that perfect.The instructor focus on explaining what the code do instead of implementing it in the same video.I think the only downside is that he prepare his code and we can't implement the code at the same time because it is already given +Really good course for those, who want to start applying theoretical knowledge in practical tasks. It helped me a lot to start creating real web apps. Looking forward for Angular course from Yaakov. Rock on \m/ +Useful, very practical and helped me to refresh my frontend knowledge +Good course. I would recommend this to everyone who are interested in learning HTML, CSS and Javascript. +Great Course that provides a good survey knowledge of HTML5, CSS, and Javascript.Provided a great introduction to Web App Development +A course explained and organized very well. For me that mainly work as software developer on back end it was great to get a better front end technologies knowledge. +I really enjoyed and learnt a lot! Thanks for the opportunity :) +Very Good Course! Yaakov is a great teacher - all is very interesting and easy to understand. +Great course! I enjoyed it a lot and the content is extremely useful in bringing your HTML, CSS, and Javascript up to speed. +Very Interesting and enjoyable. Love it +Awesome... Excellent...Join Today +Great course +Good for beginner, except for JavaScript part where you will need to study JS externally as it may appear quite complicated without programming knowledge. Not so good for experienced desktop developer who wants to learn web: it's all too basic. +Well deserved 5 star rating! This course was used as a refresher but also help lay the foundation to applying my web dev skills to a more real world practical use. +I believe this is an excellent course because the fundamentals are explained in great detail. The instructor conveys his knowledge in a very precise way. I highly recommend this course for anyone who has a basic knowledge of web development because the last lectures can get a bit difficult for begginers. +The best course I have ever enrolled . Thanks Yaakov! +Really good course be Professor Chaikin is very thorough in his explanations of the different steps towards understanding HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The course left me with the feeling that though we learned a lot there was still much more to learn. With a course like this, you get out what you put in so I highly recommend committing yourself to doing the assignments and keeping up with examples while Prof. Chaikin is explaining them. It helps a lot if you following along using your own code editor and Browser Sync. +This is a great course. It helped me learn the basics of HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap and JavaScript. +Great course, thanks a lot for it! +Great pace, great instructor, well-designed assignments. Excellent course. +very usefull course. I'm now able to create good website. Thanks a lot !!! +this tutorial is awesome. +Good Course, I liked the delivery!!! +cool! so nice ,i like this course! +Would like to see a second part for this course to pick up where it left up. Maybe even discuss further week 5 material and more. Maybe have more coding assignments for part 2. +Good lectures from the Instructor. Very well framed lectures and step by step explanations till the end of course. Covering all topics related to this course. +Best course on coursera so far. Mr Yaakov Chaikin is best online teacher ever seen :)) +THANKS A LOT!!! I LEARNED THE BEST WAY TO DEVELOP HTML, CSS AND JAVASCRIPT. THE TOOLS GITHUB, SUBLIME AND BROWSER-SYNC ARE POWERFUL. +Good to learn bottom to top +helpful!It's a good course and help you to have a habit of using github. +Absolutely one of the best course I have attended. The teacher (Yaakov) is very competent as well as friendly. +Great course !! +Thank you for the amazing and very useful course! :) +Great course! I have really enjoyed the information is presented in a very detailed way. +Excellent explanation. Short quizzes interspersed in the material is very useful and keeps us engaging.Teacher is #one

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+It was a good course and very thorough. I did get a bit lost during the Javascript module. A lot of detail in a short period of time. Would prefer if that module might be simplified. +Very good course. Very well explained. Although that the assignements could be more difficult :-) More time to do a harder work and we will learn more with mistakes. +I am a Java software engineer in a big company. Took this course while commuting. Really great course with great lectures. It is fun listening to the lectures, which is really important. +I am a software developer and without any doubt, this course was the best course i have ever taken! very well organized, clear descriptions and great couch!!!!Five starts to Yaakov:))))))) his work is greatly appreciated.. +A good introduction of HTML, CSS, JavaScript (libraries, functions, objects etc.,), Ajax and JSON. The instructor was very good and explained topics well through explanation and through code examples. Would recommend it. +Good teaching, easy task! +Great tutorial! Thank you! +The real world example website is a great idea for this course. +Grt instructor +Good course. Relevant knowledge.JS part was a little bit too hard, cause there was not much overall development theory.. but overall - very good. +I thought the course was great. Yakoov is a great instructor and he is very easy to understand and follow. It can get pretty overwhelming towards the end but all course examples are available from the git repository so you can download it and go over it at your own time. +Very good course even for seasoned developers. Its always a good idea to know technologies basics and this course achieves it gracefully! +Thank you for this course! +Very good courser. I am new to CSS, JavaScript. Learned a lot from the course. I liked the way instructor taught the course. +I would recommend this course for anyone who wants to learn basics of web design. First of all, Mr. Chaikin has a very pleasant voice so its easy to listen, unlike some other courses i tried and quited only because of that. Course goes deep enough for a beginners yet its not boring. Anyway, A+ for this course. +I feel it is too basic +Have completed 3 weeks, and find the course very good.Lot of effort to build the content, very clear and detailed and explanation and if you repeat it yourself while going thru the lecture, the concepts will be get much more clearer.Programming is all about practice, but this could be a very good starting point. +Very nice course that teaches you how to create web pages by using HTML, CSS and Javascript.Be consistent on watching the lectures, reading the material and learning and trying all the concepts presented every week.And last, but not least, please don't be afraid of asking questions by using the forum. There's always somebody who will give you a hand or who might have the same questions as you do! +Exceptional teaching by professor Yaakov! +Awesome course! Learnt a lot! +One of the best courses for web development. +I ve learned HTML, CSS and bit of JS before. It is really a good class to remind me all of those and there are more to learn as well. Highly recommend to anyone who is new to programing and people who also know programming. +Thank you Yaakov and J.H university! +Excellent course and instructor. The course was well-organized and well-delivered. +Eye opener... made me work harder. Great course. +thanks for teacher +very interactive +Definitely my favourite course so far from whole RoR specialisation! For such a short time course is packed with everything you need and hints where to search for more knowledge. Oh, and instructor is such a nice and bubbly persona which makes the whole experience even more positive, I wish I had this kind of teachers at my uni back in the day! +Very cool course !!!! +Good content, Good approach, good pace.I didn't even realize it, but suddenly I knew HTML and CSS basics. +Great online lesson.I do really love it. +Best Instructor ever and a thorough course +I have learnt a lot in this course! It is basic but the fundamentals will actually make you familiar with all the interfaces! +The Best Course there is on Web! +it is really a very nice course with video explanation.and a small suggestion is some tags and attributed can be explained in a more detailed way. +I really enjoy it !!!I recommended a lot this course for anyone who's looking to understand this three technologies. +The material is excellent, and the lectures are very high quality. I also like that in addition to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, there's brief introductions to things like Git, as well as links to places where you can get more information. Very happy with the course. +I signed up to audit this course, but ended up enrolling in the specialization because this course is so phenomenal! Great coverage of topics and very well explained. Assignments are relevant to the course content and I also liked that I could download the whole course from one repo instead of having to download each module separately...it's the little things! I highly recommend this course; you will not be disappointed! +Content builds up very nicely. I'm very confident now for creating a website which has the layout I want +Very efective introduction to the basic web tecnologies and a great teacher!!! +Wow! Thanks a lot! I really enjoy that course! Good explanations, interesting and useful lectures, very simple english, so I understood every word, every sentence. Thank you! +It's a good course +Clear and concise. It makes front-end development look easy. +Extremely well planned and highly instructive course which I recommend above most on-line courses on Web development. Hands-on coding makes the difference. +This course is actual for Mac machine, all instruction are for Mac only. I use Windows so it unuseful for me. +This is an awesome course. Namespaces, IIFEs and the likes have helped me better understand Javascript. Yaakov is by far the best teacher I have met online, along with Jeffrey Way. +This course really shows what you need to know in order to start coding high-quality webpages. It'll open a whole new world to those people who are insterested in coding websites and deploying web apps. I recommend it! +Great course!!! The explanations are very clear and the material is also pretty good. Recommended for everyone that wishes to learn about web development and improve your programming skills. +Clear and focused on the fundamentals and, of course, very fun. Thank you Prof. Yaakov. +Nicely organised course. It gives very comprehensive introduction of front end development. +Its Awsome... +Amazing Course! Learned a lot. +If you're interested in learning how to produce beautiful, responsive web pages, this course is the best I've ever seen. If you're not, you may as well learn it anyway, as you can't escape the web these days. Thoroughly recommended. +Very wonderful course that is very easy and focus on the students. You will get awesome skills and a lot of fun. +Mr Chaikin will teach you A LOT in these five weeks, more than most (if not all) of the courses out here. Best lectures ever! +Great Lecture ! Yaakov Chaikin is very pedagogical and we learn everything we need to start coding dynamical websites :-) +Enjoyable and educating +Great Course! Yaakov Chaikin tells very interesting. +Yaakov's approach to the topic is extremely clear and friendly, and yet it hits the right points to make you grasp the important concepts. This course lays very good foundations for web programming and is definitely recommended. +The discussion reinforces a strong foundation for front-end web development. In particular, the Javascript component of the course was quite valuable for me. +Awesome course, it´s worth the time. Congrats!!! +Yaakov is articulate, knowledgeable and entertaining. I am learning so much and it is only the first week. Thanks! +Very great course. The instructor has a wide kngoledge of the subject and explains very well. +Good course, very well explained and the assignments are funny +Great stuff! Highly recommended. +Wonderful course Yaakov has made everything clear and simple +One of the best MOOC's out there! So glad to have completed this. +Lessons on html and css are very good, better than other coursera classes, so I suggest you to give a look at those. In general, the teacher is very good, even though I found the javascript part less deepen. A week, and partially the last week, are dedicated to the construction of a restaturant site. Unfortunately, the student role is pretty passive: you'll just look the teacher at work, you'll not build a site in this course. I skipped much of those lessons. But the most disappointing point is for me the excessive simplicity of the assignments. The assignments are the primary reason why I decided to take a MOOC instaed of simply reading a book. I expected much (interesting) assignments and much more practice... +This is a very comprehensive course! I love it! +Great course! I took this as a preparation for the 70-480 Microsoft certification exam and it covered a lot of the material required. Besides, Yaakov is a great teacher - I like that he is very thorough in his explanations. +This course is very comprehensive and explains things that are not explained in other online HTML, CSS, courses. The teacher is personable and is good about not just assuming students know things. The videos are not too long and the code examples are great. The assignments are at the right skill level and really employ a lot of the skills taught in the course. I would take another course by this instructor. +Very, very good course ! +Excellent course and superb videos. Everything is explained very well. +Very vast course, nicely done. +such A good lecture! +Great course. I really recommend it. I have learned many things. Maybe it could be a bit tough for who doesn't have any experience with coding, but It's totally worth it. I really enjoy it. +Excellent course with a lot of useful examples that will help you to understand the concepts explained in the videos. +Wonderful way of explanation and presentation. Easy to learn this way +Excellent course for web beginners. Would be better if more about Ajax is covered +I found there was too much information given in the course lectures without enough practice to learn bit by bit to really understand what I was learning. +A wonderful course! Not so heavy workload with lots of practical knowledge. Suitable for those beginners in front end development and UX/UI designers or product manager who want to learn some basic coding. +An awesome course!! +Fantastic course with fantastic teaching by Yaakov sir.Thanks a lot Yaakov sir for giving such wonderful teaching... +It's an all-rounder course with a great introduction to HTML, CSS and Javascript/jQuery/AJAX. There's enough formal background to tell you why things are they way they are and what each HTML, CSS, JS component is meant to achieve and how to do it. Great links to external resources as well. The practical examples and assignments do all they should to reinforce that. The course gives a very good base to build on by yourself, or continue further with more advanced material. It definitely helps to have some programming experience for the latter material on Javascript. +I loved the course, specially the HTML and CSS sections. The Javascript part was fast and technical, which made it hard to follow. +Overall very nice job! Rated a 4 because I feel the JavaScript was too rushed. I think the final usage of JavaScript should be reviewed with an eye toward a beginner programmer.I liked the website development theme and interview with the restaurant owner, but that disappeared along the way. Maybe the final week, instead of making the special random, could be something the owner changes that the code has to change. Perhaps that change could involve a change to HTML, CSS and JavaScript, although that might be ambitious.Again, nice job. Learned quite a bit. +Interesting course with a practical approach. After passing the course you can easily have a personal web page with a portfolio of your grade works. Yaakov advises very useful resources for out-of-scope learning and doesn't waste time for explaining the theory, instead he pays particular attention to practice.However, the total lectures time is quite impressive and the course requires students to study every free minute. I feel happy after passing the course, thank you for making it available. +I was very nice +It is a awesome course and the teacher is very good, he really knows what he is doing and he knows how to teach a class +Loved the course! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and making this course interesting and easy to understand! +very good course very well explained +Good one +Excellent intro to HTML, CSS and JS. It covered a lot of ground and gave me a basis for continued study. Thanks! +EXCELLENT instructor. +Excellent course, period.This is the first course I've taken from Coursera. Before the course I knew something about HTML, CSS and Javascript but not too much. First week is a piece of cake. Second week was also easy but I did not have a strong logic about the "box model" before, after the second week I had it.With third week things went in a strange way, but in a positive one. We started to code a "real" website (yeah you'll understand if you enroll) from scratch. This was invaluable for me. Reading documents is something, but watching lectures, interact with the real code, try and see way, using Git and Github, getting great tips, I mean doing real stuff is invaluable.Fourth week is also not so hard for me since I have some basic Javascript history. And Javascript section is not so detailed and difficult, but just for one week it was beyond OK, it was great. Even in basic info you'll learn something.Fifth week is a total stranger for me since I don't know anything about Ajax or dynamic loading pages style. Ok, I know what was Ajax but just the name :) So, after the week I've learned those. At least the concept itself and how to implement it in a simple web site. But I must confess, I watched the videos twice and examine the codes again and again to fully understand what we are doing and how we are doing. Because a week is not enough for this and things go faster. But hey, lectures are recorded and you can watch them again right :) And you have all the codes!Beauty of this course is all the weeks and assignments are related and integrated. So you learn something, finish the assignment. Next week, you learn new things, get new assignments but continue the last week's job. Yeah, you remember the real web site part?And of course last but not least Mr. Yaakov Chaikin is a great instructor and person! He has an excellent way of teaching.So, if you are a total newbie or someone who is beginning of his journey like me do not hesitate to enroll this course. But please pay attention, if you are so new about those topics, about the week four and five you will struggle a little bit. +nice. I have learned a lot. keep it up and do more courses like this. +Amazing course! I've tried to followed some online coursers on the same topic, but none kept me so motivated as this one. It is very complete and comprehensive course, and Yaakov teaches everything in a way that even the most complex subjects are easy to understand.I really recommend this course to everyone who wants to learn any of these technologies. +Very good course! +Extraordinary clear! In simple steps and, mostly of all, in the weekly assigment, you are going to fix up and to learn all the explained concepts and to have a very clear understanding of web responsive design, boostrap framework, javascript et cetera. +This course is so enjoyable.Amazing!! +An excellent course that teaches the basics of front-end web development. Easy enough to be passed, hard enough to be challenging. Great! +I had learned a lot of new things like bootstrap, media query, IIFE and DOM manipulation from this course. Professor Yaakov Chaikin had prepared the course in detail and his explainations to deep concept are concise. As a prerequisite, you are advise to have some basics of html, javascript and css to equip you to follow the lectures. +This was a great course and gave me a very good starting point for HTML, CSS and JS. The only negative I found was that the JS module seemed a bit rushed and the assignments at the end of last two modules didn't really test my understanding of JS concepts very well. They were too simple because the starter code had a lot of things already written out. Making them more barebones and having the student fill out most of the details would be a more hands-on and useful activity in my opinion. +Great course! +Very well structured course, gives a solid foundation to web development! +Very good and comprehensive course with a lot of fun and a nice teacher!For the Java Script part, you should be prepared to have basic programming experiences already.. +Just completed module 1 and i am really impressed by this course.I learnt so much and so easily that would not have been possible by reading books.. Keep up the good work and special thanks to Johns Hopkins university . Yaakov Chaikin is the professor teaching this course and he is too good :D +A very decent course to acquire a working knowledge of HTML, CSS and, to a lesser extent, Javascript basics. +A really great course. It's very interesting specially for beginners web developers and backend developers that want to fill the gap about frontend development (my case). +very useful, just what i needed fro work! +awesome course with example +The course is very useful and is very funny as it keeps going. Totally recommended. +I feel that I need more explanation about the code, I don't feel capable to solve different problems on my own +Thank you! It is a great course and it really improved my skills! Perhaps a new version could show a little how to organize internationalization. +Learned HTML5,CSS and JavaScript from many resources but this was innovative and updated course with such live examples like meeting with client and etc. I love this course. Yes we can say, here is the knowledge, Hats of to the Professor, he taught us well, Salute to you my HONORABLE/Respected Sir.. You are amazing. +This was a great course for beginners who are looking to get into static website design as a starting point.I had taken this course first out of the ruby on rails specialty courses, and decided to enroll in the entire course.The videos are well done, minus some small dating issues (like versions of software) but that is understandable. The forums answered every question i had.I would recommend this course to anyone interested in learning HTML, CSS, and the beginnings of JS. +A good course! I really had fun with this course. Mr. Chaikin is an excellent speaker and his course is clear, well organized and the videos are of excellent quality. This course could be further extended because the field is very wide. The only downside of this course is that I asked a single question to Mr. Chaikin and this is one of those Mentor who sent me wandering perhaps because he did not know the answer...I look forward to another course of Mr. Chaikin ! +Very professional, deep and comprehensive course for beginner web developers. Very pleased, I recommend! +Great course for junior web developers to build their web world! +Excellent course! Very well structured and explained +Excellent course. Liked much for `Review your peer` & `real website design as assignment`! +This course is so nice and useful . +perfect coursera!!!learn a lot form it. +As a backend developer (C, C++, Python) , this is a great course to start digging into the Web Development world. Even though the tasks given were very simple, I recommend it because it gives you the knowledge to understand how HTML, CSS and Javascript works. Everything is simpler when you learn the foundations of a language. +I normally get bored real fast with online teachers, since they, well, simple put usually lack a cool teaching style. This time around, niiiiiiiiiiice :)Cant say anything else then, if you want to learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and want to do that while being inspired, take this course! +Great course +Perfect +Assignments may be a little more challenging, otherwise the course is great. +This is a great course, detailed, well organized, and fun, and Yaakov is a great instructor. As always, coming into a course with some experience is better than none, but even without any knowledge coming in is ok if you watch all the lectures and read the supplementary books as needed. Completing this course can bring you along the path to web development expertise quick. I highly recommend this course and instructor! +Great!!!! I love the course and I love how the instructor teaches. He is very clear and descriptive. +Awesome experience learning this course. +it's a good course to learn basic HTML, CSS and Javascript +great course +Great course!! I highly recommend it :) +It's an excellent course. Well crafted and well delivered course. +Very good course to start in the world of web development, I loved the part where you talk to the customer and note the requirements that will have the site (First time I see a course) is taken. +Great course! Videos were extremely thorough and helpful. +A great class. Comprehensive and thorough with good guidance. Thanks! +Great informative course. Goes into enough details to understand the concepts and background of the code and structures. +Till date the best course I have learned +Amazing course, everything is made simple, understandable but deep enough to unveil most of the secrets of these languages. Thank you. +Great instructor. Very knowledgeable. +website is so slow +great.... Probably speed should be reduced bit for non native speakers +Great course. Excellent lecturer. Very usefull, and also fun. Highly recommendation. +Great course! I really enjoyed it. It helped consolidate a lot of important knowledge, in order to create high quality, modern web applications.I do have one suggestion though, which would be creating a version of this course directed to Ruby on Rails. The framework has numerous helpers for building frontend and a lot of things displayed in this course could be approached differently with the help of Rails. I would've enjoyed having this perspective, since I'm taking the Ruby on Rails specialization.Nonetheless, congratulations on the great course you guys put up! +I've been developing web sites and web apps for some years. I never imagined that I would learn so many things in a course on this subject. Excellent course. Thank you Coursera! Thank you Professor Yaakov! +Explains clearly. Nice teacher. +i learn greate thigs +I loved the way Prof. Chaikin taught us in this course. Absolutely a fan of Prof. Chaikin and his teaching methodology. This is the best course so far in my experience to learn Web-Development from the scratch. +This course empowered me! +This is very helpful for learners. I'm learning a lot ! +Very good course! Step-by-step approach for developing a real website in bite-sized chunks was great. +Awesome Course. +great course +Very detailed and comprehensive course!Have learned a lot not only firm knowledge but also practical implementation. +Very helpful course and with great and funny instructor.Thank you, Yaakov! +Best HTML, CSS and JS I've taken so far. It covers all the basics to get you started in web development with a solid foundation. Great structure and teacher! Thank you! +JavaScript part especially worthy to look at. +Nice course, very helpful! +Excellent introduction for this topic! +Really great course. Learned a lot, thanks ! +Definitely one of the best web development courses i ever took and moreover the field trip part demonstrates us how to real time project requirement would be. +A great course. All the basics covered well. A good starting point for anyone with no previous experience in HTML, CSS and Javascript. +Fresh and with basic concepts well explained! +great course. learn a lot. thanks +Very good course. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone learning about HTML, CSS and JaaScript. The lectures are very well structured and result in a really good understanding. Definitely try this out! +It's a really nice introductory course and I have learned a lot. In the end, it's kind of loosing the depth though when it's comes to AJAX and applying JS for web development. +SuperVery easy to studyGood quality videosespecially the tool for increasing the video play speed +Everything about this course was excellent! The quality of instruction, the motivational aspects, and of course -- something that Prof Yaakov always seems to strive for -- lots of fun! +Very useful and interesting +Great lectures, great structure, great instruction. Great course for beginners to HTML. Its easy to get the necessary information to go from no knowledge to a decent understanding. +The best course for learning web development. +Could've been more thorough. Basics still well taught. +The contents in this course are absolutely useful and concise! +This course helped me to organize what I already know, and fill some gaps. Yaakov makes good explanations of things that come into web pages, and after his lectures I find my knowledge defragmented :-) +The best course ever! +Very well structured and presented. Great instructor. +excellent instructor keep on +Just started Module 2, but already like it very much. Great course! +Great course for intro to HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Great explanation on the why and clear meaningful examples given in the course. Thank you to Yaakov & Team. +mind blowing +Bravo and thanks! +Loved this course! Incredibly well structured and well explained content! The assignments were a little too easy for my taste but the explanations throughout the lecture made up for it. The instructor is very fun and engaging and explains the subject matter very clearly. Would definitely recommend! +Great course, help me a lot about the concepts about web-developing, +Awesome course. Instructor is very informative and sets a good pace. Recommended this to my entire team. +It is ok. It is super :) +Very useful! +I'm learning a lot with this course. Thank you, Coursera, for the iniciative! +Fantastic introduction. More thorough than I expected, this is a fine foundation class to enter front-end web development. +Very well organized course material which covers the subject of modern front-end web development and offers basic familiarity with its technologies and many useful resources. I would definitely recommend this course for a head start to anyone interested in learning web development. +Really a great instructor, benefited me a lot to grab the basics of web development, not just that the course exercises are also a great place to practice what we learn in the modules. +Very nice and comprehensive, thank you! +The course is great! Everything is well explained, a lot of example, good sense of humor and really cool and adequate exercises to implement what is leant, I highly recommended for anyone who wants to get the basics (maybe even more) of web development. +Thanks, tatty! :)-Moshe +Amazing Course with a great communicator.The message is passed on a clear way and the examples are amazing.Whish we could have some more to learn.Thank you for sharing your knowledge!António +Excellent material, to the point. Looking forward to completing the current course. +really helpful +Great course for beginners in web development with an excellent instructor who explains everything in detail. Highly recommended. +Very good course! +An excellent introduction to web development technologies, valuable even to people who have been doing web development for years. +Very good course for understanding HTML, CSS, JS.How we can add russian subtitles +It's a very useful and modern course with professional team! +Great Explanation!! +Very good!!!!Especially to new-entry. +Great course for the beginners. I believe these who are really interested in web design will like it. Thanks for the lecturers of this course. +Prof Yaakov really makes the class experience come to life & provides seamless instruction. +Course is great!But I have to say there should be more practical excercises (writing code) through first and second part just to use html and css syntax in real world not only on quizes. +am really thankful to Coursera for teaching me this subject and its really helpful :) +Fantastically well structured and with good explanations. Really like the structure. +simple to follow +Great guidelines and teaching schematics, I love the way the lectures are approach and how this vast topic has been made basic, easy and understandable. +Amazing course! Lots of information, practical work and learning. +What a thoroughly informative and enjoyable course! A big shout-out to Prof. Chaikin who explains the concepts in such a brilliant manner. Highly recommend this course to budding web developers. +i'm done with the first module,so far so good... +doesn't have to be that complicated with command prompt actions from the beginning of the course, that make the motivation drop very fast. +Great course. It is carefully structured to quickly show the fundamental essentials. This is specially useful in a platform that is hard to identify what is current and functionally complete and what is not. It is also clearly explained. +The course is nicely paced. I was able to go through all the videos and assignments within a day or two.Prof. Yaakov Chaikin is very skilled and makes his videos fun to watch. It is amusing as well and educational. Really liked the videos about the Restaurant Visit and how to talk to a customer and what to expect and how to deal with issues in the process. +Great course ! Highly recommend . +After trying several courses, i can say that this one is the best so far. the rhythm of the lessons and the clarity of the lectures are some of the most valued virtues that i found here. it is really enjoyable to keep going thru the weekly lectures. +very good lectures! +A very good course which walks you through developing a real web site. +Excellent course. I appreciated the focus on responsive websites with Bootstrap. I really liked the explanations on the core foundations of CSS & JavaScript that seasoned web front end developers should have. +Really good course, Thank you :What I liked the most is?- The koans at the end of each "not always" lesson.The professor gives you the what´s, why´s and some tips. +Lot of useful knowledge given in very easy way. Accelerates fist steps in web development and gives strong ideas of future possibilities. +I used to go through W3school and Codecademy to start my coding learning as a front-end developer. This course perfectly blends in the knowledge I learned. Amazing! If you have read many chapters of HTML/CSS/Javascript but still don't really have an idea of what are you doing. CHECK THIS CLASS! +only put Spanish subtittle +The best course on coursera +i love it, thanks for the great work, +its awesome to start with... +It's a great introdutory course. It explains very well why things are the way they are. +Awesome! An interesting course and the JavaScript part is really a jewel. Professor Yaakov introduced us in the guts of JavaScript with a very clear explanation. Definitely a great course BUT it demands of the students time and effort to finally get the goal! +Awesome Mentor and comprehensive course +The best course! so far on Coursera. Very impressed with the instructor Yaakov and also everyone who provided timely help with assignments or other questions. +This course was very useful, there was something that I already knew, but some thing were new for me +Excellent front end course for the required level (intermediate). Does not go over concepts already known by anyone who has done some programming, and instead concentrates on the laguage most specialised areas +Great Course and great learning experience. Would learn a lot if you actually care! +Very useful, complete, clear and awesome course. The tutor explain not only what you need to know about web development but also what you need to know when using this skills in the real world interacting with clients. I absolutely will recommend this course and be forever grateful with it. I encourage you, who is reading this, to sign to the course! Especially if you have interest in the informatics and coding topics! +Very informative course! +This course was great! The instructor was very knowledgeable and incorporated humor into the lessons, which kept me interested in the topic. I found the last section (Javascript) a bit challenging since I had no prior knowledge of the subject, but I was able to follow along enough to get a basic understanding. I definitely recommend this course! +Phenomenal course! Hands-on, great and thorough lectures. Perfect for beginners as well as people with some experience/idea how html works! Much more advanced than many other courses offered. +really good course . very detailed . +This is one of the excellent courses I've ever taken online. The professor is very professional and articulates amazingly the concepts living no room for dozing or re-running the lecture videos. I really loved the road trip to the client who wanted their website designed, and it really gave insights on how to go about the process from Mock-ups sketching, Client Interaction up to the Actual Design. Kudos and A+++ for the course. +This course is very usefull... in a simple word.. Its awesome... thank you "Johns Hopkins University" and Mr. Yaakov Chaikin. +This teacher is amazing. I was registered for Angular, when it was delayed the teacher wrote and recommended this (week 4 and 5) to brush up on Javascript. So glad I found it. He is so clear. +One of the best courses to start learning front end web development from scratch. The course contents are of high quality and Professor Yaakov Chaikin is great at explaining things in an easy to understand fashion. Kudos to the team behind this course. I am glad and happy that I enrolled myself in this course! +Great information not just on coding but also the programs used in coding. Also, incredibly well presented and easy to follow and understand. +Great Course! Learnt a LOT which I never knew before... Thank you Yaakov!! +It's the best course and the best teacher I ever had! +This course has been very insctructive and great motivation to look further into Git, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and Javascript. It's the backbone of web development meaning the best place to start from but also that it cant possibly cover everything. I found that w3schools and an online git tutorial of the quite a few out there, perfectly complete this course. A big thank you! to all the people that put effort into this. +great course, accurate and good explanation. +Great course with well structured content. Instructor explains everything to detail. Best HTML CSS JS course I'd recommend. +A much appreciated course !!! This course give me a boost in my studies further in Web development. Will appreciate Johns Hopkins University team if in future you will provide the course on Node.js as well. +Excellent course.. I recommend this course to all newbies .. +Beautiful Course, Very well crafted both beginners and for people who need a refresher course +Great course! Instructor does excellent job clearly explaining a number of important topics. +Greate course! Thank You +It's absolute grate. +The course is very informative and useful if you are newly introducing yourself to web development.And the instructor is just awesome! He makes the course very interesting, deserves 5 stars. +Great cource! You will use most actual instruments to accomplish it. Good basis and pro tips included. +I liked the course very much. It is organized very well. I have found all the content appropriate and useful. Moreover, some more interactiveness in weeks 1 and 2 would add more value to the course :)Thank you very much for effort +Very Good Course. +This course was a nice into to HTML, CSS and Javascript. If you have no previous background in programming, the js will be very hard to follow and is quite complicating. BUT this course will get you thinking and excited when you solve a problem! +Yes. Five stars! Awesome course +If possible, I would give 6 stars :P +The AJAX part could have shorter sections of 5-6 minutes at most.The course could use more images/animations - too many explanations given at the code editor! +Great!! I haven't any other words! ) +interesting and useful ! +The HTML/CSS part of this lecture are really amazing (5 star I would say). I felt that the JS parts were a bit rushed through and probably needed a separate course. I am also working on the side (as a backend engineer) and got the chance to apply whatever I learnt and not rely on our front-end engineer so it was great. Thanks for the course leader and the course providers for my first step towards becoming a full-stack engineer! +Very thorough and clear. +Salute to the instructor! +This is a great course, I really liked it! First, because I don't speak English very well and I could understand everything and second because the content is real and it helps you to learn more about the development's process. Congratulations for this course! +Most of the course was very enjoyable, but some of the lectures seemed to drag on without much happening and were pretty hard to slog through. +Learned many things, instructor was good, the way of teaching was good. interested to go for paid certification :). thank you coursera +Thank you for such an interesting and intensive course on web development, it really covers a lot: HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap 3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, wow, that's really cool course! +It's just amazing lecture. Thank you so much for sharing it here.I would like to thank Coursera for everything they are doing to help us, and I would like also to thank in particular Yaakov Chaikin for all what he did during the lectures. Thank you so much! +Awesome course! This was my first course on coursera and I am satisfied. This course gave me many tips in order to improve my coding on web. +Although it took me quite a while to figure out how to push my solution on to github (was making me very mad), I figured it out!! I really like the way you teach lectures. I am giving you a 5 star because, I like the way you give resources and examples of each section you're teaching. I am leaning a lot and look forward to learn! Thank You +I've learned bits and pieces of HTML, CSS, and Javascript in school and work. With that said, this course was an easy one for me, nevertheless it helped organizing my prior web dev knowledge, and had definitely shined lights onto some details that I didn't know before. Yaakov did a great job explaining the basic concepts, as well as tapping into the common tricks and pitfalls.I'd recommend this course to anyone who's just starting to learn web development, as well as those who'd like to put their previous on-the-spot learnings into an organized piece. +Very Good Course.A real world example site to work on made it much easier to understand and put the coding into context. +Very nice & detailed course! :) +Good course. The assignment is very good. +The HTML and CSS portions are excellent. The JS and AJAX portions move at a very brisk pace, making it difficult to understand and keep up. I have some cursory knowledge of programming and JS but it was still quite challenging to fully understand module 5. +I'm learning a lot in this course! Thanks to Yaakov Chaikin and Coursera! +i like this course. The syllabus coverage is good. i am eagerly waiting to enroll the next course... +i liked th course , easy to understand +Excellent course! It combines the perfect amount of "practical" theory that it will really help in real life. Very understandably examples. +Simple, practical, and interactive approach. The faculty is an experienced instructor, making coding looks simple and easy. +Excellent class! Professor Yaakov explains very clearly. Highly recommend! +Great course! Perfect amount of content. Loved it... +One of the best courses on HTML,CSS and javascript..Unlike other courses which directly take to higher concepts leaving behind all the foundational concepts,this course teaches the foundational concepts first and then gradually introduce higher concepts as well.Thus making the learning process pretty easy and at the same time making concepts clear and free of doubts.I like this approach!!I would highly recommend this course for those who want to understand the basics of HTML,CSS and javascript and clear all doubts which are otherwise created by directly jumping into higher concepts......And last but not the least thanks Coursera for providing best online courses and Thanks Johns Hopkins University for presenting this beautiful course...... +Great course, though the javascript part is very fast paced and could be extended a bit more. As a beginner, sometimes it was very difficult to understand some code lines without using outside resources. Nonetheless, it is an awesome introduction course for beginners. +Its really great and easy to learn +Very nice teacher, he is responsible, thoughtful, knowledgeable and ready to handle all the questions we posed.Very nice course! This course provide us a whole view of the HTML,CSS,JavaScript and lots of useful websites and tools, which may help us develop easier and learn with a target.This is the first course I attend in Coursera, I've spent a lot of time choosing the start, and now I can say this is the one.Thank you teacher and Johns Hopkins. +A great course. It is not difficult to learn and is very useful. as a lecturer has a great sense of humor :) +In this course you will learn the basic concepts about web development with the latest technologies. The explanations of every concepts are clear and understandable with simple examples.I highly recommend people taking this course. I learn a lot! +Very helpful for beginners.Instructor teaches every details you need to start as a web developer. +Amazing! I was a desktop developer. At the end of this course, I´m sure that I wil became a web developer. +This is a good basic course to get started with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The last two assignments did seem a little too easy and the last module feels a bit rushed through the Javascript code.Nonetheless I would recommend this course to anyone interested with web development and the basic concepts! +This is fantastic course, everything is clearly resented. Foundation parts are just excellent - they give knowledge what's going on behind the curtain. Everyday I was launching next video with true excitement.And last but not least, Yaakov Chaikin is a great tutor! +This course is an outstanding introduction to Web design technologies and tools. As a backend developer, I was looking for a course to refresh my knowledge of HTML and CSS, and this course went far beyond what I had hoped to learn -- even introducing me to some new tools, as well as filling in a lot of the background of WHY things work the way they do. My only criticism might be that the final week's assignment was not very difficult, and perhaps as a result, didn't force me to really study the material. Otherwise, I highly recommend this course, and I'm looking forward to taking the Angular course in this series. Thank you very much, Yaakov, and Johns Hopkins! +with this course i already feel like a developerMr Yaakin thanks +Very Nice Course!! Really Helpful.!! +Excellent course and material. Good instructor. +Before this course I could write html, css, and js. Now I actually know what I am doing. +the Course content is great and the Tutor is doing a great job but I didn't like the fact that i'm forced to use Github to submit my assignments +It's a great course. Thank you very much professor Yaakov, I learnt a lot! +Great! +great course +Simple and great course for all beginners in Web Development. +My first completion of a Coursera course, the materials are interesting. The JavaScript part of the lecture is kinda overwhelming, I wish we could have more practice and some more in depth or involved homework to help me understand the material and practice them. +I can tell that the Professor undertook a lot of careful planning and execution in preparing this course for students. Yaakov Chaikin teaches the course in a fun, problem-solving way. I personally appreciate his clear enunciation of words and thorough explanations of his website-planning process and the tools needed to accomplish the goals. +Excellent excellent course!!! Professor Yaakov Chaikin is brilliant, he really knows what he is talking about. I attempted learning HTML, CSS, JQuery and JavaScript on my own and in just a very short amount of time of taking this course, I have learned so much more! I am thankful I found this course when I did. I am looking forward to what is to come. Thank you professor! +I feel this course has been a great way to be trained in many concepts in a little amount of time. Html, css, Javascript, bootstrap, jquery, github, ajax, json... there were some kind ob big scary names for me, and in just 5 weeks I'm in my way to master them, after a great first step. I've enjoyed it. +Great !!! +The best course ever. +great course for beginners +Detailed and easy to understand +Excellent course.. very practical and didactic +Instructor seems like a genuinely invested teacher who provides plenty of resources, points you in the right direction in considering how to approach a client meeting, and provides in-depth explanations for what you need to know and do. A few of the later more advanced concepts really relied on students to follow along and type themselves, and you will want both notes and comments in your code to help you remember the important details ( in HTML or /* */ in CSS). This combined with one or two other HTML/CSS/JavaScript Resources provides a comprehensive introduction to web design, though! Just be sure to allow yourself time to learn, absorb, practice, and work on the assignments. Plug into the community with detailed information when you have questions and you will be fine! :D +Really good +Explanation is really good. Some more assignments were required +great teachings but somewhat improvement in the use of technology +Nice, the assigments were a little too easy in some cases and the last part with javascript it was a little too quick with all the code to make the webpage dynamic. But in general you learn all the basics to amke a full website with html/css/javascript. +Very good course. Lots of useful tips on how to set up an efficient development environment. This course has a lot of knowledge and is very well taught. +A very interesting course in which you can learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You don't need a high level to start this course but you can learn a lot. +My first web developing class. +Great course, covers a lot of areas. Things do get quite advances, particlarly later on in the Javascript modules so you might have to watch it a few times. Yakoov does a great deal of explanation in order for you to understanding, but somethings might not sink in straight away. The assignments are a great way to troubleshoot issues and their is great support on the discussions fourm. Would recommend. Thank you! +Course which learnt in best way! +Yakoov is one of the best instructors I ever had on coursera. I am planning to take additional courses from him as instructor. This class is great. I was expecting just the a basic refresher course on the basic web technologies, but I ended up getting more than what I expected. The coverage is just enough to getting off the ground and explore more complex topics. Also, the responsive design coverage was completely appropriate and timely, at least in my case. I highly recommend taking this class and others offered by Yakoov Chaikin. +A very thorough and interesting course. Prof. Yaakov is incredibly talented and keeps the lessons dynamic and he goes into details without making it tiresome. I'm happy to have discovered it and I would definitely recommend it to others, pure 5/5 rating. +Great course ! +Awsome Loving it..Hope to brilliant websites after the tutorial... +Great course!!! +I also went through a couple of other universities that provide the same course, But this is the best of all. Easy and simple as well. +Really stimulating course and very much worth the time and effort needed to keep up the pace.I took advantage (due to illness) of the possibility of retaking the course, and am grateful for the chance to have finished all the weeks after the pause.Very impressed by the lecturer's enthusiasm and help. +This course is really well thought and organised.Thank you very much for the course +Great deep & wide view on topic of the course! The example site for Restaraunt is excellent! +This is real HTML, CSS, and Javascript for Web Developers! Great course! +Learning a lot, very fast. Thanks Yakov! +Very well explained and lots of details to understand (not to mention that all the course has examples that can be downloaded from github). +Well organised and presented, but the assignments need to be "meatier". There's almost no actual coding involved, very little scope to practice what we learned. +From Shallow to Deep.A complete course for web development. +As far as I've just finished the second module - I'm amazed!The mentor is great, the information is awesome, the practical part is helpful and useful... I'm very glad I've enrolled to the course.And even though I'm a TOTAL beginner at web design, I started to understand what it is all about and how it works.I build up fresh plans for my life using the new possobilities I well learn at the course.Thank you very much.I really enjoy it)) +GREAT COURSE.......Learning alot +Wonderful course +Finally it's simple to understand! Thank you for your work! +It was a great experience for me to learn about new technologies. Thank you very much. +A perfect gateway into web development. I would recommend this course to anybody who deals with websites in general. Even if you are not a developer, you can take this course just to know how websites do the things they do. It's concise yet very complete, and very rewarding.All the content is structured very well: the topics are divided into small morsels, if you will, perfect for learning. The instructor, Yaakov Chaikin, is one of the best teachers I have come across and the assignments are engaging and pose just enough challenge to help you learn. Five stars any day. +Very clearly explained. +Great course, learned a lot of new concepts +Really great course with detailed illustration and excellent organization! +Informative, detailed and well constructed together with well timed responses from the community,the course components marry well together!!! +The best course in coursera!!!! +Lessons are really easy to understand and the material is quite professional. +very detailed. much better than the Hong Kong University's one +Good Course for beginner ! +Well developed and fast paced. This course is for intermediate students. Prof. Chaikin has a thorough understanding of how all of the pieces (HTML, CSS, JS, design, photography, and copy editing) work together to create a useful and engaging web site. You will also pick up and learn to use great tools along the way: GitHub, Sublime Text, and BrowserSync among others. The instructor is engaging and gregarious, as keeps in touch with the discussion forums. +One of the best courses I have ever taken. Yaakov explains everything so clearly and and uses examples that make you fully understand all terms. Also all content is wrapped up by a project - a real project, a real website that you create from scratch and by the end of the course you 've got it ready, working and functionable.Thanks Yaakov for the exceptional material and your effort and thank you coursera for offering the opportunity to take this course even with no money at all! +There should be a 10 star rating! This is the coolest course on web developing! Yaakov's teaching approach makes coding fun and interesting. Thus, it helps me, as a beginner, to absorb the lesson without tensions or fear of failure, but, instead, full of excitement in exploring the world of coding.Many thumbs up! +Tutorial is very good.Explanation are really easy to grasp +Excellent course! Thank you, Yaakov! +Very good course! I have tried different coding classes online, to differing degrees of success.This course had 2 benefits in my eyes:1) Realistic, yet actual deadlines. Self-paced stuff is great too, but its also good to have a certain time that assignments need to be done.2) It helps you set up dev environments! Hard to find good walkthroughs of that. This class has walk-throughs in the beginning, but you also do it a few times throughout the course. +that was good +Excellent material, very well explained. Useful and practical approach. +Very good teacher, he knows the subject and how to transfer his knowledge to the student. +Very well explained! +Great lectures and the coding assignments solidify the new knowledge. Lots of context so that you can identify the tools of the trade. +Learning so much in this course. The lectures are very informative and fill out the info you need to complete each component. The lecture style makes it a much more rounded learning experience than just a straight online coding course. Thanks to all who put it together, can definitely recommend it.Make use of your ability to review the content as it does move quite fast and there is a lot of information to retain before you get to put into practice what you have learnt. +Awesome! Yaakov is very entertaining, but still educating. +Great course! Covers a lot of useful topics to build your own site. Good speed and doesn't contain useless talks about nothing. +One of the best course in Coursera +easy to understand and the teacher is very cute +Very good course! Well structured! +Great course. Instruction was clear. Information had great depth for an intro course. Gives you enough to build basic webpages and begin to explore nonbasic concepts on your own. +Great course, very instructional +An exceptionally comprehensive but concise course on Web Development. +really useful!!! +This is the best Intro to web development course on Coursera. The other courses don't take the time to explain the whys. +Arguably one of the best courses online for web design and JavaScript! Highly recommended for beginners. +This is a really great course. The teacher makes it a passionate, interesting and, above all, friendly experience.One of the most complete and thorough courses I've found on this topic. +I really can't believe this is free to access... Awesome course. +Javascript would be better! +It's really great. I used to programme backend application in Java EE and modern frontend was a kind of magic for me. Now I understand!Thanks a lot. +Great course. I learned a lot. +Excellent course! Mr. Yakov Chaikin is a great instructor. Many thanks to him!! +Nice introduction to web programming. Module4-easier version assignment is really too much easy. +This is one of the most detailed online courses I have ever taken. Great job! +This course is awesomely good. And hats off to u Mr. Yaakov for ur efforts. One request is that, atleast for the person persuing the course for free should be given some kind of certificate for completion of this course. +wonderful course....this is the first time I think I wold be able to complete a course....keep up the good work sir. +Excellent course, good structure very easy to understand. +I really loved the way HTML 5, CSS 3 and Bootstrap was taught! Great job there. I just wish javascript was covered in more detail. +Perfect - superbly explained, well paced, thorough without being overwhelming and offers some intuitive and rewarding assignments. +Very practical course, a lot of resources to your disposal, all information is very clear, you have a forum to ask any question and the professor answers really fast.! I can't believe it but i'm getting a lot of fun learning how to program with this languages! Also, the professor speaks english very clear which is great for me as i'm from México and i have no a perfect english. There is also an option to put subtitles on, but, at least for me, is kind of annoying read subtitles and listen to videos at the same time. +Amazing course!!! +Really fun journey through web development. +good course +I liked it, but still a little advanced for me. Starts simple, but I recommend starting somewhere else for Java if it is new to you. +Excellent course! Learnt a lot when I actually got to see a website being developed from scratch! +I like this course it is very easy because of the trainer +Fantastic first step into Web Dev! Yaakov is a talented teacher who is clearly comfortable enough with the course material to teach effectively. I have learned so much in the past 5 weeks and I will definitely be signing up for more courses! +The Best Course For beginners.Thanks. +This is a really great course... I had some experience in Front End, and still, through this course I got many insights and got better understanding of several Front-End aspects. Thumbs up! +High level (at least for me), but very well explained. I really like rating and being rated by other students. World class course! +solid teaching style where you mostly see code being worked out instead of see the teacher talk. he uses the command line, github and browser sync, which are all pretty useful. i wasn't too familiar with the extras, but it was a friendly introduction into how all 3 could be tied into HTML/JS/CSS. +All I have to say is: Excellent course!!! I would highly recommend it to anyone :D +This course has made me more confident about my web development career.Thanks to coursera for providing such platform for the learners.and off course a big thanks to the instructor Mr. Yaakov Chaikin and the community. +It is a very good course. It is loaded of many guided examples. +A lot of information comes at you pretty fast. Which provided me with plenty of practice backing up the video to repeat some parts. I'm not complaining, but it was a pleasure to have code available to follow during Dr. Yaakov's lectures.This is a good initial course into HTML, CSS & JavaScript.I'm hoping to find a continuation of this course in the future. +Very good and useful course for beginners in front-end development +Good course to get some knowledge about the web technologies foundations. +Very clear explainations. A good quality course! +Really good +excellent course highly useful for beginners. +Incredible! Not only does this course teach you how to develop a webpage in detail but it makes it so much more fun and convenient to understand all the codes. Thanks to the professor a million times for this course! Even though I've just passed my 12th grade I'm not having any problems learning or understanding this and trust me, I'm not a topper. I'm an average student but this course was exceptionally easy to understand! Thank you! +Good overview and gave me all the cards to do thing by myself +I think this course and lectures are excellent i have ever learned on Online course.I am able to learn a lot of pretty much of things which i never learn before.Thank you Coursera and Johns Hopkins University to brings this course to us! +great course +Nice videos that make the course easy to follow. The HTML and CSS are very good starting points to learn about these lenguages. A little more info on JavaScript would be nice though. The instructors are very helpful and are willing to help you if you get stuck in the assignments. +Great course! I enjoyed it a lot! +Great course. +Its Very interesting . I am able to get almost every thing and able to use it. +Lectures are nicely short and straight to the point without any redundant explanation.I feel I am learning a lot of information on each lecture.Quizzes are short and great. Also, they help me to kind of review the lecture right after I watch them. +Great course for beginners. First half is really good, but the second half looks slightly unaccomplished. +Excelent professor and course +It's very good! +Great course! Yaakov is excellent teacher and quite entertaining. +Great Course, and well taught as well! +If you're looking for practical web-development skills, clear explanations, and plentiful examples, this is the right course you should enroll in. Highly recommended for those who don't have any experience in web-development like me lol. +Most Effective Course.... Thanks a lot.... +Extremely useful . I will complete it . +It is a great course, it helped me link all the things I learned from different sources and make something out of them! +Besides the Course been very good, I thing it could be a little bit harder. After watch the lectures of Module 3, I got sad because the Assignment didn't asked for a lot of things we have learned. +This course was taught in a very professional way. I liked the style the instructor moved from one concept from other. This Course was worth my time as it turned out much better than i expected and i learnt a lot from this course. Thank You Coursera for such a wonderful course. +Excelent course! The professor Yaakov is an awesome teacher! The content of the course is very good! +Good Course and Prof. Yaakov is really great!! +Wow! Awesome information! +it's very good for me to understand the principle of the HTML, CSS, Javascript... +Prof. Chaikin is great and funny! Learned new things even as an experienced developer. +Excellent Course and Perfect Prof. Yookov Chaikin :) :like: +A really nice course! +Excellent course and delivery in easiest style of teaching and practice... :-) +Very well structured course! The best on front-end I've taken so far! +Thank you for this course! it is helping me understand HTML, CSS and JavaScript from a working point of view, and it shows me how I can combine all the languages beautifully.before I started this course I didn't have the confidence I would succeed as a developer, now I feel more optimistic.thank you!Aled +Perfect Course for someone like me to start web development from scratch! Great videos! Thanks for carrying out this course. +Excellent course and the presentation for the information was presented in a clear and progressive manor. +I liked the Course. +Very well structured and covers content from the root. Amazing professor. *Respect* +Great course, great explanation and very enthusiastic teacher +Very interesting and very well presented! +Awesome lectures and drills. Also, very useful materials. Perfect to me as a home-based worker. I'll recommend this to my friends and mentors. Kudos Coursera! +Very good session on the basics and Javascript. This gives overall good idea on the Web application development. +Good course for all developers. +Good course +Great course! I've learned a lot! Even I'm from China and my English is rusty. +Very effective. Helps in learning extremely well. +Really like this class. In addition to the basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript taught in this class, the instructor gave us lots of useful web site to get more resource in the future. The class is well-paced. I only wish that the class is longer say 8 weeks so it can cover more in-depth discussion about JavaScript. Also I wish the last two homework are more challeng +This is a very comprehensive course (based on my personal experience with Coursera at least) that goes into relevant detail on the topics it covers, but without wasting time on unnecessary trivialities. The delivery is clear and engaging, so if you're interested in the matter, you won't get bored. The material covers all the right topics for an up and coming web designer, providing the right amount of information for a confident start and plenty of pointers where and how to expand on the knowledge provided. Another point in favor is the frequent and valuable engagement of the professor and his teaching assistants in the discussion forums, unlike some other courses that feel abandoned by the staff once they start. In closing, I've checked out several web design courses on Coursera and if you can choose only one, this one would definitely be my pick from all the ones I enrolled in. +Excellent presentation of material! +Amazing course! +Absolutely not apropriate for very beginners. Lacks explanation of "why" through all the videos, simply giving you information to remember "If you do this, this will happen". Such a structure of explanations doesn't give freedom in the future to do something different, as you don't get a general understanding of what you do.Additionally, all course is tought in Mac. Some commands are different for windows, and they were not even mentioned in the videos! I did not sign up for this course to be forced to spend hours in Google, trying to find how to do something, that supposed to be explained in the lesson.Overall, the course absolutely lacks attention to windows users and is not appropriate for absolute beginners. +amazing proffesor! +A course without tedious learning of tags, styles, properties and js commands that tries to give you an overview of developing front end of a single page web app. +Very, very interesting course. +It's awesome +Very clear and structured material delivered by a great lecturer. Close-to-real-life examples and advices concerning cutting edge developing tools are really helpful. +A good course for beginners, consisting mainly of following along as the instructor demonstrates code. The assignments are short and largely restricted to modifying supplied code. This is a necessary restriction of the peer-review grading process: the problem must be highly constrained in order for an untrained person to quickly grade it. You could certainly learn a lot by completing extra examples from a book or other resources, but this is not required to pass the course. +Great Course!! +Very clear, useful information and resources from instructor. +This was a good course. The most valuable parts were the practical tips: using the Chrome developer tools, showing console.log(), etc. The first two assignments were challenging and fun. The last two on javascript were a bit less useful, but overall a very good course. +I'm in the first week but I find it to be fun and very informative. Everything has been explained in great detail. Very happy for this introductory class. Thank you. +Very well done. Yaakov explains the concepts well and demonstrates everything with good examples. +The instructor is great and I had fun watching Yaakov. I've also learnt a lot of stuff. I wish course would be a bit longer and contained a bit more challenging assignments. Especially those ones which are in the middle of week. +This is the best course ever. I learned so much! Thanks to Johns Hopkins University and Yaakov Chalkin. +This course, HTML CSS JS, benefits me effectively in many ways:HTML: I learned most updated HTML here with a little over 60 minute lectures; wohich otherwise may take me weeks to read two or three books with many redundant chapters.CSS: I have to admit I need more time to be proficient about it. Styling, floating, DOM traversing, ..lots of CSS features that I learned are essential and with just about two hours of lecture.Javascript: A language I am familiar and strange to it until I went through all the lectures. Two ways of function definition; object data type; used to confuse me and now they become clear and dynamically typed Javascript has become one of the language I can write. +Great course! +I wasn't being fair on my review, it was my mistake that I didn't see this is a part of a bigger course. I feel like it doesn't deserve 5 stars because the way the exercises were made didn't help me retain information. I feel like the students should do more. +This is the best course I have encountered so far. The instructor, Yaakov clearly explains the theory, and demonstrated them through actually developing a restaurant website. Even for an experienced web developer, there is something to learn from this course. I strongly recommend this course to anyone who would like to enhance their web development skills. Thanks to the Yaakov and Coursera to sharing this course. +The best classes I have ever had. I enjoyed every single lessons in the class, the assignments and grading other students assignments were fun. The last assignment is quite challenging, but it is worth learning. At the end of the class, I feel like I am a real developer, and ready for real world challenges. I highly recommend anyone to take this class. +For the last 7 months, I've been enrolled in all of Coursera's courses related with Front-End Developing and this one is so far the best course ever. This course is very well structured, it's hands on, and get you ready for "real world" development what is great. Yaakov Chaikin is a great instructor, explains well, is engaging and get to the point. It is a very demanding course and you will need to dedicated more hours per week to watch all videos (then what you usually you need in these kind of courses), so you will need to be committed to do it but in the end you will learn tons.Thank you for the Johns Hopkins University team for doing such a great job and a special thanks to Yaakov Chaikin! +This course is very usefuld cause it covers the basis and so much deeper and very well explained. I just found a big leap between modules 3 and 4, the difficulty increases! +I don't think it could be better. Very demanding and interesting, you will certainly learn a lot if you take this course. +Great course that will introduce you to HTML, CSS and Javascript. Fast paced and good exercises with force you to use your knowledge and imagination. +really awesome !!! +It's a great course and I could learn a lot for starting to be a web developer. +Best class ever!! +Assignment were very easy +I am very appreciated for creating this course! It was very helpful and exciting for me! +Great Course with lots of material to learn.Though many videos to watch in each week. +Great Course! very practical and well designed. +Great course, very detailed but also clear +Very clear, very well organized course for beginning web developers. I have a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, plus some other stuff (command line, git, databases, servers, etc.) and it was easy to get started and understand the content. I really appreciate how well organized the course materials are, and how the course progresses without leaving you struggling to put critical pieces together. +really helpful! Good explanations and examples! Makes you to dive in and explore the whole process from the beginning to the end. +Excellent Course! Start from basics and go in depth. Tons of great interactive examples! +Awesome! the way the course teaches and assignments are very impressive. I liked it. +I really like the course!Simple and easy to understand.Thank you very much for your hard work! +Excellent course from real web programmer! +Just Amazing, I have learned so much from this course. +Awesome Course and Awesome Instructor !!! +usefull information +Great explainations from basics to more advanced knowledge. Nice work! +I'll review 5 star because even tho we are LOTS of people Yaakov and the assistant both take the times to clear our questions on Discussions. Yaakov takes us on an amazing tour for our web client! His explanations on videos are great and has really taught me not just to code, but to do it as efficiently as possible. This course and Yaakov are amazing! Thanks for putting this up and for listening to us! +Great! +I already suggested this to my friends. :) +Really good course! +Nice way of teaching :D +It was one of the best courses I have taken so far and the instructor for this course Mr. Yaakov Chaikin is one of the best teachers. This course starts from the very basics and touches even very advanced topics before you even know. This course is complete in itself and encompasses all the topics that might be required at the time of practical implementation and makes you ready enough that you can start building a website from the scratch just after it's completion. +Great course, it cover a lot of point . +so far its great just a step to fast sometimes . +This course is really great ! +Great course +That's the best course I've taken (and I've taken a few). Thank you Mr Yaakov Chaikin! +Great course! If you’re a complete novice it won’t be easy, be ready to work hard. But it's worth your efforts. A lot of practical and really up-to-date information about web development.Many thanks to Yaakov and his team!! +Programming courses had never been that interactive. Absolutely in love with this course +Best CSS Tutorial on the Net!!!! +really good instructor +This is a great course to learn basic, or if you are intermediate and want a clear explanation on what things are and how they work. The key to being a great web developer is is understanding the functionality of your website and how people see in in many devices views. This is the course to find out all the details and make it a part of your web development. I would recommend it to any one who needs these skills. +Thank you so much, Mr. Yaakov,you are Great and your lectures are awesome!I am new in programming and I have learnt a lot for your lectures and never give up! +Changed to five star because it really was that good. Thank you for this course. +it's a five star Course :) +The material in this course was presented very methodically and accurately. Yaakov is an enthusiastic instructor, offering encouragement and motivation when topics get complicated. I appreciate that he thoroughly explained topics without brushing over details. Great foundation to layer more knowledge on! +Great course! +This course does a really good job of teaching HTML and CSS, as well as the basics of Javascript to beginners. I used it as a refresher course for what I learned in the Web Design 1 & 2 courses from high school and it covered just as much material in only a few weeks. Videos are really easy to follow and you are given step by step instructions on how to create your projects. Not a difficult course and it teaches you the basics so that you are prepared to further your skills in more advanced areas. +The instructor does well to structure the course to focuses on important concepts. His explanations are clear and expectations are reasonable. +clear, fun, and practical ! +Five stars for that course and special thanks to mr. Chaikin for his skill to tell complex things with simple words. +Very good course, and amazing teacher :D +Nice! I hope I can learn a lot form this course! +Very good, great teacher +Great course! Great lecturer! +Unbelievably in-depth and well structured. I love this man. My only regret was that I believe I bought the recommended text books directly from amazon by mistake, instead of the referral links provided by Professor Yaakov :( +The videos and classes are very understanding, helpful and dynamic. I like it a lot. +Great course, I really enjoyed it! Even though I've done a bit of front-end web development before, the class gave me a solid foundation in the core concepts and I learned a lot. I would highly recommend it to others. +A really enthusiastic and a practical course. The presenter does a good job in presenting the course. +Great overview course! It provides a good starting point for you on front-end web development. +Great course!, great teacher!. My mind it's getting clearer now +Nice Teacher! He's explain very well. +This has been one of the most exciting online course that I've experienced in quite a while. Mr. Yaakov has been brilliant , and all his lectures are wonderful and keep us interested without the sense of boredom.I'd like to thank him and Coursera for such a brilliant course. +Very comprehensive course.Thank you +Really good course! +Really enjoyed course and lecturer's style, but had an inexplicable craving for Chinese food throughout. +It is reallyy awesome.. When I started, I didn't know anything about web design. Now I can design a website !!! Thanks to the course! +I totally learned web development !!!Great Lecturer. +Very well organized lecture. +This covers provides excellent coverage of the most fundamental concepts of front-end development. The presentation style in the lectures was very clear and easy to understand and the information in the lectures themselves, particularly the ones on CSS and Javascript, was quite comprehensive. I have learned much more about CSS than I ever knew before and have even been able to apply that knowledge in my full-time job as a software engineer. This has all been possible thanks to this course. I highly recommend this course to anyone who is looking to understand much more about front-end development. +The course is a good opportunity to get started with html, css and javascript. Personally I would have liked more time doing more smaller assignments. If you are totally new in this it might get somewhat fast. But of course that's the reason to start the challenge! +Very Good course. Loved the way lectures were delivered. +Enjoying the learning experience so far +Great course, great material and very fun to watch! Show real examples and keep us always motivated to follow! Thanks very much! +really detailed course work with good foundation. better than being in a classroom.Still learning and aspiring for greatness.Kudos all!!! +Wonderful course. thoroughly informative and the discussions page really helped me to overcome several annoying small problems +So far the best course on HTML, CSS, and Javascript! Great instructor, very good design and structure.Some concepts (especially on the topic of CSS) were presented in really great detail, even a somewhat experienced web developer might learn something new. +Very brief and clear course structure and the assignment do test my understanding on the course well. +I only enrolled so I can watch some of the CSS videos. I never formally learned CSS so some of the attributes are fuzzy for me. Not sure how comprehensive this course. I am pretty sure that more can be done in CSS but the course still did a really great job of explaining all the common attributes. It is very clear for me now... and they are good lessons for beginners because it's thorough but not overwhelming. Disclaimer: I have not done any of the assignments; I just use what I learned in other projects. +This was such a great learning experience. I really liked the way Yaakov has structured the course and made it so much interactive. Learning while building a real web application is so much cool! Looking expectantly at AngularJS course now! +Very Helpful Course. +Great course! Highly recommended. +HTML and CSS courses are very well structured and detailed, showing how to build responsive pages from scratch and giving real life example of a SPA. It is of good help get us used to think separately client and server responsabilities and use APIs. Great as a starting point to javascript, presenting many aspects of it. +Wonderful course. Went more in-depth than I expected, had great content and explanations.If I might make a suggestion, I think this course would fit better into a six week format. That would allow for the assignments to be more involved and closer to the lectures in terms of richness. +It is one of the best courses I ever took on Coursera. Great Work ! +I loved the experience in this course +One of the best classes I've had the pleasure to have. +the course is excellent +It's been really fun to go through this course and learn HTML, CSS and JS basics. The teacher is the best, has a good sense of humor and a great method of teaching. I'd reccomend this course to anyone who wants to learn the basics of these technologies and have fun at the same time. +great course for beginners. Highly recommended. +Great Course and great teacher. Excellent explanations. if you are looking for a good JS course for fundamentals, do not miss module 4. +Great course! Packs quite a bit of useful, practical information for the learners in a light-hearted style that holds the learner's interest. The videos are just the right size. And most importantly Yaakov has a great sense of humor, refreshing, quite unusual for MOOCs...thoroughly enjoying the course so far! +Very well presented and detailed +I know you don't know me at all.But you have to trust me on this one: The prof is amazing and course is awesome! +Yaakov is a life-saver. I come from scientific computing background ( Python/C/C++/Fortran ). He is very funny and to the point in the lectures to get your hands on in no time. Thanks for this awesome course! +because I am remembering, which already use and understand how the best way to use. +Thank you for this free course. +One of the best courses I've ever taken! Just amazing! +I had a couple of Coursera courses before. But, I never found any courses as interesting and knowledgable as this course. Contents are so accurate and taught by Prof. Yaakov in a very enthusiastic fashion which makes me stick to the course. Great Work! Looking forward to finish the course! +Very satisfied with lecture material. Great job!Thank you, Yaakov +this course has provided me with the necessary tools to do my job better. Thank you +Explain every well. It will be great to have some programming exercise. +Good Course, the professor goes into the inner workings of HTML and CSS. +Excellent course. The explanation are very accurate and easy to understand. +You can't get any more generous than this course. It gives you tons of knowledge, tons of practice, tons of meaningful projects to do.If you have started this course a beginner and have since then religiously following the course materials and activities, you'll emerge an intermediate level developer who will be on the right track to building more advanced web applications. +Excellent course covering not only basics and most useful features of the languages, but also principles on wich popular libraries are based. Assignments are easy yet engaging. +useful and clear +Great course to learn html, css, js and ajax in less than a month. It was very helpful and effective to develop a commercial website. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to develop front end web applications. +Excellent introductory course! Content well explained, good examples, good course. +Very interesting course, and information is easy to understand, yet really useful. +Great course, very well done and lot of stuff in it. There's a great job done by the teacher in planning and organizing everything, always very clear in the lessons and using clear examples to explain the concepts. My only suggestion would be to divide the last week into two different weeks, since there is lot of material in there, and cover a bit deeply Javascript language. +Fantastic course +Excellent .This is my first course in Coursera and I am liking it very much.... +This course was great in terms of material composition and the lecturer! I learned a lot and will definitely recommend it to others. I'm also taking the AngularJS course, because I really liked this one!On the down side: in my opinion, the assignments (especially week 3 & 4) could be more challenging, as the course is targetted at web developers, so people familiar with coding. I found them quite easy. I understand that the last assignment was aimed mostly at forcing students to view all the lectures or get familiar with the provided code, but doing something bigger for the assignment (or at least without such obvious hints) would be a nice challenge and bring more value to the certificate, I think.Splitting week 4 into two with separate assignments is also worth considering, as there was a lot of material covered in the last week, in my opinion (but I may be biased, as I went through the last week in a hurry, because I was late with my assignment). +Awesome course! Great learning opportunity with Hands-on!! +First of all the instructor had a really well put together material and equipment (sound was clear, the slides made sense, there was live coding in some lectures).The assignments where challenging enough in weeks 1, 2, and 3.For the 4th week however, I found the assignment a little difficult due to lack of explanation caused, in my opinion, by the fact that the we only had one week to introduce JavaScript and ajax.Overall I definitely recommend this course to someone trying to enter the web development scene +One of the best courses I must say. Yaakov Chaikin, a name that I have become familiar, since he coded so much, was absolutely phenomenal. I wish I was at JH, taking a class right now from him, or consulting with him. He was very thorough and did an incredible job. This course is great for people who want to delve deep into CSS and JS, and AJAX. I want to take more classes in AJAX now I have learned the fundamentals. +Very eay to follow and an excellent profesor +concise and clear, the right way to learn.Thank you. +Fourth week of the course was too much to handle and imbibe.Could not practice and complete within stipulated time +Great course! Very well organized. Lots of useful information. Gives you a peek at real world application. +This was an excellent course. I thought I knew html, css and javascript but this course gave me a much stronger foundation. The instructor is very good and I think no matter where you are in your learning, you will be able to gain quite a bit. +The course was great. Everything is explained simply yet with a great amount of detail. The staff was superb in their support and responsiveness. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is the length. I feel like the JS/AJAX portion could/should be two weeks instead of 1. +Great course! I've done quite a few front-end online courses but nothing beats this one. Clear concepts, good explanations and a great real life project. +This was a really great course, i learned so much, and it was really interesting and very well explained. I will be taking any more courses done by Yaakov! Really excellent course, thank you so much. +Yaakov and the teaching staff answer everyone's questions with details! Great. +10 out of 5 stars! Yaakov, you are the best teacher in the world, and this is the best course in Coursera. If only this course lasted a bit longer than four weeks. I would really love to see you teaching just JavaScript in depth.Many, many thanks to you and all the stuff crew in creating this course. +Excellent course! Lots of well explained material, engaging quizzes and assignments and even a field trip! +Great Course!!! +It's explained beautifully. The optional quizzes show you some neat tricks / easy to miss information. And the pacing works really well for me. +Excellent course. Highly recommended. +A very solid course on HTML, CSS, JavaScript with Bootstrap and AJAX! I've never learned so much. Yaakov Chaikin does a great job explaining everything in great amount of details. +Really informative and helpful in giving a good understanding to the basics in HTML, CSS and JS! +Really good course. Nicely structured, and shows clearly the main concepts. Thank you! +Great course! I have enjoyed every week. I will miss you Yaakov. Regards and good luck! +The course was enjoyable! Teaching instructor was great at explaining the concepts and examples. Hands-on assignments were helpful. +I have been using web technologies for quite some time now and I was one of those people who are writing html/css/js without really understanding what is going on behind the scenes. The course helped me fill in the gaps in my knowledge.The lectures go at a nice pace and explain as much as possible without getting tedious. They are very practical, no dry theory.The assignments don't require huge efforts.Well done! +Appreciate this course!!!! I have been given a foundation and will continue to build upon my understanding. :) +It is very concise straight to very important points which you could easily expand further by yourself. +This course is awesome!100% recomended. +Excellent course! Good mix between theory and practice. The hands-on examples are actually useful and relatable to day-to-day programming tasks. Even if you're an advanced programmer there are still things to discover, which makes this course even cooler. +I really like the course specialty the beginning, the only thing that could be better its just the last assignment, I'm pretty sure, it could be interesting start developing the code from the scratch.Great job and thank you +The best overview I've ever seen on these topics! +I have completed plenty of HTML, CSS and JS courses/tutorials before and this one beats the rest hands down! The assignments could've been more challenging when compared to the quality of the lectures, but overall the course is still exceptionally good! +Great Course! Very informative videos with great explanation and examples. +The Ajax part was my favorite part of the course, i'll not give a five star because third week for me was a little to much talk, i know its importante to talk about getting specs with the client or following a wireframe, but we have another courses for that, and sometimes thas was not how it happens in the real world +Great intro to web development +it is a greate course of web dev +Nice course. The last week should be split into two with more comprehensive js examination. +Really great course! The professor makes it very easy to learn, especially if you know nothing about web development and you need to learn really quick! +nothing to complain about this course , invaluable course in coursera.orgI hope he turns this course into specialization with multiple courses +One of the best courses on Coursera. +This course, although it takes only four weeks, provided me with knowledge of concepts that are key to understanding, for example, css and js classes. I did several courses on html5/css/js before, but never heard about some core things explained here, and only now I start getting the global picture. With that knowledge, the further details are easy to look up in documentation. Thank you for choosing this approach and keep that on! +Complex concepts explained in a simple and easy to understand. Simply incredible. +One of the best courses I had on Coursera. I would personally recommend this. +This course is very thorough and well-paced for learning front-end web development. +Great! keep teaching! +Thanks, great course +One of the best Coursera courses I've taken so far. The quality of the contents is second to none - Not to mention the way they're presented is simply outstanding.If I had to come up with areas of improvement, I'd probably say that the length the weekly sections is a little bit overwhelming. Actually, I think the contents of this course should be split into two separate courses on their own so the various concepts can be absorbed in a more efficient way.I've really enjoyed going through this course and I must say I've definitely accomplished all the learning goals I set for myself at the very beginning. +The course is easy to follow and presents a lot of useful information. The instructor is very good at it. +Nice format, excellent instructor, interesting tasks and exercises. +One of the best courses for web developers! +Very friendly and knowledgeable teacher. Great course. So many existing findings +i like the course +I didnt like this course. I found it to be confusing. Compared to other CSS JS HTML Courses such as the one from Michigan or Hong Kong Universities which are quite clear and crispt and refreshing, this seems like a work in progress. Confusing, convoluted, odd.HTML CSS JS Are Actually not very difficult.This course makes u question your own name. Makes you think basic math is Calculus. It needs work. Lots and Lots of work. I cant recommend it to anyone who is serious about learning JS HTML or CSS. It accomplishes the exact opposite.With regards to that Chinese Restaurant field trip. What the hell man? Is this a joke? Have the lady call 1800 Web . Com and have a cookie cutter just add water web site. This segment is silly.The rest of the segments? Confusing. +Great course! +Very comprehensive and pedagogic! I appreciate how Yaakov Chaikin explains every line of the code and he even brought us on a field trip. +well done!awesome!thank you :) +Very informative course. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to get into web development to start here. +very good course! +Excellent training with good focus on responsive design and enthusiast trainer who likes to talk about his subject. +Brilliant course! Explains the basics of everything. Good enough to get you started in Front-end Web Development. +good work, even when my native language is spanish, this course was easy to follow and i learn a lot. totally five star. +Hello!I found this course very exciting!The lecturer's voice is clear and the video is excellent quality.The materials are interesting, well structured and practical.Many thanks for the team! =) +Awesome course! Thanks a lot! +The class is very well put together and the instructor does a great job explaining things. I enrolled in this class just to see how things worked on coursera and wanted to do that with a simple starter style course.Personally I think that this course should have stayed away from ui-toolkits and js frameworks (maybe just using something like normalize.css or reset.css). Maybe going into more things like @imports and writing maintainable html. css, and javascript. Anyway, it is minor i guess because in the end you still had to do some overriding of styles so you did write some of your own css.All-in-all it was a fun first course for me on coursera. +Entertaining and educational. I have enjoyed this very much! +Much fun to sharpen your skills. So far i have learned a lot from this course. Highly recommended to others. +Great course, you really get to learn the true basics of CSS and web developing. Great job guys! +Pretty good for the beginners.Yakov is really good tutor +I think this course is best of "HTML, CSS, and Javascript" courses on Coursera!Working with Git, going deep into objects and function in JavaScript, HTML/CSS/JS tricks and so on. +This is a fantastic course if you need to take your front-end development skills to the next level. +This is by far the best course I ever took. I learned in two weeks more than I would in a four month course. +I am learning a lot of things.Thank you Professor and thank you Coursera +Very good course!Assignments deserve to be longer and more challenging though +I am really enjoying the class so far. The professor and teaching assistants have been very responsive to questions in the forum. I've been looking for a HTML/Javascript course that wasn't a super beginner level course as I have some programming experience but am trying to learn more, and this class fits the bill. If you are very new to programming I wouldn't recommend taking this as the professor moves pretty quickly, but if you're like me and want to learn web development and have some programming knowledge under your belt, this class is made for you! +Great job! For a new course it is very well structured and presented. Thanks :) +Great course! +A very fun, practical, and engaging course! +It has been a great learning experience so far. Picking up a lot of new things, even after having been doing front end for a while. +This is an amazing course. If you want to master these technologies in a fun way, this is the course for you. What sets this course apart from the others is the way Yaakov demonstrates the whole web development process, including interacting with a real-world client and taking requirements of the application from her, doing the design and implementing a complete solution for her. +I highly recommend this course, the instructor is very eloquent and clear. You will gain solid fundamentals in HTML and CSS. You won't regret to enroll in this course. However, it is good idea you study by your side GIT and GitHub, to avoid frustrations with that part of the process. +Great insight into how everything works, what is important and how to code websites properly +Why 5 stars:1. The amount of effort to put the course together is evident. It is not easy to go over all the basics in such short videos but Yaakov has managed to construct the course in such a way that we have enough understanding to ask the right questions that we can then investigate.2. Practice quizzes after the lectures are very helful. They help us refresh the concepts and also give us a sense of confidence that we have understood the lecture.3. The on screen recording is done very well. No clutter or unnecessary clicks and easy to follow.4. Engages with students in the forums.Room for improvement:1. A cheat sheet document would be great. I am taking notes but wish I had an organized and concise document that contains the rules/syntax that need to be memorized. +This is my first course in Coursera and I am extremity happy with it. The teaching is excellent and i get remainders and updates to my E-mail on a regular basis. I never expected an online course to be this good. Thank you very much for that. +Professor makes learning very easy and engaging. Good content and course materials. I have learned so much in these last 2 weeks. +Great course! Thank you! +I am impressed and love the way this course is taught. Quick, entertaining, and engaging. Great job! +This is awesome. and you can learn a lot in leess than a month!! +I really like the structure of the course. Even though i had some experience with HTML and CSS before, this course definitely improved my understanding of the subject. I want to say thank you to the teacher, teaching assistants and everyone involved in creating of the course! Great job! +An excellent course! those materials are exactly what I want. +The content of the course is excellent. Descriptions are also excellent and very complete. The course has been created so that most people can understand what's happening here (even if you're new to programming).I'm only giving this 4 stars because there are some things that make this course too slow, in my opinion. I don't think you need to mention which file we are working on [after the first couple of times] because we can easily see that by the name of the file and the browser of Sublime. Those are a few seconds that are a waste of time.Secondly, I think that the questions in the practice questionnaires are a bit too easy. I didn't feel like they prepared me enough for the project at the end of week 2. You mostly ask if something is true/not which is too easy to guess. I think you would greatly improve the quality of the course if you designed some mini-situations. For instance (not sure if Coursera allows it), show a mini mockup and give 10 lines of code. Then ask how you will add another div to the top right of the mockup so that it aligns with the current code without breaking. Making those exercises not the same as your lecture code is going to help improve self-awareness. Currently, I think that people find it way too easy to select the right answer, since it's easy to remember what you said and what not.I also understand that you wanted us to like the page for good reasons (because you look an extremely radiant and happy person) but I think you oversold it a bit. You should have mentioned that once or twice, but no more. Seeing it in a few of the examples wasn't quite my cup of tea.On a good note, I was extremely [pleasantly] surprised when you did that real world project thing. That was an amazing idea and you're executing the details quite well (not writing 100% code on-screen, etc.). I really like how you sometimes say that we should look up the reference by ourselves, since that's what most programmers do (I study CS and after 3 years, plus a 6 month internship at a big company, this can't be more true).I'm definitely giving this a 5* if you fix the questions to be harder and a bit more different to what you said in the respective video. They should make you think. Also, some of them could be open answers, requiring you to recall classes/code by memory (or cheat by watching the video). It would be nice if the answer was in some reference, so people could learn to use that too. +Awesome course!!! Very informative. I have gone through other similar courses and this is by far the best one. +Good Course. Helps solidify the knowledge on HTML and CSS mostly +Awesome course covering fundamental concepts!! +This is a well thought out course and delivery by the lecturer is superb! +I would like to thank prof. Yaakov Chaikin and JHU team for clear and well-prepared lectures in this course. +Excellent Course. Excellent Content and Excellent Teaching.Impressed with the Tutor's command over the subjects. I can't ask for anything better.Thank you Sir! +I like everything - the information, the tempo, the presentation quality. Thank you. +Very efficient presentation in extremely clear and unambiguous terms. +There are few teachers whose lessons you remember for the rest of your life. Yakov is few of them. Absolute clarity, amazingly optimum content, passion to make course interesting and hell lot of hard work. Complete bow down. You are great and set an outstanding example of teacher. This course took me back to memories of learning Calculus on Coursera by Jim Fowler, You can't wait to finish the assignment you cannot wait to start new module. Absolute perfection. +Becoming Senior level professional within the next two years is very important for me. JHU Computer Science course will me reach that level. +I like this course a lot! Everyone should take it i'm from venezuela and i a almost graduate in computer science! I want to take it because it's always cool remember the basics and the way the professor make this course dynamically and fluid it's awesome! The professor has a great way fluid way to explain everything and he always add some humor to examples or quizzes and that makes it very cool. I can't wait to meet him in the angular course. Thanks you! +Great course and great professor. +It's amazing course for beginners +It's precise and easy to understand. Just love it! +I am super confident even with just two weeks into the course of coming out as a really skilled developer, and hopefully have a fairly advanced "developer's intuition". Best part is he has worked diligently on the minutest of details and been careful how on-line learning can be difficult.I have never done coding, and have often wondered what could be special to it.So.. guess the course approaches a specialisation successfully allowing retention of that "excitement & curiosity" that almost always is inherent to learning.Five stars already. +Nice course to get started with web development or refresh your memory. +I have learned the HTML and CSS before but the way you have taught this course makes me believe that this is the perfect course to get started with if you want to be a professional developer. This course has been a motivation to me and now I am enrolled into the another course (Single Page Applications with AngularJS ) by the same instructor. I am also planning to take more courses on coursera now.Thanks for such a great course! +Absolutely brilliant and very entertaining course, which at the same time uncovers a really useful set of tools + I really liked how easy Yaakov made the process of building a site look. This was clearly one of the best courses that I have taken on Coursera. +Very Good Course +Material was presented very thoroughly and the staff was quick to respond to any issues. Very good course! +best course about html, css, and javascript in Coursera. +Great +The content of the course is relative to its topics and very well designed and presented :) +Excellent Course but i was expecting some more content !! its very good +A lot of demo ! +Very clear, structured and interesting material. Easy to follow and understand. +Excellent instructor. He has made HTML5, CSS and JavaScript easy. +I have learned so much in two weeks.. The course is very engaging and fluid.Thanks for putting this up together +Well done and easy to follow. The instructor is very engaging. +The instructor explains core topics very well, simply and straight to the point. He also answers some important questions for people who are learning to code for the first time. I've been learning coding online on and off for a year, and I wish I had taken this course straight from the start. Thanks very much. +Loving this course so far! Fairly in-depth, yet still easy to follow. Lecturer is easy on the ears and keeps one captivated +I like the style of speech because I think it influences on making up a mind of not over-complicating while coding, in theory of course. It is an excellent aspect of the course that there's an introduction to real life tools to used in the making g and use of the technologies taught. It is invaluable the exposition to a client interview process. I will like to overview other courses from this instructor. +One of the best courses I've taken on Coursera - it's straight to the point, very informative and comprehensive at the same time. The teacher is friendly and the kind of an expert who is able to pass on his knowledge in a simple way that everyone is able understand. I strongly recommend this course! +It's a great course ! I have learned a lot ! Thank you guys ! :D +Great +This course is great and shows a lot relevant details about HTML5 +I'm in a web development for many years, but I learned all things in very unorganized way. This tutorial helps me to sort all of that.You deserved a Five stars. +Excellent course. Very well constructed. A lot of thought and effort went into this. +thanks a lot for the very interesting presentation and the photos. +I have learned the basics of climate science and gained a deeper understanding of climate change. I feel better prepared to have conversations about the state of our planet and to attempt to enact positive change for the environment. Thank you for making this course available and for the thought and planning that designing this program took! +this course is very important for me, it is a mixture of several sciences like energetic and chemical and other.. hope that i can carry for it !! +Thank you. +This course is important for climate change researchers. Kudos. +Really good course with useful information and case studies. Introduced new concepts that I was unfamiliar with. However, a few of the lectures were a bit tedious and difficult to concentrate on. +An important course to take given the current situation of climate change. +The quality of content, as well as the style and approach of the instructor made this course a valuable learning experience. Assessments were tough, but helped review course material thoroughly. Overall, I would recommend this course to those who are inclined to learn about climate science. +Very informative and well presented science. I understand so much more now! +The examples used were very understandable in relation to course materials. Very thought provoking material. +Pretty well presented through different views, sources and media. What could be improved upon is putting some effort into tying the disparate parts together and making a coherent course that flows seamlessly from part to part and shows how everything is connected to each other. +Good introductory course. I felt the wording of some of the quiz questions to be uneccessarily ambigous. +Though this course, l learned a lot about climate change and how to discuss this problem. Besides, the parts involving geography were explained in a charmingly simple and clear way. Above all, it was an extraordinary experience and I has recommended it to my best friends. +Very interesting course if you want to have an overview of how climate works. You will understand what we know but most importantly what we do NOT know on the subject. Sadly there was no feedback at all from teachers... +Really GREAT course. The presenters are ALL very interesting and this is a great condensed presentation of the topic. I wish everyone would take it! +I HAVE REALLY ENJOY THIS COURSE. THANK YOUPLEASE KEEP BRING MORE COURSE ON CLIMATE CHANGE.BRENDA +Really interesting!! +There is too much talk about climate change. +Lectures are interesting and understandable. It brought the role the ocean plays into sharp focus and told me things I had not heard before. Now if our politicians would just take the class! +A nice introductory course on climate change and its impacts. +A lot of useful information. Good educators. +this course was great and adequate. +Very nicely put together, informative course. +Nice, but very basic. +Great course to take! Learned a lot and the information given, is very creditable. Love it! :) +Very insightful course with lots of current information. +This is a very enjoyable and instructive course. The lectures are excellent, the videos are high quality, and the essays are interesting and not too long or intimidating. The links provided are very helpful; you can study the topic of climate change to whatever academic level you wish to.I live in Southern Africa, and believe me, climate change is having a dramatic effect on we who live here. Never mind 2100, the time of change is here, now - today. +Learned great things about climate change +Great broad introduction, with links to resources for deeper investigation. +Very thorough, straight-forward and entertaining course. Amazing number of outside sources worth discovering! +This was a great course! A variety of teaching styles (lectures, guest experts, videos, & readings), very well presented, & just fun. The "this is what I do for my research" bits add a personal touch, even tho this is a MOOC. Nicely done. +Nice course. Learnt a lot on topic. Eye opening. +Love that I could take this course at my own pace. Good as all the other AMNH courses. +Very professional ! +This is an excellent course. It provides a clear explanation of many climate drivers. Dr Tillenger, especially, is worth listening to. Her clarity is exceptional and her enthusiasm (and concern) are infectious. +Our Earth's Future provides a very helpful introduction to climate science, and addresses issues of climate change in a highly accessible and well presented series of lectures and readings. The course helped to quiet the inner-war of current controversy relative to climate change, by clarifying the issues, and providing explanations to help settle, for me, the inner-debate. This is great course and the quality of instruction is, in my experience, impeccable. Thank you for providing this education to life-long learners who might be seeking to better inform themselves relative to climate change and the issues of controversy relative to global warming. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course and it inspires me to do more to help the our Earth's future. I hope to be able to spread the word of science to others so that they can begin to make a difference. Great videos and explanations of some things I wasn't aware of til now. Maybe adding a what if scenario and how we could fix the issue or help would be a great assignment to add, covering everything we had gone over. But overall, thank you for a well informed course with so many links of information.[I have many of them saved in my bookmarks :-) ] +Great course! Interesting and informative, it was as much a public service as an academic endeavor. Nicely done. +Great class! Everything is explained in an intuitive manner. Highly recommended! +great course, clear and dinamic. +good recolection +Great introductory course to microeconomics covering free market supply, demand, cost curves and firm short run equilibriums. +worth your time and effort. some mathematical background required but professor Larry makes it very easy to understand the intuition behind the fo +Great course! +You can't help but like Prof DeBrock. Such a fun course! +Really liked the peer review process. +A useful elementary course. +Excellent teacher! Made microeconomics micro easy. Prof. DeBrock rocks!!! +Learned a lot about the fundamentals of supply and demand, and other related topics. Lectures were informative and enjoyable. Assignments tested fundamental knowledge. Recommend to anyone interested in the basics of economics. +Very impressive, The first course on Coursera. Good! +Excellent course with a great explanation. +Great instructor +Excellent intro to Firm Level Economics, great teacher. +This was a great refresher on micro economics. The online format was easy to navigate and the content was challenging. Really enjoyed the course. +Larry is really engaging. Great lectures. +a well thought-out best course... It's so enriching and engaging +Loved the course. Had a wonderful time studying! +I love the teacher! +I really enjoyed this course and definitely recommend it. The instructor was great. I am removing one star because I feel that it needs a little bit more of real problem solving and a small amount more of mathematical derivations. +Great professor and great videos, make this class very easy to understand and apply these concepts in the business world. +Complex. Bu +Good lecture, good material, but the peer review part is sucks... +Very articulate course +Very interesting course. Thanks Professor Larry DeBrock!! +It is well organized. +Loved it throughout! If you have an introductory background of algebra and differential calculus, you will love this even more. Professor really knows his job, and he is doing great. Thumbs up! Thank you very much professor. +nice course, with links to additional reading materials... well thought and good for busy person :-) +Excellent course! High quality video/audio and it is organized very well. +The concepts explained well and easy to understand. +Really good course! +I like this course +Very few topics are covered. Although all the topics that are included are explained very beautifully. +I thoroughly enjoyed Professor DeBrock's course. He did a fantastic job of illustrating important concepts without muddying the water with unnecessary jargon. I'm looking forward to continuing in the specialization with DeBrock at the helm. Thanks again! +good course to enroll in , will not disappoint you especially if you are new to economics , the instructor is very good and grading pattern is a lot of fun .not for economics major there is nothing in here for you folks .. +Awesome course and good instructor!I liked it a lot! +Great insights on the application of microeconomic theory to everyday decision-making. The application assignments makes the course more understandable. +This is a great course! Gary teaches always with a smile on his face and with great everyday life examples! I loved it because it provides great insights for corporations or ventures by linking econ. theories to businesses. Thanks a lot! Great teacher! +Please unlock case solutions in advance so we can assess our peers correctlyOtherwise great class with great references to other videos as well +Courses r very benificial but all courses are not freee +Professor is great at explaining complex notions. Very well structured! +I truly enjoy this course because I am using the knowledge I acquire during the lectures and applying it to complete assignments instead on relying on quizzes along to gauge my understanding. The assignments are based on real world examples. +A brilliant course, full of surprises and challenging ideas. I can't recommend it highly enough. +A wonderful way of understanding gender in Art. I was a complete beginner in this topic and now I feel I have tools to help me continue my training and to observe art differently. +Can't Describe The Awesomeness Of This Great Course ...The Great Relationship Between The History Of Art & The Vision To The Cultural History Of Countries ...I'm Really Speechless When I'm Seeing This Awesome Pieces Of Art ..No Words To Describe ...Thanks To Everyone Who Works On This Great Wonderful Course..Professor Jeanette Hoorn..All The Professors & All The Team Of The Course..Appreciate Your Hard Work A Lot ...Thank You So So Much ... +An excellent and thoroughly engaging course on disparate pieces of art within the context of gender and sexuality. The course allowed me to view artistic works within a cultural context that is deeply embedded yet often ignored . +Good course. Coming from a traditional art historical context/content. Which is still a very valuable methodology in this age of "Visual Culture"! Thank you. +A great course lead by very good teachers. +I learned a lot from this course! I loved how analytical it was and it was great to learn about the historical contexts of gender on the canvas. It has already made some of my museum visits much more interesting and thought-provoking. I will say that at times it would be difficult to follow the lecturers is the only issue I had with this course. Otherwise it was awesome. +Superinteresting subject, but since I did not have access to all the literature through the website I was not able to finish it unfortunatly +Great Course! +Very well illustrated and organized course. Points made very clearly. Good learning experience. +So good course with an excellent Staff,so thanks for all and specially for University of Melbourne to give me that chance. +I'm really enthused with the lesson cause I feel I had a general view before about this subject and now I m approaching the core. It;s been an issue that I was thinking a lot the last 2 years. +Very good information with a fantastic understanding of the variety of artists. However, I almost dreaded logging in to watch the lectures; they were often boring me to tears. Were this information presented in a more engaging way, this review would be much higher. +I really enjoyed this course. An added bonus--I now understand what "sensibility" really means as related to the novel, Sense & Sensibility" by Jane Austen. I hope this team comes up with a part 2 or another class. +I thought the course content was great; it gave me a new perspective on the works of art shown in the course. I also enjoyed the variety of art, styles and mediums used to teach the subject matter. Very interesting. +Some interesting lessons, yet a rather boring presentation as most faculty were reading their scripts, or seemed nearly jet-lagged in some lessons. Sound recording is sometimes also perfectible (echo due to large museum room).One may also take into consideration that the perspective given in the course is a bit "Australian-centric". I should have expected this as the course came from the University of Melbourne, but I have the feeling that some courses on Coursera feel a bit more "global"... +Mind-blowing !!! Thank you from the heart !!!! +Great Course! I loved looking at the art presented with a different context and understanding. Thanks so much. +it was nice precise and full of knowledge will help me in related field +Well framed excellent course, the teaching is lucid and practical for routine practice. Highly recommended. +Realy nice done! Very interesting an easy explained. +Thank you very much! It was very interesting for such a curios person like me. +The course is very interesting but includes essentials and basic principles only! That is why 4/5. But in terms of quality it's 5/5 only! +I enjoy learning in this class! +This course was extremely time consuming because a great deal of effort was required to translate it into something I could use. I had a great deal of trouble with following the lecture videos. The demonstrations of the tools were typed on a screen that was too small and the command line tools were executed so quickly that it's hard to see where the screen full of data came from. The lecturer had such poor pronunciation that lectures' transcripts show that the voice recognition software could not understand and transcribe a lot of her words. For example, "command" sounded like "comment" and likewise was transcribed that way. More seriously, it was hard to hear the difference between "VCF" and "BCF". +Great course +I would prefer the lecture command line notes too in presentations or any other files in each week modules. It was difficult for me to understand her way of teaching and I felt the lectures didn't flow correctly. +very information with hands on training exercises. +This is the worst course I've ever listened, and I've listened my fair share of online courses! Do this course ONLY if you want to complete whole specialization!Professor is simply awful, English is not her native language obviously, but even that is not the problem, she simply speaks sentences that doesn't make sense at all! And she obviously doesn't have computer science background, if she does then she is even worse then I thought. +this is a useful course +It was a useful course. A pity that the instructor makes so many mistakes when speaking, which makes sometimes a bit confusing to follow. +More in-depth explanation would be better. Reasonable projects, overall. Well structured. +Thanks for the great course. IT was just right level of easiness/hardness. While the quizzes were basic, the homework quizzes were hard but not unsolvable. These actually motivated to further spend time on familiarizing with the tools, whch is essential for home usage.Sometimes the videos had their length when we watched somebody else typing... that could have made better. +Awesome course. The skills taught will cut across not only in genomics but also, in other aspects. The discussion forum was amazing! The mentors and people who were doing the course at the period i did it were very helpful. +It gives a significant coverage of many important command line tools. Teaching level is not good, very difficult to follow. +I have learnt so much from this course. +Excellent course. Thanks :) +The video lectures are confusing and quizzes too +Coming in as a veteran coder of 2 decades, I thought this would be "easy". And, had I completed it using my own C/Python code, it probably would have. However I made the decision to stick with ONLY the command line tools and actually ended up learning a lot more about basic unix tools that I rarely get to use.Be prepared to knuckle down and REALLY learn a lot about the specific commands and what they provide as there are a ton of them. The instructor goes into a ton of detail on each one and the course is laid out in a nice flow starting with the basics and ending with a very challenging exam at the end that showcases an entire RNA-seq technique.With a bit more polish, it would be 5 stars, but as it stands there is a bit rough around the edges.I think this course should be #2 in the specialization as the underlying concepts of RNA-seq and how the tools fit together would have been invaluable while taking the current #2 course on Galaxy. I think that I can now go back and get 100% on the final project armed with the RNA-seq techniques that were not originally covered in my first run through the Galaxy content. +Th lecturer could be a little more engaging and the materials used during classes, if made available would help following it better, by replicating the examples being shown. +I recommend this course to be provided early along the Genomic Data Science Specialization, probably before "Genomic Data Science with Galaxy" as it would help make the later one much more easier to understand. +The worst course I've ever take in Coursera. I can pass the course all because I have some background of this topic. The lecture taught me NOTHING!Consider I just finish the previous course "algorithm for DNA sequencing" which might be the best course I toke in the Coursera, this course makes me very disappointed! If the previous course gives me the faith to continue learning something in Coursera, this course must be the reason that let me leave the Coursera left.I can't even understand why there are some guys give this course 5 stars. If there is -5 stars option, I'll put this score in front of the lecturer and tell her WHAT A BAD COURSE her give us. +Very detailed and simply explained introduction to work in linux environment for biologist +This is perhaps one of the most clearly taught courses I have had on Coursera. Thank you for putting in time to teach us! +Great introduction to command line. Even if you don't have some experience with Shell or know the programs, you can follow the course with some effort. The exams are great to remind the key concepts learnt during the module. +It is easy to learn the basic knowledge,And It is very useful +If you want to know the array of options of the various tools in the Tuxedo suite (and don't want to read a manual), then this course is for you. I was hoping that there would be some conceptual grounding in what each tool was useful for, but that was not present at all. +This course covers used of command line tools such as the Tuxedo suite. Just what I was looking for. The subject was well paced and the material covered appropriate. I felt confident at the end of the course that I had almost mastered something valuable. The discussions were not very active and I felt rather isolated, so I'm taking one star off for engagement. +Very informative course. Because I am new to this, it was at times confusing. But overall, great teaching and great experience. Thank you. +Very interesting and detailed course.Most I liked the tasks: they are very detaild. Thanks to them I've leraned a lot of new things. +very basic and useful command line tools for genomic data analysis. +Very bad or non-existent support +I learned a LOT from this class and the instructor is very clear. +The course content is very solid. It focuses heavily on the tools and technique, and there lacks the concepts and biology behind those tools. But I would guess there is some prior courses in this specialization explaining the concepts, though I didn't take them.The tools explained in this course is the most popular ones for handling up-stream analysis. They are the must-have ones for current bioinformatician jobs.The instructor, Dr Liliana Florea, did a great job, walking you through those tools step-by-step. I also found the exercises (exams) highly useful.The course title is not the most accurate one. The title is not very catchy either. This course is more about the tools for analyzing next generation sequence data. +Very interesting course! +It was the first time I attend a MOOC. I enjoyed the course very much. As my first MOOC in my freshly changed career tower sustainable development, I couldn't get a better start. The course gave me a great overall knowledge about all the fields of sustainable development. The course was very well organised, and the quantity of work was reasonable for a working person. I highly recommend this course. +Great insight into Sales forecasting. I liked it +A really well done course that got me thinking in ways that I'm not used to. The insights into how to make science engaging will definitely come in handy as well. All in all a very enjoyable experience with enough new material and new ways of thinking and teaching to keep me interested (even ten years post-PhD in genetics). Thanks! +Useful one +This course was very informative and gives an good knowledge of the basics of genetics. +Very nice course +Actually , I've benefited a lot of this course. +This course covered a lot of ground & will be a good jumping off point. +Very good course +Very good course. Thank you. +Excellent with many resources available +I requested for a refund and I did not receive it. I guess I won't get it until about 2 weeks. I want a refund because it's too easy, this is stuff I learned in freshman biology. It's nice that it offers resources and links however, I wanted to take a course and get a certificate in one at my level to prove that I can learn beyond a high school biology level. And the course says it's for educators but it doesn't go into much detail on how to actually teach the information. I guess this is good if you want to be a substitute at a middle school or high school, but it's not for me. I was looking for something that was more so at a college level. Also on the important information, they sort of skim over sometimes. I'm 19, I'm not in school because I don't want to waste thousands of dollars on stuff that's elementary so I don't think I could get any special benefits and get courses for free, but that's also the reason why I'm on here, but I'm disappointed to have wasted 50 dollars if they aren't going to refund me. I can barely afford 50 dollars, I'm unemployed and no one will hire. I wanted to take a course in something that would at least get me some kind of job or volunteer work within my field of interest. Seriously, not even these minimum wage jobs will hire you if you didn't go or aren't going to college. Just wanted to feel like I accomplished something suited to my level. +this was a fantastic course. Genetics fascinates me! +A very fun and interesting course. It was challenging. I learnt a lot from this course. It is the best course a person could ask for. It was really interesting. I will remember genomics: decoding the language of life forever.. +this explains the laws of power +very informative and interesting. +Lecturers are great. They really explain clearly what is it all about. The structure of the course is also great. +I particularly loved how the course was taught so conceptually. There were no strict methods or formulae to mug up and follow. The homework questions were very stimulating. I found the depth reached in addressing the concepts just perfect for an introductory course. +Very enjoyable course and would highly recommend +Very Good and encouraging +Well-organized. +During my postgraduate degree programme, I could learn basics of game theory. After that, I started to love the field and waiting for more opportunities to explore the theory. This Coursera's game theory course gave me a solid foundation on that and encouraged me to explore more. I will continue learning Game Theory, because it helps me in my career life. I work for the government in planning and policy related matters. Therefore, Game Theory is a helpful tool to me analyzing public policies. Thank you Coursera Team, Stanford University and The University of British Columbia for offering this interesting course. I expect to complete the follow up course in the near future. +Very informative, the professors were great, would recommend this course to other people for sure. +Really enjoy the course and thanks for sharing ! However, if the story line could be a little bit more clear, I think that will be more helpful for the process of learning. +this is an interesting class, but not easy. learned much useful information from this. +The course concludes the elementary knowledge of Game Theory. But it might be a little bit difficult for a new learner to grasp the key point. The lecture sometimes could be too much academic. +I had no previous background in game theory before taking this course. I am an undergraduate physics major with the corresponding mathematical competence (up to multivariable calculus, differential equations, etc.), and an introductory course in Discrete Math. So I had seen the set theory and summation notation before, but had no experience applying them to game theory.The instructors were excellent and clearly have a deep academic background in the subject, as well as a significant personal interest. This is important because they didn't come off as if they were just relaying information; they gave the impression of genuinely enjoying the material and even going into brief interludes about the motivation behind some of the definitions and examples from their personal perspectives, in addition to the more "standard" lecture material.The course is definitely an introduction, and doesn't go into most of the more formal proofs of the theorems used, nor does it use examples or homework problems that require a significant background in the subject. I found I was able to complete most of the problem sets within 4-5 hours, with an average of about 3 hours. But your mileage on this may vary, especially if you're less familiar with the mathematical notation and the style of problem solving used. This is not to say the problems are not difficult, because they are! Many of them are non-intuitive and require you to think around corners, or consider methods of thinking and problem-solving that are not commonly used in math and the natural sciences. This, I think, is a byproduct of game theory's preeminent figure -- John Nash's -- unique approach to mathematics. He was famous for using highly intuitive, non-rigorous ways of coming to conclusions before proving them more formally. Thus, the field is a bit unconventional in its methods and approach, and won't be automatically accessible just because someone has already had exposure to advanced math or science. It requires time and careful thought to develop a deep understanding of. But I found that this effort was well rewarded by the end of the course where I started to see all the earlier theorems and techniques coming together to form a unified system of problem-solving capabilities.I strongly intend to take the advanced version of this course that is also offered on Coursera. As for this one, I recommend it to anyone interested in understanding the mathematics of games, competitive environments, and complex systems in general! Very well done by the instructors. +This course covers basic knowledge about Game Theory. But if you want to go deep on the topic, more efforts are needed beyond the course. It is good for beginners. +Very interesting and mathematically explain many daily phenomenon. +Thank you for giving me excellent information on game theory. It is very helpful course for me. Thank you Stanford University,The University of British Columbia and Coursera. +Great! have learned a lot from this course! +Great and quite practical, really get me the insight of this lesson +The Questions in the weekend quizzes are not that challenging and the lectures are also not concentrated on complicated (Real life scenarios). Good for an Introductory course +Some of the material could have been re-recorded to remove the mistakes, but overall good work. +The course overall is good, with plenty of insights into game theory. However, I wish there could be more concrete examples for concepts such as Bayesian Equilibrium and core. The examples given are too special and is not in accordance with what is given in the exercise.Thanks for the lecturers and mentors! +I recommend it to everyone who wants to broaden their thinking and knowledge. To people with background in gaming this course will be to liking) +There is nothing as such to mentioned from a beneficiary's end but thank you for bestowing me with the gist of this humongously significant topic +Well structured and perfectly presented course program. Great lecturers! +For a beginner, it is a fair start but definitely many things could have been better. The course does cover the main subject concepts in fair amount of depth and with decent rigor. The course videos are sometimes kind of less engaging. Many a times I felt my interest waning off. Many a times, the mathematical equations looked daunting. I think more focus should be put on including more number of real world examples and solving them within the videos.Also, the concept of three Professors for one course was hard to digest, which led to the whole course feeling discontinuous and disconnected at several instances. +Good structure and useful exercises +Good presentation of the Game Theory with mathematical models. Interesting course!!! +Great course. Learned about a whole new concept that I had not really known about. Changes my view about decision making in a scientific manner. Somewhat practical but may have a subtle impact on everyday life. +This class is a recommendation for beginners who are interested in game theory. +Very good course, it's worth the time +An intriguing introduction to game theory, with a good number of resources and useful videos. Notes could do with better explicit explaining and more examples, but cross-referencing with the videos and putting in the work is more than enough. Definitely recommended. +Extremely interesting course topic, well organized and communicated. +Good Course +Great introduction to Game Theory !!!! +Amazing course. Taking the same class at my university here in the U.S and this is way more in depth, better explained, and resourceful. I really like the concept of cooperation between universities as well to teach a class and provide students with the best professors in the subject. +Very well structured course, gives you good understanding of game theory and its applications +There are better courses than this for example Yale Game Theory(YouTube) explanation is not good. +I like it, as economics student +This course is a very enjoyable tour of introductory game theory, covering several different general types of games and a wide variety of examples taken from real-world situations.The main results of the theory are stated and demonstrated by examples, rather than proved (if you're looking for a proof of Nash's theorem, you won't find it here but you should definitely look at his original one-page paper from 1949 which is freely available online). Some advanced topics are also briefly mentioned so that interested students have the option to look them up for themselves.Some may find the use of formal mathematical notation offputting, so you'll want to be comfortable with inequalities, linear equations and the basic notation of set theory.In the discussion forums for my session, the course mentor was very helpful and supportive of all the students. Some feedback on error corrections and suggestions was posted to the forums (including a summary list posted in week 8) which will hopefully reach one of the instructors.Overall, I highly recommend the course and am looking forward to part 2! +This course is very recommended for people who tries to understand more about strategies and how we should react to a problem. It explains many kinds of problem we usually encounter in real life. Most of them are simplified but still gives us insight about the theory in giving our best response to the problems +Good course, but sometimes I missed some supplementary reading material... when I couldn't quite understand something from the videos alone, it would have been nice to read up on a topic. +The course is fun and practical. Never before had I imagined such invisible strategic interactions can be possible to illustrate by the measuring of payoffs. Lots of nice tools and realistic examples though some definition formulas seem to be somehow intricate to me. +5 out of 5!I managed to finish this course in just 10 days. Pretty simple yet practical, providing a very good introduction of Game Theory.Would totally recommend this to anyone who wants to start learning Game Theory. Assessments are easy relatively; focus more on practical calculations than theoretical questions (which I assumed will be asked in Advanced Level).All 3 instructors are friendly and experienced in lecturing, which helps a lot in understanding the materials. +Very interesting course. In my opinion in requires some mathematical background (e.g. to read mathematical notation) but more important is logical thinking. Sometimes you'd have to go an extra mile and find some external materials on particular topic to fully understand it but I'd say it's a good thing. I would recommend that course to anyone who knows that game theory exists but never really had a chance to explore it in more detail. +Another approach but mathematical demonstration is probably possible.Coursera offer technologies to avoid classroom demos on whiteboard. +This course is very basic and not intensive. Overall, it's good! +The topics that were explained very lucidly and clearly. The real-world examples helped develop an intuitive understanding of the course material. However, I think more topics could be covered in an additional few weeks. +love this course +The examples are getting very abstract. It is getting difficult to understand the concepts with the examples explained. +The course is very interesting and challenging but there are mistakes in the videos and too much mathematical theory with relation to examples. +Solid course. My only complaint is misnomer that you have to know little math/logic. Game theory is a math-heavy subject, and while they do not delve too deep into advanced math, a lot of formulas are used with discrete math symbols (from set theory, probability). It is quite possible to make it through this course without fully understanding these formulas, but it did make a fair amount of the lecture videos confusing to watch. Otherwise than that, the instructors are humorous and obviously understand and like what they are teaching. I highly recommend this course if you are looking to learn more about game theory! +I think it would be more easy to understand the concepts with more examples +Very formal and difficult to follow. Not for beginners. Not recommended for pros. +Great! +Beware, if you're not mathematically inclined, this course will be a struggle. It is a great course with very valuable theory and practice. If you haven't taken a statistics course or able to take account of every variable, take this and keep track of your notes, rewatch videos, and have fun. +the course is really well organized but the mathematical skills are required for usual skip of steps by the teacher. if there are supplementary material, it would have been better! +May be it is only my perception of education but I'd appreciate a lot if the course provides more examples and deep review at least for a few of them. But theoretically it was more than full and interesting. +Very clear lectures and well-made quizzes. Contains a lot of different definitions, but I think that's how it must be. Recommended. +Lecturer not conversant with subject. +tricky concepts and long equations yet fun +Great course! +Treat this course as a "things you need to learn for a basic grasp of game theory" and you'll love it. A bit rough if you don't have any set theory experience or math backgrounds; pick up some supplemental material from gametheory101 and you'll be fine. +Overall, it's pretty good. Some coursework are difficult, because they are quite different compare to those in the lectures +In my opinion, some lectures do not fully explain the theory or do not show enough practical application of the theory. And I am not talking about "real life application", but the ones given later on the test. Had to refer to the internet on multiple occasions to fully understand the material.However, have to say, pretty good course overall. Give you the idea, of what type of knowledge one needs to "understand" the game theory. Help to build your mindset. +Excellent course, very interesting! +It is necessary more examples for to understand more clearly the topics. +A bit technical (in a good way) and very pedagogic +Really nice!!! +Great and clean outline of content, but more examples coupled with the theorems which are quite hard to understand will be better. +I belive that this course is usefull in computer science research, the discipline allow us to explore alternative soltions from other approaches. +Actually, this course is a great one to take. Professors have explained these concepts and main ideas very clearly, therefore students can understand it very easily, even if they do not have previous knowledge about game theory. I want to say “thank you” to all the three professors for making such a concise and intelligible course.However, I would like to give some suggestions about this course. There is an obvious gap between the quizzes and graded assignments. Sometimes the quiz is very easy and it just requires you to have a basic understanding of the concept, while the assignment is even more difficult than the examples included in the videos. I think this course would be better if the staff can improve the difficulty gap between quizzes and assignments. And for people who want to enroll this course, an exercise book with detailed solution would be helpful for you to learn it better.As for the content of this course, there are lots of formulas from Week 5 to the end, which are a little difficult to understand. I fully understand this because math is always abstract, and formulation is an essential part of it. I think this problem can be solved by providing more ungraded quizzes for students to practice. They can have a better comprehension of the content through practicing.Anyway, this course is worth taking. Through learning it you will gain not only the knowledge about game theory, but also a new way to understand relationships around you. Happy learning! +Exceptionally very good course - Must for anyone who is doing research on Control systems using game theory !!! Kudos to all the three professors !!! Will definitely do Game Theory 2 !!! +This course is great. The teachers provide excellent exposition of the problems, the formalization, and the solution concepts of generic agents and types of agents acting simultaneously, sequentially in games with complete and incomplete information. The math required is middle school probability calculation and equations. The formal definitions of games and concepts are more demanding, but a complete understanding of the formal definition is not required to solve the problem sets or the exam. The teachers are good at giving explanations and examples in a natural language to scaffold the understanding of the formal definitions. +A great beginner level course to get a quick view of stuff game theory deals with. +A perfect introduction to game theory, especially the exercises make you think about the subject. +Had lots of fun doing this course. The lectures were all top quality and never bombarded us with too much information at once.Kudos to Kevin, Matt and Yoav for a memorable experience! :) +NICE COURSE.CAN BE RECOMMENDED FOR BEGINEERS +great course to start with game theory +Very useful to understand the concepts and practice related problems associated with game theory. Cool ! +This course is really helpful for me to understand the game theory, and it's not hard to comprehend so this course is optimal for those who know little about the game theory. +Excellent course from top researchers of this field. Classes are concise and lecturers' teaching skills are strong. +Clear illustration, well-designed structures, vivid examples. +good course! +Excellent course with very interesting topics covered and adequate examples! +Really interesting course but I have some recomendations:1)I've missed that the professors would have done more example exercises on every lesson2)The value of the certificate to others (ie to find a job) is how hard is to pass the course or the minimum knowledge that the student adquires. The evaluation system makes it very easy to cheat (with 3 attemps every 8 hours for the practice sets or the exam). With test-type answers it is very easy to pass the course even if you haven't watched any lesson video or learnt anything.3) For point 2 I recommend that the check system on practice sets and the exam could be able to accept numeric or simbolic answers (not test-type) so that it will have infinite answers and nobody could cheat the system (in Edx I've done some courses that have this system). Another option could be that every attempt that you make substracted 10% on the calification of that practice set, so if you've already done the practice set twice you could only get 70% tops on the third attempt.Thanks to the staff! +The topic and the class content itself are good, but the introduction is too brief. Hope they can add more stuff! +Great course for introduction. Actually, the course itself does NOT tell detail enough for fully understanding of Game Theory. Extra studies are needed, such as the reference book, the article mentioned in the first week and also Wikipedia.org. But the lecture is good enough for us to know what we should search for:) +Makes a hard topic really easy to understand and comprehend. +I liked this course, but sometimes examples showed in the lectures were much easier than those you needed to solve in a quiz. +Interesting course content +i didn't really enjoy this course +A great course. Beginner friendly. +In my opinion, it gets too technical and it is not a self contained course at all. Neither it is a beginner course for game theory. If someone is looking to understand the real basics of it, should take the Univeristy of Tokyo course. Some lessons were really abstract and I ended up looking for information in other websites to understand it. Another thing... I suppose the three lecturers are incredible good in their respective fields, but in the teaching part, Some Shoham's lessons were like listening to a robot. M. O Jackson is pretty clear in his explanations altough too technical, and Leyton Brown has a very clear way to teach, but I honestly got lost many times in the final exercises. +You need to simplify it a little more +I guess that more exercise solving process should be should in lectures.All the rest is great! +The games needs to be explained in sufficient details. In addition, after a point in time, it became too technical. +Great for completing the course~Thanks for the detailed and clear description from the three Professors.Without this course, I have no opportunity to learn such things because no one will teach me in such clear way. +Very good and useful course. +Amazing course! Thanks! +Great course, specially because of the professor, who has an incredible ability to explain it really simple so that you will understand concepts right away. +Very Good course! +Short but complete course about project management, I like. +Very good! Amazing! +Simple to understan for beginners in project m +Very good course with clear explanations and good pace.I would add some more extra material to cover some aspects that are not given in deep during the course but overall is a really good course. +Very good explanations, and the exercises and power points prepared helped to understanding it better. Thanks! +In my opinion issues aboard at course are too complex to explained in shorts terms.But the infomation was value enough for an overview approach.Thanks. +Basic content that do not explain how business models are applied in digital world +The content was excellent but it requires a high interest/attention span on part of the students because very few teaching aids are used. +Interesting Course for Digital Business.. +Amazing insights on how the new world of digital is evolving +Some questions in the quiz are not helpful for learning more about the topic. For example how does it help the learner to be able to answer, what question the shirt of the presenter has? Seriously? +It was very interesting course. We learned how the digital business model can be applied to different industries and how it can be exploited by the software developers ecosystem. +While this topic is interesting, and course goes over some examples. I feel course lacked depth, and didn't really answers main question: how to find business model, or gave case studies of business model. Just reiterated obvious examples, which is common knowledge.Topic : 10/10Quality: 4/10Presentation: 5/10 +It is good course.I expect part2 with english subtitle. +Nice course, very interesting. +Till date, very good course with interactive learning.I thank to Professor who took to much pain to develop this kind of lucid interactive learning source .Dr. Tejas P Joshi +I have taken many courses, but this one is really useful and knowledgeable. +good class, watched all the lectures, just won't do peer review. +I've taken many, many Coursera courses and this is one of the best if not the best.Video presentations are given in a straight forward manner with real world case studies that demonstrate application of topic material. I learned a LOT primarily due to the interesting nature in which the course was structured and material presented.I cannot say enough nice things about this course and Professor Bates. Well, how about 'Outstanding"Thanks You! +Its just amazingly good. Doing forensic science as a job is my dream since 2 years old according to my family. Its really finally the day that i can get in touch with it!!!!!! +Many case study examples to illustrate forensic techniques, interesting and inspiring! +Wonderfull, I loved so much +The course was brilliant I just wish we had been given more mentor, lecturer input and when do we get to know the right answers. +Extremely interesting and informative. It is an excellent option for understanding and knowing about these topics. +Excellent course its easy,simple,perfect lecture materials. +very interesting course +Very good course that provides a little more than only basics of forensic science at the same time giving overview of the major areas that this subject covers. Mr Roderick Bates explains everything very clearly implementing new ideas gradually. I loved plethora of examples and case studies. Assignments made learning enjoyable. +Outstanding professor! +Best course for beginner who wants to know about Forensic Science. Would be better is have more case study shared, but its good enough now. +This is by far one of the best courses I have taken. It's intriguing and thought-provoking while providing fascinating information and going into detail on how forensic science works. +Amazing course more interesting than tv shows:)I recommand. +An amazing course with plenty interesting information. I was personally astonished from the quality of the material. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone interested in learning and loves to be challenged. +Very good introductory course, gives very good background on forensic science, evidence collection and analysis. Particularly enjoyed Professor Roderick Bates' informal style and witty comments during the video classes. A very interesting point were also the video experiments, showing us simple protocols that can be used in the lab. All in all, a great course! +I have really learn a lot through the participation of the course and would like to sincerely thank the people conducting the course to make the course so enriching and also interesting. +The material is good, but the format of the case study submission has allowed numerous cases of cheating and plagiarism. +This corse is teaching me everything I need to know about Forensic Science! +Great Course to get some insite on what to expect in U +Professor Roderick Bates is a fantastic lecturer. It is my first time back at school in 23 years and I followed his classes with ease. Highly recommended course for everyone. +I love this course. I have been waiting for this course to restart for months. I hope it gets archived so I can revisit it when I need to. +Over my expectations!!! Really good introductory course. +Super interesting course.Would be great to have more Courses about forensic science +Great course, very interesting, and actually quite fun! You will learn a lot from it. +great course. lots of case examples. loved the case assesments +The best Coursera course ever +Very funny and interesting.Also pretty practical +Really practical project in the genomics field! +Great course. Thanks to professors and peers. Ready to use now. +Excellent set of assignments to apply multiple tools used in the specialization! +Very much helpful course. I appreciate it. +By conducting the capstone project, I applied essential concepts and tools to analyse genomic data in order to understand interesting biological processes. The tasks were well designed and explained. The peers in this learning community were ver supportive. After taking this specialization, I feel confident in integrating genomic and transcriptomic data analysis into my plant biological research. THANK YOU! +Great course! I can't think of a better way of putting together all we learned during the whole specialisation in one real world research project... +No clear explain about which is the right dataset to be downloaded, no support from instructors about that on discussion forum. +The first round of the capstone was separated in time by about 6 months from the initial courses, so the lack of additional material was rough. Otherwise the process was a good real word application of NGS processing. +Only a more large, and longer course, would be better, it's a great course. +So complete and enriching. Well structured and organised. +EXCELENTE, ME DIO UNA PERSPECTIVA ACTUAL SOBRE LO QUE PASA EN NUESTRO MUNDO DE LOS ASPECTOS MAS RELEVANTES Y SIGNIFICATIVOS, DE TODO LO QUE PODEMOS HACER DE FORMA EFECTIVA Y DE LOS RETOS QUE TENEMOS COMO COMUNIDAD MUNDIAL. +Covers the basics of geopolitics in a very concise and interesting manner. +An amazing course! +The content of the course is very interesting. The final task could be more ambitious, however - just to inspire greatness. +This really gives you a fresh look at the world situtation. If you studied this 10 years ago, repeat it, and you'll see how much it has changed.Congratulations to the ESADE team +Kudos to the ESADEgeo team. This is a wonderful course, full of insights and valuable information. +Great course, but simplistic. +EL MATERIAL ES REALMENTE DE CALIDAD, CADA CONCEPTO MANEJADO TE DA UNA AMPLIA PERSPECTIVA Y TE BRINDA UNA VISIÓN DE SEGUIR BUSCANDO TU SUPERACIÓN. GRACIAS A COURSERA Y A LA UNAM POR ESTE TIPO DE CURSOS +Great. I am happy to completed Blended learning course. Amazing experience and learned lot more .:) +A great course to get you started! +Very good. Very useful +A great course, well presented with clear objectives and instruction that ensures successful outcomes. Well put together, engaging. I walked away from this with an in-depth understanding of how to apply the materials. Each area was fully and carefully explained and demonstrated. Most fun I've had with a MOOC. Such a good teacher who anticipates the questions and provide the answers. +good explanation and interesting content. Lessons learned can be put to practice immediately. The content let's you think about starting a business in a general way also. Negative point: the main point are repeted a lot of times. The total number of classes could be reduced (a lot) and still provide the same message +Very interesting topics. +It is really a exceptional course which illustrates networking problems and answers with real life examples. +Very enlightning course. +thanks to get world class education at home, my name is Mutlu from turkey +very interesting +Great! +I thought the course had good overall information and provided an online mapping tool using ArcGIS despite access and technical issues which I recorded in the forums. I felt getting rushed at the end of the course for the major map project and peer review and final exam all in the last week. The map project itself should be Week 3, peer review Week 4, then final exam Week 5. All students should use the same ArcGIS Online too for the final map project, instead of allowing everybody a free-for-all to use whatever map tool they wanted to including images. I was steered to be more lenient in reviewing submissions of simple PDF or image map without interactive content. This made for an awkward and rushed peer review with little time to address access or technical issues. The final map project should be standardized for all students using ArcGIS Online for an equal playing field and applied learning. +A Fancy course for learning the basic of cartography and interpreting maps!!Excellent! +Great course +Instructor really made this course. If you want to learn about map theory and WHY maps are interesting and important, you need to check out this course. Dr. Anthony Robinson did a commendable job keeping the material compelling and the class a worthwhile venture. I can only hope he will hold more courses in the future. +Love the knowledge, the humor, the inspiration. Overall, Dr. Robinson has taught us a great deal about how to make great maps, how to leverage location info (many sorts) and how to link info together to reveal interesting and insightful findings. I am very grateful I have taken the course and looking forward to being able to make use of it. +did not learn anything useful at all. +Very useful course. But it's cool to add some more urban planning focus. +Really enjoyed this course! Would love to see more. +Excellent course and very interactive despite it being an online course. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to know more about the 'interdependent' global health state we are in. Well done Dr Boyd! +great course for a basic understanding of Global health +This has been a wonderfully motivating course into the field of Global Health. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to get some appreciation of health on the global scale +very helpful course; introduces the basic concept in Global health and I start to become more interested in it! +The content was potentially interesting but the delivery was slightly below expectations, in my opinion. The topics and discussion could be possibly a bit more factual and focused. It was quite difficult to go through transcripts of interviews because they were interrupted by the interviewer. +Video lectures are engaging, using different methods to bring across relevant knowledge and tie information together. The lectures are well-paced and slides are effectively used to communicate important knowledge. The recommended reading materials are all excellent choices to improve background understanding of the modules and ties in well to the lecture content. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course and would like to see more course offerings from Dr. Boyd. +It was a wonderful, practical and clear course about Global Health. In my opinión this theme must be included in all the programs of health perssonel (M.D, nurses, etc) +A strong challenge and fun, thanks to all supervisors on this course very much .. I would recommend it to enroll in this course and the enormous benefit in the shortest possible time within the elite teachers +This is an excellent "most do" course for anyone interested in global health and security +simply interesting +Dr. Boyd did an exceptional job at scratching the surface of global health today, and in the future. This course is well organized, easy to follow, and keeps one interested with discussions between colleagues. +Great course with a great instructor! +Dr. Boyd is very engaging and his graphics are helpful to guide you along. I also love the variety of guest speakers that appear in his class! +Really good!!!!!!!!!!!! +Well organized course +This course provides information about major global health issues, actors and solutions. I really like lectures of Dr.Boyd and interviews. Thanks for the opportunity to gain new knowledge through the modern tools! +Great instructor! +Excellent Course. Gives a basic understanding of Health issues even for persons from non-medical field. +comprehensible and well organized. +Give the basic view in global health. Make it easy to understand +highly recommended. interesting topics with mix modes of learning (lecture, interviews, discussions). great prof! +A great and all round picture of Global Health. The interviews from diverse healthcare actors are wonderfully designed. Great job Dr.Boyd. Thanks very much. +Was able to address all necessary areas with relevant evidences.Excellent learning styles/methods employed by the Prof. made the course even more interesting... +I recommend for who wants to get to know a bit more about Global Health and also keep in mind the challenges and the future solutions. +Whether you are a non-medically inclined student seeking to make sense of the vast landscape of health information or a person with a strong science background looking to apply your skills on a global scale, this course is for you! Taught with a mix of engaging videos, lectures, and interviews, Dr. Boyd breaks down the complex terms and information surrounding global health in a way that is engaging, informative, and practical. You will learn about the global burden of disease, the health concerns facing certain countries, as well as key strategies the global community and even individuals can implement to improve health outcomes whatever your field of specialization. +The professor is amazing and the content was up to date and really engaging! +Dr. Boyd's course "The Challenges of Global Health" serves as a great introduction to the field of global health even to those without a health-related education or work background. He presents this course in a necessary perspective to draw attention to the pressing global health issues that affect every single specie in this planet we call home. +Dr Boyd was very engaging throughout the course. His humble nature made for a very relaxing, informal but highly educational learning experience. A great first distant learning experience. Thank you kindly :) +A very interesting course. Thank you to all the instructors. Gracias +i get lot more about health and global issues +Very engaging and informative course! Would highly recommend to those seeking a "101" on Global Health or looking to refresh their understanding of the space. Dr. Boyd is a highly engaging instructor and brings in different forms of instruction to keep the student involved (interviews with public health professionals, on-site investigation of a topic, etc.). +it was great but weeks 4 and 5 should be a lot more challenging and cover more topics. +This course was my first experience in Cousera an i can say that is really amazing the way Dr. Boyd take us to all his experiences and knowledge. I had the opportunity to met him and i can say hi is a really great person, he gave me some advises about my future carrier and i really appreciate hi take his time to talk to me.Sincerely Thank you.Natalia Lancheros +So intressting this lecture is and the professor is +This class is very insightful for those interested in pursuing any career having to do with global health or traveling. I am not pursuing a career in this field therefore it didn't entirely appeal to me but Professor Boyd is very passionate and knowledgable at what he does! +Awesome c +Fantastic course. My only criticism is that the teacher talks too slowly. Fortunately, this is easy to remedy by increasing the speed to 1.5x. +It was a great first experience at Coursera. It was incredibly interesting and fun. In Guatemala, where I live, we rarely have the opportunity to have real experts as teachers, even in collage. Here I met some of the experts in a subjet that fascinates me! +This course was a great course eye- opener. Packed with a lot of information for each week, one really must spend some quality time to learn everything that the course has to offer. A great course from Duke and Dr. David Boyd. Loved every bit of it. +great and useful +A great introductory course which is simple and fun. +Thank you so much for this course! +Great insights of cities around the world. All thanks to Professor Boyd, who developed the course in such a way that even if it was a MOOC, it was so interactive. Added bonus were the weekly interviews with experts. +Really wonderful course, all the terms are explained in a lucid manner with a balance of technicality and simplicity. love the concept of actually going global i.e. explaining the concepts by visiting the countries where major outbreaks of diseases took place or explaining concepts by showing us photographs from the professor's travels, which makes the learning realistic and wholesome, not to mention quite fun. +its totally worth it! am glad i did it and would recommend the same to everyone interested in understand the health issues in global basis. good luck! +Duke University's The Challenges of Global Heath sparked my interest in global heath with informative lectures, compelling interviews, and a charismatic professor leading the way. It is very organized and has great suggested readings and resources all in one easy to reach place. This course lets you learn at your own pace so you won't rush yourself. I knew almost nothing about global heath before taking this course, I have learned so much while enjoying it too. This course has changed the way I look at global heath. I highly recommend taking this course, especially if you have little to no knowledge on the subject. I can almost guarantee that this will get you interested in the challenges of global heath. +The course was very informative and interesting ,wondering if its possible to get a certificate of accomplishment. +Amazing combination of scientific data and practical examples. +Excellent course I enjoy it so much Thanks so much +The professor was very engaging. I would like to take another course with him. +I enjoyed the course. I gained a new awareness +Good range of material covered, interesting lectures, very engaging and enthusiastic professor. +I think this is a very practical course for every person +This course is amazing. Very helpful and interesting! +Great course, really useful for people who want to pursue a carrier in disaster management. +Learned a lot more than I expected and finally got motiveted to formalize and finish our emergency plans and supplies. +This course is super interesting and the professor is amazing. +Really great course that's paced well. I believe this is a course everyone should and CAN take! These things are important to know especially if you live in an area where disasters are prone. +Dr. Beach was engaged with students on video. I really enjoyed the interaction with other students globally on the 'Open Forum' portion. MOOCs gave me the opportunity to learn on my time frame. I highly recommend purchasing your certification, you've earned it! +Mandatory +a quite practical course for DP and ER. +Very interesting and informative, the information provided will be put to good use. +Great course +Very good course that gives you the basic information about preparedness.It would be very interesting to know how to take a practical course in disaster preparedness and survival techniques +I really liked it. Thank you teacher. It was very interesting to listen to and make a plan. +Well described course and it helps me to improve my understanding on disaster preparedness. +Enjoyed the course. thank you! +It is indeed a wonderful learning experience especially with respect to using practical tips and tricks for disaster preparedness +Very helpful to know different perspective of disaster +the course is great. also I would like to thank coursera for the fee-waiver opportunities without which people like me could never afford to take such high quality and up to date trainings! +Lots of good information. +Very enlightening course. A must for anyone who thinks ahed +Interesting study, it covered things that I all ready knew but also presented others that I had not considered. Overall a good place to begin. +It could go a little more quicker into the Medical aspect but otherwise very good. +This course is a piece of shit. +Amazing practical information. I would have appreciated more showing of the water purification system. +lessons are very clear and rich of links to external material, and instructor is communicating effectively +Excellent Course. Everyone should take this course. +Very informative, thorough, and interesting! Instructor very knowledgeable and communicable along with excellent guest speakers! +Very good course, but sometimes goes into too much detail for things that are quite common sense. +An engaging and highly informative course. My only concern is that the required reading was not available, and there were several broken links for optional reading. This needs to be looked at and repaired as soon as possible. +The course was informative, but seemed to be geared towards individuals not accustom to survival situations. I would enjoy taking a more advanced, in depth program.However, the course was clear and I enjoyed the assignments. Some of the quiz questions were based off of information which may have meant more to the instructor than it was significant to the students. +Very baisc, and uninteresting +The course helped me a lot to gain fundamental understanding of emergency preparedness plan, right attitude and awareness of how to act in a disaster. I would recommend this course!Regards,Almaz KassymkulovAstana, Kazakhstan +Thanks for thie great course I am enjoy it so muchAll the Best +informative course, although I found the assignment to be somewhat redundant and insulting to the student's intelligence. It's common sense that anyone what automatically know to make a list of survival items and an escape strategy in a disaster situation! +This class is amazing, informative and full of useful information. Highly recommend this class. +Superb course material and presentation by Prof Michael is simply awesome. Thank you so much for providing me an opportunity to learn through this awesome platform. +Good basic course for understanding of disaster preparedness at a high level. +Good info for the novice +relevant course for everyone to take +The course was very interesting an informative. I feel much more prepared for if an unfortunate scenario is to present itself to me and the family. I'm very glad for this opportunity I received and the knowledge I now possess. Thanks.-Justin Dougherty Winter Park, FL +Kind Regards,Reasonable for target audience, good self awareness review and expansion of cultural and professional base. +Great and very important! +Interesting Course +Very informative. Great illustration. +Excellent course, logically put together and well presented. It raises multiple issues, some of which we were aware of but had not addressed and others which we had not even considered. +Awesome course that presents a fresh, sane approach to being prepared. +I'm really enjoying this class on Disaster Preparedness with Mike Beach. Mike is a great instructor! +Very insightful course. The peer-reviewed plan was also incredibly useful, both in the exercise itself and seeing the risks (and mitigation plans) by others. Outstanding! +I wish there were more majors at the university level with this specific topic of study. +Very well presented course. Enjoyable and informative. +I loved this course and all the interesting speakers. I learned a great deal and how much I am unprepared for a disaster, I had no idea. Well worth every minute. +This was not just a course, but an experience in learning. The professor took us through a journey of learning about a topic very difficult understand, and patiently led us through the learning experience with right amount of maths and excellent use of examples, quotes etc., to keep the interest alive all through. I wonder if some such course on General Theory of Relativity can be there, even if that is perhaps more mathematical. +Than You so much this course has really influenced my life at such great heightsIt has also made me give more recognition to our Bible Family for all their great accomplishments. +feels great, to know about such a renowned personality like Einstein. feeling like i came closer to Einstein and his work, but more than that it i feel closer and connected to the universe. this all has become possible only because of professor Lary Lagerstrom's unique teaching skills and presentation of subjects. myself being from science background found it very easy to get hold of what is actually going, but i'm 100% positive that any person from any background can understand and successfully complete this course. thank you professor. +good course +Fantastic course that is designed for anyone with at least basic knowledge of mathematics. +This course was amazing, and I'm sad to see it go. It was interesting and full of new things that I have yet to learn and hopefully go more in-depth into during my university studies. I hope more people are informed about this course and I also hope that I still have access to the video lectures for future reference. Thank you for the experience! +quite enlightening! Great job Mr. Randles +Great course!Mr. Lagerstrom thank you very much for giving us your insight about Special Theory of relativity and more generally for your learning initiative ! +Very well thought syllabus and the professor really taught it well. The handouts are simply awesome +This course was truly an excellent way to learn about Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. The content covered most of the main aspects of Special Relativity, and the instructor did a top notch job of explaining how the various aspects of the theory are derived and many implications of the Theory. The maths involved in this course is no more than high-school level algebra with a few tricks, and as such the course should be within most people's reach with a bit of effort. Mind you, the concepts themselves are somewhat counter-intuitive, so be prepared to think a lot about the implications. However, all that being said, I highly recommend this course! It is a very well presented and accessible way to start to grasp Einstein's most profound work in his "miracle year" of 1905. +I have never felt so enthusiastic to study anything in my entire life! +Top, easy to understand +Great course! +I enjoyed this course very much. Professor Larry Randles Lagerstrom made a difficult subject easy to understand. Especially for a fellow who at 85 has forgotten a lot of what he learned in college. +Perfectly explained. Love the teacher. +IT WAS A WONDERFUL COURSE. THANKS TO CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY AND THE PROFESSOR DR. LARRY LAGERSTROM FOR DELIVERING THE COURSE IN A VERY SYSTEMATIC AND JOYFUL MANNER. +Great class. The professor is very careful, clear, and methodical. If you know basic algebra then you'll be able to understand everything that goes on in this course. The progression is nice and slow so that when you get to the "weird stuff" it all makes perfect sense. Highly recommend. +Amazing，thanks very much for your professional and responsible in teaching.I am always having the curiosity about Einstein,so i hope maybe someday you can give us the curriculum on his general theory of relativity.Thanks again for all the courses i've learned from your teaching. +I disliked really slow speed of formulas derivation, simple operations like cancelling out terms are done in multiple steps. Like for children that only starting study mathematics. Otherwise great course! +Very good introductory course, clear and well designed, with a nice emphasis on the key concepts of the special theory of relativity. The mathematical background required is very light, hence the quantitative analysis of various examples and situations is limited. +I really enjoyed learning about how light and frames of reference can affect time and length, and what consequences these results have. It was a well outlined and explained course. +Excellent Course!! The instructor took abstruse concepts and made them accessible and fun! +Excellent introduction to the Special Theory of Relativity: steady pace, lucid explanations and thorough comprehension. +Good course for introduction to special relativity. I expected more related to E=mc^2 derivation. +Very interesting and not so much difficult. The professor speak slowly and it's easy to undertsand him. +This is the first course I ever finished on coursera! Thanks to Prof. Lagerstrom for making the course so easy and engaging for people with any level of maths and physics knowledge to follow and pick up. I've really enjoyed the whole journey and gained knowledge about this universe. It's definitely worth recommending to anyone who's interested to know more about the world around us. +Excellent course. Prof. Lagerstrom provided detailed explanation regarding the special theory of relativity in a very simple and understanding manner. I hope to attend more courses from the good professor soon. Thank you for sharing your knowledge to us, sir. Kudos. +Rather easy questions and not many difficult ones even in the optional exercises. +Thanks for this course. And I am overwhelmed by the fact that you're giving away these course materials for free. Of course, I'll buy a few important courses for I'll be asked for a certificate. Anyways, thanks a lot team course era. :) +100% recommend for anyone who enjoys the fun implications of higher-level math! +it is one of the most hard and confusing topic on the physic . But the professor makes us very clear about the ideas of the relativity around the worldI recommend everyone to know about relativity once . +A very thoroughly planned and executed course. It is obvious that the professor/Stanford spent a significant amount of time in determining the content/videos and the supporting quizzes and tests. Ideally suited for those with basic math skills up through algebra but not calculus. The inclusion of the motivating historical aspects is something that is not always covered in similar courses. +Larry is the best-I highly recommend! I loved this course and really enjoyed exploring these concepts. It is very well put together in a way that gives you time to ponder and try to truly understand the theory before getting to the "cool stuff." I will miss this weekly adventure! +This course goes straight to the point. Now I have a better understanding of STR +great course.just enough math .repition of key points really helped.will miss it.thanks +The struggle to understand the marvellous structure of reality is an ennobling experience. The course is more engaging than a movie, I literally mean that. Professor Larry takes you on a roller coaster ride. I bet you would love the ride.P.s. Don't be afraid of maths. Professor Larry has taken care of that part. It's only simple algebra. +Not much of mathematical inclination. But the Prof. is really of high standard and he makes sure that you understand everything by the end of any topic as he will run by each topic more than once. Its an introductory course but induces a great amount of interest to learn more! +i love this +I loved this course. +This fascinating course presented by a historian of science covers not just the basics of special relativity but the historical context as well. The lecturer starts off each week with some Einstein quotes and goes to great depths to explain the basic concepts at a level that is accessible to students with minimal experience of maths and physics. The concepts are firmly drilled in with plenty of optional quizzes after each mini-topic, and a summary video at the end of each week. The lectures are long but anyone short on time has the option to go straight to the weekly summary/quiz, and/or play videos at up to 2x speed (especially in weeks 2 and 3).The main highlight for me was the explanation of the famous Twins Paradox and other related paradoxes which are resolved by understanding frames of reference and the relativity of simultaneity. Another bonus was an explanation of the bending of light by gravity through a simple thought experiment involving an accelerated elevator.Some important topics not covered in the course, or only hinted at, are: treatment of accelerated reference frames (required to derive the relativistic rocket equations), relativistic momentum and kinetic energy (required to calculate the rocket fuel required) and relativistic energy (used to derive Einstein's mass-energy equivalence formula).Overall I highly recommend the course to anyone with the time and inclination. +The professor is so slow I have to have him at 1.5x speed when listening to his lecture and am still falling asleep. I am very interested Special Theory of RElativity but I ll just get a book. Will be faster. +though i have read lots of popular physics before, nothing ever explained lorentz contraction and time dliation like dr lagerstrom! really helpful new understanding. +Very well paced, with very clear explanations and interesting insights. +Course was well organised and with mostly qualitative discussions. This course is apt for beginners. +I think this is the best Introductory course on Special relativity. I strongly recommend beginners to go through. +Professor Lagerstrom does a superb job of presenting Einstein's special theory of relativity. There is a good balance of history, high school level mathematics and thought experimentation. I have been studying Einstein's special theory of relativity, mostly by reading books, for over 60 years and this course solidified the theory in my mind. I actually have two good friends named Alice and Bob, who are unrelated to the course heroine and hero. The real heroes in the course are Professors Einstein and Lagerstrom. +course well organised. nice note preparation and hand outs. +This course helped me understanding many concepts of The Special Theory of Relativity. I recommend it particularly to high school students. Thank you very much to the teacher and all that contributed for that job. +This is one of best courses I have ever taken. Professor Lagerstrom did an outstanding job in this clear,consistent and careful introduction to what is arguably one of the most revolutionary theories of all time. I am taking the 5 stars and multiplying by a lorentz factor of 1.2 to achieve 6 stars!! +A great exercise in thinking. +Professor Lagerstrom takes it slow to approach the theory, making it available to anyone with very basic math skills. While the equations are important, building the mental model around the strange world is way more essential to comprehending the special theory of relativity, and that is where this course shines. Professor Lagerstrom will look at the same problem in many different angles, cross referencing between them constantly, making sure the fundamentals of the theory sinks in. +Really enjoyed the course from begging up to the end!! +too easy +Amazing concepts and very interesting course +This was a great course which is taught by a passionate and patient lecturer. The whole 8 weeks covers the first half of Einstein's famous paper in detail. The pace can be slow, but of course you can always speed up the videos. The mathematics is very approachable - school level algebra is all you need. The only other prerequisite is a basic understanding of light and electromagnetic waves. +Professor Lagerstrom is a great teacher and the course is well organized. While still a little complex for someone with rudimentary or fairly stale science knowledge, Professor Lagerstrom's approach is easy to follow and understand. I especially like his summaries at the end of the course which put together the complex mathematics into simple +This is a must course those who want to really want to learn more about the theory of relativity which is considered the most confusing theory ,but its actually not true because of this course you can easily understand the course. After completing the course sincerely you would be able to solve basic problems on relativity and even quantum mechanics. +great...but need some documents...or text book. +Classic style of teaching +Amazing course!! +This is a very good course! any thanks to professor Lagerstrom. +A enjoyable and well laid out course, mathematics level: high school, some rigorous algebraic proofs though not essential to pass. +Excellent course. Excellent instructor. Well worth the time! +Fantastic course +Very methodical & lucid way of explaining the concepts. Understanding of Special Theory of Relativity made relatively easy, pun intended! Thank you Professor... +This course is really brilliant, Professor Lagerstrom ( I hope I have spelt the name correctly ) really knows the subject, a superb lecturer. +Great course. I have a BS in physics from Colorado School of Mines, which is a tough school, and they didn't explain it as well +An interesting course, the special theory of relativity easy for anyone to understand and very well explained. +Amazing course! If you're looking to broaden you're knowledge in Physics then this course won't disappoint you. +An experience of discovery into the perspective of 1905, and the path of reasoning. +A comprehensive introduction to the subject, somewhat spoiled by the unrelenting reiteration of the most basics concepts in the earlier parts of the course. A bit of a pity, since the lecturer is a fairly engaging speaker when he is not busy interrupting the flow of his argument with mind–numbing repetition. +Amazing course, but the videos can be shorter as same concepts are explained more than once. +This course is superb, covers easyly all the aspects of the special theory of relativity +Larry R Lagerstrom is an extraordinay instructor, for an extraordinary course. +A very useful insight into Einstein and his Special Theory of Relativity +Great teacher. Clear message. Goes slowly though the material and highlights key concepts few times to make them stay. If someone does not want slow pace can always jump ahead as course structure is well organized and described. +Very in Depth for if it is your first time learning. If you have already read about General and Special Relativity it doesn't tell you very much more than what you already know. Either way it is a great course. +One of the courses that i have taken ever! +The teacher was very good and made it easier to understand some of the more difficult topics.The course was very interesting and gave me a very good insight into Einsteins special theory of relativity. +Really appreciated! +Professor Larry Lagerstrom is an exceptional teacher. He explained the Theory of Special Relativity in such a manner that the theory became easy to understand. Not only has the Theory become understandable, he also managed to convey the beauty of the theory. I cannot find words to describe how I have enjoyed the series of lectures. From very simple concepts of the property of waves, he led to a very deep understanding of the principle of Light Constancy. From that principle, it became very easy to understand Time Dilation, the Length Contraction, and then Lorentz Transformation, and finally, the Invariant Interval. The journey he has planned was brilliant. Once one has a firm grasp of those principles, the explanation of the Twin Paradox became a "piece of cake". +Very good, easy to follow course. Concepts like time slowing down and things becoming shorter at high velocities are no longer a mysterie to me after taking this course. +Very good course, and excellent way teaching. +Yo +it is really amazing and fun ! +Great course, awesome instructor +Excellent course which presents the special theory of relativity in a very clear and accessible manner and also explains well the scientific, technological and biographical context of this discovery. I warmly recommend this course. Congratulations and thanks to Larry Lagerstrom +I really liked this course; super interesting. It requires though the knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, as there is a lot to work on it! +I have learned a lot of basic knowledge from Fundamental of Graphic Design. This course is very usefull. I would recomend everyone who wants to try himself in graphic design! +Great! Teaches you how to begin thinking as a designer. Interesting concept, cool homework. More than happy to recommend. Will definitely continue with rest of courses in Graphic Design Specialization! +Great！It's amazing! +Good for beginners. Do all assignments even if its optional. +Very useful classes +Really enjoyed this course - very glad I saw it through to the end. Got a bit discouraged around week 3 because I don't have any experience with Illustrator or Photoshop yet, so I couldn't do those optional assignments. That's just a heads-up though, not a complaint. Would fully recommend the course. +Great way to start on the design world. +Excellent! Thank you. +Nice introduction that is useful in the following courses +Learnt quite a few new techniques, methods and concepts. I recommend it for anyone who wants to learn the fundamentals of design in a step by step lucid and easily understandable manner. +Good course. I can use these skills on my job. +It helped me to learn the fundamentals of graphic design,it likes a key which can open the door of design. +I loved the course, it really help me a lot to understand Graphic Design and to find inspiration in the things that surround us, which mostly are composed of basic geometric shapes. +As this was my first course on graphic design, I WAS FASCINATED! I learned so many things- which our prof. made clear-and for the first time I used the graphics and did things I had never thought I could do. Our Prof was excellent, no unanswered questions, a lot of creative work, it was really a great experienceThanks a lot! +Very helpful. Amazing. +It was really good for beginners like me. +cool +I really like this course +Really great and helpful. it helps to look to art from different point. +I would not recommend this one to any paying customer. This is the second intro to Graphic Design class I have take on Coursera, and I found the way the material was presented in the CalArts course to be quite slow and pretty boring. Our assignments were simple and I felt no excitement in doing them. It would have been beneficial to see how these fundamental building blocks could be used in real life design. The other class (by CU-Boulder) made me want to continue learning ,and I felt excited to complete the projects whereas with this class I was forcing myself to sit down to finish just the required ones. +Fantastic course, gives a concise yet specific survey of all the basic graphic design skills you will need, presented in such an interesting and fun manner and at the perfect pace for beginners and more skilled designers alike. Thank you to Dr. Worthington and CalArts for creating this course and making it available to students worldwide who aren't able to relocate to Southern California just yet. +A great course to help understand the basics! +The best foundation for a graphic designing course. +Wonderful new in +Excellent material, very interesting activities. +Very interesting and a beautiful course that gives you the essential basics needed for the graphic designer. +really amazing, before I did not know designing can be this tough and demanding. creativeness matters. and you should really try and practice. this course is far more better than the rest of the specialization! +Good Course +Thing I liked the most about this course was that there were so many practice assignments. It had me practicing and designing every day which improved my skills +Very well designed and delivered course. Great fundamentals and fresh application exercises. Valued the realistic briefs, the creative practice and feedback giving/receiving in the course. Heartily recommend +Excellent course, with very good content +Very useful and funny: I enjoy a lot doing the exercises. +Good stuff. I've got out of it what I've expected and some more. +Excellent for learning the basics! +This is exactly what you need for the basics of knowledge in Graphic Design! +really eye opening fun and educative +Very well organized course, with interesting topics and assignments. I took it as a free course and was very grateful for all the good information and practice was available. Many of the other students were very talented and it was fun to see their work during Peer Review. The 2 only criticisms are that (1) I wish they had recommended good, free software for completing the assignments. I ended up doing the 2 required assignments in an outdated version of MSWord, but managed to make that work, though it was time consuming. And (2), I never figured out how to request reviews of my work except as a "reply" to another post. +Very well conceived and useful! A great intro to Graphic Design. +nice course,very helpful class +Provided a solid and comprehensive introduction to graphic design +Challenging one! +Amazing course to get hands on idea on graphic design. +Excellent Course. Lot of learnings. Well illustrated as well. +I really enjoyed the content and learned a lot but, there were far too many videos that were not functional. In some the video froze, in some the sound went off, in others there were a problem with bot visual and sound. It became increasingly hard to follow the ideas as I had no visuals to support the text. +Impressive. Great Idea and professionalism. An excellent foundation of starting student. +I really enjoyed this course! It helped push me to think outside of the box with my creativity in order to create a sequence of images of a household object that I am still quite proud of. +Thank you Michael Worthington for this fun course! I loved the classes and all of the assignments we had to do, especially helps that they were peer graded. Getting these sort of insights help you make critical choices of you are as a designer and what is your personal style.Looking forward to taking up more of such courses :) +I FIND THE MATERIAL REALLY GOOD AND EASY TO FOLLOW, THE ASSIGNMENTS ARE VERY HELPFUL TO FULLY UNDERSTAND EACH CHAPTER. I LIKE THAT THERE IS INTERACTION BETWEEN PEERS AND HOW THERE IS FEED BACK FROM EACH OTHER, BUT I DONT LIKE THAT IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET AN OPINION, IT DOESNT SEEM TO BE ENOUGH, IF I GET FEEDBACK FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS AS LITTLE AS ME OR IS BEGINNING TO EXPLORE GRAPHIC DESIGN, I WOULD HAVE LIKED AN OPINION FROM A PROFESIONAL OR A TEACHER WITH MORE EXPERIENCE. ALSO, AFTER FEEDBACK THERE SHOULD BE A CORRECTION ASSIGNMENT OR A GROWTH OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THE FEEDBACK AND MAKE YOUR PROJECT BETTER. +A bit basic, but I guess that's what should be expected of an "Introduction"It would be nice to get a more advanced alternative course +The course introduces a structured way for beginners to make images. It provides a disciplined schedule to produce images. I recommend the course to people who have dabbled in the subject and are interested in learning a more systematic approach. +Great course to introduce you to basics of graphic design and basic design language. +I like the course a lot because I could not only work with computer but also with different manual techniques, that was very creative. +I enjoy this course! +Great course! +really enjoyed this course and learnt so much. a must for a understanding into business brand and creating a brand you will love. +Loved the teacher, loved course work, so happy I found this course. Well worth the money! +Good introduction to graphic design. The videos have a lot of "mouth noises". +A great experience. Glad to have work and pass it. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to complete this course. +I learned some stuff and this was one of the easier courses I have taken. +I was expecting to learn to use some tools during the course. Looks like I have to teach myself how to use different programs for designing. +This Course has opened my eyes to different simple concepts I had forgotten or not quiet understood until now. I am going to work through all of the 5 coursed for Graphic design. this was a great start. +Very good lessons ! +Great course! I strongly recommend it to anyone studying graphic design. +Excellent, easy to understand and step by step instruction! Thank you!!! +I learned so much! +Thanks for the lessons! +I'm a journalism student and some knowledge of design is a requirement for most internships, and honestly this coursed helped me a lot with undestanding basic concepts. It's very interesting, fun and easy to understand. +Great course +Good basic introduction to the topic. +Got great feedback from other students. +This course really demystified graphic design, and taught me some basics so I feel like I'm not completely lost anymore when I make or design things. The videos are really well produced and easy to follow, and I learned a lot from the assignments and projects. +I really liked this course, I think it has broadened my mind to a whole world that my heart and my intellect were expecting for so long. I enjoyed every single part, from the classes to the activities. The only think I would add at some point (maybe towards the end), would be an expert's feedback so we can challenge ourselves a little bit more. I would really recommend it and of course, I will keep going with the specialization. +That was a very good introductory course for someone with no background as me. Its a 5-star rating course, however, I would like to see some more practical classes as for example, doing a project for a firm.Thanks. +I really loved this course, it really pushes you forward to create and it is a really good course for beginners. I would only love for the review part to be morechallenging in order to get better at your work in the future +Its very good course, has different kind of interesting tasks which force you discover your own creativity . I recommend it for every graphic design beginner +I found the lessons very interesting. I've read lots of design books and used Photoshop and Illustrator for a while in my job (web writer / marketer / developer) and this courses bridges the gap between all the information in my head and the hard question : how to use all that in a creative way ? I really appreciate it ! +100% recommended +An inspiring course.I've learned a lot by experimenting. It would be better if there's a mentor for us. +Just excellent, really help me understand and teach to other the fundamentals of graphic design +Amazing Course! I loved every minute of it. The videos are well done, helpful to understand the process and a big part of understanding each element. The practice exercises are a great way to apply what I learned. Leaving Feedback on my peer's work was also very helpful. It forced my mind to analyze the design in ways I was not used to. I've am excited to keep on learning.I would recommend this course to everyone! +It is a great course from Michael Worthington. I learned that the best way to become a designer is to work on designs no matter how pitiful it looks first. +learn a lot of fundamental information about graphic design, and really do a great help for me to learn a designer's view. +A great intro to the field +This course helps to look at things, at design and instruments of design deeper and wider. It encourages to create! +Really great remedial start of graphic design. Knowing very little going into it, I loved the pace and assignments. +Great course! Learned a lot. This a a great introduction which covers basics on design: Colour, Composition, Medium, Typography, Methods, etc. +Great Course +Creative course +Fantastic overview of Graphic Design theory. Essential to underpin technical knowledge and inform design decisions while using the myriad apps and solutions available today! +Great course ! +this course is so full of information in a deep manner of details and give best knowledge, instructions, guideline and education of graphic design. I'm so inspire from this course and take have a so many education from there. +Nice Cource! Understanding principles of design on the practice. Easy but very good, effective exercises. +Dear Teacher, I really enjoyed the first part (module) of the Graphic Design. It was more than introduction and i really loved the practical work at the beginning. I will recommend this course further. The start is very important and that's why i decided to enroll al 5 modules. THANK YOU!Continue with you great work in the future! +Great examples and excercises. A good way to get into the graphic design. I enjoy every assignment and it gives a lot of ways to keep doing graphic design. +This course was very helpful to build up the basic experience. I decided to continue. +Very steep path from proffesionalov. I learned a lot, the information understandable and memorable. Thanks to the authors of an interesting course. +An excellent introduction to the principles of graphic design. +I really appreciate an opportunity to join this useful course. The given information is basic and essential for beginners in Graphic Design. +Great course for beginners to get the basics of graphic design as well as for specialist to refresh these basics. The great advantage of the course is practical assignments that are all connected, so that in the end you will use material from previous assignments in your final one. I would make all those optional assignments obligatory, though. Great course! +I Like this course! I have had some knowledge about colors and composition before, but this course helped me to organize them. Also, I got some new skills about typography. +Excellent !!! really amazing. i learn a lot. waiting for new courses. +Very good introduction to graphic design. Highly recommended. +Excellent format for both beginner and more advanced students with optional projects and an easy to grasp presentation. +Great instructor and lessons. I love the organisation of the course and it really provides a great basis for looking deeper into aspects of graphic design! Looking forward to doing the other courses in this specialisation. +I like this course as its the fundamentals but we do it everyday doing it without knowing it. I am very happy that i am able to recognize what i have been doing. Course is great clear and designed simple to learn but one has to work hard on its end to show how far they can go. +I found the course rather interesting and useful for the beginners in graphic design, however I think the students need the feedback from the instructor. I missed some professional critic during the course. +Hi! It's a great course - structured and inspiring. Thank you very much!I'm going to start it again doing all optional briefs. It's really essential! +This was a very nice course for beginners and it helped me very much. I'm now on the last module and I am very excited to make the final project. I strongly recommend it to anyone. +Great first introduction into graphic design. You are encouraged by doing optional assignments that should open your eyes on graphic design principles +Very interesting, informative and a fun course. It surely is a good start of getting familiar with the specialization. +This is a great course! I learned so much, thank you! +I thoroughly enjoyed the course and I definitely recommend it to anyone interested in learning or fine-tuning their understanding of the basics of design.Very well structured and worth the time! +The course responded very well to my expectations. It outlines and analyze all the elements and strongly prompts you to think about design making and to ponder each component of it. And it makes you work!! I learned a lot, technically, by myself, having to submit assignments. Looking at the materials I made, I almost cannot believe I did it by myself. The only thing: I wish I had more time to work on it and, perhaps, if the students knew since the very beginning they will finally make use of each assignment to create a very final one, they would probably consider this when choosing objects, styles, techniques. But maybe this is stated since the beginning and I did not realize that. Anyway, absolutely worthy. +Very nice introduction course, on my way to become a graphic designer :) +it really inspired to create things with different physic tools +Refreshing, modern and excellent course! +This course sets a decent foundation for anybody interested in pursuing graphic design seriously. +It was a great course. I have learned a lot. I don't consider myself specially talented in art or aesthetic feeling, but I think I improved after passing this course. And I have got a different view on many things connected with graphic design. +This is one of those courses that for me open a door to a whole new world, that was right there in front of me the whole time (design is all around in society) but I had been to blind to notice. The course has lifted that veil for me. +Really useful and totally inspiring course! Highly recommended the novice you or +It's very very basic, I know it's considered an introductory course but I expected more. It was very interesting and informative though. +I was hoping they would taught me softwares in order to do my assignments +It's awesome course +Excellent course with a really great teacher! Many thanks to you. +Very basic introduction to the ground floor of Graphic Design. Get in, get it done, get out. I like how precise it was. +This course is very useful, especially for the beginners. It creates the fundament for your future study. The practical part is very interesting and gave students the opportunity to try different aspects of graphic design. Thank you Coursera and CalArts +They are very basic knowledge, but very useful and illuminating. +good course for beginner +Excellent course! I find this Fundamentals of Graphic Design very useful for everyone not just designer. It does not only provide me with very basic yet very useful knowledge of graphic design but also helped me greatly in practicing certain skills that I never thought I would have. The assignments and all peer-review sessions are quite challenging too though the video sessions with the teachers always sound very easy to understand. I love this challenge anyway. Strongly recommended. +Concisely convey the essentials. +This 4 four week were very inetesting. For me, I got new knowledges in sphere of graphic design. I improve and develop my skills. Thank you to authors and people who make this big work. +Thanks for this course. It helps me to learn graphic design as well +Amazing Course, well organised and excellent teachers! +This course has been great and I have learnt things I can start applying to my job straight away. +very informative and yes, one learns a lot of theory +I enjoyed the course and working on the assignments. +it's my first time to complete online course , really i found it very helpful and attract me by new knowledge and information. +I really enjoyed this course as it made me stop and take the time to not only make art but to have fun with it. This course made me think about different ways to blend art and text the different elements within a typeface and font. I learned a lot of new and important things to consider regarding graphic design and I really enjoyed the instructors way of teaching. Thank you for taking the time to make courses like this so easily available to individuals like me who do not have the time or funds for traveling to a formal college. +Excellent! A great overview of the design fundamentals. A great fit for complete beginners. +I really enjoyed this class. The lectures were very well done and I learned a lot about design that I had not thought about before. I love the optional and required projects. I was inspired to be creative again, which was a nice surprise. I think the final project could have been a bit more challenging/creative similar to the first project. Maybe there could have been one more image, so 7 total, that could have been included and allowed us to be more creative and go crazy. +It's amazing how this course breaks down graphic design to fundamentals that we hardly even think of. It acquaints you with the building blocks, and creates a foundation that'll take you a long way! +Fun assignments and informative lessons +This course is very useful and good. Cool, interesting tasks and beutiful lecture. I gained valuable experience and knowledge in the performance of tasks. +Great overview of graphic design for someone who does not have any experience in this area. Encourages creativity and new ways of thinking about every day objects and representations. +Excellent Course...Got a lot information about designing. +I love this course very much! Thank you! +very informative and really well explained +great course and great lecture +Great class. I really enjoyed all of the assignments. At times, I wish the lectures would have been a little longer so as to include more information / detail. All and all, really enjoyed the course! +Excellent course! This course is better than University classes in Brazil. I recommended it! +Very fundamental. Nice introduction to the field of graphic design. +Really Good +very important for both new designer, who want to enrich their knowledge, and experienced designers, as a refresher. +Very systematic and full of main knowledge course! +I love it!! +I just starting but the I feel this is gonna be awesome course! +Very basic but important knowledge. +Great course if you are a beginner... +Good start, I am getting hungry for graphic design knowledge :::} +I loved the practical side of the course. It opened up my mind on different possibilities and gave me the encouragement to explore and experience more. +Excellent and well guided introduction to Graphic Design principles and thinking. +I have very useful feedback from the peer grade assessment from this course +Cool +GOOD!I can learn something about the foundation of Graphic Design. +In my opinion, this course help me to see regular items in different ways. Also, it open for me "world of design" it is something new for me.I liked this course because it is simple, i can learn in different time. +Good explanation and very basic +The last assignment caused me CONFUSION. I mean, due to the unclear assignment requirements, we cannot review composition for composition's sake. For example, I did use two squares as the assignment asked, but I changed the transparency of them, so they form a new square when overlapping. And people think I used three squares and thus not following the instructions. And many people used a small circle and a large circle putting at the center vertically to form a scale composition, and you have to give them 3 points because they followed the instructions, but they actually did not do much in terms of composition. Though I got 3.5 scores by two people ( not very bad）, I'm still frustrated, and I hope the assignment requirements could be clearer. +I am a Communications professional based in Nairobi, Kenya and have repeatedly seen the importance of the role of graphic design within my department at work. This, coupled with an interest in design, led me to sign up for the course. Getting an introduction to some of the theoretical aspects in this course was extremely worthwhile. I look forward to completing the specialisation. Thank you! +Very good course: The instructor, the method, the process for evaluation, everything was good, fun and interesting. Thanks for sharing it! +This was a great intro course. I had no previous experience to graphic design and it was something that has always caught my attention. This course is perfect for giving you the basics and really getting you to start designing. I was always intimidated by it and now I feel compelled to continue taking any related coursework as well as to keep creating designs! +Great course, well thought out, well presented and lovely lecturer. After having done all 4 publicly available courses in this specialisation, this really was the most fundamental and gave a great summary of what Graphic design is about and which disciplines it involves. 5 stars! +Excellent course for providing the basic elements of graphic design. It's helped me launch my graphic design career! I can't say anything bad about it! +Thank you for the course!I refreshed something I had learned by myself before, learned some absolutely new stuff and learned some more about things I only heard about before. Videos are very nice and the text is super easy to understand and the teacher's voice is very appealing. There are two things that I want to notice. First of all, I would like this course to be more informative. All weekly videos and tasks can be watched and done in one day now. Give us more videos, more information, let's go deeper! The second thing is that peer reviews seemed ineffective to me. Yeah, on the one hand, that's a real feedback from real people who are not your parents or friends so you can be judged objectively. On the other hand, I'd want to know teacher's opinion, I mean, feedback from someone who has a great experience in design. Personally, I didn't get anything but good marks and good words from my peers, though I believe there are things to improve, I just need someone who can point at them. +Great course. I took this first course without an interest in the specialization, but now... I want to finish all four courses! +Just loved the course and recomend to all who appreciate and love graphic design and those want to know the process of creating a brand first hand. +I really liked this course, it was a great introduction to this world which is graphic design for me. I also appreciate very much the scholarship, without it, I would not be able to complete this first course session. Thank you! +It`s a great course for the people who study design and want learn more abut this profession. +very nice and amazing time learning in this course +Very good basic course on graphic design. I've learned a lot about typography, composition, image making and shapes and colours. The course is very well structured with good videos and practical examples. It's a must do course for everyone that is wanting to learn more about design, +Great intro to graphic design. Covers a lot of concepts in a short period of time. +Great teacher! +Perfect for beginning and intermediate graphic designers. The explanations of concepts and exercises are quite useful and makes the foundations of graphic design clear and accessible. Highly recommended. +Loved it! +Excellent course! Learned so much and the modules were easy to follow. I would recommend this to anyone. +I loved the course. The assingments were very appopiate to learn. +I didn't really liked the course of the first week but than I really came to enjoy a lot the course about pattern and forms in particular which was a completely new way of thinking how to create for me, very interesting and full of possibilities. +A decent course, but flawed by student reviewers with subjective opinions. +I really enjoyed this course, I like how It is organized, I like the teacher too, I think that makes a big difference. Many times this course surprised me with things I believed obvious or things I didn't know at all. I would recommend this course to everyone interested in this subject. Thank you CalARTS and Coursera for this opportunity! +Overall great course. Some knowledge Adobe Illustrator and file formatting needed.The Audio is out of sink from the video on many lessons. +Great intro to the fundamentals. +Great, great course. Really comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of graphic design +INCREDIBLE. I really learned from this course! +This is a very basic course, not at all college level. +it was very useful, helpful and all i need to know as fundamentals or basics was in there. Thanks a lot. +Excellent!!! I could understand things not previously understood. I could not perform activities that my computer was damaged and could only watch the videos during lunch at work. +The amount of information covered in this course is just right for a beginner. But it suffers because one, the lectures are boring and lifeless (can you imagine graphics design being BORING?), and two, the examples are UNINSPIRING. They could've done better than use the same circles, squares and triangles to explain various concepts! It's hard to get excited about a topic when the presentation is this dull. And did I mention the lecturer doesn't even look directly at the viewer? It's like they're looking at a monitor or camera on the side, so it's like he's talking to somebody else.So in summary, basic concepts and information are there, yes. And it's free so take it and check out the others in the series. It's just that execution could've been a lot better. +This course is superb! Thank you for offering it here. +IT IS A GOOD BASIC COURSE IN DESIGN, NICE FOR EXPERIMENTING. +Very basic information but a good beginner's course. +This course teach me a lot about graphic design in a whole. For those who wanted to learn more about graphic design and has no knowledge about this, I recommend to try this course. +Very great basic but detailed concepts for graphic design.Easily understand. The exercise made me think through the whole idea of graphic design. +This is a great course for all-time beginners to learn about the most fundamental principles of design. It is not, however, so much a compelling course if you have any notion about design in general or color as it is as bare-bones as it can get. I have really liked the lectures though, and the projects, though they could have been a little bit more challenging, were good examples of a real-life practice. +the root GD +A very good way to know the basics of graphic design +amazingly practical +Briiliant course! It gives you very solid fundamentals for all other courses of the Graphic design specialization. The teacher is very passionate, loves his subject and can make all ideas very understandable. The course helps to believe in inner strenght and creativity. I loved it so much! Thanks for this amazing 4 weeks! +Its a great course to start understanding the basics of design and know what graphic design is all about. the lectures are very well explained and the assignments are all very easy to complete.Its a very well structured course. +Very good introductory course to Graphic Design. A good staple to get familiar with the very basics before starting learning more. +Full of useful information, very well organized. +Excellent introduction to the basic principles of graphic design. It made me excited to continue through the specialization. +Instead of reading blogs and books on graphic design and then following that up with consequent practice I decided to take up this course which would help me do both more efficiently and so far I'm not regretting my decision. +Excellent and a lot of fun! +Awesome course! I learned a lot. I liked it so much that I went on to take the rest of the series. +Fantastics course! +Really awesome course. I like that it has all the theory and a lot of hands-on projects to practice and learn the how-tos of design. I totally recommend it. +To break rules and be unconventional one needs to know conventions and rules - and this course is just that! It gives you key vocabulary to name some things which you may consider easy, but never bothered to notice and name :) +Over all a good experience to get a solid understanding of basic graphic design aspects. +I like this course and I'm going to study all the courses in this specialisation! Thank you! +i hate to say it, but this course is really really bad ... not practical at all. i'm not sure where this is all going. maybe by the fourth course in the series, 100 hours later of lectures, you might have something practical but this approach feels wrong. i'm sorry, it's a reputable school and who the hell am I, but one man's opinion: rethink how you go about introducing the newbie to graphic design as it's applicable to the real world. +It was a learning experience to get other people's views on my designs. +Loving this course. Not only is it helping me learn the fundamentals of graphic design in a fun and inventive way, but is also providing a great community. Would highly recommend this for anyone looking to improve or start there graphic design skills. :) +Very helpful course for me!Bring me new way to improve my design skills.And the knowledge it sums are really basic and significant! +I love how the instructor break things down so simply and easy to understand. The examples given are straight to the point. Love it. +Some of the videos seem a little repetitive, but all in all it was a great overview of Graphic Design. T +As a self taught person in Graphic Design, it was interesting to put words to my basic knowledge. I found particularly helpful the lesson about composition. +This course is great to start the design graphic and shows you how it is important to practice a lot! +A lot of the material given in the lecture was intuitive, but I thought it was extremely valuable to see all of the different examples the instructor showed, and the peer review process was also helpful (not only to get feedback on your own work, but to see the way all your classmates approached the same prompt) +A great introduction to graphic design. +I have been working in the field for a couple of years now, but this course gave me some key fundamental bits of knowledge. Recommended for those who are self-taught or simply those who want to brush up on some concepts. +Enjoyed it. +Opened my eyes on how to create art and different ways it can be represented +Good to know basic elements of graphic design +Interesting and exploratory but not much was really explained; he just kinda showed examples and said see what I mean. That's great but you're not really learning why and thus in my opinion I don't feel like I learned much about graphic design +Great course +Great c +Great course +It was very useful and helped boosting my creative & confidence level...So i strongly recommend this course to all novice. +I think that this will help anyone that is trying to get into the Graphic Designing industry. +This was a great course for those trying to try their hand at Graphic Design for the first time. +Very rewarding, with easy to understand but comprehensive lectures and optional exercises that can be done with each sub-section of the lecture. These exercises were interesting, relevant and challenging. It was also educational to do the peer reviews and see how other students approached the assignments.The instructions for assignments perhaps could be broken into bullet points, as sometimes they were perhaps not fully understood on the optional exercises. Some guidelines to help give more substantial or constructive feedback (beyond "This met the assignment criteria" or "I liked #3") could be helpful.I'm very glad I did this course, and I was thoroughly engrossed in the exercises. It was sad when the course ended. :-) +A fantastic introduction to Graphic Design! +This is amazing course I love it +A wonderful comprehensive overview of graphic design. I particularly enjoyed the instructor and his examples show a mastery of the material. +I really love it! +Well-made videos, strong assignments. +Very informative, and the instructor was clear and engaging. The course challenged me, but not to the point that it was overwhelming or felt beyond my abilities. +Very interesting, very clear. Take it without any doubt. +Great! Fun and interactive! +Thats a good course for beginers.In my opinion should be more illustrative with more real and nice examples. +I liked that course and also the specialization very much. Very new subject to me, and it was fun to learn this stuff. +really cool +Great way to get acquainted with the basic tools of graphic design. I will be sure to use them next time I am creating a presentation at work or in my personal life. +Very good visual material accompanied by excellent written supplement that allowed us to follow the recorded portion of the course. Interesting exercises and great methodology that allow students to review and provide feedback to others. +It's described as "fundamentals" and that's it. Very basic. Everything is well explained. In my opinion, it could be a little more in depth. +Amazing course !!! +An excellent starting point for anyone interested in graphic design. +This course inspired me a lot. I enjoyed learning graphic design. The assignments are fun +It's an excellent course. I learned a lot and I could practice everything I've learned. I love it! +Excellent introduction to graphic design. The instructor is engaging and interesting and the topics are broken down into easy to understand segments with excellent examples. Assignments are interesting and really helped me work with the different topics. +nice overview to get you started in graphic design. Lots of practical tasks to do which are fun and give a great opportunity to really explore the concepts. +Its a good course for people who never look at design but its a lot surface. Of course if you want to know the main aspects of design very quikly it course for you. +this course is amazing! very good choice for entry-level designers +Really creative, insightful and fun; five stars! +I'm fully satisfied with all course.I was able to systematize all existing knowledge about graphic design and also fill some "holes" in basics of creating graphics, especially I'm very gratefull for lesson about typography (it has always been my Achilles' heel :) ).All assigments are very interesting, I got a lot of fun considering what I will do for each of them and also enjoyed whole process then.This course is highly recomended for all, who wants to start in graphic design industry and for those, who already experienced in it, but also needs to put in order existing experience in appropriate form.Thank you! +I was so happy when saw this course for the first time. It became the first step to my dream career. All lessons and assignments are very useful and interesting to watch and implement. Thanks you very much for such an opportunity! +A very good introduction to this specialization, with fun and thought-provoking exercisees. +The course is very interesting and useful. +Great course. Instructor was easy to follow along to. Would highly recommend. +This was an excellent course that was well taught and offered practical and real usable assignments. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to learn about graphic design while learning how to apply concepts. The professors lectures were clear concise and very well organized and gave great examples for each concept discussed. +It's a great introduction to Graphic Design!!!Really amazing !Congratulations from Spain ;-) +Great course! recommend everyone who likes to design +Best Graphic designing course for the beginners. +Wow what a course it is +It's really interesting, well paced, engaging... A really nice course, for sure! +Great course. +This was a great course for expanding the way I thought about making, communicating with, and looking at graphic images.At times I was frustrated because I did not know how to easily do certain things with the programs I was using, but I reminded myself that this was not a class on how to use Photoshop or Illustrator. If you are looking to learn about actually using programs, look elsewhere, but if you are looking to build a strong basis for thinking about creating images, this is a great resource.The course work and necessary time input is flexible - if you are stretched for time you can still complete this course, and if you have a lot of time you can get a lot more out of it. Either way, a lot of the learning from this work is dependent on how much effort you put it. +In my third week and I'm loving this course so far. I'm already thinking about the learning points I gain each week in my everyday life! +I like this course and Coursera .org. its giving opportunity to peoples for learning. guys if you want learn so please visit on Coursera .orgi learn many things from this course and i wish i learn alot +It gives a very good overview of the fundamentals of graphic design, also how to start thinking the graphical way. +The course gives fundamental knowledge, as promised. I like videos and the way how material is presented. +Topic and videos, very good, perfect explanation. Thank you! +Great course, entertaining assignments, a lot of information. Good way to start. +This course was great from beginning to end. It woke up this creativity in me that i haven't seen since i was in freshmen year of high school. +This is my first formal instruction to Graphic Design this course made my appreciate my work and instilled interest on my part to pursue and improve in my craft +This course is excellent. Being very informative and fun, it is a great introduction to the design process. All of the assignments are well thought out and are very interesting. This course provides a lot of scope for learning and discovery of new techniques for image making and composition. +Great inspiration source! +I enjoyed this class. The concepts introduced here were easy to understand. It's like graphic design made easy. It was very engaging as well. Highly recommended! +The instruction videos are pretty good. The course gives a good overview of the fundamentals. It delivers what it promises. +A very good course and has helped understand a lot about The said subject :) +A thoroughly inspiring, empowering, exciting, and enjoyable course.During the course, I found myself wanting to rush on to the next part because I was delighted to find answers to questions I've had for years and other pearls of wisdom, but on the other hand I also wanted to linger and revel in the process of making.I most heartily recommend this course to anyone looking to start out in graphic design, or who, like me, enjoys hobbies such as card making and creative embroidery. +Great introduction for a broad theme! +It's a great course to start the Coursera Specialization for Graphic Design giving you a basic understanding of the principles. Depending on your own motivation, it is time consuming or not. In my opinion, it's a great course, I learned a lot and am waiting for the next one - Typography - to hopefully be able and complete the whole specialization. +Awesome course +Ive really enjoyed this course, in fact ive never painted before. So i glad i start, i was a little bit shy to post my work for classmates review, but i understood that its only begin of Graphic Design, so i will learn a lot of interesting things and i have to work hard for that. Thanks to teachers, wish you all the best.Want continue my graphic design education. +The learning process is a complete experience, full of knowledge, good videos and excellent teachers. I think is a 5 stars quality course, because of the amount of tools teachers give. Each one special and necessary.Graphic Design is about making our soul, heart and brain work together. I believe this course is a great way to get this team to complete our expectations. +The course is simply amazing. Prepare to do a lot of hands on work, and use your creativity. The instructor gives hands on work that is really fun to do, and you end up with the knowledge and the skills to actually make a good poster, especially if you do the bonus assignments, which are really nice.I must note, though, that it is very useful to know how to use computer programs to arrange files and text. I used Adobe Illustrator (like the instructor) and Pages, but basic knowledge of Microsoft Powerpoint or similar is enough, as you will scan hand-drawn pictures and put them in, arrange them, then export them as PDFs. Considering you are on this website, I'd say you are ready! Start ASAP! +Really empressive +Great course on graphic design. Explain graphic design in more detail than most college classes I have taken. Would recommend this class to others wanting to understand or explore graphic design as a possible career move. +Brilliant Course. It gives you a good theoretical understanding of modern graphic design. At the same time, it also gives you ample opportunity to make graphic design through its multiple peer reviewed assignments. Personally, I came out with some of my best poster works during this course as it pushed me to experiment beyond what I had done till then. +I love it. +simple and easy to complete it, powerful information covering multi topics of graphic design ....but still need more declaration of tasks . thanks +Overall I think this is a great course and really helpful. However, I had an unpleasant experience on the last week. There is an assignment that asks you to create a single contrast composition of 2 shapes. It says "shapes" and still people are not sure if they can use more count of those shapes. I chose to use 2 shapes, but multiple counts and some people that thought this is not only 2 shapes, but 2 counts as well, chose to grade my work with the lowest rating due to unfulfilled assignment. I think this is Coursera`s fault to begin with. They should word their requirements properly so it does not create confusion. Now, we are left to the good will of a classmate to judge our work and people are not even sure what the assignment asks of us exactly. +A great course to learn to design. It's not a software course, which is perfect. Just what I needed it. Unfortunately, it's too short. +This course helps any beginner to understand the fundamentals of what it takes to create graphic design. Great course! +very good introductory course. i enjoyed the assignments, they are not overwhelming, easy to start, and the optional ones offer great opportunity to dig little deeper into graphic design fundamentals. +Thoroughly enjoyed it, and learned a lot. Highly recommend it! Thanks to the prof and everyone who made this class possible. +This course is the best option to know or review all the graphic design essentials and how to combine them to make a good piece of communication art. I really recommend this course in which you will find an excellent structured program to learn from the basic concepts all the way through the very pillars of the graphic design thinking and creation. +I loved it so. I'm an art maniac so I found it dea +I thoroughly enjoyed the class. The only reason why I did not give it 5 stars is because, I would have liked to have seen one of the design projects reviewed by the teacher or a teacher's assistant. I appreciate the peer review, but hearing from someone with experience can be very reassuring. +I really enjoy the exploration journey of this course!Especially the moto of the tutor : "The best part to create it's to have fun in the process!"...Thanks a lot! +Seriously great course. It was informational and fun. The assignments were engaging and the professor was as well. I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in graphic design. +It comes with a lot of exercises which made me learn concepts that I've trying to learn only by reading. +I really enjoyed how hands on this class was! I was able to create some beginner Graphic Elements. Thanks for the class! +One of the best graphic design courses I have taken, I loved it. +Great overview of Graphic Design! Thank you for so much for the basics. I would definitely recommend this free, 4-week course to friends. +Great content, presented in a clear and direct manner and then applied with assignments that are accessible to all skill levels. Highly recommend. +Such a fantastic course! Accessible resources, hints and tips, and useful and challenging assignments. I've really enjoyed it. +Great start for people who don't know anything about graphic design, and a great refresh for people already in the industry! +Very interesting and useful +I'm taking this as a refresher. I find the videos to be very helpful and the peer reviews super rewarding in terms of both contributing and receiving. I've managed to relearn a few things as well as pick up some new approaches to my daily work. +Very good course for new learners and of course for old students. I personally recommend it to those who want to learn graphic designing. +It is most effective and valuable course found online. The course schedule is simply perfect every one can learn a lot by just giving a little efforts. +I love to do it! It's so much fun to create and experiment. The descriptions and lessons are clear. +There was just the right balance of instruction and hands-on assignments that let me explore my creative side. The only problem is that if you are paying for this class, your grade depends on reviews by other students. +Splendid inspiration! +A very precise and interesting overview into the world of design and graphics. +Good explanations and great tasks to accomplish. Really didactic. +A great course with a simple approach for the beginners. It was the class to not only learn, but enjoy with whatever is being done. +I'm new in Graphic Design and this course was a great introduction. +This course was well designed and very informative. +Nice course to understand the basics of graphic design +The lessons are very well planned, small and compact yet informational. The design of the videos is superb. It encourages you to focus on the narrative and never distracts from it. I enjoyed taking it and plan to follow up with the other courses in this specialization. I do wish I could do the last project as well, even if I couldn't submit it for grading as I have taken the free course. +Great course! Even though it is quite basic course, it makes a great introduction and gives you an overall look about Graphic Design. +Great course, the peer-review assignments are the key to the success of this course. +Thank You so mutch. I loved to learn more about graphic design and the exercises was really helpfull. Keep Going, guys. We need you. +Very useful course. Gives me a different perspective towards image, art & typography . +I enjoyed the course a lot! The information was well-structured and clear. There was great emphasis on practice that helped to understand the given material on a deeper level. Receiving feedback from students and analyzing the works of others was also wery helpful. +I am a better graphic designer today, with a prior knowledge of how to design a standard graphics for the Global market. thanks to California institute of the art and Coursera +I really liked the course, the content and flow of information not being too saturated, helps students to not lose interest on the course. +This course was very easy to follow along with, making learning the fundamentals of graphic design easy and fun. The assignments required and optional challenged both your understanding of the material and your creativity. I loved every second of this course and I would recommend it to anyone interested in graphic design. +Great course! This is the first course I've taken through Coursera and I am so impressed, both with the content and the delivery.It really influenced the way I look at design. I am really looking forward to completing this specialization. +Really enjoyed this course, wish the other courses in the specialization could be audited. +Very nice course! +Everything is well explained, and the assignments are interesting and fun to make. +Great course. Make sure you plan time to do all of the optional exercises, they are great. +Enjoyable course that really does cover the fundamentals. I have a much g +This is a great intro course for anybody new to the subject. I look forward to expanding my knowledge with the base of information provided here. I also really loved the assignments and the deadlines; I've been trying to learn the fundamentals on my own, but having the structure of this class really helped me to make progress. +The course was exactly what I expected. Professor Worthington made the videos quite interesting and was always to the point. The assignments were also interesting and not too much time-consuming. I'm happy I took the specialisation and I hope that the rest of the courses are as satisfying. +What an Excellent Way to Re-Cap!!!!Thanks Cal Arts....Thanks Coursera.... +Loved this course. Very interesting and fun to experiement with the different aspects of design. +This was an amazing course with a very talented and engaging instructor. I suffer from a chronic illness and have recently had to put an unrelated university degree on hold. It honestly felt like my life was falling to pieces. If this course is any indication of what's to come, I have full hopes of being able to start a successful business from home, allowing me to work with my illness and not against it like I was doing before. Thank you Coursera for opening my life back up to possibilities again. +Loving have the opportunity to take this course.The lectures are brief but full of valuable contet.The assignments fun and practical.THANK YOU! +Very interactive and effective +Excellent. Really gave me a perfect immersion in the world of Graphic Design. I sure am more knowledgeable now. +Covers the topic very well, but keep in mind that it's only an intro. The focus is on introducing concepts and language. +Useful and interesting course. +Professor Worthington was awesome and I learned so much. Thank you so much. +I had so much fun and learned so much. I plan to take this course again just to do the assignments. +Awesome course!It has been a really good and well organised! I am greatly improving! +Thanks a lot! Great introduction course with interesting lectures and very good professors.I loved the assignments! :) +Good course. Interesting clear lectures and interesting, enjoyable assignments. +Very interesting and well done course. If I can suggest, we should have feedback from the professors on our assignments. If this is something impossible, considered the huge amount of persons applying for the course, he should at least check some work and give a feedback in order for us to understand if the works done are made in a correct way or not. +It has been 40 years since I took my last art course (and that was in elementary school). While I enjoyed making posters in high school and college, those were done by hand. I had ZERO experience with computer graphics, and was quite nervous starting this course. I liked the way the instructor eased into it - bringing less experienced artists along slowly, and constantly encouraging us to practice and experiment. By the 4th week, I figured out my computer's basic graphic design program, and was really enjoying playing with designs. I look forward to taking the other classes in this specialization. +Fundamentals of graphic design is a terrific introductory course!!! This was my fist contact with art and graphics. Thank a lot for your lessons and advices.Mauricio GarcíaColombia +I learned so much from this course. Thank you! +Clear, concise and efficiently overview of Graphic Design. +Really nice introduction to fundamentals, very punctual, brief but juicy in content. So glad that I've found this Coursera. +I enjoyed the combination of hands on creative exercises and quizzes. I will forever remember " You learn to be a designer by designing" +I enjoyed this course +Very good introduction course with explorational aspect! +The material is really good for beginners. In order to make it more useful I think all the tasks should be mandatory, there shouldn't be any optional ones +Good course to learn more about graphic design and some aspects. Thanks +Good course +It is truly a lot of fun to experiment and to find your own way of designing during this class. Thank you! +Lectures are short but cover the fundamentals thoroughly enough.The peer grading worked very well, too. I got some nice and really helpful reviews. +I absolutely love this course. It's complete, precise, easy to follow, and ignites your creativity! +Very good. I am not major in graphic design, but I learn a lot here. +The materials and knowledge of the fundamentals from this course are helpful. However, the assignments and peer grading threw me off. I did not like the fact that your grade depended on students' review of your assignments. It is all subjective. Good course materials, poor grading system. +Great course and tutor. +Fun, hands-on and very interesting! Loved the assignments and the layout of the course. +I had an absolutely wonderful doing this course. I always wanted to do a graphic design course and this one sure did help me with learning all about the fundamentals of graphic design. I do hope to complete the entire specialisation later on. Great job, Coursera and CAL Arts! I look forward to your other art courses. +Took this as a bit of a 'looks interesting' - wasn't disappointed; was well taught, engaging and pitched at the right level. I'd recommend it to anyone. +This is an excellent course for anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of graphic design. Wonderful! The information and hands-on activities bring to point the information discussed and lessons taught. +This was a great introductory course. I appreciated how much the lectures were chunked down--to make it easier to move through the information each week and that there was a good mixture of required and optional exercises. I had fun!I also liked that this course did not require software such as Indesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop. +The course itself was great. The only thing lacking is that all the assignments were reviewed only by peers. +Great basic concepts of graphic design and balanced number of assignments +Clear teaching line and complete content makes it a wonderful choice for starters who are interested in graphic design. However, as the name of the course indicates, it is not an advanced tutorial for those who wants to enhance their design skills in a more specific area. +I'm so in love with this course! I want to take it again! +Great introduction of the fundementals of graphic design! I recommend it - the videos and instructor are clear and concise. I look forward to the next course in the specialization. +I learned a lot and it was an excellent test of my foundational Graphic Design knowledge. +This course does go over some of the basics of graphic design, but I expected it to be a lot more rigorous. The assignments are incredibly simple, and I think that there should be no optional assignments in the class. The reason I'm taking this class is because I have a hard time motivating myself to learn on my own, so I need something that will really push me. I only spent about an hour a week completing this course, and I believe that you can't learn something by only spending an hour a week on it. Also what's the point of having mentors if they don't engage with you? I know I could have contacted them if I had a question, but I didn't because it was so easy. I wouldn't mind getting feedback from a professional graphic designer though if they're available. Also seeing how many students misinterpret the assignments, it makes me nervous that they are the ones grading mine. +Clear and Organised. +Its a great course. Even if it's a basic of the Graphic Design, it's pretty detailed and a good start to anyone interested in the subject. +I had a great time doing this course. Professor Worthington covers the theory in an interesting and useful way. The lectures are short and sweet. The best part of the course is the 9 creative assignments (2 compulsory and 7 optional, but recommended) that really force you to expand your technical skill set and get out of your comfort zone. +great design course for beginners +Maybe too basic sometimes. But the teacher explains everything in a very good way. The platform works amazingly. +Very informative and inspiring.It is unfortunate that for optional assignment does not give marks. Only peers review. +I loved the course, although I think the instructions for various briefs should be more precise and/or someone should be available to clarify the instructions and answer any questions from students (regarding the briefs). +The course has been very illuminating and informative, not to mention the engaging assignments! I have really learned a huge deal and wish to learn more! +It's a grear course site... I learn lot of new thing in this course. +What a great course! The content was prescient to the artwork I do and the assignments fun and applicable. I look forward to taking the next course in the sequence. +Simple and very good for beginner! +Absolutely loved this class. Found it to be very helpful and worth my time and money. I think the professor did a great job with his lectures and I enjoyed the assignments.Thank you. +Excellent module with simple and concise explanations.I recommend it +Great course! High quality. Good peer review +Very good course for starters who want to understand - Good Work ;) ! +Information was very good and presented in a clear and intriguing manner. I do wish the professors or someone could give some oversight. Some students were nice, but some were very nasty to each other. Ironically, the people with the worst work were the nastiest. +Good content, it explains with so much clear and simplycity! Really love the course! +Great start for graphic design beginners! Lessons are well organized and well explained. The assignments are the best part of the course and very helpful to explore the topic. +I enjoyed the course as a +An excellent introduction to graphic design. The videos were useful to clearly show the concepts. There were a number of assignments, many of them optional, which allowed you to practice and integrate the learnings. All material was taught at a level that made it accessible to a true novice.My only hesitation on giving this course 5 stars was the lack of any presence of teachers/tutors in the course discussions. There was a lot of questions about the final marked assignment, with many posts on the discussion boards. There was no response from anyone other than the participants in the course. The issue was not clarified and students were left to interpret (and peer review based on that intrepretation) the instructions on their own. +ok, i'm probably not the average student here cause i am old,... saying that i have a fine art qualification and 25 years of 'almost there' design experience to have a point of view. 'almost' being the important part of it...what this module gives you is a very firm understanding of how design works these days. the main lecturer is really good at what he does, and that's probably the most important part of any teacher-student situation. For personal reasons i committed a bit too much on this course, and i am glad to say that whether you feel like devoting 8 hours a week for it or 28 as i did, there is stuff for you to learn.although i already knew pretty much 70% of the material, having the concepts reestablished by this teacher in such structured manner really helped me out.If we're to get sentimental, i can honestly say that i feel this module was the best thing i did this past month, cause through fine art i have been designing for the past 25 years, but this gave me the STRUCTURE to think of DESIGN in relevant terms.awesome.-do it!btw.,i've tried to be as honest as i can possibly be here, hope it helps. if it was crap i would say it's crap. but this one isn't. and of course it's up to you to fully exploit this wonderful possibility. +Professor Worthington is very thorough and the information in this course is not only interesting and accurate, it is useful! I absolutely loved the course and was extremely excited upon receiving my Certificate! +Great course! Awesome teacher, interesting material, and manageable projects. +Excellent course.. I love fundamental of graphic design. Highly recommended +Perfect short introduction to Graphic Design.I wish I could have dedicated more time for the optional assignments! +A very complete course with many applied exercises. I recommend it. +Explanations are simple but covers many aspects. The assignments are also simple but quite useful to practice what it is explained in the video lesson. I really enjoy with this course and creating the composition suggested in the assignments. +Exactly what I needed +Absolutely awesome course! Very informative, great examples, every lesson is logically structured and really inspiring. The whole course is helping to acquire a basic knowledge and understanding of a graphic design principles. +IT's a nice introduction into the design world. I enjoyed it. +This had some really good fundamentals and some really helpful exercises. I recommend this to anyone who would like to understand a little more about Graphic Design. +Great course! The lessons are really interesting for those who love Graphic Design and need to know and understand it from the basics. +The strongest part of this course is that it prompts the learners to apply the designing skills. +A well-organized course. +Very interesting and insightful! +The course was very interesting, hands on orientated and it offered me a lot of useful information. I have really enjoyed it! It was also a good motivation to practice graphic design more often, explore the realms of shapes, colours, typography etc.I was really grateful for the peer reviews, but I missed a bit more professional approach sometimes, for instance comments like "I like it" or "It is not that bad" does not tell me much about my work. So in these cases some feedback from someone who already is a graphic designer and knows much more about it than us, students, starting with the graphic design, would be more than welcome.I also missed advices on where to find out more on a particular topic.Overall, taking this course was a very positive experience and would recommend it to anyone who is interested in graphic design. +Very Interesting. The Illustrations make it better. +Very clear and not too complicated! I really appreciate how Michael Worthington gave us the history behind each term to give us an in depth understanding of how it functions. This lesson was very thorough and I will definitely apply everything I've learned to my designs. +One of the best courses that I have taken.This was my first approach to the world of arts and this course definitely gave me a solid background to start understanding Design more. Their assignments and feedback were very useful to understand the topics better.Recommended 100%. +I like the exercisesthey are very useful! +Although this was a beginners class and a lot of the concepts were really simple, the instructor still found ways to make the class fun and get me thinking creatively. This class got me excited to learn even more about design! +I really enjoyed this course. The teacher made the content very approachable and doable. The goal was to just create and start designing. I loved how low pressure it felt! It actually made me want to go the extra mile and design more! +The concepts are communicated in a clear and organized way. Great visual examples are provided for understanding and inspiration. +interesting simple way of learning, thanks for the encouragement. +Great course! Lots of usefull information. I used it to refresh concepts. +This course is a good start in understanding the basics of graphic design, I felt it could go a bit deeper into the materials but its a good beginniing :) +Seems as though all the essentials are here in a very efficient manner. The assignments and fun and inspiring. +This course helped me to explore my creativity. Although I've been working as a graphic designer for sveral years still I found a lot of interesting stuff that opened new horizons of creativity. +Awesome course! +This course was organized in a very easy manner for all types of learner. As someone who have had experience with Graphic Design, I thoroughly enjoyed this class and all the assignments. +I would like if there was some instructor feedback. That would be great! I loved the course, really useful. +Love it - very interesting +This is a good course and you will learn to be creative and learn about things you haven't done before. I would suggest anyone who wants to learn the fundamentals to take this course +Very good and educational contents. Great practical exercises that help develop knowledge. +Great introduction that give the learner the foundations and lets them explore by doing. +Inspiring assignments! THe instructor has a warm encouraging aura around him that made me want to listen to him. Also, he is very clear and thorough +Thank you for this excellent course!! +The course was very cool. If you have already studied anything design-related, the content might be too basic and might look boarded in a rather shallow way. However, if you are new to the topic, I think the course is the perfect introduction to how the design process works and also, to the specialization (if you are interested in that). Additionally, the assignments offer a great chance to practice every concept reviewed in the videos, so that even a person who knows those things, but is a little rusty on the whole practice side, might benefit from the course. +I loved this course so much I would suggest to anyone who is interested in graphic design. The videos are clear and the assignments very motivating. +Better than most courses why? because you are forced to create things a feature i have not seen in many MOOC's. Yes there is the ocassional programming assignment (mostly consisting of prewritten code and clear rules) in which you get to create something but that is not really creating something new. That's what you are stimulated to do in this course. +This course does an awesome job of integrating beginner's knowledge with practical graphic design projects. I'm enjoying it tremendously. I'd highly recommend it! :) +This course covers a great variety of important subjects in a fast way +If you want to be designer, get your hands dirty on the job! I really liked this course. It really showed a new perspective for making designs and I have learned new terms and concepts during the course. I would like to continue different graphic design courses in following days in Coursera. Really appreciated it. Thanks for all :) +Interesting and innovative +This is a great course for getting into art in general. A lot of the course is very cursory and never goes too far into detail like some classes do, which can be overwhelming.The structure of required vs optional assignments was great, allowing you to choose where you'd like to practice more or even just additionally be able to continue (whereas some people cannot).I would highly recommend this course to everyone. I look forward to continuing the entire specialization when I have more time. Until a couple of months from now, CalArts - you have made me a happy student! +Interesting and well-thought course for graphic design. Looking forward to earning more on the subject. +Great course for anyone!Excellent learning and hands-on for those in any field and creative interests, also non graphic/visual designer like me. Lessons inspired me and helped applying to other projects I am working on by stimulating creative thinking and ways to experiment. +Great intro course! +Extremely helpful course even for experienced graphic designers +Excellent introduction to graphic design, I really enjoyed the lectures and learned a lot. +Great course, excellent introduction to Graphics Design for me as a developer and a non-designer. +I've enjoyed this course so much! I nearly quit it before properly starting, because the first video seemed very uninteresting. Also, the material covered seemed very basic and common sense. And I guess a lot of it is, but to discuss these basic concepts, and experiment with them is very valuable. It also made me very excited about designing. In this course, it's up to the student to decide how much they want to put into the course, and therefore how much they will get out of it. Lots of the assignments are optional. However, all (but one) exercise really helped me explore the concepts explained.It's a clear course. It's a very basic course. Get ready to get hands on. +Simple and clear enough for beginners. +wonderful course, very helpful with basic knowledge of graphic design usage of elements and forms and terminologies. Thank you, the videos were very helpful and very insightful and easy to follow. I'd so love to carry on taking more courses that can help broaden my knowledge +I found this course extremely engaging and interesting. The fundamentals are basic but that's what the outline states. It's good for beginners or graphic designers who need a refresher on the basics. You can execute the course at your own pace, following the timeline or completing assignments and lectures ahead of time. I'd highly recommend this course. +This course is cool! Good explanation of the concepts and the assignments designed in such a way that a feed back is guaranteed. +I love this course! It is fundemental and interesting . +Great introduction course. I wish there were links to relevant literature on the topics. Some exercise formulations are not instantly clear. +It is a really good course, but it is designed for complete beginers. I took it as a review of fundamentals and didn't learn nothing new, but I didn't have those expectations. I just wanted a pure review of things I already know. It was fun and maybe a bit too easy - even for beginers. :) +This was my first attempt at a MOOC, and I think I'm spoiled. This is the just right format and just right medium for learning these skills. The class demonstration videos are simple enough to really demonstrate the concepts. The exercises are also well formulated to help get the concepts across effectively in this medium. +The course provides just what it promises. Each module presents a set of concepts or theories are foundational to graphic design. These come to life in the lectures with many real world examples. The design assignments don't work toward a single fixed solution, but ask the student to explore many possible solutions -- a training in divergent thinking and creativity. I am looking forward to the other courses in this specialization. +I am enjoying the course as a beginner in graphic design, i am also taking practical classes on PS, Corel draw and In design. i believe strongly that this specialization will give me the much needed edge. +A great introduction into the basics of graphic design. I would highly recommend. +It is a great course, simple yet complete. However, it would be nice if we had more contact with our lecturers, and if they graded our assignments instead of other classmates. They are not as experienced as our teachers are. +An exceptionally good course. Hands-on, and—as the name suggests—all about learning the fundamentals of design, rather than what to click in a piece of software. Highly recommended as an antidote to all the Photoshop tutorials out there. +Excellent course! As a graphic designer with over 10 years of experience this course took me back to the basics and re-ignited my passion for Graphic Design. Truly great and well put together course, very inspiring. +Very inspiring course. +Excellent course. Thoughtful introductions and good briefs. Enjoyed and learned lots +Very interesting and "to the point"! +Loving this course! It has a really nice pace. I always prefer shorter videos cause then I can divide the week up and not have to find hours to do it all at the same time. Also it is easier to think along (I am doing it as an after work extra activity). Probably a lot of things are basics but this was exactly what I was looking for. Also the system of mandatory and optional tasks is really nice cause people can choose how deep they want to go. I have skipped optional things cause I do not want to design myself, more work better together with the designers but I might change my mind during the next course cause I am definitely taking the hole spezialisation! +Course is pretty good as a starting point. Makes you start thinking on different lines and gives a good introduction about the various aspects involved. Getting reviews from other students also helped a lot.So overall, i quite enjoyed the course. Thumbs Up!! :) +clear instruction and easy to follow +I was satisfied by the content and the pace of learning. +Very great lecture, interesting tasks/projects. +I like design much ,this course will be nice +This was a fantastic course, and I really enjoyed what I learned in this class. It was awesome to be able to learn from a CalArts instructor! +Amazing course! great for people who are interested in graphic design :) +Assignments could be more fun and hard but the course was very good. +I really did enjoy the lessons, the assignments on different views of an object and last one on single contrasts indeed contributed to my creativity practicing. The lecture about patterns was impressive! +Great course. Interesting and fun lectures, useful exercises. Awakes creativity in you.Thanks a lot for this course! +It's great that the course has a lot of practical assignments! Also it is very important to get feedback on your work from other people that have interest in this field. It's good to learn what works and what doesn't and why. Very useful for me! Thank you! +It is a brilliant course. It is creative, innovative, fun and educational.Be ready to be surprised. Loved it and enjoyed it more. +A great course, I liked very much the way the teacher speaks, I could understand everything clearly, the activities were well made and even the optional ones had some deep meaning. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. +A really good course for beginners. Lets you know the basics of graphics design. +Really helpful! Thanks for this course. +This was very helpful. I learned a new vocabulary and improved my graphic skills. I'm looking forward to the next course in the series. +"Let's try and draw a very basic, simple apple." I had to stop watching this course there. Sorry, but this is less than "fundamentals". I'm trying a new course on graphic design now... +Excellent enterance to world of design.Thank you lecturer. +i'd like to thank all who works to give us much more information to understand with easiest way .. +Recommend this course to everyone who is interested in this area +Thank you! +I've barely started this course and it's already been a great artistic breakthrough for me. It certainly has opened my mind to the variety and depthness that graphic design can have. +ProsThe information is good. This class is good for learning the vocabulary in graphic design. I already understood more general terms like scale and form. I learned new terms like figure/ground and visual contrast (or how graphic design defines it).ConsThe teacher's pace for some of the videos is slow for the amount of information. On week 4, the pace slightly quickens. But overall, it's really slow.VerdictI would recommend this course for learning the terms of graphic design or getting a basic understanding of design principles. I also found the assignments fun. If you have some understanding of the basics of design and art, you do not need to watch every video. Feel free to skip on videos covering terms you have a general idea about. +Great not only for the beginners, but also for professional graphic designers who whant to revisit the basics. The typography classes are excellent! +Amazing course! +I really am enjoying this course! This course makes you jump right in and play, which is something I love! So far it has been helpful to me and I'm beginning to understand the basics of Graphic Design as well as experimenting with different techniques to create unique images! +Excellent course! It really gives you the fundamental of graphic design, and it fuels you with lots of ideas to continue creating and learning. +Its taught very nicely and its an eye opener. :) +Awesome course with lots of learning and fun!!! +Although very basic the course helped my to discover the bases of graphic design. Willing for more! +Amazing course. Learnt so much. And still learning. +This course was great and the instructor was very helpful. Peer comments also helped me to improve my techniques throughout the course. +Nice class. Quite inspiring at times. +Great course for begginers! Thank you! +I learn a lot about graphic design and I'm eager to learn more +Super course! It helps to learn and systematize basic knowledge of graphic design. Very useful for the start! +Not so long ago i decided that I no longer wanted to practice the art of graphic design hazily since i was self taught. I wanted to know everything about it and this course has been quite helpful. For once i can now speak fluently about the fundamentals of graphic design. Thanks to the Coursera team. +The course is clear, simple and easy to hand on! +great introduction to the basic concepts +Nice short course with the right balance of theory and practical assignments. Only two assignments are required for completion but there are several assignments that are optional and to get the full benefit of this course, the optional assignments are important, if you have the time for it. The course covers all the basics and it's fun. +Very cool, very practical. I love it. +Too simple and boring +Absolutely awesome course! +Great course! Amazing teachers and good content! +I loved this course, even though (for me), some things were quite repetitive and unnecessarily lengthy. +This course will open your mind to graphic design to a whole new level. It will make you "think design'. Highly recommend it. The assignments are well thought out too. You will learn-if thats what you want. +Really good course. I would have given it 5 stars but it could use a little improvement. Too many optional assignments perhaps. They should have been required. The class just didn't engage you enough. That being said I've signed up for the next ones. +Nice Course i really enjoyed. +A great course, it sparked my interest and built me up, starting from the scratch I now dare to pick a pen or brush and scissors and ductape and be creative! Thank you very much! +This was a great introductory course to graphic design. It made me think of many ways to represent the same image. I +Love the class, I learned a lot. Taking simple idea to new level. I'm looking forward to taking other classes in this specialization. +Four stars, because there is always room for improvement. But this is a well structured course and gives a great grounding for anyone looking at graphic design.Thanks to those who put this course together, great work. +The course is pretty good and not difficult to take. I've learned basic graphic design skill via this course. Looking forward to taking more classes here again! +Ii really enjoyed this course because it sets the basics - it is called "fundamental" and really it is. Thank you!. +A lot of useful information for begginers! +Great introduction to the basics of graphic design. Interesting presentations and fun assignments. +Very good course for begginers. +This is an excellent introduction to graphic design. Time is not spent on learning the technology, but rather on producing the examples of art and typography. Thank you. +This is great +I love this course so much, and I have learnt a lot of skills, techniques and knowledge about Graphic Design. Though some of the assignments are optional, I guess is to reduce the workload of the learners, I strongly emphasize learners to try all of them since the results won't affect the overall performance. It is a good introduction course for Graphic Design. +I am a professor in the arts. I enjoyed the projects and felt this course was very organized and easy to follow. The videos and project examples brought it all together.Thank you! +Thanks California Institute of the Arts for this course! It gives me opportunity to study graphic design +Great intro course....Could you consider more courses? +Fantastic. Amazing quality of teaching, must be one of the top courses. +Excellent material for beginners who don't have any experience with Graphic designing. +Loved this learned a lot. +I encourage this course because it has many exiting features and tasks. +Great course, awesome professor! The course is great for all, even people who currently work in graphic design. I especially recommend this course for those of us who either have no formal training/education or those of us who have been in the business so long that a refresher course just adds value to what we already accomplish on a daily basis. +interesting and fun course! +I was unable to follow up bc of vacation and some busines travel, I wish to do it again one day. +I joined to learn outstanding experience but ... disappointed +Very useful knowledge and practical skill. The assignments are interesting, fun and practical. Like this course! +This class takes you through all the basics of graphic design (type, shapes, colour, composition), perfect for beginners! All the assignments help you to understand the concepts as "you can get better at graphic design only by making graphic design" :) I hope there will be a specialization with advanced levels as well as I would very much like to learn more! Thank you for this class! +Great course. +I think this course was great- it really got you exploring and experimenting. I do think that there should be more REQUIRED briefs. Two of the modules out of the four were quiz's which was a little disappointing. I also think there needs to be some online help. In the last brief there was a large discussion as a lot of students were confused about the task and nobody stepped up to help clear the air- this is the reason I gave this course 4 not 5 stars. +Excellent course. Enjoyed the classes and all of the projects. I recommend doing the optional projects as well, because you get a chance to apply everything that you learn on class. +I loved all themes of this course. Learned a lot and made my bases in art bigger. +Awesome course! Learned a lot. +Perfect! +Awesome course. Well presented by an experienced faculty member. Thanks coursera! +Hey, that's pretty good. +Simple and effective!!! +I'm really excited to complete this course and have a better understanding of graphic design! +Clear direction, get more ideas on Graphic Design +The fundamentals, like the title says. Very well explaineI wish there was more info on what software to use for the assignments for those of us more used to traditional mediums rather than digital. +I really liked this short course. Having not been exposed to any kind of arts classes before (not since elementary school anyway), I felt this instructor explained things in a way (and used examples as he explained) that I could understand. It got me to appreciate just how much you can do just by changing simple things like typeface and size. This class got me doing stuff that I hadn't done in a long time, like painting with water colors. It was not a complicated or challenging class, but it was a very good introduction, which is what I think it was intended to be. It was approachable and it inspires further exploration. +this course taught me a lot about graphic design. i was so astonished about all the meanings from composition, shape and color. nice for beginners +Great course and great teacher!!!! Compliments +Awesome!!! i really enjoy the course +good course structure for beginners ! +For what it was, it was a decent course. For some reason I thought it would be a little more advanced. This was a very basic class. Wording of the last assignment limited creativity as it was hard to tell if you had to limit your pictures to 2 shapes,(as in one circle and one square), or 2 shapes(as in as many circles as needed and as many triangles as you needed, but don't add any squares). Reviewing these assignments, because they were so basic, made it hard to offer much in the way of constructive criticism. +great course for beginners in graphic design.you get to know the basic and the tasks are simple so anyone can do them.no previous experience is needed but its fun to try and make your own designs +The professor is great. That is the best part of this course. +Concepts were all clearly presented and discussed, and seeing others' work was very helpful in broadening my understanding of the possibilities. +Great course that teaches you what you need for graphic design.It is a good approach to graphic design.The reviewing system encourages you to talk to your "classmates", there is a very friendly atmosphere.However, it is a bit difficult to get feedback from the institute and the teacher direclty. +Great course, very engaging and useful !I hope there will be a part II. +Vale a pena fazer este curso! Muito bom!This is a very good Course! It is worth it! +Great way to learn the fundamentals of graphic design through practice. +Awesome course! I thought the lectures were really thorough and assignments were a great way to practice. +I did really enjoy the whole course. The videos were easy to understand and follow. All the assignments helped me to transpose the theory into practice. +Great class, I learned a lot and with these basics I can now go on and continue studying this subject confidently. +Very helpful, I love it!It would have been 5 stars if it had been longer. +Fantastic Course! You will find something for you - for sure! +This perfectly introduced me to the basic know-hows of graphic design, thing which you'll never learn from self practice and creating stuff on photoshop or Ai. I enjoyed learning more from this than my 4 years in engineering in school! +Nice course! I learn a lot about Graphic Design. Thank you very much. +Great course with a great range of introductory information with a good selection of exercises to complete. I learnt a lot from this course and had fun doing the assignments. +Very interesting course on Graphic design with a good structure and playful creative assignments. +This course is very helpful to understand why some designers present certain information or things in a certain way. +This course was very enjoyable. It was nice how the videos were broken up into many short videos, and the assignments were useful in understanding the concepts. +It is good for beginners only +Love the course and the teacher was awesome, I am college graduate in Advertising and Graphic Design and happy to say I learned new things, as well as new ways to see composition and every other aspect of graphic design. Thank you a lot for this and keep them coming! +Will be better again if we can have a return from the pedagogic team on the differents achievement done.Merry Christmas and HNY +I enjoyed Fundamentals of Graphic Design. The course in such a small time makes you understand the thinking that goes behind any creative work.Thank you.Amit +Im glad to be part of it. +A great pleasure for me to be part of this awesome course. I have enjoyed it as a child. +Amazing classes to create some interest over the graphic design! I finished and aprove. +It has been really helpful for building base for basic graphic learners......appreciate....(Y) +I really enjoyed the classes and the explanations were clear, precise and professional. thank you very much for preparing this classes. The exercises and references were very useful. +It's a quite simple course, yet it manages to give a few critical insights about graphic design. Really interesting for absolute beginners. +Keep on doing these kind of courses! Thank you so much! +What a wonderful introduction to graphic design. Thank you for sharing you knowledge and enthusiasm. +Notes made available would have been very handy. +Great Course! You must enroll in this. +Very encouraging to practice from day 1 +Really a lot of fun. It would be great if discussions were more active, but overall a good introductory graphic design course. +Very useful and well-organized course. +I haven't applied for a certificate but I really enjoyed the lessons. The course is clearly structured and the videos are very well done. +Very practical course, making complex simple +This is a wonderful wonderful course... The tasks are perfectly designed to make you learn and understand... Every single video lesson is fun and engaging! I definitely recommend it to any one who is no familiar with GD and is interested in learning it! +This course was very well designed and extremely suitable for peeps of all backgrounds. I suppose the only drawback was that I didn't find the course challenging enough. But I went to design school for a few semesters, so I was already pretty familiar with the concepts. Overall, very good practice and a nice refresher. Thanks, Michael! +Great course, I had a lot of Graphic Design courses recently and this is the best , it's the best approach to learn Graphic Design and be a designer too, not like other courses just reading theories as a story without knowing even how to make a step in the field. +Really helpfull to start working on graphic design!! +Un bon rappel des bases, merci encore.www.brandelys.com +The course is being great so far and very well taught/instructed by Professor Michael. I hope it will be an important asset to my future career in Arts. +The course is great! Well organized, with good assignments and good lessons. The graphics and edition of the videos are really nice. +Comprehensive and useful content +Really useful course for beginners.It would be nice if some of our submissions is reviewed by professors instead of peers. +Excellent overview of the basics for non-designers looking for some design knowledge. +Excellent course, videos are short and effective , the activities and content were also great . I would love more courses about desing like this one in Coursera +Easy to understand +Very inspirational course. Great tips and amazing opportunities to gain hands on experience. +A great course. By showing the mutation and combination of elements, it makes design more approachable, and fun to do. +Bit too simple for my liking. +Great course! +Excellent course. Interesting, simple (in a very good way) and very engaging. Loved it. If only it continued... +This is a cool course, and helps me a lot! Thank you! +Enjoying it! Thorough, effective, a great opportunity for beginners. +Michael (the lecturer) did a wonderful job delivering the lessons in an easy to understand manner. The whole course was easy to follow. I don't recall any ambiguity in his teachings and his voice was clear. I also enjoy some of the assignments because I surprise myself by producing some great images. My main problem is the instructions of the assignments that causes a lot of students to be confused (there are many complaints expressed in the Discussion forum). +Very practical and enjoyable introduction to graphic design. It condenses a lot of content in an approachable and diversified way so it's useful to learn a lot in little time.It's also encouraging to put all the concepts taught into practice with various media, with its balance between technique and talent. I like the instructor's way to express the importance of relying on the idea over difficulty.Among the MOOCs I've taken on art topics, this one stands out as one of the most clarifying and fulfilling. +This is a great course to start learning graphic design. Though I expected to find a bit more profound information, I still recommend it to those who has never had any experience (or conscious experience) designing something +Great quick course to introduce concepts that everybody should be familiar with, really easy to follow. +Great course! +The course introduces you to the vital basics of graphic design. Sometimes the information provided is not enough for me as a practicing designer, but I guess it would be OK for beginners. Maybe the main thing about the course is that it constantly encourages students to do a lot of design, and it's definitely inspiring. +Great introduction to graphic design - well paced, clear and the assignments were very useful to help digest the principles! +Absolutely clear and rational approach to fundamentals. Thanks a lot! +I loved this course. Thank you! +A solid introduction on the big picture of Graphic Design, I am so motivated to dive deep into more details by taking the class! +Even if you are an experimented designer, it's useful to come back to the basics and maybe discover something you've forgot or something new. A good one for people interested in design. +Very basic, but some things are useful, the course is worth it if you are a total newbie +Videos explain very well all the contents. +I really like this course. It's simple yet very interesting!Thank you, Fundamentals of Graphic Design team. +Interesting and funny assignments! +Based only on the preview, I believe this course approach to design is excellent. Starts from the very basic building blocks that apply to many visual branches. The originality and variety of the included examples perfectly support the explained subject. I can also appreciate the connection from this view/approach to arts.I miss the possible motivations behind design and arts. +I really enjoy this course and all the activities involved. +Really interesting and really passionating! This really pushes me to do a University of Design later :)! +Very-very complex and saturated course. It makes u believe in yourself and reduce fear of the white sheet))) easy to understand)Thanks a lot! i want to create after your lectures! +Very good to understand the basics of graphic design +A good, fun and very didactic introductory course. I'd like to have more courses on graphic design. +Great course! +Learnt a lot more about the design process so far in the week two of the course. Experimentation is constantly encourage during the classes and course exercise, i believe its an essential process every designer should embrace to communicate ideas effectively. +It was so much fun to complete this course and I really learned a lot +Very helpful course covering all the important aspects for a new person. +I like this course. It is great.It is not the easiest course ever, but it gives a lot of important information.I do like it has theoretical and practical assignments. So you will have Fun and Challenge :)Highly recommended. +very interesting course with detailed teaching of the concepts and its application. recommend to anyone who is interested in graphic design, would be a good starting point! +I learned a lot from this course and it was very flexible, interactive and easy to follow. +Just watched the first week and I am already excited about it! Please, I BEG YOU, make the Graphic design specialization! :) +Up until now this course is really practical, well explained and a "happy" place to be! I love it and wish my University lessons were as fun and informative as this! +I totally liked the hands-on approach and the nice presentation of the material. On the other hand, I felt a little left alone since there was no didactically planned interaction beyond the peer reviews. Furthermore, a forum for discussion is nice, but it's a little sad if no one can answer course related formal questions, you misinterpret the instructions, and therefore receive a low grade. +The class It's really clear and simple.Every week you can put the information to work on the assignments, that in my case made me put my creativity out there, have fun, discover my abilities and create really cool stuff.I learned with the recommendations of my classmates and I also learned by review them. I feel I learned a lot on a few weeks.I really loved this class, very, very much! +Well structure, informative, and very accessible introduction to graphic design. Assignments were achievable and enjoyable, and supported the lesson very well. Great course! I hope you create more! +Very good, well paced course which gives you a flavor of graphic design. Nicely presented and concepts demonstrated well. I would definitely do more courses from them. +Very good lecturer, has very good command of English Language. Impressive +Very useful and interesting course. Waiting for more courses from your university about Graphic design. +Excellent. The best Coursera course that I've taken. +I learned a lot from this course. Thank you California Institute of the Arts for this wonderful experience. +I've been working with designers as the client for 5-7 years now - I foudn this extremely interesting to get little bit of insight in what the potential is. +Great entry level course! Big thanks to Michael Worthington! +Like the format and the presentation of this course. Each topic builds on the next and then finally you are shown how to mix the fundamentals. Enjoyed this course. +Totally engaged into this course, I can wait to finish it and start a new one following this path. +Amazing course! I hope you will do something similiar again soon! +A great course that I highly recommend. +Very interesting and helpful course. I hope than professor will make course about painting on a computer with teoretical background and practice. +awesome i think. +love this course +Love this class on Graphic Design learned different types of imagemaking never new the different types or what they were called +I was led to believe that I would be learning the fundamentals of graphic design, which to me means learning how to use Photoshop, InDesign, etc. This is more about learning how to create art in general, not exactly what I'm looking for. +A very detailed course with good analysis frameworks. +Very Nice +Great +Excellent teachers and course. Congratulations!!! +Very Good!!! +I really enjoyed this course +Awesome course delivered by wonderful team. Highly recommended +this was an enjoyable course with lessons that are applicable in everyday life and perspectives that change how we view +I think it's a great effort for presenting us all this research, videos, activities, etc. but sometimes is heavy, boring, long, I think you could resume de course, so we don't loss interest. Thanks a lot anyway! +The course is highly engaging. It made me come back, day after day, in spite of a busy schedule. Also techniques taught are extremely basic and implementable. I found them to be useful and life changing. I signed up with the intent of just observing but ended up taking back a lot of value to bring about a change and creating happiness enhancing habits. Needless to say I have been endorsing and recommending this course to other. Thanks Dr. Happy Smarts for curating such a beautiful course! +amazing experience and great thoughts inputs +Very gratifying. I'm working on changing my life and of course, this MOOC arrived to my hands, I really would like to share my findings with people of my community, to create a happy team like yours but with the latin touch. Thank you to life for having put you in my way. +Very interesting course. Recommend it to everyone +An incredible course! +Love it!Simple, pleasant, interesting and relevant ;-) +pathetic +Excellent course, very interesting content.A great opportunity to learn about happiness in a different way. +very good, interesting, you can apply the learned lessons in your daily life from the first day +Brilliant!!! +Thank You! +This is something out of this world! this is an absolute must ! everyone should go through this it is so so worth it :) it is worth nothing that it is quite long. but I encourage everyone to go through it because everything is extremely scientific and just great! I am thrilled +Really capable of change your mind and yourself!!!!! +A life of Happiness and Fulfillment :) - This is one of the finest course I've ever taken online. I wish I could rate it 100/100 :) If you are planning to take this course then do not miss out on it, this course can change your life. +Pretty Helpful. Professor present lecture in an organized way +nice and short videos +Excellent! I was really motivated to follow, I've learnt in enjoyable waya lot important and useful things both for my professional and personal life. Thank you! +This course changed my life! I truly never thought of happiness as a value until it was pointed out in this course. Prior to taking it, feeling happy really was a bonus to what my family and I valued. I was raised to work hard and provide for my family. Now, happiness by my definition is a value that is considered in my decision-making framework, and I choose to foster an environment to let it grow. Mahalo and Aloha!! +A must for every human being +This is one course which I strongly recommend for everyone irrespective of their cultural and educational background +It is very interesting and emotional course) +Much more than I expected it to be. +Best among all courses! Should be compulsory in high schools. +Very informative and interesting +really it made me happy after completing the course....i would suggest everyone to do this course... +Thanks A Lot +A very good course. It makes your more mature in life. +Very entertaining and informative. Evidenced-based but taught in a dynamic and interesting way. Love it! +Thank you for the class. It was really insightful. +I can not wait to continue a Life of Happiness and fulfillment with more tools to utilize helps us to train ourselves to be more content +it's helpful. how to define happiness, is happiness equal t money or success? the 7 deadly sins, 7 methods to overcome the sins, and then practicing. after this course, you can see why sometimes you are unhappy, anxious or angry.it' s useful!Good luck! +I would apply for this course again and again. Wonderful experience. The best course ever taken! Congratulations to all the team! +ALOHAF. I would absolutely recommend this course to every single person in the world. Can you imagine the impact on our society if more and more people developed awareness for a Happy and Fullfilling Life? I am glad I attended this course and thank Prof. Raj and his team for the brilliant exposure of the contents and for the enlightment it brought. +A disorganized mess. Got no acknowledgement that i was turning in assignments. My peer-review assignment for week 1 was done the first week was never peered, reviewed, or peer-reviewed. Completed three weeks, all assignments exactly as instructed. God only knows if anything has been received or credited. I hate myself for getting suckered into this awful thing. Bye Coursera. +it was great I learned a lot and had a lot of funonly the main exam was too long. I need more than 4 hours to write it down and than have some problems to submit it. +I can see the hard work of Prof. Raj and his team. More of cognitive inputs are there please try putting more tools, tricks and techniques to be more happy. Thanks. +This course is based on personal anecdotes and not facts. Many of the examples provided have been proven to be farces and/or practical jokes. +Loving this course ! i wish it had been part of my undergraduate experience 20 years ago… I may have a had a really different outcome! lol +The conclusions in the course are not convincing, or at least not presented in a convincing way. I have many doubts about the argument given in the lectures, and I myself can offer many counterexamples and counterarguments. I just cannot believe in Raj's theories when they are so weak and therefore this course will in no way increase my level of happiness. +Good course..inspirational content +Very well researched, lots of practical applications and examples, explained thoroughly, highly engaging - great course! +The most uplifting course! I was smiling during the whole duration of the course! Thank you! +Very Interesting to me :)Thanks Prof Raj.Anh Nguyet from Vietnam :) +Well worth the time. I use this information every day, and it reminds me to be my better self. +I am very thrilled with this course.. Professor Raj is amazing and overall I find the course very meaningful. +This is the best course that I ever had in my lifetime. At the time of signing-up for this course, I was bit skeptical that how someone can teach us happiness and could be it be a spiritual discourse?But I'm happy, I was proved wrong. This course has no spiritual discourse and methods taught in this course are complete based on scientific facts and 100% practical. Having practised few techniques,I feel a positive difference in a way I see & feel experiences.Thank you Prof.Raj for having delivered this course on Coursera. No wonder this is one of the highly rated course in the website. +This course is amazing, very well structured, with a lot of resources that back the information. And most importantly it gives you the tools to be happy and maintain your happiness for the future. I love it and I would be going back to reference it when I need help reinforcing the ideas. +I would like to thank Prof Raj and his team as well as Coursera team who have taken so many pains to device such a beautiful course. I strongly recommend this course for everyone. We all desire to live a happy and productive life. Somehow, we unknowingly make decisions which reduce our happiness. Similarly, our ignorance also stops us from taking a few more steps which can improve upon our happiness. Prof Raj's course actually targets both- mistakes we make as well as positive steps we need to take. +Its a very good course. This happiness course has provided me the knowledge to make conscious choices which can improve my happiness levels. Thank you. +Best course I've taken so far!! +An exceptional course that is appropriate for anyone that wishes to be happier (or, I guess, anyone who is interested in the academic work on happiness).It's not an easy course to complete. Intellectually, it's not too difficult but it will take longer than 2-3 hours per week to complete.Strongly recommended +A very nice and fulfilling course! Highly recommend +Very inspiring and motivating for positive changes in my life! +Such a nicely science-based course on how to get the most out of life - thank you! +Perfect. +Excellent course and Prof. Raj excellent person!! Thanks for this opportunity :) +This course is a joy! I cannot recommend it highly enough. Practical advice based on long-term research, interviews with worldwide experts on the topics discussed, and a fabulous professor. So great! +Valuable information and great vibe :D +Prof. Raj teaches the course well. +Excellent course. Professor Raj has explained things in a very simple and power +very useful +What a fabulous class. I am happier already. +This is my first week which I've completed already. And as the saying goes, I'm loving it! Thanks. +This course really did make a difference in my happiness. +Great Couse, really loved it because the topic is there which is not covered any where and even though we all seek happiness. +It is an excelent course that everyone can take! +Great course! +strongly recommended ;-)the best course in my life !!! +I absolutely loved this course. +I loved it. Congratulations Prof. Raj!! +Overall, this course contains some great, potentially life-changing advice. I would definitely recommend it. It loses one star for the production values of the videos (lots of stock photography, annoying sounds) and the unnecessary length of the instructional videos for the assignments. +It was a great course. +This is a life changing course. Be ready to be challenged; it may very well change your perspective on life itself. At least it will make you feel a little bit happier. +Very good course over all, with a fantastic teacher. It covers many areas on how happiness can be improved, which in turn will help you conduct a more fulfilling life. +Loved the enthusiastic professor Raj. Thank you for being so contagious throughout the course for being happy and spreading the happiness. +Loved every moment of it +eye opening, full of positive perspective which means happier rest of life +It was a join taking this course.Thanks Coursera and Prof. Raj for this opportunity! +A truly fantastic class! +Dr. Rajagopal Raghunathan is a great professor. He and his team work really hard for this course and you can certainly tell by watching the videos.The recommendations and ideas from this course are key for enhancing happiness and for a better understanding of our selves. I highly recommend it. +Excellent course! Highly recommend. +The information in the course was really excellent and was set up in a way that it wasn't overwhelming. I wish I could give four and a half only because some of the videos explaining procedures were really long and were obsolete, and also because different parts of the site would say that I needed to submit something and others would say that everything was received so it made me really nervous - at one point the site was telling me that I was late in submitted my work and that I'd need to sign up for a later class but it turns out my assignments had been submitted and graded before the cut off time so that alert just really frazzled me if anything. +I like it very much :) there are some interesting ideas on how to improve your happy life :) +Awesome Course. Very structured, organised and clear for academic learning. Professionally done with ample scientific research studies to support every point that is referred in the course. Assignments are well done with creative learning. Also personally it is a great way, gateway to enrich or nurture one's happiness levels.Dr Raj Happy Smarts smiles in the videos and enthusiastic interaction inspires to learn to be HAPPY.This is my first online course and highly appreciate the inputs from the entire team. Dont wait to enrol for the COURSE. +Amazing course! Have Change my perspective about life!! Thanks Prof. Raf and your team!! Great job! +Just what I needed, when I needed it! +I believe taking this course will improve my ability to being a happier person. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course. Raj is a dynamic, positive, well-organized presenter, which contributed to the enjoyment of the course. The material is very useful both in terms of my work as a psychologist and in my personal life, and I am referring back to my notes frequently as they are so helpful in everyday life. I have recommended this course to several clients already as well as my own family members. The readings, resources, and general format are exceptional. Thank you for making this course available on!ine. I look forward to doing the extended meditation and going through some of the recommended reading! +Man Man Man!! What a nice and interesting woven course.First of all hats off to Prof. Raj for presenting a course on a topic like happiness which is really important to us but is missing its relevance in today's age.The concepts explained have scientific backing so I as an IT Analyst, was spellbound on the extensive research put to prepare this course.I felt really great and definitely recommend this course to everyone. Please try it once, I am sure you will get addicted (in a good sense!!!!) to complete it, like me!!!I can confirm that my happiness score has improved and I feel more at peace with me than I was before joining this course.Three cheers to ALOHAF, HIP HIP Hurray, HIP HIP Hurray, HIP HIP Hurray!! +One of the best! I'm glad I chose this as my first course! +Informative and fun! +Best course i have taken for personal development. Now i can be happier and share that with people around me. +insightful, inspirational mostly, informative, but gives an impression of a false pep-talks.. the lecturer is very nice but the over-accentuated humor and false bonding with the audience diminishes the overall good feeling of the course +Very nice course! It can really help you feel happier! +Great course but there are too many videos (maybe they can be zipped into one longer video instead of four to five short ones) and readings and I think this course should have more practice, more exercises, more field activities. +The author put passion into this cours! +it is the greatest course that i have ever taken in my whole life. with its practises it teaches an individual to be happy and be happy for all of his/her life time. +My happiness went down after this course. Only positive thing was that i realized how messed up my life is.Overall its a interesting course, it is obvious that a lot of effort was made while creating it and you can definitely learn something from it +This course was very useful for me. At first in every week we learned the theory but not too much, then we received very useful, practicak exercises. I learned many things about myself, i use many pratices in my life reguraly since i finished this course. Based on the recommended authors, readings i can continue "the work" +Everybody should engage on this course. Knowledge for life. +This man is a genius! +This course is a great learning experience! +Top notch course. Thanks Dr HappySmart. +Overall great course!!! Very interesting and scientific content which is presented in an engaging and motivating way! +very inspirational course +A must course for everyone! Seriously it's such a valuable course. And great and enthusiastic teacher! +I strongly recommend this course!! +Fabulous course and such an happiness inspiring teacher Dr Raj is!!! I truly recommend this mindset changing and life changing course. +Awesome class, learned a lot which not only do I practice more of now, but also hope to teach others this information in life coaching business I'm trying to do now. Inspiring me to help others find the happiness I did before this class and now added more knowledge to further pass on to my clients and those in my life already to spread goodness to all around me. :) +Very much liked this course, thanks +Very good course, makes you think again about live.And what to pursue in your life time. +It was a nicely designed course. Though I believe it could have been made more compact. +A life changing experience. Even for a analytical, skeptical and agnostic engineer like me! +This is a great course. It teaches you a LOT of valuable lessons and resources for applying to your life. Indeed is one of the best courses I've taken so far here on Coursera. Very interactive and interesting. Also, I think it should be studied on all universities, companies and other places, because it provides you with those findings, facts and studies (backup), of all the things you learn. +One of the most engaging and impactful courses I have taken online! +This is exemplary course to take. It has changed my daily habits a hundred fold. The instructor and speakers were a delight and enhanced my meditation practice, mindfulness, and continued gratitude habits. It has been a pleasure taking this course and I even purchased the book. I look forward to continuing the mindfulness practice. Namaste. +An excellent course. Over a period of few weeks, a gradual change happened. The first most important step was making happiness enhancing decisions rather than proving myself right. Each of the exercises was very useful, especially the I forgive letter. The creative altruistic exercise was lots of fun. The expressing gratitude exercise was very moving. Birds eye view of MBA was very thought provoking and summed up the entire session differently and was very insightful.Thanks a lot Prof. Raj and team for the ALOHAF course. +better than going to see a doctor +Very engaging, informative and inspiring. Highly recommend! +An excellent course! Inspirational and educational. Highly recommended! +THANK YOU! +I enjoyed doing this course very much. The amount of research, references included in the study material makes it credible and easy to relate to. The assignment and exercises are also very helpful. +Very very Good and interesting +I was scepticale at first but Raj explained all sides to his ideas so well that I had to keep watching. Every time I thought of important questions, he'd explain it 1 minute later. The only concern for me personaly was that he choose creative wordings over clarity & simplicity. I also aticipated better strategies and explainations to sin #5 for toxic people, psych pain, accountability but besides this everything else was beyond expectations. +Awesome course. A real life changer. +This course is absolutely amazing! I recommend this course to everyone. +Really makes you think and do self-assessment. Free therapy. +Very helpful! I think it should be mandatory for people with high roles in society.Congrats for your course! +I absolutely loved the course and the content! +I love this course. The instructor is amazing and his happiness really radiates. +I am extremely happy to have participated in this course. Kudos to Prof. Raj and ISB Team for addressing a fundamental human concern. I am sure that this course will continue to help lots of people clear up misconceptions on Happiness and live a Life of Fulfillment. It certainly helped me a lot. Thank you Prof. Raj, ISB and Coursera +It is fantastic as it is very essential for life. Thanks. +Love the professor, great material, easy to follow along. +Great course to take. Its intelligent, not just motivational tips. I would recommend it to anyone. +The course is very detailed. The theories and philosophy is supported by lot of research, talks by expert. The course is overall has lots to offer, the only improvement needed is on the aspect that it seems like a very theory driven and a serious course, the fun part is missing in it.The orator of the course has immense knowledge and does offer lot of take aways. I actually would have named the course as Scientific method & theories to achieve happiness. +This course is absolutely amazing! I took it because I was feeling kind of moody in a regula basis and that made me very unhappy. The topics covered in the course made me understand how we do so many things that go against our happiness and made me think about my own situation and why I was getting upset about silly things.I also found very interesting the focus of the course. I was worried it may be new age, happy clappy kind of affair, but it is very well structured, organised and all the facts are based in research, not on believes.Happy, moody, sad... I'd recommend this course to everyone, there is plenty to learn and to understand for all of us.Thank you Prof. Raj! +Very well researched and presented! :) Quite helpful practically as well! +It's one of the best courses so far on Coursera. Prof. Rag was just in his element teaching this course. +Honestly excellent! =) +This is a great course. Students learn a lot about themselves and others that helps build lasting happiness through internal control and building strong healthy relationships. +the best course I have ever gone through +Everyone should have this class! +I'm absolutely loving this course! Prof Raj's presence just cheers me up..he's so bubbly and positive! The content is really excellent. Great to have all of this information in one place. I'm really enjoying the exercises too, thank you so much! +I have enjoyed this class so much - it has given me skills to be a happier person! can a person ask for anything more than that? the professor and course content was awesome! well done! +5 star for effort.4 star for content - some of the findings are open to debate but are seemingly portrayed as "truths"0 star for trying to obtaining personal information (name, email) under the pretext of assignment when such information are not required for completing the assignment. +This course is intended to provide the concepts of Happiness what it is and how we relate to it. Prof Raj is amazing at explaining all this in details yet in common man simplicity. +This course doesn't just help you give an understanding about happiness. It really helps increase your knowledge in a wide variety of areas. Anybody will benefit from this course, but if you're interested in (cognitive) psychology this really helps with building or expanding your knowledge of subjects like motivation. Personally I've done a Master in Applied Cognitive Psychology, and have read about self-determination theory, but never have I seen it applied so broadly to so many subjects. I feel like I understand my own degree much better now. Not just that; since this course I feel like I understand everything and everyone better now... +Very meaningful..Guiding us to live a happy and fulfill life!!!!Thanks,Dr. Raj. +A course that really makes you feel good +This was my first experience on Coursera, and I'm sure now - it is not the last.The course gives you an opportunity to see how the way of your thinking affects your happiness. The patterns you don't notice, which are easy to understand and notice as soon, as you hear about them. No magic, just science. And as a result you can feel happier. And what is most important - you feel happier not because of some metaphysical stuff or because of someone fixing all your problems. You feel happier due to your own conscious actions in you mind, in your way of thinking. You yourself make you feel better. And you can see each step you take.And of course, big thank you to Prof. Raj and his team for creating this course, for systematizing all the information to be easy understandable. And which is even more important - it's easy to put in practice.Also Prof. Raj is very nice! And I think he is a trustworthy person : ) +Great!!!!! +Wonderfull course! +Life changing course. Thank you Raj and all the team +Excellent. i have learned not only about happiness but how to lead my life. Thank you +Very interesting and engaging course +Eye opening to the gift of Life +So great! I liked it very much! +It is the second week I am enrolled in this course. The course is amazing and the professor teaches us properly and passionately. I am enthusiastic to take this course and I enjoy every single video lecture to the fullest. +Useful and well done MOOC, congrats to the team! +Very interesting class with good example and lots to learn +Great course! Learned a lot that I know will stay with me thank you!! +Raj, is super pleasant it was so nice to spend some time in his happiness univers. He spot our bad habits and recommend simple change of mindset to get back on track to happiness path. +Very complete! +Rich, great and intense course. Be aware of the implication of the students before enrolling in order to be stressed about the exercice that need you to work / think of it every week.Thank you for the content which is really rich. +Very good course- simple to follow videos- not so long that you cant concentrate- and its fun as well. Very well researched course- I like the way the optional readings are grouped by module- this helps pace you correctly and give you the flexibility to explore a particular topic further. Handy practical guidance on avoiding the happiness mistakes we make day to day- I didn't realise so many I make myself. Thanks Prof Raj and team! +The course is "a must" for everybody and on top it's a great fun and a lot of positive emotions! +This is a very enjoyable class. +Amazing...and extremely helpful...a big thanku to everyone who helped in making this course available :) :) +This has been very informative and helpful for me. +Outstanding, practical course that provides clear lessons, tactics to self-evaluate and improve our happiness. +I love it! +Love this course. Prof. Raj's happiness and enthusiasm is quite infectious. The gratitude, self compassion and creative altruism exercises leave one with a warm smile. +This is an amazing course; absolutely well structured, very insightful, completely useful and inspiring! It has the potential to change your life. +What a fantastic course! I stumbled upon this through an email from Prof Barbara Oakley who had recommended this highly. Prof Raj Raghunathan and team have done a super job in putting together a fun, thought provoking and a potentially life changing course. I must admit that I took this course with great trepidation because I am an Atheist and felt that there would be a lot of religious discussion and woo-woo as part of the subject matter. I was certainly mistaken as this was not the case. The emphasis through the course was on recent research and geared to convince rather than philosophical and airy. For a person like me this approached proved to be convincing and clear. I have personally benefitted tremendously and have certainly evangelised it to anyone I meet and will continue to do so.Highly highly highly recommended by me! +It is the best course on Coursere that I ever saw +Inedited subject, funny presented, interesting \and welcome concepts. Congratulations to the coursemakers! +Awesome course! Scientifically backs lots of happiness enhancing tactics and techniques that you probably have heard of but might have overlooked or misunderstood.You get a practical methodology to head towards happiness confidently and efficiently. +I will recommend everyone to spend some quality time with Dr. Raj to discover happiness inside you. +It's a very interesting course. It provides a lot of insights into ways to lead a life of happiness and fulfillment. I truly enjoy this course, thank you for all the efforts in making this wonderful course! +This is an excellent course that teaches you all those things that you do not learn at school. Even if you are an academic interested in studying these kind of stuff or if you are just a person who wants to know how to have a life of happiness and fulfillment , this course will increase your levels of conciousness. +I am really enjoying this course. Its so nicely planned out and put together. Prof Raj speaks so eloquently thats easy to follow him. I love the way instructions are provided to submit the assignments. In other coursera courses I have mostly quit because of the lack of proper instructions during the assignments and also additional help. Not this one.What I dont like is the pop up quiz. Its not that the quiz is bad but the pop up destroys the flow of the topic. You could have executed the quiz just like the polls where there is a pause by the Prof and then comes the quiz. It would ensure a coherence in the videos.But overall a great course. +Most interesting, compact, comprehensive and a real life saver. A Million thanks to Prof. Raj and the whole Team! +Excellent! A must for everyone! +Great information, well-organized presentation and Raj is a joy! +Extremely well taught, excellent supply of materials and very good collaborators.A must enroll class for everybody! +great course! definitely made a change in my life for the better☺ +Interesting and insightful course indeed +Refreshing and enlightening +Good contents. Interactive. Useful for life. +A really great and fantastic course! +Excellent! Elucidates the definition of, value of, contributing factors to, and behaviors leading to happiness. Further, it is not only philosophical, but evidence based. Both thought provoking and practical. Changed my attitude and approach to happiness. +Excelent course! It helped me to be happy again!!P.S. I'd lke to help translate this course to spanish so more people can benefit from it! +Too much peer and dealing with others--not making me happy at all +It is a great course, I enjoy and I learn a lot of things about happiness +Currently Doing this course. Pretty good it is. +I am still a student under this course but i am all starting to get happy and happy about myself and my life day by day, this course is the best and i recommend it to everyone who want to lead a happy and lovely life , we all have problems in our life ,buts its always good to be happy from small things that gives us happiness everyday. +Thank you so much for offering this class on Coursera. I like the professor's teaching style and the class content very much. +Lots of interesting information & exercises in this course, plus an enthusiastic teacher. Very enjoyable. +not finished yet but ready to say it's great +Boring +Extremely motivational, engaging and positively suggestive. Awesome job Prof. Happy Smarts! Great videos and materials, Kudos to the team! Great Job :D :D :D +One of the best. Every one must do this course to know what really matters +it is a great course for life. +I can definitly attribute an happiness increase due to this course +Great course +The course is very effective, helpful and motivating! It teaches to look at things from different perspective and makes you to be more optimistic and mindful. A Great Big Thank-You to everyone involved into making this course and, especially, to its organizators. Recomended to all, even those who are already happy! ))) +I learned a lot. Now to keep on practicing. +Really nice class, I love the teachings and the exercise are very different and interesting too. +Great course! I'm auditing the class and I got to say, this course is packed with tons of information. I came in a bit skeptical and left happier. If anything, I think it is in the way that this course articulates "the pursuit" in the "pursuit of happiness." I guess I never formally knew how to "be" happy. With that said, thanks for sharing the course and putting it out there for free! +Great course, really tied in nicely with all the stuff I have been learning about mindfulness. Loved the presentation style and content. +The course is amazingly descriptive and helpful. And the instructors are great! +This course has helped transform my life. Evidence-based research on happiness has been powerful for me. Thank you kindly. +It is a wonderful course, so funny and interesting! Bravo! :-) +Very good course, Really helps you to be happy! +The best c +Excellent course for first responders and those who just want to know how to react in an emergency +really helpful for my life and career +super awesome class! strongly recommend! +Very interesting, pleasant and helpful! I totally recommend this course! +So much wisdom all contained in this course and very well explained too! +Excellent course content, a little longwinded on the videos, and therefore more diffuse than it needs to be, however a hugely important topic, and presented multidimensionally in a way that draws in the latest research as well as ancient wisdom .The happiness framework gives a clearcut way of action-ing Happiness hacks into ones life. Even the apparently simple task of Defining Happiness makes it clear how we are unclear & confused about happiness, to the extent that we keep measuring the wrong metrics.Ones that could never result in happiness! +a bit boring +Awesome. Would thoroughly recommend it. +This course provided an insight to the ultimate aim of human life - Happiness. In order to reach that dream, you need to take certain actions, it speaks about those. More than anything, it urges you to be open minded to everything. +A great eye opener for my life , family , but tests your observing power . Concept of mindfulness is also new +This is SUCH a fun course! I LOVE the professor and it is all very upbeat. If you think you know what happiness is and think it might be a silly class to teach being happy, think again. You really have to get in touch with yourself on many levels. I loved this MOOC! +Very well prepared course material with awesome teachings by Professor..Great job!!! +Really interesting. It really help us to become happy as happy people are more likely to succeed +Is an excellent course. Practice and theory are integrated in a very joyful way. +An excellent source of information, I would recommend this course to anyone. +This is a wonderful course that teaches us much needed strategies to mitigate our problems(or view of) and learn tactics and habits that will help us lead a happier life. Some of the content feels like its basic, but its a much needed reminder. I appreciated the expertise interviews that are incorporated into this course. There is important science behind the concept of being happy and you learn it here. Professor Raj has an optimistic style of teaching and it brightens the course work and mood within the course. I would take it again. +Fascinating and fun +What makes this course useful are the exercises so unless you are paying, don't bother, and it's not really worth paying for as it's just a synopsis of stuff you easily find on youtube. +Great course +Recommended! :) +Excellent course..everyone should try it once and I am sure there will be improvement in the happiness levels..:) +It makes you think more about how you view your daily life - helps you feel happier :) +great course +I thank Professor Raj and the rest of ALOHAF/Coursera team for this fantastic course which has motivated me to prioritize happiness in life and showed me the way(s) to do that.I will certainly recommend this course to everyone I know and hope many others will take the opportunity to wake up to happiness like I did.I thank all of you and wish you lots and lots of happiness always,Sushil +This course really is amazing. It is helping me to understand a lot of thing and giving me a new perspective to make things better +The best ever! Congratulations professor Rag +Excellent! everyone has to do this course! +Great course! I highly recommend it. +The course was excellent. My regret was that I didn't have sufficient time to devote to it - tax time and extra courses perhaps weren't the best idea. I'm a little down-hearted not being able to complete it, but realize I learned a lot, have started to meditate, and did manage to read 3 of the optional books suggested by Dr.Raj. I have noted others to read in the months ahead, including (most definitely) his own new book. Best wishes and thank you to everyone who worked so hard putting this course together. Barbara Phillips-Conroy +I had reached the last session of this course when it suddenly became impossible to access the video. i had to wait several days before this was possible (other videos from other sites were OK so must have been local to you and not a fault at my end) Then when I could access the site again I found I could not reconnect with the course at the level at which I had left it but would have to start again. Unsurprisingly I did not want to do this but would like to finish what was a very interesting and thought provoking course and the presentation was excellent and deserves 6 stars... the prof is a star. I hope you can help in this matter as there does not seem to be anywhere on your site where one has the opportunity to contact Coursera with problems such as this as I do not think this review page is truly relevant to the problem but where else can I go? Please do not suggest the Community Forum.HopefullyMary W +What a FAB Course ! +In fact this changed my life +Its an amazing course, I recommend everyone to take this course. Its just not any other course, it's happy course :-). A Life of Happiness to all. +Excellent course. I've taken many and there have been many amazing courses available on Coursera. This is one of them. Enjoyed every session and looked forward to studying. +This is a nice interactive course, whit a quite hilarious guy (but you've gotta love his style, won't be to anyones taste I reckon). +I have not fully finished this course, but would love to recommend this one to people in all different fields. I do think our education system fails as it only teaches us about how to make a living, not how to actually live. This course is fantastic in the sense that it brings happiness to surface, break it down and make it more tangible. The lecturers are very engaging, the best I've seen on Coursera so far. Thank you for putting this course together and I truly believe this helps many people like myself to be happier in life. +Amazing, colorful and really helpful course! Thank you , professor Raj:) +In just 4 weeks...my own happiness levels have increased. I am enjoying life more. my health is improving. wonderful course. love the exercises and format this course has been presented in. Prof. Raj, awesome person! +It's not mere course, It's a way of life :) +Great course with a lot of practical knowledge, delivered in a fun and engaging way +Thank you with the utmost sincerity!Namaste +If you need a true inspiration to improve yourself, go for it!Thank you, Raj! You have made a real difference in my attitude towards life! +Just finished this course yesterday. Totally loved the experience! Great if a kind of summarised text could be made available so that we can refer back easily. +GRAN CURSO, MUY RECOMENDABLE, ABORDA DE FORMA MUY COMPLETA UN TEMA FUNDAMENTAL PARA CUALQUIER PERSONA. +Definitely will make you think of how to find happiness +The class was absolutely Wonderful, however I don't have the time to go at a student's pace (work , hom, life in general). I was trying to go back and finish week 6 video #4 but was unable to open the course! I want to llearn I wasn't aware there was a time limit to learn happiness. :( +Feeling truly rejuvenated and invigorated while doing this course. Wonderful +excellent in every aspect +This course was EXCELLENT! Great information and it was presented in a fun, engaging way.I wish the last week's information and assignments were chunked into two weeks as it was a lot to get done in one week. +The lectures were interesting and insightful and the practical assignments were very helpful. +I loved this course. I'm a clinical psychologist who works at a university counseling center. Raj distills several principles of a very notable treatment called Dialectical Behavior Therapy into an easily understandable set of assignments. I will refer many students to this course. Raj is an enthusiastic personable lecturer. I'm so impressed that this course was supported by a business school. +Very well-designed course +Very good course. Professor Raghunathan is extremely invigorating lecturer and the course is full of great information. One thing that bothered me, though, was how the maximizer and desirability for control test scores were not explained further.Edit: I think my point about DC and maximizer scales sounded a bit more negative than I meant. Very minor thing, but as the course was so good otherwise it stuck out to me. In my case, I got "contradicting" scores (low DC, high maximizer) and the following discussion mostly addressed the overly controlling case. This left me at first a little uncertain whether the corresponding habit of the highly happy would suit me. (It does.)I highly recommend this course for everyone who wants to learn what makes people happy! +It is an excellent presentation by dr. Raj with a lot of science studies as well as life experience. +I never knew a course about Happiness and Fulfillment could be this interesting! Thank you professor :) +Great course. I have often wondered what was wrong with me. This course helped me to better understand myself and others. +I am SOOO happy I took this course. The material is so eye opening and it's presented in a very engaging way with a variety of speakers, references and visuals. I thought the assignments were quite relevant and made you think in ways you typically do not.The only slight drawback is organizational- sometimes links were missing the readings and the assignments require too many unnecessary steps. It can very easy be simplified. +The content of the course was actually very helpful, but the way the assignments are made took all my motivation away. They use an external tool where one has to enter the information for the assigments, at the end you get a PDF and then you have to copy paste that again into Coursera. The emails are often confusing and some assignements require you to do something each day for seven days in a row, but don't really warn you about that anywhere. So when you think that you have 3 days left to meet the deadline ... wrong, you should've started 4 days ago.This in combination with the ridiculously detailed instruction videos, which consist to 95% of a tutor reading aloud what is written on the assignment webpage. Chances are you get bored quickly and miss the one information that was NOT given on the assignment webpage.In total, it is very sad that this course started so great, but the technical and organizational problems reduced the motivation so much. +Great course, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! +Good course. +One of the most impactful courses I've ever worked through. Really just an incredible achievement, the actionable and lovable focus of the course really pulled me in and never let go. On paper I didn't do the assignments but I actually did everything suggested in the course and it really has helped my happiness, satisfaction, self-compassion, and I now chase flow rather than superiority.Thank you is not enough, I'm so grateful to all the staff, Raj, and all the guest speakers. Best course ever. +The content it has been very exciting, dynamic and enjoyable. I like how the information is structured and all the sources from professionals are gathering together. Great class for everybody! definitely much more than a Happy Life course. The only thing I don't love about it is the music introduction in every session, which for me is a little too cheese. +Full of info, tips and strategies, and very engaging videos! Many thanks! +Very good and useful course. And all the knowleges which I'd got from it I began to use now and will continue to use later in my usual life.P.S. Sometimes there were too many names of researchers in the videos, but all of the findings were interesting by themselfes.And I want to give personal gratitude to Prof. Raj: thank you Mr. Raj for your positive, passion and help! I wish you a life of happiness and fulfillment! +Awesome professor.He presents everything in a wonderful way and it is an amazing topic with great research. +A really well done set of lectures and lessons. Incorporated a great deal of common practices in simple, easy to follow format. Was particularly interested in the Mindfulness piece and you did a great job presenting this practice. Loved being with you throughout the course! +In addition of the very relevant content, all the materials and videos are of very high quality.Além do tema ser muito relevante, todo o material e os vídeos são de alta qualidade. +Extremely helpful and informative. The benefits of this course is going to stay with me for the rest of my life. +This is a warm breeze, I recomend this course in order to make your life full of happiness. ;) +give me so great ideas to find more happiness,I like the course +This was a great class that really made me think. I highly recommend it even if you are already a very happy person because you are likely to learn some tips to make you even happier. I've shared several of the sins and corresponding habits with friends and family members. Plus, I look forward to practicing many of the suggestions for years to come and reading some of the recommended books. +Timely for me and most enjoyable - made the learning easy +Practical and scientific approach to being happy. +Awesome course to get life back on track. +Great course, worth my time, learned so much and feel better than ever... +I have liked very much this course, seem to myself to be very completed ans that made works my mind. I have learned of what it consists to be happy,because of it I will been grateful always. I recommend it of the heart, it will be a nice experience. Adjust the belt!Enjoy it! Diviér +I really enjoyed this course! Dr. Raghunathan has a lot of energy and is very engaging in the videos for each module. The information is clear and easy to understand, yet at the same time, has led to serious improvements in my life. Not only that, the assignments in this class get each of us to reach out and connect with people in our communities in an organic and comfortable manner. Also, there are a lot of very good book recommendations throughout the course and I highly recommend checking some of them out!! I've already recommended this course to friends in my "real life", and I hope that this review will sway someone to enroll. Stay well! +very nice and insightful course. +thank you for this course and the professional way it has been set up. the enthusiasm, quality and learning I got out of this are way beyond anything I could I have imagi +I used to always say that everyone in life no matter what their profession was, should take at least one basic psychology course in their lives. After taking this course I can now say that this course is another one on the list for everyone in life to take --it should be a requirement. I feel very fortunate to have stumbles upon it, and I´m very happy that I took it! And just by taking the course my life has already started to change, because I am now aware of things to make myself happier that I was not aware of before, so this course has shed a lot of light on life, human beings and how to be happier. Last, I´m very grateful to Prof. Rajagopal Raghunathan, for coming up with the great idea of giving this course! And wish him all the best with his new book! Thank you all! +I am definitely enjoying Professor Raj, a fellow Texan :-) . I enjoy the guest Skype segments and the book suggestions. I like the Budda quote and the cartoons. Suggestions for improvement.... Make fewer, but longer videos. In my opinion, I lose learning time by watching so many short videos, because each video has the opening animation and closing credits. Also, there really is no need to have someone else give the assignment, she is beautiful and pleasant, but it's distracting and her audio is different than yours, so when wearing ear buds, she sometimes blows my ears up, she's so loud. Would be interested in seeing what else Professor Raj teaches on line. +I love this course and I learned very much about my life. +Learned a lot in this course...all very useful. Many thanks!!! +I can't think of a better topic. Give it a chance. I certainly learned a lot. +Even though I disagree with some of the ideas (for example, I don`t think that dietary instructions belong to this course, since every case is different and some of the suggestions can be harmful), this is the course that should be revisited regularly to remind yourself of many useful things described in lectures. +Excellent course!! Very engaging and extremely useful. +This a fantastic class, it has changed my outlook on many facets of life and has been thoroughly enjoyable! +I really joy making this course. +I liked it a lot. Not sure I learned a whole lot new, but isn't it so helpful to spend 6 weeks immersed in practice? I think so! He clearly had way more info than he could go through in six weeks -- you could tell by the number of guest speakers, extra research students could do. He did a great job condensing and picking out the most basic and core elements. A lot of group effort -- first course I've taken where I've seen how MANY people were involved in pulling it off.... +A very good course! +This is the best course I have ever taken online. It is the kind of course you want to last forever. +Thank you! I enjoyed the content and learning more about happiness. I found the music a wee bit corny, though. +This is probably my fourth course at Coursera. And the first one I could complete properly. I have had to leave the rest because of the time and effort they asked for, and for a working professional, it's just that much harder to give in so many hours!With this course, I feel at ease watching the lectures and felt the tension melt away rather than having an add on pressure. The best part is that I finished this course within 4 weeks rather than the stipulated 6 weeks(which shows how good Dr. Raj is, kudos to him!)The only thing I felt missing was a sense of feedback from the professors, like in a real classroom. When people indulge themselves in courses involving such vigour and enthusiasm, they expect to find a feedback from the professor as well. Maybe a sense of real time involvement. But then again, I'll congratulate Dr. Raj and the team at ISB for making such a brilliant course. I have already made many of my friends sign up for this!Cheers. +Best coaching lessons I ever learned with scientific explanations which makes it unique and trustworthy. It is definitely life changing experience. +Good fun & very thought-provoking.Deductions for sometimes lousy sound quality of videos and inane placing of quizzes. +My favorite course ever! I think everyone should spend 6 weeks studying this! It can benefit EVERYONE!!! =D +The course modules are too long and at times what the speaker wants to share gets confusing +This class is excellent and has made me a happier person! +it is good to get interacted with the course +A highly scientific and engaging course. I have learned many useful, practical tips and will be referring back to many of the videos at a later date to keep myself on track to happiness :-) +A very good course. My only suggestions would be to extend the course for a week or even two. The time and amount of work needed to complete the last week's assignments were inconsistent with the other weeks. To have done my best with the final quiz and assignment, I should have spent a significant amount of time reviewing material from previous weeks. +Absolutely briiliant course, just enroll as quickly as you can. You wont regret it +It is a reasonable well-delivered course given the topic +A must! I'm sure EVERYBODY can benefit inmensly from taking this course! Excellent content, excellent quality, excellent proffesor! +Great for everyone! I recomend! This course will definitly improve que quality of your life! +Best class I've taken in 15 years !!! Loved the material, loved the professor, loved the guest speakers, and loved the assistant. That' +Very Practical stuff. Definitely not woo woo. Already things I have learned have changed my way of looking at experiences. As a bonus, the material makes great family conversations. +Excellent course. It helped a lot and brought +Great one! All information and tests are useful and practical. I am happy that I have opportunity to learn all these :) +Pr Raj is the most happy man I have ever met! Very helpful course with many positive information to ennhance our hapiness! +Prof Raj is a charismatic and engaging professor. Although at first glance, the content may seem theoretically heavy and dull, he teaches in an entertaining way without jargon, and with lots of anecdotes and metaphors, making it easy to follow, and most of all, fun to learn. I would definitely recommend this course for you!OVERVIEWEach module and the entirety of the course is structured very comprehensively. The lectures incorporate various professors who are experts in their field via video conference, telephone, and quotes. Lecture videos (though sometimes long) have lots of embedded quizzes and relevant external videos. Just like taking a course at university, supplemental (yet an optional) reading list is provided for those who wish to explore further.LECTURE VIDEOSProf Raj definitely knows what he is talking about and the videos are easy to follow. There are only a few videos where the audio isn't the best, but transcripts can be downloaded on Coursera, and a clean-format of the transcription can be found on the Facebook page. The animations, lighting, audio, in general are all great.THE COMMUNITYThe discussion forum is very active. With at least three mentors active during the duration of the course, and at least one responding to a post within a business day, you won't feel like you're taking the course alone.CAUTION !Although it states that time commitment is 2-3 hours a week, it will most likely take more than that. The total number of minutes spent on watching all lecture videos (for that week) averages to a little over 2 hours. If you're like me and want to take notes or take a break while studying or re-watch a lecture, you'll need more time. Plus on top of that, there are quizzes and assignments. (You can save time by not submitting assignments via the ISB website.) I would allocate minimum 3 hours a week for this course and maximum 5. Bare this in mind for those who are working or studying full-time or are taking other MOOC courses. - Enjoy the course! +A very well structured course. I really, really, enjoyed it. I'm grateful to Prof. Raj and Coursera, for providing this incredible experience. What I've learned is priceless. Thank you! +Lots of food for thought served in a very enjoyable manner. I learned a lot about the scientific theas about myself. +i HAVEN'T MADE IT PAST mODULE 1 DUE TO VARIOUS SETBACKS BUT I FEEL MUCH HAPPPIER THAN STARTED.I look forward to starting again on the 15th of February! +Great concept! Much needed +Exellent course! Very well documented academically and Professor Raj was able to capture my attention every day. A must take course for every single human being :) +A very happy course for everyone, even when you believe to be happy and mindfull, this course will shown you how to be even better. Just watch and enjoy the benefits :-). +Wonderfully Amazing course. Lots of information to bring your happiness level high. Although, I would love it if there is daily format or to do list after course. Like 2-3 page summary and things to do on the course.Also, I don't know how Raj manages to remember so many experts in the field and get their feedback and involvement in the research. I would love to hear that :)Amazing course definitely recommended for everyone :) +I paid to get a certificate and did achieve good marks on the tests and assignments up to week 4 if memory serves. And still, I "dropped out" before the end of the course. Why?- the tests trip you on little bits of trivia, as opposed to assess your understanding of key concepts. Another course, “learning how to learn”, has the best tests in that regard;- the modules are too long. When you do this in addition to working, it becomes a chore;- the assignments: instructions are tedious & confusing. As for the assignment themselves, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was a test subject with data being gathered in the back. Not what I signed up (and paid) for.So it’s a pity and I do regret having had to stop attending this online class. I was attracted to the topic, I enjoyed the personality of the host, but all the above made it a chore. +Great course!! +What a wonderful experience taking this class has been...I have really enjoyed Prof. Raj's videos and learning about human nature in regards to our happiness levels...I believe this to be a beneficial class for anyone and everyone to take and have expressed my excitement for it on many occasions with those I come in contact with...THANK YOU for the amazing work on putting this beneficiary course together...I hope to have the opportunity to continually review the content and continue to learn and grow in a positive way... +such a great course!!Thank you so much, Raj +This course is amazing. Everyone ought to take this course, it changes ours lives. +This is a wise course which helps with goal-setting and spiritual direction. +This course is one of the most fun and well-planned courses I've attended on coursera. +Fresh, insightful, entertaining ... and profound. This is like a vacation for the psyche, a chance to hear about spirituality and self compassion and gratitude and joy without feeling like you're engaged in "heavy philosophy" or religious zealotry. The messages are on-point, Professor Raj's delivery is perfect and engaging. +Good Course +Excellent class ! The professor is dynamic and really interesting. Thank you ! +I love Prof Raj +Interesting class with many useful ideas and techniques. +This is a very complete course if you want to understand how happiness can be achieved in your daily life and practice different methods to internalize them.Definitively after taking this course, your view about happiness will be different, and if you were neglecting happiness in your life, you will have now a motive to prioritize it in your life.I want to congratulate Dr. Raj and the course's support team. The idea, research done, the video assembling, the quick tests, etc., are well engaged and create a great synergy throughout the course in favour of the student. This methodology helps a lot to internalize the ideas and it is so playful that despite you will have to work in the course, you will do it happy. +Excellent! Learning about things and values you already know but in a scientific way. Great exercises that promote happiness and a unique way to introduce mindfulness. +Thorough, well structured, engaging, entertaining, and fun. Every lecture has a proper APA Style reference list. +a course made with compassion and creativity +very informative, fun and motivating! keep up the good work <3 +A really excellent course, where I have learnt huge amounts. I'm going to really miss Raj too, he had a very natural way of presenting to the camera. +Simply Outstanding, my appreciation to Profesor Raj and all his team. Very practical, evidence-based know how about such a subjective matter. Being happy is not that complicated and this course slaps you on the face on how easy that can be... Well done and Many Many thanks! +Excellent course. Worthy to do it many times. +Lectures are short and engaging. Good info. Great prof! Would like a little more evidence for some of the concepts presented but overall GREAT! +I love this course. I am taking this again as I feel I need reinforcements of all the lessons +One of the best courses I have undertaken till now.Prof. Raj is very charismatic and the exercises/assignments involve a lot of fun, innovation and creativity and helps to spread happiness in our and other's lives. +A brilliantly presented course that can be life changing if followed as presented. +Awesome course. Really helpful. +Very good, practical, just to the point, with lots of quotes and evidence on studies that suppport course affirmations. Really enjoyable! +A very well constructed and an amazingly delivered program! +Very interesting course! I would suggest making the explanation for the exercises shorter. +I loved this course. Prof. Raj is amazing. The way he communicates is very clear and friendly. It doesn't sound like preaching. All the mentors are very friendly and responsive. After the end of course, you will be more aware of the happiness quotient of your own life as well as other. I recommend this course to everyone. Keep smiling :) - Nitesh Manav +Dr. Raj is very interactive and entertaining, as well informational and tasteful. +Backed with research presented clearly and artfully, it is both helpful and enjoyable :) Kudos! +The course was great, it was really interesting and fun. But the final exam was somewhat lackluster, writing it was not even close to enjoyable +Excellent course because it is so simply & clearly presented by Prof Raj.. who brings his enthusiasm across well in the videos.. highly recommen +Its excellent. Gives solution to all my questions one by one. Its a great experience with Dr. Raj +It was fantastic!!!! +I have been reading / researching on Happiness / Success for many years; I think this was was the most comprehensive material on this topic I have seen. Many of my beliefs, thought process, day-to-day interaction methodologies, my approach towards life, etc. were validated. Dr. Raj Raghunathan has done an amazing job and I am sure many people must have become 'happier' after attending this course.THANK YOU Dr. Happy Smart!P.S. My daughter is freshmen in UT Austin; I have requested her to be part of your course there soon... +This course delivered a ton of very good perspectives, insights, and data to help you grasp an all-important topic which is not typically explored on an academic level. Instead of bombarding you with opinions, this course approaches the topic in both an analytical and personal way, inviting you to explore and expand your own definitions of happiness while learning the science behind it.I found my consciousness of as well as my knowledge about happiness elevated substantially through this course's teachings, and I would recommend it to anyone serious about living an intentional and happy life. +Great course! +What a grt course....wow ! Its amazing to see how each topic is covered with so much of detail and in a interesting way. Kudos to Dr. Raj and the whole team. Thank you. +It`s perhaps the most beautiful course made by really good people. Thanks to professor raj and coursera. +So far, so good! Just about to start week 2 of this course and it has been good so far. +Enjoyed it +Love it +I am very much enjoying this course. +I found this course had a lot of insights.I have gone from one thing to another but this course is the realdeal. It explains things an easy understandable format.The topics and explanations are the best. Both older and younger people can benefit. This has proved the missing link to my happiness. +A life-changing course. +Fantastic approach to the topic. Excellent content and delivery. +Fantastic insights, coming from many well established research areas.Taught in a very enthusiastic way by prof. Raj, a pleasure to be participating ! +This course enriched my life and was fun as well. +It is a great course and I would recommend this to anyone, everytime!!! Thank you Coursera and prof. Raj! +Probably the best prof on Coursera +One of the best!!I enjoy every step on it.A great teacher.A fabulous experience! +Excellent course. A great combination of theory and practice. Very applicable in daily life. I'm very happy I took it! +🌞🎉🌞🎉🌞🎉🌞 !!!!I absolutely love it!!!! 🌞🎇🌞🎇🌞🎇🌞 +Unexpectedly beneficial +A course which cause considerable change in your happiness level +It isn't rocket science... but this is an informative, fun, upbeat course ... useful to practitioners, educators, and anyone that works with people... plus just good fun self-help! +Great and entertaining course, very compact so it needs my attention! +This is a terrific course! I am recommending it to everyone that I know. If you're interested enough to think about it then you must take this class. +This course is for people who are already relatively happy. Tasks are impossible for those who are not happy. Personally i couldn't define happines and couldn't remember anyone who i am grateful to +Very useful course, can learn a lot about happiness and also about yourself :) +This course is awesome! I am enjoying every word. +I am so happy that I am taking this course!! I look forward to the lectures :) +i am a much happier person.This class helped me tremendouslyto see the glass half full(maybe even more than half full)rather than half empty.Thank you Dr. Happy Smartsand the Happiness Team +Excellent course on whats important in life. Have ordered the book too. Should be a good read.Shall recommend the course to a lot of them. +I realized that my anger stems from true unhappyness. But this course gives me hope. It can get better +The Course seems to be a great one and the way it has been delivered is fantastic...Although, I know there is a lot of content to be covered to make it really impactful but I felt the duration is just a bit longer than expected. +Very interesting and useful! +excellent course, it combines the scientific basis of happiness as well as the practical tactics to pursuit it. +Cant get better than this +Really great class, everyone should be in this one! +Probably one of the best courses I have done in my 46 years of existence! +Love teachers help and how the information is clear. +Just finished the first week and I have hope that I will see some improvments at the end of it, it seems to be very promising +Really inspiring! +Interesting and exciting... +Great content and delivered well. Kudos Prof Raj and team +Nice course, very lively professor, highly recommended for everybody +I like absolutely everything in this course: the idea, the teachers, the lectures. +I think this is a wonderful course, very inspiring! +This is such an insightful course, and provides many fun yet practical exercises on ways to increase your happiness. +This is the most positively engaging MOOC I have taken to date! I'm extremely happy that I went through this course. The knowledge I've gained will last a lifetime. +That was very informative and motivating course. I wish the quiz was not that detail oriented and hard.. +This course was the one of the best I've taken on Coursera. The videos are well done, easy to understand and motivational. Highly recommend this course. +such an amazing course about happiness :) +Extremely interesting and engaging. Take this for yourself, and you will find that you come closer to a happier you. +That's a fundamental course to learn :) Thank you Raj +Very helpful information! Thank you for making this course available. :) +Thank you for your efforts, from the bottom of our hearts. Much grettitude. +I really enjoy this course, it helped me so much on the journey to A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment not only of myself but also who around me! :D +Lecture uses "you know" so much, that I couldn't hear enything else. +Good course , For Living more better +very useful +Dr. Raj has been extremely down to earth but yet professional and all the speakers (guests) and Ms. Xavier have shared the same qualities. I'm beyond satisfied with the course and am feeling great that I've chosen to partake in this and practice obtaining more "Fulfillment and Happiness". Thank You So Much to all who make this possible.-Justin +Very interesting!!!! +This is an amazing course, I will recommend it to anyon +Since the beginning makes you happy! +Extremely Good +Way too many weekly lectures, way too many. In addition to that, lots of the lectures were too long and sometimes even meaningless. It was impossible to follow through. +Extremely interesting, engaging, entertaining and useful! I recommend to everyone! +Really Really Interesting !! :) +One of the best course on coursera . Loved it . I am glad that I took this course and will definitely recommend to others . Thanks to coursera team especially professor Raj . Thank you so much for changing our attitude towards life . +Is an awesome course and a great start for those who want to make some changes in their lifes +Really lovely course. I learned a lot, and in addition the atmosphere and sense of community is overwhelmingly lovely! Thank you. +Great! +Personally I found this course really well made and quite helpful.Although not everything was new to me a bigger picture was presented and I found motivation to employ some of the really helpful techniques. +I love Raj! He is awsome! Thanks Raj! +the best video and slide and funny straightforward way of teaching easy to understand +Love it! Do you want to have a better life? Take a look inside! +Great Course! +This course is a joy! +Thank you. I am indeed happier. I am very grateful to professor Raj. You've changed my life! I needed just this course. +Fantastic course, fully engaging, with a lot of resources and practical knowledge.I think its the best course I have done online so far, and I did quite a lot. +Life changing. +It is fun, it is usefull, it is full of new knoledge (and I'm only on first week). It gives me inspiration and make me happy. +Excellent course. Very informative, research-based, and fun. +:) Great +Quite happy one +superb course. Recommending to friends . +Loving the class so far. Good to know that I am on the right path in obtaining and maintaining +I adore the professor! It teaches me a lot about how to have a wonderful life! +What an awesome adventure! +Outstanding course! I have recommended it to several people and even tried to bribe my daughter to take it... +Amazing course - very well designed and delivered. +Really Loved this and want to make it a part of my life! +Lots of unnecessary information included in each video which make them long and boring. Number and length of videos in each week are too much while the "practical" information you get are not enough! +Amazing Course!! Everyone should do this couse :) +This course is AMAZING! I haven't finished it yet, but I'm in week 6 and starting to miss it already. As a former engineer/scientist, I can appreciate the research and science that has gone into the topic of happiness. It is very well summarized here. The lessons are fun and engaging. Also, the resources from the optional reading list will keep me busy for awhile, which I definitely don't mind! I would highly recommend this to all, those highly happy as well as those that would like to learn how to be happier. Can't say it enough, but THANK YOU, Dr. Raj!! +Excellent. Program is highly add value to personalty, improve thinking abilities and bring life into happiness. +A must for everybody. Amusing and very instructive, this course will bring a new light into your life. +What an uplifting and inspiring course!From this, you will get so much information that directly links to many other psychology studies, what a great introduction to the mind and it's workings!The video's are humorous, engaging and with so many guest speakers you are exposed to many varied viewpoints, which sets you off researching.I do want to add, that although the course title describes its aims perfectly, I feel it does not do the knowledge contained within, justice!Inspiring Work Raj Raghunathan!! +I have never come across a course like this before. Usually a topic on happiness is delivered by spiritual leaders but the way Dr. Raj has designed and delivered this course is simply amazing. Its simple yet completely supported by research findings. I would highly recommend this course to everyone.Amit +This course was fun and it re-opened my eyes and mind to how happy life can be if we remove/ take control of our own mental obstacles.I would recommend to anyone who's cup isn't full. +Deep and fun... +Good course +Amazing course! Totally helped me and i would recomend it! Thanks Raj and Team +Thank you Dr. Rajagopal Raghunathan and team for developing this course! +Its the best course which I have ever joined. It really helped me change my life possitive way.I highly recommend to everyone.Join as soon as possible +This course covers a lot of ground and provides some interesting research to back up the information. I have read several books on happiness and I still learned some interesting things.I recommend it if you are at all interested in happiness as a subject of study. +One of the most entertaining and inspiring courses I've ever done +Very well done! I am very grateful for all the people who helped putting this course available online. Thank you Professor Raj. It was a pleasure watching the videos and reading the well selected material. I will keep going. ;) +Highly recommended course, very well documented, fun, and with great practical information. Dr. Rajagopal Raghunathan is an excellent speaker, and he added great videos of recognized specialist in the theme. Congratulation to Coursera and the Business India School.Un curso muy recomendable, esta muy bien documentado, muy ameno, con información útil y práctica. Además del Dr. Rajagopal Raghunathan, que es un excelente expositor, hay muy buenos videos de especialstas muy reconocidos. Felicidades a coursera y a la Escuela de Negocios de la India por tan buen material. +Best course i've every taken on coursera or ANY MOOC. So uplifting, Prof. Raj is on point! +I loved this class. Learning about happiness was harder then it sounds. I loved all the science behind being happy. Thank YOU. +The best course I have taken in my life. Thank you very much to Proj. Raj and to all his wonderful team. +very good course +LOVE this course! Am going to suggest to all my students and clients that they take this course!Nurse Courtney +I loved this course and enjoyed it. +There is nothing else to say but, Thank you. I consider this fundamental to all education. +This course is really great! +ridiculous , unscientific 'self-helpie", far below of even talk-show standards. It gives bad reputation to any business school that endorses such "course"." +the contents of the course were very good. It is essential material that everyone should learn about as early as possible in their life. It should be essential learning in each school. All the material is based on scientific facts. there are, however, reasons why I did not rate this course with 5 points. The amount of material takes a lifetime to digest and adopt. To cram this into a few weeks was not the appropriate way to teach it. there were way too many videos one was supposed to watch within a single week. Sometimes even the summary videos for a single week took 20 minutes. That is just not right. I was so busy memorizing the material that I did not find the time to adopt it in my daily life. what a pity. it will take me many months to really digest the material +I've taken about 70 MOOCs across multiple platforms. Of those 70, I've completed about 12. Of those 12, about 4 were good. This is one of those four. Sometimes the videos were a little long, but the work was inspired and the science behind the content was great. I did every assignment (rare for a MOOCer, as you probably know). This was totally worth my time. I hope you find it to be worth yours. Enjoy! +I really enjoyed this course for many reasons. I found it very useful in helping me identify things that make me happy and how to experience them more often and also other aspects and habits of the highly happy. The exercises are very engaging, pushing the students out of their comfort zone just the right amount. Also, I found the teacher, Prof. Raj, to be a really nice, down-to-earth kind of guy, which made it easier for me to follow the course - not the best actor, but a great teacher ;). He is the kind of guy I would be happy to hang out with and share a beer or two :) +An insightful analysis of how to be happy !! +The best course and insights based on research based evidence. Love it. +Please take this course! :) I recommended to everybody.A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment or "life appreciation" which is very useful for everybody to live in the social world. :) +A beautiful combining of statistical data from psychological studies, simple examples to try in our own lives and a hammering home of the idea that "Happiness" is a concrete and desirable state of mind that people may want to prioritze and work at to achieve that elusive something that life hasn't "accidentally" had them stumble into. +A really life-changing course! +Its a good class but a little fast paced. The teacher is enthusiastic and energized. +what a way to convey the course materiall!! amazing! +I really enjoyed this course. The material was substantive, backed up with studies and ample research. The exercises and assignments were relevant and led to deep insights. I loved the videos, the dynamic cheerful tone and thorough coverage of material. One of the very best! +Great! Dr Raj is so wonderful! His happiness course is really smart, intelligent, funny, powerful, really well-explained, thanks to him and his team also - you've done a huge job here, really :) +loved the pace and check in quizzes. like a classroom +I love this course, professor Raj is so dinamic anad this course has truly changed my life in a very possitive way. +I love this course, the teacher makes it fun and very understanding and useful. This course in just week one has already opened my eyes a lot to what it means to achieving happiness no matter what situation is faced. I am super excited to see what else I will be learning within the weeks to come!!!I recommend this course 100 percent a MUST take course! +A must do course for any individual no matter how happy or fulfilled. Awesome references and research. +Extremely informative research and findings. I'm loving this class. He delivers his lectures in a very uplifting, charismatic, engaging way. +Thank you so much! It's a great and fantastic course, extremely well organized and presented. The professors could not be better, the materials as well, and well.. the contents... perfect.Thank you so much to all the team! +Simply excelente, It helped me to understand too many things that have been happening to me for a long time and teach me how to overcome my bad habitsTHANKS A LOT!!! +Really really enjoyed this course. Interesting and thought provoking material, all very well presented and referenced. The inclusion of various guest speakers, video and film clips, and a good dose of humour (only occasionally flat) all helped make this a very enjoyable 6 weeks.If you have a curiosity about happiness, especially your own, but a mindset that values the evidence over other's opinions, then I strongly recommend this course. +Best of all. It may seems like "blah blah blah", but it's full of useful information. +The best course ever! +A very interesting course that helps you get a grasp on what happiness is, define it, and work to improve your own happiness level. I really enjoy the logical approach to happiness, and defining what it means to you and how you experience happiness really does help make positive decisions that improve your well-being. The instructor is excellent. +awwwwwwesome it teaches to lead a fulfilling life thanks to dr.raj and co. +Thank you for tour time and effort. The course gave me ideas for a new perspetive in my life. +A class that is inspiring and makes you smile each session. Helps me appreciate things more. +Absolutely essential for everyone who wishes to be happy. +Best and the most interesting course ever. +an excellent course. Engaging and educational. The best course on happiness out there. +It's an open-minding experience! A lot of studies, researches, examples - a lot of fun too! I recommend it everyone - unhappy and happy and everyone in between as I was happy before the course but now I know WHY. ;p +One of the best courses I've ever taken on any subject. It changed my life and I can't stop raving about it. +A really great course with great guest speakers and masterfully delivered by Professor Raj! +The best synthesis of material on emotional well-being anywhere, and presented in a delightful entertaining manner, Better than years of therapy. I say this as a former clinical social worker with psychologist friends. +Really loving this course, lots of new information to apply to my life and work. +THE COURSE HAS BEEN SUCH AN EYE OPENER AT DEFINING ONE SELF,THE JOURNEY OF LEARNING THE WRONG AND COORECTING IT TOO.IT HELPED IDENTIFY AND SIMPLFY FRO ME MY LIFE..IT CONNECTED ME TO MYSELF,...I CAN SAY I UNDERSTAND BETTER,,I GAINED INSIGHT AND WITH THAT THE ABILITY TO ACCEPT MY SELF AND MY SITUATIONS AND ALSO TO CONNECT THE DOTS AS I CAN SAY..THANKS A LOT A BIGGGG LOT..TO EACH AND EVERY ONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TEAM OF COURSERA THIS COURSE IS EXCELLENT...PROF RAJ YOURE TOO GOOD!!!!! +Excellent course about how to live a happy life. +Great class! I would recommend it to those who are interested in the topic. +Very warm and interesting course which does make an impact on your Happiness levels +Love it. +engaging and well explained, I love how the Professor explains and keep the audience's attention alive! +This course is a whirlwind of joy and good humor. The main recipes for happiness and fulfillment are exposed in a structured manner. The main speakers are not taking themselves too seriously. +Great and very informa +This is an awesome course! Must take for any individual. I thoroughly enjoyed it +Wonderful jorney! +Excellent course about creating habit which enhance our happiness and well-being. +The program was well put together. The class was what I call "bottom heavy" because the last part of the class had a lot of really good and relate-able information. I found my self replaying classes 2 -3 time to get the full value of what was being presented. I found myself saying "wow" a lot.Could someone tell the lady that does the 6 week class to turn off her clock when on line. I dropped that class, the coo-coo was distracting +excellent course with great content +So far this has been great, and I'm very excited about knowing mo +Just great +Great topics, engaging videos, excellent teacher. Recommended! +Amazing course! I would recommend it to everybody! +Such an entertaining and happy course!!! i am on week 2 but i feel so much better now and i totally like the course and the profesor is awesome... he makes us feel happy because of his happiness!! keep it up! :) +If you want to be happy join this course. +I haven't completed the course yet but so far, I am enjoying it. My only complaints are the technical difficulties. The discussion forum does not load properly on my computer and right now, I can't even access the course.Update: The technical difficulties that bugged me most were not the course's fault. And I am still loving the material. So, I've amended my rating from 3 to 5 starts. Well deserved. +This course has been really eye opener. The research on happiness done by Prof. Mr Raj is amazing. The way the course is designed is very nice. There are systematic contents in every week. I must the exercises also are very good and I did not feel that I am doing this course on virtual platform.Kudos to all the team who have really put an effort to make this course available on Coursera! I would highly recommend this course to all my friends, colleagues and relatives.Cheers and Thank you. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course. I am using the information in it to improve my life. I shared its teachings with friends and family, out of the belief that it is valuable information which will improve their quality of life. +Brilliant, helpful and inspiring. Thank you! +Awesome! I am in the 6th week of this course but would like it to go on & on.... How subtly & effectively Prof. Raghunathan shows us what we do and how effectively & scientifically we can make changes in our life, approach to lead much better life - to be really happy & fulfilled. Only saying, Great work! would be too little.Thanks so much! +Great course. Love how it's broken down and the explanation of course work and subject are easy to follow. +Really outstanding course. I am a retired learner and thought that the course might not provide a lot of new insights. The reality was that I learned a lot and much of it very useful and relevant for day to day living. The presentation was great. Very upbeat and enjoyable with lots of interesting guest speakers. I don't know anybody who wouldn't benefit from taking this course +Nice course by the ISB (Indian School of Business). Proud to be an Indian. Thanks to all those who helped in making this course.Santoshchandra +A life of Happiness and Fulfilment has been a real great experience, a time I could offer myself to explore and dig deep into happiness.I think Prof. Raj plays a huge role in motivating participants to move forward, even the more suspicious about the value of compassion, mindfulness, loving care.Prof. Raj teaches with passion and always finding balance between being and acting professional but I am so grateful Prof Raj knows he can dance, and tell us jokes, be super friendly and yet be his perfect "self".Thank you prof. Raj, I enjoyed your classes and the guests you brought to us.Alohaf! +This is one of the finest course I have taken on Coursera. I know what "Happiness" is and how to be happy all the time. I loved the 'Mindfulness" videos, they were simply amazing +Its very enjoyable! I loved hearing about being happy and the resources to it. +A little tough but very interesting. A must for everyone! +It really boost the happiness level in life and really a great guide in handling the complex situations and circumstances... +Because all of us owe it to ourselves to be a bit happier than we are now. I'm finding this class is allowing me to give myself permission to be happy. This is making a difference in my daily life. I laugh more often & louder. +Very good content, oo long, too many words to get to the point, and too many instructions on assignments. +Excellent course with full of inspiration. +This has been my favorite Coursera course thus far! Not only is the material interesting, but the presentation is also great. Love the topic! I would definitely agree that this course has changed me as a person. +Very interesting course +Enjoyed this immensely! +Loved every moment +Exceptionally well taught and amazing content! I can only recommend everyone takes this course :-) +awesome just it +I'm learning a lot of things and being happier each step of the way. :) +Fantastic course if you are interested in happyness! +A soul searching course +Very Informative and fun course. +Excellent material ! I liked it !Everybody with scientific mind must do this course! +Made me feel more happy, so I would recommend it +I was skeptical about the concept. But once you get into the course, it becomes addictive and certainly makes a lot of sense and positive impact on the way we look/consider happiness +great learning +One of the Best course I ever had. +Very creative and inspirational! +very beneficial +It's really working. +A welcome change....Brilliant concept in the world of technology and data crunching this course makes it so easier to detach to materialistic things and follow your heart and do what you really like.... +Fantastic and fun! +A must take course for anyone who is seeking to understand and enhance their Happiness Index. Professor Raj is awesome and i love every single minute of his wonderful classes +really so great,i love it +Very very good, The course is so interesting and has no boring spots. +I like this. I curious and want happy more +awesome course +The best online course I've ever had. I enjoyed lectures, the teacher, format very very much. This course is highly professional and easy going. I recommend this course. +Excellent course. Engaging, fun, thought-provoking, meaningful, blended learning experience the content of which is life changing. Highly recommend this course to all that will listen! Bravo Dr. Happy Smart & Indian School of Business! Bravo! +Lecturer is really easy to understand, the ways he is using to describe something is understandable, a lot of examples. Really like the system of validation, when you need to "put marks" for other people to pass assessment. +The best course I had¡ +This is truly one of the best courses I've ever taken: smart and intelligent in how "Dr. Raj" reviews the material and yet very fun. The course makes me want to go from week to week and makes me want to apply the lessens and make them my own. Strongly suggest this for anyone who needs some concrete ways to stay and be happy. +One of the best courser courses I have watched so far. Thanks for the whole team's effort. +Engaging videos. Clear path with easy to follow directions for practices +Wow, this course is really great and it helps a lot! +Very good and inspiring course! +Interesting course +A very professionally made course on positive psychology. It is concise, based on many scientific articles, well organized and explained in an enternaining way. Best I've seen in the field so far. +Must for all. Make you think what is happiness for you. Make you analyze your habits and check the direction of your efforts for happiness. I like the structure of the program. 7 Sins and 7 Habits for it. Also references to books, research papers, videos, scientists convinced the audience the techniques to become happy are scientifically proven. +Well structured, easy to follow and very, very useful.Thank you for such a great course! +This a life changing course. I urge to all students and working people -- no matter at which management level, to t take this course. +Excellent! Prof. Raj Raghunathan rocks! +Insightful and fun, it made me realize so many things and now I am happier. +Awesome course ! +I love this course. Very interesting, full of practical and useful content. 5* +Great course. Very informative and fun. +This course has made me be more thankful of the people around me and wanting to contribute to society in a good way. +The best course on coursera ever made!!! +Wonderful, a must take course for all stressed out, high achievers. Loved every minute of it. +A course everyone should follow ...for your own happiness!Truly a great course, significantly research-based, well articulated, fun and entertaining while also very thorough. +Instead of These Classes Spiritual Classes will be good ... +Happiness and Fulfillment for All +What a wonderful class! For six weeks I've devoted more time to focusing on the more important things in life –– the things that actually matter, versus letting the trivial get me down like it used to. I feel absolutely prepared for a happier future! This class has left me with a greatly expanded tool set to further explore the value that being happy and fulfilled can add (and have added!) to my life. +Best course in any online MOOC. Wonderful Professor Raj and wonderful learning !!! +super course - both the content and organizational aspect of itthank you that I could participate!best +Excelent course with really usefull techniques. +Dr. Rajagopal Raghunathan, the teacher, is a very compassionate and funny person, so it makes the course so much more fun. +A very engaging, enriching and pragmatic course on happiness and positive psychology. +Excellent course ,gives great insights of life and how to being happy. +One of the best courses I've taken through Coursera. Love the energy and knowledge of the instructor, and the unique way he presents the material. I'd highly recommend this class to others. Thanks for such a terrific course! +For those to whom life is all about being happy, this is a must do course! +Awesome course. I want to thank all the people who worked on this course. Especially I want to express gratitude to Prof. Raj, he is a really good teacher, I watched every video with a big interest. Your students in universities are big luckers to have such a great teacher. Prof. Raj and his team have done a big job, learned a lot of materials, took a lot of interviews etc. just for preparing this terrific course for us. Thank you so much. English is not my native language, maybe I did some mistakes, but I hope I've expressed my gratitude pretty clear. +This is a course worth taking. +Thanks for the course, it helps me a lot to find true happiness and know more about myself :) +Excellent course. I have learned practical, applicable, meaningful skill that I can apply to improve my life +I feel happy already +I loved it!!! It help me a lot to understand what happiness really is to me!! +Wonderful course, wonderful speaker! +Fantastic course. Based on a lot of research and evidence. It does indeed teaches you how to be happier. +I am just mid-way through this course but I really can't stop myself from writing this review now, before I even finish it! Definitely it is the best course I have personally taken, despite the large number of courses I have experienced, some of them of excellent quality, in Coursera and elsewhere. Here we have a charismatic professor giving a great teaching performance, offering a vast amount of knowledge, a wealth of positive motivation and a big lesson for life! Obviously there is huge effort and hard work behind these exemplary video lectures. I would give it a 6/5 if I could.. +Well presented and interesting course, I've taken some great points from this that I hope to integrate into my day to day life.I didn't feel there was much value in the self assessments, perhaps there are a Coursea requirement? +I really enjoyed the class. I just felt that the topic of the last week was very hard to grasp and explain. +This is a course that has the potential to impact your life possibly more than any other course coursera offers. It is well done and timely. Highly recommended. +Really informative and inspiring. +The most happy class ever. Great teachers, great content! +Excelent course! I am really enjoying the topics and the videos! Please do more courses like this.Mariana from Mexico +Too practical and enjoyable. +Life changing.... Excellent, well thought out, and entertaining. But most of all, this course backs up some intuitive "opinions" with research that makes it a much more persuasive and powerful message.Thank you!!! +Good course in this competitive world. +Very good and helpful course. I really appreciate the chance to learn a lot from this interesting course too. So, thanks to everyone that's involved in this course. It's really 1 of the best course ever! +This course is fun, funny, and of course happy! +Thanks, I really enjoyed this course. +I really enjoyed this course, Raj's sense of humor kept the course interesting! I felt the reviews at the end of each module were too repetitive and unnecessary, and Catherine's explanation of the exercises too drawn out - they are simple exercises and I don't think they required and explanation other than what was there when you actually completed the exercise.Other than that, I feel that I learned quite a lot, and am grateful I took this course :)Thank you Raj! +very good class +This Course CHANGED my life! I am very grateful for this course. +A common sense approach on how to lead "A life of Happiness and Fulfillment". A very engaging course, enjoyed it throughout, is thought provoking and creates a lot of self awareness. Excellent lectures and Prof. Raj is equally brilliant. Thank you for this course. +An Excelent and insightful course that everybody should consider taking no matter what profession thry held; Everybody wants and deserves happiness. +Excelent course! it is very funny and interesting +Truly interesting +An amazing course. Interactive, relevant and absolutely fun. Raj is a great inspiration. +If you will participate in this course with your full attention and honesty this can help you to find more happiness in life than you expect. +I rate it really high-5 stars +This course is one of the best offerings I've taken from Coursera. Due to Raj, Catherine and the team, the content, research, production with graphics, and readings ----- the weeks' lessons far exceeded my expectations. The trick with learning is applying what I have learned, so that is my intent. Hats off to enhancing sometimes hard-to-grasp concepts through video, interviews and quizzes. The online format and technical process worked 100% fine for me without any problems or glitches. I have been happy with everything! Thank you! Learner ID +wonderful course one of its kind, very beautiful and effective presentation, smooth flow , life changing content +V meaningful; very uplifting presenters. Thank you. +One of the best MOOCs I had the pleasure to attend it. For some way, change it my life! +I've got a lot of knowledge about how to define and getting your own happiness. And i have a new perspective on many area level and how to living this life in a good way. +Great methodology by the teacher and very ludic videos +Such a passionate professor, he slowly pushes you in the right direction trying his best to help you find your own happiness. +it is great, only having problems with finding quizzes and the app. the rest is what I was in need of +Very interesting, and the lecturer is just great! +This course changed me a lot. +Wonderful course and learnt a lot. thanx +really good！：） +The best course I've done so far. +Great course; great thoughts. Many ways to reach happiness and easy tips. What I appreciated the most were the references to backup the course. I recommended it to at least 5 people. Unfortunately it's not available in French. +Great course. It is so awesome that a concept such as happiness can be studied academically... and yield good results! :) 10/10 +I love this course! It helped me a lot in becoming stable and happy person. It helps in making life balanced. Thanks to Professor Raj! He is a mentor and seems like a good friend too. The fun lectures give so much useful insight about happiness and life. About how we go through our life journey by being unnecessarily sad, however we can take responsibility of our emotions and actually be happy. Thanks for making this course. :) +This was a very good course and it offered many reasons why people aren't happy and techniques on how to change. There were some instances where it was confusing and/or the information was too segmented. I liked that the videos were short, but sometimes that contributed to the segmentation of a lesson. I would recommend this course to others. +Nice one. Since it gives some confidence to advance. +Just perfect. Fun, practical and informative, quite some interesting guest speakers as well! Thanks for setting up this wonderfull course. +It's makes my life more happier than before.Thank you teacher~ +Great set of mind and heart tools to develop +I'm waiting for stage four! My real problem! The big hole in the baloon. So far I'm much happier with the two lessons i've got. This experience reminds me students faking jailers and prisonners and end up with the same results. Except, those jailers and prisonners are in the same embodyment. How to get rid of it... Thx for your work. Really nice;););););)^_^ +ALOHAF course is quite practical and scientific. I am into mid-course and already feeling a lot happier. +Exceptional instructor. Arguments based in sound science. Presentation a bit hokey at times, but all in good fun. +THIS COURSE IS INTERESTING,INFORMATIVE AND USEFFUL. RIGHT NOW I AM HEADING TOWARDS END OF THE COURSE. IT HAS HELPED ME TREMENDOUSLY. I WOULD RECOMEND THIS COURSE FOR EVERYBODY. +Title is a bit sappy, but content is excellent with a very engaging instructor. Would highly recommend to anyone in management or professional field, as this course will not only offer introspection into your own psyche, but offer insight into how and why others think the way they do. +A wonderful course for anyone, particularly if you are interested in positive approaches and mindfulness...Prof. Raj will make you feel the happiness mood, explaining his ideas supported by researchers studies and teachers interviews.All the team is greatYou will learn more and start or go on living daily life with a smileCompliments to all the teachers and thanks to Raj +Awesome One... One of the best I've ever taken +loved this course, leaned a lot and want to share +Very interesting approach and a very dynamic and positive teacher!A must for all dog lovers! +The course was informative and I really enjoyed through out. +Is a great course if you want to understand how is that dogs have become such important part of human life and to know how they interact with the world around them. Thanks Doctor Hare! +Very interesting information - not just about dogs but tells us about ourselves as humans too! +This course is excellent and well taught. You will learn fascinating facts about how dogs think, the importance of social skills as a dimension of cognition, and much more +GREAT information, great teacher with a positive attitude and open-mind. I wish there would have been more interactive material and the quizzes were not only two questions before getting to final exam. I hope there will be more to come! +I truly enjoyed this course to its' core. Dr Hare is an animated professor w/a gift for teaching to an engaged audience. I learned so very much during this course, some new and some confirmations of what I believed to be true. My experience w/Coursera is a positive one for certain and I am already enrolled in my next course. Thank you Dr Hare for sharing your knowledge and expertise in your study of dogs w/me. RufF lOve, Alice +This was a great introduction to the subject of cognition! Dr. Hare is engaging and the material was interesting. I learned a lot about the newest member of our family as well as more about chimps and humans. Dogs are truly fascinating creatures. +Solid entry level course to dog cognition. I would have preferred that it focused more strongly on dogs, and payed less attention to how information about dogs can help us understand humans. The section on general domestication was phenomenal, and the bonobo to chimp comparisons were incredibly helpful. I would have appreciated deeper analysis on what each of the five cognitive domains for dognition were, and what they actually meant. +Dog Emotion and Cognition is a clear, well-structured course with some wonderful 'added extras' that really help round out the MOOC experience. Dr Hare's enthusiasm for the subject is infectious and the material presented is more wide-ranging than I had anticipated -- again, adding to the experience. I have learned a fair amount about my dog, which has been fascinating, but have also learned about dog cognition against a wider species-comparative context, which has strengthened my understanding considerably. A superb course (and the accompanying book, The Genius of Dogs, and citizen science website, Dognition, are wonderful too). Thanks Dr Hare, Duke and Coursera! +Awesome and very interesting!!! Thanks! +The material is interesting, if not all that novel, but the professor is incredibly repetitive and boring to listen to...to the point where the lectures were almost redundant, and if the content had not been so interesting to me I would have greatly disliked it +This class was full of great information and is really cool for any animal lover especially dogs! +Intersteing thing to know about the dogs that dognition "method". I liked Brian Hare as good communicator. +Loved it! And learned so much. Expect to hear about some scientific info! +Fantastic insight into dog behaviour, thank you! +Great course! i Learned a lot, but it had a lot more content about evolution than just dogs. +Dr. Hare speaks really clearly and with a lot of enthusiasm. The information the course brings is really interesting and kind of unexpected. I really enjoyed it. +Great course! Informative and fun too. Loved it. +Excellent course ! many things to learn about Dogs, about ourselves and much more!Thanks! +Really great course. There's not much coursework so it's mostly listening to lectures that tie together with the (optional) paid website Dognition. If you decide to buy Dogition those will function was your lab for the class, but you don't need to. I enjoyed it the same way I enjoy the Great Courses series, as something to listen to and learn from largely passively. And the topic couldn't be better; dogs! +What a fantastic course. It's great to learn from someone who is so passionate about what they are teaching and the knowledge they are willing to share. AMAZING. +very educational and easy to follow. +Thank you Dr Hare for the fun learning course. +Compared to the other courses, this one is kind of boring, but learned some origination of dogs :) +excellent and open minding, +A lot of information and joy .I do recommend it. +This course was short and interesting. Maybe the presenter tried a little too much to sell his book but I still watched until the end and found out many new things that I now notice with my dog! I really think this helpted me understand my dog in a different way, but I do wish there had been more studies/facts about dogs (longer course I guess). I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn more about how dogs think. +Great view into dog emotion and cognition! Fantastic for helping learn the psychological side of training! +I had a wonderful time during this course. I think everyone that likes dogs and animals in general will also enjoy this course. I learned a lot and I really recommend both the course and the book (The Genius of Dogs)! +Really nice also with overlook in dognition +I learned a lot about how dogs and people think. The experiment videos Dr. Hare shows are really interesting! +I liked the fact you could read the course or watch the videos and also that the activities could be done at home. +If you have a dog this course is a must. It is worth the time provided you see your dog for more than ''just'' a dog. +It was an incredible course. It be so hard for me because I speak a few english but I HAS DO IT!! +The course is nice introduction to the study of dogs behaviour, with easy to follow lectures and exercises, after finishing you understand that dogs are smarter than we think. +great class, easy to follow +A very enjoyable course which has provided me with further knowledge with regards to understanding our relationship with dogs. Up to date and using as much new research as possible, alongside with historical studies, it made it an interesting comparison to further improve our understanding of dogs. It was ideal for me to use as CPD for my continued membership of the dog training organisation of which I am a member (APDT UK). +One of the greatest courses I've been in. Thank you!!! +good tutor! good class structure! and the videos, pics and experiments in the classes are really interesting! +Great information, slower to get to the real goals of the course until the second half of it. +A waste of time. One long advertisement for the instructor's book. +Best Coursera course yet. Fascinating topic of wide interest, the right pace, practical and fun with your own dog. Brilliantly done! +Great course for those of us have dogs +This course is interesting and easy to follow. I was aware of his work through some of the articles he mentions throughout the course and would especially suggest this course as potentially interesting to people who have been reading some of the scientific literature (including Dr. Hare's publications). Well done, I would take a follow up course any time. +Very interesting, very well organized. Thank you +worth every hour i spent doing this course. +This course was not only absolutely fascinating, it gave me a scientific perspective that I had not previously acquired throughout the rest of my education, training and experience as a professional dog trainer. I now always consider and apply the principles of cognition to my evaluation, training and behavior modification of dogs. I look forward to the future of this research. +While very canine in its specialization, the course keeps one aware of similarities we share with most sentient beings and marvel at forces and decisions of countless of our ancestors have taken to make us the species we are and also make us aware of the responsibilities towards our plant which provided te perfect conditions and others who share our home. Thank you for your work. +There is a lot to learn and it is very interesting!!! The games are fun to play at home with your own dog. +an amazing experience with a very well done lectures and you can feel the enthusiasm of doctor Brian the whole time +Really enjoyed this course. I don't even have a dog! Now I wish I had one. +Well presented interesting information, reasonable quiz questions (though some were not phrased in an easy to understand way. Highly recommended for those with a interest in dogs learning and training. +Super interesting and easy to follow! +Great Course +Too many gestures, movements and ahhhs, slides available but not downloadable (what's the point?). +Really insightful. I learnt a lot +Thanks Professor Hare and Coursera since I do enjoy this amazing course which challenges many stereotypes. For example, dogs evolved from wolves not because of human's intentional domestication but due to "self-domestication" 12 -15000 ago. Also, it is generally regarded that certain breeds of dogs are smarted than other. However, in this course, Professor Hare points out that cognition involves many types of intelligence rather than one and there is even tremendous variation within a dog breed in temperament, behavior and especially cognition. Strongly recommend this course especially when you ca n taste this class with your own dog! +Like it, always a plus to learn from our best friend. Love the way of the comparison with other animals. Recommend for everyone. +I loved this course, I read the Genius of Dogs and when I saw who the instructor was, I had to take it. Very informative and engaging. +Fun and interesting course +Wonderful course, learned a lot and have applied my understanding to my do +Great course teaching us about animals and human evolution +Loved it and I am recommending it to my dog loving friends +-An absolutely fantastic course, very highly recommend it to anybody who owns a dog. My only complaint is that in week 5, the teacher gets quite a bit overboard into all of evolution. There is no need for this, because the course is on Dog EMOTION and COGNITION, not primate and human evolution. I felt I was a captive audience for his own unnecessary preaching on primate evolution. The best example I can give is the classic times when a person would invite you over for dinner only to sell Amway. Other than that, the course was wonderful! Great teacher. +Loving this course!!! +It was a very informative course, it went into great detail and allowed you to try experiments/games with your dog to see their own cognitive abilities. I really enjoyed this course and would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about their dogs. +I highly recommend this course if you own or want to own a dog. The research on animal interaction with humans is very interesting and helpful. Dr. Hare's experiences with his own dogs led to fascinating studies! +is more than useful...the topics makes you to enjoy all the lessons +Great course, it goes through many scientific experiments to draw forth the amazing results. It is useful for dog (or other animals) lover. By the way, I got the book. +I loved how this course was very information about dog cognition. It's amazing what you think you knew about dogs going in and what you learned coming out. +I may have gotten more out of this course if I hadn't already read "The Genius of Dogs".I would like to suggest that the slides be subjected to more rigorous proofreading, as I came across several typographical errors. It doesn't look professional.On quizzes, when a student is asked to select the one FALSE answer, please remove any "all of the above are TRUE" statements. A mentor replied to another student who pointed out this conumdrum on the Week 7 Forum with: "I understand where you are coming from Phil, but only one of the answers as an individual answer is incorrect. The answer "all of the above are correct" is neither true nor false, as only one of the answers in the 'all' is the exception." And I say that if I have a bouquet of roses, 11 red ones and 1 yellow and I were to say that "all of the roses in my bouquet are red" you would correct me, as one is not, and "all" demands 12 out of 12, otherwise, it is not all. Should you still feel a quibble, let me suggest that you contact the Department of Philosophy, ask for someone expert in symbolic logic and run it by him/her. +It was very useful. +lots of fun. great info on the evolution of dogs and how dogs learn. +this course was very interesting and fun. It's unbelievable how dogs are amazing and how we just took them for granted and didn't even know!! Lucky you you came to the right place; Dr Hare will teach you all that. this course is really well made and will teach you a lot about the basics and way more. I highly recommand it. +Very interesting +I really liked this course. It was really fun. I learned a lot and I will put it to good use with my dog, Boomer. I also haven't got a chance to do Dognition so I will try to do it, It sounds so fun! +This course gives scientific insight on how dogs have become human's best friend and it leads to better understanding toward as well as relationship with dogs. It is fantastic to come to know the citizen science which all dog lovers can contribute for better future with dogs. +Well developed materialClearly stated informationInformative and put forth in a vivid way +It's a wonderful course. I like how Brian shows videos inside videos. +The course was good, but I think that only it's really enjoyable if you have a dog. As the professor says, both the book and the online resource Dognition isn't needed for the completion of this course. The book was really good, but I think that Dognition was too expensive, especially if you haven't a dog (not useful). +highly interesting and engaging. great learning experience +Wonderful logical explanation of the new dog cognition theory. I'm excited to see how this knowledge & research will affect dog training in the future. +This course was a positive surprise! Professor Hare is a really good lecturer, you can feel his energy even if it's all recorded and the course is very well structured (and does not take too much time). I'm a dog lover and owner (I have 2 dogs), but I would strongly recommend this course to anyone who is interested in extending ones common knowledge, plus, it is a very interesting topic to bring up when networking as well as a conversations starter!Thanks for an awesome course! +I really liked this course! +Great insight into the research done at Duke and around the world. Could use more focus on raw data and experimental designs although what was presented seemed fair for a course trying to reach a broad audience, including non scientists. +It was ammazing! +It is a very interesting course. Does not tell you how to train your dogs but makes you understand the way dogs, human, great apes and other species think and solve problems which is very interesting. +This was a good course. The lectures were a good length, they were interesting and very easy to understand. The lecturer was articulate and easy to follow. I liked the way the readings supported the course and the dognition stuff will be really useful. The citizen science material was also interesting. A useful and practical course that was fun and interesting to do. +The course was excellent - it was easy to follow/excellent content and presentation and a new respect to scientists who work very hard in obtaining verifiable data, which can benefit others. Hats off to Dr Hare and his Team; love your dedication and professionalism and your enthusiasm to extend this information to the citizens of this world. Heartfelt thanks to all concerned. Would love more :-) +Very interesting and always a great topic +Loved it! +The course was fun and very informative. It made me more aware of what my dog was in historical and evolutionary terms and made me more appreciative of him in general. But it did not translate to actual things I could do with my dog and did not give me any real understanding of his reactions. +I learned a lot about the way animals perceive the world and how we as humans can give them a better life. We are all connected. Dr, Hare was filled with information audit was easy to gain the knowledge thru his lectures. +There was a moment I was a bit skeptical about the class, but I ended loving it. Learned a lot about dogs and general behavior. +Very informational and gave me a new understanding of my furry friend for life. +Absolutely a great course! It was a bit strong on the advertising in the beginning but after the first few lectures this significantly decreased. Dr. Hare is one of the leading researchers in dog cognition, and he also goes into a the cognition of a number of other animals. It was a very interesting course and I highly recommend it. +If you didn't like the first few lectures, you won't like the rest. It won't get better. More repetition, clichés, and advertisement that anything else. +Learning a lot and applying it to my daily work at the Dog hotel. Very Greatful! +Well paced, lots of information to assimilate and understand. This course focuses on general aspects of evolution and cognition, and then moves on to the application of principles to animals generally, and then, particularly, to dogs. +Very interesting presentation. Thank you! +pretty good course +I learned a great deal from this class and Dr. Hare did a remarkable job teaching the course. The reason I gave four stars instead of five is because Dr. Hare continued to promote his book and Dognition, to the point that some lectures began to sound more like advertisements. Besides that it was a wonderful experience, and I have no doubt the knowledge gained will be useful in my own work with dogs. +Love, love, love this course! Dr. Hare makes learning easy. +I love, love, love this course. Recommend it for any dog lover or those interested in how dogs think and our utterly unique relationship with them. In my years of college and online classes, this is the most interesting course I have ever taken. Highly recommend the book too. I couldn't put it down. Dr. Hare does an amazing job. +Very interesting information about dogs that's also a 'myth burster' of sorts for me. Dr. Hare 's video's were not only well made but also well spaced. I found a few quiz questions difficult to understand even though I paid close attention to all lessons. But hey- I passed the final quiz in first attempt so Its all good! Thanks Dr. Hare & Duke University for making this 'different' course available!! +The course itself was fantastic. I had read Dr. Hare's book previously and was a part of the Beta Test of dognition. But this was even better. It helped me gain an even better understanding of the subject. I can only highly recommend it to anybody interested in dogs and their behavior. +Interesting and useful! +Love this course, thank you ! A great look as well to fallow on +Great course! super recommended! +This is amazing. I truly enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone that loves dogs and wants to know more about them. I will probably take this class again. I liked it that much. +cute and helpful +I didn't come away with much understanding of how dogs think - I don't have much experience with dogs and I was hoping to learn about how to have a good relationship with a dog before I decide whether to get one - but the science is fascinating and I am glad I took the class anyway. +This was excellent! As a professional dog trainer, I really value the information I got from this course. Yes I also bought his book but It is a really good resource. You can get it used at a lower cost. I have been recommending this course to my "want to know more" clients. +This is a GREAT course and complements my B.A. in Human Psychology. I've fostered dogs for decades and have always wanted to take some classes to learn more about dog psychology. Your professors and knowledge base are of incredible assistance, and I appreciate this opportunity to get certified and add this to my resume'. Thank you! +I think people who have experience in studying science will take better advantage of this course but, in general, it has great content. +Well made course, Hare knows his stuff, interesting if you like dogs ^_^ +This is a fascinating area of study. Thank you so much for this wonderful course. Dr Hare's lectures were well paced, informative and fun. More please from Duke! +Very interesting course and I learned a lot! Teacher is great. +Fun Course and very interesting!! Well worth the time. +Very informative, unfortunately Dr. Hare had a lot of filler words (ah, umm) in his videos, but typically receded towards the later part of the videos. As opposed to other reviews I do not feel like the incorporation of his book and website burdened the lecture, many professors in universities use their own book for their courses and I feel like Dognition would greatly help students be engaged in the course, they do have a couple games on their Youtube page if you want a taste before purchasing Dognition. I feel like this lecture has more to do with cognition than with emotion, and unfortunately I went into this lecture thinking it would be more about dog psychology. So don't dive into this course thinking you'll know a lot about dog psychology as emotion and cognition are just parts of psychology but it'll definitely give you some insightful information on dog cognition. +interesting course with new insights which will change your perspectives on the evolution theory of dogs as well as general cognition. People exaggerated about the book comment, yes it is mentioned, but not ad nausium +I haven't completely finished this course yet but so far so good! Great information; presented very clearly and keeps you interested. +Excellent course, super interesting, the teacher is very clear in his explanations +This course was engaging and informative. Dr. Hare picked a great line of work, as he kind of reminds me of a friendly puppy himself. I look forward to more research from these experiments! +Very interesting; great teacher. Even if you don't agree with evolution, the course is still great. +Interesting. +I chose to take this course on Dog Emotion and Cognition as it reminds me of doing my volunteer work at Peace of Mind Dog Rescue. +Wonderful. My poor dog...he is having daily fun as i test him emotionally and cognitively..... +For anyone that has lived with a dog, much of this content will be common knowledge. The value is the scientific and technical studies done to validate those assumptions. +Great course, just a little too much selling towards the end I felt. But top-notch videos, and interesting content for sure! +A must for all dog lovers/owners. The course is well paced and explains how we can communicate better with our dogs and better understand own cognition. +I'm an international student. I just have been studying English for 6 month. I think this topic is very helpful for me to practice my listening skill, and also it's very interesting! I love this course. Thanks professor. +Little high on the scientific data +I loved Hare and Dognition - this was informative and fun but probably needs an update given recent research by Oxford's Larson. Though I'm still firmly in Savolainen's camp, it'd be interesting to hear Hare's take on it all. +I am an ameteur dog trainer and this helped me out considerably in ways I can improve my interactions with my own dogs to make my training sessions be more productive. I'll be raising a litter of puppies soon and am looking forward to watching them grow and develop their own cognitive profiles so that I can make sure they all go to the best fit homes. +Fascinating, and very well done. Thank you! +I'm in the dog profession so I took this course for personal knowledge and I have learned so much! I am very satisfied with this course and I love the options. +I was expecting this course to be just about dogs. It was still interesting. Thank you. +Interesting subject & Basic idea to have a dog defined for the exercises is nice but w/o dog hard to benefit. A bit too much talking in front of a wall ;-) Could benefit from more illustrative material. Graphs / Videos / Pictures. Why not show examples of Dogs doing the games, that would be great for people who do not (yet) own a dog. I was hoping to get some insight into problematic dog behaviour but maybe that was wrong expectation. +PAAAAWWWWSOME!!! Must study for doggie lovers. Helps me debunk so many myths and undrestand my own dog much better. Highly recommend course participant to read the book (an easy and very pleasant read) and play in cognition! Oxytocin FTW!!! :D +*No Stars*Okay.... this class is very pointless. It is super boring and gives me little information. He says that you do not need to buy his book or visit his suggested website, however that is all he talks about.At least the tests are not focused on that, its mostly on vague points he explains. I would not recommend this class. +Excellent. Maybe my favorite course on Coursera ever. Full of useful, compelling, new information. Instructor super friendly and a great communicator. Obviously he learned from his dog. +Very boring presentation. Far too much 'buy my book/go to MY website'., in it. If he did that in a RT University he would be hauled over the coals. Some interesting points made but most of the information given was from other's research.A little less self-promotion and a little more work, combined with less boring presentation would move it up to 4* +An excellent course to know more about behavior of our dogs. This course help me a lot to work with Dolça & Luck. +This course was fantastic! +This is an extremely interesting course that delves deeper than just dog cognition by connecting the evolution and domestication of dogs with that of humans and apes. I thoroughly enjoy this course and will be looking for other courses conducted by Dr. Hare. +Fantastic course! I have learned so much. Worth reading the book "Genius of Dogs". So happy to have a certificate from Duke University signed by Brian Hare! Totally worth it! +I was interesting and very helpful. +Super interesting ! I really enjoy it. I want more courses regarding dog psychology !Love Dognition , also ! +Wonderful lecturer and fascinating material. +I really enjoyed the course. It was divided into clear parts that were short and thus easy to follow anytime during a quick break. It was not too demanding as there were no assignments or things to write. I felt I was learning interesting information. I would have liked more detailed information though on what dogs can and cannot do... perhaps a follow-up course. As I just adopted my dog a month ago from the shelter not sure if I can already use dognition with him. +It gives a scientific vision of dog's intelligence and their relationship with humans. +Great simple but at the same time precise and scientific course to help people understand what dog cognition is.I definitely do recommend this course! +Very fun and informative! +The guy is full of shit. He's just trying to sell you his book and his online game product. He was also obsessed with bragging about all of his accomplishments. I was quite disgusted by him at the end. I paid for the certification, but now I want my money back. +GREAT. I listened to these lectures while at work and it was so engaging. A few very interesting studies are cited and I would recommend the Dognition app to any of my pet lover friends. This course has followed me in my interactions with animals and it will probably continue to come to mind in the future. +I really liked this course. I have owned and trained dogs from a very early time in my life. I found it very interesting how dogs evolved from wolves and how that is apparent in dogs today. I typically like courses to be heavy on the science side, but this class was well presented for mid-level people or people who don't have a science background. Of course people will disagree with some of the material but overall it was an interesting class and the book recommended for the class was a good read. Mahalo from Hawaii +Brilliant Course! Gave me a new understanding of my cunning canine! +Excellent start to the course. Looks like it is going to be really hands on with the different tests you can do with your own dog/s. I can't wait to get started and find out all about my dog's psychology. Just wondering how different it will be to my pre-conceived perceptions. +This course is for you if you love dogs, and/or are interested in the science of animal behavior. Dr. Hare's presentations are interesting, informative and fun. I loved his use of scientific studies, videos, and Russian history (yes!) to get his points across. His book (optional) and the dog games (also optional) only add more depth to his lectures, but don't feel you need to buy the book and/or the games...you can take the online course and do just fine (but hopefully you'll want to read more, and participate as a citizen scientist, after taking the online course!). I will recommend this class to my canine_enthusiast friends, as I found Dr. Hare's class to re-evaluate how I look at the thought processes of dogs. This course is time well-spent! +Dr. Hare: Thank you for this assignment and I really appreciate your advise for helping me and my Perrhijos (dogs sons) +Very good course will be a great help in my dog training by allowing me a better understanding of Dog Cognition. +Excellent course. Very accessible to everyone who wants to learn more about dog emotion and cognition +One of the best dog courses I ever taken. Hare is wondrful on explaining. +It is very helpful to get a better understanding of dogs.... +The professor talks too much about the website and his book! That doesn't make any sense! +Detailed and insightful course delivered in a very engaging manner. +This was a really outstanding course. Can't wait to recommend it to fellow rescue friends! +Dr. Hare did a great job explaining the results of experiments and what they mean in laymen terms. The information was well presented, and he is an enthusiastic professor. Although the super science-y stuff at the beginning may be a bit of a turnoff or seem boring for people like me without a science background, it really sets a good foundation for the more conventionally interesting material later in the course. I strongly recommend this course, and the accompanying activities via Dognition. +Good information contained within the course which has sparked my interest in continuing to learn and build on my small amount of knowledge. Lower rating than I would usually give for a course because of the way the lectures are delivered. Having a lecturer standing in front of a brick wall, plugging his book and not really connecting with online students was not great. A couple of times during the lectures I dozed off and had to re-run them. If the plugging of own material was removed and the background and tone of voice were altered this could be a captivating and interesting course. +Not learning much and constantly being bombarded with sales tactics. Not impressed. +I have just taken this course and I am completely captivated ! Moving at a very fast pace to finish it. It is really fun to learn and of a great help since i have two puppies at home. Thank you Doc. Hare for making this great course ! +very well presented and enjoyable to listen to, the summary's helped a lot and the quizzes were a good way to remember what was learnt in the lessons. Thank you +Thank you very much for this course. I learnt a lot about dogs' behaviour. +Really interesting and easy to understand! +I am enjoying this course.Thank you +Good beginning level class and a nice reminder of how complex learning really is. +I was really disappointed in this "course" for several reasons. I did not complete it, because it was really not worth spending time on. The organizer impressed me as only wanting to sell copies of his book on dog behavior and used the course as his vehicle. Then there were games to "purchase" online to facilitate teaching my dog cognitive skills. The videos were lacking in creativity. I was really disappointed with this, especially since its a cool topic that could easily be presented in a very exciting way. The artistic level, the videos, slides, etc were something a high school student could pull together. After taking solid courses like ModPo and Positive Psychology, I was amazed at the lack of effort that was put into this. +It was a lot of fun! +useful and interesting +I had a great time learning all these new thing not just about dogs, but also about apes, evolution and cognitive approach to all species. +This was a giant advertisement and got tiresome very quickly. +Nice course. If you want to learn better your best friend, here you are. Also, dognition seems to be a remarkable endeavor for serving this purpose. Thanks! +very enjoyable, I learned a lot - will continue with the Dognition profile as well! +Elegant. This course teaches us how scientists have been able discover the ways in which dogs think and behave and presents those lessons within the broader context of evolution, domestication, psychology, ecology and society. The course reveals surprising and practical insights about how having a better understanding of dogs helps improve our understanding of ourselves, our human history, and contemporary society. The course explains how science helps to correct many of our common misunderstandings about the intelligence of animals, and summarizes how the manner in which we study animal behavior and cognition is changing today. The course is fun. The video lectures are clear and concise. Everything is very well organized and delivered with enthusiasm and clarity. The quizzes are not technical nor particularly challenging but do help with learning the course material. The course has references to optional reading materials and optional activities from dognition.org that you can explore with your own dog at home. I would recommend for anyone interested in animals, psychology, or behavioral science and certainly anyone with a pet dog. I personally enjoyed seeing so many examples of controlled experiments being used to discover new knowledge about the inner workings of animals. +It was a great course for all dog lovers! The content was so interesting with types experiments and games to better understand our pet dogs. Also the scientific findings are so suprising for us to really know who our dogs are. Go through this, your dog-knowing journey will be wonderful!! +An exceptional introduction to understanding our canine counterparts +Fun course. I really feel like I understand my dog better now. +very interesting, good new input! +Excellent, I learned alot +should have multiple teachersshould show more live dogs/puppies +The three stars are because the parts actually giving information had value and I learned some interesting things. The 2 stars were removed because of the truly obnoxious plugging of the prof's own book and research project. He goes on and on about how fantastic it is how we can all participate in scientific research, but if I am SUPPLYING DATA, why do I have to pay for that privilege!? If it were really about the research he would want my data whether I paid for it or not. The course felt mostly like one big plug to make money. To make this course worthwhile you have fast forward a lot through the sales raps, which includes a few lectures in their entirety. It's also much better at twice speed, but most classes are. :) +The lecturer was an annoying speaker and very repetitive. I just couldn't listen to him... I'm sorry. There was also so much about human development etc that I started to wonder when the info about dogs would start....I found the formatting so different from other courses I've taken, that it was hard to get started and figure things out. Adding to that, was the constant interruption of the "paid certificate" page. If I answer "no" once, please leave me alone! I also think it's a bit suspect for a prof to be plugging his own book for one of these courses. +very good and easy to follow learnt a lot +Great course, I learned a lot. I enjoyed the lectures and I read the book. +Awesome course, thank You! I did learn a lot! +Very well taught +Really interesting, I learned a lot from this course. It's approach was more scientific than I expected, which is a great thing. Some experiments presented here blew my mind! +Well outlined class! Outstanding layout and very informative. +LOVED the course, ENJOYED the learning! Great video presentations by Dr. Hare … easy to engage, and wonderful to have the flexible fit into my schedule. Keep up to good work. Would like to know more about how the "Certificate" is issued. Keep getting opportunity to pay for the certificate on screen, even though I did that at the start of the course. LOVE the book as well … thank you for providing such great tools. +Very informative and science-based, FUN course. I really loved how Ilearned so much about generic animal cognition, beyond that of my beloved dogs.Although a bit of a sales pitch made the beginning of this course a bit "meh", the instructor more than made up for it on later weeks. Suggestion: spread out the sales pitch a bit or focus it on it midway through the course, instead of the beginning. :) +A must take course for anyone who is studying animal psychology in college or works with dogs. +This is an extraordinary course. I'm currently enrolled in school to become a Veterinary Assistant, and this course (along with Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods' "The Genius of Dogs," has been a wonderful learning experience. I definitely recommend this for anyone working with dogs and dog owners. Cheers. +we need more course with this kind of theme... thank you +Absolutely excellent. I enjoyed it so much and learned so much. +Really enjoyed this course and learning more about how average dogs learn +I thought it's going to be a little boring - I only took it "for fun", I don't even have a dog or plans or get one, but starting with week 3 and especially week 4 the bigger picture of evolution of humans and animals up to this day alone was worth taking this course. Definitely broadened my mind. Also very valuable were was the information about dog breed profiles and what science can actually tell us about traits like aggressiveness and if they are related to breeds (they are not). If you are looking for concrete dog training tips you won't find them, this course is more about giving an overview of the state of science, but it does so very well IMHO. You can take the course in two afternoons easily - I recommend against doing it over 8 weeks. The videos are short, I watched them at 2 x speed mostly. +It was very interesting course, I thought I knew a lot about dogs psychology and cognition but it turned out that I have a lot of white blankc about some thing. Very informative course with good slides and some very interesting information. +This course is fun to take, and it opened my eyes to a lot of research findings about dogs, people, and other animals. The material is presented in a way that's interesting and easy to follow, even though the ideas that the course covers are far from simple. I like that the course goes into the history of the science about animal cognition. I also like the way it debunks old-hat ideas about intelligence in animals, ranging from ants through apes, wolves and dogs, to humans. A big side-benefit is that the course has made me think in new ways about human society and human achievements, and the evolving shape of our relationships with one another and our capabilities. It has also validated my positive feelings about the dog in my family. +Definitely helped me understand my dog (and others) in a much more thorough/holistic way +Really interesting stuff. I was a little concerned after watching week 1 & 2 that I would know most of the material already but in week 3 things really started to pick up and now that I am finished all the lectures I am so glad to have taken this course!!! +I did enjoy this course, but at times I felt a little bored, like it was loosing my interest. Some of the information given was more about other species and I think that's what made it less gripping for me. +i love this course! No where around me at all offers a class like this and for my situation the fact that its online is even better! I've learned/learning a lot, thank you! +What a wonderful class. I have found very few colleges that offer aclass in regards to animals, unless you're majoring as a vet. This class gives me the option to learn about my best friend (my dog) and how to apply my learned skills to better his life. The course content is easy to understand and exciting for an avid animal lover. Thank you Coursera, for changing how education is delivered. #rethinkcollege +Excellent course! Engaging instructor and interesting material. +I have fallen asleep during 3/4th week, and it have never happened to my during any of the Coursera courses... I'm sorry, but it completely failed my expectations. 3 weeks out of 7 gone, and I have learnt absolutely nothing about dogs. Yes, I got some psychological basis, but that's not what I looked for/ The lecturer politely suggests to buy his book ... well if it is the same quality as the presented course, than it's useless... +Fantastic! I learned SO MUCH!!! +I just do not feel a connection with this professor - he is constantly plugging his book and the website. The content is just not engaging. +Great class! +Thought provoking. Different cultural attitudes toward dogs a little unsettling - given number of bites and attacks, resources devoted to dogs rather than to humans, is a serious question. +Loved learning about the history of dog evolution and dog cognition. Thank you professor! +So much interesting +Interesting insights into human interactions with dogs. I just could not finish the entire class. +Very clearly and useful +Brilliant course. Learnt so much about dogs and evolution I never knew. Really recommend this course even if its just for some basic knowledge. +Superb! Incredibly interesting, well-planned, and enlightening. The most absorbing MOOC I have ever taken (and I have taken a few other really great ones!) +Veryh fun and interesting class. I learned a lot. +Very good course,it gives an overview on some important aspects of dog (and human) evolution and cognition. Important work is going on at Duke University at the Dog Cognition Lab.Dr. Hare is a very inspired person and scientist and his willing to share and go further in research and understanding about humans and canines is involving.Highly recommended. +This is a really enjoyable course with lots of information and deep knowledge of the matter, also given in a positive and relaxed way. Thank you! +Great course for anyone who either likes dogs or interested in psychology+evolotion. If both appliess - it's lust too awsome :) +I enjoyed a lot of this course, especially the parts about evolution and social intelligence. Very interesting!! However, as a professional dog trainer and having studied through the Karen Pryor Academy, I was VERY disappointed to see Brian Hare's misunderstanding of clicker training. I would be happy to chat with him about the realities of clicker training and how an event marker works, if he'd be interested ;)Futhermore, I bought the book and paid for a certificate, but because I took over 180 days to complete the course (despite the course being "self-paced, with suggested deadlines to help you keep on track), I did not get my certificate and was informed that to get it I'd have to pay again for the same product. +This was an amazing course! The format was fantastic and easy to follow and Dr. Brian hare was an engaging speaker, which the videos wonderful to watch. I also really liked that it was self-paced because then I could really try out the Dognition exercises with my dog and have the time to read the book. +Many thanks for this delightful course. +love the class learned a lot of things about my dog I didn't quite know before +It was very interesting and classes were fun to watch. +A great course! Thank you so much for al the knowledge! +It was a little long before getting to the REALLY interesting stuff, but it's a good course for what you pay. I wish there were a follow up one, like a level 2.I also wish that Brian didn't refer to groups of dogs as "dog packs" as dogs are not pack animals. This leads to confusion as dog owners will then believe that they need to be a pack leader and everything that comes with that stereotype. I also wish he didn't focus so much on the idea that dogs are from wolves, because again, many people revert to "this is how wolves are so this is how i treat my dog" it leads to confusion. Just read the comments on some threads. Even while doing this course, people were saying how they need to be a pack leader and how they follow what Cesar Milan does.However, for those of us that know there is a difference, it was interesting to learn more about the differences between wolves and dogs. I just wish the course focused more on dogs +Overall, I enjoyed this course, but it gave just a bit too much information on cognitive studies in other species, and it left me still wanting to learn more about dogs. The last 2 weeks were great! The professor was engaging and his work was very interesting, but he said ummm and ahhh so many times that it was a little distracting. The quizzes were good, but some of the questions were worded very oddly so I just couldn't get them right without several attempts. I didn't feel like he covered dog emotion at all. I thought there would be some discussion of facial expressions, the meaning of different tail wags, and the extent of dog emotion (for example, how they grieve and how long they grieve after a loss). +Great course for understanding dogs and other animals better. +Absolutely amazing course! Everything is explained really well and I loved the content! +Fantastic! Thank You! +Excellent course and very well presented. I do hope that you will present another course on animal cognition, it's an intriguing subject. Thank you so much. +I Have just finished the course and loved it! Brian Hare is great, and is an honor to see his lectures. I work with dog cognition and emotional sense, so i've read a lot of Brians papers. This course is amazing and I indicate to everyone who study animal behavior or just love dogs (or both). +The material is so interesting that even though you're learning a lot, it doesn't feel like hard work. The only possible drawback is that it keeps referencing this citizen science (a similar concept to crowd sourcing or open-source) program called Dognition. Dognition's this website that allows you to play games with your dog that test its cognition, and uses the data from it to better understand how dogs think. You don't need Dognition to learn a lot and get a lot out of the course, but if you don't have a dog to play with or feel like spring for the fee (which again, are highly optional and not needed to learn from this course), you will miss out a bit. But other than that, it's fascinating to learn about how dogs think and how that's unique among the animal kingdom. +learning this course is fun and exciting +Clear, well articulated, recent study findings and explanation.An over-all wealth of knowledge. +i love this course +Love it! such interesting info and an excited presenter! +Very interesting and thought provoking course, I have learned a lot. However some quizzes we not moderetated and some answeres seems to have mistakes. +Loved this class. I LOVED that they didnt label the pit bull as aggressive!! +excellent for both practicians and scientists, I loved it! +Such a great and interesting course! I'm really learning so much from this and feel it's really well put together. Great work from Brian Hare et al - keep up the good work you're doing! +This is a relatively easy course to complete, but I definitely enjoyed learning about dog cognition and how they have evolved over time to become man's best friend. +Excellent course. Very well presented. +Excellent course; thoroughly enjoyed. +I love the new aspects of learning how dogs process things!! An added tool for sure! +Easy to follow, fun, and interesting! I really enjoyed the lectures as well as the extra games :) +A wonderfully put together course on really exploring our canine companions to learn more about how they learn and ultimately have better relationships with them. +Highly addictive course! I find myself quoting random tidbits that I learned to complete strangers. I don't even have a dog! I recommend this to anyone who is an animal lover, interested in cognition and learning, or...ju +it was a great fun to listen to the course and practice the exercises with my dog! +Very interesting course. Hope to hear more courses about canines. Especially about their psychology. +I really enjoyed the material of this course. Well worth the money paid. I feel that I learned a lot. I definitely suggest reading the book also. The only issue I had with the course is that there were a couple times wording on the quizzes were incorrect/misleading +Excellent for Clinical social worker and psychologist if want to use intervention with animal assisted therapy +Awesome course. It blows your mind and take you straight to the universe of cognition. Very recommended. +It seemed this course was a teaser to get people to enroll in/pay money to join the dogcognition program at Duke. I realized this in week 2 and did not continue the course. +Awesome course, easy to understand, and far more informative about various species than the title would lead you to believe (although it is, obviously, based and centered around dog cognition and emotion). +great course if you're a dog lover, dog trainer, dog walker, or just someone who's interested in the interface between canine human relationships. My only qualm is that some of the questions may have been written better, but all in all a capturing class! +very interesting, informative especially for dog lovers. +Was great learnt a lot more than I expected and was a lot more detailed then what I expected as well. Highly recommend this course. +This course was AWESOME! Really enjoyed the professors lectures, learned so much! +Very fun and interesting ! +Very interesting and engaging course! Great job! +Great course to understand how dogs have become the species they are today and how they distinguish themselves from other species. I've learned a lot about my own dog and how other dogs vary in their own thinking abilities. +I am fascinated with the course +Fantastic, really enjoying this course! +The best online course I have ever attended. I never got bored. Lectures are just awesome. As a cognitive Science student, I enjoyed it most. +Not much here +A waste of money. Only $50, but it was so terrible I did not even want to finish it. And apparently I waited too long to get a refund as well. Never again. +Learned more than I had imagined I would. +Excellent and based on science. +Right from the start a brilliant course, engaging, intelligent & thought provoking! +Lovely course! I learned so much from this, more than I was expecting! Also great to understand human evolution and behaviour as well. +love it throughout! wish it lasted longer +Fun course that explores why dogs are so special. I especially it when Dr. Hare explained the different experiments and their results. +Catchy course suitable even for non-professional dog/animal lovers. I enjoyed it and I hope I'll have a chance to apply newly acquired knowledge to my training in the future. Thank you for the project! +I have learnt some basic knowledge about dog's congnition. It may be more interesting if I have a dog to take part in these experments. +great course gives really good insight into cognitive thought of canines and other animals +Interesting insights about how dogs think and what we perceive through their behavior. Taken purely for personal enrichment. Wish I'd had more time available to work with the lab material. +Lots of fun and very inspiring. Like it +I like that is not only about dogs, but also on apes (including humans).Easy to listen to.Would love more articles or other reading materials in this course besides the book. +excellent course to understanding your dog. Good information about how dogs evolved. 2 thumbs up. +Excellent! Great scientific information, videos and other explanations on animal evolution! You'll understand your best friend better and your own evolution. +The course was informative and enjoyable. I would have given it 5 stars if a free certificate of accomplishment were issued as in other courses. +Outstanding! Very interesting ad completely beneficial! +Brian provided a great course that informed and entertained. Good for those with many levels of animal interaction and familiarity. +Excellent course. If you have a dog you have to take this. Instructor is awesome. This course will help you take your relationship with your dog to the next level. +I simply love this course, the material is complete ! +Good course for any dog lover to take. +Only halfway through and I give this course 5 stars. The instructor is fun and charming. The course is very interesting and informative. Thanks for putting this out. I hope you put out more moocs like this in the future. :)~April W. +Videos kept cutting out either entirely or the sound would cut out. Made it very difficult to follow. +I'm thinking about quit from my mechanical engineering major lol +Extremely interesting. I am glad Duke University offers this course via Coursera. +Really interesting information about the evolution of dogs, their cognitive approach to problem solving and their relationship to humans. Just the tip of the iceberg but a great jumping off point to further understanding man's best friend. Content was presented in a way that was easy to follow and complete at your own pace. +Brief, but informative. This is a great course for general dog lovers, owners, and scientists. It's surprising how short the course is, though. The videos are quite brief, but there are many every week, so the coursework looks longer than it really is. +Intersting +The lecture make me understand more about my puppy, thank you +I´d found this course really good, I have a litle bit experience with dog training throw the years experience with my dogs and internet videos, but this approach never have it before, I thanks to Dr. Ohara for the great course he made for Coursera I definitely apply dognition games to my dogs and the dogs of my friends. Saludos +Everybody who loves animals and who wants to understand better his/her pet should take this course. When you discover all your dog's potential you will be a better owner and a better person. +Do it if you love your dog! +Fun and informative learning experience +This is a great class so far. I am enjoying taking a new look at dogs. It has been especially interesting looking at my dogs in a new way and applying what I have learned. I have found the incorporation of real life cognition experiments with apes and foxes a very interesting part of the course. I hope to be able to take more classes from Duke University. +Very nice and informative course; it is perfect for people with very basic knowledge of biology, evolution and animal behavior. Maybe some aspects should have been treated in greater details to meet the needs of more advanced learners. +Very interesting course. The quizzes were challenging, which was good, and I liked that there was a final exam, too. The lecturer was maybe a bit too "wordy" and could have cut to the point faster without repetition but he was being enthusiastic about his topic, so that is forgiven. Overall, a good course! +should know +The content was interesting but the lectures could have been taped in a more engaging manner. +Mostly just an ad for the instructor's startup. Very annoying. +Funny and Directly involves the audience which is great! +Very interesting ! I learned a lot about different species and it showed me some believes I hold weren't maybe as true as I tought them to be... +I love this course +Excellent course. Very interesting and the professor was really engaging showing his passion for the research discussed. +Very informative and entertaining. +This course was a minimal time commitment, simple, and very interesting for the lay person and scientist alike. It's fantastic to see an open online course offered on a subject that has exploded in the last few years! +This is basically just one giant commercial for the web site. A whole lot of talk, but not a lot of information. I was going to finish the course anyway, to pick up what is in there, but I just cannot stand any more plugs. Very disappointed. +really well done. quality shines through +Just wow! +Passionate speaker and truly amazing things to learn about dogs! +I love some of the discussions in this course, and i think that students can be prompted to contribute even more. Perhaps make contributing to a discussion in each module an essential part of the course?The content is well-structured, going from a general overview of evolution to canine cognition. I would have liked to see it go even further, questioning the assumptions behind some of the recent research publications in this area instead of just including it in this course. A little more critical reasoning doesn't hurt. +great course and Dr. Hare delivers the material with passion and enthusiasm +excellent course...amazing instructor....thanks +A fantastic introduction to Dog Cognition sciences!Either as a trainer or an investigatior in dog-related issues this is a course you cannot miss. +In my opinion:The topics reviewed were too haphazardly selected.The citations for quoted research were hard to impossible to find,The course focused disproportionately on the lecturer's commercial ventures. +Great course! +What an amazing class! Thank you very much Dr. Hare, Duke University and Coursera. Great job! +As a dog trainer I found this course very insightful into the mind of a dog and will be putting many of the games and ideas I learned into action with the dogs I teach. I will also suggest the Dognition site to all of my clients looking to do more with their dog's training +Enjoyed this course very much. I would love to take another course on this topic. +I could give you 5 stars if you issue the Statement of Accomplishment to students who passed this course by free, at least... Anyway, the course was so great and interesting to me ! Thank you so mu +Very fun and educational course! +I found many interesting insights into how dogs became man's best friend and into dog cognition. However, some of the points were belabored far too long; in addition, problems in dog behavior--such as biting etc.--were not really dealt with at all. For me, the promise of knowledge of dogs leading to knowledge of self remained unfulfilled. I could also have used more practical insights into how a dog can be guided (trained) to become the ideal companion. +This is a fun course. However, there is not much content on dog emotion, and lots on evolution (not limited to dogs). It is straightforward and slowly enough paced that no one should be afraid it will be too difficult for them, and the instructor is enthusiastic and eloquent. I have a PhD in a related field and I learned quite a bit, so I would recommend this course to others. +Very informational I liked it 10/10 +The best! +It is an amazing, well-organised and exciting course. Would recommend for anyone! +Great course! Very interesting! +I enjoyed this course and found it very informative. I would like to see more practical information related to dog training in the material, but I understand that is not the purpose of this course. +Fascinating course! Loved it! +This course was great, and I'll do the experiments with a friend's dogs. I love dogs, but don't have one. I do have a cat, and would be interested in a similar course about them.I believe probably cats don't have the same communicative abilities as dogs, as they don't cooperate that much as wolves, but for instance my cat can differentiate between "give me the paw" (where in one hand I have food, the other is an open palm, and he has to inhibit going to the hand of the food and putting his paw in my other palm), and "eat" (going directly to the hand with the food and eat it). +I loved the course. Please, could you pland other courses about dogs, cognition, emotion, trainning....?I think the profesor is very good. Plese, could you organized more courses with him? +great course！ +Great course. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn about the evolution of our relationship with dogs--a unique relationship to be sure. Good opportunity to input into citizen scientist data base if interested, and willing to submit a fee. +A new and interesting subject to learn, well explained!! +One of the best courses seen at Coursera. Really gives you insight. +While the topic is interesting, the materials are poor and the lectures are not particularly insightful. The slides have several mistakes and typos, which makes you doubt the whole course. The speakers are not engaging and it just looks like no effort was made in preparing this course. Additionally, the materials do not prepare you for the review, and on weeks 2 and 3 (the hardest) you don't have a chance to review the questions or correct your mistakes. The course really needs some improving! +Excellent Course with many useful example drawn from life. The tests are a good check on whether you have fully understood the material and a good opportunity to revise anything that is not clear. I really enjoyed taking this course. +It would be better to provide detailed explanation for the cases and questions raised in the slides. +Excellent study material and good for knowledge. I give full rating to this course - Duke University through coursera!! +A very interesting and useful course. I had some difficulty distinguishing some of the biases - it is like some of them are nested within others, which makes choosing the one that is most relevant to a situation quite tricky. +I just stumble upon this course and like the lecturer says it's a relatively new school of thoughts. It combines psychology and finance or to say find psychology application in finance subjects.I did come around my university to find finance books written about this subjects but so disappointed I found none physical books, all are ebooks. +Great course, great topics, well covered! +Best course,very good study material. +The way Emma explains theories are really clear. For students whose first language are not English, her speed of teaching is proper. I just finished the very first part "Utility of Money". Looking forward to learning more from her. +The best finance class I have ever taken! So easy to understand with many vivid examples +The course was good and the material was interesting. I wish that the course were more video-based however. There are some videos but they are meant to be played at specific points during the reading. +Very instructive, lot of examples that help to learn the most common biases! +This course is very a very challenging since it deals about behavioral aspects. But then, this course is fun and exciting because I was able to see biases and mistakes that many people does and became aware that I commit those mistakes also. Two thumbs up! +it is a brill course which is interesting and full of magic +Overall, it summaries all the concepts you need in behavioral finance. +Great Course! +Very informative, fun to learn, plenty of material & well taught. I highly recommend this course! +Interesting course about behavioral biais with many examples and cases. Altough I expected a course more oriented into financial decisions on how to learn to avoid financial bias and make better decisions I still learned a lot. +Not enough materials in the video. Most of the info are in the reading. +Interesting course. I just wished there was more interaction and discussion and that there is further clarification regarding the length of the course.Right at the start Ms. Rasiel mentioned a 14-week course. I feel there's more to the course but I wasn't able to take advantage of it. There were also some videos that seem to start mid-way already. +Very interesting topic and great instructors.Unfortunately, many things were not covered by video lectures. It often felt like there were parts missing. +I very much enjoyed the information contained in the course - however I did find that it was difficult to apply some of the very nuanced biases to the financial problems posed in the quiz when many of the biases were used in examples outside of the stock market in the course readings leading up to the quiz. I really wish there were more examples for each bias (and more from the world of finance) because some biases were really hard to distinguish from one another. On one hand I did like that I wasn't spoon fed the information for the quizes but on the other I don't feel as though I was fully equipped to answer some of the quiz questions due to the way the information had been presented.The information built on itself so I found myself going back to week 1 information and week 2 information in week three. +The first two weeks were great, they were more behavioural economics than behavioural finance specifically. The last week was not up to scratch, readings from the popular press, not experts. +I personally enjoy this course, really interesting in different points and open my vision in a way. I would like to be able to communicate directly with the professor because I was uncertain of my level of comprehension through certain parts. +This course has very interesting and complete content. However, for begginers it can be a bit hard to take all quizes successfully at first attempt, due to the high number of concepts addressed in the videos and articles. Some concepts seems obvious at first, but a begginner can get confused among them. Maybe the material should be better organized in topics, in order to facilitate the comprehension of different ideas. Nevertheless, I highly recommend this course. +A glimpse to our mental traps in the field of Finance +The lectures dont cover all the subjects discussed.I would be delighted to listen to lectures about economic bubbles and non rational behavior. +good examples of interesting situations +Very interesting! +Very useful especially as an introduction to Behavioral Finance. Week 2 would have been better to be split over two weeks. +Comprehensive course on behavioural economics with a focus on getting those constraints in thinking and alternatives for rational thought explained in clear language. Although some prior knowledge in economics comes in handy, this course is clear enough to follow and complete for those with no experience in the dismal science. The video's are clear, the reading consists of college slides and the examples give a clear reading of complex processes. +Excellent course if you plan to be an investor +A very good course. Required readings and lectures are detailed. Will help create a strong platform for the human decision making bias and behavioral aspects on decision making. Detailed example and real cases make help better understand and relate the concepts. The instructors are great. +The course information was fairly useful, but the execution not so much. The material spent more time on somewhat repetitive examples than it did on explaining the actual concepts those examples were illustrating, and the videos were primarily just lecturers reading parts of the slides that you had already read, but in their own words.The tests, sadly, were poorly-designed for the subject matter of the course. Behavioral biases - like many psychological phenomena - overlap to some degree, and the frequently-used format of 'choose all that apply' - or worse 'choose all that might apply' - resulted in trying to guess what the test-setter was looking for rather than trying to apply the information that had been learned. When you find yourself trying to decide between the best answer based on what you have learned and a conceptually worse answer that happens to meet the wording of the question - and trying to guess whether the test-setter is looking to prove your understanding or catch you in a mistake - then you start to suspect that the course has been designed more as a way to earn grades than to actually learn. +Lots of readings! Would have loved a more engaging format. Also found the content slightly ambiguous, you might have to do some trial and error and might be surprised at the answers in the quiz. +Basically not much content. The guest speaker uses unnecessarily weird examples in his talk. +it helped me to built up my basic knowledge of behavioral finance through very effective and attractive movies and interesting reading stuffs as well as testing which I had to review my notes and research to think it over. Thank you for the great course! +great course ! lucid explanation of all the biases. +Ever wondered how much deductibles you should pay for your insurance? What drove the recent sub-prime mortgage crisis? how you can improve your chances of avoiding bias in making financial decisions? Well then this course is for you ! Very well presented notes and vid +very interesting course. It provide us several mistakes that we usually make but not realize. It's worth to learn. +3 weeks was a bit of a rush to get everything done, but the course was very informative and met expectations. +Duke.... Coursera... guys, come on! I'd like to contrast this with the Wharton Business Analytics specialization that I'm completing. It was like night and day. I mean, professors in that course are presenting their own research! Cade Massey presents research he did with Dick Thaler! None of that happens here. The information shared doesn't even flow smoothly.This course relies mainly on PDF slides (if I wanted to read, I would've bought a book). At one point, it even links to 6 articles on another website (and that's in the quiz as well). It seems like very little effort was put into this online class by the professors. The slides themselves seemed scatter-brained, several times asking questions that are never even answered. It was almost as if someone took already prepared slides from a course and just kind of mashed them with a very little bit of video to make an "online" course. Even the answers to quizzes seemed extremely vague (it often felt like there were several right answers... or none -- to me, this is sloppy quiz writing).I honestly expected better from both Coursera and Duke! The only redeeming part about this course is that behavioral economics is honestly compelling, despite the shortcomings pointed out. +Was a major eye opener for learners and beginners I could relate with most of the biases which were introduced in this subject was feeling reluctant as always to attempt the exam papers nonetheless I downloaded all the PDFs of all the chapters for life long learning which is most important for me as I am a potential future investor. +This is a great starter course/primer for behavioral finance! I would like to thank Dr Rasiel for the contents of this course.Recommendations for improvement:-Create a single sheet defining the biases contained in the course for easy reference.-Add more examples and retrospectives that explain the similarities and differences between the biases.Overall, I really enjoyed the course and look forward to additional courses on Behavioral Finance. +It lacks of video lectures so I had to rely on notes only. The course's content is interesting and has potential to give learner more depth of topics. Hope it will be improved soon. +I think this course is great as an introduction to behavioral finance, however I think the content lacks depth and is rather superficial. +The subject matter is good, but the course does not adequately explain behavioral finance concepts. Most of the course consists of slide decks to read. There is a dearth of video content. I expected better quality from a course provided through Duke University. +I would have liked this course to be longer, so that the information could have been spread out among more lectures, rather than so much information condensed into one week. It made the exams a little confusing. +It's a great course, clear explanations and simple videos.The missing star was lost on the way that misleading or undefined bias are presented, especially during the different decision phases.I would like to propose to discuss a case of a stock share in a timeline, to see whether this "panic" or "overconfidence" applies, and also in global macroeconomics (e-g. the PIGS bubble, the debt bubble) +The course covers the basic foundations of behavioral finance, especially prospect theory and various cognitive biases that negatively influence our decision making in financial affairs.The topics covered are definitely very interesting and the lecturers frequently prove that they know what they are talking about and explain some topics in adequate depth and breadth.For a valuable Coursera course I am expecting that most of the material is covered with video lectures (otherwise I read a book on that matter) and I am expecting thought-through slides with clear definitions, clear practical examples and exercises, and the presentation of experimental proofs for the given statements.Regrettably, most of this course is comprised of simple slides with limited structuring, as definitions, exercises, and proofs are often intermingled. More importantly, only a very limited subset of the course is covered with the suitable and valuable video lectures.Especially the last of the three-week course consist mostly of reading material from an external website.The exercises after each of the three weeks are at the lower end of what I have seen on Coursera and the lecturers should consider putting more effort in creating useful questions for formative and summative evaluations of the learning progress.In summary, smart lecturers present a very interesting and highly relevant topic, but they put to little effort in creating a compellingly online course. +This course is really interesting, especially for people that are into Business Management and Psychology. In my humble opinion, every human being is a decision maker in their everyday life and this course( in conjuction with other sciences) is a tool of paramount importance to make better and more effective decisions in the everyday life. I feel really happy to have had the opportunity to learn all that i have learned and become a better decision maker starting from..now! +This course had almost no lectures. It was almost all done in downloadable PDF's that were rarely discussed in the lectures. I never learned why anything happened. +A different and interesting perspective to look in the field of finance. Content is little confusing and more of self study component, but overall it's worth. +Accelerated course but really concentrated. Practical and clearly explained. Perfect alternance of slides/lecture videos. Easily understandable by with economics background and by other as well with thehelo of the slides. Definitely the best among similar classes on Coursera. +The video lectures are not adequate, too much self-study effort is needed to have a good understanding of the subject. The time allocated for this topic is not enough. +I love the idea of behavioral Finance. i find this course leaves you with a lot of terms and ideas to explore outside of the text. If that is what you enjoy, this course is highly recommended by myself +The course is very light on substance. There are significantly better courses and books available on the same subject matter. I definitely would not recommend this course. +Excellent course. Quick and concise, but packed with hugely relevant theory for those in the financial services and investment management world. Well delivered and excellent tests to cement the knowledge. My thanks to the organisers for their work. +Excessively short course. +great course!!, I bet a lot of people will be interested into a second part to this course!!, keep up the good work +Very impressive fundamentals of magnetic components! +very useful +Quite intriguing with carefully designed assignments. +Thanks a lot, professor Khurram. +Recommended for everyone who is getting started in power electronics world. +Very good instructor that presented everything in detail. Totally worth it! +Excellent introduction to design of magnetics! +Good lecture with suitable teaching speed which is helpful because the formulas and abstract magnetic concept are difficult to follow. I recommend this course! +Well structured material with practical examples. Excellent! +You could include a flyback transformer design example in optional lesson. +It is very nice and the way it was presented and teached is very easy to understand and visualize few inherent concepts +I am a working power electronics engineer and this course has taught me the basics to nuances of designing magnetic circuits used in power supplies. I feel much more confidence in reading more advanced materials and application notes going over design and testing of magnetic components. Thanks! +very very well structured course ! +Good Course +Very knowledgeable and impressiveThanks +The quality of the slides, and the notes written on them were fantastic. It was a great experience. Looking forward to the capstone project. +The quality of the lectures is very good but the material of the course has some little deficiencies, at least compared to the previous courses of the specialization:-Some slides are not completed. Dr. Khurram Afridi completes these slides in the lecture, but there are not the slides with the final result. I had to take screen captures to save this final result.-Subtitles impede to watch correctly the video when explaining in the subtitles area. I had to switch off the subtitles to be able to watch the video correctly.-I missed the pdfs of the homework assignments. I like to work on them off line, so I had to enter into the assignments to be able to see them.-I also missed the questions alternated during the videos as in previous courses.For these reasons I only give 4 stars instead of 5. +This course was great. I would preferred more forum activity, but i think it was all right because this is fundamentals concepts. The experience in this field most be intense in order to consider be a specialist in magnetics. Regards, +muy bueno,very good +I love this course and the teacher is excellent! +Very good course +The course gives you an understanding how global health functions, how different players operate and what challenges our society encounters. It made me aware of the complexities but also the opportunities we are facing. +VERY WELL STRUCTURED, CLEAR AND INTERESTING READINGS. THE FINAL PROJECT GRADING SYSTEM COULD BE IMPROVED. +This course is excellent for any student who dreams of e-Learning in America! +Thank you, It was such a great experience, I learned a lot. +very good course, objective and very well explained +It's a good approach to electronics but it doesn't go trough a complete explanation about how we found the formula needed to solve problems. +Considering that it is a introductory course of just 7 weeks I consider that it achieved its goal. Don't expect a deep explanation about the physics of the devices and complicated circuits. If it is you first time learning electronics it will help understand the basic concepts and I recommend it. If you want to remember some basic concepts I recommend it too, but if want to learn more advanced topics like high frequency response of an amplifier, communication circuits, cascode, differential and operational amplifiers this is not a course to you. +perfect refreshment for me to go back to my undergrad topics +I like this mam teaching +Super..Eventhough i am doing PG..I learned a lot through this course. +Very exciting and interesting course. Both the duo of Dr Robinson and Prof Ferri made it possible to understand the fundamentals of Electronics. As a graduate of ECE, this was a perfect refresher for me. +Very usefull course. I begin undestand more things in electronics. Thank you, Dr. Ferri and Dr. Robinson +This course was awesome, i liked it very much. i will look forward for more classes with you guys! Thank you for your dedication to do a class so amazing. +I am very pleased to find this course online because as far as i got i learned so much how to solve some examples here which is beneficial for my exam in my university of electrical engineering. Thank you so much, very good content and teachers. +A really very good introductory course for the beginners in the field of electronics, I do recommend it. And a BIG thank you to all of you who have put a lot of effort and made the course available to us, may God bless you all. +Awesome for basics in electronics field. +the op-amp part was very good. better than others. I do thank the teachers. +It is very good learning source to present generation. +Good introduction level course. There are space for improvement though: Content-wise, I wish the instructor can give an introduction or summary on different types of transistors, at least compare MOSFET and BJT transistors; Other aspects: the instructor and mentors could answer questions more promptly. There are questions left unanswered for more than two weeks and questions which never got answered on the discussion forum. +I loved this course. Really very amazing course and very talented Instructors +Good introduction to basic circuits and components! +great for people have just basic knowledge +Very lucidly explained.This course not only covers theoretical concepts but also designed and aimed to cover practical concepts through the help of demonstration using breadboard .Just have a try I promise you will naturally develop affinity towards electronics.Once again my best wishes to the team who undertake this course to the highest degree of accuracy and dedication. +IT IS VERY USEFUL +Excellent course , very helpful ! +Thank you very much.Finally I understood the base of electronics. +it is very useful to me +Starting from the Scratch of Diode Information to ending up with Transistor analysis indeed is a great way to either kick off or brush up the concepts in the field of Electronics. This course led me to design fundamentals in Analog Circuits along with good portion of focus on CMOS Design that can be helpful for Digital Design as well. Over and All, It is such a nice course that I will strongly recommend it to my peers. +She is the best electronics teacher I've seen. I wish she did the whole course by herself. +It was usefull to recal my knowledge of electronics. The course is not deep, but it's that you want from "introducting" course. +I finally understand the concepts of Electronics. Very good lecturers, my compliments. +Really good course with the necessary concepts of electricity and control systems to get started in electronics. I'd suggest to add a little more on semiconductor physics and calculation of the operation point of diodes. Nice and well curated content, clear explanations and good examples. Congratulations. +Very informative course with great example that enhance understanding. I love their quizzes and questions, they prove how much you understand the topic. I recommend that to every starting electronics engineer and student or as a quick revision for the basic topics in electronics! +Brilliant! +The only complain is that it kind of feel uncompleted +very good course for the learners who want to deal with electronics. +Good explanation but some necessary point like how voltage work, because this is an Intro i think ! .. +very good course a lot of +It is really helpful the explanation is more than great I think it is going to be beneficial for all electric related departments. +Good for new learner. +I wish we could have feedback from coursera organizer as well for further improvement. +Excellent course to improve your writing skills. I loved it! +simple and clear to understand. +Recommended for anyone who want to learn more about the language skills especially in writingwell it's comprehensive course. +Very good course !! +Super online course. I really enjoyed the content and mastered some skills. +It is great course for beginners who wish to learn how to write the essay. This course will build your foundation and their idea of peer review and topic practice will help you to make this foundation solid. I have greatly effected with this course and now i am able to write a 5 paragraph essay in a well manner.Thanks +If you are looking to just take a class here or there, yes you can, but if you want the 5th course open to you you must complete the 4 courses before. Had I known this I would have started that way, instead I took 3 and tried to take 5, it does not work that way. If you are looking at cost, be sure to review the those options. While I didn't think I needed the other courses, I found it helpful to refresh my memory and it also helped understand the direction of the course material and assignments in detail. Even though it may look simple, always take notes during the lecture videos because by the time you get to the quizzes you might find your self stumped and the notes are great reminders on the outline principles of the subject. No, taking notes will not give you the answer, its not designed that way. +The video lectures were good, the tests were almost a give away and the essays were an opportunity to practice what I learned from the lectures. My only BIGGEST disappointment is that the essays were evaluated by students like me. I received evaluations that doesn't tell me much or evaluations that doesn't make sense. If I only knew that this course was not an instructor supervised course, I would have been willing to pay extra money just to get a professional to assess my essay and provide me with feedback. At this point, I am disappointed that I decided to just watch the videos but skip the peer-reviewed essays and make the most of what I paid for. +Great course! +very helpful for academic writing！ +Course material was good. But, I was hoping the essay corrections and feedback will be given by experienced teachers/instructors, was disappointed at this as it was given by the fellow students! +It was amazing course. +This is very comprehensive course for learning about styles of different essays in just four weeks. Videos are short and yet cover all aspects. +I learned many things from this course,it empowers my writing skill. +I loved the course +this is course is just wow!!!! i have learnt a lot - will defiantly help me using it in my career. +I really enjoy the course, now I have the argumentative essay structure in my mind. Thank you so much. +Great course! +I like this course a lot, Professor Tamy Chapman is very good, she explains everything in a way that makes it feel easy to understand. But I would like that the teacher was the one to review our homework submissions. +I loved it. I'm so happy I chose UCI to help me with this. +I learn several topics about writing essay. It helped me to improve my writing skills. Thanks +The ONLY reason I rated low is because I paid this course and am receiving NO feedback from other students on essays. Very frustrating when you have tried to do your best but get no peer reviews. +Very informative! +A very good course for those who want to learn English composition or essay writing, or both. If you are looking for developing your writing skill, you must give it a try. +Great course, I learnt a lot of writing and improve my skills. +It is a good course, but if you want to hand on the assignments, you have to pay. So I am a little disappointed. +Very helpful course! The instructor took the learner through carefully designed material and I'm happy I took the course! +An exceptionally outstanding course! +Good course definitely recommended +Very Good. But still, I think we need the feedback of the professor. +A very good course for beginners. Found it informative and interesting. +It's absolutely amazing! I highly recommend every non-native english speaker to take this course. +All I wanted was to understand what a basic thesis question was, and what was considered an acceptable, basic, entry-level academic essay. I think this course delivered well enough. I only audited it, and I have thought since that I should have paid the money so I could have gotten more feedback on the assignments. +Very effective course for me. It really helps me to understand the basics of grammar. +Best teaching approach and superb explanation of all the course material. Each and every week is so well designed that I learned a lot of things in flow.Thank You. +In the modern world today, English becoming an essential language. If you can speak English, everybody can understand what you are talking about, but if you can transform what you are thinking into writing, you become a master. Writing essay is one of the major step bring you to this target. +this class so good +A great course! +Excellent course to develop your writing skills +Very nice course, especially the reply from classmates. Here we met some classmates with the same problem as ourselves, and we can help and encourage each other. Helpful course +Good resources in order to improve your own academic writing +Very good for beginners in essay writing.Thank you. +Very informative and effective lessons to learn about essay writing! +I liked the course very much. It extended my knowledge about essay writing a lot. Also, I got many useful feedback from peer-reviewed assignments. Thank you to the instructor and to the classmates. +The course wonderful and just suffer from some shortcomings. First, it assess by the peers, sometime people just say "great", "wonderful". It surely don't help students who come here to improve themselves. Next, sometimes it is take too much time for assessments. There is no forum or somewhere that you can discuss about the course. There in one to ask about your ambiguity. +Comprehensive, well-designed and easy to work with. +The professor is very good at guiding students through essay writing. I am looking forward to taking more courses introduced by her. +Great course. it helps me a lot . +Thanks for the basics! =) I enjoyed the course +I recommend this course, I learned the basics to writing essays. +Writing part was an immense difficulty for me, before Coursera Getting Started With Essay. The way my submitted assignment evaluated, gave me a credible feed back to improve my short coming and learn quickly.Thanks you very much. +Very general, and knowledge you could easily acquire from the web. The only difference is the presentation of the information is stretched over an hour worth of video. The most useful part of this course however is the walk-through examples provided. +thanks, it is good +Awesome course +Most advanced course for essay writing. None of the MOOc has prepared such qualitative course till date. +No-nonsense course that teaches you the nuts and bolts of academic essay writing. I've looked at a bunch of writing courses both here at Coursera and other sites. This is one of the best I have found. No words are wasted. No lengthy boring lecture. Just the stuff you need to know. Don't miss it! +this course is very helpful for me improving my writing skill. thanks to those who are the tutors of this course. thank you. +Very useful course for people who want to level up their writing skills and improve their essay stile +It's a great course, +...it is a great opportnity to improve your understanding about your college writting style. +Very Excellent Course for English Learners... +Excellent entry level course for students and professionals who are starting to develop and improve skills needed for academic/professional essay writing. Although the focus of the lessons is for college level writing, they will help to develop the basic skills needed to brainstorm, organise, draft and write down good quality essays for the on-stage work. Highly recommended for anyone who is eager to improve his/her writing skills. +Good course. Too bad we can t access to everything for free. +Excellent course, well taught by instructors. Peer review system enables you to know what exactly graders are looking out for. I took the course to help me prepare for a test. The test is a prerequisite for a graduate course I needed to take at Harvard University. Taking this MOOC course paid off because I passed the test and I am going on to register for my graduate course. +Excellent course for students who wants to learn about writing academic essays. +Recommend this course to high school and college students. +i found this course very effective, supportive and informative . i had downloaded all videos and practicing it. +Nice introduction to essay writing. It gives several tips and examples. +Great course for practicing! Totally recommend it. +This course is fabulous!! The participants will learn what the types of essays are, they will learn the parts of an essay, and they will learn how to formulate/structure essays. Thank you so very much, Coursera and Professor Chapman!!! I have learned a significant amount of information which have enhanced my writing skills. +this course helps a lot in developing essay ability especially to those who didn't get chance in school days. +Loved a lot. +Very good!!! After the course, I feel more confident to writing an essay. +I'm actually pretty happy with this course; I'll keep progressing to the Specialization. +I learned so much and this course was a really big help in leveling up my essay writing skills. +Great course! +bad for the projects +Nice course! But in my opinion, it needs to give more practice exercises for each sub topic so that student doesnt think the course as fast paced. +The is the most useful course for me, I have ever attended. +This course really helps improvise and develop essay writing skills. +The process is awesome....... +Clear and practical. I'm loving it :) +The best course ever! +I have yet to have ANY of my essays reviewed, although I have finished every requirement of the course. I"m very disappointed. I hope that the directions given to me by the course attendants will correct this problem, however. +this is an helpful course. Now, I know how to write essay. :D +An excellent course that provide to the learner who to write an essay and who to understand it. +It was a fun course, and throughout the course I learnt the fundamental basics of essay writing. Only thing that could be improved on is to put some example essays for students to read as an assignment, and go through it afterwards. Also to talk a little faster. +Helps you learn the basics of how to write an essay. +Totally disorganized, mis-managed, unfairly graded course! +Really helpful +Easy to understand for the beginner. +It's a good course for anyone who wants to start writing as it shows you the variety of methods. I personally gained a lot from the lectures. Likewise, the additional links and the assignments were very useful. Thank you! +I learnt a lot in this course that surprised me. I went from being terrified of essays to managing to write one a few pages long. Thank you. My biggest issue and why I didn't give it 5 stars if the grading is via peer review and this meant a long wait and lots of begging PLUS getting only one word reviews such as great. Not very helpful. I would like a person who is experienced in essay writing to do a review, but I do understand that, by sheer numbers of students, this would be non viable. +Very informative for starting Essay Writing +It's a good writing course for English-as-second-language learners. +Great !!! +I believe that this course make me more comfortable writing. I like the lessons and the teacher is very clear in explication. +It is a good course in overall, it gave me an opportunity to practice writing and refresh some useful informations about how to write an argument. Minuses of the course: there is no indication of how long it might take for assignments to be graded, some of the students rush through their assignments so it is waste of time to review them instead of an opportunity to learn from others as it should be. Perhaps the non-granded assignments could be more though through to help the learning process? +interesting course that helps you to improve your English writing. Very good +Excellent and good sources. +Excellent and good sources. +This course was a little confusing, specially because this was my first experience writing Essays.On the other hand, the feed back was super slow. I still don't know how did I do with all of my assignments. +Getting Started with Essay Writing helps me improve my writing, and changes my point of view toward essays.But we need a feedback on the assignment essays from the instructor or any specialist, the peers review is not enough.Thank you! +Really good course. I've learn a lot. It makes student interact with each other really well. +Getting Started with Essay Writing was an excellent course. I really liked it ! +Course has great material and I do like how the teacher explains the topics. I wish course was fully free so I could have the chance to write my essays and get them reviewed. +Amazing course, thank so much for this opportunitty. +This course is excellent. I learned English in school but forget it over time. I found this course an excellent source to revise my English writing skills. +It is a great course to improve your english skills. +it is very helpful, and if could have more details about sample essays, would be better. +Awesome course! It will teach you all that you need to know to begin writing essays. From compare/contrast to arguments essays in a simple and undestandable way.Cheers! +It's a good course and it has a great structure ! +it is very interesting, it´s not only for writing...its for life what they´re teaching, thank you +This is a great course to advance your English writing skills. +The course was great and interesting. +I think the course is very good, but the peer review grading should be improved! Sometime, people have to wait for more than 3 weeks to get their assignment graded, or they don't know whether they will get the grade. Thanks! +The course provides a solid structure on which to build academic essays. The content of the videos is generally good and seems appropriately targeted but the sample essays are disappointingly trivial (and not terribly well written). They seem more suited to young High School students rather than would-be college level writers.The big issue is in the peer assessment process which forms the centre of the practical experience in the course. There is a tremendous time lag apparent between essays being submitted and being reviewed. Mine took between 3 and 4 weeks to get through the process. This is obviously an issue for Coursera to address as it relates to the platform design rather than the course team but it is nevertheless frustrating.There is a big disconnect between the standards the instructors seem to expect and the assignments submitted. The vast majority of students clearly do not have English as a first language and for many writing an academic essay is really some way ahead of their current position. Perhaps more disturbing is that most of the (apparently) native English speakers seem not to have taken any notice of either the lectures or the peer grading rubrics.Despite the shortcomings in the peer review process the material is well presented and offers a strong framework around which students can build good effective essays.Once again, the lack of a forum in this course makes life unnecessarily difficult and frustrating and for me pushes my rating down from a low 4 to 3 stars. +Incredible!!! This course really improve my essay writing! +I like this specialization a lot! I recomend it to all students! +Thank you so much for providing such program , i have learned alot of things in here ! +Very educational & rewarding +The teacher explanation is excellent. +This course has helped me immensely. +For those who find it hard to write good Essays. This course is made for you.Great and very informal. +The course provides essential knowledge on how to approach writing an essay. those who are involved in both academic and professional activities can benefit from it. The profesor is concise. The course is practice-oriented, so be prepared to mastering your writing skills. +thanks, it was a pleaser to study with you. +It was a tough course! I loved the way the teacher explained everything so clearly with good examples. My writing skills had improved tremendously!Thank you! +Great course, I've learned a lot! +This is a good course to improve writing skills +Amazing course! I loved this course and it helped me a lot and is going to help me more and more and more! +It is a very good course. However, I must admit that is discouranging making the course because when you do the course free you do not have the opportunity to make all the excercises. Despite that, it is very good. +I took the first class in this specialization. I liked that enough to enroll in the second class, however I did not realize that it was being taught by the same teacher. Nothing against her, she certainly taught the class and met the objectives, she just speaks too slow/articulates too precisely for me. Also, I was not aware that Coursera changed the auditing policy. As an auditor, I am no longer able to participate in the assignments or quizzes in this class. Without the ability to do the assignments and receive peer feedback, it seems pointless to continue the class. Furthermore, there was a problem with the practice exercises... You need to download an app to do the practice, which I did several times, but the lessons or assignments never worked. I sent notes to coursera about this with no reply. The low rating is primarily based on the fact that I could not do the practice assignments and that coursera took away the ability to complete assignments and take quizes. +One of the best courses by Coursera, it significantly helps me increase my writing skill. +learn basic knowledge of essay writing. +Didn't learn much of anything at all, the peer review system is lazy on the Teacher's part, and half of my classmates couldn't even speak proper English, let alone write it. +I enjoyed learning the different ways to write an essay and the differences as per each type. +I liked it. The content is clear. +Very effective and informative +IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS HERE +I am learning a lot but I can not afford to pay. +It's better if you start with the first course +There is absolutely no supervision on this course. My essay has been sitting in a student review cue for two months now - so, no completion of course and the program has the audacity to mark me as 'late submission'. I have reviewed 7 papers (requirement of 3) and am shown as being deficient. It is as if I dropped into a void.I paid a decent amount of money to attend this course and very disappointed that it is simply run on auto pilot with no place to go for resolution, questions or help.I would NOT recommend taking this course and would better advise you to find something in another online teaching program or course within Coursera that has at least a modicum of personal interaction. +Very good lecture videos,sample essays and quiz. I enjoyed taking this course. It helped me a lot how write the essay. I would like to thank +This course was very helpful, and I apply my new knowledge not only in english, but in any other language. +I loved the course. All lectures are well designed and clear, the exercises are concise and practical! +This course change my life +It is a very effective and useful course. It helps me improve my writing skill a lot. Thank you so much coursera and UCI. +It help me a lot to change my thinking of writing very valuable for Essay Writing +I always loved writing. What I didn't know, however, was that writing had some scientific structures that could make it very interesting. Take this course and know why. I took and was very successful. +The course could be harder on us students to make some of us understand better and have a better practice. +Short videos, variety of exercises and interaction with other colleagues make this course a very interesting experience! +From my point of view, this course is not only useful but also helpful for many students. If you have some problems with your writing style, I highly recommend you "Getting Started with Essay Writing". +Excellent course for students who want to learn more about English Composition. +Great course +This is my second course. A very good teacher, resources, and explanations. +I love this course. It helped me so much in writing essays. +In my opinion, it is possible to learn a lot in this course. +Simple and effective. Great course! +great course +The course itself is exceptional. Instructor elaborates everything perfectly, but it takes really longer time to receive peer-reviews to pass the course. Also course doesn't have any forums where students can post that they need peer-reviews (which can be helpful to finish the course in timely manner). +I didn't like this course as much. Mostly because the peer reviews were strict and unforgiving and as an experienced, essay writer, I didn't feel I needed the rigid, boring academic structure required for this assignment. However, I made it through with a decent mark so I'm grateful for it. +There is a problem with the peer reviewing of the assignment. Even you finished all tasks, you need to wait for receiving your grade. For example, I am still waiting for the grade of my assignments, specially I am waiting for more than two weeks for the grading of my assignment in week 2. +It is simply the best course I have ever attended on essay writing. +i think, this course content is a bit dependent on thought process..it changes with individuals +Is a very good course with an amazings explanations about wirting essays. Although you need to practice a lot to get good skills, in this course you get the concepts to learn how to write, etc. +It was a great course and I learned a lot from it.. Unfortunately, I'm short on cash and can't do the assignments +great course thnx +Perhaps this class would be good for a non - native english speaker. I went through the first, maybe, five videos. From what I could tell, I learned all of the stuff in this class by the age of 10. If this class is for people who english is a second language, it should be more obviose. +Peer review assessments in this kind of course, with more complexity, are a little bit annoying. Someone reviewed my essay (1 introduction + 3 body paragraphs + conclusion) saying stuff about my "5 body paragraphs", showing that she has not even understood what a body paragraph was. This same girl also noticed "lots of punctuation mistakes" in my essay, while others evaluated it as "almost perfect". I know it is kind of complicated to teachers and mentors review the essays, but this model is a bit frustrating. :/ Other than that, the course was just amazing! I loved the videos, the format, the quizzes and games really helped me to learn, and the proposed essays were nice. Thanks!! +This is a helpful course +The instructor way of guiding is highly commendable as a result the concepts can be easily comprehended. +This course easy to understand and easy to follow. +i enjoyed it much and really admired the lecturer. +I enjoyed this course; although, I only participated in the free version. +I help me a lot +"Tamy Chapman" you are the best teacher ever I've seen before. Your teaching and your course are very understandable and simple. Thanks a lot for all this stuff. +Easy to understand introduction to essay writing. In future versions of the course, would be advisable if people were trained in how to give constructive feedback and there were measures implemented to ensure that people provided feedback. Sometimes I received gibberish as feedback such as "erg" or "uyt."Training in feedback could include a sample list of common types of errors that people make or ways to give positive feedback that is specific. +very good course and +good. must be followed. +This course helps a lot. Makes it easy and clear to write different types of essay. +Very interesting. I'm very excited +Very well explained. I learnt a lot form the teacher. The assignments are easy and very productive. They provide good material. +Really useful. +For me, Tamy Chapman is the best teacher so far. +I've learn to write the proper essay +Fantastic course, thank yiu. +Thank you for this course I have learned a lot! +Too easy. The example showed is not very academic +It's a very good class! +Very helpful. This course teaches me the basics and I had some improvement on writing after taking it. +Great course! +It's a great course. Simple, clear and so many things that you can learn every session :) +LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +The course really helped me write essays better. +such a good course :) +Gorgeous +Very good not only for essays but for every kind of writing, it opens our mind and improve our vocabulary! +Essay writing is made so easy with this 'no frills' course. I appreciate this course and have become a better and more confident at writing essays because of it. Thank you. +Amazing course. +It is a great course. I learned a lot about writing. +The course was very useful for me. I started with the video lectures and the questions they arose took me to other academic sources that I used to complement what was being taught. The only criticism I have is that the essay examples were very basic, even trite. It made me feel we were discussing high school writing level, not university level. +While some of the materials are interesting in this course, it gives a very "high school" feel rather than providing help with college essay writing. It would be helpful to have this course more geared towards college academic writing and have more emphasis on developing ideas, finding resources to support ideas, synthesizing, paraphrasing and all the other skills useful for college academic writing.I assume most people who come to Coursera are above high school level. Some of the materials like the monkey example are a bit too childish and the sample articles can be too simple to be appropriate to learners at this level. +I enjoyed the class and I learned a lot. Thank you for the opportunity. +Great course. Very easy to understand the formula for writing proper essays. Thanks! +I am only on the second week an have done my essay and feel very powerful. English is not my first language but the instructor made it easy for me by detailing every aspect of essay writing. Thank you +Excellent ,I think I can learn a lot of useful skills through this course +It was okay. +This module is very practical, and is very useful to people who want to improve their writing skills. +Very good course, in particular for international students who have no systematic training on essay writing. +The course gave me good information on writing Academic essays. This certainly helped with my MBA essays. +It is super nice, but still needs more challenging concepts, sometimes I found it was mostly information I knew while it could be something I never paid attention to regarding the subject. +Very Innovative and meaning full. +It is a clear and simply course about how to write an essay. I did not know too much about writing before I take it, but now I feel confident to write a good essay. +It's a big challenge for me to write an essay each week. But I'm really happy to attend this course since I learn a lot from it :) +Good course with practice and interaction with other students to improve own writing styles. +It really helps to improve your writing skills! +Great course for all those who want to get started with essay writing. +Thank you for teaching me how to write basic essays. This has been one of my most important goals for years. I've tried several other ways of learning but your method worked for me. Thank you so much. +Great! +It is a very fabulous writing course, from which I learned different writing styles and the important writing elements that a professor looks for. Thank you, Irvine +Very nice course! +Its ok, I didn't learn a little and I didn't learn a lot. +Great course! +The teacher explains very well how to write the different types of essays.Very interesting. +Much better than the first course in the specialization.Too many dependencies on non-standard data formats, like MS Word. +This course was informative and helped me to review my essay writing skills. +thank you. +Most enjoyable, challenging and helpful. +Very good. I missed some way to communicate the others their mistakes. Such as sending a pdf or word, coloured and maybe with the mistakes underlined. I am just thinking of what I would like to receive from others. I think that it could make the practice even more effective.Thank you for the course! +I have recently started and can see all benefits and positive sides of this course! Excelent one! Many thanks! +It is helpful to learn the structure of each kind of essays. +Leaning from thesis sentence, supporting ideas and topic . +Very helpful to develop your academic writing skill +It is a wonderful course. I can't believe that it is possible to find a such qualified course for free! The organization, content, activities, practice and tasks were perfect. Neither in my face to face english classes I have learned how to build a so effective essay. Thanks, Coursera. Thanks, University of California - Irvine! +The course is very well organised.Ideas are clear and precise.Not too much talk to say a little. +Although I studied only week1, I would like to give feedback because students who are not good at writing should not miss this course. +wonderful course +As a fiction writer, this class has helped me tremendously. +Wonderful course +I feels interesting when learn in this course. +The second part of the specialization, getting started with essay writing, is extremely useful. It has lots and lots of essential things to learn and practice in writing. I strongly recommend completing this course since it shapes the way you create fully developed and strong message, that your essay should contain. +great course +I would love some more excercises, more modeling concepts. A great experience after all! +As far as I know, this course is unique: it is the only one that lets you build your knowledge of modeling climate change by building your own models. I'm giving it 4, not 5, as the forums are very quiet. Prof. Archer has done a great job of providing infrastructure so students can focus on the physics. Assessment is a combination of a grader, to check your code in particular cases, peer review, and quizzes that will be easy if you code works. You can probably bluff your way through the quizzes, but it's easier to get your code working and then read off the answers to the questions. Peer reviews also give you a chance to see how other students have solved the problems. +This contains some very interesting and challenging exercises related to "Global Warming I", which are fun to work on. It contains no real instructions about python, and I think it would be better to at least have some guidance there. However, the course info is at least totally up-front with that information.Although this course is related to "Global Warming II", it is not correlated with it. It would be a mistake to take them concurrently, since GW-II moves much faster, and is a much shorter course. This was not clear to me when I signed up, and it should be made clear to students at the beginning.I like Prof. Archer a lot, he seems like a good teacher. However, aside from brief introductory lectures (and the selection of great topics for simulation) he plays a rather small role in the course. The student is pretty much on his own. There is no TA or anyone monitoring Discussion questions. There are some places where the "Model Description" notes are incorrect and badly misleading (notably in Week 4). I pointed this out, with others, in the "Discussion Forum", but we got no response and there was no correction. There are other places where information is unclear, but there is no one to turn to for clarification. +The course was an interesting way to explore writing models to explore climate change. The way the assignments are written was sometimes confusing. +Really good course. Short, content-filled lectures and practical application! +Great class! +exciting course with skilled design +the course is very exallent +difficult course but somewhat repetitive. +This is an excellent information and writing about ebola which will help me to study further.thank you +Excelent professor and content of the extra material +Great information - well put together; logically orgainized; engaging +Wow, I have so many congrats for your course at the Med SchoolIs very important for this days the knowledge about this pathologyI am from Mexico and I believe my country is not prepared for this pathology if this comes to my country, I trust with this course... More physicians, nurses... well all the health sciences comunity can be more prepared and go to Africa and fight against this.Thanks for the Amsterdam UniversityFrom the Tlaxcala University, and the "UNAM" I study at the two colleges at the first Medicine and to the second Psychology...From: Mauricio Arroyo AcevesThank you +Good course. +Great course to get basic of Ebola, clinical presentation and tretmant. +im very benefitted by this course +We have a valuable experience. Thank you very much. +A very informative, well organized course with up to date information. Thank you! +I learned a huge amount by taking this course. As a health care worker I feel that I now have a much better understanding of the disease -- it's still scary but I can see that given the right conditions, it is manageable. +FANTASTIC AND ILLUMINATING COURSE +Excellent course for anyone who wishes to know more about Ebola and how to respond to an outbreak. +This course is very informative to a healthcare giver like me. This helped me to understand what Ebola is all about. +Loved the course. Well presented and interesting. +I mainly admire the collaboration with MSF that give perspective on actual 'battle field' in the epidemic area +This great course encompasses the major knowledge you may grasp about ebola disease. +Covers everything +Fantastic Course! Much more comprehensive then I ever expected. The information was put together with such a well rounded approach that I honestly feel if ever there were an incident here with Ebola, I have confidence now with knowing what proper steps would need to be to remain safe as well as keep others safe. Thank you for creating and making this course available free of charge on Coursera +this course not only teaches you "ebola" but you will also learn how is it to be in the area with epidemic. besides teaching the "health aspect", you will get to learn even more. it is a must for anyone of medical background ... +Very informative +I gained a lot of - especially technical - knowledge regarding ebola and I also enjoyed the field experiences communicated by the participating doctors. +Very informative +A very informative, helpful, well-thought, very well-structured course, providing with knowledge, very good supplemental materials, visuals, examples. Thank you very much for such interesting and useful course. It was such a pleasure for me to go through it! Thank you very much!!! +It was really helpful to me. I learned a lot. Not only it gave me a better perspective about ELLs but also now, I know how I can improve to develop my classes in order to help them in the way to English Language acquisition. +The lesson is of high standards, very well structured and contains concrete information without useless fillers. Perfect for busy proffesionals. +Hi,I, really enjoyed taking up this course and have learned a lot of new strategies, which I am using in my classroom. Thanks. +Loved it! Very helpful to get a overall picture of what needs to be done to support these students! +I was really interested in this course and I think the information is useful. But I find it boring, it didn't get my attention. +Highly recommended. I really enjoy this course +I truly enjoyed this course. As a speech-language pathologist, learning the process of adapting lesson plans for ELLs was especially helpful as I work in the city with very diverse populations. Thank you for the wonderful course! +This helped me with new ideas in my teaching and also the lesson plan templates will definitely help me preparing my classes in future. +Very useful! +This class brought to light many oftentimes unknown or overlooked yet extremely important aspects of both teaching and learning outcomes for the ELL student. I highly recommend this class. I believe the information included in this class is highly necessary for todays growing education system. Kudos to the educators teaching and utilizing this information, and to Coursera for offering such a gem +oh my God this course it is verry good! +The class was well put together and highly informative. Thanks very much for the opportunity. +Very interesting and well organized course. I really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for it. It was very helpful for my new teaching challenge. +Very interesting! I am enjoying taking this course! +Highly recommended if you're into planning English classes for forigners. +really worth studing +This is an excellent course! +It was an amazing course but the language was very difficult +Very clear presentation by Ellen +Fantastic Course! +Marvellous course! Highly recommended! +Such a helpful course! It really helped inform my teaching practices to engage all of the students! +Not worth it +Amazing course +Very interesting and easy to understand +This make you and Ebola Expert in just one month +Very good material... +Was a great evaluation of what we know sofar and detailed look at the suggested medical practices, whilst provoking a deeper discussion of the bigger picture elements (such as global impacts) simultaneously. +This Course presented some valuable insight into what the public are urged to believe on this controversial epidemic... +Great course! Very interesting and informative. +Lots of content and interesting interviews though there may have been a superfluity of them. Oftentimes I found myself not paying attention because I was waiting for important information to be delivered. +Great Course! Videos were a little long but very informative! This is a course where one can really appreciate the "take away" as it is timely, and being taught by some of the best in the field. +Nice course!Very elaborate and well detailed.Except for some videos that get stuck for some time making the lesson longer,it was a nice course.I also thank you for giving me this opportunity to get a certificate from Amory University which will help me as an EMT-I.Thank You. +Very informative, yet depressing +I loved every unit. The lecturers were amazingly clear and I understood the content. Great work. +Great Course! +Solid presentation, encompassing history, ongoings and future. In depth knowledge by presenters and partcipants. Course material organised, easy accessible, and presented i +Great course on Ebola. Very engaging and intense at times. Thorough and interesting. +Some excellent material here relating to ethics and Ebola, more focus on the nature of the outbreak and not just the disease. Well worth taking this course. The videos are sometimes rather long and could be more concise. +Very good, broad introduction to many of the issues surrounding this epidemic. My only criticism (and why I only gave it 4 stars) was the unbridled self-congratulatory tone and Emory-centeredness of the course. I realize this is probably a function of why Universities create these free courses. There is a marketing aspect to it. But it did get a little tedious. +Excellent content from experts in the subject +this is a fantastic and very important course. its really into details. +Really awesome! +I really appreciate that the instructors have strong journalistic backgrounds—truly helpful for impactful writing! +Filled with valuable content for helping professionals do better at strategically creating and delivering content. +Great advice o writing best practices. Done with humor and memorable quotes. +Very well explained and easy to follow.Learnt a lot from this course +Some of the videos are labelled wrong and have the wrong subtitles to go along with it. Great information but a bit boring. But really great information. +I learned that content strategy is a marketing plan with content, not just the content alone. It is a great course. +An insightful course that helps a Content professional to relate to the audience effectively, create a persona and then build a strategy to meet their needs. +An incredibly insightful course which gives you the theory and science to create the content which will simply break through to your audience. The further reading is really great as well on its own. the whole sequence of courses together are the best professional learning i have ever found on the subject. +Quality information and an enjoyable course. I would give it a 4 but there were errors--modules/titles/questions didn't match with some Week 1 content. Additionally, for the grading of the Case Study, there was a section where you could either upload a document or type, then on the peer grading it encouraged you to penalize people for not uploading anything. This negatively effected my grade and the grade I gave to other people. +really great for practicing in biz, I am in middle of creating a slimming solution and I really love people, to help them be healthy and beautiful easy way, I use this course material in creation of my new biz. +Content was fantastic, however delivery was quite dull, two talking heads and chapters from a helpful, but rather dry book. The best part was the assignment. Could be spruced up with some printable versions of the text screens, or even better, a workbook to use in figuring out how to use this at home. +Greatcourse +The case study for this is VERY demanding -- be sure to schedule in at least 5 hours for the homework in the second week (not including the lectures). +Its nice course to begin with Content.. +I really like the format of the course. The professors deliver lectures in a concise and eloquent manner. Thanks a lot! I got what I needed. +great way to success +This course fell far below my expectations and failed to rise to the level I've expected in comparisons to other courses I've taken via Coursera. A few of the issues:-Very basic information. If you have any marketing and/or messaging experience you will most likely be bored by the course.- For a course that focuses on engagement, very little mixed media use.-Timing issues of informational slides (usually too short.)-As someone who is a paid adjunct I did not value paying for the course, only to discover I'd have to review other students' work.-As a professional I did not feel the need to be reviewed by others, or share (for free) any input. The course did allow me to just space through and then submit with no actual answer, but doing so does impact your final pass/fail.-I signed up with the intent to take all five courses. Fortunately, I planned on paying for one at a time. After a disappointing course one, I will not be taking the additional four. +Makes my work more professional, and I have learned much through the course. +Very Informative Wish there were more examples uesed +Very basic information. Could have been covered in full in a ten minute video. Not very useful, given the time and effort involved. +Good course. I especially liked the assignment. +can we get the hard copy certificate after finish 4 modules and capstone sir? +This is such an easy to understand course. All the important things packaged into one course. +Very clear and illustrative course about the industry. +I learned a lot! Very interesting, educative, relevant and up to date issues/infos, eventhough it is not a 2017 course. The structure of the course makes a lot of sense. I enjoyed the teacher, easy to listen to. This course taugh me (as expect) about international politics through topics such as the difficult situation of gas pipelines. However it also encouraged me dig deaper on subject that should matter to any citizen. In fact, I found myself researching about my country's energy mix or recent green buildings in my city. Finally, I learned about technical and alternative option such as portable and safe nuclear energy -it did not even cross my mind that nuclear would be anything else than huge reactors -tricky to stop. +Great course! +This a great course, no area of the politics of energy is left out. +an extremely interesting course! +A fantastically well presented course, one that is sure to be of benefit in the future, I think it not only gives a good overview of the current energy situation but paint a fantastically informative picture for moves to watch out for into the future. +great course! hope, to take an actual Master degree in it! +Hello,This course is very interesting and content are very usefull.As improvement points I would like to mention:1-Some videos are not anymore available2- A general update is necessary to take into account the last years big chances and evolutions on the energy politics and economics dur to the stabilization of oil price notably and all its impacts. +An excellent overview about the complex issues of international energy, its economic and geopolitical implications. I highly recommend it. +Excellent class, very instructive +Interesting Course with a variety of Topics! A Must! +Highly recommended! +best course for beginneer +Fantastic course I have learned a great deal. +Excellent overview of energy resources and the related economics and politics. Exactly what i was looking for! +Really interesting course and gives a really good insight into a lot of the tensions in the energy market and why certain projects become politically charged. +Very good course for persons interested in the energy sector, explaining the basic facts surrounding energy sources. Could do with more insight in how the energy prices are computed and how they are influenced by lots of factors +A very well organized course that provides a perfect overview of global Energy markets. Professor Luciani has combined a good mix of informative lectures, practical examples as well as specialist views and opinions from academics heavily involved in specific areas of the global Energy industry. +I loved it! Well worth my time. I hoghly recommend this course. +Excellent way of lecturing. Keep it up. +Great course. +the best +Absolutely wonderful. I learned a huge amount and Giacomo was a very friendly and helpful teacher. +Overall a good introduction to the current state of global energy supply and demand. It covers basic information about the controversy of nuclear vs renewables though personally I would have liked a little more detail on this point +Course has good breadth and structure, exploring the economic and political side of international energy, however it would be good if a basic technical understanding of energy is incorporated.Some material is rather outdated / inaccessible +This course was awesome! I love energy and the economics of energy and I still learnt so much! :) +Very good for general understanding. Information is a little bit old. +excellent introduction - with superb up to date examples and exercises +I like the course I have learn a lot about the politics of Economics of international Energy, I would recommend for those interested in knowing about energy in the international realm. +I will strongly recommend "Politics and Economics of International Energy" to anyone working or thinking about working on the energy field. This course is also an asset for those advising policymakers or policy -makers themselves. I have learned so much from this course though the materials and interviews. Yes it was challenging because it is good. I can only say that I am glad I made the decision to take the course. +Its a hard course, and u may only take the quizzes twice every week. +A great introductory course for Social Scientists in the interesting world of international energy. The course is not that much about the actual politics and economics of int. energy, rather than about an introduction in to the complex ways in which energy is acquired. Very enjoyable nevertheless! +Very informative, great mix of videos and additional reading, great choice/balance of topics +A very informative and concise course that gave a very basic idea on what is going on in the Energy industry today. +Amazing, really worthy +Overall an excellent overview of the principal political, economic and policy issues related to international energy. The course is well structured and presented and I would recommend it highly to anyone interested in this important area. +I enjoyed the way the instructor presented the material. Very easy to understand and informative.Hagai +Excellent course. I have no experience in this field so I took it out of curiosity and learned a lot. Very well taught, very well organized, covered just the right amount of material. Does take a bit of a commitment, I would suggest keeping up, it only takes a couple of hours per week. It made me want to learn more about the field. +Very clear and helpful to understand the energy market. +Very good introduction to global energy situation. +This was a really good course, particularly for providing good context for my understanding of energy regulation in Europe. +Excellent course. Especially in understanding the gas politics in Europe. I would recommend that more ephasis is given on the politics of oil as well. +Interesting, well-structured, topical +Excellent snapshot of today energy market and future orientation +Great, I learned a lot. I would totally recommend it. Now I have technical knowledge about energy sources, and critical assessment of energy policies. +Excellent, it broaden my knowledge about the politics and economics of international energy. Bravo to team that bring this information together, and thanks to the teacher. +It's very interesting to become aware of international affairs between countries based on energy. The course is not difficult to understand. At the same time the information provided by the tutor and by other professionals as well is profound. +This is a very good course to grasp the fundamentals of the various forms of energy.Admin detail: one week between exam-taking after two fails makes no practical sense and is detrimental to the timely completion of the course.The course would also benefit from an actualization, with more analysis of recent economic & political trends:- Oil market has historically been cyclical. Need an analysis of past cycles, and a fresh view on whether the current slump is part of a similar cycle, or a new era?- America's insistence on energy independence, how/why Europe views independence differently, how China/India view their own?- Current Middle-East politics Iraq-Iran-Saudi-Qatar, historical and current role of Saudi Arabia in the OPEC cartel, and the reality and dynamics of spare capacity within OPECStudents should come out of this course with their own view of whether this is the last leg of the fossil fuel race (as hinted by Prof. Lucciani in the COP21 video), or just another bend. +More like 4,5 a star, but still a very good introduction to International energy markets. It touches the economy of energy, the politics of energy and also provides a deep look into the actual technological process of drilling oil, gas, etc. Materials are visual, lots of graphs, sometimes articles and interviews. Tests are moderately hard. I would certainly recommend this course. +Very interesting course with nice presentations, discussions and examples! I recommend it to anyone interested in the Energy sector! +I thoroughly enjoyed this course. It was very insightful for me. It gave me a more rounded understanding of what appears to be driving infrastructure investment debates, as well as political and economic decisions both globally and in my own country. +Very good introduction to the stake of energy politics in our world. Very interesting speakers and clear courses. +Great course, but can be somewhat dry at times. Yet, highly recommended! +No only comprehensive and complete but also explanatory. Congratulations to professor Giacomo! +Its a very good course and educative.Y'all should sign up.Thank you Coursera! +Very informative course. The lecturer has profound knowledge about energy and politics not only in EU but also around the globe! Highly recommend it! +The content is well presented and provides remarkable overview of current global politics of energy. +Excellent delivery.Fantastic external sources with clear and precise explanations from a graphical viewpoint.Great range of industry expertise and professionals within the appropriate fields. +This MOOC is a great introduction to International Energy, with all the necessary basics to understand the field. +Excellent course, I am really impress with explanation of instructor of this and specially interview videos, which are included in end of every unit help me lot to understand more about topic. +Great course Useful information, especially in the oil and gas sector. +Excellent course that offers deep understanding of political structures of energy while being concise and enjoyable and with a very manageable workload. +Great subject, great "école" and wonderful professors here. Thanks so much! +Very interesting course that provides a very insightful overview of the international energy issues. I like the way it is structured and how much of valuable information is given (taking into account relatively not big time commitment). I work in the electric power industry and I find information that I have learned during this course to be very helpful for my general understanding of the international energy issues. +I have amazing overview about the subjected course, thank you +The course is out of touch with reality and systematically underplays the Paris Agreement, progress of renewable energy and EU emissions mitigation, says absolutely nothing about climate science. At times the attitude is down right hostile and disgusting. Will share these observations widely. We are in a climate emergency and need to do everything we can. When I was taking this course, my city is going through severe flooding and the country is in yellow alert stage due to abnormal thunder storms. You should be ashamed of yourself for pushing this garbage. +It is not actualized to the current conditions. +Very good course. +I liked the quiz questions. Thanks. +It is very interesting. I gain a fundamental understanding of different resources of energy sources and linkages to world economy +I like this course. Very important for me. I want to be a energy international professional. Didactical videos, accurate data and correct assessments. +Great course! +This course is great. It's obviously tougher than the Part 1, though not exactly a follow up on the first part, as it covers different areas. The course content is such that it did not become very statistics-oriented - and it had independent lectures by Nobel Prize winning economists too.It's very easy to use the jargon that the course is suited for the layman, which it probably is not, but it's designed for ready understanding by a novice in economics, and Prof Yoram and his team have done a great job in putting this together. Thoroughly enjoyed it, even though at times I did have misgivings that I may not be able to complete it. +Course has not been updated. Wrong answers in quiz (eg week 3 quiz on progressivity), videos getting blocked at review question point, etc. I am checking out. +English Composition I is an extremely detailed, comprehensive, easy-to-follow and well-thought-out course to help aspiring writers as well as academicians. Dr. Denise Comer, the course instructor, has a very engaging style. She is also very encouraging and makes everything sound very easy, which makes one confident that he/she can do well. Other experts have also shared their insight through videos which are very helpful. Readings and various websites provide guidance and assistance throughout the learning process. The grading system is also thorough. I suggest that if possible, lowest scoring students should be given some kind of a personalized feedback in order to encourage them to do better or address their weak areas. I will definitely recommend this course to other people. +Great experience, nonetheless, I would say that it is more about applying your writing to different contexts rather than improving it. There is some of that, but not that much. +Hello to my instructor. It is a "Thank You Note", arriving from Palmdale California. It is my pleasure to tell the university that my instructor is great. I am expressing my gratitude and genuine appreciation for dedicating the time to be part of my life as a student, thank you so much for instructing Ana Pelayo. +Thank you for not putting writers in a box! This class is amazing! +This course gives fabulous tools to encourage the writer. From first using your own life as a reference, and that helps to recognize that you have material to write, since each of us, is a book to know. +Very helpful for writers and future career writers. Plus the professor is extremely down to earth. Was not expecting that and I forgive her for being a Duke fan. Go Tar Heels!!!! jk jk +Amazing course with lots of tips +Excellent course. I would recommend it to anyone. +Dr. Comer is an excellent presenter. She makes you feel welcome and positive about each module. Thank you. +One of the best course for learners who want coaching as well as practical work in academic writing. Very interesting and engaging!! +the lecturer's voice is too low +very interesting course. The fundamental of english language. It was a pleasure for me to follow that class.Thank you! +An extensive course for those trying to master academic writing +It's useful for scholar writing. +Although it is supposed to be a basic course, it deals with fundamental topics that everyone should be aware during the writing process. It helped me a lot, mainly in what concerns with revising the work and making drafts +This course really helped me improve my academic writing skills. The videos are detailed, and can be understood easily. The writing assignments are always easy to understand, and can be done. Professor Comer teaches us very well. I'm in 8th grade, and because of this course, I can write college level pieces. +very interesting but ........ +Thanks for providing this excellent course. I really want to improve my skills to write and think academicly. +This course is huge as long as developing your English is concerned +It is a very good course for learning how to write well. +sorry for shortage of money to support me continue the course +Its a good course but not very exceptional. +great teachers! great lessons! I just hope to get feedback :) +The course is everything I expected it to be! It offers a wide range of interesting and challenging assingments as well as very developed theoretical background. Professor Cromer explains everything in a clear and understandable way. I strongly recommend this course! +This amazing course brought new skills in my life. I wrote for public, and my article "India and Armenia: the Connection" got published. I learned how to make arguments and support evidence to make the arguments stronger. I learned the strategies on how to make a visual analysis. We learned to write annotations and do proper citations. I would strongly recommend my peers to take this course.With best regards,Mane Mehrabian, Armenia +The course content is excellent, but the peer review quality can be improved. Course Mentors are kind and helpful, however, the system is not functioning well sometimes. +She is a wonderful Teacher. Thanks for sharing.. +Wonderful course, really enjoyable !!! +the scholarly writing becomes easier after taking this course. it is definitely an interesting course. +Cool +Areas of improvements:common mistakes made and how to overcome themsentence structure and vocabularylearning from prose to better refine writing style +fabulous! Thank you Professor O +Very interesting +I reinforced my basic knowledge in financial markets and financial math +Very well conducted course that helped me answer a lot of my own questions. Like why do bond prices fall when yield increases. Or what do they mean by having a long call position.Would recommend this course to anyone seriously interested in understanding how the components of a modern portfolio works. Thank you! for this course. +A really nice introduction to financial markets and its instruments. +Good introductory course! It gives an overview of the global financial market-as the course name suggests. The math problems are a bit hard though. Improvement can be made for the pop up quiz during the lecture--it suddenly cut the lecture; thus disrupting my concentration. It think it needs to be properly placed during the lecture so as to help in reviewing the lesson, not disrupt the student's focus. +Thanks Dr. O! +Excellent!Completely practical and objective, this course provides the mathematical basis for obtaining the data necessary to implement a financial plan or strategy. Understanding the numbers, nothing is clearer and more convincing. +Despite being focused on US and EUROPE markets what, particulary, made the compreension of the course a bit harder considering i'm from latin america, Brazil; the course allowed me to have a great approach on global markets and financial instruments from the rest of the world. Knowing this kind of stuff allows me to agregate value to my clients negotiations in terms of insurance risk. +Great overview of financial markets and tools. There is some basic investment math in the first part of the class that can become tedious but is good to at least see in action. The more complex investment topics are only defined and summarized, which was exactly what I was looking for. +Some calc and formulas are not clear otherwise the course allowed to have a general overview on financial instruments and trades +It was a good course but unfortuantely I cant enroll for the entire series as I would not be able to pay for the course and there is no option of fee waiver +Overall, the course is fine, however there were several annoying typos / rounding issues, which would prevent you from getting the correct answer. +The material was interesting, but it lacked in sufficient practice resources for the mathematical portions. Also, instructor support / feedback to student questions was lacking. I found this course adequate if it was free, but not worth $79 for the amount of resources I was given to practice what we learned. This is highlighted by the fact that the weekly quizzes didn't show you the solution when you missed a question, so you were left guessing (instructors don't respond to student discussion questions) if the videos didn't address that specific question type. +The course information is very interesting but covers the material too briefly. The topics were covered very quickly and not in very much depth. Quizzes often asked questions in a way that was not covered in the course material and were therefore quite difficult to figure out at times. I'm taking this course series to learn the material, not to be tricked of failed on a quiz. Also as this is a rather math-intensive subject, a more comprehensive review of the algebraic tools and skills required would be helpful. Lastly, there were many mistakes with grammar and spelling in the written portions. I know English isn't everyone's first language, but if we are paying for these educational materials then it doesn't look very professional for there to be glaring errors repeatedly throughout the material. It's not that difficult to have a native speaker proof-read before publishing (I would be happy to do this for you, any job openings?). Just some thoughts. +Very good teacher. +way too many peer reviewed assignments. +Explanations and examples are not so good. +This course proves very helpful for me +I have no background in this subject but am highly motivated to learn. Dr. O was super informative and provided links to additional resources on complicated/controversial material. I have learned a lot, and I am very thankful! If you are interested in learning this subject, I strongly recmomend this course +Super helpful! +Great course. Teaching the basics of financial education in theory and practice. +It´s easy to follow up, well structured. +A great course for dummies like me to learn the basics of investment industry.I would appreciate if they incorporate more examples to explain and make things easier. +The course was very informative. Could have been better if more reading materials along with more real life scenarios were included +Good course to have an overview on the global financial markets and instruments. +I like that the course material is divided up such that someone who is busy with a day job can also find time to listen to the lectures and do the quizzes. Also like that the course gets you familiar with the way the financial market is organized and helps one get familiar with the terms. However, I personally felt there was insufficient coverage on the math and many of the quiz questions were not at all easy to understand the terms and apply the formulas. There need to be more examples of such problems so that there is more familiarity with the math especially for those completely new to this field. +Excellent course!! Dr. O's personalized and prompt responses are very motivating. +Excellent review of the basics for investing +It's an excellent chance to be a one who is learned this course with a simple explanations, also I learned and revised most of the topics that I learned before but I don't remember them clearly.I'm interested to continue with the coming courses.thanks. +Great starting point for grammar and punctuation. The teachers point out essential information to understand the rules. +Really helpful course. I recommend! +Good to review some key concepts of the English Grammar. +It is very useful course! +It is an amazing course and I highly recommended it. +The course was very good for me to revise old concepts and also at the same time to learn some new concepts. +This course has really helped to improve some aspects of my sentence structures and punctuation. In addition, the classes are well organized, the material is clear, and most all the professors are really good. +This course refreshed a lot of concepts that I forgot. +Good course. +The course did not review all basic English grammar but specify tense, sentence type and punctuation. At first, I thought I would have known how to write a appropriate sentence, but only after took this course I find various way to rewrite my sentence in a more correct and natural as native people. I realised some minor mistakes I have always made before and knew how to fixed it. Now, when it come to writing I feel much more confident. Definitely, I recommend this courses for someone would like to review their grammar, and I will considering studying the next courses about Business writing in this program. +this course is great. +WOW !I really enjoyed and refreshed all of my grammer. +I´v learned a lot, and proved my skills +I am glad to have learn and understood better what was covered in this class. I think there would have been opportunity to explore grammar even more, deeper. +I loved this course! I learnt a lot from it, and I hope, I can put that to good use. +i got a lot of new staff that i didn't know them. Thanks +i enjoyed this great course. It was wonderfully presented. +Wonderful learning experience. +its very good +Every thing was good ,but I wish if the English teacher corrected my assignment and gave me a feedback. +it's really easy for me. I finished it in a day. +It helped me a lot. Thanks! +Very good and informative. +I have learn a lot from taking this course. +Thank you. +Really good ! Really recommended for someone who wants to revise the knowledge of Grammar and Punctuation before studied further writing. +It is very useful. +Clear straightforward review of basic English writing concepts.Very well presented. +Its been very helpful, Thank you. +No doubt, it was an excellent.. +A good course to sharpen your grammar and punctuation skills. It helped me. Thanks. +Although it should be simple enough, i found it hard to understand the material and sometimes, the videos would end without finishing the content. +The excellent course for the getting crystal clear idea about the basic rules of the grammar and punctuation. I strongly advice to continue to this specialization. +It's a really good course to clear all doutes and to make better your writting skills! +very useful! +The course is great. I learnt a lot from it, and I liked the Tamy Chapman delivered the content of this course. +In my opinion, it was a good course because it was well structured, understandable and easy to follow. Even tough I found it useful, I would like to find more content on english grammar. +A great way to revise grammar an punctuation from scratch! +Amazing course +Requires payment to complete the course. +I have benefited a lot during this course .For example , I've learned many grammar and punctuation rules which help me to promote and develop my writing skills.Therefore , I recommend strongly taking this course for who want to be professional in writing English. +A very intelligently designed, and exceptionally smart program to train learners on grammar and punctuation. I fully admit this course was far more useful than I had initially thought of it to be the kind of, and never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it would turn out to be this much professionally rich. I’m equipped with a masters degree in English, and have a very valuable experience in teaching high school level & college level students. I wanted to brush up my own academic writing skills so I could guide my students more effectively. I’m so happy I joined this course. I must appreciate the quality of the instructions I watched in videos lectures which all had excellent content and had easy-to-follow examples. Practice exercises before the quizzes and the quizzes themselves were all very smartly designed stuff. I truly believe it couldn’t have been any better. My heart goes out to admiring your efforts. In a nutshell, I had a more than wonderful experience. I now strongly intend to going for the next course. Thanks a million, indeed! ndFr� +This course provides a very good introduction on punctuation and parallel sentences. Also, it introduces how to write good essay. My suggestion would be that the course could reduce sometime in the week1 learning and add more content in the sentences writing. Thank you. +Good course; very easy to understand. +Ecellent course! I have always struggled with punctuation in English; now I feel more confident! +Great course! I liked the format of the lectures and the exercises, very dynamic and objective. +Take this course! Very recommended :D +It would be improved if students can have some reviews from the teacher +I learnt a lot from this course! i highly do recommend it to everyone. +It would be grate if they can offer a course about explanation of more English grammar and Tenses (especially Perfect Tense) +Concise and perfect !!! +Very good course +very helpful! +Very simple and effective! +The course has a very good planning,Thanks a lot. +Nice course, if you have a little bit knowledge about writing and understanding, this course will definitely help you. +This is really good. I expected a tedious review of my grammar subjects from grade school and high school. I am pleasantly relieved that the emphasis is on the areas that will be commonly used in academic writing; that is, sentence constructions. I have learned a lot and have also discovered that my compound and complex sentence constructions do need some work. +A very useful course because I have learned a lot! +This course was wonderful. I learned new things about grammar and punctuation I don't recall learning in grade school while blending and improving my known knowledge. A tip for those thinking of just enrolling in one or two random courses of the five specialized courses, enroll in all. It is worth it even if you think you know. For instance, some of the papers in Advance Writing expect you to know some of the previous courses info and that could lead to some misunderstandings or struggles on quiz/peer reviews. +The material of the course is very precise, simplified, and organized. +It was really useful +I learnt some basic but important things about common English writing. Great job. Love the course! +It was helpful for me to remind basic grammars and learn the way for good writing. +It's a great course because it aids you to improve your skills in writting. +Excellent course.I learned lot of valuable things.Thank you. +Actually, It was better than I expected. Punctuation and writing style were well explained. As a non-native speaker, I have never knew how comas should be placed. Thanks to this course, now I feel more confident with such things. +Great course! It helps me with understanding some grammar rules.Thank you! +really, it is very useful course. +Excellent course! This really helped me professionally since I teach business English globally online to professionals and managers with multinational corporations. This course was a major asset for my professional development regimen, along with the other UC Irvine related course. Videos, quizzes and exercises are interactive and ideal for learning! Thank you! +This course is very helpful for anyone who is seeking improvement in grammar and punctuation. +I'm very happy for this course, not only for learning grammar and punctuation but also for improving them. +Great!, thank you!. +It is easy to understand. +This is a good refresher course, but you will need much more practice afterwards. +Really helpful to better understand some complicated issues for not native speakers. +It was an excellent course. :) +A very good, short and concise, refresh on English grammar. +Its a really wonderful course, and the method of explanation is just awesome. +Great way to refresh your writing skills before you taking on further studies. +This course gets to the nuts and bolts of grammar and punctuation. The lectures, exercises, and feedback helped me to review the fundamentals. +As a native English speaker, this course has taught me so much about language and grammar rules. Thank you for offering it. It's given me a much deeper understanding of how my language works. +Pretty good course for someone who hasn't taken english in many many years! +Starting with the training of basic and important grammar and punctuation knowledge, this course literally make us prepared for the following essay-writing courses. The professor elaborate every and each grammar through numberous examples, which is more than easy to understand. +This is great course of writing. +I learned so much! +This course has helped me a lot to learn the English Grammar.Great +This was a really good experience for me, i learned how to properly punctuate a sentence, add sentence variety, use of introductory phrase as well as transitions. I highly recommend this course! +It's a good lesson, and it help me correct my punctuation. +It was a great help for me to start understanding how to write correctly. I'm gonna definitely start using it!! +This is a very useful course even if you are very good in English . This course helps in understanding the type of sentences, proper usage of commas and perfect ways of writing attractive paragraphs. +A great course. The lectures are great, and there are many exercises for practicing. +It was great but I can't continue it because I am from Iran and living there too so I can't pay and enroll next courses :(It was just like a great starter with no purpose for me. +It's best. +This course helped me a lot to write better. +it is very nice +Very good course! All explanations are clear and too powerful for understanding.Two stars because all tests you can submit if purchase certificate. +Awesome!!!!!!!!! a great course +I really like this course ,because it has a lot simple but necessary information that really helps people for their daily English use.Actually, I have been looking for these kind of courses :) +Great course. Such an amazing way to improve my writing skills. +The course was really useful and interesting. +Awesome course. I have learned a lot +In this month, this course that help me a lot to improve my English grammar, and I will keep going. Thank you! +An excellent course especially for beginners! +Grammar and Punctuation, I always had some issues. I got to learn a lot and improve more. I am looking forward to other courses. +The course is helpful but incomplete. It does not mention dashes and colons. It also misrepresents the usage of semicolons. I have seen the idea of using a semicolon followed by a transition word taught before, but I do not think I have ever seen it done in published writing in my entire life. It strikes me as being pretentious, something to be discouraged. +Thanks! Some examples required me to use google to find out why things are the way they are. +It's really helpful course to understand grammar and to improve writing skills. +It is a really good course to improve your punctuation, congrats professor Tammy! +I really appreciated for all your effort to created this classroom.This class helped me so much;in addition to this experience I am also very happy to attend your classroom.I have upgraded my confidence since I started to take this classroom. +the course is pretty good, but the present of the teacher at the moment of corrections is needed +we need to ask the instructor +this course is very interesting and good. +It's knowledgeable and interesting +Amazing class! Brushing up on grammar or learning for the first time. +Best course every!! +It helped me a lot. +Amazing, it is worth taking if you want to improve on your writing. +Excellent quick course, reminds you of details that make writing more professional. +The contents seemed too simple for preparing academic writing; however, it is still va +Such a helpful course! I like the explanations. And it was good oportunity to discuss with peers our knowledge. +This course is incredibly simple, but it had explained a lot about English grammar and punctuation; it added structure to things I have been doing without understanding and with mistakes. +need more material.. course is too simple +Excelente course. I learned more than I expected! +Really helpful and fun. +I gained a lot of English knowledge +i liked this course a lot!! +It was a good course. But it doesn't worth the money. Paying $69 is just too much for this elementary course. +Thanks a lot. This course was so fantastic that I want to put into practice all I have learnt. Moreover, I strongly recommend taking this course. +Interesting and straitforward course +I truly recommend this course. It gives you not only details of the grammar but power to become a better version of you: a great writer. +Amazing course, I would recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their writing and communication skills.Thank you so much! +It has helped me a lot. A great starting point. +This is a great course. +It is really useful and helpful. :) +Thank you +This course explains the basic grammar principles in the simplest way possible, and that is something that a non-native English speaker like me really appreciate. +Very interesting course with many examples and quiz which makes learning easy. +I really like this course and found it very helpful for what I was looking for. An excellent explication, plus, lots of examples and reviews. Congrats to the teacher and the whole coursera team! +Nice lectures and tips to clean your grammar and write better essays. +Great online class! +this is very helpul course +Great! +I have been learning English since 1999, but this course was the best one that I have ever studied. +I found it to be enjoyable, the teacher lectures where well understood and I also enjoyed the test. I had enough information that also helped me to take down notes. I have recommended few of my friends. Thank you all. +I found this course to be a very helpful tool in writing, especially for non-native speakers.I recommend all non-native speakers to take this course. +I've learned so much in such a small time in this Grammar and Punctuation course, that I'm still processing it in my mind! The videos and texts are concise and creative. It facilitated my understanding of the words, since English is not my first language. Through the exercises and extra resources, I practiced a lot. Here are some of the things that I studied: simple, compound and complex sentences; dependent and independent clauses; comma and semicolon; transition words and adverbial phrases; introductory and interrupting phrases; parallel sentences; variety of sentences.Thanks to the instructor Tami Chapman, she is the best! +All I was expecting to review and learn. +I learned something new from it. +It's really helpfull +This course provided the basics in English grammar and punctuation. The lecturer gives a lot of good examples and provides the learners with enough opportunities to practice whatever is being discussed. +The grammar and punctuation course was a learning experience for me not only I enjoyed it but also I learned a variety of concepts for an effective English writing ;yet, it's still the beginning,you will learn about the exact situation where to put the commas and many different rules don't miss it.I guarantee you,you won't regret. +I recommended +Thank you so for this very course. I have learned so much. Now, I can dare to say that I am able to write an essay in English. +Great course! +satisfactory +I learned a lot from this course. +In brief, an excellent course on grammar and punctuation. Thanks to our instructor, Tamy Chapman. +A short and concise introduction to basic english grammar blocks including Verbs, Conjunctions, adverbs clause, and type of sentences. Good examples in lectures to make things clear. +This course is really important for us to write a sentence correctly. Feeling proud to be a student of this course. +Thank you professor for making this course. Good exercises and examples. +I learned a lot. Thank you. +good course +This was a great refresher course for basic grammar. I would love to take the next level up if there is one! +Now, I feel much more confident about my writing and grammar skills. It's an amazing feeling, even, to witness a small change in your writing skills. +Actually, good Course +It is a good course, very helpful. +Very good overview on Tenses and Sentence structure +One of the greatest course that I ever done +useful course for writing. +This course had an outstanding syllabus and i have learned a lot about punctuation rules and regulations in English Language; which will excel my capabilities for my future endeavors and study plan. +the peer grading system is poor, considering that they are learning just like us.the grading should be done automatically or by a professional . +It's very useful for me! +I love this program am learning a lot... I wish I get financial aid to earn certificate +It is a great courseI have learned a lot . +I recommend this course! It's very good +It is very helpful.Something which I thought it was right turned out to be so wrong.Thanks to this course, my writing has improved a whole lot ^^ +Very good course, very instructive! +This course really helps you improve your punctuation and how you +It helped me a lot! Thanks +This course is very helpful for students who want to improve their English writing. +It really helped me in brushing up my basic english language concepts. Thanks Alot.cheers ! +helpful .... easy to keep up with it +Pretty good course, everything is explained very clearly, probably, the tasks are a bit easy, but I still appreciate the work of people who created this project. Thank you. +Good course! +This course is practical. You get clever instructions, and all activities are simple and clear. +It's very well put together. +very interesting +The course is well explained and covers the topic nicely, however, a prior knowledge of grammar and punctuation is required. The instructor has clear pronunciation and a smile on her face that makes learning enjoyable. +Very Much Useful to Student Community, particularly when these are given in form of assignments to student groups. the videos are interesting at the same time it gives a joy of Fun Learning +Great course! +This was a nice course for me to revise grammars and punctuation. Thank you. +Kind of... too basic? +very helpful instruction +Loved the course. It enlighten me on both grammar and punctuation that was not conveyed clearly at school as a student growing up. I love the English language and would love to write a book someday. I am happy to gain this knowledge through this course. Keep it up. +This course was very informative for me. +I'm still a little confused on some things, but otherwise great course! I really think I have learned a lot. +Very well structured and informative course. +I couldn't afford to pay for the course, but I really learnt a lot about grammar and punctuation. +Great learning, easily defined concepts. Quiz section really helps you to retrieve core concepts. Thanks a lot Coursera. +This course teach us many grammar rules which we haven't learned ever. One of those rules is punctuation. After completing this course, you will be able to not only write English sentences better but also understand documents written in English easily. This course is definitely useful for everyone who know the grammar well but cannot write sentences well. +Really disappointed you have to pay to be able to do the quizzes. I thought the whole point of Coursera is to enhance our skills for free and chose to pay for a certificate if we wanted to. +It was really wonderful and beneficial for me. +very useful course. +Very interesting course +Thank you for helping me correct my wrong usage of punctuation! +I am glad that i have choose this site. It is very helpfull and best site ever for the people who relly want to learn +great and awesome +I've learned a lot in this course, I know there are so many things to improve, but I can say: it was very worth to take. +Thank you so much. +Great course and tutor. I've put in place all my grammar knowledge and learned a bunch of completely new things about punctuation. +I have learned many useful things from this course. Thank you very much. +good course +I learned a lot of new thing, ideally we don't bother what we write; but we make a lot of mistakes. +Paced perfectly for me. A great review as my knowledge of what underlies our language system is well hidden after years of use. As I embark upon a class in Spanish, I hope this thorough look at English conventions may help me in learning this second language. My motivation centers on my grandson's enrollment in a dual immersion school; helping him with homework is a challenge. +Very Simple but great, I enjoyed it alot. +Basic English, great for beginners, well-explained. +excellent course to create a foundation to improve once writing skills...!! +too simple( +I love this course. The instructor explains the topics very well and it's well organized! +every well explained. simple and to the point examples and exercises. +Very good and easy to understand, especially for me whose English is not the first language. Highly recommended. Thank you, Tammy and UCI team. +Excellent course!!! I really recommend it for those who want to improve their grammar skills or just as a global revision of already acquired knowledge. Thanks so much to all the staff for this opportunity. +Very good course! I recommend. +Awesome course, I have learnt so many new things here that is really very helpful in my career.Thank you.. +Thank this course for helping me know clearly how to use puntuation correctly. +this course is very good +A wonderful course to learn or brush up the use of commas, conjunctions and tenses. +It is useful. +It is very good. Clear explanations and logic. +is very useful course . +Easy to follow. +It helps me a lot in my writing skills. +Good course. +Just amazing course. Very helpful. +This is a very comprehensive and useful course. Since this is a beginners course, the difficulty levels have been maintained accordingly. I have personally found it very useful to improve upon my punctuation and sentence formation, in general. Well designed and well structured. Highly recommended for the beginners. +Punctuation overwights grammar in this course. +Good review of English grammar and punctuation! I have a lot more confidence with my writing ability now! Thank you! +It was a good start, but I wish the assignments were a little bit harder. +A very good course to understand the basics of punctuation and grammar. +This course was really helpful to improve my English, thanks. +Best course for English available on Coursera. Go for it. +If you want to recall your English Grammar - you have to take this course! +Made clear what is punctuation and where to use it. +The course helped me a lot about grammar. +Tammy Chapman makes this easy! +This course is so useful!!! +Very exact and useful +Teaches a lot, but is super easy to understand at the same time. +Very useful course. +This is great course, I wish we should submit our final exams as audit followers +Great explanation of punctuation rules. However, upgrade costs too much given the amount of materials covered and its complexity. +I learnt so much tips +A great course! There is a lot information well explained. I loved it! +I strongly recommend this course to All. +Great course +Great course +This course has been very useful and interesting for me. +This course is beneficial for a person who wants to write well or to pursue career in writing. The teacher is very good. The course is very informative and productive. She prepared the course very well. Assignments and exercises will help you to learn things easily. Each and every second of lecture is worth to listen and they are very precise also. The professor has provided useful material which you can read later. I'm so glad that I took this course. +The course is great but short, I spent two hours to finish this course. +In this course, you can learn basic elements of writing. Basic as it is, the knowledge is very important because we always make mistakes in these trivial things. Therefore, I think it is very necessary to take the first course in order to avoid future mistakes. +Really great course, i recommend it for anyone. +Very well made course. The pace and sound quality of the course is excellent. +VeryVery interesting and knowledgeable course +Very helpful course! Thank you very much! +This is good and informative. And it provides with the knowledge of grammar and punctuation. +Congratulations! I really appreciate the classes and the course content. The videos are very objective and synthesizes, in a cleaver way, hart English knowledge. +"Grammar and Punctuation" was an excellent course. The instructor made the concepts so easy to understand and practice. This course is highly recommended! Keep up the great work! +Fantastic Course! +I like this Course very much.Hope to do next course.I have learned how to punctuate sentences correctly.This will help me to write sentences in good and proper manner.Thank you all the Professors, Mentors, and University of California. +Great +Quick and easy course, and a good recap on my grammar skills! +I found this course very helpful. It laid a solid foundation on which, I can now gain further proficiency in essay writing. +Good course with a simple structure to deepen your knowledge in grammar and punctuation. +I learned so many things that I didn't know. This course is complet. I think so. +Nice courses. It helped me to learn punctuation and some beginning tips for writing. +Very good and clear course +The class itself is quite good. However you can not submit the Module Quiz without purchasing the certificate, which is quite annoying. +Thank you! The course is very helpful. +I love it!!! +Very helpful course. I liked a lot. Although I would prefer for some quizzes not to be locked unless paid.Thank you for sharing your knowledge.E. +Really awesome. +Very well-organized, very clear and straight to the point. All the materials and exercises are really useful. +A great course that improve my English. +I have learned so much from this course. The information was and is invaluable!!! +I liked very much this course. I had forgot many of these grammatical rules, so it was really good for me. As in any other language, English is not easy, you have to practice daily, even that be just a little bit. +Very helpful, but really basic. Even though, there were topics I didn't know. +exactly brilliant! +Very good course. Interesting tips and summaries. Very helpful. +This course helps me a lot. +You should tell people before they enroll that, to take the quizzes, they must pay. It was a waste of time... +I am really satisfied with the course. I learnt new ideas and concepts about English grammar. This is a wonderful course. +HelloIt is an excellent course for those who want to improve their writing skills. +This course is very useful. I love it. +This is really helpful course. If you have already some knowledge on grammar and punctuation, but you are not sure about it yourself, you should take this course. You will have more confidence when you write in English.Thank Coursera for this course. I really enjoyed the course. +great course +It's a great course for learning English. +I really like the way students are involved in activities through the assignments. They students are also introduced among themselves and get to review each others work which boosts confidence and also inflicts more interest +Good! :) Thanks a lot +Thanks so much +Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. God Bless UC Irvine! +My grammar and punctuation has improved ten-fold because of this course.Thank you so much Tamy and everyone else involved. +It was very useless for people who want to be a writer. Thank you very much for wonderful organization and interesting tasks! +Great Course +I am totally in love with this course. I experienced instant improvement in my writing skills, and found errors in my writings which I would have never thought of as errors. +I am Brazilian, and I have been studying English since 2011 as a second language. So far, I have not found I course like Grammar and Punctuation. What makes the difference is that it explains the content in a simple way so that students can learn easily. Besides, I learned things on the lecture videos that I had not learned until then. +As a college level academic English teacher, I've learned quite a lot from Tamy's lessons. Tamy's instructions are very clear, systematic, and effective. This course can be a very valuable supplementary resource for EAP students' self-study. I will definitely recommend this course to my students. Thank you very much. +Great classes! She is amazing! +Great +loved it, thanks! +This is a good refresher on one's grammar and punctuation.It's an absolute bummer that the quizzes are behind a paywall. +thanks so much for this useful course i only hope to not make the final quiz with upgrade or with payment i need to see how much i achieve in this course.waiting for new courses, and thanks for your advanced for help,Dalia +Excellent course! I would recommend it to my friends. +very helpful +Some very useful points. Would recommend to anyone who struggles in understanding punctuation. +Thanks for the course. It's really helpful. +Thank you very much for helping the world with this course. +Very simple to follow +Very useful +Simple and Useful course +Useful and clear. +It is so interesting! +What a great course .. I really enjoy it . +The course is very helpful and specific. For me, taking this course is like reviewing some points and getting more detail understandings. +This is a great class for individuals learning the English Language, and as a refresher course for those who use it as their first language. +Wonderful!! Thank you! +Amazingly helpful. And for once I remember the rules I learnt. +The course is quite informative and useful. However, I think the charge of 60e is too high since the skills introduced are both elementary and limited. 10e would be a proper price. +really helped me a lot, I didn't pay attention to my teacher when I was in school, and the difference is, Chinese teachers don't really teach punctuation. I was always confused about it, and this course really helped. +Very helpful! +Really helpful. Amazing course. +Good course. +it is very useful for learning english. +I would like to thank the course Instructors, It is really fruitful and enjoyable. +This was a very good class and helpful. I only had some issues with not being able to see some things on my app like the practice exercises. +basic and clear +Great really good !!! +challenging +I really like short courses which give you a lot. I learnt many key, although simple, points from this course. Thank you. +Very useful for both students and teachers. +The course is clearly lectured, and I like it very much. +A really helpful and detailed course. You really can go trough it for four hours and gain quite useful knowledge about the punctuation and the correct way of structuring your essay. The only recommendation I would have is to give up on the adobe flash technology for the practice tests and use java script and simple html.Thanks for the course. +The course professor was excellent and made the rules on commas and parallel structure as well as verb tenses seem so simple. I was able to brush up my grammar rules and punctuation through the course. +This is an amazing course in English writing. The course is simple but comprehensive. In addition, the tutor is very good in delivering the subject. +It's very helpful. It seems like they've planned each detail!! +I just wish I could have gotten the certificate without paying, at least a Basic. +Great course =) +This course is fantastic because it´s helping me to remember some rules in punctuation, and I can understand easy and practice exercises.Thanks +The course is really exhaustive and, at the same time, simple. +Great. +It is a great course for undergraduates and intermediate English learners. +It is a really useful course! :) +Great course. I learnt a lot! +really nice and good can be learn in this course, l studied many words that known about grammar and punctuation in English language. assignment of this course is helping me to improve my language. the lecture look at good and friendly.. +Very useful. +The course is great, but I am very disappointed that after spend 3 hours watching the videos and practicing, I can only submit my answer if I upgrade. This should be said before I enrolled in this course. +Good course! help review the basics. +Excellent to know and expand English Knowledge. +material was good but it doesn't tell you to pay for the course until you take the quiz +Nice course! Excellent insight to the details that make a difference! +Learned a lot through this course! Thank you +Great !!! +excellent course, easy to follow , well explained, and the exercises focus on the material being reviewed, also the practice exercises reinforce the material.Thank you. +Very helpful. The teacher make it so clear and easy +The lectures were good and useful. Anyone who has confusion or doubts on the correct usage of punctuations should sign up for this course. +great Course +Useful course for those, who want to improve their punctuation skills and resume with the following courses from this programme. +Very good course! Helped me a lot! +It's a great course. +I really enjoyed this course +I really enjoyed it not only because it was helpful but also because it was precise. +Pretty nice +An excelen way to improve writing skills +In this course,learning grammar has became an easy thing. +Thanks for providing us this opportunity. It was a very nice course. There are few things which might help improve the course:- For a four-weeks course, I feel the material was not enough. I feel there is room to add more items like the use of hyphens, colons, and determiners.Thanks again. +very helpful +Strongly recommend for everybody. +This helped me remember and understand many grammar topics. It had a lot of very good information. +i loved this course +It's a good course with some interesting resources. Most of the practice resources use Flash and one of the assignment submissions is inconsistent with the other submission formats. The content of the course itself is 4.5 stars. For me there is one element that I wish had an explanation or somewhere to ask about it. Instead I'll need to search the internet for an answer and hope what I find is correct! +Provides basic understanding and practice. +very good learning +Awesome reminder to all that I had forgotten. It is put forth in an easy to learn manner. +Concise and precise. Complex concepts explained in easy to understand style. +This course was very useful and brushed up some of the rules of punctuation and taught me some new ones too. +Thank you :) +Even if you are fluent a review is always helpful to remind you why things are done a certain way. If you are not rusty, it should take you no time to finish. But if you are rusty in some area, and just don't realize it, this will point to where the problem may be and fix it. +Great +The course is apt for the people who are adept at speaking and amateur in writing. The course definitely improved the way I frame and put out my sentences for readers to read. +Nothing new for somebody, who studied English before. +Good course +It should be freehehehe +This course was very helpful for the work I do. +This course was very helpful to me. My grammar and writing style has definitely benefited from taking this course. The modules were clear and well-paced, and the practice quizzes were relevant. +The best course! Information is given clearly and understandably. I enjoyed participating in the course. +It's a good starter course if you are looking to review Grammar and Punctuation. +The course is really nice and easy for beginners of English grammar. +This course covers all aspects as per description. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to polish up their basic grammar and punctuation. Special thanks to everyone who it possible. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. +This course is very useful. +it's so great. +Very useful and straightforward course on the basics of grammar (but just the basics of Verb Tenses; was expecting more of it in terms of grammar topics - Passive voice, Conditionals, Reported speech etc.)It's basically a Punctuation 101 course which focuses heavily on proper sentence structure and syntax - got a great deal a good stuff out of it, though. Warmly recommend it to everyone who is not confident in his basic writing skills. +A good preparation to the following courses. +Very helpful course to remember general grammar knowledge. +Good course, easy to understand, and useful. +Some of the lessons aren't clear enough to follow +Good course! Don't be leave the course if the pre-course test results suggest you may be too good for the course. The grammar part was a review for the most part, but the punctuation section taught me a good deal of the rules I didn't know. +It's an excellent course, and i enjoyed it. +I give 5 stars to this course, I want to say thank to University of California, Irvine that i can improve my english grammar +I very liked this course and the teacher Tamy Chapman +Review comments:What I learn most form this course is parallel structure and sentence variety lessons in Week 4.[Parallel Structure]It uses some conjunctions like and, but, both....and..., not only...but also...[Sentence Variety]Use the different 4 types English sentence style, simple, compound, complex and compound-complex to enrich your writing. In addition, adverbs, prepositional phrases (like in the morning), other transitions (furthermore) could be used to create variety. At last, combining the short sentences, medium sentences (10-15 words) and long ones (20-40 words) will also make your writing alive. Some other tips will also help like repeating key nouns, using synonyms, saying things in different ways.- Use different sentence types- Start sentence differently- Use different sentence lengths- Use synonyms effectivelyConsidering sentence variety will be the last step when you revise your essay, so do not do it in the begining. +Very informational and helpful. +Actually, it was not that much hard but I got to know various new things. +This course was challenging, yet it was easy to follow. It helped me a lot in writing better. I was able to practice my knowledge of the lessons, by giving feedbacks to my co-learners' assignments. +This is is one of the best grammar and punctuation courses I have ever taken! +Great and useful course! +Very good course. +it was a great review of grammar and punctuation, it would have been nice to print the slides as you go along. +This lesson was really helpful, even though I already know all that. +very nice and clear to let us know more detail of grammar. although i have not paid for class, i still would like to keep the course and review it. thank you! +Since the beginning to the end, I enjoyed this course because I learn new things for me. It had good explanations, nice examples and many exercises. Thank you very much. +best of the best +Great Class,I appreciate all, +i enjoyed taking this mooc. very well structured and straight on the points and details.plenty of practice exercises. i recommend!!! +All the concepts regarding sentence formation are clear now. +In fact the course is fantastic. I'd say that is perfect, but it is not because requires payment to be assessment in the activities. +Excellent course for English learners. +I really enjoyed listenning to all lectures and saved it to return back to it again. I always used some of these rules without information but now I could use it professionally.Thank you for this lectures :) +this is the best lesson that i have ever had. +It is simple and clear to understand for entry-level learner. +Learn a lot of useful knowledge in English writing. Enjoy the course and continue my way to finish all of them. +Good material and simple, fluid explanation. Perfect for anyone who wants to keep his grammar and punctuation in check! +The course is well structured, but most of the features in the exercises' pages were not working properly. I tried to access them via both my computer (macbook) and mobile phone, but in some cases I could not even complete the exercise or check the answers... +Very simple and helpful. Just the perfect mix for me. +It has a nice way of making learners interact with each other. I've learn a lot. +Very good course; it was structured in a very simple and efficient way. Also, it made see this kind of things very easy! +This course is great +Good one +A very weak course, gives very little knowledge of grammar, doesn't really explain quite a lot of things. If you are a first year primary school student, this course might be helpful, otherwise a complete waste of time. +This course only works if u pay, which is shit coz most people dont have money... +Thank you! Great course! +This course is excellent. It uses lecture, practice and question effectively to let learners master in Grammar and Punctuation.GreetingsMubashar Rehman +It is a great opportunity for those who what review grammar and punctuation. +Even though the course was pretty basic, there were many new things I learned, especially certain tips and tricks. The lessons are simple; the examples were good for understanding and to the point. The course-content, video and audio qualities are good. Links to extra materials are also provided towards the end of each week.I felt the assignments were too simple. They were reviewed by other students and not by the course organisers. Though peer-review is a good practice, comments from the teachers would be much appreciated. I would prefer more options for discussion on a topic, other than through the assignments alone. +First, I thought I wasn't going to get anything out of this course. But then I realized my writing had improved after finishing this course, I was really suprised to see that . Thank you for all your effort in making this course possible.I look forward to taking some of other courses in the same specialization. Thank you again! +This course is very helpful, and I have learned something new . Thank you. +After completing this course,i have a good knowledge on the types of sentences.I have learnt a lot from this course.Thank You.. +It's a good course, In the last lesson miss more examples. +I find this course quite interesting and useful!In this course you can learn not only by video and quizzes, but also play games and do interesting tasks. The education goes in an easy way and without any difficulties!Thank you! +Great +Thank you very much, I am learning a lot. +Great! Thanks +Interesting course! +Excellent, specially for English teachers. +Everything is fine so far, but I'd have had more exercises to work out. +Good for a starter.Thank you professor. +I loved the course, as well as, the teacher. +it is very useful course +it's very useful for its purpose +I'VE already finished this lesson. Frankly, it's simple and easy to understand. +great course! very helpful! +Thank you! It was very interesting and productive for me +Clear explanations and examples. Very helpful for everyone not just ESL learners. +I really enjoy practicing with this course. It contains clear explanations and a good variety of practice exercises. +I would've wanted a bit more of use of commas, but it's a great introduction. +Great course! I've learned a lot of new stuff! +The course provides essential knowledge on basic grammar and punctuation, which iteslf is sufficient for moving towards essay writing. The course is practice-oriented, so be prepared to mastering your writing skills. +World's best English Course. +Great course for beginners +Thanks Tamy for the great course. I really like your teaching style, it is very clear and easy to understand.Since I took the free version, I did not had access to the exams; nevertheless, I learned a lot.Thanks +Great course for improving your English! +It helped me improve my wirtting a lot. +very good content +I learnt the different forms of sentences, differences between tenses and sentence varieties. Thank you for this course. +Good interactive course. +Nice, quick and effective! +It was an excellent refresher course.The course included a lot of student reviews. In my opinion there was a plus and a negative to this. It was great at inspiring student interaction; however, because the teacher didn't review the work after, if the student had a misguided interpretation it may lead you astray. +A very informative course. +A simple introduction to grammar and punctuation that is well laid out and easy to understand. I explored this course as a refresher, and it served that purpose quite well! +Thank you for this course.Well presented. +I enrolled for the course to refresh some basics and this was perfect. +it is helpful to me +Thank you so much!! I not only enjoyed it but also learnt a lot! Again, thank you! +It would be nice to have the slides for downloading. +I love this course. My old English classes were not as much clear as this course. +This is a nice course, very compact and efficient, and it helped me to see some punctuation issues, I got from other languages I speak. +It is a good course to review grammar and punctuation. Well done and clear. +This course is brilliantly designed, contains very short lectures but full of information and sufficient numbers of examples. Thank you so mu +I feel much comfortable with the lectures and assignments. +Focused too much on commas. Could have incorporated other grammar elements as well. Nevertheless, a very good, easy-to-follow course. +It was really helpful. Thank you! +One of the best courses by Coursera, it significantly helps me increase my punctuation knowledge. +This course is excellent in detailing how to correctly use basic grammar. +Very useful and the information taught are well presented +I would love to take the quizzes without an upgrade to see how I have done in my classes. +The adequate explanations about clauses and the exercises linked to each chapter brought me a lot of confidence in my English writing. +Thanks for this perfect course! +Useful information and very well explained. +The course helped me to remember all forgotten things, and I learned some valuable new information. +Very cool to study the get back to basics! +I thought this course was a great review to key concepts for using proper english, and being able to write well. +Very useful and well explained. +Great course, I recommend it. +Excellent course for the people who want to start English writing. +This course was well paced and very informative. +Very helpful to remember grammar rules.Clear and essential. +This course really helped me, a second-language-English speaker, in improving my English writing. It is concise, and its discussion mode is indeed useful. +this course very help me to understand about punctuation. +It was great! +I think this course is so useful,and I benefit alot from it.for that I recommend this course to who want to enhance his writing. +It is a short and simple course, but It seems to be a key course, which give you a lot of tools to improve your grammar and punctuation. A first step to improve your writing skills. +Course could have earn my stars.Money, money, money is not the way to go. +It helps me a lot with my grammar and writing style. +Grear course +Good review of basic grammar rules and good opportunities to practice them to improve your writing. +Good course, although no proctor or supervision at all. No place to go for questions or help.Please be aware this is primarily designed for non-native english speakers. This was not clear to me when I joined. And although the content is thorough, it is dull and the assignments uninspiring.If you want to know more about grammar, good (be sure to bone up through, because she assumes a lot about what you might remember from high school and for those of us over 40 ... hmmm).If you want to feel inspired to write something of value and interest to yourself or others, not so good.Over all I would not recommend this course or series of courses. And would suggest seeking out a course that has some kind of proctor or supervisory help available. +Very clear and easy to diggest content; in addition, w +It is my first time to start taking online classes, I really like it ! +it's really very useful, and the excersises are helpful. +i dont know why, but it's so frustrating that i have problem with this course. i can't start every quiz in week 4. +Many tips in this course are very good and important. I missed some of them before and this course help me pay attention to them and learn them clearly. I highly recommended to you and I won't take you much time. +I like this course. It was a little hard at first, but then I got the hang of it! +This is perfect, for anyone that is trying to improve their grammar. +great! so helpful to reminds us simple things but also important +It's great to remember some of the very important rules for writing. +Very good, very useful! +The course is well-structured and very easy to follow, also, the large amount of exercises helps to remember everything.Thank you for very effective teaching! +Enjoying this course so much! +Method simple, clear, and incredibly effective! Exercises are appropriate and links to external material are really useful. I totally recommend! +At lease for me, this is an excellent course. I have learned a lot of grammar and writing knowledge which would help me in my future writing. +this really helped me out a ton i have improved my grammar.I am good at grammar after this course +Very good, But I missed some more practical exercises on writing. For us, non-native english speakers sometimes it is very difficult to identify our mistakes. But the whole module is very good. +Very good to learn the differences between each kind of sentences, and how is the punctuation for each one. +Very useful . Thank you very much +it is a very acedamic lesson +No word, Best course to improve Grammar and Punctuation +There were couple of things I was always confused during the sentence making. After this course, I was able to use interrupting phrase, transition words, parallel structure, and sentence variety much better. Grammar and Punctuation is a great course for people who need a quick refreshing of the grammar and punctuation rules. +This was a great review of basic english. +It helped me a lot to get a decent job. +Absolutely brilliant. I really recommend this course if you need to brush up on your grammar and punctuation. I didn't study grammar at school, (many years ago) as it wasn't in the curriculum, however, this is an informative and yet interesting way to learn. The course provides you with videos, quizzes, and tests which help to embed the learning at your own pace. +Great course! +improve writing knowledge and skills. +Good refresher +I think this is a good review for someone who has the basic in English grammar; however, if you're an ESL student or English-speaking person (who need to start over in grammar).Study first before starting this course.A lot of the feedback in the forum, I found to be poor except when it came from an English-speaking person.You get a lot of: " OK, Great, etc..", no real feedback. +recommend this course for everyone seek improving his skills in english +Very useful and effective in learning english. +The course is good, but I think it will be even better if it covers more about the 16 tenses, more punctuation, and capitalization. Thanks! +It's a good course, and it has a good structure to push student forward to improve their writing skills. +Great course to review some basic English grammar. Lectures are very easy to understand. +I am feeling confident about using proper grammar and punctuation in my writing. Thank you Coursera! +Great class. Some slides show awful colors. I think that could be improved. Also professional transition betwixt slides could give the course a more "polished" look. +Really practical and useful! +This course is amazing! +It's a good lesson, I learned more skills in the grammar and the punctuation. +Great course, I learnt a lot. +Good practice and recall course +simply and useful. +Great and helpful! +this course is excellent, my sentence composition has been improved after watching your video. +The professor is excellent!. She explains everything in a way very easy to understand. The module is basic, but it is essential if you want to improve your english writing . +The course was well planned and easy to follow. +It was great, helpful and simple. Many thanks to all professors, staff, and classmates. +It's very helpful. Thank you. +This course was helpful. I learnt a lot on grammar and punctuation. +This course really boost my confidence. I am really thankful to my Professor Tamy Chapman for the wonderful lecture. The study materials and the lecture classes helps me to practice further. Once again thank you very much to my professor and the entire team behind the scene for this wonderful course. +I enjoyed this course very much. It was easy to breeze through and very informative. It definitely made me a better writer as I became more aware of very common mistakes that I make. +Could have more exercises for the ones who still is saving up to pay for it. +The first course is though easy but interesting. It is a good start for listeners like me who is learning English as a second language to master some detailed information or rather punctuation about English. +great course to refresh, really fast, your english writing. +Interactive and helpful +Good course +Excellent and simple explanations about the major factors in Grammar and Punctuation. I am honored to finish this course, and I have to congratulate all people involved in this project. +an excellent course, easy to follow. I would like to sincerely thank all the great people who designed this course for every kind of learner. +very helpful +I like this course very much! It just shares some simple principle, which I didn't pay much attention before! I did learn a lot! +Although this course was intended as an advanced English grammar review, I could learn a lot of new things I'd never studied before. I really enjoyed this course and learned a lot from it. +Simple basics and easy to understand. Excellent course for beginner academic writers. +Very simple and easy to follow instructions. The lessons, exercises, and peer reviews are all interesting. I learned so much from this module. Thank you! +Useful and straight to the point. +great course thank you +Not difficult and to the point course. +This course is really helpful especially for people wanting to write English articles better. The course outline is well laid out, videos are easy to understand, and exercises are very helpful for practicing your punctuation. The only negative point for me is how the teachers use a very strong American accent that some of the letters in a word are not pronounced anymore, like 'meanin' instead of 'meaning' and 'writin' instead of 'writing'. It doesn't really affect the teaching, though. All in all, this course helped me a lot and I recommend it to anyone wanting to improve their punctuation and review their English grammar knowledge. +Planned in very well mannered! +Great cou +I couldn't finish it without purchasing it, in spite of active participation and high scores on all the assignments I had access to. +I think it is really necessary to establish better the target auditory for this course. The students with very basic level of English have to study with advanced non-native speakers and with natives. The exercises can be too challenging for the first category, sometimes boring for the second and absolutely superfluous for the third. +its great and i am enjoying it ..... +it was really helpful , wish we get report on our submission .thank you so much . +It´s clear, useful and not too long. Great course!!!! +very easy to understand and it's very helpful. +Very usefull! Thanks +Great Class +great courseeasy way of explanationso much recommended :) +Very good course. +This was a very well done course with many different ways to practice the skills being taught. There are a few bugs in the assignment section, particularly in week 4, that impacted students' ability to review one anothers' work. +I strongly recommend this course for everyone who wants to improve English. All so clear and easy to understand. I like it a lot! +This course was really helpful to overview how to make sentences well. +This was a great MOOC, thank you for sharing your knowledge on the topic Tamy. I am looking forward to taking your next class in the series. +Great course and it will be better if were free.Nevertheless, a great course to improve your English grammar. Great for ELS.Cheers! +Great course, the lessons are very well explained. +Awesome presentation and very easy to follow instructions. +Loved the course! +Very well written.Lectures were interesting and practice worksheets were creative. :) +This course is very useful and easy to follow. +Very good grammar course +I enjoyed this course a lot. It is very useful to improve writing +Very good course. +It is good. Even though I could not grasp all the ideas, I am happy to learn the importance of punctuation. +very good course +This course is very interesting and useful! Totally recomended for those who would like to review basic rules and gain some knowledge ;) +Well done. Just the refresh that I needed. +It's help me to improve my grammar and punctuation alot.. Thank you UCI & thank you coursera. :D +I enjoyed this course very much. However, I miss feedback!Maybe it's because I did the free course and did not pay. But, sometimes I still don't understand why I did something wrong.As an introduction this is perfect. +Very useful grammar course! +It's a great course for those are seeking to improve your writting skills in English. +Its really good and easy to understand. +This course is amazing, it helps me understands things that I had a lot of trouble with before. I love all the explanation and examples. +Honestly, this course was very simple and esay to understand but very usefull to improve my ability in writing. +High quality didactic teaching. +There's some room for improvement, that's for sure. The last video was really bad, not because of the content, but because the Professor was very sloppy in her speaking.I also think there should be more practice exercises and a better way to know if the answers were correct.But overall, was very happy with it. +Excellent. Very helpful and well-explain. +Great Course. Thanks +Short essencials in lectures, lots of practice. +Very good course. Short and sweet, it covers the essentials. +I really like it +This course has helped me a lot, and I understood 'how to use grammar effectively'. +I loved this course. Tamy Chapman was awesome at teaching me. Her videos re fluently explained. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!! I forgot to mention in my introduction that I am a fourth grader. +Very clear and really helpful. +The lecture is clear, insprational, and helpful. +An excellent course to refresh what you have learned during your high school days. Easy to understand and follow. I recommend it 100%. +A good opportunity for revision. +Great and free. +The course is very food. I learned a lot and became more motivated to learn English. Thanks +Helped me with my writing skills. +It's really easy to follow instructions and well structured. It is a great tool that do not take you much time to complete assignments and helps you to learn in a positive way. +Very good in as introduction to your essay writing. All of course materials were understandable; morever, patiently, she explained how I can make my sentence variety well. +Maybe, I missed the information about this course being focused towards non-native speakers. Was this course focus to that target audience? As a native-English speaker, I found this course a bit easy. However, I enjoyed the refresher, and I will use this information in future courses. Thank you! +it was a great course, it helped me a lot reviewing my English grammar. I appreciate for everything and I will recommend this course to everyone who wants to write better the English language. Thanks +This course is very good. +Enjoyable course! Easy to follow and it definitely improved my punctuation. +This course has given me the confidence to use commas and semi-colons, the most difficult punctuations to master. +It was overall, alright. All of the group assignments killed it for me, though. +simple， clear, and useful! +Very good course, I learned a lot about Grammar and Punctuation. A very friendly teacher. It´s a fast way to improve our writing. +This course helps you improve your writing with quite clear grammatical suggestions +I really like the course! It´s good to study new things and review another ones! +It is basic knowledge.However,it is useful to writing. +Excellent course. I has provided me a great confidence in me. +Great course. +A very good course; short but condence in knowleged. Highly recommended for all who want to produce good English. +I really liked the course, the way I could do the exercises, and the way that the themes were presented.Thank you! +Thank you very much!!! +Good Course for examining some English Grammar closelyThe course breaks down some aspects of English grammar and punctuation very nicely and has relevant practice exercises.I wish the course covered a slightly wider variety of topics or went into slightly more depth of explanation. The title "grammar and punctuation" is misleading in that only a few topics are covered. However, I believe someone learning English or reviewing academic writing would definitely benefit from going through this course. I am a native speaker, and I certainly learned a few things. :)Thank you Professor, TA's and Coursera! +Very interesting, informative, and accessibly +One of the best courses on Coursera! +It is a useful course to review the grammar that you have learnt before. +Never thought it was gonna be such a complete class. Simple but very important things to know. +The information was quite was good, but the practice and assignments were too easy. Thanks for providing full explanations and a set of in-video examples for every rule. +This is should be your go to option if you are looking for brushing up / learning fundamentals of english grammar. The course material is simple , to the point and accessible to a all regardless of the level of your English fluency levels. However, this course lacks a an active discussion forum and the peer graded assignments are designed in such a way that often it is impossible to discuss doubts or explore further nuances . Other than that, the course meets all that it sets out to achieve. +Really love this course. +it is very nice course, and improve my english writting style +I recommend this class to anyone willing to know how to punctuate and use correct tenses in English. The grammar rules are clearly explained and illustrated with many helpful examples. +Poor visual communications, it should be better since it is the only way to follow the course.Should be nice if the slides counted with a kind of animation to enphatize what we are talking about. +Excellent course to refresh the English Grammar and its Punctuation. An overview to students who want to understand the fundamentals of the English Language and utilize the content as a reference for upcoming studies. +This course is very important to help us improve our writing, listening and reading skills in English! +It is really great course for me to recap all English lesson. Thank you so much +Great course, complete with interactive activities to review our knowledge in Grammar and Punctuation! +I found this course very helpful and useful. I would add only one thing: more graduated exercises.Thank you for it. +Highly recommended for anyone looking to improve their grammar and punctuation. Although the course covers a broad area, it doesn't take too much time to finish. Simple and precise. +This course is pretty basic. As far as grammar goes, it really only covers tenses and parallel agreement. I'm also pretty there is more to punctuation than the semicolon and the comma, although I didn't realize how complicated comma placement could be!The professor talks like she's on tranquilizers and it's difficult to do peer reviews when 90% of the class apparently doesn't speak English as their first language.I learned some things, but this course should really be called "How and when to use a comma". Would anyone really pay money for this? +The terminology is likely to be difficult for ESLs, and the guidance is likely too easy for native speakers.Spent most of the time on 2.0x speed and multitasking because it wasn't nuanced enough. +High-impact course on grammar +The course is well designed and makes you understand grammar and punctuation in a easy manner. +very useful course +I learnt a lot from this course, specially in writing English. Thanks to the Coursera Team. +Useful, quick and never boring +This course is very enlightening and very good for improving language skills. +great course really useful +This is a very good course. I have learned so much just from one day of work. The interactive, educational games are motivating. This course makes learning about grammar and punctuation fun. +I really enjoyed it +Many thanks to this program, and I have confidence to take next step of writing. +It was such a great course. With this course, my understanding raised to one level up, indeed. The way it is designed is fantastic. I want to take up the next course as well.ThanksParul +A great course to learn the basics of grammar and punctuation! +A great course with a good explanation of the material. +At the beginning it starts a little bit slow, but later on it speeds up and it becomes interesting and educative. +This course is a good review of what I have learnt before, and it clears out some confusions. Quite useful. +0.0 awesome as usual +Practical and easy to follow. +Very good introductory course to academic gramatic. +Really helpful, thank you. +The course is presented clearly; enough resourses are given to expand the lessons being studied. +good for review of some common parts of English grammar +Learned and revisited so many some important things. +It was a very nice course for basic English grammar +Very good, it provides important information in a new and fresh way. Every new concept is together with examples which make easier to understand and keep in memory the concept. +Great course. Simple explanations, discovered something new for me. +Very clear information and good exercises to practice. +Great course, I have learned many useful tips for writing. +This course has taught me a lot of reminding about what I have already learned but have forgotten about them and served to validate them again. Excellent on line course and FREE AT THAT. Can't get a better deal than that. Congratulations to those involved in putting up on line such very informative and fun course. +Before I started this course, I used to do a lot of guess work while editing my essays. I relied on proofreading program to get review my essays. This course has helped me understand crucial parts of sentences; thereby, enabling me with greater confidence to edit my essays.Although this course is intended for beginners, it would certainly help experienced hands refresh their skills. Try it! +This course is great. The easy to follow lectures allows students to grasp the material with wasting a lot of time. In addition, students will be will be about to use their new found knowledge as soon as the videos are completed. +Very clear and useful information. I already enrolled to the following course within the specialisation. the only thing is that would love to be able to download and ebook, or something similar with the information provided on the course. +Interesting and helpful course with good practice.Thank you so much. +Too much comma.. Only the last week is relative to the writing +This course is very good for people that their English needs some correction ,it makes you think correctly about writing and also helps you in structure of phrases and punctuation. I like the way that the course was done ,thanks to all of the team (University of California, Irvine) ,you are doing a great work. +I love to review through grammar and i saw the content of the course is posted clearly, easy, encourage every classmate interact with each other and so convinient for everyone can learn anytime they want! +Clear and simple. Easy to learn and practice. +i love this course +Highly recommended for learners aiming at reviwing the basics and fundamentals. +Strongly recommend for beginners! +I have learned a lot with this course! It's like you are really attending a class, and socializing everyday with your classmates. I really had fun. Thank you! +Great course! +Really good !! I am loving this couse so much !! +I am so happy to have taken this amazing course, it really helped me a lot. Thank you :) +Great course for students who need to polish their English or refresh some grammar and punctuation. I'm a teacher of ESL, and I got new sources to explain punctuation, conjunctions and tenses to my students. +Everything you need to know about punctuation to contruct a good essay included in this course. +Without doubt, I recommend this course because it summarizes a lot of things that you should know about writing. +Good enough for students who know a little about English writing, but it is a little too easy for international students who have already begun their study in America. +Very well structured - Thank you to the team. +It was really helpful. Learned a lot from the course. Mostly, because of the way it was designed. +Very informative and easy to learn.The course length is reasonable and suitable for leisure time solidifying grammar and punctuation. +Simple and accurate. The quizzes are not easy, but definitely inherent to the course. In other words, if you study and practice, you will be able to pass them. +. Module were small, crisp, and effective. +It is great so far and the way it is outlined, I hope that I get what I need from it. +Helpful for learning how to write. +Excellent learning opportunity. +helpful. +This is an excellent course.I want to recommend this course for everybody.We can learn in an easy and practical way about tenses and punctuation.Not only is important to speak well, equally we must to write well. +Great Course!! +It was very useful - especially the parts about comma placement. Thank you. +This course helps me a lot to prepare for TOEFL iBT. +This course was clearly structured and well presented. +Nice course for beginners. +It was a good course! +This course was very objective and clear. I liked it! +Very usefull +I love this course. +Great! Very helpful and well-organized! +Very interesting course, will give you the foundations to perform a nice writing. +Simple, quick and effective way of practicing/learning English grammar. +Thank you very much for this course! I learnt a lot, because the lessons were pretty clear and interesting. +This course is very comprehensive, especially if you want to learn where to put commas in your sentences! +Helps you improve the writing skills. +I found this course very useful and instructive. I finally could learn some rules which my teachers were never able to clearly explain to me.It is only a pity that I could not receive a certificate of attendance without paying the fee... +All in all, this course opened up an universe of expression options for me!Furthermore, I felt in love with semicolons!Great presentation, perfect pace, and good practice! +A solid course for those who require a refresher on certain grammar rules. But, in my opinion, the course should go deeper in the different parts of the English grammar. For example, what are gerunds or infinitives? Still a good course though! I really enjoyed the teacher, as well. +so easy to understand +Good Course! +It is great! +For non English speaking this would be the best grammar course. +It is a great course! Personally, it has been very helpful to build a good foundation in English writing. Even though I took similar classes back in school, this course is the most effective one by far. I feel more confident to continue taking advanced writing course; moreover, writing seems less stressful. +super and just great +I am always absent but, this course is good for me. +I totally recommend this course for those who want to be clear with grammar. Lecture is awesome.Thank you very much for offering this course. +Generally, the course is very good and was really useful for me. I just expected that it covers the use of all punctuation marks. +It is a good course for polishing skills; however, excludes usage of several other punctuations which are often confused. +This is a very good course for everyone who wants to better or refresh their grammar and punctuation for a writing ordeal. +Refreshing grammar review. I remember all the grammar I have forgot for years. I become more confident in identifying and punctuating sentence. +Excellent course! I highly recommend it! +Leaning so much! +Good one , some parts was even useful for what I was seeking for - IELTS General WritingFlash Practices and in-Video Questions was interesting too +Great courses. Thanks a lot ! +Very complete, useful, and interesting. Besides, various links are provided for further practice. +excellent! I gain lots of benefits from it. +Very helpful. I was amazed how simple and easy principles were to make me look either +This lesson is good for my writing and reading! +The course was great ,and i learned a lot when taking this course. Once again, thank you for who makes the course available. +This is a very good course, specially for internalizing the basics! +This course is very good for basic learning, I practice much of my basics due to this course which I forget. +This is an excellent course for those who have forgotten the basics of punctuation. +Very helpful +It's fine, but do not explain a little more detaily. +Really great couse! I recmmend it to everyone having some grounds in grammar but needing to improve the knowledge. I have never met with such a simple yet clearifying explanations and now I dont find right use of complex tenses so hard as before! +Very well formatted. Focuses on each aspect thoroughly. +It is interesting to learn. +Great review on Grammar and Punctuation! +This course has given me very practical tools for my daily job. Now I feel more confident in the way I write sentences. My writing has become more clear and precise.Thank you very much! +This is a really good start. +Highly recommend. Easy and interactive lessons and practice. +Finally. I know how to use punctuation correctly. +Thank you for such an amazing course! +The course is well planned and organised. Students have an opportunity to interact with each other; moreover, they help and revise classmates's work. In addition, given material is interesting and helpful. +Excellent refresher or reminder course! Activities are genuine and realistic with a bit of challenge, unlike some other courses on other websites that provide the answers. Instructor is pleasant, though a bit assuming, at times. Take this course whether you've grown up speaking english or not. +Great Course, thank you for this. +It was such a great help in refreshing everything I had forgotten. +well designed course that is rich in content. +I give 5 stars to this course because the materials of this course are very basic but very important, Such as Verb tense and Punctuation which I did not full understand in the past. But now, after finishing this course, I am more confidant about my writing. Thanks to the teacher and my classmates, you help me a lot !! +Enjoyable and useful. Thanks +I loved the explanation of the objects and students.Enjoyed duscussions and assignments. Thanks! +this course was +A great course! +I really like this course, because it is helpful and engaging. Thanks for sharing! +Its perfect for learning basics of English language. +Excellent course. Highly recommended +Contents are interesting and useful, even if the course deals with few topics. I think it is too expensive! A good grammar book is cheaper and more complete.I would not enroll this course anymore. +I loved the way the exercises work, especially the interaction with other students.And also, the topics they manage are really helpful, and the way they explain them, with keywords, are really useful in practice.Love it, will make the next specialization course =D +Excellent course. I learnt a lot regarding English grammar. I love the course very much. +Really good course! +A good clear examination of basic punctuation and grammar. The lectures are well presented and the exercises useful. The element which really doesn't work is the peer assessment or review. This seems intended to replace forum discussions but it is not a good substitute (and there are no forums). +I like the way the instructor explained each part of the Grammar and Punctuation, I understood easily and practiced after session. This course is very helpful to me. Thank you for offering this course. +Good Content and Clear explanation. +This was an amazing experience. It was by far the most interesting course I've take. Thanks to the instructor, the course staff and the coursera team we've achieved a very tangible training . +great course +Concise and helpful. Great class. +The course is a very good attempt to assist in building correct sentences in English. I f +This course is very useful and helpful. +It is really good quolity course; highly reccomended. +The course was great it refreshed what I already knew and taught me more. +I would like to express my gratitude for this brilliant course! Thank you very much! +It's really helpful course to correct our grammar. Thank you Coursera. +The course really helps me review important things in English grammar and punctuation. +This Course is amazing and I would love to study more about it! +It was very useful. +Excellent course!!! I have learned about sentences types, punctuation and grammar structures. Thanks a million to Tamy Chapman and the University of California Irvine. +Very Helpful! +Really well explained, but easily digestible. +Thank you so much <33 +Its a very helpful experience. Highly recommended to others who encounter grammatical and punctuation problem occasionally. +The course is so interesting. +First, I want to thanks Tamy Chapman. The course was excellent and I feel more confident with my writing.I am looking forward to improving my style with the following course of this series. +Amazing course! +The course was very helpful. At first, I was skeptical on what I could learn from it since, in general, I feel confident with my English level, and the program seemed rather simple. However, upon completion of the course, I believe I've learned quite a few things on how to structure my writing in a correct way, which in turns makes it more efficient. +Great course! +Thanks a lot. I learned some solid stuffs that I mistakenly thought I'd known already. A real eye opener. Thanks a zillion. +A very good course. Very usefull and practical to remember the basics of grammar, punctuation, sentences and etc. +Thanks all of you. I have learnt a lot of subject. +Good one, if you are confused where to put your commas and to learn tenses. +The first module of very useful writing course package. +Good english course for starters +Great and useful course, really helps to understand how the grammar and punctuation works, focuses on correct use of verb tenses as well. Definitely recommend it to anyone. +very useful +A excellent course to review your weakness in Grammar and Punctuation +Simple and Effective, Relevant and Specific. +it is very well designed. +It si a great course! The minor comment, combining the subject of variety of sentences with commas and parallel structures could be a bit overloading. +This course's content and delivery are excellent. This gave proper understanding of grammar and punctuation usage. Many a times, I used to believe, I properly use punctuation, but this course set the scores right.Thanks a lot for such an extraordinary course. +;) great course +Yes I really learned something from this course. Thank you! +I enjoyed this course very much. Going into this course, my goal was to review English grammar and improve my writing. After finishing it, I feel like I accomplished that goal. I enjoyed concise and clear style of the videos and clarity of examples given in them. Assignments and exercises, although challenging at times, were of comfortable length and fun to do. Personally, this course helped me to become aware of the sentences I write, and gave me the tools to revise and edit my writings more efficiently on my own. +Do I receive a Statement of Accomplishment? +Great Course !! I am learning a lot. Highly recommended. Thanks +It is a great course. You will learn what kind of sentences exist and how to uses commas correctly and more!! +I give my strong recommendation about this course to all of you who want to improve your English skills +A good course to brush up on your grammar. +It was my first Coursera course. Exceeded my expectations with the way how the lessons were explained. +It may sound ridiculous, but it is reaaly difficult in Russia to find out about English punctuation, so this course was very useful for me as a teacher. It allows me not only to improve my writing but also to develop my professional skills. I hope, it will help me to teach my students better.Thaks a lot for this course and specialization!All the best,Anastasia +Great introduction/reminder. +This taught me a lot. +I really enjoyed taking part in this course. It have lots of materials for learning and lots of resource for studying more . +I enrolled in this course to fine tune my writing skills for work. I enjoyed this course because I was able to unlearn some bad habits and simple mistakes. The lessons are simple and move at an even pace. If you are a native English Speaker, some of the lessons will be easy for you. In my personal opinion, this course was a great refresher. +I really enjoy this course.Thanks. +It is a very complete overview. It is very helpful for reviewing English grammar and punctuation. The additional resources are also very good. +I've learnt a lot from it! =) Thank you for creating opportunities for all ESL students and teachers! +Very good course. It helped me revise and learn some correct grammar usage in short time. +I learned a lot about grammar and punctuation, and I really liked this class. +It is a good course. It gave me a better insight about nuances of English Grammar. I wish the team very best in their future endeavours. +Learn some helpful stuff. +This course teach me about grammar and punctuation with interactive method, so I can learn every lessons easily. +very simple +The Course was simply Fantastic!Thank you all for this! +Some types of assignments and quizes are not comfortable to use. But thas is just about technical issues.Educational part of this course in great. +Excellent help and teaching. Loved the "Language is cake," as this made the information more interesting to review and to understand. +Even if you are an native English speaker, this course is a great review. I highly recommend it. +Excellent! Very easy to understand, It has helped me a lot to improve some of my English skills :) Thank you very much. +Good Class!!! +It was good. I give four stars because it was easier than I expected. +Excellent resource with practical exercise to improve your English on grammar and punctuation. +The professor speaks very clear and easy to listen. +I have learnt a lot! +I can see the improvement in myself and in the other students in the peer reviews. This course took me a little by surprise by how fun it was, I hadn't expected it. I recommend this course, especially to foreigners who want to learn how to use the English language. +Great way to learn more on Grammar and Punctuation. +A concise review of punctuation and (some) grammar associated with punctuation rules in the grammar. A perfect choice for anyone wanting to review punctuation rules swiftly. However, those who would like to review grammar of the English language might not get all what they wanted from this course, which covers only what is relevant to punctuation. +Just great! +It definetely deserves 5 stars. Videos are very complete and clear. Strongly recommend this course for those wanting to improve their writing skills. Thanks Coursera! ;) +concise and effective starting for academic writing +This course is absolutely awesome. My teacher has noticed an improvement in my punctuation. I have nothing but good things to say about this course. +I learned a lot about commas. +I'm not a native-speaker but a person who loves learning. I'm going to learn throughout my life. I want also to broaden my English skills in every aspect. I recommend this course for people who don't want to spend tons of dollars for fancy courses, reserved only for high-class :D +The videos are really boring, however the course is good. +Hello,The overall content or education on English grammar was good. It made me to correct lot of things which I used to find difficult or project it wrong. Thank you for educating me correctly. Appreciate your work. +I truly learned a lot from this course. The former confusions and misconceptions that I had in mind were now cleared. Those people considering to up their caliber in writing should take this. +pretty good!!! +This course is going well until know. +Great course to help you with the basics of grammar and punctuation. Enjoyed it a lot - Thank you, University of California! +Pretty good course to improve your basic english writing skills. +This is a high-quality introduction to Grammar and Punctuation for academic writing. The course helped clear up much misunderstanding and helped to develop personal confidence for essay writing moving forward. +This is the best course in English Grammar. +Short and nice +This course is very useful as It covers the essentials of English grammar. It's help me out of the explosion of grammar rules by presenting them in a combinatorial manner. +The course is fun and I'm learning. Thank you. +Clear and enjoyable. Not too easy not too challenging. Thanks for offering me this opportunity of personal grow. +Great +Concise, informative, and an eye-opener in terms of punctuation. Even if you think your English is impecable, this course will bring your punctuation back on track! +Finally, I can make some sense of the puctuation rules in the English language. Thank you! +These lessons are really useful and helpful. +A very good course to review grammar and punctuation rules +Awesome course +Exactly what I was looking for! Well done! +I feel this course has been specially designed for people like me who need to revive their knowledge of Grammar within little available time. Presentation of the course is concise and well-structured. Short quiz are taken at right time to reinforce the concepts. Discussions with peers are engaging. +Sometimes it is necessary to have a quick reminder of what you have seen at school! Thanks +excellent course, explained in an easy way, fully understandable! +Great refresher class for all of us who write for business and pleasure. +EXCELENT!!! I love this because I learned lots of things +This is a good overview of the basics. I enjoyed the practice exercises and interaction with fellow "classmates". +I enjoy the material and class a lot. After the class, I can use comma more aware : +The course is great to improve your writing! If you love grammar, try it and you'll be surprised with the efficient between explanations and exercises. Congratulations for the creativity for teaching grammar rules. :) Cheers. +It is a fundamental course to improve your writing skills. It is very useful for everyone who in any way writes mails +This course has improved my writing and my understanding to different types of sentences. My punctuating skills has been improved, too. +This was really helpful. I already know English, but this still helped me understand sentence structure much better. +Awesome course, I like to study more similar courses. +Great one! +Very nice course! +This is a very helpful course for improving your usage of comma. Usually, comma is a very little thing which is easily to be neglect. After having this course, I have more general understanding about the usage of comma. +This course is Concise and give you what it promises you. Have lots of comprehensive exercises which are really helpful.I highly recommend it for anyone who has a moderate to severe doubt about English Grammar and Punctuation. +Learned something new, parallel Sentences! +good to improve your learning +Good contents and practise question to help understand the knowledge and concept. +It is a great course. You can learn the basic rules for punctuating correctly. +A great course, put together in a manner to make learning easy. A lot of practice questions not only made the courmade the concepts very clear +In this course you will learn different variety of sentence structures. It is very clear, concise, and punctuate. +It was really enlightening +too short, but useful +Great refresher on grammar and punctuation. +It's a short and concise course for all learners and teachers of the English language. I've recommended it to my fellow ESL instructors.Thank you. +I am very satisfied with this course. It really helped me to improve my writing skills, and I am feeling more confident than I used to be.After this course, I am planning to take up the next one. +i love this course; I feel like a better writer already. +Excellent way to refresh and get better at writing. +Very good and very useful course. +A very good review on punctuation and tense. However, I think the course is a little too simple. I hope that the class could cover more grammar topics in depth. +I enjoyed this course, as it is well-structured and filled with useful information. +Great!!!! +It was a very interesting course especially for those who are not English native speakers. I learned a lot. +I simply loved the methodology of this course. Being my first self-paced course with lots of quizzes and assignments and participation, I thoroughly enjoyed the challenges it posed to learn new skills. I have recommended lots of friends to join this. +Very useful course for foreign English students. I appreciated your help. +Excellent material for improve writing skills! +Very helpful lesson! Thank you +Great course! Easy to understand and straightforward in its presentation... Thanks a lot! +Good lesson for me! That's great! I understand about grammar and punctuation. I am improving my skill. Thank you teacher. +Easy to follow. Nicely explained. +As a fiction writer, this class have been very helpful. +This course is helpful and I have learned quite a bit about punctuation and sentence structures.However, while things like tense are important, to be able to differentiate 12 tenses contributes relatively little to typical academic writing. Rather, I have had trouble with seemingly simple questions such as when to use past tense and when to use present tense in a literature review. But these aspects are probably the most useful when it comes to pracital writing. It would be helpful if these issues are addressed.Also, the use of articles is a common weakness for a lot of students (to "the" or not to "the"). It is helpful to include this component too. +I had a good time learning new things which are generally not told in your academics.Thanks to UCI for offering it. Best wishes. +The course is useful especially for individuals who are trying to improve their writing skills. +Very helpful course. Thank you all for putting together this excellent course material. +Very easy to follow. Videos are short but at the same time they deliver the perfect amount of information you need in order to proceed with no further problems. I loved how we review other students projects, the helps everyone to learn and succeed in class. +It was a great experience being a part of this course. It helped me a lot to review and learn what I needed the most. I would boastly recommend this course to the people who want to brush up their grammar and punctuation for better communication. +Very useful course, well-made study material. +A very good course to revise grammar and punctuation +Great course, with extensive exercises and relevant questions and follow up. +The 'Grammar and Punctuation' course was extremely helpful and challenging. The instructor is better than the teachers I had in school, therefore found her clear and concise. +The instructor explains grammatical concepts clearly with a very simple way. +it is really useful +A very good review for grammar. The teachers speaks very clearly and makes sure to explain well. I would defiantly recommend +Reviewing grammar and punctuation was a great help for the course Teaching English as a Second Language. I am glad for the refresher. +I really liked this course. It helps me to improve my grammar and punctuation knowledge in short term.I will recommend this course to my friends. +This course is very helpful, thanks. +Wonderful ! I can´t belive that such a good course like this is avaliable for free on internet globally!Thanks, Coursera ! Thanks, University of California! +This excellent course has been a great help for a non-native speaker like me to improve my writing in English. +Very usefull course! I have taken so much for myself! +Very suitable for beginners in English writing. +At my level, I found pretty interesting and effectively this course. I could put in practice in a real time, in a great balance, what I have learned. +Love this course. So easy to learn new tenses or just go through the grammar rules that you already know. +Very interesting course +The course has been very interesting and useful; however, I would have liked that my homeworks were reviewed by both the teacher and the colleagues. +The course is excellent for people, as myself, that has good base of English language, but due to a poor daily practice in the writing area forgot about the grammar rules. +Simple: Thank you for your effort. Compound : From now, I will observe when ever i read books, paper, or blog, and i will daily practice writing. Complex : Because the Instructor made the content structure vey well, made me easy to follow and understand. +I enjoyed this class! +This course is very good. It helped me a lot to learn to understand English sentence structure and punctuation. I really loved the course because the teacher doesn't patronize too much and explains quickly and well. +This course provides basic and necessary grammar for academic essay writings. Tutor is fantastic, and exercises are interactive and interesting. +achieveable and helpful! +Very useful +Well crafted course with very simple descriptive videos by a skilled Instructional Designer. +Good for the basics. Good lesson format. Although, the group component was unnecessary. +Of the English grammar courses I've enrolled to, this is the easiest to understand, not to mention enjoyable.Don't hesitate to enroll! +More excercises could serve for more practice +I found this course practical and straightforward. After I took the pretest, I found that the contents were targeted towards me. I would recommend this course to anyone who would like to know some rules and structure to improve the professionalism of their writing. +This course is a very good course. It is well structured, and it has a lot of extra tools(links) to practice more grammar. I really enjoyed this course, and I will advice it to anyone. +Very informative and easy to follow. +Great course, gist of all, but perhaps more details would make it better. +Cool +It's comprehensible course with helpful exercises :) +This course is easy to understand and straight forward. Finally, I have a better understanding of the use of commas, conjunctions, and transitions words. +This course is so nicely put together and very effective. +Well designed and neatly structured. Lots of useful information in short time. Mixture of videos, exercises and quizzes was fun, and peers interaction was invigorating. +Excellent course to brush up your grammar and punctuation. +A good course for starter. Lectures are good, but the quizzes are too easy. +This course is really useful, clear and well-organized.It is not only teaching me how to use punctuation correctly, also developing my logical thinking in English. +An excellent course! The rules are explained perfectly understandable. Moreover, the approaches are indeed useful and helpful. Thank you. +Impressive much! +Very helpful for my future projects! +Very good course and excellent refresher! +This is my first experience, and I love it. +Not very difficult, but essential. +simple and effective tips on the writing, I have learnt few rules which i can use in my regular writing. +Very useful course even for advanced learners. Lectures are also quite objective. Thanks! +Great learning experience. +Well structured course. Just to the point course with things that gets us started as quickly as possible. +Excellent course! It teaches very clearly about grammar and punctuation. It's easy to follow and understand. I recommend this to anyone who is not sure where to put that ',', ';' or '.'. Definitely worth it :) +easy to understand +Great course, a good review and a good first step in learning more about the English language. +Very informative and interesting course. +Great class +I needed a refresher and this was a perfect fit. In particular, I liked the fact that it was self-paced. +Great instructor; comprehensible course. +relatively easy +I think Punctuacion is the main topic +Simple, fast-paced and cohesive. If you want to know your shortcomings in writing, this is the course you need to enroll in. +This is going great so far! +Thank you. It was very useful +This course is very useful to me. I enjoy it . +Beautifully designed, professional demeanor, I liked the course! Strongly recommend completing this course! +Well presented and very useful. +Well structured and good content. very helpful +I would have liked some more depth in the course. While the course name says "punctuation", it deals only with commas and to a small extent, with semicolons. The assignments and practice exercises need to be tougher. Also, given that this course is taken by students from all over the globe, it should mention that the "serial comma" is not mandatory in all writing styles. +This course is simple and easy to follow. The lesson that had a great impact on me was about commas. When I learned about it's proper usage, I realized how long I'd been using commas in the wrong way! Thank you UC Irvine for this course! ;) +It's a really good course when you are trying to understand more of the grammar and improve your writing +Great! Easy to follow and comprehend +Love this course. Love the teacher she makes grammar easy. +I wish it was more in-depth at times with some grammar that is slightly relevant with the course. +Easy to see your progress during the course. It works! +Great course and beneficial one. +Excellent course! You can make it even better with concise handouts for every lesson which highlights all the main points for personal future use. +This is a great course for learners who are looking for a principal course to study or self-standardize academic writing +This course very nicely designed to improve writing skills. I liked every part of it. +It was a great course, clear, complete, easy to understand and very helpful. +Thanks a lot! This is a very helpful course! I highly recommend it for everyone who studies English! +I am finding this course very useful for me. Some places I lack using some correct verbs and sometimes not seeing parallel structure of the sentence, this course is helping me identifying those areas which are needed to be corrected. +This a great course. +I enjoyed this lecture. Thanks! +clear organization and logic +the grammar and puntuation lectures are so simple and effective. the whole course is ultimate if you want to improve your basics about writing whether it is puntuation or sentense variety, paraller structure or use of connectors, just mesmerising.Although the tenses portion was short but yet it cleared the big confusion about present perfect and present perfect continuous, present perfect and simple present.a must course for all the novice and nice work courseera!!! +It is really an amazing course. It was helpful for me a lot and the lecturer was great. Thank you. +This class is exceptionally great! It's the best review I ever had for grammar and punctuation! Thanks to Coursera!! +Great course, specially the punctuation part! +Very good course to improve your English Proficiency. +Please add a forum so that people can share their thoughts; this kind of course requires lots of general discussion! +It's very beginning. Don't start writing without graduating this course. +On week 4 and I have learned quite a few things already! +This is an excellent refresher course to brush up on grammar and punctuation. Prior to taking this course, I was an overzealous user of commas. Now, I know when to use certain punctuation and how to explain it to others. I definitely recommend this course for anyone wanting to revise English grammar and punctuation for the purpose of teaching or tutoring. +Very useful! Thanks a lot! Now I can write more effectively in English. +It was a great refresher course. It was quick and to the point.Thanks a lot. +Very complete course. Looking forward for the Specialization +One of my favorites so far +Great course +I loved this course an the instructor. I got my confidence back on my grammar and punctuation, however, need more practice to reach the perfection of my writing. The flexibility to take the courses for free of charge is very much appreciated. Thank you Tamy and UCI for your effort! +I benefit a lot from this course, I really appreciate about it. Thanks +Very well designed course where theory and practice are perfectly balanced. +A very nice and useful course +Whether you have never studied grammar and punctuation, or you need to brush up on your previous knowledge, this course is perfect to learn quickly and precisely. You get just enough theory and plenty of practice. +Very useful and easy to learn! +the course is easy to follow and the explanations are very good as well. +One of the best courses I've had the pleasure the be part of. +A very efficient and educative course. It helped me a lot. +The course helped me immensely to put my knowledge of punctuation and grammar into order. I hope it'll help me to be more confident when I start working on my own pieces of writing. +Learning a so nice and essential language for free at at home... w +This course is engaging, fun, and very informative. I would suggest everyone should take it even if English is your native tongue. It will help you understand how and why our sentences are structure and deeper understand of the language. I am thoroughly enjoying this course. I really enjoy interacting with the other students that is most fun! +This course has a very good structure and has many useful practice options. +I took this course as a refresher, and I am very happy I did so! As I love writing, I wanted to make sure I use proper grammar and punctuation, so this course really came in handy! +It most be more effective +Useful, interactive, concise, and a great confidence booster. +It's ok. +This course was extremely helpful. +Very useful, but you need to have a good base English grammar knowledge. Logically-built, well-organized course. liked it! +It's simple but amazing! This course makes me more understand tenses in English. +Super useful and easy to follow. +This course was amazing! Thank you very much. +Great Course for English writing. +Good content, but without a creative didatic. +very nicely explained. +is excellent way of learn English . i really learn so many grammar and improve my English. i need your one advise. how i improve my reading skills. and improve my speaking quality. i hope you give me advise.thank you . +Great teacher - made everything to understand. Thank you ever so much!!!!! (I know that was a terrible use of punctuation.) +This course is really the greatest one about punctuation rules I have ever known! +It explains various grammar rules in a very clear and concise manner. Eager to learn more of English grammar. +Comes in very handy when you want to improve you English fast. +This is an excellent course to review your grammar and punctuation. +So far, I have learned much.I recommend you +Awesome course!I need practice all the topics viewed here. Really really nice!Good job Coursera and California University. +This course was very helpful to me to refresh some English grammar. In particular it's good to better understand punctuation and verb tenses. +The course was short and to the point which helped me understanding the use of punctuations specially Comma and semi colon and different types of sentence structures and variety. +Very interesting and easy to understand. I like it very much! +good way to go back to the basics +Simple and powerfull! +The course is very useful. It helped me to organize my knowledge of punctuation and avoid the typical mistakes. +It is a great course for those who like to improve their writing skill. +In the last couple of weeks, I have learned more about grammar than any other classes that I had taken in high school. This course really rocks!! +Very helpful. I'm loving it +This is a great course. It solved many of my writing problems. The last part of the videos need some improvement though. +Great. I also hope you create lessons regarding vocabulary building and how to use it in articulating effective and well-written essays/sentences. +very useful and helpful +I was never strong with English, but now I am finding that the importance of this subject is forcing me to take the time to become stronger at it. This particular course is well put together, and is helping me advance and practice my English technical skills. +Short course.Please add more content to it. +The course makes you learn:a) when you have to use Simple Past or Present Perfect;b) punctuationc) how to write in clear way.There are problems with IT platform: video often stops suddenly and sometimes it is difficult to understand where you are arrived in the course. Besides, sometimes you don't immediately understand what you have to do for passing to next step of the course.To sum up, the teacher is good. IT staff could do better. +This course helped clarify the uses of commas and semi-colons and the structure of parallel structures in sentences. +The course helped me to improve my English Grammar. Now, I can write paragraphs better than earlier. +Great course. Straightforward and enjoyable! Thank you guys! +It's been a pleasure to take these classes! The teacher holds the knowledgement and the most important, in my point of view, she knows how to teach!!! Very glad I enrolled this course! +Well organized course for those who wants to improve their English Grammar. +It was really useful! +It is a very good course for people who need a good revision of english grammar and punctuation. I learn things that i did not know previously. +Great course! +This is an excellent course of study for anyone in college and online bloggers. I wish you this class was offered to bloggers on the Wordpress site. Many of the blogger do not use any form of editing program to correct their mistakes.I would recommend offering this class to all blogging sites. +The course focuses on some of the most important aspects of English grammar which are used frequently. Also, these are the topics where students tend to make mistakes. However, few additional topics could have been added to the course +What a great refresher course! The professor really simplified the content into a format that was easily understood. +Fun to whet our skills. :) +This is an excellent course. +Thanks a lot.It was helpful +Concise and to the point. The initial evaluation was precise. +Very useful! +Extremely Awesome Course what I am looking for. +This course is basic yet informative. A great refresher course with a lot of resources and practice exercises. +It was a great course. I loved it too much. Also, it helped me. Thank you so much. +An excellent course to take for those how wants to improve grammar. +most interecting classes +Very good, simple, understandable course, for everyone who want to improve his English. +Thank youhopefully. it gives more pop up quiz. So, it can reduce boring +good course with great stuff +Well explained course that makes economics intuitive! +One of the few courses I REALLY liked. Strongly recommended! +The course was extremely useful in strengthening my existing knowledge of economics and truly delivered on its objectives. Thank you! +Interesting topic, good structure, competent lecturer, high learning effect, very recommendable. +Excellent course for refreshing basic economic principles. All theory put across in the course is contexualised through real world applications and discussions. Course flows logically starting with foundational concepts and branching out into applications and interrelations. I found it gave me a sound framework for assessing business events and activities in economic terms (albeit from a high level). +Graded assignments only for the ones that purchase the course are unfair. Coursera should always allow people to do everything even if they don't purchase. Purchase should only be required for certificates. +One of the Best Course on understanding economics policy making basics. Really enjoyed the course. Get to learn a lot. Quiz and peer grading assignment are challenging and get to know how to apply the theory in practice. +An excellent course by a fine teacher. The fifth star is dropped because graded quizzes are not available unless the certificate is purchased - unlike most Coursera courses in which I am interested. +extremely good course +I found the course very useful to review some basic economic policy concepts and to improve the understanding of major economic and policy making issues that challenge both policy makers and advisers today.Prof. Gayle Allard has a real gift to explain in a clear and appealing way complex ideas and policy issues.The only objection I would have regards the peer assignment grading which I found somehow lacking in realism and accuracy. I also found that, on the discussion forums, some of the mentors replies did not completely met expectations. Having said that, I would not hesitate in recommending this outstanding course to both beginners and more advanced students and generally to anybody interested in improving his(her) knowledge of economics. Congratulations! +The best macroeconomics class that I have ever had. Very clear explanations and linking all the theory with recent and historical events. I would recommend the course to anyone regardless if you are beginner or have some idea of the macroeconomics concepts. +Loved course, loved lecturer! +Great introduction to economic policymaking. Very engaging lectures. +Excellent course! Easy to understand. +It improved my knowledge on economic policy making aspects and help me in ready statistics better. +very clear and concise +Quite informative and relevant content, I must say. +good form of assignments +Using the simplest words and the easiest-to-get way to describe the macro policy making. one of the best courses I've had on Coursera. Thanks a lot. +The Course is simple yet informative. Sometimes we ignore very simple yet strong concepts. This course is very good for beginners. Also useful for those who wish to brush up their concepts. +The explanations are very intuitive and comprehensible. The lecturer did a great job and simulators provided are as good. Thank you +This course is awesome and really understandable for Economics students +Although you cannot do the assignments unless you upgrade, I learned so much. Prof. Allard was very clear, and gave many great resources that I have used in other courses. This class shaped my political opinions on fiscal issues and helped me to understand the implications of tax and welfare reform in terms of the general public. This online course was definitely on par with and a great supplement to my Ivy-league education. I would highly recommend this to anyone who is studying social sciences. +Crisp and clear explanation of complex topics +Although the course was very useful, I couldn't complete the course due to an assignment. The assignment is very unrealistic and the graders don't give any feedback!! The assignment is open ended question and not difficult but took significant time, when I submit I was unable to pass. +The course is very much tailored and suits the one who would need a clear understanding on the Fiscal and Monetary Policies. Much more it is easier to understand with the examples presented and instructor Gayle had put it together effectively in the course. +Love the lectures! +Thanks everyone that help to do this course a exemple of excellence instruction, specially to Gayle. Thanks very much. +Very well organized, I must say. The course takes a light start from the fundamentals and then jumps to the economic intricacies of the world. +The lecturer is great, making points clear and the whole logic easy. Love this course~ +Excellent course to gain macroeconomic fundamentals, even for people without economics background.Wide range of questions in the discussion forum helps you clarify various queries you might have.Overall, i am very satisfied. +This course is well worth a student's time and effort. There are excellent presentations by the professor, but in it's current format the course is too short for the amount of technical knowledge implicit in the material. In addition, the quizzes are poorly written. Some questions are asked at the end of modules when the subject of the question is not even introduced until the following module. Further, for some questions the right answer is either not given in the choices presented or the grading protocol doesn't recognize the correct answer. Some questions ask what answer is "most correct" which implies that there is a strong element of subjective judgement involved in its formulation. The student is allowed only one attempt at a quiz every 8 hours, where many other Coursera courses allow 3 attempts every 8 hours, which is more conducive learning and retaining the material due to the instant feedback. Finally, there are several "NOT" or 'opposite answer' questions which are valid but confusing, so the student must be careful when answering.Recommendations: 1. Add at least three more sessions to the class and spread the technical material out over more sessions. 2. Rewrite the quiz question set to clarify what you are asking, and make certain the material was covered in the module you are assessing. 3. Don't use 'what is the best answer' ("most correct") type questions, they are ALL too subjective to be fair. 4. Recheck the grading protocol to make certain it is properly evaluating the answers. +Excellent Course! A Must do Course for a better understanding of the world around you. Gayle is an excellent teacher and gives you a great basis to be more aware of whatas going on out there in the economic persective and give you a critical thinking as well if what is being done really is the way we should go foward I defenetely recommend this course. +Its just clear and simply real. +The best thing about the course is that it doesn't seem rushed. Everything is explained at a good pace. Moreover, the syllabus is quite unique in the sense that it seamlessly connects theory with the real world. +Great Course. +Very good, absolutely essential for understanding current affairs! +Concepts very well explained by Gayle. People from all backgrounds can understand this course. Looking forward to many more courses from her. +Really i like this course, because you can learn more with the software created for this seminary! but i would like that this course would have a second part, that would be awesome! +Really amazing +This class is organized in a very clear and logical way. The instructor is very knowledgeable and conveyed her teaching clearly. This is one of a few Coursera classes that i get the most benefits from. +Love this class. Gayle is great. Taking it again. I will continue to refer to it. Gayle breaks the concepts down into bites that you can digest. +Great course! Very clear and well paced. +This module is quite informative but easy to understand. I believe Prof has put a lot of efforts into the designing of this course. +i need more of this course please +Excellent, excellent course! All you need to know about basic economic concepts that allow you to follow a country's macro-economic performance and intelligently participate in economic policy debates. Professor Gayle is great at explaining complex concepts in an easy-to-understand manner. Highly recommend this for country and risk analysts or anyone interested in current affairs. +Excellent explanations, and very creative assignments such as the policy simulator and the peer-reviewed assignments. +Anyone aspiring to understand world economics would benefit a lot from this course +very interesting course developed with high pedagogical approach +Amazing Course for students from all backgrounds who are interested in the basics of Economics and hoe The world economics work. The excellent delivery of Prof Gayle Allard and her easy to understand examples was a big help. A must do course. +For understanding economic policy making this course is phenomenal.... +Best course yet, a simple to understand teaching approach to a complex concept. +Gayle was an outstanding lecturer. I have little economics background and I was able to follow all lessons quite well. Videos were of perfect length, not too long. I enjoyed the graphs, etc in presentations as well as the questions in the middle of a video (to see if we were paying attention). Quizzes were very helpful. The big assignment with the simulator took some time but was worth it. It brought together all ideas and I think it taught me a lot.This was my 1st coursera course so i think the bar is set very high. +This course was very helpful for me to know about the indicators that gives you the hint about how healthy the economy is ! This course allowed me to read the news about economics, how to interpret the figures mentioned in the news, how good the policy makers are whether appropriate/inappropriate considering the situation, where the rest of the countries stand in todays world. On top of it assignments and final exam made my understanding even deeper and precise. Thanks to IE Business school and Coursera platform for offering such a wonderful course for a begineer like me. +Great introduction to the field +Great insights, I now feel like I am macro-economically literate and I will be using this information when interviewing and now possible grilling certain politicians in my town!Thank you Gayle! +Good course, well structured. Just needs some technical improvements in order to be able to review wrong / right answers in quizzes.Nice to have a second more advanced course in this topic.Joaquín +Please reconsider the peer reviewed assignment as it is not very transparent and inefficient. +An excellent course. The lecturer was engaging, the material was interesting - I have a basic economics foundation and I found that my understanding of these basics improved, even while I feel much more empowered to have an opinion on policymaking in the world.It was great to be able to complete a project even though the course is on-demand. +This is a great intro to economics. It's a timeless subject that is explained very well by Professor Allard of IE, Madrid. I would recommend this course to anyone. +A short course very well explained. it covers key points in economics, thus making the understanding of economic policymaking easy. very well explained by the instructor. look forward to doing similar courses. +Excellent overview economics course. Dr. Allard does a fantastic job explaining basic economic concepts and principles so that a novice can better understand this one critical aspect of their world. +Easy and short. Good introduction into how government can influence real economy. +This course would help you better understand the basics of macroeconomics and how economic policies affect the performance of a country. +Thoroughly enjoyed this class. It was a great refresher, educational and informative. I found it very easy to follow and keep up with. +Great course from a substantial University and also a great Professor. The course is very well organized and the Professor conveys difficult concepts with an understandable way. You not only will be able to read newspapers and understand what is going on the economy, yet you will get the knowledge to see behind politics. A well educated citizen can make good decision. +It's the best economic course that i have ever seen. Gayle Allard is the teacher from God ;) +Well presented. +Everything excellent, especially using IT for explaining with graphics. However, I think it needs a bit development on quizzes. +This course is one of the most well organized and easy to follow and understad, in the same way it is very compitable with the Idea of online learning , it is not boaring not long and right to the pointkeep it up +Very nicely and comprehensive taught. Material is supported with lots of graphs and multimedia that makes it more exciting. Short quiz questions are incorporated into the videos to keep the students alert, and the articles provided as a mandatory reading keep the link with the real world. I think the corse makers did a fantastic job! +Very good course. The final assignment was 'stretching' and I enjoyed this challenge! +VERY INFORMATIVE AND INTERESTING +Excellent. I really enjoyed watching the lectures +Excellent course and very enjoyable teacher. Tough assignment but well worth the effort. Really made economics very interesting +Amazing course, allows for an accumulative learning process very well designed. +what an awesome course! The Lecturar makes complex things appear simple. Highly recommended. +Difficult topics made made to understand. +Very insightful, explaining the basics to those who didn't know much about macroeconomics. +great course +Dear Professor Gayle Allard,Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and time with us.Regards, +Great intro to macroeconomic policies for the uninitiated / semi-initiated. Prof. Gayle Allard's teaching style makes a world of difference. Her methodical approach towards making an inference and reaching a conclusion is probably the best I've seen amongst all the teachers I've ever had. +Please decrease the time between the retake of the quizz! I can't wait for 7 days in order to retake a quizz! +it is a great course especially for those who like to work upon different models and practise their on results. Gayle has been outstanding throughout with her complete, clear and crisp explanations and diagrammatic representations. It provides a great insight into real life applications and reasonings. Great effort ! Kudos ! +Great course for people with limited notions on economic policymaking. Great to-the-point videos and quizzes that give an excellent picture which perfectly fits today's policymaking frame.After taking this course I think I can fully understand what the newspapers talk about regarding economic policymaking +Very interesting and useful course. Really enjoyed it. Thanks!!! +I have learnt a lot from this course. Thank you so much for making this course available in Coursera. +Very good content, instructors, materials and exercise. I give 5 stars with a small remark: Some technical issues, grading and recognition enhancements, would leave this course even better. +Thoroughly enjoyed the course. Starting from zero, I have reached somewhere in this topic. +This is a very good course to understand macro economics & how to read current world economic scenario. I did this course once in past & I am not taking it again. It is good to do once in 6 months until you master it... +This is a very useful course for understanding economic policymaking. After studying this course, I can read and understanding many economic articles and infer the consequences of new economic policy issued by government. It also helps me understand how a new economic policy issued by another country can affect to economic situation of my own country. +Very nice material, goes directly to the point.Very practical approach.For those interested in the Keynesian economic view, altough not explicited in the material this is the Economic School chosen for the course. +Excellent course! Truly remarkable and eye-opening! I loved it!! +The best course for learning macroeconomics +Very good course. Explained in a clear and interesting way by the professor. Thank you. +great profesor. interesting topic, definitely recommend it +Subject is Great .. but no Verified Certificates +cool course and good quality +Gayle Allard is simply an outstanding teacher.Strongly reccomended, this is my thirteenth course with Coursera. I've so liked this course the first time, that I'm doing it again. With IE Business I've attended "Critical Perspectives on Management" by Rolf Strom-Olsen, outstanding Too. +The course is well structured and helps us understand the basic fundamentals in economic policy making, +Thank you so much for instructing Ana Pelayo. +Excellent foundation course; particularly helpful was the use of metaphors. The weekly essays were thoughtful statements that encouraged reflection on what had been learned. +Very interesting and fun to learn! +Wow, I learned so much in this course. I was able to apply what I was learning every week to my teaching, and I am telling you every week I was seeing instant positive results in my classes by applying what I learned in this course. Freaking amazing, I was drowning so to speak up until I found this course because I was teaching but I didn't really know how to teach, but when you're abroad, the opportunity to teach is so available, people will hire you without much experience at all, but I found myself wanting to give more to my students than just a warm body in the room. I wanted to make it fun and interesting for them, and I wanted them to actually learn stuff too. I didn't quite know how to go about it, I didn't know which techniques were good and/or bad. This course, in a nutshell, taught me all of that and more. Great stuff, best money spent this year. So worth the money, seeing how much I got back from it immediately. +I would make it a 5 but this course will not list on my "completed courses" and that annoys me. +Great course so far. The videos are great and the amount of time needed to go through the course is perfect for working professionals. +The amount of material was just enough to achieve it besides working. Videos were interesting and enjoyable to watch. I will definitely continue the course +unprecedented course +The course provides essential and relevant information and good techniques and tips and examples. The teaching method is vivid and impressive. Thank you for making this course. I can learn a lot from it. +Great course. Greetings from Egypt. :) +I really suggest to everyone to take these all courses. Because for fututre English teachers it is the best course online to take and to know all aspects of metod of teaching. +Very Informative and well presented. +Very good course!!!! It teaches a lot!!! +I am able to become a better teacher of English thanks to this course! +I like this course, it is really helpful! The teachers are awesome! +Engaging and informational! I've tried a different TESOL program and wasn't happy. This is the best! +Resourceful insights for me to start ESL learning experience! +Wonderful and amazing course provided by ASU. I highly recommend this for any teacher of ESL or TEFL or CELTA. What a beautiful MOOC. Well done. Great content. Amazing teachers! +I loved it! I feel like a learned a lot about teaching a language and it makes me feel like I might actually enjoy teaching more. +Wonderful Class! I learned so much from the instructors here that I just want to reach out and hug them! :) Thank You So Much for this opportunity! +Great course! Funny, interesting, and captivating. All this, while getting the message across. +This course is essential for anyone who wants to be a language teacher. I have taken an online advance TESOL certificate but unlike it, TEACH ENGLISH NOW! Foundation Principles course is what I needed: the video lectures, the readings were all presented clearly and the tasks are reasonable. It's refreshing for those who have been teaching English for a long time who might be thinking of giving up or who might be very tired by now, this course is just invigorating ! +I Love this course, and I need more reviewing from you +Very interesting +Wonderful course!! I'm so glad I did it! The professors are great!! Loved all the explanations and exercises!! +Excellent course, but where is my certificate? +Pretty basic stuff. +This is an awesome experience and a fine way of learning. +Unique and incredible Course,Thank you so much,Highly appreciated,Abduladheem Hashem +The course very helpful, easy to understand, the teachers made the course great with the great method of teaching.Thanks for providing such a great course. +Amazing, thank you all. +Very informational. I really learnt a lot from this course and definitely recommend it to everyone who is teaching. Not necessarily English, but if you teach music, maths, etc... this can be a very useful course. +The best andrewarding course that I have ever seen. +This course is excellent, I learn a lot from my peer teachers and every video and test make me a better teacher +Dr. Shane Dixon, Jessica Cinco, and Dr. Justin Shewell make the course so fun and engaging that you almost feel that you are doing no work at all. They used metaphors and skits which made material which could have been boring and tedious, exciting and easy to remember. Non-native English speakers will find this course easy to follow, as the instructors do not speak too fast nor use advanced vocabulary where unnecessary. They present theory, but this course teaches on another level as you can see how the instructors themselves implement these theories in the way they teach you the course. It says that the course takes six weeks, but if you work hard you can finish it in one. +The course is great. I enjoyed every minute of it. +The course is easy going and broke down into an easy way to pase yourself week after week. +I really really liked this course. I think that is very sliding and enjoyable. +This is a great course that is presented in a way that makes learning easy. +this course reminded me of the importance in encourage the students in learning english in an interactive and motivated way letting them take control in their learning as well as the teacher in order to create the best astmosphere for the students! +My teaching has improved exponentially since I started taking this course. Thank you all! - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. +Although the information provided by the course is good, I do find it a bit difficult to listen to the videos. In truth, I typically read through the transcripts instead of watching them. I understand the the professor is attempting to provide an interesting and engaging experience, but I end up feeling as though I'm being talked to like I'm a child. +I'm only rating this course 3 stars because it's just too easy. The information is good (what there is of it) and is presented well. It's just that the amount of effort needed to pass is minimal.For example, the fifth week had fewer assignments than the previous weeks, and the six week was only a quick review.The problem I have with these courses being so easy is that online courses already suffer from the widespread view that they're not as valuable as a "real" in-person course. So, when yet another one of these online courses is incredibly easy to pass, it only adds fuel to those people's arguments and reduces the overall value of the certificate of completion.I want my certificate to mean something. Please stop watering down these courses! Ditch the pay you pass mentality. Include more material to read. Make the tests longer and more difficult. Because, as they are, they don't even compare in difficulty to the junior college courses, much less the university courses, I've taken in the past. +I can say Just Excellent course, and also very interesting lectures and professional teachers +This was truly an amazing experience. I learned so much and know that my teaching has improved since taking this course. +When I started TESOL course, I didn't quite understand this module. Now, I'm almost at the end of part 2 of this course, and finally, I have a better understanding some this foundational principles. It's a great course for anyone who wants to understand basics of pedagogy. +Excellent course, very interesting lectures and professional teachers))))) +I have been an ESL teacher for many years, still found this course very helpful. Recommend it to anyone who wants to teach English. +Great course +GREAT 101! CLEAR, WELL STRUCTURED. HELPFUL. +The best course ever!!! +I am so happy to have an opportunity to learn this course. It gave me a crucial insight on how to teach English and motivate both students and myself. +I was motivated to go to my course everyday!!It was exciting and meaningful at the same time. +I have never studied any online lesson that is fascinating like this one. +Exceptional Course. Loved it :) +absolutely great course! +This course is really helpful for educators and those who are studying to become one. Great course! +a really helpful course. i get to know a lot of useful knowledge. thank you! +This course provides fundamental principles for learners to get familiar with teaching English, and it paves the way for further education for TESOL. +It's so important and helpful course. Thank you very much Coursera! +Thank you very much! I really loved all the lectures! +My name is Erik Ramirez from Guatemala. I really enjoyed this fantastic program. I liked the fact that you not only get the theory but also can apply it in your classrooms obtaining great results. I highly recommend this program. +I can not thank enough all of our professors in this course especially Dr. Shane!I have gain a lot of insights about language acquisition and various teaching techniques. +low-level content for people with no teaching background +Pretty basic stuff but you have to take it to advance to presumably more interesting material +Thanks to coursera and university of Arazona for this great course ..I enjoyed it so much,,It will be of a great help for my career..Special thanks to the instructors +Easy, accessible program. Very happy I signed up for this course, and I am looking forward to the next class in the series. +Easy to follow, great information. I learned quite a few things in this course. +Absolutely excellent principles, techniques and outcomes! A new world opened for me. Excellent! A truly 3rd-millennium course! +Great course! +It helped me a lot in improving my teaching skills. I really suggest this course to any teacher. Lisa +thanks to all teachers and students i am so happy to being here with you. this course help me to see my skills level and teach me to how can i improve them. i am a students of English language teaching and i am the one of the future teacher with this course i will be a good teacher and i will guide my students according to what i learned here. it is very useful for future teachers. thanks for everything. +Great course!! Thanks! +This was an excellent class to take to prepare teachers and to remind teachers why we love our jobs, it was thoroughly enjoyable. +Dr. Shane Dixon is great! +I have just finished this course and got high grades. I cannot wait to start the next one but I think the next is more difficult.Highly recommended course +Thank you for giving me this precious courseI have learned a lot of things from youThank you for your effort. +It is really amazing and it's a must to be a professional teacher. +It was a big pleasure to be part of this course. Planning to enrol next course in Specialisation. +I am very glad of having the opportunity to take this module, Dr. Shane and his colleagues were wonderful. I was very delighted with the explanations and finally I am processing all that information to apply it in future classes.Thank you very much. +Great overview +Such talented teachers, entertaining videos, a great place to explore to see if ESL teaching is something you'd enjoy for free before committing to a certification. +Thank you for the course. It was exciting and helpful. I enjoyed it very much and gained m +Course was good but I thought more could of been added to the content to make more understandable. For ex. videos +This course he +I have learned a lot from this course even I have taken the TEFL from USA .the teachers and the teaching methods in this course are so good .i have learned many teaching techniques from the teachers than the material it self specially DR.shwan +A really good course, giving you the needed foundation on what is required when becoming a language teacher. +This is a wonderful and friendly course that, at any moment, seems relatively easy yet conveys a smart and sensible pedagogy to help students acquire a language. Each week's coursework lays out a simple metaphor, yet that chain of ideas leads to some very sensible ideas like how one shouldn't feed English to students the way one feeds corn to geese for paté, but, rather, that students should be motivated to teach themselves by immersing themselves in language communities. So this course was a lot of fun, yet in only a few weeks I've learned more about pedagogy than I did on a five-year English-teaching trip around the world. +My thoughts on this course is that it is excellent and all teachers should have it. +Good Course. Would have been nice to have some more interactive bits. +the course was really informative and helpful, especially some theories and studies are 2007 and i just knew about since i graduated in 1995, I think all teachers should do these courses regularly,and we hereby thank Coursera and ASU and all those who make it happen and I will go forward with the second course for sure, wish me Luck.Mustafa. +It has been a very good course for me. Interesting, it stimulates me to continue my training :) +Great way to introduce us to the joy of Teaching English. It explains many resources to get an idea of how could you do it the right way on Teaching English, tips and advices and the best techniques for learning and acquiring English as a foreign or second language. +happy from the coursera.. +is a very fun and all the course in interesting, all the information contain a great amount of evidencethank a lot +Very informative. Although an introductory course, this program was full of teaching techniques and principals that every prospective and current teacher should acquire and implement in to their own lesson plan and style. +Thank you so much for this opportunity to learn. I come from a precarious environment of social disorders, and I now have the means to an end. It looks it will be a very good journey... thank you! +one of the best courses that I have ever attended +This is class is great. It helps put teaching a foreign language in an applicable way. +Great course to anyone who wants to teach second languages. +Thoroughly enjoyed it. +Already, I am learning a lot about teaching English to speakers of other languages! I am also able to sharpen some old skills and learn some new ones. +I loved it! +Thanks ASU for the Certificate and thanks for the tremendous knowledge they share, I am very delighted to learn a lot from you!I have to admit that you have set a great balance between delievering a lot in even very short video lectures! You did a great job! Many thanks.. +I really enjoyed the class. The videos were interesting, entertaining, and educational. +Good course, i have learn alot of thing +In the first week the course gave a bonus video called Teacher Talk. This could be gave for each week, a great lecture based on theories and techniques taught during the course, recorded from real world classes. +Great course,The Instructional videos are done in a way that they are easy to understand. +A great course with easily understandable information and materials. +Great course! +An amazing course , with great content , it was so interesting I was addicted to it.Five star recommendation +Interesting and very entertaining! +Great class! +Great course and excellent teacher! I like it so much! +Great intro to how to teach and what it makes it to learn. I started using what I have been learning here right away in my ESL teaching practice. Great job. I highly recommend the course. +A smart course! I love it! +It was great to spend time with you! All these principles, I knew them intuitively, but you helped a lot to build a structure in my head! Thanks a lot!!! +It is useful and quite helpful. +It was a great experience!!! I recommend it, i learned a lot +A thoroughly enjoyable and useful course. +I love this course. It is really useful to my career. Thank you +it is very good program and I really enjoyed learning it. +Thank you! This is a fun and useful class. +Great course! +I love this course! Wanted to say Thank you to our teachers of this course! Something i already knew and something was really interesting and new for me :) Nice course and Awesome (with the capital A, of course) teachers :) +The course was really amazing, I loved the didatic of the course, all the metaphors from Dr. Shane helped me a lot . The disign of the course was clean and easy to undertand and the quality of the videos simply perfect.I will suggest all my friends that are teachers to do the course. +I highly recommend this course for those who wish to learn and teach English as a Second Language. I am so grateful for the opportunity to be in this program where I have learned a great deal right from the very beginning of this course up to the last discussion of the topic... that I couldn't help but finished the course earlier than the usual scheduled date... and that I have to rate this course TEN (from 1-10 where ten is the highest). It was such a nice experience to learn something new, or even if some aspects I learned it before but I have gained a tremendous, in-depth knowledge and solid foundation about this course: like the use of metaphors, the Grasser's theory of intrinsic motivation, the Vygostky's scaffolding, Body Language and the teachers talk, the i+1 learning, the 80/20 rule, the diffuse mode and focused mode of learning and more!. And one thing that I really enjoyed more was the assumptions or the essential questions in the assignment which involved critical thinking. Thank you so much for this course, and to all the staff who created this language learning website, to the staff behind the scene and especially to Dr. Shane Dixon thank you for generously sharing your knowledge and expertise on this field. I salute you! Very impressive!!! Thank you! +Great course! Great instructors! Great teachers and content. I strongly recommend to green horn teachers as well as experienced teachers. Thanks for this course! I will finish this specialization even both parts))) +Great course! +Amazing course, I fully recommend it to anyone who want to improve his/her educational techniques.Greetings and thanks ASU/Coursera +Excellent!I enjoyed leaning this course.It helped me to recollect my teaching experiences into the theories taught by my instructors of the Teach English Now; and share experiences of the teachers from the global society of education who participated in the course. +A very helpful course on English teaching! +the best one i like it +very useful course +It is the best course. I believe The certificate Is surely going to be beneficial for my career. +There was interesting information in the class, but the peer review questions were not well developed to stimulate thought and new ideas. Many of the answers I read were just repetitions of what was learned in class. I think the objectives and expectations could have been more clearly communicated and the statement themselves better thought out. I also did not find the peer review process to be that productive as a grading tool. The parameters for grading were extremely simple and the feed back was quite subjective from students that did not understand the assignments.While I learned some useful information, I won't continue with this course. +a perfect experience - thanks! +you are great thank you :) +A little too basic in my point of view. +This was an outstanding introduction to teaching English, but as a practicing teacher of a different subject, I found it helpful for teaching any subject. I strongly recommend this course! +Excellent course! It really surprised me how easy it was to understand all the concepts show, and yet all these concepts are really useful. As someone that loves education, these is a really good introduction into the teaching world. +Very useful. +Good course I useful from first part but I have a problem with verify +It is all an excellent job and excellent combination between instructors, course, and Coursera platform. Well done. And good luck all. +this is one of the most enjoyable courses i have ever attended ! +The discussions in the last three week were shallow. However, I liked the first three weeks. I really appreciate your work. Thanks +Perfect Course! +I have learned more techniques on how to have my pupils master their skills. The foundational principles are so helpful in dealing with issues on how to deal on ample time for acquiring the language. And this principles is not only applicable to language but on all the learning areas. I find it great and helpful..More power to all of you.GODSPEED. +This course is a great introduction to the principles of teaching English. +I not only learned from this course but I had a lot of fun while learning. It was like I'm seeing the theme of teaching in action in front of my eyes. +Very interesting and useful course.Thanks a lot ! +I really enjoyed course 1, it was easy to understand and follow! I only wish that I could get my papers scored faster so it shows as complete.... still I can work at my own pace (fast) and earn my certificate so I can get to the good stuff... working as a teacher! +It's great for anyone interested in teaching ESL!!! I strongly recommend it +It is a recommended course for any teachers out there. Even though this course is focusing on teaching English language, I find that it is still helpful for teachers of any other subjects, even other languages! I thoroughly enjoy weekly assignment even though I have to admit that I didn't complete some by the end of the week. But, it is all on me because I am responsible for my own learning. Good luck to everyone who is taking this course and anyone who will be taking this course! Cheers! +I really did enjoy taking this course. The information that I received helped me to implement new ideas and concepts into my language classroom. It also made me stop to think "Why do I teach?" I think looking at your own personal motivation helps you to remember and develop a better strategy to use inside your language classroom. +thanks for every thing , the most thing i loved in this course is to not being an actor , and i hope you to find a more better way to activate students and teacher communication +I like this class so much, let me get lots of new information for professional English language studying. +Awesome Education. +It was a very useful course. The ideas were simplified by giving simple examples which are not easily forgotten! +I really enjoyed the course, I had a great experience and learnt a lot over the weeks with this Foundational Principles. Looking forward for the next step. +Really.. Awesome Course :) +A very useful course! I like it so much! +it was really great course. thank you +Excellent course with relevant content, good directions and easy to grasp. +Engaging and thought provoking. Wonderful course! +I found this class very enjoyable. The professors were engaging and informative and the workload was reasonable. +I am happy I did this course it was really an eye opener. +I highly recommend this. It is very informative. +Absolutely amazing course for building the Foundation Principles. The teachers are extremely helpful and teach the course in the most effective and fun way. Arizona State University have taken a great initiative by starting the Teach English Now course. +I love the course and it is so useful.The Lecturers are so wonderful even thougth all the lessons are on the video but I really can feel their efforts to make the course more approachable and easier to catch up.The principles and techniques introduced about language learning are really pratical and scientific.Besides, reading other learners' assignment is also beneficial to me!Love it soooooooo much!I will keep on learning as soon as I've got spare time!Hope I can get the final certificate!Thank you all who have made contribution to making this course! You guys are just awesome! +Excellent course. Wonderful opportunity to understand TEFL principles and to comprehend learning from the student's point of view. +great foundation course, gets you working on a knowledge portfolio! +perfect.I liked it very much.Thanks +Easy to follow and understand +I would not refer anyone to this course. Although the content is well done, the tech piece of the course is sooooooo frustrating. At one point during the course I kept rating and rating my peersʻ assignments and the system would not accept it. I later found out there was some kind of tech issue. There was NO communication from Coursera whatsoever regarding this--no email, nothing to me or the class as a whole. So, we just had to keep checking and submitting ratings to see if it would finally be accepted. I find this bizarre, to say the least. Now, I am in the third course and the SAME thing is happening! I work full time, have a second job, go to school, raise two boys as a single parent and time is of the essence for me! I do not have time to waste! I keep wasting my time with tech issues. That is so disturbing. Somehow or another we should be kept abreast of tech platform problems. This is crazy. +Awesome course, very helpful! +Excellent instructors and information! I am looking forward to continuing learning useful tools in the next course of this serie. +Thank you for creating the course! It must have cost you a lot of effort and I really appreciate it. Thank you for all the wonderful and shrewd metaphors that helped me visualise certain problems. You are great :-) +Truly amazing course. Expecially Dr. Shane Dixon who is an embodiment of what he is teaching throughout the course. I have learned a lot and also enjoyed a lot. Planning to continue with the specialization. Thank you so much, Coursera and Arizona State University! I'm you fan! +Very inspiring and practical! +This course was engaging and opened my eyes to concepts I never considered. +wonderful course! +It's Interesting. +It has been an exceptionally bright insight into the world of ESL, with clever partecipants, and wonderful teachers. +Great teachers, fantastic techniques and information. My only complain is that the certificate doesn't comes with the number of hours. +I like watching these training videos, I leaned a lot from it +I loved this course. Thank you Coursera! +Great way of teaching through metaphores. I found it very interesting and useful. +it was really fantastic +Great, I learned many useful and interesting things. +I had a very positive experience with Teach English now. Thank you +Great course that introduces the foundational principles required to teach english efficiently. The course is very well designed and supported by enthusiastic videos... +I really enjoyed this course. The video lessons were very interesting, and at times quite humorous, which made the content quite clear and easy to understand. I am highly satisfied with the knowledge that I gained. +I loved the format and the practical ideas and instruction given during this course. I've learned so much I can immediately apply to my English classes! +excellent course thanks Arizona from Egypt +Very inspiring. Thanks! +There are issues with submitting assignments (failure to process submission in Coursera).Peer reviews may not be the best solution, as we have to wait a long time for our work to be reviewed! +Hi! Thanks so much for having this course for free, that gives me an idea if I actually want to pay for it or not. The teachers are really great. I hope to join this course again as soon as I can pay for it!Great job guys!!! +I was very lucky to join this course and the rest to capstone1. I'm waiting eagerly to complete the second part of the Teaching English Now!. So I advice whoever wants to join it not to hesitate and go on. +well organized, user friendly, brief but informative, based on videos (nevertheless, a transcription is always provided), if you are fond of metaphors you will definitely enjoy it. you have a choice to prepare a video clip (if you prefer the spoken language) or an essay (if you prefer the written language) for each assignment +It's very useful though theoretical course,there are many advice how to teach; methods,approuches and devices.It's a ineresting view with metaphors and psychological articals,learning strategies and recommendation how to keep professional without burning out but being bright candle with appealing fire .Not only burning to teach but ignite this fire in your students! I appreciate for this course and I hope it will be better and interesting in further parts. +What a great course with so important tools to learn how to teach english! +Great course! +it was great +In love with our profe! +Entertaining videos, and interesting written assignments to think about about language and how we teach and learn it. +This is an amazing course! The contents are great so as the instructors. +Great course. Essential for every ESL teacher. +I learned a lot of things . +simple and easy to understand and practice. +ASU has done a great job of putting together materials to present the ideas needed to teach English as a second language. It's far and away the most well organized and presented class I've taken through Coursera. I am auditing the class so I can't speak to the response times and response quality of the instructors but the forums seem active and I did get responses to my questions within a week. I look forward to enrolling for the certificate next year. +This course is light, easy to learn and to digest information. I can apply a lot of teaching techniques from this course! Thank you very much, teachers from ASU and facilitators for this course! +thanks for giving a great opportunity +Great, interesting course. All videos produced on the high level, definitely, by professional language teachers. I will suggest this course to my friends! I have learned a lot of new and useful information. +Great course with an outstanding teacher.I learned a lot more information than I expected. +I really enjoy the videos +This was a great refresher! I really enjoyed the process and it was well done. The information was not too much and there were many tools to help me understand, digest and assess the material. +It is very helpful for me! +Just the beginning now but a really great one !Love the content, the teachers videos are really well made and explanatory.I found the Coursera platform really well fabricated and intuitive.Everything is set to give us the best chances to thoroughly learn and earn that awesome life changing license ! +I learned something useful, thank you +very interesting & engaging & enriching course content . Dr.shane is wonderful in his presentation. +I learned a lot! Totally recommended. +Great course if you are thinking of teaching or if you're learning another language. +Amazing, I really enjoyed the first part of the course +A thoroughly enjoyable experience. Well done . Information plus inspiration. +This course is great! It has really got me excited about teaching English in China. All the concepts are explained clearly and with metaphors that make you think a bit deeper than you might have otherwise. And if you do all the courses in their Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) series (8 in total), you earn yourself a coveted TESOL certificate! Good luck! +for novice teacher that's what they need +I have just finished the first course of this specialization. I don't expect it all to be as easy as this was for me. I'd say the coolest thing, the way I see it is that, throughout the whole course, they never talked about grammar or rules, rather about how we learn best; how students are affected by teachers; pitfalls of teacher burnout, how to's a few, and how not to, yes, but they mostly stayed toward the positive. Sure, there were some things which might be a little exclusively for language teaching, but I'd say, more, really, the things they explained were about teaching and learning in general. Anyway, I can get that grammar stuff out of books , on the net, or even on the Youtube. It's what makes me a good or a better or a worse or a useless teacher I want to learn. And up until NOW, it's exactly THAT they've been helping me with. One real waker-upper was when they suggested that neither the world, nor the classroom is ever (and never going to be) perfect. THAT was a load off my mind, and one of the most encouraging teacher helps I've EVER had: like, "Don't look at what you don't have, but what you DO have is what makes you a "professional"! (even if the lights go out!) Many Thanks! ---Rey Hudson +The course is excellent.The staff is excellent. +Thank you, thank you very much. I highly recommend this course. +In a word: Great! Great content, organization, great teachers! +i will love English with you +I just want to say thank you so much to Dr.Shane Dixon, Dr.Justin Shewell and Jessica Cinco for the wonderful job :) Love all of you . +Great course. Thanks +I learned a great deal, great explanations! My concept of teaching has greatly matured thanks to th +Great course, thanks! +Thanks, this course is an evidence of the advantages of a mooc and a good use of the technology, i learned a lot and i'll keep in mind all your advice. I want to go through all the courses of the specialization, even though i don't have the $$ to purchase for the courses certification, the important thing is that i'm learning a lot and my future first students will be the real certification and rectification of what i have leaned, giving my best self to teach them. Teachers. You are awesome. thanks +The teachers are amazing! Thank you! +I loved it! You're very good at motivating us to become better language instructors! Thank you so much! +That was an awesome course which was represented greatly by an amazing professionals . Special thanks to Dr. Shane Dixon and see you soon in the reset of the courses of the TESOL socialization. +Excellente course, loved the material! +I love this program. The content is amaizing, weel done, well prepared, concise, well explained... I love all the courses of this University!! +Great course! I loved it! :) +amazing teachers, content, smooth learning curve. Very practical and useful knowledge for the classroom teacher. +This was a fun and thoughtful introduction to foundational principles of teaching. +Happy to have found this course! Very informative. +I learned a lot here! +This class is very easy. It is a decent introduction, but has very little content. It is clearly made to be accessible to people from all around the world, and takes the content very slowly. The test questions ask you to recite information from the video lectures and reading, rather than thinking critically. It seems like they are just trying to make sure you watched/read the content and understood it, rather than making sure you acquired the knowledge. I guess it would be hard to grade essay questions in a class this big, but the content could go a little faster. +It was great. Looking forward to completing the rest of them. +this is amzing course. i really got high benefit of it. thanks coursera . thanks my lecturers. +great classes +Great, easy to follow course! +i like this course +Very useful! +I've learned a lot of usefull things! Thank you! +Thank you so much for this course! It was a wonderful path! Hope, I'll finish all the courses for TESOL certificate and will communicate with mentors not only as guides in teaching, but with experienced colleguages! As well as with classmates, it's great that we can create a network of ESL professionals! Thank you, Coursera! +Energetic teacher and well organized schedule +Great course +A great course, I love it. +very useful course I would definitely recommend to friends +Fantastic course. The lectures are clear, fun and tailored to the needs of teachers seeking to develop the fundamentals of the art of teaching. +I love this instructor and the course. I highly recommend these courses. +Great course on teaching! +This is an excellent course as an introduction to language teaching. Loved how the entire course was scaffolded and built upon very important language teaching techniques. I highly recommend this course for those interested in becoming a TESOL Instructor or as a review for teachers who are already teaching. I am very satisfied!! +Teach English Now! Foundational principles is an easy, understandable and almost intuitive first step towards a TESOL certificate. The course professors seem to be genuinely enthusiastic people. +This was my first online experience and I found it to be excellent and hope to complete many other courses -- what an excellent way to promote life long learning! +Love the pace of the course. The short videos. The summary.The essential question is the best part of the course triggering the need for getting deeper into analyzing what I am learning. +I really enjoyed this course....Shane is a fantastic and engaging teacher! +thanx ,this is a great course. helped me a lot in understanding how to deliver information in a new simple and efficient way. +It has given me a lot of inspiration and brand-new insights in my teaching career. Thank you! +The Foundational Principles portion of this specialization is really comprehensive, but also not complex enough that a new learner can't complete and understand the material. There is a strong focus on teacher technique that I appreciated. There is a good combination of audio-visual material and reading material. I prefer to learn through reading so it was nice to intersperse articles and authentic research with the lessons. Would definitely recommend this to new and seasoned learners! +It was the greatest course I've ever taken. The professional Instructors really make me feel enjoyment and love in this course. Thank you all for the best Instruction. +I enjoyed videos and the materials that were given in this course. I would definitely recommend this course to my friends course! +I found this course very good for new teachers, but a little repetitive for experience teachers. Still, a great course implemented with knowledge and enthusiasm. +It exceeded my expectations!! Thank you! +This course was a great, encouraging introduction into teaching English. It's just the direction I needed to begin my journey into TESOL/TEFL world. +It's very interesting, brief and exciting for beginners and encourage them to develop themselves in teaching. The instructors are amazing. They present things in an exciting way. Actually, I rarely got bored while listening to any of them. +I really enjoyed this course. The way Dr. Shane Dixon explained the subject is amazing. I learnt from him just like a child. Secondly, the course content is designed to the needs of English teachers. I would like to thank the course designers and teachers Dr. Shane Dixon, Ms.Jessica Sinco and Dr . Justin Shewell. +Teach English Now! this is awesome I wish I could have more than words to express how I feel about this course.I am most grateful to you Coursera and ASU +I like the course a lot. It is interesting and it seems very well organized. It is interactive in a way that challenges you to think and express your own opinion about teaching. That helped me gain a better perspective on language teaching and motivated me as a teacher. I do recommend this course. I am having fun while learning - best combination ever! +Excellent course. Content, teachers, structure, everything is excellent. Highly recomend this course for expertes and new teachers. +Everything was well explained. It's very informative. +This online course is very helpful especially for those who do not have enough time to go to a traditional class like me. :D +Really fun and easy. The course was cleverly presented and I appreciated the emphasis on some of the notables in the field. It wasn't very challenging or it would have been five stars. Nice. +Fantastic Course Structure. I have started using the methodologies in teaching not just English but German as well.Teachers are awesome and their delivery of the course is flawless. +Great course! Thank you to all excellent teachers and classmates. Wonderful and practical methodology. +Thank you! A very interesting and enjoyable course. +Content is too basic, seems unresearched. Instructor is distracting in manner in which he presents information - overemphasizes acting over content. +Marvelous, I wish I had done it just after receiving my degree +easy for new learners, but practical and meaningful! +One of the best and most interesting courses on the English language I have ever taken +Thank you very much for this great opportunity to learn TESOL in Coresera. +I really enjoy the course and way of presentation; with jokes and real life examples which makes it so practical. +This course is everything that I needed to start my journey as a teacher!Dr. Nixon is easy to understand, funny, and his sincerity reads through in each video :-)Thank you for offering this course!I feel more confident and prepared to continue studying and taking my TEFL now having taking this class. +The course is excellent! +I've learnt a lot thus far and it has transformed my entire preconception about teaching English language. Indeed "langauge is like cake" and not "anyone who speaks the language can teach the language". Thanks to you my Amazingly super great tutors. So glad to be part of your class!!! +I really enjoyed this course, and learned a lot. What I have learned will not only help with my teaching techniques, but also with my own personal learning. +The course was very interactive and the teachers made it fun, interesting and very easy to follow. The content was also all new to me. Very helpful! +Great resources. I am already using these ideas in my language classes. A great resouce to keep coming to time and time again. +Courses were easy to follow and contained lots of useful information. --Entertaining instructors who held my attention! Thanks :) +Thanks a lot!!! I love the way you give information!!! +Excellent course helping me to start my career as a TESOL teacher. I would recommend this course to my friends. +I really liked this course. It made me understand a lot about teaching and it was really helpful for me as an English Teacher. Thank you to the professors! +Thanks so much, I really got a great benefit that will help me while teaching :) +Enjoyed it - concise and allows for further research +Great course! +Excellent explanation. Great delivery! Thank you. +Great course, learnt a lot and got some good ideas to improve my technique +Really Really it's an awesome course! High content, High technique . Thank you Dr: Shane It's really nice to see ya ;) +This course was very informative and I enjoyed it because the teachers really try to make it interesting and relatable. I would highly recommend this course. +Great +Amazing and 100% useful! +I found this course really amazing! Dr. Shane must be a very brilliant teacher... +Excellent! I liked to much. +Great! +Most wonderful course , I love it. +An excellent foundation that sets the scene for future studies in ESL teaching. +good course +Excellent beginning, I am looking forward to the rest of the specialization! +Great instructors and great information. I learned a lot from this course. +I love how enthusiastic and passionate the professors are. Thank you so much for offering this. +I like this course a lot, since it seems to be there for me every time i need help with my lessons. Thank you for ASU! +Amazing instructors and a very well designed course. It was easy to follow, understand and apply the principles.Highly recommend!Good luck future teachers! :) +Exceptional professors and content. Thanks a million for this initiative! +a very well structured and super well delivered course. +Very helpful , creative and original. +Thanks for your effort .. I renew my information ,,, I have get benefit skills from you as the great stuff then from my classmates . +Excelent! Really useful! +One of the best courses I have taken on MOOCs! I wish I knew it earlier. +Wow: He is Fantastic: Danny Tukes- I am really enjoying these courses +It's so good.Teachers are really nice and funny! And I learned a lot! I love your metaphors about language! +this course is the best +A very fine tuned course, no unnecessary information, close to practice approach.Highly recommended to anyone. +Great course for learning the basics and getting started with teaching English. +Wonderful Class! Thank you +I really like this course. +Pretty cool stuff, getting off to a good start.Interesting, useful and relevant! +It is always good to review some Foundational Principles. Good course. +I learn a lot of interesting things from this module. +It is great course! It's informative and I love the lecturer's smile. +The course, and all other courses in the TESOL certificate project, is really helpful for those who are in peruse of a teaching career. +Wow an eye opening course. Living in sweden i found this course very intersesting. Thanks to the charismatic teachers in here. +There was some interesting information in here, and I found a few things useful. That said, you have to sift through a lot of gimmicks to get to the parts of the lessons that actually matter. +VERY complete, entertaining and interactive. The most well-designed course I've taken on a MOOC. +Awsome !!! +I'll recommend to takle this course!!! +I love this course! +it´s great! +thank you all i love you +hi its ayesha all i can say is every teacher should regardless of subject and field as language is a meager part of any learning experience +This was such a +Encouraging... Thank you very much! +thanks for this course. very interesting and useful. +Very useful! +Loved the use of metaphors, it makes it so easy to understand all the basic principles of language teaching/learning. +I had taken several courses on the basic principles of English language teaching. Foundatioinal Principles made clear a lot of concepts I had only partly understood in the past. I can recommend this course to both novice and experienced teachers. +I find this course quite interesting and with so useful concepts and tips I am adapting to my classes. +Simply superb course for anyone, who wants to pursue an English teaching job! +Wonderful course. Engaging and informative. +Upon completing the course: Teach English Now! Foundational Principles, the lessons were precise and insightful which enhanced my four years experiences in teaching English Now! in Shanghai, China. Thank you. +Thank you so much for this course. +great course! loved it! thank you for the stories and for the hard work to deliver this great course, the best I've seen . +I really enjoyed the course. normally online courses are a bit of a struggle to me. but not with this course. It kept me interested throughout all month. Thank you! +I'm starting the 4th module and I feel great with this course, that force me to insight every single technique not only for my teaching develop, also for myself and the way I face my own learning.Congrats! +A very good and useful course! It helped me to make my teaching better!!! Thank you!!!! +I enjoyed this course a lot!! +Helpful techniques on how to improve teaching is one of the keys to have quality education. Thank you Coursera for this opportunity. +The only thing is I would have liked to have the chance to give more detailed peer reviews. +It is the best place to learn. +The teachers are clear and offer insight into the correct way students should be learning language. The essential questions offer a great way to stimulate critical thought and helps in the digestion of the material. +I liked this course very much +Loved the course. Videos were appealing, serious though amusing. Would recommend this course. +Very interesting. I loved it! +Very helpful contents with videos of the length long enough to learn and short enough to keep learning interesting. +Shane Dixon's an awesome guy. I love watching his videos. +Thank you for a great and engaging course!!! It helped me a lot!!! +Very practical indeed! +one of the best Moocs I have ever taken. +Very helpful and encourages us to push boundaries without burnout and stress. +Very good course. You actually learn a lot. +This course gave a great baseline for getting started in TESOL. I learned as much from watching the professor model good teaching as I did from the content of the videos. I highly recommend this course if you are considering teaching English to speakers of other languages. +Enjoyed this first module! Learned a lot and the teachers are great! +All of the tips and tricks learned here will make my classes more interactive and productive! +Excellent teachers. Content and techniques were so easy to learn. +From ths course, I could learn a mental attitude of mind as a biginner teacher. +A nice introductory course. For people that already have some Teaching or Language Acquisition under their belt, there may be some feeling of review. However, there is also valuable information and fresh angles on how to look at some aspects of language learning and teaching. +It is a great course .Thanks to all the instructors ,but please I have the same problem with my grading of assignment Peer Review -Week 5.I am still waiting for my grading ,although I completed it all .Hassan Ali +It was interesting! Thank you! +Chloe KimIt is totally an awesome one you should take! +This course provides teachers with core principles that help them achieve better performances in class and ensure as well better learning results. +I really learn a lot of useful skills from the teacher in the vi +Awesome instructors! A really nice and easy way to understand TESOL principles! +The People Teaching this course are the best and they have so much life and show a good interest, they actually teach and they make the course enjoyable and by so doing i was able to pass all my quizzes and assignments. +Great course. Leaned a lot and have a lot of fun. Enjoy it a lot. Dr. Shane Dixon is truly five star teacher. His performance makes this course easy to learn. All the characters he played make the boring language theories live. Thank you very much! +Getting so much out of these courses. I usually lose my motivation for on-line learning after the first couple of weeks, or when my schedule starts to get in the way. But I MAKE time for this course. Thank you for your creativity and succinct videos. +The course is worthwhile and enjoyable at the same time. Very inspiring! +Great course! I learned many interesting things to apply in my class. +The same reason with course 2 . This course is perfect . I would recommend this one to my friends if any one needs it . But not friend around me +It was really interesting and simple to follow, and full of a rich content. It is highly recommended. +Efficient way for learning. +gives basic important knowledge of what teaching is about +highly recomendable to teachers who want to refrehen their knowledge +Highly recommend it. +Very good and useful course!!!! +Perfect introduction, the teachers are inspiring and empowering +I would give it 5 stars but , staff really needs to start reviewing assignments because there are a couple of bad apples copying the work of other students. We work hard and should not have our work plagiarized, but since it is peer review and not teacher graded, they get away with it. +Although much of the content seems common sense it is probably necessary to build a common foundation here for later courses. The peer assessments are potentially interesting but, in practice, the majority are so trivial--3 or 4 sentences repeating back material from the lectures--as to be hardly worth reading. Since there is no real qualitative assessment in the peer grading, the work put in by a minority is not acknowledged nor the shortcomings of many highlighted.The instructor is unbelievably upbeat and animated which some will love and others. . . not. I tend to be in the latter camp but recognise this may be due to cultural differences or simply that I'm a boring old sod! +The previous Coursera forum format was far more useful than the current, new, format used in this course. +I loved it!! +Teachers are fantastic. Lessons are interesting. +Bravo ASU!! Very helpful, professional and fun, thank you! +Very informative and interesting. Loved the format. +Very well organized. Video lectures are clear and build on previous lessons. It's obvious that this course was developed with the learner very much in mind. Great way to show teachers (who are their students) how to teach. +I know that it would be near impossible to do this on a website like Coursera where thousands of people are probably enrolled in your course, but it would be great if there was some real evaluation (teachers or experienced alums to comment on the quality) of our essays/responses. +I liked it! I learned many interesting facts, ideas and strategies; I took a lot of notes, they are a treasure! The ideas of teaching with videos is marvelous, fun! +Thanks for a great and informative course! +Great course and Amazing instructors! +Truly helpful! It's an engaging boost by going back to the basics. +I found the information presented in a very orderly fashion. The presenters communicated their ideas in a clear and fun fashion. It was good learning new techniques as well as being affirmed in what I have done in the way of teaching so far. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who is teaching language. +Very well presented course. Thanks! +This course gave me the knowledge I lacked to teach basic English to my Russian students +A very interesting course to get an overall view of English teaching. Very well structured and with good and complete material. +Excellent course for establish concept about teaching +I looked forward to each week's newly posted lectures and other content. This is a well-organized course, and one learns the various principles, including the more technical, without much effort. Also, Dr. Shane Dixon is a gifted teacher: his success at teaching this class proves that the teaching methods he presents yields successful learning indeed. A recommended course! +I think it's a really good opportunity to be able to obtain a TESOL certificate online and this course seems to be able to do it very efficiently. However, I have found the approach of the style of the lessons a little bit slow and too dramatic- and somewhat even childish. I'm sure the planning of this certificate program is to ensure that people who take it will remember it so that they can really make use of it in their profession- so they probably avoided long and boring lectures. But still, I must admit that the lessons look a little bit annoying sometimes :) Still, thank you for the opportunity. +This is a well produced and presented course, ideal for rank beginners. +I love this course! Great videos and guided metaphors to understand the foundation principles of teaching. I had attended a traditional master course in language teaching, yet it's at ASU Tesol via Coursera I learned and understand the subject content more. +It was amazing experience. +The professors are very dedicated.They employ different approaches to teaching. I was able to understand fast. +Fantastic course with GREAT content! +It's a very interesting and interactive course. I recommend it a lot! +The Professors are nice, sympa, and excellent +Good introduction to the course! +great course +This course was beautifully made, the content was rich and meaty and yet not overwhelming. The modules were compact and yet well paced, presented using the very same principles being taught. My children (ages 8,10, 12) would even sit down and watch Dr. Shane's lessons with me, every week!Thank you very much to the team behind the Teach English Now specialization. +A very interesting course. Thank you! +I enjoyed all the video lectures! +Fun and straightforward! +This was a great introduction to a field I've long been interested in! Thanks for making this course available! +TESOL online is a dream come true. The best part is with the way the course is build and dealt. :-) +I absolutely loved it. +It's great! I recommend this program. +Wonderful course. I enjoyed it very much, especially all the advice and the question at the end of each week. I encourage whoever wishes to teach English to participate. +I am so impressed with the quality of style and content that this course was presented. I could see careful forethought, planning and execution of an online course that was a joy for me to be a part of. I totally recommend this course! +cool +it is designed brillantly.Top-notch teachers. everythis is clear and comprehensive,interstinand amazing tasks that make students think and express their own opinions.-thus invite to apply critical thinking.! +Shane is such a great teacher. I have learned a lot from him during this module and I can already apply all the techniques in the classroom and also while advising the teachers of the school I am a assistant coordinator at. Thank you, Shane, Coursera and ASU! +The content of the course is really useful and helpful and I like the way teachers present the material, thank you! :) +This is an excellent course that inspires thought about who you are (or want to be) as a teacher, fundamental teaching techniques and how your students might feel as language learners. Great metaphors and succinct but helpful videos. I loved this course. +Basic theory is very essential. +awesomeI enjoyed the courser so muchThank you +It's an excellent informattive & skillfull course. +Well developed and interesting. Looking forward to check the following courses on the series. +I am enjoying this course very much! Worth time in it. +The course is excellent! In fact, the professor, Dr. Shane Dixon is an expert able to capture and keep our attention.More yet, the content and the approach used are really good! The way Dr. Shane conduct the course and explain how to become a better teacher make this course a must for future teachers.I highly recommend, not just for english teachers, but those who wants to improve their abilities as professors at colleges and universities. +The material presented is useful. The instructors are wonderful. Even after teaching for 10 years, I found this course very helpful. +This course helped me take my life in my hands! It can help you too! +Presentation of information is amazing +Awesome!! Useful, concrete, dynamic, fun... I loved it!!! +Shane is great! +Very useful course! +I loved it! +Really enjoyed the instructors +I love this course, It was easy to understand and the work load was manageable. I like the fact that I can apply the same concepts to teaching Spanish. +Great! +Very nice course +It is a great course with a lot of useful information. It helps to understand the basic language teaching principles and how to avoid things like teaching burnout or loss of motivation. +I love the training and the teachers! Than +Shane Dixon is a little over the top, but it's clear that his energy and enthusiasm is backed up by his knowledge (also it makes sense that he would have such a personality considering the need for it in his ESL classrooms). Everything he says is directed towards helping you understand how to apply what you are learning in a class. Easily the most interesting online course I've taken. +Wonderful course, just what I was looking for. In the spirit of Learn How to Learn, which I took on Coursera last year. +I really enjoyed it , lots of helpful information too +A very well presented course. +I thought the course was good although some of the material a bit basic but it definitely will help with my teaching. +Very well organized and taught. Thank you! +Excellent course.It taught me so many important things.Dr Shane Dixon is so inspirational!I would definetely recomment it . +It opened a different perspective altogether of learning and teaching English... Learnt alot and fund it very practical. Thank you....Dr.Shane and all the faculty involved. +Easy to follow and clearly stated. Excellent! +I adore itthank you every one,doctors and my classmates +So far it has been amazing, exceeding all expectations. Thank you. +I loved returning each week to the videos, the assignments, and interacting with classmates from around the world. This class has been one of the very best that I've taken. On to course #2! +An interesting class every teacher should take! +I highly recommend this amazing course which is part of a four part series for Tesol certificate. It is full of great information and I learnt so much. All the videos and information is so professional and the tutors fantastic. Thank you so much. +Loved every module. The metaphors and videos were very helpful. Can't wait to take the next course! +It is worth a course to take as a teacher to upgrade yourself +Excellent! Fun and very informative. Impressive job done by the team. Can't wait for the final course! +so far, so interactive and the videos are great! Professor Dixon, I am loving your theatrics, thanks for making it so interesting and enjoyable to participate in the course. +Course is fun, easy, enjoyable and beneficial. Prof. Shane is a very talented presenter and managed to pull me into the lectures. My only concerns are: The length of the course was too short and it was not very deep. In other words In my opinion they could have easily added another course worth of material to this course without it becoming overbearing. It made me feel that their stretching the number of courses you have to take to finish the specialization.Other wise its a good course. Great instructor and good content! +This is an excellent course. It has been designed accurately for professionals who want to get the ESL Teaching Certificate. I enjoyed learning about the language foundational principles lectures, theories, teaching techniques, etc. +No surprise to me. I am an alumna with two degrees from ASU. Great course, great instructors. +Most of videos are great but I think instructors can provide more details for each one, because most of ideas are general and normal. +Great!Thank you for creating such educational platform which is accessible in every part of the world!Another gratitude to the course tutors and creative team! Well done!I feel I am a part of network of teachers! +Very enjoyable course, and immediately helpful in applying to my ESL classes +thats good +Loved it, learned a lot. +I tried a few different TESOL courses from different universities, and this one is the best. I like the informal style of the lessons - it was fun, yet very helpful and informative. +The content is great, but the course lacks support from the staff. It is also too easy to pass. I hope the reason for this is because the course was introductory. +Amazing teachers, valuable information and top-quality materials! Thanks so much for making this course - I gained a lot from it, especially from giving and receiving feedback from fellow students. The only thing I didn't enjoy much are some questions in the tests because sometimes they seem a bit irrelevant. I would recommend making the tests a bit more to the point and reducing the amount of questions:) Thanks for your work!!! +I love these courses. I think they quickly and creatively relay information. I learn what I need without it taking too much time. Plus, it was just put together really well! +ıts the best course ever +this course put teaching English as a second language into a better perspective for me and also gave me important tools to help me be a better and more effective teacher. +Excellent, every TESOL teacher should take this course. +Great！It helps me a lot +Really help me to understand more about my teaching style +I enjoyed this course in every sense. The instructors were professional and the material was well prepared and explained. +It was a very-well prepared course. I learned new things. I personally feel satisfied completing this course. +Great course! +Amazing instructors +Well organised and helpful material. The lessons were easy to follow and posed thought provoking questions. Good for seasoned professionals and beginners. +I enjoyed very much taking this course. I recomend to all EFL teachers because it is very useful to improve teaching techniques. +Great professional development! +Very engaging and straight forward! Much better than other classes I have taken. +I loved the course, easy going, direct, concise, the videos were very good, completely recommend it :) +The ideas are brilliantly presented and the exercises are relevant +This is an amazing course, I had been looking for a long time. I finally found it and seems like it's tailor made for me! +This course has great videos. I give it such a low rating to get your attention and point out some serious problems. This is a certification course in how to teach English as a second language. What was not apparent to me though is that you have to take 2 parts of the specialization before getting certified and it will take over a year! Also, there is close to no teacher participation in the module I took and there are no mentors or student teachers (that might change in future classes I would hope, but no guarantees) and there was close to zero feedback of my work or even in the discussion area and no authoritative feedback. Even the peer reviews require your classmates ONLY to judge you based on whether you actually tried to answer the question, if it was between one and three paragraphs and one other silly thing that I can't even remember now. No one is required to give actual feedback and a lot of the assignments were written by students in horrendous English, but that is not to be considered. With so many people taking this course for whom English is not a first language, even these very simple instructions were often misunderstood and people had problems with getting credit for their assignments. Also, even though the videos are really well-done, they are short and contain little information for the price. I figured that I was paying about $50 an hour for the lectures at regular speed. There are also little to no resource links etc. for further study so the lectures are pretty much the only thing you get. If you are a native English speaker who doesn't mind spending an entire year and the cost for well-done videos on the subject is not important, then this course if for you. If however you think this is going to cost only $200 and you would have interaction with teachers and you would get a certification in about half a year... I want to make sure you realize, that is NOT what this specialization is! If you are NOT a native English speaker, this course is designed well I think for people who do not speak English as a native language, who might even have a low level of English, yet who are teaching English already in foreign countries and would have difficulty acquiring certification any other way and therefore don't mind taking a full year to complete the course or the price and for whom not having someone give them feedback would be considered an asset. I have recommended it to friends who are not native speakers of English, but as a native speaker I found it slow, expensive and the assignments to be actually annoying. It's perfect though for my foreigner friends... as long as they understand it's real length and cost! THE CERTIFICATION WILL TAKE OVER A YEAR AND COST AROUND $400. +Really good and informative. +This course was informative and helpful. Thank you for your efforts to keep English teachers around the world up to date on current language teaching practices. +Very informative! I enjoyed taking this course and it has given me some great insights. +Excellent course!! Thank you so much!! It was perfect for my new teaching challenge. +Great introduction to the leading principles of TESOL +AMAZING COURSE SO FAR...EVEN THOUGH I AM CURRENTLY AN EXPAT IN CHINA TEACHING AT A UNIVERSITY IN CHINA....CONTINUED LEARNING IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF BEING A WELL ROUNDED EDUCATOR. +Really fruitful teaching techniques are being used in this courses. Thanks to the course presenters for allocating a lot of effort and time to provide us with a unique experience +I learned some great techniques in this course, one in particular is to the 80/20 rule. Language teachers should allow learners to talk more, and teachers talk less! My only drawback is that I could not see my own responses to Essential Questions or feedback from my peers. +Excellent opportunity to specialize optimally from anywhere in the world. +Just about finished and find this course to be very informative and useful for future lessons. +Very interesting! I am enjoying taking this course! +an awesome way of teaching.. +Great! If this was the first I'm excited to start the others. The content is very instructive, a lot of concepts and useful tools. They should add more content per week, because is too little material to study per week. Thus, sometimes it seens to be boring. But it's ok. +Great course. Very clear explanations. I can't wait for the rest. +Great course! The course covers the fundamental principles of teaching English. Excellent video presentations. Easy to understand and follow up. +I really enjoyed taking this course. Thank you Arizona State University. Thank you Coursera. +I really enjoyed this course and sharing thoughts and ideas with others participants was a rich experience. +very helpful and enlightening. great teachers you are! THANKS! +This was a great overview to teaching English. It suggested a few teaching techniques and showed how being flexible in your teaching style can help. Overall, great introduction. I can't wait to see the next class in this Tea +Rich and enjoyable +Great course! I enjoyed it! +The course is really interesting. the instructors are very clear, informative and funny. they stress very important details that every teacher has to know! +I like how the course is organized and gives assigments which involve critical thinking of topics we generally take for granted. +The course is presented extremely well, balancing both the information and fun! +Great course! +Such a wonderful module! I have started learning again! +This course is more like an introductory of the whole specialization. It's simple BUT very clear for me to understand and catch up. +I liked a lot, thank you very much for share your knowledge with us. +Great course!! Love it! +OMG, I'm so blessed for taking this course, I learned a lot from it, and I highly recommend to others, it's fun and practical. +I recommend this course to all English teachers out there. Its very well explained and the methods shown are awesome. +It is really a start in the field. If you already have teaching experience you will get much more from the conversations in the forums than from the lectures. And if you have very little teaching experience or are interested in the field, it will give you a clear overview. +Excellent course! Highly recommended for everyone who is going to teach and learn English +This course is more than helpful for any future teacher or teacher who teaches. This course make you realize all those things you still can do to improve your teaching. Highly recommended. +This Course is amazing! There's so much helpful information and lectures are do interesting and challenging! Thanks to all! +Thanks for the great opportunity that you bring to us! I have learned a lot of things from this course as a language teacher. +I really enjoyed this course. The videos are really informative, yet entertaining. +This is a great course! +I learned a lot from this course because it is very well presented. You can tell that the instructors are enjoying what they are doing. I learned a lot from this course. Keep up the good work and more success to this course! +Great course it really gave me new ideas and will to learn, become better teacher and help my learners :D +This course is worth every minute and every penny you will spend. A+ +Extremely helpful and reflective! +Just amazing!I cannot praise this course highly enough! Thank you! +I loved the videos. They were straight to the point and enjoyable with simple everyday language for everyone to understand. +Muy buen curso, me encanto.I Love this course +just getting started! feel like worth to take +It is the most usefull and instructive course that a per +I learned a lot ! This course it's really useful because I can apply this new knowledge on my field. +Extremly interesting to teach English in Italy !!!!! New strategies and new focus on how to teach! +I liked the course and I found it useful . I will recommend it to my friends. However , some of the instructions are not clear. I understood that I have time to catch up till Dec 21st. But now, My assignment and editing are not accepted and I want to know what I can do. +I really enjoyed taking part in this course. Great metaphors, absolutely fantastic teachers:) And for sure, great experience for young teachers like me. +Excellent Teacher - The best online Teacher I have ever seen. +The best Teacher's Course I've ever seen! Prof.Dixon literally radiates energy, contentment, and inspiration - I felt so much inspiration and eagerness I never had before!Enroll, and you would never regret. Not a second, believe me. +This portion of the specialization was easy to follow and held my attention. I feel that it contained valuable information. +As a Foundations Course it is excellent, allowing giving a good introduction that is not difficult, allowing you to decide whether you want to continue with the rest of the certification. +This was a very interesting module, other than giving out imporant information to question ourselves as language teacher it encouraged us to think again and review how is it that we are really performing as teachers, are we asking the right questions? are we thinking of the best ways to enroll our students on leargning languages? are we wnjoying our labour?All of the lessons provided not only gave information to improve our classes but gave us the opportunity to wonder what can we do better and how can we be better as teachers.Thank you! +Good basic course for anyone interested in starting to study language teaching +Excellent video production, examples, etc. The information is practical and concise, and so easy to relate to real students and teachers.Thank you! +This course is a must-take. It can help new and "not-so-new" teachers thrive in their professional careers. +Dr Shane Dixon is a star!!!!!! +I learned how to be an language teacher. +Excellent from start to finish! So enjoyable! +I would like to thank our teachers for the outstanding course! Thank you all! +This course is really good for the ones, who, like me, want to learn more about teaching English for basic learners. +Excellent course for new ESL or language teachers. +On overall its a very good course, but assignment submission was a bit confusing ! +This course is clear and easy to understand. I would recommend this course to friends. +If you're interested in learning virtual instruction, then this is the course for you. The instructors encourage students to record a series of videos (1 to 4 minutes long), but those without a Web cam can also submit text files. Making a fool of yourself is allowed. The instructors provide excellent andragogy. Highly recommended. +Awesome course! Lot's of details and very educational informational! +Very well planned course delivered by dedicated lecturers! +I thoroughly enjoyed taking this class! I would recommend it to anyone interested in getting certified. Totally worth the time :-) +The course is good enough--a means to an end. The 4-part, six weeks apart format is kind of bothersome because the wait period sort of dampens the momentum and enthusiasm created during the first course (especially if you complete the whole thing in a week-end). The course is well put together and infused with a little humor. The visuals are good and if you're in the right mood, the course is enjoyable and ifun to interact with folks from around the world. +Loved everything about this course! Great teacher! +This class felt a bit elementary . . . but it had some good material as well. I would appreciate a bit less overacting and goofiness (which actually praised in the course) and have a bit more academic material. In one of the videos, the professor suggested that teaching should be slightly above the student's level but not too high. This course seemed to be a bit lower than my level (but I have taken education courses in the past). +Absolutely Amazing and Engaging Course! +The course is very inspiring and educational. I do appreciate that coursera and ASU can put this course on site. It synthesizes education theories and actual teaching experiences. However, I do think this course would improve a lot if teaching practices could be incorporated because for teaching professionals the teaching itself is the most important thing. +New concepts ! Great assignments ! and fantastic teachers ! +Oh my goodness! I can't say enough about how great this course was for me. Dr. Shane Dixon did an excellent job of sharing the concepts in ways that were easily digested (more cake please). The course was set up better than any course I've taken online. The use of the metaphors truly helped me to easily recall what the class was about and I believe it will always be part of my teaching future. Thank you all for such a great course. +Exellent opportunity to gain great experience! +This course really give me powerful insight in Teaching English. +Very practical, and anyone interested in teaching English can enroll in this module to improve yourself. +I really enjoyed this course. It is easy to understand and it motivated me to use what I learnedimmediately! +Great Course. It´d be awesome if the professor could show us real-life examples. +Almost lost me on the first week but so glad I stayed because this course contains some real gems. +Awesome course! Before this course, I was frightened regarding learning new languages. I am grateful to Course Tutors. +Love it! I have taken several MOOCs and this is definitelly in my top 5! The videos are great! and Dr. Shane Dixon is the be +great course!! well explained and dinamic, I loved it!! thank you +The week one preview shows that this high quality course explains language teaching basics in an easy to understand and fun manner. +Worse taught +The instructors for this course are incredible. The videos are well organized and very effective. Makes learning fun! +What I love about this course is that it sets the foundations for reflective teaching while it introduces the topics for language learning and language acquisition. I'm looking forward to continuing with the rest of the specializations. +First of all i would like to thank everyone who was involved in making of the program. İ think the program has been creativlely well presented. İ am already looking forward to Global Health : An interdisciplinary part two :). Thanks +One of the best courses in the global health area on Coursera. The Experts from various disciplines brought in to share their expertise, valuable experiences and insights made this truly interesting and engaging in distance learning setting. Good course module guides for every chapter and interesting readings. I hope the University of Geneva can consider offering an extension to this. Big thank you to all the professors and experts! +Thank you :) +An exciting course with good overview on the field of Global Health. I enjoyed participating in the course! +Very nice overview on global health organizations +Very interesting course! +Very thorough overview of Global Health. Serves as a great introduction to the subject. +Thank you very much! It has been a very enriching experience for me. +comprehensive, brief yet very eloquent and helpful.. Excellent overall +Great content! +This was an outstanding course with great teachers. I really enjoyed!! Easy to follow and very interesting. I highly recommend to anyone interested in understanding the challenges of global health nowadays. +Nice course and high dynamic Teachers +Excellent theme +I simply love it. Learning a lot.Thank you +Good but very confusing course. It was very hard to know what its purpose was. +The best MOOC available on Coursera concerning GLobal Health!! +This course not only takes the time to explain the topics clearly and concisely they also take the time to explain the simple things like the roots of the words. +great course, learned a lot from this simple course.covered a lot of interesting ideas about theatre +Enjoyable course. Thanks. I learned a lot about my own community. +Very interesting course that makes someone to wide his mind and understand that art can not evolve without technology or economy. Also it becomes quite clear that art is not one persons or countrys privilege, but of the whole world and everyone can help theatre to evolve. +Out of all the courses I have followed in Coursera so far, this course provided by the Yonsei University is far more than satisfaction. Perhaps, it's because of the way the professor teaches in which I love the most. Because she is very clear, detailed, and amiable in her lectures, and she sounds interesting and not boring at all.To be honest, I understood a lot, and I took this course mostly to know about the Marketing in Hospitality and I grasped an essential amount of information; thanks to the professor of the Yonsei University.And I'm about to take the course again as well!Thank you! +This cours is really unparalleled. You shoud attend it to experiment what Itell you. +A good course that can be used to gain a quick understanding of the characteristics of Healthcare and Hospitality Industry and the marketing challenges involved. +the instructor is very motivating in the way she presents the material. She really made me enjoy the course! +Thanks for the interesting course +It's good summarizing for hospitality and healthcare marketing.From this course You can start to develop and gain the knowledge from other sources - they gives a lof of links and articles. +Quick, direct and with some mind opening ideas! +Interesting course. Good quick way to gain a better understanding of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. +I have been interested in the history of Israel. This course gives a good summary of history of modern Israel. I learned that modern Israel really had to go through a lot of conflicts and struggles. I liked the videos but it was faster to read the transcripts. So if you want to save time, read the transcripts. +The course was very interesting. It delivered the right depth of the history of Israel. It gave enough information but not too much detail as I am an amateur historian interested in the broad sweep of history. +Incredibly interesting course I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested. +It starts off a little slow and videos are very quiet but then it becomes really interesting and the short videos and change of presenters make it very easy to follow. +Amazing course, this really amplifies the roots and causes of the origin of the creation of the state of Israel. A little bit too much information that I belief can be sintetized, but overall still great to give the student a really solid overview on the context of the British Mandate of Palestine. +Very interesting and informative course. Appeared to take an objective approach to contentious historical developments, balancing competing views and interests well. +a bit tedious but lots of information +An excellent course - as an introduction, it covers the material in a logical way, and presents critical views on actions of parties on all sides. Has whetted my appetite to know more about the history of creation of Israel and to explore particular avenues that couldn't be covered in detail due to introductory nature of course. +Good course. This course will clear the history of Jewish state in sequential order. Presented very well +excellent and very interesting +Very good class about the history of a complex situation in Palestine.Teachers are clear, they don't take any side and we learn a lot.It's important to have a good point of view of one of the oldest and complex conflict of modern times. +Very Informative and can't wait for Part II to become available. +I have learnt a lot how modern present day state of Israel came into being dating back from the first foundations laid out by Theodore Herzl who had this vision of creating a Jewish state through the his establishment of the Zionism movement which paved a way for the Jewish community scattered all over the world who faced social problems and fragmentation to migrate back to Israel because of Antisemitism and to the creation of the treaties such as the Balfour declaration and the role played by Baron Edmund De Rothschild who was a Jewish philanthropist who helped the ideas of Zionism and i have gained insight and an overview of the Jewish and the History of Modern Israel. +I feel that I learned a lot on this course, I appreciate the information that was conveyed. I feel more education about the Israel-Palestine issue. +This course has valuable information, but it is ultimately political. The professors don't even disclose that there are two opposing historical schools: "New Historians," whom Palestinians reference; and traditional historians, favored by most Israelis. Which version is followed here? The answer is a mix, without identification. This is not the same as "balance," which would entail each side laying out its key points and evidence. As others note, there is zero reading material. One wonders if this is because to choose a historian is to choose sides--that is how divisive this topic is. The discussion forums are also poorly monitored, unlike other Coursera courses; which does not advance understanding."A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" unfortunately applies to this condensed intro course. And contrary to expectations for an offering from Tel Aviv U., most Israelis would likely be offended by some of its assertions/omissions. For example, Israelis recall that Palestinian founding father Haj Amin al-Husseini was a Nazi agitator in Europe and bequeathed an anti-Jewish ideology (Netanyahu even made a speech about this in 2015 that was covered internationally). Yet in this course, you will be told simply that al-Husseini was a "man of religion." +The course was extremely informative and managed to explain complex circumstances very simple.I highly recommend this course therefore. I was able to learn new things about the history of Israel which were never brought to me like that by history teachers. Great opportunity to broaden knowledge.Suggestions:Although the course was very good structured sometimes sophisticated history terms in the context of Israel and Palestine occurred in a video and were explained properly one video later. But because they were explained shortly after and it happened only like three times I would suggest to have a little box with terms like Lechi or Palmach, White Paper from thetime they occur first right beneath every video.The interviews with the experts of each fields had sometimes an odd audio recording and one person therefore spoke louder then the other and I had to turn my speakers on full volume sometimes. If the course gets rerecorded one day I suggest to look into those samples in particular.Thanks for this great course. +Excellent course, thank you so much! I truly enjoyed learning about the histroy of Israel. +More interesting course. +Couldn't stop watching. Very interesting and informative. +The course is very interesting! I would recommend it to anyone interested in the subject.However, the English subtitles are far from perfect! Quite often, they interfere with the understanding because they substitute the words of the lecturer for other words, sometimes quite ridiculous! The English subtitles definitely need to be proofread! +Fantastic course that gives a quick, yet thorough survey of Modern Israeli history. The primary professor may be one of my favorite professors I've ever heard in my life. His passion when talking about the Holocaust is especially evident. I would recommend this course to any history "buff" or lay person looking to increase their knowledge about modern Israeli +Excellent course that gives new light on such a provocative and discussed tragedy in human history. +Excellent content and delivery. Gave me a good perspective of history around Israel and Palestine. +Very bogus and boring content. The monotonous voice gets me! +Got tons of information from this course. +It is very brief but to the point. They run quickly through the development where more time should have been dedicated to such a complicated beginning. But it is truly neutral and academic for such a very sensitive subject. +This course gives a simple but clear bone structure upon which to hang further study on the topic. +content is good but its not made interesting. +A well-prepared, well-delivered course. +Great way to learn. Tests are to hard +I am proud of learning a course about the History of the modern state of Israel beginning from Zionism Ideology till the state of Israel was born.This is the History of the Jewish people and the fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecy for the Jews to inherit the Promised Land which foretold by the prophets before 2000 years ago. +Firstly i think for a coursera course it is not Long enough at all. There are not enough assignments which motivate studying and fixing the newly learned things in the memory. There are neither required nor recommended readings at all. For me reading is a very good Addition to the Videos so that you can slowly think about the thoughts and arguments. Especially in a topic which is undoubtly very controversal in public as in academia like especially the history of Israel and Palestine from the 30s onwards it is important to give different narratives of history to the students. There are no narratives critical to british colonialism at all mentioned, instead of the White paper of 1939. After all the course represents a very one sided an biased narrative which is presented to a global audience of students. Even if a certain narrative is preferred by the teaching scholars, which is completely acceptable and natural, not just in the field of history, it nevertheless is important to cover different narratives fairly and as neutral as possible, which does not happen in this course. When mentioned other narratives are quickly downplayed or denied, and repeatedly dichotomies like the "inferior" arabs, the "ferocity" of the arab oposition and so on are mentioned or cited without beeing problematized at all. Nevertheless the Course was a reminder of many Things I learned before, and brings up some interesting historic connections and key points. +Good, concise course.The reason I didn't give it a higher rating is because I found it difficult (not impossible) to follow some of professor Eyal Naveh speach. His first language is not English, so I do not expect him to speak perfect English. However, I would expect the subtitles/transcript not to have basic mistakes. This became important when professor Naveb interview another person in Hebrew, as I found I could not really trust the subtitles.I think it wouldn't take much to make it an excellent course.My cheeky suggestion is to have a specialisation with The Emergence of the Modern Middle East by Professor Asher Susser as nucleus and a series of shorter, more in depth courses on certain of the bigger countries, such as Egypt, Turkey and Iran, similar to this one on Israel. +There is a problem with subtitles.Sometimes they are different from speech. +Really enjoyed the information and perspective from the course. The only issue is that everything is from the Israeli point of view - the course would benefit from some discussion/inclusion from other perspectives. Still, it gave me a good background on the issues, and I would take more classes from the same institution. +good for people who wanna know the brief. would be better with more details and sorties +Challenging material with great opportunities to get more background information for further studying. +Although this course serves as a broad overview, the average student will come away with more knowledge than they had going in. Professors and guests were all knowledgeable and easy to understand.The only exception: two videos are spoken in Hebrew and a bit distracting ... even with subtitles on. What worked for me was muting the sound, and simply reading the text. +In the end it is a good course. The videos might seem short, but are filled with tons of information. It has guest professors who were very interesting, and I hope they could have give their perspective on the subjects as well.There is no reading material, which is kinda sad. And it's naturally a little partial in favor to jews, but that's only natural. Prof. Susser, though, seems a lot more objective.I thank very much the professors for this course. +I learned so much from this course, it added so much flesh to the bones of my knowledge. +I am 83 years old. Much of this I remember. I did poorly on the test because It is hard for me to take clear notes quickly. {medical condition}. However, as coming from a Jewish background I found the class very interesting. Israel will survive no matter how horrible the situation in the Middle East exists!Joyce Spier +Excellent course. I enjoyed learning about Israel and will help with understanding world events. +Very good class though at times it could be hard to hear some of the audio lessons +This was more objective than I thought. Nevertheless, the information about the Zionism, refute itself and make us criticize about the dangerous notion. +I really enjoyed this course. It was really quite informative. I am now onto another course at TAU and looking forward to learning more. +Great course!! +The course was too short and did not provide any reading material.It would be more helpful to have more and shorter quizzes. +I think this has been a nice wrap of following the Holocaust course. I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks. +A good synopsis of the history of Israel. I enjoyed learning about this subject, and especially enjoyed the interviews and conversations. +This course gave me a very practical and broad knowledge of the genesis of the State of Israel, its challenges and political processes from zionism as a movement to reality. +Thanks for this very interesting class. Hope to see released in a near future the follow up! +The teaching for this class is 1st rate. Much information and nuances given +Excellent course and teacher +Very topical and extremely interesting. The professors were great. This course should be experienced by any American that wishes to be informed about the creation of the State of Israel. Nicely done. Thank you, Coursera, and thank you, Tel Aviv University. +This is a great introduction to Israel and Middle Eastern politics. It's not too tough- everything is broken down into very manageable 7 or 8 minute lessons, so it's easy to acquire a general understanding of the factors that led to the formation of Israel. Students looking for an in-depth examination may be disappointed, but if you're curious about this fascinating and very relevant chapter of history, this course will give you a good overview, and leave you hungry to learn more. +I found this course to be very interesting. I took this course simultaneously with the one from UCSD on the Holocaust so they enhanced each other. I especially appreciated having a lecture in which Anita Shapira participated - I had already read 'Israel: A History' so it added an extra dimension to that. A couple of small niggles - a) I think a warning for those that don't speak Hebrew that they need to use the subtitles facility(something I've never used before) b) I think some of the English spellings may be ambiguous when translating from Hebrew because of the special use of vowels.All in all I enjoyed this and hope you provide more courses relating to the Israeli/Palestinian situation. Many ordinary people are very uninformed and vulnerable to misleading propaganda. Courses like this are vital in informing non-Jews. +Great bite-size lessons, very informative and interesting. Thank you! +Interesting course, but rather too short and not going very deep +This is an awesome course and is a great extension from History of Rock, Part One. Professor Covach covers LOTS of ground in this course, so I took extensive notes. Highly recommended course for anyone who loves music of any genre! +Fantastic course! Too bad there's no part 3... +More than a course on history of rock, is a course on history of culture and american society in the 20th century. Recommended. +Great Professor, interesting enhancement to my knowledge! +Loved and truly enjoyed this course! I kind of feel sad it ended. Huge thanks to John Covach for his great enthusiasm. +This course gives a wide rational view on rock music development not trying to avoid any controversal topics like race or gender. It gives a great range of covered styles in rock and around it as well as many different groups discussed. I will return to the course content again and again as it really makes me want to listen to all this music discussed. +Loved it!! +I enjoyed Part Two, but not nearly as much as Part One. This change is not due to the professor or the course material; both are excellent. It is the music itself. I simply do not enjoy most of disco and pop artists like Madonna, Janet Jackson, Brittney etc. I hope I do not sound snobbish (or sound like my parents), but mentioning the Beatles and former mousketeers in the same sentence or course is laughable. +really really nice +Instructor's presentation keeps the participant's attention. Connections are made to history, musicians and the trajectory of music. Just wishing all this could have been seamlessly integrated with soundbites and/or music videos. There's gotta be a way around rights, residuals and academics. Still, both courses taken together were engaging and information packed. +A great course especially if you follow along with the book and use the extra videos and music links from the book's website. +it's super helpful and interesting! +Love this instructor. Want more. Wish he could play music clips. +well researched and presented in a very informative way. +Similar to Part One, but continues with the history of rock into more recent times (1990s). Very short course compared to the other one. Pros and cons from Part One apply to Part Two. +Great course, excellent teacher!. +Awesome course great professor +Amazing course, very academic and objective and yet extremely enjoyable. I'm very grateful for coursera an Prof Covach who made it available and easily accessible. +Great study series of Rock artists, bands, and events! +John Covach's lectures are clear and well-thought out, and he does a good job of fielding the "fan mentality" that so often plagues other rock history and music history courses. +Very interesting information. I lived through a lot of this material so it was doubly interesting. Very thorough, unbiased and informative. +Excellent Course. Really enjoyed the content and the teachers style in delivery. +Great course +Should have talked about how German and other European industries used forced labour for their benefit. Siemens is still involved in lawsuits about this and is on the news now.Please also talk about IBM's involvement in helping Nazi's with punch cards to help organise the millions of jews and other races they murderedArt theft is something thats really interesting that was not touched upon. THe german govt is now providing subsidies to art owners who wish to examine the provenance of the art they own so that it can be returned to the heirs of the rightful ownersInvolvement of Swiss (while being neutral) in banking and financial support to Nazis and exploitation of Jews is something that missing here. Numbered accounts were created to help jews send their money abroad without being detected, but their heirs could never get the money back +One of the best courses! Brief and detailed at the same time, logical and comprehensive, supported with facts, photos, books and videos. +The course lets you access a wide range of resources that help you build a deeper understanding of the mass murder of European Jews. The questions in between videos (lessons) are helpful in processing and synthesizing socio-political events and ideologies that led to the holocaust. Two weeks into the lesson and I have never been bored - it is interesting and engaging. +Impressive study.... +Very interesting! With clear and dynamic language, allied to visual resources and relevant readings, we learn more about this tragic and important period of our History. Highly recommend! +This course is an invaluable educating experience. I am so grateful to Yad Vashem and to all those who provided us with an extraordinary course. I learned so much in these three weeks and look forward to what I can learn in Part 2. +A great introduction of the prevalent conditions in Europe and Jewish life in relation to the rise of Nazism. Looking forward to Part II with trepidation. +Pretty amazing course that flipped my cognition towards Nazi and Holocaust! +I thoroughly enjoyed this course! Having no previous formal education about WW2 or the Holocaust I found all the topics interesting and a great introduction to the +I'm really enjoying this course. It's teaching so much more information than I already owned about Nazism and WWII. +The course was presented without. any prejudice.The wrong doers were not blamed but the humanity as a whole is responsible for the holocaust. The course has very sublimely indicated that the humanity must protect itself from such a holocaust n the future.. One should be cautitous that our fellow human being is not treated inhumanly. the fellowhumanbeing may be yourself!I am very grateful to educate me to be a good human being to one and all. Dont be discriminative. Respect one's own religion, culture, language, customs and belief. T.Jagalal Ram Sait +Wonderful course, very informative and interesting. +Even if you know a lot about this period of history, this course is useful. The thoughtful and thorough context, the quality of the material and teaching, were excellent. +This course, The Holocaust - An Introduction (l).... was an in depth study of the situation the Jews were facing in most of Europe after the Nazis came into power. The instructors were knowledgeable and came across as having personal feelings about the plight of the Jews during that time. I am very impressed with them and their ability to pass on the information that they did in such a way that it was very understandable while demonstrating their indepth knowledge of the material. Thank you. I come away from the course with a deeper understanding of the problems and horrible life style the Jews had to face. +much needed +Thank you! +Excelent course, with many examples and photos and films, congratulations +The lectures were not too advanced to understand and held a very high standard. My only critique is that the language of the lecturers was sometimes difficult to understand, which at times caused me some confusion. I will recommend this course to others and I enjoyed taking it. +Deeply moving and important. +Well done course! The lectures are interesting and visuals are very impactful. +This course was well presented. The additional information provided is helpful in pursuing further studies. +The lecturers are fantastic in explaining the details and information. Really loved it right from the start of the video lectures. +The information was excellent, as the instructors made me feel like I was part of history. Thank you kindly,Prof.Joseph CamioloTCNJSociology and Anthropology +An excellent, thought-provoking course - it has changed the way I think about human beings. +An in-depth survey of the beginnings of the Holocaust, pre-war Jewry, and the sociopolitical atmosphere of the war. Highly recommended. +A good compliment for the course of the modern jewish state. It cleared up many doubts. thank you +excellent course very thought provoking thank you +Excellent! Very detailed insights +Great Experience!! well explained I am loving this course and I am learning a lot +very interesting and well lead. +It was okay....kind of hard to understand the teachers.... +A fascinating personal account of the atrocity while the world watched! This class is for everyone there is so much more to learn, thank you for everything you went out of you way to help, God Bless +It is not easy to prepare and present this part of German History without any emotive stance and without condemnation. But you did it brilliant and it was well prepared. I learned a lot and what is most important for me new perspectives with unknown or partial unknown materials. Thank you very much for being a part of this course. +This is an interesting course that gives so much information about not only the Holocaust itself but what led up to it. Fascinating! +have stayed away from this dark chapter in history. could never understand how the Nazis were able to pull it off - c0ntrol of Europe that is - in such a short timeframe. this course helps in that understanding. \No suggestions....... +This course does a great job in explaining where the Nazi ideologies stemmed from, and what the Jews' journey entailed from when Hitler rose to power to the concentration camps. +The main lecturer is a particularly good teacher, who speaks fluently and knowledgeably about this difficult topic. Her empathy is obvious, which makes it that much more meaningful to me. Can't wait to take the second course. A great introduction to the Holocaust. +Thanks. This is a heartwarming course, with detailed history of the tragic events of The Holocaust. If you're interested about the Holocaust this is course is a essential course to take. We often and briefly touch upon the horror of the holocaust and the anti-Semitism of our world history. To touch upon the history is not enough the we need to see human experience and suffering at experiential level, and as I see it this course does this. Thanks, for your eloquent research. +Insightful and In-depth introductory of the events leading to the catastrophic events of holocausts coupled with engaging quiz. Additional reading supplements were great as well. Recommended +An excellent course to gain a broad and deep understanding of the first phases of the Holocaust. Great presentation and delivery. +Such learning thank you +If you are wanting to understand the Holocaust, this is an awesome, informative course. +This is an amazing, interesting course! I never thought that learning about Hitler and the origins of the Holocaust would become an interest, but it's really great! And the teacher/professor explains it so well! +Excellent historical accounts of the excesses of the hitler regime that hopefully will serve as silent witnesses of history may not reitself. +This course was very educational. I thought the illustrations were helpful. My only negative comment was that the quiz questions were a little confusing at times and difficult to know what answer to choose. At times, multiple answers seemed correct based on the material presented in the lessons. I do plan to take Part 2. +Very good course. +The course is very nice, I love it. But the teacher speaks without intonation. But the course is super great! +Excellent course. Provided many insights I was not aware of in this harrowing period of history. +Very good content, but technical issues (poor closed captioning, ambiguous question on the exams, a couple of readings that were a little esoteric for an introductory course) led me to mark the course down a star. +Very interesting! +It is a nice course, very well organized for those you are eager to learn about the theoritical aspects of linguistics, such as semantics, morphology. Every video has several quizes, just like every module. I would surely recommend it to anyone. +I'm only on the first lesson and feel I have learned so much! Thank you for making the course materials free for those of us not going for the certificate but are just learning because it's interesting. +Excellent course. Greetings from Egypt. :) +With interests in exploring knowledge about languages, this course is indeed fantastic introduction which not only tells about a systematic way to analyze languages, but also trigger my passion to know more and deeper! +I would not recommend this course to anyone interested in an introductory linguistics course. While I understood the content of the lectures, discussion videos, interviews, language informant videos, and required reading, the quizzes were far too difficult for a beginner course. I found myself wanting to drop the course, and the discussion forums show I am not alone in my frustrations throughout the six weeks. +Overall, this course was a great experience. As a student of English as a second language, trust me when I say that it helped me a lot with the subject "linguistics" at college. Nonetheless, I must say that this course was tough! I don’t know, maybe, because English is not my mother tongue but at times I certainly felt that I couldn’t keep up with some of the assignments. Nevertheless, if you give your best, you will make it. Also, if you are looking for a challenge…. well, this is your course. +It's fantastic to have a brief look into the intriguing Linguistics. There's so much to learn. But some of the readings and test might be too difficult and improper for a beginner. +I found this course to be not only educational but extremely interesting. It provides a great overview of the field of linguistics and does so in an engaging manner. I highly recommend it! +It was knowledgeable and fun! I updated my knowledge bank about language. +The course is very good. I am very happy to have taken the course. +This is an extremely interesting and informative course. For me it was really fascinating six weeks of educational process. I am very appreciated to the professor Marc van Oostendorp and his students for this MOOC. +This is one of the best MOOCs I've participated in. The lectures are engaging and the student community is vibrant! If you plan to improve your knowledge about the beauty of Languages - Go for it! +An amazing course ! +A very good introduction to linguisticis. +Excellent course, though I found it difficult. The exercises that required listening to students speaking different languages were particularly hard for me, probably because I speak only English and my ear is poor. Nevertheless, I persevered and feel I got a great deal from the course. I would like to take the next course in the sequence, if there were one. +Great introductory course. Helped me a lot to understand what linguists do even if I didn't quite get all the key ideas which weren't all explained in depth enough. The examples from languages are helpful but require quite a good ear so I guess it takes some gift for languages. +Great course. Even though it says An Introduction... I found it demanding.By the way, when I started the course it was possible to see the number of hours a week needed to complete the course (3 - 4 hours) on the course description. However, now it's not possible and I need this important information a.s.a.p.Thank you! +A very enjoyable, engaging course which touches on the fundamentals of Linguistics. I found the professor, as well as the assistants delightful, and the language informants were also very exciting to have. It was challenging at a few points despite my background and interest in Linguistics, however, it was well worth the effort.I sincerely hope I can take more courses from Leiden, or perhaps study there one day. This course reaffirmed my interest in Leiden from 10 years ago. +Immensely enlightening. I'd recommend this course to anyone who loves languages and wants to explore the fascinating world of linguistics +Covers a wide range of topics and goes quite in-depth given time constraints. The professor is clearly passionate about the subject. +Amazing course! By far the best online course I've ever taken. +I've found the course extremely interesting and well organized to be an introductory course. I had no special need for the course and, accordingly, no special expectations besides the joy of learning the basics of a subject that I've always liked, and of acquiring some basic skills on it.Professor Marc van Oostendorp does a remarkable job on being didactic, clear, interesting and covering a nice selection of aspects of this wonderful field.The course's dynamics is very nice: lectures, dialogues, assignments, interviews, informants' contributions, readings, forum, quiz... it's never boring, really nicely structured!A point which in my opinion can be improved: the redaction of the questions in the quizzes are many times unclear, confusing and even misleading. After the fun of completing the week assignments with a lot of attention put into details, it's a pity when the quiz is not clear or frustrating.Thank you, I enjoyed it a lot! +Exceeded all my expectations! This is a wonderful MOOC for anyone interested in Linguistics. +Simply GREAT! I can't even express how thankful I am for the amazing information presented in such an understandable way, yet it was challenging. My highest respect to the team in charge of this course!!! +A great course for those who are interested in the subject and want to take a general first look into linguistics. I really enjoyed it. +Outstanding course... absolutely fantastic! +I don't know what is the problem as I study the videos well and when it come to taking quiz i never pass so I watch the videos over and aver again but it always the same resultthe part of other languages I'm not sure what is the point of it I mean does it help in English to know how to say for example hi in other languages plz if anyone passed the course . could u plz help me +Excellent MOOC! Prof. van Oostendorp has done a wonderful job, asking students and colleagues to intervene. Extremely interesting! +Great course!! +Interesting content, but still a bit buggy... +I love how clear everything is presented. Just beautiful. +To difficult to enjoy, unfortunately. +Very informative and very fun, you can learn a lot from it. +Excellent course. Was very thorough, entertaining and interesting. +I learned very much in this course, and I am thankful for the opportunity to have taken it. I found some of the quiz questions to be unnecessarily difficult because of how specific they were to the videos of the language informants, but overall, I enjoyed the course and the wide range of supplemental materials that are offered. +Amazing course, Congratulations Dr, Inge , Marten and others! +Excellent! Really enjoyed and learnt a lot. I did not expect such a great content and professionalism in a free course. I am definitely purchasing for the title.Thanks to all the team! Great job! +Thank you! +It is very nice to see an introductory course in linguistics, especially for it being free and available online. I would not have had an opportunity like that anywhere here locally, which makes this course special to me. The instructor and his pupils were paramount to the learning experience, and with the addition of interviews and recommended readings, this course excels in tactically defining and showing what linguists do and what they study. I want to thank Leiden University and Marc van Oostendorp for providing such a professionally delivered MOOC. +If you're a linguistic passionated, this course is for you! +A nice refresher for people who already have a linguistic background, and a nice introduction for beginners also. My problem was all the weird questions about the informants. Some of the questions are really hard to understand which makes them impossible to answer. I'm glad I took the course though! +Good course for beginners. It's very basic if you already have some background in language studies. I would recommend this course to people who are considering studying Language or Linguistics at university. +Great course! It was fun to go through and I particularly enjoyed the 5th module. +Perfectly prepared course with a capable linguist and his skilled students. We can acquire a nice overview about linguistics. +Loved this course! The professor was informative and engaging, and Inge and Martin made the class interesting and fun. I also enjoyed the interviews with other experts in the field. +Very interesting, +I enjoyed this challenging course on linguistics. I appreciated that the course materials were available as one file so I could both read the text and watch the videos. The videos contained a quiz inside that kept me engaged. The interviews and Q&A sessions were a valuable way to present new information. I obtained two books from the suggested reading material to further my learning. In the end, I bought the certificate as a way to say thanks to the team for such a great course. Bravo! +Sometimes it was hard to understand the concept the professor was trying to make, because some grammatical forms were wrong and therefore the whole concept misleading. Otherwise very interesting course and thank you! +I had a great and much needed introduction.Tiffany B. +A really fun survey of linguistics! +This course is really great and very enriching, specially when you want to have a general view about Linguistics, and at the same time, you get the tools to make a simple but precise analysis of languages. +The course was very interesting and well laid out. The only problems I faced were technical issues during quizzes and forum posts, but the course content itself is excellent and a good starting point for exploring linguistics and human languages. +This was amazing! Every week there was something interesting and fun to learn and I couldn't stop wondering about that. Thanks to professor Marc van Oostendorp, Martin, Inga and other informants and contributors who made this course so highly informative and well-structured. You gave me a good foundation to continue learning. Please make more courses! +The course is itself a miracle. The topic has been presented in a very interesting way thanks to the Professor, his motivating way of teaching and his discussions with students. It was a challenge for me, it demanded a lot of own studying but I feel I have learned a lot about the topic and also got a motivation to learn more. Thank you. +I liked the couse a lot, but I think the quizzes are very tricky and there are questions that you have to deduce more than to know. This is OK as part of learning, but it turns a little difficult when English is not your first language. Also, there were some errors in the quizzes, especially in week 3 and 4. It's very interesting to listen to the informants, but I find difficult to answer the questions about them. I'm not familiar with those languages and it's very hard, and I think that's not the point of the course, like to know how to say "grandma" in Abruzzese or how many ways there are to say "son" in Chinese. So, it may be taken into consideration. Anyways, I really liked the course and I hope it can grow for the best. Thank you! +101 linguistics +it would be better if it had better exam questions +This course was excellent! because this made me an overview of linguistic science, their internal fields, and their main topics of study. +Very interested. A great 101 +It was pretty good! +This is my first course and it was exceptional. +I very much enjoyed this course. All of the videos were informative as well as engaging. The material was compelling and I think I may like to learn more in the future! +Very nice work on the various fields of Linguistics, high level interviews, but rather laborious and time consuming quizzes. +I found the course very informative, there was quite a lot of information in there for only six weeks of study but it didn't feel overwhelming either. Professor Marc van Oostendorp was very engaging in his presentation of the material, and I liked the fact that his students were there to ask questions as well. I also liked how the language informants were used - I was able to practice what I had learned in the other videos by analysing their speech patterns. Overall, I was quite impressed by this course. +Entertaining and interesting. Good introduction to the subject with plenty of links and references for further study. +The interview with Chomsky a real treat. +nice course! Interesting and informative +Introductory insight into Linguistics. The professor takes you very briefly about the variety of subdivisions in linguistics , which , each by itself being a big subdivision within linguistics. Enlightened with basics of all these different approaches of investigating languages +I enjoyed the course and learned a lot. I wish there had been more interaction in the discussions, though. +This is an excellent course! Too bad it doesn't provide the Statement of Accomplishment. +I shall say it's a perfect introduction course for one who's interested in linguistic : ))) +Firstly, I'd like to thank the professor for bringing us such a great class on linguistics! The course gives a general introduction on what linguistics is about in quite a balanced depth, not too deep to scare people away while not too shallow that you may feel boring. The missing star is due to some vague instructions of quizzes. +A great course, it contains very broad discussion of the problems of linguistics.Quite demanding quizes force students to watch videos carefully and to read the required reading. This leads to better understanding of the matter.The videos in the course are great too, the explanation of prof. Oostendorp is very lively and entertaining. The interviews with specialists are unique. +Just perfect, even for post-graduate students in Linguistics! +It was very interesting and you get to understand a lot about Linguistics, considering the amount of time it requires. It also makes the most of the platform, so it's really well made. +So so interesting! +I really liked it ! It was a challenge for me personally ! Getting the questions wrong on quizes really discouraged me but then I would keep going and not give up ! Awesome !!! +Interesting way of presenting the basics of linguistics. Helps a lot to organise crucial informatinon in one's memory. Lessons, however, are too similar. +Very clear and interesting! +Interesting content, but issues with broken links needed to complete quizzes while they were due. Needs better explanation of how to use other resources. Many of the quiz questions are arbitrary, rather than really testing knowledge gained in the class. The lectures are still useful, and would recommend doing this as a free course, but see no use in paying for a certificate on completion of the course. +The course is a lightweight introduction to Linguistics. If you are absolutely new to linguistics, it will provide you with enough information for further research and self-development. There are some really interesting facts provided by the required reading of the course.What I mostly liked about the course is the list of additional literature. What I mostly didn't like are quizzes - I little bit too reliant on the question formulation. The only quiz that I really liked was about syntactic analysis of informants' sentences. +without any doubt the best course among those I have studied or tried out on and beyond coursera. a huge thanks to the whole team behind it! +"Miracles of Human Language" is a great introductory course for those who want to get into linguistics, but it is also an amazing course for writers, teachers, psychologists and all lifelong learners interested in a topic.I'm very grateful to Prof. Dr Marc van Oostendorp, his students and everyone who was involved in creating this course. I also want to say thanks to coursera team for making this course available for so many learners.This course inspired me to start learning Spanish and French (I now spend some time on duolingo.com every day, and with a great pleasure).Also, after finishing this course, I felt confident enough to start an important writing project (a book for children with a goal to prevent child abuse, the book is in Russian).In this course the idea of changing the world with your words is presented in such a simple and convincing way, that it's impossible to resist. I think this course made me a better teacher, a better writer and a happier person. +I very much liked the professor, he has a contagious energy and is entertaining to hear and watch. Overall an excellent course, learned a lot +Very motivating lecturer and really satisfying contents!I am so satisfied with the courese metarial including the module itself and the reading matarials +A lot of materials are accessible in the course. It is obvious that professors have done a lot of preparation, so that the learning experience is really amazing. The course arises my interest for Linguistics. Highly recommended. +A wonderful course on principles in Linguistics presented by this lovely professor Dr. Marc van Oostendorp and enriched with the discussions with Marten and Inge. As a Linguistics and Literature student, I felt that they found what was a very nice way to spread this knowledge and, in my case, a more concise discipline in which I could refresh my memory for somethings but also get to know new informations and different points of view and, at last, as an observer from Brazil, to compare a little how these things are discussed here from there. Thank you very much for the hard work and the entousiasm! +This course is not so good. A lot of things are just come from the instructor's head without correcting reference from high quality literature. He can say whatever he think is right. But I would not say all animals do not have complex language systems, or we have one single origin of language. I would also suggest the instructor to interview more world-famous linguists, not just play simple ask and answer with his students.The examples of different languages in the later weeks are interesting. But somehow I expect some better understanding of more aspects of languages. In general I would say it still has so much space for improvement. I would not recommend anyone to spend time on learning this course. +VERY good content and classes! Some questions in the quizzes are confusing, and there was the trouble with the required reading for Week 3. The first Honors assignment is confusing - specially its very last input question. +I would like to say an enormous "Thank You" to everyone who contributed to this Course to be accessible: to professor Marc van Oostendorp, to Marten and Inge, to informants, to translators, redactors, designers and all whom I didn't mention but who were those thanks to whom we now know all we know and share this with others! The Course specifically opened to me that our living in four walls and thinking about ourselfs mostly hides us from all the beatiful unknown things happening in the world: from other cultures, other ways of looking at things! Indeed, folks, live in peace, let it be so! +inspiring lecturer and staff! +It is a very good Introduction for those of Us that know nothing of Linguistics. I was very happy to take it. +Some of the material could be a bit more analytical, and there were a few problems with the quiz questions. Other than that, perfect! Great introduction to linguistics. Thank you for your hard work! +some problems in quiz part are confusing... but nice course in general +Despite some technical difficulties with the forum and the quiz, the actual course was so AMAZINGLY interesting that it has motivated me to take up linguistics in the future. I didn't lose interest even once for the entirety of the six weeks I spent on this course! +Thank you! Feels like going back in time - back to my student's years. +Miracles of Human Language is a wonderful introduction to the field of linguistics. Prof.dr. M. van Oostendorp is an adept and engaging lecturer and his knowledge of his field is vast. His discussions with Marten and Inge were engaging and his interactions with the language informants was, well... informing! I only wish I could contribute a language to his MOOC as well as participate in his research and work at Universiteit Leiden. Thank you, Dr. van Oostendorp, Marten, Inge, Roberta, Khalid, Han, Varun, Enoch, and Beste. It's been quite a ride! +Very special course ! with a good dinamic(class), makes us open our minds! congrats! +Excellent and most enjoyable course!The videos of the professor and his students are clear and fluent and even the quiz are not too hard.And the best part are the informants in various languages one does not encounter every day.The course is mostly recommended to all. +The course was often confusing and the quizzes came down to a question of trial and error. I found this very frustrating. Although the topics were interesting, I didn't find them very well presented in spite of the enthusiasm of the lecturer. But there was a lot of ambiguity and bias and the inability to discuss except through the forums was off-putting.It wouild be good to know why answers were wrong in the quizzes particulalry when you had put a lot of effort into studying them.In the final exam, there are questions which are evidently wrong, both in their wording and in their marking and nothing has been done to remedy this in spite of the complaints in the discussion page. +Loved the course. +I would highly recommend this course! The instructor presents the material in a clear and effective manner, the subject is interesting, and the work fits well and is not overwhelming. +The course itself is fine. The quizzes, however, are so frustrating as to lower the enjoyment of the whole thing. Numerous answers are just factually wrong. You end up retaking the quiz time and again and then selecting random answers just to pass. +great enthusiasm and thought provoking, I look forward to more linguistics courses from Universiteit Leiden! +A wonderful course! +I watched all the videos, but did not do the coursework.I was a total beginner on the subject. The videos were very well made, and quite nice to watch.However, I feel like the material was a bit too easy for my taste. I would have enjoyed a course that delved into "harder things".For someone who doesn't like as much "hard challenges" as I do, I do think that this course is a nice introduction to the subject. +Great course! The professor is enthusiastic and very clear in his presentation, and they present the material in digestible, clear language. The course also did a good job prioritizing what to include in a short amount of videos. Thank you! +Such a great professor with a wonderful team.Thank You So Much ^_^ +Indeed a great choice to improving our knowledge ! +Very slow moving. Feels like you have to sit through a lot for very obvious information. I would recommend http://ielanguages.com/linguistics/ for a more detailed and more concise introduction. +Material is excellent and very interesting. Test questions can be confusing and poorly phrased. +I do not like this course. There are far too many prejudicial ideas - even in the first unit. A language does not have to be used by a single / unified group to define it as a language. Esperanto is a perfectly valid language, fully capable of expression, and does not belong to a single / unified group. There are no native speakers, either - which does not rob it of the fact that there are winners of the Nobel Prize for literature who write in it. The things you are saying about language are not merely willfully ignorant, they are highly offensive & prejudicial. I cannot conscience supporting a course like this. +so instructive, so attractive.I'm very interested in Language and Society, I expect to acquire more knowledge on human language. Thanks! +Excellent explanation and transition overview of how economics are growing. However, I was not from proper economic background and so Faced some difficulties in understanding special terms used such as crawling peg, anchoring etc. Worth it if you can do handwork and have a spark to learn global perspective of emerging market economies . +I strongly recommend this course due to the fact that I have learnt a lot things about Emerging Market Economies and International Institutions. Even though I am an economist, I can ensure that this course is worth it. +It's a very dry course. The material is very limited and the coverage has to be more lively with some some relevant examples. +it is a very informative and educative course which is a must do course for every business entrepreneur +It was great, I really like it .... +This is my 1st course taken. I´m from Panamá (507) so my native language is Español, and this course was very easy to understand. And Professor Doug E. Fresh, knows how to explain the different terms very well. This was my Sunday nights favorite activity, I increase my avatar knowledges. I RECOMMEND THIS COURSE INSTEAD OF THE NETFLIX TIMEWASTING ACTIVITY. Did you know that Netflix is a Disruptive Technology. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEYOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! (I can´t give the 5 stars because there are some video miscordination in Module 5) +One of the best coursers i ever had. Amazing lessons with real time examples to understand and analyze the business situations, risks, competencies and many more. Wonderful Course and Wonderful Professor. Learnt a lot in this course. Thank you so much !! +A good refresher well explained though good examples. +Though at a high level but I did like the contents and the deliver format which is easy to understand. +It is a well prepared and organized course for basic information and knowledge about the subject. +Great course! :) +This is a great way to remind oneself the key concepts of strategic management. However, for a complete newbie some modules might require more detailed explanation. +Excellent course and teacher. Congratulations! +It's a good course although I wished it used more strategic techniques. +it's awesome +Love it +Needs to pay for submit assignments +Tough but useful +the examples were helpful to match the theory in practicethe recomended reading materials and resources are very helpful for further, deeper study of the subjectdespite having worked already on several grant proposals and having some previous practical experience on writing, i finished the course in 2 days as i couldn't wait any more! it was very well structured and i even learned new tricks and things to bare in mind when writing. big thank you! +Best of the best. +Good course when you want to get to know some basic mechanical physics. Examples are real world scenarios which makes everything much more relatable and exciting.Course has very little math in it so it's easier to follow for beginners. But if you want some math exercises and examples then you need to find some other course/book to help you.I think Louis hasn't visited the page for a while, because he hasn't given any comments in discussion forum for a while. There's some activity in the forum by community, but not the author of the course. +I really liked your course. One thing that I think would be great is that if you could add questions on the video about the definition of a term, by opposing it with another term. Example: Weight vs Force, or Net Force vs Frictional force. +Great course! Love the videos - the professor is great and really understands the material. I love his presentation, as he keeps it fun and interesting and most importantly - engaging.10/10 would take again +This is a great course, sometimes in the college you do not understand some things, some concepts that are easy but sometimes in school the proffesors are not able to communicate the idea.I will recommend this course to all people who enjoy to learn how things work.Sorry about my English +Thank you sir for making physics so much more enjoyable and hands on, whilst teaching the same basic important concepts. +A very good course, it was interesant and i liked it very much. You always have fun with a teacher like Lou. He always is doing experiments and explains the course very well and the assesments are pretty easy. +I started loving physics even more. Thanks to this course I learnt a lot. Looking forward to have more advanced physics courses like this. +Very well put together by Lou, who has an approach of child-like humour and an approachable method of teaching through the camera. There are many great examples with simple, consistent explanations that stick. If you heard the example of the figure skater spinning faster by pulling in his/her arms a million times in popular science shows but never really knew WHY that happened, this course is perfect for you. +Too good....actually I am 14 and I have a great interest in Physics...I really fell in love with this course...The explanation, experiments are really appreciable.. +Great course, easy to follow +This course has been Really interesting, and Helpful. It seriously helped understanding how things around us work and why they work the way they do! +amazing course, i cant even describe it! amazing professor, i wish you are my teacher till the end of time. +Insight after insight ... great course +Great course, lots of practice and laughs! Proffesor Bloomfield is a remarkable teacher. Cheers! +Very interesting course! +A remarkable pedagogy that make the course exciting ! Thank you for that :) +I am from China.I think the courses is easy for a senior high school students. The vidio is too long.it is better to make it short.At all,thank you for your wonderful teaching! +Amazing course that easily deals with the most recondite topics for the beginners! I loved it immensely! +Loved it. Louis is a wonderfully calm, patient, humourous and knowledgeable teacher - he knows how to present the information so that even complete novices like myself can understand everything. I 100% recommend this course! +One of THE best courses I have done so far online. Wish the good Prof would offer other courses in Physics. He has a nice and simple way of putting across the scientific stuff. +It was an awesome course- I learned so much! Thank You. +Very interesting, simple and fun. Thankyou Professor Lou and look forward to more such videos on mechanical physics from you. +very interesting courseI like to learn new things and i like physics .Thanks all of you . +I loved this course very much. Mr.Louis is a great professor and I enjoy physics more than ever +Great Course!It's actually a lot of fun give it a try! +Questions are good. But better put some pictures on it. Sometimes it is hard to imagine the situation. +Very, very interesting!!! +this course brings to me a explanatory answers to the ordinary physical works surrounding us, i can say that is a fundamental stuff for beginner who love physics. It's naturally good. +just great! very inspiring teacher. +That was really interesting! +this is a beautiful course every one has to know because every person use these things in their daily life but this course helps you to know the science behind your application and enjoyed a lot and can visualize it in the practical life +Amazing class and amazing Profesor! +it amazing ,easy and interesting i hope if there will be a part 2 +Funny and engaging instructor breaking down the basics of physics in a simple and easy to understand way! +Professor is very powerful, various experiments done fast. Professor of teaching I have never seen before, he was led to my interest in learning, so I easily learned over the course. +Great course! The instructor is funny and engaging.One major disappointment is that the graded assignments are inaccessible unless you pay to earn a verified certificate. I do not like the idea of being forced to provide an ID and set up a webcam. That should be optional for those who want a certificate and not penalize those who are taking it just for the enjoyment of learning. I am only allowed to access the videos. +If my high school teachers were like this I might had ended up physicist. Great videos, engaging style, good explanations. I loved it! +The professor is really informative and thoroughly explains the concepts. It's a great course to take as an introduction to Physics. +hilarious! Inspiring! Wonderful professor! +This course is excellent, mostly because its professor, Louis Bloomfield knows how to both entertain and teach to people who are not at all expert scientists or mathematicians. It's a lively class that keeps you engaged with his irreverent pedagogy. I do wish it would continue, however, so that I could have some lessons to accompany the rest of his text book! +Good introduction to Physics. +Perfect Course for someone who wants to understand the basics and the important points that we need to keep in mind while working with Physics. +I love the course. Professor Bloomberg makes me love this class. I am glad to take the class with him since I need to learn physics to learn astronomy. Thank you professor Bloomberg. +Boring and simplistic. But hey I should have expected that. +awesome explanation from a guy who is truly enthusiastic about the subject he is teaching. +Great begining for physics +Nearly finished this course and it has been fantastic. Clear, concise and informative. Wish I was able to watch this before I went to uni. Thanks Lou. +Well presented mix of real world examples used to convey fundamental concepts. The program was challenging and thought-provoking. I took the course to prepare for later Coursera programs. Thanks Dr. B. +It'so interesting and helpful!!! +it so boring +I love it! +the content is basic and essential. the professor teaches inspiringly and easy to understand. +Great course! I wish High School Physics had been just like this! +best course ever with the best professor who explains clearly and gives various examples and applies his concepts. really enjoyed his course and made me love and enjoy physics so muvh.. Thank youu for your effort +Very good for a basic understanding! +Excellent use of internet education in order to transmit fundamental mechanical physics. Hope to see more where this came from in the future. +I strongly recommend anybody to begin to study physics from this course!!! +This course is brilliant, because it has the potential to reach the masses of individuals that would otherwise be left out of the world of physics. I'm talking about students that think they are too busy, too slow, too old, not smart enough, etc. This is an 'at your own pace' class, which I really appreciated for learning concepts in physics. The way this course accomplishes this amazing feat is by presenting everyday physical actions like dropped balls out of three story windows, or manned wheeled carts gliding across the floor, or bumper car physics explained with air hockey games, and then explaining the laws of physics that are behind the 'actions'. Knowing the physics behind what we see everyday is so enriching, and my eyes are much wider now. This course, taught by Dr. Louis Bloomfield, is also amusing and entertaining, as Dr. Bloomfield races up and down the steps of the empty University of Virginia Physics building for the dropped ball gravity experiments, or crashes himself (standing on a wheeled cart) into the wall to illustrate energy and momentum transfer. (he has really good balance and stamina!) I really hope there is a 'How MORE Things Work' soon! My appetite is whetted. +very good course +this course is "WOW" +This course was very informative and I loved how enthusiastically everything was presented but one thing that put me off was the length of the videos. I understand that you need to cover all the information but when I look at an upcoming video that is 30 minutes long, I don't feel as encouraged to start it. Maybe if you could separate those type of videos into smaller sections of 5-10 minute videos.Another thing that bothered me was when I took a quiz and got something wrong but couldn't figure out why because it doesn't have an explanation and I didn't know which video to watch. Maybe they should give the video name and start time of explanation (e.g. How Would a Ball Fall on the Moon? (5:36)). If they did that, it would be easier to find an explanation to a question. +It's a very interesting class with a nice professor! +Excellent course to learn the basics of mechanics, through explanations and examples are easy to remember... Just perfect for those who want to bring themechanics physical and the more advanced students (sometimes they make mistakes stubidi). This course resolve the gap between the formality of a university course of mathematics and the physical meaning retrievable in everyday life +Fantastic, I never took a physics course when I was getting my undergrad degree. This course has been great in helping me to understand "how things work". It was really well put together and easy to understand. +amazing course that makes physics really easy :) +ery nice, it's absolutely worth the time +I wouldnt want it any other way. Im in week 2 so far, and while I have some questions wrong occaisonally, thats mostly because I get confused with the words since im not a native english speaker (and a guy that thinks in weird, complicated ways) .The Professor takes his time, gives many, thought out and easygoing examples and seems to really enjoy what hes doing. He wants you to learn, he wants you to know, he even wants you to have fun and hes does everything in his power to make you really get a feel for physics and its basic concepts.This is learning of the future right here, online, for everyone.Thank you so much for putting this up! +The professor is amazing, the course is really great +Love this course ! Be it for beginners or for people who want to brush up on the basics I think you are at the right place to learn how simple everyday things work !!The lecturer is just amazing and I have already learnt so much from this course. +Best physics teacher I ever had! +Hi Lou,thanks for the course. I have really enjoyed it and looking forward to season 2. My suggestion how to make the course even better - please provide correct answers with explanations to quizzes.Thanks again and greetings from the Czech republic! +Professor Bloomfield ignites the love for Physics sparking curiosity to comprehend on how the world around u is working... Am pleasured to have had this opportunity to listen to his lectures. Am indeed indebted to you Professor. +Very good course. Provides practical demonstration to the physical laws and concepts. +Excellent course! Make the physics of everyday objects understandable. Concepts that I have struggled with for years, such as why all objects fall at the same rate under gravity were made obvious. Highly recommended. +Thank you, Lou, for an extremely interesting and informative course. I enjoyed it, and would like to see it continue. You have a way of explaining things for the non-physics-major that FINALLY makes all this sink in. I'm happy to understand the world around me a little better -- it's even helped with a few +Demosntrations involved in the course is a great way to understand the material, thanks a lot) enjoyed your style and manner of lecturing +Excellent instructor and great explanations. +I just love this course.... It's helped me a great deal in getting a grip on the subject. I greatly appreciate all the effort Prof Bloomfield put in to make these :) +Very useful course as an introduction to how things work. Louis Bloomfield is fantastic. The enthusiasm and way he explains things are a credit to him and the university. If only all teachers/lecturers/instructors could be as enthusiastic and animated! Thanks for providing this course. Where is part two? +In-depth explanation of physical principles with simple experiments +It is good that the professor was able to connect physical laws to day-to-day events and phenomena and help laymen like myself understand them through simple, less technical explanations.However, it would be better if the questions in the quizzes can be explained after attempts. Though I could retake the tests, sometimes, it is through sheer trial and error that I got some answers correct. In this way, true learning is not achieved.It would be good if the answers to the quizzes could be re-explained with parts of the lesson vides to draw the links. Sometimes, that link is not obvious. It is not immediately clear which part of the lesson pertained to which quiz questions and that made reviewing the lessons after getting answers wrong not helpful.I speak from a perspective of a student who has not taken physics since 14th grade. +Just Great! +What a wonderful class! The instructor, Louis Bloomfield, made so many concepts of physics understandable. His continual use of visual aids and moving objects was extremely helpful. The class was both fun and challenging. The quizzes are not simple; you really have to think about what you were taught and apply the concepts to new situations, but they were fair and achievable. I had never taken a physic class before and am so glad that I chose this one! I highly recommend it. +this course was very informative for me thank you coursera and university of virginia +Accessible to almost anyone! with a functioning intellect. +It was really fascinating to know science works in nature. Prof. Bloomfield demonstrate it, in a really nice way. +A brilliant teacher makes a course easy, makes you wish learning his lessons without too much effort from your side, this being the case here, I really enjoy this course and I find it useful. +It has been many years since I've had a physics course. I've got a doctorate in another field. I've been looking into bio-mechanical interfaces and felt that I needed to review some basic physics without all the hassle of a formal course and with the option of skipping around if I felt the material was too basic. The lecture series allowed me to quickly and easily review some basic concepts without a formal structure.I also have to say Dr. B. did a terrific job of translating some potentially daunting concepts into enjoyable yet serious teaching metaphors. A seriously fantastic job. Obviously, as noted the gradient lecture series has some personal interest and I think that you might consider some introduction to matter. +~ SO MUCH FUN TO LEARN FROM THE "EXPERTS"...................very grateful ~ +It is an awesome course.. :) Every basic physics concept explained using real life examples.. :) +Highly informative in a simple manner +The course was pretty cool. The professor is quite funny, I have to say, this series of study has been one of my most interesting experience, this course turned what seems to be mysterious physicist's word and concept in to our everyday experience, and these wonderful experience plus a little computer edit then give you a complete new feeling of study that you can't have from ordinary schools. Thank you, Louis, it's a lovely course.. +I love this. +Very Good! +This Physics class is positively different from that I had before, bringing physics much closer to everyday life. +Explain the information in a good way. +Thank you for an excellent class, Professor Bloomfield! I would suggest having a term glossary tossed up somewhere. +Interesting material +Thank you very much Mr. Bloomfield ... !!!Great presentation, excellent demonstrations, indoor and outdoors and very assuring oratory skills. Appreciate all your efforts and looking forward to yet another opportunity to meet you virtually.One small area of disagreement though ... I refer to your video "Week 3, Falling Balls I" (time frame 5:12) (How Things Work) topic on "Weight and Mass" of an object where you point out two items from the grocery store, namely the Chocolate Bar and the bag of Cookies.Following information from US FDA regarding Food Labeling Guide, Net quantity of Contents Statement.>>>>>>>3. Should the net quantity of contents be stated in both grams and ounces?Answer: Food labels printed must show the net contents in both metric (grams, kilograms, milliliters, liters) and U.S. Customary System (ounces, pounds, fluid ounces) terms. The metric statement may be placed either before or after the U.S. Customary statement, or above or below it. Each of the following examples is correct (additional examples appear in the regulations):Net wt 1 lb 8 oz (680g)Net wt 1 lb 8 oz 680 g500 ml (1 pt 0.9 fl oz)Net contents 1 gal (3.79 L)<<<<<<<<< A lot of content> Provided a lot of outside reading material> Passionate professor> A lot of good refreshers (about CVs, teamwork, business practices)Suggestions> I hope in the future more time could be spent on monetization theories and practices> More emphasis on mobile games (as much as I dislike them)> Maybe some type of "case study" examples about games from conceptualization to publishing +I had fun and enjoyed this class, do the work and you will learn alot. +I learned a lot +The material was interesting and the professor was engaging to watch. But unlike other Coursera courses, I never did see any replies from a staff member to any of the questions posted on the forums. Other professors on Coursera reply to threads themselves or have a TA reply for them. I understand that one person may not be able to reply to all threads if the forum is active. But at least those asking questions to get clarification about the assignments should be answered. The class forum was not very active during this session and could have been easily watched more closely by one person. +Awesome course, teaches a lot of key aspects about working in development teams, managing projects and starting up your own business. +This course tries to address problems that might arise from game development. It's not an approach to the accounting problems, like finances, a game company may have, but mostly an approach to the bureaucratic problems of creating and publishing a game. It also provides knowledge about monetization pratices and publishing pratices, warning the future game developer how a publish may inadvertently "throw a wrench in the works" of game development. +Out of the four courses in this specialization, this was the one I learnt the most from. To be honest, I don't really like business topics, and I felt a little bored, but the information in this course is too relevant for you to just skip aside. +It was good and useful to get a better idea about the industry +Course assignments have nothing to do with the lectures. Most of the assignments could have been copy-pasted stuff from the previous course in this specialization. Same as with previous course - review point organization leaves too many space for individual opinions. Assignment with a video clip is something I didn't expect at all. I had to download a bunch of free software to make it, and I didn't make it good enough, because I'm not skilled in using those programs. Of course, it then reflected my average score, because review point system is too much oriented toward personal opinions of others. I felt this course gave me the least out of this specialization, and I also felt this course scratched a lot of things, but didn't quite get into many details that could have been mentioned (maybe even instead of the assignments that were quite dull to me). There is a section of clips that is a bit useless to those outside of USA. Unlike previous course, this one was at least doable inside the expected work hours / week (except for the video assignment which took me a bit more), and that's why I'll give it 1 point higher than previous course.This review might sound a bit harsh, even though it's not the intention. With a bit of polishing, it could become really great, but it really could use some of the improvements I have mentioned above. +Great way to introduce the business of games. Gave me a very thorough understanding of the biggest questions one has about how money works in the industry. +I would say this is a best course for everyone trying to get in to the gaming business. +Very good course, I learned a considerable amount from it. +I wasn't that impressed. I did learn a lot about business types and copyright stuff, but it seemed like the assignments had nothing to do with the course material. +Great course. Unfortunately it is not so in the deep as hoped. +Beginner course. Well designed, but not for advanced game developers. +I believe the final assignment should be a Business Plan for a Game Developer Company. It would sum up all that we learned throughout the course! +good course, teach much about entrepreneurship... Unfortunately, most of the examples are by and only U.S citizens =( +Very well designed and thought through.A lot of information that you can continue to develop by yourself.It gives you the tools and talks about processes which you need to surround yourself with.The only thing I lacked was a bit more in depth for some of the latter assignments. Having a template would both be distracting, but also give you some examples on what the level needed would to be to be able to pass the assignments. +Of the courses in the Game Development Specialization, none of them prepared me for what it would be like financially to make a game and create a name for myself as a developer. Not only does the course cover ways on how to finance making a game or game studio, it gives students resources they can use as reference when planning to make a business of their own or joining an existing business (such a a AAA studio or small game studio), and what pros and cons each decision may have for them. The coursework was thorough, and I enjoyed my time in the course. +Amazing course. Learned a lot about teamwork and the game development business. +Very interesting topics that are useful not only for the game industry but for anyone that wants to be a professionist in the future. I was not planning to join the game industry, but this video kind of motivated me to do so in the future. +I liked the course, it was not just about business with games but all the soft aspects related to making games as well as the ones more related with creating the company an so forth.I enjoyed the course very much. +its a fail +During the first week the assignments for the week was not even remotely associated with the content we learn throughout the week. For individuals who wish to learn about the video game industry but are not avid video game players or well read in its trade magazines, this is a bit frustrating. This slightly improved in following weeks. Besides that, the course is stellar. +Very well structured and handled! +Great course! +The course was very superficial, mostly with tips and hints.It's good to be aware that the option for performing the quizes and tasks were unavailable, making it hard to evaluate the experience of the course fully. +This course is good for someone that's interested in starting up a company - for video game development or really any kind of self-employed, consulting, freelance or even small business company. I've been self-employed for 15+ years and can honestly say I didn't learn anything that I hadn't already known. But my experiences in entrepreneurship and this course both are similar in content, meaning the class is a good resource for those who don't know where to start. +The information in this course was valuable, but the assignments were poorly integrated with the course. The types of documents assigned were either not covered or barely covered in the course leaving the students to guess what was expected. For one assignment the provided template left off a section required in the grading criteria. The quizes were also poorly tied to the lecture material and some of the questions were ambiguous. There were several quizes were a single wrong answer resulted in having to take the quiz over. +Very interesting course in the business aspects of video gaming. Perhaps a little bit basic (for undergrads) but it has an awesome experience +Game video pitch is the most interesting assignment. I have got chance to see other students' ideas. +Great course, i love it. +Many of the issues from the previous course have been fixed in this course. Not bad, but there were still issues with the video content not matching up well with the assignments. Especially in that the assignments are never talked about in the videos, especially how to create the papers that are asked of the student. +Great course. Thanks +I like those part focusing on business of games. +Really nice delivered course with really useful info on "games as a job". +Better than the second one. It should focus more on the specifics of the game industry. It provides much generalist advice that can be gotten in much better depth in other entrepreneurship content on CourseraI missed a section on what are the main players on the gaming industry and a brief discussion of each +This is a good course, but being a professional in the software industry, I know many of the teachings described here. It was still a good refresher to have. +This course tries to cover the many aspects around the games industry. But the coverage in each of the subject is not deep enough to be useful. For example, the instructor talks about project management, public speaking, how to write a resume etc. The instructor starts by talking about why they are useful, and then followed by one to two 10-15 minutes long video lectures. Each of these could worth a full Coursera course and I am sure the other courses have better coverage than in this course.The quiz questions are not well thought and do not stimulate thinking at all. Some of the "correct" answers are personal opinions but you have to choose them in order to pass the quiz.The third peer grading assessment asks students to post a video either to pitch himself/herself or to pitch the game the student makes. However, the specialization up to this point does not equip student with the skills beyond the basics. Unless you are already in the industry, I do not think anyone can make anything impressive to be worth pitching in front of the audience. +I was pretty wary of this course from a past experience with this teacher in a previous course, but i must say he nailed it, he has manage to create great videos with concise information that will help you understand the topics at hand, and unlike his previous course they are not a chore to sit through ;), it really shows the quality was always there but some focus was missing, this really is a great course and a teacher i feel ashamed for judging so quickly. +The course is very interesting and educational especially for someone from the developing world like me. +This was a wonderful, inspirational and exciting course! I learned a lot and am keen on learning more and maybe get involved further in one of the many initiatives that were presented. I am genuinely amazed, happy and motivated by this course. +The course is very informative and promotes positive change. +Highly informative and inspiring especially to those who work directly in the CIty Planning Department. +Really good. Very informative, I study architecture and it was an amazing opportunity do improve my skills. +Great introduction! Lots of details! However, this is just a door to sustainable development, it is more of a conceptual framework instead of something that is tangible, more and deeper study is needed. +This course really helped me understand how a city can grow towards a more sustainable environment. It made my love for sustainable architecture bigger +Ιt was a very interesting course.You will learn many things in an accesible way ,especially through videos.It is not necessary to have much knowledge on this subject ,to create a general point of view for sustainable cities and to become more sensitive on this matter. +Fantastic course, very dynamic and engaging. It teaches very important concepts embedding very interesting examples. Thanks! +This course was very helpful as it provided us an exposure to the current environment issues and their relation with our economy.It also recommended us to use the alternatives available and briefly described their advantages.Learning the new things from the economies around the world,their development processes and the present scenario their had been shown and explained gorgeously.Overall it was a nice experience with course era and the LUND UNIVERSITY.....;} +Interesting but too theoretic. +Excellent course, totally relevant with the problems we are facing TOGETHER as a planet. In a personal note this course can be a platform that shifts my career towards sustainable urban development. Thanks. +good holistic view over actors from urban planning and urban environment economy +Great content! Invites you to go further on the subjects and shows you a different approach on sustainability "design" that the one you are used to see in your company or city's vision. +It is an excellent course, really happy to learn with it +very nicely put together the contours of urbanization its challenges and some glimpses into the solution framework. +broad overview on +Mostly fluff with little substance. The videos seemed loosely tied around a common subject, but it might as well have been a YouTube playlist on overall concepts of cities needing to be aware of climate change. The week 4 videos were the same as the week 1 with very vague statements about cities needing to experiment with sustainability to approach the challenges of the 21st century. Only the week 2 video on Copenhagen was actually educational beyond the most superficial concepts. +Very interesting concepts and good materials +Really enjoyed the course and would highly suggest to anyone interested in sustainable city design. +Really interesting and involved course! +It's a good course to know the actual Green economy activity in the world and the aplications. You can take advantage to implement so many ideas in your life and in your city. Thanks. +It's my firt online course and I can say it's perfect and useful! I realised what I can do for my little town! Thank you a lot! +Excellent, visual, informative, and inspiring course. +Great course that really engages the learner. I feel this course will benefit anyone, city dwellers and environmentalists alike. +Excellent course , interesting material, excellent academic staff.Thanks to everyone for this unique academic experience.!!!! +Excellent material, resources and information. Very recommended. +It is not an advanced course. However, you will grasp key concepts of Sustainable Development applied to Cities with encouraging examples. Totally recommended! +Give good introduction into how we go about making a green and sustainable city.Provide some interesting insights. +Very insightful, great lectures, challenging assignments. Highly recommended. +Excellent to improve my understanding about city and its infrastructure ! Really recommending to all who has interest on this topic. +This class was a GREAT introduction to the world of sustainable cities and taught me a lot about how to work to create climate sustainable cities. I took this course to prep for grad school applications and I feel much more confident now. Especially after the results of the US Election, which will put action on climate change in jeopardy, I think it's important to be as educated as possible about sustainability challenges and how we can meet them without the help of our President. +very interesting, with a lot of great examples of what is done around the world. +A very enlightening course. Many cities Government in Indonesia is starting develop their cities with adopting smart sustainable cities and ICT. They realize without that we will loss competitiveness, resilience, and inclusiveness. +Great!!!!! +I really enjoy this course. it presents us a lot of wonderful ideas and practices about the future. with some famous NGO participated in,like WWF,, the class content gets more colorful.the overall view of sustainable cities really impressed me...I would like to share the course to my friends +Great course! I had a wonderful time studying and watching videos! +really good +Very informative! +Very interesting and useful course +It's such an amazing knowledge that i got from this course. It gave you examples to make your city sustainable. It gave me the detail to make a sustainable city. +This class was a very global class. It opened my eyes to the sustainable development goals and strategies that are used by a plethora of countries across the vast expanse of this planet. It opened my eyes to the timeline and years of development that certain strategies will take to meet deadlines and targets for meeting global climate change action pacts. I also learned about the workings of a city, how they can become more sustainable, and most of all, I now have a deep and passionate yearning to do action in my community, and to travel to progressive places such as Malmo or Copenhagen and see for myself and wonderful progressive European countries have created, and also other examples in Asia and Australia and across the globe. It was a exhilarating and exciting journey. +This is great a course. Thank you to all the good course teachers +A must-take for every professional in the sustainability field. +Amazing class!! thank you I learned so many things about sustainability in cities and it is only the begining!! +Great course a lot of info but explained very well +It was a good informative course, but at times it gave me the impression that it was more concerned in showcase the research done at Lund than exploring of the subject at hand. +Good understanding on energing concepts, experiences from Scandanavian countries and gets me exploring possibilities in our environment/ cities. +Such a good class! The experts are excellent and there are free video's and reading links. Thank you! +Really very well designed course for professionals working in the field of Infrastructure development. +Fun and interesting. A wonderful way to understand that a green future is and should be now. +I enjoyed very much this course as a interdisciplinary topic with many very concrete examples from cities all around the world - especially from Scandinavia and rich partnerships with NGO and other organisations.I was a bit more time consuming than the previous MOOC I had followed because of the readings in addition to the video, but also what made the course very rich. +Exceptionally good. For those who wish to know the base of sustainable cities and how to make them reality in the future, this is the best course to lookout for.Good supplementary reading material and good presentations on on-going research in this field. +This was one of the best courses I've taken on Coursera in terms of overall structure and engagement. The videos and lectures were quite engaging, with a variety of instructors and presenters, all of which were very professional and dynamic. The readings complimented the videos nicely, as well. Overall, a great course. +A well balanced course! +Lots of great material. Very much enjoyed the course. One challenge, keeping current with all of the new programs and projects around the world. Thanks! +Very interesting course. +Is very complete, and we change the view and understand that we can help to change our country. +very impressive ..tons of things to learn in this course. this course has created a lust in me to lean more and more about my surroundings. +I did enjoy this course. +I thought it was a very informative course with some great speakers and topics. Each weak gave different topics related to sustainable development of cities. The reason I'm only giving it a 4 was the organisation of the course on the Coursera. The deadlines according to Coursera and the intructors differ, causing some confusion. As well as on the discussion board students from each of the past lessons are put together. +Very good course!!! I'll recomend for sure!! Thank you! +Hi,I'm sorry to say that this course wasn't really useful. I had the impression to see dozens of INTRODUCTION videos about sustainables cities. Because:1. In 5 weeks you have time to cover in details all the aspects of sustainable cities: energy, transport, waste, building, sharing economy. The condition is to focus each week to a topic.2. It is too much based on powerpoint presentation and not at all on example. Concepts stay concepts: we didn't visit one single town, a connected building, an innovative waste management system. You quote 300 living labs, let's go !3. Pictures from the powerpoint are at least for half of them taken from pictures bank. Synthetic images, not concrete. Desapointing.4.. Always the same example: Malmo, Copenhagen... What about the rest of the world ?5. Videos from WWH and ICLEI are clearly revolting. Is it some publicity for them ??? This is not the place for that.In contrast, congratulations to Yuliya Voytenko, for her speech about sharing economy: it was clear, precise, focused.Please do your best to improve your courses: you have the knowledge, let's spread it. +Learned a lot about sustainability. Lots of examples. +Great introductory course to understand citites as sources of solutions instead of sources of problems. +The course is informative and interesting. It poses and discusses the major challenges that are present in front of our cities and world, in general. Highly recommended for urban planners and designers! +Great course!! Different type of lecturers and videos of examples of all around the world! I am very pleased! +Thank you for this program.The course was very interesting as it offered me the opportunity to learn new things.My horizon has increased tremendously. +This course opened me up to a new way of looking at our world... that earth belongs to us and we need to keep her safe. +It is a good introductory course, but I think it should go deeper each week content. Being slightly more technical. I recommend this course. +Very relevant in today's context. +I am very happy about this course. The instructors are world class, top rate. +This course is a great oportunity for learning key concepts about our role in real transformation of cities for sustainability. :) <3 +repeat of the same material and content in multiple videos, the videos were sourced from too many different places leading to 1) decrease of consistent quality and 2) non sequential / logical teaching (each video does not clearly lead to or build on the next one) +Good. One more written assignment would have been good (the one in week 2 was great), and perhaps more incentives or reminders to use the forum. Some of the reading seemed rather hard going and academic and theoretical, but the course was good as an intro to issues related to public policy, getting to know the keywords used, and showing the systemic shifts in cities over the last 2 decades towards a more multi stakeholder approach for a more decarbonated economy. +It is a great course, I can explore more about different topics that are very important and relevant in the cities today. +This is an ok introductory course, a compilation of concepts, related to sustainable cities. Mentiones a list of places where one or another practice is implemented. Some educational clips look like they are taken from Youtube or like promo videos for a certain initiative. Some of the "lecturers" are just phd students, introducing their research topics. No step-by-step examples of developed cases are shown. +Great course, and great lectures! I would make the quizzes and coursework more rigorous for those who'd like to learn a bit more and be challenged. From this course, I'm interested in pursuing an online Master's degree sometime in the near future! Thank you. - Sebastian +learned many things about sustainable cities +Overall good course (the first MOOC I ever took, so inexperienced in grading these courses), but some areas of improvement remain.I would however suggest less redundancy. Too many papers/videos start with an overview of the problems we are facing, but I would think most students are aware of these problems coming into the course, and if not, they need not be repeated so many times. Also, some of the papers seem to use a very redundant and roundabout way of communicating information, with a lot of repetition and sometimes over-contextualization. Shorter sentences/readability do not make for worse science. :-) +Good course, relevant topics, however they could have been elaborated in a more detailed way. +Very interesting and thank you for clearly organizing and the topics in which sustainable cities is being studied. Very helpful indeed specially in places where the topic is still not particularly in the policy agenda . +I learned a lot of valuable lessons taking this course and would like to thank everyone who made it happen, I know it is a lot of work to put everything together. +Comprehensive. You get a firm idea about the direction about the upcoming green urban wave. However, could do with more practical specifics rather than just ideas and guidelines. +Nice but I completed 2nd week before last date...but then also it gave as overdue.. Which is not correct +Great introductory course. Easy to follow, interesting structure. +Excellent! It helps you to open your mind to other possibilities. +Excellent course, with very informative and captivating lectures and videos. +very organized course and the lectures were clear and short +Excellent content, explanatory talks and with many examples that made easier understanding. +Great course for anyone interested in how to make cities a more sustainable and pleasant place to live. +Could be even more details and demanding in terms of content, overall it is a good introduction to the topic +Motivating and inspirational. Now I also do have a dream! The week 5 movie: The Sustainability Challenge, especially the part with the Energy & Water Science Center and all the kids exploring sustainability through games - those 30 seconds really are a light in the tunnel! Thanks! +Structured course. +Very good, however the inclusion of conference talks tend to be less interesting than professeur targeted lessons. +it is a great learning experience. +This course is very easy, but the content is excellent and engaging. The assignment really makes you reflect about what is your city making for sustainability and also is inspiring to know what other cities around the world are doing for it. It should be part of our continuous education in sustainability. +I have already tried several courses but this one is a game changer!Highly recommended! +Nice mooc, well made +Great course! +I was somewhat disappointed with the content of this course. It seems shallow and disintegrated to me. Its difficult to say that this course provides some practical knowledge. +Great organization and super interesting material! +It is a very important course! I love it! The material is amazing! +Amazing Course. +This is a fantastic course, I would highly recommend it to Geography graduates! +I liked the course and I liked professor teaching and University.Thanks for the course. +This couurse Is very Useful For Beginner in Web Desgin I Really Enjoy With Studying it +l learn lot form this Course +Helped me understand the basics. Very informative. +I did not only study strictly HTML5 the way some HTML5 courses deliver their content but I also gained a lot of insight on best practices. This course is great! +Another excellent course taught by Colleen. +Great introductory course to HTML. +\Great course +I loved the instructor! I like the way she explains everything and picks the material for reading and practice.Thank you, Colleen! +Good concepts. Teacher's excellent. Thanks. :) +Thank you very much! I have to tell you, before the coarse I had seen some other videos but nothing is good or simple as yours ! Thank you again. +Was very interesting. I like how the course gave enough knowledge for one to do additional research and understand the online resources. +Thank you Coursera. Thank you University of Michigan. Thank you Colleen van Lent, Ph.D. I'm happy. I love. +good course +A great course and a great professor. There was a lot to learn and the assignments were a good learning experience. +I really like the way that Colleen presented the materials. A lot of histories and related information. Since I have some experience in coding, I can follow along. But I think the course will be difficult for fresh starters. +very well constructed! +Best course ever. Thank you very much. +It was a pleasant journey through the web foundations.Thank you very much to ProfessorColleen van Lent! +Awesome instructor and great to learn where and how to start! Thanks! +I really enjoyed this class, and the free textbook is pretty good as well. Thanks +This was exactly what I needed to make sense of my initial efforts at coding. +A great course for beginners to learn designing a web-page! +It was awesome!! I learned a lot with my own pace!! +I learned some creative codings in html 5 +not for ones who can google +Very recommended for those who are not familiar with code. +I learned the basics to +This course give a simple guide how to start learn HTML. The instructor even teached and spoke rapidly but she teached me with in honest way. She have given many tips and advices about how to start learning HTML. Nice! +This Course is best way for any student to understand the basics of HTML and starting student in the path of website designing.The video lectures are well-defined and structured with clear content description.The amount of hard work put into designing of those lectures is just mind-blowing.Thank you for getting me started for journey of web designing. +I really enjoyed this course. Colleen is a great teacher, easy to follow her teachings.It was a good start to learn webdesign. +Very good source of learning for the new learners. +Great course for beginners +This course is an excellent beginner's resource. The examples and detailed PowerPoints are a great step-by-step walk-through into the basics of HTML programming. I am a little frustrated with coursera's attempts to extract money from students auditing courses, but that is not this particular course's fault.Overall, I am a big fan of the UMichigan courses. The Python course is also great for beginners. +Amazingly simple and the go-to-course for any beginner. Covers all the main aspects of Web designing required to get started. +Quite helpful in getting back in touch with html5. +Great course and Dr. van Lent makes everything easy to understand! +Excellent introductory course to the fundamentals of HTML(5) from an easy to understand/follow instructor. +Great course for learning basic HTML +It would be better if there are more interactive practices. +The organization of the lessons sometimes feels out of place. +i like this course basically....i want to create html webpage so it is help full to create webpage thanking you +This is my first course on coursera and I adored it! It's really helpful and now I can create my own html pages! it's awesome! +had fun with ur studies thank youfor helping +I am really satisfied with this course and feel like I have learned a lot enough about HTML to get started on other languages. The content and the teacher are really accessible and make it enjoyable to learn those new concepts. Looking forward to learning more! +coursera is a best online certificate comparing than other online course.it is easy to learn..!1 +I am very grateful to everyone for their cooperation and effort specially to my teacher. +Unlike the HTML course which precedes it, this course was lacking information and structure. +I really liked this course however I would rather to have more help in the FTP or Cpanel part and more coding aswell. +Very good course! +Course is taught really well.Lots of space to practice before really going to the next concept.Request more solving sessions +This course delivers on what it promises- teach absolute beginners on HTML. the quizzes and case study will strengthen your understanding of the concepts with ease. Well worth the money and time. +Very good course. The professor not only teaches the basic main concepts as also the best practices, always explaining the "whys" of everything. I strongly recommend! +its very useful. Providing good chance for the students who can't afford for the courses. +I love this course :) +The instructor was clear and offered many opportunities to practice. +I am very happy +The lectures and assignments questions are more about the history of the internet and HTML. although I've finished the course but it wasn't as good as i thought. +This course is totally perfect for newbie of programming! I am a designer and I am learning programming by myself and I have tried code.org, codacademy.com, and even meet-up for studying. But these didn't contribute to improve my programming skill a lot. Finally, I found this course and it worked! I got essential fundamental knowledge as well as practical and useful tips! +I like that the lecturer of this course tries to point students on self education due to useful links to other resourses. The lecturer explains that every programmer, as every engineer, usually deals with vast quantity of manuals. +Good class very useful +Excellent, This course is perfect to learn the basics of HTML5 +Very interesting ..Gained Good knowledge +I learned a lot more than just HTML in this class. It covered some history and basic info on the internet and how things work as well. It gave me a better understanding of how HTML fits into everything. The teacher also feels quite strongly about accessibility and talked about the whys and hows for that too. That's something that wasn't taught when I first learned HTML and I appreciated it. +I am very thankful to Colleen van Lent, Ph.D. for tune myself and be a web designer and always curious to learn new things due to her lectures. really blessed. +Thank you for this class. I really enjoyed this it. I'm going to sin up for the next course CSS3, because I want to design some awesome webpages. Thank you so much Colleen! +This course is amazing! It's interesting, easy to keep up with, very useful and the assignments are fun! I would recommend this course to everyone! +Totally useful, Thank you! +it is too usefull +Thanks to professor and also many thanks to coursera. I love it! +The course is good for introductory level. However, I would like to have more practice than just watching video and completing the quiz +The instructor is an excellent teacher, who is passionate about the course, she explains things by simple words (it is important for the students). +it was a a very nice course +This course did a great job of teaching how to get started with HTML5, the course work really made it easy to learn how to use HTML. +Awesome material +Excellent course, I can make my first webpage without style but is the beginning, thanks for all teacher. +Great class-great instructor. Material was presented well and easy to understand. Learned so much in a short amount of time. +Good course to take. At least I can now continue practicing from the project I passed. It's highly recommended course to take because I had no experience in creating a website before and now I can start experimenting with those tags. Thanks Colleen +Great class, great teacher. +Well presented lectures! +Intended for beginners, I think people who have never programmed or written any web pages before get a good overview. +Great +Great introduction to HTML5. Thank you. +Great course for beginners! +Great course! A lot of weight was placed on the history of web dev too. Highly recommended and very interesting. +It's very useful course for the beginners and also the instructor taught the concept very well . She also gave many other information to improve our skills in HTML5 which was very useful for me. +Amazing course. I knew nothing of coding before taking and now I feel confident to experiment on my own and learn much more. This paired with CSS and Java script gives you a huge foundation to start making a portfolio. +Very nice course as a beginner on the way to web designing. +Greate! +Thank you for all the information and for this easy, understanable, great course for beginners! +Very complete, Thanks! +nice and concise introduction!!! +Awesome instructor! The biggest take away is learn how to use Semantic Tags. +Good course! Learnt a lot. Would be even better with a bit more of guided practice. +Great course got to know that accessibility plays a key role in web development and also corrected my self in writing semantic html code. +Now that I see the product I made from knowledge learned bit by bit so it was never overwhelming, I'm totally sold on the real-world value of this form of personalized education. Thanks for your effort and sacrifices creating it. +I'd highly recommend this course by the University of Michigan. It covers almost every topic exhaustively and in a easy-to-understand way. +Maam I LOVE the way u teach.It simply reflects your 20 years experience.Its worth!! +very good course +The teacher is awesome! Loved the course! +Awesome lecture really enjoyed it thank you very much +Great teacher! Test is very helpful +Really well explained, and the instructor is so encouraging - even in her videos. You can also tell that she's really passionate about what she does, and is also so clearly a lovely person. You'll definitely walk away feeling more confident to code. I was surprised how much I picked up. +This was an excellent introduction to HTML5, and I liked the emphasis on accessibility. +A great course for beginners! +that course is very helpful +Even being from Electronics Background was able to perform all task smoothly. All sessions were easy to understand.Looking forward for CSS. +This course helped me a lot to learn about coding based on different browsers etc. HTML5 is required for any front-end based jobs. +Wow!!! it is more than i expected.Thank you Dr. Collen I gained more than i expected wish i could thank you person. +colleen is an awesome teacher. I am in a development bootcamp now in CA and seriously wish she could teach this too! +I love it, and the teacher is of the highest standard, finally someone who can make the complex simple and interesting! Love it! +The syllabus is nice for three weeks course.But you have missed many more important topics like forms etc.please try to include them in future.Anyways , teaching is good. +good....but marking by autograder is very strict.....i created the exact same page, i run it and it was perfect but i did not get 1 point for that in quiz.... +one of the best teacher that i have ever seen in my life, accessible and understandablematerials. In short, the best!!! +Loved this course! Really great introduction to HTML5 - I love the focus on accessibility. +Colleen presented the material in a very easy to follow along way so you gain the understanding to each element for the web design. I enjoyed the course very much and recommend to anyone who wants to learn the web design language. +Great course! I thought Html5 is hard for beginners before, but this course give me a good picture of it. It's well organized, and have a clear logic. I can base on what I learn to have a further study. And the teacher is really good and nice! This course is one of the best courses I've experienced in Coursera. +This course is ok for the beginner. +amazing classes and you can find more information around the web to help your site to be well done +Great introduce, really helpful. thank you! +I found this course very helpful and interesting. Ma'am Colleen van lent made this course very easy for us. Teaching, learning and step by step advancing everything is handled perfectly. I always found HTML a little bit fuzzy but after this course I know the core of html. I would prefer every novice or new-ones to start html from this course. +Fun, easy to follow. +was very helpful for me as a beginner +easy to understand for beginners. +I like it, is not like the other online courses i've taken, this one really you have to make an effort to keep with the assignments! +Properly structured and well explained all the topics. +Great course to introduce the basics of HTML! +I liked the course, but I have to mention that i got pretty furious over that last quiz. I had no idea how to get these progress-bars the right way to look. So I spent hours on trying to figure it out, only being left with an unsatisfied answer, which is that i gotta use CSS. I'd have really loved to find out if i can recreate these bars using only HTML. Anyways, The course was great though and explained a variety of things like website-hosting and accessibility. If there was one thing I'd change about the course it would be, more practical use of the mentioned tags. Thanks for the journey. +This course is very helpful for a new learner. I have learnt a lot of new things. +Great course for beginner! +I liked the topics. However, i've liked this course to review the concepts of forms and the types associated: radio buttons, combobox, etc. +Excelent course, best way to learn, easy and efective. +Fantastic course for a beginner! :) +a fine introductory course for newcomers +Great course, have a importamt information +Good course focusing on best practice and semantics. +Very Very Great Course I Have Learned Alot Of ThingsThatnks To Our Great Instructor Dr/Colleen Van Lent +If you want to be a successful web developer, you should take this course as a basic course.It will really increase your basic knowledge and help you to develop websites eventually. +It was very helpful for the beginner in html5 +Thank you very much! Really useful I enjoyed it a lot :) +Professor Colleen is one of the best online instructors I took an online course with. The course is very effective and it intrigued me to seek out other courses by her. +Lovely teacher,More about HTML history,Intersting +This Course is very Good. You can learn a lot by taking this Course! +Great Course! +Great course for beginners!!! +Great Course Learned a lot. +I love Colleen's style of presenting and teaching. It's refreshing! She looks like she's a great teacher who thoroughly enjoys sharing her knowledge with others. Her students at UMich are very fortunate indeed. As to the course content: it's very well structured, with clear explanations and quizzes/assignments that help understand and apply the course material. Maybe one flaw: it was such a brief introduction, it left me wanting for more. But I guess that's also a good sign, right? So if you have little time and you really want to get the basics to start working on web development, look no further than this course. +A great introductory lesson for beginners in HTML. +its a very good place to start from +loved it!! +Good basic HTML 5 course. It needs to be followed up by additional courses but you will get the syntax used in any modern HTML document. +It was very helpful, thanks! +It's really nice of you all that giving everybody the opportunity to learn this course. Thank you very much and keep up your good work. +It is exactly as promised by the professor. +This course was an interesting introduction of what is going behind the scenes of the internet. It was a great way to invite us to get through this world of internet. As a stranger to programming, being capable of success in this subject is proof of great delivery and mastery Prof. Collen van Lent showcases in this course. +Learn a lot of new things. Great Course to learn HTML. +It is really a great start course for learning HTML. It is neat with practical examples. +helpful!! +good course +Good basic HTML5 course. Very clear and practice oriented. +It is usefully +Great course! +Excellent overview of modern HTML5, a good start to the overall course +Good course to start! +Great introduction to HTML presented in an understandable way. +Excellent course. Great overview of HTML and basic web development. I completed the three week course in one (long) day, but it was well worth it. +Great course +Good introduction course +Thank you. I have learned some new tags about html5. And the materials are great. +I loved this course. It is so very well-explained and easy to follow. It's the perfect start for absolute beginners. The instructor tends to be humorous and that relieves stress at the moment of learning. Also, the material provided is very good. +it is very boring course no coding just watching a lady talking and talking and talking it is really very boring to do that +Very easy to learn +Great course!will recommend it to everybody who wants to learn HTML. Well explained and easy to understand. One of the best courses ever done. +Very good. I have learned a lot. +This course was an excellent beginning to REALLY learning how to build a website. I would absolutely highly recommend Colleen van Lent as an instructor! +It was very interesting and useful course for me. Everything is very understandable. Thank you very much.Wish you many students and good luck! +the best course +Nothing about new tags and features. It shouldn't be named Introduction to HTML 5. It's just Introduction to HTML. +It is my first time studying HTML, and this lecture has been a big help for me to start coding. +great course +very useful,learned lot from this course +Awesome course to start with and it's easy to learn too +I got more out of this course than I expected to and it was effective in introducing me into the basics of HTML5. Our instructor, Colleen van Lent did a fantastic job of explaining the content and encouraging the class to study and practice individually and collectively. +Amazing class with an amazing professor! +Good course for beginners! +Great course for starting. +very nice and clear course! +the best +Thank you! +Its nice for me to keep up with the couse. +Great! +Great course with great instructor. Straightforward and direct. +Its a course to take, the learning material is easy to follow and understand +very nice course. each and every thing is explain in detail. +I have taken many courses in HTML/Web Design though none of them are this thorough when it comes to HTML, especially the syntactic, semantics and accessibility. Most of the courses do not ever touch on sections, figure, alt text, special entities, meter, progress tags etc. The instructor was very clear, precise, and definitely knew her stuff. +Well structured course for introduction into HTML5. Thank you! +She was an exceptional teacher throughout but I believe that some tags weren't explained thoroughly like the navigation tag she just told us about it and so I had to search around on how to use it. +Great Job Dr. Van Lent. Your teaching style is unique and very effective. I enjoyed this class very much. +It gives the basic of the basic of HTML5. I would recommend to either merge this course with other courses that have more about web stuff or to add some JS stuff to the course +Really easy to follow and straight to the point. +Really Great and Nice Instructor +I loved it so much.Collen is a good lecturer and all she said i understood. +Very good course with an a progressive learning +Overall excellent course. I felt, maybe wrongly, that some of the terminology and information given expected you to grasp immediately and this slowed my progress somewhat as I had to re-watch or go online to 'simplify' what I was being told/asked.Otherwise an excellent course which I would highly recommend for others looking to begin their journey in to HTML5 and CSS3. +Excellent course! Other courses only focus on a week of HTML! You're going to need the 3 weeks that this course offers if you are a beginner. +Really helpful course. It is indeed the basics of the basics, but it definitely settled up a starting background for those that wish to develop a website. I would definitely recommend to a friend with no experience in the field at all. +good course good training +It is a very interesting course, easy to access even if you have absolutely no basis in HTML.The teacher explains things very well and the lectures are very progressive without getting boring !I highly recommend any person who wants to learn basic HTML 5 code to join this course +Nice Course. With accuracy and optimization. +I like this course. +this is awesome course +Overall a solid course that can teach almost anyone who is willing the basics of HTML, which is the basis for web design. If you are interested in Web Design or just want to know more on how webpages work and how they function, then this is the course for you. The concepts may be tricky at first, but the instructor really makes it easy to understand the wide world of HTML. She knows her stuff and provides multiple resources and software recommendations for the topics covered. The whole course is organized and it is easy to manage what you need to do. The workload is manageable but be aware that you may struggle if you are simply watching videos, as the quizzes do test your knowledge on not only the topics covered in the videos, but textbook readings as well. My only issue is that there are some sections that are not available, or have changed and have yet to be updated or removed. It's a small issue but I thought I'd mention it.Overall though, solid course, solid instructor, and you will learn alot! +It's a wonderful course to learn HTML5. Professor Colleen has taught me right from the basics and I'm very happy to learn this course and today I feel happy that I have completed HTML5 and will continue my learning towards web development. I thank my Professor wholeheartedly and will make use of this course in making my own website. +Absolutely helpful.A must-take course for all beginner computer science aspirants. +Dr. Lent has been absolutely amazing! I love this course! I have always dabbled with html in the past but I had no clue how much has changed or SIMPLIFIED with the creation of HTML5! Dr. Lent has an awesome no-nonsense way of getting straight to the material without all the extra fluff that just wastes your time. She's very personable and informative. Thank you, Dr. Lent! +PDF Course (Like a school) +well-educated teacher. good pace of learning and easy to understand +Great course, easy to understand. +Colleen is a great instructor! Recommend anyone interested in getting started in html to take this course. +Very good introduction. +Nice introduction to HTML5.The introduction for hosting personal site is wonderful!! +Very VERY Helpful for the Students that cant Afford buying there enter to Collges +I signed up to learn how to write good code, but I don't feel like I learned much. I passed the exam by writing an HTML document that was syntactically and semantically correct, but I don't know why it was more correct than what I've been doing on my own and cannot be sure I'll will write better code in the future as a result. I did learn a lot about the internet in general though. I feel like I would have learned more and paid less money taking a course somewhere else or buying a book. +Good introduction to all things HTML and some good stuff about internet history on the way. Thank you. +Dr. Lent is a great lecturer! The lectures were engaging even though I was already familiar with a good amount of the material. I greatly enjoyed her lectures. +A very concise introducton to HTML, has helped me imensly with my work. +I did enjoy this course and I get excited every time I click on the new lesson. I am not an I.T professional and my only goal is how to design web that is accessible but I went through far from my goal! Thank you for this opportunity! +Great! +As I'm coding since 3 years I thought I know maximum about HTML. But after completion of course I really got good knowledge how to write clean code with proper syntax and semantics. I really appreciate the University of Michgan staff for developing a good detailed course on HTML5. Thanks to Team Coursera. +The instructor is very good. The course could use a litle more practical assignments, but the concepts explained are still very good and useful, even if the course is mostly theoretical. +Great course, clear and straight content. +Good introduction +Colleen understands the struggles most of the students will have and addresses them in a effective manner. She explains the material in a way that is enlightening to novice and yet interesting to more experienced. +I liked the course. very good job! +Thanks a lot. +Good course! +Very good teacher. More coding exercises would improve the course. +Finally, an HTML course that starts from zero, and doesn't assume I know the jargon! The "Code With Me" sessions are a brilliant idea. +Best Course for basic learner. +It was great learning HTML , its syntax and the semantics of different tags .Overall thoroughly enjoyed learning HTML and achieved to build my own site +Very good couse.i love it +Very Neat Course Content with a textbook for learner to explore. +Thank you for this course! +I really liked this course because Colleen explained the history and background of HTML 5, it wasn't straight to the tags and semantics and syntax; I find knowing the background really helpful to figure out what you can do. The lessons are dynamic, never boring and the supplementary material is good. +It was very helpful for me. +Very interesting course, but some of the material is for complete novices. +Great course! +This course is exactly for the beginner of HTML, and it does practice the basic skills to design a web. +Good class. Covers the basics well. Great instructor. +Best HTML5 course over the net. Special thanks to Colleen van Lent for her commitment towards the lectures! +Great class! +I really enjoyed this course, it was very informative. My only complaint is that on quiz questions that included example code, sometimes the ends of lines were cut off. I had to copy and paste them into an editor to read the entire thing. +Great lecturer. Clear and concise and very encouraging. +Great. You should really take it. +It's complet and very easy to follow. +I loved this instructor! She is very knowledgeable and articulates the terms and methods well. +for the beginner it is excellent +Amazing course! Loved the emphasis on accessibility! +Very Nicely designed course. +Perfect! +The course was very nicely organized for absolute beginners. I had done Web Development a long time back and was completely new to HTML5. Listening to the Video lectures and referring the suggested textbook "Missing Link An Introduction to Web Development and Programming" was very helpful. The quizzes were tricky. I recommend this course to anyone who is completely new to web development and who likes to learn the concepts and best practices in coding. +This course in okay. But if you want to know much more about Html you should take Class on Fullstack Web Development by The Hong Kong university of Science and Technology which I liked more than this. That course is wonderful and interesting too. +Nice Course. Very Good for Beginners like me. +Colleen is everything that's right with the world, I can't say enough good things. +Nice introductory course. The speaker explains very well the content and is funny enough in order to catch our attention for the subject. +Nice course, but felt very anemic. +Overall, it is very helpful, though there are some typos in the slides, and more practice would be better. +I like the course it was very simple and easy to follow. I only thing I didn't like was the final. When your code was wrong it could at least give you a hint about what needs to be addressed +It is good to be with you thanks a lot +Precise and helpful introduction to HTML5 +Simple and straightforward. Colleen does a great job. +Thanks to everyone, thanks to Coursera for the opportunity of learn and for supporting me, because I do not have the economic resources and education in my country is not a priority. Thanks.Sincerily . Javier Díaz Sánchez (MX) +Simply very interesting and motivating +I enjoyed the pace of this class however, I was not too keen on the way code is graded, e.g. for the final project of the 3rd week, although my code validated and the resulting page was identical to the instructor's mockup, it was still marked incorrect in the quiz and there was no way to determine exactly what the issue was. There has to be a better way to grade coding assignments. +Nice pace, learned a lot in just a few weeks. +This is a great teacher!! I ve tried several times to learn html, this was the only one that I found fun and useful and with material that make sense and exercises that help you learn. +very well made +Fresh and with basic concepts well explained! +I would highly recommend this particular intro into HTML course as the instructor is especially thorough in walking you through the "rules" so-to-speak. I've taken several MOOCs, as I'm studying to be a Front End Developer. The UofM tutorial is by far the best I've completed, as she "filled in the gaps" others failed to cover. I've since enrolled in their CSS & JS courses; the CSS (I'm finding) is produced similarly and has already been an worthwhile investment of my valuable time. +The instructor is excellent, and has the course curriculum very well organized and presented. So glad I registered for it! +Really learned the ropes of web designing from this course , recommend to everyone! +I like the Courseware and it is taught very well. +Very informative and hands on course. Perfect for an introductory lessons to HTML5. Instructor is also very clear with her messages and lecturers. +This is the best course for a complete beginner. The presentation of the course material is very friendly, the instructor was really great and the quizzes were perfect. The only thing I would like to suggest is adding more coding exercises. But as it stands now, it is still fantastic!I see some people have complained about the final project auto-grader of this course. But you should know that the final project now has additional quizzes (related to the project) and even though the auto-grader sometimes makes mistakes, you can compensate that by answering the project quizzes correctly.If you are a beginner in web development, "Introduction to HTML5" is the best start you can possibly have. Most importantly this course will give you the confidence to take more advanced courses in future. +Thanks the teacher and all. +I think It's too little amount of material. It is very shame, that there aren't any exercise after each week. +woooooow this is awesome I have a new value thanks phD collen +It was an easy entry for HTML5, I wish it was more in depth. +Awesome for starters !! +Great course. The instructor was very thorough and took things step by step. Would highly recommend it to others! +very good course for Beginner +Great Introductory Course. Covers a wide range of topics and especially liked the focus on web accessibility. +A great course, especially for beginners. +very well presented +Very informative +Great beginning course to avoid being overwhelmed. I had no experience in writing code or how it worked, but I got to the "final" and realized how much I actually loved writing code! And, I do it well, which makes me want to work on it more and learn to do more. +This is a very easy course, i would definitely recommend it to any beginner in HTML. +Excellent presentation and great materials for beginners but personal efforts are required. +Wonderful course ! +i have completed this coursera in one day. +Very good introductory course, love it +I have little to no background in programming. After this course, I feel confident in proper designing a basic web page. I never thought too much about how web pages look, now I have an appreciation for the skills and thought that go into designing a page. Dr. Colleen van Lent is a wonderful professor, explains even the most complex topic in a way that I could understand knowing nothing about html5. I felt motivated to start coding. I thought about how accesible pages need to be, and how to incorporate this into my code.If you don't know anything about programming or are interested in web design, this course is for you. +Introduction to HTML5 is a great course for those who are beginning to develop for the web, with a very interesting and updated material. +Great course for an overview of what HTML5 is like! I would have preferred it, however, if there still was a kind of instant autograder, like a parser or something. The lecturer is quite good as well! +Impressively fluid (I was a complete novice before that), from a visibly passionate teacher.Thank you! +Very good and profond course that is fun too :) +Truly a beginners guide. Very comprehensive. Excellent instructor. Up UMICH, Up Coursera +Great classes and material. +Makes things very easy to understand. I would recommend to anyone. +Easy to understand but a bit tricky, good teaching, am very satisfied. +Very beginner stuff. Shows a bit of everything.Puts stress on HTML5 tags and accessibility - that is very good. +Best teaching style I am experiencing doing this course. I recommend to take this course who really like to code with best mentors or instructor. This would be very amazing to learn here. +This course was fun and just what I was looking for. I love the attention to emphasizing accessibility in design, as well as other best practices. I want to start out learning the "right" way and this course was perfect. +This is an excellent course for beginners. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is just starting out! +It was fun, engaging and educative. Good instructor. she did so great. +I found the instruction clear and the information very useful. +Great +Excellent course and instructor. +Great first course for anyone. Especially for who are (completely) new to HTML. As a newbie I found the course easy to follow. The instructor does a great job and is really passionate about coding. The course has a focus on learning the tags, the syntax and semantics of HTML5. The course gives you guidelines to code correctly. You also learn about the impact of the code on the accessibility of Web pages. +Wonderful teacher, knows her stuff and knows to share it with others! +I like the way instructor teaches and content is also helpful. +This is a very comprehensive class on HTML5. The book included gives a lot of information and helps explain things further. +Instructor is wonderful explaining Html5 for newbies. I did enjoy to take this class and learn about html5! +this course is perfect for total beginners! thanks Colleen! +It's really good for beginners! I didn't believe that at the beginning, because i was really new and it was hard for me to understand some things at first time. But if you don't give up, you will succeed! Lectures are simple and easy for understanding. I strongly recommend this course. +I think this course is easy to understand and also covers interessting topics for beginners. +I loved this course! Colleen made HTML accessible and enjoyable to learn - something I've been struggling to understand for a while. I highly recommend this course to anyone who has had either no exposure, or some exposure to HTML. It serves as a very solid foundation on which to build futher knowledge of the content. +its was really nice and beneficial...i got to learn a lot about HTML5 (Y) +an excellent compilation. Really enjoyed thoroughly. However would like it best with the lecture duration decreases a bit. +very well designed course takes through the various aspects of HTML 5. the course provides with just enough information to understand and keep the student motivated to go and explore more. +Loved the class. Feel like i definitely got what I needed to in order to learn. +When I started this course, my only experience with HTML was bold, italic, and underline. After this course I have a much clearer understanding of what HTML is, and how it works, and I am able to now use it to a much greater extent than I was before.The professor did an excellent job of explaining most things, but I did find that on occasion I had to stop the video and go back several times to understand what she'd said or to take notes, despite having slowed the video down as much as possible. (In my opinion, one should be able to slow the video down more than is currently possible, especially for those for whom English is not their native tongue.) With me, it wasn't that I didn't understand what she said so much as I didn't have time to take in what she meant before she'd gone on to something else.I understand that Coursera is able to do what it does because of its method, which is basically independent study; one watches the videos, and reads whatever resources are listed, and goes on from there. If there is a question, it is not the professor in the videos that the question is asked of, but people hired as "teaching aides". These are the people (other than fellow students) who answer your questions, and they do not always answer in a 'timely' fashion. While this method works well for some people, I am quite sure there are others unable to learn with this method, especially if the subject turns out to be a more complicated, intensive one. Some people need to have a little more than just videos which they can only repeat over and over with the same information, hoping to learn something new from it.The only other thing I have a problem with is the lack of oversight/security. There's no way of knowing if the person who 'earns' a certificate is the person they claim to be, or if they earned the scores given.All in all, I think Coursera is a great tool, and well worth the low prices charged; I am sure there are plenty of courses still remaining (after the 'purge') that I would love to take. +Very straightforward. Good teaching. Nice materials. +Excellent teacher!! +I LOVED IT!!! I got so many experience from this. Thank You University of Michigan. +The last assigment Is not specific enough for me. +Loved it +I've been trying different platforms and languages to start with, this one really made me sit down and study. +iT WAS GREAT! For me as a person who dindnt know anything about coding, everything was clear and easy to learn. Im fully satisfide with what I have ccomplished. +I would have given this course 5 stars if not for the final exam, which is to look at a jpeg and then write code to make a web page look exactly like the jpeg. The issue is that there are many ways to get a page to look like the image and you will still fail the exam. The course creators have realized this and you now have supporting questions that you can pass the course on even if your page code is not validated as correct. In my opinion there are so many better ways this final exam could have been handled, for instance i would have like to have seen a few more questions in the exam, and once passed you could see a forum area open up for us all to paste our code in or link to a page where we could discuss with teachers and moderators etc. personally I believe that sort of approach would add more value.The above being said the content of the course is excellent for beginners with an eye opening focus on accessibility and good content on the DOM structure. The course will provide you with a good set of tools to get a basic page up on the internet. +A very helpful course totry and make a website +It's very useful course! +I thought the teacher was going waaay too fast. +its very useful course +Great start for an initial dive into HTML. +This course is pretty much good as it lay down the foundation of web development. It teaches how to design a raw website and how to reach the accessibility. A very good course. +Great course! +This course is not about learning more, but learning better. And this will definitely leave you knowing more and better at the same time. Amazing introductory course. Straight to the point, teaches you valuable practices and guidelines to write HTML5 that not only works, but works correctly and is accessible for everyone. I recomend it not only for HTML beginners, but for anyone who likes to learn effectively.Thank you and congratulations to the amazing Lecturer of this course and anyone that has helped putting this course together. +This is a good course for beginners who want to understand to learn basic code and do web design. +I have learn something new. +Recommend for learners who get to know HTML for the first time. +I learned alot. And I thank our teacher for motivating us not to give up and practise as much as we can . +I think this is the best course for beginner who want to learn HTML5. +I have taken HTML throughout the years with the goal of learning design and finally putting my own stamp on work I have been asked to do. I always left frustrated and doubting whether I would ever be able to do it. This has given me back some confidence that it is possible to learn. the instructor comes off friendly, clear and supportive. The materials really have me doing and seeing where my mistakes are and I really like that.Thanks! +It has been a great adventure taking this course. The perfect beginning to dive into the world of coding. +this is a very good course need more examples. +It was great although I expected a bit more of coding touch +Excellent course, good explanation. Thanks +It gives you the necessary skills to start in this field!!! +Great course. Covered all that I needed, clearly and concisely. +I was avoiding learning to code for so long, but this class was so well organized, sequential, logical, and comprehensive! I love coding now and look forward to all the courses within this certificate! +If you know nothing about html5, this is a great opportunity to learn right now! This course also gives information about putting your website online. +Great course.. +Very straightforward for a beginner. Videos were easy to follow, with clear instructions and expectations. Well done. +good learning experience ... thanks to colleen van lent ... +Good course +Excellent......tried other HTML5 courses...but this is the best one I have seen. Explained really well +Great first course for anyone - even those without any coding background. This is truly HTML for people who are 100% new to web design, so if you already know the basics, then you might want to play the videos on fast and take notes for anything that sounds new - then move onto the CSS course for styling. If you know nothing, absorb as much as you can and practice, practice, practice. This instructor is excellent at providing detail and ample resources to get your journey as web designer started! +Very clear and comprehensive lecture. It helps me a lot in understanding the basics of web and HTML5. +A great course. You can learn a lot if you're willing to dive in yourself beyond the lectures. My only fault is that some of the quiz questions didn't really seem relevant to useful material learned in the course (ie, what year html was implemented etc.) +Great Beginners course for learning HTML 5 +Easy to understand and great for a beginner. +amazing course! I truly recommend it! +new things learnt validation & accessibility specially +Excellent lecture sizes, depth and delivery. +This course is so easy to understand I enjoy it +this is very interesting course and the way they teaches us. its very good. thank you so much +This is, in my opinion, a very good introduction to HTML. The instructor is top notch and the delivery is very smooth. The content isn't too technical, starts a a very basic level without being too simplistic, builds up to an interesting final project, and the entire course can be mastered in just a few hours +Best website introduction course. Period. Thank you Mrs Van Lent. +Great course! I went through the 2nd week twice and it helped, and I learned a lot. The professor opened my eyes to accessibility issues and it will stick with me. +Very easy to learn and to-the-point! +Great beginning course. +Basics of HTML explained very well. I would suggest the Assignments to me be slightly harder +It is the 2nd specialization I'm taking with Michigan University. Great professors, very well explained. The best courses I've ever seen. Very beginner'-friendly :)))) +Amazing course,especially for beginners. +Very informative. +Excellent course to start learning on how to build an html webpage from nothing. Great tutor, easy to understand and good pace throughout the course. +Good beginner course. +I AM REALLY LEARN OF THIS COURSE, THANKS +Love the clear explanations, the useful resourses and the notes our teacher gives us. +Excellent course for beginners, with a very well structured content and an awesome instructor. +Presentation style seemed a tad monotonous, but material is well explained +More interactive assignments using the parser would have been great. As it stands, the quizzes had mostly relevant content, but the lessons were anything but engaging. Having Colleen talk at the camera for 5-12 minutes per video got tedious really quick. +Very good/clear introduction to web design. Easy to follow. +Really happy I did this course. As a newbie to any kind of coding/scripting I found the course easy to follow and informative. As a short introductory course I feel like I have accomplished something that will be beneficial, and it's not taken me long at all to do it. I will be moving on to start the introduction to CSS course with enthusiasm +Good for beginners for website developer. +Great course. Easy to follow, and useful, engaging material. +Could be better spread out over a longer duration. +Great introductory class in HTML5. The professor is very engaging and does a great job of presenting the material in an understandable fashion. +This course was not easy for an absolute beginner like myself. However, I was able to master the material by putting in extra time and effort. The instructor was clear and informatinve. This gave me a good beginning in coding. +I wanted to get an understanding of the fundamentals of html and this was a great course. It doesn't babysit you so you have to get interactive with the coding to actually learn it. +The course was presented at a decent pace. I would like to see more live coding though. Thanks, learning from you was enjoyable. +Very useful and lectures were helpful +The best way of teaching provided by the coursera. +One of the Best...! +In this course, you get precisely what you sign up for, as advertised. UMich is really stepping out, and stepping up in search of those searching for educational excellence. +Nice course and assignments.This course provide complete knowledge about HTML5. +Very happy with this course. Now I have more confidence towards HTML5 +Good basics . Do th3e CSS course after it asap :) . they both are a very good combo . Instructor is good , i haven't much used the discussion forums +This was a worthwhile course. The examples really helped to clarify concepts and offered a springboard to explore and experiment with variations. While I had some previous coding experience, this introductory course was very helpful. +Fun and informative introductory course. +Very helpful for a beginner. Thank you! +An excellent course for all those beginners who really want to get their fundamentals straight. Professor Coleen is an amazing teacher who is really passionate about what she is doing. +Great class! Great pacing! Even better instructor! +Lecture videos are very good and Easy to follow. +Great introduction into the basics of web development. +Good course for begineer +Excellent. This is a very good introduction to HTML. +Excellent course! Highly recommended! +Excellent introduction to HTML! +Good information and great instructor. +great course with a great instructor :) +Easy to follow and well structured. +Could have done with more coding but a well-conducted course to get you interested in HTML. +Really basic course, great for everyone who haven't seen or written any code in their whole life. Teacher is surely likeable and content is easy to follow even during busy, full of work week. It teaches mostly about tags and how to put them together in proper way. I really liked constant reminders about accessibility, that definitely helps with making good habits. +Very helpful for absolutely beginners. The content is well-organized and materials are carefully picked to provide concise, easy-to-read information for learners. Lectures are clear, well-presented, just-right informative; accompanied by the great public speaking skill of the instructor, they are hence not intimidating or boring at all. Another plus point is the instructor constantly urging learners to go beyond "the passing point" and learn more on their own, which is a very key mindset to keep up with the fast, ever-changing landscape of Information Technologies. Don't feel lost or scared, since she'll provide you with great resources for further learning and references! +An excellent course by a Computer Scientist (PhD)! The course was very well presented, at a steady pace and in a lovely, clear voice (pity some courses online aren't so professionally clear).The assessments, and especially the final one, ensure that one focuses and aims for perfect, syntactic and semantic code - which is what all developers should be striving for now. I'm very pleased that I achieved 100%! Great job, **Colleen Van Lent** ... now I'm interested in the second course in the series, "Introduction to CSS3". +Great Course +Excelent! the courses from this teacher are very well put together and clear even if you have never done any serious web development/design! I would recomend this to anyone who wants to make a start in professional webdevelopment/design! im very happy i took this course its worth it! i even got a certificate from the University of Michichan! this is good on my CV! +A good start if you know absolutely nothing about HTML. If you are perfectly comfortable with basic HTML tags then this is not the course you need. Onward to CSS. +Great course for beginner to get into web developing +Wonderful teacher and teaching. +very clear and organized. I'm totally dumb in any kind of computer thing but this course uses easy words to explain the complex ideas. It really lowers my anxiety. Thank you for such a great course! +Even though I would have liked something more hands-on (this subject matter doesn't come naturally to me), I was able to complete the course and obtain a certificate. I appreciate all the efforts that went into this online course and recommend it to other computer programming newbies. +I have been in the web dev field for almost a year. The intro says that this course is not for beginners, but I still took it, since I want to learn HTML systematically. My original plan was to skim through most contents and focuses on those I don't know before. This course goes beyond by expectation and is very useful to me. I feel getting systematic knowledge from it.In addition to the course content, the professor conducts the lecturers in a very clear way. I like her teaching style. +A loved this course. Especially because the accessibility concern is addressed and reinforced. +This is super kurse for html5 introduction. Thanks +Nice introduction learned a lot thanks madam for your valuable lectures. +Amazing! The professor is really good. She explains things really well and the course is really for beginners like me. Thank you +Very useful for beginners to get started with HTML coding. Last project and homework were the best! Great work by Colleen and the Coursera Team! Enjoy Learning! +The caliber of questions in the quizzes is quite advanced. I would be fine with that, as the challenge of writing correct html5 is a good challenge. However much of these questions were not covered in the lectures or the required and optional reading. Learning the correct html tag syntax is not intuitive--one has to be shown examples. If no examples have been covered, how can a quiz-taker be expected to create the proper tags? This strikes me as bad pedagogy.In order to answer the questions and prepare the requested page of html tags, it became necessary for a beginner such as me to research elsewhere in order to answer the questions. In that case, I began wondering why I was taking this course, rather than just reviewing the many free html5 explanations on the Internet.Further the very general response to the submitted page of html gives me no help when I am simply told something isn't right and I should review the lessons--again. I expected better feedback.I found this course to be fascinating from the lecture point of view, but "abusive" in terms of quiz expectations. I was going to take the CSS3 course from the series, but now I plan on looking for this education elsewhere. +I give it a 4 out of 5 . It way what i imagined it to be.. +Very basic +Great beginner course. +I learned a lot in a short time. It wasn't easy, but it was effective. Love the instructor. +This is an amazing course for those who want learn HTML, no need to have any background. accessible for everybody. +short and sweet. +If you don't have any previous knowledge about this topic this is a very good starting point. It's very well organize and with a hands-on approach that makes easy to understand and learn. +First course out of 5, so far so good! Definitely basic understanding of HTML but I was still able to learn a few new tricks I did not already know going into this.Excited to see what's next in CSS! +It's a good course for beginner! A lot of knowledges about hosting, domains etc. But not so much about directly HTML5. I would be better to extend this course for 4 weeks!Thank you, Colleen! +Perfect course very good and talented teacher, explains everything takes nothing for granted I would recommend to everyone who wants to learn front end web +Great instruction and well-paced course. It was a great approach for someone like me, who had little to no experience with HTML. I loved the emphasis on accessibility, and am excited to continue on with the specialization. +Great course for HTML starters! Dead simple and really explains what needs to be explained... +Wonderful instructor - excellent teaching style. +You will get some new knowledge from the course which didn't get from other books. +Good course to start with +I learned a very solid base and everything was easy to follow and understand. +As a beginner with no coding experience, the HTML5 course has put me on the road to continue the whole Web Development specialization! Next up is intro to CSS3! +A great introduction. +It's a good course for beginner, lots of HTML elements are covered in detail during the classes and you will get a good knowledge about HTML. If you code along the course and do all the assignments to practice in the end of the course you will have solid foundation for continued learning and programming in HTML5. It is course that I recommend to enroll. +An awesome course for the beginners!!!! +As someone with a slight history in HTML this course still offered a lot of need to know information! would recommend. +It presents the students with a great head-start at web design and basics.. most needed kick start I think. It worked for me very well :) +Just finished the final quiz! Feeling so great!I really love this course cause I've learned a lot about HTML. Also, the Instructor put a lot of emphasis on accessibility, which I think is really important.One thing a little bit frustrating, though, the codes in the quizzes look like mess when viewed on my phone and it really gave me a lot of trouble. Perhaps this courser would offer better support for mobile phones? +Very creative course! +Very good for those who are starting with HTML or don't have prior experience. +Great class! Awesome teacher! Subject was easy to understand and great instructional videos. +The weakest part of this coursera - are quizes - full of question, which check detailed facts from lecture instead of testing skills +A very good course to begin with. +It's really from the basics, the teacher it's very good explaining, and the adittional materials are great! +Very well prepared content to get enough knowledge on basic HTML5. It definitely help the beginners to expand their knowledge on HTML5. +The course is great! Colleen made it really clear and easy to understand. To be honest, this is the first ever course that I have sticked around till the very end and successfully completed it. I would never expect that my first completed course is an HTML5 course. I loved the course and enjoyed it. I am going to continue learning web design with Colleen. Thank you Colleen for the awesome course! +A great course to learn HTML5 without its prior knowledge. +Loved to be a part of such an informative course.Learned a lot. +really fit for these student who have little basis for HTML +thank you! +really good course +Great professor wonderful introduction to computer science/coding-1 start due to some confusion with updates to the final exam assignment +Really small and easy course for everyone. Even for people that never used computer and dont know what Internet is. +My very first online course. In a foreign language moreover... I loved it because I really learned a lot of new things. Thank you Colleen! +Great introduction to HTML ...very clear! +It is a really useful course. This has help me to understand how to start on building my own website with html code, which is the source code of webpages. +Enjoyed this class so much! Now on to the next. +Nice very beginning start to understand what is HTML, however more coding would have been useful... Thanks Coleen +Colleen is an amazing instructor. Her unique and humble teaching approach made me feel like I was present in a classroom, and that's a good thing! +Greate Course !! +Great. +this course was an excellent experience, I learned too much. +Really enjoyable, clear and straightforward introduction to html5 +The course is very well planned and the information about the W3C Validator is very good. It helps me a lot to improve my code and make it perfect (almost). Thanks and Keep up the good work!! +Excelente teacher; very professional. +A good introduction in general.However, more practical exercises are required. +Excellent teaching and concise material on the slides!!ideal for beginners +This is an excellent course. This is worth your time and money. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning to make websites. The instructor is great and the content is of high quality. +A lot of theoretical stuff, nothing for practice; awful final exam strategy, the course encourages learning by heart without any thinking; advice: to help non english students (like me), make the lectures not overlapping the subtitles +Great! It's help me so much! I really like it! Thanks a lots. +It is a very practical and useful course. Colleen van Lent presents it in such a way by using loads of examples that it is very easy to understand and remember. She is right about the fact that you can only learn it by trying and not being afraid of making mistakes. +Very good basic introduction. The final project was a little challenging because some of the questions used coding that wasn't reviewed in either the textbook or in the lectures. The lectures were otherwise very informative and well-structured. +It's a good introduction. Maybe it could be improved by adding sample codes. +I'm an absolut amateur on this matter and this course helped me understand HTML 5 clearly and deeply. +Excellent way of learning especially the basics and the professor explains every single concept used in HTML with all her experience and knowledge with examples. +I loved this Course! +Great course to learn the fundamentals of HTML5 +Well- organized. Comprehensive. And much fun! +Never before have i seen such an organised and remarkably simplified course on HTML5.Collen van Lent has a great way of conveying ideas through her tutorials. +While the textbook used in this course provide a lot of useful background to the Internet, it's history and trends...etc All good knowledge. I am not sure it's the best teaching tool for this course. It lacks the structure to build up a solid foundation of HTML. If the course stops here, the text may be a good reference for students to explore on their own. With CSS and javascript later in the series, I felt a stronger (both in depth and coverage) HTML proficiency is needed. +Course material presented in a superb way. +A very good introduction to the HTML5 part of web development. Some parts of the course could have gone faster, but all in all I think I gained a very good understanding of the material from Prof van Lent. +This has been the best course on HTML I have ever been a part of! +I found this course extemely useful as start to learning how to create a website and understand the basics of HTML5. +I'd give it a 3.5, but it's not possible so I'm leaning more towards a 4 than a 3.The most positive thing about the course was Prof. van Lent who really knows her stuff. She also has a calm, soothing manner of explaining things and moves with it at the right pace.The content was easy to follow and quizzes were useful. Final assignment was messed up and they really should fix that, but the additional eight questions were basically a transcript of the code itself, and if you did your own code, you shouldn't have had any problem distinguishing the bad code from the good one. Extra stuff for those who successfully finished the course was a nice touch.The real downside of it all was the 'staff'. I got my question answered nine days after I posted it, when I had already finished. I've also seen some rude and condescending yet sparse answers to other students. Similar (but worse) things happen in CSS3 course as well. I don't know who those people are and how they got their jobs, but they should be replaced. Or sent to professional conduct and time management class. +Nice introduction. Good presenting style which is clear and easy to follow. +Thanks for the great Course. +Easy ,good,rich and the best course to start HTML5 . +very well explained, comes to the point +This course is really great for beginners. Experienced web developers will find this course useful too. This course teaches how to write code in such a way that as many people can see our website including people having disabilities ( Special people!). +Since every learner will have his/her own expectations , this course have met my expectations , it was simple and smooth the way introductory courses should be , and for me I have learned many new things, what made me delighted most of all is the part of hosting your site and cPanel , because i rarely saw that in web design mooc courses, looking forward to the CSS course. +very nice for everyone +This is a good course for an introduction to HTML (some parts of HTML5). This course does not have details about HTML5 ! +This is a great class. Teacher takes you step by step. But... I wish she would give homework +it.s easy to understand. +Simply and easy to follow, I love how the instructor delivers the lectures, great course! +An excellent course to learn the most basic stuff of website creation. +This course is very simple for beginners.I had not know any thing about web design or HTML5 before taking this course and it was very useful for me.Thanks. +quite easy to learn +Great course! Learned so many new things in this! Recommended. +This course is a very good way to learn HTML. It hold you accountable to the material and is easy to understand. +A good HTML beginners practice +Excellent course, well laid out and easy to understand. +Covering basics - and adressing important issues - in an easy and clear way. +This course is great. The professor really made HTML5 easy to understand and really inspired me to go on to learn more about web development. This course is perfect for anyone who wants to learn HTML5. +very good start point for absolute beginners, so many thanks for discussing Accessibility Issues. considering them is a must for any web page designer and developer. +I like this course very much! +I really liked this introduction to HTML5, it was accessible, fun and the teacher added very interesting side topics (on accessibility, web history, etc.). If you take this course seriously, you will have strong basis in HTML5 and will be able to create your own web pages. +good build up +Excellent intro to HTML. Colleen van Lent is awesome. I really enjoy her teaching style. The content is clear and interesting. +This course provides an excellent grounding in html. I started as a totally ignorant beginner, and now I feel confident I have a basic grasp of the key tenets and terminology of html code. +simple, lucid and organized instruction. great for beginners +Great Instructor who ensures you learn and apply the topic +Excellent teacher, clear and to the point lectures. Thank you. I've learned a lot as a beginner. +Excellent Course For Newcomers to HTML. +Nice course! The take on accessibility is what I found the most interesting one. Whenever I had been through any introductory materials on web design or any designs, I had not even encountered accessibility as a topic. Thank you for getting me into thinking about not only building workable websites, but accessible ones. +This course is at a good pace for people new to web design. I learned fairly well through it. Colleen is an excellent lecturer and understands the initial processes of learning to teach the course well. +Good intro, gave a good introduction to HTML5 if you know nothing about it or have had some experience in the past and want to dip your toes in. +Really good course!!!Week 1 and week 3 are must for every beginner!!! +Powerful course! +Excellent course and facilitator! +Excellent course with in depth explanation and good quizzes! +Great course! Teacher works at a great pace and doesn't have awkward hand movement (that drives me crazy!) Material is interesting and projects are a great way to apply what you've learned. Peer grading is spotty, as always. +Well structured, easy to understand, gives all necessary information and many hints for additional study +Poorly executed. Lost my interest very quickly. I thought that this course was going to be as enjoyable as Dr. Chuck's Python for Everyone given that both instructors are from the same institution, and both courses belong to similarly named specializations, that is "...For Everyone", but I ended up disappointed. My suggestion for the instructor: redo your lecture slides or point out to all of the errors in the slides. It is not acceptable for you to just say that they contain errors and not point out where all of the errors in the slides are. You only pointed out to one error in the slides by the way. Also, I personally believe that it would have been much more interesting if you had not read off a screen for your lectures; try speaking off the top of your head. +Interesting course, but recommended only for beginners. +Great Lectures and thanks i learned a lot +Great course for introduction to HTML5, thanks +"Introduction to HTML5" is useful and interesting. The course motivates you to read additional information and develop the skill you gain during it. +This course is really up-to-date and fun as well. And the professor's really good. +This is very helpful and i'm highly thankful to you. +Thise course is great as an introduction to web development. The teacher explains in a very clear and eloquent manner. I would recommend this course to anybody that's interested in web development and has no previous knowledge. +Best Structured course. +Straight forward to follow, fantastic course for beginners. +Very well explained! I really loved it! Thank you very much! +The course is clear and well-paced for someone who is beginner like me. The instructor was great. Even if you've worked with earlier versions of HTML, this is a good update to HTML5 and how to code cleanly, with good syntax. The coding along lessons are both fun and challenging, so download Sublime or a text editor right away and try things out in your first lesson if you want to get the most out of it. Overall, this was a really good course. I am excited to continue taking the rest of the Web Design certificate . +Fast paced and hands on. Totally awesome! +Great Course , Great Teachers.Its like McDonalds and I'm lovin it! +Great course! Overall probably a little too basic but definitely a good introduction. +Incredibly helpful class. Learned the right amount of basic html to get started and understand the structure. +Excellent course for a beginner or someone who has no knowledge about HTML5. Lectures are clear, well-structured and well-explained. +Of course he gave me a wonderful beautiful additions in the field of web design +Good introduction for beginners and a great way to lay solid basis for more advanced developers. +Great course +Loved the course. Thank you so much. +This is absolutely NOT for beginners. There is no way you can possibly do this class in under 10 hours a week. The presentations are sloppy and vague. There is absolutely no support, unless you count snark from the aids who check into the message boards once and a while to tell you your question is stupid. This woman chatters on way to fast and if you use the slower speed setting on the videos, it crashes every time. I am not happy that I wasted money on this class. It offers nothing to prepare you to actually do any real life HTML coding. I highly recommend either purchasing a book to learn on your own or take a class elsewhere. The Coursera platform is garbage. The app crashes and it doesn't seem to cooperate well with Safari so I have to lug around my laptop in order to get through this nonsense. +Thanks so much! A great course and a fantastic teacher! :)Before this course I was a total beginner and now I know the basics of html5. I can write a working code and know what to do with it.It starts with an overview on the history of the Internet and its developments, until html5. Explains how to create a basic webpage, writing a HTML code. And it ends explaining how to eventually send the page to the web. In a very easy, interesting, efficient and understandable way. +It was very well put together. I felt like I learned enough to be able to use HTML on my own. +great cours! +I have learned so much in the course. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn HTML. +good to have this tutorial, hopefully i can implement what i've been learning so far, and in the end make it real to the problem to be encountered +Very good introduction course with concise information about the subject. +it was harder than i have thought +Great Class !! Challenging for beginner as we didn't make deadline but got the learning and want to upload our final Exam for credit. +A very well-organized and motivating course for beginners. +Easy to get started! +Very practical +Just started this course but I do already love it! +Basic introduction to HTML5. Though there were some issues with final project submission etc. but it was a good start in the world of HTML5. Also, when coupled with the other two courses of CSS3 and Javascript, it would really be a dangerous combination. Looking forward for other courses. +Great teacher! Excellent for people starting! +In introductory way to HTML 5...challenging assignments. +appropriate amount of work load and also full of useful information +the basic of html but really good for a person that want to begin to learn html like me. the best challenge was to make the final project. I did it. +Excellent course, i learnt a huge amount and now i'm on my Journey to learn even more about web design with the great help of this course. +pretty good! +While I was disappointed that HTML forms weren't discussed, this course provided very solid information. A lot of slide and code typos were distracting though and it felt like the instructor was talking less to me (and more reading from a hidden screen), which dampened the overall experience a bit. But the way the instructor explained the course material was very approachable and easy for a beginner like me to understand. After taking this course, I feel like I'm one step closer to thoroughly understanding HTML5. +What tutor said is articulate. What tutor taught is easy to understand. What assignment asked to do is useful. This is a easy but practical course. +Would have liked an exercise between lessons. Would have liked clearer instructions for final assignment. +Very well presented introductory course, the instructor is really engaging and delivers the lesson in a friendly and interesting manner. I really liked the fact that emphasis is given on the topic of accessibility. +I delighted. It was the interesting course with useful information. Thank you very much! +Very good and clear introductory course. Additonal learning material (the book) is really helpful +very helpful and interesting course.. +Could have been good if there is a practical assignment. +i'm glad to joint this course thanks miss colleen. +The material in course was presented very clearly with lots of coding examples. I would recommend this to anyone starting out in HTML5.Colleen van Lent was very effective in the delivery of the lectures. +Easy to understand and follow. Especially appreciate the importance put on accessibility. +A good intro to the HTML material, which is an entry level into coding in itself. Since its intro it doesn't cover the vast array of of available tricks accessible within the language and there may be instances where you have to seek tips elsewhere on the internet. By the end of it all you should be able to build some basic HTML elements. With that, there are still some tidbits about the basics of HTML (tags) that I still have questions regarding importance/use of. +If there had been a working autograder for the last final project this course would have been worth it somehow.What does that mean?- The lectures provided valuable information.- The quizzes generally made sense (in relation to the lectures).- Learning how to code wasn't really possible.Why is that?- There is only one programming assignment.- The autograder doesn't give any feedback at all why resp. where things go wrong. That's everything but good style (for software as well as for learning).- Code snippets can't be tested individually. That's very bad behavior in programming.- At the end working code that meets the teached rules is marked as wrong. You are lost without any clue.So probably you can learn something. Unfortunately you can't possibly finish the course with a feeling of success. +Wanna learn HTML5 and don't know where to start? This is the course for you. +Excellent course content and pace of the lectures. +i m just loving to create my own page +Very Optimum for a complete beginner, covering everything from the start.Recommended for people who wants to know everything about web development before they actually get into the coding part and start making their won websites. +Great course! Wonderful teaching by Colleen! However, there is not so much practice within this course, that I expected. Thanks a lot to Colleen for creating this specialization! It's amazing! +Autograder on final project is very frustrating - no feedback on the code to know what it didn't like. Other than that, everything else was very helpful and straightforward for this novice. Thank you! +Excellent- very clearly explained and very useful for people who are absolute beginners. +Excellent course! I really enjoyed this! +Excellent communication for those who are truly beginner. Valuable information and clear explanation of the good practice in writing code and the key for how to create web pages with accessibility +Nice introduction to web design, instructor is great. +great course for the beginers +The professor is really awesome +its a good starting for web developing.. +Good starter +Great HTML5 primer, not enough detail in the course, but honestly, how can you cover everything in three weeks? It's impossible with this format but I think UM, Colleen and Coursera did a fabulous job creating a short and welcoming intro HTML5 course. I'm already signed up for her CSS3 course! +A very nice course for everyone to get started with the basic +Great course! The professor shows the basics with good examples, making easy to understand, changing the coding, testing and fixing errors. Besides, There are a lot of resources extremely useful for those who want to go deeper and learn more!!!Congrats! +Best of the online course for understanding HTML5. +Very nice Class .Teaches me a lot, as i am a noobs +Very Nice teacher and great teaching skills. Details included were really nice and appropriate for the begin +very informative. I le +Exceptional course, taught by a friendly, talented teacher. Perfect introduction to HTML. While the course seems to be still under development (there is the odd typo or the like) it's a great start. +Great introduction to HTML5. Colleen really explains step-by-step how to code and what to look out for along the way. HUGE thanks for this! +Awesome Course! +So far the best course on the topic. +The professor is excellent: she is very clear, relaxed, and dedicated to her subject. The book is great! I enjoyed working through the exercises and the final project. +Excellent resource for beginners. No prior html experience required. +I didn't know any thing about web, but this course had taught me a lot of basic, and made me capable of pursuing my interest. +Terrific course. Provided a great mix of technical knowledge plus the theory behind it. The extra material filled in a lot of blanks and de-mystified how the internet works. +Pretty nice course with strong focus on accessibility and correct semantics of HTML5 code. Found it useful but a little bit limited in terms of real practice. +I love the way the instructor takes the course. Although i think a little more coding will be better. But I am just in the 2nd week of the course. maybe that will change . +Clear and very interesting. But I don't think this course is adapted for people who never heard about coding.I liked you speak about accessibility and enjoyed making the quizz. Congrats ! +Being begineer for web designing, I am practically learned a lot from instructor in a practically way. +The good: This course really shows how to code in the 'right' way both syntax and semantics, so the theory is covered better than in other courses. There are good explanations on how to host your site, whch is not less important than learning coding.The bad: More examples and practice are needed, it's hard to get everything so quickly. I had some initial background so i handeld that ok, but for total newbies it might be too frustrating. The final assignment should be changed imo to peer review, the quiz is not the right way to do it imo.Thanks, learned alot. +This course was truly demystifying and once I got the certificate, I really felt pr +I loved this course. I really felt like I learned a lot in just 3 weeks. The videos were well taught and the resources were excellent and easy to use. +Awsome!!! +A brief but interesting introduction to HTML. Very few practical examples and exercises, but it does cover the basics like: syntax, semantics, what to pay attention to while creating own website. Love the way the material is presented by Mrs. Lent and will finish all three remaining courses.Combined with the HTML & CSS course at CODECADEMY I have the ability to write simple html, read somebody else's code and find resources necessary to get me started with my own page. Till now I always thought HTML and web design was boring, well not anymore!I would recommend this course to somebody who is only starting to learn HTML. +I loved to fininsh my first course. The professor explain very well all the basic things we must know to begin to development HTML5.Congratulations and thank you so much! +Very good course for basic HTML knowledge~ +It is a great intro, she has done a great job +Very detailed instructions. Good for begeniers. +Nice basic intro. +A basic intro to HTML5, well structured and easy to follow. +A great jump-start into the world of HTML. The instructor's explanations are very clear. +Excellent course with a perfect distribution. Looking forward to the next level +i learn a lot from this course thank you ;)my next course will be CSS3 !! +Nice course.Could focus a little bit more on coding, rather than ask some informational-only question in the quizzes +Easy and understandable, really great of beginners! +Good course, but weird final evaluation check. +This course is very good. It opened up my world of web design and development. Besides the instructor is knowledge about what she teaches. Thank you +I definitely Recommend this class to anyone who wants to learn about the basics of web design, HTML5, and coding. The way this course is setup is perfect for beginners with its extremely helpful and insightful readings along with the course lecture video s. The professor has really done an amazing job of teaching and engaging students through the videos while also giving helpful resources and tips for students to venture on their own and investigate the topics further. I highly recommend to follow along, especially with the coding, when the professor suggest it. It will really help out in the long run and help you become familiar with the process. +I love the this course +I thing the course is good for an introduction perspective. +very good introduction +Such a nice course. Very good for an introductory course +Ideal for people who starts with HTML +Amaziiiiiiing Thank you so much to the whole team........ +Great course thank you so much +Excellent, clear and to the point. It is good to see a focus on both standards compliance and accessibility, that latter al too often being ignored. Covers a fair amount of ground in three weeks but has fairly narrow ambitions; to make the most of this one needs to view it in the context of the full specialisation. +Good lecturer and presentation. Some additional contents and details would be good, but this was a good start into HTML5 +It's a good start but needs more examples within the course and more projects to work on +Great course, great teacher. I liked all a lot! +The course is basic, for introducing the HTML5, which suit for absolute beginner. +Five stars for emphasis on accessibility, explanation and detail of semantic elements.Three stars for course content testing prior to publication and for omission of Linux. I use sftp on a command-line interface and did not learn in this course how to use mput for putting multiple HTML files and web assets onto my live site. There is no hyphen in "meta-data", nor are there two hyphens in "local area network. +very simple . assignments are ok. I would prefer it if the assignments would be all applications and programming. +Starting from very basics of HTML, anyone can take the courses and learn HTML5. I highly recommend. +Actually it is too good. I have completed priorly when shall I get statement of accomplishment? +A nice course prepared for students starting to learn programming and build a new website. Flow was nice and easy to follow and understand. +Very systematic and detailed overview. +An excellent introduction to HTML5 for beginners.The lectures are concise. And the additonal resources provided also leave room for students to experiment on their own. +This is an Wounder Full course its very sad that i can afford it for certificate but if YOU can u should go for it.Don`t wait don`t think Just go For it +In the past few years I have taken a number of HTML courses and I know the basics quite well. This is a 'beginner's course' but the final coding project was next to impossible to pass. There was a quiz that would allow you to pass the course without having your code correct. Although my code validated before I submitted it , I got it wrong on the quiz three times and it never did go through correctly!!. I did pass the course with a final grade of 94% but I don't feel confident in my coding ability at all. It would be fine if I had received some feedback showing where the problems were. Without it I have no idea what went wrong. Very frustrating. +The course is really easily for biginner and benefit. +I have had some experience using HTML before, but needed a refresher on HTML5 and accessibility. This was a great way to brush up my skills, get a reminder of the basics and build a better foundation for creating accessible websites. I think it would be great for a complete beginner as well. +Good course to understand the basics of HTML 5. +It's good to know about some knowledge about tags in details and cpanel and ftp +Nice course. But there are several videos where video an audio are out of sync which is very displeasing +It was a very good course. I understood everything. My only complaint is that the tests questions were repetitive and so it would be easy to cheat on a second or third attempt and also the final quiz should have been more about writing your own code. I think what should have been tested was the end product by the autograder rather than the exact code. I'm not sure how that would work but it would result in a more precise grade rather than the 87.5% everyone gets and also help the student write his/her own code rather than proofreading and selecting others. I did thoroughly enjoy the course and am looking forward to Course two of the series on CSS3. +very good course +Great class. +Great!!! +The instructor, Colleen van Gent was great! Great material for the beginner. I highly recommend this. +wonderful class!! +A great course to grasp the basics of HTML! +Excellent course, i will refer to friends !!Many Thanks +I thought the course was great! I understood the lectures well and was able to get coding quickly and efficiently. I also appreciated the emphasis on accessibility. The only note: one of the lectures of validation is actually after already have done some validation, but might be more useful before it. +It's a good course for anyone who wants to start learning basics of web-development. +This course is awesome! I am retired and learning to build webpages. The presentation and tests are great. I just need to pass my final exam! +Very good course! I recommend to everyone! +This course was really good and it taught me some of the basic stuff that other beginner tutorials often overlook. One such thing was web hosting. Many HTML tutorials teach us how to make web pages, but not how to host those web pages.Great Effort! Thank You for teaching us! +Very well explained and perfect for someone who never coded! Thank you very much! +A very simple, but effective intro to HTML. Looking forward to CSS3!! Take the time to read the optional chapters in the free book PDF as some of the questions in the assignments are not mentioned in lectures, but are explained in the book. +very good classes. Colleen makes it easy to understand, even for those who aren't experienced in web development/design. +The teacher is excellent.This is excellent but poor introduction to HTML.The course, which is part of specialization should be much more detailed. With much more axamples. I think it is not worth 49$. +Great. +Great Learning experience.Logical buildup and easy approach for starters.Thanks to Colleen van Lent for this effort. +this course awesome! +Very well laid out. Succinct yet thorough. +nic and detailed explanaton of topics and errors that can be caused during practice +Great instructor & a great way to start learning HTML! +Very good course for those of us who want to learn about the basics of creating a webpage / website. I'm very glad I took this course and now signed up for CSS. +Excellent course! It gives you a wide range of information in a very accessible way. +Best course for beginner , teacher make it very easy +Onr of the best course. instractor is just awesome.Very Very informative.take this couse and learn almost everything abot HTML. +The course was a very good introduction to web programming. While I have dabbled with html in the past, I didn't know anything about semantics, which this course emphasizes. Great course. I'll be starting the CSS course soon. Thanks! +some quizzes would not work on my mobile and the final test was VERY hard. But overall a +It took me through understanding HTML in an exciting and easy to learn manner! +Easy way of learning....i'm excited to learn..!!!!!!!!!!!! +Thank you! +Challenging at some points, but if you push through it is well worth the hard work and effort. Dr. van Lent seems very passionate about the topic and it shows through in the lecture and assignment videos. Even if you're already familiar with HTML4.01, this course is worth taking to quickly brush up on the changes in HTML5, as well as learning accessibility features for users who may have one or more disabilities. I learned so much in this course even though I already knew the basics of coding and HTML4.01 Strict. This course got me interested in learning more about UMich's programs and enrolling in more courses with Dr. van Lent. Highly recommend! +Great intro, easy to follow as a novice, and includes both the HTML as well as how to create & validate as well as include diverse needs of users (accessibility) +Very helpful and easy to follow. +it's awesome to learn from here,there is no doubt about it +Its a good opportunity to learn latest technologies.And resources that you are providing to learn are really good +Great videos. Teacher awesome.But the course needs, in order to be better, more practical activities and i got a little bit upset when I worked hard in final project and later I saw that it´s not necessary at all.....Instead, I should just did a final quiz. +Really good and introdutory, although i had previous contact with HTML it was also a great way of getting to know better HTML5 and its semantic. Beyond that, the focus on accessibility is an amazing feature. +Great intro to the content! +Great Course! I had no previous HTML training and was able to complete this course with full understanding. +Excellent course to get started writing good, clean, readable and accessible HTML! +I expected more coding examples. +I would like that the course propose more practical exercises. +Video Lectures are good. Quiz taking method is Great. Liked.Thanks for the course. +Well done. You get a lot of hands on work in this class. Learning by doing is the best way to really learn how to get past stumbling blocks. The lectures were excellent as well with lots of references. +This is one of the best courses on HTML. It focuses on the most important issues such as accessibility which a lot of courses seem to ignore :) +Lectures are great. Colleen sounds very amiable. She has great tips.Downside: You're only required to do some coding for the final project. I think this course would be better if they'll add an in-browser editor so students could play with code after a lecture.Yes, I do play with code after the lecture to get around it, but I think the way the lectures are presented tempt the students not to. So any additional prompts such as in-browser editor - for in-lecture quizzes - definitely will help. +Great ! +Great teachings, You really learn step by step.And let's Code together session was really interesting,Thank you. +If you're looking for a place to start learning HTML, look no further. The course is clear and to the point. The only thing you will regret that it's short. Many thanks to the lecturer. +A very good course for those who want to learn from the very basics and know the roots of web designing. +great teaching +Could have been more useful +Thanks a lot. +Covers the basics we all think we know, but don't. +It is a great course for starters, to get a good basic knoledge of how the HTML5 language works... from know on I go ahead and study and apply new tags. Thanks from Colombia teacher Colleen +I was expecting more coding exercises and the major task was only the demo page which I completed and validated, but somehow I always failed that answer wrong in the final quiz +Great for beginners, really starts slow so that coding becomes accessible to everyone. +The professor was clear and was very easy to follow. The resources provided wasn't too technical and is accessible, which was great! I hope to learn more from your courses! +The instructions provided by Professor Colleen are very clear and the whole course is well organized. Thanks University of Michigan and Coursera staff!!! +A very basic introduction. Good for anyone new to HTML +great course for beginners +IDEAL FOR A GUY WHO DOESN'T KNOW A BIT ABOUT WEB-DESIGNING BUT WANT TO LEARN.THIS IS THE FIRST STEP THAT YOU SHOULD TAKE. +Not hard but many new stuff! +Overall I learned a lot. The course covered the topic of HTML 5 and the concepts behind the internet (hosting, protocols, DNS, etc.)I like that it was purely quiz/project based and no grading was done as peer review. However, occasionally (about 1/20) some of the quiz problems were just plain wrong. Also, the final project was a bit too strict and needed more fuzzy logic for the parser. One could produce visually identical and 100% valid results and still not get a perfect score. That seems a bit flawed to me. However, if you really want to labor on it, you can just give the quiz what it wants and eventually get a full score.All-in-all, I would recommend the course. +This course was quick, easy and fun, plus giving best practice pointers. Thanks! +Brilliant professor! Good course! +Colleen is a great instructor and her slides work with well the content. Very helpful way to get a beginning +course is too slow and the videos need some corrections +Really great for a beginner with no prior HTML experience. +Great course for beginners. Especially useful if one wants to see how a website is correctly designed with accessibility in mind. I would recommend this one to many of the "old" web designers out there. +Amazing course. Even though i knew many things in HTML5, i learnt many more. Eagerly waiting for "Interactivity with javascript" course to start +Very good for starting a career from Scratch +make me understand from the basic +This is a super beginner's level course--perfect for the super beginner. I recommend it. Also, I had taken some other intro-level web design courses previously, and I found that this course still taught me useful tips that I didn't know before. I recommend it for those who want to cement their knowledge of HTML5. +Great Course!!! Perfect Teacher!!! +Great course for beginners who have absolutely no idea about coding! Huge thanks to Prof. Colleen who used very simple language to make the course easier to understand. All the important aspects of basic HTML5 were covered. Assignments were challenging and fun! I can proudly say that I created my own 'First' webpage with the help of this course. One star less just because I felt that some topics like images and especially multimedia usage can be confusing and could have been explained more in detail. Overall a very informative course...highly recommended!! +I have finished this course and it has great content. Almost all HTML5 Elements are explained well.It is great for beginners. +Very Decent Course for Beginners (y) +Basic but very helpful course! I highly recommend for those who just begin to learn web design. +I strongly recommend this course due if you want to start from zero in HTML5 world. Lectures are easy to understand and the teacher is very clear. Besides it is feasible to achieve if you have not previous knowledge about any kind of code. +Great course. It inspire to keep learning. Thoroughly taught. Thank you. +Thank you for you time and for everything you did.As an introduction, I did not find that there's need to talk about the hosting and the other things related to this topic. It would be better if the instructor went deeper into the HTML5. +An excellent course for a basic introduction to HTML 5. +The course was simple and complete. I totally understood the whole system. +Best introductory course to HTML5. Really nice explanation with appropriate hands on examples. +This is a fantastic course. I am looking forward to every other session. +Excellent basic course... and an incredibly competent teacher. Learned all concepts and it was taught in a way that inspired further research and learning beyond the course. +I Love my Ma'am, and the way she teach us. She designed the HTML5 course for us in great way.Thank You +The grading system I dont like it. I coded and validated, yet it returned error to me. I was frustrated that I had to opt out of the course. +Great teacher who can explain concepts in easy to digest manner. Retaking some brush-up courses so I played this in the background while I was working, completed a quiz and continued the lessons. This class is also great for giving beginners a background of the web and the history of coding and web design. Really fun to listen to. +Excellent course to understand the basics of web designing +Thank you! The course was excellent! +Great intro, though it was too slow at first then too fast toward the end. Could have used some more work. +The course probably should be a bit longer to go into more detail on certain things. I have HTML experience, but no HTML5, figured this would be a good beginners course. Felt the final coding assignment was a bit vague as far as instructions and the video. I can use different tags to make the page look similar to the professors layout, and not be exact in what's required. +I have watched all the lecture. It is one the most organized lecture. I enjoyed it a lot and I have gained a lot. Thanks +Very clear for a beginner as I am +It's HTML5 in a nutshell, simple as that. I knew HTML4 before and I got a good introduction to new HTML5. Thanks. +Great course for beginners. +A great introduction! +Thank You Colleen for this course which was delivered in the most simplest manner. Easy to understand with quality material. I am glad I enrolled for this course and I have also en +Best for Begineers who wants to know about overview of tags used and build a simple webpage. +Amazing Course! Easy to learn +If you are looking a general HTML Course, this is for you. This provide general knowledge to create simple web pages, some basic HTML tags and a few practices. My expectation was to have a deeper knowledge of HTML5, spend more time reviewing difference between HTML5 version and the last ones but, I didn't get it, this why I'm giving just 3 starts +Great Course! +Thanks for all! +Straightforward and well organized intro to html5. Of course it won't teach everything about htm5, but it's a good one to help you step into it! +Its ok. HTML is not "Code" its a Mark-Up Language. When she cant explain sheo covers it up with attitude words or skips quickly. +Excellent introduction. The course material is clear and well presented. The assignments follow the course material closely. +Amazing Course, sectioned out really well and explained in perfect detail.Would love solutions to the course but otherwise its perfect.If you're a beginner, this is for you !!! +Very good course for very beginners. +I recommend this class to anyone wanting to know about HTML5! The teacher is superb! +It is exactly what it says it is: an introduction to HTML5. Well done, easy pacing, thorough and knowledgeable instructor. Great for absolute noobs! +Very good introduction to web development +A very good course for the beginners who want to learn HTML.I'm glad that i enrolled for this course. Thank you Coursera. +Very interesting and well-organized course. The teacher was very motivating and went in full detail without rushing the explanations. Loved it ! +Awesome course :) +3th week final assignment has bugs +I really enjoy the course. Good job teacher. +Very Good Course and contents. Colleen has explained every concept very deeply and descriptively.I have enjoyed the learning. +I like this course very much, it helps me a lot, thanks! +It was a vary helpful class. +Great course for beginner, and for good choice for those who know a little about web and want to go through all the basic concepts again. The instructor explain concepts form tags to deployment clean and well. +I was always waiting for a course like this. I was a student without knowledge of HTML after completing the course I have reached the basic level of knowledge in HTML5 and now I have the opportunity to improve my learning and increase my level. I love HTML5.Thanks to Colleen van Lent and the University of Michigan to create the Specialized Program - Web Design for Everyone and especially to Coursera for making this happen. +Is a good course +This course is exactly as advertised, a stand alone course in a series of courses that introduces web design to the novice, non-computer science major. This course introduces the processes that are the foundation for well designed, accessible websites. This course is exactly what I was looking for. I leave this course the foundational understandings and skills to explore the HTML on webpages that I like and to practice coding on my own. +Great introduction course on HTML5. Perfect for those who have no prior experience and want to get things rolling. +Great for a beginner or someone who wants to learn how a brow +It is a great course and the instructor has such a great way to teach that it's very easy to understand the content. Theres is only one thing left... more excercises. +Excellent course and excellent teacher! Congrats to the team!! +I have no background of IT, however, these lectures seem to be very interesting to me. I guess I can learn something valuable from this course and perhaps convert that into a commercial/financial success. +good intro to the very basics. emphasis on good standards.not enough in-depth analysis or practices. maybe for the next upcoming series. +A lot of information there. :) +Basic course helps in understanding what HTML is all about. Thanks to instructor for sharing this course. +A very comprehensive course for coding beginners. +Awesome Coursevery good resourses and a very good instructor who learns the basicsit really helped me.thanks coursera, Mrs. van lent and umich :) +A decent non-overwhelming course to start front-end development. +Well structured course with a lecturer that is really nice to listen to. For me it was time well spent. +I enjoyed the course and found it very practical and helpful. +Great info! +Great course for beginners, if you have programming background you will find it easy! +Colleen van Lent is a great teacher. She simplifies everything, is clear, consistent, and reviews what she's said. She explains as she goes and encourages coding along with her. This was the perfect intro course for someone who knows nothing about HTML. Would definitely take another course by her again. +very good course and well explained by D.Collenthank you +Well organized and very usefull course with great teacher :) Thanks a lot!! +I want more practice!!!! +Like the course +It was very good for beginners and very very good explanation had done. +Easy to understand and practical. +Really great course: informative and with very good teacher! +Very clear, it definitely worked for me. +Is a great course! The explanations are very good! I recomend this course to everyone regardless of his knowledges over html. +As a student I am lucky to listen to lectures of such a Professor and course is designed too well +Great! +I think it is great to have such helpful websites. +Good course! +really great course :) Thanks +This course is basic course to understand HTML. +Excellent Teacher! Loved this course. I have no web developing background yet I was inspired by the teacher deep into the subject. I highly recommend this course to anyone curious about how web pages are created. +A little basic for me. But it was mentioned this was meant for the absolute beginner. Nonetheless, as a developer that never dabbled in HTML, this dipped my curiosity for HTML5. It's a solid start, better than reading about it somewhere in the internet.Definitely use split screen or a separate device to follow along with the coding. Even if it seems too easy. +Great instructor! Course geared toward absolute beginners in web development. She starts you with the very basics. +It was good but little bit too fast, and not obvious, i suppose it would be better it was over 6weeks for HTML5 things only. +Short and sweet !!!I enjoyed learning the importance of semantics, as I am generally used to style the pages using free will.The agenda which the instructor has is very optimistic and I like it ~~~ +Nice Course for the beginners. Specially I would like to thank Colleen van Lent Ma'am who is there for each and every obstacle coming in between for HTML5. Great to be a part of this Web Series from University of Michigan. +my teacher is excellent. she is nice heart and true way of thinking. i prayer is always do a nice work. and God listen her prayer. my teacher is excellent way of teaching and good explanation. i understand each lecture and keep her way of logic in my mind.thank you my teacher. my best way always for you. +This is a very good course for a working professionals. I learned a lot from this course. The auto-grader did not work as smoothly. +Good introduction to HTML5 and you will encourage to learn more about the whole stuff :) +So helpful. Thank you for the awesome course. +Very Good Course to learn just the very basics of HTML. You'll learn a lot from it. +Interesting +Thanks +Great for learning the basis and the proper way to do things! +Excellent Course and Instructor! I would highly recommend this course to any new student interested in learning more about HTML and web development. The course is designed to provide the student with an introductory knowledge of HTML coding and introduces concepts in a very easy to understand manner. +Great class! The teacher was very clear! Go Blue! +Its an excellent course who want to start learning web design in depth. I already knew few things about the HTML language but this course made me realise the importance of different semantic tags and how to use use them efficiently to make our website more accessible. +A good head-start to learning HTML5. +Good,but I think somewhere is not clear. +Decent introduction. The code submission auto-checker is became a game of getting formatting (whitespace, returns etc) to match perfectly vs. actually submitting working code. +Excellent teacher and method. Really enjoy it!Thank you very much. +It's really good, you learn a lot and the professor is awesome +Good course, good teacher, very usefull. Thanks! +Got to learn Cool new concept and tags. :) +great professor and content is easy. +Great course, with a good speed and information to start your journey to create websites. +The class was good. The instructor is great and she is very knowledgeable. I just wish there were more content in the class. +Professor was awesome and taught great I learnt alot +Awesome teaching technique, I feel like she is right in front of me and not virtually..and she actually is.. +It's a good course for introducing students to html. it gives a broad intro but you have to take it slow +Very clear instruction and excellent resources. +Perfect for someone who wants to start learning HTML5 and the entire specialization from scratch.The course is well paced, starts off easy, and seriously takes you step by step into making a web-page. +Thank you Colleen. It was a great pleasure to pass this course having the lecturer like you. +Excellent introduction to HTML5. Very personable and easy to understand professor. +More hands-on practice, more exercises like the one on Week #2 where we(the students) follow the professor's step by step instruction into coding, and not so much lecture (though lecture its understandable as we need to learn all these definitions and what we are actually doing). +Good, clear quality lectures. the right amount of work involved to do some learning without having to rearrange my life. overall very good course. +Very good course! +Thank you for the course! It was challenging in some way and VERY interesting. Besides, it is really stimulating in terms of self-learning as some aspects are mentioned but briefly. Personally I had some trouble with navigation, which made me spent a lot of time browsing the Internet for some information. But as they say no pains, no gains:)Thank you, Colleen! Looking forward to CSS course. +It was very useful!Thank you! +Very good course. Looking forward to go to next level +Best course for Learning HTML in basics. +Thanks for helping us build a foundation right with the basics. +Professor is tremendously funny and personable. Course stays up-to-date and videos are paced very well with a generous amount of information. Not boring or monotonous. Recommend to anyone deeply interested about foundation and beginners alike! +Course covers the important basics and is an excellent starting point for people who want to learn HTML5 +Very good course +The course content was presented at steady pace and the videos were clear and direct.However, the auto-grader was really confusing for the final project. +The course is very good. It is not so easy to pass the quizes but it does get you hooked on HTML +'Introduction to HTML5' course is a very general introduction to HTML5 for beginners. The professor doesn't assume you know anything about Web development or even how files are uploaded to a host website. The course covers a brief history of the Web, basic HTML5 elements, URL terminology, Accessibility, Semantics, and basic FTP & Web hosting software like C-Panel. Forms and other advanced topics are not covered.The class is presented in a laid back style and uses non-technical language which is easy to understand. The quality of the video and audio are excellent. Supplemental books (pdf) and links to Youtube videos are provided and are useful.The duration of some of the lectures seemed too long, even when using 2X playback speed. With some of the quizzes, the professor expected you to read her mind and were worded in a subjective manner.The Accessibility section seemed a little too preachy for me. Also, the final project was convoluted and the instructions were vague. The final project really ended up being a 9 or 10 question quiz that gave you hints on how to code the final project.In summary, take this course if you are a complete beginner. Otherwise, you won't learn much if you have more than 2 months of experience in front end Web development. +Good for beginner, but I think it would be better to add more practice in the course. +Awesome course from a fantastic instructor. +This is a very "pediatric" way to learn HTML basics and how to get started on your developer career. Both content and examples are pretty straight forward. Evaluation system should be reviewed and interaction with teacher, other than blog, should be open when there's an issue/question with specific questions. +It was a great course!I've been studying HTML before but now I had more structured knowledge, I've also discovered some new interesting things. +One of the best and no fluffy intro to the basics of HTML5/HTML. Colleen was excellent in the presentation. +Great for learning the basics! +This course is easy to understand and use in everyday life. I think that it teaches a lot of useful things. +Collen is awesome! +A lot of repetitive information here, throughout each lesson. I was expecting a bit more coding opportunities. However, I'm not new to HTML and think this is still a good introduction for brand-brand new coders (like ages 12-15). Good refresher for those out of it for a decade or so (like me). +Extremely useful and helpful to we beginners! +Great course, great professor, but terrible, time wasting, frustrating, not educational (no feedback at all) evaluation "machine". +I learned a lot of new things, although I am not a beginner. But I think for a newbie this course is a little tough. It would have been great if I got something to share about my accomplishment in the free version too. But may be that's asking too much! On the whole I am happy with the course. +Great instructor, proper course for beginners, kudos for including accessibility as a core topic! +Very good course but more assignments should be included except the quizzes .... +Couple hiccups with the autograder, but otherwise this course was very good. After messing around with HTML for years, it was about time I learned what the deal with HTML5 is. Just the right length, and definitely an Easy level of difficulty. +Excellent Teaching, i Learnt a lot in this course +This is my first course in Coursera. I love this course. +This was my first experience with HTML5. I enjoyed and learned so much from this course. Dr. Colleen van Lent is very informative and provided excellent video lectures and valuable assignments. I'm looking forward to finding more courses from her. +This is a very nice introductory course. Although I have experience with HTML, I appreciate the fact that it assumes no previous knowledge and takes the time to show beginners how to create and save an HTML file for the first time, as well as some of the editors that are available. Three weeks is a bit short, in my opinion. I would have liked to see forms being covered a bit, even if the actual handling is postponed until JavaScript is covered. I was also expecting for the canvas tag to at least be mentioned.Overall, an excellent course for beginners! +Very didactic. Even with my poor english I could understand everything. +This course really helped me a lot in learning HTML and basics of web developmentThanks for this course. +Very good. it would be great if our teacher suggests us some guide book or task book.tks +This is an excellent introduction to the world of web design. I knew absolutely nothing about HTML before, but after the course I have found an interest in coding that I never realised I had. Great teacher, and good course structure that is easy to understand and follow. I am looking forward to learning more in the next course in this Introduction to Web Design series. +This is a really course to take if you are at beginner level or you want to brush up on your coding skills without using a cheat sheet. +The most weak part is automatical grading. When structure and semantics are essential, text inside tag is not, guessing if exists space between elements isn't acceptable as well. Also it's difficult to check when long code snippets should be pasted as plan text in short text field. Better to use file uploading with required snippet. For me also not enough accent was on html 5 features with dedicated examples how use new tags and attributes. +Videos were OK, practice quizzes somewhat helpful. However, the final autograder quiz was extremely temperamental and gave no usable feedback. This resulted in frustration and made what should have been a good experience a very bad one.Updated course to three stars since a change was made to be able to pass the final quiz without needing to pass the autograder submission. +This class is the perfect way to get familiar with HTML. I was completely inexperienced. After just the first two weeks, I feel like I have some understanding of code and how it works. If you are just starting out with code, this class is the way to begin! +This was one of the excellent course. A good quality fundamentals and concept oriented. +Really good Job:) Well Paced and awesome work :) Keep it up :) Thank You :) +excellent(sorry for my poor express ability) +This course was clearly not ready. The autograder for the final project was.. a complete fail. It was not a fun experience trying to change around my code to figure out what the autograder wanted. +I liked this course and the professor was good, just wished they gave an extra week. +Colleen is amazing teacher! This course is very good for the beginner like me, I like coding after I learn it :) +Great course!I didn't know anything about HTML5, and now I can read a code page and another great things. +Awesome course! +I would have rated this course with 5 stars if it wasn't for the Autograder that marked the final assignment, which made that I didn't even get to pass the course, although, according to me and everyone I had contact with regarding this course, my code was correct! Everything else was very well done, and I congratulate Ms. van Lent on her course. I will be going on to the next course in this specialization, because all the autograders for the rest of it has been removed. Thank goodness! +Highly informative with clear examples to further illustrate each point taught in each lesson. It's really helpful to know more about cPanel and web hosting instead of figuring it out (the hard way) by myself. +Great intro course, gives you all the needed basics to get started. +Really good course for beginners.Allows for some experimentation, while giving students the basics. +The instructor might be a good web developer, but neither she nor anyone else on her team know how to write a parser. Unfortunately, that is exactly what they attempted to do for grading Final Projects.Unless you are ready to suffer through several hours of tearing your hair out because their parser does not accept perfectly written code, don't take this course. The only thing you'll learn through the experience is that some people should stay as far away from writing autograders as the planet would allow them.Additionally, the information presented in this course is available in several better structured and presented versions both on Coursera and other MOOC platforms. So you don't need this course in particular in order to learn the material. +Could be the best course on HTML5, but autograder is a pure nightmare. There's a good chance to fail your final project because of technical issues. So, 5 stars for the content, 0 stars for the autograder, 3 stars as a final mark. +This course is a great one. My first Coursera course! It covered enough ground which I'd wish should be there in any online course, because too much of details may make online learning experience boring and too less of it means you haven't learned much. Whereas the amount of material covered in this course was having right balance. I'd recommend this course to every wanna be web-developer! +This 'intro' course has an excellent instructor. I have used html on and off for awhile,but the differences in HTML5 and explanation of the reasons why and the semanticsmade it very valuable.The grading was frustrating, but attention to detail IS a component of programming.Very helpful course. +For beginners this is a good course to start with. I don't recommend this course for experienced programmers. +GREAT COURSE. PERFECT FOR A BEGINNER. +The instructur is fantastic, really insp +I like the course, but I'd like to have deeper information about HTML5 and more exercises for learning and practicing. Also, there's few info about hosting and managing your website. Hope i'll find it in sooner courses of this university. +Very interesting Course +Good introduction to HTML 5, I like the way it explains about disabilities.But the final test, was just a battle to pass the parser more than the code itself. +Great lectures. Clear and well organized, full of information and details. +Awesome lectures and teacher, really easy to understand if you don't have any knowledge. +I loved that the assignments and lectures built up to the final project. It was tough, but I appreciated it and felt like I actually learned from it. +The way of teaching and deliver the basic and advance knowledge is excellent. Great course for beginners as well as developers. I love the course and the instructor. +This is a good course for anybody interested in learning about HTML but has no technical knowledge. Professor Lent has kept things simple, yet engaging. +Really helpful. Congrats Colleen from Greece! +autograder will not accept my valid code that contains all valid elements, will not make the deadline so will not bother continuing. +Great course!! +Very helpful. +Very excellent course for beginners. Hope that the next courses will be at the same level!Two main problems, though: first, the autograder is very bad, should be much more flexible.Second, in my opinion, the homework should be more code-based, just like the final project. +A good introduction to HTML5. +This course is perfect for the absolute beginner not only in web development, but also in programming in general. Yet, being a software developer looking to get some web dev skills, it was worth spending sometime into it getting know some more details about HTML as well as basic programming principles. +Colleen, the instructor, was very good. The autograder was not good and wasted people's time. +clear teaching but too much basilar introduction +The lectures get you through the basics in a clear, understandable way.But the auto-grader was really a bad idea, that got the lecturer into a lot of trouble for very little gain if any.It seems to me that peer-reviewed assessments, with proper instructions, are better suited. Apart from being more reliable and less frustrating, I think the learner can really get more out of it. +Really nice teacher, it's easy to understand what she explains. +Excellent course. The instructor, Colleen van Lent, was fantastic. Very clear and well paced. +Coursera rocks! +Interesting course! Thank you! =) +Fabulous intro course! It was a refresher for me, but with the ever changing language, there were some new things I learned too! +Great Instructor/Course from great University as great as the rest of Michigan university courses. Well respected Universities in addition to Duke, San Diego and Virginia Compared to the very short courses from other reputable Universities +This course is totally for beginners so simple and educational +Ok but too easy! +it's a really simple way for people who have no computer basis to get to know what is HTML and how web page works. +Overall I found the course to do exactly what it said. Give you the very basics of HTML and allow you to put something out there. For someone that has zero experience with programming or creating web pages I would recommend, otherwise it will definitely be a little too beginner. +It may be a 5 weeks course with a more slow learning, because we see some tags in a second and it passes. And the autograder works really bad. I do not know where I fail but I failed all the questions. A peer grader would be nice for the final project. +Comparing to "Learn HTML5 from W3C" from edx this course is fairly weak. +Wery helpful for very begginer! +Just very good! +Very clear explanation, concise... Really helped me understand. Highly recommend, Fantastic! +Shoud have big project that covers most of the new tags in HTML5However the lectures are awesome. Thanks for sharing.. +Hate auto grading. Overall good basic course. +Brilliant course! Can't wait for intro to CSS3 to start. +Excellent class. Video lectures are very accessible and good content.The automatic parser is a pain, and can be improved. I spent a lot of time to get code that was working and giving the correct output to pass the tests. +Great instructor +This is a very good course for beginners. +Overall this is a very good course. I had some experience with HTML5, but this course showed me the nuances of standard practice that I was otherwise missing. The instructor was very articulate and offered example with every topic. +The glitches with the autograder at the end were the only reason I didn't give this five stars. Otherwise, great course! Looking forward to joining CSS3. +This course is a great introduction into constructing a webpage. With this professor you don't have to fear literally covering all the basics of the language in 1 week, like other 3 week programming course professors do. The professor spaces out the material over the class so it's not overwhelming while covering background knowledge on web design. +Good course, great teacher and above all recognized educational institution that offers it; which adds to the credibility ! Im onto the next one CSS3. +A very helpful course.One must take this. +Excellent course.From the basics neat and clean explanation really good.Liked it very much. +Easy to follow, well explained content with a very nice lecturer. +The lecturer is amazing! +It should be little more elaborative with codes, syntaxes etc instead of non-html related stuffs +This is a complete HTML5 course of which students can learn and practice since this skill is very useful in today's programming market. Highly Recommended for begnners, intermediate, advanced, and professional programmers. +How can i get certificate please +Nice !! Thank you very much +Excellent introduction to Chemistry, focused on models which allow you to understand all of the empirical rules/laws. However, it appears to be an older course and some of the quizzes were effected by Cousera upgrades and they are corrupted and some questions can't be answered (as in some cases there are actually no choices given!). +The best course to grasp the fundamentals of chemistry +Great course! This is the first MOOC that I've completed and I had a great experience overall. The CDS system is what drew me toward this particular chemistry course and it seems like an effective and natural way to have concepts stick in your head. Very clear and easy to understand explanations are also given in the lecture videos.My only complaints are that there are some significant typos in the quizzes, and all of the course material seems to refer to a different version of the online textbook than the one that is currently provided. If the quality of the quizzes was better and if the course was more in sync with the most up-to-date reading material I would have easily given this course 5 stars. +Excellent course. There are many questions to think. +This course should be a 5 Star course. It is challenging and requires effort. The lectures are well done but not up to the level of the quizzes. The book looks like an abandoned project. The errors and missed references to tables and equations from part one of the book to the other are too many.Having said that, I have never learned so much about a topic. I attempted the problems in the book before I took the quiz. That makes a huge difference. A week covers 2-3 chapters in the book. I started to doing the each chapter's problems before moving on in the week. This made taking the quizzes a lot easier.Overall I am very happy for having taken this course. +Excellent choice of general chem topics. I used this course to review certain topics on the MCAT. The Acid-Base & equilibrium sections were very helpful. Prof. Hutchinson is a very engaging instructor. Aside from his detailed lectures, his notes were very clear and easy to follow. +Very Good Videos for Chemistry! +Great course. +Although I have studied chemistry in Hungary, but from this point of view of chemistry teaching was interesting. The demostration of perfomarnces was colorful, itemized and the two art of chemistry teaching could learn from each other. +I am enjoying the course. I appreciate the method the professor is using for the lectures. I am taking the course for the challenge of learning something new as I have not studied chemistry since my first year of college in 1958. +Most excellent course. Professor Hutchinson's presentation of chemistry made the learning experience valuable and enjoyable. The course is planned well and delivered in a most professional way. It's apparent that a lot of work went into creating this course. The use of the split screen is a good technique that fully engages the learner, and following the concept development concept throughout the lectures provides a solid foundation for moving from one concept to another.The minor negatives are the pdf file of the CDS material didn't always present correctly (especially tables, a common problem converting Word to pdf) and some of the chapter numbers didn't match ... but these are minor glitches and did not detract from the course itself.I can't say enough good things about this course. I kept thinking how great it would be to attend Rice University and attend Professor Hutchinson's classes. It's quite evident that he loves teaching and it shows in his lectures. I look forward to any future courses offered by Professor Hutchinson and Rice University. +Fantastic approach to concepts. Excellent instructor. +This is my first experience of Coursera, although a have done many other MOOCs. This is an excellent course. I studied chemistry many years ago and was looking for a course to revise some of the topics. The subject matter is at just the right level: challenging but not intimidating. The lectures are well structured and presented, and the background reading material (provided free of charge) is excellent.A brilliant first impression, both of Coursera and the host University (Rice). +The concept development approach is a much better way to learn! +I thank the organizers for this well-structured Chemistry course. I was sometimes overwhelmed by the amount of information given but I guess this is due to the condensation process that had to be carried out in order to impart the contents in 11 weeks. Otherwise I would have appreciated to have more exercises resolved during the lessons and to get a sheet with all the formula used during the course...Thank you again. +Too many mistakes in the math. I dropped after a week +Very Very good, if you want to learn something just try these classes !!! +needs more questions and answers. maybe just a section for practice or somethin +I took this class as a chemistry review for my MCAT and really liked the concept development approach. As an undergraduate, I learned a lot of these concepts by memorization but never made the connections or the thorough understanding as I did after taking this course. Thanks! +Excellently delivered..... High clarity and focus on concepts +really helpful advice, completed content with acceptable depth +While the visual set up is well thought out (you can see the instructor, slides and writing space, the setup of course materials is too stringent for the beginning chemist. More time seems to be needed focusing on the basics of chemistry and chemistry math (such as how to read CH4, sig figs, etc) prior to testing on stoichiometry. +Awesome Course. +Excellent course, pleasant to listen to. Definitely improved my understanding of chemistry. +If I'd had access to this material when I first failed freshman chemistry 40 years ago, I probably wouldn't have failed. Kudos to Dean Hutchinson for bringing us his innovative approach. +Very informative +great course! Unlike other courses, this one really helps the student make a deeper understanding of chemistry and the conceptes that built the science! +Course information is delivered in a new and exciting format. The first half of the course builds up base Chemistry ideals and Laws. The second half takes the student to places they never thought they would end up. Be sure to brush up on your College Algebra before taking. Overall a fun and challenging experience! +This course and the accompanying textbook explain chemistry in a very simple, ground up way that I was able to easily understand. +So far it's been just about 1 week since i have started the course, but I'm really excited, i like the tasks! The course is built in a way that really motivates you to create! After all it's a core goal for the Graphic designer! Keep it up! Let's see what happens next! Good luck to every one! +Thanks! It was interesting and useful! +Great course, very engaging and I learnt a lot! +The way information combines with practice to enhance your creativity is just great! +Thanks for this creative course that learned us different ways andaspects of image making. +Very challenging and very rewarding to learn to "see" an object, to start owning it and to realize a booklet out of it. It was hard work and lots of trials and errors, but I really enjoyed it, and I'm sure that I've learnt a lot for my next projects. +Very Nice +Good introduction to important workflow concepts for creating and designing publications from scratch +Very interesting and useful +I really learned a lot of things and this course will really help me in future. +Exellent lectures and assignments. You will learn about how to compose page spreads for illustrated books by composing two or more images, experimenting with shapes, colors, sizes, negative space, foreground vs background. +Really enjoyed this course and it pushed me to think about the application of the design. In this case, I learned a lot about composing spreads for books which was something very new to me. +Pretty weak teaching - "maybe you can place objects in this order, or maybe in this order". No any clear logics. +Useful and playful. I like the idea of having from the computer the inspiration to take paper and draw, and create things :)I would add some extra links or inspirational videos to enrich the experience +Great course! Thanks to the organizers from all my heart! I received a charge of inspiration, learned a lot. Thanks to all the classmates for their feedback and good wishes! It was great to see the works and approaches of others. I was able to realize my old ideas, the course has pushed me to the point to be more focused and self-disciplined. I feel more positive and able! Thank you! +everything is great. thanx +thought provoking course and the practical aspects were especially enjoyable. like looking at a subject in fresh new ways, then you would love this course +Very intersting +It was great to come through this course with itsmarvellous lections and interesting submissions. Strongly recommend it. +Thank you very much for this great course. I have learned a lot and definitely gained new skills that will help me in my work. +Nice class introducing the ideas of scale, composition and use of white/negative space. A must for people who always want to fill the page. Sometimes less is more. +Thanks for the lessons! +I liked how there's such an open approach to the course and it gave me a lot of chances to practice design. +Engaged, passionate and enquiring teachers who produced excellent course materials. Great assessment format with feedback and grading from fellow students. An inspiring course encouraging an experimental and open approach with making images. :D +This course challenged me to expand my visual creative skills and for that I am thankful. +Image making is the focus of this course.If you love making images you will love this.Not much theory but all the more making.Assignments needs a bit more time and thought than the other courses in the specialization. +This course was a fun one that encouraged experimentation and making a lot of images. I would say the assignments could have been more challenging though. +Would have liked to have more assignments and content on imagemaking rather than a focus on making a book. I feel like I got just as much imagemaking experience from the intro to graphic design course offered by Cal Arts. +This course opened up a new avenue of expression for me. Insightful instruction +Thank you ! +If you've completed the first course in this specialization, then this is a repeat of a lot of the same information. I didn't find the teaching style very effective either, though it may work better for others. +Graphic degsing is about relation between images and the spece where they are. I think this course is a grate conector which explains the main conexions and relationships of the components of an image. +Great, very clear lessons. Kind of easy in a way but I learnt some basic things. +Wonderful course, interesting lessons, great assignments, fun to do, authentic artist teacher. +This is an inspiring course, and a challenge to go back to the basics. As I was at college 2 decades ago, this has been a powerful experience of re-discover and put to work my talents and skills. A true turning point in life! Thank you. +Challenging and great! +This course encouraged me to start learning InDesign Adobe program! +This course is very good for beginners of using images and need to know how to set images together and anyone did not studied graphic design before +This video lectures are very clear and well made. I learned the concepts of designs and new ways of thinking. +Really enjoyed the challenges it made me face with designing my own booklet.Has inspired me to do more. +i was never comfortable with image making, but this course had given me a lot of confidence and i made a drawing i was proud of +I like the content and enjoyed the process but as this is online course, it should be better designed. The criteria for reviews and assignment direction is probably not too explicit that cause a lot of confusion, and people are submitting very different assignments from one another. It is not easy to grade and hard to understand what is expected. Also it is recommended that you know Adobe Illustrator or InDesign. I actually had to take additional course alongside of this course because although it was not mandatory, it was better to know how to use these software. +This was a great course that got me to stop judging my creations and start making images! +It was really challenging, and interesting course. I wish I had more time to work with it. +I really loved this course. Useful information presented in an attractive format. Hands on approach. It opened my mind regarding a lot of possible applications in different areas of life. +Excellent, It was a really good course. I recomend it +Excellent course and specialization. +Quite a repetition of Fundamentals of Graphics Design, the first course in the specilization. +The course is delivered in a simple manner, easy to follow and with clear instructions. I'm not sure how much a peer review is a valuable contribution once most of the students don't really know how to criticize properly the peer's assignment, either always giving the full mark or evaluating according to its personal ideas and not necessary what the exercises called for. Anyway, it's still a very valuable alternative to formal education, specially if the student is committed enough. +Really, really enjoyed this course - very insightful +I loved it, it pushes me to get out of my confort zone. the course helped me a lot especially in discovering new technique for image making. +I really loved the teaching method, fluid and in tune with any artist`s budding creativity! +This course is superb! Thank you for offering it here. +Image-making will let you appreciate how a design is formed. Having finished the course, I look at designs now as more than just a representation of something. I see designs now as art forms, styled to express not only its connotative meaning but its denotative meaning as well. +The course content was good but the assignments weren't structured that well. While reviewing I realised some people made very simplistic stuff like me after following instructions, while others with more design experience created really amazing stuff. They should have included some advanced example for demo. +The weakest of the series so far. Overlap with some of the other courses. Too much art therapy. +As an educator myself, I found this class to be rather pathetic in its structure and the assignments. These are topics and activities that I was doing as a student in middle school and junior high (both public schools mind you, not arts centered charters). Charging people for a certificate in this "class" is tantamount to what diploma mills do as the course requirements are not up to even senior high school level coursework. Truly, Coursera, what happened to your open education offering real education? +They say a picture can speak a thousand words. It is true! +A very good course, not just for those who want to become experts, but also for those who know more. +I learned a lot esp the extent of using materials to create an artwork. Well done! +A weaker version of "Fundamentals of Graphic Design" with way too much overlap. It should not be included in the Specialization. +This course gave me so much confidence not only in creating images and experimenting, but in writing too. I started to think out of the box and became more productive! +Excellent I really enjoyed it +Thank you ! awesome introduction! +Good course, maybe more detailed information would be better. +Great course! +Very interesting through creative assignments you can learn and refine things about image telling. +One of the most enjoyable courses for me. It was really fun to do all the assignments and to practice different ways to express myself. A very very nice way to lear. Thank you! +Great course! +Fun course but everything was already covered on the Fundamentals Of Graphic Design Course. +I am running out of words to describe how much I loved taking this class and those in conjunction with it. I'll be a little sad when it's over and I'm taking the last course. There is a true connection +I really loved the course and am extremely thankful for the opportunity. +Good course if you are driven and can teach yourself. I like the instructor's approach. I'm giving 3 stars only because I was looking for something more about techniques.. +great course once again! +A great course. It took me out of my comfort zone of design ideas. +You make me work... grab crayons and paint. And that's exactly the kind of things I needed to do to make images, just theory wouldn't make a thing. Very well structured course, the Coursera plattform is amazing!!! (pardon my english) +I was quite disappointed with this class. The videos and instructions are very short and the information is lacking. When reviewing other classmates material it was quite clear that people were confused with the assignments because I saw such a huge range of submissions that were very different from each other.I found the material to be very similar to the first course in this specialization; both asked very similar things but this class didn't add much to the process. +This course is good, although it repeats a lot from the Fundamentals of Graphic Design. +I loved it , going straight to the point and has very valuable tips +ONe of the best available courses :) +Very enjoyable and encouraging course - I haven't used watercolours since I was a child and this course prompted me to go back out and try them again! +Not up to the standard of the previous two courses. The material was already covered in the first course - Fundamentals of Graphic Design - and nothing new was brought to the table. Even the assignments were a re-hash of the ones from the first course. I realize the point of the lack of specific guidance was intended to encourage us to explore the "making" of multiple iterations of the images. I just would have liked to have more instruction or examples of the elements of composition hierarchy. +I really enjoyed the course and it helped me to start creating again. +Very good course with fun and challenging assignments. My only criticism of this series of courses (the graphic design specialization) is the grading process and lack of instructor interaction. While the peer grading is setup so that it's not too difficult to receive a decent grade if you do the work, there is virtually no instructor feedback on assignments, which is a bit dissapointing. I realize this may be due to the huge number of students, but usually when I pay for a class, interaction and feedback from the instructor is part of the package. Perhaps if you did that, though, then the tuition cost would be much higher. +I like how the weekly projects built up until we had our book at the end. +Loved it. More non graded assignments would have been great. +This course gave a great opportunity to explore one's creativity, with assignments that didn't require us to have skills in particular types of graphic expression. However, I also found that it didn't give me the richness of principles and techniques that I've found in other courses in this sequence. I expect that, for an in-person course, this instructor gives individualized feedback that provides that content. In a peer review situation, the feedback is quite general and so doesn't take up the slack from the lectures. I suggest that Coursera work with the instructor to retain the current content, but produce much richer lectures that have concepts and principles which students can put into practice even after the course ends. +Fun and informative. Very creative. +From the lectures, we've got the techniques of making various types of images and also the basic points of making images and compose images. +I loved LOVED this course and really enjoyed it. though I didn't see the last feedback from other students on my final project (Bookishness) and it is locked now... However, It is an amazing course and very useful! +Very inspiring! The ideas and process I've learned with this course will certainly help me in my future projects. +While I did enjoy this course, I found it to be less useful than the first two in the series. I also noticed a lot of repetition from the course before. I think my expectation was to learn more about imagemaking in a digital sense, but I'm still happy overall that I took this course and I can't wait to earn my specialization. +Gail Swanlund is awesome. Her voice is amazing and fun to listen to. She explains things in a very creative way. So far, this has been my favorite among the Graphic Design Specialization courses. Still have two more courses to go yet! +Very practical, great exercise, easy to understand and follow through, the student doesn’t need major computer programs or high quality technology in order to complete each assignment. The design of each assignment is made to use your imaginations, hands on tools and materials. Love the videos, clear, to the point beautiful made. Lots of room to work and do something quite good and unique if the student want! I am really having fun!Thank you! +I really enjoyed the assignments! Her videos were different from the other two courses in the Specialization, and I enjoyed that! I loved that I could see her process so that I could attempt on my own. Highly recommended class! +I started 2 Hours ago.... it's amazing, such good teachers ! +This course teach you to think out of the box and if you have the courage and try, you will take it for the rest of your life. +I love taking courses by the California Institute of the Arts. With that being said this course wasn't the best. It seemed there was not enough information provided. The assignments were too simple. It also seemed like this very material was covered in an earlier course. At least it was available for everyone, not just those that paid. The critiques are the most important part and it was still provided for this course. For that reason alone I raised my review from 2 stars to 4. +If you enjoyed the first course in this specialization, you'll enjoy this course, as it's much of the same. The class is more of an independent studio session rather than an instructional course. If you're looking to work with a single visual subject for a few weeks (but lack the discipline or knowledge to do so on your own), this course will benefit you. If you're looking to save money, perhaps stick to just the first class in the specialization (or take this one if you're only interested in image-making). +I understand it was a more practical course but still more information would have been great. Same assignments but more information would have been great. Other courses had more videos. +Very practical, short videos, lots of exercices to get going, very interesting course. +GOOD COURSE +I found the course videos quite dull and uninteresting. The topics covered could have been taught a lot better. I finished this course only because I wanted to get through the specialization course. I found that the course 'Fundamentals of Graphic Design' did an exponentially better job of explaining image making techniques and composition. The assignments in this course are reasonably good but the instruction videos can definitely benefit from some additional in-depth material. +I really enjoyed this course and it was one of the most helpful along with the Typography course, but it felt a little impersonal and short on information when I compare this one to the previous ones. I would love to look at more examples of imagemaking and uses of hierarchy. +Outstanding class. Very dynamic, inspiring and creative. +Very poor instructions and not enough theory. +Nothing interesting. Common information about nothing. Sorry +Much of the course seemed to cover what was previously discussed. About the only thing this course did for me was to introduce me to In Design. The teacher was OK, but she seemed to lack enthusiasm, particularly when she was demonstrating the book-binding. +it is a fantastic course ! +This is a great course! +I personally did not find it constructive enough to spend money on.It is way too general and basic. I expected something more articulated and not so elementary +Great course!! Thanks again!! +I thought this course would be more fun and interesting but I find it VERY repetitive with the Fundamentals of Graphic Design. If you buy the package it kind of seems like I wasted $79 dollars on a repetitive and monotone professor and course. I would not recommend this course within the specialization. +Informative, but not as involved as the previous ELL courses. +I truly enjoyed this course. As a speech-language pathologist, learning how to work with ELLs and their families was especially helpful as I work in the city with very diverse populations. Thank you for the wonderful course! +I already new that family help is important and we do engage them one way or another in or institute. This course provided with more ideas and examples for getting them involved in learning of their family member. +Awesome. Very informative +Five stars: wonderful content, I was engaged. No matter what ,I give a perfect score. However, I wish the instructors were less "I'm reading a script" and sounded more natural. I also missed video summary for some modules and module quiz to refresh knowledge. Thank you Ellen, Claire and ASU for making affordable this course and specialization. My gratitude with all of you! +EXCELLENT Resources! EXCELLENT Instructor! +Could be more engaging but consists of a whole lot of relative information. +It has been great pleasure to take this course. I have learned a lot. +Great infromation +EXCELENTE CURSO. MUY COMPLETO YA QUE GENERA LAS BASES PARA INTRODUCIRSE A LA FINANZAS Y ENTENDER LOS TÉRMINOS BÁSICOS. +I learn a lot from this course. Instructor is good. The last part is the guest lecture from the REAL developer, engineer, designer and etc. With the sharing of their experience make me understand better how to become a game developer. Other than that i also learn the pro and cons to become a game developer. +Exellent part of the specialization, jumping into the fray ! +A great course - I thoroughly enjoyed it. +Very clear and detailed. I made and launched a game! +Great course series that forced me to take some steps (design docs) that I'd normally skimp on, and in doing so, realizing their true value.Throughout Coursera I'd love to see more instructor involvement in the courses. The 100% peer review system is a double edge sword. On one hand, I never felt I had an instructor looking at my work, but on the other hand, where else can you get constructive critiques on the internet ;-)Overall, great experience. Star-- for feeling a little bit on rails, and not feeling the instructor involvement. +Really good course. I have learned a lot. The hardest part is realistic scoping and design for the little time available. +Thanks for all the knowledge of Unity :). Good Instructor though. +The course is interesting and serves its purpose - you WILL be able to make a simple game once you complete it. +Perfect cource, build your game idea from scrath and publish it! +Really enjoyed this Capstone! It was a nice challenge, and it really pushed me to create a game out of my own imagination! It was definitely a great experience that I enjoyed journeying through! +Some of the videos are really good. Unfortunately I feel there is little actual help to complete a project in the given time.The great thing about this course is the feeling of publishing your own game. That is priceless :) +Awesome! Best for Game Development! Explained everything important ! +Excellent, I hope this will help me kick-off my Game design career! +It was actually easier/flexible than what I thought. In this course/final project they give you a lot of flexibility and you can create whatever you want in the time given. For example for my self I worked really hard to have a polished product at the end that I could use as portfolio, but I've seen really basic projects while correcting my course mates. And I also saw amazing games with professional designs and even announced in Kickstater. So I guess this course adapts to your level and necessities. +Peer reviews are very unfair. +I would proudly say that is like the best game development course ever. it helped understand how the gaming industry work, how to make games and how to design And thanks to this specialization i've developed several games that i'm proud. +Excellent capstones. But it would be mush better if there would be some lectures on Kongregate with example and exercises. +Really awesome, the best part of all the course, I learned a lot. +Going through this whole Specialization has been a great journey. Thanks to this final project we were able to use everything we learned. +This was a great learning experience, this particular course was interesting as it didn't teach you too much about what you're doing immediately, instead people in the industry taught on a much broader sense.I completely recommend grouping up with a couple of other developers, even 1 other will greatly help you learn a variety of additional skills you wouldn't learn by being on your own. +It was awesome making my own game from start to finish, using all the knowledge I learned throughout all the courses in this specialisation, and also, seeing all the great content and ideas created by my classmates :) +Super cool +This Capstone summarizes all you've learned in Game Design and Development Specialization. The final task is "simple" and clear - make a game and release it ("if it's not released - you don't have a game!") and you have 2 month for it. Can you make The Game Of Your Dreams in 2 month? That's the challenge!Also there are lots of material from game industry super-stars, which gives you a very nice perspective on how things are going in Big Guys World.And you will not see professor Winn or professor O'Donnel, right? But they always be watching you! +Muy light +It was a lot of theory and peer evaluations and I didn't have enough time to practice the last 3 weeks. I would divide the last in more weeks +EXCELENTE PARA SER N CURSO A NIVEL INICIAL. +thanks, was great to have those excellent classes. +Very nice course. Thanks. +I really did enjoy this course. Teacher is amazing! It was just too hard for me. :) +Prof. Noor rocks! This is really the best genetics course. Cool, challenging and super-exciting! I've completed it with great pleasure. +I totally adore this course! Every lecture is amazing. Many thanks to our brilliant professor for such interesting activities! I`m really enjoy it. +love the Prof! This is a great, informative course. +The professor properly explains information and gives exceptional facts and sustainable facts to back up claims. Best class yet. +Everyone should do this course! +A very talented professor, a broad course material covering much information. +I have just finished this course. This course was a wonderful experience. I would strongly suggest this course to anyone who is interested in the field of evolution. There are many interesting topics that are discussed in this course which will increase your appreciation for evolution. The professor's explanation is excellent. He will keep you interested in the course. The only thing that is wrong about this course is that it didn't last longer. +Great Professor, Great material, Great University, Great medium. +I thoroughly enjoyed the course. Prof Noor Mohamed is certainly an excellent teacher. I would like the Professor and the staff for the most enjoyable learning experience I have had. +AWESOME COURSE!!! Professor Noor is both a high profile researcher, a very gifted teacher and a nice and fun person. He conveys a lot of difficult ideas in a very organized and very clear way, with lots of examples and occasions to practice given along the way. His enthusiasm for genetics and evolution is contagious! I have just one comment. It's a pity that he didn't include in the material a list of readings accessible to someone who has taken this course. +I absolutely enjoyed the course! The topics are well-explained and tie in together with each other, so you get a broad picture of genetics, speciation, evolution, and other concepts. The videos are backed with interesting supplemental material to read and ponder. Also, the lecturer is really interesting, not like most online courses where they simply read off notes. It's an informational and interactive course, and I highly recommend it! +I really enjoyed the classes and the supplemental materials available. I loved how the lessons were taught and explained by Dr. Mohamed Noor and I really enjoyed the content of the classes. +Dr. Noor makes the course and the topics unforgettable, amazing teacher and amazing content +Very interesting， explain theory in simple language. It is really easy for someone who have no biological background to understand. +This is a great course if you want to understand how genes contribute to evolution and their roles in determining various phenomenon that occur in our bodies and in other life forms in nature, as well as the basics of evolution. Dr.Noor is an absolute delight. +The course is great in various aspects. The course is given in a way that covers learning requirements and also tells you what are the today challenges and research areas. The sequence of the syllabus is very reasonable. The course auxiliary material such as the slides, more links to read and quiz are all made in a professional way which help you understand the concepts of Evolution and Genetics. You even learn a lot from the exams. The lecturer has successfully tried to direct the the suitable both to evaluate you and to reinforce what you have learned from the tuition videos.In all Great for you if you are a beginner in evolution, genetics. +Very useful resource on evolutionary biology and parts of ecology . Used this course to study for my GRE Biology exam. +Excellent course. A must take for anyone interested in DNA, Genetics, or Ancestry. +Very informative, and Dr Noor in a genuinely engaging teacher. +Great introduction-- not a single lesson was lacking. Professor Noor is engaging, feels approachable (even behind a screen), and I found the class appropriately challenging. There were times I felt I completely grasped the "important" parts of lectures only to begin a quiz and realize that I didn't. The quizzes really helped me to see that I had to understand much more about how to apply the messages to other situations, or compound scenarios. Good lesson in logic. Computation also matters in this course, which can be tough for someone more used to reading pop-science analyses. I appreciated being held accountable and learned far more than I would if I'd just read a book. +A great course with a great professor +Great course +Great course. I had no biology background at all. I learnt a lot. Thank you for making this course. +Be aware that the beginning overview lectures of this course are radically different than the detailed lectures that come later.The beginning of this course should be sent to anyone that ever tells you that evolution is not a "thing": :DAfter that, be prepared to do a lot of listening to Big A little a and minutia about how genetics really works.This is a really good course.... not perfect, but really good. One star is removed because I think I would have preferred a bit more development and overview of the "bigger picture" (I fell asleep at times). I sometimes lost the concepts that I was interested in learning through the barrage of details, but for someone who is very seriously studying the subject, then it would be 5 stars.Prof Noor is a good speaker: clear and has a nice voice and personality. +I quite enjoy studying this course. I really enjoy the interaction with Jerry! Interesting course and I have fun~ +Probably the best explained course I have ever taken in Coursera. Professor Noor makes the material easy to understand making it seem like it is a straight forward class. It is not until you try to explain to others what you have learned that you realize the material is complitaced. at making a science class simple and fun!!! +Very engaging lectures and helpful complementary materials +Although this class was challenging, Professor Noor's happy personality made going to virtual school fun! His quizzes are somewhat challenging but if you work at it enough you will pass the course. I look forward to any future classes he may have! +The lectures are very informative. +One of the best courses here at Coursera. +Professor Noor is very friendly and clear in his lectures. He also answers questions in the discussion foruns with speed and detail. I was able to learn a lot from this course and challenged myself to a heavier load of lectures than I had expected because they were not boring at all. My only caveat is that the questions in his quizzes can sometimes be unnecessarily confusing because of wording or tricks. +Very useful. +The course is easy to understand and the concepts are very clear. I highly recommend this even if you aren't an expert. +Dr. Noor is a gem. He shows enthusiasm both for his subject, and for teaching. I felt the course was well organized, and provided a good foundational understanding of genetics. Importantly, it was enjoyable. The forum moderators responded promptly, and their answers were well-informed. An excellent course. +The lecture materials are interesting and informative. And the quizzes require an understanding of the material. I really enjoyed this course and learned a lot about genetics and evolution. Thank you again. +Provides information from basic laws of inheritance to understanding the field of Evolutionary biology and genome sequencing. Explained in a 'light and easy to understand' way! Not a course you can pass by knowing a few facts about the subjects. Tricky at times, which help you find out if you understood everything correctly. Would recommend to others! +Perfectly done, dynamic, manageable, with sense of humor. +Gets into a lot! And the app fufills my evolution app dreams. +Dr Noor's enthusiasm and relaxed teaching style makes even the more technical subject matter seem interesting. Although not always easy I have been compelled to keep pushing forward as I feel I am learning a great deal about myself and species around me. By far one of the best courses I have taken on this platform. I hope to continue studying the area of genetics as a result of this course. Thanks and keep up the good work!!! +Dr. Noor is a very inspiring teacher. I would definitely become a geneticist if I met him in my university. The course is really interesting piece of human knowledge. +Excellent Course. Thoroughly recommended +Great course for all. I go into a coma when it comes to doing math. I hate it. I like science so was happy to find that this course explains concepts including the math in a clear concise and comprehensible fashion. And Dr Khan is a fun dude who conveys his love of the subject in a snappy interesting manner. I would like more courses in genetics that can do this. +If you are taking this course for a GT project, I recommend that you stop now. If you are taking this course for your own benefit (implying that they are not mutual), I rate it 5 stars. +It's one of the hardest more joyful courses I have taken. I suffered so much with the so well designed exams, but that pushds me to study harder and read more. I enjoyed it very much and I think the better way to say THANKS to Dr. Noor is don't give up and keep trying. +This is a beutiful course, very well designed. Its a very tough topic but the instrucotr makes all efforts to make it easy to understand. Sometimes one has to go back and listen again but he gets the points across. I am thoroughly enjoying the course and understanding about genetics, genetic drift, selection, sweeps, and so many difficult concepts. +I love the instructor; he's hilarious. This is a very well-taught course. +The course is fantastic and very smooth.Professor Mohamed is very energetic, very enthusiastic and very knowledgeable of the course.I loved every single thing about the course, best course i have ever taken (Y). +Excellent course and teacher. +The content of the class is very nice. It gives a nice overview on genetics, and it was made accessible to many of us. Also, Mohamed Noor is very enthusiastic, and provides a lot of nice examples to illustrate the course. However, I think some parts of the class were a little bit dizorganized. For instance, I was sometimes confused by the vocabulary or the variable notations which are not always clear. +Amazing professor. I am really enjoying this course. Thank you! +good to gain more knowledge +Dear Mohamed, thank you for challenging me with this course! We want more.... +Great introductory course! I am learning a lot about genetics. +I found this course very well taught. Especially the lectures wre conceived in a way that it was entertaining and challeging at the same time. Coming for a social science background myself, I was delighted by the way the course eased people from outside the subject area into the field. Additionally, I was able to to do the course without it conflicitng with my job (in my case it actually helped my own research in social science, which made even mor eof a success for me). Prof. Noor did a great job in teaching without overburden and keeping a light tone while making me learn.Only one minor problem:Having never encountered multiple choice during my academic career, I was sometimes thrown off by the wording of questions and answers. I know it is hard to creat quiz-formats that are not based on multiple choice, but it would maybe make the course more comprehensive, i there were. Since this is likely to be a problem with my own experience and does not affect others so much, I would not go as far as deducing anything.A future wish: Maybe a course on the subject, specialising in some subareas based on this course woudl be great.All in all, Prof. Noor and his team did a good job in conceiving and conducting this course. +Excellent course. Would recommend it to anyone who wants to delve in the subject matter. Wonderful instructor and interesting lecture videos. One of the best courses I have taken in Coursera. +The best course I ever took , easy to understand and interesting to follow +Amazing teacher and very interesting. +very interesting. I regret that we are not allowed to discuss the exam questions (of course after the dead line) for a better understanding. +I thought I knew a bit about Genetics & Evolution when I enrolled, but the first Genetics lecture showed that I was wrong! Prof Noor has taught me a lot about Genetics. He is an engaging and inspiring lecturer. It is also obvious to me that he takes a keen interest in the students, as he has been quick to reply to questions that I have asked in the forums. I'm looking forward to the Evolution lectures.I am not sure why I enrolled for this course, since I was sure I already knew the material, but I am glad that I did. I recommend the course if you belong to any of the following categories: people who think they know the subject; people who don't think know it, but are interested; everybody else (because I think you will find Prof Noor inspiring. +so far its been very easy to comprehend and the lectures are great. Ive already learned a ton of things I didnt previously know about evolution in the first week! +Great class...wonderful presentation. +This course is so informative that I'm doing it for a second time. This is the best Coursera course I've taken. +Fun, interesting and well explained lectures +Little bit hard, but very funny. +Excellent class, and an even better interface now that it changed to always available.Prof. Noor explains with such clarity that even a 5 year old can learn about DNA.This is my 2nd time taking this class, and I've seen already many positive changes in this 1st week alone.Thank you Coursera, Duke University, all participants in general, and a very special thank you to Prof. Noor, your contagious love for science spreads like wild fire. +Awesome course to have breadth of CyberSecurity Space. +informative +One of the Best Courses I've ever learned. The video's are crisp and full-fledged. Learned something new almost everyday. Thankyou Coursera and UOL. :) Looking forward to learn more on Information Security, Cyber Security and Digital Forensics. +I consider myself as a beginner in Information Security area and this course helped me a lot to understand some of the basics of this field. Now i have a more clear idea on what i want to do and where i want to focus on. This course was really helpful to me and I would really like to thank you for the opportunity given. Wish you the best +Interesting course, worth to follow, for beginners. +I really enjoyed this course. Good overview of Information Security. Week 4 (Security Managment: policies, procedures, standards, etc.) was the most difficult for me, as I like the technical bit more. All in all, an enjoyable course. +Different, fun approach. Basic science. +Excellent lectures. Personal transformation observed while watching. +An excellent course! Drs Bruce and Carlie really made the course enjoyable, and their combination was crucial to my enjoyment and knowledge gained. Thanks so much for the course and the huge amount of work you must have put into it. +Very interesting course, with old jazz music at the beginnings of the videos! +This g +This course offer a lot of interesting topics, but the way of their presentation is not very amazing, so the student loses easily the concentration. +Quizzes and assignments cannot be submitted if course is audited. +Very well made, deep, good quality, thoughtful, and inspiring. Merci beaucoup! Merci de m'enseigner français! +This course was amazing, I need to continue, to go further on the same matters...I encourage people to join this course the next intake. +Excellent overview of the major ethical theories. The course is well written, well organized, and entertaining. The quizzes are helpful and cover the major points in the material. +I loved the course and I have learned so much! I enrolled mainly for the language reasons, to practice my French but I got so much more out of it than I hoped for. I really enjoyed learning about various aspects of ethics through time. Kudos to the creators fo this course! Merci beaucoup! +Excellent introduction. However, there are flaws with the English subtitles +Great step-by-step introduction to Chinese Characters! Filled with historical background to help understand the underlying meaning of the characters and not just the image.It would be nice to have a complete vocabulary for the whole class that we can download and use! +This course helps me understand better about the Chinese characters than just reading books. +Learning about the characters was very useful for me. It helped me to understand the connections between similar characters and also taught me a few new vocabulary words. I also feel that I gained an understanding in the thinking of Chinese people and culture by learning about these characters. Distinguishing between the strokes also helped me to recognize the differences between similar characters. I love the lack of English used in this course as well.One major con for this course is that the tests require that students have some intermediate understanding of Chinese grammar. If this course is truly for beginners, then either those grammar aspects should be explained in the course or the fill in the blank sentences should be altered in some way that allows students to answer with limited knowledge of grammar. The good thing is that there's usually only one or two questions like that on each test. Also, some of the slides in the middle of the course also got messed up in some way where they skip over characters or repeat characters multiple times. That was confusing, but not impossible to understand. It needs to be fixed though.Thanks to everyone who put this course together. I appreciate your hard work. 谢谢您们。 +Interesting and helpful course +Hard, but so well worth the effort. After finishing the class, I am not intimidated to writing in Mandarin Chinese any more. The pace is quite sustained, so do not skip, as the lessons are carefully strung together so as to make the building blocks of the foundation of the written language more understandable, like a building code. 15-stroke words? Fine! I now can decipher their components AND I remember the vocabulary a lot better, because it is anchored as a visual marker as well. Good luck! Keep practicing! I loved every moment of my class and cannot recommend it highly enough. +This course is good for someone who has the basic knowledge about Chinese language and wants to study more. It should be better when there are the sentences examples of using each word. +Very enjoyable and instructive! +It was easy to learn several chinese characters. But some grammar was demanded in the exercises, although it was not taught during the course. +good course! +This course covered exceedingly relevant topics to help health system participants wrap their minds around the changes taking place with value based payments and care coordination. I hope that with time some of the rough edges with the lectures and quiz questions get ironed out. I would absolutely look forward to an advanced version around interoperability and more in depth analytics. +This course was very informative relative to coming healthcare system changes that deal with IT as well as the coming changes for transformation in payment models such as FFS to ACO etc. The other aspects of ethical concerns relative to public interest were very insightful as it outlines the challenges you face from enhanced productivity vs access to patient information in a public forum whereby the dat can be misused for gain or unnecessary wasteful tactics from those who do not possess the best veracity in the U.S. healthcare system infrastructure as we move to value-based care and potential increased capitation. +The course gives you a overview of infrastructure financing and its key aspects. It is a good starting point and could be used to understand the major concepts of infrastructure financing in a short period. However, detailed modelling for projects is not covered in the course. +Great course, great professor. Good for beginners ! +A very high quality MOOC! +Great overview into Project Finance for beginners. Professor has simple examples that explain the concepts succinctly. +Interesting and well structured course. Very helpful for this engineer to understand the financing side of the projects I am working on. +Great course to explain the fundamentals of Project Finance summarizing key concepts and including some brief examples. Professor Gatti is clearly knowledgeable about the topic and takes great care of being both accurate and synthetic. Course syllabus is also well structured to progressively build an understanding of PF. Improvement points (there must be a few ones!): videos could be made slightly more "natural", more examples/case studies would be appreciated. Above all, this course would deserve to be complemented by a level 2 entering into more details of modelling and complex examples. +The course offers a broad overview of project finance issues. While the materials' (video, slides) quality is outstanding, I wish the tests would be more challenging. +I loved every minute of this coursse!So, Thank you sirs, for a highly challenging, interesting and varied course. I just wish there had been some more exercises included. Perhaps a compendium with answers. Just for the sake of practicing. +I like the Prof Gatti arranged and delivered the course. The materials are very comprehensive, it's kept simple but not losing its essence. A must have studied course if you are interested in infrastructure investments. +Nice course! the slide should provide the same info of the video to have a quick reference +A very good overview of infrastructure finance. Helps if you have base knowledge of corporate finance before you take this. +Clear and useful.More real study cases would have been a plus.As the analyses of failures investments.PFI mechanisms and impacts are not integrated. That's is missing. +Great course, fun to watch, easy to learn - ticks all the boxes I would want from online course. Happy that work done and time invested is already providing visible results at my career and work. Thank you Bocconi University team, Steffano and Coursera to make this happen! +Very intensive, but amazing course. Thanks to the Lecturer. Great preparation and excellent control of topics. +Very informative. More numerical should be included. +Outstanding course both in content and presentation sides! +Best professor ever +This is a must take for every infra system investment and financing manager +Very pedagogical, excellent examples, could not ask for more. +EXCELLENT COURSE FOR BANKERS AND FINANCE PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED IN PROJECT FINANCE +A crash course on infrastructure finance and investment, highly recommended! +Great course, well prepared. It provided a fantastic overview of project finance for infrastructure development that I am certain will benefit my career in years to come. Thank you all. +Highly recommended. Excellent course for professionals who would like to enter the Infrastructure Project Finance industry. The instructors provide very good and easy to understand examples. Also the tests involve practice of similar problems. +Excellent approach to Project Finance. Clear and concise. Practical scenarios are very informative and allow to absorb concepts easily. The professor has chosen a very productive and helpful methodology to illustrate the course. +Good Course and Great Teaching from Experience Lecturer: Perfect topic for Investment Banking and Investment Advise Services on financial operation and market aspects. +great course to learn the foundations of infrastructure finance +This is a very easy to follow,yet very rich course in project financing.I recommend it to everyone involved in project financing. +It's quite a nice course. It gives you a thorough overview of the particularities of infrastructure investing. The quizes are well done, they really force you to pay attention to the content.The audio was not always top notch, which made it difficult to set the playback speed; but overall, pretty solid course. +I enjoyed the course and it is quite light for project finance and I would think that this should act as an intro course for a second more complex course dealing with the actual complexities of project finance. Such as real financial close considerations in developed and emerging markets, early stage sub performance and restructuring as well as refinancing. I would also think that more time should be allocated to project bonds and use of derivative structures on securing cash flows and working ratios to support competitive financing and projects. There were highlights on impacts of Basel on long tenor financing, but more market considerations of new players and structures would have been invaluable. +Project finance basics, thanks Professor +Very well structured course. +Simply Brilliant - Challenging and I learnt a lot. Thanks!! +It was really a nice course and gain deep knowledge about Financing in Infrastructure.... +This is one of the best courses for introduction to project finance. The instructor, Prof. Gatti explains everything in a very simple manner. Even people who do not have any finance related knowledge will find this course very easy to follow and useful. Highly recommended. +Highly recommdended for those who want to build an end-to-end view of Project Finance. Despite being a beginner from an engineering background, the course structure is engaging and smooth to follow on the concepts invovled in Project Finance. +An excellent course for both professionals who want to hone skills and beginners interested in embarking on the financial aspects of business development +Excelent and well teached! Bocconi delivered a high quality course. +Superb! A easy and smooth introduction to basic project finance. For me, an engineer, was a great way to learn the basics to do my job. Essential before any high level course (unless you are already introduced in this subject) +Very detailed course with practical application that would make you an active participant on any project. The testing level of difficulty is based on critical thinking and re-enforces the course content. Excellent course!! Would recommend to project finance professionals, students and enthusiasts!!! +please include christopher laurence nyabulegesi for MCF or Advanced ON FA ourses as well invite me for internship whenever there are opportunity to grow and develop the knowledge you gave me during MOOC course +very good, i hope professor can make it a specialization +excellent intro to project financing and infrastructure investment. covers both quantitative and qualitative aspects. +I would recommend this course for a professional trying to improve his or her understanding on project finance. Come prepared to learn more. +Very deep and interesting course on project finance. Best sincere recommendations for any specialists involved in such a subject to study the course. Thank you, dear professor Stefano Gatti. +Great course and explanations from the Professor! +very interesting course and many things to learn about +Excellent course !!! Provides useful insights into the Infrastructure/Project Finance. Professor has dealt the subject in such a lucid and measured way that it was heart filling experience. +This course is very interesting to understand the financial aspect and development of infrastructure project. The teacher is also very charismatic and the "screenplay" very dynamic. I recommend ! 100% ! +Excellent content. The course is easy to follow and not exhausting at all. It will help me a lot in my career. +Good lessons for Financing and Investing in infrastructure +Great class. Broad explanations of the project finance process, step by step and full of real world examples plus practical exercises. I would love to be able to take a specialization from SDA Bocconi on these topics. +One of the best course through Coursera +Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Thinking & ActionCongratulations on the platformCongratulations on the administrative order of the courseCongratulations on the Success of the Course +Start your own, getting "the Jack of all" mindset is very important to become Entrepreneurship in own business or corporate work culture. Great module, smart learning. Thanks! +An excellent course it helped me to think and review +Really useful +Important issues and only the essential !!!We must investigate and to learn more !!!! +Speaker is not energetic or something lacking.. makes it boring. +It is so helpful for new entrepreneurs and to generate idea about the basic of entrepreneurship. So I think every new entrepreneur should enroll this course. It is brief and easy to understand. Everyone can easily grab the message of this course. +Well delivered, thorough overview, especially good for complete beginners. +highly recommended +Course is a great introduction to knowing the mechanics of Entrepreneurship. This course would only be a foundation and first step. Take this course to remember the essentials and build over it. +Good quick general overview for a complete beginner. Wished it could have been longer with a bit more depth. +To the point and informative +Great course +This course is great if you're just looking for a general overview about Entrepreneurship. I enjoyed learning about what things to expect as an entrepreneur as well as the do's and dont's for running your own business. It was really helpful to learn from someone who has real life experience as an entrepreneur. +I loved this course, I know have a better understanding of how a Business runs. +Overall very useful for anyone looking to start or invest in a business. Can be done quickly but still had enough detail to make it useful. +Great Course . Thank you +Great fundamentals course! I've implemented tools I learned in this course and they've really helped my business. +Give all key information for start up entrepreneur. +awesome lectures. +Excellent to get basic of entrepreneurship. But we would like more advanced lectures. specially on how to evaluate your startup company +Excellent Teaching +Very basic, it's like reading the table of contents of a guidebook 'How to become an Entrepreneur'. +It is a good course, interesting subject. +Very interesting course with good advices and examples from expert. +Very short not good It doesnt give anything about entrepreneurship +Very interesting! Makes you want to start your own venture. +Videos were a little slow. I would prefer more slides and factual information to memorize and then videos as an option to hear opinion and real time experience. +If you have absolutely no foundation of what the basics of business, then this is for you. It's very simple and direct, but make sure to follow this course up with lecture material that goes slightly more in-depth. I recommend U of Penn. +It really enhanced my confidence in starting a business of my own :) +Great stuff. Lots of applicable perspectives and ideas not just to entrepreneurship, but daily interactions as well. +The content is extremely practical for a new entrepreneur or person who is thinking about becoming an entrepreneur. It's engaging, succinct and actionable. +great course thank you!!!!!! +Highly recommend this course, the instructors passion and enthusiasm really comes through as well as his incredible knowledge! +Very nice overview. The time is short but the teacher adds a lot of his personal experience, and that makes the difference. Thank you for the opportunity! +Few useful information. +This is really great course for people who just try to begin their own business! +Great C +Very informative and eye opening. +Outsatnading material for someone ike me who wants to be an entreprenur¡¡¡¡¡ +Seemed like pretty basic stuff for the cost of the certificate. +No real applicable knowledge gained +This course gave me more confidence to handle and manage my own business. The knowledgement and inspiration to move on with less ignorance about entrepreneurship was really important to me. So, let's go to success!!! +A good refresher but did not get to know anything new. +Great course to learn how to start a Business +Great practical advice presented in an overview. For me, professors who have real-world experience - and clearly Professor Standen does - are the best teachers. I will be looking for more courses from UCI, hopefully with this professor. +This course offers a good general overview on the essentials of entrepreneurship. +Very practical and applicable in almost all countries +It was very theorical than pratical +All the basics of each section in 10 min video! +Great and good job. Thank you.. +Nothing really new. Very good for newbies in the field. Short and easy to handle presentations and topics. +Very good introduction presented in clear language and interesting fashion. David has great instructor skills that keeps you engaged with the videos all the time.Thanks +Extremely generic and a but to much of self-promotion. +Great overview of entrepreneurship. Sums it up nicely. +Very basic overview. No real meat on these bones. +Great, i really appreciate the form of evaluation, makes you reasoning, understand and finally learn. +The first two sections, in particular, offer a lot of value and content for people thinking about starting a business. The latter lessons are a bit less "mind blowing" but they still offer value and can serve as good reminders to those who already know the basics of business. +I enjoyed this course and learned a lot about starting my own business. A Very informative course. +It is a good course for those who want to be a entrepreneur but don't really know what that means. The course gives a lot to think about and consider when opening a business. It is also a quick and easy to learn course. +Very clear and interesting +Good introduction, but just that an introduction. As they say a Macro-overview. +I am doing it now and find it really well presented +Good course, interesting information, but tests were not always clear for me (could not clear understand what it is asking about). +I really enjoyed this class. It has given me serious motivation to start my own company. I liked being able to see an overview of the steps I need to take to start my business off on the right foot. +This course very briefly presents large picture concepts of Entrepreneurship without going into a enough detail to provide any major benefit. I would see this being most useful to a person who had only vague ideas of what entrepreneurship entailed overall. The quizzes seemed to focus more on what was said during the lectures rather than what large scale constructs actually define entrepreneurs or processes overall. i.e. questions focused on sentence construction and ordering in a lecture rather than the overall concepts the sentences themselves were expected to convey. +Helpful lecture on Writing a business plan and what it takes to be an Entrepreneur. Basically a very small overview of Business school. And then great advise and instruction on how to get your Business launched without any huge debilitating early mistakes or time wasted over planning. +Its very good introduction to topic and concepts. +It is very good at motivating undertake, but need much more to learn how. +Disappointing, not different from a class presentation, poor in content, lousy instructor +The professor makes it very easy to understand. +Good high level overview for someone considering entrepreneurship or trying to map out what skills they need to prioritize. If you're already in the game -- skip it, too basic. +It's such an amazing course, because the person who's talking has the appropriate knowledge to share and also has an excellent methodology in order to made clear what He knows. +Easy to learn +An excellent course. It covers all the relevant topics and covers them well. I specially liked the distinction made between Leadership and Management and learned how both are important for being an entrepreneur. Thanks! +The lecture is short but the presenter has good experiences to share with us. Module 4 is the essential of whole lecture. +Learned plenty about the foundations of entrepreneurship. +A short but essential course which I recommend to every entrepreneur. David did a great job by communicating with enthusiasm +I need this in my back pocket! He has given me an idea that will benefit the process of making this business happen. +C +Good information. When you compare this course to others available on Coursera, such as UVA Darden's Design Thinking or University of Maryland courses on Entrepreneurship, this course does not have the same level of information, nor was the same care put into completing the course materials. For instance, the last three or so classes were missing, yet it was still possible to take and pass the final review. +I totally recommend the course. It helps you grow as an entrepreneur. +very interesting with some great +Good Teacher +I did not conclude the course because of the fundamentally wrong guidance that this lecturer promotes. Today we know more advanced and useful methodologies for entrepreneurship. +good information, thanks +Teacher give really honest and realist advises. Worth it. +Really deep, summarized and very educative.I particularly like David's charismatic presentation. +solid basic understanding of process of business learned some good bits of knowledge. +Good course on the various Ps, legal needs, technology needs and what it means to be Inc. Lacked details on how you go about running a business .. so lets say I wanted to start a business analysis consulting firm besides getting a business number what else do I need to hire people, earn revenue and run the business profitably. +its good course.. which makes me to learn roles and responsibility of an entrepreneur. +Excellent course - well delivered, logically presented, easy to follow. Loved it! +Very macro-overview. Does not go into the details hardly at all, but definitely does it's duty of providing what it promises - the essentials. +Very informative and great lecturer! +Objective course with a good, simple path to start working on your business. +Good info but limited. I would like to see some more in depth series based on the topics touched in this class. +brilliant ! very easy to follow! +Thank you for a thoughtful class on leadership. It was a great course with a lot of quality materials. I've learned quite a good deal of helpful information on the building blocks of leadership. I can't wait to practice what I've learned in my work. +I really enjoyed the course, and could easily relate to a lot of the issues discussed. The material is well explained and the supplemental readings are very helpful. +Great course! I was able to relate the concepts immediately to my current job role. +Fantastic course! Loved every minute of it! +The videos were very informative and I especially liked the fact that you could view the text and make notes as you watched the lesson. The case study activities were relevant to the material and having written assignments with peers reviewing was a nice change from just interacting with the instruc +I found this course to be highly informative. I also discovered new methods to address common leadership problems. +Best Leadership Education so far +awesome learning +It Was Awesome to learn new things. +The lecturer and materials were excellent on par with an ivy league institution +This is a great introductory course! +Excellent course and very good use of my time. This is a great program and I have already share its value with +Excellent course it helps to solve many leadership problems +Not a fan of this course. Reasons:1) The subject material is presented in a dry manner (too much talking and jargon) - I find it repetitive and boring. I have to play it at least 1.75x in order to get through the material and try and stay engaged but I still have a hard time paying attention. Seriously, so boring!2) There is a high degree of subjectivity in grading essays (peer reviews)This course can benefit from:1) Clearer introduction of concepts using pictures and animations, as well as cutting out the repetitiveness (and the assault of the jargonaut)2) A better approach to grading that places importance on concepts instead of key words (jargon) +Good course and well designed to deliver value - memorable value for that matter. +Great Leadership concepts shared in this course. +Good course. Providing more analogy to concepts will make it more interesting. +Loved the course very practical and useful. +Thanks professor for this great course and thanks to university of Illinois for these lectures. +Great course! +Professor Northcraft keeps you engaged even while remotely teaching! His stories and curriculum are great from start to finish. The 4 modules that are given provide real life scenarios and teamwork is utilized the whole way through. This course is a definite need for future leaders and managers. +Great professor! +Great practical information that I could apply immediately in my +I learned a lot and had many takeaways. I have managed teams in the US and in Asia and really thought I would take the class more to check it off my list. I started learning right from the opening both within Professor Northcraft's classes, modules, Coursera. Looking forward to continuing down this path. Actually had a major mis-communication at work from the top and saw some of the many things I had learned lacking in this internal process. Very interesting +Great course. Puts a structure to human behavior when working in teams. Enables one to overcome limitations and work/lead with the team effectively. +Excellent quality! Highly recommended +This was an excellent course that lays the foundation of everday leadership. All objectives were met and the practice quizzes as well as graded quizzes +Prof. Northcraft goes straight to the point, very clear concepts and ready to use. +Well organized and easy to follow course +Professor Northcraft's teaching style make the valuable content immediately applicable. +The knowledge in this course is really connected and applicable to not-only the everyday situations in in our businesses but also in general everyday lives.It has very useful and practical information to seek. +I am fully satisfied with this course. :) +Great Skills provided. +It was good starting point to understand the group dynamic for team leader. Instructor of the class explained very well. +a little too easy, but great material and fantastic teacher +Great content! +Wonderful courseHelped me on the job. If you are part of a team, learnings from this course can be immediately applied to have a successful team. Especially helpful for a team leader +Excellent course! I learned new ways to think about leadership that can work in practice. +Excellent practical content . addresses the challenges leader face on daily basis. +Professor is engaging, concise and his points and presentations keep my attention. Truly appreciate the challenge of not seeing faces but being engaging via a screen. Really well done. +Great course. my constructive criticism has to do with the organizing of the group activities, it's just very difficult to organize into groups via people whom you have not met, especially given the time zone differences as well the differences in daily schedules for group members. I just wonder if there's a possibility to organize the group projects in such a way that the website allows for better asynchronous work (not just emailing back and forth as that feels very disorganized)? Otherwise I feel that I learned a lot and I feel that this is a great intro class. +this course was so helpful to understand every day leadership and motivation in decision making. +The course was very helpful. I'll be glad to share it with my colleagues. +Great one! +Great course! +Great course to get familiar with foundations ) +Interesting & useful! +This course was a great start to Foundations of Everyday Leadership. I actually learned tangible examples and techniques. The assignments and quizzes were great and I can't wait to keep learning in the courses to come! +Wonderfully rich and practically resourceful. +Amazing professor and great relatable and understandable lessons +Extremely useful tools and strategies for real everyday leadership. +Informative +I would highly recommend this course to anyone who is passionate about leadership and care about people! It is fun and easy to apply to your daily life. +Really interesting, straight to the point, the teacher is passionating, thank you for this wonderful course! +the course everybody must partake in +It was a great experience learning this topic, particularly as a group.Thanks to Prof. Gregory Northcraft for making the sessions simple and easy to understand. +Great Course ... +Useful course. Interaction is not on par with in-person, but other than that the course is great. I should say, that I have already started getting the value from the key learnings at my daily job and personal life. This is the best indication that the course was made right. +Very good course! Comprehensive, clear, well explained and summarized. +Very good course that gets to some extremely important aspects of what leadership is. I found it a nice refresher with some good suggested and mandatory reading assignments. +This course on the Fundamentals of Everyday Leadership was really useful. I did not know what to expect at first but the logic in the videos, the rightness of the case activities and the richness of the papers to read before helped me to build the foundations of my leadership skills. I am really eager to do the other courses and gain more knowledges and skills.A special thanks to the Professor for his personal stories that add a lot to the concepts ! +5 Stars. The professor did an excellent job. Drove the points home with relevant readings and lectures that were concise and made references to examples that enhanced the topics. I hope every other class turns out this smooth and efficient. +A little light in terms of depth but very well structured and clearly presented. +This course is sorely out of date and in need of a refresh. Using 2012 statistics to describe the state of global terrorism today may be an interesting history lesson, but only serves to show how much more dangerous previously safe regions are today. +A solid course that delivers what it promises--the foundations of everyday leadership. As someone who is in their 10th year of leading an organization, I took this class as part of the specialization because I want to make certain I'm keeping my skills fresh. This course was fun for me, as I recognize many of the things I do every day in it. And I also gained some new skills and insights. I recommend this course for any one who is hoping to move into a leadership position, and for current leaders who are looking for a refresher. +Very insightful and to the point. I valued the learnings and takeaways. +Really enjoyed Prof. Northcraft. The material is well-organized. +Informative.. Lacks interaction... +I have not finished yet. It seemed to be really interesting tough. +Pretty easy, good intro into management concepts +Simply excellent. Professor Greg has designed the course in such a way that that the participants REALLY learn. +Excellent course! Very well taught. Dr Gregory Northcraft is very well spoken and engaging. This course is nicely structured with Readings, Videos, Cases, Essays, and Quizzes. About 6 hours per week for 4 weeks. Nicely paced. I did not take this with the for credit iMBA classes, but am considering doing so and might thus repeat these courses to take the iMBA classes. I like that you can get certificates and a Specialization in the Leadership and can even grow this into the iMBA which is a fully accredited world class MBA program from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I highly recommend this course! +Good organization and lecture format, but stressfully strict rubrics on the assignments given the peer review structure. +Very well-organized, high quality materials... Good job guys!!! +exceptional quality! +This basics is always goodI really enjoy this course +Great insights into leadership concepts. +The course was very informative and practical. I liked that it had case studies that needed working with others. However, if there is a way that mentors from the university could also grade the case study assignments, it would be useful. When I graded, I didn't look for the exact use of terminology but if my coursemate had documented the idea, I gave a positive grade. People could have a bias to the grading. At times I found people randomly added me probably to access the case study but didn't bother to discuss. In a future upgrade of the course, if the university can assign teams and track progress somehow it would be great. Perhaps limit the number of entries to each course and assign a mentor per few groups. I enjoyed it however and learnt alot which I will apply to my work. Thank you. +Extremely useful and clear course. Thank you +It helped me to understand better the principles of a leader and how to be a good +Prof is a bit dry and need a new wardrobe. +Excellent information rendered throughout the course; very concise and well explained lectures by Prof. Northcraft; minimum content issues; magnificent level of participation from fellow students. So far the best course I've taken online in Coursera or any other platform. +Nice insights! Good course with actually steps to follow to overcome the issues presented! Really a great course! Teacher's great, I wish he'd loose a little the "army style" speech and grading system but you know, diversity is what makes this world great! Thanks! +It was a well-designed course given by a professor with great conveying skills. +Please unlock solutions in advance of peer reviews so we can grade peer reviews correctly. +Very insightful. Likely one of the best courses on Coursera. +Great professor, great content and very well structured! +Awesome instructor with an in-depth leadership delivery. Learned a lot with skills that are applicable to daily professional life. +Unfortunetly I can only give a 3/5. There were more things that I didn't like and think that should be improved.What I liked: Positive to see Illinois keep presenting specializations on Coursera. The material was ok, with clean presentation style. The case studies is a very positive resource to have in the course to think critically.What I didn't like: The course is excessivelly short, with only 30-40 minutes of videos per module. Previous courses in both specialization - digital marketing and improving videos have at least 1.5 to 3 hours of video materials. A huge gap. Also if I benchmark against the top specializations from Wharton and U. Michigan (Business Foundations, Business Analytics, Leading People and Teams and Finance: Valuation and Investing) all of them pack a 1.5 to 3 hours of video lectures. There is a huge gap. Also I didn't found the quizzes challeging. In a digital world content is king - both in quality and quantity. You have quality, but are missing the quantity. Unfortunetly I see a trend - the other course of the managerial economics specialization also is very short. A minor thing that I also didn't like was the form that the slides were presented. As in previous specializations - in my opinion all of the module slides should be in the readings section in only one document, instead of divided in small pieces per video lecture.I hope that yu accept my critic as constructive because I have liked most of Illinois courses and was very impressed by the quality and extensive set of videos in the Improving Business speciaization. +helpful and thoughtful +The course gives a very high level overview of hardware security and does not go into particular details. Understandably, hardware labs are not included in this online course and the only practice is basic boolean and modular algebra.Quality of the media and transcripts can be improved. Sound is very low and noisy in some videos which makes it hard to watch on a mobile device. Some videos seems to be cut of too early and week's 6 videos are out of order, which is annoying.Overall it's an okay overview of the topic for someone who is unlikely to apply it at daily job (e.g. software engineer like myself). +Course contents was good , assignments were challenging . One suggestion is to provide pdf for each classroom session or may be a weekly pdf would be great , It so happened that attending each quiz without pdf it was hard to search from video/transcript back and forth +Wow! Great and accessible introduction to HW security. +A lot of it wasn't comprehensible. Also, I may have not been well prepared for it. I should have tried to learn of the background required for this course. +I enjoyed this course and I learn many things +Great overviez on Hardware Security +foreign accent is totally ok, but very poor presentation skills by lecturer. material should be refreshed some already outdated +It was a very nice course. Lots of exposure was given to mathematical ways of analyzing threat. +Complete course in order to have a clear overview of HW security. I would recommend it to all HW engineers or System Engineers as well. +If you really serious about security - you have to start with your hardware... +The most boring course i have ever done in my life... Soporific course, Content interesting, but professor is just reading slides, with reading mistakes every 2-3 words. I would not recommend this course at all. +Poor presentation skills (mostly reading slides)Unclear and inconsistent in what pre-requisite knowledge is needed for the course (in one place he assumes one does not know digital logic, but then later he assumes you know hardware languages, fpga design, etc.).Was a waste of time, shame on Coursera that pre-requisite knowledge was removed from the site. +Very slow paced and boring. The instructor is not good at teaching. +It is a great intro course with very rich information about hardware security. But just as some other students have mentioned, the difficulty level of each assignment is not well balanced, and Week 6 videos are out of order. +Some content is good and informative but there's a big problem with the teacher accent (adding a "ch" at the end of half the words) and his diction (hesitating on the other half the words). Also it seems that the course was created in a rush and lacks a lot of polishing(*). Sometimes the course assumes a good level in computer science and then 2 minutes later it explains how to do a decimal to binary conversion! This makes many videos boring but the slides are not provided so you really have to view the videos entirely. I've followed much harder courses with pleasure but here it was torture to finish it. Also most of the course is just definitions of some specific terms and not practical explanations. I agree that defining a few words is important but here it's just too much. *: Some videos are in reverse order, some are stopped in the middle of a sentence, some quizzes are bugged and don't give credit properly and there's nobody to help students... +The audio can be difficult to understand. Partially because of the Professor's accent and partially because the recording is poor. If you can get past that, it's a good course and the professor knows his stuff. +The material used for this course is so old that makes me feel I'm taking a course in the 90's. The narration is very dull and therefore hard to follow. Really disappointing. +The quality of the slides, video, and presentation in this course is much lower than those offered by this Speciality or coursera in general. Very disappointed in this. +The content is rich but the way of teaching is dull. +I love it, very well done the teacher explains with examples and inside the videos there are a lot of exercises. The part that I like the most its the listening section, the other Chinese courses don't have that and like the title of the course this is a great step to get to know the HSK test from 1 - 3.2 here with Pekin University +The course is well designed and well deployed. The objective is to prepare the learner for the HSK exams. Pay attention to every lecture all the dialogues and build a course specific vocabulary/phrase notebook. Listen to every possible source of spoken Mandarin language that you can so you'll be prepared for the voices you'll hear in the course final. Pay attention to the format and layout of each 'practice' quiz that's going to be your orientation for the course final and the HSK exam. I'm going to improve my final grade score and then move on to the next sections of this certification course...James. +Have completed HSK Level 1 and have benefited much from this Course. I am now able to converse basic Mandarin to food vendors and friends, Wish to provide a few feedbacks for improvement. Certain Videos are slightly faulty, and the certain audio of two of the Weekly Test are not available. Also, the Chinese writing strokes be given stroke by stroke and at the end to mention the words and the meaning. Wish to say Thank You to my Teacher Yu Bin for teaching me. I wish to proceed t o HSK Level 2. Could I continue with the Lesson 2, again with financial assistance. +Amazingly helpful course. Takes things step by step, very comprehensive, 10/10 would recommend to any beginner interested in learning Chinese! +YU Bin is an excellent teacher and the course was well organized. Our main mentor was also helpful. Of course, time and effort is needed to pass this course. The one thing that needs improvement is the dialogue page which is a complete mess on mobile devices. +Very good resources. I highly recommend this course for people learning Mandarin. +Very nice course, is very friendly and teaches you efficiently. Totally worth it, although a few more exercises would have been great. +Some good material overall, but the notes are not correctly formatted, tests are not formatted that well, lessons are not that clearly structured +Helps you a lot to understand the HSK structure and gives you the necessary words to pass it by far, five stars because it achieves the goal to prepare you for de HSK with many pluses inside the course, totally worth it. +A great course for starting to learn Chinese with the additional goal of learning to pass the important HSK level 1 proficiency test. Instructor is YU Bin is one of most dedicated college professor I have ever meet in my years taking courses at university or Coursera! It really shows in her teaching style and the constant feedback that she provides. +very good course and very good constructors/teachers/professors +Very good. By the end of the course, I felt prepared to take the exam. +Fairly good for beginner! +Ni hao, This course has given me a jump-start in learning a new language. The instructor laoshi YuBin is very talented and i respect her very much for the effort put by her. I would encourage more people to take this course and learn the language. +This course is really well done. I will definitely enrol for the next level ! +Great course and teacher! +I noticed really good progress of my Chinese skills =) Also, because of the summary on the begging of each classes, it's really easy to find out if the last classes are understood or not =) +Just great ! Thanks +Good course. There's a lot of vocabulary and grammar. It was helpful for me. I've been studying Chinese in China for 3 years and I still found some useful things from this course. +Great intro course for Chinese as a second language. This course is a wonderful way to begin with the basics, both audio and reading, and even with a stint at speaking (recording one's voice exercise). +This course highlights why Coursera is now one of the giants of MOOCs! I don't think you can't find courses like such at most of (?) other MOOC sites. +Very exciting! I really enjoy lectures. Thank you for this opportunity to watch and attend lectures of one of the best university in the world! The lessons are short, creative and they give only useful information! +Very well paced. A lot of useful information to follow at once. +This course was worth every minute I spent on it. My Chinese vocabulary increased a lot along with my ability to communicate in the language. The course is well structured so that it is always interesting to follow, you grab most of the 150 HSK 1 words in a way that does not feel awkward (Peking University did a great job grouping them) and the basic grammar without actually studying it (i.e. without memorizing structures). The professor and the staff are excellent, and the material is not less than first-rate.I learned more in this 6-week course (7, but the last week is just the final test) than in 3 months attending to (Chinese) classroom class. +Very nice and instructional. Some minor mistakes here and there (it had two lectures with the videos in the wrong order). Looking forward to the next ones. +Great! The lecturer helps us understand the material and help me to prepare the HSK. I think now, I want to take HSK 1 as soon as possible. +This is a great course to prepare for the HSK 1. I really think I could not have completed the course successfully without having prior knowledge of Chinese though. While there are no prerequisites for the course, I recommend that a person have some background with the language; otherwise you will be overwhelmed by the third week and perhaps lose interest. There are a number of free resources on the internet, and particularly You Tube videos, to become familiar with the language. +Very good for beginners with a strong interest in learning Mandarin Chinese. +Excellent course! Professor Yu Bin is a fantastic teacher! :-) I have learned so much on this course and can't wait to start the next course! Xiè xie! +Thank you very much. You are very gifted teacher. I recommend to everyone who want to passHSK with high score. Wijai +A wonderful course. I'll definitely recommend it to my friends who are interested in Chinese language and culture. +Well structured and very interesting. It helps to build a foundation in Chinese language. +Fantastic Course, very enjoyable. +I have enjoyed this course very much so far. The pace is perfectly balanced, while also being challenging and entertaining - the lectures are very clear and the exercises are varied. I would certainly recommend it to anyone interested in picking up Chinese, regardless of the HSK exam. +I am a computer scientist who hates waffle. This course presents a topic that I have no knowledge about in a way that is interesting , succinct and thought provoking +For me, this class was a fantastic introduction to the wonderful world of MOOCs! Not only was the content well-delivered and dynamic, with a variety of speakers, short and easily manageable video lectures, great discussion forum topics, and a wealth of optional supplemental materials, but I really appreciated how the experience was organized. As a first time MOOCer, uncertain of how much time I could dedicate to my learning schedule, I appreciated the three level track system that allowed me to allot my time accordingly as desired and able - the mere existence of "Learn," "Engage," and "Go Deeper" tracks reassured me that I could get the required work done, and explore further at my leisure. In fact, I tended to get through all the levels, but I appreciated the opportunity to customize my learning experience.A great introduction to an important concept, and a superb overview of philosophy, psychology, and sociology - none of which I have studied in depth before. Excellent course for the Beginner all the way to the Advanced student. I have already registered for the follow-ups on Science and Practice, to be launched this summer and fall. Really well done! +Very interesting and great course! +A very good short course on an important intellectual trait, the intellectual humility. The videos were very informative, and the lecturers did not require a prior knowledge on philosophy or psychology. I managed to complete the course even though I did not have more than 2-3 hours per week. +The course gives a good basic insight to the topic of intellectual humility although in the beginning it fails a little in telling why intellectual humility is so important. (roughly the message was: "you get along better with other people and yourself")As the question "what is (intellectual) humility" is more a philosophical question than a practical experience this course cannot provide you with a tool that helps you to be more humble within a few days, to improve your humility and to measure someone elses humility but the course helps you asking yourself the right questions. ("Is social status important to me? Can I accept different opinions?...)It was my first coursera experience and I am satisfied with it. However, the videos are a bit oldfahsioned in style - if it was intended to give the videos an antique look - well done ;-) +One of the most important courses in Coursera! +Great Course, but much too fast paced +Well explained by all instructors, easy to understand and even entertaining. +rather hard to understand +This course is really well put together. The lectures are easy to follow and explain all points very clearly. I appreciate the supplementary quizzes to help me cement the knowledge from the lectures. The course provides tons of extra resources, so that you can entrench yourself in the learning as much as you like--or you can just follow the lectures to learn the essential. My only recommendation would be to add more in-video questions. +It was my first Coursera class and I liked it very much. +This course was quite informative and pleasurable. The short format perfectly fit the scope of the topic. +worth every minute of my time! +Very interesting subject and well structured course, with good exposition of the subject. Looking forward into Part 2! Knocked one star off (would be half if I could) just because there is some discontinuity between the three sections/speakers and still a couple of rough edges to smooth out. +I do not feel that this course is ready for publication and is overlong for the material presented. +Some interesting ideas but not entirely convinced by the concept of 'humility' in this context. Is it really any more than simple openness to new ideas and the possibility of being wrong. That is not really 'humble'/ Smacks at times of academic pretension. You need to follow carefully what is being said - not a course to do while doing something else! +I found this course to be insightful and fair in it's teachings and understanding of what is a new developmental field of Philosophy. I also believe that much more research should be done into this and that many people could benefit from it and especially this course! Thanks! +I have learnt a lot from this course. it has opened my eyes about my own self. it will serve as reformer of my self. I am thankful to the learned faculty. +thanks +Great ! Thanks a lot +I am glad i took this Excel class, it seems i keep learning more. I would have taken a keen interest if i +Excellent course....gained considerable insight into Excel! +The course is a great intro to excel, but there are some errors in a few of the data examples (good practice data cleansing!) +Simply the Best. +Wonderful Course for beginners +Course is really helpful in understanding excel tools such as vllokups, indexing, pivot table, logical functions etc. I am a mechanical engineer and need to use excel for data analysis. This course really helped me. +Generally good, but exercises in Week 3 & 4 have not been proofread and are full of mistakes. Too bad. +Awesome course, I updated my Excel Knowledge :) +Very practical and valuable +Great course about solving problems using Excel. +a few mistakes during the course +I would give this course a 4.5 if I could. I liked the course overall, but felt that there could have been more explanations with the answers to the weekly projects. For answers I couldn't solve, I had to look at the solutions and back out the correct formula to teach myself sometimes. I thought the videos were very helpful, but sometimes hard to follow since the text being input in the video was hard to see. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course. I was able to explore other ways to use Excel for my day-to-day file manipulation. +Great course! Very informative. Thanks PWC and Coursera for this course. +Really valuable Excel skills taught with a good mix of business context +I learned a lot and was able to take my Excel skills to another level. Some of the practice assignments had formulas that weren't discussed - whi +Thanks for the opportunity to study in PWC, the best institute to learn Excel and financial tools, thanks COURSERA for supporting me, thank you for allowing people with limited economic resources to learn from the best universities and thank you for promoting education without borders. We are a species, we are a world, we are one world. +This course might be a bit complicated for someone who is using excel for the first time but for the people who have some basic knowledge it is a great platform to enhance their skills. The step by step process makes it easy to understand and the practice assignments give a great opportunity to test what we have learned in real life case studies. +Useful tips and tricks to become a stronger excel user +Great course with a lot of real life examples. +A very good learning experince +Really insightful and practical. Thanks pwc +A very descriptive, amazing and interesting course, I would recommend this course to everyone in the analytics or Data filed. Brilliantly created +The course is well structured, but some of the files are not properly audited so there are mistakes which can lead to wrong answers in the quizzes. +This course do help me to understand more about Excel and some techniques that I used to leverage. Everyone who has to work with data should take this course. +Great Excel course with clear content, detailed examples and instruction from profession firm +Level of difficulty low +Very good course for starting career in Data Analytics. +Great overview with helpful example problems. Wording of example problems could provide some more instruction with hints or annotations. +Very good introduction to use Excel +Very effective course to start off with. Gives you a brilliant knowledge about the various ways Excel helps you with problem solving. +It is a good c +This is a great course to provide someone with the basic foundation in Excel. +Great Value with real life practice. Worth for saving to recap.Achieved: 2017-02-26 +great course for learning +I learned something new every week and the projects at the end of each week were thoughtful and robust. Overall, well worth the time.Frustrations - sound quality varied widely and could be frustrating. Would have preferred significantly more examples, was difficult to really grasp some concepts with such limited practice and implementation examples. Found mistakes in some portion of nearly every week's lessons, which makes it challenging to learn new material and one week was particularly sloppy. +Very well structured. +the resolution of the video is not clear and also audio is not clear, but the contents are good +Great course. I learned a lot of new formulas as Index and Match. +Useful and clearly presented +The course materials are great, but the Excel videos and its background audios are poor, it need update to compare with characters videos. +This course was what I was exactly looking for. Unlike other courses, the whole syllabus of this course is properly structured. I am planning to complete the specialization. +You need basic understanding of Excel to follow the course. The formulas are interesting and +Great content for developing excel skills... Thanks to PWC and Coursera for this initiative!!! +I do not want to pay for quizes while learning. +Clearly explained walk-through of many Excel features. Well structured. Full worksheet view in videos meant that individual cell contents were hard to see on my smaller screen. +Super Analysis of a point +GREAT, COMPREHENSIVE +Great material and great speakers. I would like to thank and appreciate each and every person involved in this initiative from PwC. +This class gave me a better understanding of excel and scratches the surface of excels capacity. I will never underestimate excel again. I appreciate the videos, and other resources this class provides. I am business major and this class cemented alot of the fundamentals. +Good Course! However, a few errors in the exercises; regardless, they made me better in the end. A few minor issues with poor video/audio quality on the exercises. Still, a worthwhile course. +Excellent way to "quickly" get up to speed with main functionalities in excel. Even though I have used several of the tools explained in this course before, I have not used them for a while (and as I just learned, I have not used them in their full power) so I appreciate the handouts clearly using the syntax for every situation. Excellent! +The course is structured beautifully, love the handouts and the way things are explained in the video. +Thank you very much! +easy to follow, have learnt a lot +In general, this is a good course. It provides many handy tools. But I still wish it had provided a larger scope of other tools we could learn in the future, even if the course doesn't teach these. In essence, I learned much, but my horizon wasn't broadened much. +Very useful to improve existing Excel competence and expand with the provided informa +Useful and interesting! +In general the course is very well structured and to the point. In some demonstartions it is hard to see the formula syntax as it can not be more enlarged. In some videos the sound is not clear. +Good explanation, good examples. However, I found some mistakes in tasks. +Great Course.Makes it so easy to work figures +Good course, learnt a few new things even though I am very experienced with Excel. I found some of the exercise / project questions a bit confusing (not the task itself, but the way it was described - instructions were not always clear, and sometimes contained errors). +It's a good course with a lot of information. Some of it will be useful going forward, if I can remember it all!However, it's almost too much information for one course, I think it should be 2-3 courses. +It's a great course with clear instructions and insightful practices. I learnt useful functionalities and tools that could be used in my future career as an accounting professional. +The content is really nice and useful, but some screen-recorded lecture could have better audio and video quality. +It is hard and it takes time to learn how to think about a problem and then use excel as a tool. The exercises, interesting and seemed to be taken from real life examples, provided help do both. It helped me have the patience to understand how the formulas worked, which is tedious without a good example. +The material was useful, and I learned a lot, but some of the specific lessons were presented in a confusing manner and it seemed like there was an overall lack of quality control (typos, missing videos, material presented in a confusing manner). As a PwC employee, I felt that with greater attention to the quality of the materials/lessons, this course could have presented the firm in a better light.More specifically, in those videos where the instructor typed out formulas for the first time, this could have been done more slowly and using magnification. This would make it very obvious how the formulas were being constructed. As it was, I found myself frequently rewinding and squinting at the screen.All that being said, however, I did feel that the course benefited me significantly, and I plan to leverage this knowledge in my work for PwC. +Very interesting and I'm sure it will be very useful for me. I am now able to use vlookup, iferror, subtotal, and more. However, I found the Week2 project a bit confusing even though I was able to solve it. I admit, I took a loot few times at the answers just to get my head around it and to understand the formulas and how to use them. I even used "evaluate formula", F2, trace Dependents/Precedents to understand how it has to work.I would advise you to rewrite the question and to make it clearer whats required. Tips are also not needed and misleading. Also during the course itself it would be nice to show us how to combine several formulas into one line - I had a bit of difficulties with that. Lets not forget that if it's pure math we can follow PEMDAS, however when we have text formulas it's a bit confusing. (i.e. why start with iferror and not find/left/right, etc). I would be happy to discuss in further details :) +The course is highly practical and effective in applying abstract concepts in real world applications. The course is direct and clean. +very helpful +Extremely effective for new analysts in consulting firms +Very good course to understand the most important basic funcionalities of Excel +Everything you need to know about Excel is in that course. +Very effective for beginners. +This has been one of the most interesting course I have attended in my student and working career. +The course was very informative! +It is a logically built course, sadly I am a more advanced user of excel then the required level, but needed to finish the specialization. +A very helpful course for people looking for a place to start learning excel. +Great Work preparing such a valuable training course for MS Excel! +Very practical course. Love it! +It is a very well structured course, for beginners and not. It is perfect for whoever want to enhance his skills with Excel. +This +This is a pretty good intro to Excel course. It gets a little patchy in Weeks 3 and 4 (it seems like some of the worksheets weren't checked for errors), but it never wastes your time. It's a great way to get an initial feel for how to do commonly-used professional functions in Excel. I'm glad I took it, though I do wish there had been more of a progression. For example, it would have been nice if there was a final, project due at the end that put together a lot more of what was covered rather than just reviewing the few functions learned in Week 4. +Useful, many basic functions, but introduced me to some new functions and their uses. +good useful new formulas and shortcuts +This course is perfect! I learnt a lot of skills and knowledge through this course and the lectures are also wonderful. I really appreciate for the all efforts of Pwc and Coursera team to make this brilliant course. +All of the content for the program was excellent. The only issue I had was that the video quality on some of the instructor lead excel examples within the video was very small and I could not read it. I found it difficult to follow especially I had to go over it three or four times increasing the screen etc. in order to get what I needed from the instructor lead examples otherwise it was an excellent class. I believe it more than prepares someone not aware of all the capabilities of Excel to see the possibilities and to apply them going forward in business or in their personal life. +One of the best course !! +Loved it! +Decent Course for someone not much exposed to Excel. Pretty Basic information but exercises are good and challenging. Could have been better with more practical approach. +Some topics were rather basic; however, this is a great and insightful course for beginner/intermediate Excel users on how to leverage the tools in Excel in data analytics! +It was really great. I have learnt lots of new things and rules by completing this course. +I learned many skills that I can apply on the job. +An excellent course for anyone dealing with Excel in day to day job. Highly recommended for both newbies and experienced users. +Can I use this course without purchase. +The progression of the course is very smooth and the instructors are very experienced in the topic which made it easy for the learners to relate with the content. Also, the practice questions are well tailored and enables learners to gain a hands-on experience of the content. I would totally recommend this course to someone else. +Its very helpful as basics of excel which we tend to forget are again revisited here and many minute details have been +It was a wonderful experience. Practice exercises helped a lot to clear the concepts. +Great course to learn Excel in business use! +This was a great course on reminding myself of a true capabilities of the Excel application. Thank +Though i use MS excel on daily basis, but this course has shown me new ways. Glad i joined in. +I learned a lot but there are definitely errors in the course material and a entire missing video. The course needs to be updated. +Exercises need to be reviewed and corrected as they contain many typos and inconsistencies in- not at PwC standard!! +Very applicable skills. +The course was great but there were some quality issues; such as incomplete instructions in week 3 quizzes and some errors in numbers. And the formula bars in the videos (i.e. formulas within the spreadsheets) were immensely small and we could not see the formulas therein. Participants raised this several times in the discussion forum but there was no response from the instructors. Though the course content itself was excellent, the rating is because of the issues mentioned. Otherwise the course was great and I would recommend it to others for the knowledge. +Good material, ,but VERY sloppy in MS Excel handouts. Lot's of mistakes which confused the student. Please do better job of QA before posting these documents. +Not very difficult. The quizzes require little effort with any prior knowledge of excel. Good for low level users. The data cleanup stuff was the most useful to me. +This course further enhanced my MS Excel skills. +Super for beginners and for advance Excel user +The content was fine but the delivery method and instructions were sub par. Hope they will improve it. +Very good course, content wise. Video & Audio quality can b +Good Intermediate level course. Including useful functions we experience being part of Finance profile. Thanks +This course will showed all basic knowledge about excel for you and help you improve your skill if you practice daily. +Useful and comprehensive +Well constructed course, beneficial to both Excel beginners and advanced users. +Good Initiative +Nice start for learning excel! +nice course - great intro to some of Excel's most useful functions for business. +excellent teaching. +Too bad for the price, since I'm a student it's quite expensive at the moment. Other than that, now using excel has never been easier! +It helped me to recollect the some areas of Exc +I enjoy learning this course!! Thank you and I hope future actualizations... +Very interesting, the scientific approach to cooking and eating. +very cool! +Great experience with a fun learning environment. +I learnt more than I expected. However, there were quite a few moments that was boring to me, for example, those parts that included molecules chains in explanation of certain topics. Anyway, the chains was not in the final exam. Therefore, I rate this course as excellent. +I liked this course very much. I get lots of interesting things. Will use them on my kitchen. Thank you! +so glad i pass the course exam，thanks to all teachers。 +Interesting approach, but I expected more useful information on gastronomy +fun and the same time educational! +it was very helpful +This course changes our perception of food and what good or delicious food means. It sheds light on the scientific aspects that makes up the culinary experience from the inception of a dish till the digestion of the food. +a little succinct and could have gone in to far more chemistry details.the teachers are a little difficult to understand at times and a little repetitive as well but overall an enjoyable course +Loved the course! +I thoroughly enjoyed this class. I learned many techniques. Practicing what we learned helped instill the reasons for each technique. I highly recommend this class for new Cooks and those that are striving to become professional Chefs. +Love it! +Interesting course and fun instructor. +amateurish presentation. and there is some technical issue with the content. the video gets stuck a lot and the problem is not my internet. +wonderful learning experience +Course itself is a 4 star, pretty good. The service from Coursera a one star. An assignment was submitted by the deadline but was never reviewed. Course closed and they say I have to enroll in the next course. What a huge pain. Wont take Coursera classes again for certificate. +Since I started this course it has helped me to change my thinking and the way I am trying to find the solution to improve the working enviroment of my working place and the people I am working with.I can rate this a a successfull course for any one.what I missed from this course is the interaction between the lecturer and the people who are learning the course.W e have missed the taste of coaching.Thank youGabriel Paul KissimaKaratu,Arusha, Tanzania +Very well! I learnt a lot! +I have thoroughly enjoyed this course and feel it's content was very relevant. However, it felt outdated in some respects and at times a little hard to follow. But, well worthwhile for anyone in Healthcare! +Interesting +Really a well thought out course and expertly delivered! I've never had such well explained lectures, using simple terms to explain complex subjects. Our professor is a master at education as well as her subject expertise. This is a great course, a little kooky at times, but just the right amount of kooky to make it more interesting and fun. Thanks for the obvious hard work in producing the course and time expended making it! +This was a well-delivered course. I learnt a lot about how the brain functions and how is that applicable in the space. +Fascinating insights on how one's brain orients itself in space via the senses. The lectures are loaded with useful examples, relevant research, and helpful visual aids. The class stirred in me more of an appreciation for the interrelatedness of each of the senses with each other and with memory. Dr. Groh sheds light on several of the brain's strategies for efficiently intrpreting of a complex environment. +Loved it. I took another class from Duke related to visual perception and was equally satisfied with the detail, and pace, of the course. +awesome. Course is interesting and engaging. cheers! +Very interesting topic and good presentation. I took the noncredit option and this was the first course I've taken at Coursera (including Duke) that did not allow me to get answers to quizzes I wanted to take (so I stopped taking them and feel I learned less). In lesson 2.7 (I think) where an in-lesson quiz was offered that asked me to choose between A, B, C, or D the visual disappeared so that I was hindered when presented with the questions to answer. A typo (its vs. it's) I noticed in a later lesson graphic (maybe lesson 6 somewhere). Anyway, thanks for the opportunity to learn about my brain and space. +surprisingly interesting. Had a lot of new ideas +Very nice and clearly presented. The only reason for not giving 5 stars is that I would have liked more details and more lectures. +C +Excellent course to understand the basics of vision and how and why we can see. Thank you. +Excellent course to take! +As an student in EEE, I think this course really inspire me in various +very basic information from high-school STEM classes +Very intersting. Very enjoyable to learn. Great teacher and teaching methods. Fair quizzes. +Amazing, congratulation, the curse is fantastic !!!Best regards,Alexandre Scherre Tomé / Brazil +This is a superb course appropriate for any level of experience or knowledge with the subject. +Great course! I recommend to all who yearn for differentiated superior knowledge, which will surely make a difference in your curriculum. Part of Pure Neurociencia. I recommend !!! +Taught for beginners in a simple and concise way! I especially liked the real life examples given to help students understand the concepts being explained - made it a lot more engaging! +No words to describe Dr.Groh's amazing lectures. A Must do session for those people, who are not only interested in neuroscience, but had the curiosity to wonder about our brains contemplating our world and also contemplating itself contemplating the world! +Awesome course. Dr Jennifer Groh uses a wonderful methodology along the modules overlaying clear language, really funny moments, examples in drawings, laboratory and exterior experiments all of them helping to reveal for us the fascinating theme of Brain and Space. Thank you very much for this opportunity. +This is an excellent course for those who want to get a better understanding about the brain and how it processes everyday stimulus. The professor is without doubt very knowledgable and explains everything in a very professional and yet simple way. +Amazing learning experience! Put simply yet comprehensively. A must-do course! +A great intro to neuroscience. Creative videos that are both informative and fun to watch. +This is an excellent MOOC. I am a PhD candidate studying human intelligence and spatial cognition specifically associated with problem solving. The content is very well structured and clearly communicated through the lectures. Having been briefly introduced to some of the concepts in my own studies prior to this course I am finding the difficulty level to be quite nice (challenging yet very manageable). The inclusion of various experiments throughout the course is a good idea as it makes it all very interesting. +I like this class. It provide a lot of detail info. And the teacher is nice and patience. +Simple yet efficient, clear material, good explanations +I try to move me more every day. It's not easy, but I do my best. +that's good +was nice +This course is very interesting. Many videos are 5-10 minutes long and one can squeeze them into their free time easily. +In terms of how the course was presented, I liked it compared to the usual lecturing style; however, the content was below basic for someone in the field of health. +Thanks for such an inspiring course - now I really sit less and I am more active then before it. +this is amazing lol. i want to take this class again. +Great course! It's still on my mind and present in my behaviors- those things I learned months ago when enrolled in it. +It's awesome and useful to be active though i am a desk job professional.Thanks for sharing this valuable information. +Good course for people wanting to get more active. Lots of good information and the how-tos to make it work for you. +this course is very useful and helpful, it let you to set your own goal of physical activity and tells you how to keep going. +Great course which will inspire and teach you how to be more active and positive in life. +Good motivator to take first steps in keeping oneself active. Simple tips provided which once used in day to day life will definitely change our sedentary lifestyle +great class +Very informative course :) the quizzes were a little too obvious (just my own opinion!) I did not feel challenged during them. +This course is very beneficial to people who are not usually active, but if you are an active person then you'll probably learn about measuring your physical activity. Otherwise it is very very very very easy, like if you had to fail that would just be sad +Very informative course. I found each material is a good one. The graphic, storytelling and quiz is well-organized. +Good class to learn how to set goal to get more active. +Course had good structure, the videos were informative and really encouraging to go and start moving, from simple things like stretching at home or in your office to more sophisticated activites like sports or dance. Actually, I've never thought about activites and moving this way – it could be really anything, even just not sitting counts. The course also encouraged me to rethink some of my activity goals, like reaching 10k steps (most of the time almost impossible for me) – every step is good and better than count them is to focus on time spent by the activity. I thought this course will be just fun, you know, everyone knows that sitting too much is bad etc., but it really worked for me as a motivation to set some goals and get moving. Thanks! +Very well produced, with content from a really wide range of contributors. Video are short and manageable. Worth the investment of time. +A solid reminder to all to be active. Good MOOC if you're just starting out and looking for basic guidance on where to start. +The course is interesting and might be useful for complete strangers in the world of fitness/physical activity, as it provides some general ideas about implementing activity to one's daily life, as well as gives a good understanding on stating achievable goals. For those who have the essential knowledge of all that, the course would be a repetition of the basics. The most useful part seems to be about the goal setting, and that is what I'd recommend to start with for most students. The course won't be useful for fitness\sports professionals. Follow-up e-mails for many months after the course ends seem to start turning somewhat annoying. The quality on the videos (sound especially) is often a bit on the poor side. +it is an awsome coursethank you +very practical, relevant, and inspiring! +so active courseeee +Nice, easy course that gives you a lot of information about being physically active even at times you may not want to be or may think you cannot be. Interesting videos and graphics. A lot of important information to share with family and friends to help get everyone on the path to being more active and healthier. +A must go through course.. minimal video time and max life changing learning.. awareness from this course will make your life much better in long (read 66 days) run.All the best :) +I love it! It motivates me to be active! +It was an interesting course, and some of the advices that have been given are quite useful. But I suppose it has no great impact on my lifestyle, as I have enough activity already. But for those who have really sedentary way of life is very helpful. +I'm enjoying myself here. Join us! +In my opinion, the course is too basic. Many things looks like teaching 5-years old children by serious professors.But the material is given as natural as possible and milestones are clear and understandable. +It was a unique course. Even though it was quite short, but the learning was vast in terms of why and how can we keep ourselves healthy. +Provides good tips for how to inc +Fun course with good information. Enjoyed taking this classes. +Great motivator to become more active!!! +Good course that helps you to think of different ways to motivate and encourage everyone and helps to set targets +It is an excellent course for a Physical Therapy and other Healthcare students and professionals and individuals. +Nice course, easy to follow, it has given me the motivation needed to start to get active. +The course is very good. It provides lots of practical tips that can be incorporated in day to day lives. +Interesting, simple and interactive course that provided useful information through reading, writing, videos, comedy making it more fascinating. Quiz were quick and short, more focused on how we would make ourselves more active rather than on memorizing everything. +Well-presented, good ideas for promoting activity, health, and increased well-being. I particularly enjoyed the Scottish accents and the occasional beautiful shots of Edinburgh :-) +This course gave me some nice encouragement tips to get started on a new healthier path! +Nice course!This course's focus point is very simple +ok course.....motivational +Could add a lot more exercise specific information. +Thank you for you all for this great and inspiring course! +lite, informative, thank you +fun! Informative and light, a reminder to get up and get moving! +wonderful learning experience ! i even could read it when I was running on a thread mill. +thanks for the course it is very useful +A very basic course, suited for those who are getting started on physical activity. +Easy to comprehend and inspiring to put into use. Reading material was brilliant! +Very comprehensive course! Motivates you to start getting fit slowly but surely! +Inspiring. More practical than theoretical. +Very informative and made me understand where I was failing the previous attempts to be more active! +Excellent for people who need help understanding and organizing their daily physical activities. +Quick class that gave me some inspiration to get moving! +Well done course. I would have hoped for a little more inspiration and diverse practical ideas. I'd also like the course would more specifically envision a great variety of target audiences.The beginnings are good! Room to spice it up! +This is a quick fun course with easy ways to get active. The course also discusses why it's important to be active and how active both children and adults should be. There are great optional readings as well if you're interested in more. This course is very informative. +This is a wonderful course. This is very precise and practical course about being active which promotes the benefits of being active. Apart of it this course also speak about different health condition and how a person can be active in that situations too. +Not very motivational but nice, +Very helpful. +I really enjoyed this class. It gave me a kick start to my weight loss journey. I also like the promo messages and the checking in after the course was complete. +Very motivating and highly informative. I'll recommend for everyone, irrespective of age or sex. +A useful course that gives practical guidelines on increasing physical activity in daily life. It specifies that even as low as 30 minutes of moderate physical exercise 5 times a day can be very beneficial to an otherwise sedentary person. +It's my FAVORITE COURSERA COURSE!!! Thanks a lot all authors for this amazing course!!!! +Interesting course that I found inspiring. Well worth the time invested into completing it. +There was nothing in the course that I didn't already know, but I'm no longer young & I didn't expect there to be. I wasn't wild about sitting through lectures about being active while pregnant or making sure my kids exercise. For me, that's a waste of time. I know what I need to be doing & I was hoping the course would inspire me to do it. Unfortunately, it did not. I got tired of hearing about walking or bicycling to work as the main way to get active. I am now retired, but even when I worked that was never an option. +Loved this course +Great course! It is really inspirational! Thank you! +helps me get active in my daily life and accomplish my tasks, without stressing more on the outcome, helps me initiate better. +The videos are really informative and cover most of the common concerns/excuses we have to avoid a physically active life style. I could connect to everything in the course and have improved my activity times from the past 3 weeks. This course definitely has given me a good push to improve myself. +This is a very useful and short course that covers all you need to get active, and is well seupported by a well chosen set of optional readings for anyone wanting to learn more. Highly recommended. +Very good course with good information. I just need to keep doing the things I learned. +Full of straight-forward information, easy to use and efective!! Thank you so much!! +Good basic background for starting out. I wanted a little more but no complaints. Good simple instructions and knowledge build including the SMART principle +It was ok, rather basic really, but I suppose that is what some people need. +It was very informative course. Thanks for great job +This course has given me the motivation and tools to lead a more active life. I am ready to do this!! +Important information for the general public. Thank You. +Lots of helpful information in order to help you set up for a healthy and active lifestyle.If you're beginning on this road or want to find out more, this MOOC is really helpful +It was a fun course! +This is a motivational course, but it's not very extensive. +Excellent course. It's easy but inspirational in nature. +I love it!!! Thanks :) +Pros: Really motivating!Cons: Not much real content even for a beginner, too short. +The best so far +This course is a good introduction to getting active, and it provides a plethora of useful resources that can help you get started. +This might be a life changing course for several people. +This course is very good for all. if we start practicing by noting daily achieving we can win . +Great Course...Practical & Enjoyable !!! +Interesting,and the knowledge introduced is easy to apply +Nicely presented. Thank you. +This course is clickbait for the purpose of soliciting information about the private life of participants. It barely contains any facts, and it contains in total zero references to studies that facts are taken from. This shouldn't be on Coursera, and an organization making a course like this shouldn't be allowed to call itself a university. +This course provides an excellent comprehensive overview of physical activity. All the educational material and erudite videos are very high quality and help motivate and change behaviour from a sedentary to active lifestyle. Hopefully after the MOOC finishes that the evaluation process will demonstrate a positive outcome to educate and change attitudes to physical activity on a global basis. Well done to team leader Danijela Gasevic and the Sit Less, Get Active MOOC team. +what a great Course +I like it for beginners. Is a good satarting point. Thanks. +I wish this was more extensive /detailed course and assignments little bit more complex. The moderator timely response was greatly lacking. If the course instructor is asking the students to try out RDD while the auto-grader depends on SQL, it should have been clarified. +Nice Course. Going straight forward to the manipulations using spark, and giving a great overview on how to deal with IoT data in the Cloudant NOSQL platform. Would hope to see a new course where we can use MLLIB with massive IoT data to showcase the power of parallel programming! +Very useful courses to take if you are beginner of data science. The course was not detailed enough sometime. But you will surely get a global view of IOT data analysis after this courses. +Good course with a good Instructor. It's a real basic course and good for beginners, though you need to have to dive into Python and Spark on your own to follow the course and the assignments. :) +The Grader template in the beginning is very confusing when doing first assignment. The response from Instructor should be quick. +This was a good course. The autograder has some issues though. +Really good course to provide an overview of working within IBM's cloud platform offerings. This course provides the basics of ApacheSpark as well. +Really useful to understand and know other people and oneself better, very important to put into practice the whole theory of motivation, leadership, groups and culture, in the daily family and professional relationships, in special because we are persons (body, intelligence and heart), sometimes not easy to manage if we can't understand. +I learned new concepts and about the efforts of so many organisations towards Health For All. It definitely increased my interest in Public Health studies even more. +Highly informative course. The right course for public health disciplines! +Very useful insight into the history of Primary Health Care and the projects around the world that make a real difference to people's lives. +superb it was a nice experience of the coursera express journey where i went back long history of PHC and how we forwarded and what challenges are ready to face for the public health +It's a wonderful course for everyone who deems Primary Health Care to be important. +Thank you for the opportunity to learn from Johns Hopkins University. I was a great learning experience although improvements should be made in the grading process which took unusually longer. +very usefulthanks a lot +Nice course with concrete examples and content +"Health for All Through Primary Health Care" is a great learning program. The course content is structured very well. +Great Course for Public Health Workers on the ground. +Excellent, Course on Primary Health Care. +Never received a certificate or a grade. No one responds to email. I will never purchase anything through Coursera. +very informative course for health students +Good organized course, Health for all through primary health care described well in context of developing regions. +I really enjoyed this course. It was full of resources, analysis, and history that together fueled my interest in international public health. I was especially grateful for Dr Perry's personal insights - taken from his longstanding work in public health around the world. I had to prep for the quizzes - they weren't easy and I had to put in time on my papers but my return on investment has been great.I'm very glad I took the course and I just signed up for my next public health Johns Hopkins U course through Coursera. +So far, I really love this course and very useful for me as I've been working as health & social worker in World Vision International INGO In Myanmar (Burma) about 7 years, refugees health social worker in Utica, New York and also working as medical interpreter ( Karen/ Burmese) over the phone in State +I thinks it only happens to me. I found things are a little unorganized for me who doesn't speak English as mother tongue. But the videos and quizzes help me a lot to understand. +Great content! Mixing lectures, articles and videos gave several perspective on the topics and made the content more interesting. Peer reviews of papers varied drastically based on the reviewer so may not be the best way for grading. +excellent! I hope more people get interest on the topic +Very hard to understand +Course design is pretty uneven in pace, engagement and expectation setting. The interactive segments could be better. Also, the core content feels like a hodge-podge of different sources thrown together to support the Professor's lexicon. +Great course! +this course very help me to learn fundamentals and practice to work in GIS +Very good introduction! I only miss more examples of urban/regional planning or transportation networks. +I feel good and learn a lot！ +Great course +Excellent Teaching! Looking forward to next course! +Good course +This course was extremely useful for me to kick start learning about GIS and software. It has clearly laid our syllabus and neatly made videos which help overcome inhibitions about technical nitty grittties.. The course has instilled confidence in me to continue further studying various aspects of GIS. I enjoyed doing my assignments too. I highly recommend this course to any one who deals in spatial aspects in their work. +Wonderful teacher. Easy to follow along. Course is extremely flexible to go at your own pace +This course is very helpful. I learned a lot and many pros and corns of ArcGIS. +This was a very informative and streamlined intro to GIS.I could see the pace being too much for someone totally unfamiliar with GIS, but it's also going to touch on all the basics you should expect from some longer courses. +Quiet good introduction with clear objectives.Some step by step explanations could be shortened because they seem too detailed.A brief introduction to creating your own data could be great and will cover more stepsBy hte way, thanks for this good introduction +Organised, Resourceful and Relevant course +Great course ! +Great introduction to GIS - fun and easy to follow along. +Very practical and helpful. And if you want to dig deeper there are a lot of extra resources to look into. +Really clear instruction at the appropriate level, useful and clearly written assignments. Would highly recommend. +I really liked this course. I have learned good information. Thank you +As an introduction to GIS, I thought this was excellent. I do wish it had been more in depth regarding data types, how to integrate (for example raster data) the different types. It's also obvious that the sheer number of tools available is huge. In other words, I've got a lot to look forward to in upcoming courses and I hope I can learn enough to become a GIS professional. +Great course, especially the assignments are absolutely awesome as they walk you through every step of the day. +Very good introduction to arcGIS! I would have liked to have had a short overview about using some of the open source tools, such as QGIS. Overall great teaching, my first time actually completing one of these courses! +its the best course i taken +I have learned a lot in this course. It is very nice, but I think that it would be nice if the students can communicate with the teacher directly, because sometimes there are some comments or questions and it is only read it by the group. +Excellent course. I fell in love with GIS. +nice excecuted E-learning leassonsthe video support the excersises +The best course for basic of GIS +Very explanatory and wonderful guided course. It's worth it. +In general, it's quite helpful for me, but it could be a little bit too fundamental sometimes, for example the professor would explain things like how to find a button... which may not be so necessary, but it's ok, I think I will enroll the next course of this series. +Nice and interactive learning. Thanks Nick +This is amazing! Absolutely great, useful and easy online course. I have learned very basic things about ArcGIS and got everything I needed to start right away with the complex software package. The course was very interesting and student friendly and it helped me a lot understanding things I wanted and things that were vital for me to learn and understand. +This is a great course for anyone who seeks to understand and use GIS for educational purpose as well as professional level. +It was fantastic! +I should have never paid for this course. By the time I got into the subject the refund policy was expired. Do not take pay for this course or program at all. +Needs to be more concise.Nick seems very passionate and trying to reach a broad audience, but overly explaining topics is creating "lecture fatigue" for me. For instance, every video starts with "welcome back... this is why people like this... [meat of the video]... this is what we just talked about.... see you next time". I really just need the [meat of the video] part. These videos are 5-10 minutes long each. They are very short and therefore I do not need an introduction/closeout for each individual one. The Module Overview and Module Recap videos are sufficient to serve that purpose.Overall, I learned the basics and will probably take the next GIS course because I like the Coursera framework, but I think this particular course could be much more condensed. +Superb introduction to GIS concepts +I found this course to be useful, informative and easy to follow. The lectures are very well organised and the projects are great tools for practising the skills learned. +Really awesome instructor! He walks you through everything. He assumes you know little about computers and programming, which is great for people trying to gain a deep understanding of why things work the way they do. Really helpful introduction to ArcGIS! +Great intro for anyone with absolutely no previous introduction to GIS, or even vague familiarity with the subject but little to no hands-on experience. +it's the best course +This class was very beneficial and well-organized. Thank you for all of the valuable information! +I really enyoed this course, Nick Santos is a great professor, the work was challenging and yet relatively easy to learn, given that the +Great foundational information! An excellent entry into GIS using professional tools. Highly recommended. +Great intro to GIS. +It would be helpful if the instructor didn't talk with his hands. The lectures and materials are well done. There are a few typos here and there. Good course. +I have learned many things and this is the first course I have complete, I am very glad to have taken this chance and also to let me do the time to try it. Very well produce this course! +Very good and well designed course +Very nice and well design starter course! I love it! +I really enjoyed this course. I thought that the teacher was very helpful and thorough for an introduction course. This is my first time doing an online course so I don't have much to compare it to, but it definitely exceeded my expectations. Nick Santos or maybe Professor Santos is a very enthusiastic teacher and really encourages the student to excel and succeed. Thank you! +not very well organized. +Thank you for all your time Dear Nick Santos!! +Highly recommended! The content is a fascinating introduction to using ArcMap and real-world data to create basic maps. Individual skills are taught in a stepwise fashion and culminate in an enjoyable final assignment. Nick is a terrific teacher - well done! +it's a really great course for you who wants to get a starter about GIS, especially about ArcGIS. Very helpful and easy to follow instruction.. +Nick Santos is the greatest instructor! I came from not ever having opened ArcGIS to making simple maps in the second week. +Awesome course on GIS applications using arcGIS. Totally recommended! +Great course! +Helpfull lectures and good assingments for learning the fundamentals of GIS. +Nick Santos is an excellent teacher. He provides concise and clear concepts and helps to develop skills on our own, with a correct guidance +An excellent course, well crafted lessons and videos. Challenging assignments, great tutorials and resources. I highly recommend it. +A great introduction to GIS. +Veeery useful course! +Excellent course! Make sure you stay on top of deadlines as you don't always get reminders. +Great gis course for beginners, comperhensive and specific +Awesome course, good explanations. Spatial join does the magic! Great, loved it, kept me motivated. +Challenging course with excellent +It was an Excellent Course I learned a lot and it was a great opportunity to learn GIS basics.Thank you so muchNick Santos (our instructor) and the UC Davis Extension Team +it is a good course that benefits students to learn GIS basics +Excellent and easy to follow! Great for beginners in GIS. +Perfect!Thanks a lot! +Fantastic course! Require a lot more effort to complete the course than what Coursera estimates, but extremely rewarding in the end! +Learnt a lot in the first course itself +Wonderfull course, the course is well structured, Course materials were helpful and the assignments were very practical and reflecting real life scenarios. Special thanks to instructor Nick Santos and coursera team.Gees +This was an outstanding base of knowledge that I have already recommended to many coworkers to explore so they are able increase their base of knowledge in GIS. +One of the best courses I've ever had. The teacher was amazing, he really made himself clear +Extraordinary material. Very well taught and gives you a very strong tour on Arcmap. Basics very well covered. +Very instructive course +I would highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to gain knowledge and learn some basic skills in GIS. Like the name of the course suggests, it gives you a sound foundation to build on. The lecturer, Mr Nick Santos, has a real talent in teaching and does a fantastic job in sharing his passion for GIS. +Nick Santos is a dreamboat. +Contains a lot of great content through videos and demonstrations that are easy to follow and in depth enough to understand the concepts. Would be great if there was a way to contact the professor or someone within Coursera to help with technical issues, as I ran into quite a few of those along the way and did not have anyone to reach out to (not a problem with the actual course, just the courser +This is the best course; The teacher explains very well.It`s too easy to understand his lessons. +Great course for those who are starting to learn GIS. +thanks +A good course that gives a detailed insight about GIS. +Fantastic. Would recommend to anyone. +informative +Nick Santos makes what could be a dry and tricky subject both very accessible and interesting. +is excellent!! great teacher +This course has given me a foundation to work with GIS, and the program license alone is worth more than the cost of the course. The instructor, Nick Santos, clearly loves his work, and that makes the lectures more fun to watch. +Great course. Awesome instructor. +This course gives a good overview of GIS. It helps in becoming familiar with ArcGIS software and also teaches a lot of fundamentals that can be generally applied to different GIS products as well. But looking at the expenses of using ArcGIS for commercial purposes, it would have been great had there been some sort of additional, optional demonstrations of other products.. For a small-medium business, ArcGIS doesn't seem viable at all. +Very informative! Love the format! +I really enjoyed this course. It was very thorough and I felt like I got a good grasp on the basics of GIS which was really helpful for the future courses. Definitely a great course to take if you are looking to master the basics of GIS. +Very good course to start with ArcGIS basics and to understand a bit about the basic theory aspects under Geographic Information Systems. +Wonderfully structured ! This course helped me start with GIS from scratch and walked me through up to a point when I was able to search for data, evaluate and analyze data and make my own map files.Recommend for beginners and self taught intermediates who need to grasp some core principles correctly. +Great course! I took a GIS class a couple of years ago, but have not used the software since then. It was a great refresher! +Great course! The instructor is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic and makes the material relatable to many different fields. The assignments closely align with the material and are at the appropriate difficulty level with good walkthroughs to get you started. And the final project was also appropriate for the scope of the course - very doable but took a little bit of tinkering and experimentation. +The course and the content was great, but the grading process was terrible. Will probably finish the specialization, but wish there was a better way to be graded for the money. +great course to learn about GIS +Great introductory course for persons who're interested in exploring or re-introducing themselves to Geographic Information Systems - whether in an academic or professional setting! +Really good introduction to the basics of GIS and a great refresher. +This course is very useful, the foundament topics of GIS allows us to think about all the possibilities that we can represent spatially, and the chance of automatization of this. +Its very nice course for gis +Great hands-on exercises to boost understanding and develop required skills... +I studied GIS & Remote sensing in the university, but it never became meaningful to me until now.With real world experience modified into tuition and interactive learning and practices; its just lovely.I have really got a feel of GIS and I want more of it again & again...Kudos to the team.I am much obliged !!! +Good teaching methods. Convenient for starting to get to know GIS software and sharing your map data. +The Fundamentals of GIS course is very easy to understand with the examples to practice. I am an IT professional, generally develop software solutions to store and analyse data by generating different types of reports. After learning the GIS fundamentals, I am very confident to use the GIS for most of the applications to highlight data based on location. +A really great course! I would recommend this to people who wants to know or master the basics of GIS. Thank you for this course! +I never thought, that we can make use of GIS in many different ways. This course is an eye opener. +Great course for the beginners ! +Great course! Very nice intro into GIS. Everything explained very thoroughly with visual examples and practical exercises. Many thanks to Nick Santos and University of California, Davis for creating this specialization. +Very good start to learning GIS. +I found a number of the lessons were light on content, but I have guilty knowledge having used ArcMap on and off for the past few years. A lot of the meat of this course is replicated in similar or only slightly more detail in the follow-on class in the specialization. If you have experience with GIS or Arc I would strongly recommend skipping this class and moving directly to GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality. +So far so good! I like the way the lectures and quizzes are presented. I am loving the instructor and his style. However, I have to go through the whole course before I could say how productive the course will be. Anyway, thanks a lot for the team!Thanks a lot Nick Sanots, Coursera, UC Davis and all fellow learners. I was a week late and could not complete the final assignment in time. However, the course is great! The course is medium paced, and best even for newcomers and intermediates alike. The chapters presented in the course are very productive and vivid. I simply love the course. I don't feel there is any room for improvement. Its just perfect! I love this course. Looking forward for next session of this course and next course. +Great way to learn GIS for anyone with no experience in the field/software. +Good forum to learn a lot of fundamentals on Arc GIS +Very Good for Beginners, Everything is explained in a very understandable way, the access to the program and the additional data makes it whole round. +It is Fantastic. +This course has provided a great introduction to GIS. It was easy to follow the lectures and the assignments were really fun. In this course, although being on the introduction level, we have been provided with good explanations of how GIS works and why we, for instance, press a certain button and not another. The course has given me a better understanding of different GIS functions but also the abilty to think more independently about the logic behind these functions. I'm looking forward the next course! +Excellent course. Thanks all for the oportunity +Great, I could apply most of +Very good course. It will help you to learn the basics of GIS from scratch +I really enjoyed this course, it gives you a clear introduction on GIS, and allows you to further your knowledge in other courses. +Highly recommended! +An excellent introduction to ArcGIS that builds up to a clear goal of producing professional maps for export. +Excellent course and delivered in a very professional practical. A very property of the course is that it is short and precise. By the way all courses of Coursera a very precise. +fantastic ,very helpfull +Great introduction to GIS using ArcGIS +Excellent course with step by step instruction for beginner. However the final assignment is challenging enough to summarize whatever I have learnt. +I love the course. Thank you! +Essential for anyone interested in GIS and wants to get the basics. I really learnt a lot in a short space of time at my own pace. Brilliant convenor. +Very informative and clear and the lectures are great! +An amazing course an excelent material and an excelent teacher. I would like in my country the education was as Coursera. +Well constructed, excellent course. Learned a lot. +This course is very well done. It's worth more than it costs. +If you love geography and data science, please take it and start! +I am familiar with GIS, but am completely self taught. This course taught me many little tricks and ways to make the workflow much more efficient. Loved learning about the spatial join and was able to use it immediately in my own work. +This course is a good introduction for anyone beginning to work with GIS, because it starts from the very basics. The course has a great format and content; it's one of the best I've taken on Coursera. The tutorial assignments and project are great for practicing the concepts. +Excellent course. Explanations and assignments were very clear, complete and useful. +Good intro to the subject with projects that result in finished maps. +Very well presented. Unfortunately I think the order was a bit strange. We focused on data analysis instead of basics of data generation. In an introductory course I would have liked to see a bit more what different data looks like. Vectors, rasters, etc.Some of us live and work in countries that don't have a lot of data (I'm a South African and I work in Malaysia... California, the Karroo, and Borneo have different amounts of information available). We're not learning GIS to analyse data because we don't have much data available. We're building the data...We spent too much time on rivers/watersheds. I get that hydrology is Nick's field but some us will work with cities, or population, or roads, planning farmlands - a bit of variety would be nice.The data should not be available off the Coursera page - we should have to get it off the internet so we get familiar with public data resources. The websites should have the broadest data - good regardless of what country you're in. +Thank you to keep me committed to GIS. I started four weeks ago from scratch but now I feel confident with GIS and want to learn more. +It is a great course for both the beginner and the professionals in GIS . Very friendly and easy language for the people who don't understand English much ...Satisfied in doing this course. +Excellent overview of ArcGIS +Im Loving it! +A very useful course! I am now working with the GIS, and this course really helps me to solve a plenty of problems. Thank you. +I really enjoyed the course, Nick explains the concepts in a way that transmits his energy and good vibe. The final task was a little hard, but we got almost all the tools needed to create an appropiate map. +I really liked this course - it's an introductory course but you get a real feel for the steps required to work through the whole process of GIS and by the end are able to navigate the software comfortably.The fact you can get a license for ArcGIS is really great and means you are doing not just observing. ArcGIS is quite a computationally heavy package (for my laptop anyway) but you can usually follow the video lectures with it open and follow the commands which helps the learning experience.The workload is just the right amount for an online course - not too much to do but enough to keep you busy.I will be continuing on the specialisation. +Excellent! very comprehensive and educational course. +Great course for beginners but also a great refresher for those who haven't used GIS in a while like myself. +Good introduction, also for beginners.I found it rather easy, but maybe getting more complex with the further courses in the specialisation. +I really love the course but I dont understand whether this part of the course is free or is not. +Great introduction. It provides a great tool that will enable you to present clear and very intuitive results. +Excellent content, and the assignments were great as well. Even better is that now as I work through my workflows, I now have these videos to reference if I am having difficulty with anything.Cheers! +i did not completed this course on time because of slow internet speed in my locality. I will be obliged if they give me more time to complete this course. +Excellent detail, well presented, easy to follow instructions throughout, guidance provided if needed. +I really like this course, well structured and clearly! Very useful for beginners like I. +Great course!!! +I am an Architect-Planner by profession. Was looking for this course for quite sometime. I finally found it on Coursera. I had a great time learning Fundamentals of GIS. I had never before worked in Gis though I had a very little theoretical idea. But, at the end of this course, I was able to analyse and make my own map, something I had never done before with GIS. The lectures were to the point, with most of the details covered. The assignments for practice were very helpful too. This course comes with a very helpful reading materiaI and a year long licensed version of ArcGIS too. I had a great time in taking up the quizes, and the peer reviewed final assignment. I highly recommend this course. Last but not the least, thank you Nick Santos for teaching so well! got back to class almost after 8 years and had a great time! I am sure that this will help me taking up further studies in my field. +This was a fantastic class. The instructor and those that constructed the lectures, exercises, quizzes and projects managed to put so much into very efficient, but complete packages that are really well organized. I was able to watch some on my phone, some on my tablet and many on my PC. Instruction was very clear and valuable. The exercises were great. The project at the end was challenging and interesting. I look forward to the next class in this specialization. +Great course for learning and practicing foundation skills of GIS. +Excellent course, well-explained and complete! It does need a lot of focus and practice to actually understand and master what's going on there. +It was so helpful. Thanks so much. +Such a great intro to GIS, I thoroughly enjoyed the course and would recommend. +It's a very good course. +Good course esp for the starters! +great couse! +This is an excellent introduction to GIS and ArcGIS, especially if you are a professional that needs to start learning GIS while balancing work. I am taking the entire speciality, which is really worth doing--four weeks is not enough for this field. The instructor and materials are thoughtful and clear. +Very good informative introductory class. Thanks! +Great class. Pace and content excellent. Material immediately useful. Highly recomm +very good and hight quality video , more exemple step by step i like this cousre +A good introduction to GIS focusing on the fundamental principles with a good practical element included. There is a lot to take in over four weeks so it does require plenty of time to absorb all the required learning and complete the assignment. Plenty of information and resources are provided and the lectures are clear and easily to follow. The only criticism I would have is that there is probably too much emphasis on Arc GIS, it would have been nice to learn some more about open source platforms like QGIS. +A course totally accessible to newcomers. Very clear explanations from the instructor and detailed support documents. +The best one of the courses on Coursera +This course gave me a great overview of GIS and in particular ArcGIS.Big thanks to our instructor Nick Santos, who he was excellent in explaining the conceptsand how the tool works!!I'd happily recommend this course to anyone interested in GIS. +Easy to understand overview of basic GIS concepts and how to apply them in ArcGIS. The short videos fit into a busy day and can be slipped in between work and home life. Forums are easily accessible with helpful input from the instructor as well as experienced students. Highly recommended. +The first week was a little slow, but I'm glad I stuck it out. This was very helpful and informative. The labs are invaluable practice that accompany the videos well. Thanks Nick! +This course stands true to its name. It covers all fundamental concepts of GIS and helps one become familiar with the software used by GIS specialists. The step by step instructions make the course very easy to follow. I was a little intimidated by the course content because long distance learning can be difficult as I do not have a GIS oriented study group of sorts and am now proud of the fact that I challenged myself with the course as it's just great! :) +Thank you Nick! Yes I watched all your lectures and did all the quizzes and the assignments just for fun :) +Excellent.... the course was good for the GIS beginners +The course was fantastic. I would of liked more or longer videos. +This course was perfect for just getting into GIS. I have taken a few entry level GIS courses and the videos / practical application that this course provided was some of the easiest to comprehend. Thank you for all of the material and I'm looking forward to my next class! +Well explained, informative and enjoyable - a great introduction to GIS +Great course! I've learned a lot. All lessons were understandable, professor was excellent, and most important, it was interesting and motivating. Thanks to Coursera and prof. Nick Santos. +Really good for beginners and if this course have more detailed instruction of final assignment, I would like to give five stars. +You are a marvelous teacher. It was a great learning for me +A very good starting point with great teaching style. The assignments were helpful +good course for the beginners. +Very interesting and engaging class +Excellent course. Everything is very clearly explained. +I learned a lot in a very fun way. This course is really good. +Great course. Thank you Mr Santos! +Good background course and introduction to using ARCMap. Would have been nice to have materials to follow along with the lectures, but the assignments provided a second follow along at doing what was done in the lectures. +This course (and the rest of the GIS specializations) is an excellent introduction to GIS! The teacher is great and the materials that are covered are very relevant. +Neatly explained. Excellent Courese +This specialzation is amazing. the way they teach things is fantastic. +you should consider issues to upload 54Mo data during peer review grading of last assignment.so this course was informative and well structured.thanks a lot +Thank you for providing such quality courses, simple and great explanation Nick !! :D +Very smooth and fluid introduction to the basics of the GIS field and ArcGIS software. Feel like I developed good working knowledge in a very short time. Excited to go into more depth in future courses! +Appreciated the lectures and the assignments made it possible to gain confidence in using the software. +Great teacher, didactic assignments and easy to follow instructions. +This is my First course with Coursera and I was really happy with the output. The lectures were well explained and broken into suitable bits so that it doesnt overload you. Looking forward to next week lectures. +This course is great! Make sure you try and do the assignments without the step by step directions and the end will be a breeze! +Explains the basics of what GIS and ArcGIS are and how they work. +I'm only done with week 1 of this course 'Fundamentals of GIS' and I divided the work load into two evenings. I'm a full time master student, but this way of learning is really great in combination with full-time work, study etc.Even tho it's rather late right now and I'm tired, I'm really considering to take a few more modules. The structure and the content is so exciting and really drags me into the world of GIS.The lecturer Nick Santos is really good, the pace is perfect and you are always able to go back to previous videos, documents or search the internet, ask your fellow students or the professor if something is bothering you or if you are just curious.I HIGHLY recommend this course and the specialisation aswell. +This is an excellent course for anyone starting with GIS. It covers all the bases you need to know to make your first map and share it with the world. It also in the way covers the most important thing in GIS : making selection.The course is well structured and easy to follow. I highly recommend this course +i learned so many thing in this course.Thanks to Nick and to everyone who made this possible. +Great!Very intuitive videos, instructions quite clear, simple analysis tools and powerful data. Optimal level of proposed work. Excellent material and literature, many communities and help information. +Excellent course. Learned a lot of things about fundamentals of GIS. Thanks to Nick Santos, UC Davis and Coursera Community. +Very structured and organize Course , You will have a great time learning with Nick Santos ! +Great course with engaging material and enthusiastic and experienced instruction. The materials, lectures, assignments, extras, links, etc. were excellent. Only two negative aspects occurred. The first was the initial lack of materials with which to follow the instructors as they went through various processes in ArcMap in their lectures. However, this was remedied quickly and materials were provided. The second was the instructional material for the week 2 assignment, which lacked the step-by-step detail and polish of the assignments from other weeks. This may have been due to the course being new and somewhat unrefined. Overall, the course was extremely helpful and well worth the time and money. I intend to continue on and complete the entire specialization. +Excellent course with good lectures and examples. +a very great course for anything thinking a GIS career +I really enjoyed this course. Very useful and easy to understand the instructor's speech. If you're new to GIS, this course is where you should start. Highly recommended!! +cool! +Very thorough course with a great instructor. There are a few tweaks that I think would make the course even better - for example providing examples in the lectures that can be followed along at home. At the end of the day I can functionally use ArcGIS and understand many of the basic concepts to be able to apply GIS technology in my career. +I like the class. But It will be most useful if the student can use the same data than the instructor and follow instruction step by step. +Although it is not yet over, I would like to rate this course. I think the course structure is very good and the contents are very useful. I like the way it works. As well, I would like to thank the instructor, Mr. Nick Santos and all the team, since the explanations are great (besides, as a non-native English speaker, I could understand everything without any problem). +Excellent modules, excellent teaching, excellent moderation and responsiveness from the tutor. I was not expecting this quality. Really good! +Very easy to understand all the topics and the examples, I love the course, it's very useful +This is extraordinary Course for all of us seeking GIS training. It is clear, understandable even for foreigners with limited knowledge of English. I like exercises which are well developed and lead us through the software. +Great course, right what I needed as I use with statistics and econometrics in development issues, but I needed to add the "spatial" element.I would give the 5th star, if the slide of the lessons were availablethanks! +This is a fantastic course! +Nick does a great job at using lab examples, providing data that makes it easy to follow along. Looking forward to the rest of this specialization. +It is very interesting course, everything understandable. Nick is excellent teacher. +The lectures were very easy to follow and easy to understand even for ArcGIS beginners like me. Kudos! +Crippleware if you don't +Now I can learn what I was not able to choose for my elective. +Great content +I think this course has a lot of value, but when I started these course I was unaware I would need a few hundred more dollars and did not budget for such things. +Great learning. +It was good to get to work on an individual project at the end of the specialization. The requirements for the capstone were unclear as the videos present a huge project compared to the 4 weeks, 3-5 hours per week commitment indicated for this capstone and there is talk of self-sustainability for the solution etc. that ultimately is not in the review criteria.Applying common sense and scoping the project to the commitment does work out to a good learning by doing experience. +Having to pay before you take the course is really disappointing. Not many students to interact with because of this. Course was very basic also. Not worth the money. Coursera offers many quality courses which are much better than this one. +This course gives a great overview of the aspects concerning ethics you have to keep in mind while working with social media. This course has helped me to get a better grip on issues like privacy and accessibility. It says that reading the articles will take you 10 minutes, it took me an hour. I loved the variety of tutorials, interviews, assignments, readings etc. I would have preferred that my final assignment was reviewed by the professor himself. +All users are good at using social Media but they don't really understand the SM Ethics. Thanks to this course to give us the world view on SM Ethics. Love the course +This course was really interesting and informative. I enjoyed how policy and innovation in technology were woven into the explanation of rising importance of health informatics and how FHIR could potentially transform interoperability. +This course is a good introduction to Health Informatics and medical standards. I was searching for more information about FHIR but it was great anyway. +It is great program for those who want to understand the way in which data is manage and the different ways it affects the health system . +found this course by searching in Coursera.met my expectation, especially the first week introduction of incentives, structure, problems, and roles of IT. +This course was amazing.It helped me understand the concepts behind the terms and technologies I help to develop in my day to day work.Thank you +the course is very informative if you need to learn about FHIR. +Great learning program +Great course as an overview of health informatics. +Its a very informative course, and It would have been better If some in depth insights of FHIR and Big Data Analytics and their mechanism at technical level was explained. Overall, Its been a great platform for beginners on Health Informatics, and it very well explained American healthcare module at a high level.Note: There were some spelling mistakes in sub-titles. +Nice introductory course giving a overview from a comprehensive perspective. It focuses on USA but can be suitable for many countries. There are no practical activities. Very good teacher. +Great course from a high level overview perspective. I was interested in a more technical course related to FHIR and it's application in the industry. +Its a good course to begin with FHIR Technology . But I expected more technical detailing in the course module.... +great course +Very good intro to Health Informatics! +This very good course to understand minute details of the topic easily. +Loved this course. Prof Braunstein explained the course content very well and passionately. The video of guests and topics discussed was quite helpful. +Very well done. Great overview of American health care system including the pros and cons, benefits and complexities. I'm loving this! +Terrific course! +Even the quizzes make you think. +Excellent course, well planned and delivered. Professor very knowledgeable and skilled in his presentations. +Exceptional. The information is relevant, the topics presented well and the additional reference articles interesting.I suppose I should have taken the time to retake the tests to get 100% but who has time?Thank you! +a very good intro but i feel it may do with more detail +Informative but did not really feel like it was of any use. +Does a fine job of discussing the U.S. healthcare system. Further, did a fine job of explaining the potential of FHIR for the U.S. healthcare system. +Great intro class to healthcare informatics +Great to know about the FHIR. +A superb course to take. Well presented, informative and logically structured. It was interesting for me as I learned about the US health care system and the way adoption and future use of the EHR is driven. I found it fascinating to compare my experience with the UK's NHS Quality and Outcomes Framework with the US methods. I was also surprised to find that Implied Consent is not defined, particularly with referrals. I would highly recommend this course. +Well presented and informative! +Very informative, detailed, and straight to the point. Wonderful class. +Really enjoyed this lecturer, the organization and presentation of the field and gave me some ideas to explore. I enjoyed this course much better than the Univ of Minnesota one if you are looking at both. I have the perspective of a medical health professional that is involved clinically. +very good course, what interesting to me is the elaboration on the real world applications during this course. +Great course +Nice and updated overview on Health IT. Just a general intro to some FHIR aspects :-) +Would be great to have the slides available for reference. Also, future iteration may consider going a bit deeper. I loved the examples given in the course. Many thanks! +This was a great course as an introduction to the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. Hopefully it is followed up with a more technical course. The only thing I don't care for with FHIR is they pronounce it 'Fire' which smacks of cheesy marketing. Nonetheless, the course is worth it, and the instructor is very clear and thorough. +Really interesting and useful introduction to big data in healthcare. Big data in healthcare is on the verge of revolutionizing how we provide care in future while focusing on meaningful outcomes. This course provides you with a pretty decent background. The presentation itself is a little 'choppy' and heavy in informatics lingo, but the instructor does a great job and maintains interest. I will highly recommend this course to anyone who is 'curious' about big data in healthcare. +The best lector! +Its a good course for starters. I was looking for more hands on FHIR when i took this course. I would be delighted to join a hands on FHIR course +This course is brief, well designed and brimming with information. Completing the course is a perfect way for anyone involved in healthcare to get up to speed with the importance of health informatics in achieving the Institute of Medicine's vision for safe, effective and affordable healthcare. +Very informative but at times too technical +Excellent course and great materials on UHC, epidemiological transition and the impact of population ageing on sustainably financing and delivering quality health services for all. I also very much appreciated the very informative sessions presenting the experience of Japan. +Very good course.. +Extremely clear and comprehensive explanations of the latest developments of global health. The insights on the Japanese public health experiences that the rest of the world should learn from were very interesting. Thank you very much for offering this Public Health Policy course. +very difficult to follow the lectures due to the heavy accent +I truly enjoyed the videos, readings, and assignments given. Dr. Mire's work is so critical and has inspired me to challenge myself and the field to be more inclusive. +One of the finest courses dealing with heritage and its conservation. +This course had taught me a lot and offered amazing insight views about heritage worldwide. It broadened my previous (minor) knowledge about cultural and archaeological heritage. I would highly recommend this course to those interested in the topics of heritage! +The course started a month late, when it finally started it was boring. I can' believe i paid for the certificate. Despite paying for it i'm not going to bother completing it. +nice course with good information! +Very knowledgeable and insightful discussions. +Inappropriate rating was done for me. +Nowhere near as useful as the first two courses. The assignment did not feel particularly relevant to the bulk of the course materials. +Great course. Thank you. +Good course. +Please open capstonr course soon +Great course, actually quite difficult, and good to get it finished and realise I've actually learnt a lot from having to do the assignment. +Best of the specialization!!!!!! Amazing instructor, mentors and course material!!! +great course, seems to provide a bunch of real world applications! +The instructor is very knowledgeable and has a great way of transmitting such complex concepts. The course syllabus is great! +Great value! Excellent overview of GIS-based analysis +Thanks for a very interesting course! +The presenter is very knowledgeable and very pleasant. Also the content of the course is an unique find and of a great value! +Yes for sure +Well organized course +Great course. Awesome instructor. +Very Helpful. +Very challenging and Fantastic! +Very helpful. I learned a lot! +I Love every thing about GIS & Coursera +I really think that this course is the best specialization already available online. I didn't regret to pay for a certificate. +This +Whilst the material in the course is fine (although repetitious in places), the pacing is fairly poor.Ultimately, there are three things covered by this course: a brief overview of remote sensing, hands-on raster classification and hands-on work with Model Builder work (using hydrology as an example framework). These then combine into the final submitted assignment. Many of the remaining lecture topics don't particularly link in to anything you'll be doing and are just "for interest's sake". Also, a lot of time is spent on the more intuitive aspects of Model Builder, but little to none is allotted to troubleshooting and the less intuitive aspects (for example, how to incorporate variables throughout a model or other issues with generalising a custom tool built within Model Builder).If taking the course, be aware that the final submitted assignment requires formulating your own research question and unless you're already working in the field, can necessitate a significant amount of literature review for even the given example research questions. The gap in expectations and assistance is more of a chasm.Unless you have the better part of a week free to commit to the course, it is advised that you skip ahead to the final assignment immediately and spread it over the full four weeks, spending the first week formulating the question, the second producing the classified raster and the third the model builder model, including any research necessary for this step. This gives the last week to produce products for submission or continue the work from the third week.Hopefully in upcoming repeat sessions of the course, pacing will be improved, the grading rubric provided before final submission for the sake of transparency and clarity, and a little more guidance and actual feedback available in the forums, which are largely deserted at this point. +An excellent and thorough course. I learned a lot. +Another great course from Nick Santos. I am a GIS novice and it has made me feel confident with starting analysis of my own. +Very suitable for my GIS career +This is one of the most valuable courses, the videos and the readings were great benefits to me as an HR professional and as a candidate as well.I recommend that everyone who needs to pass the interviews to enroll and watch this course! +Great content! Very practical and useful. +It's very helpful. Thank +This is an interview Swiss-army knife and can be used equally effectively by candidates as well as those who interview candidates. +It is a great course +One of the best courses available for non European law students, lawyers, businessmen or anybody else who wants to know and learn about European Union business law. It gives you a brief overview of European Union fundamental law in the field of business. I highly recommend you to study all three parts of the course. Thank you Lund University. Thank you Coursera. +I truly enjoy doing this MOOC, some terms were a bit difficult to understand at first. However, after reading and watching the materials provided carefully and repeated. I started understanding the subject better and liked it as a result. I will try the other two courses on European Business Law (Understanding the Fundamentals & Doing Business in Europe) provided by Lund University and Coursera.My sincere gratitude and appreciationPeter HuamanStudent from the Netherlands +Good content and information! +Although this version was much easier than the first edition, it was much easier to follow and provides a much more solid foundation for those new to the subject. +Great course for all people that desires to work in Sports Industry. All Brazilian Confederations and Federations MUST take this course in order to transform amateur behavior into a new perspective. Unfortunalety Brazil is behind most countries in all areas specially in sports due to this kind of amateur people running organizations. God Bless America, thanks for show the world how to do Professionals Sports. God Save Brazil, lack of legacy. Sports Management is for PROs, not for amateurs. +Enjoyed going through the course and learnt the foundation of the guitar thank you coursera and thanks a lot Sir Thaddeus Hogarth for making it so simple. +it is amazing for learning the very fundamentals of the guitar. +Great! +That's a great course! I learned scales, pentatonics and how it is related to chords shapes. The assignments are very interesting and useful. +Well instructed and paced out properly. The second half gets more interesting and challenging. +Great course +I really enjoyed this course! Nice structure and excellent lessons by Professor Hogarth. +It is very good course to learn basics about guitar. +Super coaching!! +very good course to start playing on guitar +Very good course! +The videos are very informative. The only setback is the pacing. It is much too fast for a complete beginner. +intuitive for beginners. +T. Hogarth is a brilliant instructor! period! I was able to grasp and apply the concepts much faster than I would have with a private tutor.Thanks a lot. +it was ok but 5ara +I liked the course overall. One star less for the duration and content alignment. It would have been much helpful if the content was spread over for a longer time period as a week wasn't enough to finish many assignments esp for beginners. +A very nice well-rounded intro to guitar.The amount of work really rises towards the end, but it does pay off.The only issue I have is with this course is the barre chords. They are dumped nonchalantly on the learners and we're just expected to pick them up. This part is very hard on the beginners. +Very easy to understand and I recommend it to all new guitar learners. +Really great course for reviewing fundamentals! I highly recommend it! +Excellent introduction to guitar. Well presented practical instruction with good advice regarding practice and further development. +Great elaborate starting point or refresher to guitar fundamentals! +Great course and teacher. The beginning seems to be too easy for somebody who studied music before or already plays guitar at least to some extend, but this can be skipped if required (i.e. one can just pass the tests) and then there is a whole bunch if interesting information starting.The end of the course may be quite difficult for absolute beginners, but if you practice you'll get there or, otherwise, nobody will blaim you if you deliver it a bit later.Good luck and thanks to coursera and the teacher! +totally awesome. would redo this course over and over again +Perfect for absolute beginners! With a bit of practice, practice and practice. +Good course, but a bit too fast. Deadlines are too soon for the real begginers +I really liked it! Teacher is great and material is pretty acheavable. I'm glad I made it through. Now I know more! Thanks Coursera! +This is a wonderful class. The teacher is very skillful in Guitar and very patient as well. At first I thought it is a very easy class so I choose it as my first MOOC class and I hope I can finish it in a short time. Insteadly I had made some mistakes before my classmate pointed it out and I am really benifit through this class. Many basic knowledge of guitar are produced and some of them is I've not learned before. +Great teacher +This course helped me fill in important gaps for my guitar playing +Excellent course, even for people that already play the guitar as a beginner +fantastic course although i am registered blind and have hearing impairment i am able to pick up a lot o useful information and i have to say i am making slow but steady steps. +I loved the experience and how simplified it was. Great! +This course is excellent. +Excellent course, very useful and didactic. High recommend!. +Great introduction to the world of guitar playing, which covers some basics and gives young musicians the essential foundation for future progress. Thanks for this course! +I expected something a little more faced paced from Berklee. But it was still good. +Had a great time participating in the class. I am happy I was able to upload samples and get feedback. +Great classes by great instructor. Sir explains things to a begginnner in such a fashion that no doubts arises and the lecture is really crisp and clear +I want to learn everything! +Great introduction to guitar, before this course I already played acoustic guitar but with this course I've got many techical info I didn't know, e.g. on guitar positions and scales +Thank you so much ,,, just my english not so good and google not help good ,,,pest regards coursera and teacher +Great course for beginners. Highly recommended. Great teacher, too. +Indeed a very useful course on Guitar. Thank you edX ! +Very useful and interesting +Excellent! Very high quality for an introductory course. Absolutely recommendable. +It's very helpful! +like the way he teaches +Great job. +I have tried to learn guitar through regular classes with three music schools before. But have never been able to find it taught this simplified yet detailed. Kudos to our teacher. The playing gets so much easier when we know the logic. I feel more eager to take my instrument which has been lying in a corner for more than a year now. I just hope i would be able to enough time to practice and stay in touch with the instrument i love. Thanks coursera and Berklee college for this wonderful course and thanks sir for making me feel so much at ease with my guitar.. +Great course! +Wonderful class. +Aswm course +Great course! Just wish I had the time necessary to dedicate to do well in it. +This is the first online course I take on music and gotta say it was really great. I have some basics on guitar but the theory was never given to me. I just followed. Now I am able to read basic music sheets and even though i still need more practice to fully understand everything the information will still be online. Thank you and keep it up with the great course. +i like this course very much the technique of teaching is simple and effective +Outstanding course! I was an absolute beginner and knew nothing about the guitar or how to play it. I now feel that I have great understanding and a strong foundation to build upon. It starts out fairly easy and takes you step by step through everything you need to know but builds quickly and takes lots of practice to become proficient with each of the lessons, especially if you've never played and instrument before. The biggest benefit from the class is that I know feel comfortable that I have sufficient knowledge that I can continue to develop my skills at my own pace using various on-line resources. +This is a very good class! Assignments get progressively challenging - especially the final lessons but this is what I wanted. Plan on putting in extra time and getting sore fingers. The videos are some of the most professional productions I have seen! +Great music course deserves spreading! +Too many bugs with Coursera. Issues occur with submissions. System indicates submissions were successfully submitted. Then when you log back in it indicates your assignment is over due. Now I can't +As a recent electrical engineer graduate in search of something different from my life's work, picking up the guitar was more than worth while, and this course was more than supplementary to that decision. Thaddeous young was great at introducing me to chords +I'm really glad to make part of this course and learn what I always dreamed to learn +Really hands-on and handy course for anyone who is a guitar beginner. Since I am a pianist. So I know all the musical theory parts. I didn't spend a lot of time on that. But all the other stuff are really useful. Thanks so much! +I love this course +I have been playing for many years but there is always things to learn or re-learn. I did both during this excellent course. Hogarth goes at a moderate speed. Especially helpful was the fact Mr. Hogarth speaks slowly and clearly. How nice! +The course is very good and get students familiar with basics of guitar very well. +The first few weeks are truly beginner/intro course stuff and the entire course is well taught. However, weeks 4-7 ramp up at far too fast of a pace. I spent 8-10 hours every week trying to keep up and it just moved too fast. The instructor was doing things at breakneck speed with little explanation. It gets very discouraging by the end because you simply can't play the material. I think this course is really for people who are re-learning guitar or already have musical backgrounds. +So far, I have been enjoying this course and I don't regret taking it. This course has helped me learning a lot of skills in Guitar. It's a course that anyone should take to know better about Guitar and the lecturer is friendly and understandably good. I know more, I learn more, and I love it more! +Easy to follow for begginers. +Great music theory! +Great material, great teacher, it was a pleasure taking this course. +This is a great course. Gentle on the beginner but very robust content. +This course is great, I learned a player, I never had played. +The course is really basic but the instructor is good. I liked the idea to submit the exercises and count on other students to review it, however, its a little bit annoying the exercises. +Great course for a guitar beginner! +Really good course +Excelent!! It Gives you all the necesary tools about theory and practice for the initiation on the guitar. +Great Course !! Awesome Experience... +I` m a zero on guitar, but I can keep up with the course, and I can feel my improvement. +Every week, it becomes harder and harder and I love it. I am also teaching this course to my brother so we can play guitar together. +Nice job but somewhat slow in presentation and lumbering. The playing on recording to other students for grades is way too cumbersome. Outside of the necessary downloads, recordings, playback the course was presented well and scales and position playing were particularly helpful and clear. Position playing is not as easy as one might perceived and the Instructor did a commendable job elaborating and in particular explaining how the information can be used to be creative and improvise.The reason not a 5 is that the grading is cumbersome and time-consuming to set up +Excellent, thorough, well presented course, with great assignments. Seems perfect, if a little fast paced for a complete novice. +Easy to understand.Helpful for new guitar learners! +It's my second enrollment in this course and I'm having again so much fun learning about the guitar.Great teacher, excellent course content. I highly recommend it! Thank you Berklee.Can't wait for an advanced guitar course ! +i like this though i did not finished it +Overall, this course is excellent for both beginners and slightly experienced folks - or people wanting a beginning refresher. By the end of the 6th week, if you've practiced and turned in your assignments, you'll have the calluses and knowledge to keep plinking out tunes from the tabs you can find on the Interweb. Prof Hogarth's videos are easy to watch and helpful. The community of users and TAs is friendly and helpful, too. +Great course for learning the theory and techniques. It's difficult to master the new techniques/theory in only a week, but it builds a great foundation. After completing this course, the students should understand that there's still a lot of practice and time that needs to be put in, if playing fluently and effortlessly are the end objectives. I thoroughly enjoyed this course and plan on continuing to build upon what I learned. +Very good foundation knowledge for beginner :) +I loved your guitar course. It was well thought out. I will continue to work on the exercises you've given us. +Videos are well done. Starts out slow so you don't have to have any experience. +very usef +Professor Hogarth will build your confidence as you learn to play guitar. +Thank you Thadeus - wish you kept going! You are a great teacher, I'd do any course you taught. :) +Great for absolute beginners and those with some experience alike. Thaddeus Hogarth is an excellent instructor. I learned a lot. +Very good course which bring you into basics of music theory as well as how does it work on the guitar. Very recommended! +I found this course very Informative and it took me from knowing nothing to having a knowledge that can be built on. T Hogarth presented the course in a way even I could understand .All in all a course well worth taking +Only and best in its class +I love this course +Great course, now I understand what the pentatonic scale really is and the chromatic scale. Some of the Peer Reviews could crush you but this is the place to be a student and make mistakes. I made my first iPhone Garageband multi track for this course. Thanks Thadeus Hogarth and Berklee. +Cool! +It's OK +love thad!great course for beginners and experienced players looking to hone their skills +very basic, very clear, very good suggestions. +Well structured course content. Unfortunately, I am not able to do all the practical sessions on time :( +A clear and comprehensive introduction to guitare. +Wonderful introduction to guitar! Thaddeus takes the pace slow and explains concepts clearly. +more than a terrific tool to take the guitar without previous experience and finishing with the availability of playing songs, riffing and witha arpegees +good course and deadlines to keep us in track,but barre chords must be given more time to learn,and the course materials many are in just videos , please try to formulate all all the tab notations in pdfs as few were just in videos +good, good, good!proper balance between the theory and practice +Perfect to start playing the guitar. Totally recomended. +Awesome Course! +Finally... I'm learning guitar! +I'm enjoying creating my own music! +While it is a great course for all beginners to the Guitar, the only problem that I see is the grading system that is absolute loony. It is left to other students to grade it and that may or may not show up to be graded by other students. If it is not shown up to be graded by other students then you are left grade-less for that assignment hence leaving you unable to complete this course and you cannot receive your certificate or completion letter. +i really would like to take this course but do not have access to an instrument at this time. just wanted to say that it looks really good and in no way am i unenrolling due to how the course is perceived, i just cannot get a guitar to use at this time. thank you. :( +The tasks are easy to perform. An advanced course , which also requires scores is needed. The revisions are not made by the tutor. +Simple and available for the first step is suitable. +very clear and step-by-step instruction. Thanks for your efforts! +Thanks for everything....would you think a second course???? +Excellent so far I'm learning lots. I course delivered at good pace. plenty of practice and theory is good tio +Thaddeus is adept at touching on the very basic essentials of the guitar--electric and acoustic. I personally have learned so much from him. He's smart in his approach, articulate, and makes it so anyone of any skill level can learn how to play. Before, I always believed learning an instrument was such a daunting and insurmountable task, but with this course I find myself wondering why I never decided to take up guitar in the first place! That beings said, there are few caveats I will insert here which will explain why I gave it 4/5 stars: (1) This is an introductory course in its purest form. What do I mean by that? Well, if you have any prior knowledge of the guitar (as I had), you will find the beginning to be very, verrry slow. You will soon discover that you are not as "beginner" as you initially thought yourself to be. Hence, you will likely be frustrated, almost insulted by the seemingly obvious information being told to you. (2) Peer f*ing reviews: the the bane of my existence. Well, that's not entirely true. To be fair, they can sometimes be very helpful, but come on, to have to sit and evaluate five, fiiiiiiiive people's homework assignments can take away a pretty sizable portion of your day you didn't necessarily plan on allotting. I suppose it is a necessary evil, but to me it's just evil. A dreaded nuisance, in my opinion. (3) This class is metronome-friendly-centric-heavy. I'm not a metronome person, myself, and I never will be, even after all the times I felt like I was trying to be converted into one. It works for some, but not me..... In conclusion, please do not allow these thoughts to waver your decision on whether to take the course, but instead just be mindful of them. Take them with a grain of salt. My experience with the course may not be your experience. If you are committed to learning the guitar, this is a fabulous course to take that will, in fact, teach you a great deal of what you need to know. I'm only on Week 6, but I'm excited to be moving forward and gaining even more knowledge! +Love this Course cause it gives you everything you need to work and prepare yourself. +I was looking for a course for a basic learner, this is not. I feel it very complicate and not friendly for a person with 0% guitar skills. +nice teaching +Great course +It seems more like a weekend lesson than a well prepared course, I mean, it looks that it had little preparation and too much improvisation, therefore, it should be a FREE (ar at least cheaper) certificate due the quite poor planning and execution. +I really helped to create an understanding of my instrument and music in general +Extremely good in taking a beginner and getting them on their way into guitar. +Amazing :) Really beneficial and really great. Clears all the basic and makes me excited and inspired to learn how to play guitar :) +It's the best first approach to the world of guitar +One of the best courses by Berklee College of Music +I really enjoyed the course. I felt some quizzes were too hard for the material previously covered and required several attempts. +This is a guitar class, done with class. Loved the teacher, Thaddius. After taking this class I got a job at a church playing guitar. This class increased my income by thousands a year. +Very nicely arranged course. Simple enough for beginners to follow and the well spaced deadlines keep you glued and dedicated. Loved the course. Feeling inspired to move on to an advanced course on guitar! :) +I learned quite a bit from this instructor in a short period of time. He has a way of explaining things that really makes it sink in. The one thing I would change is not to have so many chords to learn in one week toward the end of the class. I would add a few weeks to the course. +The course is very good! Amazing how the elements are covered and explained. The only thing I missed was more exercises, more scales to practice. +Very good course for begginers.But just for begginers +very well explained , and highly practical approach.... +It is good to get started through this course. But the material could have been more clear. +this is the best class to lear guitar i have got lear guitar rally nicely thanx +very cool as guitar studying should be! THX +Awesome intro to guitar playing +Lots of good information. Perfect for beginners and for pros. I +Excellent. However I do not know why I can not get something like confirmation after I finished the course. +Very good! This course give you a solid introduction to the world of guitar. Easy to follow, clear explanations and examples. I strongly recommend it (and look forward hearing from the next one!) +This is a good beginner's course, with clear instructions guiding the student along a progressive path. I'm not convinced that the peer review system is of much use at this level. +While the course is definitely very good and thorough, the difficulty of each week is raising exponentially. First just learn one chord shape... then learn some picking techniques... then a small set of obscure and rarely used scales... and then suddenly a HUGE bunch of open chords, movable chords, power chords and a song too! Of course you got to play it all sounding nice and even like a metronome or your peers will pull your score down heavy. Maybe I'm not the most gifted guitarist, but I really felt like the learning curve here was just unfairly steep. I'm still giving the course 4 stars, because the material is still really good, but if you are beginner, be prepared to take it twice. +Very good corse!!! +The teacher is so considerable for us, he mentioned about some difficulties we might faced with during the guitar learning period. It's so useful, because we can prepare ourselves mentally to face these kinds of problems. Thanks a lot. +Good coverage of fundamentals with a hands-on approach +Fantastic course. Learning a lot, will dive deeper into the berklee courses for sure, very high quality material. +It's great, but I wish there was more in it. +I love it !!! +If you want to see big improvements in your guitar playing, then enroll in this course. The course is well-suited for beginners with or without prior knowledge of the guitar. Everything that you need to know to jumpstart your guitar playing will be discussed in this course. Major takeaways from this course are the beautiful pieces and exercises that will help you have a focused practice session. +Well structured, hope theres more guitar courses out there with more advanced topics, plz do consider making one, will be waiting :) +This is an in depth guitar course that takes the beginner through what gear to purchase, to playing techniques, and hands on guitar experience. From notes to scales and chords to songs, if you want to learn how to play the guitar, this course is highly recommended. +Thanks I really enjoyed this course and I've learned a lot! +the best course so far for me +I got a lot of knowledge from this course and I will continue learning more about guitar . And very thanks to tutor. +Excellent training, i want to take anothers like this. +Great course for those whose to start learning guitar. Its all the basics you need (Chords, Scales etc.) +very complete +great course,very enlightening and educational and fun as well +Great! +really enjoyed this class, learned a lot and gained confidence! +Great course. Very effective teaching and relative topics. +Excelent pace, depth and... rithm! :-) +I was unable to complete the course, however, the sections that I did engage were very helpful and well designed for motivated beginning guitarists. +Excellent aproach to the Guitar!!! +I like the flow of the lessons. The videos are well-recorded and edited in a way that presents the lessons with smooth transitions. Explanations are clear and detailed enough for an introductory course. Demonstrations on playing a guitar are well done. I truly enjoy the course. +Really enjoyed this course and the people who participated. Thank you. +It's being great to follow this course. It's inspiring me to learn how to play and to learn a little more by myself. Very complete course. +Great introduction! +Great teacher, excellent videos and great topics. +Great Course! thanks to Berklee College of Music to give this to any interested human being on earth! +So far this course is amazing! The teacher is phenomenal and will most defiantly help me with my guitar. Within the first week I have realized that there is so much more to a guitar than just the guitar, the picks, and the case. I recommend this course for anyone looking on information on the guitar. +Very good course and teacher, specially about notations and staff and. +The best online course that I have been. Excellent teacher and plataform. +I really enjoy this course. Everything is so clear. +Musical syllabus is challenging, but yields rewarding accomplishment upon completion of the course.There is insufficient staff monitoring and student support during the course. Be aware that you should be proficient in recording your music on your pc including being able to integrate chords and melodies of the same piece into one recording.Newbies to guitar need to begin finger flexibility and strengthening exercises before starting the course as it will be difficult to keep up with the course and the required practice time if you are struggling with finger soreness and fatigue. +It's a useful course for me to learn guitar systematically. +It would have been good to have more assignments using more complex songs and asking for students to try soloing. +Very Good!!!! Excellent +This is just what it says it is...an intro to guitar. Enjoy! +Great course! +i love this course +Dear Friends,I really enjoyed this course, specially the way "Thaddeus Hogarth" teach the course, It is unbelievably strong and master piece.Thanks a lot "Thaddeus Hogarth"God bless you +The studiant do himself the teacher. +i love this course +Reasonable arrangement for entry level. Strongly recommended. +easy to learn!!!I like it so much!!! +Excellent course for those who are beginning to play the guitar and initiating their experiments on the world of music! +I get it once, and I am doing a review now.This college is awsome, this course too.Maybe someday I will be there! +A very informative course. I realized that I still got LOTS to learn to things that I love to do. The teacher is great. Teaching made easy. No need to pay expensive sessions. Salute to coursera and Berklee! +Great course!! +Great course!Very intuitive and clear.Thanks professor Thaddeus Hogarth. +I simply love this course...It's is so easy to understand everything you need to know about a guitar....Thanks a lot ! +love this course give a basic understanding of Guitar +Excellent course so long as you have the time to put in some practice. +I love this course, the instructor is teaching from the basics and nicely in a easy and simple to understand language +It is incredibly interesting! I enjoy it a lot! +Great Lessons! +I like this course. I would like other similar about guitar. Thanks +Interesting professor. I am learning and having a lot fun +loved it, I took guitar lessons when I was a kid and hated it. this course made it fun! it took the mystery out of it so I can see the big picture and got me playing the guitar +Thadeus is very patient sounding and doesn't rush and explains things completely. Practicing really helps you keep up with the class. +concept clearing and building strong enough! +Very good course! +Cool +Excellent course for beginners with ambitions. +Very good introduction course which will put you on solid path of playing guitar :) +I'm new to learning guitar. This is a great mix of information and practicing. Love his method of teaching and what I've learned. Very well done. +Simply the best. +A nice introduction to playing guitar +Just what i needed to have a better understanding of guitar theory +Nicely Introduced.. +Though I have learned guitar for many years. This intro course still inspired me and give me a lot of important basic guitar knowledge. After this course, I think I can go futher in my guitar. Hope soon will have futher course for high level. : ) +Great course - thanks! +sample to learn,very good! +A procrastinator gets his power. +I like the way he teaches the basic. +Content was a good range of beginner to more advanced. As a guitarist of 7 years I have learned a lot more that will help me advance my guitar playing. +i always wanted to be a student of Berklee!!! finally it happened!! +So glad to renew my knowledge about playing a guitar. +all my argument against learning a skill like guitar or piano from watching videos was defeated after i've viewed this course +Excellent precision. Great teacher...! Not the one who rushes through to complete the lessons in a hurry but he really takes it slow and makes it very understanding for slow learners and beginners.I love coursera...! Great innovation. Awesome work! Keep it up guys..!Also Berklee college of music, thank you for making thousands of distressed and unlucky students(for various reasons) be a part of your great culture of music and valuable teaching.Hats off!!! +very good understanding of guitar +About: First Lessons contain some Interface/Questionnaire errors.Hi, I reckon it's a tad too early to rate this course since it is only going to start - but I didn't see another option to contact the Course Administrator other than trough the rating process.When going through the introduction of this course, there were multiple errors in the Quizzes/Q&A's. EG: On a question with 1 correct answer, the solution page would also show the clearly wrong answers as "correct" (or "correct, well done"). There were several examples like this. It was only a bit confusing at start (this is my very first course on Coursera, maybe it's common thing to happen.)There was also no option in these videos to thumb-up or -down vote, or to report a problem, like I had seen on other courses.In my opinion the videos were well spoken and easy to understand, and they included everything one could think of when first considering to start playing the guitar. Only the beginning of the first video had a slight feeling of "Ok, I'm a bit annoyed to do this now" but that could easily be a misinterpretation or a strategy to capture interest. ;-)I do believe it's a good thing that T. shows all the possible extra's one can buy for a guitar, half of which no guitar player I know owns and which, all together would cost almost as much a beginner guitar, but I believe he omitted that guitar strings generally live longer when you clean the strings with a cloth where you touched them after playing. That's a good maintenance practice if you cannot afford to buy 2 sets of strings every month.Maybe a good addition would be that guitars/instruments can also be rented for relatively cheap, instead of having to spend 500-1000 before even knowing what to look (listen) for when buying a guitar.To me the questions until now were a bit too easy but that's Ok. I might be studying with people half my age so that's fine. Especially the first questions should not be frightening but at least tickle your brain "a little bit" instead of just repeating a word from the video.Thank you very much for your consideration. I look forward to study with you (all) !Sincerely, Xavier Weydert +Good introduction to basic guitar and musical concepts such as chord diagrams, tabs, musical notation. Good video lectures and challenging (for beginners) exercises after each lesson. Recording device of some type is required, even if as simple as a computer microphone and audacity. +This is a complete intro guitar course! Every detail is showed... there's no excuses, and only one direction: learn! +This course is very good!Congratulations!Roberto Afonso! +Perfect for beginners! +Great course! +simple and fun +just started so tryen to get a hang of it ill rate better later if i like it but my minds tellen me that im going to be rating you guys 5 stars later in the futer +I would like to read a quiz in spanish that's all. +very good framework to understand and build teams but also with very actionable tools in a day-by-day job reality +Some excellent insights, albeit a bit too superficial in my view. Would have loved to see some concepts explored more in depth +I just completed week one and can already say that this course is going to help me a lot! I work as a Healthcare Quality Manager and one of my challenges is always how do I get people engaged and excited about the rules, regulations and standards that I'm trying to enforce. The course is very specific as to how to build high-performing teams and the pace is such that it's not overwhelming. +An excellent course for those who strive to speak more confidently and professionally. +Awesome course in Public Speaking from Dr. Matt McGarrity and same awesomeness level! This is the second course in this specialization out of four and I am going to finish them all.I recommend this course to everyone regardless you activity, job and lifestyle! +Very informative and well structured course! +Excellent course! I now feel completely competent in using ArcGIS. +A good course with clear instructional materials and excellent presentation. However the reason it does not get 5 stars is that when I signed up to the GIS specialisation in April 2016 I was led to believe that course instructors would review my capstone project. Indeed, this was one of the incentives for me in signing on to the specialisation. I realise that with the number of students undertaking the course this did not become very practical, so that the capstone project was peer reviewed instead. I found this somewhat disappointing though as the feedback gained was often quite limited and it reduced the value of the Certificate. +This course, this whole specialization, was extremely challenging and at times frustrating but also rewarding and very thorough in what it covers in GIS. Further, Nick Santos is an outstanding professor who gives the necessary time to students! +Great... +this course is fabulous ,working on gis project is an important thing that i have learned from this course +Great class! It was very helpful to bring all of my new skills together for one final project. +Great class, helpful professor and admin!Definitely scratched the core of arcGIS, and will be doing more analysis in the future! +i loved participating in this course. I really learned a lot. :) thank you +Very resourceful course for those who want to learn GIS. +Great class! Absolutely enjoyable!! +nice chemical course for beginners +Thank you for this course! It was very engaging. The instructor's explanations were clear and the demonstrations were excellent. +There were some errors in the video playback, one entire lesson near the end seemed like it was skipped. +I only wish there was more. +Very clear and accessible! +Very professional!!! +A very good course to review basic college chemistry, or to prepare for for taking a college course if High School chemistry was taken too long ago. Highly recommended! +Just the right amount of detail. I especially like the treatment of the Periodic Table, periodicity, and the properties of the elements.Prof. Dorian Canelas is a superb instructor. Her logical, structured approach to the lecture topics is first rate and her demeanor and obvious enthusiasm and love for Chemistry is so enjoyable. +Thank you Dorian, I have learned a lot on the basics of chemistry and chemical reactions +Some quiz answers were marked wrong when they were correct +Strongly recommend this to people who lack backgrounds in chemistry or those who want to revisit knowledge they've not come across for a long time. I learnt a lot! :) +Good course for +Wonderful course! +This course starts off interesting and then just gets absurd. A huge chunk of the genetic part has activities where you have to translate large genetic sequences by hand. If you don't have access to a printer, trying to break up genetic codes into 3-letter codons and translating them is an exercise in frustration. Plus the sequences are not even easily formatted for printing as they are all images so you can't even just copy them into an editor and break up the sequences.This was only the second course I dropped on Cousera. +Very unclear in the way it was presented and the subject that are being talked about and not very interesting, partly because it was to easy for me. +I love this course +Extremely interesting, well conducted and achievable of the difficult toolls +This course is okay +great course....fun and interesting. +a very interesting course, but the explanation is slow sometimes. +I loved it! I was looking for a course that taught about evolution without going too deep into Genetics (since it has proven to be too tough for me). I loved this course's approach for people who have no previous knowledge on either field! Thank you! +I enjoyed doing this course, however, couldn't get 80% correct in the last quiz, as I didn't quite grasp the DNA part. However, I did this course for fun and am quite content with 77%!! +It's a very good course, i will do more! +This course was incredible! The videos were interesting and included field trips and dialogue that made it spectacular and enjoyable to learn. You were able to take every graded assignment and participate even if you did not have money to buy the certificate. I learned so much and feel like my mind has been widened. I wish it had talked a bit more about how humans are evolving because that was super interesting, and a few test items would not grade correctly, but other than that it was perfect! Thank you so much for providing this excellent course for free for us! It must of took so much time and collaborative effort I applaud you for your generosity. It makes me wish I could go to this school. +The course is really interesting, but it need a content review. Several - roughly 50% - of the links for external contents, especially when they are from newspapers, are broken.That considered, it was a fascinating journey. +Fantastic course. I loved the examples of iconic photos which I had seen but now better understand their significance. I hadn't seen many of the Stalin photos, however. Its amazing how politicians can manipulate us ala George Orwell........ +Half of the links to external readings and videos did not work, which is the reason I did not complete the course. It made taking the quizzes fairly impossible unless I wanted to spend my time googling the answers. +It very important information! this course have to be passed by every mom and dad. +The quizes and tests had trivial answers, almost all could have been answered without watching the videos. More additional resources and a block on adult transgender persons, rather than just a couple of token transgender adults who are Stanford professors, would be nice. The videos were good, especially the ones involving children. The videos with professors were decent but could have been better. +This is a wonderful class! It tells me about what's the real meaning of gender. The world is with diversity. Everyone has the right to be the authentic self and respect other's choice. +I would love to provide this course to the faculty and staff at the school district where I work. I felt that I had an understanding of transgender but I was wrong. I truly enjoyed this course. +Wonderful course. Great videos and quizzes. A fantastic resource for parents, teachers, and healthcare providers. +Great info and delivery, thank you Maya. +Solid, well-organized information and a great list of resources. +Because of a special circumstance I recently experience at my child school, the schools Head Master and the early childhood principal recommended this course to me. It was the perfect fit and had all the information I need to be part of the conversation regarding the gender spectrum. Also this is the first course I complete in this platform. It left me completely satisfied. +Well presented and easy to understand. It would be good to see more information relevant to high school aged children. +amazing vital course for all parents, professionals and anyone who wants to make the world more inclusive , thank +I am going to recommend this course to other teachers and counselors at my school site. I feel it is important that everyone understands this issue is real, it's not a "phase" kids go through, and it is not something that can be swept under a rug and ignored. As public school educators it is our moral obligation to ensure a safe and inclusive learning environment for all our students. Period. +I found the videos and graphics to be very engaging and helpful in teaching me more about a concept that I find to be incredibly important yet I did not know enough about. I definitely recommend the course! +Very engaging and informative! +A really good course to learn more about transgender child's and how to make world more diverse and welcoming for transgender people. +Important, poignant, enlightening and moving! Cannot recommend this course enough. +Thanks so much for offering this course and helping others to learn about Health Across the Gender Spectrum! +Wonderful introductory course to gender inclusion! +I enjoy this training. I looked at it as a refresher course and how to be more mindful of how I interact with others including +Great class! Allowed me to see issues from another perspective as well as showing me way to make my environment more gender inclusive. THANKS! +So helpful! Really well done. The videos were GREAT and I want to come back and revisit them from time to time. I will also share these with my counselor friends and other educators so they can learn as well. +The course allowed me to thoroughly understand the topic of gender spectrum. I have learned how I, as and individual, could help transgender people and their surroundings to strengthen their understanding, acceptance and relationship. I would recommend this course for anyone who is interested to learn about the diversity which life has to offer to us. +This is a great introductory course for the Health of Transgendered youths. Many intersections such as, socio-economic factors, race, geography, or access issues are not addressed which heavily impact this community and possible families that are disenfranchised by these disparities. +Excellent content delivered in a manner that is easy to listen to and view. Great personal stories that help the "student" see real people and hear their views and feelings. Excellent course, thank you. +Thank you for this course! The people, their stories and the illustrations are heart-warming and give me hope for a better world. +Best way to learn about the Gender Spectrum! +Excellent course to learn and review health issues and general information across the gender spectrum. Also to have a better understanding of children as they are trying to understand t +Great use of time. Great introduction to the Gender Spectrum. Provided a variety of tools to support a transgender child. Recommended for parents, teachers, educational administration and all health care providers serving children. +this course is very complete in the aspect to learn different things to orientation in our lifes +Good to understand about gender +A very timely and worthwhile course. I love how it is about learning and teaching important subject matter rather than being onerous and difficult. The videos are incredibly effective. Maya models the attributes of inclusivity and compassion that are necessary for this course. +Useful primer on applying inclusive principles across spaces +Very grateful to take this! +So appreciate this course and Dr Adam for creating it! It has been so helpful to understand what is happening to our children and to learn how we, as parents, adults, communities, and society can help encourage! +A wonderful course that opened my mind to something I had tried to understand, but couldn't. Thank you for sharing the individual stories and experiences. +Thank you, Maya, for your inspiring and kind-hearted course +To be honest I believed that this course would help me understand better transgender individuals, but it didn't. It feels like the instructors assumed I already accept this condition without question, the course is thought provoking of course, but not as informative as I thought it would be. I am more open to learn more about this topic though. +Health Across the Gender Spectrum is a very significant course. It lets me understand what transgender is and how we should do to respect and welcome them. Thanks a lot. +Thank you for building and sharing this BEAUTIFUL community, to let us know how inclusive we can be and what it means to love and accept our family and friends for who they truly are. +This is a course all education teachers, parents and social workers should take. +This course should be required learning for everyone. Accepting people for who they are is the greatest gift we can give people. +I took this amazing course and found myself crying through the first 3 videos. I never knew what the child and parents experienc. My state is planning to pass a "bathroom bill' and I now know the full horrors of that. Being transgender is not a religious issue or a female privacy issue, but rather reaching out to children who need acceptane, support, and understanding. A wonderful course taught in a beautiful manner. A must for all teachers, parents, and healthcare providers! Thank you! +Great course, I really liked it. I found it very educating and enjoyed the interviews of the children most of all.I feel the class would benefit by discussing how gender roles are formed in society, why are pervasive through many aspects of society, how they are historically evolved, comparison in more aspects with the societies mentioned that are more open to gender fluidity etc. That would help us understand whether there is a necessity behind the gender roles or whether it is a natural step to drop them altogether, how they apply to other gender defined groups etc. I see why this would give the class a more society critical and perhaps political dimension however. +Fantastic course! I think you could expand the title though not just to be about health because it really includes much more. Teachers and others may not have taken the course because ti specifically says health but it is so important for them to become familiar with this content as well to help build a more gender inclusive society. +I hope this course won't "suffer" the bubble-effect in that only open minded people take it. The question is, how can we achieve that people who really need it actually take it! +Oh My God. What a superb course. What a superb teacher. Fantastic teaching methodology. The ultimate way to advise parents to know and respect their kids. Kudos you endeavour to create a better society. +I really enjoyed the class. Opened up my eyes to a new level. Being a mom i feel i am more aware and listen to what the little ones say. Honor and respect their view. Thank you! +Simply lovely, and useful, and mind broadening <3 i loved it +a very informative course with many real stories and interview, which provide a concrete knowledge about the gender spectrum. +Very moving and presents a lot of good information on the basic issues transgender people face. +This course is amazing, I will recommend it to all my friends. +Everyone should engage in this course +very helpful +Great course to create awareness. +good class for learning about how to be inclusive and health for everyone on the gender spectrum +I found this course very informative. It explain gender expectrum in a way that was clearly understood. I enjoyed having listened to personal experiences from parents and teachers of transgender children as well as personal stories of transgender individuals. This course has helped me by providing me with understanding about what is like being transgender. It also has given me the tools to be supportive and inclusive of transgender individuals and their families. +This was a very interesting and mind-opening course. I have to admit that I did not give much thought to transgender, and I am very glad that this course was suggested by Maya Adam, MD in another course. I hope this information spreads around the world and we all become more inclusive and caring. +Easy to follow and so tender. We shall understand that all people deserve love. +This was a great course, I learnt a lot !! +I wish I had known this 20 years ago. Thank you. +excellent content and very timely. Thank you for providing this course and thank you all for sharing your stories. +Definite course for people to learn and obtain a tool kit to understand transgender! +Every mental health professional and professional that works with children should take this course +I found this course to be eye opening, and wonderful in showing the range and variations the transgender community may contain. It helped add language and clarification of terms that are needed. It was nice to hear the stories of the children as well as the parents. It would have helped me to hear from those who are not handling the needs of their child who identifies cross gender. The levels of support shown by the parents was comforting but also seemed too good to be true. I would not have had that level of support in my own family by far. This was a wonderful course, keep up the great work. +Takes your ideals one step further. +I thought this course was mostly very well done. I would love to get in touch with the professor who created the course, and may try to reach out via other means. I am a transgender grad student at Mills College working on gender inclusive early childhood education.One note specifically for Coursera, though... The honor code validation use of "legal name" on a course about transgender rights/health poses a particular emotional barrier for transgender people taking the course. Many transgender people go by names that are not their legal name and may or may not be able to change their legal names due to complicated laws and requirements. Having folks sign using their legal name is a potentially hostile, if relatively passive, act towards some transgender folks taking this class. +Excellent introductory course. Well worth the effort and valuable for parents, family, teachers, healthcare workers and others. +Amazing course!!! Recommend everyone to take it +nice course, but assginment would be designed better. +This course is very great for me to learn how to use python to get data and analysis big data. Thanks for my great teacher Zhang Li. +help basic learner to quickly learn python. +i like this course very much!the teacher speak very clearly! +This course is really interesting! Something in week4 and week5 is relatively complex and we can explore more in this field later! +Very clear! +very great!! +Great class. It would be better to provide English version quiz +Miss Zhang Li is so fun and humorous, and her lectures are very easy to understand. By taking this course, i got a fundamental picture about using Python to analyze data. +simple but practical, friendly to newer! +Great course! Helps a lot! +A nice course for Python beginner or even Programming beginner, but not suitable for a professional developer, most of the concepts are too basic, the SciPy lectures are complicate to me though. +This is the ONLY complete course on Python that I can find on Coursera. +eally good course, I learn a lot. I hope I can see the correct answers after I finished the quiz. +best class ever +1.Main topics about python has been explained clearly2. The tests after lessons are supposed to be answered & re-examined and can be confirmed independently with Python(x,y)3. The final application is funny.4. Look forward for more lessons like this.5. Thanks for sharing. +A very good introductory course on Python data analysis ! +cool +入门python很好的课程，i love it. +nice course for python newbies +im so proud that it is from a chinese university, and it must be unique. +relative low efficiency to learn +teacher is so fashion +Awesome! I've taken Michigan's Python specialization, but I would say this course from Nanjing University is much better. +This introductory course is fairly detailed and with depth. I have used Python for a while, but still I feel this course is a nice review to revisit basics in Python. It is a pity that it's only in Chinese and there aren't hands on programming projects but only quiz. +This is a very easy and acceptable course to learn Python and Data Processing. +good python course！ +Nice course, it is helpul for the freshmen to begin data analytics using python. +A very useful course for guys who are not familiar with how to use Python to do data analysis. +Awesome course! recommend!!!! +The course teaches quite a lot of basic things of Python programming. It's quite helpful for beginners. +The teacher use a very Kind manner to communicate with us!Very appreciated that! +Too fast; +Easy to learn. Good for beginners. +It would be better if you discussed more about using python to process data +I don't want to do the exercise. +Great, but the final lecture still not easy. +I think the teacher is very good! +excellent introduction course for python +Pretty useful course! +Very useful course for me. +This course is very interesting and informative. Thanks a million to Ms Zhang~ +I think it is really nice +top +This course is very important +A simple ,straight forward ,applicable only content based learning platform.Build on intensity and or added courses that furthers this area of learning.thank you for the experience. +It was very enlightening; it made me realize the complexities and evolution of diplomacy while understanding what it takes to become a good diplomat in general. Specifically, I got new insights on how I can impact positively within the realm of nature conservation from a global perspective and how to tackle the threats we are facing in the near future. I would have liked though a bit more interaction with the experts and opinions from them on my/our submissions. +More timely and relevant text material would have greatly helped in broadening our understanding. Basic and easy for beginners to grasp. +Good course; but the class do not contributed +Through "Global Diplomacy" I learnt the difference between an ambassador and diplomat, and successful diplomacy and failed diplomacy. I also learnt qualities of a good diplomat and their importance to successful negotiation. This course has deepened my interest in Diplomacy . +The professors was really experts in the subject of the course. Really great information. I learn a lot. Was so easy to understand. Thank you. +It isn't too long or serious, but very helpful in creating a broad idea of what diplomacy is. I especially enjoyed getting to view the various thoughts and opinions of other people from different cultures. I definitely recommend taking this course!! +Great course +interesting. enjoyed learning +Very insightful +Yeah, this course is REALLY different from other MOOCs. I wonder if I can learn anything from a course that contains such little content. +Amazing course! I highly recommend it ! +The course was very informative. I feel i have learnt a lot when it comes to global diplomacy and I definitely will continue learning more about this course +Excellent Mooc that help you to understand the basic terms regarding diplomacy now a days. +The course has given me a better understanding of the Diplomacy. +its really a superb course to understand diplomacy in international arena. it helped me alot +This course is fascinating and the lecturers are so great. +Good course, but very introductory. +Great +As an International Relations with Politics student, I am very satisfied with the content and concept of this course. Definitely well-organized and helpful course related to my subject. +Great course, full of lots of interesting and useful readings regarding the theory and practice of diplomacy worldwide! +I am thankful that this opportunity was given to me +The course provided a thorough grounding in Global Diplomacy and how it relates to the everyday world. +This course is fun, but the instructor or course admins need to put more videos, contents and information to the course than just a few videos, few topics per week like this. The Global Diplomacy course should provide clearer and deeper about diplomacy than to pose what is diplomacy or what the diplomats do in their very actions of daily routines. +Very o +Very little content on offer other than some short clips and mildly interesting readings. The vast majority of the course is dedicated to short writing tasks that are supposed to get you engaged (i.e. discussing) diplomacy, but the practical effect is at best busy work with little new knowledge or insights gained. Extremely disappointed. +I thoroughly enjoyed this course! Learned a lot from my classmates and the professors as well. +Really enjoyed the course. Professors appear to be very competent and the lecture content is thoroughly interesting. Wish there was a bit more content overall. +I enjoyed my time learning in this course. But I actually have a concern: even though the materials were difficult enough for me to study (FYI: I am not a student from social science background), should not this course have been more challenging especially for them who pursued a verified certificate like me? What is your opinion? +Very interesting course! The lectures are great; so is the cooperative format of the course. +I have completed two other Coursera courses for certificates, where I learned much more. The quantity and quality of the content - both video's and reading materials - is significantly lower than that of the other courses, where I really had to take notes and read much more. The assignments are way to general and do not require much preparation, which hardly makes them serious learning exercises. Frankly, I could have done some interviews and research online and make a a course like this myself... +The course was very interesting. I liked that I could share my views on diplomacy in the form of short essays and fellow peers could grade my work. In my opinion, the course could also include short quiz tests so that course participants practice the material more. +I really enjoyed this course. It refreshed the theme and gave me more insight. +A meeting place with the theoretical and practical analysis about the diplomacy and its relevance in the modern world. +this is an awesome course and i'm so much enjoying it. and i learned how to keep dialogue with others and how to master my words so that i can keep communicating with others. thanks a lot! +A great course, providing a broad perspective on diplomacy and the role of the diplomat. +I was so delighted to get involved in this course about diplomacy in the modern world , I was able to gain and grasp more knowldege related to different styles of diplomacy and how diplomats should behave to create a kind of peace-building . Thank you so much London University +Very instructive course +this course exceeds expectancy +This is an educative programme. I have gained some knowledge in the subject area. It as increased my interest Global Diplomacy. Also opportunity to read more about the theory and practice of Global Diplomacy. It will go a long way to enhance my skills as a diplomate to influence leadership positively at all levels of life to build positive net work, develop appropriate diplomatic skills to enhance international relations, negotiations, and ensure peace and security in contemporary global world. +Love the grading method! It helpts to review and excercise and think about your task when you read and rate other people - Great! +It is alright but several people take advantage of the lax review criteria to submit one letter reviews. Better grading system would be good. Material is all fine. +Its was great +I love this course. It helped me a lot inn understanding Diplomacy. +This was a great course. It provided me with a high level of insight regarding diplomacy that I was eager to learn and know. I never studies anything to do with politics prior to this course, so I am surprised that I was able to follow the curriculum and enjoy it all at the same time. +I really learned a lot about Diplomacy, this course is very well-structured. +Not as advanced as other Coursera courses, this course if for participants who do not have any background in international relations and diplomacy. Wish they would have made it more advanced. +Too many speakers. Not very well-coordinated or organized. Very wordy and diffuse. Where is the gist of what they are saying in so many words? +The lectures were not very interesting or instructive. The reading materials were much more so. However, the assignments in the class were based much more on the lectures and on self-reflection than on the materials. I learned a little bit, and as such found the course worth the time I put into it, but I almost think one could get through this course with little difficulty without reading any of the written materials, and thus derive very little benefit from it. I would encourage the makers of this course to do a significant revamping.(In addition to greater incorporation and emphasis on the written materials, I think more real-life examples of diplomatic successes and failures would be a far more effective and entertaining use of the lecture time than the esoteric philosophising that seems to characterize it in this edition.) +Good for entering stage learners. I like to texts and reference reading materials which are significant and informative in the field. Benefit a lot. +It was very exciting and interesting experience for me. I`ve learned many new things. There`re educational videos about diplomacy from the best professors of University in London. I liked it very much! +The course features great videos with experts on diplomacy. I thoroughly enjoyed learning more about this field of study. +This course is interesting where it develops your understanding in International Relations and Diplomacy protocols. I love the course to strengthen my knowledge on Foreign Policy. Happy study +The course provides an insight into the world of diplomacy with recent examples of failures and successes. I would highly recommend this course to policy makers and also to those seeking to widen their horizons in diplomacy. +I really enjoy +I wish there is a continuation of this course online. :) +Very good course - the team put together thought provoking video material, and the reading material was well thought out for this course. +I found the format of the course very engaging and interesting. +Relaxed course, giving you the chance to observe both other students and experts' opinions on the matter. Really makes you think about the concepts. Well designed. +Excellent course, I highly recommend to anyone who is interest in obtaining an insight in the field of Diplomacy. The videos and lectures and overall course material was very informative and interesting. +my first ever experience with coursera and this course made me to make a fabulous start. +An amazing Course! +Very interesting Course +well structured +I would love to see this interesting lightweight introduction grow into a solid university level course with more reading, weekly added content, tests, academic discussions and a proactive moderator at the forum. +very general ideas about diplomacy but nothing concrete +A different approach to online learning. Requires concrete proof of feedback that reflects interaction and contemplation of the learner with the content given. Excellent course. +I loved the approach of the course and the peer review activities. I think that for such a theme, it was fantastic to have multiple experts give their opinions and ideas about the subject at hand. I am looking forward for more courses like this! +A very good course and very engaging +Interesting online course as introduction with brief concepts and definitions on diplomacy, its role, influence and interaction in the modern world. Recommend others to attend this online course to gain required intro knowledge on diplomacy. +A great course!! +nice course, reality course today, but it's also important to add how to use diplomacy as a guns against terrorism" +I would like to give you the High Marks .This Course is properly arranged and it includes most of the needed factors student like us specially a student from Sri Lanka ,This is really good.And would like to guaranty this course to my friends.Macy!!! +Great place to think and share ideas. Highly +Very good videos and article sharing! +It was a great experience! Definitely gained more knowledge about diplomacy. +A solid introductory course, with some interesting course materials and thought-provoking questions. +I am finding that the material is very relevant to our present era. I see now many news items which relate to the learning available in this course. I like writing about the topics, the activity firms up my understanding of those topics. +An Excellent introduction to the world of Global Diplomacy from a World Renowned University +nice course! nice teacher! very practical knowledge and ex +Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge with us. I am very happy to have had the opportunity to be in such an EXCELLENT course. I will continue studying in this area. +It summarizes views from different authority in the area. It takes 30 minutes to an hour to do the coursework. It's highly participatory. +Great course. I learned a lot and enjoyed the lectures. Thanks. +Great examples and lectures. Really clear +Wonderful course! +It's really useful and easy to understand for newbie person like me. Thank you so much! +Thank you for your fantastic presentations. This material helped so much in my education and may be I'll use it in my work. +Highly recommended introductory course for anyone getting into experimentation. I found the starting point appropriate for total novices (though for someone with some background, the pacing felt very slow and repetitive at times), but there was a well-defined progression from the simplest to more advanced concepts.I would have appreciated some more theoretical content, both foundational and advanced, and the pacing/structure could use some rethinking to avoid staleness, but overall this is a very nice introduction to important aspects of design of experiments and optimization. +The content of the course it's excellent +Great course. Sort of SW's Rogue One - the one after that you eant to study the univers of engenering. +I really enjoyed this course. It was my first introduction to Design of Experiments topics and I am taking away a lot of knowledge! The pace is just right and the material is covered in a clear manner. +Great course! A very useful one. +This course is an excellent starting platform for those, who wants to learn more about process optimization. The designing, of course, is excellent and examples are straightforward and easy to understand in each module. I hope tutor, of course, Kevin Dunn, will come with some more advanced course for same. I will like to thank Dr. Kevin Dunn and his team for such making such course. +I love this course. The content helped me a lot to get more clarity on this area.The content is structured in six weekly modules and every section is very well prepared. The videos are interesting and have the right length (not too long) and helped me to stay on track. +excellent course and professor goes with a steady pace +It is useful and help me arrange my experiment +Thanks +PROSGreat explanations by the instructor. Easy to understand course- with real world examples.CONSPacing was too slow.Too simple and easy for the 5 weeks of coursework in my opinion. Several harder concepts could be covered in the time that the course ran. Problems were also very simple and not very challenging. +Very nice topic, intresting examples and great classes. +It was the first I joined and it was excellent. +Excellent course, very helpful +Great course. I wish there were homework assignments though to make it more engaging. One of the best courses I have taken in coursera +Perfect !!! The best course on experiment I've ever take. +Simply to understand. Useful for my work. +Grounded in real world use. Prepares the student for immediate application of the concepts taught. +Great course! I learnt many useful concepts which I found to be very well explained. I really enjoyed doing the course. +Interesting and developing both analytical and creative thinking. The lecturer took care to bring lots of real live examples which are fun to analyze. Participating in this course is a real pleasure and a great fun. +Very interesting course for those who want to discover the worl of the experimental design. I recommend it! +great course. highly organized and well presented. additional resources are very useful. thanks. +Very understandable and clear for everyone +A decent online course who taught me a lot of very useful information related to experimental design. High recommend. The only drawback is the course is a little be short. +Love this course. Very useful. +That was the best course I have taken at coursera. though, it could be better with the next one. +Takes you by the hand, even if you have little or no background to the course elements, in order for you to learn what may have otherwise been a fairly challenging topic. Certainly recommended! +Very informative and easy to understand. +I dislike the way the grade is settled. Because of the difficulty and technicality of the course, passing grade should be 7 out of 9, instead of 8 out of 9. We are not PhD's, but student learners....... +This is one of the best organized course on the subject. It is vast and complicated area , however thanks to Kevin for making it so simple , most beautiful part is, the way Fractional Factorial has been introduced and integrated into course.Once completed students would be leave with a deep first level knowledge to take it forward. Once again thanks for a beautiful course. +Excellent course! Thank you for providing it! +This course is worth learning.I like this course as It is really applicable, very well prepared, the ideas are presented in a clear way. I would definitely choose this course again (and recommend to my friends), despite the fact that I had to spend really a lot more time, than on other coursera courses, i.e. ~3-6 hours studying the material. +I've been providing a lot of great insight in my daily job activities because of what I am learning in this course. +Great lesson, congratulations to the Professor +Experimentation for process improvement is an excellent course and it will make a better and wiser experimenter. My background is in healthcare field and medicine and after taking this course it help to critically appraise and read article related to research in medicine. This is my first verified certificate course and i always revisit the materials whenever i need them. This is a must attend course and you would enjoy it as i have enjoyed it. +Amazing course! +Very good approach to financial accounting, starting from scratch and case based. I loved the course. +Material is very clearly put forward, and the focus is very nice on the absolute foundations of accounting. The course does not go into the more confusing issues in accounting, and alternative practices and remains focused on key important issue that help you understand and read financial statements. +Easy and concise. Learned how to read a financial statement and finally understood all the terms used in the Balance sheet. +Peer-Grading assignment is not completely fair. Depending on them is not logical since not all of them are fully educated in this course that's the reason we're taking the course in the first place. but over all it is good and the proff is amazing. +This course is apt for the beginners and it has been designed brilliantly with an interesting case study and informative reading material. The professor Marc Badia has explained the concepts lucidly and one can get so involved in the lectures and case study that this 4 weeks course can be completed in just 4 days. Trust me, you will thoroughly enjoy this course.I have no business background, but with clear explanations and some practice, it was easy to understand the financial terms and work on the given problems. +Amazing course! Clear, direct and easy to follow. +A great overview of the principles behind balance sheets, cash flow statements, income statements, and t-accounts/ledgers. +Awesome course! Now I understand accounting!))) +At the end of the course, you are going to learn the principles of financial accounting with real examples. +Thanks to Prof. Marc Badia and everyone who framed this course in the best possible and simple way. Thanks to courser. +Great course to learn about how companies calculate their numbers. Recommended. +Loved it +This course provides an in-depth knowledge and deep insight into the basics.The instructor Mr.Marc Badia has really done a good job explaining the concepts from the real world scenario. Thannks to the course structure and instructor, understanding the course wasn't that challenging especially after being from Computers background . +Fantastic teacher, materials and customer ser +The lectures are short and to the point. I believe this helps the students to stay focused and not get tired. The teacher explains the material very well. The only thing I do not like is that the quizzes are only for the students who paid for the course. +excellent coursesgive me a great knowledge about accounting +Great course +excellent course for the beginners! +Great Course +I thought the ideas were presented well at first and it was easy for me (a novice in the subject) to keep up. However, it ramped up for the last two weeks. I ended up doing some more research before understanding the concepts. Great examples throughout. Ultimately, challenging (therefore rewarding). I look forward to the other courses in the Foundations series. +I will like to appreciate the organisers of this course and Professor Marc Badia for his succinctly delivered lectures. The lectures were very comprehensive and worthwhile. I recommend this to anyone with or without prior knowledge of Financial accounting +Greate course +you are great thank you :) +Great course +This program produce for me many knowledge about Accounting, Finance Analysis. Thanks for these professors and technique team. They are very enthusiastically. I love it! I will try my best so that I develop yourself more and more! +Clear, consice and complete course for understanding the basic principles of financial acounting.Recomendable! +i have b.a in accounting from an Egyptian university and i found in this course all i needed +Exceptional course. The perfect learning for beginners in financial accounting. Totally recommended! +Really helpful course, would definitely recommend it for people who are totally new to accounting. The Professor Marc explains things really well and the examples are really useful with a lot of useful resources and reading material being made available throughout the course. Overall really impressed and satisfied with the course. Thank you Marc and IESE! +the best course i have been enroll in my lifethanks for allappreciated +Thank You Professor +Excellent course which gave me a solid foundation for pre MBA preparation. +Simple, clear, and well organized. +Great course and great professor! +Good stuff.The teacher somehow managed to make accounting interesting. +In one word, Excellent Course! I started without knowing anything about financial accounting and now I feel confident in understanding, analyzing and evaluating the financial statements of a company! The course is really well structured and very easy to follow and understand. The professor is definitely an added value and he will guide you throughout the course with humor, competency and meaningful and real examples. +Very interesting. Concentrates on the learning of fundamentals. A must-do for anyone coming from a non-business background. Very good review for business majors. +Well thought and developed financial accounting course. The lectures and readings are interesting and the exercises help you to understand your progress. Very useful, mainly for people without financial accounting knowledge or people that want to refresh their knowledge on the subject. +The course has been very interesting, the methodology with videos and lots of real examples has helped me to learn very easily, starting from zero.The course has given to me a very solid foundation knowledge about financial accounting without being familiar with it before.I really recommend this course for those who are not familiar with financial accounting and want to understand it and build a solid foundation knowledge. +i really enjoyed it. +Accounting made easy and exciting!! Strongly recommended =) +Excellent course, progressed quickly enough to be challenging, but the instructor doesn't assume any prior accounting knowledge so the pace was still comfortable. Really great overview of the three key financial statements (B/S, Inc Stmnt and CF Statement), and I would definitely recommend it to anyone!Matt +The best accounting class! +Very good lecture and easy to follow! +The perfect introduction to accounting. No background knowledge is necessary. The pace is perfect and the professor is very clear with his explanations. +As someone with no Financial background(Engineer), this course helped me learn the basic of Financial Accounting and gave me a solid start preparation for my MBA start. I highly recommend it to anyone iterested in learning about finance +Excellent course, concise concepts description with examples rooted into real life. Thank you +Excelent teacher +I thoroughly enjoyed the course and greatly benefitted from its content. As a fresh MBA admit coming from scientific background, I was looking for a course that would cover the basics of Financial accounting, the so-called language of business. Marc Badia's Principles of Financial Accounting was the answer to it. After having had following the course, and of course passing it, I have gained a thorough understanding of the basic concepts of Accounting that I am now using in the Accounting class of IESE Business School. +Really good course. Clear and well prepared +Great course. Very well explained and really helped me understand the concepts of the three financial statements explained in the course. The reading material is very informative. +Great content explained in a very concise and understandable way! +Very helpful for beginners, I had a background of accounting but it help me a lot to refresh it. Great presentation +Amazing first experience with accounting. +Great course thanks to its content and to its progressive step-by-step increase in complexity. +The course is very helpful and provides a strong basis for understanding Financial Accounting. +Amazing course for those with no background in accounting. Being very dynamic, with a good pace and easy to follow, you will realize in a few weeks that your learning curve has an exponential growth. With this course you will be able to understand and make decisions of real companies from real financial statements. It is absolutely recommendable for those, like me, who have just started an MBA, or for those who are interested in learning the basics of accounting, getting ready to cover more advanced topics. +I learned quite a lot from this course. The videos were brief, but the material was well-explained. For a solid, general overview of financial statements and the logic behind them, I highly recommend this course. +Principles of finantial accounting has helped me a lot to stablish a solid base in Finantial Accounting subjects. I highly recomend it as a clear introduction in the Finantial world.u +The course was really helpful especially as it started off by building the basic understanding of accounting to more complex things. As an engineer with absolutely no background of accounting it was very beneficial for me as I begin my MBA journey. After 1 month in the MBA I feel that the pre-course was indeed the best way to get my foundations right to get the most out of the classes in the school. +Really helpful course to understand the fundamentals of accounting and its business implications. This course is a must for anybody without an accounting background and willing to get into business. I did the course before starting my MBA and it definitely helped me afterwards. +Excellent introduction to Financial Accounting. +Great course! +Excellent for beginners and each concept was delivered in an easy way along with practical examples. The pedagogy is awesome. +I have a Master Degree in Management, yet I had really limited knowledge in Accounting. The quality of the course and the Professor is a Top Quality.I am starting a new job in a finance department of a multinational corporation. This has been a perfect refresh.I have performed the courses in 3 days.Thank you +Great course, highly recomended. +Excellent course for understanding basic fundamentals +1.Material: Exactly what I was looking +Really nice introduction to accounting. +Excellent course, with plenty of practice example. +I Found this course very informative and easy to comprehend, It teaches that basics of accounting that every business owner or manager should know. +Excellent course.Excellent contentExcellent and lucid presentation.Now I got a feel that I understand standards of accounting, and I am a hard core engineer.Thanks a lot. +Professor was very good, easy to learn. I only do not give it a 5 because I wish accrual accounting had been discussed more at length. +Beautifully delivered, made it easy to understand material that was new to me. I highly recommend +This is a very interesting course, I would hace liked the teacher would explain a little bit more about NOF and Operational ratios, go further on this topics and less analysisi of Balance Sheet and P&L.But in general, great explanations and videos and completely easy to understand everything, very good examples. +Great course! Peer feedback has been less than helpful. +Great intro programme to Accounting and good practical exercise for business entrepreneurs! +A good course to understand fundamentals of financial accounting. +great course +Simply too good +Great course, very well taught using both theoretical and practical examples +This is very good course for beginners and well explained wit practical example +Quite confusing if you do not have a background already in accounting. The information in the course content does not match up with the quizzes. Great experience but a little lacking on the details needed to pass the quizzes each week....especially week +I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in getting a thorough (albeit, rapid) introduction to financial accounting. Professor Marc Badia has a gift for deconstructing dense material into digestible bits through concise weekly videos. The quizzes and final project are all very applied in nature---while we all learn differently, I can't stress enough the importance of taking meticulous notes each week! +Great course learned a lot .Great step by step instruction. +Good class, the teacher is very clear and the content pedagogic and coherently organized. The examination's topic was very interesting. +Who knew development of medical technology was scrutinized so much. Plus all the factors that are needed to be taken into account. +I continue to use what i've learned from this course to improve myself +Interesting course with really useful information. Learning of course is easy because of many examples offered by teacher. +One of the most interesting courses of the specialization. Unfortunately, delivery is still in need of improvement. At least there was some good discussion around the slides, and not all slides were read verbatim. Interesting project at the end! +I learned a lot from this course I am glad I was able to finish this class, thank you for the experience. +Nice course. It would be better if the PPT could be modified (reduce the words, add more figures or diagrams). +Good content, engaging assignments and valuable points that allow the students to better understand all indicated points. +Quick and clear! +Very informative course and very valuable information to this specialization +Bias towards the American healthcare system and deathly boring. Only take this course you have to. +I would like to say, this course have a great information, the videos are very interest. In the first week I though that could be, a little bit bored, but with the second week, I became more compromised with all information that bring. +Very good course. Great overview on Hotel distribution from many perspectives. Balances well the pros and cons of the various channels. Good essays as well +love this course, learned a lot because of it. cant wait to start the next one +Good insight on the basics of hotel distribution +Great overview, it helps to have general concepts to better understand the importance of each distribution channel. +This is an excellent training program that will definitely clarify all your basics. +This has been a start into a fascinating new world. I liked the teachers explanation, very clear and concise +Excellent course about Hotel distribution, The course give me tools to apply right away on my job. +I like it and I did never imagined the abundance of its content based on today's market.Really the course helped me a lot and immediately started implementing what I learned.Thank you Coursera +Very informative course. Really glad that i took this course. +Great fundamental information of Hospitality. +Great course for hospitality business giving a profound overview to driving hotel activity! +Great course. Would probably be better if a component of the grade was assigned by the professors and not only by peer-graded assesments. +Really enjoyed this course, very informative and good for someone joining the hospitality world for the first time. +Extremely information course. This will definitely assist hotel managers to understand and manage their performance in the distribution landscape. +It is a very informative, well designed course. +Very good interesting an well explained course. +Great course, in depth, smart, and interesting. +The course content is amazing and very informative. I am not from hospitality sector but I understood all the concepts and because of all the quizzes and assignments, now I feel more confident in finding a job in hospitality sector. +There are some website errors. Also I think the videos could be better +Very good and uptaded content on new hotel distribution ecosystem +I thoroughly enjoyed this entry-level course on the topic. Excellent material, very up-to-date and thoroughly prepared. The presentations are quite energetic, with gestures a bit over the top, but the content is worth watching every minute. +Excellent way to learn! +Great course for introducing the fundamentals of hotel management and hotel distribution. This course enables us to learn important concepts related to hotel distribution and apply them in real-life situations through the course assignments. As well as this it is not necessary any relevant background to understand the concepts presented however it may be recommended basic financial/economics knowledge.I think that adding some quizzes during the videos would be interesting and productive as it would allow students to assure that all the concepts were understood. +The course is brief and rich in knowledge. It was really exciting in taking this course. +High quality course, really broadened my understanding of distribution in the hospitality industry. I enjoyed it immensely. +Excellent course, very interesting material and great presentation!!! Thank you! +Great content, valuable insights. Thanks! +Very informative but the practice tests had some bugs in it. +Great content- videos and assignments were fantastic.Little partecipation and interaction with staff and other partecipants makes the course lose a lot of its attractiveness- most of the concepts are not rocket science and one would really benefit from confrontation with other students. +Comprehensive and well structured. A. +Great intro to hotel distribution with guest lectures from Expedia and Booking.com +Very detailed and easy to understand lectures, that discover complicated inside of hotel industry in a simple way. Great professors made my pleasant learning experience.Thank you so much! +Truly broaden my knowledge in this field. Thanks so much :) +Jumping through the abbreviations, sometimes forgetting to mention what it is at all. Also the second professor was to difficult to u +Very insightful. Highly recommended for anyone who is new to hotel revenue management. A good foundation course for hotel marketing and distribution. +Before attending this course, I was really "lost" in the online travel distribution world with the feeling of falling behind in knowledge. Once I started the course, I got a very clear, structured and practical way of understanding what's happening in hotel distribution, apply acquired skills in quizzes, exercises and real-life examples and assignments and be prepared to assist or consult hotel managers on how to handle such issues. +The content of the course is basically on how hotels distribute their contents (their rooms to sale). The different channels are explained, such as the OTA, brand.com, meta search, and direct channels. The course also includes a very interesting point of view from OTA where Expedia and Booking.com explains their offers to hotels. I would love to have the views from hotel too, which are missing here.The suggested readings are quite a lot, basically from the online sites, many from the hotel and travel industry (skift, for example). Those readings are very useful in digging deeper on the subject.The assignments, are, on the other hand, quite weak. It consists of 4 peer review assignments. The first week contains a pretty quantitative analysis, but the other 3 assignments are basically conversational and just repeating what you have learnt in the class.The non-noted quizzes were pretty easy, you almost no need to think deeper to answer those questions. +In my humble opinion it is necessary to review some points in this module:1) Video Content: Making more dynamic, switch between explanations and slides in full screen. Only explanations, it is very tiring to attend the classes. The video would be ideal as shown in week 4 of this Mooc: How the hotel shouldnt work with Expedia? or video: How to hotel shouldnt work with Booking.com?2) Analysis requested: In the first week the requested analysis was of a very high level, it required knowledge of financial analysis and hotel area. In my case, I felt much difficulty because I do not have any knowledge in the hotel industry. And analyzing the exercise, I realized it was necessary to have knowledge of financial ratios of profitability and a certain familiarity in the hotel industry. I left a comment on the discussion board stating that I was not feeling safe to do the exercise. However, there was no demonstration by the teachers of the course.In short, I was not feeling prepared, let alone analyze colleagues. The first time, did not get the minimum score. The second time, with the longest time, I could better perform the exercise. But rather it was the result of review of financial ratios and other other accessories. I realized that those who examined me in the first and second time, had little or no idea about financial analysis. And another point that struck me was that one of the people who fell for me to analyze, was all in white and the person apologized for failing to do. With nothing to analyze, I did not think fair to give a low rating, so I preferred not to analyze. If the person left blank, something needs to be revised.When mounting a course, you have to take into consideration that there are different levels of students: beginner, intermediate and advanced in the subject matter.The first week was not to have been given is analysis. It could have been the third or fourth week of this Mooc, so it would have time for a further deepening of the matter addressed.3) Amount of content: Adding the video, quiz and analysis, are about 30 content. It is very tiring and little time for such content. Could decrease the amount of video and quiz, relocating to another week course or Mooc.4) Feedback: Teachers need to leave a contact way (facebook, twitter, etc.) and be active in Coursera forum or leave a wizard to ask questions when needed.5) Notes: He missed the weight of the notes. I found a little confusing the allocation of notes.6) Curriculum: Missed curriculum (biography) of teachers. No contact information.7) Books: Missed suggestions of books in the hotel industry.Anyway, these are only observed points in order to contribute to development of course. Thanks for listening. +this course was not unto the standard i even completed all the assignment i did not pass one and still i got time to redo the assignment and submitted and never got the grade back for it.. +Great course by talented professors! Thanks a lot! +A must do curse for everyone on hospitality industry. +For my first online course and wishing to have a broader knowledge of hotel distribution, it has been very enriching and will undoubtedly help me in the near future. +I was pleasantly surprised to realize that I enjoyed this course! The topics were interesting and going through and passing the course assignments helped boost my confidence in discussing hotel business with industry partners. This course is highly recommended, thanks ESSEC and Coursera! +Test review for this course +The cuorse was really amazing and has infomation that approach into the business providing encourage.I am expecting for the next, see you soon!Thanks you. +A very intersting view of the hotel distribuition. To Know OTA's +It's amazing to learn something new in my professional area.Thank you +Concise, objective, update and pratical. +Subjects are not covered in depth but it's a comprehensive overview. Looking forward to the next courses in the specialization. +One of the best courses on Coursera. Thoughtfully designed and well structured. +Its really good but little tough! :p +Interesting course. But here is the issue, in mini-exams there are very hard questions. I'm passing them anyway but there must not be question those are not described in videos and in original papers. Of course there must be guessing questions too but not too much. +I really love this course!The works are funny and enlightening, and the contents are not difficult at all.The most important is, Mr.Igarashi is handsome! +First of all, the course itself being from Japan is more than enough to prove it's awesomeness.That aside, the course is great and it teaches you better ways of solving certain CG problems and also it helps you think out of the box for other CG problems.My suggestion before taking this course:Advanced mathCalculusLinear algebraBeginner/Intermediate PhysicsAdvanced programming (c, c++, java) ExperienceComputer Graphics ExperienceThere might be chances that you'd learn them all on the way as well, but it'll probably be pretty hard for you. +There is lack of understanding how you actually build shown systems and software was presented in lectures if we deal with actual code.. but I gave 5 stars for creative and useful content provide the direction to go father in computer graphics field. I strongly recommend this course to students who starts developing digital content or/and programmers who want inspiration for their own projects. If there is a specialization on the topic, but with deep view on actual code samples, I would have bought one. +So far, this course is the hardest one I‘ve took in Coursera, you definitely need some prerequisites to feel comfortable.Every lecture includes several papers.The course info says you only have to spend 1-3 hours per week.That is IMPOSSIBLE for 90%+ students.(Glad this course is self-paced) +The algorithms presented in this course are interesting. However, the quizzes contain some questions that have no apparent relation to the content of the lectures, and some questions about details of the presented algorithms which are explained in neither the lectures, nor in the papers from which the lectures are derived. Also, most of the sample implementations will not run on a modern computer. They only work on Windows with Java 6 installed. +The lectures were good but when it came to quizzes and assignments, we do not know what to do? The questions were very complicated and not stated in the Lectures +So far it looks really cool +Great Course +Amusing and interesting course! +Absolute genial curse, really interesting for adquire new conceps and probably new ideas from this course... The teacher is really kindly and explain the things very very good, very friendly and easy to learn... Another important point is the data the techer leave at finish of each class, very interesting papers for read and learn... I liked a lot and I hope this techer and University will do another training similar to this... Thanks to all team for this impressive and interesting training... Thanks. +This course somehow made its way to my top priorities for the day. Also, this is not just a course -- it's like a collection of life works from Igarashi-sensei. Every lesson is a published paper, something that I aspire to do as I pursue further studies. +I will pay attention to this course and the instructor is awesome because ii was my wish to teach in University of Tokyo and i am now with this platform.Thank you so much. +Great course for introducing UIST works! +Its very educating . i got to learn new things . +I loved this course! All the topics covered are very interesting and educational! It certainly increased my awareness about the environment, cities, sustainable development etc. In addition to these, I managed to establish a technical background about environmental management. Thank you. +Superb and highly informati +This is a wonderful course. Improves on ones knowledge and gives one a new perspective on how to view the global challenges we have. +Very good material - good insight and coverage of many aspects of environmental management.Only critique would be to request more information on solutions in development to many of the problems - materials with solutions and or innovations currently available or up-and-coming.Super gode og indholdsrig materialer - Tusind tak for kursus! +Very nice combination and collection of case studies touching the most prominent environmental problems of today's world. It gives insight to the problems as well as solution to the environmental problems of our own locality. +Widespread precise in-formation, giving strenght to go ahead +A great insight into rural and urban management which could be greatly improved with more challenging (longer) assignments. Great video material and instructors, but I would have enjoyed writing and peer assessing more in-depth articles as opposed to condensing as much information as possible into a simple 200-400 words. +THE COURSE LACKS SUBSTANCE AND THE QUALITY OF A DANISH CENTER FOR HIGHER EDUCATION +It is a great course if you want to learn about environmental technologies and how they work in different places around the world. The experience from several professors of the DTU is condensed in easy to follow and understand videos. +The course gave me a general idea about environmental management. I've learned a lot from the examples and the process of finishing homework. Looking at others' homework also let me known more things happening in different countries and gave me lots of insights. I would recommend this course to friends who also interested in environmental management. +Global Environmenal Management has been an amazing and useful course. I learned new notions and I started to think about Environemental issues and concerns with more competence. Great course and teachers. +I really liked the structure of this course and the content was very clear and precise to understand. I want to thank all the professors that where involved in this lecture. I enjoyed every single one and it gave me an overview of the quality of the Master's programs offered by DTU Environment which I'm looking forward to start next Autumn. +The Open my eye to see what going on around the globe in regards to Environment and how to manage them.Thanks Guys! +Fantastic Course. +It was a good change to resest my mind set on a broader view of enviro management +I've learned a great deal from the course. Thanks for putting together these valuable insights and gathered so many experts in effectively delivering the course. Kudos to the team of DTU and Coursera. +I really enjoyed taking this course. It was interesting, interactive, and I loved how they featured different voices and perspectives in environmental management - it kept things interesting! Thanks for creating this course! +I just fell in love with the course from the first experience I had. Hoping to eventually rate it has 5 star +I liked the short videos and the country specific problems and solutions introductions. I have a BSc from this topic but still gave me some new informations, thank you! +Great Course!!! +This course gave me a new prospective about what's going on in environmental management around the world and in Scandinavian countries +There are all necessary information about how to start and conduct the research for essay writing. Very good. +I very like this cour +Amazing course +this course is one of my favorite course ever learnt , because it showed me the right way to master academic writing . +This course is really helpful to improve my research writing. +Excellent practical in Introduction to Research for Essay Writing +Great +Thank you very much! Very helpful course. It helped me understand the steps to write essays. +Great course ! +Thank you, thank you, thank you! I work as Software Program Manager at INTEL. You can imagine that to stay current I need to write articles and papers. This course is fantastic. It refreshed and taught me the up to date way to present a very professional work. +Thank you for helping learn to use userful research tools, suchas easybib, purdue owl, academic word list, etc. I became a better researcher! +very helpful instructrion +too simple +inspiring course, I loved it +This was better than the previous courses in that it gives more concrete information about where to find help in format and research needs. This makes it easier to apply and give feedback to other students. +İ think it will be great if this course was completely free +nice and great experience +Great course. I learned a lot.Too bad they still say they're verifying my assignments... no certificate so far.. :( +Great !!! +logical content and sweet voice +Excellent and very useful sources. +Thank you for the great course. I have learned a lot. +This was a very informative and useful course. It has improved my skills immenseley and I'm grateful for all the work that has been put into it. +Wonderful! In a fast and practical way, I master this English Academic Writing package so I feel ready and comfortable now to attend an Colege cases +This course is very important to students and researchers. Thank you you very much. +very useful +Very helpful for tips to improve my writing. Many thanks. +One of the best courses by Coursera, it significantly helps me increase my knowledge. +very fundamental. however, I do think it was a bit bold to state that on completion of the course that students would have the skills to write essays independently. Following the grading of some peer assignments, I would be concerned if that were still the case.Otherwise, I found some useful tools for writing in all the courses.Thank you. +Very good course, I cannot wait to complete the next course. +I'm still taking this course. As a masters student, I'm going to apply the knowledge to my dissertation. As a result, success is certain. +Clear, Concise, Effective.I recommend it everyone to join; it's indisputably worth finishing. +A stroke of genius! Well presented in short modules. +This course doesn't have any writing assignments. I appreciated it because it truly did help me understand the ins and outs of citations, which I needed to know in order to continue on with this course. I tend to get lazy and cute incorrectly because I never had the chance to learn how to do it in school. This professor is very understanding and straight to the point. It's what I need for this type of course. If you listen to the professor, it's no problem to pass the assignments and quizzes. +First, I would love to thank you for this unforgettable and amazing course. I don't know how to write a research before. Once I enrolled and participated in this course. I became familiar with Writing Research. Finally, Thank you so much. +I became confident in research for Essay writing after taking this rigours course. +This class setting is interesting. You cannot participate in assignments and quizzes unless pay for certificate. +Amazing course. I didn´t know nothing about papers´format and now I can do it by my own. +Another fantastic module by excellent tutor. +Very organized, gets you writing right away. +Very difficult !! +Thank you very much it helps a lot! The business phrases absolutely useful.Thanks Again! +great course +Enchanting and logical, Easy explanations of complicated terms. +very good basic course +Thank you very much, very interesting course, a lot of useful information. +A bit too trivial, though usefu +Very good course! +Very interesting look at the financial markets and institutions. It is particularly clear and well-explained for non-native speakers of Russian. +Great course! Understandable and very useful!Thank you, Nikolai Iosifovich! +Simple and at the same time deep enough feed. Very interesting and useful. +Excellent! Appreciate that. +Professor gives good working knowledge of Russian Financial market and basics of international financial markets. +Not simple, interesting course! Thank You Coursera! +Good course, but too Russia-centric, especially the first two weeks (I prefer a more general approach). The course answers mainly the question "how" (how are money borrowed, how is IPO organized), but not "why" (why do described regulations exist, why are they the way they are, who is benefiting from that?). +of course the best +Good teacher! +Very good professor. Everything is quite easy for understanding. Thank you! +That's just excellent!Very informative and uncluttered course, with many useful examples, especially for Russian business. +All the guests were women. Imagen if all the guests had been men!!! +It is such a good course to understand about the different areas of Historical Fiction +Excellent videos and reading material! Now I have more historical novels based on the recommendations done by the scholars! I hope a similar course is prepared presenting more authors! +This was a fantastic class. I learned a lot about writing historical fiction, and I was able to add several books to my already teetering TBR pile. Dr. Holsinger was an interesting professor and obviously loves the material. I would recommend this course to anyone who has an interest in history or historical fiction. +I loved to hear from the writers their own experience when writing a novel. So enlighting! +Excellent course for those taking the first steps into hi +Loved this course! +Enjoyed this. Lots of lectures by guest authors. +This was a carefully planned course that was very well taught and thoroughly enjoyable to study. I learned a great deal about historical fiction and it inspired me to carry on studying the genre once I had completed the course. +This course has a lot of extras in it and a lot of food for future thought. The teacher is fun to learn from and I enjoyed his enthusiasm and the joy he expressed in the subject. +A very interesting course with a fascinating subject I've been intrigued by for a while. It gave me many skills and techniques to think about as I attempt to eventually become a historical fiction writer myself someday. My only negative critique is that I wish it dealt with the witches and medieval aspects of the course in the beginning rather than towards the end. +Although I did not read the course description as well as I should have, this course was actually better for me than I expected. I wish to be a writer, so I take every course I can on writing. This one was exactly what is needed for someone who wants to write historical fiction. I'm not sure that I do, yet, however I am surely prepared if that is the way I want to go in the future.The videos were incredibly informative. I do plan to go back and take the rest of the weeks that are not necessary for the certificate. In fact, I'm headed there now. If you take this course, you will enjoy it very much! +A bit late, but this was a fascinating course. +Super wonderful class. Very educational and enjoyable. I collected more books after this class and re-read many of them. Recommend The Love Artist featured in one of the sessions. +Fantastic course with a enthusiastic, personable professor. It was fun and informative to hear the different viewpoints of the diverse authors as well as the relevant questions from the students in the seminar. +I rate it 5 stars because I love this course, and I haven't even started yet!! I'm excited for the video with Katherine Howe and Matthew Pearl, I have both of their books (The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane) and (The Dante Club) :) +Fantastic course!!! It was very interestic to learn the authors point of view +I really enjoyed this course, I understand better the literature +I personally enjoyed the course. However I was disappointed when I was told after week (3 or 5?) that I'd completed the course, when I in fact hadn't gotten to the end and had not done the final two assignments...? Regardless, I went ahead and finished the course, but I was also disturbed to see that some of the students did their assignments in a mockery fashion e.g. wrote song lyrics, or stated "I don't know what else to say so I will tell you about my day..." That was very irritating. The class wasn't described clearly in the catalog, I thought it would be more of a history of the periods plus literature, but it wasn't exactly that... Instead it was a discussion of techniques and prose, and exhibiting truly talented authors. I liked the class, just not what I expected. +Amazing course! I haven't expected it to be so fascinating and interesting! I've learned not only about the genre itself, but also about so many books I can't wait to read! The ability to hear the authors and to learn their perspective on both on their own work and on the historical fiction itself is priceless!Thank you for this opportunity! +Fun course I feel I learned a lot. +Great course!! +Great course! Wonderful speakers and professor! +Fascinating and useful information that I'll use as I work on a novel set in the 19th century. +A good introductory course to historical fiction and the mechanics of writing it. +This course was just what I was looking for, being a budding historical fiction writer myself. It made me authenticate that I was doing mostly everything right so far. I have three complete novels in my treasure trove and three as work in progress. Bringing in authentic authors of historical fiction gave me first hand tips, and precious insight into the experiences of real life writers just like me, who take true pleasure in what they do, and do best. I would indeed appreciate a sequel to this well put together course; the sooner the better! Congratulations, Professor Holsinger! Thank you, University of Virginia! P.S. I could do with a complimentary Certificate of Accomplishment, though. +This course is really interesting and taught me a lot about different historical novels! Glad I did it! +Informative and interesting -- fun class to take. +This course was very helpful and I have learned a lot. +Exceptional experience. I enjoyed the entire course. This was my first real sojourn into the genre and now I'm hooked. Thank you, very much, for sharing this quality education. Be Well. +Excellent class. Learned so much and was my favorite of the three classes I took this last month on coursera. +I liked the curse a lot. However, I would consider some more gradings throughout the course, not just the few. Otherwise people lose their interest +Comprehensive, useful and interesting. +Lovely course for historical fiction enthusiast. There's a wonderful reading list required to read as well as multiple guest speakers besides the professor to help explain more about the genre. +Very informative. Kept my attention throughout the lectures. And at my little UVA, too. Loved most all of it. Keep up the good work. +Incredible course! +Extremely well done. Offers a great reading list. Videos including author interviews add significantly to the course content. +Amazing teacher, great course, good balance and variety of books.I hope there's a Part 2, I'd do that in a heartbeat! +I am about the end of the course and it was an amazing journey, I will slowly finish the rest of the lessons in the future as I wanted to watch the conversations and dialogues with the authors after having read the books, to better appreciate them. +A very interesting course. Only negative thing is that some of the authors are not very good at leading a lecture, and seem to stumble in their words a lot. +I really like the visiting writer seminars -- they were the best part +This course was great. It is obvious that it was carefully planned and laid out. The visiting scholars were a great opportunity to not only learn about historical fiction and what kind of research is done, it's also was a great way to learn the process of writing. The necessary text that ought to have been taught was given carefully, without suffocating the student. It was fun and knowledgeable class. I would recommend this class highly to anyone who is really interested in literature and fiction! +learned a lot so far, even the quizzes are intelligent +The best course I've viewed on Coursera by far. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in fiction of any kind. +Great course. I loved the seminars with the different authors. The course was fun and interesting and the professor was knowledgeable and easy to listen to. +This was a fascinating experience. I learned a lot, and found a lot of new writers I now love to read. +I really enjoyed this course. It was my first one in Coursera and it was very helpful to do it at my own pace. I found very useful advice regarding sources and research strategies. The seminars were very good and also the conversations. The sound could be improved but having subtitles helps to overcome the technical issues. Thank you. +Great class and i learned so much about history +xcellent teacher +I learnt a lot. The teachers could have been more engaged and interact with the studetns in turns, though. +Great class, thank you for teaching us about all those great works of Literature. It was really enjoyable to listen to you and your students! +This was a very interesting course that brings together different and unexpected sources and ties them with Tolkien's classic narrative in ways that help you gain new perspectives on LOTR, but also on modern and classic works of art, books, games. +This course was incredible! Jay is such a passionate instructor and the course materials between literature, gaming, and narrative are so engaging. The only thing I wish is that I could have been present for the discussions! +I am really grateful for the course that gave me the idea and theorethical background to create a transmedia experience with my daughters around the Hobbit and Lotro +very special course, combines; literature, gaming, lord of the rings, creative writing structures,rarely do i find a course so specifically right for me it could have been personally tailored for me.simply mind blowing. +The Course itself is fun. The videos are enjoyable. The subject matter is great. However the quizzes are way to hard. They ask to many questions with multiple answers and the online student is expected to know so much more materials that is probably taught in the actual class, and does not have access to. For that it becomes frustrating. Especially that the material is not easy to digest. +Loved it. A pleasure from start to finish. Jay Clayton is so clearly in love with what he teaches that you cannot resist being pulled along for this ride. I gained a great deal of knowledge on the construction of stories and how they've evolved across the years, from books, to painting, to video games. +Fun and engaging course with a lot of material I would have otherwise not looked into. I made so many friends and have a deeper appreciation for Tolkien and LOTRO than I did before this course! I highly recommend this to anyone looking to take a course that can truly be informative and fun at the same time. +A very enjoyable course that shows art can be appreciated in many forms, people of all walks of life and ages enjoy online games and that you can be anything you want with a little imagination.The course videos are a series of discussions between the course tutor and his team of young enthusiasts. Its an unusual method and one I thought was lively and entertaining. +Exceptional course that explores the remediation of books, narrative, and other artwort like paintings into MMOs. The discussed example is Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and the games "Lord of the Rings Online".The support is outstanding on Coursera as well as in the game. Several servers are home to course accompanying groups who offer support and guidance with course related in-game assignments and the game itself.Great fun, great people, great content. +Although I’m not really a gamer, I took the first session of this course since I was studying art and computer science in school, and I thought this course would give me some insights as to what decisions people make when they design a computer game based on a well-known existing story, and as to how art and technology are integrated into the overall game design. It certainly did! And I found it so engrossing that I’ve continued to play LOTRO ever since. +A fascinating course for those who love games, digital narrative, and literature.The course materials are done with love and it shows: the videos are fantastic, clear, entertaining and well paced.The course revolves around Lord of the Rings (in its iterations of books, films and videogame), but discussion about art, literature, gaming and narrative in general is encouraged.The community is supportive, helpful and very friendly, in the forums and in the game, so those who are new to gaming but are interested in the course have no reason to shy off! +Excellent, informative, and fun! +An interesting course for anyone who likes lord of the rings online, fantasy (modern and presents), literature, video games, and/or movies! It's the ultimate combination for maximum nerddom! +This was just a life-changing perspective-changing course for me. I have always loved Tolkien and have a background in literature and theatre. However I had always thought of LOTR as genre fiction and not "serious" literature. Studying it in the context of English Romantic quest narratives and poems changed my perspective. Beyond that, the world of online gaming was opened to me. I had viewed games from a distance with fascination but they missed my generation and so I had never dived in. As a newbie gamer over 60, it WAS a steep learning curve but I loved the challenge and the community I met in the game. Such a lively and nice bunch of people. I don't know what I did with my time before. +Loved, loved, loved this course! +very comprehensive course. I recommend this course for everybody +Very Interesting and valuable . +I have enjoyed this course. It presented the one-health concept very clearly and what its aims are which were particularly interesting especially for me who is interested in antimicrobial resistance research. However, some improvements could be made. The presenters with accents / non-English speakers were a bit difficult to follow and the transcripts were somewhat inaccurate so it would be go to have proper transcription in that regard. Thank you. +This is a wonderful course and I would definitely recommend it to others. The amount of work and time that went in to creating this comprehensive and diverse course is extremely impressive. All the speakers were extremely informative and thought-provoking. Its great to be a part of a course that has so many passionate individuals devoted to the health of the planet. Thanks so much for a great course! +Great intro to probability concepts and Karl is a very personable and interesting teacher +Very cool course let me dive into probability from very different traditional Math Formula perspective, and give me many chances as I can to apply what I learned into real application. I will definitely recommend this course to any other people. +Excellent course and the instructor is doing a great job. +an excellent course. Congratulations and thanks to Prof. Schmedders and his team +A useful refresher of my university courses. Thanks. +A very nice introduction. The instructor shows a lot of enthusiasm for the subject. The exercises help reinforce the material. +Clear explanations, funny stories, and simple and useful calculations. +Easy to understand, funny, straightforward, and taught in such a way that it is immediately clear as you are learning how these skills can be used in the real world. I highly recommend this course to anyone seeking to learn about the fundamentals of probability, even those who don't use the subject in their career or lives.My only bit of criticism would be that the course relies on intermittent checks for understanding as the sole criterion for passing the course rather than longer, broader problem sets. I would love to see more in the way of rigorous exams and projects. But I suppose that's what more advanced courses are for! If this course is intended to be a gentle introduction to the broad subject with the understanding that students will follow up with more advanced coursework as necessary, they have certainly succeeded admirably at that goal. +Well narrated, really easy to understand. A hundred percent will recommend to my friends. Thank you Professor! +Excellent approach to explaining the theory. The emphasis on getting the fundamentals right was a welcome change from other similar courses which get into problem solving mode too soon without clarifying the basics. That being said the usage of multiple real world problems like Monty Hall, Prosecutor's Dilemma and the brilliant explanation for solutions helped me derive great clarity on key concepts. The best Coursera course I have encountered in a while. +This course is great. Karl is really smart and funny. I hope he makes more courses. Thanks Karl!ps. I thought I had already rated it, but don't see my star count and it deserves every star! +This short course offers informative and fun real world examples. +Good introduction to key concepts. Wish I had taken this course before I had started other Stat Courses on Coursera. +Very easy to follow!And very nice exercises. +Funny and Intuitive explanations. +Very interesting introduction to probabilities.Satisfactorily explained and quite enjoyable. +Very good introduction to probability, the concepts were really well explained, I wish there was a sequel to this course covering other subjects in statistics. I highly recommend this course for absolute beginners. +Professor Schmedders succeeds in giving a very intuitive exposition of the basics of probability, eschewing most formulas while still covering many of the key concepts needed for studying probability and statistics. He has great enthusiasm for the material and injects just the right amount of humor into the course, so the lectures are never boring.The course would serve as a good "taster" of what probability is all about for those unfamiliar with the subject, or as a warmup or refresher in preparation for more technical courses. +I want to thank and congratulate Prof. Karl, José and all the people involved in the development of the course for this incredible series. The lectures of Karl were outstanding, very clear, direct to the point, with concrete examples to erase any doubts. The exercises with José helped me reinforce the concepts learned with Karl, not to mention the real world applications (the most enjoyable part for me), which also were very interesting and were the main reason the course got me hooked.To be honest, I had already taken a probability course many years ago but this was definitely better. Now I realize I hadn´t fully understood key concepts until now and I´m sure that in the future I won´t forget them easily.If anything I would suggest adding another application to the Bayes´ Theorem: Bayesian Networks for Artificial Intelligence.Thanks again and I really really look forward to take another course on a related subject with you guys. +Very nice and entertaining courseSometimes the quizzes can be a bit frustrating. They could be set better.Also, often the quizzes are very trivial. +I have been looking for a stats course to unlock further learning. This was it! I found the pace, content style worked for me to allow me to proceed on other courses. Yes, I 'hated' stats when younger and feared it. But I am more comfortable and eager to learn more now and put into practice the extensions I am now able to move on to. Thank you. +I wish this course never ends. +i am pleased to learn this +Very good and interesting course, and thank you for writting subs in my native language. Дякую! +Beautiful course. Pity that in our university do not teach like here. +I really appreciate the approach which was taken to present such a delicate topic, but still there are some mistakes which shouldn't had happened. Like the year of Einstein's death according to common known history is not 1995. Also, many times, English subtitles are not correct, I have a feeling that machine has done it. Sometimes there is no understanding of content just the closest word to the sound produced was used. In any case, it is worth of my time, I will recommend it. Students are also provides with plenty of additional materials and when one has more time can study +This is the best course I've ever taken!! +Exploration of the darkest shadow ever cast in human history by impeccable scholars on the subject. Now we need to extrapolate this information widely so that the human psyche is exposed in our modern world and the ghost of all these dehumanized victims will forever triumph over their oppressors. +I found it really interesting and super fun :) +great class and i learned so much +Interactive course which allows one to see multiple perspectives of the entirety of the Holocaust. The different countries, societies, and places are explored. The outside resources are great as well, from the photos, to the diaries, to the other speakers. It is a well rounded overview. Highly recommended. +Thank you for this wonderful and scholarly course examining the Holocaust and Nazi Germany's actions. +Thanks very much. +Painfully accurate, thoughtful and thought provoking, analytical. Clearly partial; but then it is intended so to be. +Great course! +Terrific summary analysis of the Holocaust. +I learned so much in this class. It really opened up my eyes and my perspective on the happenings during WWII. I never knew how desperate the Jewish population was to have somewhere, anywhere to call home. I was really surprised by the role, of lack thereof, of the United States. I saw so many instances where the USA had a chance to step in and stop the madness that was going on but they chose to turn the other way. People are so quick to say how great FDR was but I beg to differ for a variety of issues on how he dealt with race and religion. +Very complete and objective course, in a very difficult and painful matter +As a language instructor, this course helped me immensely with my professional development and ability to relate to Russian business clients. This course content was thoroughly prepared, superb regarding strategies in video lectures and duo interviews, as well as readings. With the challenging geopolitics, I highly recommend that Coursera continue to offer this course. With better knowledge and understanding comes a better world! +Very good course. Lot of practical information after first 2-3 weeks. If only the method would have had tiny bit more variation, such as animations, video analysis, case studies, maybe more expert visitors etc. it would have been even better and more durable in long run. But all in all, highly recomended. +I learned many things from this lecture! Not just the information about the history itself, but also how those graphic designer in late era came out with ideas. Their thinking, their purpose, their effect and inspiration to the new designer. Great! +Nice and informative +This is such a remarkable course and is indispensable for every aspiring graphic artist as well as enthusiast. It covers the remarkable trends in graphic design from past and how those trends permeated into contemporary practices in design. Thanks a lot to California Institute of the Arts and Coursera for developing and offering such a wonderful course with a blend of design philosophies and insights into hands on practice. +Week 4 - too much of materials, and test questions does not match the text +This course is very informative and inspiring. +Solid, if minimal introduction to some points from the History of Graphic Design. +Excellent introduction to applied visual research. *Ideas from the History of Graphic Design* opened my mind and got me super excited about the usefulness, in fact the necessity of strong visual research. I've found reading design history interesting before, but this course and the assignments helped me make the leap from merely looking for ideas to actual design thinking, with visual research as a core methodology. +Really well constructed course on some premises, tendencies and movements relevant for the History of Graphic Design. For someone who hasn't had formal design education and is seeking for some knowledge in this area, this is the perfect approach. +An excellent intro to the subject. +amazing course great teachers ! +great reviewing of the different trends in graphics design history and the related marketing, great approach. i really enjoyed the course. +Eloquent and inspiring. You'll want to read more on your own. +The course was well structured; and provided opportunity to seek and learn more on the topics dicussed +The most important point for me was to understand where I can find references to produce a better work in Graphic Design, to know sources of inspiration or even movements.Thanks for making this course and share it with people that love learning and overall love graphic design. +It's good to have a background on the history of Graphic Design. Historical and Contemporary References and what their differences helps me when designing a brand/logo/logotype +Very well-designed course with comprehensive information for each week. The content of this course is superb, but as a non-native English speaker, sometimes I find it difficult to catch up with the long sentences in the video and have to go back to the transcript. +It was definitely an eye-opening course for someone who only knew how graphic design works and none of the history behind it. +Great course! Definitely a must-visit for anyone interested in graphic design. Even though I am myself a practising graphic designer for about five years now, I did learn quite a lot of interesting and, most important, useful information there. Highly recommend it. +I learnt quite alot about design luminaries. Would prefer if it was truely global but still a very interesting course +Loved this course! Super interesting content and motivating lecturers! Awesome! +I learnt so many things in this course and it has given me a new perspective when looking at graphic design. Through thus course I have learnt the importance of looking at the history of graphic design and learning from other designers. +A concise course with very meaningful visual contents. English spoken in a very understandable way, even for a non-native speaker. +Great stuff. Thank you! +Thanks for intresting courses! +Very informative and helpful. +Very interesting course. Would love to see an advanced course that explores more history of graphic design. Much fun! +Interesting course. I reccomend it for people who want to knew some valuable information about history of design. It start from XIX century and move to XX century, but not to the end. It would be great if you will made a new course with new era of design with internet and modern devices. +very informative +I learn a lot, thank you ! +I really enjoyed this class and thought it was very useful for learning about the importance of historical events that contribute to how we design graphics today. +I really like it, even it took long time for me to submit week 4 assignments before the dead line.I really wonder if calart afford an online graphic design degree.Thanks. +I would like to have more materials. See more work, read/listen about more design movements. +I learned a lot about the history of graphic design through this course and I really enjoyed the research assignments which encouraged us to delve more deeply into the history, the changes, and the ideas behind so many designs. +A great course. Taking the specialization and this course fit right in with the other courses I have taken in the graphic design specialization. Recommend this to everyone interested in graphic design. Instructors were good. Enjoyed the course. +The tutoring quality are over the top teaching with well done mentoring and high quality materials. But I felt a lack of coverage of other graphic design of other cultures such as other countries where many ideas were born. ie: Africa and Asia. +This course has a great overview of the history of graphics design.The assignments are really fun to do.You will think and research about ads that are reiterations of the 19th century ads.A great course for those interested in the field. +Very nice overview how trends and tastes changed over time, finalizing in a project targeting a particular sub-culture. I learned something. +It is a powerful tool for anyone interested on Visual Arts. The way this course is designed and curated, allows the student to expand the scope of the matter and get some inspiration to pursue his own sources of knowledge. Good work! +Interesting and fun to watch. Not so practical as other courses in the Specialisation but definitely good to know. +Fun and very interesting. It has lifted the veil from a lot of things that were all around me in society and yet were transparent to me prior to this course. +Great content. There is a lot to learn from this course. Excellent lectures. +The course being concentrated exclusively on the design ideas of United States, it's quite literally "some ideas from the history of graphic design". Some of the choices for the contents of the course were, from the continental point of view, rather odd, though that did not make them any less interesting. As a summary: the course was interesting enough to be passed through. +Useful intro to the history of graphic design. The quizzes could have been more challenging though or involved doing more independent research on some of the graphic design periods discussed. +Loved it and all the examples the teachers put into it, as well as the organization and evolution of themes. Big thank you to the teacher ladies. I learned a lot and enjoyed the lessons very much. +Its been a great course, many info and points that are fantastic in the learning or adding new knowledge always. I will always recommend this course for those who want to know more and learn design. +Great Course！ +A really good course, it even help me with some classes in university! +Super cours ! It is very interesting ! enjoy! +Very Informative! +Great class! learned a lot about the history of design and how the techniques are still being used today +Great course!! very insightful! +Great course! +It was very interesting to know this different periods and specific designer's works. I was surprised to know Sister Corita, her work is awesome. And the assignments were another very nice way to know other cultures and points of view. +Clear pattern of graphic design history! +very informative course, it's very good to know the inspiration of contemporary art cultures. it opens up more creativity and out of the box thinking for new artists like me. Thank you +i hatehistory as a subject but i love this course. some great ideas from the past still being used today +Nice overview of graphic design history, I learned some new things, broadened my historical background, and had assignments that tied it back into contemporary design. +I love it! +I loved how straight forward and informative this course was. I have such a stronger appreciation for what we see as design today! +Liked the course. I would love to learn even more about the History of Graphic Design now)) +Great course! Interesting & very well put together. Thank you! +Really informative and interestingly conveyed. Thank you. +I definitely recommend this course! +Excellent teachers, course and specialization. +Informative and sometimes fascinating. +Good start for learning History of GD. +This course is very well explained and very interesting. The assignments are simple and still bring a lot into the learning process. +This course is +This course gave me a lot of important information about the birth and rise of the Graphic Design as a stand alone profession. It was a great opportunity to fulfil my knowledge. +This course is superb! Thank you for offering it here. +Really interesting and useful. Although some more information about the more post-modern approaches would be also great. +I enjoyed studying history for the first time in my life. It is really insightful to see how design has evolved and still has influences from the past. +Pretty good for such a short course - interesting ideas and exposure to new concepts. Thanks! +Although this course is rich in content, it lacks a lot of perspective around The History of Graphic Design, since it only talks from the american point of view. +This is a very important course in understanding the history of graphic design. Good job to the creators of this course. +Very informative and full of fun facts +the first module root grows the tree (history) GD +The course is very well-structured, and makes it a pleasure both to learn and work on assignments. There are a lot of examples from the history of graphic design - a huge field of potential inspiration for the ones working in the graphic design field! +An excellent course for those who know more.Very well presented, quite easy to understand. +its really an awesome course for all. +Very nice and illuminating course +This was a very interesting and informative addition to this specialization. I loved the lecturer's style, and found this to be one of my favourite offerings so far. Very much looking forward to the capstone course and project. +Amazing class, very interesting in terms of content -you learn a lot about the History of Graphic Design- and a great reflection on graphic design today. The assignments were all clever and insightful.I really recommend it for anyone in the graphic design business, whether you're starting out or have been in the industry a while! +Really great and thorough content. A wonderful introduction to the dense and exciting history of design. +Really enjoyed this course and would love to indulge in more activities and information on the history of Graphic Design. +Love the class a lot of great information and history. +it gives a good understanding of graphic design evolution from post second WW to contemporary time. Very focused on American design. +Interesting course! +Very good course where you get a short summary of modern graphic design, from the industrial revolution until the late 70s +Too example based course but indeed very interesting for exploring the ages of graphic design hitory +Good information given. Thanks. +A more theoretical Cours that I really enjoyed and made me search for different artists. I started researching more and discovered how valuable this can be. Thank you for all the resources. +Great course!! Thank you, Coursera!!! +A nice introductory course.However, I found the latter half of the course too skewed towards the USA. +This course is about nothing, it is poor illustrated and uninformative. The lecturer's manner is anno +Excellent presentation, engaging content, interesting and relevant assignments and quizes. +The theory part can be reduced and practical portion (AXA IM's speakers) needs to be added, especially on more advanced topics +This Course is very complete and concise with very interestering extra materials and website links for those who are interested. It gave me a deep understanding of the asset management industry and was a great help for me when I started my internship as portfolio manager assistant. I can say without reserve that it is one of the best course I have taken.Thank you HEC and AXA IM for this wonderful online course. +Very interesting course but also very technical. I'd rather say it is not made for someone who has no basics in 'advanced' mathematics. Nevertheless, I have learnt many useful things and I have now a great outlook on the asset management world. +Worth doing it +This course helped me, an engineer, to get an insight into the financial world especially into the investment management. +Great course overall. However it does not go deep enough into its topic. Would have been nice to have more challenging excel exercices. +Useful and realistic +Excellent course. Very complete and gives a great overview of the asset manag +The course topics are great and I have to admit that I learned a lot during this course. The provided materials are good, but in my opinion sometimes not enough to be able to answer some of the questions in the tests. I had to spend some time researching the web to work out some of the problems. This per se is definitely not bad (it rather resembles real life), but all the other courses I have taken on Coursera and other platforms provide enough material and/or explanations to be able to work out all the problems without needing to look it up somewhere else.The problem-solving issue also has to do, to a certain extent, with the formulation both of some questions and answers, which in some cases can be understood in different ways because a key word is missing or is wrong, usually prepositions. I am aware of the fact that the course creators are not native English speakers, but, when formulating questions and answers, they should take the time to check their formulations for grammar and correctness (I am sure there would be no mistakes if the course were in French :) ).I posted a couple of questions on the forums and, sadly, never received an answer. Neither from fellow students, nor from the course moderators. Certainly the fellow students do not have any obligation to reply to questions, and I usually would say the course moderators don't either. But I am paying for this certificate and I therefore expect some kind of support. I am sure the course moderators are very busy and do not have time to be browsing around the question forums every day, but so am I. And taking a look in the forums once a week or so wouldn't hurt. Let me also point out, that the 2 questions I posted are THE ONLY questions in the forums, so it's not as if the moderators would be overwhelmed by the amount of questions posted. After my second question, I knew I was all by myself. From other courses I know that course moderators chime in once in a while on questions that have not been answered by fellow students and when no fellow student seems to be able to find or provide a correct answer.The course is good, and you will learn a lot. If it weren't for the lack of support in the forums, I would give it 4 or maybe even 5 stars, depending on the responses I would receive.Either way, enjoy the course!! I really did, even if it may not sound like it :) +A really down-to-earth and interesting approach to investment management. Highly recommended. +it really difficult but it worth it! +A well designed course that is highly recommended to anyone interested in an investment management career. The practical insights provided by professionals at AXA Investment Managers add great value to the course. +Excellent theoretical view and very good exposure to real life excel modeling +Well prepared, and organised. I really appreciated that real life professionals could share their experiences. We need more of these courses! +I am really enjoying the course. A lot more practical than other courses I have taken. It would be good to have an option to submit assignments and purchase the certificate at the end rather than the current way. Hope Courser will take this into consideration. +Interesting course, even though it covers only topics relating to investment management within a portfolio and math formulas could be better explained using more concrete examples.But for anyone who has not a finance degree and wants to acquire knowledge in this field, it's definitely worth it! +Great content and interesting guest speakers! +OK, you can learn a few things getting into this course and it's still available for free on the platform so thanks for that!However and most of all, you can sense that this is more of an advertising campaign for AXA IM than an investment course per se... During the 4 modules, you're basically repeated over and over again that Active Management (ie. Investment Managers) tend to overperform and that you should have one manager.There's even the overall 1st part of Module 4 that is dedicated on how to select a manager...There are some great insight related to portfolio allocation but not much explanations. A major point that I would have liked to hear about is how to come up with the risk aversion criteria... Many parts of the course relate to external videos available on Youtube.If you're going to advertise on such a platform as Coursera please don't make it too much about the advertising and more about learning... (for example: Melbourne University Specialization). +An excellent and an outstanding course. In 4 weeks, you go through a lot of material. The Honors mode in this course, is worth it. Do the Honors - dont miss it.Professor Hugues Langlois of HEC Paris and others from AXA Investment Managers have done a great job in explaining the concepts and mathematical formulas.I recommend this course to investment managers, bankers and students who are interested to know more about Investment Management as a subject and a field you may want to work in. +Good instructors, well explanation and can apply for real world. +It is a good course +Nice brief lectures with good market applications.The lectures were relevant to real market places examples.Keep it up HEC Paris.Shaban +This is a fantastic course about the basics of Investment Management. While it is an introductory course, it does not shy away from some basic maths and includes some very interesting and instructive spreadsheet exercises. The quality of the presentations, subtitles and slides is outstanding. The quizzes are challenging but always within the content of the lectures. I strongly recommend this course to anybody interested in investment management who is not afraid of some basic maths. Moreover, I strongly encourage the team, that organised this MOOC, to create more specialized and in depth courses, maybe even a Specialization. +Great insight on the Investment Management industry. +The videos did cover the basic theories behind all the methods for portfolio management however they were just basic theories with no explanation on how to practically implement them and then asking us who only understand the theories from the videos to suddenly try to solve the calculation quizzes especially those excel calculations without any practice on how to implement them beforehand. Besides the videos only showed the formulas with no example at all! Very disappointed with the course... This course is not recommended for those who have zero or little experience in the field.. +Useful. However this course was very complicated and had way too much math for my taste. +Great +Very informative and interesting. T +Course design and objective of the course is good but the assignments were of sub-standard and can be really worked out to be better. +Great Capstone, that gives you the opportunity to put in use all the knowledge from the other 4 courses. +The culmination of the Essentials of Corporate Finance certification is challenging, immersive and engaging. The 4 weeks of the courses are following the adventures of 3 stereotypically funny bankers spread on 4 days. I would definitely recommend this specialization. +Great course! +It's more or less a repetition of what you've learned in all the courses, tying four peer-reviewed assignments together into a somewhat contrived "project". Not bad, but doesn't really add much value to the courses before. +I super enjoyed the course. I learned a lot of things in patient safety. The course was very well-designed. It fit my time and very useful in the setting where I am working. This will be very helpful in nourishing my patient safety culture. +Dear Dr. Fred,Thank you for sharing your personal experience. I enjoyed this enjoy material and the final assignment grading was just now foxed after several months of waiting. That was the only drawback for the course. I do not think that neither the instructor or learner should have to take additional time to troubleshoot platform issues.Best,Pezhman Tehranpour +Great course and very informative and it pushed my passion to improve healthcare further. +Fantastic course for those interested in safety and quailty of healthcare +Great course. Very helpful and informative. +I learned a lot about the humane perspective on healthcare delivery and how to have the proper bedside manner for your patients. +Excellent Course with a great potential to impact the health system(s) out there.Bless you Dr. Fred! +Good general change management strategies as they relate to a complex health care environment +Fantastic course! i learned a lot. +Thanks very much Fred! I really liked the content of your course, it really made me aware of how important it is to be a leader in the Health Care Environment, and how important it is to build quality with all the participants, including the patient. +Totally Love It!! +A wonderful and resourceful course that could not have been for a better time. +Lovely course. Although I was familiar with many of the discussed topics , it was an insightful course that presented comprehensive information in a professional yet an easy way to understand. Thanks for the university and the professor to provide such course with such quality . +Excellent course. I have enjoyed and learned a lot. Thanks +Outstanding overview of health care quality improvement and safety. +This was a very interesting course. It is very encouraging to see a physician willing to try to change the way that healthcare is delivered and practiced.It is long overdue. It will be, I believe, an uphill battle. We must all do what we can to facilitate this change.The first thing we can all do is to become more knowledgeable about the human body and our and our loved ones particular health issues.I would love to see a followup to this course in a year or two to see what progress has been made at the University of Florida and other institutions across the country. +this course is helping me A lot to learn new things about healthcare . like tps etc, i love this course, it helps a lot even in our job in healthcare +Dr. Fred is an exceptional instructor and has an incredible drive to fix the loopholes in the US health care system. I would recommend this course without reservation to anyone who works in any field that affects our health care system, even if their only interaction with the health care system is as a patient. +Dr. Fred is really one of a kind. This course is brilliant and provides great insight on the healthcare system overall. It is a very "humanized" course due to Dr. Fred personal experience with potential errors that may occur caused by their "colleagues". +I am not connecting to the instructor at all. The material is well managed and organized but I am not able to really hear or understand. Further, my connection to the site is disturbing. In this and a couple of other courses, the video lectures jump around and begin in the middle of the lecture. Between these two issues, I am not having a good experience with this course. I live in the US and have graduate degrees in public health . +best instructor I have seen ever +I am so impressed with the content of this course as it pertains to how applicable it is to my health care setting. I work as a charge nurse in a small hospital in St Lucia and I can identify. Keep up the good work all. +It was good, but I would be happy to see more videos. +Loved it +Great ! +This is by far one of the best courses I've done at Coursera. It served the purpose I had in mind, as a practical review of many basic human services process and proceedures. I recommend it for both the induction to and review of these fundmentals. +Thank You! +A very useful course for anyone who has involvement in helping to provide care for the elderly. +I went in, just bored... My mother had actually influenced me in taking courses... Little would I know,I would be stupid obsessed with this +This course is absolutely phenomenal. I learned a great deal about a wide range of topics, such as the diversity of indigenous groups in Canada, the history of colonisation and its ongoing negative impacts on indigenous communities, and the struggles currently faced by indigenous communities and individuals.I would recommend this course to anyone. I want to thank the course creators for sharing their knowledge and insight concerning these important topics. +This is an essential course for all Canadians and even Americans. We settler descendants need this course. +I loved that this course offered WRITTEN and VIDEO lessons. I find it difficult to learn by just watching a video. By doing some of the learning by reading and re-reading, I absorbed more.Quizes are also another modality that works well. Quick to do, easy to score, inexpensive to administer, both teacher and learner can assess student learning very quickly.I wish all Coursera programs included more than one methodology for learning. Video is fine, but it isn't the best for everyone, and it isn't the only way to teach things. Many Coursera program rely too heavily on video as their only teaching tool. There are something like 12 or 14 modalities for teaching students. Thank you for using more than one way. I especially liked your reading materials. +Great introduction to a vast and living history; so much to learn! +Excellent course! Ideal for anyone wanting a broad introduction and historiography of the people(s) indigenous to Canada. +Thank you to all our SUPERB PROFESSORS.This class is so very unique & so moving.Just fell in love with our FIRST NATION. +Great course. It is well structured, comprehensive, the lecturers are very clear and the interviews with members of the respective courts are very interesting (it's great to have an inside look!) If you're interested in the topic you won't be disappointed. +I learned a lot from this course and I would definitely be back for further review. +Thank you all instructors & teachers ! +its amazing, The tutors are very qualified, the information is clear. +Very well-structured lectures which gives general but nevertheless full understanding of the topic. Good examples from court practice were needed. Interesting interviews with people working at international courts. Great course! +Great Course! I would love to take a specialization of international law, sort of like a Master of International Law certificate (MILC) rather than a LLM which is an official degree title from many universities. International Law in Action should be the first two course needed to complete the International Law Specialization. +The course is comprehensive and the lecture materials are useful and special! Thank you for such a nice course ! +It was very interesting, thank you for your work on this course! +It is not free. They just sell the certificates. There is not any free statement about accomplishment of the course, so nobody will knows that you have completed it. In the future you have not got anything to show in your CV.I want my Statement of Accomplishment. +This is a very well put together course on the International Courts at the Hague. The lectures are concise and to the point whilst at the same time providing depth and insight into the history, work and prospects of the ICJ, the PCA and the ICC. Very informative and thought provoking. I feel inspired to continue expanding my knowledge in the topic. Would recommend to both students and professionals. +The course itself was well designed and presented, however, there was sometimes too much information included in each sentence for someone who was unfamiliar with the topic. I had to watch several of the videos more than twice in order to note down and clarify the information that was presented. Also, some of the quizzes included information that was briefly mentioned in the videos but not clearly elaborated resulting in some confusion when it was time to complete the evaluation. +Too much emphasis on irrelevant fact-repeating (eg date a convention was signed) rather than content and implications of the content for practice. +Brilliantly constructed course which gives you the overview over the working of the International Courts in a Bird's eye perspective. Impressive faculty and presentation of data, as well as informative interviews with other relevant personnel of the International Chambers. +I loved this course. Videos are very clear and well structured that for me (with non-law degree) was very easy to follow and systemize my knowledge. Thank you very much. +A great course with a very good overview on the international courts and tribunals of the hague and is very helpful to the better understanding of internationals tribunals specially for law students in their first years. +The fact that knowledgeable people have put together such a programme is a very high score. Secondly the rate and pace at which the videos and lecture notes have put together and presented is a high score. The supplementary readers, some of which can be downloaded and studied at oe's own pace is very laudable. The end of week test is well structured and no matter how you might have read and viewed the videos, one still need some time to grasp everything. The end of course examinations recieve very high score from me +The course was extremely informative with a holistic perspective on the functioning of various international courts as well as special courts addressing international law issues. +Fantastic guide to understant what is behind international law field. +The course is rather interesting. However it is worth mentioning that the course is very initial introduction without detailed materials in the topic! +This course was very good and i hope to see you in leiden university in summer school. thank you +Wonderful course; quote interesting and insightful. Highly recommended! +Very informative and interesting course. +nice introduction to intl courts. well done materials, videos, etc. good teachers, thank you so much! +Awesome .. Thank you Very Much +Excellent videos and reference material. Discussion threads disappointing. Not very much reply to discussion. never mind! Thank you !!! +One of the best classes I've ever engaged in. Clarity is exceptional and the questions are direct and to the point. Thank you, Professors of Law at the University of Leiden. Definitely interested in applying to a possible PH.D program. +A basic and excellent introduction to International Law +Great course! Looking forward to completing the next part of it! +This course is very informative and gives the student a very good understanding of the International Courts and Tribunal in The Hague. I will definitely recommend this course for any person who has an interest in International Courts or who wish to pursue a career in International Law. +The best cours of the world!!! +The course is excellent for beginners in international law +Interesting course but was expecting something sligtly different. +Basic understanding. Recommend to those under graduate students. +Complete, well done! I really have appreciated video lessons and peer review work! I have enrolled also in the next course on the International Criminal Law. +Excellent course! I have learnt a lot about international justice tribunals, arbitration and international law. Highly recommended for general knowledge and for law students. +Very well. I recommand. Thank you for this course. +Fantastic Course, taught wonderfully well by the three extraordinary instructors. A definite to do for an introductory understanding of the international legal system. +academically useful +Very Interesting and highly recommended to Law aspirants. +Great Course, totally recomended +The lecture were prominent to learn the International Law as well as to get to know the ICJ roles. +It was a fantastic education on basics of International law for the students like us who are from developing nation and have no access to quality education. +Excellent introduction to the International courts system. More details on Investor-State Arbitration or perhaps a course exclusively on the topic would be great! +Thank you Coursera, thank you Leiden for this wonderful course. +All tribunals and courts in the Hague are mentioned in this course but the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. +A very good short overview! +Very interesting, very thorough. Cannot wait till Part Two arrives! +I recommend this course to everybody, it is very complete and the teachers are amazing. you will learn all about the International Courts and Tribunals in The Hague. +Excellent course. It provides a comprehensive overview of the International Courts, and the role they +I really enjoyed this course... for those of us that love international law and international relations this one is a must to understand the complexity of the international community and the future of it. +A very important cycle help me in my university in the field of human rights +Very superficial teachings. This course seems aimed at non legal students, considering the very rare references to the legal instruments' articles. For the price paid, I could have found most information on Wikipedia... Furthermore, the staff isn't responding AT ALL to the —many—requests of the students regarding errors in the questionaries, deadline explanations, etc. Even worse, the subtitles to the videos are full of small typos and wrong transcriptions, sometimes changing the meaning of a sentence, thereby confusing the audience. +Really good course, gives good overview of The Hague Courts and Tribunals. I am definitely enrolling for a follow up course. +Amazing! Everyone shoukd take this course! +Very interesting and thought provoking course. Well balanced with wonderful references and recommended readings. +Amazing course! A great to tool for anyone interested in International Law.I felt i learned a lot. Thanks! +that course was one of the most perfect courses that I've learnt. +I was already interested in international law, and this course made me want to learn even more about it. +The scope of the course is really limited, and that is fine for super-introductory courses like this one, but all the emotional attachments aside, looking only into one city's tribunals is questionable from the methodological point of view. +Thoroughly enjoyed this course and learned a lot! Wonderful tutors, clear and in-depth explanations and well-delivered lectures, very informative and engaging course content. Pleased to have chosen it as my first online learning course.Thank you. +Clear and well structured with excellent lecturers. Highly recommended. +I think this course will be an added value to any one has interest to understand the IL principles with more focus in the Hague. +A very informative and valuable learning experience. Highly recommended for the global citizen striving to navigate the often complex halls of international power and justice. +Great introduction to the International Courts. +Excellent course. Instructors are design this course very efficiently. One has not to review course materials for the second time & before giving "Final examination", if a little attention paid at the first occasion. Thank you very much Coursera & University of Leiden. Looking forward to do more law courses with you. Thanks again. +Some good content. However, text has numerous spelling mistakes and there is no involvement by academic staff. Nor can one see one's answers to quizzes once done., nor standard answers provided. As with so many Coursera MOOC's, little involvement by fellow students in discussion fora. No certificate on completion, which is a pity because the cost of a purchased one is somewhat prohibitive for third world students with our exchange rates. +good for law students +As a student of Criminal Justice and Law in the US, this course was very different from my other work. I found it very interesting and learned a great deal about how law and legal issues are handled around the world. The instructors did a great job, the course was well put together. Thanks for a new and exciting experience. +I will give it a 4, but 3.5 would be my review if the 3.5 mark would be available.Strenghts of the course: Solid and elegant presentations, good readings, and the interviews presented with the ICJ judge and the PCA secretary added value.Weakeness and Opportunites: No slides, excessivelly short course in video resources (discounting the interviews, it had about 20-40 minutes of videos, what is clearly insuficient, when benchmarking with other offerings in the MOOC 'arena') and allowing quizzes to be taken on a 2x per hour is not in my opinion adequate. It makes it too easy and fast to finish the course and does not create an incentive to review the materials. Leiden should focus in presenting more specializations in the educational fields that it has reputation - Law, Tax Law, International Studies, in order to capture more value from the current lack of offerings of specializations in that niche markets.Threats: There is a lot of offerings on the MOOC space, with a finite time availability to make choices. By having courses that are very short, there is the risk that people become inclined to chose other offerings that offer more video resources and other materials.Besides my opinion - I am a critic by design, thank you for continuing offering courses in this platform.I wish you luck.Ricardo Oliveira +Thank you very much. +I've learnt a lot from this course :) +Great source of information, thank you! +Enjoyable..informative +Lecture quality is not as good as other sessions of the course. Plus the grading system is not upto the mark. People evaluating others performances, themselves don't know how they are suppose to evaluate. Grading must be done by Professor. All other ISB modules are far better on Course ERA, except this one. No offence, but it's true. +Thanks you, It was great and useful MOOC, +Highly recommended. Great professor, interesting lectures, and lots of insight for an introduction to Financial Markets. +Great course to understand the contemporary financial era even if it was my first approach to this world! +Excellent course! However tough to manage all the technical terms if you're a newbie ;) +Nice introductory course, would have liked it to be more practical in some aspects, but still great to follow. Recommended! +Quite an engaging course from very modest Prof. Bob Schiller. My first on line course and it was a very satisfying experience. +An excellent course, very complete and successful in terms of the content of Financial Markets. I learned a lot. Many thanks to Yale and Robert Shiller +Very clear introductory course. I particularly appreciated the scope covered by the lectures, which was a motivation to search for more information, and the guest speakers that gave alternative insight on the course material. +Informative, but a liitle bit boring. Videos are too long, as I think +Very informative, thank you for publishing this course :) +Professor Shiller's teaching is absolutely fantastic. I loved the lectures, Professor Shiller's teaching and values. +Best course for beginners. +It was pretty clear, but also motivated me to look up in other sources. The guest speakers were very interesting +Not hard to follow at all and definitely very interesting - especially for me, who've worked for an Investment Bank for the last three years even though my studies were in Political Science. +Great course to understand the basics of Finance. +Wonderful introduction to FM. Comprehensively designed. +Indeed one of the best courses of finance out them. Not that I have experienced them all, but the quality of the talk by Robert is unapprochable. I had difficulties at first to understand and follow the way he presents his lectures, but through out time, I was eventually able to grasp the essence of his talks. This course would be difficult for people with NO finance background (like me). The only way I was able to go through this course successfully is by taking notes (pages & pages) and reviewing it before/through the exam. The notes will remain as a basic archive for my future studies.Thank your Robert & thank you Yale for my 2nd Certif in a row.Rachad Koaik - 27yo - Engineer - Morocco - Rachad.Koaik@Gmail.com +Very basic introduction to financial markets. +Great work in managing several and complex topics. +The course was really very helpful. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to enhance my knowledge and expand my horizon. +Great Course, Thank you Prof Bob Shiller ! +Fascinating! +EXCELENTE CURSO, MUY INTERESANTE CADA UNO DE SUS CONTENIDOS. GRS +Prof. Robert Shiller is a brilliant teacher +Great introductory course. Builds solid foundations. Should have been longer to cover more topics. +Really well-structured and knowledge-rich course! +Great Course +a thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking course. thank you! +Very simple teaching but, really useful information +This course really give me a general but lively idea about how the financial market in real world works. I enjoyed every guest speech after each lecture. Thanks Prof. Shiller +A must-take course for anyone interested in the world of finance. +It is very informative course and you will enjoy each and every part of it. I recommend this to everyone who wants to gain a holistic information about finance and financial products. +The course gives you an insight of practically almost all the aspects of finance! And that too in just 8 weeks! So kudos to that. Since this course gives a glimpse of almost everything in finance, it becomes easy for a person to choose his/her area of specialization for the future.One of the things that can improve is the subtitles (English). There are just so many errors in them. +A Great course if you are interested in global financial markets or if you want to gain a broader understanding of how they work and why. Prof Robert Shiller is brilliant and teaches you throughout the course with guest speakers for each week at the end of each week. +Very interesting and well taught. Good for those who like to have a general understanding of financial markets. +The course is a great first approach to the financial markets and the philosophy behind them. Specially for those interested in financial history. Professor Shiller is very clear and takes interesting perspectives of the subjects. +Very good good course for beginners, as an engineer I was able to understand everything:) +The course is fascinating and the teacher is authoritative. I am a beginner of finance and I find it suitable for me. +Financial Markets presented in a Layman's LanguageI neither had any prior knowledge of financial markets, nor had any idea of stocks and bonds etc. But the course sailed through all these jargons so easily that this market parlance seems cakewalk to me now. The course was presented in such a light way , I felt it's like I am within a stor +Great course. Introduction to financial markets and regulations. Professor Shiller es clear and didactic. +An excellent course, covers a wide variety of areas and beautifully executed. +Robert Shiller explains difficult concepts and theories in the short and easy-to-understand way, supported by the actual cases. Overall the course is brilliant. +I am very happy to achieve this goal, and I hope that in the future can complete many more of this or any other University +For an amateur, this course gave me an insight or the surface of the complex world of financial markets. I came into the course with my own pre-conceived ideas and knowledge only to find that there are so much more of the topic than what it is. Great course. +Excellent, thanks to Prof. Shiler. +great course +After completing this Financial Markets course, now i am feeling more confident in understanding the Financial market concept and will efficiently implement & share my knowledge in the work area. The course content is designed in such a way that it gives valuable insights about the Global Financial Markets. I would like to thanks Prof. Robert J Shiller for giving us overall knowledge and valuable lectures. +One of the best courses,connecting everything with finance and economics,from stock market to government spending. +Hello,When I came to know that Financial Market course is mentored by Dr. Robert J. Shiller, I enrolled for the course immediately. It's a course that must be taken by every student interested for developing a career in Finance.Thank You Professor. Thank You Coursera. +Interesting first-introduction to financial markets +Interesting approach. +The course was extremely interesting, it helped me a lot in general about how markets operate, and how they are interlinked within the economy. The course would have been more fruitful if more numerical examples and explanations were given in lectures. +very good course ! +This course was highly enjoyable. I would like to thank Dr. Shiller for a great course presentation. Professor Shiller presents the material on Financial Markets from a very interesting historical perspective that gives a human personality to the world of finance. It is open enough for someone that has no background in finance but also gives treatment to some mathematical models that students who know the basics may also benefit from. It certainly taught me a lot about how financial markets work and the rationale behind how the industry has developed the way it has along with the regulation around it. I would suggest adding another lecture video on crowdfunding, JOBS Act, fintech etc. in the final week which will talk about some of the developments in the world of finance which are very relevant today. It will also tie in nicely with the concept of 'democratization of finance' how we all can play a role in the finance industry. Highly recommended and well done!Regards, Zeeshan Shaikh +Very helpful and got a complete overview of financial markets. +EXCELLENT COURSE. PROF. SHILLER MADE IT SO EASY TO LEARN EVERYTHING +Inspiring, Valuable, and Exciting!Prof. Schiller is just outstanding in his articulation and expression of ideas. +It was really great course! +Great course, the professor Shiller is very kind in his way of teaching, and I learned a lot about the financial markets, I hope in the future I can expand my knowledge about this area. +An excellent introduction to Financial Markets. Professor Shiller is simply amazing!!! +Basics financial markets with a human perspective. I really recommend this course for people who want to learn and know much more than usually lecture about financial markets +I just love Robert Shiller and coursera and I am proud to be a student of a Nobel prize winner and coursera. +great teacher,I learned lots of things from this class. +This course provides an excellent background for finacial markets understanding. Besides, Mr.Shiller adds a lot by his intelligible yet profound lecturing style. The last but not the least, the invited top-profile speakers bring an extra insight int the subject. +I get to know a lot of important matters in the financial markets, sometimes I consider that more material for reading could be provided to perhaps understand a little bit better some topics, but professor has very good skills and experience, the invited speakers were very useful in understanding some of the lectures. +This has been a wonderful course. It not only equips one with financial knowledge for the corporate world but on a personal level. I believe that through this course, I have placed in a better position to make sound investment decisions. The course is worth repeating +Great course and mentor.... +Nice teaching. +Great insights of financial markets from an admirable Professor. The course isn't math-based and is extremely cultural, covering a wide variety of topics. +Wonderful class. I have taken many finance classes in the past. So while I knew most of the topics covered, I learned a lot about the history behind the principles and one's moral obligation in finance. very fun teacher. Great for all levels. +It gives an interesting general view of the financial market and the guest lecturers contribute with very interesting views about the professional financial world and the causes to the recent financial crisis. Very good as an overview. +Very informative and well structures course. +nice course. we need more courses like that, for the people who works on finance but don't have an academic education on economics. +Excellent course and very informative and useful for all students and professionals. Thanks you. +Excellent teacher, excellent videos and every topic was very usefull for me +It is a great course for a general understanding of financial markets and their development. Involves informative lectures and relatively easy assignments. +I will take any course offered by Professor Schiller. +Best course with quality course material +Great! +Great professor. It is free. +Professor is funny and engaging and cares about using finance to improve lives :) +Loved this course! +It was an amazin exprecience, I will recomend it to all my fellows. Thanx professor Shiller you are a great teacher and I found the information very usefull. +I really enjoyed learning the basics of financial systems. Robert Shiller makes the course interesting by explaining complex aspects of economy all over the world in a simple and easy to understand manner. His lectures helped me improve my financial understanding and the reasons behind regulations on financial systems. The aspects of behavioral finance and housing crisis in US intrigued me a lot. The guest lectures by Carl Ichan and Schwarzman were particularly interesting and thought provoking. +I really enjoy listening to Prof. Shiller!A great experience, not only for learning about Financial Market but even under the human and personal growing! +It was an awesome course. +Really good course it has a lot of great content! Definitely would recommend! +Very easy to understand and a lot of data from the practical scenarios. Eagerly waiting for another tutorial from the same Professor +Excellent course. Helps build the foundations f Financial Markets. +Complete course with a valid Professor. Thank You Yale and thank You Coursera +It was a great experience studying this course from such a great profession. This course certainly increased my knowledge about financial market which will help me in my future educations. But the only thing to go for this course is that you must know about financial market in advance this course will just help to sharp you education not completely make your basics clear. +It was great! Professor Shiller the best teacher in my life. Thank you so much. +The course was good and relevant to what the markets are at present. It was easy to grasp for fresher. Would recommend it to my friends who would like to do finance specialization. +A broad intro and overview of many essential aspects of the financial world. Concise course materials.One suggestion: please improve the quality of quiz parts. +Exceptionally clear introduction to Financial Markets. +First and most important: I'm very grateful and honored by taking the course from Professor Schiller, who is clearly a person of great knowledge and intelligence. Examples from real life and history, which he provides during the lectures and the whole "context", so to say, of humanization and democratization of finance - all of it is just great for the introductiory course in financial markets. Guests parts of videos are very important and helpful as well.Second and less important: this course, from coursera (not "live") perspective, is rather explicit, but still "contents page" of a financial book. Amount of abbreviations, mostly US, are just a waste of time in my opinion. Week, where lecturer talks about option markets is a weak part of the course.Nevertheless, if you are completely new to finance and you have some free time for an additional information about the subject - good course. Any other case - not so good. +Very informative, Bob discuss the concepts in simple but very detail way I learn a lot. +One of the best courses related withfinance and economy. +This was a very informative and great overview of financial markets. I learned a great deal and learned more about the industry and how everything fits together into the financial system. +It was a great course on Basic and intermediate level Finance touching all aspects of Financial Markets.I liked how Professor Schiller harps on Behavioral Finance than Mathematical Finance to make this course more interesting and easy to understand. +The calculation is kinda complex because the professor just gave the results. In all, it is detailed and enriched. +The information in this course is basic. It is useful for my further learning in MSF.The professor teaches very well. He uses a lot of examples to illustrate some professional term. It is easier for me to understand. +My first course at coursera and it will be hard to find a better one. Thanks§ +This course taught by Prof. Robert Shiller is incredibly insightful and interesting - the passion of the professor is obvious The content was relevant and well edited, which in turn generated a fantastic introduction to the world of finance. +I could not evaluate a Nobel Prize Winner´s course lower than 5 stars. It helped me a lot, increased my knowlodge about Financial Markets and i really enjoyyed all Lectures from Professor Robert Shiller as well as his Guest Speakers. I highly recommend the course to everyone who is interested in Financial Markets and Economics. +As you might expect from a Nobel Laureate, Professor Shiller takes you through this course from an entirely different perspective. He 'humanises' the subject. The way he tells you stories behind the concepts it becomes very difficult to forget them. I enjoyed this course a lot, hope you will too +A beautiful course that opens de doors of the wonder world of finance by the hands of the passionate professor Schiller. +Great course with great professor, only thing i would suggest is more problems and exercises, since this course is almost entirely theoretical. +Really insightful. Especially the first 2 lectures. +great class!! I learned a lot from this 8 weeks course. +An excellent intro to financial markets. The course covers a lot of ground on history and technical aspects of the markets and the features within them. Professor Schiller is a world leader in the subject and you'll be surprised and confident in his class when you start noticing his name appear in everyday life. I see his name in news articles and his work is referenced fairly regularly when I'm reading about economics and business. +I am glad this was my first finance-type course. I've learned much more than I expected from an introductory course and found this course very well-rounded. There were ethical discussions interwoven into the technical content along with corresponding human tendencies in regard to ethical dilemmas. The broad selection of guest speakers gave true insight to what happens out there in the real world, and I learned a lot of from their shared stories. I now believe that if I had a do-over for college majors, I would have doubled into finance plus tried to have gone to Yale. :-) +great course and great lecturer. I learned a lot as a (soon to be) lawyer. +This was an enjoyable course with great content +The course was very basic and there was a lot of things that I expected from Professor Shiller that were not covered very well due to the editing of the original course. But it was great experience to take place in a lecture dictated by a Nobel prize winner like him. +Excellent, charismatic professor and very good guest conferences. Very relevant, great end of course message. Poor editing and test design. Many irrelevant questions. Some questions on topics not included in edited course. +Enjoyed this course. Thanks to Professor Shiller and Yale U! +very rich contentvery clear informationgood exams +This course is the perfect introduction to the field of financial markets! Lectures are well chosen and interesting. Prof. Shiller is doing a great job! +Very interesting course that gives basic information on a lot of topics related to finance and financial markets. Highly recommend for people interested in the topic with none or very little knowledge about it. The professor is not the best public speaker (paces around, use a lot of ums, forgets his sentences and so on), but after the first few lections you get used to it and it is okay. But for one of the guest speakers, I think it was week 5, for me was very painful to hear him speak, so I ended up reading the transcript, not listening to his speach. +It is a perfect blend of economics, finance, philosophy and psychology that is possible in such a short duration. +Thank you for sharing this one with us!! It gave me even more than what I have expected. A knowledge and passion to understand something that I had not studied before. +Overall about financial markets, with very deep discussion about history of finance +A good introduction to finance but it's just a starting point. +Robert Shiller is an awesome lecturer, even as a professional in the financial industry well aware of most intricacies and topics in this course, I would not hesitate to recommend it to everybody. +It has been an interesting experience. The lectures were very good. Dr. Schiller is a very good lecturer. +The lectures were informative. This course is a must if one wants to understand the reasoning behind the creation of certain institutions and instruments. The quizzes were dull and basic stuff. They were just kept to test the attentiveness of the student during the lecture. +It was a great experience to discover the basics in Financials, now I have a wide view in general of how it works the Financial Markets. +Great course +EXCEPTIONALLY AND TECHNICALLY PACKED +Love the depth and well-roundedness of this course! The stories and color Prof. Shiller added to the otherwise mundane finance theory is absolutely inspiring! +Very informative +Best course on Financial Markets!! +In general terms I am really satisfied to have been done this interesting course. I have learnt many interestings concepts in relation to the financial world. The prospective the proffesor Shiller focus this course is highly interesting , doing possible to understand the financials markets into a global view, linking the psycologhy and human behavioural onto it. He did really well, in my humility opinion, transmit his passion for this world using his knowlegments, dear, and nice sense of humor! This last, tells a lot about good and smart people. Thanks very much to Professor Shiller and all of you whose made this course and method of sharing knowlegde, possible. And of course for the dates we are: Merry Christmas and a Happy new year! ;) +It's a great course +An amazing course by an amazing prof +Great! +I like this course! +Production-wise, this course offered the best quality to me on the topic of finance. Additionally, the professor is very likeable and very good at conveying important information. I hope to see more courses from Yale University! +Great introductory course, no math knowledge required +Nice course, easy to follow! +Very nice essence of Yale 251! Very deep and best for beginners and professionals. Huge thanks to Coursera and Prof. Shiller for sharing such nice knowledge! +Great course offering an overview of the financial markets. Does not go into detail, keeping the course at a relatively high level. Well delivered lecture by Prof Schiller making the videos entertaining to watch. As a bonus each week features a prominent guest speaker providing additional insights.Highly recommended. +Great introductory course on Financial Markets. Definitely worth taking. Thanks to Prof. Shiller and Yale school. +Wonderful perspective on finance. +Amazing course! +I thought the class served its exact purpose - to provide a broad view of financial markets, the historical context, and the lever at work in our economies. +Great Course! +Great course to discover the financial world +Good course explaining the basic fundamentals of Financial Markets, especially Financial markets of US. +Professor Shiller is very good at teaching. This course is easy to follow +I thank Prof Robert Shiller, Yale University and Coursera for offering this course - Financial Markets. The course doesn't goes into the depth of any particular topic, but provides an excellent overview of entire financial ecosystem. It beautifully captures very well the broad spectrum of financial ecosystem (its context, history, fundamentals, actors and regulations) and educates the students in a manner that is easy to understand and informative. After taking this course, I am interesting in exploring more about financial markets, in particular the investment banking and futures and options. I would rate this course very high and recommend it to those who are interested in understanding financial markets. Thank you again for this offering! +The course faculty Prof. Robert has a simplified way of making the concepts understood. The course contents are very professionally designed. Thanks. +The content is very good, the presentation (bits of lectures put together) something to get used to. Overall informative and "enjoyable". +Fantastic course. I reread everything twice to get a full grasp but very helpful information +Excellent content. Besides, it is a unique opportunity to "become part" of the class since it +Do not recommend. Chaotic and full of irrelevant (IMO) information. Does it really matter in which year some paper was written? Or from which latin word the term 'interest rate' derives? +I'm working for an investment bank and eventhough the course is focused on essential knowledge, I have to admit that I've learned many interestning facts and enjoyed every lecture with Professor Schiller. +had an amazing experience studying this course.Robert shiller makes things look so easy. +Very effective and learned a lot about financial markets. Than you. +I enjoyed the course. It was well delivered and easy to follow. I don't think I'm equipped to hit the stock markets right away but I have definitely learned a lot about how the financial markets work. +Excellent course with good lecturers. Quiz are too memory based but other than that very worth it! +Very good courses and professional teacher, wish Dr. Shiller open more courses here. +Very good structured +This was a GREAT refresher course for someone who has been out of the financial markets for a while AND/OR someone who wants to get a fundamental understanding of financial markets (Thank you Alexander Hamilton!) and what drove the crash in 2008.I love finance. I graduated with a B.S. in Finance but my career took me down a different path. I was interested in catching up on my degree, learning more about the market crash, and the resulting regulations that came from it.I give it 4 stars because some of the content is a bit old (from 2011) and I found that a few of the test questions were not part of the course content. Outside of this, it was a class well worth taking and obtaining the certificate. I loved the guest speakers, especially Karl Icahn.Thank you coursera for bringing great content to the web. It gives me the opportunity to educate myself outside of my profession as well on my own time. +Excellent Programme. Long but very informative. +This Course has been a very valuable source on Financial structures of the markets and has given a practical picture on how they function . Thank you Professor Schiller for being so knowledgable and an effective teacher. +Great Course! Thanks！ +It is a great introductions to finance +Thanks to teach us such a nice way. this course help to learn basic concepts of risk management.thanks again. +Excellent course. Please keep updating the material, don't let it go 3-4 years without updating! +Amazing course by Prof.Robert +I learned a lot ...Robert Shriller shows how much he loves finance and he made me love finance too...this just taught me a lot about world of finance +This is possibly one of the best introductory course to finance markets. +I enjoyed the evolutionary take on teaching basic financial structures. It was easy to follow why they came about and how they improved society. +super course! thanks +I have gained an in depth understanding of the reason the financial world is as is today, as well as the importance of behavioral finance. +I am actually an engineering student who wanted to switch to finance. This course really helped me to understand the basics. +Great course +Excellent course, got to learn new concepts of easy way beyond earn more knowledge in different areas! +Thank you for your teaching .I'm a Chinese student which have little finance learning experience. As once I'm afraid of full English learning. I'm apply for MBA FudanUniversity.Very glad that have the chance to learning your lesson.Thank you very much. +Its one of the best among others if you starts with some understanding of financial basic concepts before register for any detailed or other deep courses. "Thumps Up" +Great course. Great lector! Would be nice to have more courses like this. +Intersting :) +The questions asked in the tests could have been better. Design questions based on application rather than memory. +Brilliant stuff. Goes into some depth regards the detail, but delivers a good understanding of the subject. +This was overall a really interesting course. Robert Shiller is really good at storytelling and giving out intuitions about complex financial problems. The (prestigious) guest speakers also enhanced tremendously the appeal of the mooc. Carl Icahn's interview on its own is worth enrolling for this course. The only drawback I found was that this is a typical "research university course" in the sense that most of the material should be tackled outside of the classroom, through Fabozzi's textbook in this case. However nothing stops you from reading it of course... +Beautiful course!!Thanks Yale and Coursera!! +Interesting and well-structured course that covers up most of the fundamentals in the financial sphere and besides that, what I really liked, is that it highlights the moral part. +Fantastic journey into finance by a professor that can bring to life with simple examples the purpose and need for finance technology +Neo-liberal and neo-con presentation of the matter that has little to do with how the real world works, or should work, had we had a fair play field. Would not expect anything else from the neo-liberal flagman, Yale. Pretty much expected it would be the case, but just wanted to give it a try. +Brilliant! +Superb sessions by Shiller. Very informative and worthy. +Exceptional course. The lectures were fantastic. +Brilliant course and would recommend to anyone interested! +very helpful course with introduction of fundamentals in financial market, very suitable for students who wanna know things about the industry. +Thank you to the instructor for this amazing course! it´s such an honor to have joined one of the best universities in the world. I´ve understood quite well how financial markets work. +Great! +A great course for insight of financial derivatives by a very interactive and erudite professor. +Great introduction to financial markets. Understandably, most examples are relevant to the US economy. Would be fantastic if the concepts were covered deeper with more general examples. +Very good and didactic course. I recommend to anyone interested in the financial world. +Very concise and straight to the point. +A good learning experience. Very systematic course. +This is an excellent course. Prof Robert Shiller is a wonderful teacher and a great inspiration to all of us. This course is a must-one for all business aspirants. I'm completely new to the world of finance. I was in a great amount of confusion in where to start with and the course 'financial markets by Prof Robert Shiller' gave me a good amount of basic knowledge and insights on various topics of finance. This is one of the best introductory course on finance available online. I'll never regret this. It's worth the time and effort! +Sir Robert Shiller is an amazing teacher with best skills & a natural smile on his face. Though online it feels like a direct face to face learning with him.It would be m honor to study & learn further from him. +I thought it was a very enlightening course even though it was online. I did wish that some of the lecture videos were full length on coursera itself because I had to search them up separately on youtube. Those were thankfully there to give me a better understanding of the coursework before a couple of the graded quizzes. +I‘m really enjoy in this course. I don't just learn finance here, I also learn wisdom in this course. Moreover, Professor Shiller is the best professor that I have ever seen. +Basic concepts well explained by a great teacher +It is a privilege to hear words from Professor Shiller. +It's a very good course in order to update the financial culture and also institutions and history involved. +It is an excellent course by Prof. Robert, the concepts are explained in lucid manner and i personally refer this course to every finance enthusiast. +Very nice although sometimes the questions could be a bit more pointed towards the actual substance of the matters and have a bit more of an international view (read: non-US). Would recommend. +Excellent course. Professor Shiller has a nice way of presenting the course and explaining it.I was expecting more math formulas and equations to solve in the quizzes. We need to have deeper information on these matters.We cannot underestimate the role economy plays today in the world. I encourage "coursera" to add more courses like this one and delve deep in economics matters.Wish you all good luck and thank you for this beautiful course. +I really enjoy this course, great material with the best professor, Robert Shiller, thank You! +this course is very helpful. +Professor Schiller was great. What an introduction to financial markets - can't wait to take a deeper dive into many of the concepts that were introduced in this class. +Very well organised and presented. The course would be perfect if the transcript made sense (and it does not because it is full of filler words and incomplete sentences), or if the course had supporting material to read. One of the two. +Awesome course for someone who is a beginner! +Great course, help me to learn financial market at home +It is a very good course, Professor Shiller is just amazing and helped to get an idea about behavioral finance , for sure it will make us to be true to our work in the financial sector +Very structured and informative course, top professor! +Very thorough. I thought this was very critical information and the tests were formatted around actual lecture material. Thank you. +Pros:Introduced me to new ConceptsInsights into elite guest speaker's mindsCovers most bases on the topics mentionedCons:Unclear explanations in some parts, but Google comes to the rescue hereOverall, highly recommended (especially to economic majors) +I am honoured to have been able to learn from Professor Robert Shiller. +I am disappointed about this course. I was expecting to learn more in this subject as described on the course info. However, the quality of the lectures is not good at all. I haven't found any lecture that present the knowledge as the Ivy league University as Yale. I felt sorry for the students who actually attained this class at Yale campus. The professor was not prepare for the lectures and confused/forgot sometime. I was hoping that the Nobel prize winner would teach something that complicated in the simple way. The questions in the exam ask mostly about year, person, numbers which is not the good exam per my perspective. If you want the have the certificate from Yale, you can take this course. BUT if you want to learn about Financial Markets, I would not recommend this course. I'm so sorry. +Very valuable course. Although I am public Health Care Professional, but learned a lot through this course regarding finance and economics. +this course is very interesting the financial markets and the teacher is good +Good content. +It covers all the basics. In addition to it, leading industry personality talks enhances the course content. +The lectures are often superfluous and the professor keeps jumping from subject to subject. From the mathematical side, the course is also rather shallow. Half of the first week quiz verifies knowledge that in my opinion has no practical importance (not something to remember). +Thank you so much for the course, Prof. Shiller! It was a unique an immense experience! +Course content is well designed. +Excellent course for the general understanding of finance. +Perfect course for a newbie in finance and a way forward to go further down the wonderful and challenging coaster in the world of finance. +An excellent form to expand your mind about how economy works, how The Worl works. Mr. Shiller could show us his mindo opinion and gave us powerfull tools to open the way in a exposed and chaotic world beyond finance. I reccomend this course to everybody that has conscious, collective conscious. Get started! +Congratulations +inpired! +This course is just great. +Thank you Dr. Schiller. Informative, concepts made accessible and nice touch of public goodness and up lifting. +Thoroughly enjoyed the course. Very well thought out and presented in an informative and very engaging manner. Brought to life many subjects I was aware of but lacked in depth understanding. Now I can say I am more enlightened. +Amazing depth in the curriculum and extremely lucid explanation by professor shiller. A pleasure to have enrolled in the course and expanded my knowledge in the world of finance +This course was a very exciting experience for me. Professor Robert is in love with what he is doing. That shows in every step of the course - the structure, thematic & length of lectures,& the guest speakers interesting & useful web sites. And that prof. has not only very deep knowledge & passion for the subject, but also very broad practical experience, which he generously shares with the students makes the course even more valuable. I am MBA student and Financial Market is the key subject of my program, I find that taking this course was a useful & inspiring journey. Because of not having webcame with my laptop I was not able to verify all the Quiz but It was really a great learning and gaining knowledge. Thank you Professor Robert Shiller. +Thank you very much Professor Shiller,love your course very much .Contact the actual is wonderful .Invited guests so vivid.Looking forward to you +very useful and broaden my eyes +very fundamental and straight to the point . This is the course if you are looking for strong foundation. +Prof. Robert Schiller gives a really clear structure of capital markets, which helps us to better understand how institutional investors make their investment decisions, and how the mechanism operates in our time. +Great course, great lessons and the invited speakers are a plus. +Prof. Schiller provides a full picture on financial markets. Don't expect only mathematical finance to be taught. He places great emphasis on the behavioural side as well. As somebody who studies management, I have grasped an unreal amout of knowledge regarding financial markets.I encourage people of all professions to take this course, as it will deepen your understanding and passion for the markets. +Best in Financial Markets Courses. I loved the content and the way Prof. Robert Shiller transitioned various topics from lesson one to the end. Very simple explanation of each and every topic making it easy if I choose to dwell deeper. Guest lectures are very informative and appropriate too. +Excellent introductory course into Finance. +Great lectures, the tests didn't really focus on the crucial elements of the course in my opinion +It's an excellent course with lots of material and the expertise of Professor Shiller +Excellent business and financial information. +Great course! +Provides an excellent general overview. Thank you Professor Shiller for making it available +Great course, the lectures are largely qualitative, but very informative and cover a wide variety of topics. +Learned a lot and am glad I completed the course. Prof. Shiller is an engaging lecturer with an enjoyable personality. Wish some subjects were treated in more depth and would have also enjoyed more detailed mathematical treatments. An impressive array of high-profile and influential guest lecturers, but the quality of their lectures varied greatly. +Basics and stories of financial market. Not very deep but granting you a comprehensive understanding of current financial insitutions and their functions. +Very Comprehensive. It also introduces to Behavioral finance as well! Awesome <3 +its a very useful course, but you kind of do need to have a some background in finance or economics +Thank you so much for this course Dr. Schiller and Yale workers. +I found it great. Good explanations with a great teacher. +Good and informative. +Excellent overall introduction to finance and markets. I have a better understanding of the private and public sectors operate (United States context) thanks to this course. +Great course overall, well taught and easy to understand. +Great general introduction to finance, profitable also for the non experts.The personal opinion of the Professor are an amazing plus which makes this course stand out among similar ones. +Excellent presentation especial the historical and the guest speakers. It really feels more like a professional course tailored for people already in practise and want to update themselves. Thanks Prof for the excellent well researched presentations of issues. +It is just turning out to be a tremendous experience. Robert Schiller, or Bob Schole (as carl Icaahn calls him) is one heck of a personality! the man holds a sea of depth knowledge and history in him. I'm barely half way through the course but it is just unbelievably informative, and has the right balance of knowledge, explanation, my favorite thing psychology, and the guest speaker every week is the cherry on top! +Excellent resource and refresher on financial markets. +It's really nice course. +The course seems more like a cut-and-paste version of Prof. Shiller's "Financial Markets" course from Yale Open Courses than a proper Coursera MOOC. While the course's content is interesting and benefits a lot from Prof. Shiller's extensive scholarship and insight, it could be improved along several ways:(i) downloadable slides giving a comprehensive overview over Prof. Shiller's key points and power point slides;(ii) a split screen with Prof. Shiller on the right and the slide on the left side (like in Metrick and Geithner's "Global Financial Crisis" MOOC);(iii) clearer presentation and explanation, especially concerning Mr. Redleaf, but also for Prof. Shiller (he rambles quite a bit). +Excellent thoughts and concepts presented. +Great course for FM beginners. +Provides a firm overview of all related topics and creates an appetite for more. Professor Shiller, among the little few inspiring old-school professors, literally makes the difference as to the course success. Great opportunity to attend this seminar in one of the most renowned universities from a Nobel prize winner. What a combination. Well done! +Very informative and delivered in a simple but effective manner. Lack of case studies and a bit too theoretical are the shortcomings +it's fantastic cou +Robert Schiller has given a good start to understand financial markets which the course provided are informative. Coursera is a great place to learn different subjects without borders. +It is an amazing course and i enjoyed it a lot. i would recommend watching the full video lectures on youtube if you want to dig deeper. +Great course so far! Just finished Week 4 of the course. Robert Shiller's lectures are not only insightful but highly engaging! +Coursera is a great forum to learn about a variety of subjects. Having Robert Schiller as a guide, is definitely a great opportunity. It is exciting to learn from someone who has such experience and knowledge of the industry. The course is very informative, and I look forward to many more like this. Thank you for the opportunity to learn without boarders.Regards,Leshan johnson +A great introductory course to finance. +Enriching thinking about the characteristics of global finance! +Maybe is good idea to have another courses in this rank from Yale University.Thanks. +Excellent Introduction to the Financial Markets. The lectures and quiz were provided at the right pace, filled with rich and relevant information. Many thanks to professor Shiller and Coursera for a unique opportunity to learn more about this fascinating world +A very easy to understand introduction to financial markets from passionate Professor! +for a person that took up nursing and study business its a whole new level for me. +Really good course, taught be someone who exemplifies the best of +Terrible course: (i) the lecturer seems to be "all over the place", briefly touching on several aspects of finance in a superficial way, without much coherence with respect to each week's theme; (ii) the lecturer speaks in a very confusing way, without formulating clear sentences and often divagating from the main topic with minor details that are neither necessarily relevant, nor properly explained; (iii) the few formulas that the lecturer presents are treated as if they have fallen from the sky en bloc, without explaining bit by bit how they are obtained; (iv) the main points of each lecture are not stressed sufficiently enough, leaving one to wonder what the take-home messages are at the end of each lecture.I give the course one star due to the appreciated emphasis that the lecturer places on unorthodox economic approaches, such as behavioural economics, and on the important issue of finance democratisation. +I very much enjoyed the course. I very much enjoyed the material. And Robert Shiller is terrific. And I very much enjoyed the guest speakers as well. +Great course!!! +Great!! +I was completely satisfied. +Excellent course presented by a well-known academic. +Excellent course. Robert Shiller is a very accessible and personable lecturer, making you really feel like you are in the lecture theatre.The course material is relevant and delivered in an interesting way. The assessment questions perhaps don't challenge the learners understanding as much as it could.... however never the less a great introduction to Financial Markets and recommended for anyone wanting to dip their toe in to this area or enhance existing knowledge.Many thanks Yale Uni, Prof Shiller and Coursera. +I think the crises happened because of the limits of the debts of the financial institutions and the risk to give employees more loans that they can't pay back which had risk some companies in the wall street and couse more crises on the workers wage, the banks some times feed the rich people on the account of poor, the roof of salaries must be equal to work and the business, the level of planing how to avoid another crises, how to determine the markets finance needs built on the opinions of the citizens and built on the supply and demand. Thanks a lot for the lectureYour sincerelyHossam Al-Dean Al-Barqouni An accountant graduated from Philadelphia university . +The method of teaching gives you a better understanding of why certain things in finance exist. It goes back in history at times, provides you with statistical data and the speakers are very knowledgeable in their own field. Because of that, you become more aware of where finance was (how companies and regulatory bodies operated before) and where it might head to. +Just fantastic. +Provides a very valuable outlook on the fundaments of finance. +I really like the way professor presents the material. +It's quite clear and interesting explanation with some historical background of the derives. Just sometimes it's a little bit long time to explain a theory instead of an intense explanation due to the sync with a real class. +Great class and great information! +This condensed course on Financial Markets by Professor Robert Schiller is an excellent introduction. It's a great way to learn about important concepts and institutions in the financial world. Professor Schiller's teaching is easy to follow and understand. And the quizzes provide great opportunity for students to review their learning. I highly recommend this course for anyone who has an interest in knowing the often-mystified financial markets. +Great course to give you an overview of financial markets. +While the lectures are pieced together from what I gather was a much more intense level course on financial markets, the editors did a wonderful job ensuring the videos flowed seamlessly. What a privilege it was to experience the expertise of Dr. Shiller, his insight and teaching was easily understandable for anyone with a background in basic economics and finance. The guest lecturers was offered a great deal of variety and insight in each of the major areas of the course. +A very insightful introductory course that introduce us to a broad range of financial instruments, history as well as discussion on some recent crisis. +Great class from a well-respected economist! +As an introduction before starting Finance modules is perfect. History of finance, main concepts, useful info, short but informative. More related to US economy, but Prof.Schiller's examples helps a lot. If you want to understand better of learn more, need to download whole lectures from Yale for this course(23 of them available online). Good luck to everyone!!! +best course of financial markets ever! i recommend it to all who wants to know more about not about theoretical aspects but about practice. +It's a wonderful course to start learning about finance. +Nice explanations of important points in finance +Best teacher ever. i wish i had met him at yale just to chat.great course. +thanks a lot! +A very informative course about financial markets. Gives you basic knowledge that you must know. The professor is very pleasant to listen to. +The lecturer is a kind and wise person. I adored watching the lectures with him. +Very nice&useful explanations of professor Robert Shiller, he makes u feel great interest in finance :) +Useful overview of the entire Financial Services markets and the various players involved. +It is a very interesting course. It is an unique opportunity to learn from a Nobel Prize. +The story-telling approach by Robert Schiller made this course really enjoyable. I recommend this course to anyone interested to learning more about financial markets. +Very inspiring and helpful class. I'm glad to have this class offered by coursera and given by Professor Shiller. Thank you. +A very interesting and basic introduction to financial markets that is suitable for anybody. For Coursera, the course has been shortened compared to the original version taught at Yale. In some places, unfortunately, it seems like too much is left out. +Excelent Course, the topics are interesting and explained in a very good way +Excelent course. Thank you a lot! +Pretty good coverage of a variety of financial markets. This is an entry level course for those with basic understanding. +It looks like a (notsogood) synthetis of the course available on Yale website +This is an information-packed and well-organized course, and an excellent introduction to financial markets that blends classic theory with thought-provoking questions from behavioral economics, as well as linkages to recent events. The guest lectures each week add interesting dimensions to the material conveyed. And, of course, Professor Shiller is fantastic! +amazing course for candidates looking to gain introductory knowledge into financial markets. A must have for those willing to have a career in stock markets. +Robert Shiller is a great professor, I'd have love to have him as teacher in real life!Said so, however, the course here on Coursera is missing a lot of important informations, which are fundamental not only to have a better understanding but also to complete successfully the exams. +Very nice course. However, it seems the course misses some key points of finance market knowledge. +Excellent course, great insight +Missing substantial amount of information and lecture +Great course +Professor Shiller is such a nice and gentle teacher who gives us introduction of Financial Markets. And from this course I get some new and deeper understanding about many financial theories. +Excellent Course by Prof. Shiller, great explanations, and topics. Hoping for a part 2 sometime soon. +Shame that some interesting parts have been cut out of the lectures, but a very good overview and insight in financial markets +Great course! Great professor! +The sound volume is a bit low even turning up to the maximum level +The lectures' videos are available intergrally on youtube, whereas on Coursera there are some parts that are missing. The students' answer on the blog are not answered from Coursera staff +That was a really interesting course. I now understand why finance has developed into what it is today and also how and why it failed in 2008. Great course well taught. +I would recommend this course for those that want to understand the basic workings of financial markets in the US. I especially enjoyed the top notch speakers, and viewed some of their full talks on youtube. Thank you! +Good introduction to Finance. Very watchable lectures and a lot of useful information. +Due to the course having been compiled from Prof. Shiller's regular lectures and short videos added later specifically for Coursera, the course in overall seems ragged and lacking an encompassing narrative. Chunks of lectures appear missing, with things appearing on the blackboard between the video sequences and several "previously we talked about X" when X wasn't mentioned in the online course at all.Disregarding that, it's still a useful and enlightening course. +Very informative and practical course. Real world applications are valid. +Very complete finance Course. Robert Shiller is a very good professor +As a student majoring on Accounting, this course give me a lot of inspirations about the financial markets. I have acquired the reasons for some influential financial problems in the financial vision, not just accounting aspect. BTW, the professor is really cool :) +my first course about economics, helpful!!! +This is an excellent topic. And videos are also great. +good course and good explanation by Prof.Shiller but a lot of videos were edited like a few parts of the video were deleted. Also I felt like Prof.Shiller sometimes did not explain all the concepts to the full extent which I felt made it a bit difficult for a beginner like me to fully understand what he was teaching +Robert Shiller is always trying to set examples of his lectures and placing the facts in history, so we get great context. +Informative, engaging and a course which pushes your curiosity to learn even more. +best course i have ever followed. presented very interactively with a lot of useful information +Great... +An amazing course with well explained details. +Interesting insights by Professor Shiller, but the course is set at an overly beginners level +I am pleased for having the opportunity to do this course +This is how a course should be. All the answers for the quizzes it´s in the videolectures.The Professor it´s a great teacher, it´s a basic fundamental financial markets course so it´s not that hard if you have a liitle experience ore interest in that area.highly recommend the course. +Really interesting and worthy! +Thank you Yale. I learned a lot from this course, very useful and interesting, I highly admire professor Sheller. +Excellent course. Great lectures and fantastic speakers. +Excellent overview of finance basics with reference to underlying economic principles. +Professor Robert Shiller is excellent. He makes great elaborations on the topics. Nice contents and very well organized class. +Course is Brilliant but not for a complete novice or someone who doesnt have enough time to devote to the course. Professor is exceptional. Best of luck to all students . +As Professor Shiller had said, this course is the shortened version of Financial Markets (2011), which he taught in Yale. A shortened one as it is, I benefit a lot from the course. Terms are explained explicitly. Unfortunately, videos in week 3 is not complete, so I had to go to Open Yale for more info. If you want more info, more materials and more homework, you can go for Open Yale. Materials are more detailed there. Despite the inconvenience, I think this course is very suitable for peoples like me, a beginner in finance. I quite recommend this course. A better one if the error can be solved. +The lectures are amazing, but I wish we have a lot more involved homework than the short quizzes. If there were more research questions or problem solving homeworks that demonstrate deeply the understanding of the subjects that would have been great. The current quizzes are very trivial and doesn't test the understanding of the material only the fact that you actually went through the lectures even if quickly. +Best course on financial market +Brilliant course. Fresh, innovative, inspiring. Describes finance how it should be. Explains complex concepts in very simple terms, even the economic principles of Robinson Crusoe are reinterpreted in modern finance. The best coursera course I followed. +A must do course for investors! +A very inspiring course +One of the best courses I had taken in coursera so far. Prof Shiller is a great teacher. If I had taken his course couple of years back I might switch to get my PhD in economics rather than engineering :) +Very good and holistic introduction to financial markets, their history and instrumentarium.Suitable for newcomers who want to get an overview about the topic, I enjoyed it. +Being a non finance graduate and a aspiring finance masters student I found this course amazing.After learning this course I want to learn from Prof. Shiller in Yale SOM.Karan +Financial Markets provided good information on the landscape of finance, mostly referring to USA. If you're from elsewhere (Canada), this course would not really apply. Some of Robert Shiller's ideas were unclear or lost as he was not the best communicator but his passion for finance was evident. The guest speakers, although high profile, were not the best choices, also because of issues with public speaking and generally getting ideas across. I expected more math involved for a course like this but Shiller rather provided more of a historical account of finance. Overall, it is a course worth taking if you're looking for a good overview of finance, how the industry works and how it became that way. +Huge thanks to the Coursera team and to Professor Shiller and his assisstants for making this course freely available online.As someone who shares Professor Shiller's passion for behavioural finance, it was very rewarding to hear his perspective on a wide range of topics related to markets and regulations.One thing I'd like to single out for improvement are the assessments which, in my opinion, were focused on testing short-term memory rather than genuine understanding of the material and as such were not challenging at all. +pretty good +Great course on Financial Markets! Thank you Coursera. +I really like professor Bob, and his lecture is great! However, the order of how things were taught is questionable to me. In my opinion, students should learn basic knowledge about finance first, and then go to the topics like diversification. Besides, the quiz were not well designated. I don't see the point to answer a question like "When was Fannie Mae created?". +It has been 4 weeks since I started this course and it is great. Professor Shiller is an excellent teacher and mentor. He shows everything very easy and clear. +This is a very good introduction to Finance. It introduced me to some of the important things that go on in the business world, and to some of the history of how banks, insurances, and incorporations started. For a graduate student in math these lectures increased my interest in reading more two of the technical papers given during a lecture. Thanks professor Shiller and Coursera for this course. +What to say! This is definitely introductory but who wouldn't take a course and get a sense of what it is to interact with Robert Shiller?Great insights and a interesting position on what is finance! I must admit that I was kind of leaning towards this idea from the beginning and therefore totally agree on the "social" objective of finance. I hadn't thought of finance as a technology though and I must admit that I'm very fond of this analogy!Thanks a lot! +Prof. Schiller rocks. +The course is well organized and thorough. However, there are typically a few questions on each week's quiz that is not covered by the lectures. Overall, I'd recommend the course to anyone interested in learning about finance and the marketplace. +this course was great +good overview of financial markets. +This course helped me better understand the dynamics of financial markets with simple explanations by Prof. R. Shiller, and the guest speakers are great! +Excellent introductory course for undergraduates. It values equally private and government activity in finance as well as their potential sources of failure. It gives a positive and balanced social view of the role of finance in society. +Professor rambles a little but the basic content is all there. +This course is fantastic! +Very good course, gives you a perfect introduction of Financial Markes, added to history facts that helps to understand the current economic model. +Bob Shiller is awesome ! +Professor Shiller is amazing in not only his knowledge of all areas of Finance but his delivery to all the students is so refreshing and genuine that he pulls you into every subject with the excitement of wanting to learn and understand more about it's history and importance in today's world. I came to this class wanting to revisit all the subjects in the Financial Markets and be updated based on the current happenings globally in relationship to those. Excellent class! +Invaluable lectures by Pr. Dr. Shiller. +Professor Shiller, does an incredible job going in detail each week of the: course concepts, relevant definitions, examples to illustrate his talking points, step by step introduction to each lecture, and historical acts/bills that have set the trend to the current financial market and global markets. This is a must take course! If you have a business, finance, or economic background; this course will sharpen the skills you have learned and as well broaden your knowledge of Financial Markets. +Concise and comprehensive overview. Robert Shiller is fantastic! +Prof, Shiller does an excellent job in explaining finance in a very simple way. I very important course for every individual who wants to understand financial markets as this course lays a strong fundamental base. +This is exceptional and very helpful. This is really helping me out to understand what actual risk is and related matters to it. +Bad course, a lot of talking but no explainantion. Non of the math is explained. and that is themajurity of the questions that come back in the tests +It's great experience to learn from a great professor! +Excelent. Thank you Mr.Shiller. +Dear organizers, teacher and colleagues.It was very pleasure for me to study this course. I like this course very much because the teacher explains the difficult economic process very easy. If you have questions you can discuss it.It was a very interesting course.Thank you very much for this course.With best regards,Maryna Stegniienko. +I enjoyed the course very much. Very understantable +Contents are precise and to the point. +concise, practical and covering all aspects of the markets !!! +Professor Shiller provides an interesting and enjoyable review of financial markets and how they work. It is an excellent foundational course for those seeking a global perspective on the markets and how we got to where we are today. +This is an interesting introductory course on finance. I enjoyed Professor Shiller's style of delivery. Some of the quantitative analysis, although limited, appeared to assume some additional knowledge of the subject matter. The video editing could be improved, particularly in the earlier lectures where some of the quiz questions where not covered in the online lectures. +I really enjoyed the class . The information was relevant and interesting. I especially liked the guest lecturers.I would recommend this class . +The course is overall helpful and knowledgeable. Great teaching bu Prof. Shiller +Very clear and crisp delivery of the basics of Finance !Thanks a lot Professor! +Ever since the advent of OpenYale I was hoping to gain credit for Prof Shiller's course +Very scattered and long lessons. Very difficult to learn something that is not "textual". Examination is based on literal terms (e.g: what year was XX reform enacted"). Not the type of knowledge I thought I would get +Great course. All this information packed into one place is unique and a great learning opportunity. It is very much worth your time. +I have a hard time focusing on what he is trying to say. He seems all over the place and doesn't seem to follow a path that I can understand. I'm sure live it's different but when you're taking it online and parts are +information in this course is incredible usfull. thank you for this course. +If you are keen to learn the subject of finance , look no further. +Very Good Course!!! +Super! Thanks to the Instructor! +Fundamental approach is something that is so rare in this modern world, even on Coursera. +professor shiller is the best +Being an engineer i knew only half of the technical world and i always wanted to study about the "Financial Markets" this just made a lot more easier for me to understand about Financial markets. This whole sessions answers my questions about Why? When? What? about financial markets. This has been a lot more comprehensive reading for me. It helped me in lot of ways. Thank you so much Sir Robert shiller it was really in depth knowledge about the markets though its still in progress. Am looking forward to complete this course and grab knowledge as much as possible. +Great introduction to the world of finance. Even for me as a PhD student of Finance, it was interesting and informative session. I would like to have something like Financial Markets II :) Robert Shiller is amazing professor and I will certainly miss him. +awesome. thank you prof $hiller +Very useful, dynamic and with a great teacher. +Exceptional primer course for amateurs and professionals interested in basic economics as well as financial markets. Dr.Shiller is awesome in explaining abstract concepts with amazing real life examples. +It has opened my eyes to a new kind of world... Love the Professor! +Not quite what I was expecting from a leading economist at Yale. +I would like to give this course 5 stars because Robert Shiller is such amazing teacher and lecturer, but I have to give it 4 stars because as is the lectures are not very well edited. A lot of content was left out, and some of the quizzes test material that is not even in the course. +Professor Shiller smoothly guides students through the complexity of finance. And just as important he emphasises the role of morality in creating our future! +Very helpful to understand, full of interesting examples and data. +I recommend it.. +The course brings out the core principles of financial markets, it's implications on economic markets as a whole by upbringing pre-requisite questions, examples, theories and much more about what the actual situation is and what does it mean to us, the markets and the economy. +Very important course investment issues and the development of financial markets +Amazing course to understand the financial ecosystem! +good course. Pay attention during lectures or you will not pass. +A fantastic fundamental insight into the workings of the different aspects of financial markets! In contrast to most finance classes, there's plenty of history to explain how the current financial markets came to be after previous infrastructure was battered many times by financial crises. In addition, the guest lectures by extremely prominent people in the field (not to mention that the professor himself is a Nobel Laureate) really gives this course a rather practical aspect as lecturers explain real difficulties outside of the classroom. The actual (& more mathematical) version of this class can also be found on YouTube! +Content was great and Prof. Shiller is one of the most important economists of his generation. However, the assessments could have been better structured so as to be more challenging and a better diagnostic tool for learners. See the Wharton School Introduction to Corporate Accounting course for an example of well implemented multiple choice exams. +Great course with lots of insight into this complex and fascinating topic. And how often do yo have the chance to attend lectures held by a Nobel laureate? Highly recommended to anyone interested in the topic of finance!A big thank you to Prof. Shiller and his team! +This is a really nice introductory course. I liked it a lot. The only reason I gave it a 5 star rating is the fact that some lectures are missing. +All the Course material is available online on other websites and it is kind of very old +This was a great course. Pro. David Schiller is impressive and aware of all the current dimensions of Finance. A very enlightening +Professor Shiller is a genious. +Excellent beginner level course for those seeking financial knowledge! Professor Shiller is an icon and provides great background into market workings. I highly suggest this course for anyone thinking of pursuing a career in finance or wanting to take more control of their personal finances. +Great course.Assignments are sometimes boring, but video material is awesome. Really like guest section. +What a great course. Professor Shiller explains concepts in a simple manner so everyone understands. He also make a great deal of references to the origins of old concepts such as banks, insurances, etc. so you not only understand the concept but the reasoning behind such concepts. So happy to took the course. +It is a general course for non-specialist in finance. +It was a fantastic introductory course for a non finantial profile people who wants to introduce himself in this world.I wish to congratulate professor Shiller, Yale University and Coursera for this course and digital adaption and, obiously, I want to recomend this course to everyone. +It is a brilliant course for those who want to get an understanding of the principles of financial market, causes of previous crises and main challenges in nowadays finance.Many thanks to the outstanding lecturer and Sterling professor Robert J. Shiller for a spirited and effective style of lecturing. +What a great course! enjoying every lecture of it, even though english is not my native language and im only 15 years old haha +Very good and useful course. +Thanks for Professor Robert Shiller's help and Yale University's sharing this course online. Professor Robert Shiller is a charming man, and this course gives a broad overview of how the financial market operates. This course teaches me what the real world is like, much of which I have not learnt in my finance course in my university.I didn't give it five stars because I think the course materials, as well as the quiz and exam, focus too much on "economic history". Professor Robert Shiller talks a lot about big events in history, including the time, the people and some other details. While I agree that as an academician, we should respect the great people and great event in history, I think that these details are not so important for beginner of financial markets.To conclude, this course is great and I would recommend this course to those who want to know what the real financial world is like! +This course is fantastic. It's an amazing opportunity to learn about finance and receive education and mentoring from Nobel laureate Professor Shiller and individuals as famous as Carl Icahn and Stephen Schwarzman on a financial career path. It's well worth 2 hours/week of your time for 8 weeks. +Very very useful +No systematic presentation of concepts. Very hard to follow. +awesome course for beginners, those who want to start their career in finance +It has been several years since I have attained a bachelor degree in business administration with emphasis in finance, and I felt that this course could refresh my knowledge as well as serve as an introduction me to Yale. However, the course turned out to be so much more. Professor Shiller's enthusiasm kept me glued to the subject, while inspiriting me to read and learn more. I was constantly able to make notes on various ideas that would hit me for implementation, within my line of work, into the real world. The concepts were presented from all sides; including historic, theoretical, and practical; enlightening within a dimension of relevance. +Awesome project. Well explained +A great knowledge +Even though the course is a bit theoretical especially the assignments, it can be decent start for a beginner. I wish the topics weren't so scattered as it was getting difficult for all the knowledge to set in. +Topline introduction +Brilliant in depth knowledge. i learned alot +very good for introducing financial markets. +A course that makes difficult terms of finance to sound natural of course because of Professor Robert Shiller that has a deep knowledge in Finance. +Most material cut and pasted from older lectures. Shiller offers strong foundational knowledge and excellent perspectives. Multiple prestigious guest speakers offer a nice change of pace. A little content heavy per week, but quizzes are an easy and fast application of knowledge to progress to the next week. +Great University . Great course +Great teacher, great knowledge and great passion for the subject! I've enjoyed pretty much taking this class! +Top teacher and excellent material. Highly recommended +a course that gives you an overview of everything in finance, it covers all aspects of finance and thus a kind of course helpful for a career in finance. +There appears to be some missing lectures, if you look on the forums other classmates have evidence of that. +I came from a non-mathematical background and loved this course. While some of the subject matter when over my head (particularly the statistical analysis and formulas) I found Professor Shillers explanations and storytelling amazing. The extra 30minute guest lectures at the end truly added to the experience. Safe to say, if I had done this course at Yale in person, it would have been a very enjoyable time of my life. +Its interesting and enables me to gain more insights into topics I didnt fully cover at school.... +Thank you very much for providing this course.It would have been helpful if there were some slides added to the course. Also given the fact of how people are enrolled in the course the following points would also have been beneficial:1) Some communication on the boards by the Lecturer (It is understandable that a person such as Professor Shiller is extremely busy. However, given the fact that 8,854 people are enrolled in the course, that is an estimate of £283,328 assuming if they all purchase the £32 certificate of course. This justifies some sort of weekly communication.2) The videos and material covered is at the very highest of quality. However, the transcript downloaded does not allow for good printing and needs a lot of manual editing in wordEven taking into account the above points the course provides an excellent, unique and broad perspective on Financial Markets. +One of the best courses in finance that you can do for free +Fairly good over view of financial markets and how the world economy works. +Thank you professor - one of the best lecture on +Although Prof. Shiller is a well-known Nobel prize winner, from the first several videos, my study experience is not that good. Prof. Shiller seems not well prepared. It would be more helpful with full use of digital blackboard when talking through the rationales behind finance. +This course is amazing, giving a spherical view of various aspects of Financial Markets +It is a interesting course full of examples that makes the learning easy for anyone. +Great course!! You will learn a general knowledge of financial markets! +This is an excellent course! The content was well rounded and balanced and gave me, as an engineer and tech entrepreneur, a great foundation and understanding about world financial markets.The professor, a Nobel Laureate in economics, was very knowledgeable and the subject and help stimulate my curiosity prompts me to learn more about finance.The course had some heavy weight all-star and highly successful guest speakers that provides additional insight that appropriately supplemented the subject matter in the lectures.Suggestions for Improvement:Add more lectures. It looked like the lectures videos were edited to exclude some content. I think the all the video content should be presented. Also don't edit or truncate the videos from the guest speakers.I took this course in 2015 but the videos were recorded in 2011 just after the Global Financial Crisis. Most of the content still hold today. Just would like to see these experts discuss some of the major economic events happening today (i.e. China devaluing currency, China Stock exchange plunge, Japan persistent recession, etc.)Make sure all the questions on the exams come from the lectures. There were a couple questions on some of the quizes that did not come from the lectures. Perhaps these questions came from the text books. I was unable to get the text books during class but I will purchase them to continue study.Finally, the course was so good that there should be a part 2 for this course that goes in more depth based on the subject matter presented in this course. Perhaps this could be a way to add all the content from the actual course. +A lot to learn from this course +It´s a increible experience, i enjoyed the thems and the sctructure of the course +Prof. Schiller is one of the most inspiring professors I ever followed. His ability to convey the message and explain the connections among various aspects of the financial markets makes this course compelling for everyone studying business or economics. +Fantastic Course with Bob Shiller. I have learned a lot about finances. This took away some of the mystery surrounding the topic. And more so, I learned that finance is a technology that can be used for creating good things and improving live. +Very interesting course that all interested in financial markets must see +This course was excellent!Many topics were covered and quite easily understandable due to detailed and thorough explanations.It was also very interesting to be part of the guest lectures, as it represents an opportunity to hear important peoples' experiences (something that might now have happened otherwise).Lastly the little "tour" of different halls on Yale's campus at the start of each lecture was definitely a bonus.So it was a job really well done! +Grate course , with grate Teacher. It's a unique opportunity +Could've been more complicated and in-depth, but I suppose for a Coursera lesson it was fine. Kinda felt like a Yale advertisement, more than a finance course. Prof. Schiller was very good, I do enjoy listening to his lectures, interviews and any other material i can get my hands on. +Good lectures, but no exercises or assignments. Leaves a flat and unrealistic image of the subject. +Incredible explanation of Financial markets by Professor Robert Shiller +Prof. Robert is an excellent teacher. The way he lays out the course material and how he weaves it all together with real world experiences( some of his personal ones) is just fantastic. Although, it lacked mathematical rigorousness but it I believe it makes finance fun for people like me who don't have background in finance. +I learned a lot from this course. I especially liked the guest speakers, they were some of the most respected and knowledgeable people in their field. +The prof. Shiller is a Nobel Prize and he talks about those arguments with great clearity and deepth of explicating them. His ideas are about the importance of free market, but they consider the importance of a social security. +Fantastic course! I had been very interested in the history and mechanics of the financial markets prior to taking this course -- reading as many books and even watching as many documentaries as I could. It was great to learn more about the topic from Professor Robert Shiller's perspective. +I liked very much the introductory videos in different places and even having some of the students. Although I didn't had time yet to read the references is awesome to have them available before the beginning of the course. I also liked the way Professor Schiller teaches. Thanks very much. +Prof. Shiller makes the subject exquisitely simple and simultaneously fascinating with his exceptional knack of storytelling. The guest lecturers and Prof. Shiller's focus on various crises makes it very relevant to the present times. +Excellent course. Gave a very good understanding of Financial Markets. Professor Dr. Bob Shiller was exceptional and very inspiring. Thank you for a great course. +A great course for financial markets.Shiller is an amazing professor.Enjoy this course with a open mind. +Great learning experience +Prof Shilling is just amazing. The best part is he enjoys explaining stuff as if financial history is so much fun for him. Been a really good learning experience for me. He focused more on the basics and fundamentals than the technical formula stuff, which I would actually appreciate, given my level of maturity (I am a beginner). Thanks for providing the course. I could have given a star less as notes (ppts) are missing. But cool. +I think this course it's so good, though is slightly hard to undertand, probably because the teaching metodology I think. +Awesome course. +One of the best course of finance, very interesting. +Prof. Shiller is a great teacher. +Great course for advance students. A lot of philosophy but a very few maths about finance.It is not a course for every one. +Ultra-high quality +Hoping to have a good course!! +This course is a wonderful opportunity to learn with Professor Schiller! +I love this course and it made me to realize the best investment results +The course contents are covered too briefly to learn anything useful. Too much breadth and insufficient depth. +Very compressed. But its good to have the main themes and then go deeper in each one with other courses. +GREAT COURSE +Very interesting class, but somehow the content slowly shifts from economy to philosophy/sociology from my perspective. It's not a bad thing on my opinion, but the content could have been backed up with more raw facts.An issue with one of the videos (Week 3, third video). Fortunately it can be found on Youtube.Thanks! +Very insightful and coaching course for student over the globe. +Excellent course; interesting, informative and with very good material. +I enrolled in this course just because it is offered by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Robert Shiller. Coming in, I had absolutely no expectations. Completing this course changed my perspective of how markets operate. Prof. Shiller covers a wide array of topics and I was dazzled by the fact that every aspect of the market is closely inter-twined +Great course but would be better if it were longer and included all of Econ 125. Sometimes the videos don't always follow and make perfect sense. But great overall. Robert Schiller is a great teacher. +Feeling very fortunate to be learning from the legendary Mr. Schiller. He breaks complex market theory down to common sense understanding. Looking forward to the subsequent weeks! +Because of Shiller... +Average Speakers and material +Overall this class was a good starting point for basics of finance, but coming from an Ivy League school it could stand a bit more polish and professionalism, especially if Yale University expects people to pay for the class and their accreditation.The instructor has an odd speech manner which takes a little bit of time to get used to, but doesn't detract from the material.The tests are not difficult but the questions are often poorly phrased, such as questions that ask you what a certain term of art is while none of the answer choices are descriptions of the term of art and the correct answer is an application of the term that does not actually answer the call to question.Most of the videos are cobbled together excerpts from lectures the professor previously gave. As such they cut out randomly, have issues with the sound volume, and often discuss material that was cut out prior to the section or should come later, but never does. Not the biggest problem once you get used to it, because the course is an overview, but it's still kind of annoying and not very professional compared to other courses available.The instructor is clearly very pro-capitalism, which is a mixed bag. On one hand he's very knowledgable and communicates a lot of really good information. On the other hand he's also very clearly biased bordering on utopic about the benefits of capitalism and glossing over a lot of the down side risks that are inherent in finance. To be clear this criticism is not of the Professor, or to say that down side risk and risk management are not sufficiently discussed, but merely that IMHO the course could benefit from more discussion and material on the negative aspects/ramifications of unfettered capitalism, especially given the large amount of time spent discussing the 2008 recession.All that being said, I learned a lot from this course and found it very interesting and informative. While I have a prior basis in the material that helped, I learned a lot of new things and still came away with a better understanding of finance and the international financial system. I would recommend anyone who wants to expand or create a knowledge basis in finance and financial institutions take this course. +Wonderful insights of Nobel laureate Prof. Robert. Indebted to Professor Schiller, Coursera and Yale. Thanks! +It's a good course. However it's a little bit superficial. +Awesome Course very informative especially contrasting Efficient market hypothesis with behavioural finance. +This course is very informative, it also brings in different guest speaker's point of view of financial market. However, a lot of interest topics were not expanded wide or deep enough. +An Overview of financial markets, given for a nobel prize, Thanks Coursera +THIS IS A MUST DO MOOC FOR ALL THOSE INTERESTED IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE!This course was incredibly topical because it was given by Robert Shiller shortly after he won the Nobel economics prize together with Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen.Basically, this course gives a fundamental idea of financial markets with several interesting anecdotes that date past several centuries! Great content delivered in a concise and clear manner. The videos are very pleasant to listen/watch to, especially with the delivery by Prof Shiller. His down to earth, friendly exposition makes for very enjoyable viewing.The feature that I liked the most was the interaction with guest speaker every week. That gave first hand account of many things! Guest lecturers included Maurice Greenberg (former AIG CEO), David Swenson (Chief Investment Officer at Yale -- the Yale Investment Model), Laura Cha (Market Regulator Executive in China), Carl Icahn (Activist investor), Andy Readleaf (Hedge Fund manager), Larry Summers (Treasury Secretary under president Clinton) and Stephen Schwarzman (founder of Blackstone group).I found the course stress free and fun, which motivated me to finish the course. I thank Prof. Shiller, Coursera team and Yale University. +Some videos seem truncated. Cut off and start too abruptly. +I think the course is amazing. Professor Robert is a great teacher, and Coursera is the best online school in the world!! +Loved it. Signing up for more Coursera Finance courses. +A terrific overview of financial markets nearly up to the present. I enjoyed Professor Shiller's insights and enthusiasm for his field and particularly enjoyed his attempts to point out how knowledge of financial markets empowers individuals to help even the economic playing field for individuals throughout our society. The guest speakers added another level of authenticity to the experience.On the negative side, I thought the exams were not optimally designed since specific minute items appeared to be emphasized to the exclusion of more conceptual questions,Overall I think the course is worth the time of anyone interested in finance at any level of complexity. +Inspiring. It is such an honor take this Class with Professor Shiller +Glad I joined this course. Professor Schiller explained all concepts well and clearly and cited a lot of historical events to show what went wrong and what should've been rectified.Having the guest speakers also added value to the lessons and provided inspiration to participants. +Great content overall. Some of the lectures are now a bit out of date, but the information is still technically accurate. I'd appreciate a newer version of the lectures, most of which were created in 2011. (The introductory remarks from the professor each week have been updated somewhat).I'd also appreciate the full videos for each lecture. Some of the lecture videos are cut off quite extensively. A video may say it's 5 minutes in length, but the professor's lecture hasn't ended, and students end up wandering whether the lecture has actually ended. In most cases, as my classmates and I have found, the lecture was not posted in full and we have to go to YouTube to get the full lecture.Other than these two smaller issues, the content and lectures are good quality and a reasonable length for each week. I learned a lot from this course that will help me better understand the world of banking and finance in particular. +Absolutely amazing course!It is a great supplement to my Economics and Business Administration bachelor! +Good course, but the video lectures are incomplete. The audience will benefit from seeing the full lecture videos. They can be found here (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FB14A2200B87185) +a must do course if you are interested in financial markits +World-class! +Great course! +practical application given by this course is very good. +Impressive with proper video content , i enjoy this course !!! +I found this course is not the full lectures of the original. If starting directly from Week 1, it would be difficult to follow. Then I have to search back on other website,say like www. open. 163.com in China to watch the introduction part. +Handsome doctor and interesting course +It is an honor to take this course by professor Robert Shiller +Great course to get an introduction into the world of finance and it's multiple faces. +Hope to have live sessions with Professor Shiller +amazing professor, he has taking my level of historical financial to a level i always wanted to be in any college class. Incredible way to align the information in relevance, totally what maybe it feel when being in ivy league yale. +Very interesting course - for non professionals a good overview +Great course to learn about financial markets, although it is not challenging. The quizzes will only test how well you remember dates and certain definitions mentioned in the video. If you just want to learn about basics of financial markets then this course is perfect for you. Don't expect any calculations though. +Great professor and good content.The biggest problem with this course is the quizzes: not challenging and requires no critical thinking. I was hoping to come into this course doing quizzes that Prof. Shiller gives his Yale students, but I was completely disappointed.Moreover, there are some technical issues with the videos. A lot of them cut off in the middle and I ended up having to go to Youtube to find the full versions. +Great course and superb teacher!Highly recommend to everyone! +One of the best courses I've attended in my life. The professor is very knowledgeable and confident yet down to earth and friendly. Thank you so much for all your kind efforts. +The content is very clear, precise and Dr. Schiller does a great job communicating that Finance has a lot to do with Behavior and not only pure numbers. +Oh,interesting.Very good approach to study financial courses from top universities. +Professor Schiller is truly engaging and clear, the video editing however is definitely not has good and the course material not has carefully put together as some of the other top courses offered on Coursera. +Great course! Would recommend to everyone! +Amazing course !! +It is the best course, I have seen in the field of finance. Specially the teacher of course Professor Shiller is excellent in his work of teaching.Thank you for this course. +Outstanding. Prof Shiller is excellent at explaining relatively complex phenomena. Guest speakers were great as well. +Excellent course, great opportunity to have a Diploma from Yale University and the winner of the Economics Nobel Prize, Robert Schiller!!! +the wieos are not targeting online students. The videos are long but not teaching many things. The course is too gneral. +Wow. Every weekly lecture is like a jewel. I enjoyed every single one of them. I am truly impressed with a lecture quality and felt very fortunate to join world class course for free. Thanks a million to Professor Shiller and Coursera. Hope to see more courses like this one in Coursera. +Prof. Shiller is a funny man with an interesting vision on the world of finance. Although the course is broad and abstract it provides a very valuable insight for further endeavors in the field! +what can i say about a course learing with a nobel prize? amazing, awesome! +This might be a great course for those who don't have any previous background in Finance/Business.The course will give you a very introductory observations about modern finance. Tests are quite simple, more suitable for high school, probably. No math required. That's a nonsense for a finance course, but still. +Honour to have a Nobel Prized Proffesor. Thank you profesor Robert Shiller for this high quality course. My best wishes to Yale Univeristy +Excellent presentations, very good guests. +Excellent lectures, too bad the assignments aren't really of the same quality. +Very well rounded course ! +What a wonderful course! Loved the way how Professor Shiller taught the course. Highly recommend this! +Comprehensive, thorough, intriguing, every minute well spent. +Very good course +I found this course to be an excellent alternative way of learning. It helped me in the busiest times to find again passion and love for the subject, which can be quite challenging to study as +I Learned a lot. The explanation was clear. The professor was very motivating +I hope to learn how financial markets work. I think that this course will give important insights on how markets operate. Before risking my pennies, it's better learn how all this framework operates. +I really like the opportunity to be present at actual Yale lectures. The professor is so nice but the way he says so many "okay's" is irritating. +The best financial class I have ever had ever!!Everybody should learn something about economy now in the world! +Excellent material! I thought the lectures were very well organized and expertly presented, and my interest was kept up throughout the course. The only thing I would like to see is some more challenging homework/quizzes to help drive home the content. I came in as a financial markets newbie (I'm a computer engineer by trade), and my interest is definitely piqued to learn more. Thanks, Prof. Shiller! +Excellent professor and course. I love his style. +A great primer on the financial markets, the reasons behind them, and their historical developments. +Some of the lectures are missing and some of the questions/answers in the quiz are not the same as given in the lecture. Overall, I'm satisified, athough would prefer lectures to be no longer than 15min per one video +starting from scrach an then coming onto its concepts. great learning +Great Course, Great Professor!!! +Loved this course. Great teacher! +Essential for each of us. +Very good course for beginners, after completing you have solid basic knowledge of financial world. I expected some more mathematics though. +Simple & Sweet way of teaching. +Financial knowledge is critical for success in the modern world. I found Professor Shiller's clear explanations very useful in grasping the concepts discussed in the class.Also, who wouldn't want to attend a lecture from a Nobel laureate? +Wonderful professor R.J. Shiller gives a deep overview of the financial world and he teaches a wise attitude towards the modern world problems solutions. I think that the professor Shiller is one of the most prominent economists of our times. I strongly recommend to read his books, really helpful. +Great +An amazing learning experience from an amazing teacher! +Financial Markets Course was effective topic for the learners. +Great course +Excellent ! very rewarding ; hope to find in the future course like this one.Thank you again +I definitely recommend this course. It is sharp and focused, addressing specific concepts, getting into certain amount of detail to be able to give the learner strong understanding of the topic. Eminent Faculty's style makes the learning interesting and his perspectives along with strong guest lectures from industry leaders provide invaluable insight into the financial markets making you want to explore further. +Great course a bit tricky but understandable. +An excellent introductory course on finance.Very well designed. +It's a great opportunity to be working with a Nobel Prize winner. I can tell my grandchildren someday that I learned with a legend!Omar Khodr +One of the greatest minds in economics!! is an honor to do this course. +a great way to compute rather th +Easy to understand +Topics are well explained, especially from real world scenario point of view. +Great basis to understand marketing analytics and its tools. +The best course I have ever had on the Coursera.org. The explanation of the R source codes towards marketing analytics were extremely useful to me. Easy to follow the modules. Step by step approach. Very happy. +This course is an excellent option to learn marketing, very nice materials! +Need some extra work in order to get this certification. +Very good introductory course for ones who want to open one's minds for the marketing world. +Really good course +Tha course was great! +This course have a very good examples, thank you! +Great course. Well organized, interesting, and clear. Highly recommended. +Great and Excellent thoughts and course material. +Exceptional great course for all marketing analyst. 100% recomended +fantastic from start to finish +Simple and easy to follow! :D +Great one! +Very interesting course material. However, I do NOT recommend anyone to pay for the specialization. +lessons well explained with practical excercies +Great course! +The course is perfect!!! Its very practical and inspirational. After the course you can implement the knowledge to your current projects.BUT... course is with with payment quizzes. And in the forum nobody answers to posts. +An outstanding course provides clear and practical information! I learned a lot from it. +Outstanding course! +This course is well explained by Professor. Sometimes i found myself in trouble using R Syntax because i wasn't much familiar with it +Great introduction to how analytics can be applied to marketing and other business solutions. +A fabulous course that gives you the true aspect of statistics into real applications with the help of a realistic dataset and a software package. Many thanks to the lecturers and the developers for creating this course. This is of great help for people like me, who have a keen interest in getting into analytics but needs a direction of where to start from. +Love the practical example! +I was expecting a lot from this course. from basic to advanced fundamentals. this course should be floated as full specialization rather than as a part of other specialization. +Very reality-based examples, there is an obvious mastery on the subject by the professor. +Course is great with actual coding examples so that students can understand how the actual process happens. +Great course and great teacher! +Very good for an overview. Would have been excellent with a more in-depth and demanding sequel. +Super but not free! :( +I enjoyed this class, but the content feels amateurish. One major detracting factor is grading of the exams- a complete waste of time where there are multiple examples of contradictory slides to the quiz questions. The quizes often ask for information that is beyond the scope of the lectures and steadily becomes a process of just retaking exams until you get a 100%. I don't think the quizes reinforced the material in the lecture but actually took away from the class. This class was at it's best during the recitals, where I actually got to understand the great strategies used in the videos. +very helpful, practical and with clear definitions of every term used! +Good insight into marketing analysis and the use of R +Great introduction to the topic. Built on the last course and deepened my R knowledge a lot. +Great balance between theory and implementation in R. +This specialisation just gets better and better. Bravo! +thank you for the great learning experience. +Just one more short videos on other methods of Marketing Analytics +I highly recommend this course because of its applicable use of R programming. I had no knowledge of R, but was able to pick it up quickly because the professor made it applicable to real life scenarios. My only negative was that it was too short of a course; I hope the team at ESSEC considers making a intermediate course to continue on with this training. +The professor lectured at a good level. There was sufficient high level explanation of what the use of different topics was and then the Recitals went and stepped through the actual work that would be needed for the analysis as well as the thinking behind it. The assignments as well helped to reinforce that thinking. I enjoyed it. +This course so far is really very useful in my academics and through this course, I am now well-versed with all the marketing strategies used in the industry.I would like to thank the professor for teaching us so well. +The course provides good insights in Marketing Analytics and impart introductory knowledge on the subject. +I have great learning on this even though I has some experiences on building marketing prediction model. It has refreshed my memory and also I have learned new thing in this course too. Thanks Prof for conducting this course. +Received theoretical as well as practical knowledge from the course +Exceptional class, very good analytical techniques. I do recommend having an R background before taking this class, but if you do, it's a treasure trove. +Thanks for such a great insight +assignments could have been a little tougher with more emphasis on coding. +Very educative! It demystified some misconceptions I had about HPV. Very succinct. Awesome instructor! +Very helpful, thank you so much! +The course gives an insight into HPV associated Cancers but it would have been more helpful if you had described all Cancer stagings and their invidual treatment modalities and prognosis rather than generalised staging +I'm glad to have completed this course but also to find this interesting and helpful course here in coursera. I think ita has concies and helpful tool for the everyday management and leadership issues at enterprises. I'll apply all what I learned here and I would say thanks to all the tem who made it. Thank you! +Thank you very much, it was a great help in my study process. I hope to continue taking these classes. +Excellent course, it gives you a lot of relevant tools for the leadership environment. +It`s helpful! +It is a 100% recommended course +It is full and dynanic. +The best course!! +Very GoodIs excellent complement for my, because it is a new form for knowledge the gramatic and noun, pronoun of Managment Leadership. +A great course. I am learning a lot! +Really good! +Great way to learn about english for working places. +Excellent course. I loved it, and enjoyed it a lot. Thanks for the facilitators and actors, you made it great.I liked the strategies given during the course, the interactive questions during the videos. The bonus material is very useful.I would just recommend to make the peer assignment pondered and obligatory to motivate participants to conclude them, and participate in them. Or design some strategies for this. +It is a good option to improve our knowledges about english and business +Excellent couse! Very practical and complete, +Very helpful, to learn the way to communicate in certain level. +It is an excellent course I recommend a lot. +Excelent! Really good course. +This cours it's very interesting, it gives you a lot of very good tips for improve your skills communications, some videos are not excellent in terms of edition but i recommend this course for those who are open to learn about writing effective emails and those who want to learn more business terms. +This course was amazing and help me out to improve my english skills. +Very very useful. +i love this!! +The course is great, thank you very much! +It couldn't be better! Enjoy the learning process! +It´s a very great course.I am telling everyone about this course +Excellent course, new vocabulary and perfect for me. +This course is extremely useful. +Very good! really concise and concrete information that's helpfull in all situations +I like this course. +really helpful and enjoyable +great course, a lots of information, great teachers. Thanks team of coursera. +It is really a useful course. +Very good content and useful. Great Proffesors. +Great Course! +I love this course. Thank you for sharing this knownledge with us we hope with this techniques we can improve our performance. +Give many tips and strategies of business communication in a team +I love it, the three teachers are amazing, i had so much education about how to be in the business envoriment i am really grateful for this learning oportunity +If you're looking for learning and practicing your english and busssines skills, this is quite the best course you can take undoubtely!!! +short ,Thank You. +I am in love with this course. +The best course I ever had!!! +Great!! +Just great! +It is basic, but helpful. If you have an intermediate english and you don´t use it much in your job, you can catch up you english practice with many business terms.It also gives some basic but good tips for developing in a team and as a leader. +Exceptional teachers, good material and very useful. Highly recommended +Very good course, the videos explain the main topics, providing immediate actions to daily activities. +I recommend it, fantastic course. You´ll need certain level of business experience and english to get the most out of it. It opened my horizons and provide me with needed skills! +Great job Arizona's State University team-work! +This is an amazing English Course that improves your English Knowledge,Join it and you will not regret. +Loved it! +Excellent course and teacher! Congratulations!! +Effective approach to main issues an well explained.It was amazing and got engagement it. Thanks +An excellent course, with wonderful content! Very useful and helpful tips to business situations. Thanks very much to Arizona University! +Im from Brazil, it helps me a lot to listen and understanding better the english Culture. +Very useful +Actually the course is great but i am not into history, seems that i have memory issues to memorize these tons of information, greetings for all of you guys and hope i would work with my memorizing issue through the rest of the course :). Thanks +Focused a little too much on telephone history, though some was interesting. Perhaps spread out to other modules as short background material.Would have preferred history/overview from Internet age with focus on various protocols/technologies that were introduced (IP, TCP, UDP, MQTT, Thread, Bluetooth, ZigbeeModule 6 made up for its more dynamic and more germane presentation. May be make it the 1st module, with other modules going back for a brief historical overview +In itself interesting content, structure was difficult to follow and the history - in my humble view - was going back too far into the past whereas more recent developments where only touched at the surface, quality of slides was poor. +very great course +This course is so useful to get basic idea about IoT. It must for everyone those who don't have any idea about IoT +Absolutely awesome course for beginners :) +I want to thank Harinath Sir for the wonderful course. +I learned a lot about telephony that I had not been exposed to in the past. It's a shame my father wasn't still around as he was a data technician for AT&T back in the day. We could have had some interesting conversations. +This course helped me in getting introduced to the IOT space, it is very basic/preliminary in nature but helps in setting up stage/ context for acquiring more knowledge and hands on next sessions of the certification. +The course is fine, but I would give the certificate out for free and charge for the ones that follow in the specialization as an incentive to enroll. +Waste of money. What I learned in the first course could is useless information. +The task not matched to the devices in Poland, not every use iPhones. +The teaching has been concise and to the point which is good but not so good for a few difficult topics. Also I've been experiencing video lag and audio stuttering while streaming the videos so there's that. +Great course, really appreciated the relevant real life examples provided in week 2, with week 1 serving as a solid foundation base. +Excellent Content! I would recommend! +it's very usefull +Very interesting historical references and the framing of the IoT story around the convergence of technologies was well received by me. +Good background for non-experts but just an introductory course. +Excellent background on convergence of telephone to smartphones and IoT. +Excellent introduction to IoT with both high level history and application information and details on communication technology that has enabled the IoT revolution. +Pretty loaded with information on how we got to here technology-wise. Lacks on some more in-deep info, even being a introductory course, it could have a bit more info on the state of the art of IoT. +I was incredibly excited to start this course. The outline looks amazing. For learning mediums like this, you have to start strong. Keep up the great work, you all look like you know what you're doing. You should certainly put some polish on all these videos. It's near impossible to follow along. I'd be curious in seeing the data on how many of your students finish this course. +Not much useful if you want to learn about IOT but helpful if you want to learn historical development that lead to IOT +it was very good to learn from the best brains of an institute , it helped me a lot to know aboutHow Telephony goes digital , Shifting Landscapes, what happen to dial tone and many more .thanks to you, you are doing a great job. +very interesting!! thumbs up, +Initially gets very boring but at the end gives you more information about where to orient yourself, some useful information, +While the last module of this course is very interesting and kept with the specialization, the first 5 modules are a waste of time for the most part. Why would I want to learn about AT&T for two weeks? The amount of useful concepts introduced in the first 5 modules won't take more than 15 minutes if unnecessary things were removed. +Gooed clear presenters. Give a good idea of how connectivity works. Last module was a bit obvious (IoT applications) +It's a very basic course with little technical overview. The history and story of emergence of internet is described. +pace is slow. so many video in pieces, and lecturers keep saying like" we will look into more details later" or introduction again and again. I am studying module 2 now, all small lectures like 1 min or 2 mins, which is very shattered, repetitive and annoying. +Very interesting history if telephone technology. +NB-IoT is not discussed while getting upto here. +Boring, most of them are history. Don't worth it ! 1 week into the course, very boring. Not technical enough. The test basically asked people to remember things that are not useful ! +It is very interessting to know something about the history of internet of things, so this course is very help- and useful +You should rename it to 90s style history of comunication from Bell to nowdays with useless facts about it.I watched almost all first block but then I understood that I learnt nothing than I tried the IoT block, but it still wordy and superficial. Use more media to show your main ideas, take a class of public speaking and stop shaking a remote all the time you dont even use it. +Great course!! +This is a good course to get up to speed with what has happened, we were there for some of it, but did not know the inside story. +It is informative, but there are many basics that were not covered well & there was a lot of information that was not that interesting (like too much history) +Very enjoyable course. It wet my appetite and I'm ready for the following courses. +Not really technical, but a good overview over the past years and even centuries... +Great instructors.Lots of historical references and terminology. I would prefer more details about how stuff actually work - in simple layman's terms.Looking forward to the second course. +A tremendous historical review of the legacy of inventions and protocols that got us to this point. The world should know that the Internet of Things would not be possible were it not for a myriad of large, and small, steps in the last century. +It was very nice experience doing this course.Very nice contents and very good explanation. +Great lecturer. I find the explanation was easy to understand. +Nothing to do with IoT, misleading title and waste of time, apart from several incorrections in the novel narration. +Too short. +A great historical overview of technological development that led up to the establishment of Internet of Things. Some concepts are flown over too fast, so if you don't have prior familiarity with them, they may be difficult to fully grasp, but educating students on every single concept that led to the IoT in depth is not the intention of the course anyways, and would take a lot longer than 2 weeks. I recommend noting down all interesting technical discoveries, principles, concepts etc. mentioned and doing some further exploration and study for one's own satisfaction, but as an overview of all tech development, and an overview of what IoT is and its applications, this course did a great job in my opinion! +Fairly good overview of events and technologies leading up to IoT. +very nice course, interesting +Excelent explanation about the timeline between the advance of telecommunication. +Good review of the history. +a 10 page reading could have make it. not enough material to be consider a course +I think i can never get the introduction to telecommunication and web integrated together in such an awesome pedagogical manner. Thanks for providing this course. +Good content +A really helpful course for getting to know about the concepts and use of IoT. +Pretty good course which get you clear about what the IoT is on the top of the shell. +Hello Everyone,I really enjoyed this course and definitely this is great learning experience for me..I am heartily thankful to Both Professors for given me this knowledge..Thanks a lot.. +Very confused. So there is little point. Only vague news ... nothing substantial! +The topic was interesting , but most of the questions need to be rewritten. +The course is great! My only concern is that the accent of the main speaker makes the course a little bit hard to understand by foreigners. +Interesting but very introductory. Don't expect to really learn something significant. Easy course. Accent is hard to understand. +A very good theoretical course, highly recommended +so many basic info thigs are cleared and very helpful to learn this course and ahead this will more help +Not enough conversation on IoT (Just in the last module). Way too much time spent on history that really doesn't matter and on stuff I can find on the net. One Module to run through all of these - Circuit switching and packet switching, computer telephony (SS7) and then wireless would have been enough. The remaining modules should have gone into the concepts of IoT in greater detail and some high level technical info that someone who is just hearing about it can speak intelligently on it without having to develop my own dragon board (next course) +i feel this course start is somewhat bored because of teaching is not practical based and better follow udacity website tech for teaching interactively +It is good but for an introduction its too long. +Introductory, not completely relevant to my goals, could be ommitted. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the delivery of the instructor. +Great way to begin hats off to the instructors and the whole team! +A very general introduction to the topic. Fair warning: they throws in allot of acronyms, which can be very discouraging to continue with the course. +Very detailed and interesting introduction. Thank you! +Nice and interesting background things about communications, internet, iot... +I would suggest to review quiz questions, because in some cases several answers are correct, but still just one accepted as right one. But in general very good course with very broad introduction to telecommunications and IoT. Thank You! +This could probably be better broken into two one week courses "History of Phone Technology" and "Intro to IoT". Many reviewers say they bail out in first few lectures because content seems too far removed from IoT. I enjoyed the last few lectures with examples of IoT, but could have skipped the rest. +Course advertised incorrectly. This course is more on the electronics and embedded systems end of IoT, as opposed to a high-level perspective. +Too much theory and history in the course, no practical applications. +Too much focusing on history of telephony and only little focus on IoT. +Great base for the incoming session in this specialization. I've learned about lot of things what i am using every day dut i had no idea how it was developed. Useful base knowledge. +Good Overview of IoT. +It was helpful to understand IoT but I want to the lecture note would be enhanced. +Story telling module, not really useful for IOT purpose. +This course is a refresher and provides a High Level overview of IoT and its historyas advertised +While this course is well organized and descriptive, it barely touches the Internet of Things technologies. +Great introduction to technologies involved in Internet of Things,Instructors are passionate about teaching. +Reasonable, but slow to come to the essence. +the questions were too easy in my opinion. everything else is fine +Great Course, I hoped it would have gone into a bit more detail, but it was good to get a tour through the history of computer networks. +it is an excellent review of the telecommunications computer world. Gives a solid foundation for the internet of things course. +A lot of background information, most of which I was unfamiliar with. Kind of dragged on, but I think it'll ultimately be helpful in the specialization. +The presenter are very annoying and i did not learn anything from this... +Big part of the course videos devoted to history of how the technology was developed, not much technical information about the technology itself. +Good Course for Evolution of IoT +Healthcare innovation and Enterprenuership is great learning program ans an excellent course for future upgradation in hospital management skills and administration. +Not what I was expecting as part of the program at all. Being more a visual learner I had a very hard time with how the math was covered in this in the course, I need a slide that is specifically V is XXXX, R is XXXX so I have a reference point and I found with most examples given I was having to go back and forth between multiple items and transcripts to gt what I needed. The other thing that I think would have helped me would have been less presenting and maybe a couple of quizzes for knowledge checks vs the pause and think items that were included. I did like Scott's humor, or at least humor attempts overall and I think a live class with him would be better than video. Additionally I felt that the course was a bit out date already, it was recorded in 2015 and I think I would have liked it more if had only been a year behind vs. a year and a half. +I've tried taking lots of investing classes. This is the first one that brought it all together. It's basic enough for beginners but I believe challenging for people who are more advanced. Excellent balance of theory and application. +Thank you, Professor Scott Weisbenner, for an excellence course that you put your heart and passion into. +Great learning experience. The video's are long but will definitely help you and your personal wealth. +Lectures are nicely delivered!!! BUT videos of lectures should be confined within 15 minutes and be cited data sources and how to we can see and obtain data aswell +Very dedicated professor whose efforts are very apparent. +This is a great course, highly recommend it, but make sure you have the bandwidth to climb a steep learning curve if you aren't in the investment world. +Excellent course content from an amazing professor who took the time and effort to record more than 30 hours of video to make the students make the most out of this course. He has really interesting and exciting teaching style. +Entertaining and you learn a lot. I highly recommend taking this course. +Absolutely excellent course. Excellent introduction to investment even without a background in Finance. +A++ for your effort and delivery Scott, thanks +Fantastic class. Very informative! +Fantastic course. Leaned a lot! +Very interesting lecture full of hands on practical knowledge in the field...Love it! +Professor Weisbenner provides practical, data driven analyses to investment management in a fun and engaging manner. +Excellent! Professor Scott Weisbenner was brilliant and explained very carefully all lessons, one of the best MOOCs on Coursera! +This was a fantastic course, with a realistically attainable amount of material, and a humble, knowledgable professor whose teaching style makes a normally difficult topic very easy to understand. +Ok up to Module 3. Module 4 very convoluted. +Great Course. I now have way much better knowledge and understanding of Investments! +Great course! +The best regarding finance! +Very good course. a lot of contents of theory and practical problems. Good teaching! +The course was comprehensive +Very Interesting Course;The pedagogic approach is innovative +simply best for beginners! +great course for the beginners. +Some more information regarding the HTML attributes like area controls would have been good. +Very well structured course. +This was a great class. The professor did a great job breaking down concepts with concrete examples and assignments. +Very useful +It was very good, I could have a good understanding about the course. +It was great! A great start. +It is a very useful course for beginners. I strongly recommend it ! +The course is full of fun. I like the interesting assignment and I learned a lot from doing by myself and reviewing other students' work. I also got feedback from my classmates which helped me a lot. +The course content is very backward and needs to be updated though the quiz and project parts were very good and I enjoyed completing the course. +Javascript course content can be increased +Very helpful and awesome.!! +The great course! +The course is very informative. The topics discussed are precise and the tutor was very nice to help us understand the concepts easily. +This is probably the best thing that I have decided to do in the last 10 years. Coming across Coursera and the offered University courses is a great thing to enhance your abilities for finding new opportunities out there. I'm looking forward to successful completion of the rest of the courses as well. Thank you for the great opportunity again Vancho +While not very in depth regarding HTML and CSS, this course gives a nice skim over the HTML and CSS aspects. Regarding JavaScript, this course is the best introduction I've done so far. I would definitely recommend this course for anyone looking to fill in gaps in their base knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript +I love this course! Firstly, professor's accent is so clear and I can understand 100% what he is talking. Additionally, I like the short video per point - which keeps me concentrate within a few minutes. It is a kind of very efficient instruction design. Last but not least, the assignment design is great, not too hard nor too much. I can practice what I have learnt and what I need to know in doing these assignments. In a word, professor demonstrated fairly high teaching capability and left me a very good impression of HKUST. I would highly recommend this course to my friends who are interested in learning web technologies! +Nice course! Easy to understand and practice +Good course and congratulations to Professor David.I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about html, css and js. +Very progressive and efficient learning. Each week's assessment gives enough challenge to be able to make progress, while being fun and interesting. +Very nice intro course for learning the basics of web programming, thank you to Dr. Rossiter and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for making this course available to students worldwide. +Awesome Course. Good to go ... +This course is really good. I enjoyed this course a lot. +A good course for a beginner level. +It is too basic. +Just got my certificate today, One of the best course out there to start from basic. little bit fast hence have to read lots of resources from other media like W3school.com. other then that its the best course to start with in web development. +It is very old technique of teaching +Was challenging and Educative, really sad that I could not finish all the courses on this bundle, thanks David Coursera,Rossiter, and Every other person that help put this up +The course gave good basic knowledge of html and javascript +the courses are well structured +The course is very instructive but the student should be prepared to do some considerable research on their own as well! The assignments can be challenging for beginners but, if you get through them, you'll have learned a lot! +i like how the teacher explain all html and css tags and how they work this course is very helpful thanks . +A very well-structured course. Offers a very good introduction to HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Didn't take me a long time to complete, but still came out with a lot of knowledge about the subject matter. Recommended for any beginner. PS: The weekly assignments are really fun to do! +As a beginner course this is good. Everything is illustrated with examples but most of them are classroom type examples which help in understanding but have limited use in commercial applications. AS a startup course for these subjects this is really good. +Course is pretty good for Learning +Excellent course and I really enjoyed the learning process I had been guiding through these weeks. This is a great entry level course for people like me who have few knowledge about HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The professor went through each concepts explicitly. Some concepts in JavaScript can be tricky for students without a CS background, but this course really makes things easier to understand. There are some small challenging in assignments, but it's still a great opportunity to transform all those concepts to my knowledge and experiences. +Nice Explanations and Assignments... Worth the time and money... :D +Very complete course to learn every single aspect of HTML5. +Good coursework +This course was really fun and you'll learn a lot :) . +The course content is very good and easy to understand +Very good course. Recommend +i really liked the course, it was very clear and helped me a lot +tThis course is extremely good. The videos are all self explanatory and need no extra reference . Even the idea given altogether is enough for a beginner . +Excellent course. Great videos, very useful assignments and to the point. Thanks to the instructor for wonderful videos and staff for the support. +The tutorials are good. +I'm only in the first week,the course content (audio, video, pdf files) are so helping, the course easy to understand and well structured.I really like this course +It was good. The professor teaches well, but I think course went a little bit fast. Also I had some issues with audio. Above all, it was good. +Good to learn +A great course. I've learned a lot from it. +Very in depth and detailed course! +I took the course to update myself on HTML5 and get the fundamentals of JS. I think for people with no development experience can be a little bit confusing as some of the concepts are explained very superficial. +Excellent course. The teacher is very thorough and explains in details. +An awesome package that would be found useful and engaging for those who really want to acquire knowledge and skills in full stack web development. The Prof. has done a really nice job in putting these together. +Nice course. Helped me learn a lot. +Very good! I will continue my lessons! +Coursera is a good platform to learn new technologies, assignments are useful to learn problem solving skills +Very comprehensive and fruitful. +best course ever i could even teach this to anyone else and david roister is my faviourite teacher and honk kong universty of scince and technology in my favourite universty and i am just 10 +Although not in deep, this course provides the basics for learning JavaScript, HTML and CSS in a confortable way. Teacher David Rossiter is great explaining the basics and also the language is easy to understand even for those not very used to eanglish language. +Excellent course well suited for beginners but raising their level fast +The professor clearly explains the basis of these technologies. +Very interesting for beginners. Is very hands on focus, not much theory and is focus on the most used commands, leaving the deep knowledge for other courses. +This course is just Awesome and the way it teaches you is priceless. Must have course . +I like and enjoy this subjects , and let me think and learn a lot from it . +it was a great opportunity learning here, we are grateful to you all for such an amazing work +Highly Recommended Course For Learning the Core part of HTML , CSS and JavaScript . +I feel this course offers great exposure to the basics of the fundamental web development technologies- HTML, CSS and JS. It sets solid foundation and generates enthusiasm in learner's mind to explore more further. +This course was the best option to get started in the web development +I would say it was very quick over-viewed and extremely informative course! However, I would recommend not to stop on this and look up for more on HTML, CSS and JS. +Great course!!! +Excellent introductory course into website development. +Great course +It's a great course to know the basic thing in HTML,CSS and JS +very bad demonstration +very beneficial! helped me learn a lot!! +I recommend this course 100% +Very nice crash course in HTML, Javascript and CSS +Very clear and well organized! Thank you! +I think the course needs more in-depth details. The course contains very good amount of examples that really offer a useful guide for practical javascript. +Very nice course for introduction +I love this course. The advisor explain everything clearly and the knowledge is very helpful. +The course is excellently taught by David and I learned a lot. Worth doing as a pre-cursor to any other, longer web design course you might be considering as it gives you the basics. My advice would be to take time with the lectures, download a html text editor and pause frequently to check the code yourself and make sure it works. It moves quickly, but there's a lot to be learned from pausing and trying it yourself. +The HTML, CSS and JavaScript course was well structured, challenging and interesting. The professor was excellent and I thank him and all the staff for a great course. +Very good! This course gives a good introduction to the main Web Development technologies. +Good course to start education. +Very good course. I learned about javascript and css +I think it is perfect +Great course! :) +Great Lesson! +Learning a lot. Great course. Look forward to designing some full stack pages and apps. +no one is here for review my work +Articlute and engaging instructor. nice and easy introduction for assignments. Awesome course! +Lovely course +Introduction to HTML, CSS and Javascript. Enough for you to get started in web-development. I cannot wait for the next specialization's course! +content is good, lectures can be more user friendly +very useful course . +awsome experience by this course. +Nice explanation +This course is simply great. Easy to follow and entertaining! +I have learned a lot from this co +Its good and fun +Loved it! +this course was super boring and the video lasted so much time +Excellent launchpad for the rest of the modules. +Great course! +Its my first coursera certification course ,Prof .David taught us all the core concepts in a easy way with solid practical sessions .All the quiz helps us to recall what we learn on those weeks .Looking forward to learn more . +basically for javascript, you could dig more. this more like a after class practice. other than that it is well organized, with detailed materials +The course is really good ! and the assignments are the best thing here , I felt that really I applied all what I have learned and more ! +Learning material is too good and very well organised too. overall i have good learning experience here.Thanks Coursera +Good instructions, clearly taught +Excellent introduction to HTML, CSS and Javascript. I used these over 5 years ago. So this was a good refresher. +Hello dears,I have learned many things in this course.Thanks David and Coursera Team. +Best course and nice explicationthank you . +the course is so nice .. concepts are pretty straight forward +It was a great course. Thank you so much +Very good. Experience in any programming language is required for anyone who knows nothing about programming. +i found this course good for complete beginners. +Nice course, really dynamic and well explained. Really recommend it. +This course has provided me with all the knowledge of the essential technologies of web developement. Mr. David Rossiter is a good teacher.Thanks again +Not really a beginner course. I had to complement this course with other JS open source courses only to realise JS is really huge. Additionally, the course requires prior knowledge about HTML and CSS as well and it does not seem to be up to date with newest language versions such as HTML5 and CSS3 +great teacher +JS should be more indepth. +I really enjoyed this course. +Great course. Covers a lot in a short time without being too hard to grasp. +Everything is awesome .Thank you for everything +The best course I took so far. The presenter is great. Thanks! +To the point. Precise. Concise. I would recommend it to anyone who want's to take a first course in Web Development. +Excellent Explanations by Prof.David ! :) Nice to be a part of this , thanks :) +I would have preferred if the tutor always showed some real life example on how to use the learning in creating an online shop for instance. +This is one of the best lectures I have ever had. Thanks so muchI love every part of this course.Easy to understand and well explained materials. +really good for beginners +The instructor is amazing. So organized and well taught. I absolutely love this course. +Useful for all web developers... +I loved this course! It presents the contents in a very simple way. It teaches the necessary to keep advancing on the second course of the specialization (which I highly recommend). +Pretty good course, good overview of major concepts. Though it could be hard for absolute beginners, so some experience with HTML/CSS/JS will help a lot. +This course presents Html, css and javascript in three weeks. The challenges are met. With a good base in these three areas the suite will be easy. Thanks David Rossiter. +Great course to start in web development! +the tutor was nice and topics well covered. +Great Course. Nice and clear language teachers who managed to explain the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Enabling beginners and experts to manage to complete the course. +It's was a great course!, I'm a experience developer but still forget and learn new stuff with it. Thanks guys, great job! +Very clear explanations, and good examples. Good introduction to HTML and Javascript. +Good pace, and just the right level of guidance for some interesting assignments. +I would have liked the course to have more step by step lectures that would allow us to follow the same structure when going through our assignments. Maybe even explain the assignment in the start then apply each lecture to show how each step is done within the assignment. I had to resort to third party sites and found that alot of the assignments have been uploaded online already. +Really enjoyed the course. The instructor doesn't waste time teaching his philosophy of teaching, and instead uses the time wisely to instruct. Great job! +This is the best course ever!! So much fun and learning!! +the course is very good. Good explanations.there should have been more assessments in between the videos for the topic that is taught.too much is covered at once. +This course gave me a nice start. Totally recommend if you're a beginner. Content was not overwhelming and tasks were a real challenge for me +This online learning programs is more suitable for the beginner to learn the programming because it is very clear, easy to understand, Chinese subtitle, and the student can try to code following the teaching material. However, I feel comfortable to learn the programming lessons. +It's pretty good course. Although I have not completed this course yet. +I thoroughly enjoyed the course.Learning technical was never so much interesting at least to me.Thank you Professor Muppala and Coursera. +I highly recommend this course. Assignments are practical and interesting. +Good course for complete beginners. +There should be more week to learn. There should be more data about HTML and exercises to practice. I had lot of fun .Thank You. +Excellent course with a good pedagogy, I absolutely recommend to take it and continue with the rest of the courses of specialization. You will learn a lot if you are really motivated. And as a bonus, you will have created a personal project at the end of this specialization. +This course very useful for my learning. +bad explanation and poor introduction +Excellent, brilliant course))) So many useful information)) thank u)) +It's great! +Good, precise, relevant course. Course videos along with assignments is really helpful. Tutor is simply perfect, well planned. Really helpful and useful in day to day professional life. +interesting course from basic to advanced! +Great course +Well managed Course +Very good course for understanding web-development +Nice stuff! +I really enjoyed during all my training video because mentor Sir (David) is great trainer the way he gives information as brief as possible and precise to course. Which result I able to get my First Course Certification from the option of Coursera Study Plan for (Distance Education) from well renowned Universities. Here I would also appreciate the aid program which let me enroll easily and I have gotten my certification and full training under this course. Thanks Coursera & Aid program for us. +very good course for front end!!! +The course is great for beginners and the professor takes through most of the important aspects of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Assignments are very helpful. +This course is a solid foundation to build your future knowledge on, I'd recommend following it's basic structure before trying to do more complex courses. +Excellent course, thanks for all the knowledge imparted.Greetings. +Thanks for all! +I have got very good learning experience. This is not like regular courses. I recommend this to everyone. This is the best course. +That's a good course for HTML, CSS and JS beginers! +The course assignments are challenging enough to make you move and self teach the concepts, although I found lack of feedback from course curators. I learned mostly reviewing other students work. In general I'm happy with what I learned. +good, i like this course +Good course to understand the basic of javascript, CSS and HTML, +Great course for beginner. +I was expecting harder course with more content but this course for absolute beginners to web so I guess I can't say much bad about course only that I would like if it had more content and harder projects. +Excellent course with very insightful lessons and assignments. +This is a intermediate course w/o elaborate details on all the syntax of HTM and CSS. It gives you the big picture of how JavaScript, HTML and CSS interactive with each other. +Good Experience +The javascript was very difficult, I could not complete. Def, for someone who has more javascript uner their belt. +great intro for js and front end newbies +Awesome course, awesome Professor, awesome learning goals and assignments......really enjoyed this course and I look forward to taking the next course in the specialization. Do not hesitate to sign in and join!!!!!!! +Really helpful, worth to this course. +well course! +Very informative and helpful. Learned a lot from this course. Assignments were interesting to do and pretty well, excellent course. +enthusiastic . !.!.! +The Teacher was great, but I was behind a month just because nobody will grade assigment on week2. +Good course, thanks to the Professor David Rossiter +excellent course for beginner thanks to all stuff of the course +Great course! +Everybody, who would like to make, development as their career, should learn this course. +A great course for beginners - if you have some experience with coding, you can finish the course in one week. +an awesome experiment with coursera and thanks for your such an delight help for me +Good for beginners . I liked the teaching style and pattern of teaching. +It was very well constructed and enlightening course. +I have been taking online for almost 3 years now and I can openly say that this course is a very hands-on, structured module that I can recommend for beginners! +This is one amazing course. Very nicely taught, exercises and assignments re-enforce the learning. Loved every bit of it. The one thing i wanted was some more exercises to practice. +Very interesting and challenging course. There is a lot of material provided to help guide the student along the journey of this class. +A good basic course for starting with web development. +I loved this course so much, it helps me a lot to gain a good knowledge for terms like CSS, HTML, JS.the assessment were very helpful to practice what was illustrated in the lectures, at the end of this course you will know what really CSS and JS means and how they act to modify and improve html content +Great quick overview of basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript! +Great lecture and platform for learning +very helpful +I feel that I learned a lot from this course in a very short time. The lessons are well structured and the teacher makes things that are quite complicated look aesy and that helps A LOT! Really enjoyed taking part in it. +Really nice course to understand the basics of Web-design +complete package...no bullshit library like jquery..pure js makes you a better developer and the js parts excluding jquery was great to understand how js handles dom manipulation +Brilliant! +I learned many thing in this course. It will be knowledgeable for all the web base students. +This course is great. +Nice introduction for css and html +Excelent, I'm very happy to course this, and I'm going for more now. +Excellent class for beginners of web. +Great Course! Learned a lot. Thank you from Chicago :) +Great instructor. Well planned lessons. So much to learn in 3 weeks! From novice to veteran, anyone will be benefited. +Great course! Awesome introduction in order to learn basic concepts of web development. +It helped me to refresh the skills and gain more "right" ones.It is not important what you know, but it is important when you know it. ;)Thank you for the great introduction to basics of HTML/CSS/JS, very useful! +great course for beginner +David is the best programing teacher what I have ever seen, after his explanation, you don't have any questions. Recommend it for everybody! +Excellent course. I have learnt a lot of from this course being a newbie to Javascript. +excellent tutorial for beginners.. thank you David sir +good course with simple explanation +Great introduction sessions. +This is useful course provided me fundamental understanding of Javascript and CSS. +I like this course))) +The course was well developed. Good introduction. Would like to have seen a little more with Classes and creating simple components with Prototype, just to give everyone the basic knowledge of how to encapsulate code. +Very concise, cover the fundamentals very clearly. Ideal for a first introduction. You get to made a simple memory related game at the end of the course. +I found all thing i need. Thank you so much +Excellent introductory course! Thank you! +Great course about basics of HTML, CSS and JS. Really helpful. +So interactive course . +Good for a beginner and useful as a refresh for someone who already knows html, css and js basics. +Excelent course, even though I already knew good part of the material shown here there was a big number of topics I have had only learned quickly and did not understand such as the DOM.I congratulate you for the awesome work.Thank you. +Course was very informative and the material was presented efficiently, however there have been some notable advancements on this subject matter which would have been nice to see covered. +Very good introductive course, I enjoyed doing the exercices and the assignments! +Descriptive and well taught +Very Good Course! +I learn a lot of thing in java script , I haven't been know yet.Thank you very much to classmate to suggestion to make a page web in professional . +Good course, interactive, fun, a bit of hand-holding at times but that's to be expected. Overall 8.5/10 +Great.Education is consistent with the understandable examples +Excellent course. Very well taught. Covers everything you need to get up to speed on the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. +Wonderful class, gives you a good understanding of html, css and javascript. Examples are clear and concise, lectures are easy to follow. +Excellent Course.I recommend it to all of my friends. +Good intro to HTML CSS and JS. The professor also provides a big picture so you understand the context of what you are doing. This course seems to target absolute beginners since there is a lot of hand-holding. +What a great course for the non-foundation people to learn. +Very good course. +This is the first step to my IT career. +Great course for beginners to learn the basics of computer language. +This course is simply amazing. Can I say its changing my life for the better. +This Was An Awesome Introduction To HTML CSS JAVASCRIPTLoved It So Much +The course met my expectations. The exercises were relevant to the discussions and the level of depth made it easy to follow. A fine course to introduce oneself to HTML, CSS, and Javascript basics. +This course is well structured, the lectures are interesting and clear. I enjoyed doing the coursework. The resources are great for future practice and further learning. Especially suitable for programming starters. +good course +I learned a lot +I like it! Brief but complete introduction to website World! +thanks ................................................................. +Courses can be a bit more detailed. +This is an excellent course! great job! +Too basic and not thorough enough. The assignments are too easy also because of over specific assignments instructions. +A very good course. The good thing about it is the way it is organized. +I recommend it. +Great professor and great head start into Full Stack development. I was sad to see it end after only 3 short weeks. +I am so glad to register this course. I have got wonderful knowledge from Coursera. I have recommended to my friends as well. Thanks to Coursera!!! +the assignments was amazing +this course is very good +Great intro +Great course and great teacher! +nice and simple for beginners +the course is great but i have problem with the assignments as they all have to be in parts and i can't get why we only submit last part as if it is right the others is right also, i didn't like the assignments system in this course but the course and the assignments itself were great +Course had a good content and the exercises were able to make the use of the elements +One of the best course out there for web developers +I loved it.This course only touches the surface of what's HTML, CSS and JS and will by no means make you an expert. However, it is a good starting point. +Great course! Clear instruction and easy to follow! +From the beginning, really helpful! +Really good course, gives you the basics you need to further study about Web Development +Great course! +Wonderfull tips and content to introduce in the HTML, CSS, Javascript +cool! +Great course for understanding the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I don't know if this course is suitable for beginners, because I have already got knowledge about HTML and CSS, but, I have learned some new things about them and, of course, about JavaScript, too. +I really like the way the instructor gives clear explanations and also the assignment added each week. +That's really a good way to start on web developing major! +Great course! +The course is very interesting for junior -wannabe- web programmers. It uses the main structures of HTML and JavaScript and lets the user exercise through questions and assignments. Best option if someone wants to be a web developer! +I like the pace of the course. +I am loving this course and i think it will help me a lot in developing my responsive dream web application. +A great class for anyone interested in learning the essentials of html, css, and javascript in relatively short order. +It's awesome! But It is very very general! +Good way to get hands on experience. While it is challenging to get a quesiton answer - as there is a lot of searching on the forums (rather than having 1-1 or life q&a) +Fantastic Course. I feel confident with the exercises and information provided! +pretty well !!!! +It seems quite slow pace at the beginning, but I love the fact that there are no assumptions on knowledge and a lot of small details are being explained. These details are very important, specially when you take this course as an advance c++ programmer. Understanding the advantages that Javascript has built-in as a languague is really useful! Thank you! +Excellent. A very clear and engaging delivery by Prof. Rossiter. +Great Course. The way lectures were delivered is Outstanding.I really learned many things within a month from it. Thanks +I really enjoy this course and learnt a lot. I was not familiar with HTML, CSS and Javacript but I could follow without any problems. The Professor is excellent, didatic and explain the lessons with clarity. I am very thankful for this learning. +I afraid to learn JS until take this course. Course has really good presentation and content to understand behaviour between HTML, CSS and JS. I would definitely recommend to take this course if you are interested in web development. +The videos and presentation are fine.The exercises are quite easy and the main problem of the course is that they are review for other students withput any teacher assuring that is right. +Very nice and the presentations are very clear and understandable,It's a very basic course of web development which is why I think it's a little bit expensive for this level of course. +excellent course for web developers.Great lecture notes. +Really clear but it's a pity that there is nowhere a free possibility to gain certificates... :( +This course will be very help for me in my masters track. Since I am doing master in this field so I want to study all the topic in more detail. Furthermore, the course is helpful for me in my career development. +Excellent course. The explanations are very clear and easy to understand. There are very good excercices and you can also learn a lot from the assignments. Assignment 3 is paticularly fun with a lot of interesting logic. +Very comprehensive, good balance between theory and excercises. +this course is really helpful for beginners. Also I enjoyed the assignments. +Really good course on HTML5/CSS/JavaScript. Enough resources and practices exercises. +Very good intro class. The exercises were really helpful. +Fun to follow, light hearted, but with substantial content, that will help you web development career. +HTML and CSS parts of the course are not the best, but the JavaScript part is the best you can find on vanilla JavaScript on Coursera. +Pretty simple and handy overviewing of JS. Like it! +great tutorial and assignments +It is pretty an interesting course, especially the practical tasks, but, after all, it is much better for those who already knows the technologies mentioned in the title. The information is given very quickly during the lectures, so it may be not so useful for web development beginners (even regarding possible background in other areas of software development). That is why I recommend that course for those who is looking for a good HTML, CSS, and JS revision, not introduction. +Excellent Instructor - David Rossiter.Thank you so much. +It is a good course. Just need more hands on training to practice exercises +this course is great thanx to professor David RossiterI've finished it with success thank you Mr Rossiter +Omg ,I wish I had these professors to teach us in our college.I have started loving HTML tag must be present2. There was no accent that for attribute of