Learner Reviews & Feedback for Introduction to Communication Science by University of Amsterdam
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It is wonderful course. I found that teaching methodology and exam every thing was perfect. My best wishes are for the Coursera as well university of Amsterdam for preparation of this useful course.
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!
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By S. R
•The best thing about this course is the graphics used in the lectures. The course was informative, of course. But the lectures were kind of boring and it's very difficult to pay attention when the teacher himself or herself seems distant and not interested. The worst thing is the distribution of the lectures. There was too much load per week. This clearly was an eight-week course! There is a quiz where none of the given options is correct! I tried them all but never had the correct answer.
Otherwise, I enjoyed learning the course, I got to know about new things. Thank you all.
By Friederike S
•The content of the course is good for an introductory course. Sometimes important concepts are only briefly mentioned, while a lot of time is spent on less important things. Self-evaluation with the weekly quizzes is limited, because the given answers are hidden. You only know which question you got wrong, but not which was the wrong answer. This is completely useless, when the question was "Which statement is true" but the statements are not shown - How do you know which part you have to study more thoroughly?
By Yu S
•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.
By Vabis E D
•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)
By Nedyu Y
•The course gives some basic overview, but personally could not see the benefit, consequently it was not very useful for me. Lector uses very theoretical and distant language, which makes the content kind of boring.
By Pritom D
•I praise for the method that has been applied on this course.But personally i have some dissappointment on it.It should be more effective on the lectures.
But i really praise about the system of quiz. Thank you.
By Anick-Marie B
•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.
By Taylor R
•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.
By Marios
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By Alessandra A
•It's a very intresting course with which you can learn the basic mechanism of communication and the development of this important science
By Terry C
•Interesting course - but "padded out" to fill the four weeks. Study aids would be nice (e.g. copies of PowerPoints used in instruction)
By Sumaya A A S
•الكورس طويل و نظري
معلومات جيده وجديدة بالنسبة لشخص لم يختص في العلاقات العامة و الاعلام
ولكن حجم التطبيق صغير
By alex s
•Quizzes too hard and don't make sense and too many of them. Maybe quiz, paper or final exam.
By Mohammed S
•I would prefer it if there was more feedback in the quizzes and more challenging questions.
By Graciela G
•It was ok, good enough to get into MOOCs
By B S
•Very lengthy......horrible
By Jimmy D
•course out line. please
By Manish U
•Too tedious
By Navid N
•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?
By Sasanka P
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|Very long training and this is not help to my professional career
By Angela M
•I founded so basic, I didn't feel engaged to continued.
By Adib Z
•Too many quiz and boring contents
By Yago S F
•Terrible. The classes don't flow well, since there are thousands of midroll quizzes that completely takes you out of the experience; most questions in the tests are error-inducing, meaning that they usually ask you "what x is not" or "this is false: the mais purpose of x is...", and as communication experts, it is shameful that they did not expected people to fail tests because our brain registers first positive then negative stimuli. The tests were also overly long and often addresses non vital info in its questions instead of the content itsel (as an exemple, the test may ask what year x theory was created, but does not ask what x theory conveys or in what scenario it applies). Overall, its a pretty bad course. I just finished Yale's course on basic psychology with professor Bloom and I must say that I actually learned a lot more about communication on a course that IS NOT ABOUT COMMMUNICATION than is this one. Shameful, simply shameful.
By Panos T
•The structure of the lectures is not really effective.
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