Learner Reviews & Feedback for Country Level Economics: Macroeconomic Variables and Markets by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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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.

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.

The lectures could have been more engaging and interactive. This seems to be a problem of the lecturer I guess. But overall it was a great experience learning.

The scope of subject has been a lot reduced. Not ideal for an MBA course - doesn't cover most relevant & current topics - but good in overall teaching.

I personally don't think he explained some of the material too cleanly. I did a lot of outside reading to understand some of the concept better.

Learn something about the money supply and demand and their relationship with the exchange rate. but can hardly used in daily

Professor needs to make the content more interactive and must include more examples since the concepts and theory is too dry

Interesting and pertinent material but some of the video content is dry and makes it hard to grasp the concepts.

I don't have any problem with the course but the lecture PDF Sources

Content is interesting but presentation is a bit dry.

Hard to understand, need more explanation

it was good, could be more dinamic though

Very disappointing. It's a challenge to listen to the lectures, read the notes and still try to pass the tests. The professor doesn't do a great job of explaining some pretty complex ideas and to make matters worse, there are a lot of them - and they build on each other. I'm generally a good student, but I had to work VERY hard to pass the quizzes in this course and even though I did, I can't say I actually learned anything. This one was very disappointing.

Complex topics, relationships and topics are not adequately explained in lectures. Quizzes go far beyond the introductory material, and often ask for formulas and concepts to be applied in a way they were never fully explained.

QUITE BORING, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE COURSE IS STRUCTURED

it should be more interesting

If you can read english, find interesting book that talk about Macroeconomics as this course is very dry and the teaching methods used are not applicable to this era (reading from the slides). It was very difficult for me to engage in the lengthy videos.

Inadequate lecture materials for test and assignment preparation. Students should not have to go outside of required readings in order to learn required content for course.

the videos are too long

assignments are difficult

and dr asfahani is not like dr larry

i loved dr larry much more

dr asfahani is not interesting in his presentations at all

Content is very dry; slides have too much text and don't depict concepts well. Formulas, and teaching methodology is not structured.

Very poor teaching. The professor has no engagement to the class, and it is very difficult to follow with him.

Incredibly boring. The professor is very nice and clearly is an economic expert, but is not at all engaging.