The course is content rich but the dry reading of slides that are bascially available on the NIST website does NOT promote learning efficiently. I view this particualr course as a Presenter in a meeting reading the slides (which are cut & pasted from NIST) with the spearkers back to the audience.
I belive this course could be improved in several ways:
1) the videos should be "stage setters" for the content
2) the content is best consumed via reading, not listening.
3) there should be downloadable simple one-pagers to reinforce learning 5/23/97. The spread sheet is dense and takes 16 pages to print the entire CSF reference
3) there are multiple times in each weeks curriculum that your hear "next slide" but the slides do not advance
4) the quizes should be done at the end of each week, not an all or nothing test at week 7
5) the currrent format is unusable on a mobile phone as the slide text is too small
6) this should NOT be a 7 week course. I completed in 2 days. Now I have previous security experience with PCI DSS and ITIL processess so that helped
7) the presentor should not exhaust the informative references everytime as that is easily consumed off the NIST spread sheet
8) I have completed over 10 other Coursera topics and thought that content (mostly Machine Learning) was exceptionally well currated, the videos made sense, the exercises reinforced the learning topic, and the quizes were timely. Many of those courses were presented by Andrew Ng (co-founder of Coursera) and truly a top notch luminary in the AI/ML field. As such, this material is by defintion a bit "dry" and difficult to inspirationally convey this type of material. That being said, reading a list of lists does not promote the power of the Coursera platform
