GOOD

good

cool

Cool

很鼓舞人

Nice

Wow

osm

حسن

thx

,

hi

:)

:)

A+

启发

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The course itself—the content and the way it is taught—is excellent and thought-provoking. I think it's a thorough and well structured introduction to the subject even for people like me who have had prior exposure to many of these elements in an unorganized way. I feel I've learned a lot and made tangible progress by getting to know these fundamentals.

The one big problem here is that the course relies entirely on peer-reviewed assignments (with the occasional automated quiz). You are graded by others like you and have to grade others to pass. I took my part seriously and gave thoughtful comments on other people's work, only to get, in return, nothing more than one-liners, non sequiturs, and on one memorable occasion, a single period (".") inserted by the reviewer in every text box to satisfy the requirement to input text.

Quite obviously, students aren't that keen on reading the guidelines and following them. This could also be due to the fact that it's an elementary course and few have the kind of critical vocabulary that is necessary for giving thoughtful comments on other people's creative work. After several rounds of such reviews I honestly started to lose interest in doing my own assignments as well, since I realized nobody was going to give me valuable feedback on them. On the reviewing side, I even had several cases where other students submitted the wrong kind of file for their own assignments, some of which couldn't be opened and viewed at all.

This course begs for the hands-on presence of actual human staff who would grade the assignments and provide professional feedback that enables the students to make real progress. At the very least, staff should review everything sent in by students to make sure assignments and review actually follow the guidelines and contribute to learning.