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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Social Computing by University of California San Diego

4.4
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815 ratings

About the Course

People are social creatures and the modern Internet reflects that. Technology has made collaboration at a distance possible in new ways that present their own set of challenges. This course will introduce you to the major challenges and opportunities for creating online communities. What does the future hold? Learn how social computing can create collaboration experiences that go beyond what’s possible face to face....

Top reviews

ML

Mar 9, 2016

Really interesting course. Good introduction to the dynamics of group behavior and collaboration. Nice overview of advantages of crowdsourcing, but no mention of any ethical or economic concerns.

MI

Apr 7, 2017

Great course, very practical and a great pack of skills which will help me interpret problems better, especially ones involving multiple people (which is basically all problems.)

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By XIE Y

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Oct 11, 2016

Good explanation of concepts, would be better if add more interaction

By Susanne D

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Oct 4, 2015

Good course. Especially enjoyed the crowdsourcing lectures.

By Ymmannuelle V

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Jul 3, 2017

The assignments were fun especially the Crowdsourcing one!

By Gioconda B

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Nov 21, 2017

I love the content and the assignments for this course.

By om s

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Sep 29, 2017

I learnt a new perspective for designing interfaces

By Ramesh S

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Feb 7, 2016

Very useful and thought provoking course.

By Mahmoud K

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Dec 13, 2015

the assignments wasn't that good

By Vazgen B

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Jun 7, 2016

Great course, but a bit short.

By LUCIA S B

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Dec 12, 2015

THE COURSE IS GOOD.

By Santiago B

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Jan 13, 2019

Handy information

By Alexander P

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Jan 19, 2017

good course

By Stephanie B

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Mar 5, 2018

The topic was interesting enough, but I actually don't feel like I learned much in this course compared to the previous two courses, especially from the assignments. The assignments don't teach or require any hands-on skill, but are mostly theoretical/analytical and not in a way that's particularly enlightening. The section on crowdsourcing is too long for the general message that's extracted in the end (ie, the interview with the Mturker was a waste of time and easily could've been reduced to less than 5 minutes with the same info). My 3-star review is a bit generous, but I rounded up because the course is essentially free.

By Viktor Z

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Dec 5, 2017

The problem with this course:

1.assignment instructions given unclearly it was a bit misleading -often difficult to understand what we have to do exectly.

2.the assignments shoud be checked by professionals with clear instructios, so you can understand feedback and have a better idea about possible outcomes and mistakes.

3.must be more structured form of teaching with multiple examples -there is not enough examples.

By Jean v O

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Sep 4, 2020

Although some of the videos seems to be like 5 years old, some of the content is still relevant to create a baseline understanding of the principles of social computer. My only complain regarding the full specialization is the entire "peer review" methodology. I don't think it is effective since it lacks real academic rigor.

By priyank a

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Apr 24, 2019

I couldn't understand the purpose of creating content in a separate course. I do not mean to hurt or demean anyone but I think the concepts could have explained in Course 2 of the specialization. So far, I had a great experience with Course 1, 2 and 5. Course 3 seems a bit off track

By Sebastien P

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Jul 30, 2017

This course was useful for me to better understand the field of social computing, but didn't feel as concrete in that it felt more theoretical I didn't get to practice hard skills, unlike in the previous courses (design principles, human-centered design).

By Gaurav S

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Nov 9, 2018

While explaining the examples, the video tends to divert from the main topics. Moreover, I believe a lot more of study is required to fully grasps the fundamental through other knowledge books and not just rely on videos.

By Susan D

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Apr 3, 2016

I thought this was going to be a more comprehensive course about crowdsourcing and using social media to aid the design process. Maybe I missed something, but it fell a little short of the mark for me.

By Emily B

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Dec 2, 2019

I felt this course was less engaging than the previous two in the interaction design specialization. It also seemed to be more tenuously connected to the overall course topic/goals

By Faridah F

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Apr 10, 2018

It's good, but it needs a lot of improvements.

The videos are not directly related to the assignment, and the assignments are not very clear!

By luci w

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Oct 26, 2015

The teacher is not very good at explaining things in simpler terms. The lessons were kind of hard to understand.

By Kory T

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Jan 16, 2019

Some of what was asked in the homework did not match with what was asked in the submission section.

By MG

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May 30, 2016

Some of the evaluation methods just allow other people how doesn't do to much work to just pass...

By 鲜核桃

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Apr 10, 2016

Hope recommend some more reading

By Joseph K

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Apr 17, 2020

While I was able to learn some new things through the course, I feel like there wasn't enough content in the course to be on par with the others in the Interaction Design Specialization.

Additionally, the quizzes and assignments used wording that was difficult to understand, rarely matched with the content of the course videos, and did not do an adequate job testing what we learned.

I gave this two stars instead of one because I did gain insight into the world of social computing and crowdsourcing, but the delivery methods were less than exceptional.