Taking a Coursera course is hard work. I've taken 3 courses so for (one on databases and two on algorithms) over the past year and a half. This is about as much as I can manage (I work full time and have a family), even though I would like to take more (so many interesting to choose from). But the main reason for this limit is the amount of work it takes, not how the course is presented, or how well written the mails are.
For me, the pace of the course is actually a plus. If there were no deadline, I simply would not get around to doing it. I remember when I first found all the MIT courses on-line (several years ago). I really wanted to take some of them, but because there was no schedule and no deadline, I never got around to taking any of them. It's only with Coursera that I have actually taken (and finished) any.
For me, the pace of the course is actually a plus. If there were no deadline, I simply would not get around to doing it. I remember when I first found all the MIT courses on-line (several years ago). I really wanted to take some of them, but because there was no schedule and no deadline, I never got around to taking any of them. It's only with Coursera that I have actually taken (and finished) any.
I've written about my experience of all three courses on my blog. The latest was Algorithms: Design and Analysis, part 2 http://henrikwarne.com/2013/02/18/coursera-algorithms-course...