CR
Apr 23, 2018
Excellent course, Professor Raj is great. I found it very helpful to see what types of personality traits I have that may contribute to my happiness level and possible approaches to dealing with them.
LS
Jan 23, 2017
This course is a joy! I cannot recommend it highly enough. Practical advice based on long-term research, interviews with worldwide experts on the topics discussed, and a fabulous professor. So great!
By Darya I
•Aug 16, 2016
Great!!!!!
By Florian A D
•Dec 8, 2015
bon depart
By İSMAİL Y
•Oct 26, 2022
very good
By Jeet S
•Jan 14, 2022
very nice
By EE-020-Kabita S
•Oct 31, 2021
excellent
By shwet p
•Jun 1, 2022
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By B E
•Aug 31, 2020
awesome
By Shailesh K M
•Apr 11, 2017
awesome
By Carolina
•Nov 30, 2015
Great!
By Huu S T
•Aug 19, 2022
Done
By Julian D R
•Jan 19, 2021
great
By SONU P
•Jul 4, 2020
Great
By Marielena A I H
•May 30, 2023
Good
By 026- E S R
•Jan 8, 2022
Good
By Arka k
•Aug 17, 2021
nice
By Shilpa S
•Jul 28, 2021
Good
By Ankan S
•Jul 22, 2021
good
By Srijit b
•Jun 26, 2021
good
By KOUSIK S
•Nov 30, 2020
good
By Arpit K
•Aug 13, 2020
good
By Papai R
•Jun 20, 2020
nice
By Rahul D
•Jun 15, 2020
Nice
By Ziv B
•Oct 31, 2016
yay
By ARIJIT M
•Jul 19, 2021
5
By Anne L
•Jul 26, 2020
I enrolled in this course in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic. I watched all of the video lectures, completed the quizzes, submitted my assignments and reviewed the work of my peers. The only thing I did not do was submit my final exam (reasons below).
What’s great about the course: There is a great deal of content that introduces lots of social science concepts that affect happiness. You can delve deeper into those elements that interest you and have a base line knowledge of those that don’t.
Dr Raghunathan is a great presenter with passion for his subject. The cheesy music and jokes grew on me as I realised they were his authentic style.
Some of the exercises were fun and introduced their concepts in a gentle and thoughtful way.
What could be improved: The errors in the course are distracting and disappointing (I’m talking about the ones that impact how the course works operationally (e.g. not being about to upload assignments in a certain format when videos say that you can do so, being told assignments have been submitted late when they have not, being told you have answered questions in lectures wrong because you did not use a capital letter) rather than typo errors or the wrong pictures being referenced). I understand that there isn’t a commercial drive to correct these errors in a free course, but we are six years on from when it was first created and some of the main errors impact people’s enjoyment and progress, which in turn will impact whether people will pay for a Certificate at the end (it did me).
Peer reviews: while I completely understand that this course aims to be as inclusive as possible, it lacks credibility for people to pass assignments when they don’t understand the assignments, or have plainly put no work into them. For example, one of the questions was “what makes you happy?” To gain points one simply had to list a few examples of things they personally did that made them happy, an answer presented to me just said “lots of things” and nothing more, When I tried to award zero points, I encountered error messages and could not submit my marking.
The final exam: This comprises of 12 questions in two parts (a) and (b) that covers all of the content of the course.The exam is a tall ask/order in terms of requirements and content, particularly when you consider the lower level of skill and knowledge students have needed to pass the assignments that have come before it. I would suggest that the part (a) sections of the final exam were incorporated into the weekly assignment tasks so we get accustomed to the rigour you’ll be expecting at the final stage. Then the final exam should only be comprised of the final six (part (b)) questions (and we were only required to pick three or four of those to answer and submit). I suspect a lot of people, like me, quit the course before submitting the final exam. I was all up for showing you what I learned and what I committed to do to improve my happiness; the final exam misses the mark in achieving that, which is a shame.