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Great content and I thought the lecturer delivered it very professionally with easy to understand analogies that helped me to remember some of the concepts. Understandably, this is an introductory course and it would benefit the learner to do some Googling on certain ideas mentioned on the course to get a better understanding. The illustrations were helpful with visualising and summarising most of the time but on a few rare occasions, they didn't match up 100% and was a little confusing for me. As this was my first Coursera course, I have only just found out that there is no way to interact with my peers or the course team members directly, I mean there is no direct messaging system. Looking at the (lack of) activity in the forums, I was worried that the course might be "dead" but it seems like there are enough active participants to grade my assignments and allow me to successfully complete the course. One final note: I spent well over 35 hours to complete Quantitative methods (estimated time to completion by Coursera/University of Amsterdam was 29 hours).

It is a very useful course, as an international student who is currently studying in the Netherland, I have to say, this course is a very dutch way. we have to do group work with our classmates, and we can have a discussion with other people.

In addition, those courses are not very long, they are very short videos and everyone can use several minutes to take those courses. This course aims to lay the foundation for conducting first-class qualitative and quantitative research and embed it in an effective and feasible mixed-method research design, thereby laying a solid foundation. At the end of this course, students will have a good understanding of the most important principles and practices of social science research. At the end of the course, he will also be able to improve his knowledge and skills independently, so as to pursue his substantive research interests without methodological obstacles. The course first introduces and discusses the most important qualitative methods for all students in the social sciences and behavioural sciences.

The content provided is of excellent quality, and videos are well explained. I only put 3 stars for 2 reasons. The first one, is that the “peer-reviewing” idea is not a good idea without language requirements to enrol in this course: at least half of the assignments I peer-reviewed were filled with vocabulary and grammar mistakes make it really hard the understand. In many cases as well, the assignments are so filled with mistakes that it is just impossible to understand. I therefore wonder, how such low English skills can permit some of us to read carefully and understand the texts used for the assignments.

The second point, is that in my opinion, the content remains very general. For instance a deeper analysis of each research designs would have been nice.

The course remains however extremely useful for whoever is interested in quantitative reasoning. I would recommend to pair this knowledge with that of books on each topic discussed.