good learner

Useful to us

Theory based

informartove

not so good

good one

Too vague

GOOD...

HASEL

great

Nice

Good

good

fine

nice

NIce

bad

ok

.

x

I was disappointed to see how little effort was put in to design this course. I was expecting more since this course seemed to get a decent rating based on Coursera user feedback. The course provides some very helpful resources to go back to later when learning more about cybersecurity and keeping up with the most up to date news and research. The course attempts to teach important concepts, but the lecture delivery method is just poor.

For starters, the video lecture designs were just sloppy -- poor audio recordings, typos on the slides and in the written transcripts, slide graphics were not visible most of the time (even when viewing in full-screen mode). Many acronyms and terms were not clearly defined or defined at all. This should be a number 1 priority for a beginners' course. The written transcripts for each of the lecture slide simply just transcribed the audio and did not correct any transcription mistakes when they appeared. There should also be helpful written guides creating outlines for each of the units and the terms/concepts presented.

This course has a 7-day free trial, but I canceled before the trial was over. It is not worth paying for something where there is clearly very little effort put into making the course.

Overall disappointed because I expected more from IBM since they have top experts in this field.

I am always grateful for free access to learning, but this was not amazing.

The course seems like it was patched together from disconnected fragments of old IBM training sessions. The audio quality is often poor. The subtitles are full of errors and [inaudible] tags. The presenters are doubtless knowledgeable, but often do not teach very well. For a beginner course, acronyms and technical language appear frequently without explanation. The explanations are sometimes good, but only sometimes. At other times, I found myself losing the thread of the lecture repeatedly.

The quiz questions are sometimes badly written and force you to guess what they mean. Others simply do not support the learning well. For example, instead of asking you about the concepts, they might test you on exactly what wording was used on a particular slide.

The quality of the slides is also highly variable. Some are fine. Others are garbled acronym salads with incomprehensible diagrams and ancient clip-art, featuring text that is multicoloured for no obvious reason and entirely in Comic Sans. I swear this is true.

It is still great to have free access to information. If you are interested, then it might be worth your time. But personally I could not recommend that anybody pays the monthly subscription fee for this.

I will say that there is a lot of great information in this course but it is like taking a history class, they tell you information, you take notes and do some reading, then you take a test based off of what they went over in the course. There was no real information that you could actively take and use, at least not right away. You will need to continue taking more and more courses/certificates before you can gain the knowledge and wherewithal for the actually used tools to obtain a job in this field.

I huge downside to this course is this was recorded as if you were in a meeting with someone and I felt like there was a lot of stumbling, stuttering, mumbling, coughing, pauses and more that they could have gone back and re-recorded or something so that you could fully understand and get what they were trying to say. There were even parts of the transcription and closed captioning of the audio didn't even pick up on and had to put "in-audible".

For such a huge company I feel as if the quality of the audio and even the videos provided could have been better.

The content of the course was pretty good, but the audio and video quality was atrocious. It felt like I was watching an amateur video on YouTube from 2005 - not a video made by a prominent company as part of a professional course in 2023. The text was often unreadable, and the audio was often inaudible - which prompted me to turn on the closed captions, which I assume was autogenerated, unfortunately, since it often had the wrong words and for the inaudible parts simply had "[inaudible]"... Apart for that, each video started with a short introduction to the video, which would have been fine, if A, the audio levels were normalized with the rest of the video (my ears were blasted several times by the intro because the rest of the video had much quieter audio), and B, if it added any meaningful value - it was just a summary of what you're going to learn, before EVERY video, so there were about 20 2 minute videos that were all preceded with a 20 second intro that meant nothing...

I signed up for the 7 Day Free Trail for the IBM Cyber-security Analyst Professional Certificate. This is definitely a cert I would be interested in completing but unfortunately the lecture audio is so bad that I will have to un-enrollment as I can't justify shelling out $49 per month for such terrible and unclear audio quality and instructors. The material itself seems interesting but I literally cannot hear or understand 75% of what the presenter is trying to say in the lectures. I tried turning on the subtitles but that's just no way to learn... Unfortunate because I think this certification path has potential but I could literally create a YouTube video on my $300 laptop with no special equipment that would sound better than what IBM is putting out here. I bought a Security+ course on Udemy for $9.99 and it seems to basically have all the same type of material plus the lecture audio / instructor is clear and concise in their presentation.