Great introductory course

Useful and comprehensive

Excellent course!

This format is less than stellar for the content. I would prefer less of a Ted Talk / interview style and more of a classic teaching concept, overview, scenario, and the interviews as a supplement.

Many of the links are outdated or paywalled, making assignments and readings harder.

Overall, you learn some things, but the course is repetitive. There are only so many times you can come to the same conclusion of "people act in their best interest." I think this course is worth a good review and rework to make a much more stable and solid impact on learners.

All in all, I learned some concepts of global energy and climate policy.

However, the course material is slightly dated and some links to neccessary reading material are broken. In addition, I am not a big fan of the assignments given as the evaluation creteria are somewhat arbitrary. 1 point per assignment seems too low to evaluate an assignment throughoutly.

In my opinion, the interviews in the video material were too superficial at times and I would have hoped to experience some in-depth discussion.

This course has some interesting material but two big caveats. First, it's showing its age - the most recent materials in the class are now four years old, and this is a rapidly changing area. Second, it's lightly enrolled so there weren't many people in the forums, and the few ones there seemed to focus mostly on getting someone to peer review their essays.

Would love to see this class refreshed with current content, and run less frequently so that the student body gets commensurately larger.

I have to admit, I was a bit disappointed by a lot of the content in this course. It was very opinion based and a review of subjective interviews, with more philosophical stances and very few based on presented facts. Also references to technological limitations were made which were simply not true which made me question the expertise. The content was definitely dated. Conceptually, I think the topics covered were interesting and the idea of Energy Security was very interesting to consider.

The first part of the MOOC gives interesting and qualitative explanations to the topic. Interviews are always pleasant to listen to and the readings, sometimes a bit long and complicated, still provide precious information for those who want to go further in the develompment of each topic.

But the second part on (courses 4 and 5) lack of content with outdated and unavailable reading contents. It is disappointing regarding the quality of the first part.

A very interesting topic. However, the course was let down somewhat by two problems. First, some of the key readings were not accessible, either being behind paywalls or no longer being available using the links provided. And second, some of the readings and content felt a little out of date, particularly in a context that continues to change in real time.

The course gives a good overview of global energy and climate policy, but many of the articles for reading are from several years ago. The Climate sector is advancing rapidly, and I would argue that some of the articles for reading are out of date if they are from 4 or 5 years ago. Other than that, the course was a good high level overview.

The course material is very limited and eurocentric. System should take care that assignment are properly circulated for peer review and system should make them available when due. Overall a superficial course.

Too much panel discussion session, though the content from the panelist were good. This is a Course, not a collection of panel discussion. There were insufficient slides for the content of this course.

I would have really enjoyed reading a compendium for the course. Or, at least, it would have been helpful if each week, there was a summary of what we should have learned from the readings and videos.

Outdated Material

The course material and reading material are 7-8 years old. The concepts still make sense, but the concepts have themselves moved on. The course was enjoyable and well prepared, but should have been significantly updated.

Creating video lectures without fixed text is poor preparation. Unfortunately, information was not adequate during conversations.

The topics of the course are relevant however the information and readings are already 10 years out of date and some are inaccessible.

not aa good