OY
Apr 17, 2022
The subject was simplified for beginners in the field of financial market instruments. Instructor explained all the details very clearly. Overall I had a very positive experience with the class
AI
Jun 17, 2020
Global Financial Markets and Instruments is a MUST. Excellent instruction! I truly appreciate the opportunity to receive this course from such a prestigious University - Rice University.
By efi l
•May 15, 2020
In my opinion, the course material can only be used as a quidance for further reading from sources and text books which you have to find because it is not an in depth course of the subject . A text book accompaning the material would be extremely helpful or even detailed handouts.
By Mark K
•Feb 16, 2021
The professor can do a better job of showing her work. She often skipped from the problem setup to the answer without solving for the respected variable first before substituting the variable for the number. Once this happened, I was lost.
By Leonard S
•Dec 21, 2020
outdated content based on 2015. professor makes calculation mistakes in videos. very difficult to follow the limited material and how it relates to the questions. video quiz questions are raised before the relevant content is presented
By Alex P
•May 17, 2020
While course provides a good general direction, lecture videos are full of mistakes, handout material is useless and you have to complete the missing material by searching through other online resources
By Jonathan M
•Jun 11, 2021
Inconsitent formulas where used in the solutions. These formulas were also not explained in the lectures which intentionally does not setup the students for success for those questions in the Quizes.
By Michael B
•May 27, 2020
So many equations left with "you can solve that" or not fully explained. Most of the teaching was done like a classroom that you dread with writing on the chalk board and so many miscalculations.
By Nathan T
•Jul 11, 2017
Brief highlight of topics, with no proper demonstration of formulae derivation. Examples are often brief and the practice questions are often much harder than the actual examples given.
By Wang J
•Mar 6, 2021
The handwriting of the instructor is not so good. It's not easy to follow. I think it'd be better if the instructor use Powerpoint slides and avoid a alot of handwriting.
By B. Y
•May 10, 2020
Quite a few types in lectures and quiz solutions. The typos discredit the lecturer in a sense even though she is actually very knowledgable.
By Peter B
•Apr 22, 2021
Disappointed with the fact some videos have mistakes. I didn't find the notes helpful and had to use the internet to pass the tests.
By Fabián V
•Jul 23, 2020
Aprendí mucho pero no es los suficientemente claro, no están bien hechas las traducciones, y los paper están todos en ingles, mal ahí
By Jean
•Jan 15, 2017
Some calc and formulas are not clear otherwise the course allowed to have a general overview on financial instruments and trades
By John B
•May 21, 2022
Course does cover the basics, but has some dead links throughout the quizzes and 'handouts'. Needs to be cleaned up.
By Lou V
•May 23, 2020
Repeated math errors, some corrected, some not. Terrible instruction.
By Himanshu P
•Dec 12, 2016
way too many peer reviewed assignments.
By Sahan G
•Jan 16, 2021
Insufficient examples or analogies
By Ethan D
•Jul 10, 2017
I didn't enjoy the lectures
By Julian W
•Apr 6, 2022
If you buy a course or you pay for online education, you would expect updated, correct, and well-structured content. There are several reasons why this course get's only 1 star: - There are errors in the "calculations" which have not been corrected for 4 years (many students criticized that in the notes) - There are no slides with correctly defined formulas but the lecturer writes them down with inconsistent variables and explains everything on the go instead of giving some definitions and background information - as many students wrote in the forum, I also had to look stuff up on Investopedia. - The point before makes it very hard for beginners. I have a degree in business information systems and just had to look up some correct formulas on Investopedia as it was not correctly written by the lecturer. For people who are new to finance, this will be a hard one. They have literally no idea what the lecturer is talking about (also stated in the forum). - The voice of the lecturer is just too squeaky for me and I can't listen to that for hours
Summary: I canceled the course and took another one which was way better structured, easier to follow, and way more entertaining.
By Ka C S C
•Jan 14, 2021
This course is horrible. I was expecting to acquire some finance basic skills before starting my first finance course in uni, but this has done little for me. I'm okay with the fact that no one is answering learners' questions on the discussion forum because there could be no obligation for Rice University to do so, but the content itself is absolute disappointment.
Despite her spectacular skills on writing in mirror, the lecturer jumps around concepts too quickly and I often have to find certain information on google, as these are not being covered in videos but will appear on quizzes, which is really frustrating and annoying. She probably thought she had explained the concepts well by using synonyms. For example, the slides say this is a conventional way, and she'll say 'so it's typical, it is what it is, right?'. Most of the time, she doesn't tell us what par values, market values and face values are. I get that this could be quite elementary, but as a student who haven't learnt anything about Finance, this course has done nothing -- Googling is probably more efficient and helpful than this cramped content. Hence the 1 star.
By James L
•Mar 26, 2022
This was intended as a refresher. It was not worth more than the time it should take someone to read this review, sadly.
It was taught so poorly, that I am less confident than when I began, and wonder (aloud) if Rice consider this to be a marketing or a demarketing exercise.
Key concepts are introduced by a teacher not only stumbling over the introduction of the concepts leading to fundamental financial equations, but presenting erroneous formulas!
INTRODUCED! You only have the opportunity to make a first impression once.
Disheartening for a teacher by training to see the antithesis of the desired outcome as the initial model of these concepts.
Particularly given that it would have been all of about an hour to "re-shoot" the episodic confusion from the lecturer.
I proceed with Rice quite tentatively following this course, intending to cherry pick learning tasks, effectively further diminishing the value proposition of such courses.
By Benjamin
•Mar 26, 2021
I find the introduction of this course not well managed or moderated. while credits to Professor Ozoguz for her knowledge, the methods and video explaination have not been helpful for me. the available resources do not have a step by step process and enough examples that i can ingrain it into my head and give the fact it should be an introductory course, do feel that the questions being asked are more advanced and i struggle to grasp the terminology and formulas given. when going through the answers one of the solution i remember is to get the answer by trial and error via excel. if that was the case there should be an introductory course on how to do that as well. I urge this module to be moderated again with more attention to detail.
By C_1307
•Jan 5, 2023
They are way too many mistakes in this course, some of them still haven't been corrected 6 years after the initial launch of the class. The material is starting to be really outdated with articles dating back to 2015 / 2016. Some of the material in some of the quizzes isn't covered in the lessons or in one case, is covered in the following week lessons. I don't understand how this course is still on Coursera. This is by far the worst course I have taken on this platform and seeing its quality made me look at other platforms such as EdX. Also the course's forum is inundated with spam. I've notified Coursera but they clearly failed to fix the problem.
By Kelsea V
•Jul 5, 2020
The professor makes constant errors during her presentations. One or two is okay, but I completed the first module and she made an error in almost every video. It’s not very conducive to learning. Also, she often said “you can figure out the calculation...” and wouldn’t provide the answer for us to check if we were right.
By Karim I
•Jan 6, 2021
Sadly the instructor is very hard to understand. Her speech is not clear and she jumps around too fast without explaining how she reached solutions ,conclusions etc.
Very possible that this too advanced for my level of knowledge.
By Martin D M
•Oct 23, 2023
A week in and there have already been several mistakes in the lectures. This is very discouraging, don't understand why the professor didn't they the time to redo the videos with mistakes, they are very short anyway...