The material is too choppy and the technical difficulties are too distracting. I was distracted by the overuse of morph cuts and sound effects embedded in the PowerPoint lectures. Also, the lecture materials needs to be chunked even more, since there are a lot of lectures that last longer than 12 to 15 minutes. One piece of advise, I would like to see the professor read a script of his lectures instead of adlib and/or improvising the material. Writing scripts to his lecture material will definitely tighten up the time issue in his lectures, and will have better flow and seamless pedagogy when delivering information to students. One cannot use the same rules for teaching in a traditional lecture hall for online education. They are apples and oranges.

Very informative and educational. After taking this class I understand more about the news and economy than ever before.

I took this course in the late spring and summer of 2018. What a time to take Macroeconomics! The US elected a more "populist" federal government and abrogated nearly 20 years of previous US administrations tendency towards globalism. The US raised interest rates while most of the industrialized world's interest rates are hovering between 0 - 1%. I have to admit, this class is not easy and I had to stay extra attentive in order to follow along. Luckily Professor Esfahani also uses current examples to help flesh out these concepts. Ultimately, I have found that this class has dramatically changed my view of international trade negotiations and the future of the world!

The content is extremely dry, difficult to follow, and creates no excitement on the topic. The concepts are not well explained. There is no interactive material.

This is the first time that I have completed an online course under coursera program. in this course I have developed basic knowledge about country level economics variables. During this crisis moment,I think it is the best way to keep busy one under a resourceful components. I want to participate another course under coursera program. Overall this journey was good. I want to thank course Instructor, his every lecture video has helped me to understand topics apparently. So, thank you coursera program.

i am a beginner for macroeconomics , so these two sections of the course helped me a lot to get the base of the subject.

Great foundation to macroeconomics that is relevant right away!

I enjoyed this course but sometime I struggle with course material - I read the PDF material, watch youtube materials but I coupon figure out why some of my calculation questions were wrong.

Instructor is very dry. Needs better on camera presence and ability to communicate the ideas. There should be more homework for practicing the material covered.

Nice course. Of course it will take time for all the new knowledge to settle and become more comprehensible, but anyway really nice. Thank you to the lecturer and course developers

Great delivery of the information, I have a much clearer understanding of Fiscal and Monetary Policies and the advantages and disadvantages that each of them present.

Great course! Gives you a great start to understanding the rationale underlying economic events in the country and the world! Excellent complement to MicroEconomics

i was not knowing more about the countries ECONOMY AND THE POLICIES BUT FROM THIS COURSE I HAVE LEARNT A LOT THANK U FOR THIS BECAUSE IT WAS SO USEFUL

Very thorough course. The approach is really geared towards learning and understanding the material with the short but thought-provoking assignment.

This is a tough course. But the professor explains concepts very clearly. Course material is prepared very nicely.

I just loved the way the class was conducted. Explanations were all to the point. No exaggerations. Thanks a lot.

It is very usefull andwe can gain more knowledge..im very happy i took up this course and i competed it.. 😊😊

Awesome learning experience.

The course was super rich in content and the professor was super knowledgable.

Very good course, I learned a lot from Prof. Hadi Esfahani. I hope to have him again in the future!

I learned a lot, very informative and sometime difficult class but worth the effort.

Solid easily comprehensible, macroeconomic factors and real world examples.

Excellent course information. Applicable to real world scenarios.

learned knowledge about Macroeconomic Performance

Very good content, relevant and objective.

a good experience through online learning