Very interesting course, although I preferred part 1.

Very intesrting and well-developed

Good for beginner, but a little bit too informative, which makes the course boring.

High quality course/instructor/interviewees

Was clearly structured, contained great content, and constantly highlighted the key takeaways regarding the infrastructure of Smart Cities.

Good stuff and methodology. May be is interesting to include some examples of platforms (Fiware, Sofia, Sentilo, Spider..) to understand KPIs and control panels. Also to maintain more live the forums during the courses or to participate in some of the nets of smartcities. Anyway it is worth to be done!

Very good course, easy to follow since it is very clearly explained. When the different cases were presented maybe I would have appreciated some more specific examples of smart cities real applications illustrated with diagrams or pictures. But this is a small suggestion, my overall evaluation of this course is very positive.

Very informative MOOC, the content is well illustrated (videos, interviews of leaders, cities as a case) and well structured. Ideal to understand the concept of Smart Cities and understand the key challenges for urban managers and policy makers. A focus is made on Smart Urban Transportation and Energy systems.

Great job, thanks a lot!

A very good course which give a strong structure to think about Smart Cities.

I particularly like the interviews and the different exemples shared at the end of the readings. It gives very good vision of what is initiated through the different cities in the world and what could work.

Thanks for all.

A great course! very informational and useful to use on the current activities happening in cities.

The course was extremely informative and the lectures had interesting insights to ponder about on smart cities and smart urban infrastructures.

This MOOC really helped me to learn about the steps of transition towards a smart city and how to manage them in a brief perspective. I firmly believe that, all this infomation will be very useful through my career goals.

It was great experience and great learning. Its worth spending time and money.

Good course, it gives you an overview on how a Smart City should be and the important aspects it should address.

Good reinforcement

New technologies for digitalization to make city smart.

Great Introductory course.

This course provides significant knowledge on the concept of developing Smart Urban Infrastructures.

Great content, presentations quality good. Do the interviewed people were reading?

A lot of the course relied on memorizing key points with little effort made to explain the logic behind them.

I have met part of my goals of taking this program. Thank you Prof. Mathias Finger. I would recommend it to be more data oriented like those case studies with specific examples so that it naturally converges to creating case study for a city at the end of the course as final project rather than optional study. Also, suggest to reduce discussions centred to challenges (the course has taken too much of time) and more towards different new services adopted by different cities to capture benefits/impact to the city GDP.

Positive: New insights are well summarized into separate categories providing good overviews. The smart city concept is put into context and provides a basic outline of knowledge to pertain to when talking about the topic.Negative: Boring lecturing, bad power point slides (in terms of modernity and structure), acted interviews.

Good course content..it will help me on the smart city project to define the priority of smart city initiatives.

Thank you so much

The lectures for this course lacked substance. The quizzes predominantly asked for verbatim recitation of the substance-free lectures.

This course is about generic concepts on governance towards the implementation of Smart City systems. It does not cover practical or technological issues.