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Decent course, I just find it frustrating and strange that so many introductory concepts and foundational topic are over-looked and skipped throughout the course. For example, there were a lot of important terms that I believe is crucial to explain to students, such as, what is a server, what is a network, what is a datacentre, what is a system in I.T? Even though I have no problem with learning what these terms are on my own, I feel like the course would have more depth and be more meaningful if there was a foundational for learners to build on, obviously if every learner learns this knowledge on their own, you might have gaps in learners' understandings of how these all relate to cloud computing. For example, I didn't know what the difference is between a cloud environment and cloud computing, perhaps it could just be a personal lack of knowledge on this domain, but I still think it would be valuable for the learners to have a bottom-up understanding of everything.

The course was overall decent, I don't have any other complaints, some of the content was too fast in the final week, cloud security concepts was talked about as if students should have already done their own research regarding cloud security, which once again, references my first complaint. I do still appreciate the opportunity to enrol and take this course, as I learnt a lot of new information. It was fascinating to learn about cloud computing models, services, environments and all the other things, I enjoyed this course, just wish that they took more time to break down the concepts into more understandable and beginner-friendly material.

Conclusion: Take this course, it is definitely worth your time and IBM are champions for making these course available to us on Coursera, as well as Coursera for providing the platform to unify their courses.

Thank you IBM and Coursera, I'll always be grateful for these lessons and material.

In terms of when I did my best learning of the material, I found the portions where an apparent field expert used diagrams to develop a concept to be the most effective. I enjoyed the logical layout of the material complete with the 'use cases'.

In terms of where I feel inadequately prepared to act on this new knowledge. I think that the class material was light on practical applications. I felt as I did in most undergraduate courses that I took in Brick-and-Mortar institutions. It 'seemed and felt' as if a lot of material was covered and that I should be thereafter edified on a subject, but the reality was that the information was not actionable and my education consisted of discombobulated facts, unintegrated and with no practical use what-so-ever.

I am taking into consideration that there is apparently a tremendous amount of collaboration and technologies that must be mastered in order to truly understand how to create and navigate an understanding of distributed microservices that can scaled dynamically.

I am taking into consideration that perhaps the course creators did not want to bog down the student with information that could be learnt in its ideal context later in the specialisation.

I hope that the other courses in the specialisation add more levels of practicality to the experience. I don't think I could survive another institution taking my money and giving me unactionable/useless information and telling me that it is my ticket to success.

This is a great introductory course into Cloud Computing. It is obvious IBM and their people behind the project have worked really hard to create amazing content. The video lectures are quite good with the icons and voice overs. I deducted two stars because of the pedagogy of the course. Firstly, there should have been PDF slides provided for all the lectures. Secondly and more importantly, there is too much rote learning and just definitions in this course. I know what Cloud Computing is on a very very high level but I still have no idea where to go from here. There should have been a hands-on practical project starting from week 1 with a firm with classic IT infrastructure and what problems it is facing and how Cloud Computing technology can help it solve those problems. That is much needed for this course to assist students in learning the concepts rather than just memorising some definitions.