Overall I feel I learned a lot from this course. I felt that I learned more real world applications of economics and how it relates to us right now and relates to our future. It was enjoyable that this wasn’t your typical textbook economics course.
I will be the first to admit the blogging is entirely new to me…and it had me a bit anxious to start…very much outside of my comfort zone. At first there were some kinks for me but once those were worked out this isn’t very difficult at all. I think that with some more tweaking this is a great way to teach this class. My issue with this class was sometimes finding things and navigating and also the changing due dates and keeping up with those. Because we had information a little bit of everywhere I felt like… some on D2L and our syllabus some on our website and they information didn’t always agree…so I have lived in constant fear I am forgetting something or missing something…despite my attempts to check all those aspects frequently. Because I work full time as well as am a full time student I rely on the course outline to help me plan for things…I sort of threw that out of the window pretty early on for this course. BUT I have survived. I think I have myself pretty much caught up and am taking the time now to make sure I have not missed anything and am hoping that I can correct any of that.
Professor James was great…he actually spoke with me over the phone to help me correct one of the issues I was having. Overall – great course!