A special shout-out to the professor, Gerben Moerman, to his passion, his enthusiasm and his teaching methodology. It made the course ever more enjoyable and the topics easily learnable!

The course is fully packed, but some of the assignment can be real tasking. And the lecturer 's enthusiasm is truly inspiring, he made the course so enjoyable

I really enjoyed this course. The professor is full of energy which made learning the material fun.

I love the course, enjoyed the lectures and the assignments. It's worth doing this MOOC course.

Thank you for the course. The reading you have recommended for the course was really helpful!

I thoroughly enjoyed the course. I strongly reccomend this course!

Excellent course and interesting topic!

Good theory and presentation

a complete joy! thanks!

The instructor was very good at keeping one engaged and involved. The AI was also very good, as it explained concepts that were not clear. I've never had such a wonderful learning experience as i had with Coursera. I would recommend it. However, I'm giving a 4 star and not a 5 because I got to 99% completion of this course, and I never got a certificate. Module 5 Assignment D asked that we copy and paste our answers from the previous assignment. Whoever the AI did not accept the answer and read it that i was submitting someone else's work, which was actually my own work. The AI should have known because I submitted both assignments with my own name. I rephrased the answers but that did not work. I even changed the whole answer and rewrote the whole assignment again but that also was not accepted. I reached out to the help center which took quite some time to get back. I wish i could have had a live chat. The coursera help center reached out to me a day or so later via email and gave me suggestions I had explicitly explained that I had already tried which was telling , that my problem hadn't been carefully considered. After expressing my dissatisfaction and unhappiness in a subsequent email, the help center asked me to clear my cache history, which I did but that didn't work. I gave up out of frustration. What amazes me is that Coursera did not think that they should take responsibility for this and give me a certificate for the money and effort I had put into this. After not receiving an email response from me for 2 days, the help center sent me a message that they were assuming that the case had been solved because of my silence, so they were closing the case. They closed the case. However, they could see that my course is still 99% complete. The AI is good although not perfect and that is expected. But please don't lose your human touch. Be kind and considerate. Take responsibility. We are not just numbers.

This course was well designed and the content well chosen--I learned a great deal. Some of the assignments would benefit from some tweaking --the instructions were not always clear---and I'd love to see the instructor incorporate more recent works of qualitative research, perhaps even touch on some of the AI methods that are emer

I thoroughly enjoyed the course and have learnt a lot. The assignments were really helpful in improving the understanding. However, Providing correct answers for wrong attempts in the quiz would help in clearing our doubts.

Compared to the Quantitative Methods, this one was more chaotic and not as structured/ Still, really good and the only thing that could be improved is to have the transcripts in pdfs and not just the ppts.

I enjoyed the modules and want to learn more, but i would say that the time estimation to do the course is not correct. The assignments may take an amount of time.

Not bad. The exam questions could be formulated better.

The instructor's presentations are so irritating due to him acting in a jumpy, nervous, and hyper-excited manner that I could not stand watching the lectures. If you don't mind that, it's probably not a bad course.

I got charged without being told...how does that happen?

And that is the money I have for food and my general upkeep for the whole month as am a student. So cruel!!

When I subscribed it stated a 7 day free trial

Can I please get a refund?

This course is not free. You must pay to access assignments and quizzes.

I am really annoyed with the direction Coursera is moving in regard to premium content. If they keep up this trend, I'll move to Class Central or other MOOCs.

A truly wonderful course thanks to Gerben Moerman's intelligence, competence and enthusiasm.

I am relatively new to the field of qualitative research, having previously done mostly quantitative research, and this course has given me a great introduction. I did not have time to do the full course though, had only several days to watch all videos (which did not take too long, and the readings were not 10 min as stated probably by default on the Coursera platform, but one sentence and then the reference lists linked to citations on the slides); unfortunately I did not have time to do the exams/assignments, which sounded quite useful though.

I loved the fact that Moerman managed to get at least some order into the endless variety and contradictions within the so complex field of qualitative research, each time showing his great knowledge by citing a wide range of historical and current experts. I am not an expert myself, and am not in a position to rate the quality of the content, but given that he gave so many different views, it seems to me that he is extremely competent and at the same time tried to be fair to different approaches and different research paradigms.

Moerman has a great talent in presenting complex issues clearly using different categories and graphs that were depicted nicely on the slides. I also liked the cartoons and other drawings.

Many of the categories and themes were explained using great examples from the literature that prevented me from getting bored. First and foremost though, it has been the great enthusiasm and his true desire to teach and make you understand, which has made the course so interesting and memorable. Often he would jump up and down and run towards the camera to emphasise a point - probably to the great despair of the person behind the camera, who had to often cut the film; he would also often stand in front of the slides, covering some of the images/content, which is why the quality of the videos is not perfect in a technical sense - I did not get motion sickness from it though (which I always do if something is filmed by hand camera) - so my compliments to the person at the camera and thank you to all involved for allowing Moerman to remain natural without 'forcing him into form'/ a stiff person - because then his lectures would have lost all of his charm.

Overall, it is not only his charm and the great slides, but the depth and honesty and presentation of different views in a clear and visual way that made me love this course and long for more - e.g. additional courses about all the other types of qualitative research methodologies and methods that he could not go into for time reasons and giving further examples in more detail.

A big thank you to everyone involved in the development of this course!!

This course covered a broad swath of diverse material in an admirably compact form. The instructor was surprisingly passionate! about the topic, but once I got used to his style I could see it was because he was really invested in this type of work and really invested in getting us to understand it. Comprehension quizzes along with the lectures would have been nice to help absorb all the new vocabulary. There was also a creative use of the Coursera system to get us to do actual data gathering and coding (at least at a beginning level) on our own. As for the material, I felt like I was getting to see a secret world that everyone else around me already somehow knew about. As I am new to social science, I wondered how to find out about this secret arsenal of tools for dealing with interview and ethnography data that always seem to be referred to but never explained. Well, here they are! And now I have them too! Much appreciated.

This is a well written course and a comprehensive introduction/overview to qualitative research methods. It is very much an introduction for the complete novice and I think would serve as a good foundation for completion of more in depth training in specific qualitative methods. My only criticism is that there doesn't seem to be any organiser moderation of the discussion forums which is a shame - it seems to have been designed by the organisers as a MOOC to run by itself entirely on peer review & support, where I think some external moderation once in a while would stimulate debate and energise the learning environment. I think this could be done without stifling peer to peer contribution which obviously has its own merits.

For a Chinese student who rarely had experience touch on Western Philosophy, the startling line is a little complex and hard to gain the "pure meaning" of the course. But after look the videos over and over again, I feel better now. In China, I never witnessed a teacher jumping in front of the students, in front of the camera or in the livid classroom. So I really appreciate to see Mr. Moerman who show his passion in the field of study and teaching itself. I really love this course and the "elephants".

Now I have less than 24 hours to finish the first assignment. Though many website are forbid by the "Great wall", such as google, I will do my best to finish the assignment which is the first English homework in my life.

The approach of the course makes it very interesting as Prof Goerben has truly mastered his piece. Though I have been into quali-quanti (Mixed) research in the past, and some of my research outputs were already recognized (awarded) by various organizations, I still feel that I need to know more (the more I know, the more I do not know) on this research domain. Indeed, I learned a lot more, and consequently I feel guilty of my previous inadequacy, as I discovered more essential concepts the course has offered. Thanks to this course. My horizon has widened. My perspective has gone further, and most importantly, some of my doubts were clarified. I never regret spending my summer in this course.

As an economics student, I enjoyed this course tremendously. I had many biases when it came to qualitative methods but this course proved some of my views were completely wrong while some were proven to be justified. I appreciate the use of mixed methods as I have come to realise no single method of analysis is sufficient if we are to seek the truth. I will probably stick to quantitaive methods most of the time but this course has been an eye opener and will help me when researching topics which are researched in multiples disciplines (e.g economics and sociology).

Dr Moerman is a great teacher who can really make you fall in love with the subject matter.

Course is well prepared and is serious about teaching students about qualitative research. Some parts are probably too technical (debates about the theories, ontological etc. ) and it says that all these debates are pretty much not necessary and can be left in library. My only comment will be that the course is very practical in that it trains students to go out to do fieldwork and interviews, but there is a whole world of qualitative research where no fieldwork is necessary (these include text analysis, interpretive social media analysis etc.). Overall, i would recommend this course regardless of whether you plan to go out into the field or not.