http://www.CourseReviews.comCourseReviews.com - University of Phoenixen-usCopyright 1997-2008 CourseReviews.comMon, 13 Oct 2008 19:52 ESThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssdylan.feed@coursereviews.com (CourseReviews.com)dylan.webmaster@dylangreene.com (Dylan Greene) hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45659/Not-so-goodI am surprised by the others comments on this professor. I took his class and did not find him very helpful. In fact he refused to provide me with vital feedback, so much so that after protesting his behavior U o P allowed me to drop the class, take the class with another teacher, and refunded me the cost of the class. They did this because they found his behavior to be unnaceptable. I took the class with another professor and got an A with no problems. I was very displeased with his overall attitude and outlook on what a student's rights are.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45659/Not-so-good#comments2008-10-10T17:41:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45659/Not-so-goodhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45648/Great-History-InstructorThank you for making this one of the most, if not the most, intresting History classess I have taken. I have aways enjoyed history and trying to figure out why people do the things they do when they almost always know the outcome. I truly wish I had you for the rest of my classess, you are a great instructor.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45648/Great-History-Instructor#commentsSmartenthusiasticgreat feedback!2008-09-20T09:17:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45648/Great-History-Instructorhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45646/Im-SHOCKED-Shes-still-teachingMy study group and I filed a formal complaint with the school against this teacher. I am shocked and apalled she's still teaching. She was outwardly hostile to our study group and openly accused us of cheating in front of the entire class. Other classmates lodged complaints about her boorish behavior and the overal hostile environment she nurtured in her classroom. I'm just shocked she's still teaching there - SHOCKED!!!!!noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45646/Im-SHOCKED-Shes-still-teaching#comments2008-09-18T17:18:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45646/Im-SHOCKED-Shes-still-teachinghttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45644/Closed-MindedWhen she asks you to write a paper that is based on your opinion, watch out! If she doesn't agree with you, you could get a poor grade, even if the paper is properly cited with reliable sources.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45644/Closed-Minded#comments2008-09-15T20:34:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45644/Closed-Mindedhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45639/Stay-away-from-Paul-ForsheyThis guy is on a power trip and probably should stick to being a judge. This guy is a classic example of a teacher that should not be a teacher. He is a judge in Mesa, AZ and is a total tool. He grades you so harsh and does not care about the student at all.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45639/Stay-away-from-Paul-Forshey#commentshorriblepower hungrySTAY AWAY2008-08-27T10:24:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45639/Stay-away-from-Paul-Forsheyhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45637/Wonderful-Facilitator-Very-involvedI wasn't sure what to expect of this class - the material wasn't all that interesting but Cay made the class wonderful. She has a great sense of humor - was willing to interact with students, answered questions in a prompt manner and was very fair in grading. I really wish more facilitators cared as much about their students as Cay did. I cannot think of a single negative thing to say about this facilitator.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45637/Wonderful-Facilitator-Very-involved#comments2008-08-23T12:52:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45637/Wonderful-Facilitator-Very-involvedhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45636/Fabulous-facilitatorFirst off, Astronomy is a TOUGH class. I was not expecting such a heavy work load for a level 100 course. Bruce made a difficult course seem not so bad. He was available to offer assistance with questions, concerns and his participation within the main classroom was outstanding. He has a great sense of humor, which is balanced nicely with his high expectations of his students. Be prepared to work hard! Bruce is strict, but very fair. He never gave me a grade I did not deserve. Feedback was received in a timely manner. Though there were times when I wanted to pull my hair out because the work load was so large, I look back as this being one of my favorite classes because Bruce was fabulous!noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45636/Fabulous-facilitator#comments2008-08-22T12:02:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45636/Fabulous-facilitatorhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45634/She-deserves-an-FDr. Spann may be a teacher, but her approach resembles that of an oppressive dictator. She controls EVERYTHING about the class, including the type/size/color of fonts used for classroom and chatroom discussions. Her grading feels very biased and appears to reflect her taste in films versus that of her students. I eagerly signed up for Film Studies as I expected the class to be a refreshing change from my core, but this class was a nightmare. To date, Dr. Spann is the only facilitator to drive me from her class before the course ended. I felt I had no choice otherwise my GPA would have taken a serious dive. During my class, another student also withdrew for the same reason. Out of 32 online courses for UoP, this facilitator is in a special class all on her own. noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45634/She-deserves-an-F#comments2008-08-21T18:21:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45634/She-deserves-an-Fhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45633/Zero-personality-facilitatorI was really looking foward to this course because I love history. Unfortunately, the class was not as I expected. Marvin has zero personality, no sense of humor and interacts very little with his students. He neglected to answer at least two of my questions regarding assignments. In all fairness, though, Marvin did return feedback in a reasonable time and was very fair in his grading. He makes for a long, boring class.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45633/Zero-personality-facilitator#comments2008-08-21T18:06:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45633/Zero-personality-facilitatorhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45632/Great-history-credit-opportunityThis is a great course for anybody who loves learning about history or government. The assignments were right as expected for a level 300 course --nothing too difficult. I highly recommend this course to anybody needing any type of history or elective credit. The course materials and assignments for this course were fantastic. If I would have had a better facilitator for this course, the class would have been one of my favorites!noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45632/Great-history-credit-opportunity#comments2008-08-21T17:58:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45632/Great-history-credit-opportunityhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45631/Facilitator-MIA-most-of-the-timeDr. Harder is a nice person, but her teaching skills fall a bit short. Participation in the classroom in almost non-existent. She checks in periodically to answer questions posted, but nothing much more. Her grading is very slow. I received my WK1 grades well into WK3 and never received feedback after WK3. Final grades just offered points and did not offer insight into her opinion of my written work. Papers were not retured with comments as many other facilitators offer. Overall, Dr. Harder's class was a bit slow and dry.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45631/Facilitator-MIA-most-of-the-time#comments2008-08-21T17:49:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45631/Facilitator-MIA-most-of-the-timehttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45630/She-makes-class-comfortableCay is a great facilitator. She has a wonderful personality and a fun sense of humor. Her participation in the classroom far exceeded my expectations. Cay answers questions quickly and is understanding to the feelings of all her students. She is prompt in returning feedback and is very fair in her grading. Overall, she helps to create a positive atmosphere in the classroom. Fabulous teacher!noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45630/She-makes-class-comfortable#comments2008-08-21T17:39:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45630/She-makes-class-comfortablehttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45629/Has-no-clue-what-he-is-talking-aboutHe provides little to no guidance for online discussions nor did he add anything of any substance to the discussion. Has very little understanding of the subject matter and has no idea how to give feedback to students. I think the reason most students like his "style" is because he does not make them work and I get a sense that he himself is quite lazy and does not want to do any more work than he has to. Try getting him to return your assignments with his feedback and his response is "I don't know what you are asking of me?" And this guy is teaching at a Master's level? What a joke!noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45629/Has-no-clue-what-he-is-talking-about#commentsLazyincompetent2008-08-21T14:13:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45629/Has-no-clue-what-he-is-talking-abouthttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45624/Microsoft-Project-How-to-courseThe only thing I learned in this class was how to use the Microsoft Project software, which I wont use again for the rest of my college career. Needless to say, this class was lame and a waste of my time and money.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45624/Microsoft-Project-How-to-course#comments2008-08-08T00:38:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45624/Microsoft-Project-How-to-coursehttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45614/MBA-560Whitney Bell is one of the best Professors I have had in online study. Her course was very challenging, exciting and her remarks very encouraging. Whitney corrects her students in such a way that, you get it, without worrying about being insulted. She is an all around Educator and I look forward to possibly sitting with her again! The only downside to this is I had her in a six meek MBA 560 class at the University of Phoenix and I wish I had her in a traditional class in seat! noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45614/MBA-560#comments2008-07-29T02:28:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45614/MBA-560http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45612/Professor-PompusMost people going to Phoenix are not Math Wiz's. That is why we are at Phoenix and not Harvard. This proctor was unflexible and devoid of personality. When I questioned his style he stated he was a facilitator not a professor. I told him he was more like a proctor, just a body to represent the university in the class. Took all the human element out of the class and seemed uninterested in helping students. His pat answer was "look in the syllabus." If I understood the syllabus I wouldn't have been asking the question. He acts like he is teaching at Harvard Business School and not Phoenix. Avoid him if possible.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45612/Professor-Pompus#comments2008-07-28T19:15:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45612/Professor-Pompushttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45610/Impossible-to-deal-withMr. Ferrado's version of instructing this course, as I feel I have not been taught, but insulted and spoken to in a condescending tone on more than one occasion made me question if finishing my MBA was worth the effort I was putting in to for a few weeks. This was about the time my team mates rallied to let me know I was not alone in my frustration. Since I come to realize that I was not the only student struggling with trying to hit the impossible target that Mr. Ferrado kept just out of reach of the class I became very angry about the situation. Very few people have posted questions to Mr. Ferrado regarding the assignments I feel due to his caustic comments to us as a whole or to us individually when we did question him. He wrote group feedback to the class on how our assignments for the week had turned out and they were more intense each week. His posts sometime made sense and others did not. Incomplete sentences and blurbs did not really help to know what he wanted. I actually tried to get clarification on DQ's from him on weeks 2 and 3 as he asked for information we had not covered, were not going to cover or I simply thought was a typo. Funny me, his response was to basically confirm the information I had just told him and another time it was to tell me to "hold on". This was so helpful to respond to the DQ with. I simply dug up information on my own to answer with. Mr. Ferrado seems to think if you post a handout - you have taught the subject. Instructing or facilitating a course actually requires some involvement with the students other than pasting a canned comment found somewhere into all papers, ("[You understand what you want to say, but your ideas are not always clear to the reader. Don't make assumptions. Explain your ideas carefully.]") passing out grades, and sarcasm when the students don't understand what they are supposed to be teaching. Those canned comments pasted every other sentence mean nothing. They only generate frustration and anger. An instructor knows they cannot post a bunch of messages and expect the class to read them, and attempt process them with tying them together logically somehow. Later in the course Mr. Ferrado complained that only one person in the class understood the concept of PBL or SMART goals to his standards, a student tried to reason with him that just maybe it was because we did not know what to ask. This elicited another wonderful posting of sarcasm but not as badly as the one when the subject of a curve for the grades was broached. We started with 20 students - last week we had 16 and only 1 understood the course key points, I don't think it is the students' problem. The odds tell me it is the way it was taught. This week we are down to 12 with about 4 day of class left. Now why would students still be dropping with so little time left? As UoP wants us to some of us wanted to reabsorb other teams for the final assignment as a gesture of true teams, and work together. Mr. Ferrado said No, this is got to be one of the most ridiculous gestures of the course. These teams of 2-3 are going to be killing themselves to get the final assignment finished when they could have joined others or grouped together. Their criteria is not going to be lessened due to the fact there team mates have left, they will be required to work harder for no reason other than Mr. Ferrado feels like it. This actually goes against what UoP is teaching us and has since I started at this school in Jan 04. noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45610/Impossible-to-deal-with#comments2008-07-24T09:42:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45610/Impossible-to-deal-withhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45609/Unreasonable-inflexible-unprofessional-unqualified-IT-facilitatorFacilitator has little knowlege of IT and no people skills. He is rude, incompetent and unprofessional. I was a student in 'Java Programming II' and though I had little knowdege of Java, he has less. He did not know what scripting was, refactoring, the throw() method or the Double class. When I tried to ask him a Java question, he told me to look it up, that he didn't know anything I didn't. I paid $1500 to be told to rtfm.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45609/Unreasonable-inflexible-unprofessional-unqualified-IT-facilitator#commentsunprofessionalrudeinsultingimpatientincompetenteccentricpeculiarparanoidbipolar2008-07-22T23:44:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45609/Unreasonable-inflexible-unprofessional-unqualified-IT-facilitatorhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45584/Not-much-stress-and-interesting-teacherI enjoyed this course very much, the instructor was fair, and he taught us a lot about his private practice as well. Based on some of the other UOP instructors, this guy is awesome. Im not joking! You will enjoy him as a teacher.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45584/Not-much-stress-and-interesting-teacher#comments2008-06-26T15:20:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45584/Not-much-stress-and-interesting-teacherhttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45578/Changed-Course-Objectives-for-an-assignmentProfessor Ferrado is terrible, and its only our 3rd week. He changed the first assignments requirements at the last minute, then he expected us to modify our paper. Basically, he constantly contradicts himself, we spend more time trying to find out what exactly he wants. I do not recommend this guy.noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45578/Changed-Course-Objectives-for-an-assignment#comments2008-06-25T09:15:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45578/Changed-Course-Objectives-for-an-assignmenthttp://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45555/Course-Was-Very-GoodThe course was very good, the professor established what would be the requirements in the syllabus at the beginning of the course. Unfortunately, it seemed like many of my fellow students decided they didn't like the requirements and continually argued and berated the facilitator. The class required some searching and digging to understand the concepts. The facilitator was helpfull in providing experiences and comments. The other post on this instructor is an example of the kind of disruption that occurred during the course. It seemed to mostly be from a few of the other students, I think the facilitator did a very good job. He did not change the requirements just because some of the students didn't like them or want to agree with them. Overall, I recommend this instructor. He's knowledgable and experienced. noemail@coursereviews.com (Anonymous Student)http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45555/Course-Was-Very-Good#comments2008-06-13T05:52:00-05:00http://www.CourseReviews.com/u106/review45555/Course-Was-Very-Good