Buddhism Through Its Scriptures.

This course was not well-suited to what I wanted to learn, and I found the course matierials uneven and inconsistent. These are only my personal views. Others will (and do) find great value in the course.
I was looking for more factual information about Buddhism scriptures. I find that the course is more about "guiding you to think... in new ways" rather than teaching you facts about the scriptures. There seems to me to be more focus on 'how' I should think about the information, rather than the information itself.
There's a lot of online "class discussion" where you "interact" with other students through writing essays and commenting on theirs. I am a very careful, thoughtful writer. I find this aspect of the course very time consuming (for me, personally), but not very beneficial to my learning and absorbing the actual information.
I find the course matierials uneven in style and content; some lessons are clear, simple and direct, while others are verbose, overly complex, and essoteric. I think the course would benefit from being reviewed and edited by a single person to make things more consistent and cohesive.

I was very happy to discover this class and was enjoying the content until I realized I would lose all access after 4 weeks. I do not believe this course could be completed in one month but admittedly am not the fastest learner. By nature and age I am not interested in grades but am motivated by an abundantly curious mind. I contacted edX twice asking if I could pay for course access without completing the requisite assignments for certification. Fortunately I am in a position to pay for this course which is exceptionally reasonable but have chosen not to continue as I have not received a response.
I feel annoyed by the stream of consistent emails encouraging me to pay to upgrade especially in light of this lack of response.
Deanne