Intro to Statistics

The professor seems like a nice guy but he is an incompetent teacher. There's a complete lack of cohesion between concepts. Nothing is well explained. The professor is very interested in statistics, but is unable to make sense. You may leave with more confusion than knowledge, as I did.

The difficulty level can just randomly become brutal. Why get into complex theories in an introduction class? The people who can understand this stuff will not be taking this class.
To clarify, it's not that a majority of the material here is hard to learn, but that it's presented in such a messy and unfriendly way.

Once in a while, you will complete problem sets. This is the worst part of class. It seems that the main professor delegated this part to another professor. Let me tell you..the assistance professor might be the incompetent human being ever created. Every issue I had with the main professor is magnified tenfold with this guy.

Incorporating some programming into the class was a nice touch. I actually learned quite a bit in many of these sections. Unfortunately, it was never explained how get the same setup on your own IDE rather than using the interface. If anything, the main professor should have ditched his partner and focused on making a programming statistics class, although I still wouldn't take it after this experience.

The professor talks about a "forum" that appears to no longer exist. This class is almost a decade old now. In my opinion, this course should be removed. You get what you pay for (free). But seriously, there has to be a better alternative out there to this mess. I'm not against paying for a decent statistics class. I already know most of this material from high school and college, I was simply looking for a course online to brush up on basic statistics. This did more harm than good. Terrible class. Atrocious professor(s).

Instructor gave only partial information before a quiz. The square foot cost per house was a constant across all houses. In real life the square foot cost per house will vary. It's fine to make the cost per square foot a constant number but for the love of baby Jesus tell us that is a condition.
This was after another example where 1/2 of all people are type A with 80 friends and 1/2 of all people are type B with 20 friends. Later on it is "Assumed" that all 80 friends of a type A person are also type A. This is fine just tell us in advance that this is the case, otherwise the given information will lead me to believe that 40 of a type A persons friends are type A and 40 are type B.
At first I thought I was just not catching on, but then I remembered other courses, Math, Computer Programming etc. where to follow the Professor, certain unspoken assumptions had to be made. I have 40 years teaching experience (social dance) and can visualize a students point of view, and try to find a way to clearly present the material while still challenging the student to a beneficial degree.
note: my college introduction to Calculus course was taught by a teacher with a bad stutter, as the class size dropped week by week from 25, to 23, to 19 students his impediment lessened. I presume the course ended with 5 students and perfect diction on the part of the instructor. I lasted almost 3 weeks on sheer will.