Does anyone have online MSc experience with University of Liverpool?

My girlfriend is currently on the UoL MSc Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (I did Bath MSc comp sci). She hasn't had the best experience, it's quite a young programme. All modules follow the exact same structure (except for the first module): 6-8x graded 400-600 word forum posts (requiring references and citations), a week 5 assignment and a week 8 group assignment. The forum posts are marked down for informal language when responding to peers so the discussions are quite robotic and lack a genuine feel, they also become very tedious doing them almost every week (and every module). They also take up a lot of time (for my girlfriend anyway) which means less time for actually developing coding skills through the ungraded practical exercises (resulting in some students having very poor coding ability in the group 8 assignment). The week 5 and 8 assignments are pretty good content wise and can be fun if you manage to develop your technical skills on the side so you aren't completely lost. Annoyingly the assignments are only visible 1-2 weeks before the deadline which doesn't allow for any flexibility such as planning ahead or getting things done early if a deadline lands during a busy work period or a holiday.

The degree does have some positives. There are frequent "office" hours to speak to lecturers, lots of video content along with notes/transcripts available, again the assignments can be quite fun and challenging. The degree may change/improve over time, on the whole though I/she wouldn't recommend.

Does anyone has any other recommendation for the MSc in AI please?

Hi, just curious on how was your experience with Bath compared to the UoL online courses?

I currently study the Artificial Intelligence online program at the UOL and, frankly, I am very disappointed.

I expected that we were going to be provided with real lectures, created by the professors from the university. Instead, we got some so called ‘lecturecasts’ - animations with voice narration. Basically, infographics. They often have a bad sound and sometimes they are not explained properly. Every week there is a reading list, which is valuable, but sometimes not all the content from the lecturecasts are covered in book chapters or journal articles that are listed in the reading list.

Regarding the practical activities - they are always some tutorials from youtube, which is embarrassing. Some weeks contain real activities though, to do on your own, but instead of giving you the exact solution, they give you an ‘indicative solution’.

When it comes to assignments, only the mid-module and group assignment are interesting (deadlines are 5th and 8th week, respectively). On the other hand, discussion forums are boring and not worth the time since there is one topic for each discussion forum, and one discussion forum lasts for three consecutive weeks. Unfortunately, they are mandatory.

Just a few day ago, somebody from Kaplan messed up the materials for the current module.

By the way, all tutors and student support staff are employed by Kaplan.

A degree obtained upon graduation is what is only worth. Everything else is messy. Wouldn’t recommend.

Hmm, are you sure you did your studies at UofL?

UofL don't use Kaplan. My brother studies UofL Msc AI

I know UofBath uses Kaplan.