I wouldn't say Ted is a good lecturer, but he is definitively not as bad as many comments have portrayed him to be. If you cannot hear, sit in the front of the room and participate. Nothing is required, but it may be necessary to take extra time to read, practice, and review. Lectures are less useful than office hours, so bring your questions.

Bad professor. cannot hear him in the lecture because he is too old to speak. Many mistake in lecture slides and he will not explain the problems and answers he get in the hard example. Very difficult exam and homework. Do not take his course !

i don't think the lectures really help in the exam he gave

DONT TAKE HIS CLASS

I've never had a class where the entire chapter homework is graded on correctness prior to the professor lecturing on it. The role of a professor is to teach the material not have you teach. Yes the student should come prepared to class having read the chapter but should not be responsible for knowing it at test level prior to class. Ridiculous.

Terrible teacher, plain and simple. Doesn't seem to care at all if students are confused, consistently does examples wrong in lecture, and grades the weekly homework on correctness when it's exclusively on material he hasn't taught yet. You will actually have to teach yourself this class.

Honestly incredible this guy is still teaching. The structure of the class makes no sense and neither does Ted. He manages to trip over his words and confuse himself to the point where its impossible to follow. Grading is tough on hw for material we haven't even covered yet.

Ted was useless honestly. You have to read a full chapter and teach yourself all the material and then after the homework is due he kind of goes over it in lecture. So basically you teach yourself the class, and then he reviews what you had to teach yourself. Homework graded harshly.

econ 171 was terrible in an online environment, the professor doesn't communicate with students.... The econ dept needs to get rid of this dude.

Professor Bergstrom wins the title of worst Econ instructor at UCSB by a landslide. In an online environment, little to no accommodations were made and response time via email would take up to a week. The material is not too complicated but get ready to read textbook extensively to understand it since his explanation would send you in circles.

Professor Bergstrom seems like a professor that cares less about his students and more about his research. If you are someone who needs support with difficult material, don't expect support from TA or teacher. Forum discussions are created for students to talk through issues togethor, but teacher doesn't chime in when everyone is stuck.

Honestly, the worst professor I have had in my academic career. So much so, that i felt I needed to write a review for the first time. Ignores students emails, grades harshly, and dismisses students rudely. The very LAST person you want to be teaching a class about Game Theory