Vanderbilt & Stanford free nutrition courses

sajeffe
sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
in Food and Nutrition
This is offered through Coursera (coursera.org) and starts in 5 days:
Nutrition, Health, and Lifestyle: Issues and Insights (7 weeks).

For those unfamiliar with Coursera, it is a MOOC (massive open online course) platform with dozens of universities and hundreds of college level courses for free. The workload for this particular course is 2-4 hours per week, but if you don't want to go for the official statement of completion, you can enroll and simply download the lectures and materials to deal with on your own. Here is the direct link: https://www.coursera.org/course/lifenutr

At the same time, Stanford University is offering a 5-week course called, "Child Nutrition and Cooking," which I personally believe anyone with children should take. https://www.coursera.org/course/childnutrition

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  • lsmsrbls
    lsmsrbls Posts: 232 Member
    I'm signed up for the Vanderbilt course. I've been getting exicted about it.
  • 6550mom
    6550mom Posts: 206 Member
    How cool is that? Thanks for the link- I didn't know this type of thing was out there. I like the look of the UCSF one coming up too!

    Awesome.
  • zillah73
    zillah73 Posts: 505 Member
    This is awesome! Thanks for the link!
  • graceylou222
    graceylou222 Posts: 198 Member
    bump! Thanks!
  • blazergrad
    blazergrad Posts: 603 Member
    Very cool indeed!! May have to look into this .... thanks!
  • TinaCleg
    TinaCleg Posts: 87
    Thank you so much! I signed up for the Vanderbilt course as well
  • RambyPandy
    RambyPandy Posts: 118 Member
    At the same time, Stanford University is offering a 5-week course called, "Child Nutrition and Cooking," which I personally believe anyone with children should take. https://www.coursera.org/course/childnutrition

    Yay!!!! Thank you!! I signed up. I live for stuff like this!
  • badtastebetty
    badtastebetty Posts: 326 Member
    Very cool.
  • TheLoneMarmot
    TheLoneMarmot Posts: 43 Member
    Thank you.

    I have just signed up.
  • Queen_JessieA
    Queen_JessieA Posts: 1,059 Member
    Thanks! I signed up for both of them :):)
  • PamelaGatorMom
    PamelaGatorMom Posts: 348 Member
    :flowerforyou: THANK YOU for sharing I seriously had no idea about this!! All signed up now!!
  • XXXMinnieXXX
    XXXMinnieXXX Posts: 3,459 Member
    Signed up! Thanks!
  • Beckyloo80
    Beckyloo80 Posts: 1,088 Member
    signed up! this is awesome! thank you so much for posting and sharing the link!
  • mrob04
    mrob04 Posts: 88 Member
    thx! :flowerforyou: :smile:
  • adenium11
    adenium11 Posts: 173 Member
    Thanks for this! I cannot wait to start!
  • kellilynneramirez
    kellilynneramirez Posts: 3 Member
    Thanks, I signed up for both!
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    You're all very welcome. I love turning people on to the moocs. :) There are others. Just google "mooc." I love Coursera but EdX and Udacity are also good.

    Some of you might want to start a study group here. That way, you have the course as well as this fitness site in common. I won't be joining the study group because I'm just going to download the lectures to watch later. (I'm in the middle of "Synapses, Neurons, and Brains" as well as "Genes and the Human Condition." )
  • Kickit09098
    Kickit09098 Posts: 1
    Hey there!

    This is PHENOMINAL!! Thanks so much for sharing this site.

    Many thanks!
  • paulabsc
    paulabsc Posts: 43 Member
    THANK YOU...I JUST SIGNED UP FOR IT.
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    You're welcome. :)
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Bump to make sure others see this.
  • zosia141
    zosia141 Posts: 44 Member
    Bump
  • crushe_d
    crushe_d Posts: 1 Member
    Thanks for posting! I didn't realise there were courses like this available online.
  • Liss416
    Liss416 Posts: 209 Member
    Thanks for the link!
  • animini123
    animini123 Posts: 102 Member
    Thanks for sharing.
  • H0llyG0lightly
    H0llyG0lightly Posts: 214 Member
    Thanks! Just signed up for the Vanderbilt course.
  • FistToTheFace
    FistToTheFace Posts: 22 Member
    Bump
  • RetiredAndLovingIt
    RetiredAndLovingIt Posts: 1,395 Member
    Bump
  • desiv2
    desiv2 Posts: 651 Member
    Thanks! Someone should make a study group. :)
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Thanks! Someone should make a study group. :)

    I agree. I won't be in it cuz I'm in the middle of one course about the brain and another one about genetics. But I'm going to download the lectures from both of the nutrition course to watch later.

    Enjoy!

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