FREE 6-week online course in Nutrition thru UCSF starts 6/24

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  • socialite51
    socialite51 Posts: 51
    Thanks..just signed up..:flowerforyou:
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Can someone explain the format of taking this course? Do you just gain access to lectures and notes? Is it interactive? Thanks. I signed up, knowledge is power! :)


    Each week, you get access to the lectures and pdf of slides used. The lectures are divided into small chunks to allow for our increasingly short attention spans. In some courses, the lectures are actually less than 5 minutes and there are a bunch of them. Most, however, are in chunks of 10-15 minutes and you have 4-8 of them. Watch them when you have time. If you're going for the certificate of completion, there will be homework assignments and quizzes to complete on a deadline. Homework in this course is peer reviewed -- which also means you will have to review the work of some of your peers. Some courses have midterms and finals. Interactivity is through the course discussion forums, which are active in all of the courses. Many of these courses have tens of thousands of students from all over the world. Give it a try and see what you think.
  • DatMurse
    DatMurse Posts: 1,501 Member
    Can someone explain the format of taking this course? Do you just gain access to lectures and notes? Is it interactive? Thanks. I signed up, knowledge is power! :)


    Each week, you get access to the lectures and pdf of slides used. The lectures are divided into small chunks to allow for our increasingly short attention spans. In some courses, the lectures are actually less than 5 minutes and there are a bunch of them. Most, however, are in chunks of 10-15 minutes and you have 4-8 of them. Watch them when you have time. If you're going for the certificate of completion, there will be homework assignments and quizzes to complete on a deadline. Homework in this course is peer reviewed -- which also means you will have to review the work of some of your peers. Some courses have midterms and finals. Interactivity is through the course discussion forums, which are active in all of the courses. Many of these courses have tens of thousands of students from all over the world. Give it a try and see what you think.

    oh my god peer reviewed?

    in b4 **** storm. maybe ill take it to make ppl mad lol
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Can someone explain the format of taking this course? Do you just gain access to lectures and notes? Is it interactive? Thanks. I signed up, knowledge is power! :)


    Each week, you get access to the lectures and pdf of slides used. The lectures are divided into small chunks to allow for our increasingly short attention spans. In some courses, the lectures are actually less than 5 minutes and there are a bunch of them. Most, however, are in chunks of 10-15 minutes and you have 4-8 of them. Watch them when you have time. If you're going for the certificate of completion, there will be homework assignments and quizzes to complete on a deadline. Homework in this course is peer reviewed -- which also means you will have to review the work of some of your peers. Some courses have midterms and finals. Interactivity is through the course discussion forums, which are active in all of the courses. Many of these courses have tens of thousands of students from all over the world. Give it a try and see what you think.

    oh my god peer reviewed?

    in b4 **** storm. maybe ill take it to make ppl mad lol

    Yeah, actually, there is that risk, but what I've experienced is that most people who take the courses aren't *kitten*. That said, I like the courses that don't have peer-reviewed homework better. I mean, that's a variable that isn't quite figured out yet, I think.
  • SummerLovesPhil
    SummerLovesPhil Posts: 242 Member
    Thanks!
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Bump.
  • OtterAmber
    OtterAmber Posts: 49 Member
    I also signed up for Nutrition, Health, and Lifestyle: Issues and Insights by Jamie Pope through Vanderbilt University. It has already started but you can access all the information.

    Thanks for posting this :) what an amazing resource
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    I also signed up for Nutrition, Health, and Lifestyle: Issues and Insights by Jamie Pope through Vanderbilt University. It has already started but you can access all the information.

    Thanks for posting this :) what an amazing resource


    Indeed. Here's the link to the thread on the Vanderbilt course as well as Child Nutrition course. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/975551-vanderbilt-stanford-free-nutrition-courses And, as someone else mentioned, there's another course that starts next month on nutrition and fitness. coursera.org

    [I'm not a coursera affiliate in any way. I just like to promote learning and coursera and edx.com make it easy.]
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Bump.
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Bump.
  • JustineMarie21
    JustineMarie21 Posts: 437 Member
    I would like to become a dietician when I'm done highschool so this program would give me a good start. How ever do you think if i signed up It would be okay to just watch the lectures becausee i need time for homework, im always swamped.
  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
    Wow! I'm checking out Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression!
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    Well you may have just steered this ship in a new direction. Thank you.:flowerforyou:
  • Bounce2
    Bounce2 Posts: 138 Member
    Thank-you :flowerforyou:
  • balsert713
    balsert713 Posts: 39 Member
    I'm just commenting so I remember to check this out when I get to a computer!!
  • Tercob
    Tercob Posts: 151 Member
    Bump
  • LaurenAOK
    LaurenAOK Posts: 2,475 Member
    Another good course, offered through University of Pittsburgh via Coursera: Nutrition and Physical Activity for Health.

    https://www.coursera.org/course/nutritionforhealth

    I'm signed up for this one! So looking forward to it. I love coursera :)

    I agree that if everyone on these forums took one of these nutrition courses, this would probably be a much more enjoyable place hahah.
  • eileen0515
    eileen0515 Posts: 408 Member
    Thanks for the information.
  • lois4468
    lois4468 Posts: 166 Member
    Interesting
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member
    This is the second offering of this course through coursera.org and University of California, San Francisco. If you have a little time, this is a good course. If you don't want to keep up with the actual class, you should enroll anyway and you can download the lectures to watch later. If you've never heard of coursera.org or edx.com and you love learning, you'll love these sites! Gogogo.



    Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
    with Professor Katie Ferraro


    About the course: "This course covers the basics of normal nutrition for optimal health outcomes and evidence-based diets for a variety of diseases. Participants will learn the fundamentals of nutrition science and build upon these to explore emerging diet therapies, to analyze nutrition research and to plan well-balanced meals and dietary interventions for both healthy individuals and those with a number of diseases and health conditions."
    This is very cool.... loving the class I'm currently taking... Is there a limit to how many classes we're able to sign up for? I guess I should probably look under th QA section. lol

    One of mine starts the 24th and the other one.. Nutrition/Food Sustainability just started yesterday so I'm not far behind.

    Thanks so much...I love learning!
  • CindyRip
    CindyRip Posts: 166 Member
    BUMP
  • Mrsmorman
    Mrsmorman Posts: 29 Member
    Thanks for the info.
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    This is the second offering of this course through coursera.org and University of California, San Francisco. If you have a little time, this is a good course. If you don't want to keep up with the actual class, you should enroll anyway and you can download the lectures to watch later. If you've never heard of coursera.org or edx.com and you love learning, you'll love these sites! Gogogo.



    Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
    with Professor Katie Ferraro


    About the course: "This course covers the basics of normal nutrition for optimal health outcomes and evidence-based diets for a variety of diseases. Participants will learn the fundamentals of nutrition science and build upon these to explore emerging diet therapies, to analyze nutrition research and to plan well-balanced meals and dietary interventions for both healthy individuals and those with a number of diseases and health conditions."
    This is very cool.... loving the class I'm currently taking... Is there a limit to how many classes we're able to sign up for? I guess I should probably look under th QA section. lol

    One of mine starts the 24th and the other one.. Nutrition/Food Sustainability just started yesterday so I'm not far behind.

    Thanks so much...I love learning!

    No limit. I'm enrolled in a bunch of courses but only actually doing the work in two at a time. The others, I just download all of the materials for whenever I have time to do them. (I'm also fearful that this type of resource won't be free forever.)
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Wow! I'm checking out Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression!

    Yeah, I'm actually signed up for that one. I just finished an introductory genetics course.
  • 77tes
    77tes Posts: 8,571 Member
    Bump!
  • Ophidion
    Ophidion Posts: 2,065 Member
    bump learning is fun
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    I would like to become a dietician when I'm done highschool so this program would give me a good start. How ever do you think if i signed up It would be okay to just watch the lectures becausee i need time for homework, im always swamped.

    Definitely. Just enroll, watch the lectures when you have time, and learn. :) It will definitely give you a head start on dietitian studies.
  • tamisame
    tamisame Posts: 1
    Just signed in. Thank you very much for the information. :smile:
  • heasleyt
    heasleyt Posts: 4 Member
    looks interesting. I am checking it out
  • jbs2travel
    jbs2travel Posts: 68 Member
    Thanks so much for the heads up. Signed up for course.

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