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

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  • momzeeee
    momzeeee Posts: 475 Member
    Never heard of this kind of thing-very cool!
  • masonnickey
    masonnickey Posts: 7 Member
    Thank you!
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 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.

    Can you just get access to the material without having to do the homework or review other people's homework?
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
    BTW, thanks a lot for sharing!
  • Volcanic Eruptions! Woot!

    Thanks for the link! :happy:
  • Autazell
    Autazell Posts: 54 Member
    What a cool idea, thanks for sharing.
  • Laurenmp16
    Laurenmp16 Posts: 344 Member
    Bump! Thanks!
  • zosia141
    zosia141 Posts: 44 Member
    Bump
  • 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.

    Can you just get access to the material without having to do the homework or review other people's homework?

    Yes! :)
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 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.

    Can you just get access to the material without having to do the homework or review other people's homework?

    Yes! :)

    Cool! I will register, then!
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Awesome. Glad to see so many people enthused about this.
  • Ang108
    Ang108 Posts: 1,711 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


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    When I checked out the course it was not free, but costs US$ 39.- reduced from US$ 69.-......
  • corsayre8
    corsayre8 Posts: 551 Member
    Sounds interesting.
  • Couchtomato160
    Couchtomato160 Posts: 1 Member
    Thank you. I signed up. Yours was the first post I read here.
  • 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


    uote]

    When I checked out the course it was not free, but costs US$ 39.- reduced from US$ 69.-......


    No. All of the courses on Coursera are free. The only thing that costs money is if you sign up for "Signature Track" which you don't need. You should be able to enroll in the class and just click no on the signature track thing.
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Thank you. I signed up. Yours was the first post I read here.

    That's great! Awesome way to start!
  • Maedes
    Maedes Posts: 12 Member
    Thanks! :smile:
  • Signed up, thanks for the link!
  • haroon_awan
    haroon_awan Posts: 1,208 Member
    Bump! Thank you!
  • chrisloveslife
    chrisloveslife Posts: 180 Member
    bump
  • lizbeth926
    lizbeth926 Posts: 43
    signed up!!!
  • bfitnbfab
    bfitnbfab Posts: 79
    bump
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
    Bump!
  • zortgirl
    zortgirl Posts: 28 Member
    Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing this info.
  • Pamela_in_Progress
    Pamela_in_Progress Posts: 197 Member
    Signed up! Thanks!
  • childrenrus
    childrenrus Posts: 55 Member
    Thank you for sharing..I live in London & plan to do this! I love learning! :)
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Awesome that so many are signing up.
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    Class starts Monday!
  • TMcChamp
    TMcChamp Posts: 165 Member
    Thanks!
  • Vailara
    Vailara Posts: 2,464 Member
    Lots of interesting courses on offer there - thanks!