Good lecturer

Just amazing!

It was fun :)

good course!

Interesting

Fantastic!

excellent!

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Although not as strong as the other palaeontology courses by the University of Alberta, the current courses takes much the same approach and uses the same teaching techniques as these other courses. As such, it easily and effectively gets the millions of years of early vertebrate evolution across clearly and concisely. The video lectures are both interactive and fun, and the course notes are both informative and well adjusted to the video lectures. If there is anything to be remarked upon, then it's the slight lack of depth as pertains to the material covered. This, however, is hardly surprising considering the highly complex material (drawing from fields as osteology, paleoecology, evolutionary and developmental biology, palaeontology and more), the speed at which it is discussed, and the level of accessibility that is provided. Overall, a very good course, and one I very much enjoyed following!

While I don't believe in evolution, I'm very surprised that the university would subscribe to the notion that all land vertebrates came from some creature in the ocean. Overall, the presentation of the information given could have been a bit more cleaner and steam-lined, rather than attempting to give an abundance of information that pushed the notion that every living thing on this earth came from some aquatic form. The presenter could have been a bit older, possibly someone who had a bit more experience in the field, rather than a twerp who looked like he just came out of puberty. And he talked with this hands too much. Overall, however, just to get some online classes under my belt, in a subject that I'm very interested in, i'd recommend this class as part of an introduction to paleontology itself.

Extremely interesting! I just struggled a bit with all the anatomical terminology. I'm a visual learner and could have used more pictures comparing changing bits of fishes as they evolved. But that's just me. I've enjoyed it so much and want to understand it better so I've downloaded notes and videos to come back and watch again. Would have liked more resources that were less academic. I'm just an average middle-aged person with no prior knowledge, who is interested, not someone wanting to actually be a paleontologist. Thanks for such an amazing and informative free course!

I enjoyed the course. Was introduced to interesting knowledge that was well presented. I did the course because of its connection to astronomy, an interest I have been actively developing. So I wanted to understand the principles and I really wasn't interested in the technical detail. The quizzes were focused on technical detail, which misses the point of a MOOC. I had to redo the quizzes until I got 80%. Assessment should be focused on developing thinking skills, and that opportunity was missed.

Really enjoyed this course-- it was a little more difficult than Dino Paleobology101 but that's totally fine. I didn't particularly enjoy the long chapters about rocks and types of environments (although I understand that it's important to know to understand fossil preservation and the environment that the animals had lived in) but the rest was all really great. Looking forward to the next few courses in this series.

I have a deep (no pun intended) interest in paleontology because of living here in Alberta. In this course, I was introduced to several other interesting areas in Canada that draw me to continue to study this. It was interesting and informative. I wish however, that the notes contained more drawings or references because I was unable to play the videos which I suspect had additional visual learning tools.