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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Energy, Environment, and Everyday Life by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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About the Course

For a sample of what this course will include, see the video "Energy, Environment, and Everyday Life MOOC with University of Illinois Professor David Ruzic" - http://go.citl.illinois.edu/Energy-MOOC This course teaches you everything you need to know about energy, the environment, and at least a number of things in everyday life. It starts by talking about energy itself and where it comes from. This includes how much we have, who has it, who uses it, and what that all means. The video clips are produced in a fast-paced multimedia format during which Professor Ruzic throws in fun and demonstrations. There are multiple-choice questions to check your understanding and some more in-depth exercises to guide you deeper into the subject. After explaining the main things we use energy for – our cars and electronics! – fossil fuels are examined in detail. Want to really learn about fracking or pipelines? Watch these segments. The environmental effects of fossil fuels are taught as well. Global warming, acid rain, and geoengineering all are in this part of the course. Part of their solution is too. Renewables follow, with clips on solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biofuels, etc. You’ll even see Professor Ruzic in a corn field and in the middle of a stream showing how you could dam it up. Finally, nuclear power is taught in detail – how it really works and what happens when it doesn’t work, as in Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, as well as how we are making it today, which is shown here without political preconceptions. In this course, economics takes center stage. People will ultimately do whatever costs the least, so energy policy is most effective when it is targeted at the user’s wallet. Throughout the course there are 24 segments on “How Things Work." These guides to everyday life are tremendously varied, covering everything from fireworks to making beer to what happens backstage at a theater. The course is designed to be enjoyable as well as informative. We hope you will take a look!...

Top reviews

AM

Feb 2, 2021

The course was conducted with a lot of passion, which is admirable. Sometimes, the videos can get a little lengthy. However, they are made enjoyable by how enthusiastically the content was taught!

YC

Jun 26, 2020

The best thing about this course is Prof. Ruzic. Thanks to him, I felt no problem in understanding concepts and the practical approach has helped me memorize lot of stuff.

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By #WONG X

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Nov 17, 2024

Prof is engaging and content is digestible. Happy to have taken this course.

By Dnyanesh S

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Aug 17, 2020

The course is excellent. Teaching / explanations from Prof. Ruzic is best.

By Gabriel C

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Aug 8, 2021

Very educational course ! interesting and fascinating

By ELLENDULA H

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Sep 22, 2020

excellent course taught by an excellent teacher.

By 2K20 E 5 R G

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May 11, 2024

brilliant course I have ever found on coursera

By Жумадилова А К

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Jul 3, 2023

Сертификате фамилия нет моего

By KOTHAPALLI N S

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Mar 1, 2021

improving knowledge skills

By Chew Y X

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Jul 22, 2020

PROF RUZIK IS GODDDDDD

By Muhammad S A

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Apr 6, 2020

Professor was great!!

By Charitha A

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Nov 29, 2022

Very useful course.

By abbhijith

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Jun 15, 2020

Prof Ruzic is GOD.

By Chinmay L

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Nov 5, 2020

Excellent content

By Kevin G

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Jun 8, 2020

Excellent course

By Luis F C V

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Apr 21, 2021

Muy buen curso

By Rahul S B

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Sep 24, 2020

simply awesome

By SINGAM S K R

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Nov 21, 2022

Nice Course

By Erra S K

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Nov 4, 2020

nice course

By MUTHUMALA H V R

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Apr 10, 2020

good topics

By YARRAM A K R

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Jul 19, 2021

very good

By sekhar k

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Sep 15, 2022

nice

By LE 3 B

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Dec 25, 2023

good

By MOTTE P

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Apr 16, 2023

good

By Padala J

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Nov 9, 2021

GOOD

By Ankit B

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Jul 16, 2021

good

By Nilanjan D

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Jul 21, 2020

GOOD