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Coursera bio- courses.

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  • 23-10-2013 12:59am
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    General General
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    Is anyone trying or has anyone tried any of the bio- courses on coursera (coursera.org)?

    I'm close to finishing one.


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    FruityCake
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    General General wrote: »
    Is anyone trying or has anyone tried any of the bio- courses on coursera (coursera.org)?

    I'm close to finishing one.

    Oldish post but, yes i'm taking one at the moment! did you finish your course? did you manage to get a cert for it? :)

    Has anybody else taken any of these courses?


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    Turtwig
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    Currently doing the intro to genetics and evolution one. Only running two weeks and I've only done the first week of material but it seems very good.


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    FruityCake wrote: »
    Oldish post but, yes i'm taking one at the moment! did you finish your course? did you manage to get a cert for it? :)

    Has anybody else taken any of these courses?

    I did the Physiology intro course (Duke). Fairly demanding, I think 700 or so finished it (30,000 or so did the first 'class test'). It was closed book testing, well, it was if you didn't cheat...

    I'd recommend it. I will likely do the course again, not next time but the one after that.

    Don't mean to brag, don't mean to boast, but I am intercontinental when I eat French toast. Yes, I got a cert, yes, I was lucky enough to just scrape over 85%.

    Downside is the 'low' that follows weeks of reading material from a field well away from your own (Physiology is considered exacting, this course, even though an 'introduction', was by no means 'Mickey Mouse'), with regular testing..

    Upside is that when you see that youtube video of the guy hijacking a motorbike in Brazil, then getting shot down by Police, & you see the subtitle that says the shot guy is calling out that he is really thirsty... you think: ah, "thirst response", why naturally! :pac:


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