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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Gut Check: Exploring Your Microbiome by University of Colorado Boulder

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About the Course

Imagine if there were an organ in your body that weighed as much as your brain, that affected your health, your weight, and even your behavior. Wouldn’t you want to know more about it? There is such an organ — the collection of microbes in and on your body, your human microbiome....

Top reviews

AF

Feb 10, 2017

Very informative! Everybody should take this course, to know more about their own microbiome...

The first lessons are not so exciting, but hang in there! The most interesting parts come later ;)

GR

Jun 30, 2018

It was a good experience, and while I'm not too big on microbiology in general, I was intrigued in the role our microbiome plays in our lives. The summer I did this changed my life in a way. :)

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By Fabio M V

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Jul 14, 2017

Great course!

By Martine D N

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Oct 19, 2015

Great course!

By annalisa p

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May 12, 2020

Exciting!!!!

By Alice H d M

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Feb 24, 2016

Great course

By Sofya N L

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Jun 10, 2021

Fab course!

By Alba D

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Feb 21, 2016

Fantástico!

By JhoryAnne N

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Nov 26, 2015

Thank you.

By Harshita H

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Sep 28, 2020

Very Good

By Jan v d R

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Nov 12, 2017

Excellent

By Laurence W

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Oct 10, 2015

THE BEST!

By Paulo V P R

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Apr 19, 2016

Amazing!

By Lua M d A C R

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Feb 16, 2016

Amazing!

By lianhaisun

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Mar 13, 2016

good!!!

By Fleckinger O

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Oct 17, 2015

Amazing

By Ahmed N

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Jan 17, 2021

thanks

By jorge a

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Nov 5, 2015

great

By Mona A A

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Jul 9, 2020

good

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Jul 28, 2021

By Keara d P

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Mar 27, 2022

Very nice course. Much more informative than I thought it was going to be but in other ways compared to what I was expecting. I would've loved for them to have more on how to figure out what microbes I have and how to feed the correct ones and get more of the beneficial ones if I am lacking, but I understand that that is not necessarily possible. If you want to know more about gut microbes in general, to see how they are identified, and to find out how they are planning on using microbes to cure some diseases. It may be worth your time to do this course. I definitly enjoyed it.

By Dr. P S

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Mar 18, 2019

Excellent course explaining the basics of what the microbiome is and how metagenomics can be used to characterize and understand it. Interesting information about the role of microbes in the environment and about how the gut microbiome is linked to immunity, health and mental well being is presented. The only reason I am not giving it 5 points that because of the use of the techniques described in the course, our knowledge of the field has advanced during the 4 years since the course was first offered and the course has not been updated accordingly.

By Elena R

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Nov 14, 2016

For someone who is a Biologist and has heard about microbiome before, this course is more a review than a course where everything is new. However, hat doesn't mean I didn't learn anything. The course was entertaning, well explained, and interesting. The interviews were simply great, with the opportunity to see experts explaining concepts and projects. For someone with less background than mentioned, it is a very nice course to do. It will change your point of view regarding microorganisms.

By Heather M

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May 31, 2020

This was a good introductory overview to this subject. There were some excellent videos and extra readings, but some of the links are not working properly. The peer review process works but would be more valuable if people were required to give real feedback and not just chose from a limiting scoring choice. I will suggest this to others who want a quick overview.

By Magdalena G

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May 15, 2016

the course is very interesting, but the questions in tests are a bit too detailed and thus, too difficult; overall, during the course I learned a lot of new things, discovered new possibilites behind the gut flora and deepened my overall knowledge; if only the certificates were a bit cheaper...

By Charlotte H

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Jan 11, 2016

Course content was very good and I'd highly recommend this class. However the course policy of getting other students to grade the assignments results in people with big egos assigning other students arbitrarily bad grades. Maybe this can be fixed on the next iteration. Otherwise, bravo.

By Andrew J L

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Mar 27, 2018

Great class, get ready to learn. Lots of reading assignments, which I really liked. Very current research that they are presenting to you here and the researchers that you'll hear from in this are absolutely world class.