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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 Moustapha S D

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Oct 31, 2015

Microbiome is like the Amazone forest! Lot of mystery!

By Arjit J

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Aug 17, 2015

great info,friendly staff and very easy to understand

By Raminder s

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Dec 10, 2015

nice course....

I am waiting for advance course.

By Isabelle S d P

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May 4, 2016

Knowledgeable course taught by great teachers!

By Paramita S

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May 27, 2017

The course was informative and worth taking.

By Renate G

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Feb 17, 2018

Clear, entertaining, interesting, varied.

By Shaun C

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Feb 14, 2019

Good overview of an interesting subject.

By Mirko H

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Apr 2, 2019

Very good introduction course.

By trish d

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Aug 21, 2015

very interesting

By Giovanni F

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Mar 1, 2017

Nice course

By Suzanne S

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Sep 10, 2015

In general this was an easy, interesting and enjoyable course, Video interviews and lectures by key researchers in this exciting field were a highlight. It's an introductory course so not deep, but fun.

A couple of things significantly detracted from the course for me.

One was a feeling of unqualified evangelism. I think the microbiome is indeed a hugely important field, but the level of hype here, and lack of any critical perspective, was off-putting. This is particularly disturbing for products like probiotics, which have become a huge industry with little solid evidence to support them, or to choose between them. Also, they devote a lot of time to selling the American Gut Project. Which is a good cause, but I would rather they had spent that time teaching me something useful. I resent being duped into watching ads when I've signed up to be educated.

The other thing that bothered me was the course required us to divulge a lot of personal information to other students in pointless, time-consuming projects. I didn't learn anything from these projects and found them annoying.

By Duygu B

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Sep 12, 2020

The pace is not sufficient, especially in the first class. She talks so fast that I cannot catch up and have to pause every ten sec. for note-taking. Also, she is like reading from the screen, which is not looking professional. For the other classes that I take on Coursera, I didn't encounter this. But the topic is interesting for me, and I really want to learn so that I will continue. I hope this problem will be gone as I move forward.

By bill w

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Oct 15, 2021

I enjoyed this course and would recommend it.

Bill Whelan