WOW, I learned a lot form this and it was fairly educational but not overwhelming or difficult. This instructor really gets the points across without being to easy or hard. A very good class.
Celebrate your inner fish as you swim along with this awesome course charting our earliest ancestors. Very well constructed and delivered once again by the team at the University of Alberta.
创建者 Hussain A
•Awesome course
创建者 Siddhartha P
•Very thorough!
创建者 Paulo d S P
•Just amazing!
创建者 Gary E
•It was fun :)
创建者 牛长泰
•good course!
创建者 Carmen M D M T
•Interesting
创建者 Michael
•Fantastic!
创建者 Jose C M
•excellent!
创建者 Eduardo
•EXCELENTE
创建者 Constantino B B
•Excelente
创建者 Danielle C
•very good
创建者 Benjamin M
•Thanks!!
创建者 Víctor M E R
•exelente
创建者 Linda A
•Excelent
创建者 Leandro N
•Great!
创建者 RAGHUVEER S D
•good
创建者 Mona A A
•GOOD
创建者 garima s
•nice
创建者 Robert C C
•G
创建者 Alexander P V M
•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!
创建者 Robert C D J
•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.
创建者 Evelyn T
•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.
创建者 Francisco L A B
•The course is very well structured, and the drawings are fantastic to help the people visualise the different vertebrates that lived once on the planet. However, I found that it would be more dynamic for the course to have short animations of those fishes while the subject is being explained in the background. I guess it would catch more the viewer's attention throughout the course.
创建者 Daniëlle v d B
•A great way of getting me more familiar with palaeontology. With a background in biology, I had already a basic understanding of phylogeny but in this course, that was quickly explained and then moved onto other things that perfectly fitted my level of learning. I learned a lot and loved all the examples of different genera and different types of fish and early tetrapods.
创建者 Zoltán V
•The professor could have been a bit more serious, he acted as if he was a kindergarden teacher. Seriously: do you really need to imitate with your hand how a fish swims? I don't think so.
Also, the pronounciation of the latin words was horrible - then again, all native English speakers have problems with it, so don't take this remark personally.