Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mountains 101 by University of Alberta
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SK
Dec 22, 2017
So interesting! So well made, every lesson is thought out the interactive mountain map was a joy to complete each time! Incredibly thoughtful and sensitive to every aspect that touches the mountains.
PP
Jun 10, 2020
Right, I just basically DEVOUR this course! What a joy! Great videos, great interactive material and what a scenery! Of course, there is also a great amount of really, really good information!
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By Kenny C
•Feb 4, 2017
Highly recommand it to do it if you love Canada and its Mountains!
By Andrea G
•Feb 21, 2021
Very interesting and informative course on mountain environments.
By Edgar B
•May 5, 2017
Buen curso para iniciar en el conocimiento de las montañas.
By Ian A
•Oct 28, 2020
A fascinating overview of all aspects of mountains.
By Tanya F
•Jun 23, 2017
Very education and well done, easy to do/understand
By Johnny M L
•Jun 14, 2022
Everyone should take this course.
By Richard K
•Aug 18, 2017
very interesting and informative
By Shirley K
•Jul 9, 2020
fun course, really enjoyed it
By Micheline D
•Feb 1, 2022
Well done, learned a lot
By Elita Y
•Jun 9, 2020
Very comprehensive
By Rahul S
•Jan 17, 2018
A complete one!
By Jason V
•Jun 20, 2025
Fun class
By Diane W
•Dec 23, 2020
A good introduction and interesting case studies. Many interesting parts to the course but I found it a little easy (that was probably due to my background as a geography teacher) I would also have liked to see a little more encouragement to investigate further on the topics - perhaps suggesting websites or additional reading. I found I was rather a passive learner and would have preferred to be more involved with finding things out.
By Sandy J M
•Jun 23, 2021
The material in this course was excellent, but I avoided the videos and did it by reading the transcripts only. The music accompanying the lectures and other bits is distracting and annoying. I spent 10 years at university and never attended a serious lecture that was accompanied by elevator music.
By Jonathan G
•Jan 30, 2018
and Justin course. However, a lot of what was being covered with redundant. You can easily learn the stuff covered in the course on a camping trip or from a mountain climber.
By Baral P
•May 28, 2021
Much focus was on the alpine mountains, whereas mountains are found on all climatic zones. Very less was taught about the mountains beyond alpine mountains of North America.
By Alexandropoulou C
•Sep 9, 2019
It was good at the basics but I was looking for information about caves in mountains and bats!
By Ethan B
•Mar 20, 2026
Some decent information, but delivery is extremely boring. Maybe it's the Coursera format of just have a person stand in front of a green screen with a script. You don't really get a sense of enthusiasm from the lecturers. I only took this for supplementary information for GIS and volunteer reasons, but I am not sure if it was worth it. The additional "reading" they give you is literally just the transcript for the videos you just watched. And after forcing myself to get through it all, it wasn't very satisfying to have the certificate because "Mountains 101" just sounds so informal. A friend described the title as sounding like I learned trivia or something. It should probably be re-titled to "Introduction to Mountain Geology, Meteorology, and Biodiversity" or something.
By Kevin
•Mar 3, 2026
Dreadful course. Concepts poorly explained, mainly just people talking at you, only a few diagrams used. All explanations are very superficial and constantly found myself needing to Google topics to understand them properly. The patronising "tech tips" videos were the absolute worst part of this course.
By John W S
•Feb 14, 2017
Got as far as lesson six. Took test and received 78%. Have been trying without success to retake the test. There does not seem to be anywhere to try and find out how to fix this.???????????????????????
By Carl I
•Apr 29, 2021
Well done! Facts on Avalanche re WW1 Austria /Italian are not correct. 10,000 soldiers did not die in one day. Please correct this factoid.! Otherwise excellent course!!