it was so useful

Very useful. :)

its very good.

ain't better!

Loved it! :D

Excelente

I will likely come back to finish my specialization at another time. The course content itself was truly excellent. Very comprehensive and I especially appreciated "going into the lab" and seeing the experiments being performed real time. I also was glad for the case studies, the readings and being able to download course content. The only thing I was very unhappy with were the quizzes. Specifically: 1) many of the questions seemed to be written by grad students rather than the professor. They were both immature and overly complicated. 2) Some of the content in the quizzes was not related to the course content/at a level beyond what the course teaches. 3) There were typos, sometimes the author(s) forgot to remove their notes as to which were the correct answers, while conversely some of the language was overly and unnecessarily dense. This course shouldn't be about assessing someone's language ability or my ability to interpret what the writer was trying to communicate. I'm not talking about scientific language either. 4) The multiple selection questions are simply ineffective, especially since the feedback on them is all or none. It was very unclear which in the multiple select you selected right or wrong out of the 4 or 5, and therefore you didn't/couldn't learn anything from your mistakes. As a teacher myself I know that multiple choice questions are not great for assessing in-depth knowledge. But at least you can learn from your mistake(s). To summarize, the course was great, the quizzes are a frustrating mess. Thanks!

The content in this course, namely the lectures from Professor Birtwistle and the recommended readings, are excellent. However, I think the assessments need some reconfiguring or at least better support for discussion forums/advice on how to approach them. Some quizzes contain very vague questions, typos, and overloads of information. I often found myself just trying to figure out what the question was truly asking. I do like the essay approach as it integrates knowledge well and makes for a challenging exam. It has been noted by several students in the discussion forums that Quiz 1 in particular has some questions that seem to have no correct answer (I spent time going through the permutations myself just out of interest). Overall, this course was a great overview of experimental techniques in systems biology for those willing to invest themselves in the literature in particular, but the assessment structure and implementation was lacking at times.

The course is mainly focused on description of the technologies used in system biology. Mechanisms of these experiments may not be very clear which makes this course seems like an introduction to the experiments. Also the quizzes are too long with enormous words, sometimes it's like a game of finding differences. I hope the quizzes be more focused on principals and calculation, which will make it more clearer.

Finally, the teacher and all staff have made a lot of efforts to build this nice course! Thank you so much!

The course provides up to date understanding of new technologies. The examples are carefully analyzed and explained. The course is very helpful for those who want to follow lab-based research. However, learners must be aware that the amount of knowledge you take in for each lesson is very large, you might need to watch the lesson over and over again to actually understand deeply.

Very nice and thorough course. Information is explained clearly in lectures but some parts like data analysis may require a longer period to understand and process for people without sufficient background. Lab-based ones are helpful. Quizzes and exams are pretty challenging. I found the case studies in exams really practical and interesting!

Really good course, even though the test were so unfair with the multiple choice questions. Why not to give any simple 0.2 or 0.25 if you get one answer out of 5? Why do I have to select all ofthem correctly if not I do not receive any point? Very unfair, 4 stars because of this. the rest of it is perfect even with lab based videos.

very good introduction but as i go through the videos and then do the quiz i feel like the material doesn't highlight exactly what is needed for the quiz. Maybe i'm not taking the video lecture as seriously as i should. Something else to reinforce the material cause it seems a bit condensed.

thanks for a wonderful course!

On the bright side, "Lab based" videos are excellent for visualize the techniques. Nevertheless "Choose all that apply" questions in the quizzes are very ambiguous, these questions should contain an explanation for prevent confusion at the end of every unit.

I pretty like this course and learn a lot of experimental methods in system biology. Everything is good except some 'choose all that apply' questions in quizs, which are very difficult and I still don't know why I got their answers wrong...

This was a very interesting course. I learned so much about the different techniques and methods. Also, you need to revise the lecture notes before taking the quizzes, because they can get tricky.

Thanks for overview of experimental methods and references to relevant articles!

"Complete the essay" quizzes looks like a joke

the lab was fasinating . i never seen those big machin in my life. THANKS!!!

The audio quality for the laboratory sessions was somewhat poor.

HighTech!! Quite difficult for someone who not from the field .

I learned very cool and interesting things!

it's interesting but it's quite difficult

Challenging, but informative.

Way to go..enjoyed learning

Very uusefu