GREAT

Horses & equines are talked about less as sentient beings and creatures with the potential to be friends and family members than as animals who are clearly seen as "less than", regardless of whether they are seen to be impressive or not. Some information is clearly not in a horse's best interest (really, a horse is ok getting ONE hour of turnout?) and no quality information is given, which is most important, about the proper way a horse moves, soreness, etc. Body scale information is super black and white and it was evident with the peer review that students still did not know what they were talking about unless they were already horse people.

Too many topics. Didn’t allow enough time to immerse myself in any one area. Consider having longer lectures or more depth on topics, making those options. For example, I am very interested in reading and understanding horse emotions and I would have liked to go deeper into that. The reproduction lectures are an example of something I could just breeze over. But I do realize some may want to learn more about that topic.

All in all I can’t complain because it was free.

informative but somewhat redundant. You can learn this stuff just fine at a stable. Tedious course.

Good basic information overview. Helpful instructor.

Where are the credits of the course?

I have no idea how this course got such a high review because:

The Horse Corse ' University of Florida is not allowing for fair marking for peer reviews. It has an 80% or more to pass. It only allows for peers to pick 6 - Fail or 10 - exceeds expectations. So unless you Exceed Expectations every single assignment then you fail. With no other option to contest this. No way to contact Dr Mortenson, dead forums, etc. This just a disgusting oversite and seeing as the course has been up for 3 years, the doctor, the university and coursera have to know this

Not only that but the professor who created it no longer works at UofF. He does not even reside inside the states, so any issues are not going to be resolved. Courera Needs to follow up. Since even the forums are no longer monitered by admins or moderators.

This seems to be a dead course with some people having to wait a very long time to get their peer-reviewed assignments actually peer reviewed.