Really wish there were more interviews; more showing of the art/culture. Great content though a bit repetitive

I enjoyed the course. Looking for more information and examples to illustrate the points being discussed.

Enjoyed the artwork, but wished some of the content was more broken up into easier readable sentences.

There could be more pictures and video clips to go along with examples and who people are/were

Very informative .. excellent presentation - transcribing of audio to text is very poor

The course was enjoyable but it could be improved by adding an interactive component.

The content was very useful and interesting but the delivery was not very engaging.

The course seems to present an idealized view of the motives First Nation Peoples.

was alot of information .But i didnt see the relavence to my E.A. course

Informative but not indepth, good intro to Indigenous issues in Canada

I gained a lot of knowledge from this course that I didn't know.

I thought the course was good

It could be more interactive.

good insight

it is okay

Too long

to hard

good

As person whose people have been persecuted, subjected to genocide, murdered, and discriminated against at every turn for as longer or longer than Indigenous people; I find the premise of this course that, that by insulting me at every turn, I will become ‘woke’ is somewhat perplexing.  To me, this course is pedagogically based on the premise that if I wanted to teach about the Holocaust, the best approach is to treat every German alive today as a Nazi.  While I abhor the wrongs, grievous and genocidal wrongs, inflicted on the Indigenous People of Canada (and the world); I found it hard to learn the lessons in this course because of the way it was taught.  I understand that this was intentional, because as a non-Indigenous person I am the problem.  After being labelled the problem, it is difficult to find my way forward to be part of the solution.  This is, in large part, because the message I received is that I can only ever be the problem.  I think the premise of a MOOC on this topic is a fabulous idea.  However, as a teacher and curriculum developer, I don't think that condescension and blaming are effective educational tools.  I suspect that my comments will be ignored, as I stated in the beginning, I'm clearly not 'woke enough'.

I just started the course (finished the first two modules) and I found the two quizzes a bit challenging. To find the answers to some of the questions in the notes was not easy. Found myself re-reading the information and picking the best answer. Also I think it would be more beneficial if you could have more little quizzes along the way so you are retaining the information before the quiz that is marked. One final suggestion is that you would show the correct answer once you have gotten the results.

Now that I have completed the course, I can say it was very interesting. Still stand by my above comment regarding the quizzes being challenging. The most interesting module was number five (5), Killing the Indian and the residential school. The second was the module number 12, Art and Cultural. I did have an issue with the Paintings half way through the course. They became unavailable. But as I was doing the last ones, they were back up but not in order, not related to module topic and some missing. The video in Module 12 where they are in order was great. But again, overall, course was very informative, interesting and speakers were great. Going to recommend it to my fellow co-workers.

The course for me was very much taught in the true colonial manner. Very biased dialogue leaning to the hardship of the indigenous (First Nation) community. It was unfortunate that presenters such as Reuben Quinn did not have more opportunities to express knowledge. University academics are fine but they have the burden of assimilation to overcome in presenting their material. It was a good start to a very complex topic; but it should have built up to a meaningful conclusion and some real issues. The arts section was good but probably would have been better placed in lesson 2. This would have then allowed time to develop the issues and bring in the complexity of traditional mindsets, values, truths of survival, wisdom of land based knowledge and mutual benefit. Teaching of the grandfathers, the grandmother clans and the community councils were minimized, unfortunately. Best wishes in your future course developments as you do have an audience for this material, way of life and type of knowledge. All of which are very much needed and crucial at this time and for the future if we are to live in harmony and balance.

I had hoped, through the course, to achieve a better understanding of the (various) present day circumstances and the range of challenges faced by indigenous peoples in Canada as a consequence of historic and or ongoing policies and actions of the Canadian government. although the course provided a helpful overview of that history and presented an account of present day acts of resistance, I was sorry not to learn more about the situations in which indigenous peoples find themselves, what is being done - about it -thanks

It's unfortunate that the format of this course is so dry, because the overall content is great. The speakers are reading from a script the entire time and it's very difficult to stay engaged. A mix of some readings, more actual interactive videos and stories from Indigenous people would make this course so much better. It took me a long time to get through it, so if you can muster up the patience to listen attendtively, the content is good, but unfortunately if you're more of a visual learner, you will not enjoy this.

Enjoyed it, but didn't feel it was necessary to be able to retain little details for the course tests such as specific dates and names of individuals. I'm a bigger picture learner, and graded questions about who did what, who said what, what year etc are not necessary to my learnings of the impact of colonization. I want to understand the experiences, not memorize the names and dates.