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Learner Reviews & Feedback for The Age of Sustainable Development by Columbia University

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About the Course

The Age of Sustainable Development" gives students an understanding of the key challenges and pathways to sustainable development - that is, economic development that is also socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable....

Top reviews

LG

May 18, 2017

This course was perfect for those wanting to explore the world of development, broad enough to include all interlinked themes, with sufficient reading materials to spark one's specializing interests.

AA

Jun 1, 2020

Very informative and detailed. Prof. Sachs covers all aspects of sustainable development in detail. Though the course was designed in 2013 hence does not cover the latest development to SDGs to date.

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By Maximiliano O

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Jun 8, 2020

Content is great, but the course needs some major updating. Lots of problems with quizzes and broken links or information that has changed over time (there's a lot of help from mentors and other students regarding this, but it's still a problem). Also, the course does not offer a certificate.

By Klara J G

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Jun 22, 2018

A bit out of date, should be updated with the adopted SDGsA bit prescriptive, could include more debates and perspectives, for example the solutions presented regarding food systems could include discussions about reducing meat consumption and increasing plant based protein production etc

By Alexander H R

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Mar 21, 2017

Professor was quite knowledgeable, and covered a breadth of topics. However, he often presented his political opinion as scientific fact. The quizzes/tests were also based on regurgitation of data/knowledge, rather than higher-order thinking such as application or synthesis

By Anna L Z

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Sep 17, 2019

The course is really interesting and covers all basic topics in sustainable development. However the course material and data is outdated from 5 years ago. As sustainability is crucial and changing so fast these days, important discussions are missing.

By Macson A

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May 24, 2020

Course content, especially the maps and data referred to in the tests are outdated. Otherwise, this is an excellent course for anyone to understand the theory behind sustainable development and the major global issues associated with achieving it.

By Márton D S

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Sep 23, 2016

started quite good, but slow videos and the last quiz was about just numbers. it is good to know what are the measurements, but if we won't teach about that too, the more concrete informations and not numbers would be more informative and useful.

By Horacio N T

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Sep 29, 2015

Información de suma importancia para el aprendizaje, recomendaría traducir las pruebas y sub titular las presentaciones; des afortunadamente solo algunos de los vídeos cuentan con sub títulos en español.

By Katharina B

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Jul 21, 2019

Great content wise but many source links are outdated and websites have changed! Especially for quizzes and the final exam some sources were thus not adequately available. Recommend updating these :)

By Esther O

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Oct 1, 2023

Very informative course and gives context to some concepts that I had previous shallow knowledge on. Alot of the links failed. It's a great course but needs a lot of updates to stay relevant.

By Betty W

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May 5, 2024

The references and some links to webpages, materials or interactive graphs are outdated or linked to 404, please check and share the feedback to the course administrator, thank you.

By Yasith d S

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Oct 5, 2020

This course not updated and leaves out a lot of developments from 2020. Overall good course to get a general idea of what SD is. Like, let's talk about SDGs and less of MDGs ?

By Maxton P

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Aug 17, 2020

Excellent content and lecturer, however the links are in bad need of an audit as they effect the outcome of exams as they are either out of date or no longer work.

By Anna W

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Jul 3, 2020

loved the professor but most of the links on the quizzes are outdated and the forums are often not helpful. needs to be updated completely

By José I M E

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Apr 28, 2019

Hi, I loved this course. However I'm a bit surprised that didn't got a certificate for doing it. That's why I didn't put 5 stars.

By Jack H G

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Mar 30, 2017

Some of the links are no longer functioning and thus, gaining access to exact information for the past (2013) is not possible.

By Nikolaos G

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Sep 2, 2018

If this course there still be on coursera why there isn't certificate.

It is unbelievable that you don't have certificate.

By Salam A (

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May 30, 2018

The course is too long. Videos are also too long and are not so interactive so students could get bored.

By JASWANTH S K

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Oct 25, 2022

This course was wonderful this course teaches more regrading age of sustainable development.

By Ganesh P

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Oct 24, 2022

I liked this course, it was helpful. I suggest many students to go through this course.

By Kate M

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Mar 26, 2017

Great course but content and quizzes need updating. Certificate would be nice.

By Ian M

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Oct 5, 2017

Some of the information is very outdated and some is no longer available

By simge s

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Sep 20, 2020

some of the referred data are not applicable anymore

By Laknitskaya l

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Aug 21, 2023

information is not up to date

By Nitul D

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Jan 23, 2021

not been updated since 2015

By BATTA P

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Jan 20, 2023

its a better platfrom