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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Wood Science: Beyond Building by West Virginia University

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About the Course

The central question of this course: “why study wood?” If “why study wood” is the question, one answer would be that it is the only raw material
available to us that is truly renewable in human life span terms. Wood is as important to society today as it ever was, despite the development
of many man-made substitute materials, changing resource availability, and the changing needs of society. Some items on the list of wood
products stay the same (lumber, plywood and veneer for building construction, furniture, shipping pallets & crates and other containers &
packaging materials, railroad ties, utility poles, chemical feed stocks, etc), but the list also keeps changing to meet new need...
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Top reviews

DB

Jun 4, 2020

I am glad that I took this informative course. This course is useful to each and every people irrespective of their academic background and interests. It is good course regarding wood and its uses.

CZ

Feb 11, 2020

As a Civil Engineering student, this course has been very helpful for me. I do recommend to have this course in order to get the basic concept of wood science and its use as a building material.

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By Freddy C

Mar 8, 2018

Too focused on American context. Wrong technical information here and there. Generally uninformative if already working in the industry, your probably know more than what this course has to offer.

By Lynn B I

Nov 20, 2023

Disjointed and way too many broken links for readings.

By Sergio R

May 15, 2019

I appreciate the effort but althoug some interesting topics are metnioned, I think that it only moves from random ideas insted of getting a bit deeper in the interesting points (whenever possible since it is a short course).

One important think that I must say is that I found it incredible that when talking about the solutions for solving the "problem" of running out of forests to cut (that is, more management, plantations, ...) i think you forgot the most important (applicable to any other resource): REDUCE CONSUMPTION.