Online Course
Big History - From the Big Bang until Today
University of Amsterdam via Coursera
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Overview
Class Central Tips
Syllabus
Cosmic History
The History of Earth and Life
Human History
Wrap up
Taught by
Esther Quaedackers
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Reviews
3.0 rating, based on 2 reviews
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Tanja Browne is taking this course right now, spending 4 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.
I really loved the professors at University of Amsterdam. I've been out of school for 25 years and while this was quite technical for me, I found I could get a lot out of it. However, I had to drop out because I was so frustrated with the grading of... -
Kristina Šekrst completed this course and found the course difficulty to be easy.
This course lays out some nice ideas about connecting knowledge. The instructors are nice nad knowledgeable. However, giving lecture about various things such as the origin of chemical elements up to the agricultural development seems like a nice way of looking at things, but this only scratches the surface of the needed knowledge for such an approach. I would suggest focusing on one topic, and connecting it with the context and similar events. All in all, a nice course.