Learner Reviews & Feedback for Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology by University of Alberta
About the Course
Top reviews
PM
Oct 18, 2020
Even as a dinosaur nerd, I still learned a lot. Instructional videos with embedded quizzes were very well constructed. I'm just a bit bummed that I couldn't access the fossil viewer for some reason.
JH
Apr 6, 2017
Thank you for this excellent course! I really enjoyed the short videos, the concise notes, and quick quizzes (both at the end of each lesson, as well as the main point quizzes throughout the videos).
1126 - 1150 of 1,238 Reviews for Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology
By Jennah M
•Feb 5, 2022
awesome
By Kevin D
•Nov 12, 2021
Superb!
By Nicholas D
•Nov 3, 2021
AWeSOME
By André G
•Mar 14, 2021
Perfect
By Allan V
•May 20, 2019
Unique!
By 戚兆禹
•Aug 28, 2018
实在是太棒了！
By Aonuma K
•Aug 18, 2020
Great!
By Kyros T
•Apr 5, 2020
Fun!!!
By Albert
•Dec 30, 2017
Great!
By Md. R Q S
•Sep 22, 2020
great
By Abin C T
•Nov 27, 2019
cxbbf
By ภารดี จ
•Feb 8, 2025
Good
By Naomi Z B
•Sep 22, 2023
Epic
By Chan W C V
•Oct 22, 2021
nice
By NILOTPAL P
•Dec 30, 2020
good
By RAGHUVEER S D
•Jul 25, 2020
good
By AMJITH S
•Jun 17, 2020
Good
By Mona A A
•Jun 10, 2020
GOOD
By Ritwick M
•May 12, 2020
Nice
By Jocelyn L
•Nov 12, 2017
Fun!
By Fhareza A
•Sep 21, 2020
wow
By Brandon C
•Apr 21, 2018
E
By Subhan A
•Nov 20, 2017
e
By Meghan R
•Sep 4, 2017
I
By Arminty C
•May 12, 2021
Good course for a very broad and shallow introduction to the group Dinosauria and the changes of Earth during the time of the dinosaurs.
The lecture handouts really need to be proof-read to eliminate typos, grammatical errors, inconsistent use of American and British English, inconsistent information, and inaccurate information (predentary bone in upper jaw...). There are also instances where something could be better explained/integrated with the course, for example in Lesson 3 when Betsy says: "this is a cross-section of a hadrosaur jaw" but doesn't point out any features on it so it is not at all informative.
The functionality of the course on Chrome is very problematic. For the questions asked during the lecture videos, the answer window pops up at most 1 second after the question diagram is finished being drawn. Sometimes this means you have about 0.5 second to memorize the diagram as the answer choices are simply letters (A, B, etc.). Other times, the answers and their corresponding buttons to click are separated vertically by a lot of space. The fossil viewer does not work at all in Chrome which is a real disappointment.
Assuming the "F15" in the lecture handout filenames indicates that they were created in fall of 2015, and many other students have pointed out the above issues, I find it difficult to believe that previous students have not pointed out the same issues. I am not sure if there is any "upkeep" being done to this course since its creation. I would have given the course five stars if these issues had been corrected.