Apr 01, 2019
Fantastic course. Really thought provoking, and well presented. Useful as an intro to systems thinking, and as a way to understand the obesity epidemic in a nuanced way.
Sep 12, 2017
This course was surprisingly challenging and educational. I had little background in system science, and very much enjoyed the learning process!
創建者 Charles D S
•Apr 01, 2019
Fantastic course. Really thought provoking, and well presented. Useful as an intro to systems thinking, and as a way to understand the obesity epidemic in a nuanced way.
創建者 Dean P
•Sep 02, 2018
Great course! They explain greatly why obesity is a result that comes from complex socioeconomic systems. They also give you insight on how you can use software that can imitate such systems. By doing so, you can develop systems in your own comfort from your own PC and see the results. Truth is we need far more data and human systems are too complex, but this is a good initiative and we should pay attention to their findings! I hope in the near future to be part of a big system development that can bring clear results so that we can take definite action. My opinion is that we kinda know what to do, but some lobbies and established corporations are not changing their attitudw towards human public health and they keep sickening us. NOT TO MENTION cruelty against animals.
創建者 Ngô T S
•Aug 23, 2018
Finally, I finish this course. Thank you for your shared knowledge.
創建者 Paige V
•Sep 12, 2017
This course was surprisingly challenging and educational. I had little background in system science, and very much enjoyed the learning process!
創建者 A B
•Nov 29, 2016
I' really enjoy this course. It's a complete view of the actual problem of obesity! Thanks a lot for all the effort!
創建者 Thiago G d S M
•Feb 26, 2017
very good
創建者 Amanda A
•Jun 28, 2017
I thought this was interesting and informative. I'm neither a programmer nor a scientist so I had my doubts about how much I would get out of it, but I think it was at a good level for a beginner. Obesity seemed like a great topic to introduce systems science ideas and vice versa. I never felt too confused.
創建者 David O N S
•Sep 07, 2016
Well round course, excelent for everybody ho is in charge of public health.
創建者 Olusola A
•Feb 10, 2017
Inspirational, novel, one of its kind. Am glad to be part of the course
創建者 Carolina A
•Oct 24, 2017
great
創建者 Rubina G
•Sep 27, 2016
very informative and extremely insightful.
創建者 Paola S
•Aug 07, 2017
amazing!
創建者 Luis W D M
•Feb 26, 2018
I am an electrical engineer who worked for a few years as a system's engineer. Lately I have been interested in studying how the dynamics in working environment affects itself. When I saw the System Science and Obesity course at Coursera I had the feeling it would present me some social concepts and tools which would give me a starting point. I had the feeling the knowledge the course offered would go beyond health systems. After finishing the course, I am really happy to conclude I was right. I am also really greatful to Johns hopkins professors who made this excellent course available. Thank you all!
創建者 Galina B
•Jul 10, 2016
I enjoyed very much the materials of the course.
創建者 Hugo G G H
•Sep 12, 2017
Very interesting and useful tools for analyzing complex networks and designing interventions.
創建者 Luis T
•Sep 29, 2017
The approaches to understand obesity in this course are really interesting and I enjoyed them. Obesity is such a complex problem and it was nice to learn from it with different softwares and a lot of different approaches.
創建者 JOHN Q
•Feb 13, 2017
FUN AND INTERESTING COURSE. THANKS.
創建者 Musalula S
•Sep 11, 2016
Great introductory course
創建者 David C
•Aug 10, 2019
I'm interested an any applications of systems science, and really enjoyed this. Great to get some applied hands on practice with systems dynamics and agent based modelling. Many thanks to all of the instructors!
創建者 SUSHIL K S V
•Jul 14, 2019
Tough to understand for someone from a non-math background. However basic concepts are easy to discern and learn in relation to obesity
創建者 Melanie C
•Jul 15, 2019
it's incredible to let information knowledge people from all over the world
創建者 Altaf M S
•Oct 28, 2019
It was wonderful start to learn the use of systems science for exploring world obesity problem. The system dynamics and agent-based methods learned in this course can be replicated for many other social and environmental problems.
創建者 Bui N A
•Aug 20, 2018
Useful course with excellent learning materials. Thank you!
創建者 Rachel A B
•Oct 24, 2016
I very much enjoyed this course because it used a real-world example to teach systems thinking. I also appreciated that the more technical aspects, like using software, had been moved into Labs, which left space and time in the lectures to cover material relevant to the topic.
I was surprised at the lack of interaction, though. I have no idea if there were more than a handful of other students nor if there was a support team since there was hardly any participating in the discussion forum. One technical question remained unanswered for example... It seems that there could be a lot of great discussion on the course material if more engagement were encouraged.
創建者 Rahul G
•Oct 04, 2016
I enjoyed the course! It helped me organise information about methods in understanding complex systems. I would have definitely used some more detailed explanations about the model building process.
Thank you very much for your kind interest and effort!