The course for a round the world regatta leads the boats through the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic, Southern Indian and South Pacific Oceans. On their voyage, the skippers come across a large variety of oceanographic situations: strong currents, floating ice, wave formations of every kind and biological diversity.
In this course the student will learn about the foundations of the science of oceanography. You'll learn about the classification and formation of the ocean floor, how current sea satellite analysis systems work, the chemistry of the oceans and the processes that led to its formation. To follow this course does not require previous knowledge of oceanography.
FS
very informative lectures and study materials helped a lot.loved this course
AA
I enjoyed the learning process for this course. I definitely recommend it. This course is very interactive and quite interesting :)
SC
The course should have been fully in English.Otherwise, it's a good one!
MD
Excelente curso! Cada video es de fácil entendimiento y el texto complementa mucho cada información dada.
ML
It was helpful with a lot of information included. I did not rate with 5 stars because a lot of the links had an 404 error (the site not exist).
SO
VERY INTERESTING SUBJECTS... SOMETIMES SPANISH CAUSED SOME PROBLEM TO ME. BUT GENERALLY I'VE LEARNED THE NEW WORLD-OCEAN..
LR
The learning curve are great but too hard especially in weeks 6
IP
Video lectures should be in English. Slides in the lectures were dimly projected. It was very difficult to understand lectures and slides.
FA
The course is very informative , helps in attaining a pile of knowledge about the oceanic world and its reserves. Conveying my gratitude to University of Barcelona for conducting such a course.
JW
Extremely insightful and enriching. I was particularly interested in the technical aspects of synoptic remote sensing and the equipment and technologies used for the same.
JS
The course is very informative , helps in attaining a pile of knowledge about the oceanic world and its reserves. Conveying my gratitude to University of Barcelona for conducting such a course.
MI
It was a resourceful and research based course. Thanks Dr. Jordi Serra and Coursera.
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The course is given in Catalan and therefore incomprehensible for the wider community. The translation into English is very poor and makes it very hard to follow the accompanying slides and video explanation.
Given these restrictions no proper review as to the content and presentation can be given - I am very disappointed to have to give up following this course.
its in Spanish when it looks english & I cant unenroll from it.
Difficult with a language barrier.
The contents of the course (selection of topics, order of presentation, level of detail of the material) is fine, and the presenters indeed master the subject. However, the quality of the way it is presented needs to be improved, for instance: The presenters are very often in front of the projection screen, hiding it. The projected images themselves lack sufficient contrast. The subtitles in English are inaccurate, sometimes to a ridiculous point: "special" instead of "spatial", "redder" instead of "radar". The translation from Spanish is even worse ("formación"should be translated as "formation" or "build-up" instead of "training", just to mention one example). This badly needs an in-depth review. There are obvious editorial mistakes, as well: many of the links to Internet pages are no longer existing, the video on altimetry (3.4.4) is actually a repetition of the scatterometer one.
Course details says it's available in English but in reality they only have English subtitles.
Video lessons are in Spanish...not English.
If the classes can be recorded in english then this course will be perfect for wide range of learners.
This is a great course. I have learned more things about the ocean. I didn't understand some lectures because of the language. but I read the script in English and understand the lesson. and the quizzes are a little bit hard but It's good for a student. I didn't pass it the first time but I tried again and I got good marks. Thank you!
I found the presentations difficult to follow due to a mix of languages being used.
Difficult to see the images and not all lectures had supporting pdf downloads.
Translation to English was mediocre at best – leading to some confusion wrt complex topics
(lucky I have intermediate Spanish skills)
Course seemed somewhat disconnected and varied erratically wrt level of abstraction vs detail
the course info said that this was in english
I got to learn in-depth about the oceans. My small suggestion for Coursera would be to include other areas in Oceanography unlike here in this subject where the topic mainly focussed on areas of Barcelona.
Apart from this small issue, I am happy with the knowledge! Thank you..
Informative and in-depth course. I think it would have been better for me if Spanish was a language I could understand. It felt more difficult reading while listening. Overall, an excellent introduction.
The course is very informative , helps in attaining a pile of knowledge about the oceanic world and its reserves. Conveying my gratitude to University of Barcelona for conducting such a course.
The course is very informative , helps in attaining a pile of knowledge about the oceanic world and its reserves. Conveying my gratitude to University of Barcelona for conducting such a course.
I enjoyed the learning process for this course. I definitely recommend it. This course is very interactive and quite interesting :)
The course was exellent
It was a good overview of oceanography. The complexity and helpfulness of the course materials and videos vary immensely. Some translations and video subtitles in English are incomprehensible, intermediate Spanish skills helped me a lot. Generally, I recommend the course, but be prepared to struggle with languages.
I found this course fun, engaging and easy to learn except for that most of it is in spanish or catalan, but there are subtitles for you to read as you watch the video so that you may understand what they are saying.
Video lectures should be in English. Slides in the lectures were dimly projected. It was very difficult to understand lectures and slides.