It could be more interactive.

it is okay

Too long

to hard

good

As person whose people have been persecuted, subjected to genocide, murdered, and discriminated against at every turn for as longer or longer than Indigenous people; I find the premise of this course that, that by insulting me at every turn, I will become ‘woke’ is somewhat perplexing.  To me, this course is pedagogically based on the premise that if I wanted to teach about the Holocaust, the best approach is to treat every German alive today as a Nazi.  While I abhor the wrongs, grievous and genocidal wrongs, inflicted on the Indigenous People of Canada (and the world); I found it hard to learn the lessons in this course because of the way it was taught.  I understand that this was intentional, because as a non-Indigenous person I am the problem.  After being labelled the problem, it is difficult to find my way forward to be part of the solution.  This is, in large part, because the message I received is that I can only ever be the problem.  I think the premise of a MOOC on this topic is a fabulous idea.  However, as a teacher and curriculum developer, I don't think that condescension and blaming are effective educational tools.  I suspect that my comments will be ignored, as I stated in the beginning, I'm clearly not 'woke enough'.

I just started the course (finished the first two modules) and I found the two quizzes a bit challenging. To find the answers to some of the questions in the notes was not easy. Found myself re-reading the information and picking the best answer. Also I think it would be more beneficial if you could have more little quizzes along the way so you are retaining the information before the quiz that is marked. One final suggestion is that you would show the correct answer once you have gotten the results.

Now that I have completed the course, I can say it was very interesting. Still stand by my above comment regarding the quizzes being challenging. The most interesting module was number five (5), Killing the Indian and the residential school. The second was the module number 12, Art and Cultural. I did have an issue with the Paintings half way through the course. They became unavailable. But as I was doing the last ones, they were back up but not in order, not related to module topic and some missing. The video in Module 12 where they are in order was great. But again, overall, course was very informative, interesting and speakers were great. Going to recommend it to my fellow co-workers.

The course for me was very much taught in the true colonial manner. Very biased dialogue leaning to the hardship of the indigenous (First Nation) community. It was unfortunate that presenters such as Reuben Quinn did not have more opportunities to express knowledge. University academics are fine but they have the burden of assimilation to overcome in presenting their material. It was a good start to a very complex topic; but it should have built up to a meaningful conclusion and some real issues. The arts section was good but probably would have been better placed in lesson 2. This would have then allowed time to develop the issues and bring in the complexity of traditional mindsets, values, truths of survival, wisdom of land based knowledge and mutual benefit. Teaching of the grandfathers, the grandmother clans and the community councils were minimized, unfortunately. Best wishes in your future course developments as you do have an audience for this material, way of life and type of knowledge. All of which are very much needed and crucial at this time and for the future if we are to live in harmony and balance.

I had hoped, through the course, to achieve a better understanding of the (various) present day circumstances and the range of challenges faced by indigenous peoples in Canada as a consequence of historic and or ongoing policies and actions of the Canadian government. although the course provided a helpful overview of that history and presented an account of present day acts of resistance, I was sorry not to learn more about the situations in which indigenous peoples find themselves, what is being done - about it -thanks

It's unfortunate that the format of this course is so dry, because the overall content is great. The speakers are reading from a script the entire time and it's very difficult to stay engaged. A mix of some readings, more actual interactive videos and stories from Indigenous people would make this course so much better. It took me a long time to get through it, so if you can muster up the patience to listen attendtively, the content is good, but unfortunately if you're more of a visual learner, you will not enjoy this.

Enjoyed it, but didn't feel it was necessary to be able to retain little details for the course tests such as specific dates and names of individuals. I'm a bigger picture learner, and graded questions about who did what, who said what, what year etc are not necessary to my learnings of the impact of colonization. I want to understand the experiences, not memorize the names and dates.

I AM VERY PLEASED TO HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THIS COURSE AND LEARNED SO MUCH MORE THAN EVER TAUGHT IN PUBLIC SCHOOL GROWING UP IN CANADA.

WELL DONE, I AM PARTICULARLY IMPRESSED WITH THE OPTIONS OF LEARNING METHODS AND STYLES AND WISH ALL COURSES AT COLLEGE OR UNIVERISTY HAD BEEN OFFERED IN THIS FORMAT WHEN I AND MY SON WERE IN SCHOOL.

THANK YOU

I found this course tedious ,with the presenters doing little but reading off of a teleprompter, hardly inspiring. I admit that I learned more about the oppression of Indigenous people than I already knew, but found that the course gave little relevant information or viewpoints that can be applied in oru present and challenging times

I had hoped for a course was more balanced in its presentation. For the most part the "guest presenters" gave the most balanced discussions. Not enough of these. Regarding the presentation of Week 12, Indigenous Art, showing examples of works of art by artists discussed would have been preferred to watching the presentors.

It was intensive and in-depth. The questions were worded in a confusing and uncessasarily difficult and frusterating way that provided no long term value. Also 62$ for a certificate. I think not.

Lots of unnecessary material and extremely longwinded presentation. If you can make the video play back rate to 4x speed that would greatly assist.

Content was informative, but I did not find the videos engaging and found learning, for me, was better absorbed through reading through the PDF's.

The video did not give much indication as to the correct answers. The time said it would take 20 hours, it took me well past that. Not impressed.

History is not my strongest subject. Although I loved the content... I found this too difficult and had to drop course.

Sorry but this is just so slow.. I don't think I can go on...

No certificate to download not make easy or accessible

some sections were good, others were hard to navigate

This course is beyond stupid. Most of the information was taught in grade school. I understand it may be to teach those who don't know this stuff, but this should not be a application requirement to a school for any reason.

Additionally, this course pushes the bullshit liberal left-wing political agenda rather than actually teaching about the history of the First Nations. The UofA, being an educational institution, should be ashamed of prioritizing the political agenda rather than prioritizing the education of their students.

Apart from being a colossal waste of my time, the last major reason this course is stupid is that it is required to apply for a program that doesn't even relate to the subject. I am going into the stem field and I will NEVER need this information in my future job or education.

If 0 stars is possible you would get -5 stars.

The reason I have taken this Indigenous Canada course it was advertised as a free of charge and yet they charge me $64 dollars for the certificate I never wanted! Coursera is a scammer fake organization. Stay away from this Coursera.org. Do not register any of your credit cards with this scammer origanization.