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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Sit Less, Get Active by The University of Edinburgh

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About the Course

Physical inactivity and sedentariness are “silent killers”. Do you feel like you spend too much time sitting? Do you feel like you would like to be more active? Are you unsure about how to incorporate physical activity into your daily life? We are here to help. Join us on a journey to learn about how to sit less and become more active. Use this FREE course to learn how to monitor your own activity and set physical activity goals. We will feature various examples of how physical activity could be increased in different settings, such as your neighbourhood, home or work, to give you ideas of ones that could best fit your lifestyle. Are you a health professional? Use this opportunity to learn how to incorporate physical activity into your daily routine and also how to empower your patients to be more physically active. If time with a patient is an issue, you can simply “prescribe” this course to your patient. This course offers you a unique opportunity to receive weekly physical activity health messages and monthly video-reminders on how to increase physical activity in various settings for 6 months after the initial 3 week course. So, join us on the Sit less, get active! journey. Follow us on Twitter @GetActive MOOC, #GetActiveMOOC or follow our Online Learning Twitter feed @uoe_online. Visit our YouTube channel to check out the promo videos (more are to come) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6xpBMzJXnffdUaY32-zPdA If YouTube is not available in your country, you can access the promo videos here https://media.ed.ac.uk/search/searchkeyword/sit%20less%20get%20active...

Top reviews

MH

Aug 5, 2021

This course is so amazing and very helpful for our own real life. There are a lot of creative activities which can make our boring time a very amazing and interesting time. Thanks to all professors.

ND

Sep 4, 2019

The greatest course ever! It is so realistic that can apply for every one, not only myself.

I have got a range of tips to sit less, get active in here. Once again, thank you alot for your effort.

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By Diary J T

May 25, 2020

This course motivated me to do more physical activity and improve my work out target. Little thing can become productive.

By Jenell B

Jan 25, 2019

Awesome content and easy to understand and incorporate into my daily life! Thanks to all that put this course together.

By Vivian N

Apr 10, 2017

This course is very interesting. Many videos are 5-10 minutes long and one can squeeze them into their free time easily.

By Arifiah M P

Dec 30, 2020

This inspires me to implent what I get from this course onto my daily lives. This course is so easy, the quizes as well

By Rene B L

Feb 19, 2017

Great course! It's still on my mind and present in my behaviors- those things I learned months ago when enrolled in it.

By Gobinath g

Feb 17, 2017

It's awesome and useful to be active though i am a desk job professional.

Thanks for sharing this valuable information.

By devendra s

Jan 22, 2021

A very good online course for Physical Activities, it's statistics science and it's importance is very well explained.

By Lori J

May 13, 2020

A great informational course with amazing details of why and how long we should be active for all stages of our lives.

By Suman

Aug 23, 2020

An outstanding course, right with the basics on how to get active through small and simple changes in your lifestyle.

By Janet O

Mar 26, 2019

This course really helped me think about getting more active. Especially given that I sit alot at work and in school.

By Anulakshmi P - 4

Jun 28, 2020

Im very much happy to say that this course very much influence my life style and now i can manage my lifeore easily.

By Do H D

Jan 19, 2017

Very informative course. I found each material is a good one. The graphic, storytelling and quiz is well-organized.

By Emanuela

May 25, 2021

Very interesting and useful course, it gives me several tips that are feasible, easy and also fun. Very inspiring.

By Kit, M M K

Apr 17, 2020

Interesting, encouraging and not daunting information. Useful to anyone who works in or with the healthcare field.

By Amatuzzahra R

Apr 4, 2019

This my first course on Coursera and I'm loving it.

Great work,Thanks for your hard work team Sit Less,Get Active.

By Stuart C

Nov 17, 2016

Good course that helps you to think of different ways to motivate and encourage everyone and helps to set targets

By Minesh K

Nov 7, 2016

It is an excellent course for a Physical Therapy and other Healthcare students and professionals and individuals.

By PATRICIA A A C

Apr 11, 2021

Short, clear, useful information that helps a lot to star exercise as an habit. Great instructors. Thanks a lot.

By Melissa M T

Sep 13, 2020

The course gave simple and practical tips on being active. It encourages the student to actually be more active.

By Sabith M

Feb 18, 2019

such a nice course,very interesting videos and presentations are too good,happy that i could complete the course

By Harsh k

Jun 23, 2020

It was worth doing this course as I litrelly got something to apply on my life to improve it rapidly.

Thank YOU!

By Dolores C

Aug 29, 2017

this is a good class. Lots of material to give you ideas and ways to incorporate exercise into your daily life

By Petar K

Apr 1, 2020

Great course, I learned a lot of cool tricks and tips about how to stay active in urban environment.Thank you!

By Charles d S

Jul 19, 2017

Very digestible, and some good practical tips for making improvements. Relatively low effort, but good payoff.

By AKHIL S K

May 20, 2020

Very well described about staying active in life and its prominence in health and well being of an individual