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dhawalhs

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About dhawalhs

Founder and CEO of Class Central, a TripAdvisor for online education.

www.classcentral.com

Contact: me at dhawal.me

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    I have been running a search engine for online courses for the last 15 years: https://www.classcentral.com/ The current catalog covers 100+ providers, 1000+ universities, and 250,0…

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    Class Central | Educator / Subject Matter Expert (YouTube) | Part-time | Remote | [ https://www.classcentral.com ]( https://www.classcentral.com ) I'm looking for experienced educa…

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    Class Central | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Remote | https://www.classcentral.com I'm looking for a senior engineer to take ownership (from me) of Class Central's codebase and inf…

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    Class Central | Developer Education Specialist (Course Guide Author) | Remote (Global) | Full-time | We’re the most popular search engine for online courses, and we’re hiring a dee…

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    Show HN: Search Engine for Online Courses from California Community Colleges

    I recently enrolled in a Japanese 101 course at my local California community college. It's a 12-week, 60-hour live course that costs around $200. I wanted to learn something new w…

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    Good to know. Makes sense since B2B is an extension of their B2C catalog. But they seem to be hiring a lot of sales people, so I was not sure if they are profitable or not.

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    I think their B2C business is profitable, but online degrees and B2B isn't.

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    If anybody is interested, last year I wrote a detailed report [1] on Coursera's monetization journey. I describe the steps and experiments the company did to go from zero to $100+ …

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    The two degrees in the articles are examples of "MOOC-based degrees". These are launched by MOOC providers like Coursera, edX, and FutureLearn. In all 50+ such degrees have been an…

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    Coursera for Campus for the time being is free. You need to ask your school to apply: https://www.coursera.org/campus/ EdX also has something similar.

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    I would personally recommend Learning how to Learn!

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    Here is a list of all Coursera courses sorted by ratings: https://www.classcentral.com/provider/coursera?sort=rating-u... You can also filter by subjects i.e Computer Science, Data…

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    A few reviews from last year's edition of Startup School: https://www.classcentral.com/course/independent-startup-scho... Disclaimer: Self plug

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    Thanks! We have scrapers running daily for all the major providers. The rest we collect manually on a schedule. We have been around for a while, so in many cases the providers or i…

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    You can find reviews for these courses here: https://www.classcentral.com/starting-this-month It's the same list, but more comprehensive.

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    Actually, it wasn't generated by hand. I/Class Central generated it for OpenCulture. Here is a more comprehensive list, with filtering: https://www.classcentral.com/starting-this-m…

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