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I think of Udemy as the Packt of online course platforms. There are certainly some gems to be found, if you have the time to look for them and don't mind getting a few duds in the process.
off topic, but to my ear the “an” in the title is jarring. i’ve been wondering for a while now why “an” doesn’t feel right before some words, even though i learned “an before words that start with a vowel.” turns out it’s “an before words that sound like they start with a vowel” regardless of how they’re spelled. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/alt.usage.english/...
I thought this was going to touch on how many Udemy courses are stolen.
Like people copying slides or such?
off topic, but to my ear the “an” in the title is jarring. i’ve been wondering for a while now why “an” doesn’t feel right before some words, even though i learned “an before words that start with a vowel.” turns out it’s “an before words that sound like they start with a vowel” regardless of how they’re spelled. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/alt.usage.english/...
This is a common grammatical mistake that I see made by folks from certain countries. Usually, it's using an incorrectly before a word that starts with the letter u but where the u has a consonant /y/ sound.
That’s a bit of a stretch. There are plenty of video courses in EdX which are generally of a very high quality as they are produced by real institutions, with real lecturers, not random people off YouTube.
And EdX is free, you pay only for a certificate if you need/want one. With no pricing tricks based on web/app either.
I get the marketing advantage of being able to say "90% off!" on your products and I guess that Udemy did their own A/B testing on that but when I discovered the website a few months ago it really made me think twice on the quality of the marketplace. I bought a few courses since then and I don't regret it, it landed me a job, but the whole "eternal discount" thing really was a real turn off, how about just putting t…
If you want to learn data science or machine learning or python, go with Udacity, Coursera or EdX.
But if you want to learn VueJS, you have to use Udemy.
Best part is that the $1 million course was 90% off, so I only had to pay $100,000 for it! What a saving!
I thought this was going to touch on how many Udemy courses are stolen.
Are there a lot? Like people copying slides or such?
>in 2015, we have received 125 DMCA notifications as well as 45 “Hey, this looks weird maybe you should look into this,” notifications
https://medium.com/@robconery/how-udemy-is-profiting-from-pi...
I thought this was going to touch on how many Udemy courses are stolen.
Are there a lot? Like people copying slides or such?