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Coursera and Udemy are now one company
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#22I’ve purchased many Udemy courses over the years. The subscription plan they’ve been pushing makes no sense financially. I hope I’m wrong but I worry that eventually being a subscriber will be the only thing they offer.
Any courses you would particularly recommend? I always found that Udemy's vast catalogue made it hard to actually pick a course.
I recommend anything by jonas schmedtmann for js/ts/react to work colleagues.
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#23Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company
#24Coursera used to be good, and I've found the occasional good course on Udemy, but neither are particularly great right now in my opinion. Well curated learning materials are such a unicorn.
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#25As a purchaser of many Udemy courses (and yes, there are good ones), I'm waiting for the enshittification to begin.
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#26Hope this changes the state of things like API access at Udemy
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#27I’ve purchased many Udemy courses over the years. The subscription plan they’ve been pushing makes no sense financially. I hope I’m wrong but I worry that eventually being a subscriber will be the only thing they offer.
Any courses you would particularly recommend? I always found that Udemy's vast catalogue made it hard to actually pick a course.
Yes! I have had unfettered access to it via a couple employers and the Illusion of Choice is real. The best thing they could do (for users like me, not sure if this is true for the majority) would be to go back to being a curator of quality and not a marketplace for anyone to make a course.
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#28I've used both platforms regularly over the years, and I have mixed feelings about both. I mean they both have some truly excellent content, but so much utter trash. There should be some kind of quality control.
They make it reaaaaally hard to find the good stuff. Many courses are time sensitive (e.g. there's no point in learning a 20 year old version of PHP), but they frequently lie about when a course was created which makes it impossible to filter out old stuff.
There are so many courses that could benefit from more interactive tests/quizzes, but it's usually limited to solving a few ridiculously simple multiple choice questions. I'm not sure if that's a platform limitation or a course creator limitation.
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#29As a purchaser of many Udemy courses (and yes, there are good ones), I'm waiting for the enshittification to begin.
Oh, I have really, really good news for you specifically then!
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#30We have free coursera at work. But I really hate it because it enforces random deadlines on you. Even though the courses are completely prerecorded and absolutely don't need any kind of deadlines. I just want to study at my own pace. I also hate all the gamification.
Many people need deadlines or their own pace ends up being never.