31–40 of 105 posts
We 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.
Coursera 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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many people need deadlines or their own pace ends up being never.
Then have that as a feature, don’t force it
Though how much force is best is subject to debate.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
But at the same time I agree that they aren't doing enough to surface the high quality courses
Coursera 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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then have that as a feature, don’t force it
If they don't force it people won't complete the course. While that at first sounds good - they collect money - long term people who complete courses are your best marketing as they tell others and so completion is importation and thus the deadlines. Though how much force is best is subject to debate.
I don't see why completing courses is a customer satisfaction criterion. I've had many courses that I didn't complete, yet I was quite satisfied with the content and could recommend it to friends.
It's been a while since I took a Coursera course but I LOVED it at the beginning. Between Machine Learning, the (numerical) optimisation courses and NAND-To-Tetris (even for the platform alone) it had so many great courses to pick from.
I did Andrew Ng's old Machine Learning, Obarsky's Scala course, the Ng's Deep Learning specialization, Nand to Tetris part 1 and a small Data Science course which wasn't very good. I think my very first course was "Model Thinking" course, but I never took the exam there. I also tried the sequel to the Scala course at one point, and the Cryptography course, but I dropped out from those after finding out they were a bi…
Reading online it seems like most people got the impression that it was establishing that all models are essentially useless. Instead it was showing that each of these models were an extremely efficient way to understand some dynamic situations, but that it’s still absurd to focus on only one model when trying to understand the world.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did Andrew Ng's old Machine Learning, Obarsky's Scala course, the Ng's Deep Learning specialization, Nand to Tetris part 1 and a small Data Science course which wasn't very good. I think my very first course was "Model Thinking" course, but I never took the exam there. I also tried the sequel to the Scala course at one point, and the Cryptography course, but I dropped out from those after finding out they were a bi…
Odersky ;) "Model Thinking" was great! And I really liked the gamification course by Kevin Werbach (The topic was still hot back then) - something I used extensively at my start up.