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Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by BenFranklin100 »

brendoelfrendo wrote: post #257
BenFranklin100 wrote: post #199

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You realize it would cost a significant resources to make the “accommodations” you are suggesting? Money, despite what you may believe, doesn’t grow on trees. Given the range of worthy competing interests where the money could be spent, the university likely had no practical choice but to take it offline, lest it face the bad press and wrath of Progressives. You remind me of people who insist every single new apartme…

Our society is better when the things that are available are available to everyone, not just the privileged. I don't see why accommodations for the disabled are considered some unnecessary burden; they should be considered a cost of doing business, for everyone who does business.

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

pxc wrote: post #267
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #255

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How accessible is the course now?

How is malicious compliance the fault of someone who asks for disability accomodations? It is unfortunate that the ADA is designed so that the only mechanism of enforcement of disability rights is lawsuits. :-\ Maybe there should be some exceptions around things provided on a "best-effort" basis, if they can be very carefully crafted.

For context: I have cerebral palsy. Play the smallest fiddle for me, it only affects my left hand and slightly my left foot. But I’ve been a part time fitness instructor, properly conditioned I have run decently (10 minute mile) up to a 15K before my slight favoring of my right leg takes it’s toll and I’ve been a gym rat since 1990 and I just left the gym.

But I would never expect someone giving out a free service to spend extra money to make accommodations for me.

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by chirau »

nickjj wrote: post #208
zenoprax wrote: post #192

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I respect the restraint from self-promotion here but... Your [Docker, Flask, HTTPS, AWS Docker, and DevOps courses]( https://nickjanetakis.com/courses ) look good and the price is fair. Bookmarked! (the last two could use some more detail in the overview but the first three would give me enough confidence to take a chance)

Thanks, funny enough the last 2 are on Udemy (my first courses) where as the others are on my main site. I've kept the Flask one up to date for almost 10 years, all free updates. I have so many course ideas but starting a new one is tough because I've lost all search traction to my site and courses in general. I don't want it to end but I also have to be real. I've put a decade into writing blog posts, hundreds of fr…

I took your Build A SaaS course on Udemy some year back, it was really good. I didn't realize it has updates to the day. The Udemy version is still the 10 hour one though, so perhaps that's why.

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Post by wtetzner »

warkdarrior wrote: post #205
nickjj wrote: post #170

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Yep, you're definitely not wrong. We see it all the time on GitHub. If a project hasn't gotten a new commit in 2 days then the project is claimed dead. The same thing with blogs in general. A post could be popular and ranked highly in 2020 but in 2025 it's not even ranked on a search engine, even if the content is still highly relevant and fully working. It's bad because you could have a 10+ year old site with 500+ p…

> If a project hasn't gotten a new commit in 2 days then the project is claimed dead. That is certainly true, those projects are effectively dead. They lack security updates, lack integrations with new platforms, lack support for new HW architectures, lack newer privacy guarantees, etc., etc.

Maybe some of them. There are plenty of old projects that still build and run fine.

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Post by wtetzner »

edent wrote: post #167
azangru wrote: post #52

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> Those courses that were basically “we’re a top university and we let someone record the class from the back” were a literal life changer. Honestly, that was all I wanted. Does anyone remember what happened to UC Berkeley? They had a lot of their courses recorded and uploaded to youtube; an absolute joy. Then, some [beep] sued them for not making the recording accessible enough, i.e. not providing captions alongside…

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This was free content. The end result is that the content was made inaccessible to everyone, adding zero benefit to people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by chrisgd »

It’s funny because everyone under the sun has been telling these two companies to come together since 2018 when online learning courses started to fade away. They are finally doing it after both went public and lost 80% of their value. At least the management team is going to make some money.

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by wtetzner »

brendoelfrendo wrote: post #258
tourmalinetaco wrote: post #175

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So if 4% of the population cannot partake, then the other 96% should be barred from participating?

If 4% of the population cannot partake of your services, then it is you who are being the asshole, not the 4% of people asking for an accommodation.

They were uploading these for free. The end result of the videos being taken down is that they are now even more inaccessible to that 4% than they were before.

Making things more accessible is a worthy goal, but the world is imperfect and making things better requires resources.

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Post by malfist »

mathgeek wrote: post #232
jaimie wrote: post #191

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Does it though? I mean I'm still teaching thread-safety and recursion to my interns... a solid foundation is a solid foundation.

For the fundamentals, sure, but many of the top sellers are going to be on things like React, Next, etc.

And in ten years after react is forgotten about, there will still be companies actively hiring Java developers
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