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Coursera and Udemy are now one company

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Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company

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Post by rz2k »

elric wrote: post #28

I'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 w…

So much of the content is extremely stale, and it even matters for languages that you would think are relatively unchanging.

It seems like they must have put almost no incentives in place for the instructors. Setting up a course must take even more effort than running a full semester course in their own school, but since no one is making new versions Coursera must not be paying them like it, or offering equity in the platform. I imagine that teaching students in person is also a lot more rewarding,

I haven’t taken any recent online courses, but EdX looked like it might still be good.

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Post by drdrek »

Coursera is a money losing company with a 10% y/y growth that IPOed at the top of the 2021 hype cycle. Now that the infinite money glitch is over they are in trouble, so they buy a marginally profitable company and slap Synergy and AI on it and pray to the gods of the market for more bountiful harvests of stocks issued.

Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company

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Post by yalogin »

How valid are these certificates in the real world? Does anyone get benefitted by having them? I have always used these sites as a quick one off concept check. That was before llms, and I don’t have a use for these sites for my use case. So I don’t have any understanding of how valid they are in general

Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company

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Post by trollbridge »

yalogin wrote: post #45

How valid are these certificates in the real world? Does anyone get benefitted by having them? I have always used these sites as a quick one off concept check. That was before llms, and I don’t have a use for these sites for my use case. So I don’t have any understanding of how valid they are in general

I have not noticed good results from candidates who have these certs.

Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company

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Post by geodel »

> This is also Day 1. We’re being thoughtful and deliberate in how we bring our platforms together to deliver a unified, seamless experience.

So on day 1 they can deliver humongous amount of garbage, imagine what they can do on next day.

Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company

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Post by schnitzelstoat »

yalogin wrote: post #45

How valid are these certificates in the real world? Does anyone get benefitted by having them? I have always used these sites as a quick one off concept check. That was before llms, and I don’t have a use for these sites for my use case. So I don’t have any understanding of how valid they are in general

The Computational Neuroscience one helped me get a PhD place many years ago.

But one of the professors on the admissions board was a friend of the professor who ran the Coursera course so they had a lot more trust in it.

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