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I have access via my employer and mostly they were never that different from other places like Pluralsight.
EDIT: typo, most => that
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3119959
If you click the link to those original free courses, you get
403 Forbidden
Coursera has high-quality, curated courses from reputable professors and institutions. Udemy has almost the opposite. Hopefully, this is handled well.
I enjoyed a course I took last summer on EdX; not a super polished experience, but the content was good and the projects were challenging.
I’ve enjoyed pluralsight in the past, but it is hit or miss whether it will have content you’re interested in.
I’m on mathacademy but that is text only and a very focused niche.
What’s the hip/trendy mooc these days? Who will eat courserudemy’s lunch?
For context this is sort of where we started: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3119959 If you click the link to those original free courses, you get 403 Forbidden Don't know what it means, but Coursera made me sad a long time ago when it locked up all its value behind a paywall while getting rid of human interaction.
That was another hype cycle, does everyone remember how they were supposed to replace all universities, and folks no longer needed higher education? I have access via my employer and mostly they were never that different from other places like Pluralsight. EDIT: typo, most => that
I would love to hear insights into what has gone wrong, or what are the lessons learnt.
That was another hype cycle, does everyone remember how they were supposed to replace all universities, and folks no longer needed higher education? I have access via my employer and mostly they were never that different from other places like Pluralsight. EDIT: typo, most => that
>> ... were aupposed to replace ... I would love to hear insights into what has gone wrong, or what are the lessons learnt.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Didn’t the gamification course have one of the relatively few well done peer assessments? The course was good, but it’s interesting now that gamification features completely turn me off now on any platform or program attempting to motivate me toward a specific end, regardless of whether that goal is in my interest or the interest of someone else trying to make money.
And yeah: Gamification became shallow real fast. Even the Gamification techniques in games! I think the reason is that everyone focused on adopting the easy part (checkboxes, achievements, levels) while skipping the real core (player types, intrinsic motivation)... But the course even warned about this level of shallow implementation.
(Btw: A few months later I enrolled in a course on educational psychology on coursera that was supposed to showcase some SOTA techniques... They canceled it because they could not work out the details. I think academia is often just not good at pulling things off.)
Lots of hate for coursera and udemy, but what about competitors? Are folks having good results elsewhere? I enjoyed a course I took last summer on EdX; not a super polished experience, but the content was good and the projects were challenging. I’ve enjoyed pluralsight in the past, but it is hit or miss whether it will have content you’re interested in. I’m on mathacademy but that is text only and a very focused nich…
I've mostly focused on job-relevant upskilling. If I wanted to learn something outside my immediate area, in a university-course-like experience, I'd probably go back to coursera.