Coursera and Udemy are now one company

dwdz•16 minutes ago

Competition is for losers.

sidcool•11 minutes ago

Does it change their subscription pricing?

unnamed76ri•about 2 hours ago

I’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.

quibono•about 2 hours ago

Any courses you would particularly recommend? I always found that Udemy's vast catalogue made it hard to actually pick a course.

ramon156•3 minutes ago

There was one course I did gor mongoose, muber I think it's called. I really liked it as a student because it's all very bite-sized and you could stop/start whenever. They do recaps at the beginning.

Compare that to a 6 hr video on YouTube, next day you already forgot what the timestamp was about.

turtleyacht•about 1 hour ago

Hopefully this doesn't change public libraries' access to Udemy.

quibono•about 1 hour ago

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.

vintermann•about 1 hour ago

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 bit too hard - I spent way more time on the coursework than I'd intended.

But I can't say I like the direction it's taken in recent years.

Garlef•about 1 hour ago

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.

vintermann•about 1 hour ago

Whoops, Obarsky was the Amiga synth guy, yeah, I haven't taken any courses with him. Although I might consider it.

quibono•about 1 hour ago

I'll have to look at the Scala course, thanks!

wolvoleo•30 minutes ago

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.

ChrisRR•about 1 hour ago

Meh. I would've been more bothered back in the day when Coursera was a treasure trove of high quality courses, but it went downhill.

So to add Udemy's infinite catalogue of poorly structured courses, it only adds to the decline

tactlesscamel•about 1 hour ago

Blackrock buys more of the world.. cool story.

DaSHacka•about 1 hour ago

The pillaging will continue until quarterly earnings improve

Coursera and Udemy are now one company

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