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Udemy has some crazy discount almost 90 % of the time... I'm constantly getting 75-95 % discounts on my courses. So that might be a factor as well.

eterm 11y ago
This actually led to a really good course author having an issue with them over this. (Alan Richardson who hosted a very good technical testing course and a good selenium/webdriver course). I believe he still has those courses but he intially opted out of their discount program. A course he sold for $200 would have been sold for far less which undermined his own brand but also didn't give him a fair shot at earning from it, especially since he was helpful in responding to any questions I had. I was lucky and took the course when it was $200, it shortly after went up to $300 due to changes in revenue sharing based around coupon codes. This also meant he stopped offering for free a really helpful free course on technical testing. (The source of this information is through course announcements made at the time, I can publish them in full here.) This post from udemy to instructors is interesting reading: https://blog.udemy.com/announcement/ https://blog.udemy.com/announcement/ One benefit of the udemy over the pluralsight model is that years later I still have access to the course and can revisit it, without paying an on-going subscription. Pluralsight overall seems to have better content, at least from a software developer perspective.
- bigtunacan 11y ago
  I think Pluralsight has consistently higher quality classes than Udemy, but that Udemy also has some great classes. You have to spend a bit more time looking at reviews before you buy on Udemy. Also you end up having to accept the fact that sometimes you will end up buying a course that isn't worthwhile. As an example of a non technical class; The Secrets to Drawing on Udemy is Amazing. I am a (bad) hobby artist in my spare time and this class has done more to help me with my drawing skills than any other book or class I've tried in the past; my kids have been going through it too and they absolutely love it. https://www.udemy.com/the-secrets-to-drawing/#/ https://www.udemy.com/the-secrets-to-drawing/#/ This is two of the benefits of Udemy over Pluralsight 1) On Pluralsight I would never see this class (well not currently anyway) because it doesn't fall within their accepted domain of classes. 2) I paid the $30 one time for this class and I can go back and review whenever I want and let my kids go back and use it a year later and not have to pay another subscription fee.
- rahimnathwani 11y ago
  "One benefit of the udemy over the pluralsight model is that years later I still have access to the course and can revisit it" This assumes that Udemy still exists at that time. The Udemy mobile apps allow offline caching, but the Udemy site does not allow you to download videos to store them permanently on your computer. An open source tool to help users do this themselves was served a DMCA notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2015-08-12-Udemy.md https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2015-08-12-Udemy....
bigtunacan 11y ago
This is so true. I almost never pay "normal price" for classes on Udemy and always buy them on a discount. This is true of a lot of the other networks to. I also subscribe to the BGR Store mailing list which sends out notifications of discounted classes across a wide range of MOOC offerings. It's a bit tedious to wade through the emails, but it's worth it to keep track of the discounts available.

eterm 11y ago

This actually led to a really good course author having an issue with them over this. (Alan Richardson who hosted a very good technical testing course and a good selenium/webdriver course). I believe he still has those courses but he intially opted out of their discount program. A course he sold for $200 would have been sold for far less which undermined his own brand but also didn't give him a fair shot at earning from it, especially since he was helpful in responding to any questions I had. I was lucky and took the course when it was $200, it shortly after went up to $300 due to changes in revenue sharing based around coupon codes. This also meant he stopped offering for free a really helpful free course on technical testing. (The source of this information is through course announcements made at the time, I can publish them in full here.) This post from udemy to instructors is interesting reading: https://blog.udemy.com/announcement/ https://blog.udemy.com/announcement/ One benefit of the udemy over the pluralsight model is that years later I still have access to the course and can revisit it, without paying an on-going subscription. Pluralsight overall seems to have better content, at least from a software developer perspective.

bigtunacan 11y ago
I think Pluralsight has consistently higher quality classes than Udemy, but that Udemy also has some great classes. You have to spend a bit more time looking at reviews before you buy on Udemy. Also you end up having to accept the fact that sometimes you will end up buying a course that isn't worthwhile. As an example of a non technical class; The Secrets to Drawing on Udemy is Amazing. I am a (bad) hobby artist in my spare time and this class has done more to help me with my drawing skills than any other book or class I've tried in the past; my kids have been going through it too and they absolutely love it. https://www.udemy.com/the-secrets-to-drawing/#/ https://www.udemy.com/the-secrets-to-drawing/#/ This is two of the benefits of Udemy over Pluralsight 1) On Pluralsight I would never see this class (well not currently anyway) because it doesn't fall within their accepted domain of classes. 2) I paid the $30 one time for this class and I can go back and review whenever I want and let my kids go back and use it a year later and not have to pay another subscription fee.
rahimnathwani 11y ago
"One benefit of the udemy over the pluralsight model is that years later I still have access to the course and can revisit it" This assumes that Udemy still exists at that time. The Udemy mobile apps allow offline caching, but the Udemy site does not allow you to download videos to store them permanently on your computer. An open source tool to help users do this themselves was served a DMCA notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2015-08-12-Udemy.md https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2015-08-12-Udemy....

bigtunacan 11y ago

This is so true. I almost never pay "normal price" for classes on Udemy and always buy them on a discount. This is true of a lot of the other networks to. I also subscribe to the BGR Store mailing list which sends out notifications of discounted classes across a wide range of MOOC offerings. It's a bit tedious to wade through the emails, but it's worth it to keep track of the discounts available.