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Udacity's courses are the only online courses I finish. The quality of their courses and their offerings is great. Also the very real mentoring is awesome. I

Udacity's courses are the only online courses I finish. The quality of their courses and their offerings is great. Also the very real mentoring is awesome. I think online education companies are starting to figure out that Online education != pure self study I think more and more human support will be injected back into online courses.

dataminded 9y ago
When Coursera took away the ability to take quizzes and assessments without paying, I stopped using it. I think the price point is too high and timeline too rushed for a casual investment. I usually don't need/want mentoring or people just an online course.
- rcheu 9y ago
  I finished their ML course pretty recently, and was able to take the quizzes and assessments without paying.
  - _coveredInBees 9y ago
    I believe that only a small subset of courses on Coursera can be taken for free while being able to do the quizzes and assignments. A lot of them are restricted though.
- mindcrime 9y ago
  I think the price point is too high and timeline too rushed for a casual investment. That hasn't been my experience at all. I haven't seen a Coursera class that cost more than $79.00 and all the ones I've taken will let you switch sessions as many times as you want (so far as I can tell) making the nominal timeline a non-issue. I recently started a Bayesian Statistics class on Coursera, then got really busy with other stuff halfway through... I've switched sessions like 4 times now with no problem.
dvnguyen 9y ago
I took one free course in Udacity about advance computer architecture, and was really impressive with their course organization: - Lectures are divided into small chunks, often 5 minutes or less. I'm easy to be bored, but was hardly when taking the course. - Interactive review questions are provided for every subtopic of a lesson.

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Udacity's courses are the only online courses I finish. The quality of their courses and their offerings is great. Also the very real mentoring is awesome. I

by keeptrying 9y ago

dataminded 9y ago
When Coursera took away the ability to take quizzes and assessments without paying, I stopped using it. I think the price point is too high and timeline too rushed for a casual investment. I usually don't need/want mentoring or people just an online course.
- rcheu 9y ago
  I finished their ML course pretty recently, and was able to take the quizzes and assessments without paying.
  - _coveredInBees 9y ago
    I believe that only a small subset of courses on Coursera can be taken for free while being able to do the quizzes and assignments. A lot of them are restricted though.
- mindcrime 9y ago
  I think the price point is too high and timeline too rushed for a casual investment. That hasn't been my experience at all. I haven't seen a Coursera class that cost more than $79.00 and all the ones I've taken will let you switch sessions as many times as you want (so far as I can tell) making the nominal timeline a non-issue. I recently started a Bayesian Statistics class on Coursera, then got really busy with other stuff halfway through... I've switched sessions like 4 times now with no problem.
dvnguyen 9y ago
I took one free course in Udacity about advance computer architecture, and was really impressive with their course organization: - Lectures are divided into small chunks, often 5 minutes or less. I'm easy to be bored, but was hardly when taking the course. - Interactive review questions are provided for every subtopic of a lesson.