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Coursera - taught by some of the world's best professors on cutting edge topics. Udemy - professionals looking to make money outside of their day job by teachi
by bordercases 6y ago
Coursera - taught by some of the world's best professors on cutting edge topics.
Udemy - professionals looking to make money outside of their day job by teaching, with varying levels of competency at either their profession or the ability to teach.
You'll get more "practical" or "current" topics out of Udemy, but better education out of Coursera.
Coursera is very bad at keeping their courses live though. Udemy is much better at this.
- cambalache 6y ago> Coursera - taught by some of the world's best professors on cutting edge topics. I would say the distribution is way wider. Yes, there are top courses by top universities but those are sadly a minority. There are lots upon lots of mediocre courses either by big or small universities and the worst offenders the programs created by vendors (Google, IBM, etc) which are nothing but a barely disguised way to push their platforms. Going directly to the university site and you will find the real deal, last term course which usually will be significantly better.
- bordercases 6y agoNothing to disagree with here. Come to think of it I hope COVID puts more recorded lecture online from Ivy League et al, overall. The only issue is that it's easy to put them behind paywall or student logins or what have you. One bonus with the Google/Facebook/whatever approach is that you sometimes get academics who became in-house researchers to teach their courses. This was more common in the early days and pretty much what you get out of Udacity. It's true that they train to the platform but there really isn't another way to get e.g. Sebastian Thrun out there anymore. Another view may take that as a broken window, however.