Yep hit or miss. They are excellent at getting great headline ideas, but most unfortunately fail to deliver what they teach. But some instructors do deliver excellent trainings has been my experience too.
One thing is being "enrolled" and other VERY DIFFERENT
is to Complete (at least partially) a full course.
And if you don´t like it, then you can ask for FULL refund.
One of the BEST things I´ve found on the BBHF is the possibility
to Enroll with free couponz to a myriad of courses about what I need,
some good and of course some really bad but the importance is that
I get a general knowledge of what I need and then I can also ASK
any question to the "instructor" or any fellow student.
So I find that UDEMY is a very good way to HACK YOUR EDUCATION!
PS Can anyone suggest similar sites like:
http://www.udemy.com
? THX!
There are gems in udemy that you can't find anywhere else, usually bestsellers and courses with good rating have great stuff, I use them a lot.
Of course there are many many bad courses in udemy, but that's the nature of this system. Anyone can upload a course and people can judge, by their reviews and ratings, to decide if the course is good or not. And the refund policy is there to make this system complete.
Improvements can be made to udemy for sure, but I love it as it is.
Anyone here ever gone to what we call in the Western World "College"??
That costs TENS OF THOUSANDS OF USD$$$$$$$$! And takes YEARS to complete!
Once 'finished' you have a credential that is almost COMPLETELY WORTHLESS for any practical purpose, and you will NOT be hired over someone with practical experience.
(Does not apply to an UBER/LYFT/GRUBHUB career, of course...)
So maybe you waste a little time in your FREE course, but I tend to pick up one or more ideas ranking from tips to complete revelations in the courses I take and complete.
I have also taken courses that were amazing from start to finish. You probably will too if you get off you butt and actually participate in a course rather than adding them to your trophy wall.
BTW: Don't PM me asking which courses I found incredible. Go find your own.
The 1st thing I point at in response is udemy itself;
It has very clearly turned into a bandwidth-for-bucks platform with zero QC.
2nd to that I point at the nastiness of using their site, made even worse by their recent 'update'.
Lots of PLR junk, lots of really badly made stuff and yes, there is time wasted discerning which is which.
I cannot stand the presentation via the site so I download anything that looks to be any good for local viewing - and lots of so-called 'courses' end up wasting my time to get them only to see they are crap and I just delete them.
Still - I have found no better way to get new and better info than udemy;
None of its competitors are even as good - with skillshare standing out as maybe a poor 3rd.
At least with udemy it is possible to get the materials on your own PC easily and with this F4LT section there is only the time used rather than any wasted funds.
As members here we are quite used to getting lots of stuff for free - and once that thrill has been around for a while we then want only REALLY GOOD stuff for free, but that ain't how things are IRL - so best we do our own discernment along with LOTS of deleting !!
Also, BTW, here is what I wrote in another thread here that relates with this thread:
"....Many gurus have 'secrets' and 'never seen before methods' which are their main sales points (along with lots of possibly faked 'proofs')."
"The gist of what I've learned about such 'gurus' in the IM/MMO realm is that most of them are just all about hit and run=> they make very sincere looking, but incomplete things to sell to the unwary - then usually grab whatever they can from it - and move on to making another of that same (lack of...) quality.
One serious giveaway which helps in seeing these gurus is their excessive use of 'proofs' of earnings and their insistence that newbies will make their 1st bucks using whatever incomplete 'system' they are churning out this week.
Result:
Loads of folks spending their earnings from their 9-5 jobs, desperately clinging to the false hopes that one of the gurus will actually provide what they have promised - when in actuality the gurus are depending upon those who are desperate to escape their daily grinds to fork over their $$ for yet another shiny object that turns out to just be another well painted t*rd (U know what letter belongs there...).
What many, many, many folks actually need is to be led into something really simple (if possible) and with ALL the steps laid out to make their 1st 10 bucks.
I've been studying and assessing this realm for around 2 years 'till now and have yet to find ANYTHING that actually either does what it claims or is complete and/or simple enough.
So=> I have yet to make my 1st 10 bucks online, but I have found some small opportunities which may yet pay off in the future - while I continue to study very carefully.
MY BIGGEST LEARNING (that applies here) => I learned not to buy stuff in hopes that it would be any good UNLESS it came with a trustworthy refund policy..."
And even then I avoid buying ANYTHING !!
Harsh man, but somewhat fair.
Problem 1: Most of the courses are getting positive feedback (I assume most for free enrollment) despite being horrible.
IMO, if the course preview is horrible (e.g. you cannot understand the teacher), your are being read exactly what is on the slide deck or intro is an animated intro without the teacher talking... avoid.
@Students: Even if you get it for free - Give a proper review!
Problem 2: No real exams - Very few courses bother with adding Quiz and when they do, these are a fixed set of Q&A that you can fail once and repeat the correct answers. They need some random function from a longer list of questions.
@Udemy: If you ever intended to be taken seriously as a learning platform and not just an easy mechanism to take low percentage (of mass sold) almost always 90% discounted junk courses - you need to fix this.
I usually download the courses that seems OK, download the first part and play (usually at higher speed) while walking the first half hour. If it seems of good quality and good insights, I'll start again or I'll archive/delete.
Udemy completion of courses is indeed "thanks for playing" at worst or "thanks for listening" at best.
Shame as the platform tools are not bad.
I don't know about IM related udemy courses, but , there are awesome instructors who teach software engineering/software development/web development. I mean really good instructors that are highly rated. You put in the effort to learn and you will get a software job. Plain and simple.
All I did was pay 9.99 USD to couple of courses. So total cost 20 USD for me. And the rest was my effort and I got the job.
So I totally diasgree , udemy is awesome. Just like amazon and ebay, you buy craaap and you cry. foul here You buy good, put your effort in and you win. Plain and simple.
I agree with some of the comments.
There are a lot of junk courses. Especially from people from certain countries.And get rich quick,so called methods from others.
But there are some really good instructor's.
It's a pity Udemy didn't have better quality control.Had less instructors and courses.But higher quality ones.
There are good creative,networking,programming etc courses,still on Udemy.
It will be helpful if we have a thread here to list only the best and useful courses.
Don't allow trainers and their marketing team to post on it.
Just allow students who have completed that tutorial and are fully satisfied with it.