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Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse
- blowski 7y agoAnyone recommend any Udemy courses, on any topic? My experience is that there are very few where both delivery and content are good. My own recommendations would be Stephen Grider’s React courses, and Chris Croft’s management courses.
- spookyuser 7y agoI have the same experience, in fact for the most part I feel like everything I've tried on Udemy has been the same level of quality as a YouTube tutorial.
- jmnicolas 7y agoI stopped bothering with Udemy a couple years ago, in my experience 90% of their courses were junk. Packt is OK but a few of their courses are unintelligible due to a strong foreign accent. Lynda (or Linkedin now) has good quality but seems more geared toward beginners, it's rare to find advanced topics. I like Pluralsight, they have advanced topics and their foreign instructors are intelligible.
- barbecue_sauce 7y agoI haven't been on Pluralsight in a while, but always found it to be high quality. Has anything interesting come out recently?
- ing33k 7y agodepends, there was a Golang course that I really liked, but it was deleted and lost access to it !
- zerr 7y agoWhich one? It should be archived in torrents.
- FrozenSynapse 7y agoGameDev.tv courses on game development are pretty good, their Blender course was also pretty good.
- busymom0 7y agoWould you recommend it for someone who has good experience in programming apps but has zero experience in game development? Any other suggestions?
- FrozenSynapse 7y agoThat is exactly me! Some parts of the course may seem too easy if you have programming experience, but the Unity part is useful.
- orangefarm 7y agoI studied Vue and Nuxt through Maximilian Schwarzmüller’s courses, which I liked. He has a very beginner-friendly teaching style, which was right for me at the time but might not work for everyone.
- pritambarhate 7y agoYes can vouch for Maximilian Schwarzmüller. I have gone through many of his courses. He tends to cover everything from basic to advanced topics. The courses are generally longer also. This is his YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJbGtTlrDami-tDGPUV9-w https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJbGtTlrDami-tDGPUV9-w
- donmcronald 7y agoI like his style. I was able to watch a lot of his stuff start to finish like a tv show.
- polymatter 7y agoCam here to recommend Maximilian Schwarzmüller’s courses. I started on the Advanced Javascript and once I compeleted that have gone and done a few more with him (including Vue). It was instrumental in getting me competent enough to be a developer today. Its worth pointing out he is not only on udemy though.
- hiram112 7y ago+1 for Max. I'm a backend dev who got thrown on the frontend, and i enjoyed his React course and also the CSS one with some other guy. For $10, these courses are a much better value to me than the somewhat absurd process for tech books from Manning and O'Reilly that are often $50 and will be out of date in two years. I used to be a huge tech book fan and would spend hours at Barnes and Nobles and Borders during their heyday, and they had massive sections devoted to programming and IT. I'd hoped ebooks and cheap publishing would have brought down the price of books, especially those related to some software version that will be outdated in a short time, making the book worthless. But the industry refuses to give up their old pricing model, so maybe Udemy and similar sites can provide an alternative.
- citeguised 7y ago"JavaScript: Understanding the weird parts" by Anthony Alicea is a high-quality course which helped me understand JS on a more fundamental level. This is the main one I always recommend for folks who know JS, but would like to take a step further: https://www.udemy.com/course/understand-javascript/ https://www.udemy.com/course/understand-javascript/
- barbecue_sauce 7y agoThat was the first Udemy course I bought, and was fairly surprised by the quality. Anthony Alicea hasn't released anything for a while, so I'm wondering if the relatively immense success of his courses has made him financially independent.
- mseidl 7y agoThis hasn't been updated in 5 years.
- JofArnold 7y agoFrontend Masters, Egghead and Kent C Dodd’s testing course are all much better if it’s programming (especially web) you’re interested in.
- shimst3r 7y agoThe official Flutter course was very good, hosted by London App Brewery. Definitely worth it if you’re looking into cross-platform frontend development.
- tiew9Vii 7y agohttps://www.udemy.com/user/stephane-maarek/ https://www.udemy.com/user/stephane-maarek/ His Kafka course https://www.udemy.com/course/apache-kafka/ https://www.udemy.com/course/apache-kafka/ is highly rated and AWS courses get good feedback. A lot of effort gone in to the production and is knowledgeable on the topics. Given the Kafka course has 56,023 registered students alone even at the lowest offer price minus Udemy fee's he's done alright out of it.
- pritambarhate 7y agoSometimes authors give away a course for free for a few days and post on places like Reddit. This helps them to get the initial mass and ratings. So we can't always assume that all registered students have paid for the course. I have taken a few free courses like these when I saw them on reddit.
- unreal37 7y agoStephane is legit.
- skinnyarms 7y agoGlad to see someone mention this course. It and several other courses that he published were very helpful getting me up to speed on Kafka.
- tilolebo 7y agoI'm half into Colt Steele's "Web Developer Bootcamp", it's been really good so far. But according to some reviews it's also above average for Udemy content.
- artsyca 7y agoThe ultimate drawing course taught me a lot of helpful little tidbits that improved my drawing - https://www.udemy.com/course/the-ultimate-drawing-course-beginner-to-advanced/ https://www.udemy.com/course/the-ultimate-drawing-course-beg...
- cbzbc 7y agoAs it seems we have moved away from just Udemy courses - I think the content on linuxacademy is generally good, and their labs are useful.
- barbecue_sauce 7y agoLinux Academy's lab based approach is pretty helpful, but sometimes their course content (videos) is pretty horrendous. Some of the course content (particularly Kubernetes and other container related courses) often seems like it is made by people who aren't as familiar with the technologies as they think they are, or are just not capable of intelligibly organizing slide decks (making things headings that shouldn't be, leaving elements out of lists of items, etc.).
- cbzbc 7y agoI had done some of the AWS courses and was just about to move onto their Kubernetes stuff -- is there another resource you'd recommend instead?
- barbecue_sauce 7y agokatacoda.com
- indigochill 7y agoI've been generally happy with Ben Tristem's beginner game dev courses. Specifically because they make an effort to stay up-to-date with the engine updates, and they demonstrate every single step involved in the process so if there's anything a beginner Unity/Unreal dev gets stuck on in the process, they'll find a video demonstration of how to do it there.
- colkassad 7y agoHis Unreal Engine C++ course is especially great.
- strongbond 7y ago+1 for anything by Stephen Grider.
- kipchak 7y agoI've been enjoying Mike Meyer's Security+ course, though professor Messer's course is a good and free alternative.
- gbersac 7y agoAll the courses by this gy-uy are very good https://www.udemy.com/user/andrewmead/ https://www.udemy.com/user/andrewmead/
- Pandabob 7y agoI've never taken an Udemy class, but am sure there's quality content on the website. However, I've always felt that the way they show their prices is a little fishy. Looking at their offering now, all of the courses are priced between 10 - 13 euros, but each one seems to be "on sale" with the actual price being in the hundreds of euros.
- sprafa 7y agoThey used to be in the hundreds range, but for a few years now Udemy has been on a constant sale. They used to go up and down from the sale but I haven’t seen them go up anymore for ages.
- matsemann 7y agoI noticed a course this weekend I was a bit interested in. And they said it was 94% off. 150 NOK ($16) instead of 2350 NOK ($250). It was some kind of offer that would expire this weekend, and I had "9 hours left" or something to get it at that price. I actually wrote it down because I had the same feeling of being manipulated. You made me check, it's still 94% off at the 150 NOK price. Now it's some kind of offer that lasts until Feb 21. Will be interesting to see what the price is in two days..
- patlola 7y agomaybe they should understand the point that people who really want to buy courses don't look for sales. I never bought a technical/educational book in my life till just because it was on sale
- busymom0 7y agoBeen following courses on their site for a while. Those 95% or $10 offers are around almost all year round. I have bought courses at random times and have never ever paid more than $20. They are fishy about the pricing but I personally did find the courses valuable.
- 0x1221 7y agoAlso, opening their front page at the same time from different browsers can show completely different discount levels. And those will be different still from the prices that you see when you log into your account.
- alexgmcm 7y agoI prefer Coursera because I'd rather shell out 40 euros and get a high-quality course from say, Roughgarden at Stanford than pay 15 euros and get something worse than just scanning Youtube. Also Coursera has the whole system of problem sets and programming assignments etc. That said - I'd be happy if someone could show me some decent Udemy courses?
- sprafa 7y agoThere are some decent ones. Plus Coursera courses can be endless and dry. Udemy has a more... eeh free market model where the best stuff rises to the top and you have more competition. Even the quality of the video/áudio on coursera is occasionally very bad. Having used both I think they’re just different. Udemy has very neat short courses while Coursera is really long and for some purposes, overly long and detailed. Decent courses - I did a pretty great drawing course and Unity programming intro courses on Udemy that I really really enjoyed.
- BillyTheKing 7y agoI think this really depends on what you want you're looking for. I agree with you in so far, that I don't think Udemy is particularly good for providing some solid theoretical (or semi-theoretical) basis for any given programming topic. I usually just use books (or sometimes coursera courses) for that. Udemy courses, however, are pretty good at providing you a decent idea of how to apply knowledge in a given domain to a specific problem without going into too much theoretical detail. To give an example, if you need to get up to speed with React in short time and you just want to see how one would structure or build one, two react projects, simply get a high-rated udemy course on react and you'll get a pretty decent idea. Sure, you could read the docs and then go through some popular github react projects and learn it that way. But I do enjoy just coding along every now and then, and I think it's fairly good at that.
- skinnyarms 7y agoI've had really good luck with programming topics, specifically Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Elasticsearch. These are narrow topics that you are unlikely to find on Coursera and many of the courses are published by well known figures in their respective communities. I have yet to hit a bad one. Udemy has a 30 day refund policy as well, so you can try a course out with low risk.
- jstummbillig 7y agoUdemy is selling a dream, more so, than an education. They mostly target lower income internet natives, who have heard of coding, not enough to do anything dangerous but certainly enough to long for the good money and great perks. You are not really committed to switching up your life, but a "premium product" at 90% off down to 20$, how could you not give it a try? It's an affordable dream and makes for an easy sale.
- bakuninsbart 7y agoAgreed, but the courses do offer a good look at the work, and can give a good introduction to the field. Not sure how it is in the US, but here in Germany probably around 3/4 of people studying CS drop out in the first two years. If people unsure about their path can get a taste for 20 bucks, then that's a pretty great deal!
- DelightOne 7y agoIf you do not have the tools you need then it is difficult to succeed.
- _fizz_buzz_ 7y agoI don't have a ton of experience with Udemy. But I took an introduction to Autodesk Inventor class there in January and I thought it was quite good. Was only something like €10 and I was able to do quite complex drawings (at least for what I need) after two days. Much cheaper and probably almost as effective as one of those expensive corporate training classes that are often a €1000,- for just two days.
- Drakar1903 7y agoI owe my Java career to following a Spring for Beginners course. It did more to accelerate me forwards than, at that point, 2 years of university.
- epanchin 7y agoHow many managers would give you time off to study a udemy course though, vs a £1000 professionally run one? It’s frustrating that the main advantage of paying a lot for a course, is having some proper time to do it.
- Lucadg 7y agoI sell a course on Udemy for 189 Euros. They constantly sell it at around 9 Euronand keep a big chunk of it. The only way to make money is to bring in your leads but at that point it's just better to sell directly. Classic rent extracting platforms.
- blowski 7y agoI always wondered who gets to decide what's on sale! How does your agreement work with them?
- Lucadg 7y agoI am not sure as the Udemy account is managed by a friend. I'm pretty sure we have no saying on the price. With 100 students we cashed $329. So, there it is: 3,29 $ per course. Basically a tip. I sell the Italian version of this course directly for 200 €.
- iashishsinha 7y agothink about it: they were created for desktop audience and till date, they haven't been challenged by anyone (the world has moved on to mobile). Which is why they are able to command a higher valuation (lack of competition, a known brand which knows how to create FOMO and now an enterprise sales team)
- DrNuke 7y agoContent quality and personal goals do make the difference in continuing education, but people really need to be clear with themselves before purchasing courses, summaries or hands-on tutorials: none of these is a shortcut to a degree if you want accreditation, none of these is a shortcut to a portfolio if you want original case studies.
- pritambarhate 7y agoI take a lot of Udemy courses. When I want to learn something new I generally buy a course (look for at least 4 stars and a minimum 500 votes, though popular topics will have thousands of ratings) and binge-watch the entire thing in a couple of days. It gives me an idea of what's possible with this particular technology. Later when I really need to use that technology I spend futher time doing code examples etc. Has worked really well for me to keep abreast of multiple technologies in my CTO job. One main issue is that most of the courses only cover bigginner and intermediate level tasks only. I think the reason for this is that an instructor needs thousands of sales to be profitable on Udemy. Even for relatively popular topics like Magento and Salesforce development, one sees very less enrollment numbers. Only core popular techonolgies like Python, Node.js, AI/ML, etc see thousands of sales.
- satvikpendem 7y agoI've found this person's courses [0] to be very high quality, and they go through pretty advanced topics, such as convolutional neural networks for natural language processing, which might be to your point. [0] https://deeplearningcourses.com/course_order https://deeplearningcourses.com/course_order
- jacquesm 7y agoThey should send them $5M and claim they saw they were on sale at a 90% discount on the website. That would give them a taste of their own medicine, it is exactly how they treat their authors.
- snorrah 7y agoDid Udemy get around to putting controls in place to stop course stealing? I remember Troy Hunt in particular had issues with people taking his material, narrating over the top of it, and selling it on their Udemy channels.
- avinassh 7y agoEven sentdex had to deal with the same issue - https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8sl76u/sentdex_on_udemys_awful_business_practices/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8sl76u/sentdex_on_u...
- Kaze404 7y agoI wonder why he made the video private. It was a really good video.
- mirkonasato 7y agoYou're probably referring to this incident back in 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20151129084740/https://blog.udemy.com/maintaining-the-integrity-of-our-udemy-community/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151129084740/https://blog.udem...
- rasikjain 7y agoUdemy is a great platform for beginners who want to try different field or a niche without shelling lot of money (hey 90% off). They also have refund policy which is great too. I had purchased courses for photography, aws and newer javascript frameworks (e.g vue.js) in the past. There are many courses out there for the same topic, have to be careful in selecting quality course with good feedback.
- tvanantwerp 7y agoUdemy's business model is, as far as I can tell, identical to Valve's: get digital pack-rats like me to buy a ton of stuff we'll never even open when it's on sale. Can't fault them for doing what works, though. Of the courses I've actually gotten around to taking, I thought they were pretty good.
- skinnymuch 7y agoUdemy stuff is always on sale for ~2 years now. Maybe 5-10% of the time they aren’t.
- clubdorothe 7y agoI've always wondered how japanese companies (looking at Softbank especially) had so much cash to invest? Why do they want to invest that money abroad?
- nickjj 7y agoUdemy is one of the most corrupt / worst marketplaces I've ever encountered in the world -- for the folks who make courses at least. For reference I've had some of my courses on their platform for years and it's not like I'm bitter because no one bought my courses. I've made a solid amount of money there over the years (6 figures). The problem is they constantly sell your course for $10 and then take 50%+. Any traffic coming from Google results in them taking 50%+ too. If you opt out of their controlled pricing then your course will be hidden from all search results, in which case you'll make nothing because no one will be able to find you and that defeats the entire purpose of using a marketplace. But that's only the tip of the iceberg. Udemy heavily hand tunes search results and cuts behind the scenes deals with instructors in certain niches, and when those deals happen, other people in the same niche get completely fucked over night. For example, I was selling close to 50+ courses a day, then Udemy signed a contract with another person in the same niche (they told me directly). A few days after their course went live, the traffic to my course dropped by over an order of magnitude and my sales dropped by 20x. My graphs literally looks like a nose dive and I went from being able to sustain myself to having to stop creating courses. The hilarious thing is my course is even higher rated than theirs and I've had people message me privately saying they took both courses and much preferred mine, yet it sits barely on the first page with a 4.7 average rating and like 1 sale a day with little to no traffic. Every time I email Udemy asking about this they say they don't modify search results, but then every time I show them screenshots of very strange ranking behavior they change what they say and usually I get in a bump in sales for a day and then it drops off. For the last few years I've spent a lot of time (and a lot of hard work) attempting to build my own audience instead of making new courses so I can drop Udemy all together. I'm not there yet, but one day I hope I'll never have to deal with that platform again and I wouldn't recommend using Udemy for both buying or selling courses to my worst enemy. Oh, and one fun thing about being on Udemy too is, you can expect people to black mail you for unreasonable things. I've had more than 1 person on the platform email me saying things like I "MUST" help them with their custom project for free and if I don't then they they are going to give my course a 1 star review. I think due to Udemy's low prices, it attracts a certain type of person.
- heyozapzap 7y agoUdemy is in business to make money. Be it the 50% or tweaking SERPs, why shouldn't they do that?
- ChrisRR 7y agoMy issue with Udemy isn't their constant "sales" or the way they treat their tutors. It's the 95% amount of crap on the platform. It's genuinely difficult to sort the good quality courses from the tons of bad courses. Especially the ones that have got tons of 5 star ratings but only because the tutor promised them another free course if they rate 5 stars. Just because everyone can upload a course to Udemy, doesn't mean that they should and the platform suffers for it
- NikolaNovak 7y agoI've bought ~20 courses on Udemy; variety of software engineering; music lessons; language lessons; and random; not a single one had reasonable "information density" - i.e., I'm sure if I watched all 20 hours I'd pick up some useful information, but probably only an hour's worth. I've since moved to mostly either using free Youtube videos and just picking specific knowledge I need, or paying much more for targeted professional courses. Mostly though, I've gone back to my preferred method of learning - books - where I can control the speed and repetition as it suits the moment :-/
- sauwan 7y agoAs a non-software person trying to learn to code, I'll say that Fred Baptiste's python courses are an excellent blend between practical and theoretical with very high information density. There are a few other good courses out there, but it's hard to know whether the teachers are that good. The review system is as broken and manipulated as any. Ultimately, I'd love it if someone could come up with a third-party tool (kind of like review meta) that gave customized ratings and recommendations based on how similar other reviewers reviews were to mine. Not sure how possible that would be, but a cross platform product would be amazing.
- michaelbuckbee 7y agoI'm friends with a top course creator on Udemy and the info density issue is caused by the buying habits of users. - Most buy based on sales (at a crazy discount), ASP is ~$10 off his ostensibly several hundred dollar course - Most 95%+ never even _open_ the course - Of the remainder it's about .25% that "finish" the course in any meaningful way - Most people buying the courses are aspirational about it ("Yeah I should know about that") and aren't making a detailed analysis of the materials - Most people buy on _length_ - that they'll look at two courses on the same topic and take the one that is longer and/or has more modules or chapters - Udemy has a new program for enterprises that pays based on minutes/month of content consumed. Should be noted this is a highly technical course aimed at developers/devops (situation might be different for guitar lessons).
- codextremist 7y agoHi guys! I hope I’m able to contribute by bringing some of my own experience and real data to this discussion. I'm the founder of Classpert (https://classpert.com https://classpert.com), a search and comparison site for online courses. In the last 6 months, we’ve managed to sell over 2000 courses, in 8 different languages and across 80 different countries (Udemy alone is selling around 200 courses each month through Classpert). So while it is true that price has an impact on low-income customers (especially from developing countries), even for developed countries (USA, Canada, Germany, Japan) Udemy still is leading the race in number of sales (at least if we use our database as a proxy of the market) Much of their success stems from the fact that Udemy has by far the largest catalog of online courses on the web (something around 110k courses). And while some people may argue that this comes at a cost of providing low-quality courses it also naturally provides an extremely aggressive long-tail SEO strategy. The majority of potential customers don’t correlate e-learning platforms and quality (most of their customers are not high-profile HN users), so if you are googling for an online course chances are that Udemy will be ranked at the top (and on a global scale). This also explains why they have 10x more traffic than Pluralsight or 3x more than Coursera. On top of that (an here is much more my personal intuition than data-based analysis), Udemy not only offers cheaper courses but also has not yet adhered to “subscription models”. Subscription models target specific users. Subscription models are awkward and feel totally unnatural to most “normal users”. Why on earth a normal user, seeking for a specific bit of knowledge will lock himself on a subscription? The subscription business model seems to work much better on B2B than B2C.
- livefastdieold 7y agoI liked the site. Congrats! Very useful. Is it Bootstrapped?
- codextremist 7y agoNice! We're open for feedbacks too! We received a seed from Quero Education(YC S16). Last year, we’ve made our ways to the finals but eventually got rejected by YC (S19). Not sure if we are trying a second time
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- chrshawkes 7y agoMy issue with Udemy is they stole my Python videos from YouTube and sold them to 12,000+ students at $199.99 listed price .
- unreal37 7y agoThere is no way that is true. First of all, Udemy doesn't "steal" anything. They're a platform for people to post videos. Like if a Udemy course appears on YouTube, you cannot say "YouTube stole videos from Udemy." If someone stole videos, that's on the thief. It's called piracy and it's been a thing on the internet since the beginning. Second of all, people who steal other people's videos often given them away for free. Post them to black hat sites, etc. So most of those 12,000+ are probably free. And finally, Udemy holds the money for like 45-60 days, so if a course is found to be pirated, all students get refunds and the instructor gets banned. And doesn't make a dime. Find me a real example of a pirated course in 2019 where the pirate made money. Go on. You can't find it, because it doesn't happen.
- whatitdobooboo 7y agoI dont know what you guys expect. Its an opportunity to learn at $10-$20 a course. Yeah a course can be bad, but so can a book. The sales part is definitely dishonest, but as far as people who make content, if they get more $$ on youtube, why dont they post on youtube?
- sfblah 7y agoUdemy is just like all sorts of things in the economy: it’s a stupid-people tax. You can learn the same information from free videos or just a book.
- firatcan 7y agoActually we are trying to create a platform called Jooseph, which is basically playlists for learning. You can follow modules curated from different resources. We are trying create a platform that you can gather those kind of resources for someone to learn that topic easily. So at Jooseph you can follow curated list of resources from different channels such as medium, youtube or podcasts anything valuable. Also, any user can create his/her own list for share or just to store it. We are at Public Beta right Now you can try free from; https://jooseph.com https://jooseph.com
- satvikpendem 7y agoI love Udemy. I've learned so much from their courses, including React and Flutter most recently. Our employer has an unlimited subscription which is great for checking out a lot of these courses, I definitely don't watch every single one available however, but enrolling in a few courses of the same topic shows me what's possible with some technology and which teacher is the best. I personally prefer Andrew Mead's courses as he actually waits for you to complete a part by yourself before moving on, which I don't see as concretely with other teachers like Girder or Schwarzmüller, who sometimes say to try it on your own, but Mead actually has a moment where you can pause the video and try it, built into the course. With regards to not having informational density, I've solved this problem by downloading the courses locally [0] and watching them at 4x speed. In a browser, you could set `querySelector("video").playbackRate = 4`, but since the video changes every few minutes, especially at high speed, this isn't too useful. I've actually made a Chromium extension that changes the video/audio playback speed globally since I watch a lot of YouTube at 4x speed as well [1], but again it isn't smart enough to detect when an underlying video source has changed. Therefore, I use a local player, SMPlayer in specific [2], which is an mpv-based player. The problem, however, is that Chrome is very good at allowing you to understand voices at high speed, and nearly every other player, such as Firefox [3] and others, do not. This seems to be because they saccade the audio, where they skip parts of it, so that it sounds tinny or not understandable (edit: looks like it's fixed in Firefox!). Chrome does not use this approach. I've tried loading playlists into Chrome for this exact purpose, to simply use it as a video player, but the tab crashes because the video files are too large. Now, we return to the local player, SMPlayer. SMPlayer, as it uses mpv, is able to pass any command line options to mpv. In this case, we are able to change the time-stretching amount by ourselves instead of waiting for Firefox or another player to do so. To do so, go to Options -> General -> Multimedia Engine: mpv, and then Options -> Advanced -> MPlayer/mpv tab -> Options: --speed=4, Audio filters: scaletempo=stride=10. You can play around with the speed and stride, but for the stride, around 8-20 sounds good [4]. It's still not as good as Chrome but it's usable and understandable. I wonder if there's a full way to solve this bug. Edit: Looks like from [3], someone figured out that you can use the following filters with mpv as well. This just adds the overlap and search arguments in the audio filters. This sounds significantly better than without the overlap and search arguments as above, Chrome level basically. mpv --af=scaletempo=stride=8:overlap=1:search=10 --speed=4 test.mp3 Anyway, hopefully this helps others move through content faster. You might balk at 4x, but you need to start at something smaller, like 2x, before gradually moving up in speed. I like experiencing content at high speeds personally, and I use similar hacks for other media as well, such as audiobooks and podcasts. For audiobooks (on Android), I use a fork of the Voice Audiobook player [5] which supports speeds up to 6x because the original author did not seem to want to raise the maximum listening rate, citing simplicity concerns for most people. As well, it also seems like only AntennaPod goes up to 4x for podcasts, most podcast players I've seen only go to 3x [6]. [0] Udeler - https://github.com/FaisalUmair/udemy-downloader-gui https://github.com/FaisalUmair/udemy-downloader-gui [1] Speed - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-global-videoaudio-s/ncaighkkcbkmhiiljbjfjpkkgelpgkab?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-global-video... [2] SMPlayer - https://www.smplayer.info/ https://www.smplayer.info/ [3] Firefox bug with time-stretching - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427267 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427267 [4] SMPlayer solution for time-stretching - https://forum.smplayer.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9069 https://forum.smplayer.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9069 [5] Voice Audiobook Player fork - https://github.com/brandonocasey/Voice https://github.com/brandonocasey/Voice [6] AntennaPod - https://antennapod.org/ https://antennapod.org/
- livefastdieold 7y agoThe change in Udemy's pricing policy after 2016 - applying aggressive discounts and setting maximum prices for courses - has affected many instructors in a bad way. This is directly related to the perceived low quality of their courses (obviously with exceptions). Many instructors today use Udemy to try to attract traffic to their own websites where they sell the "best versions" of their courses.
- demadog 7y agoDon’t know if it’s a reaction to their new raise and they want to try to get full price signups with the new traffic, or what, but I’m seeing all courses full price at the moment.
- whatitdobooboo 7y agoCheck on a private window
- chriscatoya 7y agoIt makes a lot of sense for Benesse to get into online education, let's see if they can do something that works with Udemy. It might help Udemy as well to get Berlitz co-branding on some content on the platform and start a path that's almost like Masterclass but instead of curated around industry legends, it's brands and institutions. Also, having visited Benesse House museum this winter, I'd be really excited to see content come out of this that covers more of the art on Naoshima in a highly accessible way.