Has anyone actually finished one of these free Udemy courses?

witsa on 25/05/2020 - 11:08
Last edited 25/05/2020 - 15:55 by 2 other users

There seems to be alot of posts about free Udemy courses and they all get upvoted because free is free.

I'm guessing a lot of these are from new trainers looking to get their numbers up.

Look at this course - it's been enrolled 14000+ times. Not a single rating. Sounds like it's just spam.

https://www.udemy.com/course/python-for-data-science-and-mac…

Just wondering if anyone has actually done any of these courses before? Are there any that isn't low quality content? Are there any that is better than what you'd find on Youtube?

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  I complete every course I enrol in
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  great than 10 courses
• 2
  5-10 courses
• 9
  1-5 courses
• 43
  Nope

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  psyren89 on 25/05/2020 - 11:20

  Look at the instructor profile for that course you posted…

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  trustnoone on 25/05/2020 - 11:35

  +1

  Just wondering if anyone has actually done any of these courses before? Are there any that isn't low quality content? Are there any that is better than what you'd find on Youtube?

  Honestly I think udemy has gotten better from years ago, theres definitely good content creators on there. Largely from people who make youtube videos and then they want to do a whole course so they use it as a platform to host their course.
  I can say personally theres quite a few I've found that are a great price and great course especially if you keep with the larger known content creators.

  But like many marketplaces out there, Udemy for a lot of people, is a place where they just dump out courses in the hopes to make a quick buck. Courses that hardly explain anything (and honestly largely the free ones). I feel like udemy plays into it as well, giving free courses they know a largely lousy or selling a course for $200, but a bargain for the next 24 hours for $12.95 (perpetually).

  For me I don't really enroll into the free ones now, its not worth the effort. But each to their own and you may find a few jewels in the pile of… …

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  peterpeterpumpkin on 25/05/2020 - 12:35

  This is just an OzBargain artefact. No one that has actually used Udemy to learn things and understands its low-barrier-to-entry for instructors would bother with courses where you can't understand the narrator in the free sample, or the course has low ratings. More people would torrent a high quality course than watch a free low-rated one.

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    lunchbox99 on 25/05/2020 - 15:11

    +1

    Not true. Udemy has taught me to be wary of free online courses and the perils of procrastination.

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  D C on 25/05/2020 - 15:09

  +1

  actually finished one

  Lol, we'd have to actually start one first.

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  witsa on 25/05/2020 - 15:14

  +1

  well this is an awkward bug. I created a poll that would be hidden until the poll expired and I didn't set a poll expiry date meaning the poll never expires. After a poll is created, these settings can't be modified.

  Therefore, the results will never be known…

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    Moderatorhamza23 on 25/05/2020 - 15:56

    Fixed up.

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  koplik8 on 26/05/2020 - 19:35

  +2

  I used to get cheap online courses through Living Social (now Cudo I think). Shaw Academy has great courses on demand. I finished a diploma in Sports a Nutrition. I don’t think it actually qualifies you for anything but the the diploma certificate looks cool.
  It’s really hard to tell from these online websites which ones have good course content. They don’t always make it clear if it’s video content or just words on a screen. It’s still a good way to get a taste of a potential career move without spending a tone of money. I did another one on forensics and criminology with another company. I did a cheap fitness trainer one with another company for $20. Realised it’s not an area I want to get into. Better than wasting $5k plus.