Coursera

“From around 2017 these platforms started limiting free access, so now in most cases you can only see the lecture materials”

“Extremely slow load times, annoying AI chatbot that takes up the right half of the screen”

“Don't discount YouTube, Filipo Valsorda is majorly influential in crypto and taught himself entirely by YouTube and Coursera.”

“backing by Coursera is a huge advantage”

“audit a class and watch videos in Coursera or some other open education platform”

“Coursera also has a bunch of math courses you can take as well.”

“EDX and Coursera got bought out and are now money-making online ed sites”

“you can’t access all the materials. Videos, code files etc are now paywalled.”

“Coursera and EdX were the peak of that for me.”

“in a university-course-like experience, I'd probably go back to coursera”

“Coursera HAD good courses. I used to use it, now it's fully enshittified.”

“That was another hype cycle, does everyone remember how they were supposed to replace all universities”

“Coursera used to have good quality courseware, now I get better stuff via a simple search on youtube.”

“high-quality, curated courses from reputable professors and institutions”

“Coursera put NAND to tetris behind a paywal after being free for like a decade”

“These modules are absolute slop garbage, often asking repetitive questions that have no grounding in actual course content.”

“They make it reaaaaally hard to find the good stuff.”

“But I can't say I like the direction it's taken in recent years.”

“it had so many great courses to pick from”

“most of the big names (Udemy, Coursera, ...) are using encrypted streaming with DRM”

“online resources (like Coursera) worked really well for decades and are not obsolete at all”

“Coursera has courses in medical AI, and is where I cut my teeth.”

“I say this as someone who has spent a small fortune buying Udemy/Coursera videos, but ultimately the concepts never sink in”

“Coursera was transformative for my education and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it changed my life for the better.”

“they f'ed it up even more now, so that the login page doesn't even appear”

“If you want depth, it was always Coursera.”

“I gained a lot from both Udemy and Coursera. Stuff that has helped me a fair amount in my career.”

“it's easy to filter out good/bad courses on Coursera by stuff like University name”

“they f'ed up their login so much, that they required Google stuff to be loaded”

“Sites like Udemy and Coursera have many upsides”

“After Coursera/Udacity/EdX discontinued courses that I wanted to take, or removed access to ones I only partially completed”

“The first two can give certificates cheaply.”

“The key value I get out of Coursera is an unbeatable "time to knowledge"”

“The ongoing enshittification of Coursera, Udacity, and EdX is sad to watch.”

“The platforms lost because they enshittified and everyone left because of it”

“thousands of courses, many clearly without as much thought or effort”

“There is so much gobbledigook and so little clarity about how to help people learn.”

“they do offer useful material at the very least”

“well done Coursera in any case for fixing a pretty egregious breach of regulations”

“Just look at the scary list of third-party cookies you can't opt out of on Coursera”