Ricky Garcia’s Top Reasons To Choose Udemy
In this YouTube video, Ricky Garcia reviews Udemy’s online educational platform. He gives some of his top reasons for choosing Udemy, including:
Reasons to Choose Udemy – Watch This Video!
Udemy Delivers a Broad and Global Range of Course Topics
Variation of Courses at Udemy.com
Ricky discusses the amazing variation of courses offered on Udemy on nearly every topic. Students learn everything from the Polish language to how to create 2D art elements in Adobe Illustrator for mobile development. Links to suggested courses are available near the end of this post.
Udemy Encourages Students to Become Teachers
Udemy encourages anyone to become a teacher. Students can become teachers! There are guidelines posted and course reviews to verify instructors keep to those guidelines. Instructors must meet qualifying criteria.
Udemy Engages Students with Stimulating Course Formats
Course Format Variations
Instructors include text, videos and quizzes. A course section could be a slideshow with voice over screen casting and lectures. Exercise files for courses, like Photoshop, may include supplementary materials such as PSD files.
Udemy Provides an Economical Course Pricing Structure
Costs
Students purchase each course individually. Unlike many other online educational sites, at Udemy, there are no subscription fees – thus no headaches about whether to renew courses. Prices range from free to $299 dollars (now $200 – see the article, “12,00 Udemy Courses – UDEMY PRICING”). Discount codes are often available making courses drop to as low as ten dollars ($10).
Caveat: As Ricky Garcia pointed out, certain popular courses never seem to have discounts. For example, search for Seth Godin’s freelancer course. Does it ever go on sale?
Seth Godin’s Freelancer Course
Udemy’s Rating System Helps Identify Course Value
Udemy Rating System
Udemy has a rating system to help students find quality content. However, ratings are not always accurate. Despite his disappointment by some courses with good ratings, Ricky Garcia took many courses that influenced his career, such as Vanessa Van Edwards’ body language course “Body Language for Entrepreneurs”.
Vanessa Van Edwards “Body Language for Entrepreneurs”
“Presentation Bootcamp: Hands-On Presentation Delivery Skills“, Jason Teteak’s lessons on presentation skills, may be the course that Ricky referred to, calling it “well worth mentioning”. The course was last updated 8/2014.
Presentation Bootcamp: Hands-On Presentation Delivery Skills.
Udemy Offers Discounts through Affiliates and Instructors
Discount Coupons (Codes)
Prior to registering for a course, it is a good idea to check for discount coupons (codes). Besides the many discounts provided by affiliates, one of Udemy’s unique selling points is the availability of discounts for additional courses .
Discounts may come directly from instructors, a benefit to both students and instructors. Students learn of upcoming courses, while taking advantage of lower costs. Instructors promote new courses by distributing discount codes to current students. They can judge student interest level immediately after publishing their course and thus can tailor lessons to attract more interest.
Udemy Includes Lifetime Access to Courses
Lifetime Access
If courses are updated, students have immediate access to their updated courses. One of the biggest differences between Udemy over other online educational sites, is lifetime access to the courses. This is especially helpful if you need a refresher. Most online learning websites require a monthly or annual subscription. However, once you purchase a course at Udemy, you have lifetime access.
Udemy Delivers a Broad and Global Range of Course Topics
Course Variety
Ricky reiterates the immense variety of courses. If you opened a new coffee shop and need new training material for your baristas, there’s a course for that. He may be referring to Udemy’s course:
Coffee Lattee Art 101:
In Summary – Ricky Garcia gives Udemy a “Thumbs Up”
Ricky highly recommends students check out Udemy. He adds this tip – before registering, check for discount codes. Ricky ends the video by saying, “my name is Ricky and always remember to always be learning.“
My thoughts?
Watch his video! Ricky Garcia provides a great, short, but thorough, review of some of the best features of Udemy.
Course Suggestions
Although Ricky may not have mentioned the following specific courses in the video, they demonstrate Ricky’s positive review regarding Udemy’s immense variety of courses.
Udemy course “Polish Language for Beginners: Master Polish Quickly!”
Polish Language for Beginners: Master Polish Quickly!
Learn Polish in a fast, funny and organised way. Master real-life situations to become confident speaker.
BEST SELLER
4.4 (56 ratings)
1,188 students enrolled
Created by Janusz Przychodzen, Remi Dudek Last updated 2/2017
Udemy Course: Adobe Illustrator for Mobile Game Art
Adobe Illustrator for Mobile Game Art – A Beginners Guide
Create mobile game art in Adobe illustrator just by using basic concepts, essential tools and proven workflows.
4.6 (260 ratings)
3,760 students enrolled
Created by Rafael John Regidor
Last updated 5/2016 English
