Felt exactly the same. I hope Khan Academy will evolve into what Coursera originally promised to become.
I don't see Khan Academy or Brilliant as being the same as Coursera.
I hope you’re right and Khan Academy won’t ever be the same as Coursera, I hope they will remain free and can grow into becoming better than Coursera, perhaps educators on Coursera will start sharing their courses for free on Khan Academy.
What I meant was that I hope that it would evolve into "what Coursera originally promised to become".
>It was really a revolution when it started.
Many people thought it was anyway.
In practice, it ended up being mostly another source of lecture videos used by motivated professionals with generally solid fundamentals. For which, frankly, there were already a lot of resources out there.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. First, at the time you couldn't find stuff like that online. I'm talking, legit course from legit professors for free.
Then about the audience? I personally was a student when Coursera became a thing and I got into my masters by taking the course on cryptography. I have many student friends at the time who learned a lot through other courses.
are they actually charging for classes now, or just certificates?
I'm not sure if there are courses that you can't take without paying, I remember that they sometimes made it really difficult to figure out if you could access the course for free (I believe it's better now).
Honestly it's hard to complain, because all the stuff is still there. It's just not as utopian and revolutionary as it once seemed to be. Or maybe it is and I should stop complaining. I just wished it was like wikipedia.
just the certificate. and you also get access to some extra things like the autograder in some classes. But otherwise, nothing is different.
Actually, I was doing some updated courses a while ago, which I started a few years back and wanted to finish. I could follow the videos and reading material, but I could not do the end—of-week quizzes without paying. This really put me off.
It’s vastly different for many courses. The exercises are often paywalled, which means you can’t put your skills to the test.
And at that point, you're just watching videos and, while people learn in different ways, you may be just as well or better off picking up a book and taking advantage of resources like MIT OCW.
Entitled much?
Yet, I still believe coursera is amazing and I’ll buy some shares just to fund the idea. I guess that was the original intention of the market.