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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse
on Thursday February 20, 2020 @11:12AM (#22376077)
Udemy is in business to make money. Be it the 50% or tweaking SERPs, why shouldn't they do that?
Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse
on Thursday February 20, 2020 @11:11AM (#22376067)
You are a Udemy affiliate?
Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse
on Thursday February 20, 2020 @10:57AM (#22375935)
Exactly. I respect Udacity's founder Sebastian Thrun for actually owning up to the fact that very little learning was happening on Udacity and that they needed to work on that. They actually cared.
Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse
on Thursday February 20, 2020 @10:56AM (#22375927)
Course creators are incentivized to add quantity not quality of content. 'Become a web developer from scratch' is ~40 hours of mostly shite content and it has sold tens of thousands on Udemy.
Most people don't take their courses so content doesn't really matter.
Udemy is a flash sale coupon course platform. Some people do actually learning on it but not very many.