THE LEARNER’S PERSPECTIVE
Every learner signs up for a Udemy account. As you buy
or enroll in courses, they get saved to a page called My
Learning. Here, you can see all your courses and the
progress you’ve made with them. You can also save
courses to a wishlist when you aren’t ready to sign up
for them.
When you explore courses, you can read a detailed
description of them, including an info box with the
duration of the course, number of assets the instructor
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upon completion, and so forth. Below the description
are thumbnail images and short descriptions of similar
classes students also bought. It’s just like what you see
on an online retail site.
The meat and potatoes of every course are videos. They
can be lecture-style or tutorials. Videos typically last no
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into sections. So a course could be three hours long, but
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Student
ratings and
reviews
sometimes
help you
decide
whether a
class will be
any good.