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What is Udacity?

Udacity aims to change lives, businesses, and nations by creating job-ready digital talent. With over a decade of experience creating digital talent at scale, Udacity addresses the global talent shortages impacting growth, productivity, and innovation. Udacity's curriculum, personalized mentor support, and measurable outcomes strive to create expertise with a focus on the in‑demand competencies that ensure workplace relevance.

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Udacity - great content!!

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Verified User
Manager in Professional Services (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use Udacity to obtain new cutting edge knowledge using nano degrees or similar.

Pros

  • Real life examples
  • Cutting edge knowledge base
  • Hands-on experience

Cons

  • Experience of reviewers
  • Tailored for senior professionals
  • Issues with hands-on environments

Return on Investment

  • Great ROI
  • Up to date industry knowledge

Usability

Alternatives Considered

LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com), Udemy Business and Coursera

Udacity Offers Some of the Most Dynamic and Robust Professional Learning Courses

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Joshua MelderView profile
Customer Account Manager in Corporate at Quad (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Courses are very high quality and updated regularly.
  • Instructors and Mentors are available for live tutoring.
  • Relevant projects are assigned in order to keep learning material fresh and top of mind.

Cons

  • Pricing models changed from fixed-price to subscription-based.
  • The student mentor-ship program feel like it has received cuts recently - the experience does not feel as robust or responsive as before.
  • Their Slack channels are somewhat disorganized.

Return on Investment

  • Real-world project from industry experts help train for real work scenarios.
  • Flexible learning schedules help our workers stay on task while learning new skills.
  • Real-time feedback reduces waiting periods where content can be forgotten.

Alternatives Considered

Skillsoft Academy, LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com), Coursera, Brightspace and Udemy for Business

Other Software Used

Coursera, LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com), Udemy for Business

Udacity Review

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Alex HoView profile
Data Scientist in Research & Development at Autodesk (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Practical exercises and projects definitely helps you understand how you may apply the skills and knowledge in real-world projects.
  • Strong Community where people are generally friendly and helpful for answering questions. Udacity has also made an effort to encourage engagement between all the people who are taking the same courses.
  • You can watch a video, access reading materials and attempt an exercise without leaving the Udacity environment which is definitely a plus for me.

Cons

  • Put more background, as well as objectives of some exercises to better understand why do we work on things that way.
  • Some of the projects removed the tedious work required which hide what a candidate may face during real-world projects. Instead, it might be nice to design in a way where candidates need to do more readings to get things working and do the projects.
  • All are good but would be great if they specify some Slack channels where people who have completed the courses can still get together and attempt some real-world projects together with "classmates" to continue to build their portfolios. Would be great if projects come from Kaggle or some sample projects that help the non-profits, then put them in the Github for sharing.

Return on Investment

  • Gaining more knowledge about the role
  • Gaining more exposure to new technology
  • Better confidence level with new work and opportunities

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Coursera and LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

Other Software Used

Coursera, LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

Love the machine learning courses on Udacity. They are challenging and give me confidence that I can do it.

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Tim HuntView profile
CTO in Research & Development at inWhatLanguage, LLC. (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • The online courses are very well done and cover the topics so you truly understand them and can have confidence working on the projects.
  • Their projects to validate what I learn are very challenging. I spend days on them, but in the end, they come out nice so there is a great feeling when you know you have accomplished something difficult
  • They have great responsive mentors. I have asked a few questions here and there when I get stuck and they respond quickly, it just always works out for me after I ask the question I go back to try it again and I figure it out. Still, I follow the chats and they provide a lot of good help to students.

Cons

  • When building neural networks and working with the data you have to manipulate the data or convert it into numerical forms in dictionaries, lists, numpy arrays, etc. Some of these data structures can be fairly complex. My only suggestion would be if they could provide a sample of perhaps what the head of the data file might look like as that would make it easier for me to figure out what I need to code to get to the goal. Some of the nested dictionaries in Python, which look like JSON files to me, are sometimes not as easy to visualize just from a written statement of the task to do.
  • I would also say more references to other reading materials related to what we are learning would be great. I search for a lot of them on my own, but I am never sure if I am reading the good stuff or not. Recommendations would be great.

Return on Investment

  • I am already in a great position as a CTO with a great company. I hope to be able to build some new technology with what I am learning, but I haven't applied any of it yet to my own real-world problems. I will though.

Usability

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Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Quizzes
  • Training
  • Ease of learning

Cons

  • More rigor in terms of assessments
  • More application based
  • Ability to ask more questions

Most Important Features

  • Depth of material
  • Time of completion of material
  • Strong level of offerings across many topics

Return on Investment

  • Makes everyone proactive to learn
  • Good resource to work with
  • Price point

Alternatives Considered

Skillsoft Academy

Other Software Used

Skillsoft Academy, Khan Academy, Coursera