Udemy classes recomendations (or YouTube)

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Udemy classes recomendations (or YouTube)

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Has anyone taken a good udemy class? Or good YouTube links. On personal finance, investing, retirment planning or something else.
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Never heard of the company, but that means nothing!

OP, I am posting a link to the site for those of us unfamiliar with the company.

https://www.udemy.com/

There certainly is a wide offering of courses.

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Thanks for posting the link.
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I would recommend EdX over Coursera or Udemy.

Finance for Everyone: Smart Tools for Decision-Making from the University of Michigan on EdX
https://www.edx.org/course/finance-ever ... -fin101x-1

EdX https://www.edx.org/ and Coursera https://www.coursera.org/ have online, searchable course catalogs to help find the classes that would interest you. YouTube is OK if you want to learn a task or concept that can be taught in a 15 minute video... calculating asset returns in Excel, for example.
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Thanks I'll check out edx
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GLState wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:06 am I would recommend EdX over Coursera or Udemy.

Finance for Everyone: Smart Tools for Decision-Making from the University of Michigan on EdX
https://www.edx.org/course/finance-ever ... -fin101x-1

EdX https://www.edx.org/ and Coursera https://www.coursera.org/ have online, searchable course catalogs to help find the classes that would interest you. YouTube is OK if you want to learn a task or concept that can be taught in a 15 minute video... calculating asset returns in Excel, for example.
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Done bunch of udemy, edx, coursera, pluralsight, udacity, youtube - mostly technology focussed.
For tech topics(not degree courses) - pluralsight has best content; but doesn't cover everything. Think of investing few days or week to learn something. Udemy is hit or miss depending on author as there seems to be no gating mechanism for who they allow to put up course - I have some good success with it. I have tried non-tech finance related few ones on udemy, but again quality is not very good - makes sense since the people who are successful in finance will not be selling $10 courses on internet....

coursera/edx is good for degree level courses - think of investing months to learn something.
udacity has good quality and content, but costs more.
youtube is good for one off items - you will spend more time if you want to master a subject; plus with recent push to their paid sub, you get tired watching irrelevant ads.

You have to try out based on what is important to you - now a days there is overload of everything so you want to look for good quality/relevance/updated courses.
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techrover wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:51 am Done bunch of udemy, edx, coursera, pluralsight, udacity, youtube - mostly technology focussed.
For tech topics(not degree courses) - pluralsight has best content; but doesn't cover everything. Think of investing few days or week to learn something. Udemy is hit or miss depending on author as there seems to be no gating mechanism for who they allow to put up course - I have some good success with it. I have tried non-tech finance related few ones on udemy, but again quality is not very good - makes sense since the people who are successful in finance will not be selling $10 courses on internet....

coursera/edx is good for degree level courses - think of investing months to learn something.
udacity has good quality and content, but costs more.
youtube is good for one off items - you will spend more time if you want to master a subject; plus with recent push to their paid sub, you get tired watching irrelevant ads.

You have to try out based on what is important to you - now a days there is overload of everything so you want to look for good quality/relevance/updated courses.
Any classes you would recommend?
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Boglehead Rick Van Ness also provides classes.

https://financinglife.org/


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The Finance for Everyone: Smart Tools for Decision-Making that you are now taking has a much longer version on Coursera https://www.coursera.org/specialization ... investment. The class on EdX is a free class that the instructor wanted to offer on Coursera but they wouldn't allow it. The Coursera class was once a 10 or 12 week free class, but has since been divided up into a Specialization with a charge for each class. IMO...the quality of Coursera classes has went down over the past couple of years, with some missing materials and with no staff available to fix problems.

Here is one of the few online personal finance courses. https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-planning. I don't remember taking this so can't comment on the quality or materials.

These are some of the investing type classes that I enjoyed.... Note: most of these Coursera are no longer free.

Investments I: Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation https://www.coursera.org/learn/investments-fundamentals
Investments II: Lessons and Applications for Investors https://www.coursera.org/learn/investments-applications

Investment and Portfolio Management Specialization https://www.coursera.org/specialization ... management ....All of the classes in this Specialization were great. Great instructor and videos. However, the assignments were often missing or broken with no staff or TAs available to fix anything. I took this some time ago, so hopefully they have got their act together. I would still recommend the 4 classes in this Specialization.

If you want to learn importing data, calculating Stock returns or bond prices, portfolio optimization, Sharpe ratios, etc. using R or Python, Data Camp is a good place to start. https://www.datacamp.com/ Lots of tutorials/classes on various subjects. Datacamp is "all you can learn" for $29/month. I usually wait until they have number of new classes which interest me and reinstate my membership for a couple of months when I have free time.
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RDHlooking4FIRE

Any classes you would recommend?
I haven't done lot of personal finance courses(did mostly technology ones such as Ethereum, Deep Learning) on udemy, so don't have much to recommend. The closest one comes to the course on Quickbooks which I took couple years back to understand the internals - https://www.udemy.com/quickbooks-2015-c ... 4/overview It was a good intro, but had to figure my way around later on. This person charges lot more for same course on web so there is some benefit to using udemy.
The courses also have 30 day money back guarantee so you should get money back if you get a bad tutor.
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I almost made a course for Udemy, but decided to use a different platform instead. The issue with Udemy is they have a hard cap on how much you can charge for a course, then they turn around and sell it for 70% off and only give you half of the remaining 30%. I decided I wasn't willing to have something I spent so much time and effort on sold for the price of a book. I suspect many other course creators feel the same and that may affect the quality of the courses you find on the platform. I may do a shorter course for that platform some other time and see if their marketing machine really can sell any more than I can sell myself. It would be a reasonable place to publish a course if you didn't want to make anything on it. But now that I've done one and seen how much work goes into it, I'm not willing to do that. Even retiree Rick Van Ness, who does a ton of work for little to nothing, doesn't use Udemy.
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