Unofficial Udemy Student Guide: Courses Free or Dirt Cheap
What you'll learn
- Locate and identify the best courses on a specific topic
- Get the best price when purchasing any Udemy course
- Communicate with course instructors and students
- Get the most out of your Udemy course watching experience
Requirements
- The only prerequisite for this course is a Udemy student account
Description
Hi, my name is Brian. I'm not only a Udemy instructor, I'm a student too.
In this, the beginning of my fifth year with Udemy, I've managed to acquire over 424 Udemy courses.
Now, you may think that I spent a lot of money acquiring so many courses, but you'd be wrong. You see, I obtained most of my courses for free and the rest at ridiculously low prices through the use of coupon codes.
Coupon Codes? What's that?
Don't worry, everything is explained in the course.
In this course I'll show you how to find the best courses at the best prices and then how to get the most out of each course you take.
The course is divided into the following main sections:
Evaluating the Udemy Course Catalog
Never Pay Full Price for a Udemy Course
Getting the Most Out of Your Udemy Courses
And it's all explained in under 2 hours.
Note: If you're in a rush, simply scan the lecture descriptions, which are fairly descriptive, and drop in on any lectures that interest you. Udemy course taking tip #1.
Note on the 2018 Edition:
This course has been newly updated to the 2018 version of the Udemy interface. Additionally, it includes new topics on how to find free courses on Facebook and how to get full and partial course refunds.
Meanwhile, the 2015 Edition is fully intact beginning at Section 7: Lecture 34. Please watch one edition or the other (2018 at 2 hours or 2015 at 1) but not both.
So, if you're ready to Udemy with the best of us then I'm ready to show you the tricks of the trade.
As always, good luck and happy Udemy'ing.
---Brian
Who this course is for:
- All Udemy students should take this course
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Course content
- Preview02:30
- 07:32What is Udemy and How Does it Work?
- 03:45October 2019 Udemy Coupon Changes
Instructor
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 7,430 Reviews
- 135,155 Students
- 47 Courses
I was born the middle of the last century in Los Angeles, California. After moving for a time to the Silicon Valley, I graduated from Humboldt State University amid the redwoods of Northern California.
Two weeks after graduation I was working as a computer systems programmer for Lockheed Missiles and Space (LMSC) back in the Silicon Valley. Two months after that and I was married as I have been happy ever since (for 40 years).
After 14 years at Lockheed I moved from working on IBM mainframes to using PCs running the Unix operating system and encountered a thing called the Internet. Cisco Systems seemed to be the right place to work, so I joined the company as their 650th employee. Eleven years later Cisco had grown to over 20,000 employees.
I retired at the age of 48 and instantly became bored!
Throughout my professional career I'd always enjoyed both writing and providing technical training. So, I attended creative writing classes at my local junior college and began to write.
I managed to write and self-publish a handful of books, but things didn't take off until my wife, Melanie Jackson, an established author with a New York company, left traditional publishing to join me in self-publishing.
In 10 years, from 2010 to now, Melanie and I have made half-a-million dollars self-publishing well over 100 books. I also managed to record a pair of audiobooks for Amazon and Audible sale.
By 2014, our rapid rise to Kindle fame had already dwindled. I decided to pursue my second passion of giving training presentations.
Since 2014 I've published over 48 online video training courses for training sites such as Udemy and SkillShare. My goal is to provide low cost high quality screen cast based educational material focusing on my areas of expertise; namely, self-publishing and book cover design using the GIMP. I continue to expand my video training catalog while focusing some energy on resurrecting our flagging book sales using various marketing techniques. Finally, I spend a portion of my time maintaining both my website and my wife’s website, which was developed using WordPress.
I currently live in the beautiful California wine country with my lovely wife and Butterscotch the cat.
I'll see you in the classroom,
---Brian