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Monday, May 17, 2021

Udemy vs Educative Review? Which is better Website for Beginners?

Hello guys, if you are wondering the difference between Udemy and Educative and whether you should take Udemy courses or join the Educative platform to learn new tech skills, you have come to the right place. Earlier, I have shared a comparison between Pluralsight and Udemy as well as CodeCademy vs Pluralsight in this article, I will compare Udemy with Educative, a new text-based, interactive learning platform. While I have often said that Udemy is my favorite platform because you can get high-quality and comprehensive courses from top instructors for just $9.9, which is phenomenal. 

Udemy has made learning affordable for all people worldwide, but when I discovered Educative.io, I got really impressed with the instructor and learning experience it provides using its cutting-edge interactive platform. 

Learning new skills in today's world has become crucial for your career and life. It makes you the ability and smart to understand faster and solve many of your life problems easily and helps your brain acquire analytical thinking skills and more. 

For this reason, many platforms out there such as Udemy, Pluralsight, Coursera, edX, CodeCademy, Linkedin Learning,  etc. come into the world helpings students connect with instructors and acquire new skills everyday online without any need to waste that much time and money going to universities and make it accessible for everyone and some of the best platforms that I will discuss with you in today's article are Udemy and Educative.io.

In today's article, you will see the differences between those two platforms in many things to decide now which platform will be the best to fit your requirement to spend your time learning new skills.




Udemy vs. Educative? Which is better to learn Tech Skills

While both platforms have a good collection of tech-related courses, we will compare both platforms on things like learning experience, price, and value for money so that you can make an informed decision to choose the right course for your learning need. 

1. Udemy

Udemy is one of the biggest marketplaces where instructor around the world can share their knowledge in the shape of online courses to millions of students in every industry you can think of, such as programs like web development, building a mobile application for business, and how to run a successful marketing campaign.

The platform allows anyone to be an instructor and share his passion with people for the price he wants but sometimes udemy runs Udemy sales at a certain time and on holidays and makes it very cheap for students to buy courses at an affordable price like making 90% discounts in some time.

In every course, the instructors can put videos and text to explain the subjects and quizzes so students can check their knowledge while progressing in the course, which is a nice thing to have on this platform.

Since the platform allows anyone to create courses and teaches others new skills, sometimes, you get stuck to finding the best course or instructor for you to start learning because some instructor focuses on making money rather than the quality of their courses, so you need to be careful picking up the right course for you.

If you are interested to know the best instructors in udemy, here are some of them on the platform John Purcell for software development, Rob Percival for web development, and Jose Portilla, the creator of many successful courses such as of The Python Bootcamp course for learning 


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2. Educative.io

Educative.io is also a platform and a marketplace founded in 2015 for learning new skills related to information technology such as python programming language, web development, mobile application, machine learning, security, test automation, and much more you can explore the platform.

The platform has many famous courses to learn like Grokking the System Design Interview, which is a course preparing you for an interview for a system design things like database and microservices. also this course called Grokking the Coding Interview helps you solve problems in the coding interview like finding patterns in the code and fix them and many other courses you will explore in the platform. 

Unlike udemy, which offers videos for their students, educative.io allows only text-based courses because they believe that reading is much faster than watching videos, and the good thing that the platform allows also to run the code in an online environment so you don’t have to download any additional software to start learning.

Educative.io also allows people to teach on their platform, but only qualified instructors with experience and not anyone can submit a course on their platform. 

Also, it provides two ways for enrolling in their courses; you an either join this course individually or you can join them through an Educative subscription which is $14.99 for now while I writing this article, and you can watch unlimited courses or buy a single course like udemy and have fun learning new skills.

Educative vs Udemy Review




Difference between Udemy and Educative Platform

Now that you know the strength and USP of both Udemy and Educative let's revise the differences between both of these platforms. 

1. Number of Courses
Udemy has more number courses than Educative, more than 120K courses as compared to 250+ courses on Educative. This means you have more options to choose from, but this choice is not easy as Udemy also has a lot of low-quality courses, but if you can do some research and find the right course then Udemy is really great. I usually buy a lot of great courses during their for $9.9 Udemy Sale where you can get a $200 sale for just $9.9. 


2. Text vs Video
Udemy is all about Video courses, they do have practice tests as well I have created a Java 11 Certification test on Udemy, but they are mostly a video course platform. On the other hand, Educative is a text-based and interactive platform. This means you can execute code without downloading any software. Reading is also faster than watching videos; that's why Educative courses provide a faster learning experience. 


3. Quality of Courses
As I said, Udemy is a marketplace and has so many courses which include both top qualities as well as low-quality stuff, so you need to do a bit of research before you join any Udemy course. For example, you can watch previews, and if you find previews interesting and watch them without getting bored then it's a good sign to join the course. On the other hand, Educative courses are more polished, especially their Grokking Courses, are the best resources to prepare for coding interviews. 


4. Learning Experience
Udemy provides a visual learning experience which is great and many beginners will appreciate it but they don't provide you an online coding platform where you can write code and get feedback immediately. Since beginner often struggles to set up their own development environment and make mistakes while the following instructors, I think having the ability to run code right on your browser makes Educative a better learning platform for beginners. 


5. Pricing
Udemy follows per course model. I mean you can buy individual courses, they also have a business plan, and they are considering a personal plan, but at the moment it's all about buying individual courses. The USP of Udemy is that you can get a 200$ course for just $9.9, which is not possible anywhere else. 

On the other hand, Educative allows you to buy a single course or get access to all of their courses via an Educative subscription which is also very affordable at $14.99 per month for 250+ courses.  I highly recommend beginners join Educative to learn new tech skills. 

Udemy vs Educative Review



This is all of what I have for the comparison between two of the best platform in learning udemy and educative, and now you can choose which one is the best for you based on what your needs like if you intend to learn things related to programming then I highly suggest educative.io and if you are preparing for a job interview in a software engineer. Besides that, Udemy is also good for courses like business, marketing, self-development, etc.


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Thanks for reading this article so far. If you like this comparison between Pluralsight and Codecademy or any other online learning platform, then please share it with your friends and colleagues; they will appreciate it. If you have any questions or feedback, then please drop a note.

P. S. - If you are looking for free online courses to learn new tech,   skills then you can also check out this list of free Educative Courses which you can use to learn Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and other in-demand programming languages. 

By javin paul at May 17, 2021
Labels: best of javarevisited , educative , Udemy

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