Educative.io or Udemy? Educative.io

I published a course on Udemy.com a few years back on the topic of load testing using JMETER.

Publishing the course involved a few phases:

• Write the course material
• Upload the material on Udemy.com
• Udemy course review; Udemy asked for the material to be in different formats (text, slideshow, video) instead of just text
• Update the course as per the conclusions of the review
• Another Udemy course review
• Udemy course approval
• Course publishing

The whole process took about 4 months.

The course was online for 6 months.

Not agreeing with how Udemy marketed the course (the course original price was USD 25; Udemy could, however, decide to promote it for any other price, USD 10, USD 5, even USD 1), I decided to take it offline.

The whole experience was so disappointing.

About a year ago, a marketing person from a company unknown to me at the time (Educative.io) asked if I would be interested in writing an online course for them.

This company had a different approach to online courses. Instead of using videos or screen capture exclusively for delivering the content…