[afs27]

I noticed a lot of the courses I was looking at on Coursera seemed to be from universities and the ones on Udemy looked like they were more from companies (Google, etc.) or professionals from different organizations. Is that a fair assessment?

[arnvald]

Coursera also has a number of courses provided by companies, even by Google (https://www.coursera.org/google-career-certificates).

You're right that Coursera has content from universities, on the other hand Udemy has individual instructors (and anyone can become an instructor). Also Coursera has a lot of free content - not sure if 100%, but a large number of courses offers the content for free, you only need to pay if you want to do assignments and get a certificate.

Oh, and Coursera does not have 90% off promos every other week, unlike Udemy

[afs27]

Thanks for the response, this is helpful because I’m trying to find a good online writing course and haven’t landed on anything solid, so that’s why I was looking between these two. I’ll have to look at the free options in Coursera a little closer.

[abhi_arora]

I'm in Tech Consulting with a background in Computer Science (specifically Data Science) and I'd have to say that the courses on Udemy are much more aligned with how things are done in the industry.

And yes, most of the courses that I have taken there are taught by professionals with industry experience.