CodeLesson — Online Technology Learning for Professionals(codelesson.com)
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CodeLesson — Online Technology Learning for Professionals
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I can't speak about the site or the quality of the instructors but i have nothing but appreciation for Charles Max Wood, the instructor for the Ruby and Rails course. I think he also conducts the ruby programming language course.
Check out his free online videos on rails at www.teachmetocode.com. They are free and will probably give you a good idea about the pace at which he conducts his online classes.
Charles teaches Rails; Peter Cooper teaches the Ruby language.
I'm a founder of CodeLesson and also an instructor. Happy to answer questions here or privately at my username at gmail.
I'm a founder of CodeLesson and also an instructor. Happy to answer questions here or privately at my username at gmail.
How can I become an instructor?
Most of our instructors are domain experts in the languages or platforms that they teach. Nearly all have extensive experience teaching or writing (most are book authors).
A few of our courses have been suggested by users (there's a form for that here: http://codelesson.com/courses/suggest). We also sometimes list courses that don't have instructors yet; those course pages contain an "Instructors Need" link you can use to let us know you'd like to teach.
To teach on the site, it helps us if you have a complete CodeLesson profile, including LinkedIn and Twitter links if you have them.
A few of our courses have been suggested by users (there's a form for that here: http://codelesson.com/courses/suggest). We also sometimes list courses that don't have instructors yet; those course pages contain an "Instructors Need" link you can use to let us know you'd like to teach.
To teach on the site, it helps us if you have a complete CodeLesson profile, including LinkedIn and Twitter links if you have them.
Why hide the pricing behind a link that just reveals it inline?
The pricing isn't bad... it's just unusual to hide it.
The pricing isn't bad... it's just unusual to hide it.
We're not hiding it -- just keeping it out of the way.
The principal user intention on the course page is to learn about what's in the course and who's teaching it. Most of our courses have multiple discounts; there's not always a single price.
Early testing and user feedback revealed that students found a giant price list to be confusing to navigate, so the choice was to either get rid of the discounts or make the list less obtrusive. Subsequent testing suggested that we made the correct choice.
The principal user intention on the course page is to learn about what's in the course and who's teaching it. Most of our courses have multiple discounts; there's not always a single price.
Early testing and user feedback revealed that students found a giant price list to be confusing to navigate, so the choice was to either get rid of the discounts or make the list less obtrusive. Subsequent testing suggested that we made the correct choice.