Most of students are not willing to pay 100-200$ on Udemy for not accredited courses (including me) eventhough in many cases created by professionals with hands on experience in their fields. Udemy courses don't have graded assignments, exams, essays or accredation which reduces course credibility but drives also price much lower than on other learning platforms (university-like courses as EdX, Coursera or Udacity).
Provided certificate after the course completion doesn't have significant or credible value for employers as it's only certificate of achievement and as such doesn't guarantee you really went through all modules and gained all the knowledge presented in the course. These are the reasons why many learners would not invest 100-200$ per course (I believe many of Udemy courses realy have this value). On the other hand Udemy courses focuse more on hands on experience rather than on theory (watch-repeat-practice approach, where it gives you necessary basic experience if you do follow all course materials and guidelines).
Example 1) Udemy has more than 50 millions students (isn't better to get 10$ from 98% of students than 200$ from 2% of them - not mentioning how happy will be those 98% of students who didn't spend so much and will come back for another course).
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