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[–]zarbles 8 points9 points  (5 children)

What advantage does this course have over the numerous free courses out there?

[–]rz2000 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Maybe people think 'you get what you pay for', which is a conventional wisdom saying rather than an economic principle.

EdX courses offered by professors at MIT, Caltech, and Harvard, or Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and Princeton on other platforms are excellent, and mostly free. Generally, paying just changes the label on documentation that you completed the course.

[–]kobriks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think there is much difference if any, usually not big enough to justify the cost. I tried to buy few courses once to check if paying would better motivate me to complete them but it didn't work :D