Guide to the Hive and Steem Ecosystems Udemy Course
Hi Everyone,
I have updated my ‘Guide to the Steem Ecosystem’ Udemy course. It is now the ‘Guide to the Hive and Steem Ecosystems’. The course was original published on Udemy in November 2019. In March 2020, Steem was hardforked and Hive was created. The content in the course more closely relates to Hive than it does to Steem. However, all the references in the videos are to Steem. The course contained over 14 hours of video content. Therefore, recreating all the videos for the purpose of name changes does not seem worth while at this time. There is also the problem of adding new videos to free courses on Udemy. Udemy has changed their rules so that free course are only allowed a maximum of 2 hours of video content. If an existing course has over 2 hours it will remain free, as long as no additional videos are added.
See advice provided by Udemy.
Please note: If you elect to keep an existing free course as free, and it exceeds the new 2-hour video length policy, you are not allowed to make modifications to the course content. If you add or change any videos in that existing free course, you will be required to make your course paid.
Source: Udemy
Therefore, I would need to charge for the course. I would rather the course remain free so that as many people as possible will enrol.
My approach
Therefore, I am not going to add any new videos. Instead, I have added PDFs of slides containing the Hive alternatives to Steem. For example, Hive Blog instead of Steemit, PeakD instead of SteemPeak, BeeMe instead of Steem World, hiveblocks.com instead of steemd.com and several others. Altogether, I have added around 50 PDFs of slides containing information about Hive. The PDFs are added as additional resources to the videos describing the same subject matter but in the context of Steem. I have also updated the multiple-choice questions and added a few more questions relating directly to Hive. Altogether, the course contains 64 multiple-choice questions.
To access this course click the link below
My next Hive Udemy course
The Guide to the Hive and Steem Ecosystem course is intended to be a one-stop course for everything relating to Hive. The course will not function as a major on boarding tool for Hive. A much shorter course would probably be more appropriate for that purpose. I focused on the longer type of course for Steem as there were plenty of Steem short courses. These have not been established for Hive yet. Therefore, I will create a simple under 2-hour course explaining what I believe to be the most attractive features of Hive and how to use them.
More posts
If you want to read any of my other posts, you can click on the links below. These links will lead you to posts containing my collection of works. These 'Collection of Works' posts have been updated to contain links to the Hive versions of my posts.
Future of Social Media
Splendid, truth is I didn't know udemy limits the video content of free courses to two hours, what could really be the reason to this?
My! It's been a while I've read any of your post it's been a tough two weeks for me needless to say.
Truth is, you were right, it's not worth doing something different for hive since the system almost works the same and it's only a few name change here and there like BeeMe for steelworld. Like you said the PDF and slides will actually give a lot of information especially of one has gone through the course already on the steem ecosystem.
I'll hop in soon to read the previous post soonest. Cheers.
Udemy made this change earlier this year. Udemy want instructors to charge for courses so that they can earn revenue from them. I didn't create this course to earn from directly but instead provide a useful resource for anyone to learn more about Steem and now Hive. I think it is important for Hive to gain exposure on Udemy as some of the content creators on that platform might find Hive useful for them to present some of their content.
Exactly, I thinking making it free will make it more freer to be accessible and if course the More exposure means the More people will get to know steem and hive the Blockchain. Well, is there a way to like share the course on other social medias? I'm completely ignorant of how udemy works.
@spectrumecons, Keep up with this Knowledge Transfer work and hope that your efforts will educate new users about both of these Blockchain Platforms.
Good wishes from my side and stay blessed.
Thanks for your support @chireerocks.
Welcome.