INTRO:
Skillshare is an online learning and education platform. It offers students the ability to learn various different skills that they can then use in either their career or personal lives, depending on the situation.
Skillshare, however, focuses on the actual variety instead of sticking to a single topic and neglecting other categories. This is a welcome change indeed! It makes the user feel more included, even if he or she isn’t planning on learning the main, promoted subject.
USER EXPERIENCE:
One of the very first aspects that we’ll try to analyze and look into will be the usage of the platform. Or, in other words, just how user-friendly and accessible the site actually is.
Skillshare is pretty simple and nice to use - it’s intuitive and doesn’t overwhelm you with buttons, banners, popups and so on.
QUALITY OF THE CONTENT:
he vast majority of the courses seem to be professionally made and informative.
A lot of Skillshare reviews highlight the fact that any of the courses are very basic, and they place this in the “cons” section.
However, an issue that was put forth in some Skillshare reviews was that some instructors don’t disclose whether the course is aimed at beginners or advanced level students.
FEATURES:
The very first thing that stands out as unique and interesting in Skillshare are team-based courses. These are designed for businesses to help them with team-building exercises and efficiency management.
Skillshare promises that each and every single course on their platform requires students to work on a project as they learn the subject material.
This way, you not only get the theoretical information about the subject that interests you, but also get a chance to create your very first project right as you finish the course.
PRICE:
While other online education platforms allow users to simply purchase individual courses for the price tags that were set by the instructors themselves, Skillshare offers a subscription-based model of pricing.
The site offers two types of subscriptions - a free one and a premium one. The free “subscription” allows you to interact with all of the free content on the site - comparatively, there isn’t all that much of it, to begin with.
However, once you purchase the premium subscription, you “get access to more than 25,000 classes”. The premium plan costs $16 USD per month or $96 USD billed once a year (you would save 42% in the long run with this once-a-year investment).