I’ve set up a course on Udemy last October. I have not tried the rest so I’ll just talk about Udemy.
The key thing about Udemy is that it does all the sales for you, which is a HUGE deal if you are just starting out and have little credentials/followings in the MOOC space.
Udemy works on a flash sales model. They regularly give large discounts (90%, 95% etc), especially to their existing student pool. Students pay a one-off fee per course for lifetime access. There are a lot of cross-course selling going on. This model will be favourable for you if your course has a broad target audience. You should expect low revenue per student + high student count.
If you want to build specialised course and charge high fees per student, Udemy is not the place for you. You can try to host your own course on platforms such as usefedora.com (startupclass.co is hosted here!) or patience.io.
Many of the top courses on Udemy have a common theme. They either directly or indirectly teach students to make money. Two styles seem to work best: 1) A course that teaches many skills/topics (eg. Web dev course that teaches HTML, CSS, PHP, JS etc) 2) A course that goes in depth into one skill/topic (eg. Swift, Amazon E-commerce).
Top earners in Udemy can make 50k to 100k a month. Doubt you can earn that from platforms that run on a student subscription model.
The key thing about Udemy is that it does all the sales for you, which is a HUGE deal if you are just starting out and have little credentials/followings in the MOOC space.
Udemy works on a flash sales model. They regularly give large discounts (90%, 95% etc), especially to their existing student pool. Students pay a one-off fee per course for lifetime access. There are a lot of cross-course selling going on. This model will be favourable for you if your course has a broad target audience. You should expect low revenue per student + high student count.
If you want to build specialised course and charge high fees per student, Udemy is not the place for you. You can try to host your own course on platforms such as usefedora.com (startupclass.co is hosted here!) or patience.io.
Many of the top courses on Udemy have a common theme. They either directly or indirectly teach students to make money. Two styles seem to work best: 1) A course that teaches many skills/topics (eg. Web dev course that teaches HTML, CSS, PHP, JS etc) 2) A course that goes in depth into one skill/topic (eg. Swift, Amazon E-commerce).
Top earners in Udemy can make 50k to 100k a month. Doubt you can earn that from platforms that run on a student subscription model.