My courses at Udemy on law, cyberlaw, cybersecurity, and more
I now have six courses on Udemy, which is a learning platform where anyone can build a course, and anyone can take a course.
I realized I had invested a lot of time building knowledge, content, and resources in my formal (but part time) teaching of students at the undergraduate, graduate, and law school level.
I decided to start putting some of them out to a broader audience.
Then I wrote a new book and decided to build a course on that too.
So now I have courses on:
- Law
- Cyberlaw
- Cybersecurity
- Privacy
- Policies
- Learning.
Quick descriptions of my Udemy courses
Here are the full titles and a brief description of each course:
Introduction to Law in the U.S. (for most non-lawyers). Learn about law (civil, criminal, and more), our legal system, and our system of government in the United States. This is introductory law for non-lawyers.
CIPP/US privacy course for lawyers and law students. Help study for the Certified Information Privacy Professional United States Exam. This course was designed for lawyers and law students to learn about privacy and prepare for the CIPP/US exam. Many non-lawyers are taking it too.
How to learn, study, take an exam, write, and research (free). This is a quick free course on basics to improve your skills learning, studying, taking a test, writing, and researching.
Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Prevention for your Home and Organization (free). A quick free course on cybersecurity basics across the broad spectrum of cybersecurity (someday to be expanded into a fuller paid course and new book).
Cyberlaw: Law for digital spaces and information systems. A free course on cyberlaw: traditional law and how it is applied to digital spaces, data law, and more (someday to be expanded into a fuller paid course and new book).
Policies and Procedures for your Organization. A course based on my 2024 book, Policies and Procedures for Your Organization, Build solid governance documents on any topic … including cybersecurity
Other courses coming someday? Criminal justice?
Coupon codes
Remember to check for periodic coupon codes from either me (see my website) or Udemy, and shop around so you get the best price. Coupons expire and have redemption limits. Udemy has periodic sales and does “dynamic pricing” which means the displayed list price fluctuates. More on pricing at my site.
More on each course
More details on each course is available at my website or at the course description on Udemy.
Why did I build them?
I have spent many years of teaching and building courses and trainings for academic institutions and professional audiences on topics such as cyberlaw, cybersecurity, cybercrime, privacy, policies, and more. This reaches learners at the undergraduate, graduate, law school, and professional level. Each semester and each speaking engagement I refine my materials.
I have been teaching since 2017, over many iterations, putting a lot of effort into my materials, refining them each semester. But I only reach a relative few number of people each year. I asked myself if I should try to reach more.
While teaching these students, I also realized we can all improve our general skills for learning, researching, and writing. So I created resources for that.
People should have solid, reliable information about:
· Law
· Cyberlaw
· Cybersecurity
· Cybercrime
· Privacy
· Criminal justice
· Organization governance and policy work
· Basic skills for learning, writing, researching
· Other topics.
So I tried Udemy as a platform to share.
In this online setting, my lectures are planned, recorded, and then available for anyone who desires to see it, anywhere in the world. The content I have built over the years becomes available to more people. Maybe they will benefit from it.
And I don’t have to grade (a part of formal teaching which is not fun).
Edutainment?
If you are looking for entertainment, comedy routines, sensationalism, fancy graphics, and awesome video editing, my courses are not for you.
I provide no-nonsense information and knowledge with bullet point PowerPoint slides, trying to pack the most important nuggets into a lecture which might run 10 to 20 minutes. That can exceed an attention span and get boring for some.
I am not an entertainer, and I never will be. I will never have a Netflix comedy special, I will never perform in SoFi stadium much less sell it out. I can barely edit a video (though some day I hope to gain competence there). I simply provide a lecture on a topic with my PowerPoint as a visual aid, and provide supplementary reading materials. That’s pretty much it.
The courses aren’t for everyone, but are for some. Reminds me of that great country song from Brothers Osborne.
Visit my site to learn more
To learn more, visit my website landing page at https://johnbandler.com/udemy-courses/
Or visit my Udemy instructor page at https://www.udemy.com/user/john-bandler-2/
Conclusion
With Udemy, my content has a broader platform now (beyond the undergraduate, graduate, and law schools where I teach).
It is incredible that my totals are approaching 3,000 students as of July 2024, and the numbers keep rising, and the feedback is mostly positive.
This article was adapted from my article on my website at https://johnbandler.com/udemy-courses/, where I also include links to all the courses, more descriptions, occasional coupon codes, and it will be more complete and current and with improved formatting.
Copyright John Bandler all rights reserved.
Posted to Medium on 07/12/2024 based on my earlier article on my website. Last updated here on 07/12/2024.
