Ziplines
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Overpriced and Underdelivered
I’ve taken a number of online courses, and this AI Prompting course from Ziplines Education was the most disappointing—especially for the price and university affiliation. This was a recorded online course. Two of the instructors really stood out: Danoosh Kapadia and Megan Dixon. They offered clear, helpful instruction. Other instructors had good info, but, for me, lacked engagement. There were also weekly live sessions, but my live instructor seemed unprepared and disorganized, often repeating content and ignoring participant needs. Frequent distractions on her end made it worse. The assignments were tedious and poorly aligned with learning AI. Instead of exploring and improving our AI prompting and use skills, the assignments required A LOT of cutting, pasting, and formatting answers to questions into a slide deck. It was so archaic! Only the final project offered real depth. It's a shame that it came so late in the game. Feedback was almost non-existent, which is something I would expect from any "executive-level" class with this price tag. The value simply wasn’t there. I’ve taken free or low-cost courses that were far more useful and engaging.