The WebRTC Courses are undergoing a transition, one which will take them to their 4th phase. Here’s what is changing and why.
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TL;DR
Here are the changes that have taken place:
- WebRTC: The Missing Codelab is now free for all
- WebRTC developer courses and the bundle got a price reduction
- WebRTC Tooling now includes a module for Built with WebRTC interviews
- Supporting WebRTC course now has quizzes in it
- All WebRTC eBooks are now part of the ALL INCLUDED developers plan
A few changes in the works:
- A free module should be released soon from the WebRTC Security & Privacy Essentials course
- I am migrating the Slack courses workspace to my new portal (soon)
- Philipp and myself are contemplating a new course. Maybe. We’ll see
🎁 There’s an additional discount, if you’re quick about it 😉 (see below)
My WebRTC courses, in phases
I want to take the time to share with you the path I took with these courses, as this was never really planned. It just… came to be.
If you’re interested in understanding how I got here, to having more than 1,700 paying students and likely 5,000+ non-paying ones, then read below. In a way, this would not have been possible without you.
Phase 1: Inception
The courses started somewhere in 2016. I was in the process of moving to a new apartment with my family and I noticed that the trickle of consulting clients has slowed down somewhat. My focus was elsewhere (in the new place) and with it, the amount of work I had to do.
With the free time that came with it, and the need for a way to feed the family, I decided to start off with a course – I called it Advanced WebRTC Architecture course. It is still the main pillar of my developer courses, undergoing changes on a quarterly basis.
To that, I later added my WebRTC Tooling course, meant to add a bit more depth in areas that just didn’t seem right in the architecture course.
Life was good. Until Philipp decided to knock on my door, making it even better.
Phase 2: Partnership
A few years back, Philipp Hancke approached me, asking if I was interested in doing a codelab for WebRTC together – since the “official one” was lacking.
I said yes, and we set out to create our WebRTC: The missing codelab course. This resulted in a long and fruitful partnership with Philipp that I am very happy about.
We later on expanded this to additional courses as well as to our WebRTC Insights service.
Phase 3: Expansion
Then we expanded the courses to cover more WebRTC topics and for more specific audiences in a way.
The Supporting WebRTC course was born, to assist those dealing with… well… supporting users with their problems.
Then, with Phlipp Hancke again, we’ve introduced two protocols courses and a security course, deepening into areas and topics that have never been touched in such a way in any other training we’ve seen out there.
We have a few more ideas of additional courses that we might or might not add in the future.
Phase 4: Openness
Here we are today. This year, we’ve made a decision.
Open up and make available top notch training around WebRTC to more people. We are doing that in two main ways:
- We’ve made the Codelab free. It is available both on the courses website and on YouTube directly (the YouTube one is lacking the exercises)
- There’s a change in our pricing for the developer courses:
All developer courses are now 25-50% cheaper, with the ALL INCLUDED bundle~30% cheaper as well.
Oh, and the ALL INCLUDED bundle? It now includes also all WebRTC related eBooks on the courses site.
All courses include 1 year of access. Renewing for an additional year was at 50% of the price list. This is now changing to 25% of the price list. And yes – these courses get updated frequently, along with the changes to the protocol, the browsers and our understanding of how to use these in the real world.
Free courses and modules
There are now 2 full blown free courses, along with a new module that will be released freely in the near future:
- WebRTC Basics, which has been a free course for quite some time now
- WebRTC: The Missing Codelab, which is now free
- We plan to soon release one of the modules in our Security & Privacy Essentials course freely as well
Again, the purpose is for more developers to experience WebRTC and use it. And if you end up liking our free courses, you are bound to love our other available courses here.
Additional resources and materials
In the past year, I’ve made the usual rounds of adding resources and updating course lessons on a regular basis.
On top of that, the following bigger changes took place:
- WebRTC Tooling course now includes a new module called “Built with WebRTC”. I am interviewing vendors on specific areas of WebRTC and their own learnings and experiences. There are now 7 such lessons with a new one being added about every 2 months
- Supporting WebRTC course now inclues quizzes on many of the lessons. This adds to the learning experience and enables you to validate you understand the materials
Upcoming portal
I am now working on migrating away from the Slack workspace. It has served me well, but I think a better experience is needed.
We recently introduced a new portal for the WebRTC Insights service. It is such a success, that it just made sense to create something along the same lines for the courses – this will be coming soon.
🎁 One more thing…
Ok. Here’s the thing.
There’s a price change taking place, and what would be better than enjoying an additional price cut while at it?
Since we’re in the beginning of summer, and I’ll be off on a short vacation soon as well, here’s the deal:
- All courses have an additional 15% discount for their individual plans
- What do you need to do? Use coupon code CHANGES2025 on checkout
- This is valid until July 31… Here today. Gone tomorrow