The Great Courses

The Great Courses

By The Great Courses

  • Category: Education
  • Release Date: 2015-10-12
  • Current Version: 8.0.3
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 111.46 MB
  • Developer: The Great Courses
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Score: 4.78554
4.78554
From 17,178 Ratings
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Description

Unlock your potential with The Great Courses, the premier platform for online courses that offers a wealth of educational videos to help you explore, learn, and grow in a wide variety of subjects. The Great Courses specializes in courses taught by the world’s greatest professors and experts covering diverse topics such as history, science, math, philosophy, religion, literature, health, travel, personal & professional development, and more. It’s the place to experience the pure joy of learning—anytime, anywhere. The Great Courses ensures an engaging and enriching learning experience for all. Catering to learners of all skill levels and interests, our platform provides the flexibility to deep-dive into specific topics or explore a variety of subjects at your leisure. The Great Courses grants seamless online and offline access to our extensive library of online courses, empowering you to learn and grow at your own pace. Existing users can sign in to access their purchases and subscription content, while new users can register and subscribe directly within the app to access thousands of educational videos online and offline for one low price. Optimized for iOS 15 and higher, The Great Courses offers a variety of subscription plans, along with a Free Trial to start your educational journey. Payment Details: - Payment will be charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period - Subscriptions may be managed or canceled by accessing your Apple account - If you cancel during a Free Trial period, you will have access until the end of the trial period Privacy Policy: https://www.TheGreatCourses.com/Privacy Terms of Service: https://www.TheGreatCourses.com/TOS

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Reviews

  • Wonderful and frustrating

    4
    By Ergin Artesia
    The content is WONDERFUL and has rececently gone through a major update and remastering (thank you!). Now, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make it easy to share a link to courses AND episodes. I have several friends who also have the subscription and it is hard to recommend and link up for watching and chatting on all the wonderful material. This is an emportant part of this subscription.

  • Incredible content but the app has issues

    4
    By Joseph Faison
    I’ve been using the app for about 6 years almost everyday, through all its various incarnations. I’ve noticed the loading times have gotten slower and slower and the app has always been buggy but seems to be having more issues in the past 6 months. Is there a better place to report this kind of app specific stuff ?

  • version 8 just released

    5
    By Entrada2003
    Feb 19: Version 8 recently released, and so far so good! All working as it should.

  • Be prepared to be frustrated

    2
    By NotAnApplePerson
    The app is constantly unstable and unreliable. Your downloads disappear, settings are lost, you're forced to upgrade or logged out unexpectedly, etc. For somebody trying to listen while away from WiFi this will be a constant frustration. In addition, the depth and challenge of the material seems dumbed down since the rebranding from The Teaching Company. Still seems like the best choice for real educational material, but also a shame, given what it once was.

  • Fantastic way to keep learning

    5
    By Calculator userall the time
    There are so many different courses, the professors are fantastic and new courses are consistently being added- such a great way to continue learning! Highly recommend!

  • Great Courses, Inadequate App

    2
    By Flash Sheridan
    My wife and I have long been fans of The Great Courses, even during the dark time when it temporarily abandoned its name; this review is for the app, not the content. It is flakey in its basic functionality, even after the supposedly major 8.0 upgrade: • It often forgets the last lecture I played, resuming instead at the beginning of the previous lecture. • It usually loses my place when switching from video to audio. • It stops while playing in video mode when I lock the screen. This is a reasonable interface decision, though inappropriate for my usage in the gym. But it usually fails to resume when I press the Play button, either on the lock screen or on my headphones. I seem to have better luck if I pause the video before locking the screen.

  • New forced app update won’t open!

    1
    By Machkingbird
    My yearly subscription through apple isn’t being recognized by the app… plenty of other apps do this seemlessly, without kicking me out AND continue to recognize my subscription. Fix this ASAP!

  • v18 Breaks App Store Purchase

    5
    By snagnarok
    I was forced to update the app to the newest version. When trying to sign in by clicking “Restore Purchase” it throws up a load indicator, the does nothing.

  • Great Courses, Inadequate App

    2
    By Flash Sheridan
    My wife and I have long been fans of The Great Courses, even during the dark time when it temporarily abandoned its name; this review is for the app, not the content. It is flakey in its basic functionality: • It often forgets the last lecture I played, resuming instead at the beginning of the previous lecture. • It usually loses my place when switching from video to audio. • It stops while playing in video mode when I lock the screen. This is a reasonable interface decision, though inappropriate for my usage in the gym. But it usually fails to resume when I press the Play button, either on the lock screen or on my headphones. I seem to have better luck if I pause the video before locking the screen.

  • Forced app update deleted 90% of my downloads! New downloads basically don't work now. READ...

    1
    By PowerUserPro
    Today I opened up the app and it forced me to update to the new version. I had about 100 GB of Courses downloaded for off-line listening and watching and it deleted all but 10 GB of it! Trying to download again and downloads are basically not working. One gigabyte takes 3 hours and it's not my Internet! For that matter, the audio and video compression is not storage-efficiently encoded. Need option for lower quality but less storage space required and more efficient AV compression codec used in their files. iPhone 12, and NO I'm not buying a new phone just for your app. My phone works perfectly well for the 50 other apps I use on this phone. Downloads don't seem to even start unless I turn the Wi-Fi off and get the message saying downloads will resume when Wi-Fi is on, then I turn on Wi-Fi and that seems to trigger downloads working at a snail's pace if you turn off screen lock and keep the app in the forefront doing nothing else

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