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.
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If this app doesn’t save the world then nothing else can. It should be accessible to every student and teacher around the world. “Knowledge makes man unfit to be a slave”. I cannot thank the course provider enough for putting this app together. When ever I need a reason to hope I think about all of the great work that has gone into the creation of this material and suddenly everything seems possible again.
Content good but app truly terrible
Chalkylicious
The courses I have downloaded are great, but the iPad app is a very poor experience. Firstly, there is no way to quickly get back to where you were when you closed the app. No way of just going straight to where you left off, you have to search through the courses you’ve downloaded and try and remember what file you were watching. Secondly, the video control buttons will often completely disappear with no way of pausing or stopping the feed without closing the app. Even if you try and pause it in the iPad notification slide-down it instantly starts playing again - and even if you decide you don’t need to pause anything there is a big Apple QuickTime logo in the middle of the screen that says it’s broken. The developers of this app clearly didn’t bother testing it. If you want to consume the material you really need to do so on another device
Poorly designed app serving great educational content
BertheMorissot
This app is truly user-unfriendly. First, every time you stop playing and later go back to the app, you are faced with visually cluttered home screen, where you have to strain to locate the “Continue watching” row of thumbnails (fifth or sixth from the top), then go to the desired programme. Just go straight back to where I left it, please! If you want to download episodes for future viewing or listening, or remove there downloads of episodes you have listened to already, you have to exit the player mode (which stops the playback). And many other poorly thought-through design choices.
The service is 5 stars, the Apple TV app is 1 star
DreamcasterUK
Cringeworthy name aside, the “Wondrium” service is great.Not so great is their Apple TV companion app. The TV app is imho the absolute best way to watch their lectures, but they clearly treat it as a bit of an afterthought and don’t put a lot of effort into making it the best possible user experience.With the apple tv app, the audio constantly goes out of sync with the video stream and you have to exit the lecture and play it again to correct the issue. Nor can you organise your watchlist to easily find your favourite lectures. Most infuriatingly of all the Apple TV app constantly, constantly, CONSTANTLY logs you out for absolutely no good reason, meaning I have to scrabble around trying to finding my password and go through the chore of having to enter it again. It’s (almost) enough to make me want to change it to something easy to remember, that is also obvious and easy to guess for somebody so inclined.For the last reason alone the app gets only 1 star from me.
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Information
Provider
TEACHING COMPANY, LLC
Size
125.7 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
