The Great CoursesReviews of thegreatcoursesplus.com

Content great. Their app is absolute garbage. Nothing streams and always struggles to load.

Just been introduced to Great Courses Plus. My concern is about how OLD the content is: no recent videos. Is it just my perspective?: Looks like a website with a bunch of OLD videos. So much has moved on since the filming of those videos. They really need to update content. It may be that I do not know how to access the latest additions to the Website... I do hope so... as I was disappointed, to say the least...

Good but expensive!

I have purchased over the years more than three-dozen courses (DVD and guidebook), and the course materials have all been excellent. The problem I have is that since discontinuing DVDs, there is no longer a way "to own" any new courses that you would want to order. There are limited streaming options, but there is no way to download a course video (mp4) file for watching on a large screen device off line--this was possible before, so why not now? They say it's because material could be lifted (stolen) and circulated for free. Seems to me that web sites can be built today to keep that from happening. Apparently you can still download a PDF of the course book, but it's not like having a professionally printed copy. Call me old fashioned, but if you pay for a product, you should be able to own it. Unfortunately, like everything else, you can't watch anything anymore unless you're on line. That's OK until there is an internet failure or the company goes out of business. Then what? You have nothing to show for your purchases.

Yes, the geology of the NHP is quite interesting, educational and thorough. However, listening to the same teacher for 18 hours (36 1/2 hr presentations), wearing the same clothes & wrinkled cargo pants was a bit tiresome. Worst was the fact that he seemed to be over-coached in public speaking: constantly "talking" with his hands, gesturing, walking, changing camera angles. It was VERY, VERY distracting. Could use more graphics and pictures to accompany the lecture, and less studio shots.