BrainStation

I found BrainStation when looking for a Canadian educational platform that would fit with my full time work schedule, and provide a certification in Product Management; something I haven't seen widely offered.
BrainStation absolutely delivered.
I took... Read More a 5 week course, but there were multiple other options for different schedules. This one was ideal for me since it was on Sundays only. Though, if you're looking for less lengthy classes (these were from 10:30-5:30) you can take more classes over 10 weeks :)
Andy and Chloe, our profs, were extremely knowledgeable with tons of real life experience and delivered all the information I could possibly have wanted, in a digestible and fun format.
I am considering taking more classes with BrainStation in the future and cannot recommend them enough to anyone else looking to learn :)

I took the Part Time Data Science course with BrainStation and it was an amazing experience since the start. The school was quick and very responsive at getting back to me about my initial general questions about the course. The learning advisor was awesome... Read More in helping me out on choosing the right path and suggesting alternative. The whole experience before starting the course was great too. The school has an online meeting that prepares you for your first day and it’s very thorough. All the questions are answered there or through a really efficient Slack channel. The course was quite intense, given the amount the material that was being covered, but very well done. The teacher was very prepared and gave as a lot of real-life examples that are helpful to understand theory better. What I found great about the teacher was that he would send us links related to what was said during the class (i.e. books title, web pages or YouTube video channels) as additional material for us to dig deeper into the topic. Absolutely interesting stuff was suggested. The teacher was also responsive during the week if we had any question and guided us though the final project and suggested us what was best. Once the project was submitted, he sent out thorough feedbacks that showed how much he cared about our work. Thank you BrainStation!! The experience was amazing, I will keep studying with you!

My instructors were so helpful in guiding me through the technicalities of data. analysis. I came into the course with little knowledge, and left with a strong hold on data analytics. Very friendly instructors, gave great insights into the industry. A... Read More little expensive, but all bootcamps are around the same price. They were very accommodating with a payment plan!

Through my seven weeks completing the Social Media Marketing Certification with BrainStation, I had a great experience with taking the course and feel I was able to take my marketing skills to the next level. The course content is very well set up and... Read More developed, covering all the latest trends and topics going on in social media and my instructor was able to make each class engaging.

I took my course through their Online Live platform - which in 2020 is such a great way to still be able to further your education while being in the comfort of your own home, and still connecting with classmates & the instructor through video. With having Slack and Synapse as resources, I always felt I was prepared on the course content and could reach out to my instructor or anyone on the BrainStation team if I had questions.

The best thing about BrainStation courses in my opinion (I have previously taken the Digital Marketing course as well) is the hands on approach they take to teaching the content and having industry professionals as their instructors. Having to apply the concepts throughout the course while learning about real life examples has really aided me in understanding the concepts and being able to put these into action.

A week ago I completed the BrainStation Design Thinking Course. My overall experience with learning at BrainStation has given me a new perspective and it was great to spend time enhancing my expertise.

If you're looking for a meaningful way to spend some... Read More of your extra time this winter, definitely consider a BrainStation course.

Great course to understand the broad concepts of UX design. Good instructors and content make it a nice experience. The course enables better understanding of UX design process for beginners. Would highly recommend it to anyone looking to kickstart their... Read More UX journey.

I took BrainStation's 10-week Web Development (virtual) course in August 2020-October 2020. I'm currently a UX Product Designer and thought it would be great to learn more about how my designs are actually coded and implemented by the team I work with.... Read More I had a high-level knowledge of HTML and CSS from my undergrad studies in some Web Design courses but it has been quite a while so many of the concepts while familiar I did feel like I was learning for the first time. I really liked the structure and pace of the course, since we would go over some of the course material but then dive right into coding simple components and working our way up. Both instructors were super knowledgeable and approachable in the online format, I frequently was able to get 1-1 time to answer questions or understand why my code was off. We also had the opportunity to learn about special types of code not included in the course. There was also a ton of flexibility around the final project and everyone in the class had something neat to present at the end. Overall I definitely recommend this course if you're working on digital product design in any capacity or to see if it's something you want to do full-time but don't want to commit to the full-time course just yet. 

I took this course online, it was taken over a 10 week period and I opted to take it Monday evenings from 6:30PM - 9:30PM since I work full time M-F until 5:30-6:00PM most days. I have zero design background, and so was a complete newbie to UX Design.... Read More I found the course content really insightful and well paced, and at the end of each module, they had additional links with extra resources to learn more, I recommend going through this to supplement your knowledge (as it is a lot to learn). I definitely recommend sticking to picking a project topic early, so that you can work on it during the class-work practices and get closer to completing your final project and practice at the same time. I really enjoyed the instructors: Christopher Miller and Andrew Noel, I felt they both complimented each other well and kept the class engaged and lifted up the energy whenever it was needed. I would def take another online course with Brainstation again, and would definitely recommend it to anyone who is a total newbie and curious or even someone who knows a bit and wants to get some feedback and better at what they do, they'll get to do that on the final project. Overall great experience!

I had a great experience taking this 10-week Machine Learning course remotely at BrainStation. The class size was very small (~5 students) and was lead by a lead professor and an assistant professor whom are knowledegable machine learning practitioners... Read More with years of in-field experience.

This course was challenging if you're rusty at statistics or programming but the 10-week course allows you enough time to grasp each complex topic. Our weekly courses had a 3.5 hour lecture time with in class questions to help practice & reinforce ideas on what we learned in class. Our instructors had also set up a couple of minutes for closing thoughts, questions or potential 1:1 sessions. This provided an interactive session with the class rather than a full 3 hour lecture. Our class notes and assignments were already neatly packaged into jupyter notebooks, and are available in advance of each class; this allowed students to review class notes prior to the class. Our instructors also presented new technologies (GCP) and machine learning frameworks that are being utilized and how they are being utilized for their own work applications.

The final assignment was the only toughest challenge in the course, as it builds upon 10-weeks worth of content into final analytical project. Our class had the opportunity to work with medical drug treatment data and to understand it's complexity in features was a major struggle. However, when reflecting against real life experiences, often times data engineers or data scientists can be tasked with working with complex datasets that they may be unfamiliar with. And so this final project provided a glimpse into this ideology.

I’d recommend this course to data engineers, new graduates, or analysts looking to increase their analytical background, and stay on top of their competition.

Full disclosure: I was given complimentary access to this course in exchange for my honest opinions.

Brainstation UX design bootcamp was probably one of the best decisions I made this year.
This 5 weeks class was truly interesting and challenging!
Although this class is an overview of UX design, I feel I got quite a lot from it. The amount of information/... Read More links/ tips is beyond amazing!
The feedback is extremely useful, helpful, relevant, and so much more!
Jenna, the instructor, and Sarah, her TA, were completely hands-on, and I feel I have learned so much from their perspective!