Thanks for making a much better topic, the Dagonchain Academy deserves that.  Awesome to read about your experience with the first courses. Hopefully more people reading up on the Academy will decide to take some time to try it out. Would be great if we can help each other out here, share progress and keep everyone informed about new released courses.

I'm planning to take some courses soon as well. Will post here if I passed the exams. 

In regards to Dragon Factor, a new announcement was made last night. The tweet contains a Medium article and from there you can read up on the documentation.

Tweet URL: https://twitter.com/DragonFactorID/status/1069034470144131072
Medium post: https://medium.com/@dragonchain/5-things-you-should-know-about-dragon-factor-974c1c1b9b6a
Dragon Factor documentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KWQLuQqZp9vz3ZTmloB_4m1k2AqKbhiM/view?usp=sharing

The whole academy is on-chain, on a Dragonchain like you said. ''Academy is a blockchain app running on a Dragonchain L1 business node using serverless technology!"

If people take the courses, they will understand very quickly.