Your experience with following the guided projects on Coursera to learn new skills

I am working for a company as an analyst and I would like to learn cloud engineering because that's the way thw future is headed. I have not been successful learning the basics of AWS and Hadoop by watching relevant courses on Coursera. I feel like they contain a lot of jargon and it is hard for me to digest and make the material solidify in my head.

Do you think that doing the guided projects on coursera step by step will be more helpful than just watching their course videos?