Udemy is used by 600,000 people in over 200 countries around the world.  Many of these people use Udemy purely for personal reasons — Blogger Training or Brew Your own Beer, anyone?  But many people also use Udemy to train themselves and gain skills needed to move ahead in life, in their jobs, or even to get jobs.  With 7,000 courses in the Udemy course library, there are so many courses to help our students gain the relevant knowledge to apply…
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If you want to find a great affiliate program, with a good payout & many other rewards, take a look at the Udemy Affiliate Program! Find important Udemy Affiliate and Instructor Resources at the end of this article. My Udemy Story I have been involved in affiliate marketing since 2008. I like being an affiliate because it allows me to share great resources with my website & social media contacts. Also, as an affiliate you are an intermediary between the…
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Today at Udemy we are excited to announce a new partnership with Jack Welch as we launch a brand-new course in management training called Leadership in Action. The course, personally designed by Mr. Welch himself, is part of the Welch Way program in collaboration with the Jack Welch Management Institute and Strayer University. Welch Way is a new, flexible, and modular program designed for both corporations and individuals looking to learn new leadership skills especially for the workplace. The interactive…
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  Are you excited?!? Udemy’s Teach 2013 campaign is now live, but we need your help to spread the word and revolutionize education forever. We wanted to get you equipped with everything you need to get the message out and lead this movement. Below are several templates you can use to share this campaign with your community.  (You’re also welcome to craft the message to your liking, but please be sure to at least include the link: http://www.udemy.com/teach2013 and hashtag #teach2013.)   Tweets (schedule a different one…
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I’m Eren Bali, the CEO and Co-founder of Udemy. I want to thank you for making Udemy such an amazing community. Recently, a lot of people have asked me why I started the company. The answer lies in my personal story, and I wanted to share it with you today. I was born in a small village in Turkey. My primary school was a one room schoolhouse where a single teacher tried her best to teach 5 different grades at…
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Strategic Partnership Helps Professionals Apply Jack Welch’s Proven Leadership Principles to Improve Business Performance and Accelerate Careers Herndon, VA—November 19, 2012—The Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University and Udemy, a leading online education marketplace, announce today a strategic partnership to offer online leadership development solutions available through a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provider. The Jack Welch Management Institute applies the celebrated management practices of Fortune magazine’s “Manager of the Century,” Jack Welch and combines real-world instruction with immediate,…
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We’re very excited to unveil the Udemy Learning Feed! Quite a few of you have been asking us to add features that build the Udemy community and admittedly we know we could do more for you. So we created the learning feed — a place for you to communicate with each other and spread the power of learning. We hope the learning feed becomes your go-to learning destination. Just like the activity feed on Facebook, all your activity and the…
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After attending Marquette University to study interior design for a couple of years, Sonya was back in Detroit. She was working as a barista in Detroit, when she first heard about Udemy from a friend. Detroit’s unemployment rate has hovered around 15% for the past five years, so Sonya was happy to have a job. But like a lot of young college-educated Americans, she just knew she could do more. After returning from Hawaii, Sonya started hanging out with a…
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Over the last year and a half, you have given us product feedback, talked to our team, shared your stories, and most importantly, you’ve learned with us. Thank you! We have been listening, and we are very excited to announce our biggest product change yet – The New Udemy! Let’s have a look at what’s new. Personalized Course Discovery Our course library has grown quite a bit — more than 10x since last year — and we are still seeing around 100…
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