Location: Monterrey, Mexico Age: 35 Job title: Global Process Assessment Advisor When your boss comes along and tells you to find a resource and go learn something new, it could be unnerving But when that happened to Luis Martinez, it was no big deal because he’d already been using Udemy for a while and...
Happy early 4th of July to readers in the US, and a blessed Ramadan to our friends in Udemy’s Ankara office and everyone celebrating around the world Let’s see what caught our eye this past week Udemy LIVE: It’s a wrap! What a weekend that was! We’re all pretty thrilled with how our first event for Udemy...
Here we are at the end of the week and the beginning of awesomeness This isn’t just any Friday; it’s the start of Udemy LIVE! Udemy instructors from around the globe have been sharing messages and photos all week as they’ve made their way to San Francisco, and tonight we kick off the action with a reception at...
Five years ago Maureen Iyasele of Lagos, Nigeria, left her job as a chemical engineer in the oil and gas industry in search of more fulfilling work Watching so many of her young friends struggle to find jobs inspired Iyasele to found a center that would answer to the staggering unemployment rate in her country,...
Vanessa Van Edwards describes herself as a “recovered awkward person” Social situations used to be hard for her - and it showed Then she started learning about body language, and discovered her passion for helping people like herself build confidence in social and professional situations, using body language and...
What is the purpose of the semicolon When is an apostrophe appropriate Len Smith realized during his career as a copywriter that many people do not know the answers to these and tons of other punctuation questions Smith, a 71-year-old from Yorkshire, England, has been running his own business, Copywriting On...
Nikki Lee served six years active duty in the United States Air Force as Network Systems Administrator in Missouri, South Korea, and Tuscon, Arizona During her service, Nikki worked hand-in-hand with the Army traveling to Afghanistan in support of her IT work and training fellow servicemen and women to use the...
Phil Ebiner admits that he has an addiction to online teaching When he first found Udemy in 2012, he would work at his full-time video production job then come home and spend six to eight hours working on Udemy course development He has now cut back to producing content about five hours each week, and spends a few...
It’s no secret that access to learning can propel a career as well as one’s personal growth What’s less talked about is how sharing knowledge can also expand one’s life experience and deliver emotional rewards Udemy instructor Teresa Greenway, 56, embodies both sides of that story: she made an incredible...
Location: Bhubaneswar, India Age: 27 Occupation: Business development Harsh Raj formally trained as a mechanical engineer at KIIT University in order to become a project manager at a steel manufacturing plant in Angul, India After five years of hard work, he decided he wanted to find a job he was more passionate...
Location: Ft Lauderdale Age: 30 Occupation: Entrepreneur John Anthony Radosta’s story starts out like many others He went to college because that’s what was expected of him, but he really had no idea what he wanted to do with his life He graduated in 2009, just as the economy took a turn for the worse As if...
Would John Lee Hooker or Howlin’ Wolf be teaching guitar on the Internet if they were around today With so much of the music business now happening online, it’s quite possible those legends would also be singing the blues in cyberspace And so for San Francisco Bay Area rock and blues guitarist Jimmy Dillon,...
