Please join us in welcoming Grégory Boutté to the Udemy team as our vice president of content! Grégory will be responsible for how we work with instructors to acquire great content and how we manage our library to deliver the best content to our students Grégory most recently was the chief revenue officer at...
So, what did you learn this week Check out our collection of notable news and ideas, and you might pick up some more knowledge Has E-Learning Gone Wild Again We’re longtime followers of Josh Bersin, one of the leading voices in the field of corporate learning Here, he puts the current surge in the e-learning space...
We are excited to announce a new member of the executive team, Rob Wong! Rob is joining as the vice president of product and will be managing Udemy’s product and design initiatives As our CEO Dennis Yang put it, Rob “had the rare combination of product vision, team-building chops, and the humility to be part...
Our VP of Engineering, Claire Hough, had a piece run on TechCrunch this past weekend, and her message deserves a broader audience As technology companies have become more successful and powerful, they haven’t always used their growing influence on behalf of the less privileged among us And yet most agree that...
Wow, another week come and gone… is it just us or is this summer flying by Enjoy this week’s roundup and hope you have fun in the sun this weekend Why Higher Ed and Business Need to Work Together Some interesting research here from the IBM Institute for Business Value reinforces that there's a skills gap between...
Today we're featuring the words and wisdom of Pablo Stanley, one of the talented UX designers working on the Product team at Udemy Pablo has researched how music can be leveraged to signal activity (rather than the usual beeps and chimes), the role audio plays in our interactive experiences, and how sounds and...
Check out some news from Udemy and other stories that piqued our interest this week Why a Mom from Nebraska Left Home to Join SF Coding Bootcamp If you’ve ever wanted to learn coding but have been telling yourself you’re not the “programmer type,” you’re going to have to come up with a new excuse Ginny...
The news roundup comes a day early this week, as we take tomorrow off to celebrate July 4th Have a fun, festive, and safe holiday weekend! The fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in America The typical narrative about entrepreneurs these days focuses on a young male building an app -- and we wish those startup...
On June 26, all Udemy offices (San Francisco, Ankara, and Dublin) spent a day volunteering locally At Udemy, part of our culture is to give back to our community, particularly around education and youth empowerment We love interacting with our neighbors and helping them reach their goals, so volunteering isn’t a...
Happy Friday and welcome to the latest batch of news that caught our eye this week Have a great weekend! The Rise of the Developer Great data and insights in these survey results from InfoWorld, suggesting life and work are pretty good for most developers these days Their influence is growing beyond the engineering...
Ah, summer… time to kick back, relax, and soak up the sun, right Well, for the current batch of Udemy interns, this is a season for learning about the workplace and soaking up knowledge We are so excited to have these bright, hungry minds in our office for the next ten weeks and look forward to their contributions...
Introducing our 4th of July Twitter contest: If you had the freedom to learn anything you wanted, what would it be Put it in a Tweet and add the hashtag #starsandskills to your submission for the chance to win $100 Udemy course credit! We will be picking winners on July 2, 2015 Terms and Conditions: This contest...