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  • An evening of innovation: Exploring the future of HR

    Last week our Udemy for Business team hosted another successful HR Innovators event in partnership with our friends at Culture Amp! More than 200 of the brightest HR and Operations leaders were in attendance to discuss how the role of HR is evolving as today’s workplaces transform Guests enjoyed drinks and...

  • Udemy announces addition of Lisa Haugh to executive team

    Today we’re excited to welcome a new member to our executive team Lisa Haugh is joining the team as Udemy’s General Counsel and brings with her 15 years of legal expertise from working with various startups and mature companies Lisa’s unique background spans the types of issues that are making waves in the...

  • Best Places to Work: Q&A with Dennis Yang

    Last week we celebrated our Best Places to Work in the Bay Area award! Our VP of HR Pat Schoof sat down with CEO Dennis Yang to reflect on this honor and get his perspective on what makes Udemy such a wonderful place to work Here’s what Dennis had to share Describe our company culture in five...

  • New free course on mobile app prototyping

    Our one-of-a-kind experience designer and course creator extraordinaire, Pablo Stanley, created a new free course on mobile app prototyping over this past weekend The course, Mobile App Design: From Sketches to Interactive Prototypes, offers a quick and practical overview of how to turn whiteboard or paper sketches...

  • Udemy celebrates Best Places to Work honor

    We’re proud to announce our inclusion on the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Best Places to Work in the Bay Area list! Our VP of HR Pat Schoof says it best, “It's due to everyone's work, positive attitude and input to making a great culture!” Shannon Hughes and Cara...

  • New programming courses from Frontend Masters

    Exciting news to share! This week we launched 19 new courses from our partners at Frontend Masters, the well-known front-end web development training experts Frontend Masters joins our 14,000+ instructors currently teaching on Udemy These experts include the founder of AngularJS, creator of JSON, jQuery team members,...

  • Udemy around the world

    Last week, a few team members from Udemy HQ, including Dennis Yang, CEO and Claire Hough, VP of Engineering, traveled abroad to visit the international Udemy offices The group had the privilege of spending time with the teams first in Ankara, Turkey and then in Dublin, Ireland It was great to see our core values...

  • NEEF launches extreme weather course on Udemy

    The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF), a nonprofit and national leader in lifelong environmental learning, today announced the launch of their Udemy course on climate change and extreme weather According to NEEF, “In 2014, the United States experienced eight weather and climate disasters with...

  • Udemy for Business releases corporate training survey findings

    Jobs are rapidly changing but employee training and onboarding programs have not kept up with the demands of the modernworkplace Today Udemy for Business released the results of a recent survey aimed at uncovering insight into this training gap and its impact on businesses and employees The survey polled 175 HR...

  • Udemy partners with Benesse to significantly expand content in Japan

    This morning, Udemy CEO Dennis Yang attended a press conference in Japan to announce some incredibly exciting news Udemy has partnered with Benesse, the leading education and publishing provider in Japan This partnership will expand content offerings in the Japanese language and bring numerous new Japanese students...

  • Pebbles of Hope launches Thrive Guide course on Udemy

    One in 10 births are premature every year, worldwide Pebbles of Hope, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping premature babies survive and thrive, launched a free Udemy course to help educate parents on best care practices to ensure long healthy lives for preemies The first module of the course “Thrive Guide...

  • Udemy course for International Women’s Day 2015: #MakeItHappen

    In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, 30 of our female instructors from around the world came together in collaboration to produce a free Udemy course in support of the official theme “Make It Happen” The course entitled “Make It Happen: Empowering Women for Success” celebrates the...