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...
How are people using Udemy on mobile It’s a good question -- and one we need to answer if we’re going to deliver the best possible mobile learning experience We recently got survey responses from more than 2,000 Udemy customers (students as well as some instructors) and were happy to discover most (81%) know...
Welcome to the first edition of a new, recurring feature on the Udemy blog: it’s the Friday News Roundup! While our focus will be primarily on articles with a connection to online learning and teaching, working and hiring, and other industry trends, we’ll also be curating other stories we think will resonate with...
In honor of Father’s Day, we got to thinking about how dads (and other father figures) serve as teachers for so many of us in all different areas of our lives Here are just a few things we at Udemy have learned from our fathers, both highly useful life lessons and silly stuff that makes us good party guests Thanks...
Udemy instructor Thomas Leuthard is a street photographer from Switzerland whose Udemy courses help other aspiring street artists around the world hone their craft He prides himself on sharing his full knowledge with his students and keeping no secrets from them Thomas has seen great financial success through Udemy...
One of my favorite things about working at Udemy is being part of helping people realize dreams for themselves – no matter how big or small those dreams may be We think everyone learning, teaching or training on Udemy is an explorer, and the most important step is the first one Our “people” are the ones out...
