Hope everyone out there had a great week In today’s roundup, we pay tribute to a software pioneer, a prize-winner of humble means, an icon of children’s education, and a different kind of teacher This Robot Co-Taught A Course At West Point Bina48 may look familiar if you’re a longtime roundup reader We...
Thirty-five thousand instructors teach on Udemy That’s a lot of instructors That’s a lot of people with expertise, knowledge, and stories under their belts We want to hear more about ‘em So, we are launching a new blog series featuring instructor profiles, starting with four-course instructor Isaac Rudansky...
Another busy week around here Today we’re feeling the afterglow from the Udemy for Business People Innovators Summit, which drew a big crowd of learning & development professionals to SF for a day of inspirational content and knowledge-sharing Meanwhile, the news goes on! The Coders Programming Themselves Out...
Talking up your skills -- and how you have applied them -- can be a good indicator of your value as an employee As companies compete for talent at a time of historically low unemployment, they're opening up their doors to more non-traditional candidates That includes broadening the hiring pool to include...
Greetings, roundup readers Fair warning, this week’s edition is heavy on artificial intelligence and robots They’re making art, monitoring health, making space history, and hiring job candidates What could possibly go wrong AI-Produced Artwork Is Moving From The Fringes Into The High Art World Auction house...
This week’s highlight was the release of new original research in our Udemy In Depth series More about that at the end of the roundup! In China, Retired People Are Queuing Up To Go Back To University China’s over-60 population is exploding, and now the government is making a big investment in their education...
Udemy’s back with another report on how employees are feeling about the world of work and their place in it In response to our latest survey, employees overall rated their experience as positive, but some groups feel they receive less support and career development and others perceive age and gender biases...
There’s not much to say about today’s roundup except: flying cars Are Audiobooks As Good For You As Reading Here’s What Experts Say Audiobooks are a great diversion while you sit behind the wheel or clean the house, but some wonder whether reading comprehension suffers when people aren’t looking at the...
What’s on tap for the weekend Read the roundup, then go do something nice for yourself To Cope with Stress, Try Learning Something New We know from our own research that the modern worker is stressed out Now, a bunch of academics have come up with what we think is the perfect remedy: focusing on learning as a...
We live in exciting times, to be sure The future feels full of opportunity for some but scary and discouraging to others For those who fall into the latter category, it’s hard to know where to start preparing for such a future, especially as traditional career paths grow less defined every day Getting a...
We’re coming up on a long weekend here in the US It’s the symbolic end of summer and return to school Of course, we know roundup readers spent all summer learning and teaching anyway, so it’ll be an easy transition Emailing On Your Commute That's Work, A New Study Says Especially here in the Bay Area, where...
As much as Udemy is about helping students learn from the best instructors, the truth is we’re constantly learning from them too Take Imtiaz Ahmad He’s a bit of a superstar in the Udemy instructor world He was recently recognized at Udemy LIVE, our annual instructor conference, for his use of practice...
