We flipped the calendar this week, but it’s still hard to believe it’s already August! Today’s roundup features advice for unplugging during vacation and softening the sting when you return to work, a look at unexpected career switches, and news about a seriously successful Udemy instructor What to Do Before...
We take it as a good omen that Udemy LIVE weekend is dawning with a thick cover of San Francisco fog In just a few hours, we’ll welcome instructors from around the world to our office, and the real fun will begin In the meantime, let’s see what’s happening in the world of work, skills, and personal...
There’s an electricity in the air that can only mean one thing: Udemy LIVE! Our second annual instructor event kicks off July 28 and runs through the weekend here in San Francisco As we learned at our inaugural Udemy LIVE, nothing can match the experience of bringing this group together in person Many (if not...
Hope you’ve been enjoying our series of interviews with Udemy instructors who’ve parlayed their on-platform success into off-line business opportunities To wrap things up, we’ve got Colt Steele sharing his experience and advice To date, more than 134,000 students have enrolled in Colt’s courses (the number...
It’s that time of year again: a new Apple operating system has been released to the world! Interest in iOS courses has been growing steadily on Udemy in recent years, so this is a big event for us We’ve been working hard with our top development instructors to ensure students at all levels can access the...
Welcome to the weekend (almost)! We’re counting down the days until Udemy LIVE, now just a week away, but we’re still keeping an eye on the news Forgot Where You Parked Good This column explores the role forgetting plays in our ability to learn over the longer term While it can feel frustrating not to recall a...
Welcome to part 3 of our series on Udemy as a business Next up, we hear from Mark Price, another super-successful Udemy pro (15 published courses; more than 120,000 students) who has translated his online success into a successful business Mark is one of the popular instructors who’s already put together an iOS 11...
What’s happening in the world Disappointment if you’re into brain games, advice for whipping your workday into shape, the high school graduation of a Nobel laureate, and an unexpected threat to jobs in one American state Brain-training games don’t really train brains, a new study suggests Sorry, folks, doing...
This is the final installment of our series introducing Udemy's summer interns, and we're going international to wrap things up That means showcasing the Dublin and Ankara offices Again, big thanks to corporate marketing intern Maggie Troedson for doing all the legwork to help us get to know the Udemy intern class of...
We are really excited to share this news! The first course from the career experts at The Muse is up and running, and it’s one that many Udemy students are going to want to enroll in pronto To tell you more about it, we did an email Q&A with Kathryn Minshew, co-founder and CEO of The Muse Tell us a little bit...
Welcome to Part 2 of our series on Udemy as a business Today, we chat with Jonathan Levi, who has extended his original “super learner” concept to now offer seven Udemy courses (with almost 60,000 students) in support of his off-line ventures as an entrepreneur, investor, lifehacker, and more (Missed Part 1 with...
Happy Friday! Today, we bring you skills for jobs of the future… but also a retro technology that’s rising again like a phoenix! And maybe liberal arts majors and techies can coexist peacefully after all 7 Critical Skills For the Jobs of the Future We’ve shared lists like this before: the areas where you can...
