Who doesn’t love a good story of self-reinvention We’ve certainly seen our share among Udemy students and instructors alike There’s the Brazilian lawyer who became an app developer, the Egyptian civil engineer who pivoted to sports management, the New York actor who turned into a startup CEO, and many more...
We’ve made the point many times that the days of learning can’t end once formal education ends Workplace transformation—whether the result of automation, AI, globalization, or other economic forces—is changing job skills too fast for anyone to feel like what they know today will be enough to keep their...
Our personal lives and careers can take us all over the world, an experience both exciting and challenging From navigating a new culture to learning a new language, working in a foreign land requires skills that extend beyond mere job requirements This was no problem for Cristina Estévez Rodríguez Cristina, a...
Maggie Osama hated her advertising agency job and didn’t get along with her boss—so much that she quit and vowed never to be “an employee” again She didn’t have a plan or anything lined up, just a determination to control her own destiny and do whatever it took to make it work With degrees in computer...
One of our core beliefs at Udemy is that the best teachers aren’t always found in classrooms Mohamad Alaloush’s story bears that out, but his example also shows that the best students aren’t always found in schools Mohamad dropped out of university on three separate occasions, yet he’s one of the most avid...
Manuj Aggarwal of Vancouver first found Udemy as a student when, for his work as a software consultant, he needed to familiarize himself with JavaScript He liked the course he took so much, he explored the rest of Udemy’s collection and kept going Then he got his colleagues on board with Udemy, to the point that it...
New online instructors can hit plateaus where they may feel tempted to throw in the towel For those struggling to push on, the husband-and-wife team of Susmita Dutta and Akshay Goel may provide the inspiration you need Despite having loads of offline training experience, getting in front of the camera was a new and...
Most of us associate learning with younger people—kids in school and college or recent grads early in their careers But at Udemy, we’re champions of lifelong learning, and by that we really mean throughout your entire life Amsterdam-based artist Anneke Camstra gets what this means on both the learning and...
What kind of career can a music major pursue these days It’s always been hard to support yourself as a professional musician, so you need to get creative And that’s what New Yorker Dan Gurney did, expanding his skills with help from Udemy in order to take his craft in a new direction In 2010, Dan used his...
Back in 2014, Dan Jones of West Sussex, UK, stumbled upon Udemy in a typical fashion He’d been offering videos about hypnosis for years on YouTube, had a Facebook fan page, and was running ads, but he wasn’t making money from these activities Like others before him, Dan didn’t want to pay someone else to set...
Annette Reilly Spreads the Healing on Udemy In a world wracked by stress, Annette Reilly wants to offer relief to as many people as possible That’s what drew her to kinesiology and acupressure and, eventually, to teaching on Udemy Annette had always been interested in health and wellness, from as far back as...
Tim Chartier leverages the drama of sports to make math and analytics engaging Some people like sports more than math; others prefer math to sports In Tim Chartier’s lectures, there’s room for both There’s also room for mime and puppetry, but more about that later Tim is a professor of mathematics at...
