• June 16, 2017

  

  Power to the People: Artist Anneke Camstra Shows What’s Possible at Any Age

  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...

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• June 7, 2017

  

  Entrepreneurial Music-Lover Finds His Groove Building Mobile Apps

  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...

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• April 27, 2017

  

  Hypnotherapist rebounds from career crisis with full-time focus on Udemy

  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...

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• March 20, 2017

  

  Busy Kinesiologist Flexes Her Muscles as Online Instructor

  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...

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• March 15, 2017

  

  College professor demystifies March Madness bracketology for Udemy students

  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...

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• February 7, 2017

  

  Instructor Sorin Dumitrascu thrives in challenging economy

  Sorin Dumitrascu’s town in southern Romanian, Câmpulung Muscel, used to be home to a bustling auto manufacturing plant, but when the country rejected communism, things changed The cars produced there simply weren’t good enough to compete in the international market, and the factory closed in the...

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• September 15, 2016

  

  Student’s First App Bought By Global Game Developer

  Back in July we introduced you to Nick Di Vona, a newcomer to app development who took Mark Price's “iOS 9 and Swift 2: From Beginner to Paid Professional” course At the time, we celebrated his Poke Radar app reaching #2 in Apple's App Store It turns out that was just the beginning of big things for Nick and his...

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• August 30, 2016

  

  Udemy course helps instructor win award and get a job

  We were thrilled to read recently that instructor Ahmed Alkabary was awarded a scholarship from the Linux Foundation—and his Udemy course played a role in his achievement We got in touch to find out more about Ahmed, whose course, “Linux Command Line Basics,” has more than 49,000 students!   How did you...

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• August 25, 2016

  

  Udemy student takes course for beginners, creates technical documentation tool

  We were excited when the blog editor for Newegg, the hugely popular e-commerce site for tech enthusiasts, shared a story about a Seattle-area sysadmin who learned C# on Udemy in order to improve how his employer manages technical documentation Not only does Kyle Wisdom have an awesome name, he has a great love of...

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• August 1, 2016

  

  How a novice dev reached #2 in the App Store with a great instructor’s help

  Nick Di Vona of University Place, outside Tacoma,WA, has two primary passions: longboarding and app development After spending much of his younger years doing the former, he’s ready to embrace success doing the latter, thanks to a great idea, lots of dedication and perseverance—and the global phenomenon...

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• August 1, 2016

  

  Be the first to master iOS 10

  It’s a big day at Udemy for iPhone app developers, as we unveil new iOS 10 courses hot off the presses Apple released the most recent public beta of iOS 10 just last week, not long after the developer beta was unveiled at WWDC in June As always, Udemy’s top instructors have been quick to respond so students...

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• July 6, 2016

  

  Taylor McClenny

  Location: Newport News, VA Age: 27 Job title: Entrepreneur/founder Taylor McClenny is brimming with great business ideas So many, in fact, he sort of regretted having to graduate from his university, where he started developing some of those ideas as part of his business major In his final year, he indulged a...

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