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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...

  • 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...

  • July 6, 2016

    Jay Karamales

    Location: Boise, ID Age: 54 Job title: Software architect/Project manager Jay Karamales isn’t one to sit by passively in the face of change When the northern Virginia area where he and his wife grew up started getting too crowded, they researched other small cities that met their parameters and relocated to...

  • July 6, 2016

    Luis Martinez

    Location: Monterrey, Mexico Age: 35 Job title: Global Process Assessment Advisor When your boss comes along and tells you to find a resource and go learn something new, it could be unnerving But when that happened to Luis Martinez, it was no big deal because he’d already been using Udemy for a while and...

  • June 20, 2016

    Helping thousands build confidence through body language courses

    Vanessa Van Edwards describes herself as a “recovered awkward person” Social situations used to be hard for her - and it showed Then she started learning about body language, and discovered her passion for helping people like herself build confidence in social and professional situations, using body language and...

  • June 20, 2016

    Lessons on punctuation from a copywriting pro

    What is the purpose of the semicolon When is an apostrophe appropriate Len Smith realized during his career as a copywriter that many people do not know the answers to these and tons of other punctuation questions Smith, a 71-year-old from Yorkshire, England, has been running his own business, Copywriting On...

  • June 20, 2016

    Millennial online teaching addict

    Phil Ebiner admits that he has an addiction to online teaching When he first found Udemy in 2012, he would work at his full-time video production job then come home and spend six to eight hours working on Udemy course development He has now cut back to producing content about five hours each week, and spends a few...

  • June 20, 2016

    A life transformed through learning and teaching

    It’s no secret that access to learning can propel a career as well as one’s personal growth What’s less talked about is how sharing knowledge can also expand one’s life experience and deliver emotional rewards Udemy instructor Teresa Greenway, 56, embodies both sides of that story: she made an incredible...

  • June 20, 2016

    John Anthony Radosta

    Location: Ft Lauderdale Age: 30 Occupation: Entrepreneur John Anthony Radosta’s story starts out like many others He went to college because that’s what was expected of him, but he really had no idea what he wanted to do with his life He graduated in 2009, just as the economy took a turn for the worse As if...

  • June 20, 2016

    Guitarist takes love affair with American blues online

    Would John Lee Hooker or Howlin’ Wolf be teaching guitar on the Internet if they were around today With so much of the music business now happening online, it’s quite possible those legends would also be singing the blues in cyberspace And so for San Francisco Bay Area rock and blues guitarist Jimmy Dillon,...