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  • June 6, 2016

    Going online makes the entire world her classroom

    Kristen Palana and Jacqui Seidel were each doing their own things as Udemy instructors and business owners before they happened to cross paths on Facebook and found instant chemistry Kristen is a multimedia artist, university professor, and author as well as a wife, mother-of-two, and expatriate American living...

  • June 6, 2016

    Student profile: Derek Byers

    Name: Derek Byers Location: Cape Town, South Africa Age: 45 Job title: Business reporting manager Derek Byers is much too hard on himself He didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life at an early age and envied those who did He wasn’t a good student and skipped university, choosing to travel the world...

  • June 6, 2016

    Student profile: Chris Barney

    Name: Chris Barney Location: Boston, MA Age: 40 Job title: Game developer Udemy students are pretty smart With the threat of layoff looming on the horizon at the game publisher where he’d worked for six years, Chris Barney didn’t wait for the axe to fall He used Udemy to upskill and get ready to look for his...

  • June 6, 2016

    Student profile: Cordelia Carlsson

    Name: Cordelia Carlsson Location: Perth, Australia Job title: State administration, Business Manager Support Group Learning can be transformational, but before that can happen, you need access Cordelia Carlsson always urged her two grown kids to learn new things as they were growing up, but she regretted not...

  • June 6, 2016

    Hacking his way through life

    If you’ve got a vision for how you want your future to look, meet your perfect role model: 24-year-old Dragoş Ștefănescu He was determined to publish a course on Udemy, then more courses, and eventually get to the point where he could fully support himself on his Udemy earnings He didn’t spend time thinking or...