The majority of Udemy course creators are not professionally trained course designers or certificated teachers. That’s both the opportunity and challenge of being a course creator and a student on the Udemy platform. Have an idea, a passion, an expertise? You can simply “teach” it on Udemy. Want to learn a new skill? You can simply “learn” it on Udemy.
Generating online course ideas that will make money seems to be getting more difficult for the masses of entrepreneurs who have flocked to Udemy and other online course platforms in search of financial freedom. It’s one thing to daydream about online course ideas you’d like to create. It’s another thing entirely to determine if you can turn your idea into a money-making machine.
Udemy courses are still in high demand, despite the proliferation of other online teaching platforms. Teachinguide stats show that 1.17 million new enrollments were made in Udemy courses just in the past 3 months. 476 new courses were launched and 127,000 new Udemy course reviews were made. These numbers are staggering when you think about it.
So, with numbers like these you might be wondering what then are the top Udemy courses among the thousands and thousands on the platform? Where are all these new enrollments going? What topics are hot? If you are serious about getting your own courses to rank among the top Udemy courses, then it’s important to be up to date on trends.
We recently wrote an article about the impact of the COVID pandemic on Udemy course enrollment. In it, we highlighted several findings from a Udemy report on the first two months of course enrollment during the pandemic. As a reminder, Udemy found that the following increases:
With all the people and platforms making it possible to become an online course entrepreneur, the space is getting crowded. There are numerous examples of people making a living selling courses about all manner of topics – crafts, yoga, book binding, dog training and more. You can literally create an online course about anything – but would you want to?
Just because you may have a long list of online course ideas it doesn’t mean that courses covering these topics will sell. So, the questions to ask every time you have an online course ideas is: Is this a course that will people will buy? And if so, how many people will buy it?
Online learning platform solutions can be a confusing market space to navigate as an online course instructor. Online course platforms range from “marketplaces” such as Udemy, where anyone can create and sell an online course of virtually any quality, to Coursera which partners only with educational institutions, to Thinkific and other LMS platforms that allow instructors to create a proprietary online course platform and market their online classes.
If you want to create and sell online courses in a so-called “marketplace” like Udemy, which makes selling online courses relatively easy, you may wonder what alternatives to Udemy exist. Given the brand recognition and market share Udemy boasts, it may be hard to figure out what other online course marketplaces exist and how they are different.
In our last article, we highlighted top workplace skills for 2020. This week, we are focusing on top personal development skills.
Personal development skills are a hot topic in general right now. A new decade has begun and so potential learners will be thinking about what personal goals and characteristics they want to achieve in 2020 and beyond.
Udemy vs. Coursera – which one is for you? There are soooo many MOOC platforms out there now it can be quite confusing for learners to decide which route to take for their specific online learning goals. Udemy, of course, is one of the most well-known platforms. So is Coursera. The Udemy Coursera battle is tough and has a lot of pros and cons. In this article, we will provide an overview of the key differences between Udemy vs. Coursera.
An eLearning business has become a very legitimate career option for just about anybody who is willing to put in the time and effort. It does take a lot of time and effort to build an eLearning business, just like any other brick and mortar business. The beauty though is that you never have to leave your desk chair (not that we advocate laziness)!
Yet we read about and hear from those who have tried to launch their own eLearning business, but are still barely bumping along revenue-wise. So we decided to put together a few common issues that research shows prevent some online instructors from building up their eLearning business.
There’s over 130,000 courses on Udemy marketplace, but only about 3,500 courses on Udemy for Business. Ever wonder what that’s all about? Maybe you aspire to get your course listed on Udemy for Business? How do you get to be one of the chosen few?
In this article we take a look at what Udemy for Business is and how it’s evolving. In light of this, we look at what it takes to get listed in Udemy for Business and what you can expect.
