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12 Skills Employers Will Look For in 2020

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Looking for new course ideas? Create online courses for these skills employers look for!

The skills employers look for in their workforce and future job applicants are changing rapidly in 2020 and beyond. So if you’re an online course creator looking for new course ideas or you’re looking to enhance some courses you already created perhaps this list will inspire some creative thinking for which direction to take. Tackle any aspect of these skill categories and you’re sure to see some success!

Even if you aren’t creating Udemy for Business courses or other corporate eLearning courses, employees, job seekers and learners, in general, will be looking for courses that can help them gain skills that employers are looking for in 2020.

So what are the top skills employers look for going forward?

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Udemy Cyber Week Statistics and Stories

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Find out which courses and instructors were the winners and losers of Udemy’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Cyber Week came and went quickly. So quickly that perhaps you haven’t had time to full appreciate the impact on your course sales.  

Curious about how other online instructors fared with Udemy’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales? The great thing about Teachinguide’s database is that this is the kind of insights you can generate about your competitors using the data and search functions.  For now, we’ve done the analysis of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Here’s a summary.

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eLearning Trends for 2020

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It’s that time of year to make predictions about eLearning trends for 2020. About halfway through this year, we wrote about several trends that we expect to see continue into 2020. They included adaptive learning, video-based learning, microlearning, gamification and a focus on personal development. You can read more about those eLearning trends here.

We expect to see those 5 elearning trends carry on into 2020. We’ve also added to this list of elearning trends for 2020 the following 6 predictions.

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Udemy News 2019

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Udemy 2019 News Update

As we move into the last month of 2019 we’re bringing you a round up of the most significant Udemy news for the year. So what has the world’s largest online course marketplace been up to in 2019?

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Udemy Cyber Monday – 8 Ways to Sell More Courses

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Why Udemy Cyber Monday is so Important

‘Tis the season for shopping.  And what better place to shop but online?  Indeed just a few days ago the National Retail Foundation (NRF) in the United States predicted that 70 million consumers will shop online on Cyber Monday.

It also predicted online Cyber Monday sales to increase 14% over 2018 – wow!

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10 Ways to Build an Audience

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For Your Online Course Business

The Importance of Working to Build an Audience

How are you feeling about the size of your online course audience? Maybe you just uploaded a course in the run up to Black Friday your audience is zero right now. Maybe your audience is just not big enough and not growing to your satisfaction. Maybe you are selling a few courses but wish sales were more consistent or would propel you to the next level of “edupreneurship”.

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Become an Eduprenuer with Online Courses

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What’s an Edupreneur?

What is an Edupreneur
Are teachers the next startup entrepeneurs? (source: bestmastersineducation.com)

An “eduprenuer” is exactly what the word conveys – it’s what you get when you cross an entrepreneur with the education industry.  This concept has been around for at least a couple of decades. It used to refer mainly to trained professional teachers and educators who “branched out” in their work by creating side businesses such as speaking engagements, publishing, training, consulting and so forth. 

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Teachinguide v2 Public Beta

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Great news – Teachinguide has a new website and more features

For over 2 years we work daily to make Teachinguide even better for you. But now we have reached an important milestone – our new website with many more features is ready to support our mission: Helping you to succeed on Udemy!

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Udemy Sale Season – 8 Ways to Prepare

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Udemy sale season is on the horizon. Towards the end of October, typically Udemy course sales start to pick up a little. Udemy sometimes runs a “course creation” contest or incentives around this time of year.

Why? Because this is the time of year that potential students anticipate buying Udemy courses (or for that matter, anything) on sale. For over 5 years they have been “trained” to anticipate this time of year. So Udemy wants to be sure that the selection of courses is fresh and enticing.

That means you should be sure that your own online courses are fresh and enticing. We’ll go through what exactly this means in this article.

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Mini Course – What Is It and Why Create One?

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Mini course do not necessarily jump to mind for most would be course instructors because on platforms such as Udemy, Skillshare and others the length of your course matters in terms of rankings, pay and credibility.   But ask yourself,

Do you have 100 hours to spare? How about $1000?  Have you ever taught a class? How ‘bout an email list and sales funnel – is your database of contact 1000 friends strong?

If you answered “no” to any of these questions, but you want to launch an online course, you should consider creating a “mini course”.

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