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    5 Online Course Predictions and Hot Topics for 2019

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    Happy New Year from Teachinguide!  No doubt like us you are looking forward to another strong year for the online course industry.   With so much growth in Udemy and other platforms during 2018 (over 80,000 courses on Udemy!), it begs the question “what’s next for 2019?”.

    We’ve taken a shot at predicting some key trends that we think will drive the online course industry and influence course creation in 2019. We hope these predictions will provide some useful insights to incorporate into your 2019 online course strategy.

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    How to Choose Your Next Udemy Course Topic

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    Winner vs. Loser

    Udemy Course Demand Has Exploded

    We recently wrote about the huge uptick in enrollments in Udemy classes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic – consumer enrollments were up 425% in the first two months of the pandemic.

    Udemy courses
    Global demand for Udemy courses exploded the last 2 months

    As a Udemy instructor, you might be considering jumping onto this trend by creating more courses.  If so, it might be helpful to reconsider once more how to go about choosing a profitable Udemy course topic.

    Why?

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    Online Course Development – Should You Outsource?

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    The work associated with online course development can be a daunting prospect, especially for new online instructors.  Even for experienced online instructors, keeping up with all that needs to be done to run and grow a legitimate and successful online course business can be daunting sometimes. 

    One solution to these challenges is to outsource some of your online course development tasks. Outsourcing is the process of hiring (usually via an online job platform) someone or a team of people to do some of the online course development work. 

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    Online Teachers Survey Results 2019

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    (3 minute read)

    In April of 2019, we conducted a survey of online teachers, most of whom were Udemy instructors. The goal was to better understand their needs and challenges. We will use this information to develop improved solutions for the upcoming v2.0 of the Teachinguide app.

    As promised, we have compiled the survey responses and present them in this article.

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    Udemy’s January 2020 Sale Results

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    Udemy’s January Sale ran from December 31 to January 10, 2020.   Using Teachinguide’s database we’ve tallied up the results. You’ll recall we did a similar analysis for Udemy’s 2019 Cyber Week sale.  We wanted to do a little comparison between these two big Udemy sales and see what the similarities and differences are.

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    Teachinguide’s New and Improved Dashboard and Chrome Extension Is Here!

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    Tom
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    Teachinguide Instructor Dashboard

    Teachinguide’s platform aims to provide online instructors with the tools they need to grow their online course audience and sales.

    We’ve found that with over 57,000 Udemy instructors and over 100,000 Udemy courses (and growing), that, for instructors, it’s very difficult to get the information and insights you need to be competitive. 

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    Teach Online – 6 Steps to Prepare Yourself

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    Tom
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    Do you want to teach online? Check out this list before embarking on your online teaching journey. (5-minute read)

    Teach Online – An Analogy

    Ecommerce, Selling Online, Online Sales

    As we all know from shopping on Amazon or eBay, doing something in the physical world versus the virtual world differs in many ways.  How do you shop on Amazon? Well, you’ve probably had a lot of practice shopping in the brick and mortar world.  So you use what you know from that experience and then adapt it to shopping in the virtual world.  Over time while shopping on Amazon, you try and learn new things – for instance, Amazon Prime or Subscribe and Save, and then tweak your shopping experience accordingly.

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    Udemy Instructors Survey 2020 Results

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    Teachinguide has compiled the results of its 2020 Udemy Instructor Survey, the 2nd of its kind. Our first Udemy instructor survey was done in 2019 and you can read about the results of that survey here.

    We’d like to thank those Udemy instructors who took time to complete the survey. Your feedback will help us to improve our products and services.

    Without further ado, we’ll get to the main findings of the survey.

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    The Latest Udemy and Online Learning News

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    It’s been a few months since we last reported on what’s up with Udemy and other eLearning platforms. Here’s a roundup of some recent developments with Udemy and online learning. One thing’s for sure, Udemy is going nowhere except across the globe!

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    Teachinguide v2 Public Beta

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    Tom
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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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