Created in 2010 by Eren Bali, Oktay Caglar and Gagan Biyani, Udemy became one of the most popular and widespread online learning platforms, used by millions of people all across the globe. Being based in San Francisco, California, the organization managed to connect millions of learners with experienced instructors, helping them receive a good educational experience.
First of all, one of the main differences between Udemy and conventional learning platforms is that individuals are encouraged to create and publish their courses. Therefore, there are more than 130,000 courses offered by Udemy platform and will continue to increase in number, thus providing tremendous amount of courses for all kinds of topics including programming, marketing, design, business and personal development.
Many courses offered by Udemy are very inexpensive or even free of charge, thus being available for all sorts of people who want to learn something new. Every course contains one or more pre-recorded video lessons, downloadable PDF or Word documents as a resource, as well as one or more practical tasks to help individual practice everything that he has learned. Moreover, there is one more product offered by Udemy called “Udemy Business”, which is targeted for corporations to develop and train
Overall, due to their innovative and flexible manner in which Udemy offers its training and the incredible variety of courses they provide, individuals can learn a new skill, improve their career, or pursue an interest at virtually any time and from anywhere.