In the Online education marketplace, quality rises to the top.  You want to know how courses with massive enrollments happen? Well, people aren’t fools. Nobody buys lemons anymore. To have thousands of students enrolled in your course, it has to be REALLY good – that means easy to listen to, easy to follow, and easy enough to watch for hours. And how do you do that for technical training? Quality screencasting is the currency of the realm for pretty much every technology training, so you’d better be sure you’re creating the best recordings possible

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Screencasting Checklist: How to Record Like A Pro

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More and more people are starting to get tired of paying up to 50,000 dollars a year for a quality education. Employers are starting to stop caring about degrees. All they care about now is skills, skills, skills! After all, what’s the use of learning (and paying for) philosophy in college if all you want is to be a programmer? Fortunately for you, there are many ways available online or offline where you skip paying high fees for a teacher, and you just teach yourself everything you need to know to get a job. Or, if you already have one, maybe you could use a new skill or two without classes 5 days a week

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Self-Learning: The New Master’s Degree [Infographic]

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Before We Get Started…… I just want to provide you all with a quick background of myself (my mother taught me good introductions go a long way!) My name is Linos Owusu-Asare, my family originates from Ghana (in a city you may have not heard of called Kumasi) but I lived in England (in another city you may have not heard of called London J ) my entire pre-adult life, before coming to Philadelphia to study at Penn (go Quakers!) for my undergrad degree. I would say that I am a pretty diverse person (how many people do you know can realistically fit three continents into their introductory sentence?!) and I have been given the great opportunity this summer to intern at Udemy. Their mission for the future of online education, the passion they have for their work, and the great community they have with each other are just three of the reasons why I am privileged to be working with Udemy and their staff to help change the online education space, one user at a time! If you want to get in further contact with me, feel free to e-mail me linos@udemy.com, or find me on Facebook/Skype/all over the internet Day 1 – Home @ the Ud House (5/10) First official day on the job.  (Side note: Came in yesterday even though I was due to start tomorrow, just because I was so excited to meet the team. Further side note: After meeting the team that excitement was definitely warranted!).

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Intern Life – Introducing Linos Owusu-Asare!

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You’ve heard it in videos before: audio that sounds like it was recorded on the back of a pickup truck going through a tunnel:  full of echos, crackling “S”’s, background noise, and hollow voices.  But the solution doesn’t require thousands of dollars in expensive equipment or buying time at a studio.  In fact, you can get professional quality audio with just a hundred bucks and some creativity.  Here’s how: It all starts with the microphone, that magical device designed to capture sounds, and are often too successful.  The trick is to find a mic that has a Cardioid or hypercardioid pattern.  Cardioid patterns only pick up the sounds from right in front of the mic, rather than the entire room, so it doesn’t sound like you’re in an open area, even if you are.

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Instructor Tip of the Week: Hacking Studio Quality Audio

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Almost anyone can learn how to make a website. Software programs that create the code for the user have turned what used to be a complex process into a simple task that even a child can master. However, just because you can make a website doesn’t guarantee that your website will be easy to read or interesting for the reader. Fortunately, with a few simple techniques, you can make your website content engaging. Break up Content Studies show that people read information differently on the web than they do in print. For example, website users only tend to read small amounts of information at a time, and they are less likely to read all of the information. For this reason, experts call the web a “non-sticky medium,” meaning that readers won’t stick around to read every last sentence, especially if the information is poorly organized or if there is too much text on a page.

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How to Make a Website Interesting and Easy to Read

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Miguel Hernandez, Udemy instructor and CEO of Grumo Media, had 100 subscribers to his new course, How to Make Money Online Teaching What you Love, within 48 hours! Here’s how he did it:  “As soon as I finished my course, How to Make Money Online Teaching What you Love, I decided to test the theory of providing incentives to users and creating a sense urgency.  This is the first time I’ve used this approach, and my experience has validated that it works. Basically, I used the same techniques that Groupon uses.  Through my classes and business contacts I collected student e-mails, facebook, twitter etc.  But the FIRST people I reached out to were the students enrolled in my other courses.  As soon as I finished the course: I made a course announcement to all the people taking my demo video course and sent an email to 500 people on my email list. I told them “Because you’re an existing student I’ll give you a really juicy discount of 75% off,AND it’s a limited time offer AND there’s only 100 left.” That really enticed people to go out and get the course.

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Buzz Master: Miguel Hernandez hits 100 users in 48 hrs with new course. Learn how he did it.

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Udemy is up to no good, once again. And by “no good,” I mean tons of good. We’re looking for a few good instructors to help us out, too. We really hope this doesn't offend anyone. But we mentioned “pot of gold,” and couldn't resist. (photo credit: Ignacio Leonardi) As you know, we have users interested in anything and everything (yoga to programming to wine tasting and more). That said, we wanted to look specifically at users who were interested in business and tech content and see what else they’d be into

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Calling All Instructors: We’re Seeking Courses

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When you open a platform up for anyone to teach, there’s a good chance you’ll get a lot of riff-raff. Somehow, though, we here at Udemy have been stupid lucky with talent. Take Huw Collingbourne, for instance. He’s one of our top rockstar Ruby instructors, and let’s just put it this way: the Dos Equis guy ain’t got nothin’ on Huw Collingbourne. If that’s not enough to intrigue you beyond comprehension, here are a few quick facts to get you primed for the interview below. Huw’s been a programmer for more than 30 years, and currently holds the position of Technology Director at SapphireSteel Software. He’s also written a handful of books, including The Book of Ruby (he’ll explain later why there’s a Samurai Robot on the cover)

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Meet Your Instructors: Huw Collingbourne

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Are you using the right keywords to optimize your website? In many cases websites are optimized for the wrong SEO keywords. You need to do the research to find out what SEO keyword phrases people actually use to search for businesses in your particular field. In many cases you will discover that SEO keyword phrases that you thought were important are in fact rarely searched for; the opposite is also true. How well does your website show up in Google, Yahoo, Ask, and Bing? You should test the effect of searching for your SEO keywords on a regular basis in all the major search engines.

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TOP SEO Mistakes – Top SEO Website Errors

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I’d only been acquainted with Yahoo! Site Explorer (YSE) for barely a week when I heard the news that it had been shut down. YSE was a free tool that internet marketers used to get backlink statistics and a wealth of other information collected by Yahoo! on a particular website. It was a very useful tool for analyzing websites – yours, or your competition’s. Decisions concerning your own SEO efforts could also be influenced by the results churned out by YSE.

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Yahoo Site Explorer Replacement Options

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