Udemy.com is an online learning platform where anyone can create their own courses. I’ve set myself the challenge of putting together a full Web Development course in 30 days, and will be posting regular updates here.
First impressions
It’s early days, but I’m very impressed with the guides that Udemy provide to get teachers started. The initial guides cover formatting of the course, course content and marketing strategies. Clearly the marketing side is important, so I will be focussing on specific marketing tactics on this blog series.
What makes a successful Udemy course?
The quality of existing courses is variable, but the top courses tend to have a great deal (40+ hours) of video content, and a well thought out structure and layout, with projects or challenges at the end of each section.
Top selling courses also have high quality video intros, lengthy course descriptions and a detailed instructor bio.
How will my course be structured?
I want my course to be the ultimate web developer course. It will have 10 sections, each with a website project at the end. The ten topics will be:
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- jQuery
- WordPress
- Bootstrap
- PHP
- MySQL
- APIs
- Bringing it all together
I’m also planning to add sections over time, so it is constantly growing, giving users more value over time. Each section will have at least 10 videos, a website project, quiz and reference materials.
Future Posts
I’m going to be posting about the whole process. Future posts will include:
- What equipment to use to record a Udemy course
- Marketing techniques
- Examples of course content
- Getting feedback
- How much to charge for your course
- Offering discounts
- And much more!
Would love to help you with feedback when your course is available!
Great, thanks! I’ll keep you posted