Udemy secures $60m from South Africa’s Naspers
The online learning platform has received a $60m investment from Cape Town-based Naspers to fuel its ongoing international expansion and product development.
The online learning platform has received a $60m investment from Cape Town-based Naspers to fuel its ongoing international expansion and product development.
Online learning platform, Udemy, has seen a year over year revenue increase of 200%, as the demand for skills-based online learning is increasing. It has also seen a 140% increase in courses taken in the UK.
Referring to itself as a “global marketplace for teaching and learning online”, non-academic MOOC platform Udemy has recently announced that its top 10 instructors have made $17 million in earnings since it launched in 2010, has secured new corporate training partners and sets its sights on global expansion in 2015.