The Next Web reports that Udemy, a marketplace connecting experts with paying students, has signed on 15,000 new experts during January and February of this year. That's a lot of experts.
Although I feel like this press release devalues the term "expert", I am very intrigued at what it might mean for online education. If Udemy is able to find students for all those experts, then we'll see the tide toward online education shift even further.
The sudden growth in new experts offering classes or lessons through Udemy is part of their Teach2013 initiative to bring more talented people to their teaching platform. As part of the drive, they're boasting Dan Rather and George Lucas among their new experts.
I haven't tried Udemy and since their teachers are not employees of Udemy I'd imagine the quality varies quite a bit. However, any new tool that might help you learn better is at least worth a peek. If you do look into it and find something interesting, think about covering your experience here as a guest contributor.
A similar initiative was started at the beginning of 2012 when Codcademy signed on 450,000 people to learn programming during their Code Year challenge.
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