Udemy Expands Badging and Certification Preparation Offerings to Consumers on its Marketplace and Debuts New Features for Businesses to Accelerate Skills Mastery
20 Juin 2024 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
New features include third-party certification
preparation, hosting a record of customers’ badge achievements to
signal skills acquisition and a personalized insights dashboard
Udemy (Nasdaq: UDMY), a leading online skills marketplace and
learning platform, today announced the expansion of its Badging and
Certification preparation offering, making it available to all
learners through its Personal Plan subscription. Additionally,
Udemy debuted new features for its Udemy Business customers,
including curated content to help learners confidently prepare for
third-party certification exams, track their progress through a
personalized insights dashboard, and signal new skills acquisition
to management. As a certified 1EdTech Open Badges v2.0 host, Udemy
also enables customers to host newly earned badges and
certifications within the Udemy Business platform.
New Badging and Certification preparation offerings available
today include:
- Third-Party Certification Preparation: Udemy has seen
ongoing demand for IT certification, with more than 10 million
enrollments in IT certification training courses on its platform in
the past year alone. This inspired the expansion of Third-Party
Certification Preparation from Udemy Business to professional
learners through Personal Plan. Now, more learners can access
curated learning paths designed to support third-party
certification preparation for exams administered by AWS, Azure,
CompTIA, and many other issuers. Recently, a large professional
services organization, based in London and New York, used Udemy’s
third-party certification courses to upskill more than 4,500
employees. This resulted in an overall certification exam pass rate
of 91.4%.
- Badge Upload / Download: Udemy Business learners can use
Badge Upload/Download to create a record of Open Badge achievements
on its platform as a result of a partnership with 1EdTech. As the
only 1EdTech Open Badges v2.0 Host in the category, Udemy enables
organizations to verify employees’ skills and expertise through
sources supported by 1EdTech’s standards and verifiable metadata,
ensuring learners and organizations are prioritizing in-demand
skill sets. Learners can also download or share these badges to
socialize achievements with their broader networks. To date, Udemy
Business has over 22,000 imported badges across over 1,300
organizations, signaling in-demand certification attainment and
skills validation.
- Badge Insights: Udemy Business Enterprise customers now
have access to a Badge Insights dashboard with a summary of all
badges and certifications earned, as well as progress toward those
achievements. These dashboards provide organizations with valuable
insights into the skills employees possess while identifying skills
gaps that must still be addressed. Badge Insights empowers
employers to focus on the most important learning objectives to
support professional development, validate critical skills, award
performance, and improve retention.
As organizations seek to keep pace with innovation in the wake
of new technologies like generative AI, ensuring employees have the
right skill sets has become even more critical for companies to
remain agile and competitive. A recent Udemy study revealed that
84% of business customers are focused on implementing a
skills-based infrastructure within their organization over the next
12 months to help ensure their business goals and objectives are
met.
“GenAI is revolutionizing industries and transforming the
business landscape at an unprecedented pace and as a result,
demonstrated skills have become the new currency of the workforce,”
said Greg Brown, President and CEO at Udemy. “Through partnerships
with organizations including Native Computing Foundation, Docker,
and ServiceNow, we are helping learners to acquire critical skills
and earn certifications in key areas of technology supporting the
digital transformation. Our badging and certification preparation
capabilities are enabling organizations to support the development,
acquisition, and validation of skills across their teams helping
fuel both individual and company growth.”
Udemy’s expanded badging and certification preparation
capabilities are essential to its Integrated Skills Framework,
enabling individuals to validate and demonstrate skills proficiency
faster while empowering organizations to evaluate professionals
based on proven skill sets without relying solely on traditional
measurements like work experience or college degrees. Udemy is not
only supporting this new approach to skills validation, but it’s
driving industry standards as a contributing member of 1EdTech’s
TrustEd Microcredential Coalition, defining benchmarks for mastery
to combat varying quality and trust across badges and
certifications.
“Digital credentials are valued signals of skills mastery to
current and prospective employers. As the number of certification
issuers grows, the industry needs to work together to elevate
high-quality credential standards on a global scale,” said Curtiss
Barnes, CEO at 1EdTech. “Udemy has been a trusted partner in not
only defining these industry standards but elevating them to
learners. Udemy’s certification to 1EdTech’s Open Badges v2.0
standard enables high-quality data-rich digital credentials that
the learner can use to showcase their achievements across the
widest range of credentialing platforms.”
Since Udemy debuted its Badging and Certification preparation
capabilities last year, the company has seen strong demand for this
offering from customers, including data consultancy Calybre.
“At Calybre, we believe in investing for the future, especially
in learning and development for our workforce. Data and AI
consulting is at our core, making certifications of critical and
evolving skills for our workforce essential,” said Ryan Jamieson,
CTO at Calybre. “Udemy's Badging and Certification preparation help
us monitor our team's progress and validate skills development
through vital industry certifications, making it a key element of
our consultant training and readiness as we work to close key
skills gaps.”
To learn more about Udemy’s badging and certification
preparation capabilities, as well as the Integrated Skills
Framework, or to request a demo of new features, visit
https://business.udemy.com/certification-prep-badges/.
About Udemy
Udemy (Nasdaq: UDMY) transforms lives through learning by
ensuring everyone has access to the latest and most relevant
skills. Through the Udemy Intelligent Skills Platform and a global
community of diverse and knowledgeable instructors, millions of
learners gain expertise in a wide range of technical and
professional skills — from generative AI to leadership. The Udemy
marketplace provides learners with thousands of up-to-date courses
in dozens of languages, offering a variety of solutions to achieve
their goals. Udemy Business empowers enterprises to offer on-demand
learning for all employees, immersive learning for tech teams, and
cohort learning for leaders. Udemy Business customers include
FenderⓇ, Glassdoor, On24, The World Bank and Volkswagen. Udemy is
headquartered in San Francisco with hubs in Austin and Denver, USA;
Ankara and Istanbul, Türkiye; Dublin, Ireland; Melbourne,
Australia; and Chennai, Gurugram and Mumbai, India.
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