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Udemy Expands Badging and Certification Preparation Offerings to Consumers on its Marketplace and Debuts New Features for Businesses to Accelerate Skills Mastery
New features include third-party certification preparation, hosting a record of customers’ badge achievements to signal skills acquisition and a personalized
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nNew features include third-party certification preparation, hosting a record of customers’ badge achievements to signal skills acquisition and a personalized insights dashboard\n\n\n SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nUdemy (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.\n\n\nNew Badging and Certification preparation offerings available today include:\n\n\n\nThird-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%.\n\n\n\nBadge 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 ...