Gale Presents: Udemy is an e-learning/upskilling platform that focuses on in-demand professional and personal development topics across 75 categories. From preparing for a CompTIA Security+ exam, to becoming a ChatGPT master, to discovering your life purpose and learning how to play the saxophone, Gale Presents: Udemy offers thousands of relevant on-demand video courses for all patrons with a desire to learn a new skill or deepen a personal interest.

One of the most unique aspects of Gale Presents: Udemy is its focus on content in languages other than English. Close to 12,000 courses across all categories are created natively in other languages including Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. As the only library resource offering virtual skills training taught by native speakers, public libraries can reach a more diverse set of patrons, breaking down barriers to learning.

Udemy’s one-of-a-kind content creation model and real-world expert instructors enable them to bring new and updated courses to market quicker than traditional content publishers. In fact, 85 percent of the collection has been updated within the last two years. This ensures Libraries can deliver the most relevant, up-to-date information on topics patrons need to upskill or reskill, helping to move their community members forward. For these reasons and more, Gale Presents: Udemy is a Cool Tool Award Winner for “Best Online Courses / MOOCs Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more. 

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Lingoda is one of the world’s top online language schools. Founded in Berlin, Germany in 2013, they provide convenient and accessible online language courses in German, English, Business English, French and Spanish to over 100,000 students worldwide. Their small group and 1-on-1 private classes are taught by over 1,500 qualified, native-level teachers. With almost 550,000 classes available per year and accessible 24/7, their mission is to build bridges around the world through language learning. “By speaking someone’s language you learn about them. Their culture and their ideas. Breaking down the language barrier bridges cultural differences, fosters a world of inclusion and is a first step in helping to address humanity’s challenges.”

The company believes in a communicative approach to language learning: mastering a language means being able to speak it with confidence. Their CEFR-focused learning materials (this stands for Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) are designed by linguistic experts and focus on meaningful topics that are applicable to students’ interests, careers and everyday lives. Thanks to their extensive rotating roster of teachers and their small group classes, students are exposed to a variety of regional accents and expressions within the same language and have the opportunity to practice speaking in every lesson.

For these reasons and more, Lingoda is a Cool Tool Award Winner for “Best Language Learning Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more. 

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