Online education marketplace Udemy is announcing that its Teach2013 initiative has signed 15,000 experts within the past 60 days. Among those notable within the company’s “create your own course” program, is legendary reporter Dan Rather, and acclaimed directors Randal Kleiser and George Lucas. Since its debut in January, Udemy has set out to create a program where anyone can create their own course. The company says that it created this initiative because it was looking to help encourage and empower experts and leaders to “step up” and not only create courses, but teach them. Udemy’s Vice President of Marketing Dinesh Thiru tells us that that so far, Teach2013 has accumulated 1,000 courses from its Teach2013 applicants. He says: It’s amazing what a good instructor can do with an HD camera, a mic, and some basic video editing software.  We live in a new world where experts are building incredibly high-quality online courses with technology that often costs less than $200. You couldn’t empower millions of experts to teach the world before this happened â€" the barriers to teaching online were too high. But that’s all changed now and that’s why 2013 is going to be the year of the online instructor. To date, the company has over 600,000 students signed up to learn from a variety of courses and the addition of well-known personalities such as Rather, Kleiser, and Lucas might even impress more to participate. Interestingly enough, Thi
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