Udemy’s top instructors earned $1.6 million in the last year

May 17, 2012 / Commercial companies

Udemy, the platform that empowers experts around the world to build and share online courses, today announces its top ten earning instructors. The company also releases new data showing a sharp rise in user engagement over the past year.

The top ten earning Udemy instructors, ranging from designers to corporate trainers to computer programmers, brought in a combined $1,654,480 in the past twelve months.

Several sites are pontificating on this news:

So, it turns out teaching well is one way to make a good living on the internet. I guess I better get my act together.