10+ True Alternatives to Udemy for Selling Online Courses in 2020

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Udemy

In most cases, though, these posts highlight platforms like Teachable or Thinkific as alternatives. While, technically speaking, these are good alternatives (and I am a fan of both), I suspect that a lot of people searching on “alternative to Udemy” or “sites like Udemy” are really looking for a substitute for Udemy.

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Coggno

With Coggno, you can create courses or upload existing content – and, unlike most Udemy alternatives, including SCORM files. You also have the option to deliver these courses privately or to distribute them through the Coggno marketplace. Coggno also provides the useful twist of enabling organizations to use a branded instance of the Coggno platform for free to offer courses to their target audience (e.g., employees, members) – thus providing yet another distribution option for your content (i.e., more of a business-to-business, or B2B, marketplace). Organizations that use the LMS in this way pay only for the content they use. For course developers looking to sell their content, pricing starts at $34.95 per month. Coggno also takes a percentage of sales. This varies depending on the price of the course and how it is sold, so be sure to check out the pricing page.

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Curious

Like Udemy, Curious is video-focused, providing a set of tools to help teachers organize their videos and add exercises and other types of interactivity. With respect to marketing your content out to its base of learners, the company touts a “multi-channel approach – and classic marketing techniques like organic search (SEO), paid advertising (SEM), direct marketing and most importantly, social media.” Teachers earn money through revenue sharing (Curious says 70% goes to teachers), tips, and what the company calls “referral bounties.” Details can be found on the company’s Teacher Payment page.

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Edureka

edureka! touts live online courses, 24/7 support, and high completion rates. The site is mainly tech oriented at the moment, but there is also a marketing and finance category. I can’t find instructor terms, though someone has posted on Quora that instructors don’t make more than 20 percent. (If anyone can confirm or deny, please comment.)

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Teachlr has a nice interface that is reminiscent of Udemy – though without as wide-ranging a catalog at this point. Instructors can deliver on-demand and live online courses and, according to the terms of use, get to set their own prices and get to keep 70 percent of the revenues. The company appears to be based in Venzuela and offers a lot of Spanish-language content through its catalog. If you produce courses in Spanish and/or want to grow your presence among Spanish-speaking audiences, this may be just be your best option among the Udemy alternatives.

Teachlr has a nice interface that is reminiscent of Udemy – though without as wide-ranging a catalog at this point. Instructors can deliver on-demand and live online courses and, according to the terms of use, get to set their own prices and get to keep 70 percent of the revenues. The company appears to be based in Venzuela and offers a lot of Spanish-language content through its catalog. If you produce courses in Spanish and/or want to grow your presence among Spanish-speaking audiences, this may be just be your best option among the Udemy alternatives.

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OpenSesame

Like Coggno (above) OpenSesame is one of the only options out of this group (as far as I can tell) that allows you to upload courses that you have created using a standards-based (SCORM, AICC) course authoring package like Articulate Presenter. (Udemy does not allow for this.) If you happen to be an expert, or manage experts (e.g., if you represent a training firm or association) that is developing offerings at this level of sophistication, it might be the first place you want to check out. You can also upload video, and the company claims that courses published in its system can be accessed by any learning management system (LMS). So, for example, if you know there are businesses out there that would want your content, but are going to want it on their own LMS, this could be a very powerful option. The company takes 40% of any sales you make through its platform.

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Simpliv

Simlpliv focuses online learning for business concepts, software technology, and personal and professional goals. Like most of the sites listed here, the learning is primarily video driven. The company offers two scenarios for course authors to earn money. The first is a 50/50 split on any sales that happen organically through a visitor finding the course on the Simpliv site. The second – which I think many edupreneurs will find quite attractive – is 97% to the author whenever the purchaser uses a coupon provide by the author. Full details about the terms are available here.

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SkillShare

Hey Jeff, thanks for another great post! I’ve been looking for platforms to host my content to drive an increase in sales. So far I have tried the main ones, Udemy and Skillshare with mixed success. I also tried some of the newer ones like YouAccel and SkillSuccess or Skillwise. Surprisingly YouAccel delivered the best results in terms of stable monthly income and student enrolments. I probably made the most on Udemy, but after the first month my sales took a dive. I guess it’s their way of incentivizing instructors to keep adding new content.

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Teachlr has a nice interface that is reminiscent of Udemy – though without as wide-ranging a catalog at this point. Instructors can deliver on-demand and live online courses and, according to the terms of use, get to set their own prices and get to keep 70 percent of the revenues. The company appears to be based in Venzuela and offers a lot of Spanish-language content through its catalog. If you produce courses in Spanish and/or want to grow your presence among Spanish-speaking audiences, this may be just be your best option among the Udemy alternatives.

Teachlr has a nice interface that is reminiscent of Udemy – though without as wide-ranging a catalog at this point. Instructors can deliver on-demand and live online courses and, according to the terms of use, get to set their own prices and get to keep 70 percent of the revenues. The company appears to be based in Venzuela and offers a lot of Spanish-language content through its catalog. If you produce courses in Spanish and/or want to grow your presence among Spanish-speaking audiences, this may be just be your best option among the Udemy alternatives.

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WizIQ

For experts who want to deliver live and on-demand Webinars, WizIQ is an old standby. Among the Udemy alternatives, it is the option most focused on Webinars as a form of delivery. The company provides a platform through which you can easily offer a live Webinar session – with slides, desktop sharing, audio, and video – that can also be recorded for on-demand access by learners. Courses can be published and sold in WizIQ’s online marketplace. WizIQ does also plug-ins for Moodle, Sakai, Blackboard Learn – popular learning management systems in the academic world. There’s a free 30-day trial, and then paid plans start at $33 a month (billed annually) plus a 5 percent per transaction fee of use of WizIQ’s payment gateway. (It’s unclear from the Web site whether you can use your own gateway.)

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