Retired English Professor Attracts 3,000 Students in Six Months

Bellevue, Wash. (Feb. 26, 2014) – EDUonGo, Inc. makes launching your own massive open online course (MOOC) easy. Using the award winning learning platform, more than 1,000 academies have been created using the platform. EDUonGo equips their partners with the resources they need to create their own academies and attract thousands of students quickly.

Qazim Aliu, an English professor and US immigrant from Kosovo, had only recently retired when he decided to partner with EDUonGo. With nearly 40 years of teaching experience, Aliu founded Te Profi Qaza, an online English language school for native-speaking Albanians. After revamping his teaching methods and student collaboration into an interactive format, Aliu has seen student enrollment exceed 3,000.

“Like many other teachers around the world, I wanted to build my own community through my own brand and EDUonGo made that happen for me—in minutes” he says. “Now, if you can imagine my age, far from being technically savvy, and often feeling overwhelmed with the digital world, I am having a blast running my own online academy.”

Larry Sugarman, founder and president of SMART Selling, Inc. in Wash., had been looking for a way to transition his sales training courses online when he learned about EDUonGo. Desiring to reduce on-site seminar costs and improve learning retention, Sugarman transformed SMART Selling into an online program that has attracted sales personnel across the world.

“I couldn’t have done this without EDUonGo,” says Sugarman. “Not only have they provided the system I need to teach online, the support I received on instructional design was supreme.”

EDUonGo is equipping partners like Sugarman and Aliu with all of the tools necessary to create online courses and manage students. Through the company’s simple cloud-based system, partners can upload video lectures, create assignments and efficiently monitor student progress using their Web browser. Additionally, students can collaborate together through the platform’s secure social network by sharing notes and posting comments in the video player and e-reader.

“A great product and supreme customer support is what separates us from our competition,” says Steven Yee, chief operating officer of EDUonGo. “We treat every customer as our partner, their success is our success. Our goal is to help anyone, a teacher, a consultant, or an entrepreneur to launch their own academy, and share their knowledge with the rest of the world.”

A case study detailing Qazim Aliu’s online academy is available for download at: http://eduongo.com/static/images/Te_Profi_Qaza_Case_Study.pdf

About EDUonGo

EDUonGo enables anyone to share knowledge through an online learning environment. Schools, institutions and individuals partner with EDUonGo to host online academies through its cloud-based platform. With more than 1,000 registered institutions and 13,000 users worldwide, EDUonGo is the fastest and most powerful way for anyone to launch an online academy. For more information, visit http://www.EDUonGo.com.

 

Media Contacts

– Steven Yee, EDUonGo, 800-955-8363 ext. 801, steven@eduongo.com