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Skillshare deleted half of their classes and didn’t tell anyone.
No one is happy, no one was notified. But Why?? And where can online instructors turn?
Disclaimer: I am a teacher on Skillshare, so it’s super effective. Also, I do not have a figure for the exact % of classes removed, I estimate around half.
Update: In the months after writing this, I have worked with Skillshare to get most of my classes back, and am having better engagement than ever. I am now more accepting of with the purge, as there are less distractions on the platform from my top-rated Sell Art Online classes. In fairness, they did a terrible job on communication and broke their own terms of service, as you will find out shortly.
Dear Skillshare,
I love you. You gave me hope when my courses simmered on Udemy instead of sizzled. You excited me into unlocking a passion I didn’t know I had. You freed me from waiting tables. You took me to South America, fed me, and sheltered me. I am grateful. I will always be grateful.
Now, my things are out on the street. My eyes are red, my cheeks are wet. I am in pain. My fellow teachers are out on the street too. We are out here huddled for warmth.
I look and see a light a far.
“We need to move” I tell the others.
The house of Skillshare is crumbling before our very eyes. Shreiks. Gasps. Smoke and dust all around.
What could we have done differently? How could we have prevented the collapse of our beloved Skillshare?
Okay okay okay, that was a bit dramatic.
Let’s take a step back and see what happened here and what we can do going forward.
What the hell happened?!?
A little history.
A few years ago, Skillshare was like the wild west of course creation. You could put a course up, (actually, you could probably upload any old video) and it would be instantly on the platform, no questions asked.
That’s not good. And it foreshadows Skillshare’s coming doom.
