CreativeLive

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  • E-Learning
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CreativeLive's popularity for its diverse and comprehensive course offerings provide high-quality interactive learning experiences for creative individuals looking to refine their skills, or an enthusiast pursuing a creative passion.

Offering a wealth of educational resources with an extensive selection of live and on-demand classes across various creative disciplines, are tailored specifically for creative professionals and enthusiasts in support of their creative learning journey.

Fred Gleason
July 8, 2024

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Over

7,400+

online courses

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Over

700+

expert authors

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Over

1M+

individual users

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In

180+

countries worldwide

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  • Hosted Services

    • Marketplace Learning
      • - How-To-Videos
      • - Course Libraries
    • Community Learning
      • - Pluralsight Learning Paths
      • - Subject Matter Experts
      • - Pluralsight App
    • Become a Author on Pluralsight
      • - Passive Income Stream
      • - Barriers To Entry

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  • KEY FEATURES

        • Course Libraries
        • Skill IQ Skill Assessments
        • A cloud guru (ACG) for Business
        • Skill Paths Creative Learning Paths
        • Business and Enterprise Solutions
        • Q&A Platform

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  • Use Cases
      • Product Type
      • E-learning Platform
        • Category
          • Marketplace Learning
          • Community Learning
          • Generate Passive Income

          • Product Description
          • MARKETPLACE LEARNING
            • Pluralsight's course libraries offer a comprehensive library of courses covering various topics such as programming languages, web development, cloud computing, data science, cybersecurity, machine learning, project management, and more.
            • Skill IQ assessments help individuals identify their strengths and weaknesses while providing insights into areas where further learning is needed.
            • ACG for Business is designed to provide your team with a hands-on approach to continuous learning at scale. A Cloud Guru offers the most up-to-date courses and labs, paired with comprehensive tools and resources to develop the modern tech skills needed to support any multi-cloud initiative.
          • COMMUNITY LEARNING
            • Skill paths are curated learning paths that guide learners through a sequence of courses and modules, focusing on specific skills or job roles.
            • Tailored plans and solutions for businesses and enterprises allow organizations to provide their teams with access to targeted technical training and skill development resources.
            • Q&A platform where learners can ask specific technical questions and receive answers from a community of experts.
              • GAINS & OUTCOMES
                • Skill-based training
                • Professional & Technical Skill Development  
                • Certificates
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    • Ideal For
      • Target Audience
          • Individuals & Business Owners
            • Early Adopters, Creatives & Professionals
            • Academic Students & E-Learners
            • Skill-Based Training & Development
            • Entrepreneurs
            • Freelancers
            • Teams
      • Service Features
      • Course Categories

              • SKILLS
                • Software Dev
                  • Databases, Game development, Mobile development, Programming languages, and web development
                • Data & Machine Learning
                  • Big data, Business intelligence, Data visualization, Databases, Languages & libraries
                • Cloud
                  • Cloud architecture & design, Cloud platforms, and Salesforce CRM
                • Security
                  • Certifications, Government, Risk & compliance, Security architecture & engineering, Security operations, and security testing
                • IT Ops
                  • Client operating systems, Collaboration platforms, Configuration management, Containers,
                  • IT automation, Network architecture, Virtualization
                • Business Professionals
                  • Office applications, Security awareness
              • LEARNING PATHS
                • Skills IQ
                  • Microsoft Azure Deployment
                  • Python 3
                  • AWS Operations
                  • Cleaning Data with R
                • A Cloud Guru (ACG)
                  • Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud playground
                  • DevOps, GCP, Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform
                • Flow
                  • Engineering transformation, Engineering metrics, Delivery diagnostics, Distributed teams, DevOps metrics,
                  • Getting started with Flow, Investment strategy, Developer success lab, Flow services
              • AI COURSES
                • Essential AI Skills
                  • AI & Generative AI Explained
                  • Prompt Engineering with Generative AI
                  • Artificial Intelligence for Business
                  • Artificial Intelligence Strategy
                  • ChatGPT and Generative AI
                • Data, Cybersecurity & AI Risk Management
                  • Generative AI Models and Architecture
                  • Generative AI Techniques for Cyber Defense
                  • AIOps

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  • MONETIZATION

Become a Teacher on Pluralsight

Authors are selected both for their expertise and teaching ability, and on average about 10% of all applicants who apply get accepted to become a teacher on the author network - this mainly because of their strict audition process, which is catered around your ability to deliver effective teaching skills.

Learn The Barriers To Entry

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  • Pricing Plans
  • Price & Packaging Options
    • Skills Subscription
    • Develop stronger proficiencies in specific skills or technologies through step-by-step instruction.
      • INDIVIDUAL PLAN
        • STANDARD
          • 5000+ Courses
          • Limited Core Library Access
          • $29 USD / month
          • Up to 10 Day Free Trial
        • PREMIUM
          • 7000+ Courses
          • Full Extended Library Access
          • $45 USD / month
          • Up to 30 Day Free Trial

      • TEAM PLAN
        • 2 - 50 users
        • STARTER
          • 5000+ Courses
          • Limited Core Library Access
          • $399 USD / per user / per yr
          • No Free Trial
        • 2 - 50 users
        • PROFESSIONAL
          • 7000+ Courses
          • Full Extended Library Access
          • $579 USD / per user / per yr
          • Team Trial
  • A Cloud Guru (ACG) Subscription
  • Accelerate cloud success with hands-on learning at scale, featuring over 400 courses and 1,800 hands-on labs.
    • FREE PLAN
      • Limited Course Access
      • $0 USD
    • INDIVIDUAL PLAN
      • PERSONAL BASIC
        • Learning Paths
        • Certifications with hands-on learning
        • Unlimited Course Access
        • $35 USD / month
        • Up to 7 Day Free Trial
      • PERSONAL PLUS
        • Learning Paths
        • Learn by unlimited AWS, Azure & GCP Sandboxes
        • Unlimited Course Access
        • $47 USD / month
        • Up to 7 Day Free Trial
    • TEAM PLAN
      • Minimum of 2 learners
        • BUSINESS BASIC
          • Learning Paths
          • Upskill teams with hands-on learning
          • Unlimited Courses
          • $35 USD / month
          • No Free Trial
      • Minimum of 2 learners
        • BUSINESS PLUS
          • Learning Paths
          • Customize & accelerate skills development
          • Unlimited Courses
          • $49 USD / month
          • No Free Trial
  • Flow Subscription
  • Experience the transformative power of Flow and elevate your engineering operations.
    • CORE
      • - Transform Your Engineering Team's Performance:  Integrate seamlessly with tools like GitHub, Jira, and ADO.
      • - Boost Productivity: Minimize cycle times and reduce unplanned work, streamlining your development process for maximum efficiency.
      • STARTING FROM $38 USD / per contributor / per month  
    • PLUS
      • - Gain Critical Insights: Achieve newfound transparency into your team's workflow, enabling data-driven decisions that accelerate growth and impact.
      • - Enhance Team Effectiveness: Amplify your team's visibility and measure effectiveness with precise, actionable insights.
      • - Empower Your Team: Use objective data to coach and mentor individuals, fostering continuous improvement and high performance.

      • STARTING FROM $50 USD / per contributor / per month

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Best In Class

Check out the Best In Class tech stack for E-Learning expert services & marketplace learning platforms.

These platforms are built for upskilling knowledge & providing insightful support through online courses, masterclasses, e-learning and training programs.

Marketplace Learning

With over 7,400 courses in its catalogue, Pluralsight, highly sought-after library of tech driven skill-based web, programming and creative development courses and learning paths. Students discover, develop, upskill and learn new technologies to practice assignment based training across different fields like Programming languages and Frameworks to cloud computing, Cybersecurity, Python, Data science, Machine Learning, JavaScript, Web Development, App development and more. They also offer courses on soft skills like communication and leadership.

Give your team the skills advance your business strategies, remove challenges and roadblocks slowing you down, and cut cycle times to speed up development progress deadlines.  

Pluralsight courses and product solutions are segmented into 3 areas of skill development –

  • Skills—a series of courses, based around assessments, learning paths, and labs.
  • A cloud guru (ACG) – a library of cloud engineering solutions courses with hands-on learning
  • Flow – a wide selection of workflow data solution courses to help tech developers how to optimize software delivery across teams.

From identifying bottlenecks, enhancing flow efficiency, resolving deployment friction issues, Improve knowledge sharing and collaboration, to coaching and developing engineering skills.

How-To-Videos

    Face the future with confidence  

Pluralsight’s video course library includes  thousands of on-demand and online courses across a range of technology subject areas, including cloud, DevOps, security, IT, data science and AI.   

Free trials for individuals are subject to a 200-minute maximum watch time, and the paid subscription has no limits with new courses published every week.

 

Skill  IQ Test and assessments

Skills courses include subtitles, language translations and captions

A key component in building knowledge, closing tech skills gaps and adding proficiency to a technology skill for individual team members and a workforce. Skill IQ Tests enable the tailoring of skill development to measure and benchmark your team’s tech skills, and identify their gaps and strengths. Based on modern test theories, the tests are short and comprehensive, taking 10-15 minutes and approximately 20 questions to complete. - Questions are regularly added to their assessments from a large network of expert practitioners.

A  cloud guru (ACG) for Business    

Businesses can build modern tech skills and learn to cloud using proven adult learning principles to create a tailored, effective learning experience for all skill levels. ACG provides 400+ courses and 1,800+ hands-on labs to help navigate teams to the cloud with a fresh, hands-on approach to continuous learning at scale. Offering full fast-track certification training with hands-on learning and technical deep dives for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and more.

Flow gives the team visibility into their workflow

Flow –  

A Library of playbooks and videos for engineering leaders to learn how Flow can bolster engineering efforts and processes across engineering teams. They will learn about integrations, importing repos, team and user management, to discover how Flow can transform their organizations to increase visibility, efficiency, and predictability. Flow how-to videos provide quick overviews and deep-dives to help engineering team members who are struggling across planning, commits, codereviews, and cycle time. Flow video course series are designed to resolve bottlenecks issues, analyse work efficiency and measure team productivity.

Course Libraries

Interactive Courses

Interactive  courses are an in-browser, hands-on learning experience inclusive of quizzes, real-world projects, and assessments to learn any new tool, framework, or browse through libraries of on-demand technology courses.  

Interactive courses combine video, various coding challenges, and a code editor for aspiring developers. Courses are structured to deliver insights and applied learning after watching a video of a technology, so individual learners or teams can apply answers to coding challenges right in the browser. - Answers are automatically checked after submission, and guided feedback is provided if coding errors are made.

Community Learning

Pluralsight fosters a vibrant community where learners, instructors and industry professionals can connect, collaborate, and engage in discussions related to technology, skills development, and career advancement. The Pluralsight community provides several avenues for individuals to interact and share knowledge.    

A collaborative and supportive environment for individuals to learn, share knowledge and  develop skills with others who have a passion for technology.  

Learning Paths

Learning  paths are carefully curated lists consisting of courses, to help learners navigate and explore a particular domain. Organized in a way to learn new skills from beginner to advanced level, with hands-on experiences, and assessments tailored to a specific skill, technology, or certification.

In-house experts create paths to guide learners in discovering where to start in their skill development journey, what to consider as a next step in their learning path, and lead them to mastering skills in a particular technical field.  

Opportunity Academics

Gain access to Pluralsight's extensive library of tech courses and learning paths, to upskill talent into DevOps, cloud, data, cybersecurity, or software dev roles. Companies can build the exact individual or team talent they need from diverse backgrounds, to train and develop their skills.

Options are available to design custom academies tailored to specific needs and tech stack, whether it's upskilling existing employees or building new talent pipelines.

Academies can also follow a train-to-hire or hire-to-train model based on a company’s needs.

Pluralsight Creative  

Expand your  creative potential or sharpen your technological creativity. Discover the  principles of UX layouts, mock-ups, and all you need to know about a range of  tools for UX design.

The courses in Pluralsight Creative Path are designed to help you start at your present knowledge level or build the abilities you  need to master a skill from the ground up.

Gain expertise creating UX layouts and mock-ups using programmes like Houdini, Maya, 3ds Max, animation, visual effects, Photoshop, computer graphics, and game development.

Authors, Teachers, Instructors & Coaches on Pluralsight  

Pluralsight Authors are subject-matter experts, tech evangelists, and entrepreneurs. They understand the limitless possibilities technology can unlock and share their knowledge to empower the next generation of creators.

Pluralsight App

Learn anytime, anywhere with mobile apps, downloadable courses, and offline viewing. Bookmark courses via your mobile device and come back to them later—no matter the device bookmarked courses and progress syncs across devices. Pluralsight's suite of native apps enables you to learn on the go! 

    Learn from top technologists around the world  

How To Become an Author on Pluralsight

Authors are selected both for their expertise and teaching ability, and on average about 10% of all applicants who apply get accepted to become a teacher on the author network - this mainly because of their strict audition process which is catered around your ability to deliver effective teaching skills.  

Barriers To Entry

Becoming An Instructor on Pluralsight

When applying to join the Pluralsight Author community network to  teach on the platform, applicants will need to complete a series of questions upon entry:  

  • Select the types of content that you are interested in authoring for Pluralsight  
  • Who will benefit from the content you create
  • What specific topics interest you in creating courses on Pluralsight
  • Then submit your request

If invited to apply, you will be appointed with an Acquisition Editors who will provide guidance in creating a short audition video (approx. 6 – 10 mins in length). Using their audition kit inclusive of Pluralsight branded assets such as slides, icons, and graphics. Your auction video helps them evaluate your energy, your ability to deliver course materials, and your talent at storytelling driven by your passion for technology.   

Potential Earnings & Revenue

Pluralsight authors are paid on royalties. Pluralsight's simple model is to add up all the minutes of content viewed for the month, dependent on two main variables;  

  • You are paid for production. - This is a fixed sum received within 30 days and once your course goes live.    
  • Video course compensation is based on viewership, this collectively increases overtime once you have a series of videos published on the platform.

Passive Monthly Earnings    

You’ll need to plan, build and create your online course, based on your chosen subject or area of expertise you’d like to teach.

Online searches report Pluralsight Authors typically are making on average:  

Average: $80,850 + yearly

      

Entry  Requirements

After going through the initial application process and answering the relevant questions – you will be asked to create a tutorial.  

This tutorial must align with the platform’s course offerings and should be approximately 6 - 10 minutes in  length. This will be your initial auction entry for this process.

 

The Audition Process

1  After signing up to join the Pluralsight Author community. You'll be provided the tools and guidance needed to set-up and optimize your recording space, and all the materials needed to complete your audition video.

2  You’ll need to think about your teaching style,  how you engage with learners, your use of slides & visuals, scripting and structuring of the course you  have chosen to teach.

In regards to the tools to use for your audition,  ensure there is thought placed on the quality of: Sound & video recording equipment,  audio & video software, live coding and more.  Aforementioned, its important to note that Pluralsight is more interested in your ability to teach. However you should be provided tips and guidance for completing this process.  

3  After recording your audition and submitted it for review, a member of the Pluralsight Team will evaluate your video audition, provide feedback and if your application is successful.

Become a Pluralsight Author

Authors at Pluralsight

Pluralsight is on the lookout for professionals with skills to deliver and create video-based training that shows the processes and methods associated with good service design.

The author ecosystem consists of thousands of proven experts who are passionate about technology, want to harness the teaching skills to spread their knowledge to a world learners, motivated to teach, support technical knowledge growth and provide the content needed for students succeed in their professional development.

    • Suitable for
      • Creator Types

    • Individual Types
    • PROFESSIONALS
    • ENTREPRENEURS
    • TEACHERS
    • FREELANCERS
  • Ideal for anyone with creative & entrepreneurial aspirations to build an online business, trade and promote their knowledge & skills to marketplace communities.

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