CreativeLive

  • PRODUCT REVIEW
  • E-Learning
  • CreativeLive courses product review

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.

Maurice Herman
July 8, 2024

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          • SNAPSHOT

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Over

35K+

Online Courses

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Over

800K+

Members & Learners

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Over

12K+

Instructors & Teachers

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In

150+

Countries worldwide

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  • Hosted Services
    • Marketplace Learning
      • - How-To-Videos
      • - Course Libraries
    • Community Learning
      • - Skillshare For Teams
      • - Subject Matter Experts
      • - Skillshare App
    • Become a Teacher on Skillshare
      • - Passive Income Stream
      • - Barriers To Entry

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  • KEY FEATURES

        • Collaboration Opportunities
        • Chroma Courses Discussion Boards
        • Project Galleries
        • Skillshare Workshops & Challenges
        • Teaching on Skillshare

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

          • Product Description
          • MARKETPLACE LEARNING
            • Skillshare has thousands of classes in everything from graphic design to cooking, productivity, filmmaking, content creation, UI/UX design, marketing, crafts, music, merchandising, social media, entrepreneurship and more.
            • Each course on Skillshare has its own dedicated discussion board where learners can ask questions, seek clarification, share insights, and participate in discussions related to the course content.
            • Once a user enrols on a course, they typically have lifetime access to the course content. This means learners can revisit the material, review lessons, and access any updates or additional resources provided by the instructor.
          • COMMUNITY LEARNING
            • Learners can showcase their completed projects from the courses they've taken. This feature allows students to share their work, inspire others and receive feedback from the community
            • Skillshare organizes workshops and challenges on specific topics or themes, encouraging learners to actively participate and create projects based on provided guidelines.
            • Opportunities for collaboration between learners and instructors. This can include joint projects, partnerships, mentorship, or even the opportunity for learners to become instructors themselves and share their expertise with others.
              • GAINS & OUTCOMES
                • Skill Based Training
                • Personal Development  
                • Knowledge Based
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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

              • CREATE
                • Animation | Illustration & Graphic Design
                  • Art, Digital Illustration, Painting, Drawing, Motion Graphics
                  • Surface Pattern Design, 3D Design, 3D rendering, Vector Graphics
                • Creative Writing
                  • Writing & Publishing, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction Writing
                  • Screenwriting & Storytelling
                • Film & Video
                  • Video Production, Cinematography & Film Editing
                  • Videography, Filmmaking & Video Editing
                • Photography & UI/UX Design
                  • Photographic Composition, Digital Photography, Photo Editing
                  • Product Design, Web Design, Wireframing, UX Design, Prototyping
              • BUILD
                • Freelance & Entrepreneurship
                  • Online Business, Ecommerce & Work from Home
                • Marketing
                  • Branding, SEO, Social Media Marketing
                  • Digital Marketing, Online Marketing, Content Marketing
              • THRIVE
                • Lifestyle
                  • Craft, DIY, Culinary, Cooking, Baking, Health & Wellness, Sewing and Language
                • Productivity
                  • Project Management, Personal Development, Time Management, Note Taking and Professional Growth

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  • MONETIZATION

Become a Teacher on Skillshare

Becoming a Skillshare teacher provides the opportunity to earn monthly revenue through their Partner Program. They offer an extensive suite of resources and responsive support to help you create classes that inspire learners.

Learn The Barriers To Entry

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  • Pricing Plans
  • Price & Packaging Options
    • Premium Plan - Individuals
      • 35K+ Classes
      • Unlimited Access
      • $29 USD / month or $99 USD / yr  
      • 30 Days Free Trial
    • Team Plan - Skillshare For Teams
      • 35K+ Classes
      • Unlimited Access
      • $159 USD / per user / per yr
      • No Free Trial Available

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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

Skillshare’s online learning platform offers a wide range of video-based courses taught by industry professionals and experts. The platform provides a diverse selection of classes across various subjects, including creative arts, design, photography, writing, entrepreneurship, technology and more.

How-To-Videos

Learn creative skills to achieve your personal and professional goals

Ideal for beginners and experts as its ‘at-your-own-pace’ learning experience; offering the balance of specific skill development designed to help students succeed. Their courses include live video lessons, text-based tutorials, and interactive quizzes.  

Skillshare  offers thousands of free classes across diverse topics and ‘How To’ videos  that students can participate in, and the free trial on the Skillshare Premium plan provides full access to their library of classes and courses.

Course Libraries

Skillshare Originals
Courses are structured into two types of online learning experiences

These courses are  produced by Skillshare and individuals, whilst some of its classes are created  in collaboration with industry partners.       

An Original class contains several videos with a duration of about 8 to 10 minutes each, and structured to be watched in series order making it possible to set your viewing watchtime at your own pace. 

 Chroma Courses

Scheduled into four-week group courses, new Chroma Courses are launched each month and designed to give small groups of learners an immersive experience, that grants access to exclusive content from expert teachers. Anyone can enrol into these courses, and students receive personalized feedback on assignments with live Q & A sessions.      

The Live Sessions are digital events that offer live learning experience, here participants can attend an event at a given time and participate  in a live lesson. Some of these events remain free to join, while other events are paid.

Skillshare community is a vibrant and interactive space where learners, instructors, and enthusiasts come together to engage, collaborate, and support each other. The community is an active and supportive network that encourages learners to connect, learn from each other, and foster creativity.

The learning community environment is for students to engage with instructors, receive feedback from peers and showcase their projects.

    Skillshare classes are taught by industry  leaders excited to share their tools, techniques, and professional journeys with you.  

The Skillshare community is filled with people who want to share their knowledge and help others succeed. Teachers contributing to the Skillshare platform is over 6,000+ with many of the talents include some particularly notable experts, and renowned influencers who share their experiences and skills to an engaged audience of students.

Skillshare Workshops

Skillshare workshops offer two to three shared classes scheduled in a study niche. Workshop classes involve more structure and community involvement. These run between set dates and generally have a timeline and deadline for students to follow. Not all Skillshare courses have an add-on workshop, but they do include exclusive workshops with interactions and live discussions hosted by an instructor.

Despite not all Skillshare courses have an add-on workshop, they do however have exclusive workshops that are live are hosted by the instructor, allowing for interactions and live discussions.

Skillshare for Teams

Ideally suited for companies, entrepreneurs or groups on the small or medium side looking to add 2 or more users to a plan. Skillshare is designed for creative and on-demand learning requirements, and helps teams build hard & soft skills, or discover a new creative outlet of ideas.

Provided on the plan is unlimited access to Skillshare's entire database curriculum and community of over 35,000+ classes, across various categories, project-based courses and access to their community of industry experts.

Skillshare Instructors, Teachers and  Hosts

Led by numerous global experts and top-performing instructors in various  categories, they provide insightful lessons on their respective fields.

The top Instructors on Skillshare provide high-quality courses to help the online  learning community develop new skills. They share their expertise in providing insights, lessons learnt through their experiences, and best practice approaches within a variety of creative niches. Teaching instructors with released courses on Skillshare are verified, handpicked by in-house experts from various fields, and matched to their relevant experience on the craft they are teaching. 
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 Designed for enthusiastic creatives:

Skillshare’s community of creatives is an interactive, collaborative and inclusive environment to help students thrive, and where whole communities of people share their values, interests and ambitions in support of knowledge growth.

Skillshare App

Access all of your classes anytime, anywhere. Sync your progress on your computer, phone or tablet.  

Download  video lessons to your tablet or mobile device with a Skillshare membership and take your classes offline.

How to Become a Teacher on Skillshare

Becoming a teacher on Skillshare presents an opportunity to earn monthly revenue through their Partner Program.

They offer an extensive suite of resources and responsive support to help you create classes that inspire.  

Barriers To Entry

Potential Earning & Revenue

Skillshare teachers bring new, engaging content to community of learners. Creators have the opportunity to earn monthly revenue, which is based on a share of the royalty pool that’s calculated based on watch time measured in minutes. - Across all your classes throughout the previous month.

Royalty Pool

Each month, Skillshare takes 30% share of the Premium Membership revenue, and places it  in a royalty pool for teachers.  Then the number of watch  time minutes from your videos (Premium and Free), are added up. - You must  have at least 75 Premium minutes watched across all your videos to  qualify for payment that month.  

According to Skillshare the estimated potential income for Skillshare teachers may vary depending on how popular your courses are, total watch time and other factors.

Build Your Skillshare Channel

Skillshare provides support resources like their Teacher Help Center and a tutorial  class on how to plan, produce and promote engaging Skillshare classes.

Teacher programs provides hands-on support, guidance, benefits and resources designed to amplify teachers’ success on Skillshare. 

Additionally, you can also teach lessons in the following languages: English,  French, German, Portuguese or Spanish.

Entry  Requirements     

1. Prospective applicants can access the application form comprising of a series of 10 questions.

You don’t need to have your first class fully planned out when applying, however you’ll need to set time aside to consider the following:

- What your class topic would cover.

- What your students would have to do for the class project and;

- The takeaway key lessons students will learn.

2. Before submitting your application, you will need to submit a short sample teaching video, and share information about what you are interested in teaching for your first class. -

Other factors such as your experience and  approach that you would bring to teaching.

3. Once submitted, the Skillshare team carefully reviews applications, and confirm if applicants are approved. – Usually within 2 weeks.

    • 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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