Shaw Academy Education is a privately owned online education organisation based in Dublin, Ireland.^[1][2]

Founded in 2013, Shaw Academy provides online courses which are audio/video recorded and deliver them to students through scheduled webinar times decided by the student to suit their own schedule.

The educational spectrum involves subjects such as photography, health and fitness, financial trading, nutrition, web development, mobile app development and digital marketing.^[3][4] Shaw Academy makes use of an intelligent chat bot and peer to peer chat to answer students' live questions.^[2]

Shaw Academy was founded by James Egan and Adrian Murphy in 2013.^[5]

By January 2016, Shaw Academy was teaching about 55,000 new students each month.^[6] By November of that year, it was teaching 400,000 new students every month and had surpassed teaching over 1.84 million students.^[7][8]

In January 2016, founder Adrian Murphy and Irish Minister for Jobs, Richard Bruton, announced 40 new education positions in the Dublin office.^[5][6][9] The CEO of Irish government agency Enterprise Ireland, Julie Sinnamon, described Shaw Academy at the time as "an example of an innovative Irish company in the growing online learning market, who are also supporting other Irish SMEs to grow through their extensive suite of online courses."^[5][9]

In January 2017, Shaw Academy launched its own personalised educational platform, called Phoenix, to accommodate growing student numbers.

Phoenix enables Shaw Academy to teach more students live online simultaneously whilst also providing an automated yet personalised service to its students.^[10]

Shaw Academy offer courses ranging from business related topics such as digital marketing, social media marketing and web development to wellness programmes such as health and fitness and sports nutrition.^[8] All courses are delivered with recordings of live presentations.^[8][11] Students can log on to the dedicated portal to complete assignments, exams, review modules, replay lectures, view additional content etc. which are available to them at any time. Educational and technical support teams are also readily available to students.^[2][12]

In January 2019, Shaw Academy announced its intention to deliver masters level qualifications in 2019.

The process of launching these qualifications is not yet completed.

The professional diploma courses of Shaw Academy are accredited with 10 credit units by the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) through validation of Edinburgh Napier University.^[13] They are hence on the European Qualifications Framework, a reference network for the comparability of national educational standards,^[14] and therefore, amongst others, comparable to 10 credit units achieved through Higher National Diploma, foundation degree, Diploma of Higher Education or an associate's degree in the US.

Shaw Academy has formed global partnerships with companies in e-commerce, telecom and recruitment sector such as Adobe, GoDaddy and Naukri.com.^[7][15]

In November 2016, Shaw Academy partnered with Indian e-commerce marketplace Flipkart to provide certified courses on its portal.^[7][16]

Headquarters are located in Dublin, Ireland, as well as offices elsewhere, employing approximately 200 staff globally.^[5][6]

In September 2015, Shaw Academy set up an office in Bangalore, India, which employs over 120 staff.^[11]