Seven years after replacing a Yale president with a fintech CEO, Coursera picks an Amazon veteran to help fix its slowing growth and falling stock price.

The 2024 edition of the conference will be held on July 2–5 in South Africa, at Stellenbosch University.

Both Coursera and Udemy started 2025 with new CEOs. Greg Hart took over at Coursera in February. Hugo Sarrazin started at Udemy in March. Less than a month into the job, both CEOs were in conversations to sell their companies. On April 8, Hart and Sarrazin met for the first time at ASU+GSV. The rest, as they say, is history. In my 5,000-word analysis of Coursera’s acquisition of Udemy, I called the deal rushed. Two new CEOs, both less than a year into the job, merging two public companies. I w

Every Black Friday, Class Central compiles the best online learning deals from online course platforms. But you don’t need to wait for Black Friday. You can find interesting deals all year long! In this article, we’ve compiled the best online learning deals and discounts available right now (or that will soon go live). When deals have an end date, we included it too, but note that it’s not rare for deals to remain active even past their end date, so you might want to give them a try nonetheles

In 2021, 10 years after it burst on the scene, the MOOC ecosystem has reached 220M learners and 19.4K courses.

Analyzing edX’s latest tax returns offers valuable insights and context for its acquisition motivations.