Matt Cooper exits after nine years as the creative learning platform shows signs of struggle, from outdated press pages to courses appearing on rival Coursera.

Coursera announced job cuts on July 6, eight weeks after its merger with Udemy closed. The company didn’t say how many people were affected. The only number it gave was a cost, $8 million to $11 million. After digging around California’s website, I found that 59 people were laid off: 31 from Coursera’s Mountain View headquarters, and 28 from Udemy’s office in San Francisco. California only requires these notices for jobs in the state, so that isn’t the whole number. Based on what the two compa

In 2025, Harvard CS50 offers 10 free certificate courses on topics such as computer science, Python, and AI.

From course ratings to pricing, let’s have a look at some of the discernible trends of Udemy’s catalog.