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

As growth falters, Coursera slashes revenue forecasts, ousts its Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Operating Officer, and suffers a record-low stock price.

The $34.5M price tag for Duolingo’s NextBeat acqui-hire came to light after Class Central dug through its quarterly SEC report.

Class Central, yet again, came across a 2U employee’s layoff post on LinkedIn. This is its sixth layoff (that we know of) since 2U acquired edX in 2021. The first one happened in 2022 for profitability’s sake. Since then, the company filed for bankruptcy (mostly due to the debt it took to acquire edX for $800M), took down its bootcamps, exited many university partnerships, and even got delisted from the stock market. The previous layoffs were framed as strategy shifts, realigning operations, o