Best Of

Instructors,

I'm excited to share a major milestone. Today, Udemy and Coursera have officially combined to create one of the world's most comprehensive skills platforms. As one company, we are better positioned to enable skills discovery, development, and mastery for learners and organizations globally.

This brings your industry-leading, skills-based content to new audiences at scale — helping you reach more learners and grow your impact.

I also want to emphasize that the instructor marketplace continues to be a core part of our combined platform, and your tactical know-how, agility, and teaching excellence remain essential moving forward.

You Bring Real-World Expertise and Agile Intelligence

Here's what makes this partnership truly powerful: You bring real-world expertise and the ability to move quickly as things change, complementing the credentials and learning pathways from Coursera. By combining, we offer learners more value, more choice, and faster innovation. This also creates a more unified learning journey — helping learners build skills from fluency to mastery.

Your independent perspective, deep understanding of real-world applications, and rapid response are what help keep our platform timely and responsive. When a new technology emerges, when an industry pivots, when professionals need immediate upskilling based on real-world experience, you're already there with the content they need.

Independent Instructors Remain Core to the Ecosystem

In the combined ecosystem, you play a critical role, and as I’ve said before, the open marketplace isn't going anywhere. It remains a core part of our platform and how you reach and connect with learners.

Your independence, your entrepreneurial spirit, and your direct connection to industry needs will continue to define the content you create and the innovation you help drive.

What This Means for Instructors

A significantly larger reach

Over time, we expect this to create opportunities to expand your reach to Coursera's 205M+ registered learners, including professionals and organizations that need your knowledge but may not have found Udemy before.

Greater global footprint

Together, we are now better positioned to reach learners across more geographies, languages, and skill areas. We now reach nearly 290 million learners and 18,000 enterprise customers.

Accelerated innovation

The combination expands what we can build for the AI era. Our growing investment in AI is expected to improve how learners find and engage with your content, while also supporting how you create it with a wider range of teaching and publishing tools.

Better experience for learners

By combining, we create a more connected learning system that makes it easier for learners to discover, build, and master new skills — across a wider range of learning formats.

Why I'm Excited

We move forward united by a compelling vision for the future of learning. Together, we can help meet the growing global demand for upskilling and reskilling in a rapidly changing world.

With greater reach, expanded resources, and highly complementary strengths, the opportunity ahead is significant.

This is just the beginning, and I’m excited about how we help millions more learners around the world learn the skills they need to succeed.

Your Next Steps

Continue creating and publishing as always.

Explore our detailed FAQ for answers to your questions.

Please look for an invitation to join our virtual Udemy Front Row event with leadership on May 27 at 8 am PT to share your inputs and hear more about our shared vision.

https://frontrow.udemy.com/

Thank you all for being such an important part of this journey. We are excited to see the new opportunities ahead for you in our next chapter.

Zane Vella

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