Best Of

Valued Instructors,

I’m excited to share an exciting milestone: Udemy and Coursera have agreed to combine to create a leading technology platform, redefining skills discovery, development, and mastery for learners and organizations at scale.

This combination will bring together two complementary strengths — your industry-leading, skills-based content and Coursera’s deep academic and partner network — to better serve learners around the world.

The key message I want to emphasize is that the instructor marketplace that made Udemy what it is today will continue to be a foundational part of the combined business. Your expertise, agility, and teaching excellence remain essential to our vision moving forward.

What This Means for Instructors

A significantly larger audience

Your content will gain access to Coursera’s 191M+ registered learners, expanding your global reach and impact.

Complementary strengths

Your high-quality, practitioner-led instruction, combined with Coursera’s academic and industry-partner catalog, will create a comprehensive learning ecosystem.

Greater global footprint

Together, we will be even better positioned to reach learners across more geographies, languages, and skill areas.

Accelerated innovation

With combined resources, we’ll be better able to sustain investment in durable growth, rapid product development, and improved platform capabilities—especially in human-led, AI-powered tools that help instructors create, engage, and grow. 

Why I’m Excited

Udemy and Coursera share a compelling vision for the future of human-led, AI-powered education and a mission to meet the growing global demand for upskilling. With greater reach, expanded resources, and highly complementary strengths, the opportunity ahead is not only significant—it’s inspiring.

Thank you all for being such an incredible part of this journey. Can't wait to see where we go together with Coursera!

Resources:

Joint Website: https://www.courseraandudemy.com/

Press Release

For additional important information about the transaction, please read this link: udemy-combines-with-coursera/legends

Coursera's business model is different from Udemy's, therefore, instructors' earnings will decrease, I'm sure of it... We'll have to see what happens later, but in my opinion, this doesn't look good for the instructors at all!

Thank you for sharing this update and for the level of detail provided in the FAQ, @ZaneVella.

From a business perspective, this move is completely understandable. The online education market is maturing, scale matters more than ever, and the combination of two leaders like Udemy and Coursera makes strong strategic sense.

That said, I think it’s important to raise a concern that many instructors are likely sharing: how two very different business and content models will fit together in practice.

Coursera has traditionally built a highly curated catalog, focused on universities and large companies, with a more academic and institutional approach. Udemy, on the other hand, is powered by a community of 85,000+ instructors, with tens of thousands of courses, a much more dynamic marketplace, and less upfront curation.

The big question is how these two approaches will coexist:

• Will there be different tiers or spaces for visibility?
• Will content discovery or prioritization criteria change?
• How should instructors plan new course creation in this new context?

For many instructors, creating a course represents months of work, investment, and a medium, to long-term commitment. In a transition of this magnitude, it’s natural to wonder whether the courses we create today will continue to have visibility, relevance, and longevity in the combined platform.

I fully understand that there may not be clear answers yet, but it would be extremely valuable to maintain ongoing communication on these topics as decisions are made.

This is a massive move with a lot of potential.

Thank you again for the update and for keeping us informed.

Hey, Instructors!

It’s time to find out if you were right in guessing the total number of minutes learned on Udemy this year, because our 2025 Instructor Rewind video is here. Along with all the stats, we heard from some instructors about what the year meant to them and their hopes for 2026.

We hope you enjoy it, and please let us know your hopes for 2026 on Udemy.

Oh, and please brag if you got close to the right answer. 😉