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Undoubtedly, this merger between Udemy and Coursera will create significant strategic value.

However, Udemy stands out as a far more dynamic and agile platform. This merger should prioritize preserving Udemy’s brand, agility, culture, and innovative strength, rather than diluting them within a larger structure!

Regardless of how we feel as instructors, from a business perspective this combination makes a lot of sense. In simple terms — and to avoid destroying revenue or shareholder value — the most logical outcome looks something like this:

To Coursera customers: “If you keep paying, you now also get access to this brand-new Udemy content.”

And to Udemy customers: “If you keep paying, you now also get access to all this Coursera content.”

Any strategy that reduces value or adds friction would honestly be shooting themselves in the foot.

Meanwhile, it’s natural to expect platform optimization and unification, creating efficiencies and economies of scale.

That’s my outlook.

And if executed well, I believe this could represent a significant opportunity for all of us, not the end.

Unfortunately the new design is flat out terrible 😣, at least in it's current form.

The comment section seem to be gone which is the most important feature for me. (At least I couldn't find it)

The whole screen dims when the video is paused and the mouse cursor is still on the screen, makes it more difficult to read code.(This is on a secondary monitor)

No light theme to be able to read text easier.

To many clicks to find anything, sections are needless extra clicks to find what I need, it seems like the UI is from a programmers perspective and not from a usability perspective.

Why can I only go forward to the next video, but not back to a previous one?

So I've had to disable the beta to be able to use it properly again, and I recommend to really take user feedback seriously as this is going in the wrong direction from my perspective.

I totally agree with the above comments: I have tested the new UI as a student myself, and also got some feedback from some students. This new format is really not user friendly ESPECIALLY for those students who were used to the previous UI version.
The user's journey has been made more complicating. You can't find any of the resources as easily as before, nor the Q&A sections or featured questions. And I can tell you that as an instructor, you can kiss your students to leave a rating/review good bye. It doesn't show up at the end of the course automatically as it used to, and even finding it (once you've finished the course) has been made nearly impossible. So as you know, it is already challenging to get your students to leave a rating/review, even with the current UI, but with this new Beta UI environment, you can simply forget about it. I would invite every single instructor out there to test it themselves in order to come up with their own conclusions, but as far as I m concerned, I found it very disappointing.