Best Of

According to Coursera, things don't look good at all for Udemy instructors. Here's an excerpt from their website https://investor.coursera.com :

• "Leading Platform Capabilities: Establishes a comprehensive ecosystem of world-class instructors, encompassing faculty at leading universities, industry leaders, and global subject matter experts, while equipping them with AI-enhanced tools, data-driven insights, and expanded distribution to create more engaging, personalized, and dynamic learning experiences at unprecedented scale, breadth, and agility."

Meaning a combination between their instructors (with probably few Udemy instructors) and Udemy's business systems especially the AI part.

Really sad news that it comes right before holidays.

I’m stunned. 

From this day forth I have to operate as though I will have no income from “Udemy” in 6 months (the alleged transition completion). 

Too many unanswered questions. 

I always look for MOTIVES in every decision made. The only reason Udemy goes this route is because either:

A) Coursera is beating them. Better to combine forces than to be destroyed.

B) BOTH Coursera and Udemy are losing to AI. Survival play by BOTH to fend off (and try to incorporate) that existential threat.

I'm not saying current instructors CAN'T be winners with this deal…but I would temper excitement because while the promise is "bigger audience!" the reality is probably more akin to "more instructors to compete against!" or "purging of courses and only offering the top 1% so every other instructor loses."