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At this point, it is much too soon to hit the proverbial panic button.

Remember, on Udemy, when a student subscribes to a course, they supposedly have lifetime access. I can't believe that Coursera would dump 85,000 instructors and 250,000 or so courses. Udemy has 81 million students for a good reason, and taking their courses and instructors away will create millions of outraged people.

I suspect that while there will be some changes, I highly doubt Coursera will alienate that many Udemy subscribers.

I hope I am right in my reasoning.

In my 30 years in IT I’ve been through too many mergers/acquisitions to count. I’ve never seen it benefit the company being acquired. I’m positive this will be no different. What remains of Udemy will be molded into the Coursera including pay scales and content management. Udemy is gone, sadly. Upside is we have a 6 month notice.