After 11 years, 21 highly-rated online courses, and 1.5 million students, the University of Sheffield has called it a day on producing MOOCs.

In January each year, Class Central publishes a list of the most popular online courses released by major course providers in the previous 12 months. The most popular course in the latest list turned out to be Google AI Essentials, launched by Coursera in April, 2024. More than 900,000 learners have enrolled, more than the combined total of all new courses launched on edX, FutureLearn, and Swayam in the same year. What’s even more surprising is that (unlike the vast majority of Coursera course

Five years after its $750M Trilogy bootcamps acquisition, the troubled ed-tech company pivots to “microcredentials”

The new curriculum embraces project-based learning, with other certifications soon to be updated similarly.