The $34.5M price tag for Duolingo’s NextBeat acqui-hire came to light after Class Central dug through its quarterly SEC report.

Although I spend a lot of time at the computer and have taken more than 200 online courses since 2012, I’m still learning how to make the most of generative AI tools. I’m not a complete beginner in the world of AI, but definitely need to become more fluent in its use. In this respect, I found Google Prompting Essentials, created by Google Career Certificates, very helpful. This course, released in October 2024, provided plenty of ideas for creating and refining prompts in a variety of situatio

Despite assurances of sustained instructor earnings, Udemy’s policy changes delivered a $30 million pay cut, sacrificing creator income to bolster its stock value.

Although Class Central lists online courses in 87 languages, courses made in English outnumber all of the others by more than six to one. English is therefore a useful language to know, even though some courses have subtitles in a range of languages. Earlier this year, we updated our list of courses to help improve your writing skills. These courses all assume some fluency in the language. But what if you do not know any English, or your English is very poor? If you do not have convenient acce