How online courses providers shape their sites and content to appeal to the Google algorithm.

In October, Class Central wrote about CreativeLive shutting down on December 31, 2025. That article led to a series of events that actually saved the platform. Just two weeks before the deadline, on December 15, CourseHorse, an online marketplace of live classes, workshops, and experiences, acquired it for an undisclosed amount. The website is no longer closing at the end of the year. In 2021, Fiverr acquired it for $11 million. Four years later, in May 2025, the platform stopped accepting new

Leadership shakeup at Udemy brings in McKinsey veteran as company projects meager 1% growth for 2025

Since December 16th, ChatGPT Search traffic to Class Central has grown threefold, becoming one of the site’s top 5 traffic sources

The first time you see Tailwind CSS, you might wonder whether someone accidentally pasted their stylesheet into the HTML. A single button can have a dozen classes just to control its spacing, colors, rounded corners, and hover effects. Are we really supposed to write all that? Each class does a small, specific job. Once you recognize them, you can style an element right where you’re building it, without jumping between files or thinking up another class name. The HTML gets busier, but making c

In 2021, edX was acquired by 2U for $800M, stopped being a nonprofit, and the 2U integration has begun.