Analyzing the impact of China’s regulatory crackdown on the nation’s for-profit education industry.

In 2025, Harvard CS50 offers 10 free certificate courses on topics such as computer science, Python, and AI.

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

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