Coursera is ending access to some classes

[MomatHWTK]

This article contains a list of the courses that will no longer be available:

http://blog.devteam.space/coursera-is-removing-software-development-courses-and-hundreds-of-others/

[MarkT]

of course these are colleges

 

show me the money!

[Corraleno]

It sounds like they are just switching over to a new platform, and the only courses that are being truly discontinued are a handful that the university providers no longer wish to support (so that's not Coursera's decision):

 

 

 

Maintaining two platforms requires significant resources, and in order to focus all of our efforts on further improving the new platform experience, we decided last year to move all active courses to the new platform. Over the past several months, we have worked closely with our partners to transition their courses to the new platform. Last week, we emailed learners who have taken courses on our old platform to notify them that access to the old platform will end on June 30, 2016.

 

We want to clarify that, even as access to the old platform ends, nearly all courses that have been offered on that platform will remain available in an updated format on the new platform. Hundreds of courses offered on the old platform have already transitioned to the new platform, and more content will be made available on the new platform in the coming months.

 

There are a few dozen courses on the old platform that will not migrate to the new platform, and thus will not be available after June 30th. These include courses that are out of date (e.g., medicine and technology courses that do not reflect recent research and development breakthroughs), courses that have been updated and relaunched under another title on the new platform, and a few courses that our university partners have chosen to discontinue for other reasons.

 

Our goal is to make as much content as possible available to our learners, and transitioning to a platform that allows courses to run frequently is extremely important to achieving that goal. The transition to the new platform has allowed us to make over 1,200 courses available on Coursera, and to offer up to four sessions of each course per month; for comparison, at this time last year we had fewer than 300 courses open for enrollment, with some courses offered as infrequently as once a year.

 

ETA: the above quote is from Coursera's announcement here.

Edited June 19, 2016 by Corraleno