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Coursera: Coursera’s transition to a new technology platform
In 2014, Coursera began developing a new technology platform to improve the learning experience in our courses. Most importantly, the new platform allows us to run more courses more frequently, expanding the options available to learners and providing greater flexibility to learners in completing courses. 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 cour…