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Class Central founder Dhawal Shah
Also, the focus on monetization has been much stronger in the other companies. EdX eventually comes to the same answer that Coursera might come to, but they’re very delayed in that. For example, at the end of last year, edX announced how they were going to put up paywalls for grad- ed assignments. Coursera did it maybe a couple of years ago. The same with certificates. It took edX 18 months or two years longer to take away the free certificates after Coursera and Udacity had already done it.
CT: How is the revenue split between the platform, institution and instructor?
Shah: With Coursera, I think there is a standard CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY | March/April 2019
deal — somewhere around 50-50 or 60-40, some- thing like that — between the platform and the university.
But the between the university and the instructors, I think that varies a lot among uni- versities. In some scenarios I’ve heard institu- tions don’t pay their instructors or share reve- nue. Some share it 50-50. It’s not something you find public information on.
CT: Which organization was first to figure out they could come up with pro- grams that would appeal to employers for training their workforce and make money that way?
Shah: I think everybody had the same plan at the
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