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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Coursera

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ACoursera is an online catalog of learning content, available to businesses to help them to strengthen critical skills, Develop, retain, and advance critical talent, or use role-based assessments to identify skills gaps and advancement opportunities.

    $399

    per year per user

    LearnUpon

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ALearnUpon partners with over 1,500 businesses worldwide to create meaningful learning experiences that empower employees, customers, and members. Whether their LMS is used to develop employees or onboard customers, LearnUpon helps users to deliver impactful training.

    $18,000

    per year

    Pricing
    CourseraLearnUpon
    Editions & Modules
    Coursera for Teams
    $399
    per year per user (for less than 125 employees)
    Coursera for Business
    Contact Sales
    LearnUpon for Employees
    $18,000
    per year per user
    LearnUpon for Customer Education
    $18,000
    per year per user
    LearnUpon for Associations
    $18,000
    per year per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CourseraLearnUpon
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—LearnUpon offers a standard SaaS subscription model, consisting of several price bands. Each price band includes a set number of MAUs or ‘Monthly Active Users’. Plans vary by feature and customer support priority. As the first step in a partnership with LearnUpon, a LearnUpon Account Executive (AE) will listen to any requirements to ensure the use case is a good fit, and recommend a LearnUpon plan to fit the specific usage, feature, and support requirements.
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    Coursera
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    LearnUpon
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    86%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Features
    CourseraLearnUpon
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Coursera and LearnUpon
    Feature
    Coursera
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    LearnUpon
    8.2
    9 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Course authoring8.94 Ratings9.29 Ratings
    Course catalog or library9.14 Ratings8.47 Ratings
    Player/Portal8.94 Ratings8.59 Ratings
    Learning content9.54 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications9.24 Ratings7.59 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics8.03 Ratings8.39 Ratings
    Social learning8.94 Ratings7.96 Ratings
    Mobile friendly00 Ratings8.88 Ratings
    Assignments00 Ratings7.88 Ratings
    Compliance management00 Ratings7.37 Ratings
    Learning administration00 Ratings7.89 Ratings
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    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CourseraLearnUpon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (17 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CourseraLearnUpon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Coursera
    The Coursera platform can be a useful part of your overall learning content portfolio if utilized correctly. It's fantastic for asynchronous courses that don't necessarily need a dedicated faculty member (though I'd highly recommend at least having some discussion moderators/student workers) and for offering MOOCs. The ability for the learners to contribute translations really makes it ideal for the international learning community - I am always amazed to see a course we launched with 2-3 languages to quickly have 10-12 more added. This feature really helps expand the audience reach and Coursera has such a large following already that it can grow seemingly overnight.
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    LearnUpon
    I think LearnUpon is a great LMS for an organization that focuses on internal learners, aka, employees. It's very easy to create courses, enroll learners, and mark attendance. For an association such as mine, more support would be helpful for appropriately setting up the store to reflect member and non-member accounts. In addition, it's difficult to do outside-the-box functions like transfers and refunds.
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    Pros
    Coursera
    • Interaction: the student learns by doing. For programming courses, this means programming!
    • Assessments: the courses I'd taken ask students to grade each others work with a rubric. This is hugely effective and permits tests and quizzes to be other than multiple choice.
    • Creativity and enthusiasm of the instructors. Some of the approaches demonstrated real out-of-the-box thinking by the instructors. For example, the Rice Python course was a self-contained website requiring no installation of IDE on one's computer, and the final project was a working version of Asteroids.
    • Low cost of entry: most of the course I enrolled in were free, with an optional fee for certifications. This really gives people the freedom to explore learning. It's almost like a Public Library of Learning.
    • Coursera forces a weekly discipline on the user with lectures and assignments and this really motivates one to put in the effort.
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    LearnUpon
    • Integration with video conferencing platforms (primarily Zoom).
    • Timing out releasing of course materials and exams so students can't get eyes on something an instructor is not ready for them to see yet.
    • Customization of our store front and courses with regard to branding and graphics.
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    Cons
    Coursera
    • Some of the courses (very few) have some old information (more than 2 years), and in some areas like technology the information has to be very new and updated.
    • Some professors or people doing videos are not good in front of the camera, they should train their people a little bit more for those things.
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    LearnUpon
    • There are issues with users who have an account in more than one LearnUpon portal. If a user has an account in an existing LearnUpon portal, and they want to create an account in another LearnUpon portal, then they have to be invited to the new portal by an Administrator. but the user has no way of knowing that its a LearnUpon portal until they can't sign up. Its very confusing for the learner.
    • An email address is required in order to set up an account. We serve many providers who don't have email addresses for all of their staff, so this is a huge issue for us.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Coursera
    Constantly renewing already. One of my favourite MOOC platforms.
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    LearnUpon
    We've been a customer for six years and I don't see that changing anytime soon. We're very happy with LearnUpon.
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    Usability
    Coursera
    User-friendly and developer-friendly Web UI.
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    LearnUpon
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Coursera
    I’ve used it a couple of times and... that did great. They take their time, but in the end they solve your issues.
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    LearnUpon
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    Implementation Rating
    Coursera
    Coursera is familiar, intuitive, compatible and easy to use and implement.
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    LearnUpon
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    Alternatives Considered
    Coursera
    I think Coursera has the best overall interface. I think you will find that different platforms go in different directions, and have different specialities. For the most part the differences are more in the types of courses they offer than one being particularly better than the other, so it comes down to content for me.
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    LearnUpon
    LearnUpon's interface and immersive experience blows the competition out of the water. LearnUpon understands the "big picture" of online learning and how to provide a system that is easy and fun to use for users at any level. LearnUpon's knowledge of their own platform, and their impeccable client support is unparalleled. LearnUpon understands our business and learning needs better than any competitor. Now that I'm using a different platform at another job, I miss LearnUpon every day!
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    Return on Investment
    Coursera
    • The greatest benefit of Coursera is access to quality courses on various subjects that you can either browse or dive in deeply. Customizable, flexible and accessible.
    • Helps our department to recommend trainees courses on this website and gain important knowledge. Also, the courses are provided by big-name universities which helps students in their careers
    • Developing and exploring professional skills.
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    LearnUpon
    • We have not implemented it yet due to unforeseen issues with a different vendor, but we have launched two pilots and it has been very well received.
    • The expected outcome is a lot more revenue because the catalog we have in our current LMS (Absorb) is very poorly designed and ineffective.
    • Another expected outcome is that people will be excited to learn more and be better ambassadors for our company.
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    ScreenShots

    LearnUpon Screenshots

    Screenshot of The learner experience. Designed to put the learner first, with features to motivate, remove barriers, and make training a convenient task that learners want to do.Screenshot of The course creation interface, where users build engaging courses without technical expertise. It includes interactive content options, including webinar and instructor-led training, SCORM and xAPI files, documents, and video.Screenshot of The Learning Journey, where the fact that learning isn't linear is appreciated. This helps users to deliver timely, targeted learning.Screenshot of An example of friendly competition. This helps to Encourage teams to hit their goals and places a spotlight on the best performing learners using Gamification and Leaderboards.Screenshot of The reporting interface. This offers learning data to track its impact on a business’s bottom line.