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Highlights
Coursera for Business and Udemy for Business are both eLearning Content providers. Both websites have versions available for individual users.
Their “for Business” offerings specialize in group or team learning plans. Coursera has solutions tailored to general enterprises as well as governmental organizations and educational institutions. Udemy for Business is similar, having a plan tailored to a specific team within an organization, enterprises, non-profits, and government agencies.
Features
A key component of Coursera for Business that makes it easier to use administratively for managers is that it comes with curated collections based on department focus and roles. Through Coursera’s partnerships with higher education institutions, employees can take classes approved by actual professors and researchers in their fields. In many cases, courses are facilitated and led by actual college professors.
Udemy is known for not only having a catalog of academic-focused classes, but non-academic online classes. Udemy for Business will provide users to both focus on professional development in addition to their passions outside work. It also provides support to administrators in the form of events, webinars, and literature on how to use online course work to one’s best advantage. It also supports another important component of corporate eLearning: analysis. Udemy for Business provides admins with built-in reporting tools and insight into how users are learning and has built-in reporting tools.
Limitations
Given their academic rigor, Coursera courses are not as flexible or “pick up and go” as other eLearning providers. Owing to this, they might not be as engaging, exciting, or “gamified” as other options. If going with Coursera for Business, plan on providing team members with dedicated time for focusing on their coursework. Be mindful of tediousness as well.
On the other hand, Udemy’s course catalog provides a lot of flexibility because they are not as strongly vetted. With approving each course a team member takes, there runs a risk of classes of poor quality being taken. For professional use, managers may want more challenging coursework to be utilized.
Pricing
Udemy for Business markets its Enterprise plan as being its standard, but it also has a Team plan. The key difference between these two plans lies in the number of users per license. Its Team plan supports between 5-20 users at $240 a year per user. Its Enterprise price is dependent upon the number of users but requires a minimum of 21 users. Both plans provide unlimited access to Udemy’s course catalog, branded dashboards/URLs, and have mobile app versions. However, the Enterprise has additional features such as custom content creation and access to non-English language collections.
Coursera’s business plans start at $400 a year per user with its Team plan, which is designed for use by a single department within an organization, or smaller business. It also has an Enterprise plan designed for use by larger organizations. Owing to this, the key difference between the two plans is that the Enterprise plan comes with analytics and integrations with other tools to provide managers with more insight into usage and track professional development. Both plans come with unlimited course access and are available for use on mobile devices.
Provided by the TrustRadius Research Team
Published on April 24, 2020
Attribute Ratings
- Coursera is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
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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.
Udemy for Business
- Massive Course Catalog - Udemy has a tremendous selection of courses, enabling my reports to find pretty much any course they might be interested in.
- Multi-platform streaming - Udemy for Business offers apps across several different platforms, enabling my reports to be able to learn in the way they want to, at a time that is convenient for them.
- Learning Management - Udemy for Business offers me data and metrics on how my employees are engaging with their learning.

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.
Udemy for Business
- The investment for many courses may exceed what some companies can budget.
- The app should be in better sync with the website; furthermore, sometimes the UI is slow and sluggish.
Pricing Details
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Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
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Coursera Editions & Modules
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Enterprise | Contact Sales |
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Team | 400.002 |
- none
- Per User Per Year
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General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
Starting Price
Udemy for Business Editions & Modules
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Team | $3601 |
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Enterprise | Contact sales team |
- per user/per year (5-20 users)
- none
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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.
Udemy for Business
- The most important impact Udemy has had in our Business is that continuing education is making them happier for a low cost, and everyone can choose a topic of their interest and the interest of the company.
- It has reduced the amount of people quitting their jobs because we care about their personal growth.
- Some of our areas have become more efficient.
- Remember that it is less expensive to train people even if they leave your company than it is having someone not trained with a lack of knowledge in your company!