u/michaelnovati replied · · edited
EdX was founded by MIT and Stanford and a lot of feelings soured after 2U bought them, e.g. [https://eliterate.us/the-edx-aftermath/](https://eliterate.us/the-edx-aftermath/)
Trilogy is merging their backend with EdX so that they can rebrand under EdX and hopefully update their content with EdX's content. There was a fairly negative article in the Harvard Crimson from a few weeks ago that I read: [https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/27/2u-financial-struggles/](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/27/2u-financial-struggles/)
So for now I would treat it like Trilogy and I would re-evaluate after this merger of content keeps progressing.
In my typical pros and cons fashion.
The pros side would see this as bringing EdX's "MIT and Stanford quality lectures" to the Trilogy community. Trilogy was a fairly business focused company that didn't have a great tech reputation and aggressively moving to EdX content could help.
The cons side would say that 2U is doing very poorly and trying to make Trilogy run even more cost efficiently by basically giving people free EdX courses that they could do themselves to cut costs and increase profits to boost the net income.
EDIT: I think they ENTIRELY ELIMINATED the Trilogy name, maybe related to [https://www.wsj.com/articles/that-fancy-university-course-it-might-actually-come-from-an-education-company-11657126489](https://www.wsj.com/articles/that-fancy-university-course-it-might-actually-come-from-an-education-company-11657126489) and are now using EdX for all the university-sponsored bootcamps as well. I can't even find the word "Trilogy" anywhere on 2U's website!