Are Micro Community Courses (MiCCs) the future of online education?

If online courses are poorly designed, why have they become so popular? To students, MOOCs offer more convenience and lower cost than traditional education. To educators, it offers an unbelievably attractive business model with infinite scalability. You prepare a course once and, in theory, millions of people can buy it without your additional inpu... See more

It seems to us that the principles behind the d.MBA could be a new model for online education. We call it the Micro Community Course.

MOOCs have a median completion rate of just 12.6%. Even adding a paywall, does not solve the problem. Research shows that less than half of students, who pay for MOOCs, finish them.

The d.MBA has a 90%+ completion rate, 9+ student rating, and a collection of student stories collected by our alumni community and alumni podcasts.

Huge groups defeat the purpose of community learning. You lose the sense of a group if it is too large. Based on our experiments, a cohort of around 30 students is a good size to provide enough variety in the group but still makes it feel intimate.