Why online courses get abandoned

Around week two, when the novelty has gone and nothing in the calendar says to continue.

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How we work

Publish it, time it, promise nothing

Completion rates for self-paced online courses are famously poor, and it is rarely the content. Nothing external holds the learner to it — no date, no group, no one noticing they stopped. Cohorts fix most of that simply by putting sessions in a calendar alongside other people.

Honesty about time is the other half. A course sold as two hours a week that actually needs five produces people who fall behind and blame themselves. Publishing the real figure costs some sales and keeps the people who finish.

Then there is the claim nobody should make. Online education is full of promised incomes and transformations, and those promises are what attract regulators and lawsuits. What a course can honestly offer is material, structure and support; what someone does with it is theirs.

Our principles

Three beliefs behind the method

Publish the curriculum

Before checkout, not after.

State the real hours

Including the work between sessions.

No income claims

Ever. Outcomes are not ours to promise.

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