Thanks to the Mooc, it would be possible to get the equivalent of a course of study MBA without putting his career in brackets or racking up debt. We can write “to the card” a program made from the best institutions in the world. Examples.

The story of Laurie Pickard has made the rounds of the business press in the United States, the Financial Times, Fortune, passing by the Wall Street Journal. Number of articles have explained how this young woman, a time tempted by the possibility of doing an MBA, has found an alternative. She enrolled in a score of Moocs offered by the largest business schools in the world to acquire different skills without having to quit his job and spend several thousands of dollars… Laurie is well trained in accounting by following a Mooc from Wharton, to entrepreneurship thanks to the MIT, or even to the strategy through the provision of Darden Business School. The adventure, started it a year and a half, now comes to its end. To share her experience, she has created a dedicated website and about to launch his own company, advice on how to train without having to break his piggy bank.

mini-MBA at affordable price

Moocs could become an alternative to the MBA? Like Laurie, it is possible in effect to “peck” on the platforms offering Moocs modules representing the equivalent (or almost) of an MBA program, in the “travelling” in the world behind his computer. On Coursera, for example, candidates have the opportunity to acquire the basics of trading or finance by following the free online courses of the university of Michigan, to be trained in the management of companies in the luxury with the Italian university of Bocconi, with the creation of a technology company with HEC or learn to have a critical vision of the modes of management with the business school Spanish IE. This knowledge can be supplemented with lessons on entrepreneurship and innovation taught by Moocs from MIT, or an introduction to the strategy proposed by the belgian university of Louvain on the platform Edx.

1500 or… 95000 dollars?

In proposing that from 6 April 2015 a focus on “core business”, comprising of four courses of four weeks each provided in its first year of MBA, Wharton opens a gap by putting online a offers structured. To complete the training, however, applicants must pay $ 595: $ 95 per course plus $ 215 to work on the project of end of studies. Harvard has launched an equivalent offer: from April 15, 2015 for the first cohort and from June 3 for the second, one of the business schools the top-rated of the planet will offer it as a specialization on “core business”, called “CORe”, with a duration of 11 weeks. These complete teachings are punctuated with videos, case studies and quizzes to complete to obtain a certificate for which you will need to spend…1 500 dollars. It is a lot but little compared to the price of an MBA follow-up on the banks of the famous hotel charged us $ 95,000!

“sub” MBA?

These approaches are not yet very “trendy” in the French universities and schools. The employers either did not grow at the wheel in a country where the degree still weighs heavier than the self-training. The offer of Moocs in French still remains quite heterogeneous even if it begins to be possible to earn bricks. On the platform Fun, you may as well register for the Mooc Of the manager to the leader, to 2.0, proposed by the CNAM , in the course on project management provided by Centrale Lille or be familiar with design thinking at the EM Lyon. You can also acquire additional skills in forming, in French, to the creation and development of technology companies ,a Mooc, HEC produced in partnership with the Polytechnic on the international platform Coursera. For the institutions, hexagonal, these Moocs are primarily seen as a means of addressing a wider public, putting forward new research themes or on which they expect to argue their skills. Has the image of the Essec business school, who has launched and will create several new Moocs around his chair in social entrepreneurship. “Twelve years ago, we were one of the first to focus on this theme. Offer Moocs on this subject is a means for us to continue to keep a step ahead compared to our competitors,” explains the head of the chair Thierry Sibieude. “Today, Moocs are used primarily by business schools as products aimed at enhancing their strong points and stimulate the desire to go further by entering then in the MBA program,” says Pablo Martin de Holan, director of the MBA of EM Lyon.

a View shared by Peter Zemsky, dean of Insead. “An MBA is not a single addition of course. There is also everything that happens in the classroom, the interactions between the participants, the projects conducted in teams or travel abroad to discover new approaches.” Follow Moocs does not benefit from the services career, to participate in the sessions of pre-recruitment organized on the campus and especially to be part of associations of former and, therefore, to take full advantage of the network, which is one of the great strengths of the best MBA.

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The development of Moocs risk, however, require institutions to review their copy, because it is not sure that in the end, there is always so much candidats. “Moocs will prompt us to introduce more interactivity into the course and to allow more room for the discussions, these online courses that can be introduced in the programs to acquire the basics. They may also become options for the participants to give a particular color to their MBA,” says Pablo Martin de Holan.

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