The course is good. The format is broken.
Learners don't quit because the material is bad — they quit because there's no one waiting for them at the next module. Async learning without cohort structure is a book with no reading group.
Hearth moves everyone forward together
Small cohorts of 8–20 share a synchronized pace. Hearth tracks each learner's position and sends warm nudges when someone falls behind — from the cohort, not a bot.
What you get
- Shared progress milestones
- Peer accountability pairs
- Instructor pacing dashboard
Discussion boards are where curiosity goes to die.
Your instructors can't monitor every thread. Learners post a question, hear nothing, and quietly conclude that engagement isn't worth the effort. The silence teaches the wrong lesson.
Every thread has a temperature gauge
Instructors see a real-time heat map of discussion activity. Hot threads surface automatically. Cold questions trigger gentle prompts. No question falls through the floor.
What you get
- Real-time discussion heat map
- Unanswered thread alerts
- Threaded replies with @mentions
Your L&D budget is funding incompletion.
Every dropout is a sunk cost. Multiply 40% non-completion across a 200-person onboarding cohort and you've spent six figures on learning that never landed. Hearth makes completion the default.
See exactly where your learners stall — before they quit
Module-by-module dropout heatmaps, session engagement scores, and cohort health reports give L&D managers the data to intervene before a stall becomes a dropout.
What you get
- Module dropout heatmaps
- Cohort health scores
- Exportable completion reports
Everything a seminar room has.
Nothing it doesn't.
Hearth strips out the noise of bloated LMSs and keeps what actually drives completion — live connection, structured discussion, and cohort accountability.
A classroom that feels like a classroom
Structured live sessions with embedded discussion prompts, breakout circles, and reaction rails. Hearth turns video calls into seminars.
higher than solo async courses
Right-sized cohorts
8–20 learners per cohort. Small enough to know each other. Large enough to generate real discussion.
Every question deserves a warm answer
Threaded replies with @mentions, instructor heat maps, and unanswered thread alerts — built into the course, not bolted on.
Progress that moves together
Shared milestones, peer accountability pairs, and a cohort progress ring that makes falling behind feel visible — gently.
See exactly where learners stall
Module-by-module dropout heatmaps and cohort health scores give you data to intervene before a stall becomes a dropout.
learners — the sweet spot for discussion depth
Avg. cohort size
Real educators. Real teams. Real completion.
“I'd tried three other platforms. The forums were graveyards. With Hearth, my cohort of 16 finished at 94% — and the discussion thread for week four was still active three weeks later.”
Priya Nair
Independent Course Creator · The Writing Room
“We onboarded 340 employees across six time zones last quarter. Hearth's cohort pacing meant our L&D team wasn't babysitting progress — the cohort did it for us.”
Marcus Webb
Director of Learning & Development · Thornfield Group
“Our volunteer trainers are in 12 countries. Before Hearth, our training completion was 31%. Last cycle it was 89%. The cohort structure made people feel like they were part of something, not just watching videos alone.”
Amara Osei
Director of Volunteer Training · Roots & Routes Foundation
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