AI online course plus hackathon practice
An AI online course against the forgetting curve, anchored by a live hackathon on a real case. Blended, with evidence. Ready to start in 1 week.
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A pure online course is convenient, but it has a well-known enemy: the forgetting curve. Without application, a large share of the knowledge is gone within a few days. That is why we pair the flexible online part with a live hackathon on a real case. The online course delivers the basics at your own pace, the live part anchors them in a prototype you keep. We plan scope, challenges, roles, data, tool access and schedule together so the live part can be ready to start within a week.
An AI online course teaches the basics flexibly at your own pace. At Corporathon, this online part is paired with a live hackathon on a real case, so what is learned gets anchored in a working prototype instead of following the forgetting curve. The result is an outcome and a documented competence record, not just a course completion.
The problem the blended approach solves
Online courses are flexible and affordable, but on their own they work weakly. Research on the forgetting curve has shown since Ebbinghaus that knowledge without application and repetition drops off quickly. Four points make pure online courses fragile.
- No anchor of application. What you have only heard, without doing it on your own case, fades within days.
- No pressure to finish. Many online courses get started and never finished, because nothing and nobody pulls you through.
- No result. A course completion is not a tool that changes daily work.
- No evidence with substance. A passed online test proves knowledge at the time of the test, not lasting application.
Corporathon takes the good part of the online course, the flexibility, and adds exactly what is missing: the anchoring application in a live hackathon.
What the blended format covers, specifically
The online part is not a developer course, but compact basics at your own pace. The live part is a guided build sprint for business teams who cannot code and do not need to. Building happens with Cursor, Lovable, n8n, Gamma, Figma Make, Claude Code and custom GPTs on your own data.
A run has four building blocks that build on each other:
- 1Online basics. The team works through compact modules at its own pace beforehand, so everyone enters the live part at the same starting level.
- 2Challenge scoping. The course topic becomes a real use case with a named user and a desired output.
- 3Live hackathon. The teams build with guidance. We sit alongside, unblock issues and show the next step.
- 4Pitch, evidence and handoff. Each team shows its result, hands it to an owner, and the course record carries real hands-on relevance.
Benefits and goals
The goal is an online course whose knowledge does not evaporate, but lands in a result.
- Flexible online basics at your own pace, a shared starting level.
- Anchoring of what is learned in a working prototype, against the forgetting curve.
- A result that belongs to you and keeps running, instead of a course completion.
- A documented AI competence measure as a building block for Article 4 of the EU AI Act.
Who it fits, and who it does not
| Good fit when | Not the best fit when |
|---|---|
| you want flexibility but need to anchor what is learned | a pure online course without application is enough |
| distributed teams should learn at their own pace first | there is no time for a shared live part |
| data and tool access can generally be approved | real data must never be touched for legal reasons under any circumstances |
| a result plus evidence should stand at the end | an online test without application is enough |
Services and deliverables
- Compact online basics modules at your own pace beforehand.
- Upfront scoping with challenge scope per group.
- A curated tool stack per challenge, including access.
- A facilitated live hackathon with guidance throughout.
- At least one working prototype per team.
- A course record with hands-on evidence and a documented competence measure per participant.
Copilot leads looking for a full learning path instead of a single training will find it in the Copilot Upskilling for Copilot Leads programme: three days from applications to a team rollout.
Formats as offer cards
Spark
- What you get: online basics plus 1 live day, a prototype, handoff document, course record with hands-on relevance.
- You work with: one Corporathon facilitator, the right stack for one challenge.
- Ideal for: up to 10 participants, a team that wants a flexible start and a live anchor.
- Your investment: on request.
Ignite (recommended)
- What you get: online basics plus 2 live days, several challenges in parallel, several prototypes, course records.
- You work with: several facilitators, a curated stack per challenge.
- Ideal for: 10 to 15 participants, distributed teams that want to anchor learning together.
- Your investment: on request.
Blaze
- What you get: online basics plus 3 to 5 live days, several teams, deeper prototypes, course records with a clear implementation path.
- You work with: a facilitator team, the full tool stack, an optional link to an implementation sprint.
- Ideal for: 15+ participants, several departments with a company-wide, blended goal.
- Your investment: on request.
Teams from Adobe, YOYABA, Onventis and NavVis have worked with us. Prices on request for now; the scope depends on team size, number of challenges and depth of handoff.
AI online course alone vs. blended with a live hackathon
| Criterion | Pure online course | Corporathon blended with live hackathon |
|---|---|---|
| Flexibility | high | high in the online part, focused in the live part |
| Anchoring | weak, forgetting curve | strong, prototype as anchor |
| Completion rate | often low | high thanks to a shared live date |
| Result | course completion | a working prototype you keep |
| Evidence | online test | a course record with hands-on relevance |
| Time to result | open | live part ready to start in 1 week |
The table compares ways of learning, not providers, and deliberately contains no invented percentages.
How the blended format can pay off (a model, not a customer figure)
The online part is affordable and scales, the live part anchors. The model calculates the benefit of the anchored result: time per week for a recurring task, the share the prototype built in the live part takes off, and internal hourly rate times people affected. Formula: *hours saved per week × hourly rate × 45 weeks × people − one-off cost*. A worked example as a model. If the prototype takes off two hours per person per week from a task, at a rate of 60 euros and nine people, that is 2 × 60 × 45 × 9, so 48,600 euros a year in freed-up capacity. The online part keeps the cost per head low; the live part makes sure the knowledge does not evaporate. We do the real calculation in the discovery call.
Interactive blended schedule planner: /en/ki-online-kurs/tools/blended-planer/.
Social proof
Teams from Adobe, YOYABA, Onventis and NavVis have worked with us. We show their names and logos as references and, where approved, workshop photos and public feedback. We deliberately publish concrete figures only once the source, method and period are documented and approved. Everything at /en/case-studies.
The process as an animated timeline, in 1 week
| # | Step | Owner | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intro call | Corporathon + sponsor | clarified goal, rough scope, date |
| 2 | Tools and challenges call | Corporathon + team leads | scoped challenges, tool choice per challenge |
| 3 | Finalising information and data | Client (IT, data protection) | approved data access, documented limits |
| 4 | Preparation plus online basics | Corporathon + teams | environments, access, a shared starting level |
| 5 | Tool workshop (live) | Corporathon + teams | teams can operate their stack |
| 6 | Live hackathon sprint | Teams (guided) | working prototypes |
| 7 | Result pitches and handoff | Teams + owner | results, handoff documents, course records |
Your Corporathon, in just 1 week.
30-minute discovery call: clarify the need, pick a challenge, set the schedule.
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Frequently asked questions
Short answers to the questions that come up most before booking.
It is blended. The basics run online at your own pace, the anchoring part is a live hackathon on a real case, on-site or remote. That gives you the flexibility of an online course and the impact of application.
Because of the forgetting curve. Knowledge without application drops off quickly. The live hackathon anchors what is learned in a prototype, so it stays and a result emerges.
Yes. The live hackathon can run remote or on-site. For distributed teams, the combination of online basics and a shared live date is especially well suited.
No. Business teams build with AI tools without classic programming. We choose the stack so the challenge is solvable without prior knowledge.
We clarify data access and limits with your IT and data protection team before the live part. Only what is approved gets used, and the limits are documented.
The blended format can document a practical AI competence measure and so contribute to Article 4. It is not an official certificate and does not guarantee automatic compliance.