Variant of massive open online course (MOOC) organised by a provider to meet the needs of a specific group of learners.

Comment
  • Small private online courses are accompanied by individualised guidance by the interveners;
  • they use different teaching aids: videocast, electronic learning, virtual classes, etc;
  • they can provide an alternative or a complement to presential learning; the limited number of participants allows individualised monitoring.
Source

Based on Wikipedia.