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BIMM founders behind new Detroit-based music school with global online courses
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 18 July 2014
The founders of music education institution BIMM, Kevin Nixon, Sarah Clayman and Bruce Dickinson, have confirmed that they are launching a new educational business, which will have a physical base in Detroit, and an e-learning platform that will reach beyond the US, with an alliance with the UK’s Falmouth University.
DIME and DIME Online will launch later this year, offering courses in creative music performance, creative songwriting and artist management, with others to follow.
Explaining the decision to launch with an online learning set-up in addition to the physical base in Detroit, DIME MD Sarah Clayman told CMU: “With more and more people spending more and more time online and the increasing affordability of digital devices it makes sense for us to also offer our campus-based DIME course online so that even more people can study them, wherever they are in the world, increasing or decreasing their work load to fit their current circumstances”.
She added: “We’re really excited about DIME Online and in the United States we are seeing that university courses are increasingly involving a mix of campus-based lectures with online tuition – we believe using the internet in this way encourages accessibility to students who may face difficulties in taking up places within full time, campus-based education”.
