[throw_away]

The biggest differences in my mind between the online ml-class and the lectures I attended in college are:

1) ability to watch the videos at 1.5x speed. this is great because I usually find speech to be such a low-bandwidth transport.

2) ability to have captions on the videos. I don't know why, but I understand what people are saying better if I have captioning. I do this with regular broadcast tv as well.

3) ability to pause or go back when I don't quite understand something. I can look at the formula for a little bit longer until it clicks, or I can jump back a minute or two to figure out where I went off the track.

4) broken up into 10 minute chunks with memory of what you've already watched. this way I can watch the lecture when I have time, but without having to go searching for where I left off.

5) the interstitial and end quizzes. the interstitials make it so that I can be sure that I understand the material before I move on. the end quizzes are awesome. I forgot how much I liked tests in school & how life in industry is pretty much devoid of such things.