[gujk]

That's puffery. These courses are not Stanford quality. The lectures maybe, but not the homework and assessments, and there is no research at all.

[stordoff]

Presumably the $2000 course fee would allow for more formal and rigorous assessments to be used (e.g. hiring a test centre and giving a written, hand-marked exam).

That said, I think the DB and ML class homeworks have been very good, given the limitations they have.