[sim]

Stanford experimented and seemed to have found a right balance for effective online-learning, now MIT is fine tuning OCW. Exciting news.

  Keys needed:

  * quality teaching and teachers
  * highly relevant courses
  * learners in batch
  * online office hour weekly
  * feedback mechanism, sense of connection
  * discussion forums - e.g. reddit

Image MIT's 10-year OCW content.

e.g. Engineering and Computer Science: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#electrical-engineering-and-compu...

Awesome.

[Djehngo]

Having non-assessment quizzes interleaved with the lectures was also fantastic.

[mattmanser]

Other key needed:

* A way to pay for it.

[worren]

To a certain extent, a program like this can pay for itself. A school's influence greatly affects the attention (read: grants and contracts) that labs and faculty enjoy basking in. Conversely, competitors theories and techniques are left clawing their way out of obscurity for lucrative funding. Patents and spinoffs make it big business, and all is fair...