[lathamcity]

Andrew Ng, who founded Coursera, is a professor of machine learning at Stanford - I am taking his course right now. I wonder whether, once Coursera has been around for a while, he might use his machine learning knowledge to predict such things as how likely a person is to drop out of a course or to do well in a course, or to compare people based on the university they attended or other factors. Could be really interesting.

[visarga]

Maybe, now that they have almost 200 courses they would build also the interconnecting web of notions so there are no holes.

Also, if possible, some kind of assistance to get over the difficult moments and choose wisely the education path would be great.