[shreyas-satish]

This is a fantastic development, and the one-to-one model is perhaps the logical next step after establishing a one-to-many platform for online education. I have a couple of questions regarding the coaching aspect though:

1. Will the coaching group at Udacity be a walled garden, or is Udacity open to exploring a more liberal scheme by allowing experts from around the internet to help and earn some money on the side?

2. How would they maintain a healthy balance between giving constructive feedback and spoon-feeding learners? To elaborate, while I think one-to-one feedback would be great occasionally, I suspect that students might misuse this freedom. Take IRC forums for instance. It can be quite annoying for experts to repeat answers that are just waiting to be read in the docs. From the learner's perspective, it might just be easier to ask someone rather than thinking through the problem and reading the material thoroughly. As a learner, this can be dangerous habit to develop in the long run. So, I'm curious how this works out in real.

But, congratulations and best wishes to Udacity. More and more people, me included, seem to really take to the byte-sized lectures interleaved with exercises. While, the exercises can sometimes tend to be easy (I can perhaps understand why), it's problably not too far away until we have more personalized learning experiences.