[amorphid]

Personally, I think this idea is awesome. My off the top of my head suggestion would be to open source the requirements for accrediting a specific course.

For example, it's determined that students from the "Intro to Calculus for Programmers" course need to meet certain qualifications to pass. If they finish the course on their own, with no help from an instructor, then they only need pay an Instructor to oversee an "I know my stuff" exit process. If a student needs instruction, then the student can pay for the bits that they need. Instructors can become highly leveraged, experts in the parts where people really need help, charge more for their expertise, and students pay less because they need less overall instructor time.

That may be a little unclear. I've got a couple beers in me.

[Michael-XCIX]

Thanks! That's really nice of you to say. What you suggested is 100% what will be happening.

Everything, with the exception of the actual instruction between a professor and a student/class (not recorded lectures, actual instruction) will be open source and freely available for anyone to use with a non-commercial clause in the license allowing for the author (or anyone the author permits) to generate revenue from their use with banner ads etc.

[fillskills]

Absolutely fantastic idea Michael. I have been trying to solve the same problem from a different perspective. Would love to see you succeed.

[sinwave]

Monday evening beers ---> check in on Hacker News.

A winning combo.

[VLM]

"open source the requirements for accrediting a specific course."

Isn't this MIT OCW and a zillion competitors?