[jing]

The pairing idea isn't new although it does seem to be very successful - there's a company called Thinkful (http://www.thinkful.com) that does online learning by pairing a mentor who gets paid with every student who signs up and pays for a course. They apparently have a very good amount of traction with thousands of paying students. Should be interesting to see how askadev's free model compares.

[ZanderEarth32]

I used Thinkful for a while, and the mentor who they paired me up with was top-notch. Extremely helpful guy, who helped me tremendously in the short time I was with the program.