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Editing online courses like modern browser development

After watching the first videos released for Stanford’s AI Course, it is clear the course is still quite rough. Traditional problems both in Academia & online courses are pervasive throughout the short clips. However by just following modern browser development, like Google Chrome’s release strategy,  I think the AI course can remedy most of these issues.

Here are the problems as I see them : 

• Some people will think a non-native English speaker is hard to understand
• The video quality & editing wasn’t very sharp
• The experience wasn’t fluid - ex. the quizzes did not auto-progress after the right answers were submitted

These are bugs that are definitely easy to overcome - and that is where the 100k+ students can help. We should be able to help contribute towards the content - like browser testers already do with Chrome. Instead of releasing one final version of the course, Stanford should release the unedited video & let the community help test & polish it.

Following the Google Chrome analogy:

• Canary - the unedited film
• Dev - A crowd-sourced, edited version (better audio?)
• Beta - A bit of polish, editing, and effects added 
• Stable - Final version intended for public consumption

This would alleviate much of the burden from Stanford on editing the course material while also producing a more polished end-result. 

What do you guys think?