To summarize: On many MOOC platforms, the dominant learning modality is passive content consumption; there’s no interaction or real community; and there’s no time constraint. All this amounts to a tiny percentage of learners who actually follow through.
This is not generally how we run collaborative systems because we run them by consensus, which is the exact opposite. That's about pruning out stepping stones. People start generating things and then we start saying, "No, no, no. Committee doesn't like this. Committee doesn't like that." We then converge to the thing, which is basically the consens... See more
We are abnormally passionate about the subject space in which Hulu operates. To us, the intersection of technology and great content like Family Guy, Arrested Development, and 30 Rock is inherently fun. This is a fortuitous thing, given that we think it would be a shame not to enjoy the adventure immensely. If you’d see this as all just software co... See more