Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learning empire
It should be noted that such a slick class has had the priviledge of being granted the kind of institutional suport which is extremely rare across higher education today, at least in the West. Being allocated the same module for 13 years? Having it be the only module you teach? Having an entire <i>production team</i> at the ready?<p>It's a mistake to think this is one man's achievement, and a model to universities everywhere of the kinds of quality that can be achieved if they give their staff a break from the endless  restructurings, precarity, admin, overwork and burnouts that characterises the vast majority of their situations.