Google's Python Class (Video, Notes & Exercises)
I had this idea that what if Google was involved in a project where they would make online courses of educational material available for free. Not like bits and pieces of video lecture available from stanford or short video tutorials available from <a href="http://www.khanacademy.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.khanacademy.org/</a>. But actual course material, perhaps starting from 2nd grade to all the way to graduate level courses. There will be a combination of texts and videos and it could be semi wiki like where, certain qualified people can update course material to keep it relevant and up to date.<p>It would probably cost them less than buying a video codec company, but might have bigger and far reaching effect.<p>Imagine a single site will all the educational material, regularly updated. The only difference from a formal education (other than social interaction) is a certification.<p>Crazy (stupid?) idea?