Bingo. The only things I'd like from Coursera courses are: * more that take 8-10 weeks rather than 6 weeks * if the CS course happens to use a particular lan

Bingo. The only things I'd like from Coursera courses are: * more that take 8-10 weeks rather than 6 weeks * if the CS course happens to use a particular language then make it incredibly easy to get setup and provide downloadable structure for any assignments (the scala coursera course has that nailed) * better estimates for # hours a week In general thought the synchronous approach works perfectly for me and is the big reason I haven't yet felt the need to do any Udacity courses.