On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
... we're shooting to develop the content beginning in June and start the course around September, on Coursera.
Sage, this might be a great opportunity to ask Coursera to open source their delivery system soon, and if they refuse you might want to consider a free content open source platform such as Moodle (which has abundant free hosting) or https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/ or http://www.sakaiproject.org/ (formerly Stanford CourseWork.)
Also, I'm not sure if you are familiar with http://www.proctoru.com/ which Coursera uses with high stakes assessment to enable offering course credit, but I've done a little looking into the patent situation around that and I haven't been able to find convincing prior art, so that may be one particular minefield to be aware of down the road if you want to eventually offer credit. However, I still think it is very likely that substantial prior art exists, so you might want to consider asking a larger number of people to look for it.
In fact, let me do that here: Hey everyone, please see if you can find some prior art which would prevent ProctorU from obtaining patent protection on using a webcam to authenticate a high stakes assessment.