My idea with MOOCulus is that it will provide some data on the learning of calculus. It isn't about eliminating instructors; it's about giving instuctors data so they can teach better.

I have big hopes for iterative improvements, guided by the data we're gathering.

I'm glad you like them. We get quite a bit of data from the online exercises.

We're building a Calculus Two course, and a complex analysis course.

Wow! I'm surprised to see this on slashdot. I've added a license to the github repo.

For us, we get quite a bit of data from MOOCulus; you can see a bit about the "big data" issues at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj-C0JVY6mY For others, the Quality Matters Rubric is a set of 8 general standards and 41 specific standards used to evaluate the design of online and blended courses.

The majority of the students taking math at OSU are already using some sort of online homework tool.

The videos aim to be a lot more than blackboard talks; take a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otW6HcxrRlY for instance.

The exercises use a hidden Markov model to estimate whether the student has mastered a concept.

It's a nod towards COWculus, "calculus on web" from http://cow.math.temple.edu/