I take a debate-encouraging position against the standard cohort-based, curve- and letter-graded style of teaching in this blog post from when I was the USDLA (distance learning) conference: http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2015/04/against-grain.html But we have more in common than what divides us, as distance learning schools, I'm thinking. Especially those of us coming in from outside, experimental and unaccredited (but what's to stop Michigan from offering math credit to a high schooler taking our Python sequence? -- nothing but red tape?). This article is making the rounds a work today: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/coding-classes-attract-col... More discussion on python-cuba: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-cuba/2015-May/000037.html Kirby