Thread by @XenoKovah

I have another thought on OST2 all-you-can-learn buffet classes that I wanted to share separate from that other thread, since this will probably be a future blog post: Another eventual goal is to use them to hand over the reins for my material to a new instructor

Basically you can imagine having someone else who knows x86-64 assembly very well acting as a “TA” in some larger OST2-B (ost2.fyi/Thoughts-on-OS…) classes, helping to answer questions. Because the key thing is that an instructor should know the material well enough to explain it

Regardless of what curveball questions students ask. Or alternatively if they don’t know, they should be able to go look it up or determine the answer experimentally while the student goes back to watching videos, before getting back to them with an answer

One can then imagine eventually promoting the TA to being the only instructor present at an OST2-B class, so that they get the proceeds from the class primarily for themselves (perhaps minus a 10% cut for the instructor who’s videos they’re still using ;))

And then after that one can imagine asking them to put in the full work to re-record the class videos, maybe make a few new labs, etc, and then they would subsequently get the full proceeds of subsequent OST2-B classes for themselves

It seems like a good way for me, or any other instructor, to enable content continuity and gradually give a potential new instructor progressively more responsibility

It’s very much in line with the original thinking behind OST1, where I wanted to make sure that classes I developed while at MITRE didn’t end up without a plan to be able to be handed off to other instructors (who did indeed keep teaching some internally)

But it’s also nice because it will allow a white male like me to find someone other than a white male to hand material off to, so we can have a more diverse set of instructors become the role models for a more diverse set of students

I would note that a lot of the instructors working on future OST2 classes are yesterday’s OST1 students. And a lot of today’s OST2 students will become tomorrow’s OST3 instructors.