Give them some time to diverge and innovate. They're implementing the obvious ideas now, but a diversity of efforts means more room for experimentation when the obvious ideas are mastered. I doubt there's a lack of talent and infrastructure at these schools, so there's no point in limiting the venues for that talent to express itself.
Also, it isn't obvious now, but when they start adding classes in economics, political science, and history, we'll want more diversity, not less. They're likely to go for breadth first and depth later, so each effort will have a single introductory macroeconomics course, a single course about the cold war, and a single course about medieval Europe, with each instructor chosen by a small cadre of people administering that particular set of online courses. Until the software is open-sourced and polished well enough that these programs start popping up all over the place, we'll be limited to the programs that are independently developing their own technology stack. The more, the better.
Also, it isn't obvious now, but when they start adding classes in economics, political science, and history, we'll want more diversity, not less. They're likely to go for breadth first and depth later, so each effort will have a single introductory macroeconomics course, a single course about the cold war, and a single course about medieval Europe, with each instructor chosen by a small cadre of people administering that particular set of online courses. Until the software is open-sourced and polished well enough that these programs start popping up all over the place, we'll be limited to the programs that are independently developing their own technology stack. The more, the better.