I signed up – apart from the interest of the course in general, “Week 1 – Cheating as Learning” is an awesome start.
Perhaps a tangential example of the need for some structure you mention: the Success in a MOOC YouTube video you link to at the end of this post was streamed to amara.org/en/videos/GD5tAgfR3NeS/info towards its crowdsourced subtitling ca 2 and half years ago and almost immediately subtitled in Portuguese. Then Korean subtitles were added last November. But after I added this Amara page to the “Captions Requested” Amara team only 4 days ago, the video has also been subtitled in English, Spanish and Italian.
Now “Captions Requested” is perhaps the most loosely-structured of all Amara teams: anyone can join, any member can add video pages and caption/subtitle the team’s videos, no imposed workflows or tasks. Yet it is a structure of some sort, i.e. members can choose to receive an alert when a video page is added, and also when something happens in the subtitling of a given video if they choose to follow it, and add comments etc. It seems to work, partly because there are many members from whom enough are active subtitlers, partly because these active subtitlers are good at interacting.
Whether or not that’s really pertinent, you’re welcome to grab the existing subtitles for your “Success in a MOOC” video and add them to the YouTube original, should you wish to.