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Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders

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Re: Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders

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Post by dannyking »

stockninja wrote: post #29

Awesome. When evaluating MOOCS, I usually have a list of courses that sound cool, but I haven't investigated yet. Once I investigate them a bit more, I put the good ones on a much shorter list of classes which I actually plan to take. Features to assist this process of narrowing down potential courses after discovering them (beyond ratings) would help you offer a better product than CourseTalk. Perhaps a calendar or…

Yes absolutely! We are working on both better filtering and on tools to help with the process of actually scheduling your learning into your free time, as the typical MOOC user tends to fit their learning alongside a job or full-time studies. Multiple lists is a great idea - we'll have a think about how to best implement it! Thanks for your kind words!

Re: Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders

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Post by dannyking »

atari_girl wrote: post #30

Some related services you may want to check out: http://degreed.com/ tracks and creates a scorecard (like a FICO score) for lifelong learning http://www.mysliderule.com/ is a pretty comprehensive list of online courses / MOOCs http://www.coursetalk.com/ has MOOC reviews and ratings

There's also:

https://www.class-central.com another good list of online courses

http://www.skilledup.com a very comprehensive list of learning materials

We (Accredible) are attempting to focus more on high quality courses and then on guiding the user through the learning process by helping with organization of your work, connecting you with other learners and creating portfolio credentials that you can link to from your LinkedIn profile or CV. See http://accredible.com/what_is_accredible for more info!

Re: Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders

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Post by bigsparky »

stockninja wrote: post #29

Awesome. When evaluating MOOCS, I usually have a list of courses that sound cool, but I haven't investigated yet. Once I investigate them a bit more, I put the good ones on a much shorter list of classes which I actually plan to take. Features to assist this process of narrowing down potential courses after discovering them (beyond ratings) would help you offer a better product than CourseTalk. Perhaps a calendar or…

I love this site, but it could use Ratings functionality. I want to know what other users think about the courses.

Re: Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders

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Post by dannyking »

bigsparky wrote: post #34
stockninja wrote: post #29

Awesome. When evaluating MOOCS, I usually have a list of courses that sound cool, but I haven't investigated yet. Once I investigate them a bit more, I put the good ones on a much shorter list of classes which I actually plan to take. Features to assist this process of narrowing down potential courses after discovering them (beyond ratings) would help you offer a better product than CourseTalk. Perhaps a calendar or…

I love this site, but it could use Ratings functionality. I want to know what other users think about the courses.

Agreed! We are working on this and it should be live before long. We are also working with other sites to integrate their reviews into Accredible. Thanks for the kind words!

Re: Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders

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Post by ZenPro »

If you could somehow organise a calendar functionality so that I could just log in and see my daily/weekly requirements that would be a massive tipping point.

I would happily pay for that. The clunky export to Google Calendar does not work that well and it relies on tutors have the file for import to begin with.

I typically partake in 2-3 MOOCs and another personal dev course at the same time.

Calendar type functionality = my $$$

Great product BTW. Love it.

Re: Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders

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Post by dannyking »

ZenPro wrote: post #36

If you could somehow organise a calendar functionality so that I could just log in and see my daily/weekly requirements that would be a massive tipping point. I would happily pay for that. The clunky export to Google Calendar does not work that well and it relies on tutors have the file for import to begin with. I typically partake in 2-3 MOOCs and another personal dev course at the same time. Calendar type functiona…

Thanks! Yes that would be great - we've thought up some similar ideas too. We'll start working on it :)

Re: Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders

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Post by PeterWhittaker »

dannyking wrote: post #15
zodiac wrote: post #14

In addition to reminding me when the course starts, could you remind me of homework/quiz deadlines as well?

This would be awesome. We are trying to work out the best way to do this (ideally we'll partner with the MOOC providers) but it is certainly on our upcoming feature list!

If the information is available, why not offer to add it to someone's calendar?
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