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Re: University of Reddit

#11

Post by unreal37 »

So the number 1 complaint for this seems to be that most courses are abandoned mid-way through by the teacher for various reasons. If 80%+ of courses get only 2 lessons in before abandonment, this isn't going to really catch on as a learning medium.

The UReddit teachers are volunteers from the reddit community, not vetted in any way. You're going to get a wide-range of quality of instruction. Some people might not even know the topic they volunteer to teach, and plan to teach themselves as they teach others.

And it's a time-intense process creating interesting course content, and most people underestimate that up front. "Hey I'd love to teach a class on PHP" and then they realize it takes 20 hours a week to prepare each lesson... Uh oh.

Re: University of Reddit

#12

Post by QuantumGuy »

unreal37 wrote: post #11

So the number 1 complaint for this seems to be that most courses are abandoned mid-way through by the teacher for various reasons. If 80%+ of courses get only 2 lessons in before abandonment, this isn't going to really catch on as a learning medium. The UReddit teachers are volunteers from the reddit community, not vetted in any way. You're going to get a wide-range of quality of instruction. Some people might not ev…

In that event there is always https://www.coursera.org/ or https://www.edx.org if the university of reddit doesn't pan out.

Re: University of Reddit

#13

Post by dbh937 »

QuantumGuy wrote: post #12
unreal37 wrote: post #11

So the number 1 complaint for this seems to be that most courses are abandoned mid-way through by the teacher for various reasons. If 80%+ of courses get only 2 lessons in before abandonment, this isn't going to really catch on as a learning medium. The UReddit teachers are volunteers from the reddit community, not vetted in any way. You're going to get a wide-range of quality of instruction. Some people might not ev…

In that event there is always https://www.coursera.org/ or https://www.edx.org if the university of reddit doesn't pan out.

and http://www.udacity.com/

Re: University of Reddit

#15

Post by thejournalizer »

engtech wrote: post #4

Trend Microscan reports ureddit.com and it's favicon.ico as suspicious. URL Blocked The URL that you are attempting to access is a potential security risk. Trend Micro OfficeScan has blocked this URL in keeping with network security policy. URL: http://ureddit.com/ Risk Level: Dangerous Details: Verified fraud page or threat source

Can you access it through the https version?

Re: University of Reddit

#17

Post by thejournalizer »

unreal37 wrote: post #11

So the number 1 complaint for this seems to be that most courses are abandoned mid-way through by the teacher for various reasons. If 80%+ of courses get only 2 lessons in before abandonment, this isn't going to really catch on as a learning medium. The UReddit teachers are volunteers from the reddit community, not vetted in any way. You're going to get a wide-range of quality of instruction. Some people might not ev…

Unfortunately a lot of these points are correct. We set ureddit up as a self-service tool for the community. There is not a lot of incentive for teachers to continue on if their students don't show some sort of sign that they are still paying attention. If we had some sort of budget we would at least try to give them beer.

Re: University of Reddit

#18

Post by xmmx »

QuantumGuy wrote: post #12
unreal37 wrote: post #11

So the number 1 complaint for this seems to be that most courses are abandoned mid-way through by the teacher for various reasons. If 80%+ of courses get only 2 lessons in before abandonment, this isn't going to really catch on as a learning medium. The UReddit teachers are volunteers from the reddit community, not vetted in any way. You're going to get a wide-range of quality of instruction. Some people might not ev…

In that event there is always https://www.coursera.org/ or https://www.edx.org if the university of reddit doesn't pan out.

Coursera is awesome. I'm 4 weeks into an introductory finance class and professor Kaul is doing such a good job of introducing concepts to us (I have no finance background).

Re: University of Reddit

#19

Post by rmason »

It says in the footer that it is not affiliated at all with Reddit or Conde Naste.

Do you think that the lawyers at Conde Naste might have a problem with it?

Re: University of Reddit

#20

Post by christensen_emc »

unreal37 wrote: post #11

So the number 1 complaint for this seems to be that most courses are abandoned mid-way through by the teacher for various reasons. If 80%+ of courses get only 2 lessons in before abandonment, this isn't going to really catch on as a learning medium. The UReddit teachers are volunteers from the reddit community, not vetted in any way. You're going to get a wide-range of quality of instruction. Some people might not ev…

This goes the other way too. I signed up to teach a course and had close to 200 interested students. I was really excited, wrote up a syllabus and a couple small assignments (15 minutes tops) and created a wordpress blog for all my lessons. I put a fair amount of time in it and got a lot of great buzz, but that was all I got. 2 out of 200 people did the assignments and I only got a handful of hits on the wordpress blog. Noone commented on any of the discussions I put up. It was really disappointing and I ended up ending the course early.

That said, I love UReddit. Its a great idea. The reddit community is immense and there are a lot of opportunities for some really neat lessons that Coursera wouldn't necessarily offer.

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