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Can you access it through the https version?
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?
http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/university-of-reddit-explore-...
Some things I'd like to see added:
- some sort of improved notification system for announcing new lessons and assigments and mass messaging your students. Perhaps something a little more prominent than the current OrangeRed messages? Having a separate alert for new lectures would be cool.
- a well written guide and list of resources for lecturers. Step by step directions on how to do stuff like set up a wordpress blog or a subreddit or even a dropbox would probably be a good idea for non technical folks. The existing "Help" link is broken, so I'm not quite sure what is offered.
- The ability to embed pictures, diagrams, equations and charts into reddit self posts would be cool. Markdown supports it but it doesn't seem like Reddit does. Maybe raise the character limit so that an entire lesson could fit into a self post on Reddit itself instead of forcing a lecturer to link to an external blog? Some sort of collapse and expand system on top of Markdown would be cool too!
I'd love to help with this.
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 bl…
That lines right up with the 1% rule- only 1% of users are serious enough to be contributors, 99% are just lurkers.
Basically what I'm saying is, an initial interest of 10,000+ probably would have made for a more successful venture.
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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 bl…
2 out of 200 people did the assignments That lines right up with the 1% rule- only 1% of users are serious enough to be contributors, 99% are just lurkers. Basically what I'm saying is, an initial interest of 10,000+ probably would have made for a more successful venture.
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Can you access it through the https version?
They don't seem to support https, so no.
I wish this had a dedicated team of paid developers working on it. It could go places I don't think Coursera would necessarily go. Some things I'd like to see added: - some sort of improved notification system for announcing new lessons and assigments and mass messaging your students. Perhaps something a little more prominent than the current OrangeRed messages? Having a separate alert for new lectures would be cool.…
The main complaint seems to be that courses get abandoned by the teachers. Given that everyone is just doing this for fun, it's completely understandable, but still an issue.
I wonder if this can be fixed by having more than one teacher to each course. This would not only halve the work each instructor has to do but would also provide additional motivation to stick to it. I know that I would be much more likely to keep on teaching a course if I knew somebody else was also invested in the projects--something like peer pressure, I guess.
Coincidentally, my CS department is doing this with real professors in some of the real courses and it's going really well. Having multiple instructors switch off and present topics in different ways is rather effective.
I certainly wouldn't mind teaching a course on something interesting that I know (a very narrow field, admittedly), especially if I had somebody else to teach with. Of course there are also questions about how much free time I will have this year :P.
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They don't seem to support https, so no.
We do https://ureddit.com/
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