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Re: University of Reddit

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Post by ekianjo »

xmmx wrote: post #18
QuantumGuy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I second that. I am following the same course and while I have some prior finance training this is nevertheless very useful to better understand some stuff I simply applied before. Great, great stuff.

Re: University of Reddit

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Post by beshrkayali »

christensen_emc wrote: post #20
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 bl…

Which is why I think it would be a great idea to have a KickStarter-like system to fund these free courses. As much as someone wants to share their knowledge, it consumes a lot of time and effort. It would be nice if teachers got something in return, other than gratitude :)

A KickStarter-like system would also help in eliminating lurkers, and focus the efforts of both teachers and students on the actual course and assignments, and everyone would benefit if these courses are released for free after they're funded, but at least it guarantees an interested student base for the course to become a success.

Re: University of Reddit

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Post by InformalRelief »

skeletonjelly wrote: post #22
rmason wrote: post #19

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?

The reddit admin team (edit: the reddit community manager) just posted a blog about this today. I assume that means they have some kind of arrangement. http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/university-of-reddit-explore-...

He does not mention that topic at all in the blog post.

Re: University of Reddit

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Post by skeletonjelly »

InformalRelief wrote: post #33
skeletonjelly wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reddit admin team (edit: the reddit community manager) just posted a blog about this today. I assume that means they have some kind of arrangement. http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/university-of-reddit-explore-...

He does not mention that topic at all in the blog post.

Right but this is coming from the horse's mouth here. Also Conde Nast no longer owns reddit, rather their parent company does.

Re: University of Reddit

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Post by christensen_emc »

thejournalizer wrote: post #27
christensen_emc wrote: post #23

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.…

It's open source, so you are more than welcome to. If you want I can point you to Anastas, the one and only developer we have.

That would be cool. My email is in my profile. I'm sure I could help out in some way.

Re: University of Reddit

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Post by alter8 »

thejournalizer wrote: post #26
pav3l wrote: post #21

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They don't seem to support https, so no.

We do https://ureddit.com/

It's self-signed, expired more than 1 year ago. It could be the reason for the warnings. Any plans to fix that? And there is also the other domain to consider, universityofreddit.com

Re: University of Reddit

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Post by unreal37 »

xmmx wrote: post #18
QuantumGuy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Yes the Finance class is going well for me too. I tried taking the SaaS class but I didn't like it.

The Finance professor is just right, I can watch the videos on 1.75x speed, and I'm finally getting the hang of the confusing, unintuitive and restrictive Coursera UI.

Re: University of Reddit

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Post by unreal37 »

dbh937 wrote: post #13
QuantumGuy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Udacity has some challenges as UReddit too. I took a "software testing" class recently, and you can tell the instructor ended the course earlier than planned.

A 6 week class was effectively only a 3-4 week class. The first two weeks had embedded quizzes, and homework. By the end, it was watch this short video and no homework.

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