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 multiple lists (interesting, will take, currently taking, finished -- you get the idea).
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!
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!
It would be awesome if there was a way to specify my knowledge in certain fields, and filter out all courses that are too basic. As an example, I'm not interested in seeing dozens of "Introduction to Computer Science" courses, but I would be interested in a more advanced course on Artificial intelligence.
Perhaps integration between this site and Metacademy would fit your needs. Metacademy was discussed in a different HN thread[1] recently, and is especially relevant to your query because it seems that the seed topics are machine learning and probabilistic AI.
We've been working on that as it's something that affects lots of people. A very common case (which applies to me) is that you want advances courses in one topic and then introductory in others. The infrastructure for levelling is already there but we're having to manually assess the level of courses for most providers which takes some time.
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.
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!
Love it. However, is there a way to add past courses to my "records"? When I try to add the past iteration of a course to my wall, it adds the next iteration.
Ah sorry about that - that's a bug. You should be able to add previous iterations of a course if you select the 'show past courses' checkbox. Will look into this and fix asap - UX for this does need some work too :)
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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 multiple lists (interesting, will take, currently taking, finished -- you get the idea).
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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
[+] [-] dannyking|12 years ago|reply
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!
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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7617683
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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.
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there may be a bug - i searched for "change management" and it returned the same course twice with different titles.
https://www.accredible.com/courses/9692 https://www.accredible.com/courses/10113
thanks!
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Dammit! Let me choose my own password!
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