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I've built a website to do that! It's called Curious Reef http://curiousreef.com/ http://curiousreef.com/ and I launched it a few months ago. People have been
by imp 16y ago
I've built a website to do that! It's called Curious Reef http://curiousreef.com/ http://curiousreef.com/ and I launched it a few months ago. People have been steadily learning a variety of subjects together since then.
The most active class so far is MIT's OCW 6.00, Intro to Computer Science: http://curiousreef.com/class/mit-opencourseware-600-introduction/ http://curiousreef.com/class/mit-opencourseware-600-introduc...
There are others learning Vim, SICP, bash, etc. I'm also experimenting with a guitar class.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the site. My goals when designing the site were exactly as you have described above.
- kuvkir 16y agoSeems very promising. I like the slogan – "explanatory social learning". How many users do you have at this moment? Have you contacted content owners to ask them for permission to place the videos directly on your website? It'd be awesome if you can do so.
- imp 16y agoThanks, there's over 1200 registered users, but I wouldn't quote that as active users. The site got redditted when it launched and there's some people who signed up initially and haven't been back. I don't have a number for active users off the top of my head, but there's always someone submitting homework, writing a comment, or starting a discussion every day. I haven't looked into hosting content yet. I feel that others do that pretty well already, but it would be more convenient to have it all in one place. What type of content do you think would be most beneficial to be hosted on Curious Reef? Embedded videos, PDFs, etc? Or are you thinking of something like replicating the content of all of OCW's classes?
- kuvkir 16y agoMaybe not hosting content yourself, but embed it somehow into your website.