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Interesting website.How is it different from Pinterest or Learnist? http://learni.st/category/featured http://learni.st/category/featured

• prabhus 13y ago
  Hi Evegeny, They are the usual suspects for social learning, aren't they? Pinterest definitely is an inspiration for the user interface. The problem with typical social learning platforms is the quality. Try learning about a topic from these sites. There will be just no structuring, anyone can share whatever they know, you can have any content on any board - the reality is that these platforms are no better than following lots and lots of twitter feeds and blogs and trying to learn about a topic. There will be lots and lots of links to read and you might end up spending hours and hours reading them. But after spending that much time, have you ever felt that you have just wasted significant part of your life? I always used to feel so. This is the sad state of informal learning which is one of the reason we keep looking for institutions providing formal learning. Among other things, when you pursue a course from a university or a MOOC or something authoritative, there is a trust that you are not going to end up wasting your time reading biased or some amateurish blog about your subject. One of the things we did with CoLearnr is to attract people with expertise in certain subject areas and allowed only these folks to curate content. Of course, the community plays an important role in enhancing the topic by participating in discussion, suggesting alternative links etc.
  • evegeny 13y ago
    I agree. I have never used pinterest for anything myself. Your website has videos from YouTube, MIT and Stanford (Entrepreneurship). I like the convenience part in the sense I need not look for those videos myself if someone has already put the effort in collecting them. I also like the fact that your website supports pdf, slides and webpages as well. But how is it any different from a website that just has bunch of links to other free content? Here is one - http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses Apart from the interface, what else is there for learners?
    • prabhus 13y ago
      You can do quite a bit already with CoLearnr. 1. You can create a private topic just for you and curate contents that you like. Very shortly you will be able to share this with your friends and collaboratively build a topic. Check out this video for an example - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HydOgRqByRg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HydOgRqByRg 2. We have a small but growing community already. Please check out our topics. Below are some of the topics we are proud of. http://www.colearnr.com/soft-skills http://www.colearnr.com/soft-skills http://www.colearnr.com/topic/522677f41fe5e070f6829e03/moocs http://www.colearnr.com/topic/522677f41fe5e070f6829e03/moocs