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I want to make a site called: ratemysyllabi.com where users can submit, into a categorized database, course syllabuses for any topic. Other users will comment a
by euroclydon 17y ago
I want to make a site called: ratemysyllabi.com where users can submit, into a categorized database, course syllabuses for any topic. Other users will comment and rank them. The purpose would be to provide learning guidelines for everyone in one central place, rather then their current scattering across various university wensites, and to take a step toward an open-source university.
The data structure would be rigid, not just document uploads, but field-by-field entry in order to maintain consistent structure, searchability, and to quickly move miscategorized data.
I am becoming a skeptic of the utility and value of a four year degree. In particular the way the tax-exempt "public" money is spent and allocated. I think Wick Sloane makes a pretty strong case for the antiquity and corruption in the modern university system in this Thomas Paine style essay:
http://www.insidehighered.com/content/download/229351/2907983/file/CommonSense.pdf http://www.insidehighered.com/content/download/229351/290798...
- tonystubblebine 17y agoI think this is a great idea and has much bigger potential. One of the themes in publishing right now is that the money has gone out of content, since there aren't enough people willing to pay but that there's still good opportunities in curating (for example what hacker news does). What if these syllabi were made up of free blogs and articles, like Spolsky's Best Software Writing.